The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-19 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAVELLING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—It is a remarkable fact that the increase of railway
travelling exceeds all expectations. I have now before me
a return of traffic on the Eastern Counties' Railway up to
the ]oth instant, and insert it here for the satisfaction of the
proprietors residing in Liverpool :
For week ending 26th June 6,388
/V 3d July 8,086
ff 10th July..

29,492 in three weeks.
Travelling on the North Union line is much greater :
Week ending 12th April .
„ 19th April
lf 26th April 2,784

Week ending 21st June
I f 28th June
~ sth July .

8,172 for three weeks.
4,059 •
4,011
4,092

12,162 for three weeks.
On the Manchester and Leeds line the mumber is immense,

fully 2,600 daily, and on the increase.
Tuesday, 16th July.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

YESTERDAY.

Before Mr. Rushton, the Mayor, Messrs. Hardman Earle,
C. Rai;•don, R. E. Harvey, R. H. Jones, W. Browne,
A. Hodgson, T. Bolton, and several other Magistrates.
GAMBLING IN CLAYTON-SQUARE.

Mr. Nightingale, Mr. Williams, Mr. Dow, and Captain
Leslie, four respectably-attired individuals, were placed in
the dock and stood charged with having, on Thursday even-
ing last, been found engaged in acts of gambling in a house
in Clayton-square. Most of the persons were well known
to the head officer of our police, consequently he kept a
strict eye upon their movements.
Mr. Vandenhoff appeared for Mr. Dow and Captain
Leslie, and Mr. Wardle for 111 r. Nightingale and Mr. Wil-
liams.
Mr. Crooke appeared to support the information. He
stated that the parties had been arrested under the act of
33 Hen. V 111, chap. 9, which restricted and forbid all acts
of gambling or playing unlawful games. To support the
charge he would first call
Mr. Whitty, who, on being sworn, said that between
eleven and twelve o'clock on Thursday night he had re-
ceived information that at a certain house in Clayton-square
a party might be found engaged to a considerable extent in
unlawful acts of gaming. When he arrived at the house,
the door of which was open, the prisoner Nightingale stood
on the step • he passed by him unobserved, and went up
stairs ; in the front room on the first story, there were a
number of persons • it was lighted up with gas ; the room
contained two tables, one down the centre and a smaller
one placed across the end of the room ; on the former table
were placed the implements (which were produced in court)
for playing, the game of roulette; and on the short table
for playing un deux cent. The prisoner Williams and
another were calling the game. The prisoner Dow
escaped out of the room, and Captain Leslie appeared
not only as one of the callers of the game, but as
a collector of money. He saw Williams playing with
another. He then went down stairs, and on going out of
the passage the prisoner Nightingale recognised him. He
said, "What, you are playing ! notwithstanding the notice
I gave you ;" he made no answer. He gave them notice on
Monday, first by placards issued by order of the mayor, and
afterwards verbally ; he made no reply, but closed the door,
himself in the inside. He then dispatched a messenger to
the Townhall. On his re-admission he observed several per-
sons in the passage and kitchen; he went up stairs, and found
all in darkness ; on re-lighting the gas, he found all the im-
plements of gaming had been removed; there remained no-
thing but the bare tables and empty bottles and glasses. In
an adjoining room he found Capt. Leslie and Mr. Nightin-
gale, and on the upper story he found a person- who he
believed was one of the prisoners. Afterwards the Inspector
brought up Dow, who said he was merely a lodger of Mrs.
Courteney s, the occupier of the house ; on inquiry she de-
nied he was any lodger of hers, and he refused to give any
further account of himself. He then took all the party to
Bridewell.
Mr. Vandenhoff and Mr. Wardle cross-examined Mr.
Whitty at considerable length, but elicited nothing to shake
the previous testimony.
Mr. Wardle, on the part of his clients, here said that under
the circumstances of the case, they should plead guilty, and
thus become amenable to the penalty of 40s. each, which was
the extent fixed by the act under which the information was
laid. Mr. Vandenhoff, for his clients, also agreed to plead
guilty.
Mr. Rushton then addressing the prisoners said, that they
had each pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping a common
gaming-house,—an offence of a very heinous nature. The
court required that they should find surettes, each in
£2OO, by himself and two sureties in £lOO each, no longer
to continue to keep a gaining-house, for the playing of any
unlawful game.

THE LIVERPOOL.—The Liverpool was advertised to sail
from New Y ork on the tith instant. As she has now been
thirteen days out she may be expected hourly in the Mersey.
If she should arrive in the course of the day, we shall give
the news which she may bring in a second edition.
KIRKDALE SESSIONS.—The cases which were heard at
these sessions, which commenced yesterday, contained no-
thing of geberal or local interest, and it is expected that as
the charges are very slight and the prisoners comparatively
few, the jury will be discharged this evening.

O'CONNELL'S LAST ENORMOUS LIE.-O'Connell asserted
at the meeting of Papists, held in Exeter Hall, on Monday
last, that there were 100,000 Roman catholics in Liverpool,
and 80,000 in Manchester ! We cannot say what may be
the case in Manchester, but we are positive that there are
not more than 40,000 Papists in Liverpool, if there are so
many.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—We perceive that, owing to the
unfavourable state of the weather last night, the Grand Race
Gala has been unavoidably postponed until this evening,
weather permitting, or if not, till Monday evening next. ' The
exhibition will be on a scale of unprecedented magnificence.
FlRE.—Last night, between eight and nine o'clock, a fire
of an alarming character burst out on the premises of Mr.
Pritchard, in Stuart-street, near the Clarence Dock. The
premises were occupied as a timber yard, in the workshops
attached to which the fire originated. The shops, with all
the workmen's tools, &c., were speedily consumed, and the
flames almost simultaneously burst forth from the timber
yard. Owing to the great distance from the Station House,
it was some time before the engines arrived. On their arrival
a speedy and ample supply of water was obtained from the
adja3ent docks. It was very fortunate that the wind carried
the sparks from the fire to the northward of Trafalgar and
Victoria Docks, or the consequences might have been dread-
ful, owing to the contiguity of the shipping. Notwithstanding
the continuous streams of water which were poured upon the
blazing materials in the timber yard, the fire continued to
rage with unabated fury until after ten o'clock, when its
violence began to-abate. The spectacle from the quays around
Clarence Dock and the neighbourhood was awfully grand.
The surrounding streets were crowded with anxious specta-
tors, but the greatest order prevailed. When we left, at
half-past ten o'clock, the fire was nearly extinguished. We
have not heard how the fire originated, nor what was the
amount of damage done.

HONESTY.—CaIIing on the printer—subscribing for his
paper—arid paying for a year in advance.
THE LATE FIRE AT COLLIIMPTON.—Upwards of £2OO has
been subscribed for the relief of the sufferers by the late
dreadful fire at Collumpton.

A HEAVY Rm.—The Maumee Express speaks of a man
from Connecticut whose wife is so fat that he was obliged to
make two loads of her when he emigrated.

A new and splendid county hall is about to be immediately
built at Brecon. The plan of Mr. Wyatt has been selected.
—Hereford Journal.
ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY—A most singular occurrence
in angling took place this season on the river Wye. A gen-
tleman was fishing with the drake fly, when a fish struck, and
he actually took two trout at once with one hook and the
natural bait on!y. Such an occurrence is not in the recol-
lection of any angler in the neighbourhood.

MASTODON GIGANTEUM.—A fine relic was found last
year in the Ohio, and we now have the details in the annual
report of the State Geologist. This specimen was a head,
making the skeleton now complete. The bones lay in fresh-
water marl, under boulders such as are prevalent in the sur-
rounding region. In Tennessee, the bones of the mastodon
and elephant have been found together.
HORSE-RACE EXTRAORDINARY.—Monifieth races are ad-
vertised to take place on Wednesday, the 31st inst. The
sixth race, for one guinea, is thus announced :—" For cart
horses, every man to ride his neighbour's horse; the last
horse to be the winner !"—Dundee Paper.
CHARTIST COURAGE.—The "National Convention" are
a right valiant crew of patriots. Not long since one of the
leading delegates recommended the chartist mob, whenever
they came into conflict with the military, to "place the wo-
men foremost, for that then the soldiers would be afraid to
fire." Most gallant men, these pike and pistol incendiaries
are, frightened almost out of their senses at the arrest of
Lovett, their secretary, they have bethought themselves of
an admirable mode of, as they imagine, cheating the law—
they have elected Mrs. Love secretary, and the poor woman
is made to sit all day long by the side of the " speaker," in
order that she may hand over all the revolutionary trash of
the convention crew to one of the delegates who happens to
know how to read and write, and this gentleman they call as-
sistant secretary !
THE CHARTIST RUN ON THE SAVINGS BANKS.—We ad-
vise all who have been so foolish as to withdraw larger sums
than they can be allowed to return to those ins itutions, to
carry back immediately as much as can be received at one
time ; and to take the remainder to some private banker, by
whom we believe it will be readily received, and in whose
hands it will be safe until it can 13C wholly restored to its
original place of deposit—a place affordins, greater security
for the savings of the labouring classes, and a better return
than can be obtained anywhere else. It cannot be supposed
that private bankers desire to receive a great many small de-
posits, but they will doubtless consent to do so from motives
of benevolence—to save the poor from being robbed, or from
wasting their little capitals in idleness and extravagance,
which is just as bad.—Cornwall Gazette.
A WONDER IN NATURE.—On Tuesday last, as a young
man was employed in cutting wood for Mr. Chadwick, clog
and patten maker, Middleton be and Mr. C. were astonished
at finding a living toad embedded in the solid timber. The
external appearance of the log of wood, near the place where
the toad was enshrined, showed no visible signs of any per-
foration by which air could be admitted, so as to sustain ani-
mation. The toad expired alroost immediately on its liberar
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