The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-06 00:00:00

ELECTORAL CALENDAR.

(From the Preston Pflot.)
March 25.—Overseers to be appointed, or within fourteen
days.

April 5.7--The return for the collection of the assessed taxes
are made up to this day. Persons eisconlinuing the use of any
taxable article should do so on the 4th, or they will be liable
for the year ensuing.
June ?O.—Overseers must give notice to receive claims for
votes. Persons on the register need not make a neiv claim. un-
less they have changed their qualification.
July2o.—Assessed taxes and poor rates due on the 6th April
last. lutist be electors or they will lose their votes. Last day of
sending in claims fur voting in co'tn lies.

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31.—List of county and borough votes made by Overseers.
August 5 and 12.-L(Pirst two Sundays.) Borough and coun-
ty., list to be exhibited at the door of every church or chapel.
20—Last day for entering objection to county voters.
25.—Last day of claitwas borough electors. ;
31.—A1l taxes and rates'due on let Ma: cb must be paid on or
before this day by persons claiming to be enrolled as burgesses
under the Municipal Corporation lieform Act.
September I.—Town-clerk in boroughs, to cause burgess list
to be alfiNed to some public place uptil 15th.
15 —Cltiims and objections to the burgess list to be sent to
the Town-clerk in writing.
24.—Copy of the said objections to be exhibited in a conspi-
cuous situation, within the borough, till Ist October.
`22.,-Churchwardens, surveyors, and rated huusehoblers meet
to prepare a list from which the justices select. a Surveyor of
highways.
On the two Sundays preceding the 15th, the list of objections
to county and borough voters, qualified by the Reform Bill,
must be attached to the door of every place of worship. Also a
list of pergons liable to serve on juries, with notice of when and
where objections will be beau'.

October.-Mayor ayd Assessors to hold an open court for re-
vision of the btirgess list tvithin a fortnight.
Noieinber 1.-L-Borough councillors to be electep.
9.--:Mayor and Alderron to be elected.

CONSERVATIVE MEETING AT ATHERTON.—On Tuesday
evening last, a number of Conservatives, consisting princi-
pally of youths, assembled at the Queen's Head, Atherton,
where a sumptuous dinner was prepared by the worthy host;
IVIr. Edward Rigby, for the impose of forming a juvenile Con-
servatiie Association in that loyal township: on which occa-
sion a handsome silk {lag, with blue ground and white border,
on which was inscribed "Victoria Regina," was dispra}ed in
the room, preparatory to its being ptesented to the Atherton
Operative Conservative Association.,-Marchester Courier.

THE AGE NEWSPAPER.—Mr. C. 11. Westtnacott having
disposed of his interest in " The Aye" newspaper, has teased
to be iu.any way connected with that journal.

REMARKABLE CASE OF. SHOPLIFTING.—ShOCking cases of
shoplifting, by three sisters, daughters of a man at •Edithweston,
and all married women, were investigated at the Town-hall, in
Stamford, on Monday and Tuesday last. It seems that the
three Women, residing in parishes several miles apart, have long
been in the habit of meeting at Stamford on market days, and,
dressed in large cloaks, going together to drapers' shops, and
stealing whatever articles they could secret amongst them. They
Were all three in the shop of Mr. Knight iu the afternoon of
Friday last, when one of them, named Webber, of Boston, was
detected in stealing a roll of cotton print: and other stolen
goods (as well belonging to Mr. Knight, as to Mr. Brown dra-
per) were fOund.upon her. Her two sisters (Woi;d, of Colly 4
' Weston, and Broughton, of Edithweston) esCapedf4on the Shop
before the relationship was known ; but, joining -Webber after,
ward, when she was in custody at the station-house, sufficient
passed between them to authorise their detention also, and war-
rants were granted to search the houses of their husbands. At
Boston and at Edithweston an immense quantiti, of drapery
goods, of all descriptions, were found concealed under beds and
in boxes. Woods, being for advanced in pregnancy, was al-
lowed to g.,-) home on Friday evening before the search-warrant
• was executed at -Collywesten, and nothing Was after Wards found
there; but, from confessions since made, in which each sister.
charges the others, it seems that all three were in the habit of
partaking of the plunder, which, in one instance, consisted of 4
whole•piece of linen cloth, containing 68 yards, and weighing
more than 301b5.1 This they stale from the door of Mr. Brown;
of High-street, in the middleof the day, on Friday. The prac-
tice was, after stealing goOds, to go together to a public (arrive-
nit3nce under the market portico, and thereto Make a division
of them, each sister taking a share, or selecting articles of most
use to her. • The scene at the Town-hall, on Tuesday, night,
when the women ascertained that each had separately, made a
confession implicating the others, can hardly be conceived. Each
attributed to the ill counsel of her sisters tier own criminality,
and one laid her melancholy situation to the ivant of care ,of
her education and 'habits by a dissolute father! -They were all
committed to gaol, for trial_ at the Quarter Sesiens in April.
BeSides drapery goods, stolen shOes, ironmongery, and other
articles, were found on executing the search wartants.—Stam-
fiird Mercury. . • •

Ausitat.teix Woot.s.-7lt was only in the beginning of the
year 178. that the first convict vessel arrived at Botany Bay,
apd Van Dierpan's, Land was not taken posiession of by the
BritiSh tili the year 1803. Previous to 1806 there were tint few
sheep in either colony. In that year, hoWever, Mr. M'A rthur
left England, convinced 'of the capabilities of New South
Wales as a wOol-groWing country, by his previous acquaintance
with it, and the proof of the wool he'had long brOught over witit
him. Determined to increase and improve the breed of sheep
as far as possible, he sailed with a few ewes and rams, selected
from the most approved flocks, on board a vessel appropriately
christened for the occasion "The Argo." And certainly, Com-
pa red with the results of this enterprise, the famous expedition
of old in search of the golden fleece may well sink into insigni-
ficance. In 1810, the whole imports of wool from both 01 these
colonies amounted to only one hundred and sixt y-seren pounds.
In no, they amounted to ninety-nine thousand four hundred
and and fifteen pounds. By 1832, they had increased to ten
thousand six hundred and thirty-three bales, and this year they
amount to nearly three times even that quantity ! The history
of 'commerce furnishes few parallel cases to the establishment
and increase of such a trade in a country before scarcely known
by name. a trade too which there is every reason to believe is
still destined to progress in an increasing ratio.

LIVERPOOL TIDE TABLE.

Rill.
0. W. It. M. F. T.
Tuesday 6 753 8. 31 110 6 ;Mars sets 51124 m even.
Wednesday
Thursday 8 953 10 13 ;13 0 j Saturn stationary.
Friday 9 10 33 10 51 l4 4 Jupiter sets 6h 39rn morn.
Saturday ....10 11 8 11 22 15 6 Moon in Apogee Eh morn
Sunday 11 11 37 11 51 16 6; 2d Sunday in Lent.
Monday .. ••• 12 --0 6; 17 2 / Gregory.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1838.
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