The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-21 00:00:00

THE CAUSE LIST,

The following is the state of the cause list up to the close
of the court last evening.

FIRST LIST

-WEST DERBY HUNDRED

For the Plaintiff'-Nos. 1, ,16,11, 13, 16,
17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36,
37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58,
59, 66, 80.
Withdrawn-Nos. 4,5, 19, 35, 42, 48, 49, 52, 63, 75.
Referred-No. 40.
Struck out-Nos. 54, 60.
Twenty-one cases remain to be disposed of in this list.
Four of them will be tried before special juries, namely,
" The Queen v. Prentice," which is fixed to come on the first
to-morrow morning (Saturday) ; " Blundell v. Lord Canaoys"
(the great will cause), which is fixed for Wednesday next;
" Adamson v. Mitchell and another," also fixed for Wednes-
day ; and " Hay dock and others v. Grugeon and another,"
which is appointed for -Monday. There were altogether 82
cases in the list for the hundred of West Derby, and 93 in
that for the hundred of Salford.

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DR. SOUTHEY.—The delicate health of the poet laureate
has obliged him, for the present, to abstain from all literary
labour.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lord Poltimore to
be a Lord of the Bedcamber in the place of Lord Gardiner.
Ministerial paper.
The radical papers are reporting that the Duke of Beaufort
is turning a Whig ; true,—he is turning her Majesty from a
Whig to a conservative.
The queen dowager, we understand, has taken Sudbury
Hall, the seat of Lord Vernon, and that her majesty will
enter upon her tenure in September next.—Derby Reporter.

CHARLES KEAN AND THE MURDERERS OF LORD
NORBURY.—(From the New York Herald.)—By the recent
arrivals from England, we perceive that the London papers
have asserted that " Charles Kean brought home from
America the confessions of two men who were implicated in
the murder of Lord Norbury." As we happen to know the
facts of the matter, which were communicated to us by an
intimate friend of Mr. Kean, it may be as well now to give
them publicity. Whilst Mr. Kean was staying at the Globe
Hotel, an Irishman called there, and introduced himself as a
sub-engineer employed on the Croton Water Works. He
said his object on calling on Mr. Kean was to induce him to
state to some person high in authority in England the fact
that two brothers, of the name of —, were working as
labourers on the works, who made it their boast that
they were the murderers of Lord Norbury. One object
Mr. Kean 's visitant said he bad in view, was the reward
which he understood had been offered in England for
their apprehension ; and he wanted Mr. Kean to take the
necessary steps, on his arrival in England, to have a demand
made for the brothers by the British government. Mr. Kean
mentioned one or two noblemen as likely to forward his views;
but both were objected to as belonging to the high tory party.
Mr. Kean then told his visitor, that he would communicate
with the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the subject ; and
taking the man's name and address, they parted. Mr. Kean
at the time conceived it to be all a hoax, but wished the inci-
dent not to get into the New York papers until after his ar-
rival in England. We are not of opinion, that any men, even
Irishmen, would he so lost to shame as openly to boast of the
commission of a murder ; and we should be induced to think
that it was a ruse to cover the retreat of the guilty parties,
who, in all probability, are now lying perdu in the old country.
THE SiA. SERPENT CAUGHT.—On Sunday evening about
six o'clock as the schooner Wasp, Captain Williams, and the
schooner Independent Eagle, Captain Owens, were coming
up the bay, they descried, about three miles below North
Point, a strange-looking fish or serpent to the leeward. A
boat from each schooner was manned, and a chase for the
prize took place. A harpoon was driven into the creature,
and away it flew, dragging the boat for nearly eight miles,
like a chip down a cataract. It was found necessary at length
to stop the speed of this marine locomotive, and a couple of
balls being shot into it, the death flurry came on, and it soon
floated a lifeless carcase. It was borne in triumph to the
foot of South-street wharf, where it was visited by most of
the old cruisers about town who had been to every part of
the globe, and knew everything, that partook of the nature of
fish, flesh, or fowl, like a book. They all declared that they
had never seen such a nondescript. It measured twelve feet
in length, and nine feet from fin to fin ; it has a head like a
seal, with teeth, and its back is covered with a hard shell. It
has four fins or flippers, and its general appearance bears
some resemblance to a turtle, or rather a monstrocity of that
specie of fish, which nature in one of her freaks had created.
How it came into the Chesapeake bay is a mystery. It can
be seen at South-street Wharf.—Baltimore Sun. The Bal-
timore American says :—" The creature would be a curiosity,
we should suppose, anywhere, from its enormous size, but it
is certainly a rarity in our waters, its weight is supposed to
be about I,ooOlbs.''

E NEW BEER ACT.—By the provisions of the new beer
act (3rd and 4th of Victoria, cap. GI), which received the
royal assent last week, all persons licensed for the sale of beer
or cider, to be drunk or consumed on the premises, within
the cities of London and Westminster, or within the boun-
daries of any of the boroughs of Mary-le-bone, Finsbury, the
Tower Hamlets, Lambeth, or Southwark, may keep open
their houses until twelve o'clock at night, and open them at
five o'clock in the morning, with the exception of Sunday,
Good Friday, or Christmas Day but not after eleven
o'clock " within any parish, or place, within the bills of mor-
tality, or within any city, cinquc port, town corporate, parish,
or place, the population Of which, according to the last par-
liamentary census, shall not exceed 2,500, or within one mile,
to be measured, from any polling-place used in the last elec-
tion for any town having the like population, and returning a
member or members to parliament ; nor after ten o'clock in
the evening elsewhere." They are not to be open at any
time on Sundays, &c., during which the houses of licensed
victuallers now are, or hereafter shall be, closed (sec. 15).
By the 10th section, all licensed retailers of beer or cider re-
ceiving into, keeping, or having in their possession, any wine,
or spirits, or sweets, shall, in addition to all other penalties,
forfeit £5O ; and all wines, spirits, and sweets so found shall
be forfeited, and, on conviction, the license to sell beer shall
become null and void.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard•ofce, Three o'clock

DEATH OF MR. BIBBY

At eleven o'clock this forenoon, James Callon, who had
been remanded from Monday, was again brought up at the
office of Messrs. Lace, Clay, and Myers, before Thomas
Birch, Esq., Miles Formby, Esq., and John Formby, Esq.
Mr. Carson, solicitor for the friends of the deceased, stated
that he had received a letter to the effect that several parties
who were most important to the investigation would in all
probability be in custody in a few hours, and he had there-
fore to make application that the prisoner should be re-
manded until these parties were apprehended. He thought
that on Monday at latest he would be prepared. He should
give Mr. Davenport, the prisoner's attorney, due notice of
what was to be brought forward. Meantime he had no fur-
ther immediate evidence to offer. He handed the letter to
the magistrates.

At the request of Mr. Davenport, a police-officer, named
Tracey, was called. His evidence merely went to chew that
he knew the prisoner, and had often, while going his rounds,
seen him going to his work, in Mr. Bibby's brick-field, be-
tween four and five o'clock in the morning, during the last
two months,—and that he was an industrious man, and
always one of the earliest. He did not see him on the
morning Mr. Bibby's body was found. The remaining
evidence of this witness, and also that of another officer who
was examined, arose out of an opinion entertained by Mr.
Davenport, that police-officer Ratcliffe, who has given the
principal evidence hitherto, has fallen into a discrepancy on
one point; but the evidence of the last witness removed this
impression.

In the end Mr. Carson repeated his application,—to which
the magistrates acceded,—remanding the prisoner till Monday

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,---This DAN'

Within the past two days we have had a moderate enquiry
for Wheat, and Flour in bond, and a few parcels of the former,
on the spot as well as to arrive, have been taken for invest-
ment at previous rates, while several thousand barrels of the
latter have changed hands at 31s. to 325., the currency of our
last circular. Sales of free Wheat for consumption have at
the same time been rather limited, and the trade for other
articles has ruled somewhat dull, without alteration in value--
With the exception of several hours of heavy rain early on
Wednesday morning, the general character of the weather
since the date of our last report has been very favourable,
and with a return of hot sun, accompanied with drying
winds, the harvest is again in active progress in all this dis-
trict. In parts of this and the neighbouring counties many
of the low lands have been much flooded, but otherwise we
consider that no material injury "has been suffered from the
late rains, which would not in a great measure be repaired
by a continuance of the present seasonable change of wea-
ther.

The duty on Wheat recedes this week to Gs. Bd., on Oats
to 3s. 3d. per quarter, on Flour to 4s. per barrel; and is ad-1
vanced on Barley and Indian Corn to 12s. 4d. per quarter.

The fresh arrivals of grain from all quarters are exceed•
ingly moderate, having scarcely anything coastwise or from
Ireland ; and of American Flour the import since Tuesday

does not amount to 8,000 barrels.
• At this day's market the transactions in British and duty
paid foreign Wheats were to a limited amount, and prices
must be noted id. to 2d. per 701bs. lower than on Tuesday'•
Free foreign Flour was also dull, at a reduction of 6d. per
barrel.

Grinding Barley was saleable in retail quantities only et
our last quotations ; but Oats and Oatmeal, in the absence
of any country demand, were the turn cheaper.
In Malt, Beans, and Pease no change.
About 2000 barrels American Flour, in bond, changed
hands, at 325. per barrel ; but no further sales of Wheal
under lock are reported to-day.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,

From the ISth to the 20th August, 1840, inclusive.

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LAND. I WISE. 'STATES

436
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