The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-29 00:00:00

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MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMAHY.—Dr. .Wood, _ of' .
chester, was-on Thursday list elected physiCiaia of thd Rota,.
Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum, in the room of the late Dr::
Carbett.
A country paper states that the difficulty of getting labouterti
in the neighbourhood of Barnsley, is, becoming very general
Mans farmershave been much put about for want of "thrashers.';
We beg to point the attention of John O'Connell to this
There is a safe speculation before hiei in his own peculiar line."
Among the youthful debutantes at the Drawing:room on
Thursday Were, Miss Vietotia Long Wellesley, graud-daughter
of Lord Marvborough, and great niece to the Duke of Welling-
ton.; Lady Georgiana Herbert,. fourth daughter of Countess
Pembroke; Miss OtvraV, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir Itobt:
Waller Otway; the Hon, Miss Eiskine, ,daughter of Lord
Erskine; and Miss Bury, daughter of Lady C. Bury,
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SALE OF THE Couatr OF CARLOW.—fir. ilarov has given
notice of a call of the House of Cotninons,on the 21st April, for
the purpose of re-agitating the O'Connell and Raphael affair.
Daniel, however, according to present appearances is not likely.
to be a member of parliament at that I;oie. Thc.evidence taken
before the committee of inquiry will thus be reievied by the
whole house.

REMARKABLE CASE OF FORGERT.—One of the most singu- •
lar crimes which ever occurred in the annals of crime too
place during the assizes, and the particulars are of such a strung
nature that our readers will understand them better by a plain
narrative than if we were to, go through all the formal oetailsoif
a trial. At the latter end of last week a respectable looking
person, attired in black, with a gold ring on one of his fingers;
and having all the address and manners of one accustomed to -
move in a genteel sphere, arrived in this city by the Newcastle
coach. He stated his name to be JaMes Thompson, and that
he came from Liverpool. What his object was in visiting Car-
lisle, appears to have been a mystery on Sunday he attended
church twice, and heard the 'Rev. J. Fawcett. On Monday
morning he called upon that clergyman, and stated that he was
entitled to an annuity, but in order to draw the moues it was
necessary that he should have the certificate of a clergyman,
that he was resident in the parish for which that gentlemen
officiated. Mr. Fawcett complied-with the request, and during
the day Mr. Thompson, if that be his twine, diew a cheque on
-the house of Curtis and Co., London, payable to the Rev. J.
Fawcett, or order, and endorsed it with a bad ituitate,n of the
rev. gentleman's writing, on account et' James Thompson. lie
took the document to Messrs, Wakefield's bank, in this city,
-and desired cash fur it, but it was altogether so informal a proe
seeding, and so unusual for the Rev. John Fawcett, that the
clerk immediately declined cashing it. Thompson then took it.
away, and actually went to the police-office, charged himself
with the commission of forget'', and desired to be taken into
custody, asking if the judges were still sitting, and whether he
could be tried these assizes. Upon this he was committed, and
arraigned,.and at.first,pleaded guilty, lent as considerable-doubt
existed whether that kind of forgery came, within the statute, he
was persuaded to-retract his plea, and after some argument as
to the form, in which every individual conceited appeared in-
terested for the prisoner, Lord Denman decided that as the en;
dorsement *as not at all necessary for the deed, forgery could
not be construed, and the prisoner was thereupon acquitted:
During the time he was in the duck he was in an agony of tears,
and shrouded his face as much as possible With his hands. From
all that we have heard of his conduct. we should say that the
unfortunate man, if not insane, is suffering under some extra-
ordinary delusion of wino: it is said that domestic affliction has
something to do with this sit ange history.
MANCHESTER BLIND ASYLUM AND' -DEAF AND DUMB,
SCHOOL.—On the Wednesday the foundation stone of a range
of Ineildings, to comprise an asylum for the blind, endowed by
the late Thomas Renshaw, Esq., and a school for the deaf and
dumb, was laid by Win. Grant, Esq The site of the intended
buildings is near the Botanic Gardens, Manchester, and the
necessary funds have been raised by public subsetiptionsa
After the stone had been laid, one of the scholars of the Deaf
and Dumb School, whom. Mr.Binghein stated to be deaf and
now learning to speak, delivered in an intelligible manner the
following brief address from the top of the new-laid stone, on
which he was elevated "In the name of my schoolfellows and
myself, allow me to give oar best thanks for your goodness in
building a school for us in so pretty a place. Vt e look with •
much pleasure to the time when we shall live here to enjoy the
country air; and hope our good conduct will in sonic degree
merit the kind patronage you have su liberally bestowed upon
us." (Cheers )
COMPARATIVE STATE OP THE Two CALENDARS —The
calendar for the -northern division contains but twelve pri-
soners, whilit in that for the southern one there are no less than
sixty. Now with every desire to regard in the most serious
manner, the vested or prescriptive rights of towns and itidividu
als, we think that the hundreds of West Derby and Salford
' which thus prove themselves the prolific sources of crime, have
at the saute time proved that they are well entitled to the in-
dulgence of an adjournment of the assizes. And as an act of
justice has thus been done to the southern division, it will be
impossible much longer to delay the performance of a similar
one to the northern division, by adopting an altered mode of
applying the funds raised from the general assessment for
county purposes. leis not to be supposed for a moment, that
the inhabitants of the northern division will allow themselves to
be taxed for the great outlay and perpetual certain great ex-
penditure that will be required for the Liverpool assizes, and by
making Kiskdale prison a county gaol. Mr. Greene, the hon.
member for Lancaster, had is notice for a motien •ou this its- -
portant subject, which he purposed to go into at the adjourned
annual -sessions last year, but which he desired for the then
pre-sent time to postpone. 'As, however, we believe that he is
fully persuaded of the justice of the principle involved in such IL
motion, we trust the subject has since °templed his attention;
and that he nil! be• enabled to present the meastatein so self:
evident a light to his colleagues in the magistracy as to ittiture.
for it a speedy adOption.—Peesion
ORANUE LODGES IN MANCHESTER.-00 11/410Dday evening
the remaining Lodges of the late Orange Society in this town;
dissolved themselves- according to the expressed' wish of their
Sovereign-, William the Fourth, and the Lodge "No. 221, having
a sword in their possession which was used et the battle of the
Boyne, presented the same to their DiStrict Master, as a token
f respect for his services, he 'being the -IcUnder Of the atmee
Lodge.—On Satnrciay evening No. 40 Loyal Orange Lodge,
meeting at the Coachntakers Arms, dissolted itself according •
to agreement of the 'Astrid, it§ members at the same time ex-
pressiug-theit detelatinatiou to adhere to the principles Oa which
they had always acted.
Poop's RATES-ASSESSMENT or PROPERTY.—A measure
is now before parliament, and is making. its way very quietly
through the House of Commons, which, if carried,,wili effect
a great change in the management of parOdifel .afiai're in thin
country. It is entitled a " gill to regulate` athchial atsess-.
ments," and its main object is to enrolee the'air*srieent of all
property to the poor's rate upon the rack-rittilctg..r, in its own
phraseology, "upon an estimate of-the nee anuilial"value" of
premises, " that is to say, of the rent at which the same might
be let from year to year, deducting therefrom the. probable
average annual cost of the repairs or other eepenses.necessary
to maintain them in a state to command ends rent." • These
assessments are to he made by officers to be appointed by the
Board of Guardians of the var;ous unions funned or rosining
under the poor law Act. Ihe officers are to be called Parochial
Rate Collectors; they are to lay all rates; " and all the powers,
authorities, duties and liabilities now by la* invested in church-
wardens and overseers of parishes, for the snaking, assessing,
levying, collecting or recovering such rates, and with respect to,
every other matter Or thing concerning Bitch rates, shall be,
ar. d are, hereby vested in and upon the said• colleoor so ap
pointed; and the said churchwardens and everseets are thence-
forivard discharged therefrom." The appuintment of collectors
is subject to the control of the Poor Law Commissioners, who, •
'" at any time when they shall think tit." may diSmiss them.
Their rates and assessments may be appealed against to a special
petty session to be held fur the purpose—instead of the quitter
session. By this sweeping enactment all portlier &dila)! over
churchwaidens and overseers in regard to the amount and ap--
plieutiOn of rates is withdrawn—a provision wholly at variance
with the so-much applauded doctrine that the people shall have
a voice in the expenditure of their own money: That voice
they now possess in more ways than one—especielly they have
the means of chastising or censuring unfaithful officers at theit'
annual meetings; but so soon as the " Parochial hate Chllectors"
hold their appointment at the mercy of the Pont. Law Commis-
sioners, whose minions they must be, •the people lose all voice '
and all control. Thus another arm is given to this leviathan
Poor Law Commission—the huge job of the whig radical min-
istry. The people will do wisely to watch the bill; their interests'
are deeply staked in it.
We are enabled to state that the Chancellor of the Exchequeel
intends that the reduction on newspaper stamps to one peony,
shall come into operation on the sth of July next. We are
also informed that the right hon. gentleman intends to propose
a higher stamp ditty on supplements or double sheets: If the,
double sheet does not contain more than a certain Member of
superficial inches of composition (the number bf inches met yet •
decided) the stamp is to be three halfpence, if above that num-
ber the stamp will be twopence.—Standstirf..
-A meeting was held at-the London Coffee House on Tuesday;
to establish a society for the Protection of Life from fire.
Charley Pearson said, now that the Protector Fire Office was •
no more, the best way was to " get in the Sun and keep in the
Sun, as he always did." The Lord Mayor said little. and re-'.
ceived the thanks of the meeting for his conduct in the chair.
Alderman Atkins was at his post ; and Mr. Wakley gave an
interesting accennt of his iiie-escape, which deeply excited the
attention of all present. Soup was then served—subscriptions
entered into—and the meeting separated:
THE LATE Loan SON ous.—The last moments of this noble-

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minded peer were disiinguished by the peculiarity which cha-
racterised his walk through life. . Few individuals. perhaps none;
ever looked on the " pale niessenger'• or death with greater
composure or more manly firmness. • On the morning of the
day he died he intimated to his surgeon the insolence of tapping ;
and when informed that the operation would endaug,er his life,
he enelaimed. with much emphasis, " What ! tell me whet her
you think I shall outlive the day ?" " I fear not," answered the
surgeon: " Do.yOu (he then eiintinned) think I• shall live att
hour or two yffi,Lt.' That is doubtful," responded his attendant:r
"'Chen call Alititss," (the present lord,) on whose appearance'
he I am i,ti, vou succeed me here." After
thiscl(ll
he' trade said, "
leseVeMrallel' legacies to the amount or £7400-to his
sor‘reon, three or four of his tenants, and housekeeper, with
£5OO to his nurse (a Canterbury woman.) Desiring stone wine,
it was handed him, when he said, " You'll soon follow the; may
(o
sins, and all of yours. I hope see
e shall meet
in3ad betterfo' forgive
world."
n merlV Shortly aft ens arils, the wine reviving him,
he turned round and exclaitned, " Death is a ltmg time doing
his work, is he not ?" He expressed to those atoned the you:
ed fr"nbl,lhhis nurse, he
sciousness of feeling perfectly happy, and was oecasiiinallt„fr:tilit'adi
to repeat certain portions of Pope's celebrated hy:',17.:::,..i,
are
you
&c. To those affected to weeping, he ss?d,
~,v, '
you crying for?—don't weep for me—l 0 111 ha 1nq,..'1,t,d l'
to few
is
minutes berme his d,-cease he was remov
chair, where. about half-past eight, sllpPorte:,l6a.).
quietly breathed his last, without a sig
nobleman. his lordship's /3t4( beg Pet,: ~
to- numerous
and every ifeetild. , 1 In addition
a year's rent to each
,anSiditiiriLi,tit:,Vccehtisitantleerculiivtepile
this nal} eih.:s;(l)rrirable and munificent
ile:ssteeinesa tile:: by
irti,n4oWliltrillvieolrl 14En
ne,We• trivli;)i'l man}:.e ie,
Pwrsa PitiESTLEY.
about the year 1790;
orated genit,teett,. —Thlifi,,sieeknc.leseen,tirii,en
'ratilind often endeovottred to get into his tompani
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he 0
,tr."ellit church yard, the fl 1., ... 44: '
rii:a
stopped as usual ro have a tittle- chat with his-nld-ftientf 016-
sexton, but found a great deal of fault with the kitting and set:
tint: out o P
f the letters. Peter, who had appaOeniVtitt:en no no=
flee of whist had been said, at last turnethipAis•tirce,:and-, with
ve've na ca; ion to find ca fault, for I've covet-Z-(1
a countenance as grave as- his profession, tit served • I'll tell v•-,
flan t, e 41tmdf'ros t The doe'or st corieofein *ll baste.
habituallwhßalA.'ltdß?:sti.l7(°i-s7rs:i7:t7l::;:i 41)1 nci,eilniiipnati impair 111";:':', iterls.t.)sy' .a7ll".i.:ti ts'l.:el i7Bl3no'si tut-1 .e
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Dr. Johustin.--"' la there not F Vsne clanger that he
the same mask in c may put on
ronmorr Ill'e,. in the, intercourse with hii
friends t Why, ti,.. F!r." rt -plied the doctor, " A man will
no more carry the-artifice of the ha r into (lid common intercourse
of society, than is man who is Fai‘t fur tumbling tipvn his handS
1% hen he should Walk on his feet." Perhaps not ; huts how are
we•td r;spect the farensic :tun:Ater, who will Walk upon his
hands, it'd perform the most' ignoWe antics for a..paitry fee
All brielltiss barristers will please to oonsider themselves ex
nepted from the preVious censure, for I sh-tild be really sort f
to speak in of any man wit/unit a cause.—Tin Ttunipet: