The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-24 00:00:00

this town t

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every Article is warranted of the very best description, and will find that it has overwhelming advantages over
offered on such terms as defy competition. exhibitions:—First, cheapness; second, its truly sei
The Proprietors also beg to state, that they have formed a Lure; third, you are not kept till after midnight
Continental connexion, through the medium of which they total divestment of immorality. The celebrated ant
will receive every novelty in Dress, as produced in succes- Lancashire Bell Ringers, who caused the great

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First-rate London Ta'
artment to guarante

nt is secured in the Cutting De-

elegant and perfect fit
16, CASTLE-STREET,
(Late DAVIS and CO.)

NEV ILL E, BRASS-FOUNDER, COPPER-
V & CHANDELIER MANUFACTURER,

,lauded I

y the I

M. Saiii

to his Friends and
hat hehas commenced CHANDELIER

s to in

1 a variety of th

sable 0

drilles, Waltzes; &c

The Wizard ent

BRASS-FOUNDER and COPPER-SMITH

4ystic Cir.cle at Eight O'clock precis•l

M. N. tak
those Fri

the present opportur
1 whn have hithert,

of ret►►rning thanks
iven him their kind

pas't Ten or Eleven o'clock

support; and, in commencing the Business of CHANDELIER
MANUF.SCTURER, he trusts, from the superior quality of his

Goods, and the extremely moderate prices, to insure the
confidence_ and support of an enlightened Public.
Lacquering, Bronzing, and Repairs neatly executed.

MTILLIAM PITT, WHOLESALE PACER-DEALER and
STATIONER, No. 2, Strand-street, Liverpool, having
received the appointment of Agent for the Sale of W ALK-
DEN'S INKS and INK POWDERS, manufactured by
COOPER and PHILLIPS, (late WALKDEN, DARBY, and
TERRY,) No. 5, Shoe-lane, London, begs to acquaint the
Trade in general, that they can be supplied with every de-
scription,. in large or small quantities, on the same terms as

Programme of the Wizard's performances, wit
opinions of the London press, humourously illus
price 2d., may be had at the door.

from t
W. Purr embraces the present opportunity to thank his
Friends and the Public for the very liberal support he has
received since his commencement in business, and begs to
assure them that it is his utmost ambition to merit the con-

anufactory, in

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

I who may be pleased to honour him with their

AUSTRALIA

N.B.- Merchants' and Shipping Orders particularly at-
tended to, and the full amount of Excise Drawback allowed
on all Papers and Stationery for Exportation.
Account Books Ruled and Bound, to any pattern. and on

Sydney papers to the Sth of May state that the
condition of the colony had greatly degenerated ; tt
crime and dissatisfaction was not so much to be ascri

the mos

approved principle

AND:UPHOLSTERY SHOW ROOMS,
No. :3, BOLD-STREET,
%NEXT DOOR TO THE LYCEUM.)
ILLIADI RAINFORD, of the late Firm of STRETCH,
V V RAINFORO, and Co., Lord-street, in announcing to
his Friends and the Public his retirement from that Firm,

CABINET

takes the opportunity of Informing them that he has again
commenced Business, in Partnership with Messrs. Rossau
and GRADWILL, of this town, under the Firm of
RAINFORD, ROSSALL, and GRADWELL,
for whom he solicits their future favours.

more prudent and circumspect in enteriz
culations, whether in the character of mans
or shareholders. Money was still scarc
as at Port Philip, and trade was bad.
Hume River districts had been trout'

g into an

The natives

Two or three notorious bus

TO VISITORS IN LIVERPOOL, FAMILIES FUR-
NISHING, AND OTHERS.
THE Subscriber thus brings before their notice the cele-
brated

their depredations, but, after being
managed to escape. Sydney wheat was 4s. p
Derwent 10s. per bushel. The weather,
bad given a favourable stimulus to agriculture

having been

WEST INDIES

depressed

e year I was again co
burglary

things in Heaven
Rememhe

_
l'reat Wizard of the North's Temple of Magic

In just

and Vauxhall Gardens, will appear each Evening.
to the Lancashire Bell Ringers, who are natives of this
County, he wishes the Public to understand that they arc
The Original and only Bell Ringers who have ever appeared
in London, and whose talent has been appreciated and ap-

Prices of admission :—Boxes, 2s. 6d
lerv, 6d. Children (not above Ten years of a
Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Second price (after the conclusion (
first part), Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, ls. No second price to
Gallery.

From the present crowded state of the Theatre, Mr. 3, H.
A. begs those parties who wish to secure places in the Dress
Circle to apply at the Box-office between the hours of Eleven
and Four o'clock.

The Public of Manchester are most respectfully informed
that the Wizard will shortly make his mystic appearance in
that Town.

and the very questionable character of both sexes introducec
by the late wholesale system of emigration. The affairs o
the Australian Auction Company, a joint stock projee
which is involved in considerable difficulties through the
loose and unsatisfactory manner in which it has been ma.
naged, were under the revision of the shareholders, win
appear to imagine that the delinquencies, if any there be

at Sydney as W(

I convicted, I

A file of Demerara papers to the 12th of August by a pri-
vate ship adds no particular information to the news which
was received by the last West India mail. As no mention is
made of any disturbances having occurred on the " first" of
August, it is concluded that the celebration of that anniver-
sary was of a peaceable kind. The bickerings between the
governor and some of the colonists who happened to be poli-
tically opposed to him are the only interruptions to the
harmonious working of affairs out there. Trade continued

BUENOS AYRES AND RIO DE JANEIRO.
Buenos Ayres papers of the 29th ofJuly have arrived, but
they communicate no movement of the naval forces of the
contend;ng republics. The exchange upon London was, as
before, ad. per paper dollar, and discounts 1 to 2 per cent.
per month. 103 vessels were in port on the 28th, the distri-
bution of which give the greatest number as British,
American, and French.
Dates from Rio de Janeiro to the 13th of July give the ex-
change upon England 301 to 31d.

The London► merchants have opened a subscription for
the relief of the sufferers by the great fire at Smyrna, on the
29th of July, and have already made considerable progress
in their collections. The particulars of this fire are most
distressing : nearly 35,000 persons were left without home of

refuge, and of this number 7,000 subsist by charit
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A ROGUE.—At the
Bedford, a fellow named Thomas Rainbow, was cc
of highway robbery and transported for life. A fe\
ago he was removed to the Justitia hulk at Woolwici
has given the following statement of his roguish caret
the governor of Bedford gaol :—" I am now about 30 y
of age; when a boy about nine years old, I was ernployea
a bird-keeper in the corn-fields. I saw the fine pheasan
walking through the corn, and I thought I should like som
of them. Upon making inquiry of some young men in the
village, I was informed how to catch them, and bought tw'
gins (rat-traps), and seldom went home empty handed ; b
I did not make much of them, as I sold them to the o
men for a trifle. In a very short time 1 found a betterY;
ket; this caused me to look out for hares, and led
on
one thing to another, such as visiting gardens and ore'
and stealing wood, fowls, ducks, or -
my way. Soon after this I fell in with a
we were not satisfied with the profits
took to a worse step, night poachino,
half
co could
u hdlulraynk
night,
oui ntr armedh he
hands
dpsn
obnl
withchu. -
lons
guns,less o
tootk3o, I w-it
one
h
panions, was sent to gaol for house-breaking,
quitted. At the assizes in 1832, I with snot,-
sent to gaol for night-pow
tahtehfiordllocwominpgayneioanr ,
out the bill. In the sate,
Ifo‘rvaas again
and once more acquitted. „and. agiaifuoraflulit.tsete,an,.
I%tioctoinmlsontteicB34 ;
Was, with
another of our gang, committed for poaching in the night,
armed with a gun, convicted, and had to dance the treadmill
for a year—l expected transportation, but the judge did not
order it. From the year 1828, up to the present time, I
have been in the gaol or house of correction 12 or 13 times
Two of my companions before alluded to as having bees
committed with me, are transported for other crimes in th
county of H—. I escaped from the officers, or must hay
shared the same fate. About the year 1837 we committed
highway robbery, and soon after went into Wales, got wor
in the iron mines, and could earn about 18s. a-week. Th
did not last long ; we returned to our old courses, and ti
yelled from place to place, stealing from houses and persol
as often as we were in need. We seldom went out until
had spent all we bad obtained from the last plunder. C
and watches are WI/dwelled most of, but sometimes we b
bad some
a squeeze unt,
if any resistance was offered (which
platnee;. never bad any difficulty of disposing of
property we bad stolen. Ido not remember ever mater
hurting any o
our number was seldom), we gave them
cash and tickers (watches) were taken from them. I th'
I have mole that
in near 200 robberi
many mote that I had no hand in." es, and I know of

last assi

iything that (

but got a

;ted, wit