The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

Mr. Edward Speed, of Woolfall Hall, near Huyton,
says, that last spring he read the plan recommended by
Mr. John Formby for the preservation of potatoes, viz.:
to sow turnips upon potatoes, working the potatoes as if
the turnips were weeds, and then ploughing them after
the usual process. I adopted, says Mr. Speed, this plan,
clearing the turnip plants off the soil, and leaving them
at a distance of from seventeen to eighteen inches apart.
The potatoes came up beautifully, the haulm carrying the
turnip plant, which checked its growth for awhile. In
July the potatoes—a capital crop—were ripe, the haulm
went down, and the turnips succeeding grew a most ex-
cellent crop, some of them being thirteen and fourteen
pounds weight each.
THE WINTER ASSIZES.—The following is an analysis
of the calendar of prisoners for trial at the assizes for the
southern division of Lancashire, the commission for which
will be opened in the Crown Court, Liverpool, on the
evening of Monday next:—Murder, two; manslaughter,
five ; stabbing, seven ; burglary, five ; stealing from
dwelling-houses, three; robbery from the person, four;
robbery on the high seas, one ; rape, nine ; bigamy, five ;
forgery, three; concealing birth, three; mint cases, three;
feloniously damaging machinery, one; felony, one • horse-
stealing, one : total, fifty-three. This is the lightest ca•
lendar we have had at any of the winter assizes. One of
the cases for murder is that of the Earl of Derby's game-
keeper, at Knowsley, for which one individual was exe-
cuted, and for which another has just been taken into
custody. The other murder is alleged to have taken place
at Bootle ; and in that case a woman is charged with
having drowned her child by throwing it into the river
Mersey.
THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP.—The late storms
have done serious damage to this noble vessel. A letter
dated on Sunday week says :—" Thursday's work has
finished her. Mr. Bremner has failed, as I anticipated,
in his breakwater, which was entirely washed away ; the
sea made a clean breach over, swept away several sky-
lights on deck ; the ship filled with water to such an
extent that the cabin doors and bulkheads are nearly all
washed into the holds, and about the decks ; the prome-
nade deck was covered with water; in fact, you might
almost say she filled, for every one on board had to fly to
the upper deck, and there wait till the water ran out of
her; she was afloat, and thumping both forward and aft,
and her head is shifted more towards Tyrella watch-house
again. Mr. Bremner has given her up, and they at length
are going to take the masts out of her, together with her
engine I I have not yet examined her bottom, but intend
doing so to-morrow ; if all I hear is correct, I am afraid
she is gone. She was pitching at times as much as three
feet."

THE MURDER OF THE EARL OF DERBY'S GAME-
KEEPER.—At the St. Helen's Petty Sessions, on Tues-
day, Henry Robinson was charged with being one of a
gang of poachers who shot Richard Kenyon, one of the
Earl of Derby's gamekeepers, in the month of November,
1843. It will be remembered, that at the time before
stated, a gang of poachers, to the number of ten, entered
the preserves of the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley, in the
night time, and an affray took place between them and
the keepers. One of the gamekeepers, named Richard
Kenyon, was shot. Five of the poachers, in a few days
afterwards, were apprehended, tried, and convicted. One
of them, named Roberts, was executed, and the other
four were transported for life. Henry Robinson, al-
though not apprehended, was tried at the same time, a
true bill found against him, and a warrant issued for his
apprehension. It appeared that, atter the keeper was
shot, Robinson made his escape, and in a month after.
wards enlisted into the 48th Regiment of Foot, where he
has been ever since.
SIR WILLIAM M. STANLEY'S BIRTHDAY.—This
event was celebrated on Tuesday, with the usual festivi-
ties, at Hooton-hall. On the lawn, in front of the
house, a spacious marquee was erected, elegantly decora-
ted, in which upwards of 500 of the tenants enjoyed a
substantial dinner, consisting of no fewer than seventy-
two dishes. Upwards of 200 of the children attending
the Eastham schools were plentifully regaled with roast
beef and plum pudding in the servants' ball. Other per-
sons, to the number of one hundred, consisting of the
servants of the hall, their friends, &c., &c., dined in ad-
joining apartments. Subsequently, an adjournment took
place to the park, where a number of old English sports
were indulged in, such as foot, hurdle, and same racing,
at the close of which an immense hamper of wearing ap-
parel was distributed amongst the poor of the neighbour-
hood. The fashionable visitors at the hall tnjoyed the
varied scenes amazingly. There was an excellent band in
attendance, which played from Eastham to the ball and
back again, at the head of a numerous procession of the
tenantry and others.
WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—The usual meeting of
this body took place on Tuesday last. The balance in the
hands of the treasurer was stated to be £1,777 19s. It
was reported that up to Monday seven new cases had
been admitted into the fever house, making in all twenty-.
two; one death had occurred during the week; four pa-
tients had been discharged, cured, leaving seventeen in
the house. The Poor-law Commissioners requested, as
appeared from letters sent to he Board, to be furnished
with forms and return 3 as to the election of medical offi-
cers for Toxteth-park, preparatory to some more efficient
plan being devised for affording medical relief to the po
of Toxteth-park and West Derby. The clerk reports
to the Board that he had forwarded to the overseers
Liverpool a copy of the resolution of the Board of Gua
dians, of the 10th instant, expressive of its desire to con-
tinue relief to all paupers belonging to this Union. Not-
withstanding this communication, followed by a personal
application to Mr. Gray, of the Liverpool office, he (the
Clerk) said he had not yet obtained an answer on the
subject.
FRIGHTFUL CASE OF STABBING.—We are sorry to
have to record another of those unfortunate col-
lisions in whi h the use of the knife has been re-
sorted to, with, we fear, too great a probability of
a fatal result. The particulars of the case, so far as we
have been able to learn, are as follows .—At about one
o'clock on Tuesday morning the attention of the police was
drawn to a squabble between two seafaring men in South
Castle. street. When they came up it was found that one of
the men was stabbed in the belly. The other was imme-
diately arrested, and on him was found a large broad-
pointed clasp-knife. The injured man was conveyed to
the Northern Hospital, where it was found that the wound,
from which his bowels were protruding, was a little below
the navel, and about two inches long. His name is
Charles Winslow, and he resided at a boarding-house
in Barton-street, having recently arrived from St. John,
N. 8., in the Champlin, of this port. [The above ap-
peared in a second edition of the Standard last week, and
is correct in every particular, The unfortunate man died
on Wednesday night. The prisoner's name is James
Hunter. A coroner's inquest will be held to-day.l
DEATH FROM STARVATION.—On Friday, a labouring
man, named Stephen Lowry, dropped down from sheer
exhaustion and starvation in Harrington-street, and died
almost immediately. On Thursday he was taken into the
emploment of Messrs. Woodall and Jones, wholesale
grocers, of Matthew-street, as an extra hand, and he left
home on Friday morning without his breakfast. He lived
in Cumberland-street, and had a wife and three children,
of whom he was passionately fond. His means were ex-
ceedingly slender, and sooner than deprive the family of
the little bread and cocoa they had for breakfast, he went
away without tasting a morsel. After he had dropped
down, he was placed in a car, and was being conveyed
home, when he breathed his last. He had been eighteen
years in the army, and would have received his Bd. a-day
pension next week. He was a man of excellent character,
and his wife is a woman of sober and industrious habits.
We understand that Messrs. Woodall and Jones will very
thankfolly receive any subscriptions, however small, for
the widow and children. The inquiry at the coroner's
inquest showed that the deceased died of disease of the
heart, but there seemed to be no doubt that it had been
brought on by want of food.
HIGHWAY BOARD, THURSDAY.—Mr. Procter called
the attention of the board to a letter published in the
Mercury by Mr. W. Santley, jun., one of the collectors,
and more especially to one passage, which appeared to
complain of a want of sympathy on the part of the board
with vieir servants. Mr. Procter said that of all men
Mr. Santley could not complain, for he came there at a
salary of £BO a year, and had now £220. Mr. Santley
was called in, and disclaimed any intention of bringing
such a charge against the board, but declined stating what
was his meaning. After some conversation, during which

it was remarked- that things had come to a pretty —pass if

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a master was to be censured w by his servant, it as re-
solved, on the motion of Mr. Procter, seconded by Mr.
Kilshaw, that the Chairman, Mr. Kaye, and Mr. Law-

rence, should confer with the Watch Committee. (Mr,
Santley being employed by both boards,) and then Mr.

Santley' could state his
_otiose of dissatisfaction; wising

out of his situation as collector, before them, as lie might

be wore inclined to do so before a private committee than

before a public board

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that the accounts were in a most satisfactory condition