The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-03 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

DEAD BODY OF A CHILD FOUND.—On Friday morning
last, at half-past seven o'clock, as Joseph Sandon, a shoe-
maker, was passing along Tenterden-street, he found a bun-
dle lying on the footwalk. He opened it, and found a new-
born female child. He delivered it to the inspector of the
district, and it was sent to the Infirmary. It is the opinion
of the surgeon who examined it, that it was not born alive.
J. W. Patten, Esq., one of the estimable members of the
Noathern Division of this county, gave the tenants on his
Wintnarleigh property a treat to the ltoyal Agricultural So-
ciety's meeting at Liverpool, a numerous party of whom
gladly availed themselves of this kind offer, and will, no
doubt, long and very gratefully feel the value of the favour
conferred upon them.

THE RAINBOW HOTEL.—Strangers, travellers, and all
who are en route, and wish to be well accommodated, re-
ceive politeness, and enjoy good fare, will find every requi-
site at the house of" mine host " Lawton, at the Rainbow.

We can recommend him and his hotel to notice.
THEATRE-ROYAL.—This theatre has been literally cram-
med every night since " London Assurance" has been played ;
to-night is the last night it can be performed. The comic
scene, " Two in the Morning," is a most capital bit of hu-
mour.

WINSTANLEY'S Rooms.—The lovers of fine arts will be

highly gratified in visiting Messrs. Winstanley's rooms,
where will be found on view to-day (intended for public sale
to-morrow) a collection of exquisite works of art Tarste and
Vertu. Amongst the glass wares are some elegant speci-
mens of the Bohemian Manufactories. The bronzes are very
beautiful. The china is extremely curious, but what gave us
the greatest pleasure was the inspection of some carvings in
ivory, from the gifted chisels of Michael Angelo, and
others. These carvings are, without exception, the most ex-
quisite works we have ever seen in this country. The
carvings in wood, from Spain, are very curious, and well
worth the attention of any gentleman fitting up rooms in the
olden style. Amongst the satuary are works of Canova,
Binnaime. and other sculptors of eminence. We strongly
recommend a visit to Messrs. Winstanley's rooms, to inspect
these charming productions. There has seldom been such a
collection offered for public sale, and a lively competition
will doubtless take place for its possession.
NEW BRIGHTON.—Nothing can be more agreeable at the
present season than a residence at this delightful sea-bathing
place, which is, every summer, rising into great celebrity.
The salubrity of the climate is almost enough to " make old
age forget his years, and throw away his crutch." The sea-
' views are magnificent; and, while it is a place quite suited
for the idle and the fashionable, it is no less so for the man
of business, who, after his daily toil, has only to step into one
of the steam-packets, which are continually crossing to and
from Liverpool, and in a few minutes he is wafted from the
din and smoke of the town, to the bracing air and beautiful
shore of New Brighton. At present it is graced by not a
few of the great and noble of the land, amongst whom are
the Right Hon. Lord Kenyon, Right Hon. Lord and Lady
Tenhain, Hon. W. Kenyon and lady, Lady Dallas, Sir Ste-
phen Glynn, Bart., Lady Walsingham, Lady Emily North,
Lady Jane Ram, Sir Edward Hartoff, Bart., Mr. Gladstone,
Mr. W. Fielden.
Ewart, M.P., Mr. Davenport,P Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Esq., &c.,
Ald
Mar-
tineau, Mrs. Holland, Christopher Bullin, Esq., James Mel-
lor,Mr.Greenall, Esq.,Houghton, q., &c. _

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CHARGE AGAINST A PAWNBROKER.—A notorious fellow,
a common informer, who at present figures in the name of
Turnbull, and who has lately rendered himself unenviably
conspicuous by the anxiety he has evinced to entrap different
pawnbrokers of the town, appeared to prefer a charge against
Mr. John Parry, pawnbroker, Thurlow-street, for an over-
charge of lid. upon 6s, the amount lent upon a coat pledged.
The informer had not given the pawnbroker notice to pro-
duce the ticket, and Mr. Rushton would not allow him to
offer a copy as evidence, and the information therefore failed,
being, as Mr. Rushton intimated, bad in another respect.

RIOTS AT THE ELECTION.-At the Quarter Sessions on
Friday, eleven persons were committed to prison, for periods
varying according to the nature of their offences, for being
engaged in a riot on the day of election. The longest period
of punishment was four months.

ERAFIn very beautiful and highly interesting
animals are advertised to be taken away from Liverpool next
Monday. Those of our leaders who have not seen them
should lose no time in doing so. They aic really great won-
ders, end deceiving of much notice.

The Law Association of Manchester have addressed a
memorial to the Home Secretary, praying that the assize
business of the Hundred of Salford may be transferred to
Manchester.

E WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—The members of the
conference met on Wednesday morning last, at Oldham-
street, Manchester, when the Rev. James Dixon was elected
president, and Dr. Hannan secretary, by large majorities.
The question of the ministers wearing silk gowns was dis-
cussed on a subsequent day, when it was decided that the
gown should not be worn, and the conduct of the ministers
who appeared in one was referred to the committee. The
centenary fund, we are informed, amounts to X 190,0000; and
it is fully expected, that the amount will eventually be made
up to £200,000. The total number of ministers who have
died within the year is 27. _ _ _ _

EXTENSIVE itOBBERY OF MONEY.—On Friday, at the
Police-court, two men, James Roberts and:William Greaves,
both well known to the police, were placed at the bar,
charged with stealing a quantity of money from the house of
Mr. Joseph Harris, keeper of the Eagle Inn, corner of Great
Nelson-street and Scotland-road. It appeared from the
evidence, that on Tuesday night last, the prisoners and four
other men went into Mr. Harris's, where they had something
to drink. They were in a room by themselves, and when
they went out it was remarked that they had left some liquor
in their glasses. The prisoners were afterwards noticed in
the street on their leaving the house, and one of them was
carrying a box or desk under his arm. The mistress of the
house was informed of this ; and suspicion being excited,
she went up stairs, and immediately missed a portable writ-
ing-desk, in which she had shortly before placed a £2O note,
three £lO notes, one £5 note, 53 sovereigns, £3 in half-
crowns, fifteen shillings in silver, and a dollar, worth about
4s. 2d. ; making in all a sum of £lll 19s. 2d. Information
was given to the police, to whom the dress and appearance
of the supposed delinquents were described, and they were
apprehended. The desk, broken open, was found emptied
of its contents ; no money was found. The prisoners were
also seen by other witnesses in the street, one of them car-
rying the desk, which was partly wrapped up. They were
committed to take their trials at the assizes.
On Thursday last, the 29th instant, an inquest was held at
St. Helens. The deceased, Henry Ashton, a young man
about 16 years of age, worked at an upper mine at the col-
liery of Messrs. Muspratt and Daglish, in Parr, and deceased
and two other men were standing together on the stage where
the coals are brought to from the lower mine. He handed a
candle to his brother, who was on a stage about six feet above
that on which deceased was standing. He stood for about a
minute, and he then fell backwards to the bottom of the pit,
a distance of about thirty-four yards. He never spoke nor
called out when he fell. He must have been suddenly seized
with faintness or giddiness which occasioned his fall. Ile
was quite dead when they took him up. Verdict
dental death "

An inquest was held on the 27th July last, at Warrington,
before John Keyes, Esq.; coroner, on the body of Thomas
Allerton, a man about 76 years of age, who, on Sunday, the
25th, was walking up Bridge-street towards Market Gate, in
\Varrington. Some persons were standing on the steps of a
hatter's shop there, and the deceased came up and requested
permission to seat himself on the steps ; they assisted de-
ceased, and in a minute or two perceived that he frothed at
the mouth, when they sent immediately for a surgeon, but
upon his arrival deceased was quite dead. Verdict—" Died
by the Visitation of God."

Another inquest was held at the same place, on the body
of Jane White, a child about 16 months old, who was stand-
ing in the street when a cart drawn by one horse was passing,
and before the horse could be stopped the cart passed over
her breast, which canted her immediate death. The driver
was close to his horse's head, but the deceased was on the
opposite side, and unfortunately was not seen by him until
the wheel had passed over her. Verdict—" Accidental death."
THE. TOWN-HALL CLOCK.—Scaffolding is now erected
round the dome of the Town-hall, for the purpose of repaint-
ing and regilding the four faces of the clock. The public have
long been of opinion, that the faces of a clock so conspicu-
ous as this ought to be illuminated with gas, like the faces of
the clocks of St. George, St. Peter, and St. Nicholas ; and,
since the scaffolding was put up, that opinion has very ge-
nerally been expressed, particularly by the inhabitants iu the
district around the Town-hall. A memorial to the Town-
council, praying them to cause the clock faces to be illumi-
nated, has been drawn up and is now in course of signature.
It will be presented on Wednesday, when the Council will,
we hope, order the measure to be adopted.
THEATRE-ROY AL, MANCHESTER.—The new play of
London Assurance, and the attraction of the different per-
formers of the Covent-garden company, drew an audience
crowded to overflowing at this theatre on Saturday; the mu-
sicians vacated their seats in the orchestra to accommodate
several parties who could not obtain places in the boxes ; and
the announcement of the comedy for repetition in Manches-
ter on Saturday next, was greeted with a burst of applause
from all parts of the densely filled house.

CASE OF ABSCONDING FROM TRIAL AT THE SESSIONS.
—At the police-court yesterday, John Williams, a pilot, was
placed at the bar, on the following chagre, the substance of
which was stated by Mr. Shuttleworth, deputy Town-clerk.
About six months ago the prisoner was held to bail, himself
in £3O and two sureties in £l5 each, to answer a charge of
having committed a 'violent assault, on board of a pilot-boat,
upon another pilot named Sadler, by which he lost an eye.
The latter appeared in the witness box yesterday. A true bill
was found against the prisoner at the sessions, and he was
called on to plead, but was not in court, he having left town
to avoid trial. His recognizances were accordingly estreated,
and he was afterwards apprehended on a bench warrant for
his appearance at the next sessions. Mr. Suttleworth now
requested that heavy bail should be required. Mr. Rushton
ordered him to find sureties to stand his trial himself in
£l5O and two others in £75 each, and to give forty-eight
hours' notice of the proposed bail.

CONSERVATIVE STRENGTH IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The strength of the conservatives in the House of Commons
has thus gradually risen year by year—
In 1833 they were ..
1834 „ l9O 1838 „
1835 „
1836 „
1837 - 3lO

INQUBSTS ON SATURDAY, BEFORE P. F. CURRY, ESQ.—
On view of the body of Ellen Riley, aged 68, who was on
Friday run over by a cart in Ranelagh-place while crossing.
Verdict—" Accidental death."—On the body of Thomas
Barry. While assisting to remove a heavy pot at the soap-
ery of Mr. Moore, Leeas-street, it tell upon him. Verdict—
" Accidental death."—On the body of a still born child,
found, wrapped up, in a sand-hole in Tenderton-street.
Verdict accordingly.
SWINDLING A BOOTM A KER.—A well-dressed fellow,
named James M`Lean, was put forward on a charge of
having swindled Mr. T. B. Elley, boot and shoemaker, of
Old Haymarket, out of three pair of Wellington boots, of the
value of £2 17s. From the evidence it appeared that, be-
tween the hours of four and five o'clock in the afternoon of
Friday last, the prisoner and one of his associates walked into
Mr. Elley's shop and asked Mr. Denison, the manager of
the concern, to be shown a pair of Wellington boots. The
prisoner having fitted himself with a pair, his companion
asked tki be shown another pair, and he having been also
fitted, they next inquired the price, and were told 19s. a
pair. They then desired Mr. Denison to send the two pair
they had fitted on, together with a third pair of similar size,
to Mr. John Sixsmith's, at the old churchyard, for inspec-
tion, that they should there pay the bearer for two pair and
return the third. Accordingly, a shopboy, of the name of
Dowd, was despatched with the parties, with instructions not
to part with the boots without having first obtained the
money. When they had pi oceeded as far as Petty's public-
house, they induced the boy to drink a glass of rum, and
having purchased some tobacco at a shop in Crosshall-street,
they made the boy swallow a piece of it. At Sixsmiths' the
prisoner's companion cried out, " Come, give me the
boots !" and having obtained the three pairs, he rushed with
them up stairs. The prisoner then treated the boy to a glass
of ale, and was then making off, when the boy gave chase and
had him taken into custody. Search was then made for his
companion, but he had previously effected his escape by a
back door which leads into the churchyard, of course taking
the boots with him. When the prisoner had been searched
in Bridewell, 2s. 9d. only was found on his person. He was
committed for trial.
POPULATION OF WARRINGTON.—The township of War-
rington, according to the census taken on the 7th of June,
contains 18,969 inhabitants, of which number 9185 are males
and 9784 females.
The Warrington Natural History Society have received a
munificent donation from her Majesty, of a selection from the
ancient coins discovered last year at Cuerdale, in this county,
and to which, in her quality as Duchess of Lancaster, her
Majesty was entitled as treasure trover. They are 29 in
number, of Anglo-Saxon and continental silver coinage.
They are all in fine preservation, and several were previously

unknown.
THE BARBAROUS MURDER AT EXETER.—WC have
already given the principal facts connected with the murder
and robbing of a gentleman named Bennett at Exeter. Brins-
mead, one of the prisoners, has made a confession, the sub-
stance of which is, that he was about to go home after leaving
the Cattle Market Inn, on Friday night, immediately after
Mr. Bennett, and that Pitts came up to him, and asked him
to go along with him, and they would have some more beer
by and bye. This he at first refused, hut ultimately agreed
to do so. They then doged Mr. Bennett towards his house,
through South-street and Holloway-street, at the lower end
of Colleton-terrace. Here they met Mr. Bennett, and Pitts
said to him, that he (Mr. Bennett) had been with one of
their sisters, and they would make it known if he did not
treat them to some beer. Mr. Bennett agreed to give them
some, and went to Ugler's public-house for that purpose,
but it was shut up. Pitts then persuaded him to go on fur-
ther, and when in the lane, between the Deaf and Dumb
Institution, Pitts asked Mr. Bennett for some money.
The latter gave him fid., but Pitts swore that he would
have some more, and not such a trumpery sum, and ad-
ded, that Brinsmead might have it. Brinsmead said he
would, and took it from Pitts. Pitts then clasped Mr.
Bennett round the body from behind, grasping both his
arms and pressing him against some rails at the side of the
lane. He called out to Brinshead to strike him, which
the latter refused to do. Pitts then struck Mr. Bennett a
tremendous blow in the face with his right hand from
behind, and the latter called for mercy. Brinsmead then
' said to Pitts, " You have done it ; I shall not stay here, I
shall go home." Pitts begged of him not to do so, but he
went to some distance, and from there observed that a tre-
mendous struggle was going on between the two, who gra-
dually advanced to the path by the side of the river. Some
heavy blows were struck, and he at last heard a " Blouse"
into the water, and cries of " mercy, mercy." Immediately
after he beard the sound of a person as if in the act of swim-
ming. He then left the spot and proceeded to near the
Custom-house, where in a short time he was joined by Pitts,
who said, "The man's in the water; he attempted to cut
my throat, and has nearly cut my finger off." Pitts added
that be had got Mr. Bennett's watch and a sovereign, and thal
if he ever wanted a shilling he (Brinsmead) should have ii
from him. Brinsmead positively declares that to his know.
ledi,e no women were at all concerned in the matter, ant
that he had none of the money except the sixpence given him
by Pitts. He also said that a third party went with them
when they first set out, but that he (lid not know his name.
Pitts, Fletcher, Tint, Sanders, and Brinsmead, have been
again remanded for further inquiry.
AMERICAN " CHEAP BREAD."—The following is a ver-
batim copy of an advertisement in an American paper.—(The
Sun published it at New York, June 7th, 18.11.)—" Large
Bread.—Five poundss of baked bread for one shilling, at W.
S. Wilkston's bakery, 4, Madison-street, corner of Chesnut,
warranted as good as any in the city. The abo've cannot
be too widely circulated, as it will tend to expose the fallacy
of the Anti-Corn Law League in their late exhibition through
the streets of this and other towns in England, of the large
American shilling loaf. The best bread is sold in this town,
where we are subject to a corn law, at tenpenee halfpenny for
the six-pound loaf, and in that land of plenty—America,
where there is no corn law, and where we are to have so
much cheap flour from, it is Llvertised as cheap—five pounds
for a shilling—very near a halfpenny per pound dearer than
in this town.
It will be seen from our report of the Dorchester election
dinner, that Sir James Graham paid a deserved compliment
to, whilst lie availed himself of the arguments of, our eminent
townsman, the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, on the subject of
" Home-fed England."