The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-03 00:00:00

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STEALING FE.OM THE PERSON. —Mary Haggerty was
charged, at the police-court, on Wednesday, by a Mr. ilryd-
son, with haying stolen a silver watch from his person, in the
neighbourhood of Cunliffe-street, on the previous evening.
It appeared that they had some conversation together, when
the prisoner took the watch from his pocket, and ran off
with it. He pursued her, when she threw the watch into,

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person who had witnessed the act
trial.
PLEDGING A GUN.—A man named Mark M`Donald, was
charged on Wednesday, at the police-court, by a respectable-
looking person, with having pledged a gun, which was
given to him in January last, to repair. It appeared, how-
ever, that the complainant knew four months that it was
pledged, and had several times since spoken to the prisoner
about it, but had not lodged any information against him
until the present week. The magistrate said that he ought
not to have suffered so long a time to elapse without having
him apprehended, arid discharged the prisoner.
The new church in Warwick-street, built (as we recently
noticed) by John Gladstone, Esq., was consecrated on Wed-
nesday by the Lord Bishop of Chester, who delivered a dis-
course eminently suited to the occasion from 1 Samuel
30 v. Amongst a numerous body of the clergy present we
noticed the Chancellor, and the Rev. Messrs. Dr. Tatter-
shall, Jones, Rawson, Hassell, Hesketh, Morrell, Nolan,
Knyvett, and Townsend. The prayers were very impres-
sively read by Mr. Wilson, the incumbent, who promises to
be of the greatest spiritual assistance to the inhabitants of
the district, who have been too long deprived of the services
of the church, arid who, but for Mr. Gladstone's unparalleled
liberality, would still be destitute of them.
The decay of the teeth and gums arises from different
causes, but principally it may be attributed to early neglect,
ill health, and the use of tooth powders containing mineral
and other deleterious acids, which give a momentary white-
ness to the teeth, while they corrode the enamel. The ex-
treme prevalence of this last cause is too well known to need
comment. To this fact, indeed, is principally to be attributed
the long botanical research, which was happily terminated by
the most felicitous discovery ever given to the world for the
preservation of the teeth, gums, and breath, viz., ROWLAND'S
OnoNTo or PEARL DENTIFRICE, which, as a consequent
promoter of comfort and attraction, is certainly the first
dentrifice of the age.—See advt.
At the first annual meeting of the proprietors of the Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam-navigation Company, which was
held, on Thursday. some communications were made of con-
siderable public interest. It was stated, as not altogether
improbable, that in a short period a more frequent communi-
cation than a monthly one might be established, in which
ease the grant of £lOO,OOO made to this company by the
East India Company would probably merge into a contract
for the mail service. The opening of a transit by Mehemet
Ali fur merchandise to and from India, &c., through Egypt,
was announced, and a vote of thanks to the Pasha was carried
with acclamation. From the report of the condition of the
company it appeared that after paying the premiums of in-
suring, keeping up the wear and tear of the vessels, and pay-
ing the dividend declared last May, there remained a surplus,
out of which a further dividend of 31 per cent. for the half-
year was declared, and upwards of £15,000 was carried to
the reserve fund.
ELOCUTION.—On Tuesday evening last, Mr. Alexander
Duncan, professor of elocution, delivered his first lecture
(of a course of four), on this very essential and important
branch of a polite and liberal education, at the Portico,
Newington. The lecturer commenced by tracing the history
of the art from the earliest period, and then prooeeded to
offer some observations on its importance as a study, and
the pains taken by the ancients to excel in it. He laid down
some simple rules for the management of the voice, by the
adoption of which the most ordinary speaker might attain to
considerable proficiency in rhetorical delivery. During the
lecture, Mr. Duncan gave several illustrations from our
poetical authors, some of which showed very conspicuously
the transcendant talent of the lecturer, and his perfect
knowledge of the art upon which he lectured. One of the
illustrations,—" The Wreckers,"—was given in a splendid
style, and had considerable effect upon the audience, which
was highly respectable.
DEPLORABLE EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—A woman
of about twenty-five years of age, who has paid many previ-
ous visits to the police-court, was on Saturday placed at the
bar, having been put into custody for safety—in other words,
she had been found helplessly drunk in the streets. Mr.
Dowling said, " The husband of this young woman cannot
live with hdr. He allows her ss. a week, but she spends it
in drink as soon as she gets it, and lives the remainder of
the week as she best can. She is often, four days together,
without food or shelter; and when- in this state, she has
twice or thrice attempted to destroy herself. There are
marks on her neck of an attempt to cut her throat. She is
going to destruction as fast as she can. Perhaps the best
way would be to send her to the workhouse, and let her hus-
band pay for her maintenance." Mr. Parkinson observed
that the authorities at the workhouse were already sufficiently
troubled with drunken persons, and would refuse to take in
one so notoriously drunken as the prisoner. The young
woman said that if she were dismissed, she would not make
her appearance there again. She was discharged.
AN UNAUTHORISED INTRUDER.—A young woman, of
very respectable appearance, who hid her face in her hands,
and wept violently, was, on Saturday, placed at the bar of
the police-office. Mrs. Walker-stated, that she went out for
a quarter of an hour on the previous afternoon. and, on re-
turning, she found the prisoner in her house, in the custody
of a neighbour. The neighbour, it appeared, bad gone into
Mrs. Walker's for some purpose, and found there the pri-
soner, who was a stranger. The girl, with some trepidation
of manner, stated that she wished 'to see Mrs. Walker ; but
after a lapse of a few moments, she began to exhibit signs of
an intention to depart without seeing the object of her vist.
The suspicious neighbour provokingly remarked, " You have
come to see Mrs. Walker ?" The reply was, " Yes ;" and
the response, " Then ibinsist upon it that you stop to see
her." " Oh, I will call again to-morrow." ‘• Oh, Ito ; I
cannot think of letting you go thus, for I fancy Mrs. Walker
will be glad to see you, and-would be angry if I let you go."
But I must go•now ; 1 cannot stop longer," said the young
woman. - The neighbour became resolute also, and observed,
" But you shall not go now, I tell you," and straightway she
placed herself, as guardian of the so-called visiter, at the
door. Mrs. Walker presently returned and found that some
drawers had beets opened, and several things removed during
• her short absence. She missed from one drawer two links of
coral beads and a gold clasp. The prisoner was searched,
and in her stocking was found a bunch of keys, one of which
would open the outer door. Mrs. Walker knew nothing of
the prisoner. A middle-aged and apparently very respect-
able woman here rose, and addressing the magistrates, said,
" She is my daughter. She has never been here before, and
is the best child living. She is the only child I have got, and
lam a poor widow." The prisoner was remanded until
Monday. She left the dock crying bitterly, and calling out,
" Oh dear, what shall I do?
STEALING A MONEY LETTER. —A gentlemanly-looking
young man, named Henry Edward Weaver, a clerk in the
postoffice, was, on Monday, placed at the bar of the police-
court, on a charge of having stolen a money letter. Mr. W.
A. Bond. a senior clerk at the pustoifice, said, that on the
27th instant, he saw the prisoner handling a letter in a very
suspicious manner. Shortly aferwards, the young man left
the office, taking a letter with him, and as he (the witness)
fancied that it was the intention of the prisoner to secret the
letter, lie followed, brought him back, and took him into the
office of Mr. Joseph Banning. He then informed Mr. Ram-
say of the circumstance. The letter bore the Liverpool post-
mark of the 27th instant, and was directed to Mrs. Franceys,
Ross-street, Dumfries. It would have gone away on the
following morning, at three o'clock. Mr. John Ramsay,
superintendent of the missing letters department in London,
stated that complaints having been made, at the General
Postoffice, of the non-delivery of money letters posted at
Liverpool, he was sent down hither by his lordship. When
he was informed of the facts narrated by Mr. Bond, he went
into the office where the prisoner was, and said he had reason
to fear that a letter was missing. 'Tie young man at once
said, " I confess all," and produced the letter. Witness
inquired, " Whatever could have induced you to do such a
thing?" The young man replied, " I took it for the purpose
of stealing the money." The letter apparently contained
coin. The prisoner was committed to take his trial

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