The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-18 00:00:00

A hymn was sung,•during vhish thecollection was made.

The Rev. S. llarrox, on risingovas received with cheers,
on these subsiding, he proceeded to remark on the singularity
of the resistance which was offered to the liberation of the
and narrated.a-story which.showed that the liberation
was in a great degree, brought about by the intervention,of a
woman whose husband kept horses for hire, who having*
one time been a servant to. a French nobleman. To this
nobleman she applied for his, assistance. The nobleman was
roused by her, and he appealed again and, gam to the French
government, till the liberation of the Madai was obtained.
The flev. speaker then proceeded to explain the nature and
objects,of the society, which he said had within the last four
years established a special Juission to Roman Catholics of
Engla,nd;in the same manner as the Irish missions. In this
point of view the society, he .said, is eminently.deserving of
support. The Rev. gentleman eoncluded an appropriate ad-
dress .amid loud cheers.

A vote of thanks to the chairman was •then cartied by ac.
clamation, And the meeting separated.

AT the Bankruptcy Court, yesterday, before Commissioner
Perry, •JametePotts, late a brick-maker at Crewe, in Cheshire,
passed his last examination, and the 1641 i of October was fixed
for the certificate meeting.
CAUGHT •IN CHE ACT OF HIDING THE 'PLUNDER.
Thomas Connor, cged 17, was brought.up at the police court
yesterday, by officer 718. The offieersaidUat, about a quarter
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d and discovered what,fie at first thought to be a pile of nuggets.
"All:is riot gold that Otters," however, and on.closer inspee-
' tion the ' nuggets" tureed out to be nothing ,move than 58
perfectly.iiew brass dooriknobs and washers to match. It.was
subsequently discovered that Messrs. Owen and Williams's
foundry, lieratio-street, had been broken into on Saturday
night, by-means of skeleten keys, two of which ,ivere left
behind by-therobbers, andicund in the yard. The property
which Connor was caught in :the act of concealing was ,paid of
what had beenstolen. He was sent to prison for a month.
Tn COTXON RODBERIES.—MichaeI Dunne and James
Westhead were brought up on remand at the Police-court
yesterday, charged with being concerned in the recent cotton
robberies from thekthce .of Messrs. Postlethwaite and Co., of
Exchange-chambers. The ,details kf the case were given in
the Standard very fully last week. The facts briefly are
these :--Some weeks ago an entrancemas effected into Messrs.
Postlethwaite and Co °dice, through a window in the court
.of Exchange-chambers, and a quantity of cotton samples
stolen. On the morningef Saturday week, a precisely similar
robbery was committed. Westhead, on the morning, engaged
a cart to convey some cotton from Exchange-chambers to a
cotton store in Macvicar-street, belonging to Dunne, who also
keeps a beerhouse in Portland-street. The store was after-
wards searched, and cotton samples resembling those stolen
were found concealed in a quantity of almost worthless Surat
pickings, Westhead was apprehended that afternoon at
Dunne's beerbouse. Dunne himself was in the house at the
time, but he escaped, and was not captured until the fol-
lowing Monday. Yesterday both prisoners were committed
for trial at the sessions. Bail was refused for Westhead, and
the bench deferred a similar application made on behalf of
Dunne.
CONDITION OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBER.—The Pictures
of the late Alderman Case, Sir Thomas Brancker, and Mr.
W. Wallace Currie, have been removed from the walls of the
Council-room, in the Town-hall, for the purpose of being
revarnished, under the direction of Mr. Westeott. We under-
stand there is no order of the Council to paint the Council-
room ; and anything more discreditable than the present
condition of the walls (which look as if they had not come
in contact with the brush for some twenty years) it is scarcely
possible to conceive. The aperture for the ventilator is also
visible, now that the picture of Mr. Currie is removed. On
the scientific character of this contrivance, we will only re-
mark, that, in point of originality of contrivance, it is vastly
inferior to the usual operation of the open window. We would
suggest that the Town-hall Committee should give imme-
diate instructions for the painting of the Council-r000m; and
inasmuch as six weeks, at least, must transpire before the
room could be again habitable, we would propose that the
next Council meeting be held in the new Concert-room, at
St. George's-hall, which, we believe, is admirably calculated
for such a purpose. Indeed, we are informed, that a motion
is likely very soon to be brought before the Town Council,
for the purpose of holding thcir meetings in St. Georges -bill
—(o274nitograted.)