The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-17 00:00:00

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Bow-s-ittEET.t,-_On Wednesday afternoon, a fhiddle-aged
ice, was brought tip in the
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an inspector of•tb
le bar before Mr.

division of police, owl

placed

Twyford, charged with, at-
to the residence of Sir Robert

" Edward (

from the station-ho

wcastle-street
Salop, char

eei, at

clock that afternoon,
drove up in a hackney-cab to the official
R. Peel. On alighting, he inquired at the
for Sir Robert Peel, and was told by the office-keeper
that the right hon. baronet did not reside there, upon which

Strand,

d with being
) obtain an interview with Sir

stated that

was on duty in Down-

Areet, in r

immediately left, and, passing down Downing-street,
crossed over to the residence of the Duke of Buccleuch, in
Whitehall-gardens, and, having knocked at the door, in-
quired of the porter whether that was Sir Robert Peel's, but
the porter told him it was not, and at the same time pointed
out to him Sir Robert's house; the prisoner then xent up to
Sir Robert Peel's, and was told by the porter, that if he had
any 'communication to make to Sir Robert, he must make it
in writing. Witness and the cabman followed him into
Whitehall-gardens, and after he left Sir R. Peel's he went up
to the cabman and paid him ; he then walked away in a very

strange manner.
Mr. Twyford.—What did he do when he received the
answer at Sir R. Peel's ?

Witness.—He walked into Whitehall. and I then went up
to him and told him that I belonged to the government
offices, and would assist him if I could, and would give him
writing materials, or indict a letter for him if he pleased.
Finding that I could not persuade him to go away, I gave
him in charge to two policemen, who happened to be passing
at the time.

On being searched there was found in his pocket a knife,
some keys, a newspaper, and a letter.
Mr. Twyford, after perusing the letter, asked the prisoner
whether it was in his handwriting ; it appeared to be ad-
dressed to his father.

Prisoner.—l don't know till I see it ; perhaps it may be.
Mr. Twyford.—Well, Mr. Colley, your mind appears to
be disordered upon some subjects; I therefore wish to know
what you wanted to see Sir R. Peel for?

Prisoner.—l merely wished to have some little conversa-
tion with him.

Mr. Twyford.—But Sir R. Peel is so much engaged that
he cannot attend to you.

Prisoner.—That's all very well, but I want to see him; I
don't want to do him any harm.
Mr. Twyford.—lt appears evident to me that you are
labouring under some delusion respecting religion; you ap-
pear, from some memorandums made in this book, which
was found in your pocket, to have attended places of worship
lately.

Prisoner.—Well, I do sometimes go to church.
Mr. Twyford.—Yes, I find you have correctly taken down

Prgoner—Well, I do that too sometimes

Mr. Twyford

—How lonz

you been in London ?

On Sunday afternoon, shortly after six o'clock, a fire broke
out at the College of Civil Engineers, Putney, in the students'
reading room, adjoining the chapel. A student sitting in the
room at the time gave the alarm. The lamplighter at the
bridge seeing flames issuing from the building also gave the
alarm to the neighbourhood, and mounted expresses were
immediately despatched for the London engines; but happily,
the night being very calm, the fire was got uder with the
parish-engines, and by the strenuous exertions of the stu-
dents and inhabitants. before the arrival of the London en-
gines. The damage is happily not very great, being confined
to the entire destruction of the reading room and its contents,
and some considerable injury to a class-room of the civil en-
gineering department. The fire is supposed to have arisen
from over-heating the air stoves of the chapel. No accident
whatever occurred, and there will be no interruption to the
business of the College. The building is insured in the Sun,
and the furniture in the Hand-in-Hand.
A new writ was moved on Monday night for the borough
of Ripon. The vacancy is occasioned not by the resignation
of Sir George Cockburne, as was originally anticipated, but
by that of Mr. Pemberton, the celebrated Chancery barrister.
The learned gentleman, who is in the receipt of the largest
professional income of any member of the legal profession,
has fallen into the possession of a private fortune of upwards
of fourteen thousand a-year, and, being tired of a parliamen-
tary life, during the progress of which, notwithstanding all
his acknowledged ability, he never achieved fame, he now
retires to make way either for the Attorney-General for,lre-
land, or for the Lord Advocate of Scotland. But as the re-
signation of Sir Alexander Grant, the member for the town
of Cambridge, who accepts the office of chairman of the board
for auditing the public accounts, creates, of course, a vacancy
in that borough, Mr. T. B. Smith will most probably be
returned for Ripon, and the Lord Advocate will try his chance
at Cambridge. Mr. Fitzroy Kelly is also named as the new
candidate for the borough.