The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-23 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING.—Since this day week
there has been rather a favourable change in our market,
especially in the demand for both cloth and yarns, and though
prices generally cannot be quoted higher than at that period,
still some kinds of cloth are 1-id. a piece dearer, whilst all
descriptions are saleable at prices not obtainable even on
Saturday. Yarns are in much better demand, and in most
numbers a slight advance may be obtained.
LEEDS.—Though the stock of goods in the Piece Halls
has increased both in bulk and assortment during the last
ten days, the purchases by the merchants have been very
limited, the sudden check given to the dealing of -the Ameri-
can houses by the recent intelligence from that continent not
yet having been removed by the subsequent arrivals. In the
warehouses chiefly connected with our domestic trade there
is a good business doing in fabrics suitable for the spring and
summer season.

HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, FEB. 16.—The change from
severe to mild weather, had its effect on this market to-day,
so that the choice in goods was greater, and buyers more nu-
merous, who purchased freely. The demand was principally
in middle and low fancy woollens, and light waistcoatings
and ladies' dresses. Prices are firm, and confidence gradually
increases. Wools are slightly looking up.
BRADFORD MARKET.—The transactions in the Piece Hall
here, on Thursday, were on a more extensive scale than those
of any market-day for the last three or four weeks, and
prices were considered very firm, though no material im-
provement can be quoted. The yarn market was also
brisker than of late, which caused the spinners to hold on for
an advance, and on some sorts they succeeded to a small ex-
tent. The wool market did not, however, manifest the
improvement.' The siles were rathei limited, and prices un-

DEBTS OF NATIONS.

'ATISTICAL RETURN OF THE REVENUES AND NATIONAL
DEBTS OF THE DIFFERENT FOREIGN POWERS IN 1841.

The following interesting return of the Revenue and Na-
tional Debt of the different Nations of the globe, has been
presented by the Chevalier Caesar Moreau, (formerly French
Consul Geperal in London, and so well known for his elabo-
rate statistical tables on the revenue, manufactories, national
productions, mortality, suicides, &c., of this country), to the
Royal Statistical Society
Austria .
Bavaria .
f i Denmark

Holland
Norway

Sweden

Switzerland
Saxony ...

Wurtenburg

Prussia
Russia

France
Great Britain

400,000,000 frs
70,731,000
35,000,000

15,000,000
8,300,000

10,450,000
30,000(000
20,000,000
220,000,000
435,000,000
1,184,525,365
1,218,650,000

1,700,000,000 frs.

265,200,000
275,000,000
845,245.000

'4,000,000

25,000,000
78,000,000

.
no national debt
65,000,000
52,000,000
721,000,000
1,500,000,000
15,800,000,000
20,245,000,000

Spain, Revenue uncertain, no correct official return.
Portugal, average.. 53,000,000 .. 158,000,000
Roman States .... 45,000,000 .. 358,000,001)
Sardinia 70.000,000 .. 99,000,000
Sicily
Greece
*Turkey Revente not known .. none
80,000,000
25,000,000
135,000,000
6;000,000
65,000,000
5,000,000
30,000,000
15,000,000

Persia
Morocco
United States
Brazils
Mexico .
Paraguay
Peru
Haiti
India Company
China ........
Japan
Siam
Average value in Gold &
France ..
England ........
Spain and Portugal
Austria and Italy .
Russia
Holland and Denmark, &e

none
231,000,000
510,000,000

none
145,473,000
145,500,000

528,000,000
985,000,000
250,000,000
0,000,000
leer in circulation in Europe, 1841
2,000,000,000 f.
1,000,000,000 f.
500,000,000 f.
500,000,000 f.
252,000,0001.
250,000,0001.

Total
* TURKEY, PERSIA, AND MOROCCO.—Despotic Govern-
ments, the Sultan. Shah, and Emperor, can claim all pro-
perty of their subjects and life.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT OF A HUSBAND TO MURDER. Has
WIFE.—A young man named Thomas Potts, a calico printer,
,residing at MitchaM, and who has only been married about
18 months, left home on Tuesd'ay, and did not return until
nine o'clock at night, and he immediately went into the room
where his wife was sitting with her mother, and without say-
ing a word he pulled a 'pistol from his pocket, presented it at
his wife, and fired it off, and the greater portion of its con-
tents passed through her cheek. A labouring man whO was
passing came into the house and seized hold of Potts, and
after a struggle forced him into a chair, and held him there
until West, the Beadle of Mitcham, arrived and secured him.
The prisoner then said, " I have done it-1 have done it—
I have mnrdered my wife, and I hope I shall be hung." The
constable asked him what he had done with the pistol, and
be produced the one he had just discharged at his wife. West
then searched him, and in one of his pockets he found ano-
ther pistol loaded to the muzzle, and in his coat pocket a
razor, and be asked Potts what he was going to do with the
razor, and he replied that he intended to have destroyed him-
self with it after he had killed his wife. Mr. Tipper, a medi-
cal gentleman of Mitcham, hid by this time arrived, and he
ascertained that the woman hid received a very severe injury,
and he administered to her the necessary assistance. The
prisoner was on Thursday -brought before the magistrates,
but as his wife was not in a epndition to give evidence, he
was remanded for a week. ,

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—A, trial for murder, attended
with circumstances of extraordinary atrocity, has just taken
place before the Court of Assizes at Brest. The frwts, as
proved in evidence, are as follow .—A man named Castel, an
armourer, resided at Brest with his wife, who appears to have
behaved virtuously and properly up to the year 1826, at which
time her husband embarked as master on board a ship of
war. On his return, after the battle of Navarino, at which
he was present, he found that his wife had been leading a
dissolute life, and she was no longer worthy of his affection;
but he forgave her, and hoped to find in her repentance some
return of the happiness which he had formerly enjoyed. The
wife, however, far from replying to the kindness of her hus-
band by good conduct, formed a connection with a married
man, named Bescond, who resided in a village adjoining
Brest, and by a long series of cruel treatment, in which she
was aided by Bescond, drove her husband mad, and he was
sent to a lunatic asylum. On his return home, cured of his
malady, the brutality of the wife and her paramour, who, as
an excuse for his frequent visits, had placed his daughter as a
boarder in the house of Castel, was increased, and it was at
length resolved, in the winter of 1839, to deprive the unfor-
tunate husband of life. For this purpose the wife pretended
that some money had been left to her husband at Havre, and
a passport was obtained for them to go to that place. They
quitted home in the evening, in company with Bescond and
his daughter, a girl of 21 yeareof age, and of Augustine Cas-
tel, the daughter of the married couple, aged 16. It was ar-
ranged with Castel that he an his wife should take leave of
these three persons at the house of Bescond, whose wife was
absent. When Castel arrived, there, some warm wine was
given to him, into which Bescond, with the knowledge of the
wife and Augustine Castel, had put a large dose of laudanum ;
and when the poison had produced its effect, Castel, pro-
bably still living, was carried at night into a field belonging
to Bescond, where the murderers, aided by the daughter of
Bescond, who does not, however, appear to have been pre-
sent at the murder, dug a grave, into which they threw the
body, and Bescond having cast over it two sacks of quick
lime, in the hope of removing all trace of the deed, the grave
was filled up. After the murder, Bescond and the guilty
widow led a life of great dissipation, frequented the theatres
and masked balls, and app`earetl totally insensible to remorse.
To persons who inquired for Castel, they replied that he had
embarked at Havre for the colonies. The murder came to
light in the following way :—The wife of Bescond, having re-
monstrated with her husband and his mistress on their
adulterous intercourse, it was resolved by them to murder
her also. The plan laid by these wretches was ovsrheard by
the daughter of Bescond, who ran to her mother and told her
to be on hgr ',nerd, or she would be served as Castel had been,
and then she related all the circumstances of the murder in
the presence of a female friend of her mother. This female
recommended that the crime should be denounced to the
Procureur du Roi ; but to this neither the mother nor the
• daughter would consent, as they wished to spare the life of
the husband and father. The female in question, however,
took an opportunity to send an anonymous letter to the Pro-
cureur du Roi, which led to the arrest of all the parties, in-
cluding the girl Bescond, and to the discovery of the body,
which was found entire, although in an advanced stage of
decomposition, having been buried more than six months,
In the grave was found a copy of the criminal code, which
had belonged:to Bescond, and the leaves of which'vere turned
down at the part relating to The proceedings in cases of mur-
der. Sixty witnesses were examined, and not the slightest
doubt existed on the minds ti: the jury as to the guilt of all
the parties, except the daughter of Bescond, who was ac-
quitted. Bescond and the widow Cdstel were sentenced to
death, and the daughter, Augustine Castel, was condemned
to impisonment in a house of correction for 10 years, at the
expiration of which she is to be plactd for 10 years underthe
surveillance of the police.

GRAND. JUNCTION RAILWAY

The following are the Times of Departure from Lime-street,
Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester

TIMES OF DEPARTURE

FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER, TO BIRMINGHAM
3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m.
6 0 a.m. Mixed i, ~ 12
8 15 a.m. First Class Pt ~ I 15 p.m.
10 30 a.m. First Class PP , f 4 , p.m.
4 p.m. Mixed
7 p.m. First Class . ~ ~ 12
FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
2 15 a.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston
at Parkside.
6 0 a.m. Mixed Train do. do. do.
11 30 a.m. First Class
2 45 p.m. First Class
2 45 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston
at Parkside.

3 30 p.m. Mixed
5 0 p.m. First Class
On Sunday the Departures will he
FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM
3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 go a.m.
8 15 a.m. Mixed ~ I SO p.m.
10 30 agn.

7 0 p.m. „
21 12
FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER.
2 15 a,m. First Class
7 30 a.m. Mixed
11 30 a.m. „
245 p.m. „
The Trains on Sundays stop at First Class Stations only.
FROM CHESTER TO CREWE.
7 0 a.m. Second Class, to meet ii a.m. Train from. Liver-
poo l and Manchester.
11 15 First Class, to meet 10 30 a.m. Train from Liver-
FROM CREWE TO CHESTER. pool and Manchester.
2 0 p.m. First Class, on arrival of 11 30 a.m. Train from
Birmingham.
6 30 p.m. Seaond Class, on arrival of 3 30 p.m. Train from
.Birmingham, and 4
p.m. Train
fro
There will be no Trains on Sundm Liverpool and Manchester.
Sunda until further notice.

BIRKENHEAD AND CHESTER RAILWAY,

(PROM GEORGE'S PIER HEAD.)
to 0 .. 12 0 I Afternoon 2 0

4 o .. 6 o

LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT

February 20, 1840

ADMITTED

DISCITARGED -
In-patients cured 22 In-patients
Relieved and at own request . 14 Out-patients
Made Out-patients o Casuals during the last week 3
Irregular 1 Remain in the house . 2lB
Dead 4

Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw and Mr. Dawson
Chaplain Rev. R. Davies.
House Visiters, John Swire and John Ripley, Esqrs.
Apothecary, Mr. W. Burgess.
House Surgeon Mr. Bran dreth.

*** Donations and Subscriptions thankfully received at Messrs,
A. Heywood, Sons and Co., and at the Infirmary.

NORTHERN HOSPITAL, FEBRUARY 20.

ADMITTED

DISCHARGED

Accidents -
Medical and Surgical cases
Upon recommendation .....

18 Cured
Attending as Out Patients
20 Irregular
Died

Remaining in-thi

to Hospital . . . 79

HousB Visiters, John Rigby, Esq. and Daniel Nielson, Esq.
Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq.
Chaplain, Rev. J. Connor.-House Surgeon, Mr. Woodward