The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-01 00:00:00

ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.

A woman named Elizabeth Smith, was fully committed
for trial, at the Sessions, for robbing a man named Robt.
Cottingham, of eleven sovereigns, from his person, on the
night of Sunday.

The exportation of manufactured goods to the United
States has fallen off• considerably of late. The New York
ships, including the packets, get very little freight. The
packet-ship Independence had a freight of only £450.
IMPORTANCE OF THE CHINA TRADE.—It was stated, in
the course of the interview which the Liverpool deputation
had with Lord Palmerston, on Friday last, that cne of the
deputation had exported more cotton pods to Canton
in one year than the East India Company had exported, in
the same period, during their monopoly of the trade.
LIVERPOOL RIDING SCHOOL.—We beg to direct the at-
tention of all lovers of the equestrian art to Mr. Smith's
advertisement, which appears in another column. His school
is extensive and well protected ; and all his arrangements will
be found of a superior order. We know of no exercise that
we would more strongly recommend than the delightful and
health-promoting one of riding.
POWNALL-SQUARE MARKET.—We gave in our last, a no-
tice of a meeting, held on Wednesday, of the inhabitants of
St. Paul's Ward, to consider the present state of Pownall-
square Market and the opening of Edmund-street into Pow-
nall-square, at which a resolution was passed, recommending
to the Council the taking down of the buildings between Ed-
mund-street and the square, so as to afford a more direct
communication to the market. Mr. John Deakin, in his
address as a candidate for the representation of the ward at
the approaching municipal election, states, that he is an ad-
vocate for the extension and improvement of the market, but
not for the opening from Edmund-street.
MURDERS AT SEA.—A young man named John Went-
worth Fairbank, was, on Wednesday, brought before the
Magistrates, at Falmouth, charged with the murder of Cap-
tain White, of the barque Secret, of Liverpool. Several
witnesses were examined, and it appeared, from the evidence
of George Minty, the mate. that, on Sunday, the 14th of
April, while the vessel was on its voyage from Guayaquil to
St. Andero, he was awoke by the Captain screaming out
" Murder !" and the Captain afterwards said, that the Iri-
soner had " knifed" him. There was a large wound in his
stomach, of which he died in about an hour. Tne prisoner
was steward on board the vessel, and the Captain had or-
dered him three dozen on the previous evening. hen se-
cured, the steward had a pistol in one hand, and a dagger in
the other, and he snapped the pistol at the mate. The pri-
soner was committed for trial, and the witnesses bound over
to appear at the Central Criminal Court. George Minty,
the mate was then himself charged with causing the death of
James Shaw, a seaman who had belonged to the same vessel,.
by beating him in the most brutal way with an instrument
called a " colt," and also with a rope. The prisoner was
also committed to take his trial for murder.

GAELIC SCHOOL SOCIETY.—II will be seen by an adver-
tisement, that a meeting of the friends of this society is to
be held in the Music-hall, on the evening of Wednesday next,
when a deputation from Scotland, consisting of the Rev. Dr.
Mackay, of Dunnon, and John Campbell, Esq., of Carbrook,
is expected to attend, who, with others, will powerfully en-
force its claims. The society wasestablished in 1811, for the
purpose of gratuitously teaching the inhabitants of the high-
lands and islands of Scotland to read the scriptures in their
native language. At that period the population amounted to
about four hundred thousand, of whom it was reckoned that
three hundred thousand were unable to read in any language,
and the greater number of these could only speak the Gaelic,
knowing little or nothing of the English tongue. Anxious
to accommodate its plan at once to its own means and to the
nature of the country, the society resolved that its schools
should be ambulatory, whereby the benefits of a religious
education might be communicated to a greater number of
persons, in a much shorter time, and at much less expense,
than could possibly be accomplished in any other way. The
Gaelic School Society has really no competitor whose rivalry
it might provoke in this exclusive walk. It does not inter-
fere with any other institution whatever, being enabled to oc-
cupy ground and to penetrate to localities altogether inac-
cessible to the labours of those societies whose teachers are
permanently resident at their respective stations. In the
course of the last twenty-seven years, the society has taught
upwards eighty thousandpersons in the highlands and islands
of Scotland to read the Bible in their native tongue, and has,
during the same period, distributed about an equal number
of copies of the Gaelic Bible, Testament, and Psalm-book.
It has been enabled to do all this, inclusive of the charges of
management, at the moderate expense of about thirteen shil-
lings for each person's education. Such, too, has been the
eagerness of the people to learn to read " the words of eter-
nal life," that in many instances the father and the grandfa-
ther have stood up in the same class with their children and
grandchildren, and mothers, with infants in their arms, have
joined in the exercises of these Gaelic schools. In the soci-
ety's report for 1836, some interesting details will be found
of the result of the scriptural education thus communicated,
and soiree notices also of these are published in the History
of British Revivals. The number of schools has for some
years been maintained at fifty, doing the work of two hun-
dred stationary schools in such localities; but unless the
public support be enlarged beyond what has been lately af-
forded, it will be necessary considerably to reduce the esta-
blishment.