The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

BOMBAY, JULY I.—The barque Euterpe, Captain Morton,
which left Bombay for Liverpool on the 11th of June, was
wrecked on the coast of Canara, near Byndoor, with loss of
life. Out of the crew, the master, William Drew, mate,
James Thompson, steward, and a Siddee boy have perished.
The second mate, William Foster, and the rest of the crew,
in all 17 or 19, have reached the shore. A great deal of cargo
is being washed ashore.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S—Tins DAY

TRADESMEN'S PLATE, DERBY.-6 to 4 agst Grand In-

LEAMINGTON STARES.-6 to 1 agst Amalgamation, tk;
8 to 1 agst Hungerford, tk ; 12 to 1 agst Baalbec, tk.
ST. LEGER.-6 to 4 agst Boiardo, tk and off ; 6 to 1
agst Acrobat, tk ; 7 to 1 agst Trapper, off; 15 to 1 agst
Scythian ; 20 to 1 agst Ivan.

DEBBY.-20 to 1 agst Cruiser, tk; 60 to 1 agst Ryl-
stone, tk. Goorkah is scratched for all his engagements.

EFFECT OF TUE NEW BEER ACT ZIP BIRICENHEAD.--..
The effect of the new act which closes public-I

ices at an

early hour on Sunday evening has had a most salutary
effect at Birkenhead. Yesterday week there were 26
drunk and disorderly cases brought before the Police-
court, rather below the average ; but yesterday morning
there were only 4, a much smaller number than has teen
known on a Monday morning for a number of years.
AN EXTRAORDINARY POTATO.--A potato of the red
kidney species, in a garden on the Edge Lane Farm, near
Droylsden, belonging to Mr. T. Morton, of the Thatched
House Tavern, in this city, has produced a top of the
enormons length of 9ft. 6in. Throughout the garden the
tops were unusually long ; but the yield of potatoes has
been very good.—Manchester Guardian.

TEM GAS QUESTION.—On Saturday a meeting of gas
consumers was held in the Common Hall, Hackin's• hey to
hear a report from a deputation, appointed at a previous
meeting, of their interview with the directors of the Liver-
pool United Gas-light Company. Mr. Mac& occupied the
chair, and, after a few preliminary remarks, introduced
Mr. J. R. Jeffery, who detailed the result of the interview.
He said the directors of the Gas Company informed the
deputation that they intended to reduce the price of gas
6d. per thousand feet in the town, commencing in January
next, on which the deputation expressed an opinion that •
the reduction might safely take place from the Ist of
October, as they understood that during the past year the
directors had been enabled to place their reserved fund
within £3,000 of the maximum required by Parliament.
They urged that the reduction might safely be expected to
lead to an increased consumption, and that they were quite
in a position to make the reduction 9d. or 10d. The depu-
tation also suggested that they should exercise their bor-
rowing powers more fully, so that they might get money
for 4 or 41- per cent., instead of calling up more capital on
which they would have to pay ten per cent. The directors
refused to make any change as to the extent of their reduc-
tion in price and the time when it should take place,
but said that they would raise, most likely, what far-
ther capital, they might require, partly by loans, and
partly by calling on their capital. The deputation
next alluded to the subject of the testing of the
meters, on which the directors said they would have no
objection to the Council appointing a competent officer to
inspect the meters on behalf of the public, they also paying
his salary. The next subject alluded to was the position of
the consumers and the Gas Company, the deputation urg-
ing that their interests are identical, that the directors
should, therefore, consider themselves in the light of
trustees, and that the accounts and management of the
affairs of the company should be inspected by two zentle-

men who should sit at the board with all thewpowe;

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