The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ILLICIT DEALING IN WHEAT.—On Friday, the three
mates of the ship Samuel Hicks, were sent to trial for
selling wheat, what they termed " wheat sweepings," but
which, in reality, was good. The buyers, two Irishmen,
were also committed for buying an article which they
must have known to have been stolen.
CELLAR OCCUPATION.—Forty-six informations were
heard against parties occupying unhealthy cellars on Tu-
esday, and the usual tines inflicted. The occupiers in
many cases hold possession with a tenacious gray, and
the duplicity of some is most extraordinary. The Health
Committee have an herculean task before them.

PoAcniNo.—Ori Thursday, two men, named Henry
Norman and James Swift, were brought before the Bir-
kenhead magistrates, at the Police-court, charged with
poaching on the preserves of Sir William Stanley, Bart.,
at Storeton. Norman, who had been twice previously
punished for the same offence, was sentenced to two
months' hard labour, and SWift to one month.
OVERLOADING.—SeveraI cases of overloading vehicles
were heard at the Police-court on Tuesday, arya fines in-
flicted. Amongst the parties was an omnibus driver,
named Smith, against whom an information had been
laid by a gentleman named Wood. -The omnibus, which
was constructed to carry eleven persons, was laden with
fiften. The driver was fined twenty shillings and costs.
ROBBERY OF PLATE.—On Wednesday, a young man,
named John Markey, was brought up at the Police-court,
and charged on suspicion of stealing a quantity of silver
plate, consisting of two silver egg-stands, one salt, three
spoons ; together with a Bible,. the gift of Sheridan
Knowles to the daughter of the owner of the property,
Mr. Emery, of Bootle, whose house was robbed on Mon-
day night of about £5O worth of plate.—Mr. Rushton
ordered the prisoner to be taken before one of the county
justices, he himself having no authority to take the case
into his consideration.

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EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF WEARING APPAREL.—OR
Wednesday, Rose Mullen, and her husband, Michael
Mullen, were committed for trial, charged by Lewis
Howell with stealing wearing apparel from his house at
Evcrton. It appeared that on Tuesday evening the fe-
male prisoner went into the complainant's house, and,
watching her opportunity, carried off some clothes and
two pair of boots. The theft was discovered almost im-
mediately, and the prisoner detected while in the act of
coming through the lobby. She had the property upon
her, which she threw down on being discovered. A va-
riety of wearing apparel and other articles were found in
the prisoners' house, a portion of which were identified
as having been stolen from persons in Prescot-street and
Brownlow-hill, a few days ago.

COINING: CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Saturday
Thomas Rowe, an Irishman, was ,charged with having
base coin in his possession. The prisoner lodged in

and, in consequence of iniormation received-, Mr. Super-
intendent Anders, with two or three. officers, proceeded
to search the room occupied by the prisoner, where they
found some plaster of paris, a crucible, a pi:ce of metal
melted down, and, in the ashes, two base shillings. It
was some time before the officers could gain admittance,
and they thought they heard the window of the upper
room (where the landlord himself slept) opened and some-
thing thrown out. Search was instituted, and three rusty
o'd pistols (one of formi(eile size) were found lying upon
the ground. The prisoner denied all knowledge of the
articles, and said that, although he had taken the lodgings
three weeks ago, he had only that night commenced their
Remanded.

Mr._ Baron

There is a monster Irish repeal meeting announced to
take place in the Free-trade-hall, Manchester, on Satur-
day, the 18th instant.
On Tuesday, factories at Ashton-under-Lyne, with
steam-power equal to 1200 horses, were reduced to short
mpted to show I time.

On Sunday week, an affray took place in the township
of Leagrim, near Stoneyhurst, between Henry Greenwood,

which resulted in the death of one of the latter.
On Tuesday morning a boiler exploded at the cotton-
mill of Mr. Richard Walker, Blue Pitts, near Rochdale,
by which three persons were killed almost instantaneously,
and two others seriously injured.
Mr. James Fell, the out-door inspector of weights and
measures in Manchester, has been appointed inspector of
weights and measures for Liverpool, at a salary of £2OO
per annum. Mr. Fell has rendered great service in
Manchester.

STOCKPORT.—A gentleman passed through all the
leading streets in this borough one day last week, and

thoroughfares, he did not observe one customer in any

A young man, named Joseph Johnson, living in Man-
chester, paid a visit, few days since, to some friends at
Huddersfield, and, after leaving the latter town, nothing
was heard of him until Tuesday last, when he was found

4ntre, having to all appearance been acciden-
tally drowned. How he came there cannot be ascertained.
A RAINY MONTH.—Last month was by far the wettest
February Manchester has had for the last twenty years.
The averaze fall of rain in the February of 16 years is

Just 1-31 inch ; and the month of February, 1848, in
Manchester, has had a fall of rain very nearly five times
greater than the usual quantity falling in February.
At the late Lancaster assizes, a witness was called to
verify the signature to a deposition, by the counsel for the
prosecution, and being rather t- ent-ring the box

tartly s --
I the cause of the delay

" She's so deaf, my lord, that she can't read writing, ex-
claimed the crier of the court, without betraying the least
consciousness of the bull he had perpetrated.
MR. COBDEN'S POPULARITY INMANCHESTER.—It was
proposed, last week, tore-elect Mr. Cobden Chairman of the
Manchester Mechanics' Institution, for which honour
the name of Mr. Aspinall Turner also stood for
election ; a vote was taken, and Mr. Cobden was rejected
by a majority in the proportion of five and a half to one,
the numbers being—For Mr. J. A. Turner, 109 ; for Mr.
R. Cobden, 20. Not even Mr. Cobden's boasted in-
fluence as the first man of all the free traders is able to
influence the old proverb that " no prophet bath honor
in his own country." People will soon begin to doubt
whether free trade itself is so popular in Manchester as it
has been represented to be.
LANCASTER ELECTION.—We are glad to see that the
Hon. E. H. Stanley, (eldest son of Lord Stanley, and
grandson of the Earl of Derby,) is a candidate for the
representation of Lancaster, vice Mr. Gregson, unseated
for bribery. Mr. Stanley refuses to give any pledges, but

says:—! have no hesitation in declaring that t am firmly
determined to maintain and uphold in its full integrity,
the Protestant church, as established in these realms ;
and to consent to no measure which I may believe to be
detrimental to the interests of that church ; that I de-
sire to promote and encourage. the religions a'ul moral
eduoation of all classes of the community ; and that. while
I desire that commerce should be fr,e from all unnecessary
restrictions, I hold myself bouad to follow up no theory,
however sound in itself, to an extent which may he prac-
tically at variance with that encouragement which it is
the interest and duty of every government to extend to
the industry of its own subj..cts." Mr. Armstrong is the
liberal candidate, and the election will take place to-mor-
row (Wedneseay).

MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SO-
ClE•rv.—The first annual ploughing match, io cmmexton
with this amalgamated society, to ,k place on Thursday,
at. Winwick. One field not being suffLient to accommo-
date the entire entry. two suitable grass fiAds were
selected for the occasion. The comvtitors were diviled
into two classes, having two separate prizes, —the first for
adults, and the second for young rit.,n not more than
twenty years of age. Seventy-two candidates started for
the first class, and six for the second. There was a
numerous gathering of spectators of the interesting scene.
The quantity of land ploughed was about seventy statute
perches for the first class, and sixty for the second; and
the time occupied for the completion of the work averaged
from three and a half to five hours. A dinner took place
in the evening, Robert Neilson, Esq., of Halewood, in
the chair, when the following were named as the success-
ful compe!itors :
Ottners. Ploughmen.

FIRST CLASS

Ist—Andrew Caunce
2tl—James Glassford

Newton.... Wm. Canneer
Lostock.... Geo. Glassford

SECOND CLASS

Ist—John Swinton

D.►resbury.. Thos. Swinton

2 I—Mrs. Higginson Plumby . Wm. Fliggillioll.
GROWTH OF COTTON AT PORT NATAL.—Some most
gratifying evidence of the capabilities of Port Natal to
produce abundantly and constantly every quality of cot-
ton required for manufacture. was given at a meeting of
the Blackburn C3mmercial Association, on Wednesday.
Seine questions were asked as to the respectability and
probable stability of a company which had been formed
at Port Natal for the cultivation of cotton. We are in a
great measure enabled to answer the inquiry by a refe-
,rence to the proceedings which took place at a meeting
of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on Thursday
last. It appears that a gentleman named Berthed, of the
firm of Messrs. J. P. Jung and Go., merchants. of Cape
Town and Port Natal, who was one of the originators of
the company, in which be holds fifty shares, attended the
Manchester meeting., and offered excellent evidence both
as to the respectability arid prospects of the Cotton Com-
pany, and the easy means by which cotton could he cul-

tivated at Port Natal. Families of Germans had been
sent out, and were earth to receive 210 acres of land from
the Company-10 acres to he quite free fur their own use,
on condition that they cultivated cotton on the other 200
acres, and took the crops to the warehouse of the owners.
It was shown that for small capitalists, say v

£4OO, a
very profitable cultivation of cotton could be forthwith
commenced. All the papers published at Cape Town
and Port Natal. spoke very favourably of the Company.
Out of 2,000 shares, 1.500 allotted to Cape Town were
taken up in less than two hours : the other 500 were re-
served for Port Natal and England ; and we shall be very
much surprised if a single share is by this time left.—
Blackburn Standard.

MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—LOSS AND EXTRAOR-
DIN ARY RECOVERY.—The Manchester Courier contains
particulars of the following extraordinary affair:—On

nager of the banking establishment of Messrs. Hardcastle,
Cross and Co., of Bolton,. was in Manchester, and dined
at the Star Hotel, Deausgate, with several other gentle-
men from Bolton, amongst whom we may state was Mr.
Thomas Cross, bleacher, of Mootfield, one of the partners
in the bank. After dinner, the party, numbering about
a dozen, adjourned to the " smoke room," where, after
remaining in conversation until about tour o'clock, Mr.
Thomas Cross rose to leave for the Bolton Railway Sta-
tion, on his return homewards. Wishing to have some

conversation with him, Mr. Appleton accompanied him
to the hotel door, where they remained together some few
minutes, when they mutually shook hands, and separated,
Mr. Cross proceeding to the railway station, and Mr.
Appleton rejoining his friends in the smoke room of the
Star Hotel. On re-seating himself, however, he made the
painful discovery that lie had lost fr6m his pocket a roll of
notes amounting to £1250. He searched his dress and
every portion of the room, but in vain. The other rooms
of the house where he had been were also searched. He
had felt the notes in his trowser's pockets shortly before.
He then acquainted Mr. Beswick, chief constable, who
advertised bills, offering a reward. Mr. Beswick after-
wards entered the smoke room, where he found about a
dozen gentlemen whom he had seen there before. He
told them the notes were lost there, and addressing one
of them, a wealthy man and hitherto considered respect-
able, he inquired if he know anything of them, saying
al=o that he must make a strict search. The man appear-
ed indignant, but being peremptorily questioned further,
he at length falteringly and fainlingly acknowledged that
he had picked up " something." "Do you know what
it is, have you looked at it ? ' exclaimed Mr. Beswick,
" No, I don't," was the rejoinder of the gentleman ;
when hurrying him into an adjoining room, Mr. Beswick,
who from the moment he laid his hand upon the gentle-
man's shoulder seemed to be convinced he had got hold
of the right_manir.nhertly riatervierl with the lost note* in
his hand.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ELECT.

On Monday, the Council and magistrates of Chester
proceeded in state to the Palace, preceded by the police
force and the civic regalia, for the purpose of presenting
an address to the Bishop, on his preferment to the see of
Canterbury. The address, after expressing sentiments of
reverence and affection for the professional and personal
character of his lordship, and regret at his removal from
a city where he had done so much to ameliorate the con-
dition of the u.ifortunate, the distressed, and the destitute,
contained the following sentences

" It is no part of our province, combining as we do persons
of various shades of opinions, to enter upon questions affecting
the present position and future prospects of the Protestant
Church as established by law in these realms, but we may be
privileged to express our sincere belief that a more vigilant de-
fender of the principles of the Reformation than your lordship
is not to be found within the pale of the Establishment, and our
ardent hope that in these (lays when public opinion (not hastily
expressed but deliberately matured) is favourable to an en.
lightened toleration being extended to all classes of her Majes-
ty's subjects, that the advancement of your lordship to the
highest honour and trusts in the Established Church will tend
to preserve, strengthen, and enlarge the influence of those
principles, and that they will be upheld in their full integrity so
far as your lordship's example and influence may prevail. We
congratulate your lordship on the attainment of honours which
are most worthily bestowed, accompanied, however, by grave
responsibilities, which our past experience of your lordship and
your labours within this diocese assures us you will faithfully
discharge. We congratulate the Church that in these times,
when somewhat of disquiet has fallen to her lot, that in the ele-
vation of our lordship she will enjoy the pastoral superinten-

••,• se All 11l puppy. .•••,
faith and a lover of peace. We congratulate the people amongst
whom your lordship will hereafter dwell that they will have the
advantage of the residence of a prelate not only pre-eminently
fitted to fill the highest station in the Church, but who is de-
serving of their affection in the less dignified but useful capaci-
ties of friend, neighbour, and citizen.'
The Bishop, on receiving the address, spoke as follows :

" Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,—lt is difficult for me to ex-
press the strong emotion with which I have heard your address,
speaking of me as it does in terms far more honourable than I
had any right to expect, or am conscious of deserving. My
appointment to the Primacy has been received in many qvar-
ters with a favour which 1 could not have presumed to antici-
pate. But the opinion which is especially valuable is that of
my neighbours and fellow-citizens, who have had opportunities
of judging concerning me, and speak from their own observa-
tion ; and I must be devoid of all proper feeling, if I did not
acknowledge a high degree of gratification for the testimony
which you now.offer me, founded on the experience of twenty
years. during which we have been known to each other. I may
advert to another source of satisfaction derived from your Ad-
dress. I cannot but be conscious to myself that lam removed
to a station of far greater responsibility, and far greater diffi-
culty, than that which I have hitherto filled ; 'and I cannot but
feel an apprehension, lest I should prove inadequa'e to the
right discharge of my duties, many of which are new and
strange to me. Under such disquietude, there is consolation
in reflecting that the duties which I have hitherto discharged
were once new to me, and that in the opinion of kind, but dis-
passionate observers, I have been found faithful in the fulfil-
ment of them. Jn this thought I take courage, trusting that
the same Power which has hitherto strengthened meonay sus-

tain me still, and the same grace which has prociired me tavour
in the judgment of my fellow-citizens at Chester. may prove
sufficient for me in the high eminence to which I am now'
called. Certainly in one respect you do me no more than justice.
I do hope to be always a vigilant defender of the doctrines of
the Reformation. Toleration, in its fullest legitimate extent,
will always be my principle; but toleration must not slide into
indifference ; there is an essential distinction between truth
anti error; and one of the chief dangers of the present day is
the danger of confounding them. The Scriptures assure us
what is Truth • and what I receive as truth from the Scriptures,
it will always be my endeavour to maintain, uncorrupted by
German neology on the one side, or by Romish tradition on
the other."