The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-31 00:00:00

THE GREAT WESTERN.—This splendid vessel will leave 1
Kingroad, Bristol, to-morrow; nearly the whole of her berths

are already engaged

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE : Two BOYS SUP..
POSED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED.—On Friday _ evening

,asttwo little boys, the sons of poor parents, were playing in

Netherfield-road, When, according to their own story, a man
accosted them with seeming kindness, and gave them some

potatoes, which they ate

They soon after be-came very sick;

and went home. Mr. Nottingbain and another surgeon were
called in, when they found that the two lads exhibited all the
symptoms of having been poisoned with arsenic. The pro.•
per remedies were applied, and the patients are slowly re-
covering, though their condition was for some time exceed-

ingly precarious.
THE DANE VIADUCT.—This stupendous undertaking

which passes over the valley of the river Dane at Holmes
Chapel, in this county, is progressing with rapidity. It is
rather longer than the great viaduct of this town, having one
more arch of sixty-three feet span than ours at Stockport.
Fourteen out of the twenty-three arches are already finished,

and it, is expected that the whole will be entirely completed
on the Ist of March next. The height of this great struc-
ture above the river Dane is ninety feet, and the whole of
the arches are semicircular, and sixty-three feet spa It
will be much better seen than ours, as it crosses a u-
dint valley, luxuriant with foliage, and runs with
the turnpike road, from which it is distant only a few hun-
dred yards. The same gentlemen, Messrs. Holmes and
Tomkinson, of Liverpool, who built the magnificent viaduct
upon the same line of railway (the Manchester and Birming-
ham) through this town, are engaged on the work.—Stock-
port Advertiser.

The political apostacy of Mr. Trafford, of Trafford, was
" Gazetted" on Tuesday, when his name appeared amongst
a batch of newly-created baronets. To Mr. Trafford's ad-
vancement, we should take no exception, if it, were not so
notoriously the reward of a degraded government for an
abandonment of principle.

TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.—A few weeks ago, the
wardens of the Episcopal Chapel of Heaton Norris, Stock-
port, presented the Rev. Robert Martindale, the incumbent,
with a purse containing nearly £4O, the voluntary contribu-
tion of his congregation, as a testimony of their esteem, and
in admiration of his doctrine, talent, and high attainmen4s as
a theologian. The rev. gentleman was a short time since
curate at Tranmere.

NEW BARONETS.—The Gazette of Tuesday. August 24,
states that the Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Baronet of the United Kingdom to the following gentlemen,
and the respective heirs male of their bodies lawfully be-
gotten, viz. :—Henry Dymoke, of Scrivelsby Court, in the
county of Lincoln, Esq. ; Thomas Joseph Trafford, of Traf-
ford Park, in the county "palatine of Lancaster, Esq.; Wm.
Lawson, of Brougli Hall, in the county of York, Esq. ;
Andrew Armstrong, of Gallen Priory, in the King's County,
Esq. ; William Clay, of Fulwell Lodge, in the county of
Middlesex, Esq. ; John M'Taggart, of Ardwell, in the
county of Wigtown, Esq. ; Henry Winston Barron, of
Bellevue, in the county of Kilkenny, Esq. ; George Gerrard
de Hochepied Larpent, of Roehampton, in the county of
Surrey. Esq. ; Denis le Marchant, - Cobham Place, in the
county of Surrey, Esq. ; Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, of St:John's
Lodge, Regent's Park, in the county of Middlesex, and of
the Wick, Brightemstone, in the county of Sussex, Esq. ;
John Easthope, of Fir Grove, in the county of Surrey, Esq. ;
John Power, of Roe Buck House, in the county of Dublin,
and of Sampton, in the county of Wexford, Esq.
A MAN ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.—On the arrival of the
Eastham steam-packet, on Sunday morning last, at the
George's Pierhead, it was accompanied by a rowing-beat,
with a young man and the dead body of another in it. On
inquiry, it appeared that, at five o'clock on Sunday morning,
two young men, Thomas Kewley, a clerk in a merchant's
office, and Samson Moore, a cabinet-maker, took a boat
from George's Pier, and proceeded up the river. They had
a double-barrelled gun, and the means of loading it, with
them, their object being to amuse themselves by shooting
birds. Kewley carried the gun. When on arriving a little
way beyond Eastham Ferry, he fired the contents of one of
the barrels at some seagulls. Moore, at the time, was scull-
ing the boat, and, not being very expert, he let the oar fall in
such a manner that it came, it is supposed, in contact with
the trigger of the gun, for the loaded barrel instantly went
off, and Kewley, who had been standing up, fell down into
the bottom of the boat. His affrighted companion rushed to
his assistance, but all his attempts to stop the bleeding were
useless, as the contents of the gun had made a large wound
in the throat. His next effort was to procure assistance,
and, therefore, he jumped on shore and ran to the next house,
the inmates of which sent to Sutton for a surgeon. On his
return to the boat he found that it had drifted away with his
wounded companion, and as no means of reaching him was
at hand, he ran to Eastharn. The crew of Sir Richard
Bulkeley's yacht, which was lying off Eastham, gave him
prompt assistance, but on their reaching the boat, the un-
fortunate young man was a corpse. Modre, in his alarm,
declined to give Mr. Smith, of Eastham, a proper account
of the transaction ; therefore, suspicion was excited, and on
his arrival at Liverpool, he was taken into custody. Mr.
Whitty, on more particular inquiry, was convinced that the
above facts are true. Poor Moore is dreadfully excited, and
seems horror-struck at the termination of his excursion.
The deceased has no friends in Liverpool. An inquest will
be held on the body to-day.
On Sunday 'evening, at a late hour, the Right Hon. Sir
Robert Peel, Bart., who was dining with the Earl and
Countess De Grey, in St. James's-square, received by a
royal messenger, from Windsor Castle, a summons from her
Majesty the Queen, commanding the right hon. baronet's
attendance at Windsor Castle yesterday.
UNWHOLESOME MEAT.—During the last few days, Mr.
George Holden, inspector of markets, has brought before
Mr. Rushton, at the Police-court, several parties keeping
standings, on informations for exposing meat that was unfit
for human food. The following was the result :—Henry
Smith, St. John's Market, for exposing 1241 b. of bad veal,
40s. and costs ; Mary Balmer, irAb. of mutton, ss. and
costs • Samuel Norton, 351 b. of beef, ss. and costs ; and
Joseph Stubbs, 1411 b. of beef, 40s. and costs.
ANDERTON CARRYING COMPANY.—The annual general
meeting of the proprietors of the Anderton Carrying Com-
pany, was held on Friday last, at the Clarendon Rooms. The
report of the directors was highly satisfactory to the share-
holders, for notwithstanding the great commercial depression,
so generally felt, and the obstructions and extra expenses
occasioned to the company by the intense and protracted
frosts during the last winter, a dividend of ten shillings per
share, for the half year ending 30th June, was declared, being
more than 3 per cent. on the paid up capital. On the pre-
vious half year's business, the company paid 2} per cent.,
having placed nearly a third of the entire profits for the year
to the "Reserved Fund Account." The cordial thanks of
the meeting were presented to the board, and the retiring
directors were unanimously re-elected for the next year.
THE CABINET COUNCIL ON SATURDAY.—At the Cabi-
net Council on Saturday last, at which the whole of the mi-
nisters forming the Cabinet were present, it was determined
unanimously that the resignation of the Ministry should be
immediately forwarded to the Queen at Windsor. Shortly
after the breaking up of the council Viscount Melbourne pro-
ceeded to Windsor Castle to acquaint his Sovereign with the
result of the deliberation of himself and the other members
of the Administration. It was understood that the Premier
would communicate the resolution of the Government in the
House of Lords yesterday afternoon, and also that Lord
John Russell at the same time would make a similar commu-
nication in the House of Commons on the meeting of that
legislative assembly. If the London,papers of last night
contain these important and long looked for announcements,
we shall publish them in a second edition as early as possible.
A DISHONEST SERVANT.—EIiza Susan Watrnore was, on
Saturday, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with having
robbed her master, Mr. Story, grocer, Vauxhall-road. On
Friday night the prisoner was told by the shopman that he
was going to an adjoining house but suspecting the dishonesty
of the prisoner, he secreted himself in the back yard and
watched her motions, when he saw her go into the shop and
open the drawers where he bad left sonic money, and on his
return asked the prisoner where she had put it. She denied
that she had ever been in the shop. The money, however,
to the amount of lls. 5d., in copper, was found beneath a
drawer to which the shopman had seen the prisoner go. A
police-officer was called in, and the prisoner's box was
searched. Some ten shillings in silver were found, and three
and sixpence in copper. The prisoner's wages had been paid
weekly, in silver. A bill of parcel for goods, which was n
the box, to the amount of £2 lls. 4d., was found. The
prisoner was committed for trial.
PARKGATE ADJOURNED SESSIONS.—The adjourned ses-
sions were held on Friday, August 27th, before R. Congreve.
Esq., chairman, Sir E. ust, J. L. Maddocks, Esq., Rev.
Archdeacon Clarke, W. W. Currie, Esq., &c. The principal
part of the time of the magistrates was taken up in hearing
applications for licenses, and the renewal of old ones. There
were a great many applications for new licenses, and although
these various claims were brought forward in a very able man-
ner by Mr. H. B. Walker and Mr. Mallaby, the magistrates,
with the exception of three, refused to grant any fresh ones.
Indeed in the neighbOurhood of Seacombe—from whence a
number of claims came, they came to an unanimous resolu-
tion not to grant any. How far the wholesale refusal of per-
sons who (to judge from the signatures attached to each
document) had hitherto conducted beer-houses in a most
respectable way will tend to lessen the evil, we will leave it to
the magistrates to consider. The successful applicants were
Mr. Brown, for a new house recently erected near the rail-
way station, Mr. Jenwood, North Birkenhead, and Mr.
Thomas Knowles, Claughton. There is another subject we
wish to call the attention of the magistrates to, viz., the ex-
treme smallness and inconvenience of the room in which
they hold their meetings, and we are sure we have only to do
so in order to have the inconvenience remedied.—From onr
correspondent.
INQUESTS.—Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr.
Curry, on view of the body of Adam Lindsay, an old man,
who, it appears, had fallen into the Clarence Dock Basin
immediately after his arrival from Scotland, and was drowned.
Police-officer Humphrey Peate stated, that about five o'clock
on Sunday morning, while he was on duty at the Clarence
Dock Basin, he saw the body of a man lying on the sand
bank in the basin, which was then dry. He got assistance
and conveyed the body to the dead-house. There wer
found on him lls. in silver, 4d. in copper, a small phial con-
taining a little whiskey, and some other articles. In one o
the pockets was found a piece of paper, containing the ad-
dress " David Lindsay, 10, Crown-court, Bolton-street."
Enquiry was made accordingly, and the son of the deceased
whose address it was, was found, and identified the body a
that of his father, whom he had expected from Scotland, bu
did not know the time at which he was likely to arrive. It
appeared that the deceased resided at Dumfries ; that he was
78 years of age, and had come as a passenger from Annan,
by the Newcastle steamer, which had left that port, on the
Solway, on Saturday morning, and arrived here on the night
of the same day, between ten and eleven o'clock. The de-
ceased was seen to land in good health. Verdict, " found
drowned."—Same day an inquest was held on view of the
body of Ellen Roughsedge, 35 years of age, who resided in
Ford's-yard, Mill-street. The deceased was a married wo-
man, and her husband is at sea. She died suddenly in the
night, and, as it appeared, from a post mortem examination,
of a disease of the heart, that organ being found enlarged to
double its natural extent. Verdict, " died of disease of the
heart."
FIRES.—On Saturday night, between nine and ten o'clock,
an alarm of fire at Aintree race course reached the town, and
Mr. Hewitt of the fire police, and an effective brigade of that
department of the force were so speedily on the ground as to
"astonish" the rustics ranged around. Four hay stacks,
belonging to Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel, were on
fire. One of them was consumed. The others, by the
strenuous exertions made were saved, with the exception of
a small portion of one of them. The whole of the latter
would also have fallen a prey to the flames, but for the acti-
vity of Mr. Hewitt and his men, who took it down, and scat-
tered it abroad. There were four engines on the ground,
and these had a plentiful supply of water from the neigh-
bouring pits. It is not known how the fire originated.—On
the following morning, (Sunday,) about two o'clock, a fire
broke out in some cotton bags on the deck of a brig
called the " Mary," lying in the Salthouse Dock. Mr.
Hewitt being absent at Aintree at the former-named
fire, Mr. Whitty, chief constable, with seven engines
and a strong brigade of firemen, was almost immediately on
the ground, and the fire, which was alarming as regarded the
shipping, was got under with comparatively little damage, in
a few minutes. About nine o'clock on Saturday morning a
fire also took place in a dwelling-house in Ben Jonson-street.
Some of the beams supporting the floors had become ignited
apparently from the fire in one of the chimneys. The
engines, with a strong force of policemen,
were rapidly
brought up, and the flames were extinguised ; the loss being
but £5O in timber, furniture, &c. In all these cases the
efficiency ,of the fire-police was shown to a degree highly
praiseworthy to that body.