The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-08 00:00:00

COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONER

The prisoner was again brought up on Saturday, but the
evidence adduced was merely to corroborate that given on
former days. After the depositions had been read over,
Mr. RUSHTON said he was about to commit the pri-
soner for trial, and that he thought the case had been
made out against him with one of the £l,OOO notes. It
was, however, fair to tell his solicitor, Mr. Dodd, that
measures were in progress to trace all the others, and that,
though the Court had been anxious to give him (Mr.
Dodd) the benefit of his cross-examination up to the last
moment, yet that it was impossible the prisoner could be
remanded any further, upon the supposition that other
cases might be substantiated.

The prisoner having been here cautioned, and asked
him whether he had anything to say, replied in the
negative.

Mr. RUSHTON then said, I shall commit you for trial
to the assizes.

Mr. Dodd.—On the charge, 1 suppose, of the £l,OOO
note ?

Mr. Ru SHTON.-I shall commit him on the two charges ;
the £l,OOO note and one of the £lOO notes.

The prisoner was then removed to the Borough Gaol

A man of the name of Thomas Brooks, of Ridgehill,
near Stalybridge,lhas been committed to Kirkdale, for
trial at the assizes, on a charge of having murdered his
wife.

The tenants on the estates of Fasque and Balfour,
belonging to John Gladstone, Esq., were allowed an
abatement of ten per cent. on their last year's rents, at
the Lammas collection on Monday last.
STEALING LEAD.—A youth, named George Williams,
was yesterday committed for trial at the sessions for
stealing a quantity of lead, which he had stripped from
the stairs of the Clarendon-rooms, Lord-street. He WJS
detected by the master.

ROBBERY.—Two workmen of Messrs. Milner, the ce-
lebrated manufacturers of the patent safety boxes, were
on Friday committed from the Police-court to the borough
sessions, charged with robbing their employers of articles
used in their trade.

THE FIRE IN THE DUKE'S WAREHOUSES.—Gay, the
man in custody on a vague suspicion of being concerned
in this incendiarism, was discharged from custody on
Friday, there being no evidence to warrant his detention.
The police are not, however, without hope of success in
discovering a clue to this villainy.
BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN MAILS.—The Hi-
bernia, Captain Judkins, sailed at a quarter to five o'clock
on Friday afternoon, for Halifax and Boston, with a very
heavy mail, and eighty passengers. The Caledonia,
packet of the Ist instant, will be due here on Wednesday
week. The Great Western, for New York, sailed on Sa-
turday, and carried out 100 passengers.
SINKING OF A YACHT.—On Friday last, as a new yacht,
called the Queen Bess, was leaving this port for a regatta
in Scotland, she struck upon a bank opposite to the Crosby
Light. She immediately filled with water and sank. The
crew deserted her, but she was afterwards brought up and
moored behind the wall of the Waterloo Dock by some
of the river boatmen.

GALLANT CONDUCT.—On Saturday week, opposite
Waterloo, a young boy was rescued from a watery grave
by the gallant exertions of a young gentleman of the name
of Reid, son of John Reid, Esq., the manager of the
Branch Bank of England at Manchester, who, observing
the tide rapidly carrying the child away, at once stripped
off his clothes, and being a good swimmer, brought the
little fellow safely to shore before life was extinct.

TEMPERANCE versus INTEMPERANCE.—We have from
good authority, that, one night last week, the proprietor
of an extensive dram-shop, not far from Dale-street, in
this town, discovered, on reckoning up the cash taken
during the day, that it amounted to thirty-six pounds less
than he had ever taken before during the corresponding
day of the week. So much for Father Mathew ; or, else,
so much for the bad state of the times.

QUICK SAILING.—One of the quickest passages, for a
very long period, from Demerara to this port, has been
made by the ship Sandbach, Captain Bellis, which arrived
here on Tuesday. She left the bar at Demerara on the
2d ult. and arrived off this port on the evening of the 31st,
accomplishing the voyage from port to port in twenty-nine
days. The celerity with which the passage was performed
did not admit of any advice being received by the West
India mails announcing the fact of her sailing.

FIRE AT BIRKENHEAD HOTEL STABLES.—ShortIy
after eleven o'clock on Saturday night last, a fire broke
out in the range of stables belonging to Mr. Willoughby,
Birkenhead Hotel. The only engine belonging to the
township was quickly taken to the spot, when it was so
effectually worked that the flames were got under controul
about four o'clock on Sunday morning. The fire damaged
the stables considerably, and destroyed .a valuable horse
and other property belonging to Mr. Willoughby. The
supply of water, which was obtained from the pumps, was
extremely scanty. The fire is supposed to have been
caused by a spark from a candle falling amongst some
'a- straw.

DISSOLUTION OF THE ST. GEORGE STEAM-PACKET
COMPANY.—A general meeting of the proprietors of this
company was held at the
,Clarendon-rooms, on Thursday
last, for the purpose of considering the propriety of effect-
ing an absolute and entire dissolution of the partnership.
After a lengthened and animated discussion, in the course
of which it was elicited that losses of the company, du-
ring the eight years of its existence, had amounted to no
less s sum than half a million sterling, the proprietors
came to the determination of effecting an immediate dis-
solution. The English portion of the proprietors then
agreed to take the steam-packets which belong to the
company and have not been lately is use, while the Cork
proprietors agreed to take the steam-packets which are at
present, and have been for some time past, plying across
the Irish channel.

OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—A
middle-aged man, named James Dixon, was brought be-
fore Mr. Rushton, on Saturday, charged with having, by
means of false pretences, obtained brass articles to the
value of £5O and upwards, the property of Mr. James
Alexander Forrest, hardware merchant, of this town. It
appeared that the prisoner had ordered the articles to be
sent to the Grand Junction Railway, and Messrs. John
Fell and Co., of Wolverhampton, to be debited with the
amount; and that, when the latter were applied to accept
the bill, they denied all knowledge of the transaction.
It had since appeared that, the day after the goods had
been forwarded to the railway, they were sent on by the
prisoner to Manchester, where they were sold by auction
for £35. The invoice was for £52. The prisoner denied
the truth of the charge. Mr. Rushton said he would re-
mand him.

EXPLOSION OF G AS.-A serious explosion of gas, which
caused considerable damage, took place on Thursday
night, at a small public-house in Upper Dawson-street,
immediately oppos►te that entrance into St. John's Mar-
ket which can be seen from Williamson-square. A strong
smell of gas, it appears, had been apparent for some hours,
and shortly before ten o'clock the landlord, Mr. Steven-
son, went up stairs to ascertain the cause, followed by
another man, who carried a candle. He found the front
room full of gas, and opened one of the windows, with a
view to promote its escape ; but a current of air rushing
in, drove the gas into the back room, and in its passage
coming in contact with the lighted candle, a fearful ex-
plosion followed. The roof of the house, which is only
two stories high, was blown off, and all the windows in
the back were entirely destroyed. The landlord was se-
verely burned in his hands, head, and face, and his wife,
who followed the men up stairs, had her cap and one of
ber eyebrows burned. The man who held the candle
escaped. The building has been so much damaged that
the whole of the upper story will have to be taken down
and rebuilt. The accumulation of gas, in the first room
up stairs, was caused by the burner having fallen down,
owing to the thread of the screw by which it was held
having been worn away. The landlady had ordered her
three children to bed a short time before, but the eldest
(a boy) being rather deaf, did not hear her, and they all
remained below. As they slept in the bedroom in which
the principal explosion took place, and which was blown
down, the►r lives were saved by this delay.