The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-08 00:00:00

ASSAULTING A POLICE-OFFICER

Simon Cummins, and five others, were charged with a
violent assault on a police-officer, in Uorer Mann-street,

while in the execution of his duty. It appeared that the
prisoners and two others had been fighting, and making t

disturbance in the street. The officer endea;Oured to restore
quiet, and was finally, it appeared, at the instigation of
Cummins, set upon by the whole eight, who knocked him
down, beat and abused him, and tore his clothes. The
whole of the prisoners (the two other aggressors having es-
ciped) were afterwards apprehended in Cummins's house.
The evidence against the five not named was not complete
as to identification, and they were discharged with a strong

eaution.—Cummins was regifired to pay a fine of £5, (
imprisoned for two months.

ASSAULTING AN OFFICEI

Robert Peters, William Peters, and Samuel Scott, thre
genteel-looking young men, were charged with being disor
derly in the streets, and afterwards with assaulting a polic
officer. They offered no defence. A respectable elderly fe
male, mother of the two brothers Peters, stated that the
had all been nell-behaved until recently, when she had dis
covered that they frequented a notorious public-house ii
Knight-street. She appealed to the magistrate to have 01
house put down, by withdrawing the license.
the officers corroborated the testimony of the witness
to the house, and instructions were immediately gi,
institute proceedings against it. The three young men
each fined for the assault 20s. and costs.

Several of

LIST OF PASSENGERS PER THE BRITANNIA

SEPT. 4, 1840
FOR HALIFAX.—Lord Falkland, Lady Falkland, Hon
Master Falkland and suite, Miss E. Hill, Mrs. Bovay, Mis
Moore, Mrs. Macdonald, Aitken, Mrs. Booth, Mrs
Bunker, Alexander Morris, Esq., Mrs. Morris, Rev. Henr:
Scadding, Fred. Paull, Esq., John Bogert, Esq. and lads
E. Ross, Esq., James Farish, Esq., and Mrs. Parish, Janie
Osborne, Esq., and Mrs. Osborne. John Torrance, Esq.
and Mrs. Torrance, Andrew Brand, Esq., W. H. Jeffeil
Esq., Edward Oliver, Esq., Count de Barreul, Wm. Lovett
Esq., M. Worms, Esq., Rev. George Bradburne, J. Wo
Esq., Lieutenant Blackburn, 85th regiment, E. Billing, Et
R. F. Maitland, Esq., J. Greig, Esq., Rev. W. Sommervi
Thos: G. Taylor, Esq., Edw. Nickols, Esq., John Fral
Esq., Rev. M. Ritche, Benjn. Davis, Esq., Jos. Rose
Robt. Watson, Esq., Mr. Jos. Thompson, Mr. Jno. I
Mr. J. Richardson, Mr. Geo. Barton, Mr. Gousint
Mr. Wm. Johnson.
FOR BOSTON.—AI
family, Mrs. Cuunit
Waller, W, H. Clam!
Beck, Esq., S. Adams, jun., Esq., D. B. Strac
S. Oakford, Esq., E. H. R. Lyman, Esq., J. Moor
man, Esq., J. Lawton, Esq., J. C. Johnston, Esq.,
Long, Esq., J. 11. Greene, jun., Esq., T. C. H.
Esq., M. oseph Bigwood, Esq., Charles Homer, I
J. F. C. Vies. Esq., J. de Castro Foubla, Esq., RA
Haller, Esq., David Been, Esq., Peter Allen, Esq., An
Hilliary, Esq., H. A. Newton,Esq., Richard A. Poole, I
and Master Poole, Samuel Charlesworth, Esq., J. W. Gi.,„
Esq., Fletcher, Esq., J. W. Burke, Esq., and Mr. I
Franklin. •

wander Brown, Esq., Mrs. 1
gha►n, Alfred Waller, Esq.,
:e, Esq., E. W. Tryon, Esq

The number of visitcrs to the Zoological Gardens, London,
in the month of August, was 16,248, -from whom upwards of
£6lO was taken.

HARD CASH.-"Musket balls, full bore,'
tender in Massachusetts. in 1656, and were current t
farthing a piece, provided no man was compelled to
above 12 at the time.

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Mr. Richard Smith, of Broad-street, in this city, has suc-
ceeded in so crossing the bean as to produce a beautiful va-
riety, plump, fleshy, and of a fine flavour. It is a cross be-
tween a foreign common horse-bean and the broad-bean ; and
it is very remarkable to observe the gradual improvement
which has taken place in six years. We have seen it in all
its stages, and pronounce it a - —Gardem,-
Gazette.

great acquisition

By an act of the legislature, which became raw on the 11th
August, the title of " Warden and Fellows," heretofore borne
by the Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Manchester, is
from henceforth to cease, and the warden is to be styled
" Dean," and the Fellows " Canons," of Manchester.

There is at present the eldest son of a member of her
Majesty's government, a youth of seventeen, •wandering
about the streets without a shoe to his foot, and denied relief
by his father, and threatened with a police officer if he goes
to the house ! So much for Whig-radical parental affection!

OXALIC Acin.—lt may be important to mention, espe.
cially in this suicide-loving age, that two ounces of
sia, mixed with about a quart of water, or
of common whitening, thrown into the sto
(the stomach-pump being readiest and most
such occasions), will effectually neutralist
this most active poison

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NOVEL SCENE.—On Saturday las
(lurch of High Holyhead, prey
,pectacle. The Right Rev. Ath
Jacobite bishop, from Dit
interpreter, Mr. Joussuf
visit to the Rev. Dr. Wol.,
Holyhead, With whom the bishop had (A.II, ouLusA a
when the doctor was in Mesopotamia. It having been pre-
viously announced that the right rev. bishop would present
himself at church that day, and would deliver an address in
the Arabic language, which Dr. Wolff would interpret, a very
great sensation was excited in the neighbourhood. The church
was crowded to excess, and many hundreds could not gain
admittance. The estimated number present was from twc
to three thousand persons. The rev. gentleman congratulatei
the Christian church in England on the near affinity it bore
to the oriental churches, and alluded with fervent gratitude
to Dr.- Wolff 's visit to Mesopotamia in the year 1823. Aftei
service the rush to get a sight of him was immense, he being
dressed in the oriental costume, with a fine flowing beard_
The right rev. gentleman seemed to be highly pleased, and
kept continually bowing to the assembled multitude on his
return to the rectory house, accompanied by the churchwar-
dens and neighbouring gentlemen.—Leeds Intelligencer.

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