The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-23 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

IMPORTANT TO PREACHERS.-By a recent decision of
the Court of Queen's Bench, clergymen of all denominations
are allowed to preach in the open air, when they please, pro-
vided they do not interrupt the public thoroughfare.
Amongst the books bequeathed to the King of the French
by the late F. H. Standish, Esq., of Duxbury Hall, is a Bible,
which belonged to Cardinal Xitnenes, and which is valued at
25,000 francs.

ENORMOUS CUCUMBER.—Some cucumbers, grown on a
new principle, and exhibited at the Chiswick horticultural
show, on Saturday week, measured 24 inches in length.
They were grown in the short space of six days.
THE LATE JOHN BIBBY, ESQ.—We have the pleasure
of informing our readers, that the friends of the late John
Bibby, Esq., a respected merchant of this town, have
erected, by public subscription, a monument to his memory,
in Seaforth Church. The subject represented on it is a figure
of hope, in alto relievo, life size, executed by Mr. William
Spence, of Brownlow-hill, in this town. The following in-
scription is cut on it :

IN MEMORY OF THE LATE
JOHN BIBBY, Esq., OF LINACRE,
WHO DIED I7th JULY, 1810, AGED FIFTY-SIX YEARS
This monument is erected by his surviving friends,
to mark their respect for his singular abilities
and high character as'a merchant, as well
as their deep sense of the valuable
services rendered by him to
the interests of the town
Liverpool.
"MY FLESH, ALSO, SHALL REST IN HOPE."

CHARGE OF FORGFRY.—OR Monday, at the police-office,
two well-dressed men, named John Anderson and Jabez
Chadwick, were placed before Mr. R. Houghton, charged
with having uttered several forged Bank of England notes.
Constable Lloyd stated that in consequence of information
received from Mr. Mozley, he went to the lodgings of the
prisoner Anderson, in Elliott-street, and charged him with
having passed a forged £lO Bank of England note. He
(Anderson) admitted the correctness of the charge, said that
he had previously passed three forged notes of the same
amount, and that he had still one left. He had obtained
them, he said, from a little man at the race-course, but re-
fused to tell his name or address. Mr. Mozley, of the firm
of J. Barned and Co., Lord-street, said that Anderson came
to the office on Wednesday, and asked for the change of a
£lO note. Witness gave him change, in the hurry of busi-
ness, without minutely examining the note. The note was
sent to London, and returned as a forgery. It was certainly
a most excellent imitation. and there was nothing on the face
of it which would warrant him in saying that it was a forgery.
Another person was in company with Anderson, but he could
not say whether Chadwick was the individual. The prisoner,
when asked, gave his name " Anderson," and his residence,
" Elliott-street. Mr. Henry Savage, of the Bullion-office,
Lord-street, stated that he also had changed for Anderson a
£lO note, which he thought at the time to be a good one.
On taking it to the North and South Wales Bank, the clerks
handed to him a cautionary notice, sent by Mr. Dowling,
and on examining the note narrowly, it was found to be a
forgery, though capitally done. The prisoners were remanded
until evidence of the forgery, which will have to be brought
from Somersetshire, can be obtained.

CRICKET.-A return match between nine of the Liverpool
club, assisted by Captain Shewell, Sth Hussars, and Lieut.
Broughton, Royal Artillery,—and eleven of the Mancbester
club, was played on the ground of the latter, at Moss Side,
on Monday last, the Manchester winning by 50 notches, as
follows :

MANCHESTER

Ist Innings. 2d innings.
Wright c. Captain Shewell .. 10 b. Miller ... ,
T. Bellhouse c. Miller 20 c. Ellis
R. Garnett c. Morgan 2 c. George Thompson .. 21
C. Garnett b. Ellis
J. Potter c. Cameron
Hampson c. Captain Shewell 9 c. Cameron
Campbell b. Miller
Fairweather c. Morgan 4 b. do.
John Cooke c. Miller
H. Matchett not 0ut....
W. Hollins hit wicket 0 not out

Wide Balls 4 Wide Balls
Bye
No ball 1 No Ball ..