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

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quest, that whoever might pick it up would put the letter in
Holywood postoffice. The communication was directed to a
person named. Gibson, residing at Portwilliam, in the South
of Scotland. The slip of paper stated, that this method of
forwarding a letter was adopted by one of the crew of the
schooner Cheerful, then lying in the Lough,—it being im-
possible, on account of the storm, to come ashore in a beat.
The letter was forthwith conveyed to the postoffice, and
would, of course, be duly received by the person to whom it
is addressed. In stormy weather, when wind and tide suited,
many communications might, probably, be, effected in this
manner, of consequence both to merchants and friends.—
Belfast Paper.

INGENIOUS ESCAPE PROM PRISON.—OR Saturday week,
during the time of the usual assembly of the prisoners at El-
gin for religious instruction in the afternoon, Peter Campbell
and John Young (confined for theft), who occupied the
highest cell in the prison, put in execution the following
previously concocted scheme for escape :—The former had
been, apparently, in agony with the toothache throughout the
day, and by that means had evaded attendance with the rest.
The latter made his appearance as usual; but in about half
an hour, feigning some excuse, left the apartment. The

gaoler, unwilling to lose sight of him, followed, and found
him, to all appearance, about to give up the ghost, from a pain
in his stomach, but as he expressed his wish to join in re-

ceiving instruction, and his intention to come down'imme-
diately, the gaoler left him. Five minutes elapsed, and the
prisoner did not make his entrance, so the gaoler returned to
fetch him down, when, to his conternation, he saw no prisoner
visi'ul.: where he had left two not ten minutes before
whole matter, however, was plain e

A wooden door

that opened out to the bartizan was pushed aside, and a rope,
spun out of the oakum that the prisoners had been employed
in picking, had one end attached to their bed, while the other
extended out at the door, over the bartizan, and down upon
roof of a lower part of the building. Such had been the route
of the prisoners, and, dropping into the street, concealed by
the darkness of the night, they had effected their escape.—
Inverness Courier.

AN AGED TEA PARTY.—
nected with St. Michael's Chur

-A benevolent individual con
year's party

sterday evening week, to (

hundred of the old

a ich most of them

following, according to the correspondent, who coltnuni
cates the fact to a contemporary, are
and ages of a few of the of

ie names, residence

Mary Salisbury, 50, Back
Martha Wood, John-stre
___

abeth Stee'le, Irk

Dorothy Simmisier
______

WilHan; Simmisi;

James Cook, 1-
Mary Jones. ?,.

2. C.B. Sts

-street

❑-street

Benjamin Flood, Tho___,___ - -
Margaret Eccersley, Eccersley's-square
Mary Hammond, 9, Portland-street....
Judith Mitchell, Mill Hill
Willia n Pollitt,3s, Dyche-street
Deborah, his second wife.
Old William was looking as fresh and vigorous as a sexage
narian. His eye had lost little of its former lustre, and he
recounted, with wonderful accuracy, the interesting events
of the siege of Gibraltar, where he had served
and six months in the Manchestei Volunteers.
to b

as he sat
tea, and

ng his

)r five years
He seemed,

any about him

Teat a rglish a

party were above sixty years old,
amounted to the number of 7,038

and their united ages
pears.—Manchester Guardian

A case has just been brought before the Bury Petty Ses-
sions which has excited considerable interest; it consist
two charges against the Rev. Jonathan Ackroyd—first,
being a rogue and vagabond under the Vagrant Act : at
second, for having obtained money under false pretences
Mr. Thomas Gorton, of Tottington Hall, said that on Friday
the 16th of December, the prisoner called upon him.
having represented himself to be the incumbent of
or chapel at Skircoat, near Halifax, s'
was in debt upwards of £2,000, which was ow

stated that the church

is obtaining contributions to liquidate the
tater!, that he had performed the church

with the Church

prisoner
Friday v

t her res

m a sovereign
posed that th

,nce on t

bent of t
another s

church in que
ereign. Mr. g

mself to be tli

and succeeded in obtaining

vevance of the c

Taylor, of King-cross, aeposed

a with the-churc

built, and for some time had preached in it ; that the pur-
chase-money was £900; and that it had been bought from
Mr. Alexander, a solicitor, at Halifax. Mr. H. Henshall,
Superintendent of Police, at Bury, said that he had known
the prisoner for a year and,a-half, and that he had him in
custody before as Ulverstone, on a charge of having obtained
money under false pretences. Charles Maguire, a police

Minor Contri
Christ Churc

vueprl7ards (
pain

r on the

for ma

""fax, Yorkshire
man said, t

that he should

Peach hid a
lied to

i were unanimously of opinion
of Correction at

for three calendar

f that he should be committed

annuls
3 the sessions for trial on the second. There were, many

clergymen present uur,ug wo Lica' au6,
terested in the case (as the prisoner bad levied contributions
on some of them .everalyears ago), and who appeared much
gratified at the prospectof the profession being relieved from
one of its greatest blots.—Doncaster Gazelle.