The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

MR. QUAYLE'S TESTIMONIAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD
" Thrice is he arm'd that bath his quarrel just."

SlR,—Having noticed in the Mercury of Friday last, a
fustian letter addressed to " John Holme, Esq.," respect-
ing a " testimonial" to Mr. George Quayle, late of Everton
Ward, &c. &c., signed a "Disgusted Conservative," Permit
me a word on the subject, and with all due deference to the
apparently sensitive writer, add, that I cannot but think that
Mr. Quayle having resigned (doubtless from PURE AD-
VICE) a seat he had usurped too long ; and subsequently
" caught in his own trap," cannot do less than do the thing
" that's handsome before leaving town," however unpalate-
able, " detestable," or even " despicable" it may appear to
" ears polite ;" and methinks the aforesaid amiable writer
(instead of his peculiar mode of application, doubtless by the
way of FEELER) would better have served his somewhat un-
fortunate yet ambitious friend Quayle's " cause," had he
have remained silent, and subscribed himself what he most
probably is—viz., a disappointed, if not a " disgusted"
hig, and SOMETHING MORE.
I am, sir, meriting your attention,
AN ENEMY TO CANT AND HUMBUG.
Monday Evening, Aug. 23.
P.S.—I have no doubt that the £5 PROMISED by a
" disgusted Conservative," " in A FEW DAYS," Will be
most welcome as well as gratefully received by the QUAIL-
ING committee.

One extreme is as bad as another—as the man said when
they hung him up by the heels.
The Crown has granted a pension of £lOO a year to the
widow of Mr. James, the naval historian.

Another considerable failure (that of Thomayer and Co.)
has taken place in Vienna.
The Duke of 'Wellington has expressed his willingness to
form a part of the new Conservative government. His Grace
is in excellent health.
The Teasel crop in this country has almost completely
failed.
The Rev. R. J. INl`Ghee is entirely prevented attending to
his ministerial duties through indisposition.
By some extraordinary mistake, no return has yet been
made of the members of parliament for Radnorshire and the
borough of New Radnor, so that parliament is at present
two members short of its full complement.
STEAM-BOAT Cowstosr.—On Thursday, a frightful col-
lision took place between the steamers Albert and Dumbarton
Castle, when the latter was sunk, and which was nearly
proving fatal to a large number of passengers. The Albert
was on her return from Alloa, and had 260 passengers aboard,
with whom she was proceeding to Newhaven. When nearly
opposite Bo'ness, she met the Dumbarton Castle coming out,
loaded with goods from Alloa. The Albert struck the Dum-
barton Castle right amidships, which latter instantly filled
and went down in fifteen feet of water, her funnel being a
little above water.—Scottish Standard.

REMEDY FOR A LIGHTNING SHOCK.—AS this is the
season when all are more or less liable to experience a shock
from nature's battery, the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
suggests that any person struck down by lightning, no matter
if apparently dead, ought to be laid immediately extended
on the damp ground ; and, if it do not rain upon him, water
should be thrown on freely, which in most cases will conduct
off the electric fluid without serious injury. Many a one
has lost his life, when a knowledge of these facts, on the
i
part of friends or bystanders, would have preserved t.—
New Brunswick Courier.

We rejoice to observe, that a matter so momentous to the
Church of England, and in fact involving its Protestant
character, as the doctrines inculcated by the authors of the
" Oxford Tracts," continues to occupy the attention of the
right rev. bishops, and to form a prominent feature in their
charges to their clergy. It will be seen by the subjoined
extract from a report of the charge of the Lord Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol, delivered within the last week, that
our respected diocesan has taken, as becomes a bishop of our
apostolical church, a scriptural view of the subject. While
he does the tractarians the justice to admit that " by raising
the tone of devotional piety, they have rendered considerable
service to the cause of religion," his lordship cautions his
clergy against withholding from their flocks a full declaration
of the great doctrine of the atonement, on which " must
ever rest the keystone of revelation ;" and condemns the
undue exaltation of tradition to a level with the scriptures.

MURDER.—A great sensation has been excited in Cheshire
by the administration of poison to a young woman 15 years
of age, of the name of Elizabeth Edge, the daugher of a
small farmer residing in the parish of Edge, near Malpas, in
that county, on Saturday, the 7th of the present month. The
party accused of the murder is Ann Edge. the sister of the
deceased, 22 years of age, who was living as housekeeper with
a butcher in the same village. It appears that this young
woman went over to her sister to visit her, and that the morn-
ing after the day of her arrival the younger sister was taken
exceedingly ill, with all the symptoms attendant on the
taking of poison ; and that she died in the course of the same
day. The circumstances were thought s() extraordinary, that
a post mortem examination took place, and a quantity of
arsenic was found in the stomach. On further inquiry, it
was found that the sister of the deceased had bought a quan-
tity of this fatal drug at an apothecary's shop in the neigh..
bourhood a day before her sisters visit, and that the account
of the use to which she applied it was contradictory and un-
satisfactory. After a laborious examination before the coro-
ner, in which Dr. Williamson, of Streeton-hall, took part,
and in the neighbourhood of whose house the parties reside,
a verdict was returned by the jury of " Wilful murder"
against Ann Edge,
who was onTuesday last committed to
Chester Castle. to take her trialfor the offence. The horror
of this murder is much aggravated by the circumstance of a
brother of the prisoner,
a boy about eight years of age, hay-
ing died suddenly, under similar symptoms, about seven
weeks ago, and poison having been found in the stomach
after his disinterment, which took place on the death of his
sister. The inquest on the boy is now holding, and till its
termination we do not think proper to say more upon the
subject. No adequate motive is assigned for the perpetra-
tion of either of these murders.—Leeds Mercury.
A STRIKING FACT.—" In March last, as I was repairing
to the native village of Bustom to survey a bridgewhich was
thrown across the road, on my route from the station of Jel-
lasore, on crossing the Soubunreeka river, my attention was
attracted to a number of human skeletons which lay scattered
in various directions upon the white sands adjacent to the
course of the stream. Upon inquiry, I learned that these
unfortunated relics were the remains of pilgrims, who were
on their road to. the great pagoda at Juggernaut, and had
been drowned two evenings before by means of a ferry-boat
sinking with them during a violent north-wester. On my
approaching several of these sad vestiges of mortality, I
perceived that the flesh had been completely devoured from
the bones by Pariah dogs, vultures, and other ebscenf,
animals. The only portion of the several corpses I noticed
that remained entire and untouched, were the bottoms of the
feet and the inside of the hands, and this extraordinary cir-
cumstance immediately brought to my mind that remarkable
passage recorded in the second Book of Kings, relating to
the death and ultimate fate of Jezabel, who was, as to her
body, eaten of dogs, and nothing remained of her but the
palms of her hands and the soles of her feet.' The former
narrative may afford a corroborative proof of the rooted
antipathy that the dog has to prey upon the human hands
and feet. Why should be the case remains a mystery."—
Times Correspondent.

The following was written by a Philadelphian, who mus
have felt particularly inspired by the majesty of his subject :
Niagara! Niagara!
I swear you are a staggerer !
I don't wish to be a bragmer, or
A consequential swaggerer--
Yet still I vow, Niagara, •
Your falls are quite a staggerer.

MOUTfi TANCAMIRI 013IMER ASAIZEI;

CROWN COURT.,—FRIDAY.
(Before Lord Chief Justice DENMAW.)
His Lordship took leis seat at nine o'clock.
STEALING A POST LETTER.

William Davies, a respectably-attired young man, was in-
dicted for stealing a post letter directed to Ralph Waller and
Co., Manchester, containing two bills of exchange, the one
for £35 7s, the other for £35 9s, and a bank note for £lO,
the property of the Postmaster-General. There was another
count in the indictment, stating the bills of exchange and
note to be the property of Waller and others.
The Attorney-General for the County, assisted by Messrs.
Adolphus and Pollock, conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Wil-
kins defended the prisoner.
The particulars of the case, as detailed by the Attorney-
General, which were substantiated by the examination of
witnesses,:are the following :—ln Manchester there is a firm
called Waller and Co., cotton•spinners. This firm have in
their employment a traveller of the name of Wadman, who,
in the month of July last, being at the time on his Welsh
round, transmitted from Gloucester to his principals in Man-
chester a £lO note and two bills of exchange for the respec-
tive amounts stated in the indictment. These bills and note
he enclosed in a letter addressed to his employers, and posted
it at Gloucester on Saturday, the 17th of July. According
to the course of the post, the letter would have arrived in
Manchester the following day, the 18th. It is the custom of
the firm of Waller and Co. not to send for their letters on
Sundays; but their book-keeper, on Sunday, when on his
way to church, looked into the post-office, and observed that
there were several letters in the box belonging to his employ-
ers. On Monday morning, a little before nine o'clock, the
book-keeper in question, when on his way to the office of his
employers, again looked into the box at the post-office, and
observed that the number of letters was increased. About
twenty minutes after nine o'clock, one of the firm of Waller
and Co. went to the post-office, for the purpose of fetching
away the letters ; but on arriving there, he found that there
were none, and upon inquiry he learned that the letters had
been taken away by some person not authorised, and that
they had not been delivered at the factory. The prisoner
had been in the employment of Messrs. Waller, and was,
therefore, acquainted with the habits of the house and their
mode of carrying on business. Shortly before the day in
question, the prisoner had been in considerable distress, and
the very week before the matter occurred (the Saturday on
which the letter was posted at Gloucester), he applied to
Messrs. Waller to receive him again into their employment,
and was requested to call again on Monday, when, probably,
his wish would be complied with. He did not call, nor was
he again seen by Messrs. Waller and Co., until he was appre-
hended, some days afterwards. Three or four days after the
letter was missing, a letter was sent by some one who signed
himself H. S. Marshall, dated Abergavenny, to the Manches-
ter and London Joint Stock Banking Company, Prince's-
street, London, the bank upon which the Gloucester house
had drawn, containing a bill of exchange for £35 7s, which
the writer requested to have discounted, stating as his reason
for making the request, that be bad no banking account at
Abergavenny. The amount he requested should be for-
warded to him in bank notes, at the post-office, Abergavenny.
Information having been given to the London house of the
letter containing the bills of exchange having been stolen, the
bill sent to be discounted was returned to the Abergavenny
house. On the Monday morning on which the letter was
stolen, the prisoner bought a new pair of boots, for which he
paid 17s, And a new hat, for which he paid half a sovereign,
and it was observed by the person receiving payment, that he
had several sovereigns in his purse. He also called at the
house of a person with whom he formerly lodged, and paid
£1 Bs, a balance due for his board. Several persons ac-
quainted with the prisoner's handwriting were called, and de-
posed that it was their conviction that the letter received at
the banking-house in London, requesting to have the bill of
exchange discounted, and also two endorsements on the bill,
were in the handwriting of the prisoner.
Mr. WILKINS made an eloquent appeal to the jury in be-
half of the prisoner, in which he contended that the evidence
was not sufficient to show that the prisoner was the party
who had stolen the letter,—it is equally probable that the
offence might have been committed t•y some other person.
The jury, after being absent from court above half an hour,
returned a verdict of Guilty. Sentence deferred.