The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-21 00:00:00

MR. WINTERBOTTOM'S BANKRUPTCY

COMMISSIONERS OF BANKRUPTS' ROOMS,MANCIIESTER,
MONDAY. AUG. 17.
In Re John Kenyon Winterbottorn.
The first meeting of creditors under the fiat of bankruptcy
against Mr. J. K. Winterbottom, " of Heaton Norris, ban-
ker, money scrivener, dealer and chapman," was held this
morning, at ten o'clock, before George Condy and R. G.
Duck, Esqrs., barristers, and Mr. 0. Milne, solicitor, of the
third list of commissioners of bankrupts fcr this district.
The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank were the peti-
tioning creditors, and we understand that the amount of their
debt was sworn to, on the affidavit, at £35,000. Probably
between thirty and forty creditors were in attendance, and
upwards of twenty names were upon the list of debts proved.
Amongst the creditors present were two ladies. None of the
proofs, however, were for large amounts, the principal credi-
tors not coming for ward to prove their debts at this meeting.
None of the amounts in the list of debts would exceed
£2OOO, and the aggregate amount of debts proved would pro-
bably reach £17,000 or £lB,OOO. Amongst the parties round
the table were Mr. Stephen Heelis, attorney ; Mr. Vaughan,
attorney, of Stockport; and other professional gentlemen.
Mr. J. H. Stanway, accountant, was also in attendance.
After a number of debts had been proved, Mr. Condy asked.
Mr. Vaughan whom he named to be assignees of the bank-
rupt's estate and effects. Mr. Vaughan named Mr. John
Marsland and Mr. Rupert Ingleby. Mr. Marsland, who
was present, consented to take office, and Mr. S. Heelis
undertook to consent on behalf of Mr. Rupert Ingleby, who
was not present.—Mr. Condy : Has the District Bank prov-
ed any thing?—Mr. Vaughan : No, sir; not at present.—
Mr. Condy : How many names have you got ?—Mr. Heelis :
Half-a-dozen.—Mr. Condy :.That will do, I suppose.—Mr.
Vaughan : Oh, yes.—The commissioners then signed the
several affidavits and papers, and the bankrupt not being pre-
sent to surrender (having, as our readers are aware, quitted
the country), the business of the meeting terminated. The
second meeting. we perceive, is advertised to be held, at the
same place, on Thursday, the 15th September, at two o'clock.
—Manchester Guardian.

POLICE I LLIGENCE.-WEDNESDAY

STEALING ROPES.
William Slight was brought up on a charge of having sto-
len a quantity of ropes from a warehouse in Robert-street
North, belonging to Messrs. Wildes, Pickersgill and Co.
The porter in charge of the warehouse identified the ropes
as belonging to his employers, and set stantiated the charge.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

CHARGE OF ROBBERY

A negro, with " sable locks and luscious lips," and whose
countenance seemed to be amply supplied with oily ingredi-
ents, was accused of farcit►g'open a seaman's chest, and ab-
stracting therefrom a suit of clothes ; also with having pledg-
ed the same.

The prisoner had been employed to convey the chest to a
house in the neighbourhood of the Prince's Dock, and while
performing this duty, it struck him there might be something
in the. box worth abstracting. lie accordingly took it to a
public-house close by, and there rifled the box of its contents,
which he afterwards pledged with a pawnbroker.
In answer to the charge, " Sambo" pleaded innocence,
and implored the mercy of the magistrate ; but the case being
clearly proved, he was ordered to pay a tine of 20s.

DAMAGING AN ORGAN.
James Thompson Sharpe appeared to answer to the charge
of having done wilful damage to an organ, the property of an
Italian street musician.

Evidence being produced against the l rlsoner, and the me-
rits of the case entered upon at considerable length, he was
advised to settle the matter with the complainant, who ex-
pressed his willingness to withdraw the charge ou payment
of the damages. The prisoner having complied with this re-
commendation, the case was dismissed. Previous to leaving
the bar, however, the prisoner, who had been released on
bail, and had failed to make his appearance on Monday, was
severely reprimanded by Mr. Rushton, who expressed his
determination in future to enforce the penalty against de-
faulters.

ASSAULT

Mrs. Parkinson, who combined in her person the twofold
quality of being mistress of a lodging-house, and "governor
of her husband's affairs," and who stated she belonged to
Liverpool, though she had been but lately imported from
Donegal', " the blessed country that gave her birth," was ac-
cused of doing serious damage to the person of Mrs. Cane,
her nest-door neighbour, residing in Dickinson-strest, by
striking her with au iron pot.
Mrs. Cane stepped forward in front of the magistrates'
desk, and began to detail her woes, when she was interrupted
by the prisoner, whose physiognomy exhibited prima facie
evidence of her being non compos mentis----for, no sooner had
she heard her antagonist's voice than she made preparations
for a fresh attack, and threatened to " blow her brains out."
It was now seen to be impossible to examine the witnesses
while the prisoner was present, and she was taken out of court
during the examination. Several witnesses provea the charge
of striking Mrs. Cane with an iron pot, also that she had
broken five panes of glass in complainant's windows.
The prisoner was ordered to pay 101. for the assault, and
6s. 4d. damages.
On leaving the bar, she swore vengeance upon her adver-
sary, which caused her to be brought up a second time and
admonished from the bench.

PURLOINING TIMBER.
John Beresford, for stealing several pieces of timber from
a bonding Warehouse is Seel-street, was sentenced to one
month's impriscnment.

TILE HOPS.—The crop is this year a total failure. Only
few grounds give promise of an average growth, and the
Lost faVorable are graduallY going back. The duty is down
£30,000, and even a lower rate is backed with slight odds.
-Kentish Grczette.

We perceive that Lord Segrave, at a dinner held on Satur-
day, observed that " there never ?MA' a more ridiculous mea-
sure proposed than the penny postage." his lordship is en-
titled to praise for his honesty, but will his ministerial friends
thank him for it.—Gloucester Chronicle.

Lord and Lady Francis Egerton landed at Marseilles last
week from Athens, and intended, after a sojourn of three
days, to go to Paris. The noble lord and lady may be ex-
pected in this country next week, after an absence of nearly
twelve months.

SEAFORD.—A fishing boat brought upwards of 800 macke-
rel on shore on Tuesday last, which were offered for sale at
the rate of six for a shilling.—Sussex Express.
CHARITABLE BEQUEST.—Outing to the exertions of Wm.
P. Mathews, Esq., the legacy of £lOOO, bequeathed in the
year
1828, by the late Right Hon. Robert Ward, for the
endowment and support of a school at Bangor, to educate
Irish boys in mathematics and navigation, to enable them to
sail vessels to foreign ports, has been recovered and invested ;
the principal at present exceeds £l5OO, government three
per cent consols.—Dublin Evening Post.
The unfortunate gentleman who last week lost his life by
setting the bed-clothes on fire, at Southampton, was Mr.
Elliot, uncle of the Earl of Errol. The deceased was an
elderly gentleman, and had been reading in bed previously
to the accident ; but, falling off to sleep, the accident occurred
which cost him his life. He was awoke by the pain which
the burning clothes around his body occasioned him ; but.he
was so dreadfully burnt, that he expired in two hours after-
wards.

STEAM-SHIP EARL OF HARDWICKE.—The Earl of Hard-
wicke East Indiaman, of 1000 tons, belonging to 'Alessi".
Green, of Blackwell, and bound to Bengal. arrived on Thurs-
day from the river. This ship is fitted with a steam-engine
of 30 horse power, intended to propel her in light airs and
calms, with paddle-wheels so arranged that they can be un-
shipped or shipped in a short space of time. She has also.a
very ample contrivance on board, by which the wheels can he
disengaged from the engine in one minute, whenever the ves-
sel is to use her canvas only. The space occupied by her
boilers and engine is very small, being 24 feet in length and
10 feet _width of the main deck, between the fore and main
hatchway, the whole enclosed between decks, no pn..+
into the hold, nor above deck. This engine of 30 ho
propels her, in calm and smooth water, five knots
consumption of fuel is three tons in 24 hours;
feetci no of water and is full of passengers, troops,
and Saturday,,
the Bth inst., this ship left the
East India Docks with a large party of naval and scien-
tific seventeenear cargo.
gentlemen to witness the action of the engine. She
worked her engine down to Gravesend, but owing to the wind
coming in brisk from the\ east, she had the assistance of
small tug; the wind lay dead an end, but she ran down to
Gravesend in two hours and a half, going at the rate of six
knots through the water, with all her yards square ; upon
heaving round at the end of Gravesend-Wash the tug was
cast off, and she steamed up to the town again by her own
engine, at the; rate of four knots, on a strong ebb tide. On
Monday, at noon, she weighed anchor, light airs W.S.W.,
steamed down to theNore light in three hours by ln- own
engine, and arrived • at Spithead at 3 50 p.m., on Thursday,
the 13th, beating the Wellington (which she passed on Mon-
day night) by twelve hours. The steam-engine was of most
essential servive, working upwards of forty hours. There
can be little doubt but auxiliary steam must soon be adopted
in our tueu-pf-war, the space occupied by the machinery
being only the same amount as that formerly occupied for a
cable tier.—Hampshire Telegraph.

with .t

nstruct.

NI. Thiers is denounced by one Of the
of a morning paper as the main author
.!sisting all the pacific inclinations of the
French, and despatching " dangerous"
the French fleet; whilst a distinguished
other column assures the public that his
proves of all the measures adopted by his
nd persists in the most warlike resolves.
,atever alarm may have •been expressed here
ipparent
_renewal of a more hostile tone; .on
f the French government, wog!' are *now per-
-ed, that though the posture of affairs is ex-
's, and that a spark may set, the world on
incident has arisen, and no projects
'he French government to hasten so
On the contrary, the states-
.o met last week at the Chateau d'Eu appear to
ly and unitedly determined to adhere to that
it policy, which is unquestionably the best re-
chance of peace. tinder the circumstances of
with a community offended and annoyed at
rtiption of iiat alliance by which peace has
served for ten years, jealous' of England, hos-
" and besotted to the Pasha—with an in-
ss, and a large excited military population,
appear that any more prudent or pacific
Id have been pursued without exposing the
it to being carried away into what would be
at and less pacific of- all. As far as we know
of the matter, the King of the French and
"s are not less pacific than they have ever
~y have a triple and an arduous task—to
ch nation within bounds, to keep the
`bin bounds, to keep the Pasha of Egypt
and all this with a due regard to their
v and character.

French

COMA

obtair

us a consequence

)ound

orriewhat vehement measure of instant prepa-
)r the worst has served at least to maintain the
personal authority at a crisis when it was as
) be required to restrain France as to assail

) the pi

bet Ween two great and jealous
Ms is doubtless a matter of consider-
Ind the most pacific orders sent from a
thority may he frustrated by a thousand ca-
But we to affirm that as long as the
of coerciun which are resorted to against the

mame

are confined to the maritime. operations of a
le on the coast, the French fleet has received the
t and most precise instructions to re rain from
I of hostile interference, and to avoid every
Is England inclined to do more ?
'ore than France, disposed to fight
rino over again, in order to destroy
!eks to restore to its rightful mas-
)e responsible for the territorial
i land forces against Syria, which
.ed in this country with less jea-

tle of N

hardly be v

he other hand, the tardy nature of a blockade
ncur with the injunctions of France to induce
et Ali to remain quiescent in his present posi-
intil circumstances afford some means of re-
the negotiations, or compel him to relinquish
-avaaant demands

meantime, if the chronicle of the Court may
to indication of the intentions of the Cabinet,
)t leaves town to-day on a visit to Windsor
here Lord Palmerston and the Duke of Wel-
both staying ; and the Right Honourable
Macaulay, who is not staying at
gone to Paris at this particular

s Babington

in order, doubtless, to confound the French
-Its by the bland and unperturbed demeanour
nglish Secretary at. War.

INICATION WITH NORTH AMERICA.
(From the Manchester Guardian)
iccess of the steamer from Liverpool to Boston,
If Halifax, has caused considerable attention
ected to that route; and the Boston steamers
ely enough, not merely to divide the trade in
rs with the New York vessels, but to obtain
er portion of it. The advantage obtained by
Lnnia over the British Queen, both in the out-
d homeward voyage, is not owing entirely to
1, but to the smaller distance which she had
will be seen from the following statement,
carefully taken from the best charts,
Lbly interest some of our readers :

York to Liverpool.

New York to Bristol,

- 3,018

'w York to Portsmouth

Halifax to Liverpool.

,es of the route by Halifax and Boston
t confined to the smaller total distance ; for, in a
voyage across the Atlantic, it is a matter of no
consequence to have an intermediate station, at

.dvanta,

--
, if the progress of the vessel should he retarded
favourable weather, a fresh supply of coal can be
led, and the chance of missing the voyage greatly

ORGANISTS AND CHURCH MUSIC

,•orn a Correspondent of the Bristol Journal.)
nig other subjects to which the attention of the public
late been directed, in connexion with the sere ice of the
of England, is that of its music. For a long period
psalmody of the church been too much neglected by
Tsponsible for the proper performance of divinesser-
and from this neglect have arisen the humble attempts
rovement set on foot by the " sackbut, psaltery, and
Ler" of provincial amateurs, of various tastes and not
judgment. Now, we repeatedly hear of the erection
organs in our churches, and the sign is a good one;
e improvement must be carried out, ere our church
become what it ought to be. Many of the existing
f organists, who have learnt to play mechanically, as a
r of trade (I beg their pardons—profession) would have
much more efficient tailors, capital hands at shoe-
g, unrivalled artists in ploughing. Set one of these
;es down to a fine old " plain-song" of the church,
the master-mind of a Handel, or a Gibbons, or a
1 has enriched by effective soul-thrilling harmony ; our
d ploughman conceives himself authorised to alter the
;ement, merely because it is possible to change some
ar and noble chord ; and has the vanity to think his in-
n, or subversion, or whatever else it may be, an eman-

)ther, not less adventurous, and not a whit more clever,
.ake no liberties with the harmony, must give you some-
of his own mixed up with the author's score—a shake,
appogiatura, or a flourish of some kind or other, lest
!xterity of the organist should be forgotten amidst the
my which should lift the soul heaven-ward. Then again
;his is a very prevalent fault in Bristol), between the
)f the Psalms there must be a sort of flippant interlude,
marring the poetry, and reminding one of Cowper's

" God's worship, and the mountebank between."
unless the clerk is charged with the duty of " giving
(as the phrase is) the verses, it is ten to one but the
ist favours you with an extempore effusion of his own—
Aly original—there can be no mistake about that—and
ferent in its style from what church music should be as
7esiding operator can contrive to make it.
is vet another barbarism in modern organ-playing,
is avoided by all men of taste and judgment, but much
Iby the new lights. Modern genius scorns to_ let the
ion chord rest gratefully on the ear, at the close of a
psalm, or anthm. It must revel (often after a pain -
td
stupid suspension of the 3d) in a series of discordrs,
ly of finish ! What would be thought of the performers
overture of Mozart's, or a chorus of Handel's, who
I perpetrate such a barbarism in an orchestra ? How
would the fame of the two Lindleys and Dragonetti last,
ey took, liberties with Corelli's trios, such as are con-
ly practised by the quacks of the organ loft ?
e writer of these remarks is not a professional musician,
,herefore has no private interest to serve in making them.
competency for criticism may be questioned, and he has
:her defence to offer than that he has made a practical
of music, as an amateur, for forty years of a life ex-
ed to nearly half a century's duration ; and now, having
d himself in a lecturer's chair, he ventures to give the
wing advice to organists :
Adopt a well-arranged score, and adhere strictly to it.
r no chord for alteration sake, nor suffer your singers to
,duce even a passing note without your written sanction.
Remember that you have the responsibility cast upon
of leading the devotions of a congregation in an act of
e to the Supreme Majesty of Heaven and Earth, before
n the angels veil their faces in their wings, while they
loly, holy, holy is the Lord God of Hosts ! Ifthisfeel-
oes not restrain the exuberance of real genius, and abate
anity of self-conceit, nothing else can.

;ALLIPOLI OlL.—Owing to a misprint in the
he duty on this oil was stated to be reduced
Nhereas it should have been from eight
Leeds Mercury.

as to four guineas

cx PRICE FOR A Bum..—The pure Hereford bull,
pton, lately imported in the ship Chalydra to Launces-
las been purchased at auction, by Mr. David Gibson,

'Hobart Town Courier

)EATII BY DROWNING.—A fatal accident occurred here,
ween two and three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, to a !e-
Ole individual, named Charles Parker, who had, during
orning, been sailing in a skiff on the river Dee,. accom-
led by a friend. In consequence of the heat of the wea-
he undressed himself in the skiff, with a view to bath-
d, after plunging into the stream, was suddenly seized
amp. He was observed to lift up his head once
surface of the water, and, after motioning to his
companion in the boat for assistance, he immediately sunk
no more. The friend of the deceased, seeing that
' avours to save his companion would be fruit-
decliately went on shore, and gave the alarm.
..on Ford, where the accident occurred, was soon after
with the drag-hooks, but in vain. 'Mr. Hill, the
,perintendent of Police, then had a large net brought to the
ot, which being thrown into the water under his directions,
cc body, after being submerged about four hours and a half'
as, at length, brought on shore, and then rowed in a boat to
dr. Wall's, the Groves Tavern, to await the coroner's in-
'nest, which took place last Monday, at twelve o'clock.
The deceased, who was clerk in an office at Liverpool, had
that morning merely come over to Chester on a pleasurable
excusion. He waa respectably connected,. and was about
twenty-four years of age.—Chester Chronicle.

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