The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LlBERTY.—Liberty is not idleness :itis a free use of I THE FATAL DUEL AT CAMDEN TOWN.
time to choose our labour and our exercisa.—ln one word, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—AUGUST 18.
to be free, is not to do nothing, but to be the sole arbiter

of what we do, ar

so great

was placed at the bar, before Mr Bullock, to plead to an
are quiet and peacebly we get on, indictment charging him with the wilful murder of David
for ourselves, the better for our Lynar Fawcett.

ighbou

He pleided not

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Lnied by the

3 take care

Lord Mayor, took his seat on the be
was then again placed at the bar.

(lent charged the prisoner
t of July, 1843, at the parish of St.
Fam

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the ls

with having, on
Mary, Islington,

made an assault et
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.ed a pistOl at I
ther-'

1, loaded with powd

wound, of which
n died

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Clark appeared for the

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cussion in the put

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by that evidence, an 4

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papers.
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read or I

sist on reading would appear that there had be
occasions their between them, to which he she
bring about a because they did not at all affect the present inquiry
last ever to be could not offer any extenuation of the act imputed to the
Johnson prisoner. It appeared that on the Friday before the Ist
of bore, of July there had been a dispute between the deceased
a literary and the prisoner, and the result was that a hostile meeting
,icing a took place between them in a field near the Brecknock

Id not any fu-rther allud

obtained by ti

must have
when, on

,uICI call "

!ft, met

r peril

No ; to read I facts of the

chair to I the evidence to see if there was an]
apters," I a charge of murder, and he knew t

.e of escape from
jury as gentle-

ydo the same ; but
mild not admit of any doubt

urged men and men of honour would anx
3 I've he feared that the evidence
" Yes upon the point. He should
E.. you were actually present at 14

Duld also compel him to call as a Ns

to it. I tlemer

ho actec

d. Fawcett, who would
adly conflict, and that yern rnent

PFisoner 1

1 the deadly weapon, d

prisone
tion.

ke charge it, and observed the tatai result. tue jaw was,
3f unhappily, equally clear upon the point. It made an al-
l. lowance for an act of violence committed in the excite-
ment of passion ; but where there was time for , reason to
•

HE SCrlpuun truguu nut, iv llaY V Ull, vy vAS a..
s to attempt esti- They had no right whatever to speculate as moralists
Iff firmaments. on what the law ought to be. The present law might,
ist probably, have hitherto been found insufficient to repress
deficiency, and offences of this description, and some alteration might pos-
sibly be advisable ; but it appeared to him that the degra-
..

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The evidence has been presented to the public on a for-

Mr. Adderley, of Doctors' Commons and Upper Clap-
ton, who died on the 2nd of August, has left a legacy to
Sir Peter Laurie of £5OO, as a mark of esteem and respect
for his important public services as a magistrate.
WOOD PAVEMENT.-011 Monday the whole of the wood-
pavement from Northumberland House to Charing-cross
Hospital was removed and carried into St. Martin's work-
house ; it is being replaced with granite.
ROBBERY OF THREE THOUSAND POUNDS
If, -aived by the pa"

On Friday

intormation was rec
Bank of England notes, namely, one of £lOOO,
of £5OO each, had been stolen from No. 36, Halt
street, Mayfair, London.
EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH.— __
of wheat contained in a nine-acre field, near
was cut, bound, and secured on
u.gr:o.Ton.rd:nibliys arbhoildi,
some 70 Irishmen, in the short space of two hour
1 , Doncdster Gazette.

A. few day

go a crop
uithrope,

A report of the assassination of
obtained some circulation, both in tt
the provinces, on Tuesday and Wedr
altogether without foundation, and is sup,
been invented for stock-jobbing purposes.
One of the waggons of Wombwell's menagerie, con-
taining leopards, was upset at Folkestone, last week, and
the animals were in a very infuriated state, when
Chapman, the Lion Queen, at once entered the dens, and
reduced them to order.
JENNY LlND.—Among the latest arrivals of vessels
from foreign parts,. is one named the Jenny Lind, from
Miramichi. with a cargo of wood goods, thus evincing the

-metropolis and itl

The story i.

spread of her fame and genius to countries far away from
the scene of her triumphs.

On Sunday week, during the thunder-storm, as a man,
his wife, and two children, were driving a chaise in the
neighbourhood of Highgate, a flash of lightning struck the

horse, and killed him instantly. The party were tnrown
from the chaise, but luckily escaped unhurt.
The stocks of grain and flour are accumulating to such
an extent in the metropolis, that the warehouse room at
command no longer suffices for their reception. It is said
that recourse has been had to Greenwich for partial accom-
modation.—Globe of Friday.
During a thunder-storm which visited the neighbour-
hood of London yesterday week, the lightning was at-
tracted by a brass wire which bound the seating of a chair,
in which a gentleman was sitting reading ; but fortunately
he was not seriously injured, although his thigh was some-
what burned.
WEIGH YOUIt BREAD.— Richard Whittaker, of Great
Ducie-street, Strangeways, was convicted on Thursday,
inthe sum of twenty shillings and costs, for selling bread
in Lower Brouehton. short of weighf, and for not having

a beam and scales with proper weights in his cart
(mired ver act 6 & 7 William IV cap. 37—Mancesler paper

~ as re-

Louis - Henry Goule, formerly a superintendent in the
rural police, who was tried two years ago for the murder
~,;f‘, of ni,phnm_ and was; acauitted on the ground

or Ms wire at IJUniam, auu wa
•-
of insanity, but ordered by Mr. Baron Rolfe, to be de-
tained till her Majesty's pleasure respecting him should be
known, has been liberated by an order from the Secretary
of State for the Home Department.
William Gates, one of the chief clerks in the office of
the Income and Property Tax Commissioners, pleaded
guilty on Wednesday, in London, to a charge of forging
receipt for the repayment of £l3O, to defraud the Go-

There were three or four cases against the
le was sentenced to twelve years' transporta-

The first evidence of the substitution of imprisonment
for transportation was afforded last week, when forty con-
victs arrived at the county gaol, Reading, from Millbank.
Theo arp to he taurht the trades of shoemaking and tai-

other day resume her sway that excuse was not allowed, and the -•-.-,7 “A ‘,- ---6- -
Nut about deliberate duellist was looked upon by the law as a mur- Loring, and receive sucb education as is provided by the
-ords, Great derer; and although some apologists might be found who Prison regulations. They were all originally sentenced to
premiums, dis- would offer excuses for this servile deference to the bar- various terms of transportation.
Tv. Toby."— barous customs of society, there could be no doubt what EQUALITY !-The Rev. M. M. Clark, a coloured minister
the law was upon the question. Arguments of this de- of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, states, that
. . •, . .-i- • -. • • he has travelled in Britain one year, and has received the

most friendly attention. Just as he turned his face ,
" the land of the free," having purchased a cabin passage
here we mt in the ship Constitution, he was informed by the captain
ciency, r that the owners would not tolerate such a passenger in the
lations, w' first cabin. Mr. Clark is a citizen of the United States.
ill our ~ •s—less than a dation of a conviction upon such a charge would mos, A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE PILLORY.—TiIe other day Mr.
be found sufficient
likely worthy to take itslT place
_Radford, well-known characters, in the act of stealing
his potatoes, made them lay the stolen property on the
road between Ison Green:and New Basford ; and gave them
the choice of being prosecuted, or of standing each over
his own heap in the sight of all passers-by. The rogues
preferred the latter alternative. and accordingly " stood it"
about an hour and a half, to the great edification of

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CORN SPECULATING.—It is stated, On good authority,
that one of the London houses which failed last week
made eighty thousand pounds at the commencement of
the season by their successful dealings in Indian corn 1
All this has been lost, and their capital besides, by an un-
fortunate miscalculation of the fluctuations of the market
and the state of the weather ! _ .

Locomotives are gradually destroying exclusivism.
What will be thought of the Duke of Wellington, Lord
John Russell, Sir Robert Peel, the musician Jullien, a
subaltern's lady, and a newspaper reporter, being jammed
on- I in the same railway carriage. Yet this was an actual

effect of the railwa
Cambridge.

The tour-mills

ASsiiritml

'stem- at the royal install

known as '' Ray Mills

.ead station of the G

I Western Rail

adjoining brewery, were destroy

The loss must

to the stock of corn, flour, malt,Si-c., t

large stock of 1

hole o

The premises are insured in the West of England.
A MAN KILLED BY A QUOIT.—Ori Wednesd
inquest was held in London, in the University
Hospital, on the body of Joseph James Watkin
47. The deceased and his brother with otl