The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-11 00:00:00

WARRINGTON.

ANNUAL BALL,—The annual ball, for the benefit of the
Warrington Dispensary, took place on Tuesday evening
last, at the Lion Hotel. The preparations made by the
worthy host were on the most splendid scale. Horabin's ex-
cellent band played in their best style during the evening.
Upwards of three hundred individuals, embracing all the
rank, beauty, and fashion of the neighbourhood, were pre-
sent. Among the number were—Thomas Lyon, Esq., 3. I.
Blackburne, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Blackburn and daughters,
Sir William and Lady Gossett, Lady Amelia Kaye. Misses
Kaye, Lady Grey Egerton, Miss Egerton, Rev. H. C. Legh,
G. C. Legh, Esq., Peter Legh, Esq., Sir R. Brooke and
daughters, Wm. Hutton, Esq., Hon. R. B. Wilbraham,
Captain and Mrs. Wortley, Mr. and Mrs. Townley Parker,
Mr. Hopwood, Dr. Kendrick and daughters, Captain Ro-
berts, Dr. James Kendrick and lady, Mr. Clare, Miss Clare,
Mr. John and Mr. Thomas Clare, Mr. and Mrs. Ridgway,
Miss Burdett, Mrs. Nicholson, Miss Nicholson, Mr. Wm.
Nicholson, Mr. James Nicholson, Mr. Richard Allen, Mrs.
and Miss Allen, Mr. John Litton, Mr. William Litton, and
Miss Littons, Mr. and Mrs. Pillev, Mr. Moon, Miss Shear-
son, Wm. Stubs, Esq., Mrs. and Miss Stubs, Captain War-.
dell, Mr. John Haddock, Miss Hopley from Demerara, and
Mr. Cooper, Mr. James Haddock, St. Helen's, Mr. Joseph
and Mrs. Stubs, Bodmer, Miss Parr, Mr. Thomas and Mrs.
Robinson and daughter, Mr. E. Browne, Miss .Browne, Mrs.
John Browne, Mr. John Geddes, from Liverpool, Egerton
Leigh, Esq. and party, Captain Edwards, Mr. Jeffrey, Mr.
N. C. Scarlett, Mr. Johnson, St. Helen's, T. Bradburn,
Esq., Northwich, John Wilson Patten, Esq., M.P. and
party, Mr. Ireland Blackburn and party, Miss Townsbend,
Swettenham, Esq., J. Tollemache, Esq,, Colonel Gooch,
Captain and Mrs. Jacsoh. Misses Gleave, Mr. J. Cburton,
Mr. E Gaskell and Mrs. -Gaskell, Blundell, Esq., R. E.
F. Warburton, Esq., Arley, Mrs. Legh and party, of Lyme
Hall, Sir J. and Lady Gerard,,Miss Jones, Mr. and Mrs,
Sharp, Miss Naegeli, Mr. T. Gerard, Mr. Townley, Mr. Mrs.
and Misses Glegg, Mr. and Mrs. Waluasley, Peter Greenall,
Esq., Daintry, Esq., J. and Mrs. Greenall, Esq. and
party. 'Woodcock, Esq., Sir Charles and Lady Shaker-
ley, ISlts. Whitley, Miss Tarleton, Mr. W. Caston, Mr.
Egerton, Mr. Hibbert, Mr. Fitt, J. S. Brooke, Esq., I'.
Parr, Esq., J. H. Leigh, Esq. and Mrs. Leigh, Major Cor-
bett, and party, Broughton, Esq., Mr. and Misses Lloyd,
Mr. Nash, Mr. Fielden, Rev. and Miss Eaton, Captain Os-
borne, Banks, Esq., Mr. and Mrs. Gerard, Mr. C. Ge-
rard, Misses Walmiley, Mrs. PlovAlen, Mr. and Mrs.
Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Shakerlev, Barry, Esq., Mr. Den-
man, Mr. F. and Mrs. Gerard, Miss C. Gerard, Mrs. Nelson,
Mr. Rigby, &c.
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday, as Mr. Green, draper, was
returning from St. Helen's on foot, he was seized, when near
. Burton \Vood Chapel, with a fit of coughing, and became so
unwell that he had great difficulty in reaching the door of a
farm-house in the neighbourhood. When be arrived he had
only time to take out his pocket-book, containing his name
and address, when he fell down and expired. It is supposed
his death was occasioned by the rupture of a blood vessel.
SUNDAY TRADING.—The Warrington police committee
have intimated their intention to prosecute all persons keep-
ing open their shops, for the sale of provisions, later than
twelve o'clock on Saturday night.
THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS.—The gentlemen of this hunt, to
the number of fifty and upwards, met on Tuesday, at Norton
Priory, the seat of Sir R. Brook, Bart. A fox was found in
one of the covers, and the finest run with these hounds, during
the present season, ensued. The fox, on breaking cover,
made for Moore Gorse. Here he crossed the Grand Junction
Railway, and swam over the Duke of Bridgewater's canal,
and the hounds came to a check, which afforded reynard an
opportunity of making good his retreat. After a short pause
the hounds again hit off the scent, and went away at a beau-
tiful hunting pace towards the celebrated Fox Cover, Hill
Cliff, but being hard pressed, the fox made the best of his way
through Appleton Park. He then led them away at a rat.
tling pace, leaving Stretton Church to the right, and directed
his course for Birchall's Gorse • he there quickly turned
about, and pursued his Ivey to Whitley Reed, here lie broke
to the left, over a fine country; to the village of Mere, at
which place he succeeding in escaping from his pursuers, in
the plantation of P. L. Brooke, Esq., after a tun of upwards
of three hours, and thus ended one of the finest runs ever
witnessed.

POST-OFFICE MONEY ORDERS.--It may not be unimportant
to state, that a regulation has been made by the General
Post-office, which commenced its operations on Thursday
last, whereby an entire change has been made in the money
order office department, and that the insurances, in future,
to be charged on remittances sent per post, by orders, is upon
a scale greatly reduced below the one that has been acted
upon for a lung series of years. Those persons who have
been in the habit of sending remittances in the shape of
Post-office money orders will be aware, that they were charged
for the insurance of such remittances, eightpence in the
pound; and that, in cases where the sum to be sent exceeded
£2, a shilling bill stamp was also required to be paid for,
independent of the
.poundage. The alteration now made,
then, is to the following effect:—For any sum not exceeding
£2, the insurance, on granting the order, is to be sixpence ;
and for any amount above £2 and not exceeding £5, the
insurance will be eighteenpence. Persons wishing to make
remittances must apply at the Post-office for the sheet of paper
to write their letter in, and on such sheets of paper is the
prescribed form of order for payment of the sum remitted.
The advantages which this regulation will give to the public,
but more particularly to the lower classes, who are an the
frequent habit of making remittances to their distant relatives
by Post-office money orders, will be far from inconsiderable,
as the the only additional charge to the postage of the letter
will be the very moderate one for the insurance. In fact, if
the sum to be remitted should not exceed £l, where the single
postage is above above sixpence, it will be at once seen, that
the cost for an order and the single postage will not be so
much as the double postage would amount to : besides which
advantage, the security of the remittance is placed beyond a
doubt. But the saving will be still much greater when £2
should be required to be sent; for as we have no £2 notes,
there would be no alternative but to enclose two sovereigns,
the consequence of which would be to make the letter con-
taining them liable to treble postage. The new regulation,
then, is one that offers great advantages to the classes to
whom we have more particularly alluded, and, we trust, they
will avail themselves of it. But it will also, in the absence
of a small note circulation, be found to offer very convenient
facilities to other portions of the community that are desirous
of sending the payment of small sums through the posto(fice.
We do nut know that we can offer any remark more apropos
to the above matter than the one contained in the Albion, of
yesterday. Our contemporary remarks, "As Christmas is
approaching, when we shall have the pleasure of transmitting
our annual bills to our subscribers, they will, we trust, obli;zo,
us by sending a post-office money order for the amount. We
shall, in all cases, gladly pay the postage of the letter con-
taining the order."]

RULE RESPECTING TRANSPORTED ATTORNEYS.--MaDV of
our readers will recollect that, a few years since, John W!1-

hams, an attorney, of this town, was convicted of forgery,
and sentenced to transportation. It may also have come
to the knowledge of several, that he has since been prac-
tisirig as an attorney in Sydney. It appears that he arrived
at the colony! in 1829, and that he was soon engaged as clerk
by a Mr. Allan, an attorney. To this gentleman his legal
attainments recommended him so much that he became vir-
tually the principal practitioner. On the death of Mr. Allan,
which happened at the latter end of 1837, several attorneys
became anxious to secure the services of Mr. Williams. He
accepted the offer of a Mr. Roberts, who agreed to give him
£439 per annum, and other advantages for the good-will of
the business which was sure to follow him. This came to time
knowledge of the judges, and, as it is decidedly illegal for
any one who has committed felony to practise as an attorney,
they determined to put a stop to it. The Sydney Herald, of
July 16, gives a long account of the proceedings. Mr. Ro-
berts and Mr.lliams were summoned before the Supreme
Court. They made a voluntary confession of all the circum-
stances of the case. The judges remarked, that if it had
not been for the mode in which the proof was furnished, the
attorney would have been struck off the rolls, and Williams
would have been transported for seven years. They did not,
however, wish to act astringently with the parties, but, as
the time had arrived when the services of such men as Wil-
liams could be dispensed with, a reprimand and an order for
putting a stop to the practice was forthwith issued. The order
is couched in the following terms, and is signed by Judges
Dowling, Burton, and 'Willis :—lt is ordered, that, from and
after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-nine, no attorney, solicitor, or proctor of the Su-
pre-me Court. of New South Wales shall employ, as an as-
sistant, clerk, or writer, in or about his business as an at-
torney, solicitor, or proctor, any person who bath been or
shall! be transported to this colony, or convicted of forgery,
or any other felony, or wilful and corrupt perjury, or common
barratry."

BITTERN.—A. very fine specimen of this rare bird was
shot this week on Newton Moss, near Penrith, by Mr. Sow-
eiby, and is now in the possession of Mr. Philip Turner, of
Penrith.
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HONESTY IN Racs.—A beggar asking Dr. Smollett for
alms, he gave him, through mistake, a guinea. The poor
fellow, on perceiving it, hobbled after him to return it; on
which Smollett returned it to him, with another guinea, as a
reward for his honesty, exclaiming, at the same time, " What
a lodging honesty has taken up with !" •
New MOTIVE POWER.—The Worcestershire Chronicle says
—" We have been favoured by a correspondent with the fol-
lowing account of an invention which, if what is said of it be
correct, promises to make some stir in the world:—' Her
Majesty's letters patent have been granted to Mr. Bryan
l'Anson Bromwich, of Clifton-on-'reme, in this county, for
an improved method of propelling all kinds of machinery,
both stationary and locomotive. The power is of equal mag-
nitude to that of steam; it can be obtained at one-sixteenth
part of the cost of that power, without the incumbrance of a
boiler, and its ponderous and objectionabe appendages;
consequently, carriages constructed almost es light and ele-
gant as those now drawn by horses can be propelled by this
power along the common roads or railways, at any spied
consistent with safety. As a motive power applied to ships.
and boats, it will be invaluable, there being no danger from
explosion n, or any annoyance from smoke, steam, or noise; •
and.the space now devoted to the boiler, fuel, be., will be at
liberty to be more profitably employed. The invention will
be submitted to the ordeal of public opinion as soon as the
patent rights for France, Belgium, and Holland have been
disposed of.' "
EXTRAORDINARY LINCOLNSHIRE HEIFER.—A heifer of .
remarkable size and breed was shipped on board the Wilber-
force steamer, on Tuesday last, for the London Smithfield
Christmas show. This beast was calved on the 26th of June,
1834, and is consequently four years and five months old. It
was bred and reared on the farm of John Richardson, Esq.,
of Horkstow, near Barton-upon-Humber, and has been fed
upon oil-cake, bay, beans, meal, white peas, and steamed po-
tatoes. It was brought by Caravala from Horkstow to Bar-
ton, and thence conveyed by steam to Hull. She has never
produced a calf, and had never tasted artificial food previous
to the Ist of November, 1837, having been kept on very in-
ferior food up to that period, Mr. Richardson being anxious
that if possible she should produce a calf. The heifer has
been indisputably iu Mr. Richardsen's possession since the
Ist of June, 1838.—Hull Times.
Mo atuoNrrEs—Philadelphia, Nov. 14.—Every hour in these
stirring times produces something new, and 1 mourn to add
also—something dreadful! In the state of Missouri, those
miserable fanatics, the Mormons, mustered a band of 400
strong on the 25th ultimo, and in consequence of late differ-
ences with the citizens, who did not like their vicinity, they
plundered and burned every house in the town of Gallatin,
together with the court-house and post-office, driving the
helpless women and children out into the wilderness. This
is not all: the worst remains to be told. Capt. Bogard was
dispatched with a company of 50 militiamen, to guard the
frontiers of Ray county from their spoliation. These were
attacked and all slaughtered, except three or four, who made
their escape with great difficulty. Possessed of the small
arms and cannon or their victims, the Mormons were gone to
attack the town of Richmond, Missouri, when the account
came away. All Missouri is in a dreadful state of excite-
ment, the more especially as the conduct of the Mormons.is
said to be quite unprovoked.
EXTRAORDINARY DRAINAGE OF THE )NTH.—A corres-
pondent informs us, that on Tuesday last, whether by means
of the flood being swallowed up by some subterraneous cave
or crevice, or otherwise, the channel of the Nith at Enter-
kinefoot or Slunkford was left so dry that a person could
have walked through it without wetting his stockings. This
is certainly an extraordinary circumstance; and we commu-
nicate it to the public just as we have got it, not by any
means vouching for the particulars, which have not yet
reached us.--Dumfries Times.—[The same extraordinary cir-
cumstance occurred on Tuesday last with regard to the Clyde.
About twenty miles up from Glasgow, numbers of people
crossed the bed of the river without wetting even the soles of
their shoes, and the fish were easily caught by the hand in.
shallow pools. So great was the depression of the water,
that the machinery of New Lanark Mills could not be driven.
It will be recollected, that the last week the barometer stood
lower than it was known to have done in the memory of malcil
—Scottish Guardian.