The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-01 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

FALSE WEIGHTS.—Cirix, who wrote on the subject of the
markets, in the S‘undard of Friday last, is recommended to ap-
ply personally to our Chief Magistrate, and he will learn that
the matters ha refers to are nut overlooked, as he supposes;
but it is not possible to punish persons for misconduct unless
the accusing party will make the charge known. As a proof
that our exec:la:W. Chief Magistrate has been most indefatigable
in the discharge of his duties, it is a fact that, since the 15th of
November last, 461 persons have been lined for short weights
and measures, and the person complained of by Cith has been
suspended:
SHOOTING.—From reports that have reached us we arel in-.
dined to think that game in this neighbourhood has been plen-
tiful, but that fewer birds have been bagged than usual. The
complaints of want of cover are general. The stubbles are cut,
and the turnips are weak and shallow, and there is no lying in
the grass grounds. Game (birds) selling in our market at
3s. 6d. and ds. per braCe ; hares, ,is. 6d.
FATAL AcctliaNT.—On Saturday, a lad of about fourteen
years of age, employed on board one of the timber ships, at
present in the Brunswick Dock, haying occasion to go. aloft,
got upon the main-yard, and whilst engaged in pulling a rape,
it is supposed over-balanced hiniself, and tell upon the deck, a
height of about thirty feet, and was almost instantiv a corpse,.
having fallen upon his - head. Surgical assistance was imme-
diately procured, and every exertion used to cause reanimation,
but in vain; the poor lad had breathed his last.
ATTEMPTED BeauLAßY.—On Friday morning, about three
o'clock, the house of the 11ev. K. El. 'Formby, near Kirkdale,
was attempted to be entered. The burglars, three in number,
had succeeded in raising, by means of an iron instrument, the
window, when Mrs. Formby was awoke by the noise. -At:first,
it was supposed that the wind had shaken the window; but
the sudden fall of the lead weight removed all doubt as to the
cause of the noise. Mr. Formby ran to the bed-room window,
and, throwing up the sash, observed three men dart round a
corner. He immediately, for the purpose of preventing any
further attempt on his house, fired off a double-barrelled gun.
We need scarcely add, that the robbers did not return.
Edward •Woolmer, —Esq., the proprietor of Woolmer's Exeter
and Plymouth Gazette,- has been elected by the unanimous
suffrages of the freemen of the City of Exeter, to the office of
Mayor of that ancient City for the ensuing year.

DEATH OF CAPT. BAYNTIJN.—This gentleman, who was one
of the Members fkir the City of York, expired at his lodgings
in Cockspur-street, on Saturday morning. the immediate
cause of death was scarlet fever, but, the -fevered state of his
mind, arising from his pecuniary difficulties, is supposed to have
hastened this event. his affairs were, it appears, in a train of
settlement. Peace to his manes! "To err is human"—and
now that the pledge influenza has passed away, we hope that
the changed constituency of the ancient City of York wiil
chew that they know the value of their newly acquired fran-
chise' by making. a better use of it than they did in the state
of political intoxication under which they exercised that right
for the first time.

NEW AMERICAN Co'rroN CROP.-011 the 27th August the
first three bales of Upland cotton of the new crop vvere'received
at Charleston, one of which was sold at 18 cents. per lb. And
two days afterwards three more bales were received by the raild
road, from the plantation of W. J. Bali, Esq., Barnwell Dis-
trict; and fifty bales were expected to be forwarded from the
same neighbourhood within the following week.

SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Thursday week, as Mr. and Mr!.
Taylor, of the Register-office, 'Wakefield, were going to Brain
ley, Mr. Taylor pulled up at the Barley Mow Inn, at the en-
trance of that village, to give the horse some oatmeal and water.
Mr. Taylor got out and walked into the house, but Mrs. T. re-
mained in the gig, and whilst Mr. T: was in the house, the
hostler, in endeavouring to remove the bit from the mouth of
the animal, slipped the blinds from her eyes, upon which she
immediately plunged and set off towards Leeds with all the
speed she was master of. The gig ran over several heaps of
stones, met and passed many carts and waggons, and after run-
ning about three-quarters of a mile, it came in ..ontact with a
donkey laden with a sack of coals, and by some means, not
.clearly ascertained, the near hind leg of the donkey was com-
pletely severed from its body just above the ancle joint, and
was found some distance from the body of the poor ass. The
concussion turned the gig over, and threw the mare down, and
Mrs. Taylor, who had wisely kept her seat, was thrown many
yards upon the road. She was much bruised in the face and on
different parts of her body, but medical aid was instantly pro-
cured; and after a few hours' rest, she was removed to Wake-
field in a chaise, where, we are glad to hear, she is now doing
well. Neither the mare nor the gig were injured, and Mr.
Taylor paid the poor man fur his donkey.—Leeds Intelligencer.

WIGAN JURY.—Some months ago, a manufacturer in Wi-
gan, and his son, were tried at the borough sessions, on a charge
of receiving embezzled materials, and so clear was the case
against them, that, calculating upon nothing short of transpor-
tation, they converted all their property into cash before trial,
with the intention of making it aOculable in the colony to which
they expected to be sent. To the great surprise of the whole
court, however, and not less to their own, they were declared
not guilty. A few days after this unlooked for event, a gentle-
man of our acquaintance met two of the jurymen in company,
and asked them what were their motives for giving a verdict so
contrary to the evidence. The first, who was a thoroughbred Lan-
cashire man, replied in the rich dialect of the county, " Whov,
mon, vo seen th lad and me went schoo egether, an' it ud ha
bin a hard case for t' ha sent an owd schoo-tellow across t' wev-
ter." The second, a canny Scot, had a no less characteristic
reason to assign for his conduct. "Ma troth, mon," said he
"the auld fellow owed 'me ten pund, an' gin he'd a been convict!
ed, I ,should ne'er ha' seen a bawbee o' it."—NfanchesterCourier.
CAPTAIN BRApSHAW, R. N., LATE M. P. FOR BRACKLEY.—
On Wednesday forenoon last, considerable excitement prevailed
in Worsley, in consequence of a report, which proved to be
correct, that this gentleman had put a period to his existence
by cutting his throat.—lt seems that he had left his residence
at Runcorn on Monday, on a visit to his father, Robert Hal-
chne Bradshaw, Esq., at Worsley Hall, where he arrived on
Tuesday afternoon, and that during these two days, in his conver-
sation and actions, he had'exhibited various symptoms of men-,
tal hallucination. He retired to bed about eleven o'clock on
Tuesday night, apparently quite well, and as he did not make his
appearance next morniug at the usual hour, a servant went to
call him about ten o'clock, and found the door of his chamber
fastened inside. After some delay it was broken open, and the
Captain was found
_lying on the floor with a razor 'beside ..him,
and his throht cut inthe most determined manner,—nearly fiom
ear to ear. He was about 48 years of age, and has left a widow
and four children, two sons and two daughters; they are at
present at Runcorh.—Captain Bradshaw. had been for some
years stationed in the West India islands, the climate of which
had very much affected his health, and of late he 'suffered much
depression of spirits. Manchester Guardian.
THE TORTURED PATRIOT.—OUP readers will doubtless re-
collect that, about two years since, Private Somerville, of
the Scots Greys, acquired no small degree of renown or
quantity of haril cash for having been the victim of mili-•
tary despotism." That he had been flogged was beyond
denial; argot, he was innocent of any breach of military
; it was admitted that he had corresponded with the
editor of the Thieves' Journal; argot, he was a man whose eru-
dition and refined taste unfitted him to be the associate of
soldiers who condescended to do their duty, and were base
enough to obey the orders of their officers without first inquir-
ing into- their " consistency with the eternal fitness of things."
Mr. Sheri] Harmer, the proprietor of that respectable journal,
aided by Mr. Joseph Hume, petitioned the House of Commons
on behalf of this "martyr," and conducted his case.before a
court of inquiry; argot, he was an honest man, fer who but an
honest man would seek or obtain the professional assistance of
this learned public functionary ? After running the gauntlet of
being praised by the scum of the radical press for possessing
almost angelic perfection,e the hero Somerville was drummed
out of the Scots Greys, and, having thus quitted the army, he
took to the bar, the subscriptions of his admiring friends en-
abling him to take a' public-house in Auld Rookie; and, as we
thought, he was enjoying the otium cunt dignitate, under the
greenest of alt honours, those conferred by au enlightened and
an admiring public. Like his brother patriot, Sir John Key,
Bart., we imagined him to be placed on the highest pinnacie of
the temple of fame, but, alas! like that far-famed twice-lord-
mayor, he too. has fallen from Ins high estate, that. is,-if any
faith can be placed in the following paragraph which we have
extracted from a London morning paper It is stated in an
Edinburgh paper that Somerville, the discharged private of the
Scots Greys, whose case excited so much attention some time
ago, and who was enabled, by means of the subscription set on
foot on his behalf, to commence publican, in Rose-street, in
that city, has left Scotland for America. On Saturdayf the
effects he left behind him were sold by warrant of the magis-
trates, for the benefit of his creditors." Should this species of
mortality prevail among the idols of our radical friends, ive shall
begin to entertain serious doubts as to the soundness of their
judgment.
THE DYERS' TURN-OUT.—The dyers in the employ of seve-
ral firms in this town, have lately been discharged from their
employment in consequence of their refusal to separate them-
selves from the union, a step which the masters were obliged to
take, in order to retain the management of their own business
in their own hands. Amongst these are the men of Meisrs.
Rothwell and Harrison, in Water-street, some of whom, how-
ever, have since had the good sense to return to their work in
defiance of the union. 'l' his conduct has naturally provoked
the demagogues who exercise such' a pernicious control over:
some of the working classes, and the men have been repeatedly
annoyed in going to and from their work, by large bodies of
the turn-outs who assemble for that purpose. On Monday night,
three of these men were going home along Oldfield-lane, when
they were surrounded by about thirty or forty turn-outs, who
commenced a violent assault upon them, .and it was, -with the
utmost difficulty they effected their escape. Two only of the
assailants, whose names were Johnson Griffiths, and Robert
Hulme, were identified, and they were brought before the ma-
gistrates at the. New Bailey, on Wednesday. It was proved
against them that Huline struck the first blow, and that while
the disturbance was going on, Griffiths came up and asked whe-
ther they were knobsticks, adding, "If they are, d—u them
kill them." A witness was called to prove an alibi on behalf
of Griffiths, but he was unsuccessful, and the magistrates ordered
the prisoners to find sureties to keep the peace for three months.
—Manchester Guardian. Lln reference to the dyer's turn-out,
the Halifa.z Guardian observes, "'This contest, which has been
of nine weeks' continuance in Leeds, is now at an end. The
master dyers generally have got their complement of men, at
the old rate of wages, and under written engagements to
' abandon the Trades' Union.]

THE TRADES' UNlONS.—Assaults, arising out of the ill feeling
generated by the Trades' Unions in this town, are now of almost
daily occurrence, and scarcely a week passes but we have to re-
cord the conviction of parties engaged in them. On Tuesday
last, two men, named Michael Conroy and Thomas Brierley,
bricklayers' labourers were brought up at the New Bailey, un-
der a warrant, charged,l amongst others not in custody, with
committing a most violent assault upon another labourer, named
Egan, and with intimidating several bricklayers so much that
they dare not follow their employment. It appeared from the
evidence that a bricklayer, named Singleton. has contracted to
do the brickwork at a building in New Islington, and on. Mon-
day afternoon an Irish labourer, named Burns, who belongs to
the union, caine to the plaCe in a state of intoxication, and began
to abuse the workmen employed under Singleton, by calling
them knobsticks, and other opprobrious names. He was several
times advised to go away quietly, but refused to do so, until at
length a labourer, named Egan, pushed him with a hod, and he
fell. The prisoners and two others then came running from a
neighbouring building, at which they were employed, and com-
menced an attack upon Singleton's men, throwing bricks and
other missiles at them, and a regular fight ensued between the
parties, the result of which was that the union men were defeat-
ed, although they were five to three. The beaten men retired
to fetch a reinforcement, but before they had time to return,
Singleton's men left their work, and did not dare to go back to
it. In cross-examination of the witnesses by Messrs. Heslop
and Walker, who appeared for the prisoners, it was elicited that
more violence was used towards Burns in the first instance than
was necessary ; and it was also proved that the prisoners did not
come up until they heard him crying out for help. Under these
circumstances, Mr. Foster directed the prisoners to find two
sureties each in twenty pounds, to keep the peace for three
months, and give twenty-tour hours notice before the bail was
taken. At the same time he observed, that had it not been for
what was stated about Burns, he should have dealt more severely
with them.—Manchester Courier.