The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-21 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

The crew of the Ann Hall, of Liverpool, were tried at the
Central Criminal Court, London, on Thursday, for mutiny

and piracy on the high seas, and were found guilty of a com-
mon assault on the captain.
LAN CASHIRE MIDSUMMER SESSIONS.—WC perceive that
these sessions are fixed for the 27th of June, at Lancaster;

at Preston, on the 29th ; at Salford, on the 4th of July ; and
at Kirkdale, on the 14th of July, at ten o'clock. The an-
nual general session of the peace for the county palatine will
be held in Preston on Thursday, the 30th instant.
PARISH APPOINTMENTS.-At the meeting of the Liver-
pool Board of Guardians, held on Tuesday last, the following
gentlemen were appointed district surgeons under the new

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poor law act :
No. 1, or St. Martin's District, Mr. Ellison..
2, or Great Howard-street District, Mr. Cripps,
3, or Dale-street District, Mr. Chalmer, jun.
4, or St. Thomas's District, Mr. John Ashcroft.
5, or Mount Pleasant District, Mr. Garthside.

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6, or Lime-street District, Mr. G. Gill.
INQUESTS.—Two inquests were held before the borough
coroner on Friday. The first was on view of the body of a

male child which, at the early hour of half-past four o'clock
on Wednesday morning, was discovered, by the police-offi-
cer on duty, tied up in a handkerchief, and lying inside a
ditch on Netherfield-road, South Everton. It was quite
dead at the time. There were no marks of violence ester-

nally. It was subsequently examined by a surgeon, who
gave it as his opinion that it had breathed for a short time
after it was born, and that it had died from debility. Ver-
dict accordingly.—The second inquest was held on the body

of a man, sixty years of age, named Thomas Kearns. It
appeared from the evidence that on Wednesday evening last
the deceased was working on board a vessel called the Sir
Charles Napier, at present lying in the Waterloo Dock. He

was engaged in layiiig down planks on the lower deck beams,
and in the act of making a line, called a chalk line, when his
foot slipped, and he was precipitated down a height of twelve
feet into the hold. He died shortly after. A verdict of ac-
cidental death was returned.

PASSENGERS BY THE STEPHEN WHITNEY PACKET-
SHIP FROM NEW YORK.—Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury, Miss
Salisbury, and servant ; Mr. and Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Ogden
Hagarty, daughter and servant; Mrs. W. J. Hyslop and ser-
vant; Mr. and Mrs. M‘Neile, Mrs. Cooper, Miss Collins,
Mr. and Mrs. Springer, Mr. Maxwell, Secretary of Legation
to Russia; Mr. R. Coligate, Mr. Wilson Mr. Walker, of
New York ; Mr. and Mrs. Tyson, Mr. R. Tyson, Miss Ty-
son, and servant ; Bishop Soule and Rev. J. Sergeant, Bal-
timore ; Rev. J. Ogilby, New York ; Mr. Ross and Miss
Ross, Ireland ; Miss Kennedy and servant, Dublin ; Mr.

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Martin, London ; Mr. Reid, 'Scotland ; Mr. Ballard, Mr
Steele, Mr. Johnston, Boston ; Mr. Rooke, Englund ; Rev.

J. M`Donagh, Canada ; Rev. J. Leyburn, Virgiana ; Dr.
Shotwell, Dr. Strader, Cincinnati ; Captain Sydney.
COMMISSIONERS OF BIRKENIIEAD.—A. special meeting
of this body was held on Wednesday, to settle certain ques-
tions as to the purchase of Woodside Ferry. J. H. Greene,
Esq. presided, and the following commissioners were pre-
sent:—Mr. Wm. Jackson, Mr. J. Laird, Mr. Cole, Mr.
Pirn, Mr. M. N. Raynes, Mr. R. W. Pritchard, and Mr. J.
Parker. The undermentioned qualified as commissioners,
and took the oaths accordingly :—Mr. A. Kerr, Mr. W. Hor-
ner, Mr. Charles A. Watson, Mr. D. M`Nichol, Mr. Rich-
ard Fry, and, Mr. Charles Gilbertson. Mr. Mallaby, clerk
to the commissioners, produced the contract with the railway
company, for the purchase of Woodside Ferry, also the four
mortgages to the company. for consideration money named in
the contract. The following gentlemen were appointed the
trustees, to whom the shares are to be transferred for the
commissioners :—J. D. Case, Esq., Mr. Wm. Jackson, Mr.
J. H. Greene, Mr. D. Appleton, Mr. Horner, Mr. C. Ben-
tham, Mr. Alexander Kerr, Mr. D. M`Nichol, and Mr. J.
Laird.

REGISTRY OF STIIPPING.—On Friday the first annual
meeting of the Liverpool Society for the Registry of Ship-
ping was held in the Board-room, No. 21, Exchange-build-
ings. Henry C. Chapman, Esq., in the chair. The chairman
briefly stated the nature of the business to be transacted, and
congratulated the members on the successful result of the
past year's operations of the society, notwithstanding the de-
pressed state of the shipping interest. The report was read
by the secretary, and received with universal satisfaction.
The society is now fully and successfully established, and in
its operation must prove beneficial, not only in a local, but a
national point of view, to the merchant, underwriter, ship-
owner, shipbuilder, and emigrant. Six members were
elected upon the committee, in lieu of those vacating by ro-
tation. The following is a list of the Committee of Manage-
ment for the ensuing year :—Robertson Gladstone, Samuel
Martin, William Mann, William Tapley, Thomas Chilton,
J. Nelson Wood, Charles Cotesworth, W. A. Coulborn,
George Loch, William Potter, William Jones, John Lockett,
George Kendall, Thomas Bold, John Clint, Wm. Ashley,
Joseph Wilson Brooke, and Henry Cleaver Chapman, Esqrs.
The following are members ex-officio :—The Chairman of
the Underwriters Association, the Chairman of the Ship-
owners' Association, and the Chairman of the Shipbuilders'
Association.

FACTION FIGHT IN THE PARK.—Last night, about six
o'clock, a fight took place, originally, it is supposed, between
two men only, in one of the fields between Upper Parlia-
ment-street, Toxteth-park, and the tanneries, near Lodge-
lane, by which a large crowd was very shortly collected,
some of whom, of opposite political opinions, showed some
disposition to cause a general breach of the peace. The
police-officers stationed in the immediate neighbourhood
were soon on the spot, and word was passed down to Mr.
Whitty, our active chief constable, that (as was then sup-
posed) the Irish and the ship-carpenters—of both of whom
there were many on the ground—were apparently preparing
for hostile conflict. Police Inspector Clough was soon on
the spot, and succeeded in quelling, to a certain extent, what
turned out to be a " faction fight," (that had sprung out of
the first,) between " Leinster" and " Munster," or, in other
words, between parties who classed themselves as belonging
to these Irish provnces, and became belligerent. The
crowd, when the police arrived, was about 600 strong, and
the consequences, had they been allowed to proceed unmo-
lested, might have been most serious. Mr. Whitty, learn-
ing the urgency of the case, took up about 100 men in
coaches, and, with the assistance of those before collected,
and arriving from other quarters in rapid succession, very
soon cleared the ground, the parties flying off in every direc-
tion, until all was quiet. The number on the ground at one
time appeared, we are informed, to be from two to three
thousand. A smart shower of rain set in immediately after-
wards, and nothing more was heard of the " fighters.' Many
of them, it appears, were from New Bird-street, Crosbic-
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street, and the same neighbourhood—one long noted for the
pugnacious propensities of the inhabitants. At one time an
unfounded alarm of imminent danger had spread, and the
streets southward, leading to the scene of action, were
crowded with young and old. Happily, however, through
the vigilance of the police, the whole went off smoothly,
and we have heard of no accident to life or limb.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—These beautiful gardens have
been fashionably attended every night since the commence-
ment of the season. The Roman Festa goes off with great
eclat,—the fireworks and illuminations are splendid. The
gardens are now lighted up with gas lamps, which produce a
novel and fine effect. The band playing during the pyro-
technic display adds greatly to the effect of the scene. The
Centrifugal Railway is in progress of erection, and we believe
some novel amusements will be brought forward during the
season. We recommend a visit to these charming gardens.
The animals appear to ha in excellent condition.
THE EXHIBITION AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—
This exhibition opened yesterday. It is very far superior to
the last, both in the quality and number of the various arti-
cles exhibited. The rooms are all well filled with specimens
of vertu, taste, and science. Mr. Catlin, who has been at-
tracting crowds of persons in the metropolis to his Indian
Museum, occupies a large shed erected in the yard of the in-
stitution. It is quite impossible for us to-day to do justice
either to the exhibition or the curious and remarkable Indian
collection, we shall therefore defer our description of them
till Friday ; in the mean time recommending a visit, which
will amply repay any one for the time bestowed in the inspec-
tion. Mr. Catlin's collection is a most extraordinary one.
CASE OF THE BARON DE BODE.—On Wednesday a
commission was held in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, before
John Forquhar Fraser, Esq., Edward Vaughan Richards,
Esq., and Edward Smirke, Esq., with a special jury, to
inquire into the claims of the Baron Clement de Bode, as a
French claimant. Mr. M. D. Hill in opening the case, said,
it was a preceeding so rare, that there was no instance since
the time of James 1., but his Learned Friends and himself
had, by the books, been able to proceed thus far, though not
without delay. It was surmised by our law writers, that in
former years, subjects had a right to bring an action against
the Crown, but this course involved a practical contradiction.
To get rid of this practical contradiction custom was allowed;
the subject now presented to the Crown a Petition of right,
and the crown having endorsed it, " Let right be done," the
Petition was taken to the Court of Chancery, This was
the case here, and the gentlemen sitting here as commis-
sioners were to inquire into the truth of the allegations in
the Baron's Petition, and to return the truth to the Lord
Chancellor. On Saturday the claim of the Baron Clement
de Bode was brought to a close before the commissioners
of that da
anda the jury appointed to inquire into the claim. The whole
and resumed
the evidence was got through on Friday, and on the even-
ing), Mr. Commissioner Fraser commenced sum-
mingintie up ; but owing to the numerous allegations contained
the baron, he was obliged to adjourn the
court, apne
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He _ his summing up on Saturday morning.
concluded at three o'clockin the afternoon, at which
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hour the jury retired, and, having found the baron's title to
be good, returnedr
into court at six o'clock, awarding the
baron 9,106,650 francs, or £364,260, being the sum, with in-
' his estate in Alsace terest, to which they thought he was entitled, for the loss of
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the baron, was £1,600,000.
amount claimed, with interest, by

EISENSTETN'S COFFEE•HOUSE.—Those who are fond of a
delicious cup of coffee or chocolate should visit Eisenstein's
Coffee-house, in Hackin's-hey. The method adopted in
making it is the foreign. It is excellent.

Boox COLLECTORS.—Book collectors are recommended
to look over Mr. Rees new catalogue, which he has just
published. It contains the names of a great many rare
works well worthy the notice of the bibliopolist.

DESTRUCTION OF FLOWERS.—Two girls, Jane Burtlett
and Maria Holt, and two young men, William Holt and
James Nelson, were yesterday charged with taking, at four
o'clock the same morning, a quantity of flowers and plants
from a gentleman's garden in the vicinity, and hiding them
in a hedge, with a view to carry them away. They were,
however, detected before they accomplished their final in-
tention. Mr. Rushton remarked strongly on the wanton
destruction thus committed, and after reading the clause of
the act affecting the offence, fined each of the prisoners 205.,
and ss. for the value of the flowers, in default, to be impri-
soned.

THEFT FROM PREMISES THAT HAD BEEN ON FIRE.-
John M'Avoy was yesterday charged at the police court with
stealing a packet of needle cases and other ,articles on the
premises of Mr. Eastee, next door to the Standard Office,
at which (the former) there had been a fire o❑ Saturday.
Mr. Maxwell, superintendent for the insurance offices stated
in mitigation that the articles were the property of an
insurance office and were not worth more than 18d. The
prisoner, he added, had been employed as a temporary fire-
man, but had in consequence of the theft been discharged.
lle was committed to the House of Correction for seven
days.

RATHER SHARP PRACTICE TO RECOVER WAGES.—At
the police-court yesterday, two men, James Cummings and
another, were charged by a man, in whose employ and that
of his partner it appeared they had been, with stealing from
him a sum of money. The complainant said that he had
gone into a public-house where the prisoners were, and hav-
ing produced some money there, they had snatched up three
half-crowns, which they kept, mid scattered the rest about.
The prisoners said that the complainant and his partner owed
them 13s. 3d. of wages, which they had long lain out of and
could not get. The partner was sent for but did not appear,
and as the complainant bad varied in his story as to the
amount taken, the prisoners were discharged, with an ad-
monition that they must proceed for the recovery of what
was due to them through the Court of Requests, and not
seize upon money by force. •
SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS. Two youths, Baker and
M'lntyre, the latter of whom was well known to the police
as a bad character, were yesterday placed before Mr. Rush-
ton, on a charge of being found with a well-known thief in
the streets, who had a cloak over his arm, which it was
strongly suspected was not honestly come by, but with which
he made his escape from the officers. On the person of one
of the prisoners, who, it appears, keeps a brothel, were found
two small brass boxes, in the form of round-topped trunks,
both outwardly alike, but the one solid and the other made
to open. These, it appears, are for the purpose of practising
a trick or juggle on the unwary, by wagering. As nothing
positive could be brought forward against them they were
discharged with a strong caution. One of them had been
discharged eighteen months, and the other had been let loose
from gaol only on Saturday last.
ALARMING FIRE IN THE CRESCENT.—OII Saturday last,
a little after one o'clock, a fire, which for some time threat-
ened very serious consequences, broke out ou the premises
of Mr. Everard Eastee, dealer in toys and fancy articles,
North Crescent. How the fire originated is not known. It
broke out in the back part of the building in the upper store-
room or warehouse, adjoining a back entry leading from
Harrington-street, and where the buildings are lofty and
contiguous—the office of this newspaper being only separated
from it by a party wall. . The smell of burning reached our
rooms, and smoke being observed, our porter went to Mr.
Eastee's to give the alarm, and having found his way to th e
site of the conflagration, offered to assilt in its extinguish-
ment, and is of opinion that he might have perhaps succeeded
in arresting' its progress ; but whether from the confusion of
the moment or otherwise, he was rather unceremoniously
pushed away. He purposed to throw the ignited articles out
of the window at once into the yard below, and to have
done this, by taking it in the bud, saved any further de-
struction. Being thwarted in this, intelligence was imme-
diately conveyed from this office to the fire-engine station-
house, and two engines were soon on the spot. The
articles exposed to the flames in the first instance were
of a most combustible nature, being wholly wooden toys and
other light articles, and opposite to them was a large stock of
lucifer matches, which were, we learn' soon observed to be
also in flames. The fire, indeed, we have little doubt, ori-
ginated in the ignition of the latter. The whole of the upper
room behind was in a blaze before the engines arrived, and
the warehouse door was entirely burnt. Mr. Hewitt, of the fire
police, and his men exerted themselves to the utmost, and
eventually saved the building, and those contiguous which
were long in great jeopardy from tne flames. A window
immediately contiguous to the compositors' room in our
premises (not above three yards distant) was completely
burnt out. and the upper part of our premises was filled with
smoke. The flames had also found their way through the
rafters into the jigger loft, in which there was a quantity of
fire works, and the roof of the loft with the teagle, &c., were
burnt through. The fire eventually got into the room be-
low, in which there was also an extensive stock, and
serious apprehensions were for a time entertained that this
office, and, indeed, the whole range might be come ignited—
in .which case the force of the conflagration would have defied
all efforts to subdue it. Happily, however, by the exertions
of the fire-police, under Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewett, the
fire was subdued in about an hour and a half after its com-
mencement. Care was taken not to injure Mr. Eastee's
stock more than was absolutely necessary. He is, we
learn, insured in the Licensed Victuallers' Fire Office. For
ourselves we have happily sustained no loss, though we
were put to great hazard and inconvenience. The quantity of
half consumed toys, &c., that have thrown into the entry be-
hind the premises, at our own back door, has been great ;
and amongst the heterogenous collection was an immense
quantity of lucifer matches, the smell of which is still strong
and offensive. We cannot conclude without remarking that
we consider it exceedingly reprehensible that matters so com-
bustible should, under any premium of insurance, be suffered
to be stored and compacted in premises in the heart of the
town, placing the property as well as possibly the lives of
those in the adjoining buildings in the utmost danger.