The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

Shopkeepers in the district of St. Paul's, &c., have again
commenced closing their shops at eight, as agreed to in
1835, for the next seven months, and no customer is admitted
after that time.

The House of Commons assembled last night, when writs
would be moved for and issued to-morrow, and we have
reason to believe the house would then adjourn for a fort-
night.

We have to state that the highly eminent firm of Anderson,
Garrow, and Co., of Liverpool, whose stoppage was an-
nounced on the 2d instant, resumed payment on Friday last.
EXTRAORDINARY FLY-FISHING.—Mr. J. W. Lassells,
of this town, recently performed one of the most extraordi-
nary piscatorial exploits on record. At Roen, in Norway,
our townsman recently caught with the fly, in the space of
23 clear days, no fewer than 2,1541b5. of salmon.
The Medina, one of the fleet of steam-ships destined to
carry the West India mails, arrived at this port, on Thurs-
day, to receive her machinery. She was built in the Isle of
Wight by Mr. White, and is a remarkably fine vessel, equal
in tonnage to the Forth.
THE WILATIIER.—The weather for the last few days has
been very unsettled, and much rain has fallen, particularly
on Friday and Saturday morning last. On Sunday morning
the clouds dispersed, and we have had, up to last night, most
seasonable and propitious weather. The crops, in this
neighbourhood, we believe, are all cut, and but little remains
to be housed.

The royal mail steamer Caledonia, Captain AP Kellar,
sailed on Saturday last for Halifax and Boston. She carried
out 107 passengers. The Columbia, which would sail from
Boston on the Ist and Halifax on the 3d instant, will be due
at this port on Monday evening next.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Thursday evening last,
about six o'clock, as two young gentlemen were busily en-
gaged in eating fruit (peaches) in a garden, near this town,
one of them unfortunately got a peach-stone in his throat,
and could neither get it one way nor the other ; a surgeon
was instantly sent for, but before he arrived, the unfortu-
nate young man was dead.
The remains of the late hon. Col. Barclay Molyneux were
interred on Friday, at Manchester, with military honours.
The interment of the colonel's remains at Manchester is said
to have arisen from the circumstance of the regiment of which
he was commandant being stationed at Manchester at pre-
sent. The ceremony was most imposing, and the public
attraction► great on the occasion. The usual military honours
paid to colonels-commandant was strictly observed.
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NEW MAGISTRATES.—On Tuesday last, at the sessions
now holding at the New Bailey, for the hundred of Salford,
Sir Ralph Pendlebury, of Reddish, near Stockport ; and on
Thursday, Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart., of Claremont ;
and John Grundy, Esq., of Belle Vue, near Bury ; took the
oaths and qualified as magistrates for the county palatine of
Lancaster. We understand that Elkanah Armitage, Esq.,
of Pendleton, has also been placed in the commission, and
that he will probably qualify during the present session.
THE NORWICH PROTESTANT HERALD.—Amongst the
signs of the times, not the least encouraging is the number
of cheap periodicals which are now in circulation, dissemina-
ting the soundest principles amongst the operatives of this
country. We received last week the first number of a pub-
lication entitled, " The Norwich Protestant Herald, which
promises to be a powerful defender of our Protestant insti-
tutions and privileges from the attacks of avowed enemies
on the one hand, and the treachery of hollow and pretended

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friends on the other. It is stamped, and, therefore, passes
free through the post. The price of it is only threepence.
PERMANENT GALLERY OF ART.-It may not be generally
known, that there is now erecting, in Colquitt-street, on the
vacant ground opposite to the Royal Institution, a building
intended for a Permanent Gallery of Art. The edifice is of a

chaste design and elegant execution. It will be ready for
use in a few months. When finished, the works of art now
in the rooms of the Royal Institution will be removed to the
new gallery, which will, no doubt, receive many additional
contributions from the patrons of the arts in Liverpool and

the surrounding neighbourhood.
The Leeds Intelligencer of Saturday last contains a long
report of the circumstances attending the consecration of the
newly erected parish church of Leeds, which has been rebuilt
by the voluntary contributions of the inhabitants, and which
took place on Thursday lass, before a most numerous and
respectable congregation. The Archbishop of York, and
the Bishops Ripon, Ross, and New Jersey, were present.
IMPORTANT TO ELECTORS.—The lists of objections to
voters in cities, boroughs, and counties, and of the claims of
parsons omitted from the lists of voters in cities and bo-
roughs, may, ten days before the 15th of September, be seen
gratis at the overseers' houses, and on two Sundays prece-
ding the 15th of September on all the church and chapel
doors, and may be purchased for one shilling. In cities and
boroughs the lists of objections should be inspected, as no
notice is given to the party objected to, and all claimants not
entitled to vote should be opposed before the revising bar-
risters.

SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on Friday, before P. F.
Curry, Esq., on view of the body of Richard Beckett, who
was forty-five years of age, and one of the collectors in the
Islington Market, terminated his existence on Friday morn-
ing, by suspending himself from a scale. beam in the weighing
office. In December last he had a paralytic stroke, and
since that period had been frequently in a desponding state of
mind, and had several times attempted to take his own life.
His daughter, a little girl, was sent to the market to call him
to breakfast, about nine o'clock, and found the deceased sus-
pended as described. Assistance was procured and he was
taken down, but not before he was quite dead. He had for-
merly belonged to St. John's Market, and had been trans-
ferred to Islington. From his conduct on several occasions,
his son was of opinion that he was sometimes under the
influence of insanity. The jury returned a verdict to the
effect that the deceased put a period to his existence while
labouring under temporary insanity.

DEATH OF MRS. FERGUSON.—SeveraI of our contem-
poraries have given a very incorrect account of the circum-
stances attending the death of this unfortunate lady, stating
that the omnibus was moving at the time, and that Mrs. F.
was thrown out of the gig by the shock of the concussion.
An inquest was held on the body on Friday, when the follow-
ing evidence was given by the husband of the deceased, who
was the only witness called that day—" I keep a ready-made
linen warehouse in Bold-street ; the deceased, whose name
was Ann Ferguson, was my wife ; she was 47 years old ; on
Monday evening last I drove in a pony phaeton to my house
in West Derby ; the deceased was with me ; when I got up
to the top of Low-hill the pony ran away, and I lost all com-
mand of it ; just at the junction of Brunswick-road to Low-
hill an omnibus was standing still to let down passengers, as
1 supposed, and the pony ran against it with the phaeton ;
the shock was very severe, and the phaeton very much bro-
ken ; I was thrown out by the concussion ; the deceased was
not, but with the concussion her left leg was broken; she
was brought home immediately, and attended by two or three
doctors, and died on Wednesday morning ; the phaeton be-
longed to me, but the pony belonged to Mr. Morton, coach-
builder, Dale-street. I was driving very gently at the time,
but I cannot say what caused the pony to take fright. I had
the pony on trial, and was to give £l4 for it, if I approved of
it ; I had authorised him about a month back, to look out
for a quiet, gentle pony, and he represented this as one that
would just suit me, and he also stated that he had driven it
himself. On Saturday morning the inquest was resumed,
when some additional evidence was taken as to the vicious.
ness of the pony, when the friends of Mr. Ferguson having
stated to the coroner that they had heard a report that the
lady and gentleman, who had the pony out on Sunday, were
obliged to alight, and walk several miles, in consequence of
the vice of the pony, Mr. Curry further adjourned the in-
quest till this morning, at twelve o'clock, when those parties
will be examined.

The new parliament contains one coloured man—the mem.
her for Sudbury. He is named Sombre. His mother was a
Hindoo princess, and lie is very wealthy.

LATE SIR THU

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Messrs. Lucas, at liootot;,071 Tuesday, the 21st instant.
Very great competition may be expected on this occasion
from the celebrity of theJate baronet in the sporting world.
MAP or AMERICA.—Mr. Mitchell's beautiful Map of
America has the boundary line in Maine accurately laid
down. A capital index accompanies the map, which renders
it a more than usually valuable work. We believe the sale
has been extensive in this and the neighbouring towns.
THE PHYS-HARMONICA, OR MELODICON—Herr Breunig,
the gentleman whose surprising performance we noticed in
our last upon this instrument, intends, we believe, giving a
Morning Concert at the Templar's Hall. As it will he im-
mediately removed from Liverpool, we recommend our friends
to be present on the occasion. Herr Breunig is a splendid
player, and the instrument is as astonishing in its powers as
it is novel in construction. The audience at the Mechanics
Institute was delighted with it on Saturday last. Herr
Breunig was greatly applauded.
COMMITMENTS.—At the police-court, yesterday, a young
man, Willian Jackson, was committed for trial at the sessions
on a charge of robbing a man named Cartwright, in the em-
ploy of Mr. Flitcroft, of Castle-street, of sixpence in the
street. The prisoner, it appeared, had gone up to the com-
plainant, and ordered him to deliver his money, or he would
knock him down. Complainant had four shillings and six-
pence with him and gave him the sixpence with which he
made off. He, however, watched the aggressor, and traced
him to a house in Fleet-street, where he was apprehended.
Two sixpences were found upon him.—Robert Hackincross
and Thomas Griffiths, the former employed at Mr. Brether-
ton's, veterinary surgeon, and the latter at Mr. Brown's, car-
owner, Fleet-street, were committed for trial,.on a charge of
stealing a breeching and a trace. The evidence against
Griffiths did not appear so strong as against the other
prisoner.

THEATRE ROYAL.—Miss Ellen Tree, without exception
and without doubt, the very prima donna of English ac-
tresses, made her appearance last evening as the Countess,
in " Love." To-night Miss Tree will personate Rosaliud—
in which she is pre-eminently successful—indeed we loak
upon her as the best Rosalind on the stage. On Wednesday
Leigh Hunt's " Legend of Florence" will be represented ;
and we perceive the " Bridals of Messina" will be repro-
duced during Miss Tree's engagement. The extraordi-
nary success of the Vandenhoff's in this play, will ex-
cite great curiosity in the public mind to see how
it will be done by Miss Tree and Mr. Anderson, who origi-
nally played it, when it was first written. We can fancy
what a powerful character Miss Tree will make of Isoline.
Mr. G. Vandenhoff's Fernando was remarkably clever, and
therefore Mr. Anderson's metal will be tested. Mrs. Bland's
benefit was well attended on Friday night. En passant, a
party of theatrical friends and brother comedians gave Mr.
Bland a parting supper, at the Brunswick, on Saturday
evening.

ORANGE AND GREEN.—No small degree of obloquy has
been heaped by the radicals upon the high sheriff of Ferma-
nagh, because the returns of the members of parliament for
that county bore the impression of a seal on which was in-
scribed " the pope in the pillory." Lord Morpeth, on
seeing this announced in the public papers, wrote to the
sheriff, and, without offering him any opportunity for expla-
nation, read a very crabbed lecture on the impropriety of the
act in the first instance, and then asks, " Now, sir, what
have you to say for yourself?" This, it would seem, put the
sheriff on his mettle, and his answer is responsively crabbed,
"curt and contumelious." He has subsequently written to
the press and states, that neither before nor since the return
had he seen the seal in question, and that he was not aware
of the impression complained of until he received Lord Mor-
peth's letter. Lord Morpeth has removed the sheriff from
his duties. We have heard much of the amiability of the
late Irish secretary, but we fear his rejection by the men of
Yorkshire has soured his temper.

CHARGE AGAINST POLICE• OFFICERS. -On Saturday
last, at the police-court, Oliver Shannon, a publican, of
Norfolk-street, appeared to prefer a charge against certain
police-officers, whom he accused of having violently assaulted
him. As he knew not the names or numbers of any of the
men, police-officers 265, 199, 137, 133, and 288, were ordered
to stand up before the bench. The statement of the com-
plainant was, that about half-past twelve o'clock, on the
morning of V'ednesday week, he, with two friends, went to
see a gentleman embark in a steam-packet at the Clarence
Dock. They returned through Pownall-square into Tithe-
barn-street, where, at the corner of Vernon-street, it being
about twenty minutes past two o'clock, they saw three police-
men, one of whom, without any provocation whatever, gave
him a push, and immediately after knocked him down by a
violent blow on his head, inflicted with a stick. He was
perfectly sober, not having been in any public-house what-
ever. He could not say who struck him first, but officer
265 held him down and struck him with his stick. He bled
very profusely, and was assisted away by two friends. Henry
Dobson, one of the complainant's companions stated, that it
was police-officer 137 who struck the complainant first, and
then officer 265 knocked him down in the gutter. Witness
and his friends were sober, and none of them gave any pro-
vocation. Thomas Langley stated, that Lansborough, 288,

was present, and that he said it was a shame to abuse the
man in such a way. Mr. Shannon had• taken a glass of
sherry at Mr. Langan's, but that was all that was taken.
Mr. Rushton investigated the case very minutely, and it
occupied a considerable time, as there were several discre-
pancies in the testimony of the witnesses. Mr. Rushton,
however, finally suspended the three officers 265, 137, and
288, and said it would be a matter for consideration, whether
they would ever be restored again. 199 and 133 were dis-
charged, as having nothing to do with the matter.

UNFOUNDED CHARGE AGAINST A POLICE-OFFICER.—
At the police-court yesterday, Mr. Parkinson stated to Mr.
Rushton, that in consequence of an anonycrious letter,
signed T. L., having appeared in the Journal, attributing
improper conduct to George Greaves, one of the turnkeys of
the bridewell, (of which he Mr. P. is keever,) in having re-
fused to take a charge from a person then in court, he had
taken some trouble to discover who the writer of the letter
was, and had procured his attendance. Mr. Rushton said
that he could not take notice of anonymous pu.ilications in
the newspapers; but, if the party had a complaint to prefer,
he should forthwith hear it. Mr. T. Lancaster, (the writer

of the letter,) who keeps a tobacconist's shop in Manchester-
then stepped forward and preferred ills complaint—
similar in purport to that contained in the letter. He said
that on that day four weeks he had given a person in charge
at the bridewell for being drunk and disorderly, and was told
to niake his complaint in that court next day. He attended
accordingly, but found the judge sitting there, and when he
found out his mistake and went to the police-court, (then
tennporatily held in Exchange-street, East,) he was told that
he was too late, the prisoner having been discharged in con-
sequence of his non-appearance. On a subsequent occasion
he had taker► another party to the bridewell, on a charge of
duping his sister, who kept an eating•house. He had stated
to George Greaves, in charging him, that he had gone into
his sister's shop, in the guise of a sailor, and handed her
what appeared to be a bank note, stating that he wished it to
be kept for him as he was afraid he would lose it. She took
it without looking minutely at it, put it away, and afterwards
supplied him with refreshment to the value of Is. 6d., which
he did not pay for, and then went away. On looking at the
note,she found it to be a note of " the bank of fashion. Greaves,
he added, on hearing this charge, said he could not detain the
prisoner, as he (complainant) had before charged a person
against whom he did not appear—adding that he would not
take any one in charge on the word of him (the complainant),
whatever his complaint might be. Greaves in reply to this
accusation said, that on the occasion last noticed he had cer-
tainly said that he would not take the charge of getting vic-
tuals and not paying for them, but had never said that he
Would take no one in charge on any account from the com-
plainant. He called three police officers as witnesses, all of
w'aoni said they were present during the conversation alluded
to, and that Greases had stated no such thing. Mr.-Rush-
ton said that it was grievous in any keeper of an eating-
house to give food without reeeiving payment ; but he had
no jurisdiction in such a matter, and the defendant stood ac •
quitted of all blame, as he had not, it fully appeared, em-
ployed the language imputed to him. It is bnt justice to
Greaves to add, that he is one of the most useful, efficient,
and obliging men in the whole service.