The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-13 00:00:00

LOC4I NEWS

—We understand that art
examination of the infants at the Church of England School,
Cornwallis-street, will take place on Monday evening next,
in the School-room, at half-past six o'clock.

CORNWALLIS-

CUSTOM-HOUSE REVENUE.—The receipts at the Custom-
house at this port for the year ending sth January instan
amount to £3,904,379, being a decrease, as compared with
1811, of £200,514, and with the preceding year of £702,947.

LORD SANDON.—Our excellent representative Lord San-
don arrived in Liverpool on 'Wednesday morning, and is at
present on a visit at the residence of Charles Lawrence, Esq.,
Mosley llill. His lordship dined with his Worship the
Mayor and a select party last evening. His lordship will,
we believe, remain in town for some days to come.
INQUEST.—On Wednesday last, an inquest was held on
view of the body of Elizabeth Doyle, a child six months old.
The deceased, who was a healthy child, was found dead in
her mother's arms in bed on Tuesday morning. The parents
were sober quiet people. Mr. Leech, surgeon, saw the body,
and being unable to account for death, made a post mortem
examination, when it appeared the deceased had died of con-
vulsions. Verdict accordingly.

"LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT."—The sup-
porters of the Mechanics' Institution held a ,soiree on Friday
last, when a Frenchman of the name of Sears, who is a
teacher there, was permitted to sing the revolutionary com-
position called the Marseillaise Hymn, in character. The
Collegiate Institution was formally opened the same day,
when the beautiful and loyal hymn, beginning "Lord of
Heaven and Earth and Ocean," was sang by the assembly
to Haydn's sacred music of " The Hymn to the Emperor."
Those who know the two compositions will not fail to discern
in these apparently trivial circumstances, the difference be-
tween the principles of the two institutions.

TILE SournEa.N HOSPITAL.—We, a few weeks ago, no-
ticed the Northern Hospital, showing, with reference to the
number of patients, the great utility of that institution, par-
ticularly as regards acc:dents occurring at or about the docks
at the north end of the town. We have now to commend no
less strongly to the attention and support of our humane
townsmen the sister institution—the Southern Hospital, a
fine building, admirably designed and fitted up for the re-
ception of unfortunate persons in that quarter of the town,
where casualties, &c., at the docks are proportionately
numerous. We can state, from authority, that, though
the hospital has not yet been fully open twelve months, (the
anniversary being on the 18th of the present month) the
number of patients admitted has already been no fewer than
624, including 119 cases of fracture and 43 cases of scalp
wounds. The beautiful order of both establishments, and
the skill, attention, and kindness of the medical attendants
are beyond all praise.

SUNDAY TRADING.-At the police-court yesterday, Wm.
"Woods, of Chadwick-street, appeared to answer an informa-
tion against him, laid by police-ofEcer No. 462, for pursuing
his calling on Sunday. The information stated that on Sun-
day last, between eleven and twelve o'clock, he was standing
opposite the defendant's Louse, when he saw the servant
hand out of the window a halfpenny worth of sweet milk,
for which a penny was handed in, and a halfpenny received
out in change. He had previously cautioned the defendant
not to sell on Sundays. Mr. Rushton said that according to
the act of Charles 11 (under which this information vtas laid).
no person was allowed to sell milk after nine o'clock in the
morning, under a penalty of 55., which he had not the power
to mitigate. We understand that a great number of in-
formations, laid by common informers, have been laid against
car drivers and others, for following their usual occupations
on Sunday ; and that the keepers of the Exchange, the
Lyceum, and other newsrooms, also club-houses, and even
the coachman of his Worship the Mayor, are amongst the
number.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF SUGAR.—At the police-court,
on Wednesday and (the prisoners being remanded for further
evidence) yesterday, four prisoners were brought up
namely, Thomas Harrison, Sarah Harrison, his wife, Eliza-
beth Johnson, and Thomas Scott, on a charge of stealing a
large quantity of sugar. It appeared that on Monday night
last, about 16 cwt. of sugar was stolen from Dover's ware-
house in Edmund-street. From information received.
Police-officer Grisenthwaite went to the shop of a person
named Scott, provision dealer, Johnson-street. He stated
his errand, and Scott told him that if he went into the cel-
lar, he would find a bag of sugar which two men brought into
the shop, and, after quarreling with each other, had thrown
there on the top of the coals, and had gone off and left it.
The officer went below, and found the sugar as stated. From
further information, the police went to a house in Beving-
ton, where they found a number of sugar bags burning on the
fire. This was the house inhabited by the prisoner Harrison
and his wife, who were accordingly taken into custody. The
evidence went to implicate all the prisoners, with the excep-
tion of Elizabeth Johnson, who was discharged. The other
three wero committed for trial.

SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION.—A meeting of this asso-
ciation was held on Tuesday, in the committee-rooms be-
longing to the society, for the purpose of concerting measures
for releasing it from the difficulties in which it has been
placed, and for establishing it upon a permanent footing for
the future. The meeting was respectably attended, and
Captain Oglevy was called to the chair. A resolution pro-
posed by Captain Bisset was carried unanimously, to the ef-
fect that the association be continued to the 31st March, and
that a committee of shipmasters be appointed to consider
the propriety, and to devise the best meansof remodeling the
association. Captain Bisset said he was still not without
hopes that the association might yet go on prosper, and be-
come an honour to those who had fostered it into existence,
and a source of great benefit and convenience to the ship-
masters of Liverpool. He thought if proper modifications
were made in the existing system, and proper alterations in
the subscriptions, the society would succeed. A committee
was then formed to carry into effect the objects of Captain
Bisset's resolution. The subscriptions up to the close of the
meeting, including what was subscribed on the spot, exceeded
£2OO. We shall be exceedingly sorry if through want of
support this useful society is allowed to be broken up—it has
already rendered essential service to the shipmasters of the
port, and would if liberally assisted, afford further advantages
to them. We shall be glad to hear that the labours of the
committee are attended with that success which they ought
to meet with.

FOREIGN AID SOCIETY.—We perceive that a meeting of
this society will he held at the Music-hall this evening, when
its claims, which are not sufficiently recognised by the pub-
lic, will be brought before the protestant community of
Liverpool through the able advocacy of the Rev. R. Burgess,
rector of Chelsea, the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, Major Thorpe,
and others. Our best recommendation of the society's
labours and objects will be to reprint the following extract,
from the letter of the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, published at
the close of the last month, recommendatory of a sermon,
preached at Geneva by Mr. D'Aubigne, president of the
Theological School there :—" It is peculiarly delightful to
those who love the Saviour, to see a revival of reformation
truth at Geneva. Amidst the awful prevalence of Neologian
and other heretical errors in that city, God has graciously
refreshed the hearts of his people, by raising up faithful men
to bear witness to pure evangelical doctrine, and Institutions
have been formed there for diffusing that doctrine among
those reformed churches which had so grievously fallen froth
the heavenly truths maintained by their protestant fore-
fathers. The Geneva Evangelical Society, with its able in
structors, Gaussen, D'Aubigne, and others, has led the way
in this blessed work, and deserves the warm sympathy and
support of all who truly love our Lord. The Foreign Aid
Society was formed for the purpose of affording Christians
in this country the opportunity of showing this sympathy. it
is a society.that in these days claims from all .British Chris-
tians a far more efficient support than it has yet received.
Not having yet been fully brought before true Christians, it
has had little comparative support. I shall be glad if this
notice of it bring it before the minds of Christians, and they
become interested in the good doing among our brethren on
the continent."

CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—It will be seen from
an advertisement that a sermon will he preached in Christ
Church, on Sunday next, in aid of the funds of this important
society, and valuable auxiliary to the Church of England.
The benefits conferred by the society upon the people of this
country and the clergy are various ; and, we learn from the
occasional papers issued by the committee, that a spiritual
work of the most encouraging description is going on exten-
sively in malty places where the society's aid is received. A
clergyman, having charge of a manufacturing population of
7500 souls, and an income of only £9O, without any parsonage
house, but aided with a grant for a curate, writes, that " his
congregation is a satisfactory illustration of the benefits of
church principles of subordination and order. Not one of
the congregation took part in the late riots, and to a nigil
they offered themselves to serve as constables for the proter
tion of property." Another clergyman states that though his
parish was under grievious apprehension during the same
disturbances, and expected to be the most disturbed locality,
no actual outbreak took place in the town itself, and adds,
that since the society's grant of a curate, there are novr
" three large congregations in the church on Sundays—a
steady and increasing attendance at the weekly service—in-
stances continually occurring of persons attracted to the
Sabbath worship through the instrumentality of cottage and
school lectures—upwards of 500 children in the schools, and
an attendance at the Lord's Supper, which has at least
quadrupled the number antecedent to the society aid," Am),
ther incumbent of a inarilf icturing district informs the corn:.
mittee, that he had infidelity, socialism, and dissent, in al-
most every form to contend with. Prior to the grant of a
curate from the society, " there was no school in connection
with the church in all the district, whilst there is now a
school of 181 children, and the congregations have much in-
creased." We might multiply such gratifying statement
as these, if we thought them necessary; but, we must re-
mind our readers that the amount which Liverpool transmits
to the parent society, is extremely disproportionate to the
amount of either spiritual or pecuniary benefit conferred in
return.

NORTHERN HOSPITAL-40 extracting the following par-
ticulars from a paper on the treatment of Fractures of Me
Extremities, by Mr. Banner, surgeon of the Northern Hos-
pital, of this town, published in the present January number
of the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Quarterly, the pub-
lic will have an opportunity of judging of the extraordinary
results emanating from the efforts made by the founders of
this valuable charity, and the subscribers the gratification of
knowing that their benevolent aid has been well bestowed•
These extracts must conceive all those who take an interest
in the relief of suffering humanity, even the most sceptical,
of the great usefulness of this hospital. We the more parti-
cularly draw attention to the facts contained in Mr. Banner's
paper, as the supporters of the hospital contemplate making
a great effort to obtain a fund sufficient for building a neW
Northern Hospital, which, we trust, will be a building wor-
thy so great a cause, and so situated as to be an ornament to
Liverpool. In the erection of the medical institutions of
this town, sufficient attention has not been paid to their sitei
each having been placed in back situations. Buildings weY
demanding conspicuous and prominent positions, from their
beauty of design, are lost as public edifices. We sincerely
hope this will not be the case in the erection of the contem-
plated Northern Hospital. We are informed that the town
council is again about to forward, by its liberality, the objects
of charity, in bestowing land for the erection of this hospital.
In doing so, we hope it will not be forgotten that a hospital
is a public building, intended for future ages, as well as for
the present, and should form a conspicuous
anti handsome
edifice worthy the flourishing town of Liverpool. To gain
this end it should be stipulated by the council that the.de-
sign be approved by them.--There have been admitted
Into
the Northern Hospital in Leeds-street, from March 1834 to
December 1841, eight hundred and nineteen cases of fracture
of the long bones of the extremities, or, in other words, hrP' ken limbs. Of these, 270 were of the arm, 479 of the leg,
and 61 were fractures, complicated with other severe injuries..
The general results were-279 cases of fractures of the arm
were cured ; 471 cases of fractures of the leg were cured ; 21
cases of fractures with severe complications, cured ; out of
819 cases, 28 died. There have been 47 limbs amputategt
resulting from the foregoing injuries ; of these 34 recovered,
18 died ; 11 were of the arm, 32 were of the leg, 3 were cat:
of double amputation, or where two limbs were removed from
one person, and 1 was a partial amputation of the foot. ,a
amputations were on persons between the ages of 10 and 30;
of these 17 recovered, 1 died : 15 were on persons be,tweet
the ages of 30 and 45 ; of these 9 recovered, 6 died ; 5 wer..:
on persons between the ages of 45 and 55 ; of these 4 We;
cured, and 1 died : 8 were on persons between the ages of 15
and 70; of these 5 were cured, 3 died. Of these cases, :%
were males, 2 were females. It must be remembered trif
these cases are confined exclusively to the extremities : thea
do not include other bones, which, if enumerated, wont
swell the catalogue to a great degree. We may say that
there is not a provincial hospital in the United King
which admits so great a number of severe accidents 11sn'of
about two in l Northern Hospital
i and, with the exceptio
the metropolis, t might be applied gene
throughout the kingdom.

THEFT OF FLOUR FROM A WAREHOUSR.-It will be re-
membered that some months ago (the 3rd of October) a
quantity of flour (21 sacks) was stolen from a warehouse in
Frederick-street, called " Thomas's," in broad day, the pro-
perty of Messrs. Archer, Daly, and Co. It was traced to the
premises of a man named Stewart, in Arley-street, Vauxhall-
road ; the contents of the sacks being found in bulk in a
room above, by police-officer Kehoe. Four or five men had
been engaged in the robbery, having opened the warehouse
door with a key previously provided, and loaded and lighted
a cart, astif it were a legitimate delivery. Two of them were
apprehended some time ago, and were convicted and sentenced
to - transportation at the last sessions. On Wednesday,
another of the party, named Christopher Brannon, for whom
a look-out had been key
whence the flour had come,,
The prisoner had been apprehended o__
at a village in Westmeath, and was brought over to this town
by the head constable of that county. The same evidence of
the carter and others, that led to the conviction of the other
two, was given, and showed that the prisoner had assisted
the others in loading and lighting the flour. He made a long
statement to the effect that he was merely employed by one
of the others as a labourer on the occasion, had been paid in
the usual way, and bad soon after gone tolreland to see his
wife, who was lying dangerously ill. He was committed for
trial

ioth here and in Ireland (from

3efore Mr. Rushton
e 24th of December

DEATH BY BEING RUN OVER BY A CART.—An inquest
was held on Tuesday, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body
of Henry Gossage. John Keasley, a mariner, said, that on
Saturday evening last, he was passing along Dale-street in a
spring cart. Just as he passed the end of Cheapside he saw
a cart coming down that street laden with coal. The cart
was drawn by two horses, and the deceased was the driver.
The deceased had hold of the chain horse by the bridle. The
horses were not restive, but going steadily along. They were
turning into Dale-street just as the spring cart was at the
end of the street, when the chain horse shyed, and the de-
ceased let go the bridle in order to get clear of the wheel of
the spring cart, and went behind the chain horse and sud-
denly fell, and the near side wheel of the cart passed over
his body. Witness jumped out of the spring cart, and raised
him and helped to carry him to a doctor's. Witness did not
think the driver of the spring cart was at all to blame.
Other witnesses saw the deceased falling as described. He
was taken to Mr. Whitley's, surgeon, and thence to his
lodgings, in Highfield-street, where he died in about three
hours after the accident. The widow of deceased said he
was a porter, and had never driven the horses but once before.
He was 31 years of age. The surgeon, Mr. Cripps, who
attended the deceased after the accident, was of opinion that
the cause of death was rupture of the bladder, produced by
internal violence. The jury returned a verdict of " Acci-
dental death," and laid a deodand on the cart wheel that
passed over him of 10S.
DEATH BY FALLING FROM A STAGE.—An inquest was
held yesterday, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of
John Ritchie, a man aged 57 years. Thomas Thompson, a
boarding-house keeper, said that, about three weeks ago,
was standing on the quay at the Prince's-dock, when he saw
the deceased, whom he knew at some distance off, and called
upon him to come up, asking him whether the name of a ves-
sel in the middle of the dock was the Star. There were two
planks placed on the quay,, the other ends of which rested on
the gaff of the sloop. The deceased went on to the-end of the
plank that was on the quay, and stooped down to look at the
name of the vessel. The sloop had a quay berth, but was
rather low in the water. There were men in the hold
trimming the coals; and whilst the deceased was standing
on the plank, the vessel listed over to one side, and the ends
of the planks on the gaff fell down, and the deceased and
another man, who was also on them, fell down on the
deck of the sloop, a height of about 16 feet. The deceased
fell on his face, and the other man on the top of him. The
other man got up directly, and the deceased remained lying.
Witness ran for a police-officer to bring the bearing barrow.
On his return he found the deceased had been picked up,
and was partially insensible. The bearing barrow was
brought, and deceased was taken to the Northern Hospital.
The accident happened on the 20th December. He became
gradually worse, and died on Tuesday last. The io--
turned a verdict of " Accidental death.

fury re-

IN CEN DIARISM.—About midnight on the 4th instant, the
entire rick yard of R. W. Barton, Esq., of Caldy, about
seven miles from Birkenhead, was destroyed by fire, the act,
no doubt, of an incendiary. In consequence, Mr. Barton
offered a reward of £lOO for the conviction of the of-
fender or offenders. Since the fire, a farm labourer, named
Peter Evans, was apprehended, and after undergoing two
examinations before the magistrates at Birkenhead, was fully
committed to the next Chester assizes for trial. The first
witness examined was Mr. John Wharton, a publican, re-
siding at Caldy, and close to Mr. Barton's stack yard. After
describing the situation of the stack yard, and the produce
which it contained; he stated that on the night of the fire,
the prisoner was at his house, where he remained until about
half-past eleven at night ; that about that time he left the
house, when witness let him out of his house and bid him
good night. He then locked his house up, and was about
getting into bed when he perceived the stack yard to be on
fire. This was about ten minutes after the prisoner left the
house of witness, and at the time he left there was no appear-
ance of fire. On witness running to the stack yard he found
the stacks on firs in four different places, and in ten minutes
all were in flames. If the prisoner had walked home at the
time the fire was blazing, he would have been about Caldy
Common, and must have seen the fire. He was not at the
fire during the whole night. Mr. Richard Davies, farm bai-
liff to Mr. Barton, stated that he was at the fire, and there
were burned five stacks of wheat, one stack of oats, one of
hay and clover, a farm cart, a cart loaded with straw, and
eleven hundred yards of timber. The value of the property
was from £9OO to £lOOO, and was insured. The prisoner
was dismissed from the service of Mr. Barton on the sth of
December, in consequence of some steves of oats being
missed, and one of the fires was in the hole in the stack from
whence the steves were taken. Other witnesses confirmed
these statements. The officer who apprehended the prisoner
stated, that on searching his bed-room he found a waistcoat,
in the right hand pocket of which were two pieces of lucifer
matches. This witness, in reply to a question from Mr.
Parsons, who appeared for the prisoner, stated that the dis-
tance from the fire to the residence of the prisoner, was
about a mile and three quarters, and up hill nearly all the
way. After the examination of the special high constable of
the Hundred of Wirral, Mr. Parsons contended that there
was not sufficient evidence to send the prisoner for trial, but
the magistrates thought otherwise and committed him
IMPOSING ON A FEM AI .
--
HER A " FLASH" NOT
looking man, named Lawrence Nugent, was brought before
Mr. Rushton, on a charge of being concerned in uttering
to a female servant a " flash" £5 note. The complainant,
Mary Hart, said she was in the service of Mr. Thomas
Harrison, merchant, who resided at No. 18, Great George's_
square. She had an acquaintance in Cheshire, and about
six weeks ago the prisoner came to her master's house with
a message from her—that being the first time she had seen
him. On Friday last, a man, whom she did not know, called
upon her with a note from a man named Thomas Stovas,
(whom she knew,) in consequence of which she went to a
public-house in Fontenoy-street, where she saw Stovas.
q'he latter informed her that he bad enlisted, and that he was
short of lls. to make up £1 9s. Od. to pay the smart. He
added that he had a brother who lived at Edge-hill, but was
on his death-bed ; that he should not like to mention the
matter to him, otherwise he could get the money from him—
and that if she would lend him the amount, he would call
that night and return it. She was induced to lend the money,
and then returned home. On the same night the prisoner
and Stovas came to her, and asked her to put her bonnet
on, and go with her to some place where they would change
a note—to pay her—Stovas remarking that he had two £lO
notes and a£s note. She went with them to a house near
St. James's Market, where they (the men) called for some
drink, for which Stovas paid, but did not get change for any
note. The prisoner and the other went out one after the
other to get change, as they said, but came back pretending
they could not get the note changed. The prisoner, it ap-
peared, had at one time possession of a note. She then
went out along with them towards her master's house.
When she reached it and stood at the door, Stovas came
up, leaving the prisoner at the corner of the street, and
asked her if she could change the note herself. She said she
had not so much. He then asked her if she had any small
change, and she said she had some, and took him into the
kitchen, where she handed him two sovereigns and five shil
lings, receiving from him a note, which he called a £5 note.
She was in a hurry to get him out of the house, and did not
look at it particularly at the time, but, on getting him out,
immediately perceived that it was a "flash" note. She
next day went in search of the prisoner, but could hear no-
thing of him. On Monday afternoon, he came to the house
intoxicated, and she asked him where Stovas lived. He said
he would tell if she would pay him. She agreed, and went
With him to a public. house in Thomas-street. The prisoner
Spoke to the landlord, and then went into a small room.
Meantime she asked the landlord if he knew where the pri-
soner lived, and he replied that he lived next door. The
prisoner then came out, and, to hor enquiries, said that he
lived three miles and a half off, in Toxteth-park. He then
pretended to show her where Stovas lived, and took her
through numerous streets, but at length ran away. She
went next night to the prisoner's lodgings, in Thomas-street,
and found him in. He took her to Richmond-row, where
she found Stovas's lodgings, but learnt that he had gone to
Manchester. She called a police-officer, and had the pri-
soner taken into custody. The prisoner, on his way to bride-
well, told the constable that he knew that the note was a bad
pne, He denied in court that he knew the note was bad ;
and said that he had never tendered it, and had given it
back to Stovas at his own request. He was committed for
trial.

—On Wed

UTTERING TO

RAILWAYS.-IVIr. Richard Dawson, of this town, has
published in a contemporary a letter 7iving the traffic on the
respective railways for the two last half years, ending 31st
December, 1842, from which we make the following ex-
tract;--

Ist January to

301 h June

s. d.
Arbroath and Forfar 4,218 12 3/
firm. & Derby Junction. 28,706 16 11
firming. and Gloucester. 42,398 2 81
Brandling Junction 20,273 11 11
Chester and Birkenhead
Dublin and Kingston 20,282 19 7
Dundee and Arbroath
Eastern Counties
Edin. & Glasgow, 19 wks 33,716 16 3
Glasgow, Paisley, and
Greenock . ..........
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar-
nock and Ayr 26,076
Grand Junction
Great North of England. 32,064 12 11
Great Western ..
liayle
...... 3,992 7 11
Bull and Selby
Liverpool 4 Manchester 111,673 18 7
London & Birmingham .
London and Blackwall
London and Brighton
London and Croydon 10,992 11 5
London and Greenwich 22,189 ]8 8
London &S. Western
Manchester & Birming 10,613 3 2
Manch., Bolton, & Bury 14,695 18 7
Manchester and Leeds
Midland Counties
Newcastle and Carlisle
Newcastle and N. Shields 9,202 19 2
North Midland ..
North Union •• • • 26,067 3 7
Northern and Eastern
Preston and Wyre 4,839 15 7
13effield and Manchester 6,717 17 7
South Eastern & Dover 3,333 12 -I
Taff Vale (from August,
Ulste
Only five months)
r
York and North Midland 40,467 5 •

23,044 19 8

9,788 13

Ist July to
31st December

4,439 2 5
35,749 12 9
50,418 4 9
22,555 19 5
14,298 13 5
22,296 0 0
6,707 4 11
26,184 6 2
59,615 16 8

22,810 11

204,149 13 7
36,719 5 0
358,631 13 6i
6,221 13 5
27,188 4 9
115,587 0 2
424,405 2 10
22,951 19
103,348 5 7
9,134 13 3
20,744 9 4
170,525 4 0
49,547 14 2
15,241 2 3-4-
118,525 10 9
71,580 17 111
39,417 13 1

10,147 15 3
115,910 9 5
28,102 10 8
35,720 6 2
6,330 18 9
5,831 4 0
32,215 15 4

13,668 18 2
10,765 10 7
45,994 18 10

£2,099,326 10 111 £2,391.9,15 2 3
2,099,326 10 114

4,491,271 13 24-
Deduct 40 per cent. for working expenses.. 1,796,508 8 11

)4,763 5 oi

Thus it will appear that on thirty-eight
railways, for which returns have been
given, the gross receipt for the twelve
months is
From
which deduct 40 per cent. for ex-
penses.

:91,271 13

1,796,508 8 1i

Leaves to be divided amongst the proprie-
tors the sum of X2,694,763 3 01

A GRAND MASQUED BALL is announced at the Royal
Amphitheatre, for Tuesday next, under the immediate di-
rection of Signor Nagel. A full attendance is expected.
THEATRE-ROYAL.—The opera of the " Barber of Seville"
was produced on Wednesday, and went off with much eclat.
Mr. Shrivall's Almaviva was very clever: he sang the songs
with judgment, taste, and spirit. Miss Gardner finite
" sparkled" in Rosina. She sang " Tyrant, soon I'll burst
thy chains," with considerable effect. She accompanied her-
self admirably on the pianoforte in "An old man would be
wooing," singing it with much archness. The opera is to
be repeated to-night, by desire, when several fashionable
parties have signified their intention of attending.
STEALING BUTTER.—John Spence, a young man, was on
Wednesday committed, at the Police-court, for trial at the
sessions, for stealing a firkin of butter from a cart with a load
of the article, on its way to be forwarded to Macclesfield.
He was seen by a gentleman, named Abraham, going along
the canal bank with the firkin on his shoulder; and his reply
to a question being such as to increase that gentleman's sus-
picions, he detained him and gave him into custody. The
package was stated to be worth £2 15s. The property was
identified ; and the case being proved, the prisoner was com-
mitted fur trial at the sessions.
DEATH FROM BURNING.—On Tuesday an inquest was
held before Mr. Curry on view of the body of Sarah Red-
wood. The deceased, who was five years old, lived in Sussex-
street. On Sunday afternoon she was left by her mother
with another child in a parlour, and she was soon afterwards
discovered to be in flames. The poor mother was so con-
fused at the sight, that she ran with her, burning as she was,
into the street. The deceased was dreadfully burnt, and all
efforts to save her were in vain. She died on the following
day. Verdict—Died from burning, but how her clothes
became ignited there was no evidence to show.
SUDDEN DEATH OUT OF DOORS.—Yesterday, an inquest
was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Margaret
M'Cooey. The decesead, who was 36 years of age, was the
wife of a shoemaker, residing in Williamson's-buildings,
Collingwood-street. The husband kept pigs in the " hollow,"
or vacant ground close by. On Tuesday afternoon last, the
deceased was seen going to the hollow, and in five minutes
after, some boys gave an alarm, and the deceased was found
in the " hollow," lying on her back, and quite dead. Mr.
Clark, M.D., made a post martens examination, and found
that the deceased had died from natural causes—namely,
effusion of blood on the brain. The jury returned a verdict
accordingly.

TRESPASSING IN PURSUIT OF GAME.—Mr. Philip
Sampson, of Roe-street, Liverpool, appeared 'before the
magistrates at Birkenhead, on two charges of trespassing on
property belonging to Sir William Stanley and Mr. Keenan,
in Upper Stretton and Higher Bebbington, on the 2d inst.
Mr. Sampson admitted that he had gone across the fields in
question, but stated that he was on his way from Oxton,
where he had been informed there was a coursing day; and
he complained of the misconduct of one of the under keepers
of Sir William Stanley, who had met him on the road, had
been very insolent, and had taken him by the collar. The
magistrates convicted Mr. Sampson in a penalty of 20s. in
each case, and, after paying the fine, he left the court, de-
claring that he would summon the keeper for assaulting him.
FATAL. ACCIDENT ON BOARD SHIP.—An inquest was
yesterday held before the borough coroner, touching the
death of John Berry, a sailmaker. It appeared that on Fri-
day week the deceased was on board the ship Richard An-
derson, lying in the King's Dock. The deceased had been
talking to one of the hands on board, who had left him for a
short time, when he heard him call out from the hold. The
witness went down into the hold, where he found the de-
ceased lying, with his right arm resting on the kelson. His
arm was broken, and a portion of the bone protruded through
his jacket-sleeve. He was carried to the Southern Hospital.
The surgeon, Mr. Metcalfe, stated that the deceased died
from the injuries he had received from the fall. The jury
returned a verdict of " Found in the hold of the vessel, with
injuries tha.t caused death."

A BOY DROWNED IN THE BRUNSWICK DOCK.—An in-
quest was held yesterday, before Mr. Curry, touching the
death of John Gillespie, a boy of 13 years of age, belonging
to the barque Charlotte, lying in the Brunswick Dock. The
deceased slept on board the vessel. On Wednesday morning
last, between three and four o'clock, Bollwell, a dock-gate-
man, heard a cry, and a bubbling noise in the water near
that vessel. He called to the police and ran to the spot, but
could not see any one. The grappling-irons were brought,
search was made, and in about 20 minutes the body of the
deceased was brought up. He was quite dead. The de-
ceased, it appeared, had that morning been called up to keep
watch on deck, with another boy belonging to the ship. The
deceased went on deck first, and when his companion came
up be could see nothing of him. He afterwards learnt that,
he was drowned. None of the witnesses heard him fall into
the water. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased
was found drowned, but how he got into the water there was
no evidence.

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER ON THE HIGH SEAS.—
James Macgowan, second mate of the ship William Rath-
bone, was on Tuesday last placed at the bar of the Police-
court, on a charge of having killed the carpenter of the vessel.
John Redman, a seaman on board the William Rathbone,
said that when the vessel was lying at anchor in the Bonny
river, he one day saw the prisoner go up to the carpenter,
who was working on the top-gallant forecastle. 'The second
mate accused the carpenter of having been occupied a great
deal too long upon the tob on which he was working, and
said he could have done it himself in half the tine. The
carpenter replied, without raising himself from his stooping
position, that be was as good a man as the second mate,
whereupon the latter struck him a blow, the force of which
knocked him overboard. The carpenter, when struck, was
about 12 or 14 inches from the edge. There was a boat
alongside, and two men immediately jumped into it. and en-
deavoured to save the carpenter, but without success. He
was drowned. The prisoner, after the man went overboard,
walked aft, and did not join in the efforts to save the man.
A boy who saw the occurrence corroborated this statement.
Both witnesses were asked by Mr. Davenport, who appeared
for the prisoner, whether the carpenter did not lift up the
chisel with which he was working for the purpose of striking
the mate. They both answered in the negative, and declared
that the carpenter was struck whilst stooping at his work.
The log was handed in to Mr. Rushton, who said, after ex-
amining it, "The entry here is that a quarrel took place
between the mate and carpenter, and that the latter was
drowned by accident." The prisoner said he had nothing to
say, and he was committed for trial at the Admiralty Court.
BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN MAILS FOR 1843.
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Right Honourable Lord Lowther, her Majesty's Postmaster-
General, and the British and North American Royal Mail
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mails during 1843, to and from Boston and Halifax via
Liverp9ol

From From From
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The Acadia - -

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Ist 3d due Feb. 16.

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The Hibernia April 19th
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March, the mails are only made up in London on the 3d of
the month ; if falling on a Sunday, on the 4th. In April,
May, June, July, August, September, October, and Novem-
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410 horse power each. Coaches are established between
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posted in this country. To Upper and Lower Canada, Prince
Edward's Island, New Brunswick, and Novia Scotia (Halifax
excepted), the postage is ls. 2d. ; newspapers go free.
SUICIDE.—An inquisition was held before the borough
coroner, on Tuesday last, touching the death of James
Clarke. Edmund Sanders, who lodges at the India Vaults,
Whitechapel, said he knew the deceased, who lodged in the
same house. During the previous week deceased had com-
plained a good deal ; he appeared to be in a consumption, and
seemed to be suffering great pain. On Sunday evening wit-
ness took him up a little gin and water. He was then sitting
with his head on his arm. Witness called him by name, but
he made no answer. It was darx, and witness heard some-
thing dropping. He (witness) went to the top of the stairs,
and called Mr. Skinner, another lodger, to bring up a light,
which he did. On going into the room again they found
that deceased had cut his throat. He was not dead, but
blood was flowing freely from the wound in the throat. Dr.
Jeffreys was called immediately, but the deceased died in
about an hour and a half. Witness never saw anything in
the manner of the deceased to lead him to think he was out
of his mind. John Skinner, who lodged in the house, said
the deceased had complained of a difficulty in breathing for a
month past. Witness did not consider deceased to be at all
deranged then, but perfectly sane. Mr. Jeffrey, surgeon,
said he was calledto the deceased on Sunday afternoon, about
two o'clock, and found him labouring under very great diffi-
culty of breathing, and in a dying state. He prescribed for
him. Deceased was very much excited, and anxiously
wished me to order him laudanum. Witness was called to
him again at six o'clock, and found him in the position de-
scribed. His throat was cut from the left side through the
windpipe. The enternal jugular vein was also divided.
Witness sewed up the wound. Deceased died from the inju-
ries inflicted. Wm. Jeffrey Edward, apprentice to the last
witness, said that he saw the deceased on Sunday evening.
His throat .vas cut. After the wound had been sewed up
the deceased began to speak about his wife, and said she bad
taken his furniture from him, and he appeared rather excited.
He also said that his wife had twice taken him before the
magistrates, on a charge of attempting to take away her life
by blowing out her brains, but that the magistrate had dis-
missed it. He acknowledged that he had cut his throat, and
that he had not intended to live one minute, but that he
could not cut through his beard. John Skinner being re-
called, produced a letter addressed to the deceased, and which
was brought by the postman that morning (Tuesday.) One
part purported to be from the deceased's wife, and the other
from one of the officer's of the order to which he belonged.
(The contents were not received in evidence. The wife ex-
pressed regret if she had hurt his feelings, or been the cause
of their separation, and spoke of him generally in affectionate
terms, with a view, apparently, of reconciliation.) The
other, (written on the same sheet, from the officer of the
society, was in answer to an application for money from the
funds, which could not be complied with until deceased paid
up some arrears alleged to be due. The letter was dated
from a cottage near Birmingham, which it is said was built
by deceased, while he was a publican in that town, and in
which the wife resided.) The coroner summed up the case,
and remarked on the possibility of the deceased's mind being
affected by the quarrel with his wife, and the physical pain
produced by his illness. The jury, in a few minutes, returned
a verdict to the effect that the deceased destroyed himself
while labouring under temporary insanity.

MANCHESTER BOROUGH MAGISTRATES.—The Guardian
of Wednesday says that in all probability the new borough
commission, including the names of some twelve or fourteen
gentlemen of conservative politics, will be received in a few
days ; and we believe, that amongst them will be found the
names of Thomas Townend, Esq. of Ardwick ; John Barker,
Esq. of Tanner's Lane, Pendleton ; Richard Birley, Esq.
of Chorlton-on-Medlock ; and William Atkinson, Esq. of
Weast House, Pendleton.

PRINTED VELVETEEN.-It would seem that Mr. W. Bar-
low has been treated as he deserved by the Premier, and has
bad his intended present of printed velveteen returned to
him. It will he remembered that the design represented " a
stalk and ear of wheat thrown together, with a small scroll
peeping from beneath, bearing the word FREE." The fol-
lowing is Sir Robert's letter on returning the contemplated
gift :

Drayton Manor, January 7, 1843.
" Sir,—l was not aware, until to-day, that the specimen
of manufacture which you requested me to accept bore any
ungracious to
allusion to matters that are the subject of public controversy. " No mention whatever was made of this in the letter you
addressed to me ; and I thought it would be
reject what appeared to be a pure act of civility on
Your part.
" I must beg leave to return to you that which I accepted
under an erroneous impression.—I am, sir, your obedient
servant,

" W. Barlow, Esq." " ROBERT PEEL