The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-04 00:00:00

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The Cheshire Agricultural Society will hold their gene-
ral meeting at Sandbach, on the 20th instant.
St. Peter's Church, Chester, was opened on Friday,
when sermons were preached by the Revs. Thomas Nolan
and Hugh Stowell.
THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY AND
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS DORIA, family, and suite
passed through Preston on Friday, en route to Lytham.
Mr. Bancroft, the American minister, visited Man-
chester on Friday, and after inspecting the principal
public buildings and several factories dined with a numer-
ous party at the Union Club.
The centenary of the birth of Goethe was celebrated
at
manchester' on Tuesday, at a tea-party. About a
hundrec the literary ladies and gentlemen in the vicinity
were present. The toast of the evening was responded
to by Mr. G. Dawson.
,otie
1•; for a public enquiry,
G BTION —The Board of Ad-
THE RIVER DEE NA',
miralty has issued an official .
eed ay, as to state-
at the Town-hall, Chester, on IN, .
the corporation of
ments set forth in the memorial from of the River
that city, complaining of the proceeding. -4 the said
Dee Company, with respect to the navigation , •
river." The investigation is confided to Mr. Ma,...
Bloxham, a barrister of some repute, and to Mr. Abe,-
nethy, civil engineer.
DREADFUL DESTITUTION.—On Monday an inquest was
held at Wigan on a man named Taylor, aged 25. His wife
s-iid they had only had 6d. since Friday to live upon, and
that was for four of them, and that she had borrowed.
He had been out of work five weeks, and had been in
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shilling
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Staffordshire. They had lived for the last five weeks on
charity. She had only got Is. from Mr. Palmer, relieving
officer;
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again.
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beytl Re but she
he
frightened
-
frightened her, and said he would get her taken up if she
had got a paper signed by the Mayor and Mr. Rice. He
had never tasted meat since Saturday at nine o'clock.
Robin-
son and Macauley were again brought up at Manchester.
About 15 witnesses were examined, principally young
men who had been duped in a similar way to Lindley by
advertisements in the newspapers, and the presentation
of the three forged cheques on the Manchester and Liver-
pool District Bank, was proved. A young man named
Whitfield, living in Liverpool, answered an advei tisement
which the prisoner inserted in the Liverpool Courier in
April last, and on the 27th of that month had an inter-
view with Robinson at the Union Hotel, Clayton-square,
Liverpool, the prisoner then stating his name to be
Meller. As in other cases the prisoner requested an in-
terview with this young man at the Corn Exchange,
Manchester, which took place a day or two afterwards,
and then, under similar circumstances to those detailed
in the former case. Whitfield was requested to go to the
bank of Sir Benjamin Heywood and Co., to cash a cheque
purporting to be from Mr. William Burton, a flour dealer,
in Salford, who then kept an account with the hank, in
favour of Messrs. Owen and Marriott, for £325 9s. 7d.
The money was paid in six £5O notes, and the remainder
in specie. This cheque Mr. Burton stated to be a forgery.
The evidence against Macauley being incomplete, the
case was remanded till Tuesday.