The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-02 00:00:00

It is confidently stated, that Mr. Nichlols, one of the poor-
law commissioners, has resigned his appointment.—Times.
THE RlBBLE.—During the week the neighbourhood of
the quay at the Ribble has been in an unusual state of bustle'
owing to a number of large vessels (brigs and schooners)
having come there to unload their cargoes, which have always
previously been discharged into lighters at Lytham, and
brought by them thence to Preston. This is an earnest of
what may be expected from the exertions of the Ribble Com-
pany to make the river navigable. We stated last week that
nearly the whole of the rock had been excavated, nothing re-
maining but a very small portion of the division between the
coffer-dams. This will be done at an early opportunity.
The dredging also has proceeded most satisfactorily, and
yesterday the steamer towed from the quay five of the vessels
down the river, a sight most unusual here, and which had
attracted many persons to witness it. That there is a greater
depth of water in the river (the effect of the improvement) is
evident, and ere the summer has passed we anticipate that the
arrival of large class vessels at the quay will not be a matter
of surprise.—Preston Pilot.

FATAL PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER.—Another of these de-
moralising and disgraceful exhibitions took place in a meadow
near Pershore, between nine and ten o'clock on Wednesday
night last, and terminated in the death of one of the panic-5
named Glassbrook?
.a painter, residing in Pershore. The
name of his antagonist is Stephens, a carpenter, living in the
same town, who, together with his seconds in the affair, w,ll
have to answer for their part in the transaction at the bar of
criminal justice. This is the second death from fighting that
has taken place within a fortnight in this county. These
practices appear to be reviving. Three battles had been
fixed to come off in the neighbourhood of Stourbridge next
Easter; but, in consequence of the late fatal result of an en-
counter in that district, they are " drawn." An inquest was
held on Friday, before T. Best, Esq., when a verdict of
" Manslaughter" was returned against Stephens, together
with his father and four other men, who were aiding and
abetting in this infamous transaction. They have accord-
ingly all been taken up on the coroner's warrant, and removed
sn the county gaol, where they now await their trial at the
xtp assizes. IVe hear that bail has been offered for the par,
oate— Worcester Journal.
MURDER AT DUNDEE.—On Tuesday last the inhabitants
of this town were again put in a state of considerable ex-
citement, by the body of a female child, about two months
old, having been discovered floating in a p001...0f stagnant
water, near the depot of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway
at the harbour. The body, which was nearly in a state of
nudity, was conveyed to the Post-office. On the afternoon
of Wednesday, a great many persons having gone to view
the body, it was identified by a female to be the body of a
child belonging lo Catherine Sytnon, a worker in one of the
spinning mills, upon which an officer was immediately de-
spatched to the mill, who found her at work, and brought
her to the office. She appeared rather unconcerned, and
admitted at once that she was the mother of the child, and
that it was by her hands that it came by its death. On the
following day an officer, on going •to the house where she
lodged, and searching it, found concealed in the straw of the
bed where she used to sleep, the whole of the clothes which
the child used to wear, and which, we are informed, were
upon it on the evening when she carried it out of the house,
thus showing the deliberate manner in which the murder
must have been committed, she having stripped off the clothes
previous to consigntng it to its watery grave. The case is
under judicial investigation, and will no doubt be tried at the
ensuing Circuit Court. We understand the reputed father
of the child is a married man. The prisoner is a native of
Errol, but has been about Dundee' for a number of years ;
she is moderately good-looking, of the middle size, about
twenty-eight or thirty years of age, and appears to be of a
still or sullen temperament. She has another female child
about five years old.—Dundee Warder.

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last week, we understand that after he had received one or
two visits from the Rev. W. Flower, the chaplain of York
Castle, a visible change took place in his demeanour and ex-
pectations. Though from the first he expected that a verdict
of guilty would pass against him, he had the infatuation to
suppose that be should ultimately obtain his freedom after
suffering a short term of imprisonment, and to that, we sup-
pose, may be attributed his apparent unconcern. We have
heard that application is to be made to the crown on his be-
half for the exercise of the royal clemency in consideration
of his youth, and the apparent unpremeditation of the attack
upon the unfortunate deceased. What may be the issue of
the application we cannot say ; but, looking at the evidence
adduced, and the terms of the judgment pronounced by Mr.
Baron Rolfe, we have not much hope of a successful result.
The accidental circumstance of the judges having been de-
tained at York over Saturday night, will give the unfortunate
deceased a respite for a week ; as, if they bad left the assize
town before last Sunday, execution would have been done on
Saturday next, but as the judges did not leave till Sunday,
the execution will be postponed till Saturday the 10th of
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