The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-19 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

The packet-ship Rochester, Captain Brittain, arrived at
this port, on Friday morning last, from New York, which
city she left on the 21st ultimo.
Two new packet-ships—the Rochester, Capt. Britton,
and the Garrick, Capt. B. G. H. Trask,—arrived on Fri-
day. Their papers were anticipated by the Hibernia,
Captain Judkins, which arrived on Wednesday.
The Lord Bishop of the diocese has given notice that it
' is his intention to hold a confirmation in the parish of
Warrington, on Wednesday, the 29th of May next. Can-
didates are not to be under the age of fifteen years.
About a quarter-past twelve on Thursday night a fire
brake out on the' premises of Messrs. J. and W. Walker,
builders, &c., North Birkenhead, supposed to be the work
of an incendiary. The wind being in a favourable quar-
ter it was speedily got under.

NEW METHODIST CH.WEL.—On Sunday week a new
Methodist chapel was opened at Windsor- Sermons were
preached on the occasion by the Rev. Dr. Beaumont and
the Rev. William Atherton, and liberal collections were
made.

IN QU EsTs.—An inquest was held yesterday week, be-
fore P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, on the body of Edward
O'Connor, a child two years of age. On Wednesday
week he upset a teapot, containing hot tea, and scalded
himself on the breast. He was immediately taken to the
Dispensary, and the wound dressed, but he gradually got
worse, and died on Sunday week.

COMFORT OF RAILWAY PASSENGERS.—We are given
to understand that, with a view of increasing the con-
venience of the third class passengers, the Directors of
the Grand Junction Company have determined to cover
all their carriages. This company was the first to give
the advantage of closed and glazed carriages to the second-
class passengers.
CAVTION TO VOTARIES OF HYMEN.—On Friday last,
at the Bury Petty Sessions, Robert Simpson and his wife
were committed for trial, at the Liverpool Assizes, for
having got married out of the parish in which the male
prisoner resided, and for having made false statements in
order to procure the solemnization of the marriage out of
that parish. The offence was stated to be very common.
COURAGE ANL HUMANITY REWARDEIr.---Mr. Joseph
Sturdy, who, at the risk of his own life, saved a gentle-
man who had slipped into the river at Tranmere Ferry,
has been presented by the Humane Society with five
pounds. It will be remembered that the gentleman
himself, probably with a juster estimation of his own
value, gave his preserver sixpencce. •

CAUTION TO PUBLICANS AND BEER-BELLERS.-011
Thursday last, orders were given by the magistrates that
the police should, in all cases where they were called upon
by a landlord to expel drunken people from his house, lay
informations against the landlord for permitting drunken-
ness upon his premises, provided that, upon inquiry, the
officer found that the drunken party had had anything to
drink in his house.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, Mary Rafferty,
while going along Great Howard-street, came in contact
with the wheel of a float, which was passing in an oppo-
site direction. The wheel had got on the edge of the
parapet, and the deceased was crushed underneath it; it
did not, however, pass over her. She was much bruised,
and, on being conveyed to the Northern Hospital, died
in a few hours after her arrival.

Yesterday evening week, the Rechabites and total ab-
stain€rs of Birkenhead were entertained at supper by
Mrs. Rowland, of the Temperance Hotel, Chester-street,
on the occasion of that lady succeeding to the house for-
merly kept by Mr. Ellis. The chair was occupied on the
occasion by Mr. Ellis, of Edge-hill; and the company
were addressed during the evening by Mr. Sharrett, Mr.
Owens, Mr. Henshaw, and others.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—On Friday afternoon, between
three and four o'clock, a gentleman, in passing along
Church-street, had his pocket picked of his purse con-
taining £l5 ; but fortunately, missing his money immedi-
ately, turned round and saw the thief making off. He
gave chase down Post Office-place and Brooks'-alley,
when the fellow, finding himself hotly pursued, dropped
the purse, after having abstracted £3. He got clear
off.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT BIRKENHEAD.—The vernal
equinoctial g les which have been felt so much the last
few days in this neighbourhood were the occasion of a dis-
tressing accident to Mrs. Parr, a lady residing on the
Grange-road. On passing along Albion-street, near the
site of the new market, the wind forced her on the top of
a flight of steep steps of an area, to the bottom of which
she fell, and so fractured her left arm that Mr. Vale, sur-
geon, found it necessary to amputate the limb on the fol-
lowing day.

THE CALENDAR.—The following is a list of the pri-
soners for trial at the approaching Liverpool Assizes :
murder, 1; manslaughter, 3; stabbing, 8; burglary, 10;
forgery, 5 ; horsestealing, 1; rape, 3 ; bigamy, 3 ; con-
spiracy to defraud, 2 ; robbery from the person, 7; arson,
1 ; offences against the mint, 5; wilfully damaging spin-
ning machines, 1 ; robbery of post letters, 1; larceny, 1:
total, 52. It will be observed that there is only one
murder case in the calendar. The party charged is Ann
Bothwell, for the murder of her illegitimate son, Edward
Turner, alias Edward Turner Bothwell, at Prestwich-
cum-Oldham, on or about the Ist January last.
Mr. Thomas Morecroft and John Lomax, owners of
court property in Birkenhead, were on Tuesday examined
before the magistrates for not having it sufficiently well
drained and flagged according to the new act. John
Barke and H. C. Banks were also summoned for allow-
ing stagnant water and offensive matter to remain on hod
opposite the railway station, the same being their property.
Catharine Dunne, for keeping a number of pigs in a yard,
and allowing the foul water to run into a public well. All
these being the first offence under the new act, the parties
were discharged on payment of costs upon undertaking to
abate the nuisances.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—When Mr. Ilenshaw,
who at present resides at Tranmere, attended the Sunday
school, at Stockport, he was the first boy to receive a
Bible as a mark of good conduct. In after life he was
engaged in defence of his country, in the field of Water-
loo, where he was wounded in four places, and lay upon
the plains in that state for six days. At this time he lost
his Bible, which had been his companion in the battle-
field, but happening to be in London some years after-
wards, he found it in a bookseller's shop. It need
scarcely be added, that he purchased his old companion,
and now has it.

TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.—The peculiar cir-
cumstances which the respected and talented minister of
All Saints' Church, Grosvenor-street, has had for some
time to contend with, owing to the unsettled state of this
church, are well known, it is believed, to the town at
large. An address, accompanied by a substantial mark
of affectionate regard, (a well-filled purse,) was presented
to him a few days ago by his congregation. This last in-
stance of marked attachment—for he has been favoured
with several other unequivocal tokens of respect since he
began his ministry among them—has been duly appreci-
ated by him.

BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The usual weekly meeting
of the Warrington Board of Guardians took place on
Wednesday last, in the board-room, at the workhouse.
The balance in favour of the union was £399. The num-
ber of in-door paupers in the Newton workhouse was 65 ;
in the Warrington 109. The number of cases relieved
by Mr. Cruikshank in the town, during the past. week,
was 452; amount expended, £44 2s. 4d. 'of which £lB
was in kind, and £26 2s. 4d. in money. By Mr. Owen,
in the country districts, 476; amount expended,
£4B 16s. 10d. of which £5 Os. 10d. was in kind, and
£43 16s. in money. A letter was read from the poor-law
commissioners in reply to the application from the board.
It condemned, as we anticipated, the new construction
put on the general orders for the relief of the able-bodied
poor by the clerk to the union. We believe no further
steps were taken in the matter. No further business of
importance was transacted.
ALLEGED FRAUDULENT WITHHOLDING.—ThOMBS H.
Taylor, the late secretary of the Liverpool United Legal
Friendly Society, was summoned before Mr. Rushton on
' Friday to answer the complaint of the president of that
society, who charged him with having frudulently with-
held the sum of 6s. which he had received from certain of
the members. He was defended by Mr. Snowball, soli-
citor. After a number of witnesses had been examined,
and a variety of documentary evidence submitted, Mr.
Snowball contended, that in a society which numbered
28,000 members it was highly probable his client had re-
ceived the money and neglected, in the hurry of business,
to enter it in his books. Mr. Rushton said he was un-
willing, under the circumstances, to send him out of court
branded with the charge of fraud ; but that he thought
the society had acted perfectly right in bringing him there
and making him account for it in the face of the court.
At the suggestion of the magistrates, the 6s. was then de-
manded of the defendant by the president, and it was im-
mediately paid. The president alleged that there were
other deficiencies in the accounts to the amount of £4O
and upwards ; but as they were not set forth in the sum-
mons, Mr. Rushton refused to enter into them.