The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-11 00:00:00

to the subject here, only to caution our contemporaries
in that neighbourhood, not to fall into the error which

caused the postponement of t 1
castle

e trial of Bolam at New-

The anxiety to publish news is very praise-

worthy as a matter of business, but when it has a

tendency to engender prejudice against an untried pri-
soner, it is little less than criminal. By the laws of
England, every man is presumed to be innocent till he

is proved to be guilty

MOORTIELDS Sotloor..—We understand that a sermon
will be preached on Sunday next, at St. Nicholas's church,
in behalf of this excellent institution, when the Mayor and
other members of the council will be present.

FANCY BALLS.—AII that the imagination can pourtray of
the graceful and beautiful is uo where so vividly realized as
in the fancy dress ball. When promenading the ball-room,
and making the acquaintance of high-born dames, gallant

feel transported to fairy

lancl, with fancy wander
gorgeous diFpFay of the r

enchanting scenes anil

It appears from
in advertise-nick that some of our townsmen have deter-
mined to enliven " the good old town" during the winter

season with a series of these balls.
THEATRE ROYAL.—MC direct the attention of our readers
to the advertisement of the Theatre Royal. Very conside-
rable attractions are announced.
PICTURE OF ADAM AND EVE.—We strongly recommend
an immediate visit to this exhibition. It will amply repay
the trouble.

LAIDLAW'S PANORAMA.—This magnificent exhibition
continues to attract crowds of visitors. We are not surprised
to find that it has given universal satbAction. The " burn-
Minster " has been pronounced by competent

ing of York

judges

-rate work of art

RCII P

'ORAL-AID SOCIETY

the months of August an
additional clergymen and
aids 275 incumbents,

—The committees for

September voted grants for eight

v assistant

population of 2,025,456

rlie society now

, on an average, the charge

age amount of their incomes is

and 135 of these incumbents are without par-
sonage houses. Previous to the aid of the society, only 309
clergymen were engaged in the pastoral care of the above-
stated population. The existing grants are •to provide
stipends for 290 clergymen and 45 lay assistants, at a charge
to the society, when all the appointments shall be made by
the incumbents, of 26,10 G per annum. 221 clergymen and
40 lay assistants are now supported in their important labours
by the society, at a charge of £20,341 per annum.

only £162

SOCIETY FOR PRO

TING CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE

It will be seen from the advertisement, that the
twenty-first anniversary of the Liverpool Auxiliary Society
for Promoting Christianity among the Jews will be held, on
Monday evening next, at the Amphitheatre. As a great
number of eminent ministers are expected to attend, to
address the meeting, the proceedings will be of a highly
interesting character. The annual sermons in aid of the
society will he preached, on Sunday next, in several of the
churches in Liverpool and its neighbourhood.
THE CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—We are'
informed that several of the directors of this railway, and
their friends, purpose to make a preparatory trip from Ches-
ter to Birkenhead this day, and that they will probably arrive
at the latter place about three in the afternoon. The general
opening will not take place for some days. A fine station-
house has been built at the terminus in Birkenhead, and the
whole of the works on the line are on the eve of completion,
in a style not to be surpassed by any other line of railway.

ADMIRABLE CONDUCT OF THE CAPTAIY OF A RIVER
STEAMER.—A few evenings ago, as the Birkenhead steamer,.
the "James," belonging to Mr. Willoughby, got to this side
of the water, and the passengers were making their way
across another steam-boat to the slit, at George's pier, an
elderly man, apparently a farmer, and his wife, of whom he
had hold, fell together from the plank between the two ves-
sels, into the water. A strong tide was running at the time ;
the night was very dark ; and they got under the paddle-
wheel, to the great alarm of the passengers. The captain of
the boat, Thomas Bennett, a fine-looking, tall young man,
who was standing at the gangway handing out the passengers,
immediately, and at great risk to himself, got into the water,
and succeeded after great exertion in saving the parties, who
but for his prompt assistance would have been drowned.
They were hauled up through the paddle-box, to the great
satisfaction of all who were present, and who loudly cheered
Bennett for his praiseworthy conduct. He received a con-
tusion of one of his legs in saving them; and though the cir-
cumstance, which he makes no boast of, and the particulars
of which we derived from another partv,ja.aome days old, its
authenticity can be vouched for; and we trest*the Humane
Society will give it their best consideration, with a view to the
encouragement of similar exertions in future on our river, in
which human life is often almost unavoidably placed in peril.

DREADFUL MURDER NEAR BRISTOL".—On Tuesday last
an inquest was held at the Dolphin, Marlborough-street, on
the body of James Pearce, employed as a watchman at a gar-
den at Upper Easton, who met his death from injuries re-
ceived at St. George's, where a prisoner was rescued (rota
him by four men not yet in custody.—Andrew Gough, jun.,
son of the proprietor of the garden, deposed—On Sunday,
'the 16th of August, about two o'clock in the morning. I
caught a man named John Thomas, a brickmaker, who lives
at Easton, stealing apples from my father's garden ; having
taken him, 1 procured' the assistance of the deceased, who
was a night constable in the neighbourhood, and we went to
St. Philip's police station, where they declined to take hint
in, as the offence had been committed in the county of
Gloucester, and they had no room. Intending to take him
to the rianham station, we proceeded that way, the prisoner,
not handcuffed, walking between us. We were near the
school at Redfield about four o'clock, when two men, James
Porter and William Thomas came up. Porter took up a
large stone, and struck the deceased several times on the
back of his head, saying, he would dash his brains out if we
did not let him go. William Thomas also struck the de-
ceased with his fists about the head. The deceased was twice
knocked down by the blows. Then the prisoner's father
came up and took the deceased away from the prisoner.
Witness continued to hold him, and Porter, who had kept
the stone in his hand, came up and struck him on the face,
as did Thomas also with his fists. -They continued to beat
them till they were near , the George and Dragon, when
Henry Fussell and George Underhill came to their assist-
ance, and drove away Thomas and Porter ; the deceased then
again took charge of the prisoner; but the prisoner's father
came•up and dragged him away and he escaped. The pri-
soner's father then caught hold of the deceased and threw
him on his back, beating his head repeatedly against the
ground. Deceased was then in a very sickly state, but did
not bleed. On the following Tuesday I saw him again ;he
was then very ill, and continued to get worse till be died.—
Several other witnesses having been called, the Jury re-
turned a verdict of WILFUL MURDER against John Thomas,
the elder, William Thomas, and James Porter, and against
• John Thomas, the younger, as an accessory. The parties
are not Net in custody.

rmt WELSH AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY.-012 Friday
last, the annual meeting of the Welsh Branch of the Liver-
pool Auxiliary Bible Society, was held in the Music-haLl,
Bold-street. The Rev. Robert Davies, M.A., the President
of the Society, in the chair. The proceeeings were wholly in
the Welsh language. The spacious room was quite full.
The chairman, in opening the business of the meeting, re-
ferred to the peculiar obligations of the natives of the princi-
pality of Wales for their high advantages ; he considered it as
peculiar to that nation, that they were more thoronghll
furnished with copies of the Holy Scriptures, than any other
people on earth, for a supply of copies of the Holy Scriptures
commensurate, or nearly so with the number of the inha-
bitants, had been obtained. In round numbers the inha-
bitants of the principality amount to 800,000. The Bible
Society has printed 441,479 copies of the Welsh Scriptures
in the course of 36 years ; if to these is added the number
published by the Christian Knowledge Society, and by pri-
vate printers, and when it is borne in mind that a large
number of the inhabitants of the principality are provided
with the English Scriptures, the conclusion may be fairly
drawn that the inhabitants of Wales are more fully and com-
pletely furnished with the Holy Scriptures than any other
nation on the globe. This is a ground of lively gratitude.

It, therefore, was the duty of a People so honoured and sO
blessed to spare no exertions to communicate to others the
advantages they have themselves abundantly possessed.
The chairman then called upon the secretary, Mr. David
Lewis, to read the report, and the treasurer, Mr. David
Davies, to read a statement of the accounts. The reuort
was highly interestingin its general character, but what.was
most gratifying was the fact, that this branch, in the last
year, had collected £422 17s. 5d., and after paying £62 17$.
5d., for Bibles and Testaments, to supply the immediate
wants of the Welsh in Liverpool, and for incidental expenses,
the society was enabled to remit to the Parent Society, for
its foreign purposes the sum of X. 360. The adoption of the
report was moved by the Rev. Jeffrey Davies, the Welsh
lecturer, at St. Paul's Church ; and seconded in a most
effective and instructive address by the Rev. Thomas
Phillips, one of the secretaries of the Parent Society. The
other resolutions were moved and seconded by the Rev. Wm•
Thomas, Henry Rees, Daniel Jones, John Hughes, Daniel
Griffiths, and Mr. Hugh Jones, in most interesting and
exciting addresses.

CHARGE OF RAPE.—At the Borough Court, Bolton, on
Monday last, George Jackson, an engineer in the service of
the trustees of the late • Ellis Fletcher, Esq. at Clifton, Was
charged with having committed a rape on Margaret, wife of
James Lever, Fairfield-street, Manchester, a married
woman, 36 years of age. According to the statement of the
prosecutrix, on last Saturday three weeks, her husband
was absent from home on a drunken spree. She had some
business to transact at Worsley,tand for that purpose went
there by the two o'clock train. Having finished her busi-
ness, she went in search of her husband to the Spindle-point
public-house in Kersley, and there found him in company
with other men, in liquor. He escaped, and five or six
others went off along with him. She went out after them,
and saw the prisoner, who asked her if she knew the men
that had gone with her husband, and she said she did not.
The prisoner then told her, that they were gamblers and
robbers. She said, " Then they will rob him ; where are
they likely to conic out at ?" The prisoner replied, "At
the Red Cat." This is a publi.--house on the road between
Manchester and the Lane Ends in Bolton. She said,
" Where is that ?" and the prisoner pointed out the road
across the moss. She said to him that she was among6t
enemies, and she wished she had a protector. The prisoner_i
then said he would protect her, and go with her to the Rid
Cat ; and, about eight o'clock in the evening, they set og
across the moss. On arriving at the Red Cat, she treated
him to a glass of rum and water, but could not meet with
her husband. He then proposed to see her back again on t°
the Manchester-road, and, as they were returning, threw her
down, and injured her side (she being pregnant), by falling
against a piece of rock. He then, whilst she was in o'B
helpless state, committed the diabolical act. The prisoner
was committed for trial for the capital offence. The case was
not heard sooner, on account of the weak state of health °
Mrs. Lever.