The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

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(From the Devonport Telegraph of Sunday, the 27th.)
The tire is still burning in the remains of the hulls of the
Talavera and Imogene, but there is no fear of its spreading
further. An inquiry has been instituted into the rumour of
two persons having been seen by the sentry to leave the Ta-
lavera after the working hours of the yard. The whole of the
guard have been examined by the authorities of the dock-
yard, and it is ascertained beyond doubt that the persons
seen were the officers of the yard, whose duty it was to see
everything safe before leaving the establishment in the even-
ing. Their report was delivered " all safe." The post of
the nearest sentinel was within thirty yards of the bow of
the ship ; he was not sensible of any smoke near until the
alarm was given by the police. A second rumour has gained
ground since noon that a person who was early on board, saw
marks on the deck as if discoloured by the explosion of a
train of gunpowder.
Two despatches have, during the day, been sent off to the
lords commissioners of the admiralty

Admiral Superintendent Warren-has not left the spot for
the day even to take refreshment.

The greatest precautions have been taken to prevent a
second outbreak.

SEPTEMBER 28.—The fire in the Arsenal was not entirely
got under until late last night, and the engines are now (half-
past eight, Monday morning) being brought out. It is ha-
possible to say the amount of damage—certainly not so great
as stated in my letter of yesterday, as the Talavera was an
old ship, and the estimate of her worth, if sold by auction,
the usual mode of disposing of ships when unserviceable, is
not above X 20,000, though to replace her with a new ship of
the same class would be from 270,000 to £BO,OOO. The
other vessels must be estimated in the same way, but the loss
of stores is immense. The sheds, covered as they were with
painted and tarred paper, cost from £lO,OOO to £12,000
each ; the cost, when covered with copper, is from £30,000
to £IO,OOO each. The granite facinqs of the docks are split
to pieces. The tire was providentially stopped at the very
point where the destruction would have been the greatest, as
property amounting in value to upwards of £5,000,000 was
deposited in the very building adjoining that where its pro-
gress was terminated. Those best informed are yet disposed
to place the act to the account of an incendiary. It is ex-
pected one of the lords commissioners of the admiralty will
come down to hold a court of inquiry.

It appears by a correspondence published in the London
papers, that Messrs. Coutts and Co. are about to assume the
banking business of Messrs. Hammersley and Co. whose
transactions have been suspended owing to the decease of
the only surviving partner of the firm.

The Rev. W. Crotty, of Birr, (formerly a Roman catholic
priest, but now a minister of the presbyterian church in
Ireland), has been deputed by the presbytery of Dublin, to
visit the presbyterian congregations in the south of Ireland,
and to make some important statements relative to the origin
and progress of the reformation at Birr.
The radicals of Leicester have obtained permission of the
magistrates to allow a deputation of their body to visit Vin-
cent, Edwards, and Sherrard, the chartists in Gakham Gaol,
and to present them with a flitch of bacon. These prisoners
have five mouths longer to remain in gaol.

Froginore Lodge, which was the private property of her
Majesty the late Queen Charlotte, was left to her Royal
Highness the Princess Augusta for ier life, and at her death
was to become the property of the Princess Mary, now
Duchess of Gloucester.

Mr. Norris, the American engineer, has shipped five loco-
motive engines from New York to England, for the use of
the Gloucester and Birmingham railway. These engines
have greater power than the English, and cost about £lBOO
each.—Worcester Chronicle.

COMMITTAL OF THE EARL OF CARDIGAN BY THE
WANDSWORTH MAGISTRATES.—On Wednesday, the ma-
gistrates of the Wandsworth bench entered into a further in-
vestigation of the charge against the Earl of Cardigan, Capt.
Douglas, and Capt. Wainwright, of having committed a
felony, the former as principal, and the two latter gentlemen
as accessories, the felony being the act of shooting at Capt.
Tuckett, with intent to murder him. Mr. Adolphus attended
for the defendant, and after an inquiry which lasted several
hours, the chairman said, it was their painful duty to commit
all the gentlemen to take their trial. Upon the application
of Mr. Adolphus the court consented to admit Lord Cardi-
gan to bail, himself in £2OOO, and two sureties in £lOOO
each. The other two gentlemen were ordered to enter into
personal recognizances of £5OO each, and two sureties of
£250.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.—On Saturday morning
last, upon the arrival of the mail-train at the Paddington
terminus of the Great Western Railway, a considerable ex-
citement was created by two persons of highly respectable
appearance desiring the conductor, immediately on their
alighting on the platform, to open the doer of one of the first-
class carriages, which they asserted contained a man who had
' shot at and wounded his uncle, a wealthy gentleman, resid-
ing at Dorchester, in Oxfordshire. The request was speedily
complied with ; and on the suspected person leaving the ve-
hicle with the rest of the passengers, he was rushed upon by
his two pursuers, who held him until the arrival of some
constables, when a severe and desperate struggle ensued.
The accused was overpowered, and properly secured; and on
his being searched by Collard, the chief officer of the com-
pany's police, there were fniind in his possession two horse
pistols, heavily loaded with powder and ball, a sword stick,
and about 30s. in gold and silver. Collard explained to him
the nature of the charge preferred, and after cautioning him
with regard to anything which he might then state being
hereafter used as evidence against him, he, in a few words,
asserted his entire innocence. He was handcuffed, and
shortly afterwards conveyed away in custody. The facts of
the attempted assassination are these :—The prisoner, whose
name is William Davey, and whose appearance is that of a
military officer, has, since attaining his majority (he is now
only 23 years of age), squandered away a good fortune, and
has constantly been living at a large and fashionable hotel in
the vicinity of Bond-street. About a fortnight back he ar-
rived at Dorchester, and, after importuning his uncle, Mr.
John Davey, for money, the latter presented him with £4O,
at the same time giving him some good advice as to his fu-
ture conduct. On Friday evening last, between eight and
nine o'clock, as the uncle alluded to, who is a guardian of
the poor of his parish, was returning to his house through
his own garden, having attended a vestry meeting at a short
distance off, he heard a noise which he imagined to be the
explosion of a percussion cap, and almost at the same mo-
ment a pistol, or some other description of lire-arms, was
discharged at him, and some hard substance struck with great
force against his breast. He was not wounded, although se-
verely bruised; but had he been walking with his face to-
wards a laurel tree, behind which his intended assassin was,
to the best of his belief, concealed, he would, in all probabi-
lity, have been killed upon the spot. In a state of great
fright, and imagining at the moment that he had received
some serious injury, he ran in doors, crying, " Murder,
help ;" and on the circumstance being detailed by him to his
brother and a neighbour, the most diligent inquiry was
promptly instituted by them, from which they learned that
a person answering the description of the prisoner had, on
the same evening, 'been seen to come from the direction of
his uncle's premises. Suspecting that lie would make his
way up to London by the railway, Mr: Davey's brother and
his friend went in pursuit, and on their arrival at Reading,
found him in the act of stepping into one of the first-class
carriages, his boots and trousers indicating, by their dirty
condition, that lie had walked many miles.
to the confusion andmiles. Deeming it pru-
dent not to capture him then, owing
bustle that prevailed, they took their seats in another car-
riage, and on reaching Paddington gave the prisoner-into
custody, as previously stated. Collard conv2yed him away
by the next down train, and on the same evening he under-
went an examination upon the charge of " shooting at with
intent to kill," before Mr. Ashford (chairman of the Oxford
quarter sessions), at the residence of the intended victim :
and after an inquiry which lasted several 9 hours, he was re-
manded till Saturday next. At ten o clock on the same
night Collard lodged him in Oxford Castle Gaol. The pri-
soner is heir-at-law to the uncle, at whose decease he would
be entitled to a very considerable property.