The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

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SINGULAR CONTENTS Or A LETTER.—A singular in-
stance of the strange things conveyed through the Post-office
since the penny system was established, occurred in Bath on
Friday. when a letter was received from Devonshire contain-
ing a portion of the branch of an apple tree, with the leaves
and three young apples upon it ! Another singular circum-
stance is, that the apples should have been growing at this
season of the year.— Western Luminary.
The Carnarvon Herald gives the following as worthy of at-
tention, from "an esteemed correspondent :"—I would re-
spectfully suggest that the petition should also pray that one
of the Prince's names, if not the first, should be one of our
own euphoneous Welsh ones, such as Llewelyn or Cad-
waladr (Cadwaladwr). The Prince of Wales should have a
Welch name, and if he live to ascend the throne of these
realms, what would sound better than " Llewelyn the
First ?"

MARRIAGE OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST.—The Breton of
Nantys states that at Porille, near that place, the banns of
marriage have been published between a young woman and a
Catholic clergyman, who was regularly ordained priest some
years ago, but has since left the Catholic church for the sect
of the Abbe Chatel. " It remains to be seen," observes
this paper, " whether, according to the laws of France, a
priest can abandon the ecclesiastical condition, and marry.
The Court of Cessation has twice decided in the negative.'
STATE OF STOCKPORT.—A more significant sign of the
times need not be witnessed than the positive fact that, in the
street in which we live, and within the distance of 100 yards
from our door, there are not fewer than NINE excellent
dwelling-houses and shops vacant; and to render the scene
still more gloomy, if possible, they are all on the same side
of the street. Besides this, every principal street in the
town is not more than a fourth occupied, and in the cross
and back streets the instances of over production and com-
petition in building, during the ten years of mis-rule and spe-
culation of the whigs, amount to no less than two thousand
empty dwellings ! being one-fourth of the whole borough
assessments. And, as though all this were not sufficiently
illustrative of itself, some wag has written on the walls, in
different parts of the town. " STOCKPORT TO LET. IN-
QUIRE OF THE TOWN CLERK.—Stockport Advertiser.
EXTRAORDINARY SENTENCE.—WiIIiam Henry Mence,
aged 27, who held a situation in the London Postoffice, was
indicted at the Central Criminal Court, London, on Thurs-
day last, for stealing a general post letter containing a penny
piece, the property of the Postmaster General. It appeared
from the evidence that a letter addressed to Mr. H. Day, so-
licitor, Queen-square, Bristol, was put into a postoffice re-
ceiving house in Drury-lane on the evening of the 27th of
October; the person who posted the letter, finding that the
office was closed, and being consequently unable to pay the
postage, placed the penny intended for that purpose inside
the letter, and having fastened it with a pin dropped it into
the letter-box. On the following morning the letters were
in due course conveyed to the General-office, where the pri-
soner was on duty. The letter in question was noticed by
one of the clerks, who, in a minute or two afterwards missed
it ; the prisoner was suspected of having taken it and accord-
ingly instantly seized by the constable, when, after a severe
struggle, the letter was forced from the prisoner's hand.
Lord Denman, after some appropriate remarks, sentenced
the prisoner to transportation for life. The prisoner fainted
on hearing the sentence.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF NOTES.—Yesterday week, Jane
Smith and Elizabeth Dale were charged at the Borough
Court with having uttered in Liverpool a £lO bank note,
knowing it to have been stolen. A policeman from Liver-
pool deposed, that the prisoners went into a shop in Liver-
pool to buy a shawl ; and the shopman, suspecting some-
thing wrong, called in witness, who took them into custody.
The note was idetitified as one of 75 contained in a pocket
book, lost by a gentleman at Manchester. The loser ap-
peared, but could not say whether he had lost the pocket
book, or whether it had been stolen from him. Mr. Harding,
who-defended both the prisoners, contended, that there was
no case of felony made out, and that the prisoners should be
discharged. They were remanded till Monday, and after-
wards till Thursday, when a police officer from Liverpool
produced another of the lost notes, and proved that it was
paid by the prisoners. The owner of the notes admitted, on
his cross-examination, that he had never seen the prisoners.
Mr. Harding pressed for a discharge, on the ground of in-
sufficient evidence against them, and the court, after some
consideration, acceded to his request.—Manchester Guar-
dian of Salurday.
THREE SUDDEN DEATHS FROM EATING FROZEN
GREENS.—Much excitement has been caused in the village
of Leigh Linton, within the last few days, by the sudden
seizure of a whole family, of the name of Jones, father,
mother, and three children, with violent sickness and
purging, after partaking of some bacon and boiled greens, on
Tuesday se'nnight. It was at first supposed that poison
must have been mixed with the food of which they had par-
taken ; but it was at length ascertained, that the greens they
had dined off had been in a half-frozen state, and that they
had been put into warm water before they had been properly
thawed by soaking them in cold water; the consequence was
that they became, through decomposition, of a poisonous
quality. Although medical assistance was promptly called
in, out of the five persons attacked, the father and two chil-
dren died. An inquest was held on the bodies on Monday ;
when, the wife of Jones and several other witnesses having
been examined, the jury, after a brief deliberation, returned
a verdict that the deceased had died from exhaustion, pro-
duced by violent sickness and purging, caused, it is supposed,
by eating greens. The medical witnesses examined stated
it as their opinion, that the putrid greens had brought on
what is commonly termed British cholera. The mother re-
mains exceedingly ill, and is not expected to survive.— Wor-
cester Journal.

MURDER AT WARRINGTON.--011 Monday last, the ex-
amination of a sweep, namedClough, was added to the num-
ber of depositions already taken against John Gill, the young
man committed for trial on the charge of murdering Sarah
Moulds, in the fields adjoining Warrington Church yard, on
the night of Saturday, the 13th of November. The testi-
mony of this witness, if true, goes seriously to affect the life
of the accused. Soon after the coroner's inquest, Clough
came, late inie night, in a state of intoxication, to the police
office, Warrington, and, to the surprise and astonishment of
the parties then present, declared that he had. on the night
of the murder, met Gill (whom he knew) in company with
the deceased, in Howley-lane, and to having seen them to-
gether in the fields in which the deceased's boa was after-
wards found, and also to hearing two distinct cries of mur-
der in the direction in which the body of the deceased was
found, and about the time spoken to by Miss Kitchen and
Miss Caldwell in their evidence before the magistrates. This
at the time was considered to be nothing more than the bom-
bast of a drunken man. He was asked to attend at the po-
lice station or before the magistrates on the following morn -
ing, when reason may have been expected to have resumed
her seat, to repeat the same statement. He failed to do so,
and but little heed was paid to him until he was next found
making a somewhat similar statement at St. Helens. The
necessary steps'were then taken to secure his attendance as
a witness before the magistrates at Warrington. In his de-
position he detailed the circumstances already narrated, and
accounted for his being in the fields at such an unseemly hour
of the night, by stating that he had been engaged in cleansing
the flues at Wharf Meadow factory, and had gone home by
way of the Howley warehouses with the intention of taking
with him some apparatus appertaining to his calling as a
sweep, which he had that day, after sweeping some chimneys
at Howley, concealed in a hedge row. On being asked why
he did not go to the rescue of the person from whom the cries
of murder proceeded he said he knew Gill to be a strong re.
solute man, and did not think it prudent to endanger his
own life by coming in contact with him.—Manchester
Courier.

In the course of a few days a case of breach of promise of
marriage, of a singular and extraordinary character, will be
brought before the Court of Queen's Bench. Briefs, almost
unprecedently voluminous, have been placed in the hands of
the solicitor-general (Sir W. Follett) and Mr. Platt, with a
fee of 150 guineas each, for the plaintiff; and to Mr. Thesi-
ger for the defendant, with a similar fee. Junior counsel are

engaged on both sides, with proportionate fees. The fair
plaintiff, who is beautiful and highly accomplished, but who
has been some seven or eight years out of her teens, resides
in the vicinity of Hampton Court; the defendant is an octo-

genarian, a gentleman of wealth and professional eminence,
and resides in one of the fashionable squares in the metro-
polis. The damages are laid at £5,000. The defendant

pleads that he never promised, but that if he did he has given
several sums of money in satisfaction. The venerable de-
fendant, who in one of his letters describes himself as being
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constitutionally in all respects equal to a man of thirty, has
paid attentions to the lady for a period of nearly four years,
during which period he has written nearly 700 letters, of a
most extraordinary description, but clothed in language of
superior eloquence ; their contents, however, strongly indi-
cate that the writer's love was subject to uncommon fluctua-
tions, as, while at one period they would breathe vows of
eternal constancy, at other times they were imbued with
theological subjects, arid their love would be termed celestial,
and the lady would be compared to an angel ; in the former
case the love would be termed terrestrial, and prospects of a
happy union be held out, as also observations made relative
to the regulation of the household; from this the style would
change to one of a frigid character, arid then the defendant
would describe himself as her platonic lover. In these va-
rious fluctuations had the greater part of the time been occu-
pied, until at length the defendant thought proper to with-
draw himself wholly from the plaintiff's society, to discontinue
visiting Hampton, or of continuing to write those singular
but elegant epistles, and ultimately wholly ceased to corres-
pond with the plaintiff.

LOYGEVITY of SLAVES.--Out of 14,189,108 free white in.
habitants of the United States, as shown by the last census,
there are 791 of 100 years of age and upwards. Of 2,487,213
slaves, there are no less than 1,333 of the same age.—New
York Paper.

The line of packets for the West Indies is announced as
ready, four being placed on the berth to leave Southampton
on the 15th instant—one for Barhadoes, one for Jamaica, and
two for the Havannah, each of the latter taking a different
route.

APPELLSTICES TO INSOLVENTS.-It has been recently
decided by the justices in sessions, that an insolvent, after
his discharge, cannot require his apprentice to continue to
serve him, he not having tools and business to properly teach
the boy his trade, and the indentures were ordered to be
cancelled.

The ironmasters of Scotland have resolved to blow out for
six months one-fourth of their furnaces. This is a resolution
of dire necessity on the part of the masters, and *ill of
course be felt with great severity by the numerous body of
operatives in connexion with this branch of industry in the
west of Scotland.

FATAL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.—On Friday week, a fatal
accident happened to a man named Thomas Wimpenny, a
coal miner, employed at Messrs. Charlesworth's pit, at Deal
Wood. Whilst the unfortunate man was at work, on the
afternoon of that day, a ponderous stone (weighing near three
packs) fell from the roof of the pit upon him, and crushed
him to death almost instantaneously.—Leeds Intelligencer.
Mr. Harris. a very pious and learned minister of the In-
dependent Chapel, Alford, has relinquished his charge as
dissenting minister, and, along with not a few of his late
hearers, joined the church and renounced dissent. As far as
our observation has extended, these secessions from dissent-
' ing bodies to our Apostolical Church are invariably found to
include the most peaceable, pious, and learned individuals
heretofore connected with such dissenting bodies.—Crrres-
pondent of Leeds Intelligencer.
A TRUSTWORTHY ESCORT.—The Memorial des Pyrenees
says—" A few days ago, as a detachment of volunteers of
Estremadura was removing some criminals to Badajos, they
were attacked by eight men on horseback, whose object ap-
peared to be to rescue the prisoners. Uncertai❑ as to the
issue of the combat, the volunteers began by shooting the
men under their charge, and then attacked the horsemen
whom they put to flight."
THREE LIVES LOST BY THE BREAKING OF IM—A
melancholy accident happened at Grahainstone, Falkirk, on
Friday, on one of the Carron dams. A number of children
were sliding, when the ice gave way, and two of them were
drowned. Some say a third went down; and, to add to the
catastrophe, two men (father and son) went to their rescue,
when, lamentable to relate, the son sunk and was drowned.
—Scottish Guardian.
THE ROYAL CHRISTENING.—The baptism of the infant
prince, it is rumoured in circles likely to be well informed,
will not take place until February, immediately after parlia-
ment assembles. In confirmation of this rumour, we have
reason to believe, the instructions received at the Earl
Marshal's Office, where all such state ceremonials are ar-
ranged, are not of that urgent nature as if the ceremonial
were to take place this month. The. ceremony will be per-
formed in town.