The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-26 00:00:00

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HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A SWEEP.—At the Derby:as-
sizes,:clurino•' the present month, Luke Clarkson, aged 19,
was charged with killing and slaying George Hadfield, at
Tideswell. William Stuart, a boy about thirteen years old,
deposed as follows :—The deceased. prisoner, and I, left Mr.
Bookers, of Tideswell, on the morning of Wednesday the
14th of October, to seek work. As we were proceeding along
the road, the prisoner turned deceased's clothes down, and
whipped him with nettles, and then beat him with his brush.
We then went on the road again; and, when we came to the
river Wye, prisoner dipped deceased's head in the river se-
veral times, having hold of him by the legs. He then strip-
ped him, and took the deceased into the middle of the river,
and kept ducking him in the water. I went into the water
to his assistance : when I got him out, deceased began to cry,
and could not stand. The prisoner put deceased's clothes
on, and then beat him for half a mile with his brush about
his back and shoulders. The prisoner continued to beat de-
ceased with his brush and other things for several days.
Before we reached Alport, he whipped him with nettles until
blood came; he then undressed him, and put him into some
water that runs into a mine ; he threw his scraper into the
water, and pushed the deceased in to fetch it out ; and, as
deceased attempted to get out of the water, he pushed him in
again. We then went on a little way, and on turning round
to look for deceased, I saw him lying in the middle of the
road. I went back and raised him, and took hold of his
arm ; he kept leaning on one side, and could hardly hold
himself up. We went towards Youlgreave ; and when get-
rds the necessity Of Ling towards the house of Mr. Blore, on this side Youlgreave,
stated last week, a prisoner put his hand to the back of deceased's head, and
sof the neighbour- pushed him upon a heap of stones. Deceased jumped up
int nothing has been very quickly, but again fell, and never walked afterwards. I
extent, excepting at raised him up; his eyes were sunk in his head. Prisoner
on Monday last.— then caught hold of him, threw him across his shoulder, and
-,ng resolved to work only carried him under the wall near to Mr. Blore's house, where
eeks, commencing on Monday he placed him upon some bags, and then beat him with his
nge should take place in the brush. I paw a lump over his right eye after he got up from
example will be very generally the stones; it was not there before prisoner pushed him
)e recollected by those of our down. After lying under the wall for three hours, three wo-
the subject, that, in 1839, the men came up, one of whom fetched Mr. Blore, who told the
need about the same period of prisoner to carry deceased to his house. Mr. Blore wrapped
s (from the 29th of March to him in a blanket, and gave him some coffee and applied re-
otton at Liverpool, after de- medies. The surgeon to the union stated that deceased had
speculation and for export, received very severe injuries, and that the cause of deceased's
sn average of no more than death was a rupture of the blood-vessels on the brain and
~.zsent year is des- extravasion of blood, which had connexion with the bruise
..ts diminution of consump- over the right eye. Decidedly theinjury might be occasioned
dgment of the means of the by deceased falling upon a stone. The prisoner was sen-
proved. So far as the condi- tenced to fifteen years' transportation.
t is concerned, the prospect is
hope that the appearances of
SUNDAY IN PARlS.—There is, perhaps, 110 line of de-
market, and the foreign ex-
marcation so strong between the English and the French, as
ed last week, and which have
the desecration of the Sabbath by the latter. We may iden-
, will shortly begin to exercise tify ourselves with their fashions, speak the language from
in trade, and prevent the neces- preference, and visit exclusively in the Faubourg St. Ger-
mot be adopted without great mains, until we have shaken off all patriotic partiality, and
s and to those whom they em- we begin to fancy we are all brethren of the same land ; but
this illusion only lasts for six days in the week ; the revoliing
seventh chills us back into aliens, among a people who make
no distinction whatever of respect for the day which we so
HUNDRED highly reverence. The shops are unusually full on Sunday ;
the various trades of mechanics, masons, painters, and
glaziers, are followed as a matter of course. Ladies stand at
M.S. in their windows with needlework ; and parties playing cards by
daylight may be seen among all classes. Sunday is the great

acit 23.—This
ast week ; but 1

was an
still there

h was anticipated some

n light fancy goods and

P general demand- in some
at wools are rather heavy of
siness in the warehouses is

EARKET, MONDAY, MARCH 22.
market to-day, and goods have
:es. A government contract for
Lde within these few days ; and,
►s been divided amongst about
said to have been taken at ex-
ool market continues about the

iere is no material change
ared with that which has
ps, on the whole, there
is, than on the preceding
shown no tendency to ad-
d, as the demand is quite
stocks are accumulating
rs and manufacturers be-

aether th

D FIVE
GO.

T 1 111. were

with les blaneA isseuses of Paris

ho only pre

For that day (it is a strong infusion Otivvrooc

the powerful alkali of which saves them soap and la•
,ut at the^ cost of the linen, which makes it rotten):

the environs of Paris, for some distance, appear•to-have
Ten, been seized by the washerwomen for drying grounds, and the
. 608 number of fields which on Sundays are hung with lines of
25 clothes far exceeds what the eye can reach, and really re-
. 96 quire...to be seen to be believed. Sunday is used also by
• 75 country families, who have their own laundries ; therefore it
• 156 would seem to be more than a matter of chance. But no
▪ 112 persons work so hard on the Sabbath as the French actors.
. 329 Being sure of a full attendance at any theatre on that day,
, 80 they are in the habit of making excursions to Versailles and
, 18 other places within an easy distanc,3 of the capital, where
117 they give a performance early in the afternoon to crowded
208 audiences, and then they return to Paris, in time to fulfil
576 their usual business at their own theatres !—Morning
159 Chronicle.

SHAMEFUL AND UNFEELING FRAUD.—A day Or two
)9 prior to Saturday the 6th instant, an ad#ertisement was in-
-29 serted in the Guardian, announcing that good engineers, en-
-79 gravers, &c., were wanted in New York and Philadelphia,
17 who would be provided with free passage and mess, with
60 capital wages. Letters to he addressed to W. Percival, 2,
14 Oxford-street, London. To this tempting offer many per-
-51 sons made application, and each received a reply informing
15 him that his services would be accepted, at a very handsome
16 rate of wages ; but requiring from each a remittance of £l.,
12 "to ensure registration, and prevent disappointment." Se-
-12 veral of the parties who received these letters had the pru-
dence to make a little inquiry before sending their money,
19 and were advised to have nothing to do with Mr. Percival.
1905 Others, however, were not so careful ; and we have reason
102 to believe, that a number of sums were forwarded as directed,
62 and some of them, no doubt, fell into the hands of the scoun-
-404 drels who had devised this nefarious scheme of plunder.
283 Amongst others, one person, who had been some time out of
239 employment, and was in very poor circumstances, pledged
61 his watch to raise the necessary sum, and sent it by post as
170 directed. He would also have incurred the further expense
17 of conveying himself and his family to London, if he had not. '
15 fortunately, had his suspicions awakened by what he heard
261 from another applicant, who, instead of sending the money
32 required, took the precaution of writing to a friend in Lon-
-32 don, and requested him to make some inquiries about Mr.
61 Percival, at the place indicated in his letter. The party en-
-18 trusted with this inquiry found that No. 2, Oxford-street,
was a public-house, the landlord of which knew nothing of
Mr. Percival, except that he came there occasionally for let-
ters.wtwitoh nviefrtohifoertrhoin.cs,quhutoiiry it was found that there were then
is clear that mechanicsthe° nugsee,nwzahgoehmaedncots.me from Manchester.
:he river A third person in
waiting at the sPamweaspl, turned out to be a policeman
thei in
being fur- plain clothes, who
sed from War- tention of giving4him an waitingo for Mr. lercivaalin, with
1 ing his conn.
indeed its name duct before a mrgistrate. I,)2l,o.rtvenr,ctiyvaoll e
however,xp had most
irizin of the word probablyreceived some intimation that "hawks were abroad;"
.icans the place to Ivhlch and he did not make his appearance, though a number of let-
us brought their supplies for in- tars, some of them evidently containing money and money-
orders, Were waiting for him.-111anchester Guardian.

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