The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-25 00:00:00

' 'LOCAL YEWS.

Amengst the fashionable arrivals of Wednesday ve.tme
announce that of Siri Edward Barnes, who visits Lii,eipiool.rit
Order to spend a few days with his relatives, and make hilw,elf
acquainted. with the :Vast improvements and great cominetciri.
importance or the town. Few men have more diStingtisimd.
themselves in the army, tinder, the immediate notice cf the
Duke of Wellington, than this gallant officer, and none is mote
.beloved by those. who know him, Sir . Edward, it still tie re..
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collected, was for some time Governor of Ceylou ; and to him,
that interesting and valuable colony is chiefly indebted for these'
institutions and, well-regulated laws, calculated to ensure 0161
respect of its native population; Upon which its •present pros,
perity is based: In studying the interests of Ceylon as a British:
colony, Sir Edward has naturally enough directed his whole at-
tention to its importance in relation to British commerce, and
in this point of view alone, he is entitled to the gratitude of the
merchants of Liverpool., We understand that the gallant
officer will remain but for a few days.

Emmen TION.—An extraordinary and rather suspicious docu-
ment has been sent to us, be some unknown person, relative to'
a mercantile house in this town, represented to he connected
with the emigration carrying trade. The document, though
printed, is anonymous, and it has not even the printer's name.
In this case we cannot further allude to it without authority.
It is, whether true or nut, a very serious libel, and the charges
are of so monstrous a nature, that we cannot believe that any
house in Liverpool could be guilty of the disgraceful practices
which it descriues at great length. It is, however, worthy the
attention of the law officers of the Crown.
THE MURDEREIIS 61, MR. Mosley, Ott:
whose testimony his brother Joseph, and James Garside, were ,
executed at Horsemonger-lane gaol a short time since, for the .
Werneth murder, is at length on his way to America. His aps,
pearance is that of an unhappy man, pallid, sorrowful, dejected ;
his body rapidly wasting, and his general contour and demea-
nour, from a stout, rather robust, vivacious young man, has been
hurried by the " still small voice" to a lingering, faltering gait,
and a dull deserted creature. Mosley has been furnished with
the means of sailing to America, and a trifle to forward him to
the interior, as he prefers the capacity of a navigator to the life
of anything else, having been brought up to it, and knowing too
that the spirit of canal making is very rife in that country, be-
sides being anxious "to go where uisferson could tease him
about the murder."—Macclesfield Cour:
KIRK DA LR GAOL.—Mary Morgan, committed at Manchester
lately, for the wilful murder of her infant, arrived at Kirkdale
Gaol on Monday: The three criminals, Ogden, Mellor, and ;
'l'arbuck, on whom sentence of death was passed at the late
assizes held in thil, tuwu, and, who have-since laaaj.4at ,sentence
morrifully Cointituted to 'banishinent fur life, are still at this
prison. rhey are in good health, and we are informed that
sonie circumstances connected with their alleged clime have
lately transpired, on the ground of which their friends took for
a further amelioration of punishment. in puisuit of whiOr ob-
ject they are at present anxiously employed.
Prince George of Cambridge arrived at Chester on Monday
morning, at ten o'clock, accompanied b Sir Stephen Glynne,
the Misses Glynne, and the Hey. Mr.Wohr, his tutor. His
royal highness visited the armoury and castle, and promantuled
the walls of our ancient city; after which he proceeded to
Northw ich, to visit the salt mines. His highness sojourned for
the night at Tattoo-park, the residence.of 'Wilbraham Egerton,
Esq., and will proceed on to Heaton-park, the seat of Ear •
Wilton.—Chester Courant.

LAUNCH OF 4 STEAM VESSEL—Yesterday, a few minutes
before twelVe o'clock, a noble steam-vessel was launched from
the building yard of Messrs. Humble and Milcrest, built for Sir
John Tobin, and intended, as we are informed, to. trade be-
tween this place and Waterford. She is, we believe; the largest
vessel of the kind ever built in, or navigated from, Liverpool.
The length of her keel is 182 feet; that of her deck above 200
feet. She will be propelled by two engines, of 120 horse-I)o4'er
each, constructed by Messrs. George Forrester and Co., of
Vauxhall-road. She went off the stocks in fine style, and re-
ceived the name of the Margaret on her passage to the Mersey. .

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THE LATE :MURDER AT KEXBY AND 'MELANCHOLY Acct- •
DENT.-00 readers will recollect that just two months ago, •
Thomas Robinson, one of the keepers of P. B. Thompson, Esq.,
M.P., of Escrick Hall, near York, was most barbarously mur-
dered, and that a young man, a farmer in the neighbourhood,
has since been committed to York Castle to take his trial for the •
offence. Ever since that period the greatest exertions have
been used by W. Brest and H. Preston, Esq., the magistrate,
to find out other parties who Must have been .concerned in, the
perpetration of the deed, and although four others, named
Kitson, Debnam, Hudson, and Bell, against whom suspicion
had arisen, have been in custody, nothing could be elicited
to .warrant their detention. Bell, who was only liberated last
week, is a farmer residing on his own property. The affair, con-
sequently. still remains a mystery. We have now to add
another Melancholy and distressing event, which has occurred
in Robinvon's family. The unfortunate man who was murder-.
ed had a brother at the time of his death, also in the employ-
ment of Mr. Thompson. His name was Edward, and he was
the eldest in the family. He, too, was a game-keeper, and, in-
deed, the place of Thoinas was filled up, at the father's particu-
lar tequest, by a younger son. On Saturday afternoon it was
reported that the elder brother had also been shot. The'report
was founded in truth, but the occurrence was purely accidental.
ltappeared that he had been outshooting, and that when he was
in the act of loading his gun, it went off, and he received the
contents in his body ; he lingered in great agony for some
hours, when death put a I:eriod to his sufferings. A kind of
fatality seems to attend the Robinson family, as a third brother
was, some years ago, shot dead by a fellow apprentice in York,
by accident.

REVISING BARRISTERS.-The Revising Banisters fOr the
South Lancashire circuit have been holding their court in Man-
chester for two days. Some of their most important decisions
will be found in our report of the proceedings; we shall enter
more into detail in our next number. This is the fourth revision
of registers Which has taken place since the passing of the reform.
act; and yet there appears to be as mnch difference of opinion
respecting the construction of the act as to some points, as there
was three years-ago. We have the decision of to-day reversed
by the decision of to-morrow,,and the pdblic are left in a state
of uncertainty and doubt as to what was really tile intention of,
the legtslatare. At Leeds, the other day,-3111;'t1ailison decided
that the non-payment of the registration shilling was not stalk
cient to disqualify a voter, and then said lie should advise every
person to pay the shilling, as other barristers might decide dips.-
ently. At Liverpool, the claim of a clergyinan-to vote in respect
of freehold seats in his church, was admitted; and two dass af-
terwards a similar claim, made by another clergyman, was dis-
allowed, on the ground that the previous decision was an errone-
ous one ! ! ! We shall probably have more to say on this sub-*
ject on a future occasion; but these facts are sufficient to show
that some measure is necessary to de4ne more clearly the intenr
tion of the legislature, and to remove the doubts and, difficultiep‘
which at present exist.---Manchester He aid.
The Cathedral and the Scot,li Church are the two principal
places of protestant religious worship in Calcutta; the latter is
the. handsomer edifice of the two; but, strange to say, notwith,
standing the preponderance of the sons >And daughters of Cale-
donia in the European population of Calcutta, it is very thinly
attended, while the Cathedral is always full to overflowing.—
Scenes and Characteristics of ifindcstan, by. Emma Roberts.

SAGACITY OF A TURRET CocK.—A Turkey cock in the pos-
session of a family in the neighbourheOd of Milngavie was
some weeks ago confined for various acts of misdemeanour; but
especially for the part he was accustomed, to take in leading on
the whole barn-yard fraternity to frequent attacks on the corn
fields in the vicinity. On the.portion of the hen-house where
the animal was confined there happened to be a general laying
nest, which had been frequented by the different species of hens
in the yard ; and as the fingers of t'he egg-gatherer bad not visit-
ed it for several days previous to this new appropriation of the
place, it wi s well stocked. The sagacious bird, deprived not
only of personal liberty, but of all society, and after, no doubt,
much deliberation about what was best to be done, betook him-
self to—what, if the speculation proved successful, would cer-
tainly greatly ameliorate his lonely condition—sitting on the
eggs • and altbough, about a week thereafter, his prison gate
was thrown open, he altered not his purpose—he had begun a
good work, and would see it out,—he on, until he sallied
forth from his prison-house with a tail of seven Dung turkiea,
and four chickens of the comon domestic yowl. But, what was
farther remarkable, so soon as he discovered a want of proper
• family likeness between his own fair proportions and some of his
brood, he chucked these from him, and would • give them no
quarter, while he continued carefully to defend, feed, and shel-
ter those of his own species, with whom he is at present an oh,
ject of considerable attraction to the good people of Milngavie..
REGISTRATION SHILLING.— At • Leeds, on Friday, Mr.
Clarkson, the barrister, appointed to revise the list of voters
for•that borocgh, gave a decision to the effect that it is not ne-
cessary to pay the registration shilling.. The claim objected to
was that of Mr. Webster, on the ground that he bad not paid
it., Mr. Clarkson said the difficulty arose upon the words of
the.s6th section, which said that the shilling should be "levied
and collected from each elector, in addition to and ax part of the
money payable by him as his .contribution to the poor rate;"
but that it could not be considered as part of the rate " payable
from him in respect of the premises': for which he claims to
vote, as required by the 27th section; and therefore he did net
think that the non-payment of a shilling was sufficient to dis-
qualify the voter, and the objection must be disallowed.

THE MONTH OP SEPTEMOEft.—The third of September tkaa
a remarkable day to Cromwell. In 1650 he obtained a memoa
rabic victory at Dunbar, another at Worcester, 1651. and on
that day he died, 1658. On September 3, 1641, the Irish rebel,
lion broke out; ." and," says Aubrey, "there were 20,000 per-
sons barbarously massacred.". On the same day, 1643, Bide-
ford, - Applefoul, and Barnstaple surrendered to the King.
September 10, 16,13; the siege of Gloucester -sada raised. At
Nuriple's Field was the following verse, cut in stone, in 1613:
"Always remember
The tenth of September,
--
One thousand, six hundred, forty-three,
And give God the glorie."-
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 211.—Arrived his 'Majesty's steamer Fire,'
fly, front the Mediterranean. She sailed from Malta on the
4th, Gibraltar on the 13th, and Cadiz on the 14th instant.
Beyond what this vessel brings of intelligence front the latter
place there is little to communicate, in consequence of the
Blazer steamer having left so recently. On the 14th his Ma-
jesty's ships Malabar, Endymiou, Childers, and Scout, ar-•
rived at Cadiz, and the last named vessel sailed the same day
for England ; the others were to remain till further orders, in
consequence of the 4:entity-ter'. manifestations in opposition to
the government at Madrid, and from tear that' violence would
tollow with the popular feeling in -thesouthet n provinces, par-
ticularly if force be employed to put them down. As vet the con-
stitution of 1812 has been ILociaimed, and. received in a peace-
able manner in those pelts, and all parties Seem to wait
oasis, to know the resolve of the government, placed is it is
in such a critical situation. At Alexandria the plague ia
re-
presented as having subsided.
Tile NORWAY MAPLE (Aces PLATANOIDES.)—WhV is this.
tree not more cultivated is England ? It is as hardy and as
easy of cultare as the sycamore; is said to bear the sea wines.
better than any other tree; its leaf is as delicately cut, and al-
most its heaUtiful, as that of the mientalplane. •In the apring it
is covered With rich tassels of yellaw flee err, and in the autumn
its Nliage assumes a beatiful oraege colour.
PLYMaUTH.—The Prince de -3oinville (third son of I.cuis
Philippe, of France) arrived lore on .Sunday mm ultig, horn
eight o'clock, in the „frigate, Captain Parcival, f 4
Portsmouth. His Royal Highness arrived at Poittanonth Off
Tuesday last from Brest. Order, had, we understand, been re-
ceised'here (Plymouth) by the English autheriti, s to fire
royal salute en the arrival of,tbe frigate with his Roval Hight
ness. The frigate on her arrival tired a zoval salute of twenty:-
one guns, as an honour on the part of theitrince to his Britan-
nia Majesty William the Fourth. The captain of the• frigate
then saluted our port admiral with seventeen guns, which" the
latter instantly returned by a like salute from the Royal Ade,-
laide flag-ship at this tort. The garrison then neknualeilgad
the salute of the prince by a royal selute of .twenty,nne
The French standard was hoisted immediately on the arravalaa
his Itoyai Highness by the French consul and the varinue
French vessels in this port. This afternean rn• woraliy poaa
achtliral's (Sir W. Hargood's) boat, as well As Commissioner
Ross's yacht, were sent tat escort the prince on.shere. Helarata,
ed at Mount Wise, Devonport, abort three Wake!: in the atte
noon, being received with due Ittmours. Eta Royal Righaesa.
'will proceed he!-t,e in a day ear tAciftargatr,,,anial knaaa ,aheaacp .
gherbourg.--yata.