The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

Tns GOLDZS 3ca.—The polite Mr. Fogg, the box-book-
keeper at the Liver, has opened this establishment, as will be
seen by reference elsewhere. If he is as ready to oblige in
his own house as he is in that of Mr. Raymond, he will have

good custom very soon

• UNPRECEDENTED CIRCUMSTANCE.—Every vessel known
to have cleared in any port of the United States for Liver-
pool has now arrived.—Underwriters' Room, October 21st.
Lord and Lady Francis Egerton have arrived at Worsley
Hall, their seat in Lancashire, from a vist to the Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland, at Trentham, Staffordshire.
IMPOSTURE.—A fellow is now perambulating Liverpool,
doing a trifle of roguery in a small way. He calls at gentle-
men's houses with letters, which he presents to the servants
as unpaid, and walks off with the few pence he extracts from
them. We hope our readers will be on their guard, and
give information to the police if he honours them with a
call.

WHOLESALE ROBBERY OF POULTRY.—On the night of
the 22d instant, the hen roost of Mr. James Swift, an exten-
sive farmer, of Eccleston, near St. Helen's, was entered by
some thieves, and the flock became considerably diminished
before the depredators had their sacks sufficiently " with
good fat capon lined." Suspicions are entertained against
some parties as likely to be implicated in the robbery, and
the police are on the look out for them.
APPROACHING LAW CHANGES.—II is currently reported
in the professional circles that Lord Lyndhurst will relin-
quish the seals at the commencement of the January term,
and that Sir W. Follett, the solicitor-general, will be his
successor. In connection with this arrangement, it is also
said that Lord Abinger will at the same time vacate the
chiefship of the Exchequer, and that Sir Frederick Pollock
will be his successor therein.—Globe.--[lt will be remem-
bered that some two months since we anticipated these
changes as likely to make way for our excellent representa-
tive Mr.Cresswell, as Solicitor-General.]

ROBBERIES IN CHESHIRE.—APPREHENSION OF A No-
TORIOUS BURGLAR.—It will be in the recollection of our
readers that, in March last, the house of Mr. Shaw, of Pad.
gate, near Warrington, was broken open by a gang of bur-
glars, and robbed of money, plate, and other articles. One
of the parties taken up on suspicion of being concerned in
that robbery, as well as several others committed about the
same time, was a person named William Clarke ; but, as no
evidence sufficient to convict him was produced, he was ad-
mitted to bail to appear whenever he might be called upon.
Shortly afterwards, evidence was procured which was deemed
sufficient to connect him with the robbery of the house of
Ralph Ardern, Esq., of Utkington, near Tarporley, Cheshire,
which was burglariously entered by five or six men on the
Ist of March last, and thirteen sovereigns and a gold and
!'leer watch taken• therefrom. Clarke, however, was not
t ,en to be found; and instructions were given to Inspector
Taylor, of the Manchester police, to search for him. On
Friday, the Bth instant, that officer having received informa-
tion that Clarke was residing in Store-street, Chester, set out
in quest of him, accompanied by Mr. Jones, deputy.consta-
bie of Warrington. Having arrived in Chester, they ob-
tained the assistance of Superintendent Hill, of the Chester
police, and, after considerable trouble, they discovered that
Clarke lived in Sunday-lane, a very retired place, inapproach-
able, except to foot passengers. Clarke was then from home,
but his son and two daughters were in the house. On search-
ing the premises, 40 skeleton keys, two small jemmies, and
several other instruments for housebreaking, as well as a
quantity of cheese, were found. The policemen learned from
the children, and the neighbours, that Clarke, his wife, and •
a man who lodged with them, had left the house only three
hours before ; and had a large trunk in their possession,
which they intended to take to Manchester. Inquiries were
made of all the carriers in Chester, but no trace of the trunk
could be obtained. Inspector Taylor and Mr. Jones arrived
in Manchester the next day, but could get no intelligence of
Clarke. In the course of Inspector Taylor's inquiries, he
had learned that an old woman, named Jane Ward, notori-
ous for receiving stolen goods, resided in Lower Byrom-
street, he proceeded to search her house, but finding that she
bad gone to Liverpool about live weeks ago, he proceeded
thither in search of her; and after much difficulty found her
in a cellar in 45, Robinson-street, Toxteth-park. Half a
cheese, weighing about 501'o was lying on a table, and being
asked where she got it, she said she bought it from a man
from Chester, whom she had never seen before. In another
part of the house half of another cheese was found, which
she said she purchased from the same man. While Inspec-•
for Taylor was searching the house, he observed the woman
standing at the window, and making a signal with her hand
to some person in the street. He looked out of the window,
and at once saw the object of his pursuit. Clarke ran off the
moment he saw the policeman, but he did not get far before
Inspector Taylor overtook and secured him. When he was
taken into custody he refused to give an account of himself.
When taken back to Mrs. Ward she said, "There's the man
of %horn I bought the cheese," but he declined giving any ac-
count of it, or answering any questions. A box was found
in the house answering the description given of the one taken
by Clarke, from Chester. Clarke has been committed for
trial. Great Neston church, Hotford church, Farn church,
Holt church, and Smethwick church, all in the neighbour-
hood of Chester, had been broken into and robbed since
Clarke went to reside there, and some of the stolen property
was found in his possession ; but the magistrates did not
think it necessary to go into any more cases, as enough had
been proved to justify the committal of the prisoner for trial
at the assizes. Jane Ward was also committed for trial on
the charge of guiltily receiving stolen property.
STREET ROBBERY.—ANOTHER SIMPLETON.—At the Po-
lice Court on Friday, a woman named Margaret Wilson,
was placed at the bar, on a charge of robbing a man of nearly
£lO5 in money. The complainant, a simple-looking Irish-
man, whose whole personal wardrobe would not have brought
live shillings at rag fair, had, it appeared, gone with the pri-
soner and another woman to Mr. Dawe's public-house,
Waterloo-road, where they had something to drink. In
paying for the liquor, the complainant produced a heavy
purse, and received 19s. 6d. in change out of a sovereign.
Mr. Dawes nuticing the circumstance, considered his new
customer in dangerous hands; and when he left the house
with the prisoner, followed them, with a view to save him
from being robbed. He looked for a policeman, and after
losing sight of the parties, he and the constable found them
together in a vacant piece of ground. The complainant was
asked if he had lost anything, and on examining his pockets,
he found that his purse (an old stocking) was gone. The
wmtan was, however, seized, and she pulled out te treasure
from her breast. It consisted of 89 sovereigns. one half
sovereign, a£s Bank of England note, and a sixpence. She
said the complainant had given it to her ; but that he de-
nied. She was committed for trial; and Mr. Rushton highly
complimented Mr. Dawe, to whom the complainant was so
much indebted for his kindness and vigilance. Mawney
stated that he was an Irish cattle-dealer from Yorkshire,
acting for his father, whose property the money was.

COALBROOKDALE IRON WORKS.—A visit to the newly-
erected premises of this company, in James's-street, will
afford a very high treat to those interested in the progress of
manufactures, and the improvement in articles of domestic
use. The building itself is on a large scale, and of con-
siderable architectural pretensions, both from its size and
the beauty of the materials, and is a model of neatness and
propriety. On the ground floor, one magnificent show-
room, lighted by plate glass windows, runs the whole length
of the front, and is filled with the choicest articles of iron
furniture,—chairs, tables, fire-places, stoves, fenders, and
other articles of domestic use, all of various' styles of
modeling and of construction, and ornamented in bronze,
gold, and polished metal. Sonic of the most splendid
articles are large register stoves, with open grates, the sides
painted, or rather enamelled, so as most accurately to re-
semble the rarest scagliola and other foreign marbles, and
which in style and appearance would do honour to the
drawing-room or dining-room of a palace. The bold and
classical style in which the reliefs are executed indicate
the employment of artists of a superior class to any who
have hitherto devoted their talents to the art of modelling
for the iron foundries, which in general have hitherto turned
out nothing but the most feeble, trifling and vulgar designs.
From this apartment the. visitor ascends by a magnificent
staircase, lighted from the roof, to the upper floors, all of
which are stored with articles of less pretension, but in in-
finite variety of utility and ingenuity of construction. The
general aspect of the whole establishment is less that of a
warehouse than a noble private mansion, with lofty and well
lighted rooms, constructed with every regard to architectural
effect, and kept in the most admirable order.
WILL TUE MODERATE REFORMER VOTE WITH THE
PROTECTOR HIRELINGS ?—That the frantic 'effort of the
self-constituted leaders of the whig party, to regain their
lost position in the council, by inundating the register with
the names of the pauper occupants of cellars and courts, is
viewed with repugnance by many honourable and respectable
men, who have hitherto given their support exclusively to
whig candidates, is a fact which we think will scarcely admit
of dispute. By such men the loose morality which teaches
that " the end sanctifies the means" is not accepted without
some little hesitation ; and that is not considered as an
honest end which can require so wide a departure from the
vaunted principles of
purity—in support of which the voice
of " liberalism ' has ever been loudest—and which looks
forward to success only by the practice, upon a wholesale
scale, of what cannot be deemed otherwise de facto than
bribery of the grossest and most profligate character. Wilt
such men, we ask, entertaining such misgivings with respect
to the conduct of their party and the nature of the instru-
ments by which they work, refuse to carry their.scrutiny a
little further, before they commit themselves to their ap-
proval by recording their votes ? Will men who have station
and character to lose amongst their fellow-townsmen rush
blindfold into companionship with every ruffian with whom
the reckless leaders of that party choose to ally themselves?
We trust that they will commit no such folly ; but that, on
the contrary, they will ask themselves seriously these ques-
tions—" What object can I have in common with this mob
of repeaters, or with the party which suborns their venal
votes? What object can I have in common with men who
are driven to the necessity of advancing it by unblushing
bribery and wholesale corruption ? Can that be an honest
cause which is not able to stand by its own strength, without
these nefarious and degrading aids—which is scouted by the
voice of independent constituencies, and requires to be forced
upon them from without, by the irruption of a band of hire-
lings, organized by an unseen influence, and notoriously
unreflecting tools in the hands of others ?" Upon such a
course of enquiry we trust every honest and moderate re-
former will enter, before giving in his adherence to the can-
didate of his party ; and we have no fear of the result if that
enquiry is conducted in a candid and truth-seeking spirit.
The object of the honest liberal, we take for granted, is
good government. He seeks that good government at the
hands of the whig party with whom he has hitherto been
allied, and of whose general principles he most approves.
But when he sees that party in open alliance with men of
doubtful character and views in open alliance with an
ultra and alien faction has he full assurance that the
object of which he is in search is the same which they
are seeking to attain by so crooked a path, and in such
strange companionship. Has the liberal churchman or
the Christian dissenter no misgivings as to the character
of that good local government which can only be obtained by
subsidizing the hordes of the papacy, and arming paupers
with the franchise ? He must have such misgivings, and he
must be at no loss to convert them into absolute convictions.
It cannot he the attainment of any mere abstract good which
has yoked together these unassorted materials. It is not to-
wards any defensible object that the aristocracy of a party
condescends to sue for aid to the tatterdemalions of back
streets and alleys. It is not for a virtuous object that the
occupants of Greenbacks, and other suburban retreats, are
to be seen junketting with the tenants of cellars, or the pos-
sessors of piggeries. The exuberant philanthropy of " libe-
ralism" even does not ordinarily lead its professors to pay
rents or rates for their carters or porters, or the carters and
porters of others, indiscriminately. Protector societies are
not formed to advance good government, merely apart from
the selfish ends of their promoters, and a Romish barrister
is not
picked up at every street corner,
" Ready to toil his unbreathed memory," •
and to load his empty brief bag with cases and opinions, and
claims to vote, for the mere gratification of seeing some scores
of Michael Cassidys upon the burgess list, and enabling Wil-
liam Rathbone once more to exercise his lungs in the council
room ! No, no ! depend upon it, a little calm reflection will
lead the moderate reformer to a different conclusion. It is
not to advance the cause of good government, in our local
affairs, that the leaders of our whig faction are now bestir-
ring themselves so energetically, but rather to enable them
once more to prostrate the corporate influeuce to the ad-
vancement of political and party objects—to convert the
Council room into a normal school of agitation—from which
anti-corn memorials can be issued ad libitum. and by means
of which the honours of knighthood or baronetcies can be
worked out for the adornment of the vulgar patronymics of
brawling and bawling democrats ! And will any man, we
ask, who calls himself a reformer in the true and honest ac-
ceptation Qf the term, help forward, by his vote and influ-
ence, such a consummation? We trust not ; for the honour
of our town we trust not.