The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-06 00:00:00

LOCAL. NEWS,

EATEI BY DROWNING .—We noticed, in our last publi-
cat the finding of the body of " a woman unknown", in
api :AM' water, only six inches deep, near Windsor. The
inquisi 1-1 was commenced on Saturday, but was.postponed,
there being no evidence to show the identity of the deceased.
It was resumed on Tuesday, when it was shown that the de-
ceased's name was Margaret M' Natty ; that she lived in Peach-
street ; was about sixty-five years of age ; received some pa-
rochial relief, and eked out a subsistence by charring. Mr.
Park, surgeon, said, that, when called to the deceased on
Saturday, he found her to be quite dead, and to have been
so for some hours. He had made a post modem of the body,
and found that death was caused by drowning. There were
no marks of violence. A small quantity of mud was found
in the stomach. The jury returned a verdict to the effect
that the deceased was found drowned, but how she got into
the water there was no evidence to show.

NEW PATEN'.—Amongst the tie'w patenis for December
last, is one granted to John Grantham, Esq., of this town,
civil engineer, " for certain improvements in the construc-
tions and arrangements of the engines and their appendages,
for propelling vessels on water."
We understand that the March Assizes are likely to be
extremely heavy. There are now in Kirkdale gaol upwards
of 130 prisoners for trial; there are also between 60 or 70
prisoners in the same gaol, who will take their trials at the
sessions on the 19th instant.

THEFT BY A SERVANT.—A woman named Jane Johnson,
was yesterday charged at the Police-court with having com-
mitted several acts of theft in her master's house. She had
been about three months house-servant with Mr. and Mrs.
Dickenson, Upper Dexter-street. About a week ago Mr.
Dickenson missed a child's silk scarf from the kitchen, and
the prisoner being questioned denied all knowledge of it.
Soon afterwards, however, several small articles belonging to
a lodger in the house were found in the prisonel's box, and a
brooch being also missed, she was given into custody, when
the brooch was found amongst her clothes, and in her pocket
a gold ring belonging to the lodger. She was committed for
trial at the sessions.

A CHILD BURNT TO DEATH.—An inquest was held on
Wednesday, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Han-
nah Parks, a child of three and a half years old. The parents
of the deceased occupy a room in a house in Cheapside.
On Tuesday week the mother had occasion to go down stairs
for a jug of water, and left the deceased and her brother (a
child of only two 'years old) in the room. The fire had been
lighted only about five minutes. Before she got down stairs
she heard a scream, and on running up found the deceased
all in flames. She called for assistance ; the fire was extin-
guished, and the child was carried to the dispensary and
dressed. Deceased was much burnt on the right side and
face, and though afterwards regularly attended at home by a
surgeon, she declined, and died on Monday.

TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT FOR A CLERGYMAN.—Last
evening the congregation and Sunday school teachers attached
to St. Simon's Church, in Gloucester-street, assembled in
the School-room, for the purpose of presenting to their elo-
quent and esteemed minister, the Rev. J. R. Connor, a
testimonial of their gratitude for his pastoral labours amongst
them, in the shape of a magnificently bound folio edition of
Bagster's Polyglott Bible. The proceedings opened with
prayer, after which an address was read from the congrega-
tion to the rev. gentleman, and the Bible presented to him.
Mr. Connor acknowledged the gift in a brief but excellent
speech, in which he observed that he had preached to his
flock no other doctrine but Christ, and Him crucified. The
rev. gentleman was evidently much affected at this token of
the esteem in which he is held by his congregation. A
hymn was then sung, and the proceedings terminated by
Mr. Connor pronouncing a benediction.

THE FUNDS, IN EDNESDAY EVENING.—The funds &V(
tinue to exhibit an upward tendency. There were some few%
purchases of 3 and 34 per Cent. Reduced Stock, which gave
an impulse to prices, and they were well supported to the
close of the day. The final quotation of Consols for the
account was 94,4 to i; 3 per Cents. Reduced, 954 ; Ex-
chequer-hills, 595. to 61s. premium ; Bank Stock, 172 to
173 ; India Bonds, 54 to 55 premium ; 34 per Cents. Re-
duced, 102; and Long Annuities, 12 11-16 to -.1; Canadian
nebent--- - remium. • Mexican Stock was

Aires were quoted 4,1
a shade firmer, but little or no alteration took place
other foreign securities. The last price of Spanish
was In to 19 ; ditto, New, 231 to 5
35 to 61; Dutch 24 per r--
101-1-. to ;

Portuguese

lan, 72 to 73 ; and Belgian, 101 l to 102,1
DREADFUL DEATH OF A BOY
Wednesday, beforp
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road, she saw the deceased falling from the tops
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house
there. He fell on his side into the street, close to the chan-
nel:\ The deceased never moved, and was found on being
takenAp to_be quite dead. She first saw him in the net of

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fallingand he was then about half-way from the top of the
house. The right side of his head was terribly smashed. A
brother of the deceased, a stone-mason, said he lived in St.
George's-place, Williams-street. The deceased, according
to the evidence of one of the witnesses, kept pigeons, and had
a place for them on the roof of the house. The deceased
might have gone up there, as he was frequently in the habit
of doing. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
death!'

TRUST FOR THE SUPPORT OF SICK AND DISABLED
MERCHANTS' SEAMEN, &C.-011 Tuesday, at twelve o'clock,
a meeting was held in the Committee-room of the Under-
writers-room, for the purpose of choosing fifteen persons to
be Trustees for the ensuing year for putting into execution,
for the port of Liverpool, the provisions of an Act of Parlia-
ment, 4th and sth Wm. IV. amending an act of the 20th
Geo. 11. for relief and support of sick, maimed, and disabled
seamen; and the widows and children of such as shall be
ain, or drowned in the merchant service; and for
other oses. On the motion of George Grant, Esq., se-
conded y Alexander, Esq., the following gentlemen
were appointed the trustees :—Messrs. Charles Horsfall.
Samuel Sandbach, William Dixon, William Potter, Edward
Sephton, William Phillips, Henry Holmes, John Nelson
Wood, N. D. Bold, Edmund Brock Lyon, William Dixon,
R. Rankin, W. Rotheram, William Nicol, and Richard
Willis.

FlRE.—lntelligence arrived in Wigan, on Wednesday
noon, that Whitley Hall, the residence of Alexander Fowden
Halliburton, Esq., was on fire. The report caused a great
sensation, as the hall is one of the finest mansions which add
interest to the scenery in the neighbourhood of Wigan. Fire.
engines were despatched as speedily as the required arrange-
ments could be completed. Fortunately, their aid was not
require 4, owing to the prompt measures which had been
taken du discovery of the fire by the inmates of the hall.
The fire was occasioned by some lighted coals falling from
the fire-grate in the study down a back flue, constructed for
the purpose of increasing the draught in the chimney, from the
Cellar. Some straw, which was in the cellar underneath the
study, caught fire ; and had a timely discovery not been
made, it is more than probable that the noble mansion would
have been soon enveloped in flames, from its elevated situa-
tion and the strong breeze which was blowing at the time,
The damage done is trifling.

INQUEST ON A NEW-BORN CHILD.—On Wednesday an
inquest was held, at the borough coroners office, on view of
the body of a new-born male infant. It appeared that the
mother of the child, Eliza Cummings (who is in the work-
house) had on Thursday the 29th ult. gone to her Aunts in
Frederick-street, and asked for lodgings there for a few days,
as she expected a place. This was complied with, and her
aunt did not then suspect that she was pregnant. On Sa-
turday afternoon the prisoner complained of being ill and
went to bed. Soon after she got up and went into the yard.
On her return, being no better, she wished to lie down again.
Her aunt then observed an alteration in her and asked her
if she was in the family way ; when she began to cry and
and acknowledged that she was. A surgeon was sent for
but it did not appear that any one came in time, and witness
afterwards saw a full-grown male child on the floor. Mr.
Taylor, surgeon, said he had made a post mortem ezamina-
don, and found that the child bad been still• born.—Verdict
accordingly.

A FORTUNE-TELLER.—A fair sister of the Norwood tribe
called at the house of a woman named Barton, in Lamber-
head Green, Wigan, on Tuesday last, and wanted the occu-
pant to allow her to tell her her fortune, which she would do
for a " siller bit," The silly woman was induced to ai,ply
at the shrine of the fickle goddess to know her future des-
tiny, and, after undergoing certain mystic ceremonies, as
directed by the gipsy queen, was told that the charm could
not be completed without the aid of half-a-sovereign. Bar-
ton, anxious to hear the remainder of the decree, soon pro-
cured the required coin, which was tied in a handkerchief.
She was then told by the gipsy to turn her back whilst she
tied it more securely, and the handkerchief was put in a
drawer and locked, the stranger taking away the key, which
she protnised to return in the evening. Soon after her de-
parture the poor woman thought to have a look at her mo-
ney, to see that it was safe ; but, to her consternation, she
found that the half-sovereign, by some strange metamor-
phosis, had been changed to afarthing !
DESPERATE ASSAULT IN LACE-STREET.—Tbree Irish-
men, Michael Burns, Martin Burns, and a man named
Kelly, were yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton, on a
charge of having committed a dreadful riot and assault in
Lace-street on Christmas-eve. The prisoners were brought
up on the With December, but in consequence of a female
who had been so severely injured that her life was considered
in danger, they were remanded until she was able to appear,
which was not until yesterday, and even then she appeared
to he very ill end feeble. A considerable number of wit-
nesses (all Irish) spoke to the facts, and it appeared the pri-
soners had, amongst several others, been most active in an
unprovoked attack in the first instance upon a countryman
named Hardy, whom they finally drove from the street to
seek shelter in the house. They afterwards made an attack
upon the house, and pulling down a small building in a yard,
and also, arming themselves with pokers, &c., broke in the
door, shushed in the windows, and threw in bricks at the in-
mates—one of which struck the female Mrs. Lahey on the
side so violently, as to produce the consequences stated.—
The case being proved. the prisoners were fined .f..5-each---or,
in default, to be imprisoned two months.

INQUEST ON A. NEW BORN CHILD. --An inquest was
held, before Mr. Curry, borough coroner, on Wednesday,
on view of the body of a new born female child. A young
woman, named Sarah Webster, the mother, is at the work-
house. It appeared, from the evidence, that the mother
was one of two female servants in the service of a gentleman
in Prince Edwin-street, where she had been for about twelve
months. About three months ago, her mistress suspected
she was pregnant, and charged her accordingly on two occa-
sions, but she solemnly denied it. On Monday morning
last, however, when the prisoner and her fellow-servant were
called up, the appearances with regard to the former were
such as to indicate the recent delivery of an infant. The
testimony of the other servant as to the conduct of the
prisoner, who had got up in the night and complained of
toothach, tended to confirm the fact. A policeofficer was
called, and the prisoner was given into custody. Mr. Yates,
surgeon, was also called in, and confirmed the fact. In his
presence search was made, and the body of a female child
was found in the privy. His opinion was, that the child had
breathed, and had died from want of proper attention after
the birth. The jury returned a verdict to that effect, and
the prisoner, when sufficiently recovered, will ba sent before
Mr. Rushton and committed for trial.

We are indebted to Mr. Court, of the Underwriter's-rooms
for the following extract of a letter, dated
Lima, 15th October.
"'The news from the south is, that two vessels that deserted
General Terrico's cause, had arrived at Islay on the 2d inst.,
and taken his vessel which was blockading that port, so that
the port is now open again. The populace in Inaquegua rose,
and attacked General Castilla, and the troops from Tacna,
who had marched there after the defeat of La Fuento, had
totally routed Castilla's forces, and killed most of the officers,
Castilla making his escape to Arica, when he embarked in
the steamer for Callao. Gen. Vidal was Yea on the 12th
instant, and it seems there will not be any peace, as it ap •
pears Crovel D'Estua, of Vidal's advanced guard, discovered,
in the luggage of the Secretary of the Envoy a quantity of
blank commissions, signed by General Terrico, to be given
to the officers that might be gained over to his party, in con-
sequence of which he was secured, and will no doubt be shot
—the Envoy was dismissed. Vivanca was to embark at Islay
with 'lOO to 600 troops, and come down the coast either to
Callao or Pisco, and it is generally considered that Terrico's
pcsition is very desperate—one way or other the war will
soon be sett►ed unless Terrico gets into the interior, and then
he wilt lose the cipital and the coast."

MEETING OF THE Dc,cs COMMITTEE.—The Dock Com-
mittee held their weekly ineeting yesterday, when the following
members were present :—Messrs, Sand; (chairman), Hors-
fall, Middleton, Molyneux, Bulley, Bold, Barclay. Holmes,
Holt, and Nicol. The Sub-committee of Works recom-
mended that the agreement with Mr. Bray, for excavating
Albert Dock and Half-tide Basin, be abandoned ; and that
until fresh tenders be obtained the surveyor be instructed
to proceed with the work, in order to prevent delay. The
recommendation was agreed to, with the understanding that
Mr. Bray would not be permitted again to make a tender.
The mode of arranging the maps and plans in the committee-
room was referred to the Finance Committee. The solicitor
submitted a letter from Mr. Mallaby, olicitor to the Birken-
head Commissioners, giving the dock trusteea notice that the
commissioners intended to take power, in their bill about to
be submitted to parliament, to purchase some land on the
Cheshire side, belonging to the trustees, for the purpose of a
cemetery. The solicitor also submitted an application from
the Pain Board, requiring the trustees to pave the street
on the east side of Salthouse Dock. Both these matters
were referred. An application from Messrs. William and
James Brown, for the return of £l5 which had been charged
for damages done to one of the piers by the ship Isabella of
Baltimore, was referred to the Harbour Master's Sub-com-
mittee. The committee then transacted some financial busi-
ness, after which they separated.

SMUGGLING TobAuco.—At the Police Court, yesterday,
a miserable looking old woman, named Ellen Roberts, was
brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of smuggling a con-
siderable quantity of leaf tobacco. So far back as the 10th
of August last the prisoner was observed, by a police officer,
coming from one of the docks with a large bundle, which, on
seeing him, she dropped and made off. A little boy, Who
bad, no doubt, been employed by her to keep a look out and.
take advantage of chance, immediately went and picked up
the bundle, saving " It was a little child she had dropped, and

that she'd certainly

The prisoner wa:

into custody, and the case, the weight
[5l lb.,was referred to the Excise Board,
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nt for others, in this way, left the case to takc

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