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

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THE CAUSE LIST.—The cause list is unusually heavy
and the trials bid fair to extend over four or five•weeks
In the first, or Salford list, there are 28 er.`
four marked for special jury. This list has been reduced
by trials, arrangements, and withdrawals, to thirt-
The case of Burke r. Kay and Otbrr. •
Thursday, and
It is an act'

st of the day.
the °ulcers of the Manchester
County Court, for 'an alleged seizure of a race-horse,
under an execution, the owner not having previously been
,erved with ^oud, or West Derby list,
trked for special
aeared from the list: havine

ies, including

s expected tc

jury. Six cases 1

withdrawn

The
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) are in

con., from Cheitenham, which is likely to
cause considerable interest. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and
the palatine Attorney-General have been retained for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Atherton, Q.C., and Mr. Roebuck for

Le defindant

THE " OLD LAW COUBTE4,

—No furti

exhibited themselves amongst the members of :the bar
since Saturday, when we regretted to observe a learned
sergeant was visited by premonitory symptoms, which,
however, disappeared before prompt and judicious reme-
dies. We are given to understand that the fear of infec-
tion caused no absentees from the Mayor's dinner, last
night, notwithstanding the banqnetting-hall stands upon
a portion of the same " pestilential marsh" as the Old
Law Courts are built on.

MR. GREENWOOD, of Canning-place, is about to publish
a new and original " Strangers' Guide to Liverpool," by
Dr. D. P. Thomson. The work is being issued under the
auspices of the Mayor, for the use of the British Associa-
tion and other strangers who may visit Liverpoc.l during
the sitting of that learned body in St. George's-hall.

AT THE BANKRUPTCY COURT, on Thursdal
Sezar, a certificate of the second-class was

granted

jest to a suspension for eight months, with irotectio'n.
THE MArou (J. B. Lloyd, Esq.) entertained the judges,
the sheriff, sheriff's chaplain, and the principal members
of the bar, at dinner, at the Town-hall, last evening. The
Rev. Rector Campbell was one of the guests.
QUOITING.—On Friday last, a match at quoits, for
£2OO, was played at Mr. Whitthread's, Derby Arms Hotel,
near the Zoological Gardens, between William Hodson,
the English champion, and John Rennie, the Scotch
champion, After six hOurs' excellent play, the match was
decided in favour of the Englishman.
IN RE CROSBY LEI° nroN.—On Saturday, Mr. Com.
missioner Stevenson gave judgment in this ex., which
had been adjourned from the previous day. Taking al
the circumstances into consideration, he

the bankrupt's certificate for twelve calendar months, and
when granted, order it to be of the second class ; and, as
no objection had beenemsAle to granting protection, he
should grant protection till the expiration of the period
of suspension.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.—The screw steam-ship Great
Britain, Captain Gray, which left the Mersey on the 12th
of June, for Australia, was spoken on the 29th of the
same mouth, in lat. 821 N., long. 27 30 W. 17 days out,
by the Great Britain ship, arrived from Callao at Queens.
town. Captain Gray reported the passengers all well.
A NEW BUOY TENDER, to replace the vessel now em-
ployed in buoying the entrances to the port, was launched
on Saturday, from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Ren-
nie, Johnson, and Rankin. Her dimensions are as follow:
—Length of keel and forerake, 68 feet; breadth, 17 feet
2 inches ; depth, 9 feet ; new measurement, 90 tons.
THE SCREW-STEAMER &ARAM SANDS Las sustained
no material injury by the late accident, beyond the damage
done to her cabins and stores, which has been repaired.
She was to go into the river yesterday, and will sail to-day.
THE RANGE or HOUSES extending from Sir Thomas's.
buildings to Crosshall-street, in Dale-street, is to be taken
down immediately. In this range is an hotel, that used
to be one of the most celebrated in England, the " Sara-
cen's Head Hotel," from the yard of which started the
stage-coaches that left Liverpool for all parts of England,
and Scotland.

DEATH BY BURNING.—An inquest was held on Thum,
day on the body of Michael Cochrane, six years of age, the
son of a labourer, residing in 25 court, Blucher-street,
Edge-hill, whose clothes caught fire on the 10th of July,
whilst endeavouring to reach a piece of bread from the
mantelpiece. The deceased was conveyed to the infirmary,
where he lingered until Tuesday last, when he expired.
Verdict " Accidental death."
ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH, PARK-LA:—In reply to an
application by the minister and churchwarden of St
Thomas's, in Park-lane, to the churchwardens of the
parish, the following answer has been. received :

Liverool, llth August, 1354.
Sirs,—l am directed by the churchwardens of the parish to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant, in
which you request that wine for sacramental purposes may
be furnished for St. Thomas's Church, as usual. in accord-
ance with the Act of Parliament. lam to point out to yon
that the expense of providing bread and wine necessarily
used in the communion, is directed by the statute to be paid
out of the church-rate annually wade, whereas no church-
rate has been made for the present year, the parishioners
having at Easter last refused one.—l have the honour to be,
sirs, your obedient servant; CHAS. HART.
Rev. Thos. L. Pain, Minister, and
Mr. R. Caswell, Churchwarden, j.
of St. Thomas's Church.
We understand that, in consequence of the above intima-
tion, a movement has been originated among the Church-
men of Pitt-street Ward, for the purpose of withholding,
as far as they are concerned, the voluntary church-rate
from the parish authorities, and having it applied to the
use or St. Thomas's church.

PRE SCREW-STEAMSRIP NEW YORK was launched,
on Thursday, from the yard of Tod and APGregor, Kelvin.
She is about the same size as the City of Philadelphia,
lately launched by the same builders. Burthen, 2,400
tons ; length of deck, 300 feet; breadth of beam, 39 feet;
depth of hold, 27 feet; horse-power, 450. The dining
saloon will be on deck, and ample accommodation for pas-
sengers will be provided in berths and state cabins below,
similar to the Cunard steamers. The ship's officers will
also be accommodated on deck in comfortable berths. The
internal fittings will, we believe, be such as to leave
nothing wanting that may contribute to the health and

comfort of the p-assengers. Her machinery will he fitted
up in due course, and she will start on her first voyage
about the end of September.
FATAL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION. 011 the 6th inst.,
Peter Daly, aged 34, a horsekeeper, entered the service of
Mr. Bath, at the Aighurth Hotel, and it was soon percep-
tible that he was addicted to habits of intoxication. On
Monday and Tuesday following, he was observed indulging
in liquor, and on the latter day he endeavoured • t
James Joyce, a fellow helper, to drink with him, la
refused. On the evening of Tuesday. Joy

Joyce
entered the

stable, and saw Daly lying on his back, drank, with one of
the horse's feet between his legs, when Joyce immediately
released him from his dangerous position. On Wednesday
he was again inebriated, and about five o'clock in the even-
ing Joyce saw him near the stable door ; in half an hour
afterwards he heard that Daly had been severely injured
by one of the horses. Joyce removed him from the stable,
and Dr. Thompson, of Aigburth, was sent for, ivho, find-
ing Daly much hurt, advised his removal to the Southern
Hospital, where he arrived in a car at nine o'clock the
same night, suffering from severe injuries of the abdomen,
and expired on Sunday morning. The probability is that
he fell down, or laid himself down as before, and the
horses trod upon him. An inquest will be held this day.
SUDDEN DEATIL—Mary Madden, widow of John Mad-
den, 13 court, Wright-street, aged 64, had for some time
been afflicted with asthma, and was attended by Mr. Kelly,
surgeon to the parish. On Sunday night she retired to rest
with her daughter, who found her mother dead in bed
yesterdaythis
damovr.ning. An inquest will be held upon the
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ARRIVAL OF TIER OTTAWA.—On Friday morning the
Canadian Steam Navigation Company's Royal. Mail screw
down lake St. Peter
steam-ship Ottawa, Capt. J. B. Atkins, arrived in the
Mersey, from Quebc, with a very large Canadian mail,
60 passengers, and a full freight. She sailed from Mon.
ongethanngd a-half fans. from her
on the
sthreealgroonunthdeedl,Bteahrrtyilitn.,gbauwt
away
propeller, but sustained no other damage, and with the
aid of three powerful steamers was got off, after discharg.
Parliament
ing her cargo. She sailed from Quebec on the 30th nit ,
and notwithstanding her defective propeller, made the
passage to this port in less than 11i days. The Ottawa
passed a number of very large icebergs at 6, p.m.,
2nd, and on the 10th at 6, a.m., the United States •
steam-ship Baltic, hence to New York. The Cleopatra
hence, arrived at Quebec 25th ult., after a 15 days' pass,„,„.'
4duinrintghethneumpbere:eil \
et
emigration to
The election of members for the Canadian
tinned. Twenty-six Ministerialists, and thirty-sev,
letter3eo furnished the Opposition party were returned. A eoraT, '1
statement of the tonnage of Quebec up to jar 2r
4an6,si6ompinrovtheme entor7
tonnage.
during, the same
it:
ran
ts improve,l
ai
de andda fromlii
ta 2
ecorresponding period of
nldBs3th.
atTdbuerin *g.
were from Quebec
3 continues3,l3 3em
period last year. Of these 34 322bY the
thev.:Based-
present year
Kingdom ,
against 18,754 in 1858. the Unfit,
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two thousand years wave had never reached it : the last
general elevation of the land had raised it beyond the
reach of the highest stream-tides ; and when my gang and
I took possession of its twilight recesses, its slimy sides
were crusted with mosses and liverworts, and a crop of
pale and attenuated sickly-looking weeds, upon which the
sun had never looked in his strength, sprang thickly up
floor. In the remote past it had been used as a
f the parish named Marcus,
is appellation.

Lu3olng-piace, by a farm
d from him it had deriv
In the wild half-savag
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fe which we led, we did con.

shores supplied us withvlimpets, pt
and now and then '

ably well. The rocks
riwinkles, and crabs

a lump fish ; the rugged slopes under
.;cipices with hips, sloes, and brambles ; the broken
,gment of wreck along the beach, and the wood above,
furnished abundance of fuel; and as there were fields not

1-a-mile away, I fear the more solid parts of ot.,
sisted of potatoes which we had not
_planted, and of
s and beans which we had not sown. One of our num-
contrived to bring away a pot unobserved from home.

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vary