The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS,

CHAIRMEN OF ELECTION COMMITTEES. NOMINATED by
THE SPEAKER.—Lord Sandon, Sidney Herbert,• Wilson
Patten, R. M. O'Ferrali, J. Loch, Sir G. Grey.
THE CONVICT GIROLAMO CAPELLA.—This unfortunate
man, who was at the recent assizes found guilty of the mur-
der of Antonio Tuscano at Liverpool, and on whom sentence
of death was passed by Lord Chief Justice Denman, has been
respited during her Majesty's pleasure.
Lord Morpeth arrived from London at the Adelphi Hotel,
at four o'clock on Friday afternoon, and sailed in the mail-
steamer for Dublin at seven.—On Thursday the Marquis
and Marchioness of Londonderry arrived at the Adelphi
from Chirk, and set off on Friday morning for Yorkshire.
We are informed that the Rev. Mr. Cordeaux, of Sheffield,
has been presented to the incumbency of St. Silas' Church;
Pembroke-place. The piety. zeal, and talents of the rev.
gentleman are very highly spoken of.
LAUNCHES.—TWO beautiful steam-ships, one the property
of the Peninsular and Oriental Co., for the Lisbon mail;
the other for the British and Irish Steam-packet Company,
will be launched on Thursday, the 16th instant, from Mr.
Wilson's yard, Clarence Dock.

PRESTON CONSERVATIVES.-Our conservative friends in
Preston have done themselves honour in remembering their
two unsuccessful candidates at the late election, by a hand-
some present of plate to each. The present to Mr. Parker

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consists of a magnificent silver vase, of 300 guineas value ;
and that to Mr. Charles Swainson an elegant branched pe-
destal for lights, of 100 guineas value.
SFIIP LAUNCH.—We hear that a splendid new ship, of
GOO tons burthen, to be called the " John M`Vicar," built
for Messrs. Bold and Starkie, by Messrs. Humble and Mil-
crest, will be launched from their yard in Trentham-street,

on Thursday next, at eleven o'clock. She is intended for
the East India trade, and will be committed to the charge
of Captain M`Leod, an able and experienced commander in
that trade. For beauty of model, strength combined with
neatness of fastenings, interior finishing, &c., she cannot be

CONSECRATION OF LEEDS PARISH CHURCH.—The fol-
lowing munificent sums were collected at the different ser-
vices on the occasion of consecrating and re-opening Leeds
Parish Church, the week before last :

.E. s. d.
sday morning, the Bishop of New Jersey :. 620 14 3
sday evening, Rev. W. Dodsworth, Incum-
at of Christ Church, Regent-park, London . 86 1 1
morning, the Rev. Dr. Hook, the Vicar 159 16 10
evening, the Rev. Wm. Gresley, Preben-
of Lichfield
ay morning, the Ven. Chas. Musgrave, D.D ,
Archdeacon of Craven
Sunday afternoon, the Rev. John Jebb, Preben-
dary of Limerick
Sunday evening, the `'en. Robert rsaae Wilber-
force, M.A., Archdeacon of the East-Riding
Donations

57 16 1)

166 18 8

11 16 0

87 1 0
75 10 0

£1265 14 9

EXTRAORDINARY FLY-FISHING.--A correspondent of a
contemporary, in noticing the fact of the good fishing ex-
ploits of Mr. J. W. Lassells, recently noticed in the Stan-

states that the most extraordinary feature in this suc-

cess is, that in one of the days Mr. L. landed 36 salmon,
weighing 356 lbs., and which feat he affirms was never
before performed by any man with a fly.
A. MAN SHOT BY A GAMEKEEPER.—OII Saturday after-
noon, Thomas Gudgeon, under gamekeeper to Joseph Fiel-
den, Esq., of Nyitton House, was out upon Billinge, about

past four o'clock, shooting rabbits, when two men passed

him. On seeing the keeper, they ran off. He immediately
called to them to stop, telling them that if they did not do
so he would fire. They took no notice of him however, but
continued to run, when the keeper fired, and hit one of them

in the back. The man was enabled to get over the park wall,
and to reach his own house in the neighbourhood, where he
was discovered to have been very seriously injured. His
name is Thomas Ainsworth, though better known by that of
Bur Information was given to the police, and Gudgeon
w,

soon after taken into custody by Mi. M'eabe, inspector
of police. Gudgeon was taken before John Lister, Esq., on
Monday, and remanded. Ainsworth, we are happy to hear,
is recovering.—Blackburn Gazette.

ANOTHER COLLISION ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY

—On Tuesday night, a collision took place at the Farrington
Station, on the North Union Railway. It appears that the
train leaving Manchester and Liverpo-f for Preston, at five
o'clock in the evening, was rather later than usual. The
train stopped at Farrington Station, to put down passengers
and to attach the red signal lamp to the hind carriage. While
this was being done, the London train came up, and running
into the train on the rails, smashed a horse-box, loaded with
sporting dogs, to atoms. Mr. Threlfall, master, of Preston,
had a thigh broken, and all the other passengers were more
or less injured. The most singular thing was, that the engi-
neer of the first train, seeing the danger, put his steam on,
and then jumped off the engine. The suddenness of start
caused the engine to break away from the carriages composing
the train, and it ran at a tremendous pace through Preston
Station, on to the Lancaster line, and was at last stopped
without doing any injury.—[The collision which took place
on the same line a few days before this, resulted in the death
of one gentleman, a baptist minister, and the serious injury
of nine others.]

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—A determined act of self-de-
struction took place in Bath on Friday week. The name of
the deceased was William Henry Todd, and he had been for
the last three years engaged as a draughtsman, &c., for the
Great Western Railway. His connexions are highly respec-
table. He had been lodging fora long time at No. 5, Henry-
street, but had been on a visit to Mr. Thorley's, No. 11,
Prior Park-place, in whose house he nearly severed his head
from his body with a razor. So determined was the act that
the cut extended from ear to ear, and so frightfully had the
throat been severed that the spine could be distinctly seen.

The British Queen steamer arrived at Antwerp on Thurs-
day morning, at 8 o'clock. This magnificent vessel excited
the admiration of the spectators who crowded the quays.
The few persons admitted on board immediately after its
arrival are lavish in their praises of the elegance with which
it is furnished, and the good arrangements of the chambers
and saloons. The British Queen carried the Belgian, English,
and American flags.

PROVIDENTIAL CIRCUMSTANCE.—A few days ago, a
,00r man in Leith was most agreeably surprised in receiving

la letter from his son in Canada, whom 'he considered for
some time had been no more, and for whom he had gone
into mourning. The particulars of the case are briefly these :
—The young man in question had gone out, in the capacity
of baker, in the ill-fated vessel the President; however, a
few days before she sailed from New York, having had some
misunderstanding with the captain, he signified his deter-
mination not to return in her ; but the captain, not being
able to supply his place to his mind, expressed his determina-
tion to compel him, and to avoid which the young man, only
two days before she sailed, left the vessel clandestinely, and
thus saved himself from the melancholy fate which, other-
wise, would have awaited him.
TIIE HARVEST.—WHIG HORRORS !—Another week of
comfort and encouragement has occurred to the country !
Another week of discouragement and dismay to the whig
faction ! The sun has been shining, the breezes have been
blowing, every sickle and scythe has been at work, every
team has been in activity, every labourer has been employed,
and all the poor have profited by a dry and cheering time for
gleaning up the scattered corn. In a word, the harvest has
been proceeding rapidly, and, we verily believe, with every
prospect of a satisfactory result, and thus the whigs are dis-
appointed in their hopes of seeing a people made miserable
and discontented by a bad harvest. Never, we should think,
in the history of human wickedness, did such a wish as this
prevail before. And never shall it be forgotten by others. or
cease to be quoted by us, so long as our minds retain a clear
recollection of what has occurred in the year 1841. 'Whenever
hereafter the whigs profess their anxiety for the poor, they
must be reminded of their wish for a bad harvest. When-
ever they declare their party hopes for cheap bread, they
must be taunted with their desire to see it made scarce and
dear by a bad harvest. Whenever in discussions about the

poor-law, or an extended franchise, or any other public sub-
ject of debate, the whigs make a parade of their sympathy
for the working classes and the labouring man, there will be
an easy method of proving their professions insincere and
hollow, by simply reminding them how in 1841 it was a sub-
ject with them of congratulation and joy that there was every
prospect of a bad harvest
RUNCORN.—WATERMEN'S CHURCH AT WESTON POINT.
—We understand that the Lord Bishop of the diocese has
conferred the appointment to this beautiful and interesting

little church upon the Rev. Christopher Bush, A. 8., o
Catherine Hall, Cambridge, and at present incumbent o
Lower Peover. From the character for piety and zeal whicl
Mr. Bush sustains, and his affectionate attachment to the
church at whose altar he ministers, we congratulate the poor
watermen of the Weaver navigation upon their having been
appointed to the spiritual charge of one who will, we are
sure, diligently labour to bring them, according to his ordi-
nation vow, " unto that agreement in the faith and knowledge
of God, and to that ripeness and perfectness of age in Christ,
that there be no place left among them, either for error in
religion, or for viciousness in life."
Tun NEW ELECTIONS.—On Wednesday evening, the new
writs were moved for, and in how many places, think our
readers, is opposition threatened after all the bombastic and
turgid menacings of the Radicals ? Why in not, one
For weeks faction has been most desperately busy:lin.
endeavouring to get up the show of opposition against Sir
Wm. Follett in Exeter ; but after exhausting all its shifts
and resources ; after applying in the most importunate way,
to this man, and to that ; after hawking about requisition
after requisition, no one could be found fool-hardy or un-
scrupulous enough to face certain inevitable defeat, or embark
in so disrepntable and desperate an enterprize. Well, Sir
Wm. Follett is safe—so is Lord Stanley—so is Sir James
Siraharn—so is Sir Edward Knatchball—so is Sir Henry
aardings—so is Lord Eliot, and so, in fact, is every member
A the Cabinel.
BUILDING SOCIETIES.—The utility of these institutions
is now becoming fully known and appreciated. We observe
that another society to be called the Second Liverpool Build-
ing Society, is about to be established, under the auspices of
Mr. Evans, who is favourably known in connection with
associations of this kind ; and of Mr. James Reay, with
whom the tradesmen of Liverpool are well acquainted. In
them we have a sufficient guarantee for the efficient manage-
ment and ultimate success.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.--On Friday morning last,
through the carelessness of the nurse, a roost frightful ac-
cident occurred, which we much wonder did not prove fatal.
Mrs. St. Albin's family being in lodgings in Woodside, the
youngest child, about two years of age, fell out of a window
down into the area, a distance of five-and-twenty feet. She
was picked up for dead, but after an hour had elapsed, began
Mr. Vale, the surgeon, found no bones
to recover. HaPPiIY
broken, but very much bruised. What is a most extraor-
dinary instance of accumulated trouble is that, that very
morning, at the same time that the accident occurred, Mr.
St. Albin heard in Liverpool of the death of his eldest son,
who was lost on his passage to Bombay, in Messrs Chapman
and Willis's vessel, the Bangalore.
CHARGE OF FELONY.—TWO young men, named Mercer
and Green, both
carters, in the employ of James Eaton, of
this town, were
placed before Mr. Rushton, on Friday,
charged by Mr. Dowling, with having abstracted from Mr.
Stokes' warehouse, in Lancelot's-hey, two chests of sugar,
and a considerable portion of a third. Mr. Dowling called
several witnesses to prove that the sugar was placed in the
warehouse mentioned• Prom the evidence of a boy, named
had the charge of a
M•Stravick, who sixpenny cart, it ap-
peared that the prisoners had called him from the quay on
Tuesday last, about twelve o'clock, and told him to go up to
Aikin's stables,
in Union-street. He did so, and both pri-
soners met hint there. They brought with them two bags of
sugar, and placed them in his cart,—telling him to drive
down to the Old Ropery. When he arrived there, both pri-
soners met him and took the bags, but where he could not
say. They gave him five shillings for the job,—four of
which he was to keel) himself, and the other shilling was to
be given to his master. Inspector Cotham stated, that on
passing along Oldhall-street, on Tuesday night, he was told
by a gentleman that there was something going on not quite
right at a warehouse at the bottom of Union-street. lie
went there, and found that the bars of a window in a ware-
house had been removed. He sent for another officer to
assist him. The officer went into the warehouse while he
remained outside upon the steps. While there, he heard the
sound of footsteps approaching. He stood still, and one of
the prisoners at the bar (Mercer) carne up, and called out in
a low voice, "Jem, Jem•" lie took him immediately into
custody. Inspector Randle apprehended the prisoner Green
at George's Dock. One of the prisoners, in his defence,
stated that he bad been employed by the other, and knew
nothing further of the transaction. They were both com-
mitted.