The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

Avid Griffiths, collector of taxes for
presented him, at the house of Mr. Wm. Hal.

►thirty guineas.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last, Terence
Morris, in the employ of the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway, was going up the goods' tunnel, from Wap-

ping, as
Th

ix empty wag,

Runs were rthining ra;

first waggon knocked him down, and the others
ssed over and killed him. There was no light in the
tunnel at the time, and it appeared that the deceased bad
no business there on foot.

THE CUSTOMS —The office of the Comptroller of the
Customs for this port, has become vacant by the retire-
ment of Mr. Grimes. The salary of this situation is
£7OO a-year ; and Mr. Powell, now Collector of Customs
at Manchester, is to succeed Mr. Grimes. Mr. Gardner,
Collector at Lancaster, has been appointed to the vacancy
at Manchester, occasioned by Mr. Powell's removal ; Mr.
Nanson, Collector of Boston, to be Collector at Lancas-
ter; Mr. Waters, Comptroller at Douglas, Isle of Man,
to be Collector at Boston ; Mr. Jeffrey, Collector at
Brighton, to he Comptroller at Douglas; Mr. Hamilton,
Collector at Eastborne, to be Collector at Brighton.
DEFRAUDING A LOAN SOCIETY.—OR Saturday Hugh
Russell, Thomas Winterbottook, and Thomas Wilson,
were brought before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having
attetuted to defraud the British Loan Society. Thomas
Linc6ln, the secretary of the society, stated, that the
three prisoners had come to his office about half-past nine
o'clock the night Before. Winterbottom wanted a oan of
£4, and the two other prisoners signed as securities. The
money was about to be advanced when some information
was given that, as Wilson was going to sign in the name of
Seed, a man who was at present at sea, a forgery was
about to be committed. Mrs. Seed attended in court, and
declared that Wilson was an unsuspicious instrument in
the transaction, for that she had sent him to sign in her
husband's name. Mr. Rushton said that the circumstances JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE,BY of 53, G rove-
of the case disclosed the sort of work which went on in
Liverpool in some of the loan societies. They were the --LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-b
----- At N 0.4, ST. GEORGIC'S CRESCENT, LlVlcnt n and
most dangerous things that could be. It was a remarka- Orders and Advertisements are received by Messrs. New
than there were in London. The temptation of large pro- Deacon, Walbrook ; Reynell,Chancerane; Charles. 0 2:.; , :
ble fact that there were more loan societies in Liverpool Co , Warwick-square ; Barker and White, Fieettostarc,lr;
Finch-lane,
itctieii.
8, Cornhill; -"L.
fits had stimulated the formation of such societies ;so ctiteirnlllan-lanoen!dJo!eph
°Tito as,
Red Li°°-
much so that they had become matters of trade. It was court, Tlineet-street'; Lewis and Lowe, 3, Castle-court, FoLo:
the duty of the officers. in every instance, to see the prin- hill; at the London Commercial Conee-house, Mincing:l.u,ny
cipal, for the wife, as in this case, bad no right to sign at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill ; Chaijar -
erican
for her husband. A very bad system seemed to be fee-house, Paternoster.row ; North and. South
ve...,.ria.
7 L bmard-stir'eet;
adopted at present ; and men ignorant of money matters Coffee house, Threadneedle-street;
Quay, 4, trublint:
ought not to be intrusted with the management of such
rheeeleLro,nEoxnc:iange-street, and C. H. Lewis, Market-gtre%
societies, particularly as the mode of management se- Manchester; Haddock, and J. and W. Booth, 130,- ". slid
riously affected the labouring classes. The prisoners were Warrington; Clarke, Pilot-office, Preston; and WOO"
ordered to be remanded. Dain, Herald-office, Birmingham,

Carteratta
27th Nov. r

•
(steamer) hence to Halifax
Lima, Towns, from Africa, at St. Heiena, and sailed 16th
October for Cork
Cacique, (steamer) from the Coast of Africa, at ditto, prize to

H .M . steamer Penelope
Chilena, Wylie, from Sincapore, at ditto, and sailed 23th Oct.

for Liverpool
Hope, Crawford, ford, from Calcutta, at di to, and sailed 24th
for Oct.
sailed
Hartland, Harper, from Coast of Africa, at ditto, and
25th Oct. for Liverpool Cct
In°, Warwick, from Madras, at ditto, and sailed 24th • for
Liverpool
Antilla, Barrett, from Calcutta, at ditto, and s

for Liverpool
Hampton, Rowland, froml he Cape of Good Hope, ditto
Westmoreland, from Africa, ditto, leaky, and would have to

be lightened

Senator, A nderson, from Calcutta, ditto

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LIVERPOOL

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1845
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