The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

L0C,41, NEWS.

THE LIVERPOOL SHIPPING REGISTRY.—We perceive
that the Registry Book of the Liverpool Shipping has now
commenced. It only remains for those concerned to endea-
vour to second the views of the promoters of it—its utility
and value are self-evident.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN BOLD-STREET.-00 Saturday
night, or in the course of Sunday, a daring robbery was
effected on the premises of Mr. Davis, optician, Bold-street.
The perpetrators succeeded in carrying off a large quantity
of gold and silver spectacles and eye-glasses, and every thing
portable which appeared valuable.
CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—The number
of passengers on this delightful line for four days, com-
mencing on Saturday last, amounted to 5,865. The travel-
ling is daily increasing.

TIMBER AND SALT.—The total number of loads of fir
timber imported into Liverpool and Gloucester from Prussia
during the year 1840 was 5,039 ; and the total quantity of
salt exported from the above ports to Prussia during the
same period amounted to 946,900 tons.
REMARKABLY QUICK PAssAGE.—The Lydia, belonging
to Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand, sailed from Antigua on the
evening of the Bth May, was off Holyhead on Sunday, the
30th, at 8 p.m., but in consequence of calms and thick wea-
ther, did not arrive until Wednesday morning, June 2,
making the passage to Holyhead in 21 -days, and Liverpool

GRANTS TO DISSENTERS.—From a parliamentary return
just issued, it appears that the state grants to dissenters
amount to £971,940 16s. 4d., and yet how loudly do dis-
senters rail about paying a church-rate ! The above return
opens to the mind the unreasonable scruples of persons
having, or professing to have, consciences, which forbid
them paying to an establishment of which they disapprove,
when they are actually receiving many thousand pounds
more from the taxes of the country than they contribute
towards the established church.
LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.—We beg to call the se-
rious attention of the public to the meeting of the Liverpool
Auxiliary of this society, which will take place on Tuesday
next, when, besides the gentlemen whose names are mentioned
in the advertisement, we understand the Rev. Hugh 111`Neile
will advocate the claims of the society upon the sympathy
and liberality of all triecas of scriptural education and pro-
testant truth.

CONFIRMATION.—During the present week the Right
Reverend John Bird Sumner, D.D., Bishop of Chester, has
visited several churches and administered the holy rite of
confirmation to a considerable number of young persons.
On Tuesday morning to 591, at Everton ; and in the after-
noon to 931, at St. Jude's • on Wednesday morning to 683,
at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; and in the evening to 726, at
St. Michael's ; and yesterday to 1000, at St. John the Bap-
tist's. On each occasion his lordship delivered an address,
urging his hearers, in most affectionate and striking terms, to
the due performance of their religious and moral duties, and
to a constant remembrance of the vows and promises which
they had so solemnly ratified and confirmed.
ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS FOR BIRKENHEAD.—The
following gentlemen were elected, on Tuesday last, as com-
missioners, in the place of the seven whose period of ser-
vice had expired ; J. D. Case, Esq., Messrs. D. Appleton,
Jos. Mallaby, John Laird, Wm. Jackson, J. S. Jackson.
and S. Stansfield. Messrs. Raynes, Hanson, and Ravens-
croft were elected in the room of the following gentlemen
who had resigned, Messrs. Bredribb, J. S. Jackson, and R.
Russell.

SPEEDY JUSTICE.—On Wednesday morning, at two
o'clock, a burglar attempted to enter Dr. Melson's house,
Newhall-street, Birmingham; at ten he was taken; at twelve
committed; at four pleaded guilty; at half-past five was
sentenced to ten years' transportation ; at eight he was on
his way to Warwick in the caravan; and on Saturday he was
on the sea bound for Botany Bay.
WEST INDIA PACKET STATION.—On Tuesday, in com-
mittee on the question, the Post-office authorities gave a de-
cided testimony that Bristol was, for their purposes, the
most preferable port for the departure of the mails to the
south and west.—Bristol paper.—[The inhabitants of Bristol
have evinced a laudable anxiety for the protection of the in-
terests of that city • but no suitable manifestation in favour
of the decided preference which is due to Liverpool has yet
been made. Something more is wanted than a mere petition
or memorial from the authorities.)
A RASCALLY PORTER.—Thomas Matthew, a young man
who has been employed by Messrs. Jeffery and Morish,
Compton House, was charged before Mr. Rushton, on Tues-
day, with having stolen a sum of money, the property of Mrs.
Sylvia Hathaway Delano, wife of Captain Delano, of one of
the New York packet-ships. The prosecutrix stated she
lived at No. 64, Grove-street. Being an American she was
not very well acquainted with the value of English notes.
On Wednesday last, she received from Mr. Bowman, of the
firm of Wildes, Pickersgill and Co., £25,. in three notes and
five sovereigns. On Friday last, she purchased goods at
Compton House to the amount of £4 18s. ltd., and directed
them to be sent to her lodgings. In the afternoon, between
three and four o'clock, she was about to go out, when she
gave to her landlord four sovereigns and a note, which she
believed to be a one pound note. Sho directed him to pay
for the goods, when they were brought home, and told him he
would have to receive two shillings in change. She returned
home about five o'clock, and found the goods there, and
was, on the following morning, showing them to a friend,
when she recollected that she had given to the landlord one
of the notes which she had received from Messrs. Wildes,
Pickersgill and Co., under the impression that it was a one
pound note. On examining her notes, she discovered that
the note which she had given was a ten pound note, as she
had two other £5 notes left. She bad no English or Irish
notes in her possession when she received the notes from
Mr. Bowman. That was the first paper money she had re-
ceived in England. She went immediately to Compton
House and informed Mr. Jeffery of the circumstance. Mr.
Thomas, the keeper of the lodging-house, corroborated Mrs.
Delano's testimony, and said that he gave the money to the
prisoner without looking at it, who gave him 2s. and de-
parted. The note which he gave the prisoner was not an
Irish note like that produced. The warehouseman in the
service of Messrs. Jeffery and Morish said that lie sent him
with the parcel to Mrs. Delano's, and gave him 2s. to enable
him to give change out of the £5. On the prisoner's return,
after a long absence, witness asked him for £5. He said,
" It will not be £5, but £3 18s., and the 2s. you gave me
will be £4." He produced an Irish note and three sove-
reigns and three halfpence. Witness said, " I want £5."
The prisoner said, " I have made a mistake, and only re-
ceived £3 18s 11d. I must go back for another sovereign."
The prisoner left the shop, and was absent about ten or fif-
teen minutes. He returned and produced a sovereign, say-
ing that he had a hole in his waistcoat pocket, and it had
slipped between that and the lining. The prisoner was dres-
sed in the same dress on Friday as he wore at the bar. The
Irish note was marked by the witness, and produced in
court. J. L. Franklin stated that he was a clerk in the
Bullion-office, kept by his brothers, No. 1, Lord-street.
On Friday afternoon last, the prisoner (he believed) called
at the office, and said that he wanted a£l Irish note. Wit-
ness gave him one, and he gave for it twenty shillings in sil-
ver. The prisoner then asked for change of a ten pound
note. He gave his name and address, which Mr. Franklin
wrote at the back of the note, but he did not recollect what
it was. Ile said he was a pig dealer. The note was changed,
and it afterwards passed out of their possession in the course
of business. The prisoner, in a very long defence, declared
that he only received the sum which he paid over to the
warehouseman, and that one sovereign, having passed through
a hole in his waistcoat pocket, had been concealed in the li-
ning; but his pocket was examined immediately after he was
taken into custody, and no hole was found in it. The pri-
soner was committed fer trial.