The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-17 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS

Mr. Lawrence Peel, the present Advocate-General, at
Calcutta, has been appointed Chief Justice of Bengal, in the
room of Sir Edward Ryan, who is retiring after the usual
period of service. This promotion creates a vacancy in the
responsible office of Advocate-General, which Mr. Peel has
filled since 1839.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Friday, seven men
were found guilty, for having conspired unlawfully to pro-
cure the election of Mr. Gibbs to the office of bridgemaster
of the City of London, by causing a great number of persons,
not duly qualified by law, to vote at the said election, as if
they were duly qualified voters.

At the court of common council, on Thursday, the report
of the committee upon the petition of the poor Jews who
have been long in the habit of selling old clothes in Cutler-
street, for the interference of the court to enable them to
carry on their business in the old place, or grant them other
relief, was brought up and agreed to. The report recom-
mended the removal of the old clothes sellers.

We understand that her Majesty the Queen Dowger has
munificently given another donation of £3OOO towards the
erection of the Protestant church at Malta.—Cambridge
Chronicle.

SINGULAR ACClDENT—Yesterday morning a singular ac-
cident occurred to a man named Charles Benjamin, 26 years
of age, who resides at No. 3, Lambeth-street, Whitechapel.
It appears that he was walking along the Whitechapel-road
with a pipe in his mouth when he struck against a poet, by
which the pipe was forced into his throat, and a portion of it
broken off. He fell down convulsed with agony. He was con-
veyed immediately to the London Hospital, where he remains
in a very dangerous condition.—London Times of Tuesday.
AN AUCTIONER'S RECOMMENDATION. —At a public
auction one evening this week, the auctioneer had, among
other things to dispose of, a good repeater. When recom-
mending it to the public, he made the following observations :
—" This repeater, ladies and gentlemen, is extremely useful,
both in the night and day, for on touching a spring con-
nected with its works,—if you are asleep, and your eyes
closed, it will tell you tke time by striking I The audience,
of course, had a hearty laugh at the unconscious bull of the
crier.—Westmorland Gazette.

APPOINTMENT OF GOVERNOR OF THE PRESTON HOUSE
OF CORRECTION.—We understand that the magistrates
usually attending the bench at Preston have determined, on
the 6th January next, the first day of the next Preston Ses-
sions, to appoint a successor to Captain Anthony, the pre-
sent goVernor of the Preston house of correction, who, it is
stated, has resigned that office. There are already several
candidates in the field; and, doubtless, when the vacancy be-
Comes more generally known, the nmmber will be consider-
ably increased.

WEST INDIA STEAMERS.--The town of Southampton is
unusually bustling for this season of the year, in consequence
of four of the splended steamers intended for the West India
trade bein4 now assembled in Southampton water. The
directors of the company, to whose princely liberality and
public spirit. the British public is indebted for the carrying
into effect this great enterprise, have determined to despatch
four of their magnificent ships in the course of next week from
Southampton, in order that they may take up their respective
stations in the West Indies in such order as will insure the
very utmost regularity and despatch both in obtaining and
delivering the various mails. The steamer Forth is the first
vessel to depart, and her ports of destination are—Nassau,
Havannah, New Orleans, Tampico, and Vera Cruz, and from
thence hack to the Havannah, to receive the mail on the 26th
of January for England. Lieut. R. J. Fayrer, R.N., is the
able commander selected to open this great and most important
line of steam communication. He starts in the Forth, and
will be immediately followed by the steamers Solway, Tweed,
and Clyde. Capt. Fayrer is well known as the officer who
commanded the steam-ship LiverpOol, now the Great Liver-
pool, during her six voyages from Liverpool to New York.
No one can doubt but that a wise discretion has been exer-
cised in his appointment, as well as the other gentlemen
selected to command this unrivalled fleet of vessels. We
understand that General Hamilton of Texas is going out in
the Forth with highly important matters connected with the
slave trade. with a view to arrangements at Washington, be-
fore the assembling of Congress.

WHOLESALE ROBBERY.—On Tuesday, Thomas Little-
hales was brought before John Lister, Esq., on the charge
of stealing the following articles, the property of Charles
Duxbury of this town :—one £5 note, three sovereigns, 5
yards of flannel, 1G yards of gingham, 47 yards of check, 3
yards of calico, a large quantity of bedding and wearing ap.
parel, and a number of small articles. Elizabeth Duxhury,
wife of Christopher Duxbury, beer-seller, of John-street,
deposed that on Tuesday she directed the prisoner to take
four packages of clothes, bedding, and household ware to the
canal office, in this town, to be forwarded to Liverpool, to
meet her and her husband, who, with the prisoner, intended
to set sail for America. She, her husband, and the prisoner,
all went to Liverpool together. When they went to Liver-
pool, she gave the prisoner money to pay the fare to America.
and for the carriage of the goods from Blackburn. Themoney she gave him was £l2 10s.,—four pounds of which
money he paid to the ship agent. and 3s. 6d. of which he
paid to the Canal Company in this town, to pay for the car-
riage of the goods. They received all the goods at Liver-
pool, excepting two packages, which did not arrive. They
were her husband's property. William King, bookkeeper
for Tyrer and Glover, the canal-carriers, deposed that on
Tuesday, the 7th instant, the prisoner brought one hamper,
two boxes, and a bundle, to the warehouse for carriage to
Liverpool. The hamper, the box, and tlib cover of the
bundle he knew. lie ordered one box and the hamper to be
shipped by the next boat. The box, with the bundle on the
top, and a bed-tick, filled with other goods, he ordered to be
kept until he should send some other goods that might go
altogether. The goods were entered in prisoner's name in
the office. Last Saturday, the prisoner called again at the
warehouse for the box, bundle, and the bed-tick, saying that
lie did not wish to send them, and that if they were sent to
the Boathouse Inn, he would pay the expenses. The goods
were, accordingly, thus removed, William' Whalley, inn-
keeper, deposed that the prisoner called at the Boathouse
Inn and removed the goods. It further appeared from the
evidence that the prisoner took the goods to the Bowling-
green Inn, where he opened the parcels. lie then said that
he had received the goods from a sister, who lived in Liver-
pool. Police. sergeant Marquis deposed that, in consequence
of information which he had received he apprehended the
prisoner in the Bowling-green Inn: The goods were also
seized. They were the produced. same that were then The
prisoner was committed to take his trial.—Blackburn
Standard.