The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

Loral 41.035.

'On Friday, Mr. John F. Stevenson, of Birkenhead, was
-admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
The Mayor has benevolently sent a donation of £5 to
the Licensed Victuallers' Society.
On the 15th ult., Mary Furlong, aged 69,. was run over
by a spring cart in Duke-street. She died on Wednesday
from the injuries.
On Friday, a lad, fourteen years old, was killed in the
hold of the Ocean Monarch by a barrel of turpentine
falling on him.
A man attempted to commit suicide by hanging him-
self, in Gasgoyne-street, on Tuesday night. He was dis-
sovered by a neighbour and cut down.
A child, seven years old, named Maria Reynolds, living
in Kew-street, was burnt to death on Tuesday, through
her clothes catching fire.
On Thursday morning, an aged female, named Frances
Hammond, was found dead in bed. Her death was con-
gestion of the lungs.
On Thursday night, as a seaman, named Peter Jordan,
belonging to the General Parkhill, lying in the Prince's
Dock, was stepping to the quay from the vessel, he fell
in, and was drowned.
Mr. Winch, Mr. Mann. and Mr. Hassall, a deputation
from the Wallasey Commissioners, and Mr. Fletcher, had
an interview with the Commissioners of her Majesty's
Woods and Forests, on Tuesday.
HEALTH OF THE BOROUGH.—The reports of the me-
.clical officers continue to be unfavourable. Influenza
prevails to a great extent as an epidemic, and diseases of
the chest and lungs are very rife.
The workmen engaged in preparing the foundation of
the Sailors' Home, lately discovered a farthing of Charles
11, in perfect preservation, embedded in the dried sand or
silt. It will be recollected that the site of the Sailor's
Home once formed the bed of the pool.
THE PARLIAMENTARY FRANCHISE OF THE BO-
ROUGH.—From the list of voters just published, we per-
ceive that the number of voters for the next year is
17,320, being an increase of 316 over the list of last year.
There were only 17,004 names on the list for that period.
On Friday, about midnight, Mr. A. B. Morris and his
-wife were attacked as they were going along Price-street,
Birkenhead, by four men, who knocked Mr. Morris down
and ran off with his groceries. The police succeeded in
'capturing one of them.
On Monday morning, a woman of intemperate habits,

named Hill, was found dead in the privy of a beerhouse
in Mill-street, Toxteth-park. The husband was applied
to,in order to have the body removed to his residence,
but he refused to admit it, and it was afterwards taken in
a cart to the dead-house. The woman, when intoxicated,
was in the habit of sleeping in the privy, with the sanction
of the owner.
NEW REGULATIONS AT THE LIVERPOOL POST-OFFICE.
—To afford the utmost possible time to the public, and to
facilitate the dispatch of the mails, it is announced that
letters posted within half an hour from the time fixed for
-closing the box, will be forwarded by the first mail, if, in
addition to the postage-stamp, an extra stamp be affixed
on the letter, for the late fee. For letters posted beyond
the above half-hour, and within ten minutes of the time
fixed for the dispatch of the mail, three extra stamps must
be added to those required to cover the weight of the
letter.
STRANGE THEFT OF LEAD.—Last week, a " navvy,"
named Bernard Taylor, who resided in Field-street, Bir-
kenhead, was tried at Knutsford sessions for stealing a
considerable quantity of lead, the property of the Birken-
head Commissioners, but acquitted, owing to some flaw
in the indictment. He has, however, been re-arrested on
similar charge. His manner of carrying off the booty
was unusual. He was employed on the railways, and ap-
pears to have melted the lead at the works, cast it in his
breakfast tin, and when discovered, the tin, full of lead,
was found suspended by a string round his neek, and con-
cealed beneath his clothes.
BOYDELL AND WILLIAMS' BANICRUPTCY.—At the
Bankruptcy Court, on Friday, these bankrupts, who are
timber dealers, and house, &c. agents, in Liverpool and
Birkenhead, appeared before Mr. Sergeant Ludlow for
the purpose of passing their last examination. Their
passing, was, however, opposed by Mr. Dodge, on the
' ground that their accounts were not satisfaLtory, the ab-
straction of a number of leaves from one of their books,
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and that questionable bills of exchange to the amount of
X 30,275 were current at the time of the bankruptcy.
Ultimately, the Learned Commissioner granted the ad-
journment as, prayed for.
' THE SCHOOLMASTER "AT HOME."—The following
note, exhibiting perhaps too low an estimate of the scho-
lastic profession, was picked up in the Exhibition-rooms,
. Postoffice-place, last week, and is too good to be allowed
to pass unnoticed into an inglorious oblivion. We would
recommend the writer, before proceeding further in his
or her " labour of love," to pay a visit to the establish-
ment of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson. Clayton-square, to
whose classes for adults we have frequently 'directed at-
tention :—" Miss —, i Beg to state to you the reson
Why cathrine has Ben kept at home she has not lernd
Anything since she came to scool And i kept her at home
to Tech her. "
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MURDER.—About seven o'clock on Monday night, a man
was stabbed in a drunken row, by two boatmen, in Challo-
ner-street. He was removed to the hospital. The man
who committed this atrocious act escaped. The English
people are evincing as great a partiality for the knife as
the Spaniard for the poinard, or the back woodsman for
the bowie knife. He expired in the hospital on Wednes-
day morning. The men who stabbed him are in custody.
They were, on Thursday, committed on the coroner's
warrant to take their trial at the assizes; they are bro-
thers, named John and Thomas Roderigo. The deceased,
Michael Haddikin, was only nineteen years of age.
On Thursday, the Mayor entertained at dinner, at the
Town-hall, the Earl of Sefton, Sir John Tobin, and
various of the magisterial and governmental chiefs of this
part of the country, including the Mayor of Manchester,
Mt. Stipendiary Rushton, Mr, Arnaud, officers of the
army and navy, &c., &c. The banquets of the late
Mayor were a universally acknowledged improvement on
that stiff and silent burlesque of a Quakers' meeting,
which, once characterised the Town-hall dining-room.
The present Mayor, by providing good music, as well as
good viands and good speeches, vies with the popular
banquets of his predecessor. Lord: Sefton and the com-
pany generally, are said to have been much gratified with
this kind of agreeable civic reunion. And the patriarch
of our. merchant princes, Sir John Tobin, now verging on
his ninetieth year, seemed " the lion of the evening."
MANSLAUGHTER.—On Saturday week a poor woman,
named Susannah Pulford, was run over near Linacre-
bridge, and received several injuries. It appeared she
was walking along the footpath, when two horses, ridden
by George Lunt and Robert Smith, crossed the bridge at
a rapid pace, 'and one of them getting on the path where
she was walking, knocked her down. She was much in-
jured, and died on Monday last at the Northern Hospital.
It was Stated that after the unfortunate woman was
knocked down the men galloped off. Smith acknowledged
that it was he who rode over her. Since her death the
officer apprehended Lunt, who appeared before the coro-
ner on Wednesday, but Smith could not be found. Lunt
said that he rode the second horse, but he was on the
opposite side of the road to where the deceased was walk-
ing. It was Smith's horse that knocked her down. The
ry found a verdict of manslaughter against Smith and
Lunt.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Wm. Leverett, one of the oldest officers in our
police force;- has been appointed head constable of the
constabulary force in Bradford.
ihoAmy.—on Saturday Richard Noble was charged
With this offence. The first marriage was solemnised 16
years ago, and two years since he married Jane Flitcroft.
The case was postponed to produce a witness of the first
marriage.
On Saturday Elizabeth Lloyd, a servant girl at Mrs.
Smith's, publican, Upper Parliament-street, was com-
mitted for trial by Mr. Rushton, charged with stealing
three watches, belonging to different travellers staying at
the house.
COMMITTAL' OF A MARINE STORE DEALER.—Jane
Maguire, the keeper of a marine store, in Chisenhale-
street, was on Wednesday committed for trial, at the
sessions, for having in her possession some iron bars, al-
leged to be stolen from warehouse cellar windows, in
Bixon-street and William-street, belonging to Messrs.
Fielden Brothers and Co.
CELLAR OCCUPATIONS.—On Tuesday, twenty-seven
informations, against persons letting cellars, were heard
at the Police-court, and the usual fine inflicted. It is
somewhat singular that more than one-half the fines al-
ready, inflicted have been promptly paid. More than a
hundred streets have been cleared by the officers of the
Health ComnSittee, and upwards of thirty persons have
been sent to gaol, for non-payment.
A FEMALE STREET ROBBER.—On Friday night a police-
men, whilst on duty at Marybone, observed a young wo-
man named Caroline Roberts knock down a stout seaman
and rifle his pockets. She was brought before Mr. Rush-
ton on Saturday. The prosecutor said he was so drunk at
the time that he -knew nothing about it. The prisoner
pleaded that they had been drinking together two nights,
and obtained her discharge.
A JUVENILE ASSASSIN.—A boy, twelve years of age,
, named Patrick M`Larkey, was brought up, charged with
stabbing Thomas Tooley, a lad about the same age. It
appeared that on the previous day the prisoner was stand-
ing near the Clarence Pier, cutting something with a
knife.he held in hia hand, when, for some reason, which
did not appear evidence, he rushed upon the com-
plainant and stabbed him. The wound was not of a seri-
ous character. The prisoner said, in his defence, that he
did make a stab, but it was with a nail. He was fined
20s. and costs, and in default of payment committed to
gaol for one month.
ROBBERY BY A CHILD; STRANGE PURCHASE.—On
Satarday Paul Booth, a little fellow who could not be
above eight
years of age, and whose head was scarcely vi-
sible above the dock, was charged with having stolen, in
Mill-street, a table and chair, and two elderly females,
who had bought the articles, attended to give evidence
against him. The goods had been stoler by the boy, as
we understood, from the house of a Mrs. Styles. From
questions put by the bench, it appeared that the witnesses
had bought the furniture from the boy at a nominal
amount, and had not even asked him who was the owner.
Mr. Rushton said he had a good mind to send the pur-
chasers to gaol instead of the boy. He ordered them to
restore the articles to the owner without pay, and the
prisoner was discharged.
INFORMATIONS UNDER THE BUILDING ACT.—On
Friday last, Joseph Parry was summoned by Mr. William
Johnson, one of the building surveyors, for fixing up
!three cast iron story-posts under the beams of three
shops, now being erected by him in St. James's-place,
contrary to the 49th section of the Building Act, which
'enacts that story-posts shall not be fixed higher than the
level of the ceiling of the ground floor :of the buildings ,
-to which the same belong. It appeared that the story--
posts were put up according to the directions of the ar-=
chitect, Mr. Ellis, who refused to "alter "them when re--,