The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-25 00:00:00

TBlLlA.—Twelve

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their way from Aus,
TIIS OVEELAND consequence•of the opening
of additional length of railway in the South of France, the
express portion of the mails per India, China, Australia,

ig 251,317 ounces of gold.

&c., will

the"9th and 25th.
THE BUOYANT Vssr.—A new life-preserver, invented
by Mr. George Smith, of Castle-street, was successfully
tried in the river on Wednesday. The invention, which
is simple and cheap, consists of a waistcoat of peculiar
fabric, which, when upon the person, can be inflated over
the chest, by means of a pipe, to such a degree that the
individual wearing it will be able to sustain himself above

ater for an indefinite period
.......

TAE AFRICAN Coe:sr.—The Faith, steamer, Captain

Parsons, from the west coast of Africa, has arrived at
Gravesend. Her dates are—Sierra Leone, June 23;
Teneriffe, July 6; and Madeira, July 8. She did not call
at any other port. She left the British Empire loading at
Sierra Leone, Her Majesty'k screw-steamer Antelope, at
Teneriffe, and the screw steam-ship Candace, with the
outward mails for Africa, at Madeira.
TIIE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' BAZAAR, which was re-
opened on Wednesday and Thursday, finally closed on the
latter day, when the articles which remained unsold were
disposed of by auction. The magnificent sideboard,manu-
factured for the Dublin Exhibition, by Mr. James Fair-

Clough, of Re
Aigburth He

lir. Bailey, of the

toxTETH-Pins.—At the meeting for the election of
commissioners for the township, held on Friday, at the
Public-office, Park-place, the following gentlemen, who
were retiring by rotation were re-elected :—Messrs. Thos.
Avison, Andrew Browne, Thomas Tippin, and William
Ibison. Mr. Samuel Siddeley was elected a commissioner
in the place of W. Peacop, deceased. Mr. Gregson was
appointed chairman of the board.
THE SAILMAKERS' STRIKE.—In consequence of the
master sailmakers of this port persisting in their determi-
nation to bind more apprentices than they have hitherto
done, the journeymen still remain out on strike. On
Wednesday last, at a meeting of the master sailmakers,
held in the Clarendon-rooms,A deputation was appointed
to proceed to the outports, and endeavour to induce the
sailmakers at those ports to accept employment in this
town upon the same terms as were paid to the Liverpool
journeymen. No further steps have since been taken.

TEE Boir SHOT AT AINTIIEE.—On Tuesday, the
coroner held an inquest on the body of Miles Greenbank,
the boy shot at a rifle practice ground at Aintree course.
It appeared that not less than ten targets had been reck-
lessly pitched on the open course. with nothing but a
slight boarding behind each to receive the bullets, and
that the deceased was shot as he was passing between two
of these. The jury after a few minutes' consultation,
returned a verdict of " Manslaughter by some person
unknown."
THE SHIP HENRY MOORE.—By the accounts just
received from Melbourne, we learn that the new iron ship
Henry Moore, 1,223 tons register, arrived there in 81
days from the Clyde. This vessel is the property of
Messrs. Henry Moore and Co., of this town. She sailed
from Greenock on the 3rd of February, under the com-
mand of Captain M'Dougal, with a general cargo of 2,100
tons weight and measurement,—the largest, we believe,
f the Clyde in one ship, and which nrade

ever taken ou'•
h(

draught of water 21 feet. The Henry Moore experi-
enced a week's heavy weather going down channel,and was
off the Land's End on the 10th of Feb., running thence to
the equator in 15 days. From the meridian of the Cape
to Melbourne she occupied 24 days, an extraordinary
performance.
HEALTH 0"

,A)MMITTBE.-At the weekly meeting on
„ Mr. T. Haigh attended to submit plans for an
-ration in the outline of the new borough bank, Water-
street. It was understood that an inquiry would be made
before the committee came to a decision.—A conversation
followed relative to the power of the committee to inter-
fere in cases where cholera existed on board the emigrant
ships. It was thought that some more stringent regula-
tion should be adopted in such cases.—The Town-clerk
called attention to a bill before parliament, in which it
was suggested that an amendment be made giving the
authorities certain powers in a case similar to that of the
ship Dirigo. A communication was now being made with
the Town-clerk on the subject.—A report was submitted
by the borough engineer recommending a plan for renum-
bering the houses in many parts of the town, rendered
necessary in consequence of the alterations in premises
and the erection of new buildings. The mode suggested
is to mark the old numbers black and the new ones in red,
adopting the use of the letters AB c. The report was
adopted.—After some matters of routine business had
been disposed of, the meeting broke up.

Thursday

Docs COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting was held on
Thursday, Mr. Charles Turner in the chair.—Before the
proceedings commenced, 31r. James Holmo gave some
explanations as to what passed last week respecting the
plans of the new north works.—The Committee of Works
recommended that the tender of Messrs. Jones and Jump
to erect the offices of the Stanley Dock warehouses, for a
sum of £BB7, be accepted. The work to be completed by
the Ist of November.--The tender of Mr. Joseph Walker

of bibs. to the foot, at 235. 9d.
The tender of Messrs. Thos.
ly 12 feet turn-tables for the

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GE NERAL CO)

AN AmEurc.tx paper states ti Lat an experiment to test
the practicability of growing tea :in the Vicinity of Cincin-
natti is about to be tried.

TIIE STAMP DUTIES BILL has been reprinted with
amendments. It provides that a check on a banker may

be negotiated above the distance c f fifteen mils from the
bank, on a proper adhesive billst amp being affixed. A
clause is also added providing that unstamped documents
may be admitted in evidence in criminal proceedings.

Tun ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL—The investigation as
to the death of the child, Alfred Richardson, was concluded
on Tuesday, when the jury returned the following verdict :
—" We find that the deceased, Alfred Richardson, died of
inflammation, caused by an operation unskilfully per-
formed by Mr. Thomas Weedon Cooke and Mr. Thomas
Wakley, jun. The jury finding great difficulty in coming
to a satisfactory conclusion respecting the other matters
deposed to before them, they have resolved to exercise the
discretion permitted to them by declining to give any

opinion on them

TICE RAILWAY AND Claw, TRAFFIC ACT.—The new
act for the better regulation of the traffic on railways and
canals, which has received the royal assent, has been
printed.
.It is the duty of railway companies to make
arrangements for receiving and forwarding traffic without
unreasonable delay and without partiality. Parties com-
plaining that reasonable facilities have not been afforded
may apply, if in England, to the Court of Common Pleas
by motion or summons. Regulations may be made by
the judges ; compensation, may be made to the complain-
ing parties. The act is in force.

A DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM has taken place in the
Middlesex Hospital. James Bray, an aged labourer, had
been admitted with a cankerous leg, which it was deemed
necessary to amputate. Chloroform was given in the
presence of six or seven medical gentlemen, and the ope-
ration was about to commence when the deceased's pulse
gave two or three throbs, and then ceased to beat. With
the hope of restoring him, galvanism and artificial respi-
ration were applied, but without the desired effect. The
post mortem examination revealed extensive disease of
the heart.

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—By a parlia-
mentary return just issued, of the public income and
expenditure for the year ending the sth instant, together
with the balances in the Exchequer at the commencement
and termination of the year, it appears that the total
income amounted to £54,439,231 2s. id., and the expen-
diture £53,380,552 10s. 3d. ; being an excess of income
over expenditure of £1,058,678 11s. 10d. The balances in
the Exchequer on the sth Ju1y,1853, were £5,112,039 5s 9d,
and on the sth July instant, £4,003,087 Is, Id.
ARRESTS AT ST. PETBRBBURGE.—The Vienna PreBse
states, on the authority of travellers arrived from St.
Petersburg, that more than three hundred young men,
nobles, students, and merchants, have been arrested. They
have been told that there is no charge against them, but
that their opinions were known, and that the government
was resolved to omit no salutary precaution. The govern-
ment is apprehensive of some explosion of popular dis-
content. _ _

Vv
COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—On Monday morning a writ
de lunatico inquirendo was opened before Mr. Commis-
sioner Barlow, into the state of mind of Captain Jonathan
Childe, of the 12th Lancers. Sir Frederick Thesiger said
the case had been forced upon the public attention, hav-
ing been got up by a society called " The Alleged Lunatic
Friend Society." This society had made charges against
the father of the unfortunate subject of the present in-
quiry. It had been said that the father had confined his
son for a period of twelve years. The main ground on
which the lunacy of Captain Childe rested was, sundry
delusions entertained by him, so far back as 1839, to the
effect that he possessed the affections of the Queen. The
delusion continued after Her Majesty's marriage. Captain
Childe is now resident at Haye's Park Asylum, near
Uxbridge. Among the witnesses on Tuesday was the
Earl of Shaftsbury ; Captain Childe himself was also
examined. He appeared to be about forty years of age,
of very prepossessing appearance, and replied to the ques-
tions put to him with the utmost composure. The in-
quiry was continued on Wednesday and Thursday. On
Friday the jury closed their investigation, and delivered
the following verdict :—" The jury are of opinion that
Captain Childe is of unsound mind, and incapable of
managing his person or property."
RAILWAYS IN AUSTRALIA are not merely spoken of,
but are actually in a fair way for completion ; and over
districts that a quarter of a century ago only the aborigi-
nal native, the emu, and the kangaroo wandered, the
shriek of the steam-whistle will shortly be heard, and the
railway car will convey its rich freight of produce from
the interior, wool and tallow, and gold, for shipment to
the busy marts of European Commerce. The Sydney and
Goulburn Railway will probably be opened as far as Para-
matta by the end of the year. The railway on the Hunter
River district is to be commenced immediately, and may
be expected to be in full operation between Newcastle and
Maitland within the next three years. Victoria and South
Australia are not behind-hand in their exertions in rail-
way enterprise. Already we perceive that a company has
been formed at Melbourne, and incorporated by the
Legislature, to construct a railroad from Port Philip, by
the Victoria gold-fields, to the Murray at Mauden's Point.
This would open a speedy and facile egress of only 200
miles to the sea-board for a great part of the produce from
the borders of New South Wales. That colony is fast
losing much of its export commerce through these back
doors, which are opening from time to time. The wide-
spread territories bordering on the Murray and the Dar-
ling are no longer hopelessly shut out and excluded from
a market.. This new channel of river traffic,must become

wider, and broader, and deeper, every . successive year ;
and those immense tracts of country will, at no distant
day, support a large population—producers of wool, hides,
tallow, and other staple commodities of England—and at
the same time become profitable and liberal consumers of
her manufactures.=Shipping and Mercantile Gazette. '
EMIGRANT SIIII,I3.—The report of the select committee
on emigrant ships is occupied with a series of suggestions
and recommendations, with a view to the health and pro-
tection of emigrants. The committee recommend that
sonic further limitation be placed upon the quantity of
iron allowed to be taken as cargo in au emigrant ship.
They propose that the number of passengers should not,
be required in every ship of 300 ; and that vessels with as
medical
linoffisPceecria, nl ocwaserseq, te allowedif thetroe eaxreceetlsoospo°as;setnigmetrsa,
many as two steerage passengers to the 100 tons be
brought within the full scope of the Passengers Act.
They advise that, where dangerous epidemics prevail,
power be given to the Crown to stop emigration during
their prevalence, or that ships with ever so few passengers
should be required to take a surgeon if circumstances ap-
pear to justify an exception to the rule. Considering that
the seeds of disease have often been sown among emigrants
exposure otneththeedeEckasgloifshthpee Callas lief-
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shteeai their sufferingshe:.sps ofthewhich frruleoem
aeadopted ve3,
them
by the Emigration Com-
embarkation, the committee recommend the extension to
private
missioners in reference to their ships, requiring
accom-
modation under cover for emigrants making Channel
passages to join the emigration ship. Further, the com-
mittee recommend an increase of the space given in the
" between decks?' In regard to diet, the conclusion of
the committee is, that an addition should be made to the
dietary scale of the act of 1852, so that it be adequate for
proper sustenance without the necessity of private supply.
They object to a second passenger deck below, on account
of the difficulty of thorough ventilation ; and it appears
that the Emigration Commissioners have determined not
again to charter vessels so circumstanced. They recom-
mend that great attention be paid by the emigration
officer in ascertaining the efficiency of the crew ; but,
whether the rule of four men to the 100 tons, insisted
upon in Government vessels and in the Australian emi•
gration, should be extended to private ships in the Ame-
rican passage is allowed to be a point of much difficulty.
It is suggested that the detention money allowed for the
support of emigrants during the detention of the ship
after the appointed day of sailing be raised to is. 64. per
day for adults, and is. for children under ten years; and
that the depot system, which is &kilted by, the Emigra-
tion Commissioners, should be geneally established. To
those commissioners it is suggested that they should test
some of the new patented inventions for safer, larger, and
yet more easily-stowed boats or rafts, as the present means
of saving life in cases of total wreck are proved to be in-
sufficient. The committee conclude with recommending
the government to endeavour to obtain the co-operation
of the United States in an amended Passengers' Act, to be
enforced by both countries.
TUB PAnkma. ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA.—The Golden
Age is an American paddle-Wheel steamer, of 3,000 tons
burden, and 700 nominal horse power. Her run out from
Liverpool to Australia was the quickest ever made, and
the owners have placed her upon the Sydney and Panama
route, with a view of testing its capability to support a
line of powerful steamers. The Golden Age left Hobson's
Bay at 1 p.m. on the sth of May, and anchored at Sydney-
heads on the Bth, at uightfal, the vessel being heavily
laden with coals. She took her departure from Sydney on
the 12th of May, and at 11 a.m. on the 24th entered
Papiti Harbour, the distance, 3,411 miles, having been
run in 14 days, the winds prevailing being S. by W. for
the first nine days, and E. the remainder. The lowest
run in 21 hours was 220 miles, and the highest 272 miles.
The ship was burning New South Wales coal (from New-
castle), the average consumption being 70 tons per diem.
The stay at Papiti occupied'five days, during which 1,200
tons of coal were taken on board from three vessels lying
in a safe and good harbour without rollers, the coal being
placed on board by natives. Ott the 30th of May, at 10
a.m., the Golden Age left Papiti, having on board 1,400
tons of coal, the ship being very deep, the engines making
only nine revolutions, and the current being 1} knot
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tance traversed being 4,451 miles ; wind calm and light
from the eastward during the majority of the passage.
The course steered was a straight one to Tahiti and thence
to Panama, and the ship had to contend with 768 miles of
current. About 2,600 tons of coal were consumed in all,
the average cost of which, at £4 per ton, was £10,400.
With a consumption of 70 tons of New South Wales coal
the engines only made 13 revolutions per minute, whereas
with 50 tons of Welsh coals the revolutions attained have
been 18. The mails have been delivered in Southampton
in 66 days from Sydney, all detentions included ; but,
taking six days for coaling at Papiti, four days' detention
at Panama, and two days at St. Thomas's, the actual
steaming time has been 54 days from Sydney to England.
The freight and passage-money earned by the Golden Age
was £10,500, and the voyage will, it is said, show a loss of
from £7,000 to £lO,OOO, owing to the enormous cost of
fuel. Screw steamers, if used on this route, would proba-
bly
coal in Cook's Straits, New Zealand, and, as they
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the Golden Age. Without a mail contract of 10s. per mile,
it is doubtful if screw steamers would pay their expenses
on the line ; and it is from this cause that the English
company (the Australian Pacific) has withdrawn their fine
steamers, built specially for the purpose. The experience
derived from the voyage of the Golden Age is pretty con-
clusive as to the fact of the Panama route to Australia
being the shortest and most direct, and (considerations of
expense left out of the question) the most desirable for the
transmission of mails. When coals can be provided for
steamers at New Zealand at moderate expense, it seems to
be likely that the line will be permanently occupied by
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