The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-18 00:00:00

WAR RINGTON.

(From the Mandhester Courier.)
A FACT.—The license that was granted last week, a
Newton, for the " Patten Arms Hotel," is the first new
license tor a public-house that has been granted for the town
of Warrington for forty years.
ESCAPE OF A CONVICT.—Last week, at a late hour in the
evening, a van load of convicts, under sentence of transpor-
tation for the period of seven years, passed through War-
rington, on their way from Kirkdate to Chatham. AmongSt
others was John Corbet Peele, and the notorious Edward
Oakes, the "mag,sman." The latter escaped from the van
at Stoney Stratford. A reward of £5O has been offered for
his apprehension.
UTTERING BASE COlN.—Last week, Biddy Blaney, the
wife of a private soldier belonging to the Slat regiment ief
foot, was brought before Mr. Dakin, charged with uttering a
base half-crown, in Warrington market. The prisoner ac-
companied her husband's regiment on the march from Car-
lisle to Chester. tin Wednesday, she went into the market
and purchased a halfpenny's worth of gooseberries, and in
payment tendered half-a-crown to the woman making the
sale. A byestander, on seeing it, called ont, "that is a bad
one." The market woman rang it on the stones, and putting
it into her pocket, said, " It is net, I wish I had a pocket full
like it." The prisoner received the change, and went about
her business. The half-crown afterwards went under further
inspection, and proved to be a counterfeit. Thy prisoner was
apprehended, and upon her were found two counterfeit shil-
lings and three good ones. Several counterfeit shiliings of
the same date and die as those found in the prisoner's, pos-
session, were paid away iu the market on the same day. I hi.,
prisoner received a most excellent character, and on the de.
positions taken against her being forwarded to London, thi
solicitor to the mint declined prosecuting, and she was, con
sequently, discharged from custody.
SUICIDE.—William Dawson, an old man, carrying on trade
as a milkman and huxter, at Fearnhead, near \Verrington,
put a period to his existence on Sunday, by taking arsenic.
put a period to his existence on Sunday, by taking arscl)it'.
l'he deceased had been in a desponding state for some weeks,
having a great dread that he should come to poverty. He
was at Warrington market an Saturday, and at night, after
his return home, was taken very ill. On Sunday afternoon
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LICENSING SYSTEM. —At the licensing sessions held at
Hoo Green, last week, one new license was granted. It was
for a house at Runcorn.
INFANT SCHOOL.—The state of the infant population of
Latchford is such as to have induced the Rcv. J. Wright,
the minister of St. James's church, to call upon his congre-
gation to adopt the necessary measures for the establishment
of an infant school, in connection with the church. A meet-
ing was held on Tuesday evening, to take the preliminary
steps, and there is every, prospect of the plan suggested by
Mr. Wright being carried into active operation.