The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-20 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

THE MAYORALTY.—The annual period is fast approaching
when the burgesses of Liverpool will be called upon to exercise
their important right of electing a gentleman to fill the civic
chair for the ensuing year. Another opportunity will be af-
forded us of expressing our sense and the sense of the public
as to the exemplary conduct of our present chief magistrate :
our business now is with the choice of his successor. We are
not aware that at any time has it been required of the burgesses
to discharge their duty with more discretion and circumspection
than on this next occasion. We sincerely trust that on public
principle alone will they be induced to give their suffrages to
any candidate. To say nothing of the chances of a general
election, and of the spirit which is abroad, and which seems to
actuate our rulers to impair, if not to overthrow, all municipal
establishments, there is a parliamentary commission about to
sit in judgment on this and other corporations throughout the
kingdom; and above all, there is the question of the disfran-
chisement of the freemen, which no doubt the fatuity of a cer-
tain party will again tempt them to agitate. Who then can for
a moment be insensible to the vast importance of having at the
head of the corporation a man not only utterly disconnected
with this party, but of tried and approved principles, of personal
respectability; of firmness and independence—one acquainted
with and attached to the ancient rights and franchises of the
freemen, and determined to maintain them against all assaults,
open or disguised.

The Queen of Portugal is now on her voyage to Lisbon, which
place she is expected to arrive at on or about the 24th inst.

t ROBBERY.—On Thursday morning last, it was discovered
that the cellar of Mr. Guest, grocer, &c., corner of Oxford_
street, Deansgate, Manchester, had been broken into, and
three firkins of butter and a cheese stolen therefrom. The
police are on the alert, but no clue has yet transpired for the
apprehension of the robbers.

ROBBERY.—As Mr. Peter Seddon, of Edge Fold, near Bol-
*ton, was returning home from Ormskirk, in company with
his nephew, in a shandry, on Wednesday night last, he was
attacked, near Ilulton-htne-end, by six men, two of whom
seized the horse, and one of them dragged Mr. Seddon's ne-
phew out of the shandry, and knelt upon him, during which
four of the men, although two of them were knocked down,
Succeeded in robbißg Mr. Seddon, as well as his nephew, of
apwards of £7O. The robbers have not yet been discovered

ST. HET.EN'B.—A public dinner was given at the Raven inn,
Sts Helen's, on Thursday last, for the purpose of presenting a
splendid dinner service to Peter Greenhall, Esq., a gentleman
whose spirtedi and liberal conduct has Icing been the theme of
raongst his neighbours and fellow-townsmen. The
chair was occupied by J. W. West, Esq., of Cropper's Hill,
and one hundred and ten gentlemen sat down to dinner. The i
plate bore the following nscription :—" Presented to Peter
Greenhall, Esq., by the inhabitants of St. Helen's and its
neighbourhood, as a token of their esteem for his private worth
and gratitude for his public services."—On the reverse was the
arms of the Greenhall. family. In the course of the evening
the healths of Mr. Greenl;ll, his worthy father, and other
Members of his family, were drunk with great enthusiasm.
SCICIDE.—Mr. Thomas Crompton, cotton manufacturer, near
the Robin Hood, Bolton Moor, was found suspended, on Fri-
day morning last, upon a beam, by a cotton cord.
NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOMETY.—A meetin of the
friends to this institution held a public meeting at the Town-
hall, Little Bolton, on Friday evening week, Peter Botha-ell,
-Esq.. in the chair. Several eloquent addresses -were delivered
by Captains Symonds, Campbell, and Brazzlegate, and by the
Ray. Barnard.tilater, Wesleyan minister, Rev. James Fi user,
Baptist minister, and the Rev. Samuel Ellis, Independent mi-
nister. A collection was made at the close of the proceedings.

STEAM CARRIAGES ON ORDINARY ROADS.—A joint-stock
companv is now formik in London, with a capital of £lOO,OOO
in L'2.5 shares, for the purpose of establishing coaches to con-
vey passengers and merchandise, by steam, between London
and the principal towns in England, on the common turnpike
roads. Leeds, Bath, _Bristol, Birmingham, and Manchester
are mentioned as the first among a number of places to which
the coaches are to run.

jr...GLARY.—On the night of Wednesday week, the house of
"J Stanley Lees, the Robin Hood Inn, Green-acres Moor,
liolton, was entered, and £1 10s. in copper, with a large quail-
tity of spirituous liquors, were stolen from the bar and cellar.--
The thieves, not content with their booty, injured the liquor left
behind, by pouring sour ale upon it. A large crow-bar was
found on the following morning, at the public-house, door. ,
RADllTSPEECHlPTlNG.—lietherington,the fire-brand editor
of the Poor Man's Guardian, and Newsharn,
a discharged sol-
er, have been on a visit to their brother radicals in Oldham,
delivering speeches of the most violent character. Hethering-
ton, who is a Papist, and was formerly a student at Mavnooth,
had evidently an eye to business, as amongst other remedies for
the evils under which he described the country to be labouring,
he strongly recommended his hearers to purchase his unstamped
uewspapers.
NEI.
, Autn BRITISH LEAF.—Fora considerable time, a Mr.
_TFbard Ileale, of Nn. 9, Mincing-lane, London, has been
7-011ning sloe and white-thorn leaves made- up for home eonsump-
Brit' Irist''ad
ofunder the denomination of
It
Prepared
colicl,,s,ll Leaf." but he has not passed it off as tea. It will be re-
the p;‘ted that, at the commencement of the present mayoralty,
junb 1 i
of the - entee appeared before the Lord Mayor in consequence.
statiP ,reation of a communication made to his lordship,
the - e',oet that the bushes of Norwood supplied many of
pro
grocers of London with what the public believed to be the
Pr 94" of China Upon that occasion, Mr. llcale very highly
p raised his
Lord Ala bevera.withencouragement from the
ge, but met no .
Board of who, on the contrary, exwessed surprise that the
U
a f Excise allowed such an abomination to exist. p.
to
evr days
labou ago, the patentee seemed to have gone on with his
solicitorll uninterruptedly, but, on Monday last, Air. May ow, the
... to the Board of Excise, applied for a search warrant for
s_,To prepared British leaf," and, immediately afterwards, a
excise
or lipvvards of 10,000 pounds weight was made by the
officer upon thepremises in Mincing-lane.
As La
an rd Grey of Groby was on his way to Dunham Massey
/1,2_ Monday week, he was suddenl taken ill near Newcastle.
Being near to the Rev. J. Anderton's,of D. dale at the
time, his lordship
cured without d I was
conveyed there, and medical aid pro-
followinv d N ° was
His lordship was so much better on the
,field Courier ' as
to be able to resume his journey.—Maccies.
A JennE Tr..
Warwick As;.• "Po THIEF-TARFR.—We read that at the late
h d the
1.,,,,,,,,d bu„ -,zes, Mr. Justice Taunt9o, Navin.g finished ,a,ke `'lle",---" tcok some prisoners" to help his brother