The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-31 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

Lord Denman left Liverpool for London in the course o
Friday afternoon.
Lint °GRAY HY.—We have just seen an excellent speci mei
of the lithographic art, emanating from Messrs. Maclur,
and Macdonald's establishment. The subject is " Hawking.'
For brilliancy and softness we have never yet seen its equal

as well as for chasteness chasteness of design and ability in drawin

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This beautiful print won Messrs. Maclure the gold medal

Scotland very lately

Much affected indignation has been heaped upon the con-
servative leaders in parliament, for holdinE a meeting on
Sunday week, for the purpose of determining upon the steps
which were most prudent to pursue in the present crisis of
affairs. We have great pleasure, however, in announcing,
on the best authority, that no such meeting took place on
the day in question. The mistake arose from an error in
one of the articles in the London Times.
METALLIC MAP OF THE UNITED STATES.—This map,

which will be found advertised elsewhere in the Standard
of to-day, is well worth the attention of all merchants and
men of business. It also ought to be subscribed for by the
principals of schools, as it will give pupils an excellent idea
and knowledge of the United States. A very handsome
copy may be seen in our publishing office.
RECEIPT FOR AN ANTI-CORN LAW CONFERENCE.—
Get 150 Independent Preachers, (known better as Stigg!-
mites,) about 20 Baptists, 25 Ranters, 10 Quakers, 5 Sha-
kers, 15 Socialists, 25 Chartists, 10 Socinians, 20 Papists,
10 Muggletonians, 5 Jumpers' 15 Grunters, stew them well
together in, a hot room until the scum boils off, and keep
skimming them. Let them simmer for about five or six days,
adding at one o'clock each day shins of beef, bullocks
head anti liver, (calves heads will not be required) cheese,
onions, and potatoes, and a large quantity of gin and ale ;
when it comes off the boil throw in a ducie pear, and keep
the steam well up. Take care that there is no Peel in the
stew, for that would sadly spoil the flavour. Let all the
ingredients be of foreign production.
PROVINCIAL SURGERY.—Four individuals, William Da-
vies, John Hindley, Mary Bennett, and Elizabeth Price, all
from the neighbourhood of Runcorn, have been lately re-
stored to sight in the Liverpool Ophthalmic Infirmary, by
Mr. Neill's operation for cataract. Their united ages
amount to 306 years; 764 years •being the average age of
each person. The last-mentioned person is 77 years of age,
and, though she was stone-blind a month ago, can now see
to thread a needle. She is now in the hospital, and may be
seen by the curious.

DEMISE OF GENERAL GASCOYNE.—This gallant officer
was taken suddenly ill on Wednesday last, with an inflam-
mation in the bowels, which was attended with very alarm-
ing symptoms : they proved fatal. He departed this life at
an early hour on Thursday, at his house in South Audley-
street, London.
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TIIE CASE OF ALLEGED INCENDIARISM.—On Saturday
last Catharine Redman, who was remanded on Saturday
week on suspicion of having set fire to several parts of the
dwelling-house of the Misses Preston, with whom she lived
as servant, was placed at the bar. We stated in our last, that
the testimony delivered amounted to little more than a mi-
nute detail of the circumstances attending the discoveries of
the several fires. Nothing has since transpired calculated to
throw further light on the affair. The prisoner was dis-
charged.

THE WEATHER.—Since the terrific thunderstorm of
Tuesday morning, which seems to have cleared the atmos- '
phere, the weather has been extremely fine and seasonable.
The barometer has been high, and the heat intense. The
operations of the harvest have gone on uninterruptedly, and
most of the crops in this neighbourhood must, by this time,
be secured ; in what state, after the unfavourable weather
which for several weeks prevailed, we have not the means of
knowing. Thanksgivings were offered up in the churches of
this town on Sunday for the seasonable change of weather.
GIROLOMO CAPELLA, THE CONDEMNED MURDERER.—
The Lord Chief Justice, as will be seen by our report of the
Assize proceedings, left this man for execution. The Jury,
on his trial, recommended him to mercy, on the ground of
his good character previous to the perpetration of the crime
for which they convicted him. Several benevolent gentle-
men, satisfied that the recommendation of the Jury was judi-
cious as well as humane, and thinking that the act which
led to Toscani's death was the result of a quarrel between
the prisoner and the deceased, and not of premeditation, have,
we hear, got up a petition in his favour, in which they pray
that the sentence may be commuted from death to trans-
portation for life. Whether, upon a careful examination of
the evidence, mitigating circumstances may not be disco-
vered in the case, so as to justify the Lord Chief Justice in
recommending such commutation, we cannot undertake to

say.
THE LIVERPOOL FISH COMPANY.—A special general
meeting of this company was held at the Clarendon-rooms,
on Tuesday last. After a long desultory conversation, a
resolution was passed dissolving the company, and the boats
and other property are now advertised for sale by auction.

TIMPT BY-BREAKING A SHOP WINDOW.—On Saturday
William Brooks and Michael Gallagher were committed for
trial by Mr. Rushton for stealing several articles of jewellery
from the shop of Mr. M'Lintock, Dale-street. Both pri-
soners were observed to loiter about the shop, and they
effected their purpose by breaking one of the shop windows,
and extracting the articles stolen. They were apprehended
through the vigilance of the pawnbrokers.

THE BRITISH QUEEN.—This fine vessel, which, as our
readers know, has been purchased by the Belgian Govern-
ment, is so nearly ready for sea that she will, it is expected,
sail for Antwerp to-day. She is intended to ply between
Antwerp and New York, calling off Cowes or Southampton
going and returning. By this means she will, it is antici-
pated, carry not only passengers to and from the Continent,
but English passengers also. She is under the command of
Mr. Keane, who has received a commission in the Belgian
service.

We are led to understand that Douglas is about to have
the privilege conferred upon it of being a port for bonding
goods, and that an assimilation will take place very soon be-
tween the fiscal duties of England and the Isle of Man. The
licence system, we are informed, will be abolished. It is not
improbable but that the Isle of Man will. at no distant
period, form as a county an adjunct of England, which has
long since been a favourite measure of Sir Robert Peel.—
Correspondent of the Manx Liberal.

DAINTRY, RYLE, AND CO.'s BANKRUPTCY.—The se-
cond meeting of creditors for proof of debts under this
bankruptcy, took place in the Wellington Rooms, Peter-
street, Manchester, on Tuesday. The commissioners were
J. G. Duck, Esq., barrister, and John Taylor and J. B.
Brackenbury, Esqrs., attorneys. Messrs. Atkinson and
Saunders were the solicitors under the fiat, and Messrs. Peet
and Hobson the accountants. The total debts proved at this
meeting were about £72,694 ; debts proved at the former
meeting £165,800; total, £215,800. This amount does not
include the debt of Whitmore, Wells, and Co., who claim
for £98,500, and which has not been admitted. It will be
recollected that Messrs. Whitmore, Wells, and Co., made
their claim to prove at the former meeting, but the court de-
cided that as their claim was against the separate estate of
Daintry and Ryle, it could not be admitted under the joint
fiat, against Daintry, Ryle, and Ravenscroft. Messrs.
Whitmore, Wells, and Co. were also shut out from the
choice of assignees on the same ground. The Court of
Review have determined that the union of the fiats had not
taken effect at the time, and consequently there will have to,
be a new choice of assignees. The validity of Messrs.
Whitmore, Wells, and Co.'s claim, however, is yet in dis-
pute, the principal objections alleged against it being, that
for a long course of years the accounts between them and
Messrs. Daintry, Ryle, and Co. have been balanced monthly;
that compound interest was charged at such balancing, and
that such monthly balances have included compound interest
for £5OOO more than was advanced in each month.