The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-12 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS,

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Joseph Glover, city of London, commission-agent.
John Edmund Richard Cracknell, Acorn-yard,Limehouse, engineer.
John Davis, Fleet-street, upholsterer.
Thomas Harcourt, Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, brass-founder.
John Acton 13oden, Drury-lane, needle-manufacturer.
John Everard Farr. Baldoek, Hertfordshire, carpenter.
John Edward Collingwood Bentley, Wigmore-street, Cavendish-
square, curiosity dealer.
Thomas Richards and John Harwood, Fleet-street, newspaper pro-
prietors.
Walter Calvert Trevelyan, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, glass-manufae
Surer.
William Marshall, Northampton, hopt-manufacturer.
Thomas Rawlings, Cheltenham, commission-broker.
John Thompson, Brom pton, Yorkshire, linen-manufacturer.
Thomas Gilpin, Gildersome, Yorkshire, cloth-manufacturer.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Hellawell and S. Hellawell, Honley, Yorkshire, cloth-manufac-
turers.—Mary Taylor and Mary L. Hunt, Leicester, milliners.—W.
Langstaff and W. Pern, Andover, spirit-merchants.—T. France and
G.'.,Hill, Worcester, attorneys.—G. Rose and T. Rose, Northamp-
ton-street, Islington, dealers in cattle.—R. Dry, R. Harris, and J.
ilitimunis, Oxford, tailors.—J. Bromley and G. Okell, North wich,
Cheshire, block-makers. S. Eruson and J. H. Summers, Bishops
Stortgord; Hertfordshire, farmers.—J. Beaumont and Isaac Smith,
Toxteth-park, Lancashire, joiners.—M. Gallard and J. Gallard, South-
borough, Kent, carpenters.—F. Bradbury and J. Cohlev, Birming-
ham, cruet.fralne-makers.—T. F. Giles and W. J. Wallis, Pow is-
street, Woolwich, linen-drapers. —R. Wood and W. 11. Morrice,
illackburn, Lancashire, printers.—P. Marriott, J. Withers, and T. 11.
Massey, Newark-upon-Trent. nurserymen.—J. Vulliamy, J. T.
Corbett, and T. Leach, Nonancourt, departint nt of the Eure, France.
S. lye and J. Burbidge, Fleet-street, ironmongers,—A, Campbell
and J. Macalllster, Glasgow, manufacturers.

ESCAPE OP SIX CONVICTS.--At Sheffield, on Saturday week,
the twenty-six convicts who had been sentenced to transporta-
tion at the sessions, were chained two and two together in readi-
ness for their remo cal next morniug.to Wakefield, another chain
being intended to join the whole in fires. Fourteen of these
men were then put into one cell, and twelve into another.—
During the night six of the fourteen managed to effect their
escape. As no force appears to have been-used on the lock or
door of the cell, it is believed it was never locked on them. 'The
door being very heavy and new, it is difficult to open, and when
the turnkey tried if ail was safe, it is conjectured that the pri-
soners increased the difficulty of! opening it by pressing against
the same inside. 'They afterwards came out iutu the yard, and
the man having left behind him the box of tools he had been
using in rivetting on their chains, they
roceeded to break open
the lid for the purpose of obtaining the hammer,with which six
of them smashed their irons, and by means of a clothes prop,
managed to scale the wall into Waingate. An alarm was given,
and the remaining eight prevented from following their com-
anions. Ihe names of those who escaped are John Rayworth,
John Smith, Win. Cocking, convicted of robbing Mrs. Mason's
warehouse, in Brown-street; Thomas Pearson, for robbing the
office of the Water Works Company ; Abraham Law, for rob-
bery at Stubb's,. in Holy-croft; and John Haslam, for entering
and robbing Mr. Shepherd's house, in Claywood. Rayworth
and Law were sentenced to fourteen years each, the remainder
to seven years each.—Lord Wharncicire, in passing sentence on
three of the above-named felons,impressed upon the keepers the
necessity of their being kept separate from the other prisoners,
and that they should be sent off to York with the least possible
delay. Immediately on their escape being discovered, the con-
stables proceeded to search the various haunts of desperate cha-
racters in the town, and continued the same throughout the
night, but without success. Information of the affair was like-
wise despatched directly to the neighbouring towns, but we be-
lieve the culprits have hitherto managed to evade pursuit, and
that they are now at large.
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SWINDLING.—EXTRAORDINARY C sE.—During the MIMI
investigation of the case of Palmer, tried, convicted, and son
tencerlto transportation, at the Middlesex Sessions, for being
concerned with others 'in stealing bills of exchange to the
amount of £SOOU, the following extraordinary case of swindling
was stated :—" A fellow who was confined within the rules of
the King's Bench prison advertised to advance money to any
extent, referring applicants to an office he had in town. The
first day's advertisement induced a very respectable tradesman,
residing near Westminster-abbey, to apply for the loan of £5OO,
for the purpose of repairing and altering his premises, and ex-
tending his trade. lie was immediately promised the money, the
advertiser having left the rules, from which he had no right to
emerge, to meetlim. Two bills were drawn at £250 each, and
the endorsentent of the mother of the tradesman, who had re-
tired on a reduced income, procured. In addition to this, the
lease of his premises was demanded as a collateral security.
Day after day objections of a frivolous nature were made to se-
veral clauses in the lease, and when this evasion was worn out
other excuses were resorted to. -At length the swindler said,
" As the gentleman from whom I was to have had the money is
out of town, and you are in a hurry'for it, if you will take my
own acceptances, which I will give you for the amount drawn,
to a good house, you wi:l there get the money for them; but
first let tis'have a memorandum of our having exchanged bills
to the amount of £500." The unwary tradesman consented,
and an agreement to the effect proposed drawn up and signed.
The unfortunate tradesman soon found out that no money could
be raised -on the swindler's bills, and the affair ended by his be-
ing obliged to pay his own £5OO, without ever having a farthing
froni the cheating party. To add to his misfortunes he indicted
the syriod,ei-; the cause was traversed, and ultimately tried be-
fore the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, when
it was .decided that the agreement fur the exchange of bills
made it a " filer trading, common contracting transaction.
Thus the victim of a deep-laid scheme had to pay heavy law
expenses, in addition to his loss of 1:500.
Ilogaral, alluding to portraits and historical painting,- says of
the first that it is one of the ministers of vanity, and'vatiity is a
munificent patroness; while the latter seeks to revive the me-
mory of the dead, and the dead arc very indifferent paymasters.