The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-28 00:00:00

IMPUDENT THEFT.

Thomas Morrison and James Morrison were placed, on
Saturday, before Charles Birch, Esq., charged with having
stolen a trunk, the property of Mr. John Hatton Guy, a
trunk-maker, Commutation-row. The trunk was, on Thurs-
day last, placed on a stool, in Mr. Guy's cellar, of which a
little boy was in charge. The prisoner, T. Morrison, went
in, and kept the lad in conversation while, it is supposed, the
other made off with the trunk. The lad missed the article

immediately on the prisoner's departure. On Friday night
the two prisoners offered the trunk for pledge, for 45., at the
shop of Mr. Bigham, pawnbroker, Marybone. Not giving
proper or satisfactory answers to Mr. Bigham's questions,
the boys were taken into custody, when it was discovered,
that the trunk was that which had been stolen from Mr.
Guy. The prisoners were committed for trial.

ROBBERY AT A BOOKSTALL.
On Friday a man who keeps a book-stall, in Cleveland-
square, appeared before Mr. Rushton, (who took his seat on
the bench for the first time as stipendiary magistrate, sup-
ported on his left by Mr. Wall, who has resigned the office,)
for the purpose of substantiating a charge of felony against
a man of respectable appearance. The prosecutor stated,
that he had frequently missed books from his stall, and
especially bibles. Having for some time had a suspicion of
the prisoner, he watched him narrowly on Friday morning,
and after leaving his stall, where, as usual, he had been in-
specting the books, the prisoner proceeded to a butcher's
shop in the neighbourhood. The prosecutor, after procuring
the assistance of an officer, had the prisoner searched, and
on his person the book (produced in court, which the prose-
cutor identified as his property) was found. Mr. Rushton
asked the prisoner what he had to say in answer to the charge.
He made no reply, but held down his head, sensible of his
degraded situation, and burst into tears. The magistrate ex-
pressed his regret at seeing him convicted of felony, knowing
his connexions to be highly respectable and himself a towns-
man. He was committed for trial at the sessions.

We perceive that Mrs. Gardner, the celebrated aurist, has
been induced, at the request of several persons, to prolong
her stay in Liverpool.
BRITISH ANE FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.—The twenty-
eighth anniversary of the Liverpool Auxiliary Bible Society
and Ladies' Branch Society was held, on Friday evening last,
at the Music-hall, in Concert-street. The room was com-
pletely filled with a highly respectable audience, the principal
proportion of which consisted of ladies. The chair was taken
shortly after six o'clock. The report gave cheering assurance
of the successful progress of both the parent institntion and
its branches, and evidenced that the Liverpool auxiliary has
its full share of prosperity. The Rev. George Browne, A. M.,
and the Rev. T. M. Phillips, A. M., attended as a deputation
from the parent institution. The speeches of the several
talented clergymen who take an interest in the welfare of
this important society were listened to with great interest,
and the several resolutions were passed unanimously.

FIRE.—On Friday forenoon, about eleven o'clock, infor-
mation was received at the Police-office, that a fire had
broken out in one of the quarantine hulks, moored in the
Sloyne, opposite the Rock Ferry. A body of the Fire-police
were immediately despatched to the vessel, and the fire,
which was inconsiderable, was, we learn, extinguished with
but little damage to the vessel or of the property.—(Journal.)
`We understand, that the alarm of fire was a false one. The
smoke, which seemed to issue from one of the quarantine
vessels, issued from the hull of a vessel used for the purpose
of trying a new method of making salt cake. The experi-
ments have, we are informed, succeeded beyond the most
sanguine expectations of the projectors. Should the plan
succeed, of which there is every probability, the noxious
vapour generated in the process of making the salt cake will
be carried away by the tide, and the manufacture may be
conducted without the creation of any nuisance whatever.—
Ed. Albion.

COTTON.—We perceive, by the broker's statement, of
Friday last, that speculators have taken, this year, 132,000
bales more than they took up to the same period last year ;
the quantity taken, up to Friday last, being 197,000 bags,
against 65,000 up to the correspondent date in 1838. The
same statement shows, that there has been a decrease in the
import this year, as compared with the same date last year,
of not less than 292,000 bales. The computed stock, on the
24th May instant, was 337,700 bags, against 368,000 at the
correspondent period in 1838 ; exhibiting a decrease of 31,000.
But to this decrease in the port must be added the decrease
in the interior ; making, together, a total decrease of stock
of not less than 60,000 bags. The decrease of quantity taken
for consumption is estimated by the brokers, at 172,000
bales, which is at the rate of above 9000 per week for the
first nineteen weeks in 1839, as compared with the same
number in 1838.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS AT THE GRAND JUNCTION
HOTEL.—Lady Milltown, Lord Rustbourgh, Rev. S. Brown-
low, H. Brownlow, Esq. and family, Mr. Hope Were, Capt.
Pinnington, Capt. Finny, Rev. A. Orr, T. H. Layard, Esq.
W. G. M`Dowall, Esq. and family, C. Blake and family,
Lord Paget, Rev. F. B. Hartwell, H. Douglass, Esq., 3.
Walsh, Esq., F. 0. Briane, Esq., W. Sherrart, Esq., Mr.
and Mrs. Miller and family, J. C. Dixon, Esq., Mr. and
Mrs. Needham, the two Miss Needhams, J. Staunton, Esq.,
H. Harvey, Esq., C. Woodhill, Esq. and family, H. Tornp-
son, Esq., Miss M. Mackey, Mr. and Mrs. Bourne and
family. Mrs. Sherman, Miss Brown, R. Adams, Esq., E. C.
Charlton, M. Barrington, Esq., Capt. Barrington, Capt.
Williams, W. Taunton, Esq., Mrs. Cheivy, Mr. and Mrs.
O'Donnal, H. Ogle, Esq., H. Beaumont, Esq., Mr. and
Mrs. Scott, W. Litton, M.P., H. Dillon, Esq., and -
Barron, M.P.

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