The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

THE MURDER IN SPITALFIELDS.—The young man
assuming the name of' George Hart, but whose real name
has been ascertained to be Thomas Evans, who stood
charged upon his own confession with having been
accessory to the murder of the child Henry Lazarus, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, on Friday, for
final examination. Information having been given to the
magistrate which satisfied. him that the self-accusation
made by the prisoner was the mere result of some strange
hallucination, the young man was discharged with an
admonition as to the public inconvenience and the pro-
bable frustration of justice which his stupidity had
occasioned.

THE GREAT NOTE ROBITERY.—Abraham Simmons,
aged 33, described as a licensed victualler, was indicted on
Tuesday, in London, for feloniously receiving two bank
notes for the payment of £l,OOO each, well knowing the
same to have been stolen. The notes had been stolen
from Mr. Blakemore, M.P:, in an omnibus, in 1843.
Evidence was given which clearly proved that the accused
had bond fide received the notes, as he had stated, on the
Derby day, in payment of a bet, and that he had since
given every information and assistance in his power to the
police, who, however, had been unable to trace the party
from whom he received them. Mr. Baron Parke said it
would be too much to charge a man with felonious pos-
session of a note taken during the bustle of a race. The
prisoner was then acquitted, and the notes given up to
Mr. Blakemore.

THE LADY ADA ALICE. WYATVILLE..—Among the
prisoners tried at the Gloucestershire Sessions, on Wed-
nesday, was the notorious Lady Ada Alice Wyatville,
alias Hinckley, whose trial and lucky acquittal at the last
assizes for this county, as " the wife of three husbands,"
caused a good deal of gossip at the time. It will be re-
membered that after her liberation on that occasion, she
returned to Cheltenham, the scene of her short-lived
matrimonial dignity, and there in her distress was tempt-
ed to appropriate to herself a watch and gold appendages,
the property of Thomas Roberts, landlord of the Plough
Hotel Tap, from whose family she had received various
little acts of kindness. The theft was discovered and
Lady Ada was again placed in durance, and on Wednes-
day was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.—
Cheltenham Exantinsr.

A meeting of the creditors of Mr, G. T. Baine, was held
on Thursday. The debtor side of the statement shows
£226,412 ss. 3d., and the creditor side £411,349 7s. ld.
Full explanations were given relative to the assets, which,
besides the claim on Messrs. Oswald, Seal, and Co., of
Calcutta (X 122,000), show £290,000 to cover liabilities of
£226,000. The details given were such as to satisfy the
creditors that there can be no doubt of their receiving
twenty shillings in the pound, with interest, and that a
very considerable surplus would accrue. Mr. Braine pro-
ceeds to India to arrange his affairs with Messrs. Oswald,
Seal, and Co. The creditors expreSSed much sympathy
with Mr. Braine, and their entire satisfaction with the
accounts. It was agreed to liquidate the estate under in-
spection. The assets generally are in a state favourable
to an early realisation. A considerable portion will be re-
alised within six months.
SUTTON COLDFIELD.—The Sutton branch of the
" North Warwickshire Medical and Friendly Society"
held its " Third annual meeting and feast" on Tuesday
last, 6th ult. The benefit members assembled at the
Town-hall at a quarter-past 9, where " dinner tickets"
were issued at a reduced rate, and shortly after ten they
proceeded to the rectory, headed by a banner and band of
music, to escort the Rector, Dr. Williamson, to church,
when they were met by the members of the " Midoleton
Branch.' An excellent discourse was delivered to them
by the Rector from the 17 chap. of Prov., 1 v., which was
listened to with the greatest attention. On retiring from
church they were joined by the honorary members ; and
after perambulating the town, they adjourned to the
Town-hall, where an excellent dinner was provided. At
the termination of the business of the above meeting, a
tea service of plate, consisting of teapot, sugar basin, and
cream jugs, was presented by the inhabitants to the Rev.
A. J. Douglas, on his promotion to the living of Mathon,
near Malvern, Worcestershire.
TRIAL OF THE CHARTISTS.—At the Central Criminal
Court, on Wednesday, Joseph Treanans John Fussell,
described in the calendar as a jeweller, aged 32, was ar-
raigned on a charge of misdemeanour. The prisoner (who
was very respectably dressed, evidently in a suit of new
clothes) in a firm voice pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. W. F.
T. Fowler, a reporter, read the speech of the defendant
from short hand notes, the principal points of which have
already been published. Mr. Sergeant Allen afterwards
addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. The jury
retired for a quarter of an hour, and found the defendant
.Guilty upon those counts of the indictment which charged
him with sedition and attending an unlawful assembly,
and Not Guilty upon the count charging riot. On Thurs-
day, Joseph Williams, a baker, was found guilty of being
present at an unlawful assembly and riot, and William
John Vernon, described as a lecturer, was found guilty of
being present at an unlawful assembly. On Saturday,
Alexander Sharpe, aged 27, painter, was found guilty of
sedition and attending an illegal meeting. On Saturday,
Francis Looney, 34, cabinet-maker, was found guilty of
attending an unlawful meeting.
At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Monday
last, William Girdlestone, 45, and Charles Swan, 48,
were indicted with John Saunders, who surrendered, for
unlawfully and maliciously conspiring together to make a
false charge of forgery against three gentlemen, named
Francis and James M'Gowran and Barton, with
intent to injure them, and subject them to the penalties
of that offence. The indictment arose out of some pro-
ceedings at the May sessions, when the above-named
gentlemen, who on Monday appeared as prosecutors, were
indicted for having forged the will of Francis M'Gowran,
the father of the two gentlemen of that name, and upon
that occasion when the defendants appeared in court to
answer the charge, the witnesses on the back of the bill,
who were the defendants, on Monday, did not come for-
ward, and after waiting for come time the court ordered
their recognisances to be estreated, and the defendants
(the present prosecutors) were acquitted. After a long
trial, Girdlestone and Swan were found guilty, and sen-
tenced to be imprisoned for two years. Saunders was
acquitted.
A BITER BIT.—On Tuesday a boy was sent to a shop
in Leith for the loan of twelve shillings for his mother,
and when leaving the shop a young man came running
after him, and said that the merchant wanted him to go
and get change for a pound, at the same time putting into
his hand a one pound note, and taking the twelve shillings
from him, which he said he would keep till his return.
The boy went to several shops asking change for the note,
but it being an old one of the Commercial bank, no one
would change it. The boy at last returned to the mer-
chant, to whom the whole matter had, of course, to be
explained. As there was little doubt entertained that the
note was forged, information was lodged with the police,
at whose suggestion it was taken to the Commercial Bank,
where, to the no small joy of the boy and his mother,
they were told the note was perfectly genuine. Who the
swindler was still remains a mystery, but it is supposed
that, having failed in getting it cashed, he had thought it
was bad, and adopted the above-mentioned ingenious
method of disposing of it to the "best advantage,' being
eight shillings less than its real value.—EdinburghAdv.
ROBBERY BY A LADY.—Catherine Herrien, a respec-
table lady has been committed for trial at Greenwich
Police-court for stealing some money from a till in a pub-
lic-house in which she had two glasses of porter. The
magistrate told her it was a melancholy sight to see a per-
son of her apparent respectability in such a situation.
The prisoner was taken to a cell and in about a quarter of
an hour after being locked up, the gaoler again opened
the door, and found her partly undressed and sitting with
a mass of clotted blood at her feet in a fainting condition.
Dr. J, Smith, of Blackheath Road, was immediately sent
for, when it was discovered that she had undressed and
taken off her stays, from which she had forced the steel
busk, and having broken it in two parts, had made a deep
incision in the veinous part next the elbow-joint, from
which a vast quantity of blood issued, and but for the
early return of the officer, death must have ensued. The
effusion of blood having been stopped, and the wound
bandaged, two females were left in charge, in order to
prevent her from further acts of desperation.
DESPERATE CASE OF BURGLARY, AND FEMALE VA-
LOUR.—A daring attempt at burglary was made about
one o'clock on Tuesday morning last. at the house of Mr.
William Scafe, relieving officer, of Pateley Bridge. The
house is situate at a short distance from the town, and
we understand that Mr. S. had received a considerable
sum of money the preceding day. At the hour above
named, while the family were all asleep, three ruffians,
navvies, effected an entrance at the bed-room window,
but the family being aroused by the noise, rushed from
their beds, and while Mr. Scafe ran for assistance, his
wife and daughter, aged 21, and a boy, had a most violent
struggle with one of the party, and acted a truly valiant
part. They laid the scoundrel prostrate on the floor, and
the heroic daughter kneeled upon his body, and at the
same time so firmly grasped him by the collar, that he
roared out she was choaking him ! By the help of her
mother and the little boy, she held him down until help
arrived, when they properly secured him. His two com-
panions made theirescape, but messengers were despatched
in every direction in search of them, and it is to be hoped
that they will be apprehended. The prisoner has given
up their names, and a description of their persons and
dress. One of them was previously transported. Mrs.
Scafe had one of her arms hurt by a blow given with the
shaft of a hayfork.--Leeds Paper.
THE. SWINDLER AND THE SWINDLED.—THE RECENT
" FREAK OF FORTUNE" AT HARROGATE.—A man, named
William Muscroft, alias Boscoe, whose name has been
going the round of the press in a paragraph, headed
Freaks of Fortune," and who, untill recently, was em-
ployed as a day labourer on the Leeds and Thirsk Rail-
way, about two months ago brought himself into public
notice, by stating that he had, through some deceased re-
lative, or such like means, become possessed of a large
property, varying in amount from twenty to thirty thou-
sand pounds, and exhibited papers, obtained from some
unknown source, which appeared to strengthen and give a
plausibility to the statement. His employment as a la-
bourer was, of course, abandoned, and though retaining
the habits and intimacies of his former life, he launched
out into an expensive and dissolute course of living, as if
bent upon seeing how much money be could squander
away, and in as short p space of time as possible. He had
obtained all kinds of articles of apparel and decoration.
from tradesmen in the neighbourhood of Knaresborough,
and run up bills at the various hotels to a serious amount,
on the assurance that he should, in a few days, be in re-
ceipt of money, and would then discharge all claims.
These things went on up to the latter end of last week,
when suspicions gained currency that he was an impostor,
and application having been made to the banker in whose
hands he had repeatedly said the money was lodged, that
gentleman at once denied that any money was then, or
ever had been, belonging to Muscroft, in his hands. This
at once opened the eyes of the victims, and the result has
been that Muscroft, and a man named Kaye, and his wife,
the former a timekeeper on one of the lines of rail, were
brought up at the Knaresborough Court-house, and the
charge of obtaining goods on false pretences being proved
j against " the man of fortune" and Kaye's wife, they were
both committed for trial.--Leeds Mercury.

FALLING OFF IN OUR EXPORTS.-The official report o
the imports and exports to the sth of June, 1848, a perio
of five months, compared with last year to a similar pe-
riod, puts us in possession of the following results as re-
gards our principal exports, particularly bearing upon the
manufacturing districts
EXPORTS TO JUNE 5,
1848.
£6,895,963
1,836,467
2,021,836
250,816
1,180,507
193,775
212,825
773,647

Cotton manufactures
„ yarn
Woollen manufactures

1847.
4'7,726,107
2,094,665
2,767,719
342,849
1,229,310
266,326
404,502
921,595

„ yarn
Linen manufactures

„ arn
Silk manufactures
Hardwares and cutlery

£.13,30,53 £15,753,073
It will be observed by this return, that the decrease of
exports, compared with last year, upon cottons. woollens,
linens, silks, and hardware% alone, is nearly £2,400,000.
TIIE EARLY RISERS.—The Gateshead Observer says—
" The sun could not withhold his countenance on Tuesday
morning from the inauguration of the Newcastle Early
Rising Club. The Rev. D.. C. Browning was chosen to
preside; and when he and Mr. R. P. Bell had said a few
words, Mr. T. P. Barkas spoke at greater length. He
recited the honourable roll of early risers, ancient and
modern—Homer, Horace, and Virgil, Sir Thomas More,
LinnEeus, and Buffon, Fianklin, Priestley, and Milton,
with a host of others.. He enlarged upon the advantages,
moral and intellectual, of the practice ; and was heard
with much interest by an audience of about two hundred
persons. Mr. Macarty followed. There was then
" shinty ;" andwhen the early risers had disported thema
selves to their hearts' content, they severally repaired r
breakfast, with an amazing appetite. The meeting is t°
be continued every favourable morning, at six o'clock, o')
the Town-moor. A lecture will be delivered by a mem
ber each morning, and then will follow cricket, trippet's
quoits, and foot-ball. The Town-moor could not be pu -
to better use."

EMIGRATION.—AUSTRALIA. ANn AMERICA.—Everyt
one that has perused the statistics of English trade and
commerce during the last 70 years, knows how much the
increase of population in the United States of America
has—despite of hostile tariffs and national antipathies—
reacted on the springs of industry and the employment of
capital in England. If the United States—a separated
and sometimes a hostile, nation—has stimulated British
industry so much, what may be exp::-cted hereafter from
a continent far vaster than the American Republic, com-
manding four seas with ample fisheries, and peopled by
a race British not only in blood and language, but in sen-
timent, sympathy, and loyalty ? At this moment Austra-
lasia, with a population of 280,000 souls, is consuming
more British manufactures, and remunerating more
British hands, than the whole of British North America,
with its 2,000,000 inhabitants did in the year 1774 !
What, then, may not he hoped from the same Australasia
when the numbers of its people have been multiplied by
ten, its communications with England promoted by steamand
its pride, or loyalty not affronted by the insolence or
ignorance of domestic tapists
A NONOGENARIAN.—An old man, commonly known
by the name of " Old Tom Taylor," who, on the 21st ult.
would have attained his 99th year, died last week at
Brampton. Formerly, he was the driver of his own
waggon and six horses, with which, for many years, he
conveyed goods from Chesterfield to Sheffield, and,
also, to Buckland Hollow. Latterly he kept a horse
and cart, and earned a livelihood by selling earthen-
ware. Up to the time of his decease, he enjoyed un-
interrupted good health ; though he did not escape serious
bodily injuries. Between nine and ten years ago, while
in the act of assisting his horse with his burthen up
the hill, his foot slipped, and the animal fell sideways upon
him, by which both his legs were broken, as also his
thigh. On another occasion, while stopping at the wag-
gon warehouse in Sheffield, he perceived a child in danger
of being killed by a crane, and in endeavouring to save
its life, he got his hand between the crane and cog
wheels, which maimed his hand in a shocking manner.
He out a fresh set of teeth after he had entere his 60th
year. His death was sudden ; he was seized with a com-
plaint of the heart as he was cleaning his horse, and ex-
pired in a few minutes. He had been what is termed a
" hard drinker."

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.--The improvement which
have been recently effected under the scientific direction
of Mr. Beard are so great, that although the principle of
the process remains the same, the best specimens formerly-
produced were but meagre, indistinct, sombre, and sha-
dowy outlines, compared with the pleasing, minutely-
beautiful, and really life-like portraits which are now be-
ing exhibited at the galleries in King William-street, City;
Bridge-street, Westminster ; and at the Royal Polytech-
nic Institution, Regent-street. The beauty of the pho-
tographic picture depends mainly on the degree to which
the metallic plate can be rendered sensitive to the action
of light; and it is in this part of the process that the
principal improvements have been effected. A change
has been made in some of the chemicals used, and a com-
plete alteration in the• mode of applying them. The ef-
fect has been a greatly increased brilliancy of tone and
colour ; white is now produced without the admixture of
blue, which formerly prevailed; light and shade are per-
fect ; the flesh tints clear, warm, and natural, and the
entire colouring, which is now embodied as it were on the
plate, can only be compared to the finest enamel. In
consequence of the additional susceptibility of the plate,
the process has also been much shortened, the results be-
ing now not only more perfect, but more certain than
heretofore. The specimens we have seen in King Wil-
liam-street are very beautiful. The busts and figures
stand out from the background in bold, distinct, and mas-
sive outline; and the texture of every portion of the
dress, whether of silk, velvet, satin, or woollen cloth, is
rendered with a richness and delicacy which constitute
these improvements a perfect triumph of art.—Times.
THE HEALTH OF THE JOURNEYMEN BAKERS.—In the
Journal of Public Health for the present month there
appears a very able article from the pen of Mr. William
Guy, M. B. of Cambridge, on the health of the journey-
men bakers of the metropolis. That useful class of work-
men are equally hard worked and comparatively ill paid
in all large towns, and their vocation, moreover, is even
with short hours of labour unhealthy. The journeymen
bakers of this town recently made, (as we reported from
time to time,) a movement towards a redress of their
grievances, and we are glad to say they have obtained and
deserve the sympathy of that portion of the public who
have acquainted themselves with their case. Mr. Guy
states that his attention was first drawn to the subject by
accident, while prescribing for out-patients of King's
College Hospital. One of them, to his astonishment told
him that his usual hours of work were from eleven at
night to seven next evening, being 20 hours of work, with
only four hours of rest. He (Mr. G.) found upon enquiry
that the statement was true as respected many in the
trade, and he supplies several cases with names, in detail,
which certainly go to prove great, and even life-destroying
hardships amongst the journeymen bakers, calling aloud
for legislative interference even more than did the worst
practices of negro slavery. The shortening of life through
the present system is indeed awful. From an authentic
statistical table, it appears that even compared with
tailors, (whose trade is unwholesome) the bakers lose, one
with another, a quarter of a year of life each year ! There
are few old or middle-aged men amongst them. Few of
them enjoy robust health, and they are obnoxious to a
variety of diseases to which other tradesmen are much
less liable. They were peculiarly liable to disease of the
chest, and spitting of blood—arising from long hours of
work, great muscular efforts, exposure to heat, the inha-
lation of particles of flour, &c. The author advocates the
abolition of night-work, which is peculiarly injurious to
health, and is by no means necessary, and might be done
away with by a mutual arrangement between the masters
and workmen, without loss to either. In conclusion our
author says :—" The great social and political question in-
volved in this case of the journeymen bakers, is one which
now exacts a practical answer at the hands of the public
and the legislature :—ls there to be free trade in health
and life, as well as in food and clothing ! Is the system
of laissez faire to be not merely the general rule, subject
in extreme cases, like all other general rules, to excep-
tion ! or is it to be a stringent, rigid principle, unalter-
able as the laws of the Medes and Persians ? Much
depends on the answer to this question ; and the case of
the journeymen bakers is one of the first in which that
answer will be required."
PROGRESS OF POPERY.—The consecration of the Ro-
man Catholic Church of St. George, London, took place
on Tuesday. The church being one of the largest and
most magnificent erected in England since the Roforma-
tion, for Romish ceremonies, every effort was made to
give eclat to its opening. Great numbers of the Roman
Catholic dignitaries on the continent .were invited to the
ceremonial; but the troubled state of the times in their
own countries prevented most of them from attending.
There were present, however, the Archbishop of Treves,
the Bishops of Liege, Tourney, Chalons, and Chersonesees,
with their canons and chaplains. Of the British Roman
Catholics prelates there were present, besides Dr. Wise-
man, who officiated, Drs. Brown, (Liverpool,) Brown,
(Wales,) Brown, (Elphin,) Sharples, (Liverpool,) Gillis,
(Edinburgh,) Davis, (Maitland, Australia,) Waring,
(eastern district,) Briggs, (York,) Morris, (Troy,) There
were 260 priests, together with members of the orders of
Passionists, Dominicans, Cistercians, Benedictines, Fran-
ciscans, Oratorians, and Brothers of Charity. The entire
body of the ehurchwas filled with Roman Catholic laity ;
amongst whom were the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Earl of
Arundel and Surrey, M.P. Lord Camoys, Lord Stafford,
&c., &c. Dr. Wiseman celebrated high mass, assisted by
the Rev. Dr. Doyle, the pastor of the chapel. It was
partly Hummel's and partly Drobisch's mass that was
chanted. The offertory was sung by Tamburini. The
sermon was preached by Dr. Wiseman. Of the church
itself it is almost superfluous to say that it is the work of
Mr. Pugin, and in the middle age style of arce.itecture.
is 240 feet in length, 70 in width, and 57 in height. It
lengthwise
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aisles.
chancel, which is decorated in the richest manner. At its
the
nave
stands
the
furthest end the principal altar is placed, whichis pro-
fusely gilt and ornamented ; and over the altar is placed
a beautiful window of stained glass. Opposite the altar
is the large cross, also richly gilt, bearing the image of
theint into
Dead three
compartments—thet
the Saviour. This is a work of Belgian art, and one of
the most noticeable objects on entering the church. The
floor of the chancel is richly carpetted, and the covering
of the bishop's throne is of purple velvet, The effect
during the
celebration of the mass, with numerous wax
candles burning in gilded lustres and candelabra, was ex-
ceedingly beautiful. At the end of each aisle stand two
smaller altars, of scarcely inferior richness ; one called the
" Altar of the Blessed Sacrament," and the other the
" Altar of the Virgin." One of the main points insisted
on by Dr. Wiseman in his sermon was, that all the pro-
fusion decoration and display were in harmony with that
principle in the nature of man which prompts him to de-
dicate whatever is most costly and splendid to the object
of his affection and veneration. In the evening there was
also a procession, benediction, and vespers, and a sermon
preached by Dr. Gillis, who returned thanks in the
French language to the foreign prelates for their presence
at the ceremony. The receipts would be about £4,000 ;
the tickets of admission haying been sold at a guinea each.