The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-20 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.-FRIDAY, AUGUST 16.

INSOLVENT.
Aug. 16.—William Bideld, Hosier-lane, Smithfield, carpenter.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Charles Pearson Charlton, Bath, dealer and chapman.
BANKRUPTS.
Lewis Wood, Tabernacle-walk, cow-keeper.
James Dudderidge, Whitechapel, woollen-draper.
John Barnard, Bristol, horse-dealer.
Henry Tlor, Bristol, ship-broker.
William Homer, Stamford, innkeeper.
Moses Whitmarsh, Wantage, Berkshire, corn-dealer.
Edward Rawlinson, St. llelens, Lancashire, alum-manufacturer.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Bartley and R. Roberts, Liverpool, attorneys.—T. Evans and
W. Worthington, Salford, Lancashire, plasterers.—J. Close and T.
Close, Manelester, merchants.—J. Close, T. Close, J. Close, jun.,
and T. Close, Nottingham, commission-merchants.--T. Close, J.
Close, jun., and I. Close, Manchester, merchants.—G. Daniels and
J. Wilkinson, Jermyn-street, St. James's, tailors.--R. S. Maples and
T. Daniel, Nottingham, auctioneers.—B. M`Leod and T. H. Al' Leod,
Stockwell, brewers.—W. Crease and J. Barton, Featherstone-street,
City-road, plumbers.—J. Holmes and B. Holmes, Dover, painters.—
J. Dixon, J. Allason, and R. Sherwood, St. Andrew Auckland, Dur-
ham, colliery proprietors; as far as regards the said R. Sherwood.—
J. Ogle and J. Gracie, Preston, Lancashire, silk-mercers.--J. Nickels
and J. Hunter, jun., Acorn-place, Commercial-road East, auc-
tioneers.—R. Smith and R. J. Smith, Galley-quay, Lower Thames-
street, wharfingers.— J. Garnet and N. Garnet, Farley, Yorkshire,
worsted-manufacturers.—G. Jones and S. Lambert, Leicester-street,
auctioneers.—J. Milford and C. Milford, Exeter, bankers.—E. G.
Fordham and G. Fordham, jun., Ashwell, Hertfordshire, brewers.—
J. Tingle, J. Tingle, B. Tingle, T. Tingle, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire,
iron-founders.
DIVIDENDS.
Sept. 10, J. Clark, Jewry-street, Aldgate, wine-merchant.—Sept.
13, C. Stuher, Leader-street, Chelsea, baker.—Sept. 10, T. Thirlwell,
North Shields, wine-merchant.—Sept. 11, S. Martin and J. Martin,
Cheltenham, jewellers.—Sept. 18, W. 'White, Leamington Priors,
Warwickshire, upholsterer.—Sept. 10, R. Wrigley, Rochdale, corn-
dealer.—Oct. 30, S. Cooke, Salford, timber-merchant.--Sept. 13, J.
Jones, Carmarthen, grocer.

CERTIFICATES, SEPTEMBER 6.
J, C. Dunn, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. common-brewer.—G. May,
Evesham, Worcestershire, bookseller.—S. Levy, Exeter, iilverimith.
—W. T. Maugham, King-street, Covent-garden, hatter.—F. Preston,
St. George's-place, Hanover-square, confectioner.—W.Neville, Earl's-
court, Kensington, apothecary.

THE SHAH OF PERSIA.—The present Shah is excessively
fond of money. It is customary in Persia for sovereigns to re-
ceive a present from their nobles, on the occasion of any for-
tunate event. Thus when the Shah, who is an excellent hunts-
man, kills any game, he extends his hand behind his back,
exclaiming "Shabaash! ' Sicca babolie !" (a good shot! some
money if you please!) It would, however, appear that the
avaricious monarch exacts the same tax when he misses his aim.
When cards are played in the palace the Shah's purse is kept
open, and those who gain are obliged to put into it the tenth
part of their winnings.

INHUMAN ASSAULT BY TURN-OUTS.—A most inhuman and
cowardly assault was committed on Saturday night last by three
turn-out sawyers on the person of a poor woman named Pick-
ering, whose husband is a sawyer, but not a member of the ge-
neral trades' union. Mrs. Pickering's husband, who is in the
employ of Mr. Leland, joiner, went into a public-house kept by
a person named Clarke on Saturday night last, where he found
three turn-out sawyers named Francis Foster, James Hornsby,
and William Murray, who immediately began to reproach
Pickering with working for "a knobstick master." Pickering's
wife came into the room, and fearing a quarrel would ensue,
desired her husband to leave the room and go home. He ac-
cordingly went out of the room. but had no sooner done so than
the three closed the door of the room, set upon his wife, and
throwing her on the floor, kicked her in the eyes, face, and
every part of her body; until she was bruised all over. Picket-
ing, 'hearing his wife's cries for assistance, seized a poker which
was in another room, and bursting open the door of the room
where the fellows were maltreating his wife, rescued her from
their fury; otherwise it is not improbable that they would have
killed her. A warrant was obtained against the men, and being
taken into custody they were brought up at the New Bailey on
Wednesday, when Mr. Law, who conducted the prosecution,
expressing a wish that the prisoners should be fined for the as-
sault, Mr. Lloyd ordered them to be remanded until the fol-
lowing day, when two magistrates would be present, and a pe-
nalty could be inflicted.—On Thursday the defendants were
again brought up, when they produced two witnesses who swore
that Mrs. Pickering committed the first assault upon one of
their number; but they gaye evidence at variance with that
given by witnesses for the defence on Wednesday, and the ma-
gistrates (Messrs. Brierley and Hollinshead) disbelieved them,
and convicted each of the prisoners in the penalty of 40s. and
9s. lid. costs. The money was paid and the prisoners were dis-
charged.—Mr. Law stated that one of the unionists had been to
his office that morning, wishing to make up the matter, but he
had thought it his duty to the public to bring the matter before
the bench.—Manchester Guardian.

ed.—Mr. Law stated that one of the unionists had been to
ice that morning, wishing to make up the matter, but he the adjective kyle in which no substantive, contra
,t
sought it his duty to the public to bring the matter before to the usual laws of t
grammar, , can stand alone, and
DlO9
c h.—.l4lanchester Guardign. he is partial to the superlative, scattering his

A uGUST 20, 1838,

and " verys" with a liberal hand, will be admitted, but
°n the whole he is intelligible.
We understand clearly
enough that his benefit is to take place on the 19th of
Abeen ugust—that he never took one before—that he has
six-and-thirty years a faithful servant of Vauxhall—
that he is sixty-three years old—that he is one of the
f_ew survivors of Rodney's glorious battle—and that he
tlo.oks forward to his benefit as a source which may con-
tribute largely to the comfort of his declining days. All
these claims he urges as he can, and what more do we
desire? As for Mr. Simson's critic, we have read column
after column of the leading matter of the Times, from
the cloudy and. confused verbiage of which we could only
gather that some object of meanness pr corruption was
ire,commended, without being able to extract the sem-
tiinneeof an idea. Simson is intelligible and honest—
le Times unintelligible and dishonest. As for style
tne,y_need hardly quarrel about it.
A, we cannot go through twenty lines of its criticism on
r• Simson without lighting upon some distinct proof
00'
ignorance. After a few lumbering sentences, the
writer talks of Mr. S.'s rhetoric and "euphemism." Eu-
lViernism, indeed' Much Simson thought of euphemiz-
ing on such an occasion. We euphemize when-we com-
municate disagreeable thoughts in softened expressions.
;1° say that a man is no more, instead of saying that he
I(2.dead, is an euphemism. Troja fuit, instead-o'roja
!rata est, is an euphem;sm. If we say that thew iters
()f
the Times are persons slightly endowed with intellect,
and not much versed in the English language, instead of
saYing that they are blockheads who cannot write a di-
rect sentence, we euphemize. If we say that the Times
leas always shown itself open to the attentions of the va-
fring governments of the day, and ready to abandon
'nem when the good of the people required, instead of
raying that it has been regularly hired by each, and as
gularly wrote ag,ainst each as soon as there was a pro-
spect of the wages being withheld, we euphemize. If
Ive, say that that portion of the criminal code which
rirese re-
the assistance of the functionaries of the Old Bai-
, in its execution, has been so peculiarly the favourite
°I the Times as to procure for it titles by which it is ge-
lierally known, instead of saying that it has always
has earned
for the gallows with a sanguinary ferocity which
ilas earned the nickname of " The Bloody Times" or
gt The Butcher Journal," we euphemize. If we say that
benevolently relaxed from its ordinary custom in the
ease of an amiable member of the Society-of the Friends,
ri danger of the law on account of forgetting his name
rthe end of a bill, instead of saying " the Times was
the
to Write for Hunton the Quaker, sentenced to be
1 Illged for forgery, and worked for its hire," we eu-
Plienu •
ze and so forth. We give this short rhetorical
exercise for the benefit of the Times, .and we venture to
seaY it will never accuse Mr. Simson or any one else, of
IPhernism again.—Standard of Wednesday.

thel3iar readers have probably seen a report in some of
1-iondon papers, that the Aishop of London presented
to the
u House of Lords a petition for church reform
tuner° usiy
signed by the clergy and lay.-members of
stZt church in the diocese of Gloucester." We notice the
uutetnent merely to contradict it. Whether it is entirely
hurne, or whether " clergy and lay-members of the
tjuil:11: in some other diocese have been wasting their
but- 41 such an unnecessary employment we know not ;
less%%,:e cannot conceive why any man in his senses (un-
treuh"e Were. a dealer in parchment) should take the
keit le to get up petitions on such a subject. We ap-
, end that there are only two classes of persons who
I,;the,Tvery anxious fot church reform; and we cannot see
curi' either of them should petition about it. The one
of sists of those who by Reform," mean the severance
the church and state, or rather, perhaps, the exist-
eoin'e of that church only as a tool of the state under lay-
azidTission ; the attention of her liturgy and articles,
wh tontines, partly that she may embrace the liberals
thineln she now excludes, and partly to show that the
wanton
themselves, which were intended to guard against
sat:en innovation, may be changed and altered at plea-
-I)6' and the alienation of her property, and the appro-
tien of it to such pious or other uses as to those who
411 get
Now
in the scramble for it, shall seem
tleeedt; Aow for such persons to petition were surely
abf;'ess and unreasonable; they must be as unconscion-
ou,; Is a man who lately travelled with a friend of
wh-r; along the Liverpool and Manchester railway, and
and
was constantly pulling out his watch and grumbling
atkilase they were not going at the rate of more than five
as f twenty miles an hour. Surely things are going on
Irt as the most zealous reformer of the class could
3 --"'"Glouces ters hire Chronicle.