The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-07 00:00:00

LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS.

On Saturday evening last, John Bell, blacksmith, r.t
Ashton-hall, Cheshire, while returning home from War-
rington market, along the canal bank, accidentally slipped
into the water and was drowned.

Mr. Joh❑ Forsyth, who has been in the service of the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company for seven-
teen years, was accidentally knocked down by a train on
the Liverpool and Leeds Junction Line, on Mo nday last,
and killed on the spot.

BIRKENHEAD POLICE.--Mr. Boughey, superintendent
of the force, has received the appointment of bridewell
keeper, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Booth, and Mr.
James M'flarg, inspector of the Liverpool police force,
will, it is expected, be appointed superintendent in the
place of Mr. Boughey.

A man named Donnison, a sailor, was found in the
chimney of Mr. Parry, chemist, Christian-street, on the
night of Wednesday week. The supposition is, that he
intended to rob the public-house nest door to Mr.
Parry's, but had mistaken his way, and got down the
wrong flue, from which he was unable to extricate him-
self. De had got into the chimney the preceding night.

New MAGISTRATrS.—On Wednesday last, at the
Preston Epiphany Quarter Sessions, J. Talbot Clifton,
Esq„ M.P., and Thomas Goulbourne Parker, Esq., of
Browsholme Hall, qualified as magistrates for this county.
Mr. Clifton also took the oaths as a deputy lieutenant.
On Friday, Jonathan Peel, Esq., of Accrington House,
in this county, and of Oxford-square, Hyde-park, Lon-
don, also qualified as a magistrate. W. A. F. Saunders,
Esq., of Wennington hall, qualified as a magistrate of
the county, at the Lancaster Quarter Sessions, on Mon-
day last. At Salford, yesterday, several gentlemen would
qualify.

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STEALING TIMPER.—On Friday, a respectable look-
ing man named John Griffith, a native of the principality,
was placed at the bar of the police-court, upon a charge
of having stolen three planks, part of some timber stolen
belonging to a person named Hughes, also a native of
Wales, who is erecting some cottage buildings in the vi-
cinity of Srnithdown-lane. About £lO worth of wood
had been previously missed, and in consequence, a watch
was set in the shape cif a Welshman, unable to speak a
single word of English. This man saw the prisoner about
seven o'clock on Thursday evening, enter the back part
of the preniis s, and carry away the planks in question.
On being stopped he admitted the offence, and prayed for
forgiveness. It was stated that the prisoner was a man
of considerable property and, that he, like his accuser,
was now engaged erecting houses adjoining those belong-
ing to the prosecutor. Mr. Rushton said the prisoner
had evidently plundered from avarice and not from want,
as many poor creatures did, and the case must go before
the jury. The prisoner was then committed for trial.
SUDDEN DEATII.—An inquest was held on Saturday,

before the borough coroner, touching the death of James
M'Cabe. A son of the deceased said be was a shoemaker,
and lived in Roscoe-lane. The deceased was 64 years
old. On Wednesday morning last, about half-past one
o'clock, witness came down stairs and found deceased
sitting by the fire. He then appeared to be quite well.
They had a little conversation together, when witness's
brother came down stairs, and a few words passed between
him and witness. Deceased got up from the chair he was
sitting on, and walked towards the stairs, but before he
reached them be suddenly fell down. They immediately
raised him, and found he was dying. fie d

diately. Mr. M'lntyre,surg,
avail. For the last five or sia

;eon, was called, but without

ieks deceased did not a

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pear to be well, but he did not complain, excepting of a
cold. John M'Cabe, the other son, said that on Wed-
nesday morning, about five o'clock, he called the deceased
up, as he wished to go to chapel to prayers. He did not:,
however, then get up. He afterwards went to chapel and
came home between twelve and one o'clock. He then
appeared well. Witness corroborated the other facts
stated. Mr. M'lntyre said that be had made a p
tern examination, and found the cause of deatl

been a rupture of the heart, the
He added that the case was very

result of natural causes.
unusual. There was De

Lse of the exterior coats oT the hearts, yet the outer

wall of that organ on one side was burst to'a large extent,
so that the whole of the blood on both sides had found
an immediate passage, and instant death must have been
the result. The jury returned a verdict of '' Died by
the visitation of God."