The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-22 00:00:00

ANOTHER.

The declaration in this case was for goods sold and de-
livered, fur work and materials done and supplied, and for
money due on an account stated.
Mr. Knowles and M r. Atherton were for the plaintiff:
Mr. Wortley and Mr. Cowling fur the defendant.
Mr. KNOWLES stated the case. The plaintiff, George
Bent Olivant, was an engineer, living in Manchester, and
he was also the owner of a patent for making machinery ;
for printing calico on an improved principle. The defend-
ant, Edwin Bancroft Bayley, was a printer of calico, and
lived at Pendleton, near Manchester. Up to the time
when he (the counsel) now alluded, defendant was in the '
habit of using a block machine, but having heard of the
invention belonging to the plaintiff, be was minded to
alter his mode of printing, and became the purchaser of
one of the new machines. On the 18th of February a
meeting took place between the plaintiff and defendant, in
the presence of Hodges, plaintiff's foreman, and on that
occasion something was said about a machine being or-
dered, but befure giving an order defendant required an
estimate of the cost. Accordingly plaintiff drew up an
estimate for the machine, with all the appurtenances,
offering to execute the work for £250. The estimate was
sent to the defendant, who came over and had another in-
terview with the plaintiff, and, after some discussion, an
order was given for the machine on the patent principle—
the basis of which was to be found in the estimate, al-
though it differed, at the request of the defendant, in cer-
tain particulars. The machine was furnished in the middle
of April, and on the 26th it was started to work. Some
alterations were required, but the plaintiff never heard
that the defendant found any fault with the machine until
the Bth of May, when he received a letter, stating, that in
consequence of the shameful delay he would not have it.
and requested that some one might be sent to pull it down.
After this plaintiff had an interview with defendant, and
some other alterations were again suggested and made.
Towards the end of May plaintiff sent the defendant a
letter, requesting 'payment, the understanding being that
ready money was to be paid for the machine. Defendant
refused to pay, although up to this he had not even hinted
that the machine would not answer his purpose. How-
ever he did refuse to pay. The plaintiff was necessarily,
though reluctantly, compelled to commence this action.
and the defendant now, after paying into court £2O 95.,
refused to pay, indeed denied his liability to pay for the
machine at all.
Mr. Hodges, the foreman, was called, and proved that

the machine was made to order; that the material was
good ; and that the work executed by it was satisfactory.
A number of witnesses were c4lled to prove that the
workmanship of the machine was good.
Mr. WORTLEY, in his address for the defendant, said
he was astonished that, in this case, the plaintiff had not
called one independent machine maker to give his opinion
of the machine in question, and, after cot meriting on the.
evidence, the learned counsel said he undertook to show
that the machine was not made according to the contract
entered into; and, further, that it was totally and abso-
lutely ruinous, and bad been mast mischievous to the de-
fendant.

At the conclusion of Mr. Wortley's address, the Court
sojourned till the following morning.

IVrF.ETwG OF THE PRESBYTERY OF LANCASHIRE.—
On Friday a meetinz of this body was held in the Com-
mittee-room of the Scotch Church,'Rodney-street. The
Rev. John Ferric., filled the office of moderator. The
subject of Mr. Park's removal to the parish of Glencairn
was brought before the meeting, and after remarks from
several gentlemen on the efficient manner in which Mr.
Park had discharged his pastoral duties during twelve
years at the Scotch Church, Rodney-street, the Presby-
tery agreed to Mr. Park's removal. A memorial having
been read from the district of Chorlton-on-Medlock, in
Manchester, requesting the Presbytery to consider the
Propriety of erecting a new church in that locality. Dr.
Sinclair and Mr. Galt, on behalf of the memorialists,
being in attendance to give any explanation that might be
required, Dr. Sinclair entered into an explanation of the
reasons which had induced the memorialists to come be-
fore the Presbytery. After some discussion a motion was
submitted by Mr. Welsh, for the appointment of a com-
mittee to confer with the proposers of the scheme, and
report upon it. The motion was seconded by Mr. Rum-
son, and carried.
WESLEYAN METHODISTS.—The following are the
stations ref the preachers of this district as fixed at the
late annual Conference :—Liverpool District —Liverpool
North, (Brunswick Chapel, &c.)—Ahraham E. Farrar,
Joseph Beaumont, John H. James : Calverley ttiley, su-
pernumerary. Liverpool South, ( Pitt-street, &co —vt7 in.
Atherton. Joseph Hargreaves, Henry Chettle. (Benn's
Gardens, &c.)— Richard Bonner. Rowland Hughes.
Chester—T. Stead. William H. Clarkson : Isaac Lilly,
supernumerary. Mold and Buckley Mount—William
Parkinson, who shall change with the Ministers of the
Chester circuit once in six weeks. Carnarvon (English)—
James Naughton. Holyhead—Joseph Sykes. N.B.
Brother Naughton and Brother Sykes are to change one
Sabbath in every six weeks. Wrexham—Francis Barker,
Joseph Whitehead. Whitchurch, (Salop)—Adam Flet-
cher, William Shearman. Warrington—Benjamin Pearce,
John Haigh. Richard Rymer. St. Helen's and Present—
James Scholes. Thomas Shaw. Wigan—William Con-
stable, Frederick Payne. Southport and Ormskirk—
John Haigh, Uriah Butters. Preston and Chorley—
W dliarn Horton, Peter C. Horton, Thoma., Rodham,
Thompson Hesk. NB. Brother P. C. Horton and
Brother Hesk shall reside at Chorley. Garstang—Jona-
than Barrowclough, George Dickenson. Lancaster—
John Talbot, James S. Thomas. Douglas and Castle-
town—Edward Sumner. William Huddlestone, Samuel
Atkinson. Ramsey and Peel—Peter Prescott, Samuel
Taylor, John S. Jones. Ist.
WM. ATHF.RTON, Chairman of the District.
JOSEFFI HARGREAVES, Financial Secretary.

DOER COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—Present, Messrs.
Sands, (clriirman,) Rovden,lley, Holmes, Evans,
Chilton, Holt, Smith, W. R. Sandbach, Tobin, Bold,
Ripley, Moore, and Middleton. Alter some preliminary
busine-s had been dispobed of, of little interest, the fol-
lowing was read from thee Marine Surveyor.—" August
14, 1843. The Marine Surveyor reports that, in conjunc-
tion a NI his assistant, Mr. Jones, of the loyal navy, he
sounded the bar of the Victoria Channel on the evening
of the 11th and morning of the 12th instant, being tides
of 17 feet two inches by Holden's Liverpool Tide Table.
The examination indicated a depth of thirteen feet in the
morning and twelve in the evening, increasing from six to
twelve inches in depth towards the western side. The
weather was calm, and the water perfectly smooth on
both these experimental occasions. The Liver buoy
tender was anchored on the shallowest part of the bar du-
ring the whole of the period. The City of Londonderry
steamer, a vessel drawing twelve feet of water, also pas-
sed through the channel at dead low water on the 12th ; as
also No. 1 pilot boat. and several other vessels at low wa-
ter on the evening of the 11th. The depth oLained at
low water, from corresponding tides in 1839, was twelve
feet, as deduced from a mean of many observations made
at that period. From a tide register, kept at the Liver-
pool Docks, it appears the tide of the 11th instant was
eight feet below the sill at the Old Dock, and that of the
12th seven feet four inches." A copy of the above was
ordered to be sent to Captain Bevis, agent to the Mail
packets, for the information of the officer conducting her
Majesty's mail packet service here. The committee then
proceeded to the consideration of financial matters, and
soon afterwards adjourned.
THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE.—A meeting of the
parties engaged in the wine and spirit trade was held on
Yridav, for the purpose of receiving a report from Mr.
Mm. Dixon, jun., of the result of an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the object of which was to
procure Liverpool, and the other outports, to be placed
upon the same footing as London, with regard to the
duties paid upon brandy. It appears that, in London,
the trade have for many years paid duty only upon the
actual quantity and strength of brandy taken out of bond
for home consumption ; whilst in Liverpool, Bristol,
Glasgow, and elsewhere, the merchants have been corn
pelled to pay duty upon the quantity originally bonded.
The effect of this has frequently been that the Liverpool
merchant 1.15, from cvainnatitni and waste, sustained a
loss of 60 per cent ad valorem upon the spirit bonded in
the first instance ; and this has pressed so heavily on the
trade as to render it necessary for many parties to keep
tlOlt brandy in France; whereby the profit of warehousing
has been lost to the port. A great deal of difficulty was
experienced in the first instance, the treasury having re.
plied that they did not see sufficient grounds for acceding
to the request, and at the beginning of the interview, Mr.
Goulburn was of that opinion ; but, on the hardship and
injustice of the system being urgently represented and
proved by the introduction of the customs vouchers, he
gave way. The following day a treasury minute was re-
ceived, which it will be satisfactory to know. It says
that with a view of affording relief in cases of excessive
deficiency, the board of customs have been authorised to
grant such extra allowance, upon special application, as
the merits of each case might appear to justify, when the
officers of the customs were satisfied that the deficiency
had arisen from natural causes, and that no abstraction
or improper interference had taken place.

AN INTERESTING HOLIDAY.--011 Wednesday last, the
children of the Blue Coat Hospital had a most delightful
excursion to Chester, provided for them through the kind-
ness of William Jackson, Esq.. of Birkenhead. The
children, accompanied by several trustees and many
friends of the institution, embarked in one of the railway
steamers, and were landed at Monk's Ferry, and after en-
livening the inhabitants of that district with their spirited
hand, they proceeded to Chester in a special train engaged
for the occasion by Mr. Jackson. The day, which had
hitherto been overcast, now burst forth into beauty and
',wellness. At Chester the company was anxiously waited
for by a large concourse of people, and the children be-
longing to the Chester Blue Coat School, with their ex-
cellent band, were drawn up to receive the visitants. A
procession being formed they promenaded the principal
streets of Chester. The procession moved forward to the
castle;which it visited, and as the court was then sitting,
the children were there introduced. After leaving the
castle they proceeded to traverse the walls, and then they
were shown the cathedral. They afterwards proceeded
to the Grand Stand, in front of which dinner was provi-
ded on seven tables laid out for them, and they were re-
galed most bountifully with veal pies, ale, and fruit. The
company afterwards retired within the Grand Stand,
where a handsome dinner was provided, of which upwards
of 150 ladies and gentlemen partook, among whom were
the Dean of Chester, Chancellor Raikes, Prebendary
Slade, and others of the clergy, J. D. Case Esq., A.
Swainson, Esq., E. Gibbon, Esq., James Monk, Esq.,
Hugh Williams, Esq., &c., and, after a number of toasts
had been given, the children and company then assembled,
and, the procession having re-formed, they proceeded
across the Dee Bridge to Eaton Lodge, the entrance to
the beautiful and extensive park of the Marquis of West-
minster, which they entered, and, after proceeding a short
distance that the children might form some idea of the
extent and beauty of the grounds of the Noble Marquis,
they returned through the city to the railway, accompa-
nied by a dense throng of admirers. On reaching Birken-
head, the Blue Coat boys, with the band, walked round
Hamilton-square, and the principal streets of Birken-
head, and thence arrived in Liverpool without the slight-
est accident.

BRIDGE OVER THE ANCIENT " POOL."—The work-
men now employed in laying down the new sewer, or Cul-
vert, in Lord-street, and for which they had to excavate
to a depth of ten or twelve feet, came a few days ago upon
the remains of the swing arid abutment of one of the
arches (for it is supposed there were several) of the bridge
that crossed the " pool," between Lord-street and
Church-street. The spot is directly opposite the south
from the shop of Mr. Gilliam, hatter, corner of Lord-
street and Whitechapel, and about four yards from the
bottom of the former street. These " ruins" were of a
brightish yellow free-stone, still compact, but inclining to
softness. The masonry and mortar were in a fair state of
preservation. They also discovered what they took to be
stepping stones, but which were probably portions of the
foundation of the small arches of the bridge. Should we
be wrong in our conjecture, some antiquarian will proba-
bly set us right. We find it recorded in the annals of the
town that " in 1635 a bridge was ordered to be built at
the south side of the town," (which this site then was,)
" over the pool, where the sluices are, and a quay and
harbour to be made there for the succour of the ship-
ping." The whole of the shipping of the port at that time
was about 20 vessels, in ail about 400 tons, with about 70
mariners. Judging from the abutment found es stated.
the bridge must have been about eight feet wide. A
quantity of ribs, skulls, and other bones of horses were
found a little higher up the street ; but these were proba-
bly a comparatively modern deposit from some tannery,
when the ground was filled up to its present level. Some
of the workmen remember that, about ten years ago, when
similar operations for sewerage were going on at the bot-
tom and junction of Dale-street and Shaw's-brow, large
pieces of black oak, in good preservation, were dug out,
which they considered the remains of a wooden bridge..
These materials, however, were as likely to have heen por-'
tions of the " flood-gates, ordered to be put up in 1636, at
the bottom of Dale-street." At the time the bridge at
the bottom of Lord-street was extant, there was a ferry
house, with boats to cross the pool, at the bottom of
Hatton-garden. The stranger who now visits the locality
(on which stand some of the busiest streets in the town)
would have no conception of the great changes which
time, and the rapid increase of commerce; have effettcd.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE
GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS.

On Thursday, the Rev. Henry Melville, Minister of
Camden Chapel and Chaplain to the Tower, delivered a
sermon at St. Peter's Church, in this town, in behalf of
.the funds of the above society. The text was selected
from Isaiah 2, 18—" And the idols he shall utterly abo-
lish." The sermon was, as might have been expected.
extremely argumentative and eloquent. Every part of
the church was crowded, and the sum collected was
£ll2 18s. Bd. The following being the concluding por-
tion of the sermon, will be read with interest, not on-
mingled with regret that so noble an institution should
meet with such tr'fling support.
We call upon you to do your part towards the mighty
crusade, we call upon you to be liberal supporters of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts—a society which has been established upwards of
140 years, has been engaged in a most noble but arduous
office, and which during a whole century was the only mis-
sionary society in connection with the Church of Fa.g.
land. Ido not hesitate to say that it has greater claims
than any other society that may resemble it, for it la.
bours for our immense colonial empire. For whom
are we so much bound to provide the ministrations of
Christianity as for those millions of our fellow-subjects
who in foreign lands—whether natives of the soil, or emi-
grants from among ourselves—are destitute of the in-
struction which maketh wise unto salvation. The heathen
is not excluded from the operations of the society whose
cause I. now advocate. In India much has been done;
but, alas ! what are 32 missionaries among millions of ac-
countable beings—subjects of the same earthly Sovereign
as ourselves, ignorant of their heavenly King. Oh !
what might be done if Christians would but combine in
the attack. Know you anything of the spiritual destitu-
tion afar off ? I should think not, judging from the
comparatively little support which this Society everywhere
receives. Look at British North America in its three
divisions of the Canadians and Nova Scotia; here you
have a population of nearly a million and a half while the
number of clergy working is two hundred. Look at New-
foundland. Alas ! taere are not twenty clergymen to
minister to the many thousands there. Look at Australia
with its enormous continent from whence future nations
are to spring, where we already see the foundations of a
kingdom, which if it began in the felon and the slave may
yet give laws to half the globe; here we have 150.000 of
our fellow countrymen for whom this Society by a mighty
strain supports thirty-four clergymen. I blush to proceed
with such a recital. As a nation we have done little or
nothing for the maintenance of Christianity in our Colo-
nies and to say the least it is not to be expected that
the inhabitants of, such colonies can for a long time, from
the very nature of their case, provide religious instruction
themselves; hereafter, as opulence advances with them,
they may rear a clergy, and give endowments for the
church; but whilst thousands are emigrating, how can
the ever growing demand for spiritual instruction he satis-
fied with Out an endeavour to meet the claims of a society
such as this. We have encouraged emigration by every
possible means that we might have ample room at home,
but having cast our brethren on a foreign shore, is it just
to leave them without churches, without ministers, and
yet to expect them to be loyal to their sovereign, which
they never can he, unless faithful to their God. It is
time we wiped off the national disgrace. If the legislature
cannot provide, let us pray that benovelence may step
forward and undertake the work. The Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts is eager to
employ 200 additional clergy. but it is almost bankrupt.
Parliamentary grants have been withheld, the clergy in
employ ere already existing on a mere pittance, and are
threatened with penury. What is to be dune; What is
to be done do I say? Is the question asked in this vast
commercial town, this metropolis of trade. What is
td be done for the colonies? Is that the question,
and is it raised in a place which sends ships to every
colony, whica brings home the produce of every
colony. Oh ! let but Liverpool rouse itself, and the effect
will be felt throughout the kingdom. Commerce has its
responsibilities as well as its gains—be alert, and the
example will tell well and powerfully. But if a town like
this is to act on the empire, who is to act on the town ?
There can be but me! 'answer. The clergy. And what a
responsibility rests upon the clergy. Far he it from me,
a stranger among you, to suppose that that responsibility
is not felt; but I am sure, that however much it is felt,
there must still be place for increased exertion. As cler-
gymen we are specially called upon, not only by the wants
of society, but by the unanimous recommendation of our
bishops, to bestir ourselves in so righteous a work. And
one thing should be particularly urged Ly us all. In the
undertaking there ought to be union. The Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts is utterly
averse to anything of a party character. I am bold to
affirm that it has but one object in. view in the selection
of its missionaries, that of finding faithful, devoted, sin-
gle-hearted men who will zealously labour in diffusing
Christianity, as embodied in the teachings of the Church,
and in conformity with its instituted privileges. And if
this society be unsupported, mind you there is none to
take its place; for, be it observed, no other missionary
society occupies the same ground, no other has our vast
colonies under its care. :t is of no avail to say, Ido not
support the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts, but I support the Church Missionary So-
ciety. The Church Missionary Society well deserves
support ' • but the two societies are not rivals, although it
is only here and there that they can work in
.the same
field ; and it were strange to be satisfied with giving the
bread of life to the native Hottentot, and withholding it li
from the helpless exile: The Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts now makes its earnest ap-
peal: Surrounded with difficulties, almost forced from
ancient fields of labour, with new openings before it, the
society implores: the clergy to unite in the etitleavOur to
render Liverpool an example to the kingdom. A luke-
warm clergyman makes a lukewarm congregation ; a luk&
warm congregation may keep a colony in destitution and
a country in idolatry. We will not disappoint though
there is so much to be done, so little apparently with
which to do it. Our dependence is on God : it is His
cause which is at stake. The idols to be abolished are his
adversaries; fall they shall, and fall they must. Let it he
our own resolve to go to war against these idols. The cry
for spiritual help, the cry from the east, the west, the
north, the south, shall not long remain unanswered. The
missionary ship waits your succour ; she shall be re.
paired. The prayer from the righteous shall ascend as
she departs, and as we read the inscription, " And the
idols be shall utterly abolish."

The following brief particulars connected with the
reverend gentleman will be interesting:—
The Rev. Henry Melvill is son of the late Captain
Melvill, who was for many years Governor of Pendennis
Castle in Cornwall. He was brought 'up to mercantile
pursuits, and for some time attended to business in Lon-
don. His brothers, however, thinking that he possessed
powers of a high order, enabled him to enter St. John's
College, Cambridge, where he very shortly distinguished
himself, and it soon became evident that he would be-
come a bright ornament to ti,e church. For a short time
after his ordination, lie held a curacy at Cheshunt, and
from thence he was appointed minister of Camden Chapel,
Camberwell, in which he has faithfully laboured ever
since—upwards of ten years. Although gifted with such
extraordinary pulpit powers, the rev. gentleman does not
confine himself to that Fart of a clergyman's duty only.
He is always ready at the call of the poor; and the district
over which (by mutual consent with the rector) lie pre-
sides, has his especial attention. The Rev. H. Melvill is
brother-in-law to H. Kemble, Esq., M.P. for East
Surrey, and brother to Melvill, Esq„ secretary to the
East India Company. He has also a brother in the foreign
service of the company. We cannot refrain from stating,
in proof of the true liberality of the rev. gentleman, that
out of his income from Camden Chapel he allowed his
curate £250 per annum.

Dock COMMITTEE ELECTION.—On Tuesday last,
Messrs. William Smith, Thomas Tobin, Thomas Bold,
and William Robertson Sandbach were elected members
of the Dock Committee.

VALUABLE CARGO.—The barque Ann, Captain John
Salkeld, hurthen 600 tons, which sailed hence for Bom-
bay on Thursday week, has taken out one of the largest
Cargoes of trAuftictured goods that has been shipped here
for some time. It consisted principally of fine Manches-
ter piece goods, and was valued at about £40,000.
PUBLIC-HOUSE ROBBERY.—On Monday last between
the hours of five and ten in the evening, some person or
persons effected an entrance into the bed-room of Mr.
Lckersley, publican, 'fhurlow-street, broke open a box.
and stole £5l Ss. iu cash, a silver watch and guard, with
gold key.
CHARGE OF RAPE.—On Thursday tbeevidenee against
John Reynolds, a journeyman printer at the Liverpool
Mail office, on a charge of rape, was beard before
Messrs. Rushton and Hornby, magistrates, in a private
room. The complainant was Anne Palmer who reached
her fifteenth year on the 27‘11 of last month. Mr. Rush-
ton committed the prisoner for trial for the assault with
i intent.

THEATRE ROYAL.—We understand that the negotia-
tions between Mr. Murray, of the Edinburgh Theatre,
and the proprietors of the Theatre Royal in this town, are
at a stand still for the present. Mr. Murray wishing to
learn the issue of the bill for the regulation of theatres
now before Parliament. Mr. Hammond paid £lOOO for
the house per annum, but the proprietors have offered it
to Mr. Murray for £5OO.
DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT.—At Mr. Newton's, Dick's
Coffee-house, on Tuesday evening last, about half-past
nine o'clock, an alarm was caused by its being discovered
that some villain Lad, during the temporary absence of
Mrs. Newton from the bar, left upon the table two small
parcels, one addressed to Mr. Newton, and the other to a
friend of his. On examination of one of the parcels it was
found to be full of the finest gunpowder, and a lucifer
match wrapped round with sand paper in the centre of 'he
powder, one end being fastened to the lid of the box with
wax, so as to ignite and explode when the lid was removed.
The boxes were taken to Mr. Rushton, together with an
anonymous letter, and the matter is undergoing an exa-
mination by the proper authorities.

ROBBERY.—Three females, of loose character, were
yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of
robbing a " Johnny Raw," from the Isle of Man. Tho-
mas Kelly, the complainant, said that he had lodged in
Drumgold-street, Douglas, and had come from the Isle
on Saturday last. Ile went into Copperas-hill to inquire
for lodgings, and in a public-house found the two younger
prisoners, who took him to what they called "a most re-
spectable house" in Albion-street. He had scarcely,
good simple man, retired to rest, expressing a wish not to
be disturbed, when the two damsels came into the room
and relieved him of sixteen half-crowns and other money,
which they bad previously seen in his possession. His
watch was also gone. He complained to the old woman,
but she cut him by telling the other two to cut. He
called a police officer, who found the watch concealed in
the house, but not the money. The prisoners were all
committed for trial.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE Al' MANCHESTER.

On Wednesday a respectable looking man, named
Charles Kn'glit, brother of Mr. James Knight, accountant,
Pall Mall, Manchester, was brought up at the Borough
Court, in that town, charged with forging his brother's
name to two checks, amounting together to the aunt of
£285; and also with having, on Tuesday last, married a
woman named Mary Ann Wardle, lately a servant at the
Globe inn, Medloch-street, Chorlton, he having at the
time another wi.e living.
Mr. Richard Berwick, chief superintendent of police.
stated that on Monday :horning, about ten o'clock, the
prisoner went to the batik of Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and
Co. King-street, and presented a check signed "James
Knight," for £135. Mr. Markland, one of the clerks in
the bank. knowing that the prisoner was brother to Mr.
James Knight, paid him the amount of the check ; but
the check having been examined by another clerk it was
discovered to be a forgery. It being ascertained that he
had a wife and child at Rock Ferry, Inspector WM ullen
was sent to Liverpool iti the hope of finding the prisoner,
and a watch was set on the Dubiin packets, as it was
known he had friends in Dublin. 'Nothing, however, was
seen of him till the following morning, when he was seen
to go aboard a vessel about to sail for the Isle of Man.
WM alien immediately arrested him, when a scuffle en-
s u
overe d 1; ca.nd rd the. rims ounielern hhrne awteevneerd,
st
iowcteherdoewd
inM Mullen
getting
him into a small boat, and while in that, on their way to
the shore, the prisoner was violent, and said that M'M uls
len must either swim for his life or be drowned. With
some difficulty he was got ashore and brought to Man-
chester. On searching him £5l Is. was found upon him,
and of that sum £45 had been identified as a portion of
the money which had been paid by Mr. Markland in dis-
counting the cheque. In company with the prisoner was
a woman named Mary Ann Wardle, and on her was
ound upwards of £4ll. 17s. Gd, of which was part of the
money paid in discounting a forged cheque presented at
the same bank on the previous Thursday. for the sum of
£l5O. This woman had been taken into custody as an
accomplice, but lie (Mr. Besa ick) applied for her dis-
charge, as he had reason to believe that she knew nothing
of the transaction, and further, he had ascertained that
she" had been married to him on the previous day, at St.
Mary's Church, Manchester, and that he had a wife and
child living at the time. A gold watch and guard, value
about £2O, were found on the prisoner, and altogether he
accounted for about £260, of which some of the items
were for bride's cakes, dresses, &c. and £5O for furnishing
a house. The whole sum he had expended and for which
he accounted was £l6B Bs., and the mottey found on him
and the female amounted to £9l 19s. 4d. When taken to
the Town Hall lockups he said after the usual caution,
that lie forged the two cheques, and gave an account of
the manner in which be had spent -he 111911ry.

Mr. Marklbnd was then sworn, and deposed to having,
on Mowiay la-t, discounted the cheque produced for
£135. He also stated that he had discounted a cheque
on the previous Thursday for the sutn of £l5O, and he
believed that the prisoner presented that cheque also, but
he would not swear to that. He identified the notes.
Mr. James Knight, brother to the prisoner, was then
sworn, and deposed that the signatures to both cheques
were forgeries, and that he had not authorised either the
prisoner or any other person to attach his name to any
cheques.
The depositions were then ordered to he taken.
. .

Mr. Beswiek then stated that there was a further charge
of bigamy against the prisoner, and Mr. Knight, the pri-
soner's brother. was questioned as to his first marriage.
He believed that he had been married about nine years
ago, but lie was nut present bitnselt at the marriage, nor
did he know where or when it had taken place.—Prisoner
(to his brother): Do you know how old I was when I was
man ied ?—Mr. Knight : I do not.—Prisoner : Do you
know that l was under age when I was married, and that
the license was obtained without consent of parents?—
Mr. Maude (to the prisoner); I may just tell you, that if
that were the case, it would not at all invalidate the mar-
riage. Prisoner : Very well ; I have nothing more to say.
He was then remanded till Thursday.

The prisoner was again broualit up on Thurgday, at the
Manchester Borough Court, when his marriage with a
female of the name of Easton (still living), shout nine
years ago, at St. John's Church, Manchester, was clearly
proved.

Maria Wardle said she was married to the prisoner on
Tue,day morning, at St. Mary's Church, Manchester.
She did not know that his wife was living ; he represented
himself to her as a siiigle man.

He was committed fir trial at the assizes.

The Birkenhead Commissioners met on Tuesday last,
hut in consequence of the subject for the consideration of
which they had adjourned not being matured, no business
was transacted.

THE PRESTON GUILD ROBBERY.—The trial of John
Anderson, at the present assizes, will be one of consider-
able interest, as we understand that, since his committal,
four of the £lOO notes stolen from Mr. Marquis have been
ti aced to his possesiion. We understand the trial is fixed
for to-day.

IMPORTANT TO SOLICITORS.—It may be of some in-
terest to the legal p►otession to he informed that an
amended scale of Costs, approved by the lori chancellor,
has been received by the commissioners of the several
district bankruptcy courts, in which there is a very con-
siderable augmentation in the amounts of the items.

, ANOTHER TRICK UPON HOUSEKEEPERS.—A man
and woman are at present going round the town and offer-
ing prices higher than can generally tie obtained for old
bottles. After a large number of them have been looked
out, the woman fills her apron with the best of them, and
the man takes a few in his hands. Both then leave the
house under the pretext of going fora basket to carry away
the remainder, and bring the money for the lot. We need
Scarcely remark, that neither man uor woman is ever heard'
of again.
PETITIONING.—In the House of Lords on Thursday.
Lord Brougham stated that he had received the signatures
of 15,800 persons at Liverpool, without the petition to
which they were intended to be attached. Earl Stanhope
observed that here there were only the names without any
heading, but he could state as a fact, that there was a
petition to the other house against the Factory Bill. the
lop of which was cut off and replaced by a petition against
the corn laws; and this was done by She contrivance of
the Anli-Corn-Law League.

SHIPS' WINDLASSES.-Before his Honour the Vice-
Chancellor of Engbilid, at Lincoln's-inn, on Tuesday last,
Mr. Chandless rose to move for an injunction, ex parte,
to restrain the defendant, a founder, in Liverpool, from
manufacturing and fitting ships' windlasses on the
principle of a patent possessed by the plaintiffs, Messrs.
Tyzack, Dobinson, and Co., who are extensive manu-
facturers at North Shields. His Honour minutely ex-
amined the model: produced, and having heard the
allegations of Mr. Chandless, expressed himself satisfied
of the piracy, and made an order for the injunction as
prayed.—Newcastle Journal.
COURAGEOUS ACT.—On Saturday a young boy. seven
or e:ght years of Jute, whilst observing another older than
himself fishing from the steps at the Trafalgar Dock Pa-
rade, overbalanced himself and fell into the river. Some
short time elapsrd before the life-buoys could be brought
to the spot, when the youth was too far spent to avail
himself of there. Immediately this generous sailor per-
ceived the exhausted state of the boy he leaped from the
pierhead without hesitation, although risking his own life,
for he was unable to swim, and providentially succeeded
in sustaining the boy until a boat received them both.

SCRIPTURE READERS As persons are now calling
upon churchmen to subscribe for the maintenance of
scripture readers in connexion with the Liverpool Town
Mission, it should be generally known that there are
scripture renders connected with the following churches
under the superintendence, and supported by the minis-
ters of these churches :—St. Jude's, St. George's, (Ever-
ton.) St. Barnabas, St. Thomas's-in-the-Fields St. Si-
mons, All Saints, and Christ Church. There will be one
at St. John's. and the Rev. Mr. Baylee supports a leader
to visit the Irish Romanists in Liverpool,.and speak to
them in their own language.
TESTIMONIAL.—On Tuesday last, the congregation
of the Scotch Church, Rodney-street, presented the Rev.
John Park, their late minister, with several articles of
plate, of the value of £250, for, as the inscription stated,
" the zealous and faithful discharge of his ministerial
duties during a pastoral care of twelve years." The plate
consisted of a very richly-chased two-handled twenty-five
inch oblong silver waiter, and two lesser ones to suit, a
pair of massive and elegant candelabra, with two side
candlesticks to match, besides a neatly engraved coffee-
pot, and other useful articles; also a very beautiful and
most costly-finished gold watch, and handsome gold guard
attached to it.

CAUTION TO PAWNIIROKERS.-011 Saturday last,
Messrs. Healing and Lyon, pawnbrokers, Atherton-street,
were summoned before Mr. Rushton, by Thomas Burns,
for the recovery of a bugle which he had pawned with
them on the Ist of September, 1842. In reply, one of
the defendants stated that it was their custom at the com-
mencement of the year to examine all the stocK. They
did so this year, and at that time the bugle was there.
He thought it must have been stolen. Mr. Rushton,
having heard all the evidence, was of opinion that the
pawnbrokers were liable, and they must pay £2 10s., the
value of the bugle, less six shillings, the sum for which
it was pawned and the interest.

SHIPWRECK.—On the 25th May last, the Hero of
Malown, belonging to Liverpool, was totally lost off
Crelen. This ship, which was 480 tons burthen, was
built at Calcutta in the year 1820. She was at anchor in
the harbour, and was to have sailed on the next or suc-
ceeding day, when one of the most violent gales came on
that bad been experienced in that quarter for many years.
The ship was forced to sea soon after the gale burst forth,
but the crew were unable subsequently to keep her off .the
coast. At length she struck, within thirty yards of the
shore and about twenty-five miles below Crelen, and in
six hours afterwards went to pieces not a particle of herhaving been'found. - The captain and crew, with the ex-
ception of one man, were saved.

A FAMILY OF BIGAMISTS.—At the Police-court, on
Friday, William Barry from Bolton, was charged by
Sarah Taylor, a good looking young woman, with having
torn her cap and crushed her bonnet. The prisoner, in
his defence, said that the complainant had had three chil-
dren by him, and was constantly annoying him. She had
come to this town as a witness on a bigamy case `now
pending at the assizes, and her brother and sister had both
been guilty of the same offence. Mr. Rushton asked
what was known of the prisoner, and was told that he
had not long ago left Kirkdale gaol, where he had suffer-
ed imprisonment for bigamy, and that the prisoner's
wife was to be tried at the present assizes, for the i!a!fl
and .
t
wife two husbands. Mr. Rushton aad ft _
e
offence. The prisoner had married, two wives:
avrwholemarriages and intermarriages ran throughy9s. and costs, or
e.int
the
family. He ordered the prisonsr to pa
to bprisonad.
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