The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

MORTIMER V. COLUMBINE.

An action by Richard Elliott Mortimer against Mary
Columbine, for the recovery of £77, upon a judgment.
Verdict for plaintiff.

TIMS V. SPEAK.

An action brought by Wrn. and Joseph Tims, against
John Speak, for the recovery of £24. Verdict for the
plaintiff~.

INGAM AND OTHERS V. LORD AND OTHERS.
Verdict for plaintiffs for £65.
TAYLOR V. HOLFORT AND OTHERS.
Verdict for the defendants.
LEADBETTER V. PEARSON.

Verdict by consent, for the plaintiff, for £3O, subject
to a reference.

There being no other cause in which the bar was ready,
the Judge adjourned the further hearing of civil causes
until this morning, and proceeded to try
CRIMINAL CASES.

Wm. Ashton was charged with having burglariously
entered the premises of Michael Morton, a cotton-spinner.
in the parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham, and stolen there-
out a variety of household property. There was no evi-
dence to show that the prisoner had actually entered, but,
as the stolen property was found in his possession on the
day of the robbery, the presumption was, that he was the
burglar.
He was found guilty of stealing.
_ _ _

The prisoner was again indicted for having burglari-
ously entered the house of James Fletcher, a chemist, in
the parish of Middleton, on the 19th ult.

He was also found guilty of stealing upon this indict-
ment, and sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment.
Wm. Sharpies pleaded guilty to having burglariously
entered the house of James Bromley, and stealing there-
out a variety of articles. He was sentenced to two years'
imprisonment and hard labour.

John Froggatt pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy at
Eccles. Not sentenced.

Thomas Kershaw was idicted for having, at Rochdale,
burglariously entered the dwelling-house of Betty Ker-
shaw, and stole thereout a quantity of money and other
property, belonging to Samuel Hardman and Alexander
Butterworth.—The prisoner was found guilty of larceny,
and was sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour for
twelve months.

The Court adjourned at ten minutes to five O'clock to
nine this morning.

THE EFFECTS OF ETHER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Siu,—An Englishman has been in the habit of following
Van Amburgh, and attending every performance, and
when asked why he should so "pertinaciously persist in
seeing the same performance over and over again, he
answered, that "he was convinced that he should at
length see the lion tamer devoured." •
I have for some time past watched the pranks of the
professional showmen who have been puffing themselves
by their wonderful operations under the influence of ether,
and have felt as certain as the other obstinate Englishman,
that the farce would, ere long, become a tragedy, and end
in the death of the deluded. At length, as will be found
on reference to the inquest, which I presume you will
give, ether has produced death. This cannot be a matter
of surprise to any medical man who has ever reflected on
the subject for one moment. Many weeks ago, a case
was reported in the Provincial Medical and Surgical
Journal, where a medical man who was foolish enough to
.inhale the ether was almost killed. He remained in a
cataleptic state for some time, and his friends dreaded his
death. _ _

What can those licensed professional puffers think now
of themselves ?—men who, until they puffed by inhaling,
were respectable. What, I say, can those men think of
themselves who, for the sake of seeming cleverer than their
neighbours, risked the lives of their fellow-creatures,
under the plea of performing without pain a simple
operation on the eye or, the teeth ? A well-educated and
thinking medical man must have known that he was
endangering life. A dentist may not. In conclusion, I
would add, that if those who have practised puffing by
inhalation, and are not ashamed of their names, would
discuss the question, they will find an opponent in No. 4,
Upper Parliament-street.—Yours, &c.,
H. G HARBORD.