The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-12 00:00:00

tion of the fun,

church in the morning, found the man quite dead, prostrate
on the steps of the high altar, enveloped in his winding sheet,
and from the state of the coffin it was evident that during the
night he had recovered his senses, and, by violent exertions,
had forced open the sides, got out, and made his way to the

he was found

It has been confidently stated in this city that Alderman

Pel.rin, who late

became non est, owing

large sum to

many creditor

was on board thi

unfortunate -Governor

Fenner when she struck the Nottingham steamer on Friday,
the 19th instant, and that he was among the 122 passengers
who lamentably perished in the wreck. We give this rumour
slated in the city, at the same stating our
o foundation at all for it.—Dublin

it has been c

)elief that there

FORGERY UPON THE BANK OF ENGLAND

TENSII

—lt has been lately discovered that a robbery to the amount
of £6250 had been committed by means of a forged power
of attorney on the Bank of England by Christopher Picard,
of Friday-street, linen-draper. The stock taken out was in
the New Three-and-a-Half per cents., and Picard was, it is
said, a trustee. The forgery was committed some months
ago, but was not discovered until the last few days. On
Thursday Picard was in town, and in such a state of health
as So be unfit to leave his room. He was however doctored
up in such a manner as to be able to go out in a coach, and
nerally supposed that he is ,now on the continent.
taken out at two different times. A reward

The money
of £lOO ha

)n the morning of Christmas Day
Rye of a melancholy catastrophe

Inlander of the 'Sir Andrea-

mond, of London, whilst engaged in
It was stated that Captain Newby, NI

a four men in a boat,

had left the ship at d

inpursilit 'or whales—

-that the bet

was lost, and all in it had perished. The melancholy fate
of their brother was communicated to Mr. J. E. Newby (of
this place) and his sister, who resided with him, which sud-
denly converted their anticipated " merry Christmas" into a
sorrowful gloom, and rendered their " happy new year" the
commencement of a melancholy era. ' But conceive their
" agreeable surprise" when, on Sunday, February 21st, they
received a letter from him whom they had fur two months
mourned as dead, and announcing himself to be still in ex-
- Tt appears by Captain Newby's letter, that while
urey, they missed their ship, and

in pursuit of tneir n
were tossing about of
food, and only a gill

the wide ocean for 84 hours,

They were at last
picked up by the W. Josa del Carmen, of Paita, Captain
Wilson, who lancled them at Charles Island, where they re-
mained eight days, whence they were brought to Puna, in a
passage o eight days, and remained at the house of the Bri-
tish consul two nights and a day. They started thence in
their boat early on the second day for Tumbas, which they
reached on the following morning, and there found the ship
Sussex, Captain Hammer, (a friend of Newby), and remained

y found their

,t Paita

au absence of six week

Another

ted commander, and the ship was to
days. Captain N. resumed
e fishery to complete his

;be command, and returned to tt

Sussex Exp 7

On Tuesd

IURDER,

the public

in Wolver-

hampton v

.s crowded to excess Co h

le examination of

:by, ch

murder of Moses
ling him, and with
his son-in-law. The
in the morning, had, it

deposition of Bat,