The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

SOUTH OF DEVON
more favourable appea

It appears from the proceedings at the Borough Court on
Thursday, that on the 16th ult. a letter was addressed to
Messrs. Bannerman and Sons, of Market-street, containing

two bills, c
bill was sei

ter, sib

son (supposed to be written by the prisoner), to the London
and Westminster Bank, to be presented, and to 'request an
osier for payment on Sir Benjamin Heywood and Co., bank-
ers, Manchester. A check was sent down on Heywood's.
It was proved that the prisoner called at the post-office, and
received a letter addressed to " Wm. Wilkinson." A clerk

at Heywood's bank sva
production of the letter addre
the prisoner a check for £69 15s, having received adv
of that sum being lodged in the
to the credit of a person name

sed to

I (upon thi
Wilkinson"

The other

bill for £23 Hs was also traced to the person -signing
himself " Wilkinson." A clerk to the Bury Banking Com-
pany deposed to enclosing, on the 18th ult., a check on
Messis. Jones Lloyd and Co.' of Manchester, for £47. 9s.
directed to "E. Burdekin, Esq., Bank of Manchester,"
and posting it on that day. He Also deposed that fragments
of paper produced in a paper marked 3" formed part of
the letter in which he enclosed the check in question. A
post-office clerk deposed that the letters adverted to would
reach Manchester Post-office on the evening of the 18th ult.,
and that letters addressed to the Bank of Manchester would
be put into the box of "286." That on the morning of the

19th, the prisoner came to the post-office window and called
out " 286," and 14 or 15 letters, addressed to the Bank (
Xi •

prisoner was not authorised to receive the
in the bank of Jones Lloyd and Co., Dian(
prisoner on the morning of the 19th ult., I
ment the check produced for

r, swore the
ited for pay•

something wrong, _
Lloyd stated that he saw
received the check from Mr. Br
Lloyd) detained the check and s
cheater. Mr. Edward Burdekin, a partner in Ulu
Manchester, stated that he never authorised the pris,
• fetch letters from the post-office. The letter produced .
5 numbered "1" was received by him (Mr. Burdekin) on th,
t o • it M. T I. •

he took it t

ho told him he

it to the Bank c

_qtr. Lowe, a hosier, deposed that the prisoner had
been with him upon trial about two months, and had 6s. a
week. He knew the prisoner's hand-writing well. The
letter numbered " I,' produced, and addressed to E.
Burdekin, Esq., was in the prisoner's handwriting. The
indorsement. " Thomas Brown, Preston," written across
the check produced, was in the Prisoner's handwriting. He
found in the top room of his warehouse the principal parts of
the fragments of paper produced, and folded up in pieces of
paper, numbered " 2" and " 3." The prisoner was remand-
ed until the 9th instant.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Nicholas Har-
ris Nicolas chancellor and senior knight commander of the
most distinguished order of St. Michael and St. George to
be a knight grand cross of the said order.

no year, perhaps

the last Month.

of the blal

rashness

Western Ti

The greater part of

and of course

skating was indulged in by a great number

however, is now almost entirely broken

quence of the strong winds that have lately sv
lake.—Carlisle Pairiol.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.
child two months back gave it a tin .Itig, w.
called a " barnsticle" in it ," child drat.
and the fish floated down its throat. After so.
child beccame very ill, and voided blood, when it
to Mr. Leddington, of Bilston, surgeon, who gav
cine, and the fish came from it alive and more th;
its original size. Mr. Leddington kept the. fisu
nearly two days, and has it now preserved in

the child drani

Northampton Herald,

FL TAKEN

On 1%

Whaley, an Irish tailor, who had bean %VC
for Mr. S. Thompson, Hall End, was tak
Head-Constable Wray, from Parsonstow
Ireland, on charge of having committed a
about three years ago. We learn that F.
Roger Whaley, jun., the father an
tured on Monday last
The first I serious offence, but the

punt of th

—only six months imprisons

out of the way ; but another Irish tailor having
this town to Ireland, was the means of discover
On Tuesday he.was taken to Ireland. He ha

two children behind him.—

A. WOMAN BEHEADED ON THE ?OF

RUTH RAILWAY.—On Friday t
was proceeding from Pool to her re
choosing to walk by the railway, which

Ling las'

she was overtaken by one of the trains proceed
reath ; and being thrown down with her neck
rails, her head was instantly severed from I
inquest was held on the body, and
death returned.--Plymouth Journal

verdict cf

TENTEP.DEN

'NOVEL CRICKET A'

bout 30 ac

a novel game of cricket was played o
extensive piece of water of
one company being on skates and L.
thought that about 1000 persons ass.
" ups and downs" of the competitors,
merous and highly amusing. Although
advantage in rapidity of locomotion, their

ceing, was less successful, and after

:test, their opponents bor

NOTTINGHAM REPRE

pondent of Don

ter write

a of the county c

le of active operati

in opposition t

Duke of Newcastle

raordina

betty eel

rltill, and John Graham, shoen

Brown w

Salkeld, for a trifling wager.
out and in, and Graham 100 yards ,-,
landlord of the Fish Inn, upon his back.
overweighted, carrying no less than 1r stone, con
the winning post before Brown capered east
completed his 200 yards within the time
in running 100 yards with " mine host
Brown reached the post only four yards I:
THE LATE CAP HEWITT, OF ape
a paragraph 'going them no utnhdes
Fairy,
fatithrhye, p:npde paper h
the valuable charts, drawings, &C., taken
years by Captain W. Hewitt, in her •
whole
ee
ovmfa
Captainie ujeab valuable works, e whin,,vt t,
ac taken no means to secure
I,iverieall lost with hi
cost the country £40,000.
valuable and laboriOus Work'Ls now on copper at the admi
ratty, and no charts of drawings of any
great value ars lost

1 nere is
that all