The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-03-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—The halfyearly meeting of proprietors was held on Friday, at the Lime-street station, Mr. E. W. Hassell in the chair. The statement of the trtiPic account showed a net balance of £87,396 9s. lid., Out of which the directors recommended a dividend to be paid at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance to be transferred to the current half-year of £7,711 Os. 51d. The directors reported that all differences with the Scottish Central Railway Company were at an end. The report and accounts were adopted, and the dividend sanctioned. THE ANNUAL MaETING of tho Liverpool Auxiliary' to the London Religious Tract" Society was held on Friday night, at the Concert-hail. Councillor T. D. Anderson presided. The past year, it was stated, hat been the most flourishing in the annals of this auxiliary. 'A• portearr had been employed in Liverpool for the last eleven months, and the increase alone in the number of tracts distributed was 110,000. There had been given to packet-ships 9,135 pacquets of tracts. Various interesting addresses were delivered, including one by the Rev. P. S. Saffery, the deputation from the Parent Society. THE AVAiLASEV COMMISSIONERS held their monthly meeting on Thursday evening ; Mr. Holland in the chair. It was resolved not to interfere with the footwalk in Green-lane. The much complained of nuisance at Seacombe ferry was ordered to be removed, at a cost of £4O. 10s. V.7ith regard to the proposed alteration of Tobin street, the estimated expense of which is £337, the matter was referred to the Improvement Committee, with full powers to act. Mr. Halliday presented a memorial from nearly 500 inhabitants of the parish, urging upon the Commissioners the necessity and profriety of taking and working Seacombe ferry, which is now to let. Messrs. Holland, Littledale, Hill, Harrison, Cunningham, Coulbtrn, and Halliday were appointed a committee to take the matter into consideration. Mr. Co:album stated that there were ti ings about Seacombe ferry which ren'dared it absurd to entertain such a- subject. That ferry had only been able to keep up its-stock. The taking of the ferry would entail a loss of not less than £l,OOO a year to the parish. He condemned the proposition altogether as a suicidal act. TxE ROYAL MaEsEY YACHT GEL'S:`At a numerous meeting of this club, held on Tuesday evening, Thomas :Littledale, Esq., in the chair, the Secretary read a letter from the Secretary of the Admiralty, containing information that " vessels belonging to the members of the various yacht clubs in England would be permitted to enter' the ports of Spain on the same footing as vessels of the state, provided they are unconnected with trade." This letter was received with much satisfaction. The Commodore moved,. -seconded by the Cup-bearer, " That the officers of any Of her Majesty's ships at this port shall have free admittance into the rooms of the club as honorary members:" It was also resolved, •' That members• dine together at the marine station, ,BirLenhead Hotel, at the next meeting, on the sth of April." A-proposition was made for consideration at the next meeting, " Thst the public ball be held in the course of the present year, in the Town-hall rooms, by permission of the Mayor, the proceeds to be devoted to the -Sailors' Home." The Commodore and other officers having vacated their seats, Mr. J. C. Fernilough, common councilman, was elected to the chair. ' He passed a high eulogium upon the manner in which the affairs of the club 'were conducted ;-a vote of thank-s was passed to the officers for their services, which was •carried unanimously, and they were all reelected :—Commodore, Mr. Thomas •Littledale; vicecommodore, Mr. B. Heywood Jones; rear-commodore, Mr. Jonathan' 'Grindrod ; treasurer, Mr. Richard ,ICay ; secretary, Mr. Melling ; cup-bearer,.Mr. Edwd. Fletcher; and the auditors, Mr. T. Wilkinson Tetley and Mr. B. Platt.  JOHN ASHWORTH ACTON', a person most respectably connected, and formerly in the bank of Sir Benjamin _Heywood and :Co., at Manchester. has been charged -with having fraudulently obtained. possession of some bank of England notes, and is remanded till to-morrow, The Alanchetier Guardian gives an outline of the circum-stances :—The prisoner was for six years a clerk in the bank of Sir Benjamin Heywood and- Co., whose service -he quitted at Christmas last, and since-that time he haft carried on business as an aceountantand insurance agent, under the, firm of John Ashworth -Acton and Co-; '5, Princess-street. -On the 21st of June last, Sir Benjamin Heywood and Co. received a letter purporting to come -from Mr. Howarth, of the Waterloo Hotel, near Liverpool (who banks-with the firm), requesting them to send him _£3oo in bank notes, to be left for, him at the Stork Hotel, Liverpool, where he would call for them. In _accordance with this instruction, that sum-was remitted, in six bank of England notes of JZO each. When 11fr. Hcwarth in due course sent his passbook to be made up, it was found that he had written no such letter, and that somebody, by means of the forged order, had fraudulently- obtained possession of the £3OO. Of course Si. Benjamin Heywood and Co. instituted careful inquiries. They discovered that three of the six notes had found their way into the bank again, and that three others of similar amount had been taken out. Ultimately, two of these notes were craced to the British Mutual Assurance Society, and it was found that they had been remitted to that society, in London, by the prisoner, who ,was their agent in Manchester.