The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-07 00:00:00

YESTERDAY.

COMMITMENTS.
No fewer than three individuals were yesterday committed
for trial at the prrsent sessions, for felony. Amongst them
was a young man, named Edward Byrne, a clerk with Mr.
Muspratt, manufacturing chemist, on a charge of taking a
quantity of copper money, belonging to his master, and ap-
propriating it to his own use. Another ease was a theft from
the shop of Mr. Daniels, clothier, bottom of Dale-street ;
and the third a case of robbery, by a girl (Mary Brian), in
the house of Mr. Dobson, Great George-street. As all these
cases will be tried this week at the sessions, we deem it un-
necessary to give the heads of the evidence.

DEATII BY BURNING.—On Saturday night a little boy,
named Riding, four years of age, residing with his parents in
Nash-grove, was seriously burnt by his clothes catching
fire. Mr. Black, surgeon, Scotland-road, was called in, but
the poor child lingered until five o'clock on Sunday morning,
when he died.

METEORIC PRENOMENON.—At one minute to six yester-
day (Thursday) morning, while engaged in looking for the
comet, I was startled by the sudden appearance of a very
bright meteor, It shot rapidly from the zenith, near Arctu-
rus, in a slanting direction towards the west, at an angle of
about 18 to 20 degrees, passing about 21 to 3 degrees west of
Spica Virginia, where it burst, illuminating the whole
sky,
and disappearing behind a bank of cumuli, at an elevation of
about 30 degrees, leaving behind it a stream of light, ich
-
continued for a moment or two after its immersion.
descen It ex t
ceeded Venus, both in size and splendour, during
its ,
and changed into a fine red at its dispersion. I tried to hit
upon its track with the Iflass,
)s but was unfortunately not quick
enough. The day previous had been roust unusually close,
and towards evening a small rain set
ju from the south: the
and appeared to blow
upper current had veered to S.S.W 8
pretty strong, though the under ‘:asgd strong breeze. At
at times quite a dead
calm, occasionally increasing to a
the time of its appearance the s
tars were beautifully conspi-
spicuous, and Venus shone with
good
more than her usual splen-
dour, casting a very perceptiblielesrhal wereow ,
brightlyan and th e lightiliu icloudsnet
illuminated
which occasionally obscured.ception of a few patches here and
by her rays. Wit h the exception
. cumuli, wafted.._ briskly with the
there, obscured by Pa-5.5'
and a bank of cumuli and starli, extending
westerly wind,
at an elevation of 20 to 30 degrees,
.utn°usliiVa.lSly.Mclear.—Correspondent of Mercury.
ftrhoe,:n,slikElSS„, YoRK PACKETS. —We do not recollect any
period, since the Canadian rebellion gave a prominent
in which greater anxiety has been
interest to American news,
won
'rested for the arrival of the New York' packets than
during the week which has just passed. Day followed day,
and, though the winds were frequently favourable, neither
the Cambridge, nor the Independence, nor the Liverpool
made their appearance. Morning, noon, and night, the only
interrogatory was, " Has the Liverpool arrived ?" the Rail-
ing vessels not being supposed, by general consent, to have
any chance against the steamer; or, if anyone had a chance,
it was in favour of the Cambridge alone, owing to her having
had ten or twelve days start of the Liverpool. The answer,
uniformly, was " No:" followed by an inquiry from the
interrogator, " What has become of her ?" The purveyors
of of news for the London journals were, of course, ,fopreshi.
qui vice, both by day and by night. The Message o
supposed,
be
Presi-
dent Van Buren to Congress would,
certainly itWbsgy the Liverpool;
brought by the Independence,
hence, there was, in the poliatincild imp° rta. importance of the doc.
.n-
-ment, a more than ordinary stimulus to vigilance and activity
though these gentle-
' on the part of the news-agents. Still,
' men paced the pierheads. d r g many a weary hour, "in
' thunder, lightning, and in ruaintn," no lade_ pen deence, n. o Liver-
' pool hove in sight to glad their eyes and rejoice their hearts.
The express messenFers were ready, but there was ao Mes.
age to carry.—Albion.
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