The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-20 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

An inquisition was taken in the Fleet Prison, on Monday
evening, before Mr. Payne and a highly respectable jury, on
view of the body of Dr. Gordon Smith, aged 41, a gentleman
well known to the medical world for his works on medical juris-
prudence, &c., who expired in the above prison on Sunday
last, after an incarceration of 15 months. It appeased 'front
the evidence adduced that the deceased, who was a man of ex-
cellent talents, was formerly a surgeon in the. 12th Lancers,
who, it will be remembered, suffered so dreadfully .at the me-
morable battle of Waterloo, when Colonel Ponsonby, their
leader, was most severely wounded; it was principally through
the skill and unremitted attention which the deceased paid the
gallant Colonel at this critical time that his life was saved. The
deceased, after his return to England, was appointed librarian
to the late Marquis of Stafford, in which situation he continued
upwards of four years. He subsequently published his cele-
brated work on medical jurisprudence, and continued to lecture
at the Medical Institution, Southampton-street, where he was
listened to with great attention for several years. The office
of coroner for the city becoming vacant on the decease of Mr.
Shelton, the Doctor commenced an active, but unsuccessful,
canvass for the situation, which was filled u by the appoint-
ment of Mr. Payne, the present coroner. The deceased, it
appeared, was so much mortified by his defeat that he soon
afterwards gave way to drinking and irregular habits, which.
greatly impaired his constitution, involved him in pecuniary
difficulties, and ultimately brought him to prison, where he
gradually sunk and expired. He was attended during his ill-
ness by Dr. Harrison; of Holles-street, Cavendish-square, an
old friend, who evinced the utmost kincin...ss for him to the last.
The deceased was much esteemed by many members of this
profession to which he belonged. Verdict,—" Died by the visi-
tation of God."

INQUEST ON TILE MEN KILLED IN THE RED SOIL MINE.—
The jury re-assembled on Wednesday before Mr. ➢fancier, the
coroner, and after having examined a number of witnesses,
adjourned to nine o'clock on the following morning. After
deliberating the whole of the day, a verdict of " \Vidal mur-
der" was returned against 21) of the workmen of the Magpie
mine, viz.:—S. Turner, Isaac Goodwin, Charles Harrison,
John Bunting, Thomas Bagshaw, Abraham I)oxev, George
Sutton, James Goodwin, Joseph Baker, Benjamin Marsden,
Thomas Skidmore, 'William Stone. Abraham Bertisford,
Richard Sutton, Daniel Harrison, Jonathan Rowland, George.
Maltby, Robert Walker, George Slack, and Thomas Ashmore.
Mr. William Whvatt, one of the proprietors, and Mr. John
Green, agent of the said mine, were found guilty of being ac-
cessories before the fact. '1 hese two persons have absconded,
and Newton, an active police-officer of Derby, has been de-
spatched in pursuit of them, but hitherto without success; 17
persons, charged with the perpetration of this most inhuman
act, have, however, been safely lodged in the Derby county
gaol to take their trial at the next assizes. Three ofthe2o men
(Robert Walker, George Slack, and ThomasAshmore), against
whom a verdict of " Wilful Murder" has been returned, are
still at large, but, as their persons and circumstances are well
known to the public, and as descriptions of them have been
sent to the different ports at which they might be likely to em-
bark, in order to leave the kingdom, the probability is, that ere
long they will also be in custody. In addition to his Grace of
Devonshire's donation of £lOO, public subscriptions have been
entered into for the purpose of alleviating the misert.and. We=
reavement brought upon the families of the unfortunate suf-
ferers. Mr. W. Wliyatt and Mr. J. Green, who are implicated
in this dreadful affair, are men of property and respectably con-
nected. It is understood to be their intention to remain in con-
cealment until the assizes, and then to surrender themselves to
take their trial.—Derbyshire Courier.

LONDON POLICE REPORT.

MANSION-HOUSE.

On Tuesday a young man, named Joseph have, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having forged a check
upon the banking-house of Sir John Lubbock and Co., for the
sum of £3-18, in the name of Mr. Thomas Dutton, an extremely
infirm elderly gentleman, residing at No. 7, Clapton-terrace,
Upper Clapton.
-Mr. Bush, the solicitor to the committee of bankers, attended
for the prosecutoin. The prisoner had no legal adviser.
Mr. Bush said that Mr. Dutton, in consequence of his very
great debility, required assistance in every transaction relating
his property, and the prisoner having been in his employment had
had frequent opportunities of observing the mode he adopted in
reparing his checks for his banker, and sometimes, when the
trend who generally filled up the checks for him to sign was
absent, officiated in that way.
A clerk in the banking-house of Sir John Lubbock and Co.,
stated that a person, who gave the name of Walker, presented
a check at the counter on the 31st of August, for £3lB, of which
the following was a copy :
" Sir John Lubbock, Bart- Foster, Clarke, and Co , 11,

Mansion-house-street.

" London,_ August 30,1833.
" Pay Mr. Walker, or bearer, £3lB. " Durrox, TriouAs."
The amount was paid in a bank-note for £2OO, No. 3556 • a
bank-note for £lOO, No. 4639; a bank-note for £-10. No. 16,969;
and a bank-note for £5, NO. 2662; and £3 in money.
Mr. George William Turner, of Bermondsey, stated that he
was frequently in the habit of attending Mr. Dutton, and tilling
up the checks to be signed by him. He knew that Joseph have
had occasionally filled up checks for Mr. Dutton, and he be-
lieved the word Walker in the check produced was in the pri-
sone"r's writing Very few persons hail access to Mr. Dutton.
The' signature to the check was exceedingly like Mr. Dutton's
writing.
The Lord Mayor.—Prisoner, you may ask any questions of
the witness.
The prisoner signified that he did not wish to put any ques-
tion:
Mr. Thomas Dutton was then brought forward, and he was
evidently in a miserable state of decrepitude. His spectacles
were pliced upon his nose, and the check was held up to him.
He said that he kept a cash account at the banking-house above
mentioned, and the prisoner had lived with him. He looked
well at the check, and said that he believed the signature was
not his. .He did not know of any check for £3lB.
The prisoner was remanded for another examination.

reviewed the Ist Battalion of Grena-
dier in state from the. Castlo
auynitlie'er ti.-1-reincgommand of Lieutenant-Colonel Brook.
O nGNulaoridi Monday
hk tiloretoKurinof the Ist Regiment of Life Guard?'
where the regiment had assembled. The
• d• I•
rki'n a Field Marshal's uniform, and was ac-
companied in his carriage by the Dukes of Glcitteester and
Cumberland. The Queens carriage preceded that of his Ma-
jocf oies
stvoaurcidctuerntato her dtohteQneeri, Princess Augusta and Duchess
carriages beaded the procession, in
which were part of the royal visitors and suite. Prince George
of Cambridge rode on horseback.

• In the evening the King gave a splendid banquet in St.
George's Hall, at which the whole of the officers of this regi-
ment were present, also those of the Ist Life Guards.
The Duke of Cumberland dined with their Majesties, at
Windsor Castle, on Monday evening. His Royal Highness re-
turned to his residence at Kew, and came to town Tuesday
morning... .•The Duchess- of Cumberland visited the DUeliehd
Dowager of Richmend on Saturdiiv. Her Royal Highness
and Prince George of Cumber:and, accompanied by his pre-
ceptor, the Rev. Mr. Jell, visited the Princess Sophia oil Satur-
day, at her residence iu Kensington Palace.
The Marquis .of Wellesley transacted business Tuesday, at
the Treasury. •
Lord Holland has left town on a tour, for some weekA, in
Wales.
• CONSUNFTION OF SPIKITS.—A return has been printed, by
. quantity of spirits of
differentorderof the
kindsH ocuosiei s I
mf
eCdoimn
mtiolensd'itolefnt.hnet sections of the United
Kingdom, with the duty yielded by cacti in the years 1831 and
1832. The consumption of all sons in gallons WAS, in 1831, in
357,450 gallons ;in Scotland, " 125, being a ucereaso on the
England, 12,150,052, being a decrease on the year before of
year before of 316,982 in Ireland, 8,740,139, being
decrease on the year before of 294.10 u gallonl
s. he total ,de-
crease of consumption in the year 1631, as compared_ with 1830,
is 968,533 gallons. In 1832, there was a further decrease or
775,83'2 gallons. Isiotwithstanaing this, however, the net amount
of duty in 1832 exceeded that of 1831 ba: £161,830, being in the
former Year £8,413,552, and in the latter
£8 '4l, 7' 2 T
cause ofthe apparent anomaly is this, that the decrease of con-
sumption has been in the home made spirits, bearing a duty in
Scotland and Ireland of 3s. 4d. 4j.? gallon, and in England of 7s. 6d.
the difference of 3s. 2d. being ►imposedou the drinkers of English
distillation. Foreign spirits bearing a duty of £1 2s. ,6d. per
o
gallon have had au increased consumption, and hence the rise
laws pr,i t
as n
not account
engaging of, andso
much i n
as the Scotch and Irish in illicit
reward of, their obedience to the
of the revenue, in spite of the decrease in the total consumption
of spirits. The fatting off in the consumption of home made
spirits cannot.be taken as an indication of increased poverty in
the lower classes. We trace the falling off to the operation of
the Temperance Societies iii Scotland. In that country,
home
made spirits have generally formed the staple commix-10 ton. In.
1831, the quantity of home made spirits consumed in Scotland
was 5,700,689 gallons, whilst that of foreign spirits. was only
39,744 gallons, and of colonial spirits 125,702"ga110n5. •Last
year, however, while the foreign ruse to u 9,236 gallons, and the
colonial only sank to 112,020 gallons; the consumption of home
made,spirits fell to 4,861,515 being a decrease, as compared with
the preceding veal, of 839,174 gallons. If this be the result of
the Scotch Temperance Societies, the Chancellor of the .Exche-
quer will very shortly have to find some remedy against the in-
' creasing sobriety of the people ; and so much the better.