The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-18 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

CAUTION TO NEWSVENDERS.-A fine of five shillings
was inflicted on a youth for blowing a horn in Abercromby-
square, at seven o'clock on Tuesday morning last, for the
purpose of announcing his arrival with newspapers for sale.
Having been remonstrated with by the inhabitants upon
previous occasions to abate the nuisance so early in the
morning, he still continued the annoyance. _

On Tuesday last, a seaman, named John Simmons,
was charged with having stolen five £5 notes, and a suit
of clothes, from John Jones, a tar, just paid off from one
of her Majesty's ships, who has shown him great hospitality.
He was committed for trial; and the magistrate recom-
mended the prosecutor, if he wished to preserve the use of
the remainder of his money, to deposit it in the Sailors'
Home, when he could draw it at such times, and in such
sums, as would ensure him the use of it.
RIGHT TO PLY FOR CAR HIRE.—At the Birkenhead
Police-court, a case was heard before the presiding magis-
trates, on Thursday, in which Mr. Gough, of the Wood-
side Hotel, was the defendant. The offence charged was,
that a man in the employ of Mr. Gough did upon the af-
ternoon of the 2nd of November solicit a fare from various
gentlemen for an unlicensed car, contrary to the provisions
of the Commissioners' Act for regulating hackney coaches,
&c. The cross-examination of the witness for the prose-
cution proved the man and the car to have been on Mr.
Gough's private property. For the defence, the facts
were admitted, but it was pleaded that, as Mr. Gough had
the car licensed from the Excise, he had a clear right to
place it upon his private property and use it as he pleased.
A fine of ss. and costs was inflicted.

ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—On Wednesday, a man named
Dobie, residing in Gordon-street (out of Great Homer-
street), was charged with the illicit manufacture of whiskey.
Some excise officers had found a still at work in the cellar
of the house, and made a large seizure. There was a tem-
porary partition in front of the stairs, which was evidently
intended to cut off the coumunication between the upper
rooms of the house, which were occupied by lodgers, and
the apartments below, where the distilling had been going
on ; and these lodgers were supplied with water from a
syphon pipe (produced), so that the parties did not require
to go to the tap in the cellar for that necessary. A female
lodger, on being questioned how she was supplied with
water, told him (witness) that she had but to stamp her
foot on the floor and the water instantly came on. Dobie,
who is a brewer, and who had been convicted of a similar
offence in November, 1848, was fined £2O, or in default to
be imprisoned for three months.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT COMPTON-BOTTSE.—On Sa-
turday, Wm. H. Branson, a young man of genteel ap-
pearance, was charged with stealing £250 from the esta-
blishment of Messrs. Jeffery and Morrish, Church-street.
It appeared that the prisoner was employed at Compton-
house as a clerk in the cashier's office in August, and for
some time previous. It was not his duty to receive money.
On Saturday evening, the 18th of August, the prisoner
assisted the cashkeeper to remove the books, &c. from one
counting-house to another, and to deposit a large sum of
money in the safe. There were two bags, one of which
contained 150 sovereigns, and the other 250 sovereigns.
These the prisoner took, and, as the cashier thought at
the time, deposited them in the safe • but on the following
Monday it was discovered that the bag with the £250 was
missing. The prisoner, who lived in the house, went
away on the Saturday night, but did not return. A short
time ago he sent a letter to his former employers acknow-
lodging that he had taken the money, and begging their
forgiveness. He said he had been at various places on
the continent, and that all his money was spent. Subse-
quently he reached London, where, after finding that the
parties were determined to prosecute, he admitted his
offence to a friend, and gave himself up. The prisoner
held down his head and appeared much dejected during
the inquiry. Mr. Rushton said ha must be committed
for trial.

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Clement Royds, Esq., of Rochdale, will, it is said, be
the new Hiah Sheriff for the county of Lancaster.

Late on Wednesday night week:three bullets were sent
through the windows of the house occupied by the mayor
of Preston.

MASONRY.—The Rev. J. Birchall, M.A., incumbent of
Churchkirk has been appointed Provincial Grand Chaplain
for the western division of Lancashire.

The Rev. J. D. Halstead, curate of Eastham, and the
Rev. H. Carpenter, spoke at the Church Missionary
meeting, at Chester, on Monday.
The cotton-mill of Messrs. Bower and Co., Nantwich,
was closed on Saturday week, owing to the high price of
the raw material. The works could not be carried on
without a great loss to the owners.
Two men and a boy perished on the moors, in the
neighbourhood of Lancaster, during the late severe wea-
ther. They were all travelling on foot, but not in com-
pany, and appear to have succumbed to fatigue and cold.

The advoCites of a secular education fo; this county
held very numerous meetings in Manchester last week.
They are making strenuous efforts to carry out their pro-
ject.
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A WOMAN KILLED BY FALLING OUT OF BED.—On
Thursday, an inquest was held at Westoughton, on Jane
Platt, who was found with her head on the floor and her
feet in the bed, with her neck dislocated and quite dead.
The colliers, to the number of 200 to 300, late in the
employ of Messrs. Knowles and Co. Rochdale, who turned
out a few days ago, still remain on the strike. They com-
plain that their earnings, exclusive of candles, oil, and
tools, do not average more than 2s. 4d. per day.
About twenty minutes past four, on Friday morning, a
fire of an alarming nature was ascertained to have broken
out in the shop of Mr. Thomas Banks, ironmonger.
Market-street, Chorley, by which two of his sons, aged
nine and five respectively, were suffocated.
The meeting at Newton on the county expenditure was
numerously attended. Mr. T. M. Gibson, M.P., pro-
mised to bring before parliament, next session, a bill to
effect the object contemplated, the establishment of county
financial and administrative boards. There were many
members of parliament present.
An explosion took place in a coal-pit near Wrexham, on
Friday week, which set it on fire. Forty men were at
work ; three escaped by the mouth of the pit, but two of
them were so severely burnt that they have since died.
The rest of the men escaped into an adjoining pit unin-
jured.
THE CHESTER STATION.—On Tuesday the Lord Chan-
cellor stopped Mr. Malins in his reply on the part of the
plaintiffs (the Shrewsbury railway company), observing
that he wished to read the affidavits; and, if he found it
necessary, he would hear Mr. Malins further in the
morning. On Wednesday, the Lord Chancellor, after re-
ferring to the terms of the agreement between the parties
upon which the station was to be jointly occupied, said
that he was of opinion that the proviso in the injunction
of the Vice-Chancellor could not stand. The effect of
this decision is to open the station unconditionally to the
plaintiffs and their servants.
SERIOUS FIRE.—A serious fire took place on Sunday
week, at the works of Messrs. Lillie and Sons, mill-
wrights and machine-makers, Store-street, Manchester.
The whole of the building was almost destroyed, and
upwards of 400 people will be thrown out of employment
by this sad event. The fire originated in the top story of
the building, but no one as yet been able to ascertain the
origin of it. The loss is stated to be upwards of £23,000,
and the property is insured in the Atlas and West of
England Fire Offices for £8,200. It is expected that there
will be some salvage, as a portion of the outside walls.
with some machines and a thirty-horse engine, has been
saved from the general wreck.

ALARMING OUTRAGE.—The labourers employed on
the Cheshire Junction Railway works arc in the habit,
after receiving their monthly wages, of visiting Runcorn
in large numbers, and frequently commit most violent
excesses. On Saturday week, a number walked into the
taproom of Wilson's Hotel, late at night, and proceeded
to demolish the tables. The chief and assistant constables
were fetched, and on attempting to arrest the ringleaders,
were attacked by the whole body, knocked down, kicked,
and otherwise maltreated ; at one period the officers were
in imminent peril of their lives ; eventually four of the
men were secured, but the mob outside were so much ex-
cited, swearing that they would pull the house down be-
fore their mates should he locked up, that Mr. Richard.
son did not deem it prudent to remove his prisoners on
the instant. Four men have been committed for trial
charged with obstructing the officers and with riot. Ano-
ther man was fined 40s. and a fifth 20s.
DEPRECIATION OF PROPERTY UNDER PREF', TRADE IN
STOCKPORT.—MR. COBDEN'S LATE CONSTITUENTS.—In
common with every description of property throughout
the kingdom, houses, shops, and every class of other
buildings in Stockport, have suffered the ravages of free
trade, equally with land and agricultural produce. In the
street in which we live, premises for which, two years ago,
the lowest price asked was £l6OO, and upon which a mort-
gage of £l2OO had been obtained, have been lately sold
for £9OO. The adjoining premises to them, which, three
years ago, were sold for £l2OO, and a sum of £5OO since
expended, in the shape of improvement, have been sub-
jected to a similar depreciation in value, and were sold the
other day for £B2O. A hundred other such instances we
could name. The principal inn or hotel of the borough,
which formerly paid £l2O, was let the other day at £6O
per annum ; and a first-rate shop and premises in the
market-place, which were leased to the late occupier at
£9O a year, are now vacant, because the landlord refused
to take the last tenant's offer of £6O. Many shops and
premises in the market-place, and other of the principal
streets, cannot find tenants, however low the rents.
Cottage houses by the hundred are empty, without the
chance of tenants, whilst the owners of those which are
occupied are compelled to submit to occasional reductions
rather than part with the tenants. Such are the influ-
ences of heavy poor-rates, and other local burdens, and of
free trade superinduced by a specious desire of buying in
the cheapest market.—Stockport Advertiser.

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TARVIN tIALL SCHOOL.—We last week paid a visit to
this interesting educational establishment (at Tarvin, near
Chester), and the expectations we had previously enter-
tained, from the commendations of those who had pre-
ceded us, were in truth mote than realised. The septen-
nial commemoration of its successful progress will be ce-
lebrated to-day with the usual enthusiasm. The general
arrangements and system, whether as regards the instruc-
tion of the students, or their domestic comforts and health-
ful recreation, are all that can be desired ; and this is fully.
testified by the rapid progress of the pupils, and their uni-
versal cheerfulness and propriety of deportment. We
partook of each meal at the same table with the principal,
John Brindley, Esq., the numerous and intelligent mas-
ters, and the whole of the young gentlemen—about 120 in
number, and a happier " family" could not be conceived.
Amongst the senior students we noticed many fine, gen-
tlemanly young men of high parentage; and we need but
add, as a gratifying result of the management pursued,
that the school has sent forth numbers of youths who- are
already pursuing a successful career at the universities of
Cambridge, Oxford, and Dublin, and who have taken a high
standing in academic acquirements. Others have honour-
ably entered her Majesty's service, by sea and land, as
well as the East India Company's service.

AN UNEXPECTED AND UNWELCOME VISITOR AT A
BALL.-0,1 the evening of Friday se'nnight, the town of
Dalton (once the capital of Low Furness). was enlivened
by the annual ball and cord assembly. It is not too much
to say that all the loveliness and fashion of Dalton and the
adjoining places, including Millorn, graced the ball; and
all would have gone off as merrily as a marriage bell but
for one untoward event. The gentlemen were just going
to hand their fair partners in the "mazy dance" to the
supper table, when an alarm was given that there was a
pig in the room, and sure enough a grunter there was,
which for size would have done credit to any agricultural
meetirg in the county. Six young ladies fainted outright
and instantaneously fell into the arms of as many young
gentlemen. the other gentlemen with one accord
shouted for a policeman, who in about twenty minutes
appeared and took the intruder to the pound, where for
aught we know he is yet doing penance for his intrusion.
It appears that some wag had driven Mr. Andrew At-
kinson's monster pig into the ball room, which unluckily
was on the ground floor. It is said, however, that he (the
biped) is likely enough to pry dearly for his ungallant
joke, as five Lancashire young gentlemen, and one belong-
ing to Cumberland, have each registered avow to call him
out.—Lancaster Guardian.

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—During the few days that the
♦ngineers and stokers on the East- Lancashire Railway were
off work, several accidents took place, which might have
been attended with much more serious consequences.
One train was brought to a stand-still at the Lostock
Station because the driver, mistaking the cause for the
effect, kept stirring the fire when he should have supplied
the water, and it was not until the engine was thoroughly
"burned," that he could comprehend "why she did not
go on." Another train came to a " stop" at the Lostock
Junction, and after half an hour's pause began to oscillate
upon the rails like a clock pendulum, or as if the motive
power somewhere had been beer instead of steam. When
this movement terminated, the passengers were anxious
to ascertain " how long" it would be before the train
" proceeded ?" The inquiry was a great deal more easily
put than answered, and failing to obtain a reply after
every variety of cross-questioning, the unfortunate pas-
sengers were compelled to get out and walk home, some
a distance of several miles, during the most inclement
weather, and to the serious injury of their health. In
another instance the train from Preston so detained and
deterred the gentlemen who usually attend Blackburn mar-
ket, that they resolved to have no second " painful delay,"
and, hiring an omnibus, went back by the way known
long before the perils of the rail came into fashion. A
very serious collision took place at Accrington on
Sunday week, when it appears that as the engine-driver
" could neither stop the engine nor slacken her speed,"
the "consequence was that the train from Manchester
dashed into the luggage train, smashing several waggons
to pieces, tearing up the rails, and seriously damaging the
That no life was lost seems to have been a

THE ROCHDALE SAVINGS' BANK.—AS time wears On
and opportunity is afforded for further investigation, the
affairs of the Rochdale Savings' Bank present themselves
in a point of view still more disastrous and alarming than
we or our readers were prepared to anticipate. The defal-
cations of the late actuary, George Haworth, were, at
first, supposed to be some £35,000, a GUM certainly alarm-
ing enough, but now the actual deficit amounts to from
£71,000 to £74,000. As far as at present ascertained the
total deposits amount to something like £lOO.OOO, to
meet which there has been lodged with the commissioners
for the reduction of the national debt, a sum of not more
than £26,000 or £27,000, besides a sum of £2,000 or
£3,000 in the hands of Mr. Clement Royds, the banker,
and treasurer of the institution. It is impossible at pre-
sent to say what is the actual amount of the defalcation,
as all the pass books of the depositors have not yet been
sent in to the bank. it is said that the widow of the late
actuary offers no great facilities to the trustees in the
management of their difficult task, but insists upon the
maintenance of her rights founded upon the will of the
deceased. It is scarcely necessary to say, that that will is
to all intents and purposes null and void, although it
dealt with property to the amount of £50,000. During
the week, an agent from the office in which Mr. Haworth
insured his life has visited Rochdale, with a view of as-
certaining the cause of death. Various rumours had been
afloat on the subject,—one that he had died from the
effects of poison, and another that he was not dead, but
bad left the town in disguise, and that a sham funeral had
taken place. The agent, however, was assured by Mr.
Bower, one of the medical gentlemen who attended him,
that Mr. Haworth was really dead, and that the cause of
his death was a disease of the heart. We have not been
able to ascertain whether the policy of insuran-e of his
life for £3,000, was effected before or after his marriage,
but we have good authority for stating it will be taken
possession of by the trustees. It is supposed, although
not yet ascertained with accuracy, that the defalcations
commenced about thirteen years ago. When the business
of the Rochdale Commercial Bank was discontinued in
1836, there was a balance against Mr. Haworth at that
establishment of £5,000, which it was supposed he was at
that time unable to meet, and that he then had recourse
to making use of the money of the savings' bank deposi-
tors. We believe that the managing clerk of the bank,
Mr. James Ecroyd, has entertained some suspicion of the
system followed by Mr. Haworth for the last five years.
Within the last month and prior to Mr. Haworth's death,
we are informed by an excellent authority, that many
packages have been sent from the house of the deceased,
supposed to contain valuable property. One of these
boxes or packages, supposed to contain silver plate, or
something equally valuable, was directed to a gentleman
of Denbigh, in North Wales ; but, instead of finding its
way to Denbigh, it went first to Haslingden, then to Bury,
then to Liverpool, and thence to America—it is said its
destination was Cincinnatti. In order to take some of the
packages out of the house, one of the front windows had
to be removed, so large were they. The amount of
private debts of the deceased are said to be very considera-
ble, and the probability is, they will never be paid. We
have heard it rumoured, with what truth we know not,
that the members of the Society of Friends, of which Mr.
Haworth was a leader, are about to come forward and
make good the entire amount of the defalcations. We
give the report as we have heard it, without saying more
than that we hope it is true. During the season just gone
past, Mr. Haworth made a tour of several weeks duration
in the lake district, with his carriage and pair; and in
Westmorland, bought a horse as a match for a carriage
horse, which, for some reason or other, he kept in Man-
chester. The horse which he thus purchased he agreed
to leave with the breeder for twelve months. It is worthy
of record, that the Odd Fellows' society have invested in
different banks throughout the kingdom the sum of
£700,000, which is now placed in the greatest jeopardy in
case it should be held that unenrolled societies cannot
make good their claims. The sale of the deceased's effects
took place on Thursday. The four-wheel2d closed car-
riage was sold for £6 15s. The phaeton, which was fresh
from the maker's hands, and had never been used, fetched
£2O. The whitechapel realised £lO 7s. 6d. The double
harness for the carriage horses, silver mounted, fetched
£lO 10. The dapple gray horse, 16 hands high, and six
years old, was a very showy animal. Bets were offered
and taken, while the carriages were being sold, that the
gray horse would fetch about £4O ; and before the sale, it
was considered that both horses would realise not much
short of £lOO. Each horse was sold for £29 precisely.
It has been resolved that a subscription should at once be
entered into to make up the deficiency, whatever it might
amount to. The following subscriptions were announced
at the meeting :—The Rev. Dr. Molesworth, £lOOO ;
Henry Kelsall, Esq., £1000: George Ashworth, Esq.,
£lOOO ; I'. A. Crook, Esq., £lOOO ; Samuel Lomax, Esq.,
£lOOO ; James Scholefield, Esq., £lOOO. Since the meet-
ing was held the following subscriptions have been.
added :—Clement Royds, Esq., £lOOO ; William Chad-
wick, Esq., £1000; James Fenton, Esq., £1000; John
Fenton, Esq., £lOOO ; Entwistle, Esq., high sheriff
of the county, £1000; A. H. Royds, Esq., £1000; Wm.
E. Royds, Esq., £lOOO. This makes a total of £13,000 ;
and is a good commencement.—Manchester Courier.

WEAR OF THE NIAGARA FALLS.—The 71,000 tons of
water which each minute pours over the precipice of Nia-
gara are estimated to carry away about a foot of the cliff
eve,y year. Taking this average, and adopting the clear
geological proof that the fall once existed at Queenstown,
four miles below, we must suppose a period of twenty
thousand years occupied in this recession of the cataract
to its actual size ; while the delta of the Mississippi, nearly
11,000 square miles in extent (an estimate founded on its
present rate of increase, and on a calculation of the
amount of earthy matter brought down the stream), has
satisfied Mr. Lyell in alleging that sixty-seven thousand
years must have elapsed since the formation of this great
deposit began.— Quarterly Review.

YOUTH'S DREAMS ARE NOT ALL FORGOTTEN.—There
is not one of us who at some time, or in some manner,
has not imagined some ideal character, to whom we at-
tribute all those qualities which we most desire and affect.
This is the imagination of greatness which is common to
all, and is the evidence of the Godhead within us ; later in
life, sad to say, these imaginations, so vague, so indefi-
nite, it is true, but once so glorious and absorbing, are
despised and rejected, like the playthings of youth, or the
ashes of the wood that warmed us. The heart is then co-
vered with the wrecks of broken feelings, as the glittering
sands are after a storm hidden by the long brown strips of
rugged seaweed ; but the wreck serves to prove that a
gallant vessel once floated there, and the sand exists, al-
though concealed from view. The fair child's dream ne-
ver wholly perishes ; it will be recalled iiksmoments of
sickness and depression, when the glory onEW 1 -
passing away, and a greater is bursting on iew • F, It
pleasant fields and pleasant voices of chil o t0..:(7-"N
the memory when the frame is purified dy and
disease; the heart becomes young agaiaisf 443)roaches
to Heaven. Oh, then, be kind to the y kfmthewDrd '
said to the child is remembered in old a.),1