The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

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The Earl of Derby has appointed Sir John Gerard,
Bart.. major commandant of the Lancashire Hussars, and
William Charles, Yates, Esq., captain.
During the past week a great number of fragments of
Roman urns, containing calcined bones, &c., have been
discovered whilst excavating in the yard of the Gas Works,
Wigan.

The extensive coach-building establishment of Messrs.
Dunn and Co., at Lancaster, was destroyed by fire on
Tzh:lorosotd.iy. The proprietors were insured. The loss is

The Bishop of London paid a visit to Wilbraham Eger-
ton, Esq., at his seat, Tatton Park, Cheshire, on Thurs-
day week ; stayed Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, on which
day he attended divine service at Rostherne church, and
left Tatton on Monday.
By the late decision of the House of Lords, Lord Bal-
carras is now twenty-fourth Earl of Crawford in succes-
sion, and ranks as premier Earl of Scotland in the union
role called over at all elections of the sixteen represen-
tative peers.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.—An attempt was re-
cently made, in Rome, to assassinate the Rev. Daniel
Hearne, Roman Catholic priest, late of Manchester'.
Mr. Hearne had gone to Rome to memorialize the Pope
in reference to his (Mr. Hearne's) deposition from St.
Patrick's Chapel, Manchester ; but it does not appear
that the attempt on the rev. gentleman's life was at all
connected with his visit to Rome.

THE DEE PILOTS.—On Tuesday, the three men who
were recently before Mr. Rushton, were brought up at
Holywell, charged with having feloniously taken a trunk
belonging to a passenger on board the Ocean Monarch.
It appeared that the trunk had been opened before several
parties whom Benion, one of the prisoners, requested to
be present, but several arlicles are since missing. Several
persons gave the prisoners a good character for just and
upright conduct. The prisoners were bailed to appear to
any indictment that may be preferred against them.
CAPTURE OF A FORGER.—The Vesuvius, just arrived
from Newfoundland, has brought home a prisoner, who
calls himself O'Kelly, but whose real name is Norton, he
being one of the two men who forged cheques on the Man-
chester Bank some months ago to the amount of £3OOO
and upwards. Norton was discovered at St. John's, to-
gether with the other man, Broadshaw. The latter, how-
ever, made his escape from prison before the ship sailed.
£l6OO was found in O'Kelly's portmanteau, beside two
gold watches, which have been brought home in charge of
Mr. Finlay, chief constable of St. John's. The prisoner
will be conveyed to Manchester for examination.
CARNARVON REGATTA.—This regatta took place on
Tuesday. The Carnarvon Cup was won by Mr. Birchall's
Vision, beating the Drift, Enigma, Viola, and the Queen
of the Ocean. The cup was a massive vase, valued at
forty guineas. This is the fifth cup which Mr. Birchallhas
borne from Carnarvon. The Prince of Wales' Cup was
won by the Enigma, belonging to Mr. Rodgett, of Pres-
ton, beating the Drift, Hope, Viola, Darcus, and Queen
of the Ocean. At the regatta dinner honourable mention
was made of the la:e eminently humane services rendered
by Mr. Littledale and Mr. Tobin, both of whom were
present. Dr. Grindrod and Mr. Melling were also pre-
sent, and their nautical skill and gentlemanly bearing
were duly acknowledged.
RE-OPENING OF ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, CHORLTON-
UPON-MEDLOCK.—The above church, after having been
painted and beautified, was re-opened on Sunday last,
when three eloquent and most impressive sermons were
delivered by the Very Rev. the Dean of Manchester, the
Rev. P. J. O'Leary, and the Rev. Canon Stowell. The
collections amounted to upwards of £5O. In the evening,
when Canon Stowell preached, the church was literally
crammed. On Tuesday ev9ning last, a fourth sermon
.was preached ,at. .St—bav•tour,s: Church, which was gene-
rously lent for the occasion, by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile,
D.D., of Liverpool, Honorary Canon of Chester, when
the sum of £55 was collected. Dr. M`Neile's discourse
was one of great power, characterised throughout by the
deepest and most fervid eloquence. The large and beau-
tiful church, with its splendid congregation, presented a
most imposing aspect. The collections altogether
amounted to £lO6, which sum is to be appropriated to
the liquidation of £2O o contracted by former repairs, and
other expenses connected with St. Luke's.—Manchester
Courier.

ARRESTS OF MORE CHARTISTS.—After the period of
comparative quiet which had succeeded the simultaneous
arrests of chartists all over the kingdom, the leaders of
that body still at liberty in Lancashire seem to have
thought that they might safely go abroad, or at all events
make themselves strangers to their own homes. On
Wednesday, however, other •captures were made by the
police at Ashton, and with such success that it was said
21 were taken into custody at that town, besides two in
Manchester. The two taken in Manchester, John Lati-
mer and William Winterbottom, are charged with having
been present at the murder of the policeman Bright, at
Ashton, and Latimer, when taken, had marks of blood on
his clothes, but on being told the charge, said, " I see my
folly now ; I did not shoot the man.: I pointed my gun in
another direction." On being asked where the gun was,
he said it had been thrown into the river at Ashton. The
prisoners were taken from Manchester to Ashton, and
were remanded until Saturday. Two of the other persons
apprehended—one named Broadbent and the other Wil-
liamson—were admitted evidence, and sixteen of their
companions were committed for trial at the next Chester
assizes, charged with sedition and conspiracy. There are
altogether seven men in custody, charged with being ac-
cessories to the murder of the police-constable Bright,
viz. :—John Latimore, Wm. Parker, Jas. Wrigley, Thos.
Tasaker, John Sefton, Thomas Winterbottom, and Thos.
Latimore.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COUNTY MAGISTRATES.—
The annual meeting of this body took place on Thursday,
at Preston. The Rev. J. Brooks presided. Amongst a
multiplicity of business transacted, the most important,
in a local point of view, was the financial affairs of the
Kirkdale House of Correction, the total annual expendi-
ture of which was £20,370 6s. Bd., which included the
item for 120 additional cells for the confinement of pri-
soners. They had also incurred an extra expense of
£334 ss. Id. for a new well, which it was thought neces-
sary to be laid down for supplying the whole prison with
water. Mr. Watts said that, looking over the different
Kirkdale officers, he found that there were three clerks,—
one with a salary of £l3O, a second with £llO, and a third
clerk with £7B per year. On referring back to the Pres-
ton House of Correction, he found that all the business
was done by one clerk, with a salary of £lOO a year ;
while the Kirkdale salaries amounted to £3lB a year. He
should be glad if some explanation could be made upon
this subject. The Chairman said they certainly had not
any men who were doing no work in Kirkdale. There
was more work to be performed there because they had
assize prisoners sent to them. The returns also ordered
for government were so great and numerous that it re-
quired one clerk to do that work alone. It was the object
they had in view, to make the expenditure of the county
as low as was consistent with its usefulness. Alter a fur-
ther discussion, the accounts were allowed to pass. Mr.
J. B. Yates brought forward a motion for the holding of
the sessions at Preston and Newton alternately. Some
discussion followed, and the motion was withdrawn.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—At the Court
of Record, Salford, on Tuesday night, the last case was
that of " Spencer v. Leary," for breach of promise of
marriage. The parties reside at Rochdale, and are both
rather young. The plaintiff (Miss Margaret Spencer) is
a dressmaker, and about two years and a half ago the
defendant, Mr. Abraham Leary, the son of an ironfounder,
began to pay his addresses to her, and carried matters so
far that on the 24th of August, 1847, the wedding bonnets
and dresses of the bride intended, and of the bridesmaid,
had been purchased with his approval. The bridesmaid,
at his especial request, a cousin to the plaintiff, had come
all the way from Coventry to be present. On the follow-
ing morning the bridal party awaited the arrival of the
defendant to accompany them to church, but he detained
them all day in vain, and it was not until eight at night
that he arrived to apologise, and throw the blame of dis-
appointment on his father, who, he said, had promised to
set him up in business if he would wait a few months
longer before he was married. The plaintiff was again led
to believe his intentions " honourable," and to hide her
chagrin went to pass some months at Coventry, during
which the defendant continued to write to her, pledging
himself to fidelity in the strongest terms. At length,
however, he had taken another bride, the temptation, it
was supposed, being a dowry of a thousand pounds, and
the mode he chose of announcing his marriage to the
plaintiff was by sending the wedding cards and a pair of
gloves to her. The damages were laid at £5O, being the
utmost amount which can be proceeded for in the court.
Both the lady and gentleman were present, and it was
given in evidence that the defendant had offered £3O and
" taxed" costs.—The jury found for the plaintiff, damages
£5O, a verdict which appeared to give satisfaction, especi-
ally to a great number of ladies in the court.
FATAL RESULTS OF PASSION AND EXCITEMENT.—In
Wednesday's Courier, under the head of " Sudden Death
from Excitement," we noticed the awfully sudden de-
cease of a Mrs. Cranfield, the wife of a beerseller in Teb-
butt-street, off Rochdale-road, who, on Sunday evening,
was so alarmed by the boisterous brutality of a drunken
man, that she fell down on the floor and expired almost
in a moment. To-day we have to nport two other deaths

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which have occurred in this city, under &cum bee
equally awful and sudden, both resulting, as in the s 00
named instance, from over-wrought excitemet,drep,
Monday, a married man, with a family of two c 1!0 bo
named George Clarke, of Spear-street, Salford,:fiejiv
been unemployed for about three months, fientbi
obtaining work at a brewery in Oldham Road, andloil
termination of his day's work he felt so elated wlso
success, that before going home he invited one or
is
his fellow workmen to have a glass of ale at his ell!:
Accordingly they went to the Shakspere public-boup.
New Allen-street, where Clarke called for a quart °tGht
but before the poor fellow could drink a glass of
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orb
fell down on the floor a corpse. At the inquest helailio
his remains next day, it was proved that he was in
state of excitement, and much elated at havi°,ll4ol
with a situation, and the jury returned a verdict of noti
from apoplexy, induced by excitement." Tut' 00/
case is that of James Howarth, engraver, aged 717
who resided in Bank-street, Hulme, and the
,tqcgioo
on whom was held on Wednesday last, before,retig
coroner, Mr. Chapman. It appears that on I' been
morning the deceased (who is described to "ye
a man of very excitable temperament, and labouringoo
der asthma) came down stairs in a remarkably bad 10.10
and finding that his daughter had provided coffee 10:40,
breakfast, he insisted upon having porridge. His da real
'ter made some slight demur, on which he fell into 9 tot
rage, and as one of the witnesses (a neighbour ell'°o for
pened to be in at the time) stated, he seemed to
breath, and made a noise like the barking of a dog.,,ota
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daughter and wife, who were alarmed, ran to assist Pitife
his chair, and loosened his kerchief and shirt collart"ot
him breath, when after struggling a few minutes he 'ches•
down and in a few moments breathed his last.—Man
ter Courier.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

COMMITMENTS FOR TRIAL. Yesterday, ,Cal'agter
Riley, for robbing John O'Brien of 10s., in OaAvglef
for stealing a sovereign from R. Boberts
street ; George Poole, for stealing a watch • John of,
nayne, for stealing calico bags from Messrs. 13111501
Gillibrand ; Margaret Preston, for stealing a muff iotte
bonnet from Mrs. Sbepperd, publican, Great Char
street. dgf/b
STEALING MONEY.—At the Police-court, yester itDe
good-looking youth, who was an apprentice on bear4it
ship Circassian, was charged by Mr. Ja nes Moore, leg.
of the vessel, With stealing from his house, in -4-" s,"
street, money to the amount of £4 3s. 6d. The eon
plainant wished to get him off with a very lenient sein:hon
as there was a ship ready to take him, but Mr. 1111.doo
said, the case having been brought before him, he nab
alternative but to commit him for trial.—Samuel °""Of
for stealing three shirts, &c., from Messrs. Sutton,
Burlington-street, seven days.
Cof/'l';
COMMITMENTS YESTERDAY AT THE POLICE
—Mary Howard, an elderly woman, charged with,,s;i,
a large quantity of vegetables in St. Martin's n0r,.7,-,,v30
sent to gaol for two,months.—A respectable 1001"'Irt1,`
was charged with having stolen a bayonet from a s-bere•
dressed sergeant of one of the regiments new lyi.,ag,gto
It appeared that while the sergeant was busy 100Krai'vall
performance in a public-house, the prisoner hau:oo4/
drawn out the instrument from its sheath, and g°s`
with it. He was committed for seven! days.-11 ,o
hams, a seaman, for smuggling two quarts of iviw,.;ot to
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six lbs. of soap, fined 605., and in default was
gaol for a month. ,440'
ASSAULT UPON POLICE-OFFICERS.-0U • ttb-,
five men, named Thomas Ford, John Tallant, s4v,v
Robinson, James M'Cabe, and Michael Larina'bilel°
charged with an outrageous assault on the police, scie
the execution of their duty. It appeared that,,,s ge"
officer Edge (546), with several others, went, on
day night, to a court in Northumberland-street,
eotte
prehend a man known as a suspicious character, thj;
five prisoners interfered, and made a furious iltl-roeo
them ; they took their sticks from them, and beat the
nl
unmercifully. Edge received a severe wound,: e
co"
head, and was otherwise so much injured that in, rig;
not appear in court. The prisoners, who were tw"
leaders in the affair, were with difficulty secured and
to bridewell. o rs,,e°ej
" RINGING THE CHANGES."—On Thursday, "Cbstr„
named Henry Smith and Charles Booth, were e, The
with robbing Joseph Edwards, an emigrant, of Xisp'voi,t
complainant stated that he arrived lately from SW,'" Eof'
and had taken his passage for New Orleans in We be
Queen. One of the prisoners had pretended t 0 sain
fellow-voyager, and by means of two accomplices. poet'
dled the poor fellow out of all his money. The Prflrdll
were apprehended shortly afterwards. Upon -"," 111':
number of flash notes and sovereigns were foon'',", brt
third man, supposed to have the money, was se-be o'ej
witness who appeared in court; he stated that
him running in the street, and suspecting that yid
been guilty of some offence, intended to give . one'
charge to a police-officer as soon as he could obtal-htei,
The fellow, however, went into William lions Pd.
public-house, Chadwick-street, and the landlor.l rim
appeared to know him, advised the witnesses to 1001
go, to which he reluctantly consented. The P,ra t)?
were committed for trial, and Mr. Rushton direcl.et
a note should be made of Mr. Humphrey's con "
the licensing books.
On Thilf
ILLEGAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.— 00
his Worship the Mayor T. B. Horsfall,
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against persons using illegal scales,
Nisi Prins Court, for the purpose of hearing ut_tm:",tires,
Messrs. Kissack and Edwards, out-door inspec!o7:..„o-
- the informations and
, Mr. Fell, thf..e.
intendent, was in attendance. In the case ' bean'
weights, and . r
Iyn, the information was for using an accelerating
aid be
Mr. Townsend, who appeared for the defendant's tiotets;
also represented a number of tradesmen in the ma greo
who had been in the habit of using these beams for
number of years. He contended that the beams, if, sft.
perly used, were not illegal ; and said that althougos the
Fell might understand these matters, Mr. Edvvanirdp!„,os
inspector, who laid the informations, was not acn _To
person. He called Mr. Ikin, the maker of the
Fell
who said that he had been in the habit of making.4,ol
thirty years. He was cross-examined by Mr• 1,',e„010
clearly proved that accelerating beams were
unfair. At the conclusion of rather a long examined;
the Mayor regretted that Mr. Ikin had been all
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thirty years to make beams on the same prioeiP aaa.r
was perfectly satisfied they were improper scale,sion
did not think the reflections of Mr. Townsend any
Edwards were in order. The Mayor believed n35..4
sons had used these beams in ignorance, and it It; o,
discreditable in the maker to sell them. All persrstlnoi
did not attend were fined 40s. and costs, the MaYoaciS4
ing that their absence implied a guilty knowledgethepel'if
a case of negligence. The practice of weighing Tani ;II
in which sugar is wrapped, was condemned as r Pe At
the Mayor, who expressed his determinatioe grej
persons brought before him for this offenee.„hts
number of persons were fined for illegal we'
measures. ft'
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A REGISTRAR.CfniO
day, at the close of the ordinary business, pf.,,,t,vis'op
Chubb, the RegistrarofGreatHoward-streetdisrhe
the astonishment of all present, placed at "the rol,
a charge of felony. Mr. Snowball appeared for so 'olr
secution. Mr. Rushton addressing that
golden', of be.
the prisoner had been apprehended on a ohr`rg
taining money on false pretences ; but the case', for 8n
lieved, involved a felony or nothing. By Act wasoci
meat, to insert a false entry in the register bog strocoef
act of felony. Mr. Snowball said he had been o„riso,hl
by the Solicitor to the Treasury to prosecute thode yen
for making false entries in the register book. . ja woos„
shew that the prisoner had made false entrle'igain'os
cases in his books. False names, and false d s liero the
of abode had been inserted in the book• ti a. to t
another case which rendered Mr. Chubb Batbbtl,e
charge of forgery. It appeared from the birth on il,
woman named M'Kenna, had registered a "10.1,111
31st July ; her residence was set forth as beinzoase, the
Eaton-street. No such person resided at that mat stecl
a woman named M'Kenna was found in a napzistere;
back of the street • this woman had certainly ricers WO,
birth, but she had never been required to siga,, asntte
the entry was otherwise incorrect ; the infants the
written Patrick, instead of James, and that of The ,d,
Thomas, which should also have been James.," 0 fss:, di;
nature of Elizabeth M'Kenna, in the book. scp'o4l- the
Mr. Rushton said that no dout the intention, so;ittY
fraud the overseers. Mr. Snowball said it 20
act allowed registrars 2s. 6d. for each of the nr-ti one pri''
registered at the commencement:of the year, Verge)."
ling for each succeeding case. Mr. John clier's
ved the entries in question to be in the prisc)opectloell
writing. A female was called, and said,. 1.000100(
house; entered bathe book as one at which a bird since
place, that that house had been unoccuPieuvo Prbvotni
before the entry was made. Another case still- born
relative to a house in which a child had beel bee tiered;
but which birth was registered as if it hat regi' Oh"
alive. Still-born children are of course 1.10 Dote':hic'
Another case somewhat similar was roveo• a,,fere
several of the false entries referred, said &Ital.' of via
constable, after having visited EatoPn-street,thereo,hico
in it no houses numbered 26, 32, 36, and 12: aer
nris° tiv .10
appear in the register book. The • age' 'et
asked what was his defence, said the app forlbiefeacfi
numbers applied to courts not houses ; lable uijiterils
that he was quite unprepared to make a stn Ile _;a
having been taken unawares in the
denied any intention to defraud. Mr. ,Ittltitbe PrealOet
case as it stood was most serious, and ao_vg. red to tion,
to employ a professional adviser. He Offer the rPeePAt
the case until next day, Saturday, to was g- Or 7
time to prepare his defence, and this ow' but the, 000
The prisoner applied to be let out on bail,. could oti,j
being one of felony, Mr. Rushton said net, up,
~.010
matter•hto srajoirj
Mr. Rushton committed him for trial, "11"
consider about admitting him to bail.
On Saturday the prisoner was again br,,!gsntiid "

METEOROLOGICAL REGISTBIIIisof,
BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-Sl------

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and light squalls.-9th : light rain and DT:. br*
light rain; evening, heavy shower
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• In. I In. i Deg. Deg.. Deg.
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7 30' 0 29'99 65 60 3
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