The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-17 00:00:00

LANCASTER AND LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.

Notice is hereby given, that in consequence of the press of
business at York, the judges will not open the commissions
for holding the assizes at Lancaster until Friday, the 20th
day of March instant, (instead of Thursday, the 19th,) nor at
Liverpool until Wednesday, the 25th day of March instant,
(instead of Tuesday, the 24th,) and all persons concerned are
to regulate their attendance accordingly.
And, Notice is also hereby given, to the prosecutors and
defendants in all indictments for misdemeanour, found at
the last Liverpool Assizes, and now remaining for trial, and
to their respective attorneys and witnesses. that no proceed-
ings will be had upon any such indictments until Saturday,
the 28th day of March instant, when the defendants will be
severally called upon to plead, at the sitting of the court. A
subsequent day will be appointed for their respective trials,
and in the meantime the attendance of witnesses on either
side will not be required.

It. W. HOPKINS,
Clerk of the Crown for the County Palatine 'of Lancaster.
The jury process will be issued on the days mentioned in
the Prothonatry's Circular of the 20th of February last.
Preston, Marehl3th, 1840.

NOURISHMENT FOR INVALIDS AND OTHERS requiring
sustenance where the tone of •the digestive organs will not
admit of ordinary meals, has long arrested the attention of
E. and T. Taylor, who have succeeded in introducing a com-
bination of the choicest viands into the form of Concentrated
Meat Lozenges, the delicate and nutritious qualities of which
will invigorate the biliary functions, and restore the alimen-
tary canals to their natural vigour, whether the disorganiza-
tion proceeds from indigestion or other distressing causes.
They are extremely portable, and may be had recourse to
with perfect success whenever the system requires sustenance,
and will eventually renovate the appetite to its original
healthy state, by merely dissolving them in the mouth as
occasion prompts. The price is only ls. and 2s. per box,
but none are genuine without the name of E. and T. Taylor,
17, 'Lower Holborn, London, on the label.—See adrt.
MR. SHERIFF • EVANS.—We are informed that this gen-
tleman who has so long been kept in confinement by a "tyrant
majority " of the House of Commons, for doing what he was
bound on oath to perform, is expected in-Liverpool to-mor-
row. WO uld it not be advisable to take advantage of this
gentleman's brief sojourn amongst us, for the purpose of pre
smiting him with an address expressive of public sympathy
with him under his cruel incaceration ? The stay of the
honorable gentleman will necessarily be very limited, and no
time should therefore he lost.
TESTIMONIAL. OF RESPECT. Yesterday week several
friends of Mr. Daniel Stubbs, the able and talented leader of
the orchestra at the Liver Theatre, sat down to an excellent
dinner at the Brunswick Hotel. In the course of the even-
ing, there was presented to Mr. Stubbs a very handsome sil-
ver snuff box, bearing the following inscription :—" Presented
to Mr. Daniel Stubbs, by the members of the Liver Theatre
orchestra, as a token of respect for his talent and urbanity of
manner as their leader.—Liverpool, March, 1840."

LAuNcn.—On Thursday next will be launched, from the
building yard of Messrs. P. Chaloner, Sons, and Co., Baffin-
street, a fine new vessel, for John Cropper, Esq., intended
for the St. Vincent trade.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—About five o'clock, on Friday after-
noon, a girl, about eight years of age, named Sarah Griffiths,
daughter of William Griffiths, No. 40, Pellew-street, met her
death in consequence of being run over by a car, in Ranelagn-
street. It appears that the car•, No. 85, the property of John
Lyon, Fraser-street, had been standing, without a driver,
in Great Orford-street ; the horse took fright and galloped.
down Brownlow-hill into Ranelagh-street, where the acci-
dent occurred. At the bottom of Ranelaghstreet the car
came in contact with some building materials, and upset, and
the horse secured. Dr. Bradshaw was sent for, and was of
opinion that the life of the girl was in jeopardy. She was
removed to Mr. Lloyd's public-house, Renshaw-street, and
died soon afterwards.

CASE OF DISTRESS.-It will be recollected, that in
January last, the house, No. 20, Peter-street, in this- town,
was destroyed by fire. So rapid was the conflagration, that
an old man, who lodged in the house, lost his life, and was
literally burnt to a cinder. The person who occupied the
house was a poor widow of the name of Elizabeth Leigh ;
her third son had a narrow escape of rds life, he was, how-
ever, so severely injured, that he had to be removed to the
Infirmary. It appears that she has been a widow many
years, had resided in the house about 19 . years, and had
maintained herself by letttng her rooms to lodgers; by this
Visitation she has not only lost a home, but has been de-
prived of the means of maintaining herself, by the entire loss
of her furniture. A few persons, to afford her the means of
support, have commenced a subscription. Amongst the
subscribers are the following gentlemen :—J. ViTalmsley,
Esq., Mayor; Mr. Whitty, the superintendent of the po-
lice ; Mr. Knapper ; and Mr. \Valthew, one of the overseers
of the parish.—From a Correpondent.—LContributions on
on behalf of this unfortunate widow will be received at the
Standard office.]

THEATRE ROYAL.---,-The season at the Theatre Royal com
mences on Monday next, and we have no doubt that in the
general merits of the company, in the pieces to be produced,
and in the leading talent to be engaged, the high character of
the management will be preserved. The announcement of
the opening has in it nothing of the spirit -of puffery, but it
reveals something that will interest the lovers of the drama,
and the admirers of dramatic literature, in the engagement of
Miss Ellen Tree, and the production of Sheridan Knowles's
delightful play of Love. More than this need not be said.
Amongst the company we still find Mr. Stuart, Mr. Baker,
Mr. Gray, Mr. W. Howard, Mr. Chaplin, and Mr. W. H.
Bland ; and it gives us satisfaction to find that Mrs. Clarke,
Mrs. Tellet, Mrs. W. H. Bland, and Miss Cleaver, are also
there to give their valuable aid.

LIVER DMA rnE.—The engagement of Messrs. Coney and
Blanchard and their dogs is approaching to an end, so that
those who are fond of such exhibitions should lose no time.
Last evening the interlude of The Bold Dragoon was per-
'formed, in which the acting of Mrs. Raymond, Mr. Ray-
mond, and Mr. Tilbery, excited roars of laughter. We beg
to direct attention to the advertisement.

THE CORN LAws.—We understand that petitions to both
Houses of Parliament, for a moderate reduction in the duty
on foreign corn, adhering to the principle of the present corn
laws, are lying for immediate signature at the Lower Ex-
change, Lycmum, and Tradesmen's News Rooms.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—OD the afternoon of Thursday
last a servant girl, in the family of a druggist in Scotland-
road, went into her master's shop, and drank a quantity of
laudanum, with the intent of destroying herself. She was
immediately taken to the Northern Hospital, where the usual
means were employed with success.

SUDDEN DEATH.—On Thursday afternoon last, about
four o'clock, as Mr. Edward Vaughan, a clerk in the service
of Mr. Fletcher, merchant, of Dale-street, was passing along
Rumford-place, he was observed suddenly to stagger, and
place his hand against the wall for 'support. His arms and
legs then seemed to fail- him, and he fell on his side. He
was taken up, placed in a cab, and, at his own request, car-
ried to the house of Mrs. Wright, in Temple-court, where
he was in the habit of dining. A Burgeon was sent for, but
the messenger had not been gone many minutes when Mr.
Vaughan died. A post mortem examination was made by
Mr. Cripps, who found that the deceased had died from ossi-
fication of the valves of the heart, which must have been
going on some years. The deceased was forty-one years of
age, and has left a widow and five children utterly destitute.
We hear that a subscription has been commenced for their
relief.

STEALING A FIRKIN OF BUTTER.—A labouring man,
named William Cardwell, was charged at the police-court
yesterday with having stolen a firkin of butter, the property
of Mr. Tyrer. It appeared that on Friday afternoon some
men were loading a boat 011 the Leeds' and Liverpool canal
with butter firkins for Mr. Tyrer, and that the prisoner as-
sisted although he had not been engaged to do so. The boat
having been loaded, Jas. Allerton, one of the men, in going
home by the canal side saw the prisoner carrying a firkin of
butter away, and he gave information to-a clerk of the canal
company, who caused the butter to be detained, and even-
tually the prisoner to be apprehended in Worfield-street.
The prisoner's answer to the charge of theft was, that he had
been engaged by a man whom he did not know, to carry the
firkins into Vauxhall-road. He was committed to the ses-
sions.

AN IMPOSTOR DETECTED.—Yesterday Mr. T. B. Horsfall
appeared at the Police Court, before Mr. Rushton, the
sitting magistrate, against an able-bodied man who called
himself James Wilson. Mr. Horsfall stated, that on Satur-
day the prisoner called at his office, in the character of a
shipwrecked sailor, and requested pecuniary relief. His
story was that he had sailed from London for America in the
Susannah on the 14th January last, that the vessel was lost
on the 17th, but that he had been picked up by the Alfred,
from Hull, and carried into that port on the 16th. of February.
On enquiry, however, at the Underwriters' Rooms, it was
ascertained that there was not a particle of truth in this nar-
rative, and the prisoner was consequently given into charge
as an impostor.—The prisoner, being called upon by Mr.
Rushton, said Mr. Horsfall had, misunderstood him. The
Susannah was wrecked on the 17th of January, 1839, and he
was a passenger, and not a sailor in her, but Mr. Horsfall
had given him no time to make his statement. He had gone
to Mr. Horsfall's, not to beg, but to apply for employment,
but was told to sit down, when he was seized by a police
officer.—Mr. Rushton, wishing to be satisfied whether a ves-
sel called the Susannah had been wrecked in January, 1339,
directed Mr. Court, the Secretary to the Underwriters' As-
sociation, to be sent for. On Mr. Court's arrival. he said
that information of all disasters at sea, in all parts of the
world, was received at the Underwriter's Room's, and regu-
larly entered in books kept for the purpose; and that, on
referring to the books, he found no entry of a vessel
called the Susannah having been lost ,in January, 1839,
from London to America. -- The prisoner : 1 did not
say she was lost, but only that the vessel was severely in-
jured.—Mr. Rushton : From that contradiction of your
former statement, I have not the slightest doubt that you
are an impostor, going about the country gathering contribu-
tions from humane people under false pretences. I shall
commit you for one month.—The prisoner was then removed.

At a meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
held on Thursday last, it was resolved with only two dissen-
tients, that the chamber do petition for a total repeal of the
corn laws.
Damascus.—After a laborious ascent of the steep moun-
tains, the plains of Damascus suddenly opened upon our
view, and we paused in astonishment to gaze on the beaute-
ous sight. It was like a garden of Paradise, filled with
plenty and luxuriance, whilst the city itself, surrounded with
more than two hundred villages, appeared to be imbedded in
orchards, and watered by several branches of the great river.
The richness of the culture, the beauty of the foliage, the
proud city rearing her minarets conspicuous in the plain, and
the villages peeping out of their verdant lurking-places, exhi-
bit a tout ensemble which is rarely equalled on this terrestrial
ball.—lllacbrair's 111i5sionary Travels.
THE LAKE OF NICARAGUA.—JUNCTION OF THE ATLAN-
TIC WITH THE PACIFIC.—The lake of Nicaragua is situated
in the province of that name, at a distance of about 100
miles from the Atlantic Ocean, with which it communicates
by the river St. Juan. The river is now considered the most
advantageous and most practicable point for establishing a
connection between the two oceans. It is believed to be na-
vigable for vessels of three or four feet draught from its port
to the lake ; and for vessels of twice that depth, as far as the
point where the falls commence, which are the great difficulty
to be surmounted. The surface of the lake, according to a
Spanish engineer who executed a survey in 1781, is 46 feet
above the level of the Pacific ; its depth, about fifteen fathoms.
The distance from that sea to the south-western extremity of
the lake of Leon, which communicates, as before stated, with
that of Nicaragua, is, by the report of the said engineer,
fifteen geographical miles, and the intervening land is said to
be sufficiently level to admit the opening of a canal that
should unite those lakes with the Pacific. Should the grand
work of uniting the waters of the two oceans he undertaken
and accomplished, a revolution would be caused in the,com-
mercial world, attended with results in the highest degree
beneficial to the inhabitants of both hemispheres. This part
of the continent would become the great thoroughfare of na-
tions ; and Central America would at once rise to an impor-
tance, both commercial and political, which otherwise she
never can attain. Proposals for opening this communication
were made by a company of English merchants in 1534. The
following vear similar proposals were made by some mer-
chants of the United Statae
appear, that any specific was given
neither t o caset
subject does i t
made by the Dutch, which
position to the same effect was
by the government of the country. Subsequently, a pro-
was admitted, and tsientißonutF%
the King of the Netherlands was to be
stockholder to the amount of one-half of the .capital that
might be invested. But, from whatever cause, this plan also
fell through, and matters remain in the same state as before.
Montgomery's Narrative of a Journey to Guatemala.