The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-12 00:00:00

ing exhausted.- The

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£23,000.

pioceeds of the annual ba
Club, on Wednesday eveni

receipt of performances at the Thea
evening, are also devoted to the fund
At the last meeting of the corn

South Toxteth Wards- it was announced that
amount in the hands of that committee was abo
It is confidently expected that at least £6OO mo

E,lOOO

received.
The sum contributed by the Liverpool
ment of the Lancashire and Yorkshire and East Lancashot
Railway Company, £22; by the workmen employ's'
Mr. John Laird, shipbuilder, Birkenhead, £27e ;
the workmen employed by Messrs. Evans and Co., in then
collieries in Haydock, near Newton, £69 4s. 9d., which
added to the sum of £5O subscribed by Messrs.'
themselves, and the further sum of £ll subscribed by tin
workpeople of their Roy Green collieries, makes a total of
£126 4s. 9d., contributed by the masters and men of this

At a meeting of the parishioners of Wallasey, on Wed-
nesday evening, a committee, secretary, and treasurer,
were appointed for the collection of subscriptions in aid of
the Patriotic Fund. Mr. W. 'Mann • announced that the
Wallasey Club, of which he was president, 'on hearing of
the movement being made in the parish, had contributed
£lO towards the fund. .

A. meeting was held at the National School, Bootle, on
Thursday evening; in support of the fund, Robert Theak-
stone, Esq., in the chair. . -
A meeting of the inhabitants of Wavertree, convened by
the churchwardens, was held at the Coffee-house, on

Thursday evening, Major Bourne, presiding,
At a quarterly meeting of the members of the Loyal
Erin's Pride Lodge, 210; L. D. of Modern Druids, held at
Host Brown's, Whitechapel, -it was resolved. that £3 be
given out of the benevolent fund, and that a subscription
be entered into by the members of the lodge, for the fund.
ISLE or MAN.—The hands on board the Manx• Fairy
have voted a day's pay to the Patriotic Fund.—Messrs.
Robert and William Muter, of Kerrow-ne-Glough, have
forwarded £lOO to the treasurer of the Douglas Patriotic
Fund. _ _ _

On Tuesday evening, a meeting of the working-classes
of Bristol, in aid of the fund, was held at the Public-rooms,
Broadmead, under the presidency of the mayor. Nearly
3,000 persons were present. The resolutions were all
proposed and seconded by members of the working classes.
Several large subscriptions were announced, including one
of £l,OOO from the Oddfellows of the district.
CARLTENHA.M.—The Cheltenham contributions now
exceed £2,300; those for the county of Gloucester, £1,286 ;
for the city, £755 ; Stroud, £3BO ; Tewkesbury, £lB6 ;
Charlton Kings, £245 : Prestbury £132.
GIIERNSEY.—The collection made in the bailiwick of
Guernsey amounts to nearly £1,400. _

WORCESTER.—The amount of the county subscription

exceeds £3OO.

The amount subscribed by the clerks, foreman, and
workmen in the employment of John Laird, Esq., at his
works in Birkenhead and Liverpool.
The attention of the guardians of

e Eastham distric

has been successfully occupied in promoting the collec
for the Patriotic Fund. The sum contributed from
ham is £53 9s. Id.

THE EARL or ELGIN.—It is the intention of the Li-
verpool Chamber of Commerce to present addresses of
congratulation and respect to Lord Elgin on his arrival
here from Canada.
LIVERPOOL ACADEMY.—We are glad to see that the
working classes have the usual annual treat now offered
them by the Exhibition of the Liverpool Academy's rich
collection of pictures and statuary, at prices within the
reach of all, and at such hours as must suit every one's
convenience.

THE AMERICA British and North American mail-
steamer, Captain Lang, took her departure hence for Bos-
ton, on Saturday, with 150 passengers, including Rear-
Admiral Bruce, who goes out to take command of the
Pacific fleet. The Collins' steamer Atlantic, Captain West,
will sail for New York next Saturday, when the weekly
mail communication will be resumed.
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' MEETING.—A meeting of
the licensed victuallers of the Abercromby and Rodney-
street Wards was held at the Durham Ox, Brownlow-hill,
on Tuesday. The chair was taken by Mr. Atkinson.
Resolutions pledging the meeting to prevent any bill
passing founded on the resolutions of the House of Com-
mons, appointing a committee, and declaring that no
alteration was required in the present law as regarded
licenses, were carried unanimously, and the meeting

separated.
THE PIRE.—A memorial, signed by James R. Jeffery,
John Roskell, jun., Thos. Urquhart, Firth Woodhead, and
James Rogerson, was among the Mayor's communications
last week, praying that full information on all points
respecting the cost and progress of the Pike works be
published before any further application be made to
parliament ; but this memorial has been anticipated by
Mr. George Holt, chairman of the water committee, who
has announced that all the details will be laid before the

next Council.
POST-OFFIC

NOTICE

—Her Majesty's Government
having engaged the services of some of the packets be-
longing to the South American and General Steam Navi-
gation Company, for the conveyance of troops and for
other purposes of the war, it has been found necessary to
suspend temporarily the contract entered into with that
company for the conveyance of mails from Liverpool to
Brazil and the River Plate, on the 24th of every month.
No packet, will, therefore, be despatched from Liverpool to
Brazil on the 24th inst., nor on the 24th of any subsequent
month, until further notice.
TIIE JAMES BA rNEs.—The magnificent new clipper-
ship, James Baines, of the " Black Ball" line, one of the
largest sailing vessels in the world, took her departure for
Melbourne, on Sunday morning, about ten o'clock, having
on board 700 passengers, (eighty of the first class,) about
1,400 tons of cargo, and upwards of 180,000 letters and
newspapers, contained in 350 sacks, weighing about 120
tons, the largest Australian mail ever despatched. So
crowded was the ship by passengers, mail, and provisions,
that every description of freight had to be shut out. The
style in which Messrs. Baines and Co. feed their passen-
gers may be estimated by the fact that, in addition to the
usual stores, there were on board 75 sheep, 25 of which are
preserved in ice ; 86 pigs, 6 of which are in ice ; and 100
dozen of fowls, 30 dozen of which are in ice ; the live stock
being reserved for use after the vessel has crossed the line.
A bullock is also on board, which will be killed to provide
a portion of the Christmas dinner. Nothing, in fact, that
the well-known liberality of the owners could provide has
been omitted that will be likely to conduce to the comfort
of the passengers. It is anticipated that the James Baines
will make the voyage in about sixty days. By the con-
tract with the Post-office authorities, she is bound to de-
liver the mail in Melbourne within sixty-five days, under
penalty. She is under the command of Captain M`Donnell,
who has already distinguished himself for the quick and
safe passages made by vessels under his charge, and will
be succeeded by the famous clipper Lightning. •
A STEAMER ON WITEELS.—On Saturday, an iron screw-
steamer, 100 feet long, and of proportionate depth and
beam, was conveyed from the engine-works and foundry
of Messrs. Thos. Pearson and Co., in Blackstone-street,
Great Howard-street, to the Huskisson Dock, in a series
of massive trucks, drawn by twenty horses. The vessel
was dragged stern first, and her bow rested on a traver-
sing platform, to enable the vehicle to turn round the
corners. The ponderous body was started from the yard
in Blackstone-street, where it had been built, about eleven
o'clock, and proceeded in safety until opposite the Sandon
Dock-gates, about half-past twelve o'clock, when, through
giving a sudden lurch to one side, it jammed a cart against
the dock wall. The cart, though capsized, was not
damaged, but the steamer remained immoveable for two
or three hours. It is intended to launch her at the tim-
ber-slip into the Huskisson Dock. The vessel herself is of
very peculiar construction, being intended for the palm-oil
trade in the African rivers. She has a raised topgallant-
forecastle forward, and a poop aft, but her spar-deck,
which is also of iron, is built in the form of an arch, to
give greater strength to the hull. She will be propelled
by two screws working different ways to counteract each
other in forming the " breakwater,' which is so destruc-
tive to the banks of canals and small rivers.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A serious collison took place on
Friday night, at the Bescott Junction of the North Wes-
tern and South Staffordshire Railway, about seven miles
north of Birmingham. A train from Burton, conveying
about 70 passengers, left Walsall at 10 minutes past 6 for
Birmingham. On arriving at Bescott, the driver, as
usual, slackened speed, when a violent concussion took
place, the engine was separated from the train, and several
of the carriages demolished. It appears that some time
previous to the accident, a train of goods had been shunted,
as customary, into one of the sidings of the station, but
the pointsman neglected to make himself acquainted with
the exact position of the waggons. One of the waggons
projected into the main line, within two feet of the rails.
the passenger train on arriving at these points caught the
projecting waggon, and the collison ensued. The waggon,
when struck, appears to have swung round, and smashed
the carriages which more immediately followed the engine
and tender. The side of one first-class carriage was
smashed in, but four young gentlemen, prssengers who
occupied one compartment, escaped uninjured. A second-
class carriage was half demolished, and two third-class
were still more wrecked. One may be said to have been
entirely destroyed. It was driven from the wheels, and
the woodwork of the carriage afterwards used to make the
fires, by the light of. which the workpeople were able to
clear the line of the debris thrown all around. Of the 70
passengers who travelled by the train from 15 to 20 were
more or less injured. One named Quin, well known in the
district as a hawker of Irish linens, had a leg broken in
two places, and two or three ribs fractured, and two ladies,
who were in the second-class carriage, received several

severe contusions.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF RECHABITES.—The 14th
anniversary of the Caledonian Tent, 1.0. R., was held on
Tuesday evening, in Mr. Samuel Roberts' large room,
Temperance Hotel, Button-street, Dr. Hannah presiding.

Nearly 150 persons sat clown
.to tea, provic
worthy host's usual good style, after which Messrs. Sto(
dard, Lloyd, Miller, and others greatly contributed to ti
amusement of the evening by singing, recitations. Are. M

McKinley addressed the meeting showii
state of the society's funds and of the love and unity
vailing amongst the members of the tent
Roberts, the worthy host, in his address, 111
midst of their hilarity they were not forge
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our gallant soldiers were enduringin
.the
East in fighting for the liberties of our country ;' he con-
sidered it the duty of every man told° all in his power to
ameliorate the condition of the widows and orphans of
thoSe who lost their lives in so glorious a cause; and al-
though he had contributed towards them, he should give
a concert and ball on the Bth of January, 1865, the whole
prbeeeds of which should be handed over to the treasurer
of the Patriotic Fund. The chairman (Dr. Hannah) re-
sponded, highly appreciating the worthy host's motives,
and said he should not confine himself to Mr. Roberts'
price of ls., but should (although he had already contri-
buted) give half a sovereign for his ticket. At 11 o'clock
dancing commenced, accompanied by the efficient quadrill(
band of brother Robert Monkhouse. The enjoyment and
hilari of 41,0 a,a,anc. were not exceeded by any nreviono

Samuel

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;;;;i;er*7 Li.;;;;ci the meeting dispersed well enough pleased
with the entertainments provided,