The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-16 00:00:00

Pattie
On Weil,

Sir
Sho„'"„ Enclosed hes a Watch which was tuck out of your
lift "I' Saturday being the first thing that ever i tuck in my
mitclad oneing it will be the last i have bean un Happy in i.ny
God had a restless pillow ever sence i tuck it trusting
1-forgeve and beging your forgicenuss.
HONESTY IS THE BEST 'POLECAT.
sealed, and had a

;:llilehOt. was tied with a piece of ta
4,PellaTaiostage label on the lid.
~,"31°.kt NIJISINCE.—The example of the enterprising
I„._-"Lters of the Genova, now on her return from the 11Iechf-
iieean, has not been lost oa the steam=ship owners o pott of Liverpool. The Lord Morpeth, whose fur-
,tial ace fitted according to Mr. Lee Stevens' system, now
.•evio%til,,,itsiiciae sfterikying and pleasant 'contrast with the othert
'contribute to -boats, and with all other steamers that
the smoky desecration of the Mersey. No
`utwt)._. tquenr4otnhen., that the owners of The Earl of Auckland,
Amer, have addition to the successful trials of___ that
sitottelaiaih invention applied to The City of
~ also with
`cara*, by he , the view to. ascertain, more ac-
%Pon the s-a r eeestuription, thetavang of fuel consent
'of the Corp "version of smoke ; nor, that the
.authorities.
other • tin f London,after competition with
inve„,
a_ "'lousy shoal% have preferred ferred the patent smoke- o Larnace for their engine at Blilings,gate Market.
all,airal•TaULAll CASE.—On Monday, at Manchester, was held
quest respecting the death Salford. Topham, shoe...,
%alter, aged 30, of Green -gate, Some time age,
vvhilst at
4114 the slightw-k, he ricked one of his fingers with an awl,
..,„_ottL never became entirely healed. He —:wl3lained continually of the pain which he suffered Irein.
unmetd went to several medical men, none of whom
4, affo him relief, as nothing could be ascertained ae to
i',L,Ldiate cause of his suffering. The unfortunaterc.kan, _7`u,' Me quite deranged ; and would frequently, after gazin,,
vacantly into the fire for some time, rise suddenly nd
oh
into the street, vin like a child, and shrielamg,
‘ °la, my finger." Forev several weeks, lately, he bed re-
reat,to
g° 141) stairs to bed, and a bed had to be Tie upa
L.°l' a-ma in the kitchen. He was often found lookingrningt,
Zhhis ....e-ger in a very despairing way. On Sunday mo
en sonic members of the family went into the -kitchen,
eel was found hanging by his neckerchief
roverdict to the
f m a.heam in
e ceiling, quite dead. The jury found a _
__e
_abouring
effect that the deceased had hanged himself Wail 1
Mader insanity.
131 s
MISSAL OF "A POLICEMA.N.—The magistrates were
nesdayad in investi-
'"ga. get' for aconsiderable time on NV e .
It a charge of assault preferred against phhice-officer
36°. Thomas Kelly, the complainant, stated that, shortly
midnight omthenight of th 29th ult., he was stand-
--bg near the door atfilis own residenhcedibneGearearinetitakmin-sgtrineeta,
w'ult,,,,i,„eg to a'frierid-with whom he a
..-4...._aaue-honse, when:the defendant came behind him and
1,--4.'elt him across the shoulders with his stick. He asked
'4ll what that was Tor, severale officer said, "fril tell you,"
arid struck him again times. His friend remon-
strated with the •offieer, but, on being threatened by him,
he went away. 'The complainant, who had:great difficulty
In ascertaining the defendant's number, was so seriously
hurt that he wout-to the hospital, believing that his arm
W broken. He bad not suffered to thgt-'t.
was so severely, contused that he was
and obliged to carry still tinulteblentet' butt
iitt,
it in a sling. The defendant attempted
to prove an rdibie.ar.d stated that the comiii
the charge against .him for fear o being taken zip
ainant had laid
The magistrates said the case was a for felony.
.fi eediacgly gross one,
and the defendant-must be
eZ, or be imprimmeal for two dismissedthe-Tome and fined
EMBEEZmonths.
LEMENT BY A COLLECTING OLEEK.—Thomas
Win. Riley, late a
clerk in the office of Messes M'Clune
and Tamplin, Brueswick-street, agents for the British
and Irish -Steam-packet Company, was .charged before the
Inagistrates on Xiiiclay with not having accounted for
various sums a 'money which he had.,received. Mr.
William Cook, thecashier, stated that the prisoner had
been din their •eaniiley about twelve months. It was his
uty to _make out. accounts, which he sent out by a boy-
Tnd then called .for payment, handing ,over each day to
ihei'idtuess.what .:Ite received. A day or two ago he was
._°°"'ll'lg over the-boaks, and asked the prisoner about an
i'''calt, which in the usual course of business ought to
uave been paid some time before. Hiley said he would go
and look after it, and accordingly went out, and never
tetilrned th the office. Upon this inqUiries were made,
and it was found that he had not accounted for several
m e 'of money which had been paid to laiinat some of the
the steam-patket. -offices. Several reeeipte:d bills, with
,_ Prisoner's • signature attached, were produced, malting
iall'°,, gether a sum of E 25 16s. 11d., which the prisoner had
th°,,,' handed() -er to' the cashier. When takuntto custody,es lc
the
. manor Lid it,mas a very foolish thing, and .
a. _
an;as"mer if it •wottid not be " all ght " supposm, he
the money. He
was committed' fortrial at the
assizes_

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El' t India C°m"
Tam llEanr• 3lrsirm.—An interesting .addition ,to
Lads collection has been presented by the Pany. It consists of a eet of casts of fossils,asollßta:a
Falconer
the Sividik Hills, (Himalayas') ehiellY, by Hr. Falconer
of
ned from
and Captain Cautney. The series embraces -.l*--
mas.
the Dinotherium Indicsun, Elephas, (three species,) 1 c,
todon, Hippopotamu.s, . Sivatherium giganteum, Came'll''
Catnelopardais, and of other extinct monster animals of a
similar period. There is.also a restoration of the•Oolosso-
chelys Atlas, nu extinct *gaiitic tortoise, about,niae feet
long, four feet in height, and five feet wide. Thc casts'
for them ost part, only represent fragments of the,oiginal
animals —a portion of the.craniurn, a horn, the lower .aw,
the humerus, for hastance,---but still sufficient to amatkjthe
_Class to which each belonged. Amongst the recent ,clona-
, Clans to the institution, may be enumerated a snake and
. aspider, discovered in a cargo of timber from Nicer ,
a small specimen of gold,quactz from Mount Alexander, a
specimen of the Flying-fish, Ahree snakes from Ronny,
1,,
_Western Africa,) an egg of the Less Sulphur-crested
- t'9..ekatoo, laid at I:luytn, on the 6th of May. Ito mot
gene
~lly known that artists merely require an intrduc-
tion 'from one of the committee; or trustees, in order ti•
avail t.laemselves of the advantag-es a
the -day when th- •- -
-especial lenefit.
"beforeNritnru AT HAUTILETON.---At the Lancaster assizes,
Arr. Justice Wight/Ilan, Rivhard Pedder, aged 50,
:,.!_aes in_dicted for having murdered Betty Pedder, at Ham-
1518,tiOn, on the 20th of April last. On the night of the
'it 0 --A-Pri); George Blackburn and William Swarbrick
-ent into the Shovels Inn, in Hambleton, when the
vPi_risox.
n,ne,r,,wh:. ) was. iii liquor, catne in about a quarter past
piesai4,-4Val. !ng sat down., asked fora glass of beer, and
.itm avitiKilled our Bet.'! The two men upon this left
.4..lsleigh, D.,,Y.r,etit to the
Prisoner's house, and shouted,
7.
_ne.back 07.4, • hil- no one answered. They then went to
o- of the d ellse,- and in the Warden they
one side lying on
, her teattle4 found the
her lack, with her head on
a little dr.sawn np tol,,:ts? the side of her face, and one leg
Blaekhnra the vc,4l' bad of
and blood on her cheek.
standing by the bod theawaY, and while Swarbrick was
asked him how ke,dicl it; Prisoner came up. -Swarbrick
her, and I will shoot ray 'oalfri,(:•l
of the house, and got s(-)8-''' he (prisoner) said, " I shot
He then fetched a gun out
the ground near the deadinehLotato forks and fixed them in
of the gun on the ground, He then put the stock
forks, with the muzzle t—'4an dY.laid the barrel against the
was at this time by himsel7d: prisoner
Save
not stop with him hiniself. The prison
iousbthe witness Sewar,h
i d and
of •‘v,Ple Prisoner leave the ford-s, azr, ba w le
and jambat the butt
,:g,
~t'a gun into the bosh, with the go
ale towards him•
iLI he did twice, and then left UT azz
and went into
4-• gun
the hollse. Swarbri k then
the
Prisoner had I c en went to the gun, which
loaded
_.,, eft on the ground, and found that it was
the'n', 'Mu No. 2 shot, but had no cap on. Shortly after
by trirts9ner came out of the house, and laid himself down
e side of the body, laid his ' • and wept, and
after layin
arm over it,
SWaTbriekgab°llt ten minutes he returned into the house.
Plisoner askl(ld him into the house, upon which the
in his ha ' 111111 what he wanted ;he had another mud_
Jackson ~ which he was loading. Two men, named
and tr'
he gun from
the prison -.111, then came in, and took t
ed
the br, Pr, and the prisoner then went out, and dragg.
th -`1
3" into the house d 'd " She must not he ui
e garden
au .
~ ,an sal ,
laced on the
sofa, and • •
Wile
• The body was then p
said cs while they were sitting with the prisoner he
-,,_, I have shot her--I won't deny it." At half-past
01,,91t a Policeman arrived, and found the deceased dead
the the sofa, bleeding from shot wounds on the left side of
"1 ,•ake: The officer apprehended him, and prisoner said,
nut it ;
saki go with you quietly." On his way to the
he i; ‘c I shot- the kitchen
stationl-4,0- her out of en window.
-•-•", good al I • alshot. lam happy that
tn. am a capital
I did it "
• The officer asked him what he had done it for,
and he replied, " I don't know." He also said that he
aimed at the killing
place, and shot her dead. The jury
found the he: •It bt • hed to recommend him
to . er. gui y, u wis
His 1,,.."-'3; .If, consistently with justice, they could do so.
tAin "41P Passed sentence of death upon the prisoner,
,--ung,hilai that he had no power to hold out the hope of
`"ere7 to, hke, and imploring him to prepuo for the worst.

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