The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-06 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS.

The Spanish funds have been subject to great fluctuations
during the week. On Thursday the Bonds were at 39i, and the
Scrip 203/4 per cent. discount. They, however, rallied again on
the following day, when they rose to 42 42/, and the Scrip
IS/ 183/4 discount. There has been no material alteration in the
other foreign securities.

THE NORTH LANCASHIRE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.—
We were precluded by the press of local matter in our Friday's
paper from giving an account of the proceedings at the first
anniversary dinner of this association, which was given at Pres-
ton on Monday week. Lord Skelmersdale, the president of the
society, took the chair. The dinner was attended by about 250
noblemen and gentlemen, comprising the most distinguished
persons of rank, property, inteltivience, and influence in North
Lancashire. Among the toasts given, were Sir Robert Peel—
the President of the North Lancashire Conservative Associa-
tion—the Earl of Eldon—Lord Lyndhurst—the Members for
the Northern Division of the County : Mr. Wilson Patten re-
turned thanks in the absence of his noble colleague Lord Stanley
—the Members of the Southern Division of the County—the
Operatives' Conservative Association in Manchester—and the
Conservative Press.

Passengers per Rocket, Henry D. Sage, eotntnander, for
Kingston, Jamaica:—Mrs. Betty, Miss Betty, Miss G. Betty,
Miss C. Betty, Mr. Smith, Mr. Barclay, Mr. Lowrie, and one
female servant.

CAUTIoN TO CARTERS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a
carter was fined 10s. and costs by Mr. Alderman John Bourne
for being found asleep in his cart on the Wavertree road, at
three o'clock on Friday afternoon.
SMALL'S VETERINARY TABLET.—This exceedingly useful
work has already reached a second edition—the best proof we
can adduce of its value and the estimation in which it is held.
THEATRE ROYAL—MR. BROWNE'S BENEFIT.—Mr. Browne
takes his benefit to-morrow night, the last of his engagement,
when the comedy of " John Bull" and the farce of "The
Review" will be performed. Between the play and the farce
there will be singing, dancing, and other entertainments. In
the play Mr. Browne will be supported by Mr. Power, in the
Character of Dennis Bulgruddery, and by 'Mr. Strickland, an
excellent comic actor, who has joined the company on a per-
manent engagement, in the part of Job Thornberry. The well
known talents of "Mr. Browne as a comedian, will, we should
hope, command a good house.
' How 10 MAKE AN ESCAPE.—A dissipated-looking young fel-
low, who, it is said, spends a good portion of each year within
the walls of the Kirkdale House of Correction, was, on Thurs-
day, placed before the Mayor, when watchman No. 73 stated,
that lie had taken him to the Lock-up, on the preceding night,
for having been drunk and disorderly. He (the watchman) had
since then ascertained, that he was the person against whom a
warrant bad been procured, on the 19th of August last, but who
had kept timself so close that the officers had been unable to
take him: A gentleman, named Grayson, here stepped forward
and said, that he was the complainant on the warrant. On
the morning of the 19th of August last the prisoner, it appears,
went to the premises of Mr. Grayson, and, pretending to be in
an extreme state of intoxication, tumbled himself headlong in
at his (Mr. Grayson's) door. The latter, sorry to see him in such
a state, lifted him up very carefully and placed him upon some
steps where he would be out of the way. Mr. Grayson was then
about to leave him, when he started up, with an activity greatly
at variance with his affected intoxication, and struck him a tre-
mendous and unexpected blow in the eye, from the effects of
which he had suffered severely. Ha then began a most furious
row, alarmed the whole neighbourhood, broke windows, &c. and
when, at length, a serious sally was made upon him, with the
intention of placing him in custody, he climbed like a cat up
the side of a house, and, having reached the roof, he informed
them, by a very unequivocal sign, that he set them at defiance.
The Mayor asked the prisoner what he had to say to this
charge. Prisoner, (bluntly.)—" Nothing to say, sir." The
Mayor ordered, that he should pay a fine of £2, and costs, or go
to the House of Correction for two months.
EXTRAORDINARY IMPRCDENCE.—FORT women and one man,
bearing the names of Mary Smith, Mary Cray, Catherine Rust,
Ann I.ll‘..krdle, and Nicholas Darcy, were, on Wednesday, placed
before Alderman Sir Thomas 13raucker and the Worshipful the
Mayor,.charged by a man, named Taylor, with having robbed
him. The complainant, a hoary-headed old sinner, stated, that
he was passing along the street, when he was accosted by Rust'
and M'Ardle, (prostitutes of the very lowest description,) with'
whom he was induced to go to a house of ill-fame, in Lace-
st reet. This house was described as being one of those sinks of
degradation which abound in this delectable neighbourhood.
'the modesty
.of the old gentleman here caused a little hesita-
tion; but, being encouraged by the magistrate and urged by the
constables, be at length subdued the blushes which suffused his
ancient check, checked the rising tremulousness of his voice,
thrust his fists into his empty pockets, and proceeded to state,
that he was toying with the fair ones, whose syren tongues had
lured his innocence from the paths of virtue, having previously
treated them with three two pennyworths of ruin, when suddenly
the male prisoner appeared before him. This was the signal.
The ill-fated old gentleman was thrown tisthe ground ; the cruel
and inexorable fair ones on whom • he haec!4:l44,cijavishing his
affections and his rum, swore that, if he dared to-siiiiviso Fry for
help they'd tear his life from out his bosom. In this posltfen his
pockets were rifled of sixty-one sovereigns and a half in gola:.
E. P. Lloyd, police-officer, stated that the complainant came to'
him and said that he had been rubbed; he did not know in what
street, but its name began with an L. Soon after this, one of
the prisoners called at the Police-office, and cautiously asked
him if he had seen the Yorkshireman who had been robbed.
The bustling but sagacious Welshman immediately fancied he
smelled a rat, and set himself actively to work to ferret it out.
The result was the capture of the gang above named. Sir T.
Braneker, to the complainant.—" You are an overseer of the
poor, I believe ?" Complainant.—" No, sir ! lam a surveyor
of highways." Sir Thomas.—" And you came to Liverpool to
receive this money on account of the commisssoners ?" Com-
plainant.—" Yes, sir; I received it all at the Railway-office
yesterday." " A very trustworthy person, indeed ! " said Sir
rhomas. The prisoners were all remanded. On Saturday the
prisoners were brought up for final examination, when Darcy
and one of the females were discharged, the evidence against
them not being sufficiently explicit. The others were com-
mitted.

EXTRAORDINARY COINCIDENCES IN THE LIVES OF A MAR-
RIED PAIR.—A newspaper of the year 1777 gives the following
as an extract of a letter from Lanark :—" Old William Doug-
las andllis wife are lately 'dead. You know that he and his
wife were4orn on the same day, within the same hour, by the
sain4midthfe• christened at the same time, and at the same
chtirch; thatiey were constant companions, till nature inspired
them with lovAnd friendship; and at the age of nineteen were
mart*, by the eb,nsent of their parents, at the church where
they were christened., These are not the whole of the circum-
stances attending thilextraorilinary pair. They never knew a
day's sickness until the dailrefor.e„t heir deaths; and the day on
which they died they were exactlY'nne hundred years of age.
They died in one bed, and were buriAtin one grave, close to
the font where they were christened. Proaltaev did not bless
them with any children."