The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-04 00:00:00

CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.

Joseph Follows, a young man of very respectable appear-
ance, evidently convinced of his shame, by his humiliating
demeanour, was brought up charged with having, at various
times, and in various ways, embezzled money to the amount
of £6OO or upwards, the property of his employers. He had
long absented himself from the town, but having recently re-
turned, he was apprehended on several serious charges of
embezzlement ; one of which was for the sum of £75 8s 3d,
as having been received from Messrs. Rushton and Johnston,
in October last. This being sufficiently proved to the satisfac-
tion of the sitting magistrate, it was agreed that a charge of
so serious a nature should stand over until Wednesday next,
in order to give the case a better hearing.
Before CHRISTOPHER RAWDON, Esq.
SERIOUS ASSAULT.
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Edward Kagan was charged with having wilfully and ma-
liciously wounded an elderly man of the name of Rice,
residing in Simpson-street, on Friday evening last, being the
evening on which some riots took place in that neighbour-
hood, the particulars of which appear in another part of our
paper.
Ann Rice, a young woman apparently 30 years of age, was
called. She said she was the daughter of the old man who
had been ill-treated on the evening in question. She and
her father live in Simpson-street. It was between five and
six o'clock on Friday night last, wnen the prisoner made an
attack on her father. He was sitting on the steps of his
front door. She saw him strike her father. He had an adze
in his hand, but could not say that he was struck with it ; he
had a dangerous wound on his forehead and on the side of
his head, caused by the treatment he had received. Other
carpenters were with the prisoner ; there was a large mob ;
the street was in great confusion ; could distinctly point out
the prisoner as being the person who repeatedly struck her
father. She saw him there a short time before the disturb-
ance. She knew the prisoner before by sight, but not to
speak to. He went down Crosby-street afterwards with the
remainder of the mob.

Elizabeth Curran, and another bright gem gifted with a
volubility of speech., neighbours of the above Ann Rice, made
similar statements. They both declared that out of their
garret windows they saw the prisoner leaning over the old
man, repeatedly strike him on the forehead with the adze Or
some other weapon, and swore " You bloody popish beggar,
I'll knock off your head."
Mr. Whitty then stated that he believed he should be able
to give a very different complexion to the case. He went to
the house of the man in question, and found that he had
been much abused by some one during the riots. He had
received a severe wound on the side of the head, but not on
the forehead, but could not swear to the individual who
struck him. He was happy in being able to call several re-
spectable witnesses to prove much in favour of the prisoner
at the bar.

John Oakes, a shipwright, lives at 61, Kitchin-street—
keeps a public-house in that street. The prisoner, along
with others, entered his house between two and three o'clock
that afternoon ; they all remained in his house until about
half-past seven o'clock • was never out of his house the whole
of that afternoon ; and his (the prisoner's) mother came to
the house in the course of the afternoon ; he went home with
his mother between half-past eight and nine at night.
Elizabeth Oakes, wife of the above witness, corroborated
the above statement. She said the party in her house con-
sisted of the prisoner and his mother, Peter Davies, John
Williams, and John Woodison ; were all in the middle room
up stairs. Her husband was with them all the afternoon.
She did not see the police come into the street ; when she
heard the noise and riot in Simpson-street, she called her
husband to put up the shutters and fasten the doors : this
was between five and six o'clock ; they all came down in the
lobby to help to put up the shutters ; saw them all go up
stairs again ; back door was also made fast, and there was
no other way of escape from her house. She desired them
to go up stairs, saying " Now, lads, we're all quiet, and let
us be as such." The old man was never one of the party.
Peter Davies, shipwright, lives in Greenland-street,: He
and the others met and went to John Oakes' public-house,
about two o'clock in the afternoon : they were drinking
together, and had the front room, up stairs to themselves,
and were together at the time the disturbances commenced,
and continued so for some time after.
John Woodison went to Oakes' house in the afternoon,
met Kagan there. He was up stairs in the front room ;
knows nothing of him only by sight ; stopped there till
nine at night ; all of them went down when Oakes went to
make fast the doors and shutters. Oakes said, " for God's
sake lads, dont go out," and all of us returned again up
stairs. Cannot say what time Kagan went away, but he
was in their company after seven o'clock that night ; when
he did leave, his mother accompanied him home ; they
both went together.
James Ball went with the other witnesses to Duke's
house, he staid there till nearly eight o'clock at night, Kegan
was in company all the time. He (witness) accompanied
Kagan and his mother home as far as the bottom of Sparling-
street, and saw him go into his house. He had then no
hatchet or adze with him.

The Magistrate observed that the evidence in this case was
of a very conflicting nature—that made by those who formed
part of his company was most to be relied on, as in all pro-
bability the women who only witnessed the whole of the
transaction from their attic windows, could not possibly
swear to the real identity of the aggressor. The prisoner
was accordingly discharged.
Afterwards the parties convicted on Saturday for rioting,
were this day discharged on bail, to answer the charges
against them at the next sessions, and the court broke up.

SUNDAY TRADING IN CHAPEL-STREET.--We have again
to complain to the authorities of the town of the abominable
nuisance of the orange and confectionary stalls in the vici-
nity of the Old Church Yard, on the Sabbath day. It is
high time that it should be abated.

VI scdmen ill xnverpo...
sailings having been numerous, and the arrivals few, the east-
erly winds having now prevailed for several weeks. We have
heard of outward bound-vessels having been prevented from
sailing for several days from a want of hands. •
EXPORT OF MANUFACTURED GOODS TO THE UNITED
STATES.—The export of British manufactures to the ports of
the United States would seem to be brisk, judging from the
cargoes of the ships for New York. The Independence, the
packet of the 25th ult. was quite full ; and the Virginian, the
packet of the Ist instant, refused goods. The Caroll of
of Carrolton, and the Troy transit ships, are crammed full,
having shut out merchandize. The first Baltimore spring
ship, the London, will carry out about 1400 tons measure-
ment goods. Even the Philadelphia packet of the Bth has
more goods awaiting for shipment than she can take.—Albion.

" POPULAR CONCERTS AT THE AMPHITHEATRE.—We were
highly gratified with the performances on Friday evening at
the Amphitheatre. The skill displayed in the execution, of
the various difficult and classical pieces selected for the oc-
casion reflected the highest credit upon the orchestra. The
glee-singing was also a very rich treat. The pieces chosen
for last night's performances were of a very attractive cha-
racter. The grand symphony " Jupiter," by Mozart, and
the overture to " by Beethoven, were among the
most difficult pieces hitherto performed. The other selec-
tions were from Bishop, Musard, Rook, Strauss, Danby,
Barnet, Auber, Romberg, Knight, and Tolbecque. The
glee " May-day" was composed by our townsman Mr. J.
Lunt. We perceive that the performances this evening are
under the patronage of his Worship the Mayor. We sin-
cerely trust that the house will be a crowded oue.

TILE DISPENSARIES.-We refer the attention of our read-
ers to an advertisement in another column, of the receipt, on
the part of the treasurer of the Liverpool Dispensaries, of cer-
tain contributions to the charity. It will be recollected that
the funds of the institution fell off considerably last year,
and that there exists in consequence a more than ordinary
claim on the support of the charitable at the present moment.
It is to be hoped that enlarged contributions will speedily
enable the treasurer to liquidate the outstanding claims on
the funds.

THE WEATHER.—Since Sunday evening we have been
visited with a succession of genial showers, the salutary
effects of which on vegetation are already perceptible. There
is now every prospect of a continuance of moist weather,
which must be particularly welcome to the agriculturist.

The British Queen, steam-ship, will leave the Clyde for
the Thames about the middle of the present month. The
delay which has taken place in her outfit will, we hear, most
likely prevent her from visiting the Mersey on her voyage.

THE DOUBLE MAIL TO DUBLIN.-It was fully expected,
that the Double Mail would commence running on Saturday
last, the first of June. The arrangements on the London
and Birmingham Railroad, for facilitating the conveyance of
the mail trains, will not, however, be complete until the 20th
inst, when the Admiralty steamers, it is expected, will leave
at eight in the morning and eight in the evening. Nearly
twenty passengers arrived by the mail train on Saturday
morning, and they were greatly disappointed on finding that,
the arrangements for the despatch of the morning mail to
Dublin not being completed, they could not proceed on their
journey until the afternoon. We perceive that The Prince,
one of the City of Dublin company's mail-steamers, made
the passage from George's Pierhead to Kingstown harbour,
on Wednesday evening last, in ten hours and eighteen
minutes, notwithstanding she had to contend against the
flood tide for the three first hours after leaving the Mersey,
and had no assistance from wind during the entire passage.

RECEIVING-BOX FOR LETTERS AT THE EXCHANGE
NEWSROO3.I.—it has been suggested, that it would be a very
great convenience to the mercantile classes, if the postmaster
would place a box in the Exchange Newsroom for the recep-
tion of letters. As the majority of the merchants and bro-
kers have their offices in the vicinity of the Exchange, the
placing of a receiving-box " there or there abouts," as Paul
Pry says, would save some hundreds of journeys daily to
the postoffice. There is, at present, a receiving-box at the
bottom of Vauxhalf-roai, and the same messenger who
clears it might clear the box at the newsroom.—Albion.
OPENING OF THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Yesterday
evening this delightful place of summer resort was opened
for the season. The attractions announced were a represen-
tation of a sea-fight on the lake, and the eruption of Mount
Vesuvius on an improved and enlarged scale. The evening,
after the rain, was cloudy, and approaching to cold ; yet the
concourse of respectable company assembled on the ground,
and also of the triply numerous crowds outside, (desirous to
witness such of the fireworks as could be seen without cost,)
was immense. The grounds appeared to have been most
carefully attended to, and notwithstanding the unfavourable
and backward state of the season, afforded a great treat to
the lovers of rural scenery. The shrubs, flowers, and grass,
refreshed by the rain, looked beautiful; and the numbers of
well-dressed and happy individuals who promenaded the walks,
stood on the green eminences, or viewed the fine collections of
animals, at various points, rendered the scene of great inte-
rest and animation. The whole of the animals appeared to
be in excellent condition, and the company, including many
strangers, appeared to take much interest in viewing them.
The lions, tigers, and panthers, attracted peculiar attention,
and scarcely less so, the fine collection of minor quadrupeds
and birds. The " Sea Fight" on the lake was, we think, as
an opening fete of the evening, delayed until too late an hour,
and some impatience was manifested ; but we are willing to
make every allowance for a first exhibition. The "fight" was
well managed on the whole, but we were not so placed as to
notice it critically. The optical illusion was admirable.
Two ships of war were in active engagement, one was defeated
and captured, and another took fire and was burned, in very
fine style, to the water's edge. Meantime the lake
and surrounding scenery were illuminated by the continued
fire from the combatants, and a conflagration from the forts,
&c. on shore. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius exceeded
in magnitude and effect any former representation of that
sublime phenomenon : the fireworks in the final explosion
were beautiful, and elicited much applause ; and the whole
reflected great credit on the talents and exertions of the
artistes, Mr. D'Ernst and Mr. Danson. We can now but
add, that the representation of Mount Vesuvius and the ad-
jacent ridges, with the city of Naples, as seen before the
eruption from the gardens in day light, excited much and
deserved admiration. The art of painter and mechanic in
the construction of the hill scenery is. such, that it has all
the appearance of a distant and lofty range of mountains.
We wish Mr. Atkins every success in his summer campaign.

LIST OF PASSENGERS BY THE STEAM-SHIP
LIVERPOOL.

Mrs. Zamora and child, of Havana ; Mrs. Marryott, do.
Mrs. Pinder, . do. Mrs. George Peacock, New York ; Mrs.
Mary Bailey, Philadelphia ; two Misses Zamora, Havana ;
Mr. Curell, New York ; R. H. Ballauf, Havana ; J. Hart-
man, Mexico ; E. Molyneux, British Consul at Savannah,
lady, three children, and two servants; General Rawlins,
Illinois ; W. H. Mercer, Philadelphia ; Sewell Tappan, Esq.
Boston; Henry M. Walker, Philadelphia; Governor John
Reynolds, and lady, Illinois ; Baron Von Roenne, Prussian
Minister ; William Hoppe, New York ; John C. Minturn,
do. ; Mr. E. Manero, Liverpool ; Don Juan Aguirre, do. ;
Isaiah Atkins, Boston ; E. Jones, do. ; J. D. Gibson, New
York ; Lieut.-Col. Townsend, 8.A., Canada ; Lieut.-Col.
Head, 8.A., do. ; John Moss, Philadelphia; Angero Dun-
can, New York ; Anthony Barclay, do. ; Hon. Daniel Web-
ster, lady, and Miss Webster, Boston ; Mrs. Page, do. ;
Charles J. Biddle, Philadelphia; Mr. Abella, Havana; J.
Urruela, do. ; W. Wales, Mass. ; Mr. Urruela, Havanna ;
Samuel Starkweather, Boston; Charles Oakley, Illinois; J.
Hartley, New York ; Joseph Pegg, Philadelphia; Frederick
Lang, 8.A., Canada ; Charles F. Daxter, Boston ; D. Dun-
can, New York ; William Wilson, Kingston, U.C. ; Wm.
Birt, New York ; A. M. Feltus, Mississippi ; Theodore
Rion, New Orleans ; Mr. Wood, New York ; Louis A.
Barbarin, New Orleans ; Vincent Aicard, do. ; William G.
Marryot, Havana ; Robert Farriday, New Orleans ; John
Hewlett, do.; John Graveley, New York ; Henry Chapman,
Albany ; M. N. Burch, Macon ; S. J. Newstandt, New
York ; John Emmas, Mobile ; John W. Owens, Georgia ;
J. T. Walton, New York ; Felix Guerrero, Mexico ; Charles
Urquhart, New Orleans ; J. Broadbent, New York ; Augus-
tine Villegas, Mexico ; E. Poirier, New Orleans ; William
Stephens, New Jersey ; Arthur Blake, S. Carolina ; James
Comrie, Charleston ; Wm. Munroe, jun., London ; S. D. P.
Baxter, Boston ; R. H. Webster, England ; Robert Carrick,
Paterson ; Samuel Wait, jun., Newburgh ; Captain Wm. C.
Thompson, New York:

To CORRESPONDENTS.—We received the communication
signed " C. B. B." too late for insertion in our present num-
ber. We cannot engage to insert long letters unless re-
ceived before four o'cloc in the afternoon.

CHESHIRE YEOMANRY CAVALRY.—This fine regiment
marched into Liverpool, on Saturday last, for the annual pe-
riod of eight days' duty. It consists of ten troops, under the
command of Colonel Egerton. Lieutenant-Colonel Lord de
Tabley, who has been sojourning on the continent, and who
has left Genoa expressly to join this regiment, is expected in
Liverpool to-day. This regiment will be exercised daily
on the North Shore. Colonel Jackson we believe, will, this
year, inspect the regiment.

DEPARTURE OF THE GRAND DUKE OF RUSSIA—On
Thursday morning the Grand Duke of Russia, accompanied
by Prince William Henry of the Netherlands, with their
numerous suites, quitted Alivart's Hotel, in Brook-street,
Grosvenor-square, in four travelling carriages, for Deptford,
where they embarked on board a Government steamer for
Holland.

History records the fact of " Nero fiddling over burning
Rome ; and in similitude to which we have in our own days
the prime minister and the secretary of state for foreign affairs
dancing attendance at Ascot races while one of the most im-
portant debates of the session is going on in the house of
legislature of which they are both members.—Herald.
ORGANIC REMAINS.—In excavating for the line of the
Great Western Railway a few days since, a remarkably fine
tusk of the mammoth was discovered lying on a bed of new
red sand-stone, about seven feet below the surface, between
the Cotton Works and. St. Philip's Bridge. The tusk, toge-
ther with some beautiful specimens of iron and lead ore,
found near the same spot, have been kindly brought to the
Philosophical Institution by Dr. Fairbrother, for the inspec-
tion of the members and their friends.—Felix Farley.
IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.—Thd Court of Queen's Bench,
on Friday, gave judgment in the case of Stockdale versus
Hansard. It was to this effect, that while Parliament is
privileged in all that takes place within its walls, and can
publish documents for the use of its members its privilege
does not extend to the publication of proceedings, and, the
sale of them to the public ; and therefore Hansard, the de-
fendant in this _case, could not plead in bar to the action
brought against him by Stockdale, that he acted under the
authority of the House of Commons.
BRISTOL COTTON MANUFACTURE.—We have the gratifi-
cation of stating, that the first export of cotton twist from
the recently established manufactory, is now being shipped
on board Messrs. Alexander's ship the Bristol, bound to
Ancona. We trust this export is the precursor of numerous
others of the same material, which will prove of immense
advantage to the shipping interest of this port. The name
of the vessel honoured with the first cotton freight from the
Great Western Company's works, is auspicious.—Felix
Farley.

It was not Miss Cuyler, but Mr. Thomas Wilshere, of
Hitchin, who rode express to Lord Melbourne with the news
of Mr. William Cowper's re-election. It is said that the
Queen was so overjoyed at the intelligence that she offered to
Knight him on the spot ; but that this honour, Mr. Wilshere,
with his characteristic modesty refused—merely stipulating
that he should have the next vacant appointment of Assistant
Tithe Commissioner, for which his remarkable impartiality
as well as talent, particularly fit him. We give the report as
it has reached us, not vouching for its correctness. Time
will show.—Hertford County Press.
TEETOTALLERS.—EarI Stanhope, who was for the last
two years the president of this society, has withdrawn from
it in consequence of the adoption, at the general meeting. on
Tuesday last, of a new pledge, by which the members engage
that they " will not provide intoxicating liquors as an article
of entertainment, or for persons in their employment." At
the meeting at Exeter Hall the question of the new " pledge"
was discussed with so much noise and violence, that Lord
Stanhope, after vainly endeavouring to restore order, was
compelled to leave the chair.— Worcester Guardian.

IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL.—The operation of the
new bill for the abolition of arrest may be traced from the
following facts :—on the first day of the present Trinity Term
there was not a single surrender in either the Queen's Bench
or Fleet Prisons, nor a single prisoner charged in execution,
nor has a solitary writ of Habeas Corpus issued; and up to
the present day but four persons have been charged in exe-
cution—a circumstance which has never before occurred. In
3nrmeitlle'-'traa:-frg•'ta-ge-artro'rrs't-- 2d Victoria,
the insolvents have an opportunity of seeing and arranging
with their creditors, the opposition to whose discharge has,
in consequence, diminished one half, and with it a diminution
of counsels' fees in the Insolvent Debtors' Court. One pri-
soner, in No. 13 staircase of the Queen's Bench; has the
whole of the rooms (nine in number) to himself.—Correspon-
dent of the Morning Herald.
MR. HILL'S PLAN OF POSTAGE.—We yesterday stated
that the chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday night, inti-
mated that he should, in the course of a fortnight, propose
a resolution to parliament, to give effect to Mr. Rowland
Hill's plan of an uniform penny postage. In making this an-
nouncement, Mr. Spring Rice said, " he hoped to have it in
his power to propose a resolution founded upon the report of
the committee which sat last year." The reporters did not
hear the explanation which the right honorable gentleman
afterwards gave of the nature of the resolution ,he intended
to propose, and some of our evening contemporaries have
questioned the accuracy of our statement. We can however
assure our readers, that the right honourable gentleman dis-
tinctly stated at the time to several members, who wished to
have all doubts on the subject removed, that he really intended
to give effect to Mr. Rowland Hill's of an uniform penny
postage, and that it was merely in connection with the sub-
ject of reduction in general, and not any specific reduction,
that he referred to the report of the committee of last year.
On our statement the fullest reliance may be placed. Mr.
Rowland Hill's plan of an uniform penny postage is to be
carried into full effect.—Morning Chronicle.
DARING AND DEXTEROUS ROBBERY.—Abouttwo o'clock
on Friday afternoon, a young woman, apparently not more
than 20 years of age, most respectably attired, arrived at Mr.
Schofield's, the Temple Inn, Waterhead Mill, Oldham, ac-
companied by a boy, whom she had just employed for the
moment to carry her trunk and umbrella ; she applied to be
accomodated with lodgings till the Monday following.—She
was told that Mrs. Schofield would find it difficult to acco-
modate her, having other company ; she, however, said her
parents kept the Green Dragon Inn, at Huddersfield, that
she, therefore, knew how people were, at times, troubled with
company, and she would put up with such room as Mrs. S.
had. It was finally arranged she should stay, and she accor-
dingly took dinner with the family ; she afterwards retired to
her room, and in a short time came down stairs, leaving the
trunk in her apartment, and giving her umbrella into the
hands of Mrs. Schofield's daughter. She left, saying she was
going to Greenacres Moor, to see a person of the name of
Greenhalgh, and would' not be long absent. Mrs. S's daugh-
ter had occasion, in a short time, to go into the room where
the stranger had been, and on trying to unlock one of a chest
of drawers, she found she could not get it open. It was,
however, at last forced, and it was then discovered that £6
in sovereigns, and £1 in silver had been stolen, out of an old
velvet cap, doubtless by the highly respectable looking fe-
male who had just departed, and has not since been heard of.
On examining the trunk, it was found unlocked, and empty,
with the exception of a sheet of blank letter paper, and a
small pot containing a little bears' grease.--Manchester Cou-
rier.

The latest letters from St. Petersburg say that the Em-
peror and Empress had been obliged to quit the new winter
palace by a very laughable and unexpected circumstance.
This splendid edifice, which is fitted up with the utmost
magnificence, is filled with countless swarms of noxious in-
sects, the origin and rapid propagation of which is ascribed
to the palace having been built in a hurry while everything
was wet, and then overheated, that it might be occupied
without delay.
The Austrian Observer says that the news of hostilities
between the Sultan and Mehemet AU is of no importance,
and that the Sultan had only caused the position of the
latter to be reconnoitered. On the appearance of the Egyp-
tian troops, the Turkish army is said to have immediately
recrossed the Euphrates.
A CURIOSITY.—A quantity of butter, about ten pounds
weight, was found in Oumley Bog, near Muff, county Done-
gal, last week, by a labourer of Mr. Edward Johnson's, of
Drumskellan. It lay in the lowest cut of the hog, in a solid
mass ; and although it must have lain in that situation for a
great many years, perhaps centuries, it was in a state of good.
preservation. It is of a pure white colour, somewhat resem-
bling tallow, and, when reduced to a liquid state, seems to
have the appearance and properties of butter of a superior
quality. A small portion of it has been left at our office,
where it may be seen by the curious.—Derry Sentinel.
The Cleveland Herald states that within nine miles, at the
nearest distance, from Lake Erie, is a lake whose waters are
elevated seven hundred and twenty feet above those of Lake
Erie, and on the elevated body of water, a steamboat of one
hundred tons burthen plies. This is Chautauque Lake,
Chautauque county, N. Y.
Sir Robert Peel has contributed £5OO to the Lichfield and
Coventry Diocesan Church-building Association, the object
of which is to build new churches and parsonage houses
where they are required.
After the unusual heat of the week, we were visited about
half-past twelve this morning with a heavy fall of rain. It
is the first with which we have been favoured for some time.
The farmer has long been hoping for it, and should it con-
tinue it will be most serviceable to thtparched and suffering
country.—cork Constiutional. .
All that the. French and Belgian papers say of the refusal
of Austria and Russia to ratify the treaty of the 19th ol April
is mere fiction, for which there is not the slightest founda-
tion.
The month of June sets in upon us this day somewhat in-
auspiciously, the atmosphere partaking more of the tempera-
ture of March than that of Midsummer. Throughout the
present week the wind has blown bitterly from the north and
north-east, and vegetation, consequently, has made batt-slow
progress—Newcastle Journal.
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WORCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The following talented
and eminent artistes have been engaged for the ensuing festi.
val:—Madame Persiani, Miss Clara Novelle), Miss Birchf
Miss Beale, Miss Maria Hawes, Signor Tarnburini,Mr...Ben-
nett, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Machin, &c.—Wor-
ceder Journal. • •
THE WEATHER.—Up to half-past two o'clock to-day, the
weather continued beautifully fine, accompanied by intense
heat ; but at that hour the sky lowered a, little; and we were
visited with a slight fall of rain and several claps of thunder,
with vivid flashes of lightning. Should more rain come down,
the country would be much the better .of it -; 'but,. as the
clouds look bright at this hour, (four o'clock,) we think it
will turn out fine again.—Limerick Standard!