The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND' GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

VISCOUNT MOLTNEUX, eldest son of the Earl of Sefton,
has entered the Ist Grenadier Guards.
BURY. At a public meeting, on Saturday, resolutions
in support of the Patriotic Fund were adopted. The sum
of £650 was subscribed in the room.
THE AFRICA, British and North American Royal Mail
steamer, Captain Harrison, took her departure hence for
New York on Saturday, with 61 passengers, a good cargo,

and the usual mails.
THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF DERBY are entertaining
a few select friends at Knowsley-hall, near Prescot. The
Duke and Duchess of Richmond, en route from Gordon
Castle, N. 8., to the South, are expected to visit the noble
ex-Premier at Knowsley, en route to Goodwood, for the

winter.
SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.—The annual service at St. Bar-
nabas' Church, Toxteth-park, in aid of the funds for the
Southern Hospital, was performed on Sunday morning,
the Mayor forming one of the congregation. The sermon
was preached by the Rev. Dr. M Neile, and the sum of
£6l was collected.
STREET GAMBLING.—At the Police-court, yesterday,
Mary M`Lawrie for having a wheel-of-fortune table and a
thimble-rigging apparatus in Hood-street, on Saturday,
was convicted, and fined 2s. 6d. and 2s. 6d. costs.
LIVERPOOL ACADEMY.—As the short and " dark days
of November" are so unfavourable for the inspection of
pictures, the managers have judiciously availed themselves
of the powerful aid of gas, for the illumination of their
splendid collection of paintings and statuary, every even-
ing during the week, except Saturdays.
LORD GREY DE WILTON'S coming-of-age, on Saturday
next, will, we hear, be celebrated by brilliant festivities at
the Earl of Wilton's, Egerton Lodge, Melton-Mowbray,
instead of at his lordship's patrimonial seat, Heaton-park,
near Manchester, where, however, the tenantry will be

liberally regaled on the occasion.
TICE MERMAID, Captain Devey, one of Messrs. Pilking-
ton and Wilson's " White Star Line" of Australian clip-
pers, arrived here on Friday, from Australia, with 20,000
oz. of gold and 80 passengers. As the Mermaid sailed
from Melbourne on the 29th of July, the news has been

anticipated.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE CRIMEA. A placard,
signed " A Townsman," has been extensively circulated
through the town, calling upon the inhabitants of Liver-
pool to move on the subject of reinforcements for the
East, and suggesting that the Mayor should convene a

public meeting.
SINGULAR CASE OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS. —ln the course
of an investigation, which took place before the police
magistrate yesterday, an attorney, who appeared for a
prisoner charged with picking pockets in the streets, made
the following strange confession of obliviousness. He
said, " It is quite impossible, in passing through a crop d,
to say who gets their hand in your pocket. I have myself,
in a-crowd, inadvertently found my own hand in a gen-
tleman's coat pocket before now, and been quite astonished

at it!"
BREACH OF DOCK REGITLA.TIONS.—At the Police-
court, yesterday, William Hill was ordered to pay a fine
of 2s. 6d., together with 2s. 6d. costs, for leaving a large
bottle of vitriol on the Landing-stage without any one be-
ing in charge of it, and without having a label on it dis-
tinctly marked " Vitriol," in compliance with the provi-
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sions of the Liverpool Dock Act.'r
WINTER. ASSIZES.—Mr. Justice Erie and Mr. Justice
Crompton will open the commission for the county of
Lancaster, at the Liverpool assize courts, on Monday, the
11th of December. The calendar is heavy, some of the
cases involving offences of the most serious character.
THE SCREW-STEAMER LOIRE, one of Messrs. M'Clune
and Tampliu's new line, intended to connect Liverpool
with the western ports of France, performed a trial trip on
Wednesday, the results of which, we understand, were
quite satisfactory, a speed of 12f knots having been
attained.

SINKING OF A. BRIG IN THE CHANNEL.-011 Wednes-
day morning, a brig from Arklow came into collision with
another vessel off the N.W. lightship, and cut her down.
She sank shortly afterwards. The captain was picked up
by the steamer Windsor, Captain W. Williams, from
Dublin, and the crew were saved by another vessel.
MR. NICHOLLS, of Eastham Ferry Hotel, has in his
garden some strawberry plants, from which ripe fruit was
taken last week. The fruit was as large and fine as it
usually is in early summer, and, having grown in the open
air, affords a proof of the mildness of the climate of the
locality.
MAIL FOR AUSTRALIA.—In consequence of the General
Screw Company's steamer, which was to have taken the
mail of the 4th proximo, being taken up by the Govern-
ment for troops, Messrs. Jas. Baines and Co. have con-
tracted with Government to dispatch their new clipper-
ship James Baines, from Liverpool, on the 9th December,
with Her Majesty's mails, and to perform the passage in
sixty-five days, under a penalty.
EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.—The Almora, Captain
Williams, belonging to the " Eagle Line," cleared out on
Friday for Melbourne, with 250 passengers. The "White
Star" packet Shalimar will sail, as well as the Almora, in
a few days, for Melbourne, with upwards of 400 passengers
on board. The various ships for Australian ports now
loading are filling up well with passengers and cargo.
SUDDEN DEATHS.—On Sunday night, about half-past
nine o'clock, as a man named Andrew Barnet, an engine
fitter, residing in 21, Bond-street, was taking his supper,
he became suddenly ill, and died in a few minutes. Sur-
gical aid was immediately procured, but it was of no
avail. Deceased was about thirty-two years of age, and
unmarried.—On Sunday morning, a man named Samuel
Brown, who resided with his sister, Mrs. Taylor, in Ellen-
borough-street, was found dead in a court in Cherry-lane;
Deceased had left his lodgings about twelve o'clock on
Saturday night, and was not again seen alive by any of
his relatives. When found, about eight o'clock on Sunday
morning, he had neither coat nor waistcoat on, although
he wore both when he went out. He was about forty-
five years old, and had been subject to spasms; no marks
of violence were visible about his person.
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.—On Saturday morning,
as a child named Henry O'Brien, son of John O'Brien,
labourer, of No. 5 Court, Combermere-street, Park, was
amusing himself with a lighted stick, along with a brother
who was a little older than himself, his night dress
caught fire, and he was so severely scorched as to cause
his death in the course of the afternoon. It appears that
the deceased, who was three years and a half old, and his
brother were left in bed together, while his mother went
to St. Patrick's R. C. Chapel, about half-past seven in the
morning. On her return she found that the deceased
had been burned and taken to Mr. Drawbridge's surgery,
where the injuries he had received were dressed, but he
died at half-past three the same afternoon.
WIGAN SCHOOL.—This question came before Vice-
chancellor Kindersley, on Friday. The object of the
petition was to obtain the sanction of the Court to the
purchase of some small lots of land, on which buildings
had been erected, held on a lease of 999 years, the annual
rent of the houses being from £7 to £l2, together with
the reversionary interest in that. property. There were
funds belonging to the charity invested in Exchequer
Bills, and directed by a local Act of Parliament to be
applied to the purchase of property such as that above-
mentioned. The act prohibited the head master of the
school from granting leases for a longer term than nine
years. It was submitted that, as the purchase would
realise a permanent profit of £5 per cent., the Court would
approve of the purchase. His Honour doubted whether
the purchase of property, which did not appear susceptible
of any future improvement, was so beneficial for the charity
as was supposed, even although it was likely to pay a
steady per centage of £5. He thought the matter had
better be further considered at chambers.
THE NEW NORTH BATTERY.—The new battery which
has been built to the front of the river, northwest of the
Huskisson Dock, from designs by Captain Westmacott, is
ready for the reception of the guns and ordnance stores.
It has been constructed by Messrs. Arthur and George
Holme, the principal material being Runcorn stone. It is
a square building, occupying about 3,000 square yards,
and, having been erected in the castellated style of archi-
tecture, it presents from the land side a handsome and
substantial appearance. The battery fronting the river is
completed, and ready for the reception of ten 32-pounders,
with which it is to be mounted. At each end, and also
facing the river, is placed a tower of solid masonry, on
each of which will be mounted a 68-pounder, so arranged
as -to sweep the river in every direction. The steps by
which access is obtained to the guns are of Irish granite.
The parade is a fine open area, almost square, enclosed by
the various accessory buildings requisite in connexion with
a defensible construction, entrance to which is obtained
from the east side, by means of a drawbridge suspended in
the usual manner over a deep ditch or artificial foss. On
each side of the arched entrance are a series of apartments,
to be used as quarters for the officers and men, a school-
room, magazine, &e. These buildings are protected by a
roof of great strength, covered with asphalte, and made
bomb-proof. The battery is capable of defence in every
direction, facilities being provided for mounting guns on
all sides, and it is capable of holding a garrison of 500 men.
The chimney-pieces, shutters, racks for the guns and cut-
lasses, and, indeed, nearly all the fittings, are of wrought
iron. In the centre of the parade there will be two large
tanks ; and a lightning conductor will be placed near the
magazine, which is protected by a brick arch, of great
strength, made bomb-proof. Between the battery and the
highway to Bootle a road has been formed, to which the
appropriate name of " Battery-street " has been given.
NAKED LIGHTS IN WAREHOUSES.—THE BYE-LAW
DISPUTED.—On Thursday, Mr. R. W. Preston, wine and
spirit merchant, appeared before Mr. Smith, the magis-
trate, at the Police-court, to answer a charge of having
allowed two naked candles to be burned in his cellar, No.
8, Exchange-street West, on the Bth instant. Mr. Preston
said, " I appear to answer the charge, sir ; and I appre-
hend, taking the bye-law as it stands, a conviction cannot
go against the owner for the act of any man in that cellar.
I ground this upon the bye-law itself, which says, ' Any
person who shall within the borough use a light,' &c.
Now, the person who used the light is the party who
should be convicted. I, as chairman of the wine and
spirit association, communicated with the watch com-
mittee upon this point, and a deputation to that com-
mittee will be heard on Saturday next, with the view of
bringing the matter before the Council ; and I should,
therefore, wish an adjournment upon this point."—Mr.
Smith : " I am perfectly of opinion that anything done
by a servant the master is accountable for."—Mr. Preston:
" There is not a porter on the quay but has a lucifer-
match in his pocket. The law is very good, and could be
extended to meet all the urgencies of the case. Upon a
former occasion, some years ago, we were fined by the late
Mr. Rushton, under the same bye-law. Upon the occasion
of a second fine, we appealed, and he said, ' Let it be for
a time.' rwo or three days afterwards I received a letter
from him, in which he said, ' You need not give yourself
further trouble on this matter.' Now, I apprehend, and,
of course, I can only presume, that the notion of Mr.
Rushton was, that the bye-law was imperfect as against
the owners of cellars. Ido not object to the law itself—
it is a good law, but I think the fine ought to be against
the party actually offending. I should like the law to be
' ,ffend."—Mr. Smith :

" In the present instance 1 must apyty mw ute
owner of the cellar."—Mr. Preston : Can you not let it
stand over, sir ?"—Mr. Smith : " I cannot do that ; there
have already been many parties before me, whom I have
—Mr. Preston : " If I am convicted I shall pay it
protest, and it shall be heard at the Quarter Sessions
eston."—The fine inflicted was 10s., which Mr.
W. G. Armitage, of Tower-garden, had
letective-officers Laycock and
m stated that he had seen a
In this

Preston paid.
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