The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-21 00:00:00

tributed among the winners

A Mr; Conatty has
foul at cards. It was

proved that all tbt
rked with a nail. Of this Mr. Conatty denied
He was sentenced to ten years' surveillance
ears to be incapable of giviar-

packs were

z evidence in a

and for five

court of justice

Loan named John Flitcroft, who was discharged from
the New Bailey, Manchester, on Thursday, has been dis-
covered to be heir to property worth upwards of £lOO,OOO.
It is stated that £60,000 of the fortune will be paid to him
in ready cash, and the remainder in landed property in the
neighbourhood of Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridri,

The shipping companies, and private shipowners of Stock-
ton, have resolved to lay up their vessels, rather than
~,,nranv them i❑ the coal trade at the pmsent very low

freight

A great number of ships are alrea ly laid up in the
,--more than has been known for a number of
=ponies three or four yerirs ago divided 30

River Tee

years. [The
to 40 per cent.]
On Thursday night, about twelve o'clock, as Mr. Carter,
a respectable cattle dealer, residing at Bumartoh, near Ten-
bury,on; fßatircmaitntlgei,ahme market,
met in the forest
beenirket, where he had
s e
lal
isn returning
a quantity fo
of Wyre, in the parish of Rock (commonly called Bewdley
Forest,) in this county, and robbed of nearly £7OO.

IMPORTANT TO SHOPKEEPERS.—It will be seen from our
report of the Recorder, to the grand jury, at the Sessions,
yesterday morning, that, iu prosecutions, he will not allow
their expense. to any more shopkeepers, who may I►ave put

hiahv prnn.;.,o 0u.4.614.1‘
s is too much the case.
—One of the mackerel boats, on

Ilie.w4v of th

WINE Fc

) AT SE

light, p

rteen he

into the port of Plymout'a, and de-
ivered to the custom house authorities. It is sup Dsed to be
part of the cargo of some Dutch vessel. The casl:s are va-
riously marked, and contain, we understand, clar et.—West
Briton.

wine, which they brou,

The usual half-yearly meeting of the proprie.;ors of the
Bank of England was held on Thursday, at which, a dividend
at the rate of 31 per cent. for the half year wus declared :
the rest was stated to be £2,857,424. A dee) tease in this
item since March, 1841, has to be observed ; it is now less
by £5,864 than in September, by £11,860 tb,an in March,
1842, and by £4,642, than Sept., 1841.

We understand a bill of indictment will ie preferred at
the Liverpool Assizes against a medical gentleman of this
borough, for giving a false certificate, in oreier to exempt a
witness from giving evidence on the late chartist trials at
Lancaster. The manner in which the of fair was managed
was so bungling, that the certificate was al the hands of the
court one day and the dying man appea :ed in contradiction
to it the next.—Stockport Advertiser.
TAVISTOCK ELECTION.—The nomination of candidates
for the seat for Tavistock, vacated by Mr. John Rundle, the
banker, who retires, took place on I Wednesday. Mr. John
Salisbury Trelawney was proposed, as one of, a whig family
of a high character and resident in the neighbourhood. Mr.
Henry Vincent, the complete-sufb .agist, was alsoi.proposed.
The polling took place on Thurs day, when Mx. Trelawney
was returned by a majority of 44 over Mr. Vincent.
The body of the Poor-law Collector of Duleek, in the
county of Math, was found ye sterday in a ditch in the neigh-
bourhood of that village. He. had been stoned toideath, and
a considerable sum of money, was found upon his person—so
that plunder was evidently not the object of his murderers.
He had issued several summonses for arrears of poor-rates,
for the next petty sessiotis, and this was the cause of his
death. He was a perso r of excellent character.—Dublin
Mail.

EARTHQUAKE.—Then shock of an earthquake was dis-
tinctly felt in this island a little before one o'clock on the
morning of Friday bat. Is. was accompanied by a noise re-
sembling the rumblingcf a carriage, and is described by those
who felt it to have p roceccied vertically from the earth. A
gentleman gat
Movint Durand states that he distinctly
saw the furnituae in his bed-room agitated by the shock. The
Jersey papers staff-c that the shock was felt in that island
nearly at the same time..—Guernsey paper, March 13.

The Presbytery of Fordyce has set an example to the
Church, which deserres imitation. Upon the majority de-
rmining to retain tb e quoad sacra ministers on the roll, the
arity protested, that they—the majority—had denuded
Tharacter and status of the Presbytery of
to the law; and that they—the minority—
legal body to be recognised under that

adjourned to another room—
k, and proceeded to. business
' from the Presbytery to the As-