The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-15 00:00:00

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tensive wound in her throat, evidently
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cured, andthe unfortunate young woman was
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CHANCERY COURT FOR THE COUNTY PALATINE.—The
sitting of this court was held on Thursday last, in one of
the rooms at the Town-hall, before \Tice-chancellor Wm.
Melbourne James, Esq. The business included several
motions and applications, which were for the most part of
a merely formal character, and void of any public interest,
In the course of the proceedings the vice-chancellor re-
ferred to the act just passed, which he said he thought
completed all the reforms which he had considered it his
duty to suggest to the chancellor of the duchy, and
through him to the legislature. After pointing out, at
considerable length, the changes made and the facilities
given by the new act, the vice-chancellor stated that the
court being a court of equity, and having jurisdiction in
all matters of that kind, he hoped it would be found
working more effectually with the additional powers given
to it than it could be- expected to do for want of such
facilities.

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PRESCOT FLOWER Snow.—The first flower show in
Prescot was held on Thursday last, and the event was ob-
served throughout the town as a holiday. Two spacious
marquees were erected in the vicinity of the town, in which
a most successful horticultural and poultry exhibition took
place. The collection of plants, cut flowers, fruit, vege-
tables, &c., was choice, but the principal attraction seemed
to lie in the display of poultry. The show of Cochin-China,
Spanish, and Dorking fowls, included some very fine and
beautiful birds ; and at a sale by auction at the close of
the exhibition many of them brought high prices. The
doors were opened at one o'clock, and a distinguished com-
pany, including the Earl and Countess of Sefton, soon
thronged the tents. An excellent band of music added to
the pleasures of the exhibition. The shops of the town
were closed, and the church bells rang merry peals in
honour of the occasion. Altogether a most gratifying day
was spent.
LAIINCIIT OP THE DEEBSLATER, AT WARRINGTON.—
About two o'clock, on Thursday afternoon, a finely-
modelled iron ship was launched from the yard of the
Bank Quay Company, Warrington, in the presence of an
immense concourse of spectators. The vessel was named
the Deerslayer, by the wife of Mr. Thomas C. Blythe, of
this town, for whom the vessel has been constructed. Her
dimensions are—length between perpendiculars: 142 feet
3 inches ; beam, 26 feet ; depth, 14 feet ; height between
decks, 61 feet ; register, about 600 tons. She has been
built on a principle combining great strength with fine
symmetry, recommended by Mr. Grindrod, engineer. On
Friday, she was brought to this port to be rigged. Several
other fine vessels are on the stocks at the Bank Quay Com-
pany's yard.
THE HEALTH COMMITTEE.—The first weekly meeting
of the committee, since the alteration iu the time, day,
and place of holding the meeting, took place on Tuesday,
in the committee's room, at the Public-offices, Cornwallis-
street. Mr. Alderman Langsdale presided, and there
were also present Messrs. Dover, Beckwith, Moss, M`Nicol,
Bighorn, Johnson, Nicholson, and Hodson.—The Borough
Engineer reported that the expense of paving and flagging
before the church for orphans, in Myrtle-street, would be
£232 16s. 4d., £303 19s. being for flagging and kerbs.
The work was ordered to be done.—On the application of
Mr. Bighorn, a return of all persons in arrears for flagging
was promised to be brought before the committee.—Dr.
Duncan, the medical officer of health, stated that, in con-
sequence of the alteration of the day of meeting, he was
not in a position to present his usual report of the state of
the public health. He could state, however, that there
had been an increase in the mortality from bowel com-
plaints, a considerable increase from diarrhoea from 20 to
53, and in cholera from 9 to 23, half of the number of
these deaths occurring within a radius of 300 or 400 yards,
in the district of Scotland-road, Blenheim-street, St. Mar-
tin-street, and Tenterden-street. With the exception of
two cases, the deaths from cholera had all occurred at the
north end of the town. During the two preceding days
there had been a decided check given to the disease,
owing, probably, to the weather being cooler. In reference
to the cases of cholera which recently occurred in Bruns-
wick-road, Dr. Duncan said he was convinced that no local
cause existed for the manifestation of cholera in the
locality ; there was no doubt the cholera poison was in the
atmosphere.—The application made by the proprietors of
the Borough Bank, to extend the angle of their new build-
ing over the footwalk at the top of Water-street, was
refused. The Borough Engineer said the bank had given
an assurance not to build over Lower CastleAtreet.—The
subject of the increase in officers' salarkes was adjourned
until next Tuesday,

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REGIBTIZATIO

)N of ELECTORS.—According to
just made, the sum paid by the Treasury for the
- revising baristers in 1853 was £17,040.
?entlemen receives £2lO. This year the
to £17,850, another barrister

Each of then,

mount will

making 85 in all. There is no ac-
iumber of days they are occupied with the
A further sum of nearly £B,OOO is paid to the
of the peace out of the coun

of registration- . A considerable sum is also paid out of the
poor-rates (£30,921 last year) in respect of Parliamentary
and municipal registration and cost of jury lists; but there
arc no means of ascertaining how much of it is for the
Parliamentary registration. _ _ _

MELANCIIOLY ACCIDENT.—On Monday, last week, Mr
larles Lupton, of the firm of Lnecock, Lupton, and Co,

Bradford, lifts thrown from his horse, and sustained such
injuries as to cause death a few hours afterwards. He was
proceeding on horseback from his residence at Harehills,
near Leeds, to Bradford, when he was thrown, and pitched
violently to the ground upon his head. He was removed
to his residence in a state of insensibility, but never
rallied, and died about two o'clock the following morning.
A LONG INIPRISONMENT.—On Thursday, George Risby,
who was tried at the Lent assizes, at Chelmsford, in 1835,
for the wilful murder of John Spooner, at West Bergholt,
wasdischarged from Springfield goal, Her Majesty'spardon
having been received. Risby was committed on the 7th of
August, 1834, mid at the- following. assizes was tried, arid
acquitted on the ground of insanity, but ordered "to be
trict custody until His Majesty's pleasure be
Thus, after a lapse of 20 years, he has regained

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his liberty
GREAT BRIDGE IN CANADA. —A letter from Montreal,
July, 24, says :—" On Saturday the greatest engineering
effort of modern times was commenced under the most
favourable circumstances ; the preparations for receiving
the first stone of the Montreal Victoria Tubular Bridge—
the connecting link between the Far West in the Atlantic
seaboard—having been carried out with the most perfect
success. In the midst of difficulties which no past ex-
perience could overcome, Mr. Hodges, the ble manager of

the affairs of the contractors, has succeeded in demonstrat-
ing to the Canadian public the practicability of spanning,
with an iron bridge, the mighty St. Laurence river, an
undertaking which, till very recently, was looked upon by
them as beinc, next to impossible."
_ _ . _

A HUGE PRIZE.—In 1799, the four British frigates,
Naiad, Ethalion, Alcmene, and Triton, captured the two
Spanish frigates Thetis and Santa Brigida, bound from
Vera Cruz for Spain, with specie,&c., The treasure in the
Thetis was worth £311,690 ; and the other prize con-
tained as much or more specie, besides a valuable cargo of
cochineal, &c., The prizes were safely carried to Ply-
mouth, and the treasure was forwarded with much pomp
to London, and deposited in the Bank of England. The
prize money, exclusive of the value of the hulls and stores
of the frigates, was distributed among the officers and
crews of the British frigates in the following rates :—Cap-
tains, £40,730 18s. each ; lieutenants, £5,091 7s. 3d. ;
warrant officers, £2,468 10s. 9fd. ; midshipmen, &c.,
£791 17s. Od. ; seamen and marines, £lB2 4s. 91-d.

AN ITEM IN THE COST OF CRIME.—The new arrange-
ment for voting annually a number of charges which have
hitherto been paid without vote out of the Consolidated
Fund has produced a number of estimates not heretofore
furnished to Parliament. Among the latest is the ex-
pense of the metropolitan police courts, 244,426. Above
half this sum-223,200,—is for the salaries of the twenty-
three police magistrates. These are still paid out of the
Consolidated Fund, along with the other judicial salaries of
the country, but a vote will be taken for the remainder,—
£21,226, —which is required to pay clerks, ushers, and inci-
dental expenses of the police courts.
PUBLIC Housu REPOILM.—The Select Committee on
Public Houses recommended that while on the one hand
the monopoly should be abolished, and any person of good
character be allowed to have a license, coffee-houses,
temperance hotels, eating-houses, and shellfish-shops
should also be licensed, and that a proper control over all
licensed houses should be established by means of police
selected for the duty, as in the case of the inspector of
lodging-houses. The committee had evidence that several
coffee-houses are open all night, and that many are fre-
quented by bad and doubtful characters, sell spirits under
the pretence of supplying tea and coffee, and are scenes of
very great disorder and mischief. Colonel Hogg, who was
examined, mentioned that during his attendance on the
committee he went to a coffee-Shop at twenty minutes past
two on Sunday morning, and asked for some gin, and re-
ceived for answer from the landlord, " Yes, you shall have
it, but you must drink it out of a cup ; we cannot give you
a glass, for, if the police come in, I shall be fined." Col.
Hogg added—" The house was full at that hour ; there
was a little milk placed on one side in a cream ewer, and
I was instructed, if the constable came in, to put a little of
that into it."

ABOLITION 011 FOREIGN COPYRIGHTS.—The "glorious
uncertainty" has gained another illustration. Jeffreys
versus Boosey has come to an end, and the House of
Lords has reversed the judgment of the Court of Exche-
quer Chamber. Copyright, as regards foreign works in
this country, is again iu abeyance, and dire is the conster-
nation in the publishing world in consequence thereof.
Our newest decision—pronounced by a tribunal from which
there is no appeal—would seem to cancel all agreements,
destroy all assumed copyright of aliens in this country.
This last reversal of judgment was made at one o'clock,
on Tuesday, in the House of Lords,—a reversal which,
among other things, in effect, upsets all American copy-
rights, and before six o'clock that day the printers in
London were engaged in reprinting cheap editions of
American works. Messrs. Low and Co., alarmed for their
property in Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, rushed
to their printers to order a cheap edition: they found them
already engaged on a cheap edition for another house ! By
aid, however, of the Messrs. Clowes, Mr. Low hopes to
forestall the reprinters, and we cannot but trust that he
will succeed, seeing that he had already embarked capital
in the production of the work, in a belief that his pro-
perty was protected by law. The mails will carry out bad
news to America: this decision puts an end to all negocia-
tions between the authors of that country and the
publishers here. Mr. Bentley, we believe, has just con-
cluded a treaty with Mr. Prescott, the historian, for his
Philipthe Second at Xl,OOO a volume. The American
historian is now in the same position as regards England,
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A CROSBY

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has been representing a round of hi-
including Hamlet, in Shakes,—
the tragedy of the
" The Wife ;" and Damon, in " Damon and tlit
these characters he has been respectabi ad
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talents of the resident company- -
have been honoured by t'
As a tragic actor, Mr.
occupy, a high place in the es,
public. His deportment is gentlemanly, and Ins elocution
and action correct and impressive. He was particularly suc-
cessful in his impersonations of Hamlet and of Bereriey,
and was, in accordance with inveterate custom at this
theatre, called before the curtain at tins •
performances.

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POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY

AN UNrSUAL TOUCH OP TSE HAT.—Jame

Blact-

son, a " duffer," well-known as belonging to the
wall Gang," of Denison-street, was charged with stealinf,
a hat, belonging to Edwin Stevens. The prosecutor, who
is a stout-looking baker, stated that on Sunday he had
been at work all day, until four o'clock in the afternoon ;
and as he was proceeding along Great Howard-street, lie
felt a sudden twitch at his hat behind, and off it went.
On turning round he saw the prisoner, who, with daring
effrontery, told him that "he had bought the hat on Satur-
day." Thompson stuck to the hat and ran away, followed
by the baker, who gave him in custody with the hat in his
possession. He was fined 20s. and costs, or in default to
be imprisoned two mouths.
UNFRIENDLY LODGINGS.—JO`aIiII Murphy, a notorious
bully, one of the "forties" who prowl about the docks, was
charged with stealing a vest, a scarf, and five shillings,
the property of John Plevy, a raw country 'youth; from
Bewdley, in Worcestershire, who is a stranger. in Liver-
pool, and to whom Murphy had kindly promised a com-
fortable night's lodging. Having taken the innocent
fellow to an improper house in Ford-street, prisoner took
him up stairs to bed, and when he had undressed himself,
took the money and clothes, "to prevent any one stealing
them." Plevy went to sleep, and in the morning he could
get neither money, jacket, nor scarf; he accordingly got
up and acquainted the police. The prisoner was sent
to trial.

SHOP ROBBERY.—Ann Murray was brought up for
stealing a silk handkerchief from the shop of Mr. Mur-
doch, draper, in Tithebarn-street. Prisoner went into the
shop on Saturday, with another woman, and offered to sell
Mr. Murdoch a quantity of thread, taking out some of the
purchase in goods. Whilst driving the bargain (which
was not completed), Mr. Murdoch missed the handker-
chief ; and searching the women, found it on the prisoner's
person. Prisoner (who had been committed on three pre-
vious occasions) was again sent to prison for two months.
ROBBERY AND AusoN.—Catherine Ryan, a young
girl
, who had been servant with Mr. Stanton, of No. 4,
Warren-street, was charged with stealing a pair of trou-
sers and a shawl, 2s. 6d in money, and also with attempt-
ing to set fire to her master's house. The prisoner slept
in a room with Mrs. Kay, sister to Mrs. Stanton ; and on
Sunday morning, about six o'clock, Mrs. Kay was alarmed
by the prisoner, who said, " Mrs. Kay, get up, I'm smother-
ing." On getting out of bed, it was discovered that a
closet, in which they kept wearing apparel, was on fire,
and an alarm being given, assistance was procured, when
the fire was extinguished without much damage. The
trousers and shawl were missed from the parlour ; and
Mrs. Kay missed 2s. 6d. and a bunch, of keys from her
pocket. Mrs. Stanton and officer 746 made a promise to
the girl, to induce her to confess the robbery ; and on
being told that Mr. Stanton would forgive her, she went
to the chimney and fetched the trousers, 2s. 6d., and the
keys. She also stole a coat from the premises and pledged
it. Mr. Mansfield inquired if they had discovered in what
manner the place had been set on fire ; when Mrs. Stanton
said they found some lucifer matches on the outside of the
closet door, one or two of which appeared to have been
struck. The prisoner was committed for trial.
PicHnick POCKETS. •••••• Margaret Kelley and Eliza
Kennedy were charged with picking pockets. Detectives
Povey and M'Culloch stated that they saw the two females
endeavouring to pick pockets in Great Charlotte-street,
where a crowd was collected, listening to an organ-player.
-The thieves were unsuccessful, and the crowd followed the
organ-player to Dale-street, when the detectives went to
the up-stairs window of a house to watch their proceed-
ings, and saw them pick a woman's pocket of 6d. They
were both committed for three months.

Docic ROBBERIES.—John Kenny, convicted of stealing
shakings from the docks, was committed for three months.
Prisoner is perfectly accustomed to prison discipline, hav-
ing been convicted on 21 previous charges. John
M`Glynn, for stealing rope, was committed for 21 days.
WANTON MISCHIEF.—Thomas Wilson, a respectable-
looking man, was charged with cutting one of the shrubs
in front of the Licensed Victuallers' Assylum, West
Derby-road. Mr. Grist, secretary of the association, and
a police-officer, proved the mischief, and the prisoner
pleaded drunkenness in defence. He was fined £5, or in
default to be committed for two months.
VENDING STOLEN PROTERTY.—Lonisa Farrell was
charged with offering a quantity of brass mountings
belonging to furniture for sale, at the shop of Mr. Jones,
ironmonger, Anson-street ; and on being questioned as to
the manner in which she became possessed of the pro-
perty, she refused to give any account, and Mr. Jones
gave her into custody. She was committed for two
months. _ _ -

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