The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-23 00:00:00

TO TUE EDITOR OV TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR—Having noticed in the Mercury of Friday last an
advertisement for a person to fill the vacant office of
" Registrar of Births and Deaths" for the district of Toz-
teth Park, and as there will be, doubtless, many appli-
cants for the situation, can you inform me if it be true
that one of the " Board" stated on Wednesday last that
advertising was a "farce" and useless, as the candidate
was already fixed upon ? It is whispered that the appoint-
ment was agreed upon at the " dinner table," and the
situation is to be given to-morrow to one of the " Guar-
dians" lately holding office, and whose kind, affable, and
generous conduct to the poor is well known and appre-
ciated, although not altogether agreeable to a few mem-
bers of a pompons, tyrannical, and " radical clique," who
consider him a " bore" to their ambition. Hence is his
retirement desirable, and, when lie is duly appointed, it is
said one of the late disappointed " clique" will be pro-
posed as his successor in the office at the Board. Now,
surely this report cannot be true, after the many " scenes"
and " rows" at this respectable Board of Guardians ; and
yet, if true, " can such things be, without our special
wonder ?" Why, then, Advertise ! The affair reminds
one of the " Bigham do" or mistake, the worthy and re-
spectable "councillor" applying to be "head constable,"
with the emoluments, of course. In conclusion, I would
beg to add that the district should be divided, as one of
the Guardians (Mr. Appleby) suggested, and thusfrustrate
the " cunning doings" and objects of the " elique."—l am,
Sir, yours, &c. OBSERVER.
irkdale,_Alay 22, 1854.

" PROPERTY" in Alabama fetches good prices. The live
chattels in human form on the estate of the late Edmund
Townsend, 283 in number, recently sold for 207,195 dol-
lars. A young man and his wife brought 3,000 dollars;
two twin brothers 3,700, and a brother and sister of these
proved nearly as valuable.

AN EXTENSIVE DERAELTER.—AR inquisition has been
opened at the Sheriff's-court of Durham, to inquire what
property Henry Birchfield Swabey, of Doctor's-commons,
possesses in that county, with a view to the satisfying de-
falcations amounting to £66,000 on the part of the pri-
soner to the crown, for moneys received by him as regis-
trar of the High Court of Admiralty. It was found that
the prisoner was possessed of eight-fifteenths of the Pelton
Colliery, worth £18,627, subject, however, to very 1101'7
claims under mortgages.
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ATTEMPT TO STARVE A FAMILY TO DEAT—.
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spectable-looking man was charged, at
Police-court, on Wednesday, with attempting to
dchildren to
his wife (a lady-like looking woman) an.o
mg children,
death. His wife stated that she had Eve
tdecition with the
and had lived on terms of the greatest worsilp
starve
habits of intoxicatk'n and brutalwee. tni,s
ne:, c""
after furnish-
prisoner until within the last twelve
rea
to separate from him. Abouattity 1,
t of spirituous liquors, he
ing himself with a large 0u,4
s,__l ng
1 her and her family
menonth_s,rwellheden
her
formed the horrid design ol_ Lai
three days they had nothing but
locked them in. For
b ad, and when she was trying to
some pieces a dry
to death. He the food in the house, and
make her escape rotilld
gave her a black ey. He then
knocked her down,
det6reYtedhireen!ouse be intercepted 'her and
until the agonizing cries of her
and there kept them,
children for food on the previous day
induced her to make
an
ma e
locked her and her children in one of the upper rooms,
had
to break open the door ; but the prisoner, who
had been drinking at intervals, forced her away, striking
her in a savage manner in the face, and pinching her all
over the body. She then made her way to the window,
and dashed her hand through a pane of glass, and that
circumstance, with her cries, attracted the attention of the
gentlemen, who forcibly entered the place, and the pri-
soner was given into custody. The prisoner was remanded.