The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-28 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

LANCASHIRE YEOMANRY CAVALRY.—This recriment will as-
semble in the county town on the 2Jth of July for undergoing
the usual training, and during their sojourn they will be review-
ed by Major Barton, of the 12th Lancers.
LIVERPOOL ItActis.—The second Liverpool meeting for this
year will commence on Tuesday next, at Aintree. From the
number and quality of the horses that are expected to be en-
tered, an unusually full meeting is expected.
Wednesday being the anniversary of the accession of his
Majesty King William the Fourth to the throne, the royal
standard :of -England was hoisted on the Town-hall of this
ancient, and lova'. borough. In compliment to the day, the
ships in.the do6lis presented a gay appearance; flags were also
displayed from the steeples and churches, whose bells were not
permitted tote" silent, for many a merry peal was rung on them.
Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Dug,dale voted in the majority on
Friday night, for striking out the 147th clause of the Irish
Temporalities bill; and Mr. Bish, whose name appeared in the
list of the majority, was nut there.
BODY FOUND.—Wednesday morning, about five o'clock as
the steam boat Hercules was towing some fiats up the river,
when she hail arrived opposite the Garston Salt Works, the
people on board observed something floating on the water;
they immediately made towards it, When it was discovered to
be the body of a man. They forthwith hauled it on board.—
On their return to Liverpool they placed it in the dead-house,
where it was soon afterwards identified by a woman named
Pape, as the body of Johu Blackie, a plasterer, who had for
some time resided in Bell-street.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—A CHILD DROWNED.-011 Tuesday
last, an. inquest was held before James Aspinall, Esq., coroner,
touching. the death of Mary Williamson, who was drowned in
the canal on the preceding evening. Edward Darnley deposed
that he was a shipwriirht in the employ of Mr. Forshaw, Char-
ters-street. On Monday evening, about half-past seven, heard
screams at a short distance, and upon running to the canal
bank, which is adjacent, he saw a man getting a child out of the
water. He was told that there was another child still in the
water; he immediately stripped of his coat and waistcoat and
enterd the water, when by feeling with his feet he soon dis-
covered where the child was. He then dragged her out quite
dead and covered with mud. She was immediately conveyed
home. Walter Williamson said deceased was histaughter.—
He resided in Ford's-place, Charters-street. On Monday.even-
ing deceased went out, but did not say where she was going to.
He went out a few minutes after, and did not return till ten
o'clock, when he heard of the melancholy event. Deceased was
about eight wears and six months old.—Verdict, accidental.
VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A WORKMAN BY A MEMBER OF ONE
OF THE UN lON s.—One of the consequences which every lover of
social order apprehended would be the result of the combina-
tions which have lately been formed in this town and elsewhere,
under the denomination of " Operative Unions," took place
on Tuesday last. It appears that Mr. Leathain, plasterer, had
in his employ a man named Howard, who was the first among
Lis workmen who avowed himself a member of one of those
associations which were so annoying to the masters by the
dictatorial tone which they had assumed. Howard avowed his
determination not to quit the Union, in consequence of which
expressed resolution he was discharged, and a man named
Shaw was taken in his place, who still continues to work for
141 r. Leathain. On Tuesday last, between twelve and one
o'clock; as Shaw was passing alone Green-laue, where Howard
resides, the latter suddenly issued from his house, and struck
him violently, at the same time calling him " a black sheep."
Not satisfied with this, he knocked him down and kicked
him severely. In consequence of this treatment, Shaw applied
for a warrant, and had Howard taken• before the magistrates
on Wednesday. The latter being determined, to the utmost
extent of their power, to check outrages• of this nature, ordered
Howard to find bail for his appearance at the quarter sessions,
when there is no doubt he will be made a proper example of.

THE BEDFORD MISSAL.—The celebrated _Bedford Missal,
executed for John Duke of Bedford, Regent of France, was
sold late on Friday by Mr. Evans, to Sir J-ohn Tobin, of Liver-
pool, for eleven hundred pounds ! This splendid work contained
fifty-nine miniature paintings, and above a thousand small
miniatures, with brilliant borders of golden foliage. It con-
tained the only known portraits of the Duke and Duchess of
Bedford—also portraits of Henry V. of England, and Cathe-
rine of France, and was presented by the Duchess to King
Henry Vl., when he went to be crowned in France. It would
appear to have passed from the royal family to the second
Duke of Somerset, who was appointed governor to the Prince
by Charles I. It was afterwards purchased of Lady Worsley,
the great grand-daughter of the duke, by the minister Harley,
from whoni it descended to his daughter, the Duchess of Port-
land, and was purchased at her sale in 1786, by Mr. Edwards.
At his sale in 1815, it was bought by the present Duke of
Marlborough, for £687 155., from whom the present proprietor
obtained it. Sir John also purchased the almost equally mag-
nificent Missal illuminated for the Queen Isabella of 'Spain,
for which be gave £520.
Bit isrot. AM) LIVERPOOL MAIL OVERTURNED.—On Tuesday
night, on the Bristol and Liverpool mail leaving Monmouth for
Hereford, the coachman (Williams) had the misfortune, owing
to a combination of circumstances, to strike the left hand post
of the turnpike gate with the box of the near hind-wheel; and
the coach, which had its full complement of passengers, and
more luggage than ought to have been allowed on the roof, was
almost instantly overturned into the middle of the road. It ap-
pears that the near wheeler was a fresh horse, and that the team
was somewhat awkward and unmanageable at starting. in going
down the pitch leading to Dixton gate, the coach being heavily
"loaded, and the horses not under sufficient control, as well as
from the inclination of the road in the direction of the post, the
driver was unable to prevent coming in contact with it, which
checked the near side horses and drew the others with the coach
into such an angle that the leaders turning on the inbtant towards
the middle of the highway, upset the coach, broke the pole and
traces, and fortunately disengaged the horses, who galloped for-
ward for nearly a mire before they were stopped. The coach-
man, and a gentleman on the box with him, escaped unhurt;
but a Shropshire gentleman, of the name of Drinkwater, who
sat behind the coachman, received considerable contusions, and
had his shoulder dislocated, but is doing well; a lady and her
daughter, from Exeter, who were also travelling outside, were
more fortunate, the latter being unhurt; but we are sorry to say
that the elder lady was bruised, and her font sprained, but not,
it is hoped, more than she will soon recover from. The guard,
poor fellow! fared much worse, being a good deal cut about the
head, and having one of his arms badly fractured. Fortunately
Mr. Thompson, surgeon, was near at hand, and rendered every
necessary professional aid to all who had met with injury, and
his attentions and skill are favourably spoken of. The four inside
passengers, gentlemen, (two of them youngsters from Bristol,
going home for the holidays,) were not hurt. The mail bags
were forwarded by the post-master in a chaise tinder proper
charge. The guard, though suffering, as maybe imagined, great
pain, manifested the greatest anxiety for the safety of the letter
bags, and deserves praise. One circumstance should be men-
tioned as an admonition to turnpike men. The lamp at the toll-
house was not lighted, although a dull night, and this at half-
i vast nine, the usual time of the coach passing through the gate.
The coach is very much shattered, and wants considerable repair
before it•tae be agaiu used: No blame attaches to the coachman.