The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-22 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

A collection was made on Sunday morning last, in Lime-
street Chapel, after a sermon by the minister, the Rev. Jas.
Lister, for the relief of the poor, and in part to aid the soup
establishment,.which amounted to £33.
son as a writinl. n
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can confidently recommend Mr. Thomp-
ister. His mode of tuition is most ex-

cellent, and e
LECTURES

I. AND GERMAN LANGUAGES

fwo lectures are announced in another column, by Profe,
Jor Bertinchamp, in illustration of his system of teaching
languages. From the programme they promise to be pecu-
liarly interesting and instructive, and we hope they will be
well attended.

We are instructed to say, that the unfortunate accident
respecting the child of James Kennedy, which died from the
overdose of a narcotic administered by an individual in the
employment of Mr. G. R. Sheldon, Vauxhall-road, has
nothing whatever to do with the establishment of Mr. James
Sheldon, of Oldhall-street.

MR. WILLOUGHBY HUNTER WEISS.—A report having
gone abroad that the person who gave in his name to the ma-
gistrate in London. as concerned in the late fracas on the
premises of Mr. Marsh, Oxford-street, was our. townsman
Mr. Willoughby Hunter Weiss, who is studying singing un-
der Sir George Smart—we have much pleasure in contradict-
ing such report, and feel happy to have it in our power to do
justice to a most deserving and highly talented young man,
who otherwise might be injured by it.

ROCK HARmoNicoN.—We perceive that Mr. Davis, the
organist of Seaforth Church has consented to play on the
Harmonicon next Tuesday. Mr. Davis has made himself
master of the instrument, and executes difficult passages with
much effect. The Harmonicon seems to lose none of its at-
tractions, as those who hear it once frequently repeat their
attention of the curious and all

it is well worth t

who delight in nn

SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.-It will be seen from
advertisement that the claims of this valuable institution
;11

weir oe orougnt forwarn Luis evening oy the eloquent and de-
voted Mr. Stowell. These claims are sufficient of themselves
at once to interest the sympathies and call forth the liberality
of the public, but it is not often that they are advocated with
the powerful oratory and glowing enthusiasm which charac-
terise Mr. Stowell. The friends of the charity will have an
opportunity of gratifying more feelings than one by their
presence at St. James'

this evenin

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.-011 Wednesday, the 13th in-
stant, a Commission- was opened at the Clarendon-rooms, in
Liverpool, to inquire into the state of mind of Mr. Richard
Pate Manning, a surgeon, formerly residing in Wrexham,
North Wales, but now confined in the Asylum of Mr. Richd.
Squires, of Walton Lodge, near Liverpool, before L. J.
Venables and R. L. Carr, Esqrs., Barristers-at-Law, and
Mr. Robert Norris, solicitor, of this town, and a most re-
spectable jury of fifteen special jurymen.—The jury, after
hearing, returned a verdict, " That Mr. Manning was of un-
sound mind since the 31st of December, 1812, without lucid
intervals, but how he became so they know not, unless by
the visitation of God."

-all.—On Wednesday afternoon, the 20th
,eth Helsby, an old woman who resided at
ne to her death under very awful circum-
-larmed the neighbourhood by shouting
death, when there was immedi-
..ollected near the spot where the old
i ne door was locked, and a gentleinan broke
it open ; he proceeded into the house, but was on the instant
driven back by the suffocating fumes which met him. A
carter who happened to be there then went in, and had made
the whole circuit of the house before he found out the cause
of the alarm ; at last, when the smoke began to disappear,
he saw the deceased lying with her head down the cellar where,
coals are kept, literally roasted to death. She had cease
to breathe when she was found. She was grasping a candle'
stick in her lifeless hand. There was no other person in We
at the time, and, therefore. no account can be givei3O%
had been set on fire.—A°
-day.

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ANOTHER CHILD POISONED BY THE MISTAKE OF A
DRUGGIST,— VERDICT OF " MANSLAUGHTER."—On Wed-
nesday last, an adjourned inquest was held before John Heyes,
Esq., at Warrington, On the body of a child 16 days old, the
son of William Roberts, of Crown-street, in Warrington. lts
death was occasioned by laudanum being administered by its
mother, instead of " Godfrey's Cordial," which had been pa'
chased by the person attending Mrs. Roberts in her confine-
ment, from Mr. Barton, druggist, Warrington.--Elizabeth
Marsh, the wife of John Marsh, proved that on Saturday
night, the 9th instant, she took a phial, at the request of MO.
Roberts, to purchase some " Godfrey's Cordial," the child
having been restless and unwell. She went to the shop of
Mr. Barton, and asked for a pennyworth of " Godfrey's
Cordial." Mr. Barton took down a bottle, and poured some
of its contents into the phial which Mrs. Marsh gave him.
She paid for it. and took it to Mrs. Roberts. There was no
label on the bottle, and nothing was said by Mr. Barton to
the quantity to be given at a dose. Mrs. Roberts unfortu-
nately gave the child a portion of this, and the consequence
was, the child died from the effects of it the following morn-
ing.—lt was clearly proved that the drug which Mr. Barton
gave to Mrs. Marsh was laudanum, and not " Godfrey's
Cordial ;" and after a very lengthened investigation, both on
this day and on the 13th instant, the day when the inquest,
began, the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter'
against Mr. Barton, who stands committed to take his trial
at the next assizes.

FinE.—Yesterday, at noon, a fire was discovered in one
of the vaults of Mr. Harbord's warehouses. New Quay,
which we are informed was occasioned in the act of some
men shipping rum with candles not enclosed in lanterns, one
of them falling and igniting the rum. The flames from the
vaults at one time assumed a fearful aspect, but a prompt
supply of water having been obtained by passing hose
through the apertures in the Dock wall to the Prince's
Dock the fire was subdued without extending beyond the
vaults. If this fire had taken place at night, with the strong
breeze blowing in the direction it then was, from the north
west, there is no doubt but that immense pile of warehouses
in New Quay and in Launcelot's Hey, behind them, must
have been destroyed, involving a class of buildings and mer-
chandize to the extent of at least one million of money,
Fortunately, however, by the judicious arrangements of the
fire police, under the superintendence of Mr. Whitty, this
spot which is so well known for the extensive contlagratiou
with which it was visited in 1833, has now been rescued
from a similar misfortune, and it is to be hoped the em-
ployers of these men who were the cause of this alarm, will
take proper notice of their carelessness.

CURIOUSLY DETECTED ROBBERY OF TALLOW FROM
YARD.—On Monday, at the Police-court, three men and
woman—namely, John Disley (alias Davis,) and Elizabeth
Disley, James Hyam, and Cooper were placed at the bar
on a charge, affecting the first three, of having stolen a
quantity of tallow ; and as regarded Cooper, on a charge of
having received the same, knowing it to have been stolen.
The evidence was of considerable length, and we therefore
supply an outline of the facts as deduced from it. It ap-
peared that on Thursday, at noon, Mr. Francis C. Pitt
had in his yard, at the bottom of Bent-street, a quantity of
Russian tallow in casks, and that on the following morning
he missed one of the casks, weighing about 8 cwt,, value
about £lB. The prisoner Davis (Disley) went on Thursday
night, between five and six o'clock, and engaged a carter
named Fairbrother, to take a load for him, of as he said,
tallow, from the bottom of Bent-street, to a tallow-chandler's,
at the top of Richmond-row. He went with him accord-
ingly into the yard, and he and the prisoner rolled the cask
into the cart, which was a low one, and it was carted to the
shop of Mr. Robinson, tallow-chandler, Richmond-row.
The prisoner bad some communication with a person in the
shop, but said nothing about the price, and then directed him
to go on, which he did., It was taken up Islington, and hack
by Soho-street to the same shop. Disley went in and offered
it for sale to Mr. Robinson, (who was not at home when he
first called), but he refused to buy it. He then accompanied
the carter into Thurlow-street, opposite a court, (where he
the prisoner lived) where it was unloaded with the assistance
of the prisoner. A female in the court saw the cask, and on
asking prisoner what it was, he said it was firewood. A little
girl afterwards saw him breaking the hoops off the barrel.
Another carter, named Kenra, was employed by Disley, with
whom was the prisoner Hyam, on Friday, to take a load.
They went intoThurlow-street,and three bags were put into the
cart from a cellar. They were taken into Vernon-street, and
delivered at a small warehouse, where the prisoner Cooper was,
and who paid for the cartage and delay 55., which he borrow-
ed from a little shop opposite. The carter saw it was tallow,
the string that tied one of the bags having given way. George
Jones, another carter, was on Saturday employed by Hyam,
and took four bags from the warehouse in 'Vernon-street to
Wilson's tan-yard, in Naylor-street. Here Hymn and Dis-
ley endeavoured to sell the tallow to Mrs. Wilson; but she
refused to buy it. The female prisoner was present, but
stood on one side. Mrs. Wilson's man went thence with
them to Mr. Atkinson's, chandler,, Edgar-street, who, he
thought, would buy it from them. They wanted sd. a pound;
but Mr. Atkinson said 4111. was enough for it in the state it
was in, and they agreed to receive that price. It was deli-
vered, and weighed 7 cwt. 23 lb. It occurred to Mr. Atkin-
son that it was about the contents of a cask of Russia tallow,
and he questioned them as to where they got it. From their
unsatisfactory replies, and both of them being in liquor, he
suspected it was stolen, and told them to call again for the
money. Meantime he took means to have a police officer in
the premises. Disley, who said his name was Davis, came
first, and afterwards Hyam and the woman, They were of
course apprehended, as was afterwards Cooper, who keeps
the shop opposite to the warehouse alluded to, in Vernon-
street. The warehouse there, to which the tallow was taken,
was kept by Mr. Barns, his brother-in-law, who, the nio'
ment he found the tallow on his premises, would have no,
thing to do with it. Mr. Pitt said he had seen some frag-
ments of the cask, and had also seen some of the tallow,
which was similar to that which he had missed. It was stat-
ed in behalf of Cooper, that he had merely paid the mute
in the absence of Barns, not knowing anything of the man-
ner in which the parties had be'come possessed of the tallow,
which Mr. Barns would not allow to remain. Mr. Rushton
said that Cooper ought to have given information at once t°
the police, as it must have appeared, from the manner in
which the parties presented themselves, that they were about
no good. He then discharged Cooper and the female, against
whom there was no evidence, and Disley and Hyam visre
committed to take their trials at the sessions.