The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-31 00:00:00

BASE COIN.-At the Police-court, yesterday, no fewer
than three mint cases came before Mr. Rushton, who sent
to the Crown Court for Mr. Powell, solicitor to the Mint, in
order that he might hear them, and give his advice as to the
commitment or discharge of the prisoners. A poor looking.
woman, with a child in her arms, was first brought up. She
had gone into a shop in Paradise-street, and bought a yard
of brown calico for two-pence,. for which, she tendered a shil-
.ling, which proved to be bad. When apprehended, a good
sixpence was found upon her. As there was no other evi-
of importance, and as the Mint, it appears, do not prosecute
for a single piece of money.unless a strong presumption that
party uttered it knowing it to be bad,—she was discharged.
Thomas Ford and William Wilson were next brought up.
The first had been apprehended as a suspicious character,
and gave a wrong address. His casual residence was after-
wards found to be in Addison-street and there the other pri-
soner was found in bed. A coat belonging to the other pri-
soner was there found, also, underneath the bed sort

paper, plaister of Paris, two f

le

_ .iles,•two pieces of white-metal,
&c. Within a chimney ornament in the room rented by
lord, and in which the other prisoner sometimes slept
was found a glove containing 4 base shillings. The priso-
ner Ford bad previously 'been convicted of uttering_ base
coin, and then gave the same name. They were both re-
remanded, -that-further evidence might, if possible be pro-
cured.---Two women, Ellen Nowland and Catharine Elliot
were next. brought .op. The first had tendered a bad ishil-
ling at a "public; house, and on its being detected brought
the other pyisonerfrom whoin she• had received it. The
evidence was .not conclusive against them, and they were
discharged.

held
TowNstrie,--A meeting of the ratepayers was
held yeSterday for
:the purpOse of transacting the annual
business of the. township. Mr. Wilson Ledger, one of the
overseers, presented a printed 'summary of the 'accounts of
the township; and also a sant/nary of the accounts of the sur-
veyor of the highways. By the formeejt appeared, that the
amountof poor-rates collected was £2,038 Ils. 2d., and the,
expenditure £1,769.175. 6d., leaving a balance due of
£268 134., brthe latter, the 'amount of highWay-rstes
colleetcaVwas £1,696 7s. 101 d. expenditure £2,375 15s. 10.1..,
balance due to the surveyor ,£379 Bs. Mr. Ledger then
calldd the attention of the meeting to the great increase
of the population of Everton, and said that in consequence
of the increased and laborious parochial, duties that had for
some time past devolved upon the stipendiary officers, they
had been actually under the necessity of employing a clerk
at their own expense, for upwards of two years, to assist
them ; and contended that it was quite unreasonable that their
respective salaries, which had been fixed many years `since,
by one of the most numerous meetings ever held in the town-
ship, should be thus diminished, even as their laborious du-
ties multiplied. He should therefore propose that Mr. Charles.
Georgeson, the assistant, who had hitherto been paid out of
the pockets of the stipendiary officers, should be appointed
by the township as acollector and office-clerk, with a salary
of 4:80 per annum ; and even then their united salaries would
not exceed the sum paid seven years ago, since 'which time
the township had nearly doubled itself in population, and the
"time of the officers was so much occupied in out-door business
in consequence of the great number of small houses recently
built, the tenants of wh!ch were perpetually changing their
residence, that, without the assistance of a clerk, it was ut-
terly impossible for the assistant overseer and the rate-col-
lector to devote sufficient tithe to the duties of the office, and
to answer the numerous questions daily required of them.
He regretted the unavoidable absence of his colleague, Mr.
Ledson, but was:glad to inform the meeting that he was au-
thorized by that gentleman to say he perfectly concurred in
the opinions he had expressed. The motion was then put
from the chair, and carried unanimously. Mr. Shaw laid
before the meeting a copy of the Fire Prevention Bill, with
the resolution adopted by the rate-payers of Toxteth-park.
Mr. Thomas Taylor was then appointed printer for the en-
suing year. After a few desultory remarks, the meeting
agreed to a similar resolution, and, after passing a vote of
thanks to the chairman, separated.—See advertisement.
UNION-HALL, LONDON.—On Tuesday, " the Duke of
Nith assormandy" was brought up. before the magistrate charged
wault.
Accounts have been received from Guadaloupe to the 31st
ult. The number of persons 'who have perished by the
earthquake amounts to between 5 and 6000.
The council of the Anti-Corn-law League have, it is said,
given the manager of Drury-lane Theatre £5OO for the use of
the theatre . during the five Wednesdays in Lent, making a,
rent of £lOO for each night.
In some parts of Rutland the sheep are suffering consider-
ably from a fever in the feet; the-loss, however; is chiefly
to the
amongmst
in the the la
milk, mbs, the fever, it is supposed, being conveyed
FIRE.—On Saturday morning last, a fire too
Shawcross Mill, East-street, Manchester. The damageg is
at
estimated at from £1,500 to £l,BOO. The property was in-
sured.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-011 Tuesday night, Mr. P. C. Cos-
greve, a young gentleman, aged 21, a pupil of King's
College, London, was killed by a fall from his horse on the
Great Western road, near the town of Old Brentford.
We are glad to hear better accounts from Worcester re-
specting the staple (glove) trade of that city, and also from
Redditch,' Studley, and Alcester, where the needle and fish-
hook branches were brisk, the manufacturers having large
orders, and the workpeople being fully employed.
Mr. W..A. Grint, a midshipman, whose case we reported
a few days since, and who was brought before the magistrate
at one of the London Police-offices, for a very curious rob-
bery. at Lady Playters, has been committed for trial. lie
had been acquainted with her ladyship for many years.
PUGILISM.—KIRKBYLONSDALE. MARCH 28.--The fight
betwixt Goldie and Langan came off this day, about a mile
from Sedbergh, in Yorkshire. The magistrates of West-
moreland and Lancashire, assisted by the police and the
constables, drove them out of those counties, and they con-
sequently fought on the borders of Yorkshire. After a hard
fight for two hours and three minutes, the shades of evening
coming on, the battle was drawn, both men being severely
punished.
COMMITTAL ON A CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.--On
Thursday, a man employed in the Town of Wexford steamer,
named Thomas Fender, was committed to the county prison
on a charge of manslaughter alleged to have taken place five
years hick. It appears that after a pugilistic rencontre at
the period mentioned, his antagonist came by his death by
the punishment he received from the aforesaid individual.—
Wexford paper.
A BLIND WOMAN DISTINGUISHING CoLoous.--A poor
woman, the wife of a weaver at Cambusbarron, in Scotland,
who had for many years totally lost her sight, was accus-
tomed to employ herself in winding the woof of her husband's
well, as well as that of others; and that which appears the
more singular was, that without any difficulty she readily
discriminated between the different colours used in the wor-
sted which passed through her hands; so that in this respect
the loss of vision seemed to cause her but little inconveni-
ence.

RAILWAY Cor.LisloN.—On Monday night the down train
to Leeds came in collision, near Rotherham, with the engine
of the Sheffield train. So tremendous was the shock that the
heavy iron crank by which the mail carriage was attached to
the Leeds carriages was snapped, as if by magic, the Leeds
carriages and mails being pitched completely off the rails, and
to a considerable distance. The passengers were suddenly
roused by the crash, and at once made the best of their way
to terra firma. Mr. Feargus O'Connor has informed us that
so close was the engine of the Sheffield train to where he sat,
that he could without bending forward put his hand upon it,
while the head of it was all but in the carriage of his Royal
Highness Prince George of Cambridge. *The steps of the
carriage were torn off, and the buffers of the mail shattered.
—Leeds Paper.
ScoucyroN.—At the Beaumaris assizes on Thursday, an
action of this kind- was brought. It appeared that the de-
fendant, who was a farmer, had seduced the plaintiff's
daughter, whom he had been courting for some time, after
the custom of the country,--namely, in bed. The plaintiff's
counsel said, the custom of the country, to which lie had
alluded, might in fact be regarded as one of its regular in-
stitutions ; and though it might be a very dangerous one for
the female, because it gave the man an opportunity for se-
duction, it redounded to the morality lof the country that
the cases were rare in which a father had to seek redress
from a jury, the suitor seldom being base enough to take ad-
vantage of the confidence reposed in him. It unfortunately
Was otherwise in the present instance, for the defendant had
taken the advantage and effected her seduction. His lord-
ship, in summing up, made some strong remarks on this
disgraceful custom, and the jury 'found for the plaintiff
damages, £2 2s,
Loss OF LIFE Br SIIIPWRECIC—On :Sunday night a
melancholy shipwreck occurred within a short distance of
the river at Montrose, to the John and Elizabeth, a fine brig
belonging to that port, which, with every person on board,
was totally lost. Soon afterwards, however, on the ebbing
of the tide she broke away, and ,was carried out of the
liar-.
hour amongst the breakers, where she struck violently,
Unhappily the gale increased, when no aid could be rendered
either to the ship or her crew. The consequence was,
in
few hours she totally disappeared, and all on board perished.
'They were six in number—the master, Mr. Erskine, three
seamen, and two boys. Near the same spot on the previous
night (Saturday) called Oscar, Captain Anderson, from
Christiansand, met with a similar fate. She was wrecked
on the north side of the harbour, and shortly went to pieces:
the crew were saved. On Monday morning last. at abont
7 o'clock, the life-boatmen at North Shields were afar-
-1 med by the cry of g ship in distress off the harbour.
At length, after several hours' delay, the boatmen at South
Shields were induced by the perilous situation of the ship,
which was afterwards found to be the. Electra, belonging to.
it reached
in
Newcastle, to draw over the' life-boat to Whitby sands.
where she was lying, a distance of several miles, INhiecahowleadi effected by the aid of horses and a large number of seamen,
note.d , till
butr near two
before'o
theO r' rafternoon,eacliingthtehesphoots,ta'
washic hi
launched,
cil
time the crew of the •
many yards from the beach it filled with water, and the crew
pushed away from the •
got into the long-boat, and .
vessel,
had to swim ashore. 'About this brig
which could be seen to be in a sinking str,te, and in less than
• . •
three minutes afterwards she went down headforemost, The
crew kept their boat before the wind and sea, which had the
effect of preventing her from filling, and she was carried safe
by the tide on to the sands.

IM. AND MISS VANDENHOFF.—The Worcester Journal
of Wednesday makes the following observations with refer-
ence to the performance of this gentleman and lady on the
occasion of their verforming when taking their benefit in
that town on the Friday night previous. The performance
was Love's Sacrifice:—" We shall not forget till memory
has been totally obscured, the portrait of a father, es drawn
by Mr. Vandenhoff, in its severul phases of quiet domestic
happiness, of tortured excitement, of despair, and of tnental
imbecility ; nor of the beautiful and generous girl, his
daughter, consecrating herself to him and his overwhelming
misfortunes with a strength of affection end magnanimity of
soul worthy of th*proudest virgins of ancient Rome. ! Many
a bright eye became suffused with tears at this'beautiful,
though painful, deline'.tion of domestic sorrows, cheered by
afkction ; and we ourselves felt a moistening—; but here
let us close our hurried sketch ; for. as Bulwer has well
and truly said, writing, after all. is but a cold and ,course
interpreter of thought. How much of the imagination—
how much of the intellect—evaporates and is lost while we
seek to embody it in words! Man made language, and God
genius ! Our readers should themselves have witnessed what
we have so itnperfeely attempted to describe."
EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON.—When the Anne Brid-
son' which arrived in this port from Valparaiso last week,
after a quick passage of 84 days, was off the River Plate, on
her homeward voyage, the captain and crew suffered the
greatest inconvenience from' the state of the atmosphere, •
which for two days was so fetid and oppressive as to make
it difficult to breathe; and, we regret to say, that the effects
of their exposure to this unwholesome air did not cease wheri•
the atmosphere became pure, but continued to be felt during
the remainder of the voyage, many of 'the crew having been
ill from that time until their arrival in this port, and some
of them being still much indisposed. ' Nothing was seen or
heard which could enable the Captain:or crew to account for
this unhealthy and oppressive state of the atmosphere; but
the probability is that the fetid smell arose from a submarine
discharge of gas or vapour, a phenomenon which has fre-
quently accompanied earthquakes and volcanic eruptions,
and which. no doubt, gave rise to , the innumerable stories
preserved in history and tradition, •in prose and verse, re-
specting the exhalations from Lake, Avernus,. near Naples,
and from the Dead Sea. The class:cal scholar will at once
call to mind Virgil's fine description of this phenomenon as
to the Lake Avernus, and we see that. Lord Francis Egertor4
who visited the shores of the Dead Sea last year, does not
altogether discredit the opinion, that the exhalations, from
the sea are still injurious to life. 'We feel little doubt that
the painful sensations, experienced on board the, Anne, were
produced by sonic sudden discharge of mephitic gas under the
waters of the ocean, at the point which this vessel was then
traversing.