The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-19 00:00:00

P6STOFFICE.PLACE GALLERY

TN this EXHIBITION will be found PICTURES, by the
Old and Modern Masters, of the very highest quality
and class. Amongst the most remarkable, to which Public
attention is particularly drawn, are
THE CASA DE LORETTO, by DOMENICHINO, from the
Gallery of his Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca.

ST. JEROME, by
_linneNs- and VANDYCK, purchased of

the Maresehal Soult

ST. JEROME, by SPAGNOLLETO, from the collection of
Lucien Buonaparte.
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1 CHRIST BEARING HIS CROSS, by SEBASTIAN° DEI

Punts°.
A HOLY FAMILY, by PARMEGIANO.
A SEA VIEW, by BACKHUYSEN.
ST. CECILIA, by DOMENICHINO.
A ROAD-SIDE PUBLIC-HOUSE, by GEO. MORLAND.

A FINE LANDSCAPE, by GASPAR POUSSIN.
And President WEST'S celebrated Picture of the

BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR & DEATH OF NELSON,
for which 1000 Guineas was originally paid.
Admission, Is.—The Room is brilliantly Lighted by Gas
in the Evening. JOHN BENTLEY, Keeper.

WANTED, a MISTRESS for the Infant School in con-
nexion with St. John the Baptist's Church, Toxteth-

Application to be made, between the hours of nine and ten
a.m., to the Rev. JAMES HASSALL, Wellington-place, Tox-
teth-park.

CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.
THE next HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of
the PROPRIETORS will be held, pursuant to the Act
of Incorporation, on SATURDAY, the 10th day of April, at
the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. _

The Chair will be taken at Twelve o'clock precisely.
And in further pursuance of the said Act, the Transfer
Books of the Company will-be closed on MONDAY, the 29th
day of March, and will not be re-opened until MONDAY, the
12th day of April. WM. DIXON,
Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Liverpool, 1811 s March, 1841.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a GENERAL
MEETING of the LIVERPOOL GAS-LIGHT
COMPANY will be held, at the Company's Office, in Dale-
street, Liverpool, on MONDAY, the 19th day of April next,
at Twelve o'clock at Noon, to consider and approve of the
Bill now before Parliament, intituled " A Bill to alter,
amend, and enlarge the powers and provisions of an Act for
Lighting with Gas the Port and Town of Liverpool and
Township of Toxteth-park, in the county of Lancaster, and
for Lighting with Gas the several Townships of West Derby,
Everton. Kirkdale, Walton-on the-Hill, Bootle -eurn-Lina-
ere, Litherland, Great Crosby, Wavertree, and Garston, in
the county of Lancaster." Dated this 18th day of March,
1841. THOMAS CARSON,

Solicitor to the Company

GREAT REDUCTION IN THE INSURANCE OF
FARMING STOCK.
COUNTY FIRE OFFICE,
REGENT-STEEET, PICCADILLY,
ESTABISRED 1807.
Trustees.
His Grace the Duke of Rutland, K.G
The Marquis of Northampton.
The Right Hon. Lord Northwick
Glynne Earle Welby, Esq., M.P.
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq.
Barber Beaumont, Esq., F.A.S
And Sixty Directors

F.G.S

TN consequence of the diminution of incendiary practices
IN
on the property of Farmers during the last few years, the
Directors of the County Fire Office feel enabled to reduce
the premium for the Insurance of Farming Stock to Is. 9d.
per cent., without the average clause, and Is. 3d. with the
average lause.
It is now Thirty-three years since the County Fire Office
was instituted, for the express benefit of country residents,
and under the supervision of local Directors—it has been
eminently successful—it is the only Fire Office that has made
regular and large returns to the parties insured. Thesehave
been constant, and have amounted to £123,000. During
the above period upwards of Forty Insurance Offices have
broken up, some with the loss of every thing. Among the
extraordinary number which have recently sprung up, many
are evidently not intended to last. The exposures which
have lately taken place of some of these fraudulent schemes,
and the misery they have brought on a multitude of merito-
rious but credulous persons, who had deposited all they had
saved in them, are a warning that ought not to be disregarded.
WM. FORS H AW Agent at Liverpool, Dale-street.
VINCENT CHALONER Ditto, Wapping-corner.
Thomas Bolton Blackburn.
Robert Moscrop Bolton.

Thomas Rawsttiorne

Lancaster

George Woollaw

Manchester

Samuel Fletcher

Oldham

R. Benson, jun

Preston

H. H. Fisli‘;ick

Rochdale

Woodcock and Part Wigan.
Who are also Agents for the PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE

APPREHENSION AND COMMITTAL OF A BANK-
RUPT CHARGED WITH FELONY.

BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.—Some few

months ago, William Dalton Dauncey, a young stripling
scarcely of age, and apparently carrying on an extensive bu-
siness in the iron trade in this town, was suddenly declared
a bankrupt. He and his family had not been known in Bir-
mingham for more than two years, and his rise was, to all

acquainted with the trade of th-e town, somewhat wonderful.

Hi 43 fate has proved disastrous to those who have been duped
by his knaveries. Various are said to have been the schemes

by which he contrived to raise heavy stocks of iron from the

adjacent districts, and these when Obtained were as speedily
at reduced prices turned into money. At length, in Sep-
tember last, the bubble burst, and Dauncey then residing
with his father (who a few months before retired from the
business), was declared a bankrupt; and his debts for iron
and uponbills (some of a very questionable character), found
upon examination to amount to between X 15,000 and £20,000.
soon at prompt steps were taken to bring him to account,
_ . .

Dauncey and the whole of his family quitted Birmingham,

and it was not until some weeks afferWards that the tither.

and some other members were found residing in the neigh..
bourhood of Worcester. The bankrupt was, however, still

missing, and .after fruitless journeys :to Bristol and other

outports, the police were inclined almost to abandon all

hopes of his apprehension. It would appear that recently a
clue was obtained to the place of his retreat, and very fortu-
nately he is now safely lodged in Warwicl: Gaol.
The following are the circumstances of his arrest ; On
Tuesday, March 2d, Mr. Superintendent Stephens left Bir-
mingham for the continent in pursuit of the fugitives, and
on the following Friday arrived by the Neptune steamer at
Cuxhaven. Owing. however, to the Elbe being frozen over,
he was obliged t.) I,roceed to Hamburg by drosiiky, and thence
by sledge to Hamburgh. By the assistance of the British
consul and the police, he there learnt that a person answering
to the prisoner's description, and travelling by the name of
Fortescue, had been residing at Brunswick, but had returned
the previous week to Hamburgh. For the last few days, how-
ever, in consequence of his having been served with a sum-
mons to appear before the senators, to give an account of him-
self, he had not been seen, and no tidings could be heard of
him in the city and neighbourhood. Knowing Dauncey's gay
habits, Mr. Stephens on the Sunday visited all the places
of public amusement, with the hope of meeting him ; but
in vain ; and on the following day he ascertained that a person
answering Dauncey's description had proceeded on Saturday
morning by sledge to Cuxhaven. He represented himself on
his travels as a lieutenant in the royal navy ; that his father

allowed him £5OO per annum, and the English government
7s. 6d. a day, and stated that a friend of his had taken his
luggage the previous day to Cuxhaven. With difficulty Mr.
Stephens obtained a hand-sledge to cross the Elbe, the ice
being in a very unsafe state. He left Hambnrgh at 12 o'clock
p. m. on Tuesday, the 9th instant, and arrived at Cuxhaven,
tracing Dauncey all the way, at half-past seven o'clock on
Wednesday evening. He immediately waited upon Mr.
Dutton, the English consul, who advised him to wait upon
the governor, who was then attending a ball for the benefit of
the poor. Mr. Dalton accompanied Mr. Stephens to the
governor, and upon the person of Dauncey being described,
the governor, that a young man answering to his descrip-
tion was then in the ball-room, and directed Mr. Stephens
to look through the window and see if he could identify
him. Mr. Stephens, in obedience to the directions of the
governor, surveyed the company, and immediately pointed
out the object of his pursuit, apparently participating with
great spirit in the gaities and festivities of the evening. An
officer was instruct: d to call him out of the room, and upon
being asked his name, he stated it was Ducie. Mr. Stephens
immediately confronted him, and asked if he did not know
a Mr. Solly, ironmaster, of Birmingham. The prisoner
denied ever having been in Birminghrm, and dared him at
his peril to take him into custody. He was conveyed to the
Castle, and upon examination only Bd. was found in the pri-
soner's pocket. Dauncey was delivered into Mr. Stephens's
custody, on board the llamburgh steamer; at four o'clock on
Thursday morning, and arrived in London on,Siinday, and
and thence proceeded to this town.
During the voyage Dauncey admitted that he was the pet -
son of whom Mr. Stephens was in search, and made par-
ticular inquiries respecting his female acquaintance in Bir-

mingham.
This afternoon the prisoner, who is a remarkably young-
looking man, was brought up before Mr. W. Chance, the
mayor, and Mr. I'. Clark, at the public-office for exami-

nation.
Mr. Colniore, solicitor, appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. E. Wright in defence of the prisoner.
The Court was crowded to excess. Dauncey appeared to
be utterg careless of the proceedings.
Mr. ohnore, solicitor, who appeared on the part of
the prosecution, said the magistrates might probably be
aware that a commission of bankruptcy was issued against the
prisooPx a few months ago, but he had never to that day sue-
renlered to pass his exaniation before the commissioners. This
fiat was issued on the I lth Sept. 1840, and the final examina-
tion of the bankrupt fixed for the 27th Oct. in the same year.
It was enacted by the Gth Geo. IV., c. 16 s. 112, that any
bankrupt not surrendering to the commissioners after due
notice his bankruptcy, shall be deemed guilty of felony ;
and the prisoner not having surrendered, stood before the
magistrates on a charge ot felony, for which, if convicted, he
would be liable to transportation for life.
Mr. R. T. Hodgson was then called, and upon being
sworn, stated that he was one of the solicitors prosecuting
the fiat of bankruptcy issued against the prisoner. Witness
produced the fiat, and proven that the prisoner was duly de-
clared a bankrupt, but had never surrendered himself to the
commissioners.
Mr. Thomas Hancocks, sheriff's officer, deposed, that he
was messenger under the fiat of bankruptcy issued against the
prisoner. On the 15th of September, the day after the fiat
was opened, he left a summons, signed by the commission-
ers, callirg upon the prisoner to surrender on the 27th of
October. 'When he left the summons, the prisoner, his
father, mother, and all the family were gone, and he had not
seen the prisoner from that time until the present. Nobody
knew where they were gone to. Witness afterwards went in
pursuit of the prisoner to Worcester and Gloucester, but
was unable to meet with him. He saw his father, mother,
and sister in the neighbourhood of Worcester, but they stated
they did not know where he was, nor had ever heard from
him.

Mr. Colmore said this was the only evidence he should at
present offer against the prisoner.
Mr. Wright addressed the magistrates for the prisoner,
who, after some discussion as to whether bail should be taken,
was committed to take his trial at the ensuing Warwick
assizes.

If a tree is felled, why has it no right to complain? D') e
give it up ? Because it was axed whether it ‘N ould or not.

COLLISION OFF CORK n A RBOUR.—On Friday morning,
about half-past nine o'clock, the schooner Abet, from Swan-
sea to Cork, coal laden, ran foul, in the dense fog, of the
barque Royal Saxon, bound with emigrants from London to
Cork, on voyage to Port Philip, New South Wales, by which
she became so injured that, notwithstanding every exertion
was made by the crew on board of the latter vessel, in two
hours after the accident the Abet foundered. One of the
crew of the unfortunate vessel gained the deck of the Royal
Saxon immediately on the collision taking place, by leapt
into her, but another man, while endeavouring to follow h is
example fell into the sea, and was with difficulty picked up
by a boat from the barque, in an exhausted state. The -re-
mainder of the crew of the Abet saved their lives by lowering
me of their boats, into which they got, and reached the
Royal Savon. The emigrant ship, which did out receive the
slightest injury, came Into the
ot* harbour on Saturday. The
Abet was the prov
"me Ontic saorobagte.