The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-24 00:00:00

LOCAL NE WS.

On Friday evening the Duke of Richmond arrived here, and
on Saturday, accompanied by Mr. Banning and a gentleman
from the Irish Postoilice, inspected the Postoffice steam-packets
and an American packet-ship, and, we believe, the other lions
of Liverpool. His grace is on a visit to the Earl of Derby at
• Know sley.
THE SHERIFF COURTS.—That very acute lawyer, Justice
James Parke, who does every thing well that he takes in hand,
drew the "Act for the Amendment of the Law;" and its beneficial
effects are to be immediately experienced by the public. We
have been favoured, by a professional gentleman in this town
with the following announcement:—" The Sheriff of Lancashire
will hold a court at Manchester every fourth Thursday, and will
be prepared at every such court, and at the courts in Preston,
which are held on the previous Tzteday, to try causes sent down
under the provision of the Law Amendment Act.' He also
purposes making arrangements for holding a court regularly_ in
Liverpool, but it maypr.ohably be six or eight weeks before this
is done. The next sitting of court at Preston will be on the
24th instant, at the Sessions-house there, and at the Manor
Court-house in Manchester on the 26th instant. The causes
for trial on issues from the superior courts are to be entered in
the paper at the Sheriff's office, Preston, on the Monday pre-
ceding each court." We imagine we shall hear no more of the
present Chancellor's wild scheme for the establishment of local
courts after this.
SUlClDE.—Yesterday week, about half-past ten o'clock, Mr.
Robert Lebron, who kept the Union Coffee-house, Great Homer-
' street, committed suicide. Ile had, it is rumoured; attempted,
some hours before, to shoot his wife, but the pistol fortunately
missed fire. At the hour above-mentioned, he left a friend in
the bar, proceeded to the back kitchen, and there, seating him-
„self on a chair, with his right.---elhoW resting on the boiler, he
deliberately placed the pistol upon his right temple and dis-
charged its contents into his head. He never spoke after the
fatal act, but lingered for two hours, when he died. In his coat
pocket a second pistol, loaded with poWder and ball, was found.
Embarrassed circumstances are said to have led to the rash act.
The deceased had frequently spoken of shooting himself. Ver-
dict, insanity. •
MUSICAL FESTIVAL —At the approaching festival the Rev.
:Henry I. Gunning, A.M.,_ a nephew •of the Earl: of Bradford,
and rector of Wigan; has kindly undertaken to preach the open-
ing sermon on Tuesday morning, the Ist of October, and, from
the report we have beard of his abilities as a preacher, we shall
be much disappointed if the charities do not find in him a most
able and effective advocate. The selection of anthems and
other pieces of sacred music which will be introduced in the
course of the service, appears to be very judiciously chosen, and,
as most of the principal performers will take a part, the lovers
of sacred music will have, a great treat, and many persons, no
doubt, will be gratified on that occasion who, from various
causes, may. be prevented attending any• of the three grand per-
formances in St. Luke's Church. We understand the com-
mittee, under the able superintendence of Mr. Foster, have
made several alterations in this church, which will afford a con-
siderable increase of accommodation to the company ; the
raised seats that were formerly placed under the two side
galleries are to be done away with altogether, and the whole of
the area of the church will form, as it- were, one grand aisle,
which, when filled, as we hope to see it, from one extremity to
the other, will render the coup-d'teil very striking. The lower
part of the orchestra has also been raised, which, it is expected,
will cause the voices of the performers to be heard to much
greater advantage. We are happy to hear the applications for
tickets are already very numerous, and so much earlier than usual
as to have induced the committee, by great exertions, to have
them ready for distribution to the public on Monday last. Our
noble representative, Lord Sandon, will not return from his
tour in Switzerland in time to be present, but his lordship has
not been unmindful of the benevolent object of the meeting,
having desired Mr. Wainwright to transmit to the committee
twenty guineas, as his donation to the funds.
LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL COMPANY.—We understand
that the Leeds and Liverpool Canal committee, at their general
assembly, held at Preston during the last week, have, in reply
to an application made some time ago to them by the Worship-
ful the -Mayor of Liverpool, for the use of the surplus water
of the canal, for the extinction of fires, the cleansing the sewers,
2k.e., in aid of the plan suggested by Mr. Moore, in his letter to.
the Common Council dated 7th December' 1831, published in
our paper of 18th January, 1833, granted permission in the
handsomest manner, for the benefit of the town, on a mere
nominal consideration, so long as they may . not themselves
stand in need of such water for their own canal purposes.
ADVANTAGES OF STEAM.—Great as is the utility of railways
in a commercial point of view, their advantages in reference to
our domestic interests and comforts. are neither few nor incon-
siderable. By the operation of steam pow& on a railway in
annihilating distance, places hitherto secluded and remote find
unexpected access to ready markets for their agricultural and
mineral produce, and an increased supply of the necessaries of
life is afforded at reduced prices to the more densely populated
districts. Competition is excited, and its sure concomitants
are, improvement, cheapness, and public benefit. Thus, 'since
the introduction of steam power into navigation on the railway,
fresh Irish butter has been retailed in Manchester within
eiehteen hours from tile tjuie, of its shipment...lt. Bolt .o. Prime
beef, fattened Mid-killed- iu Ireland, has been supplied in Liver-
pool at 4d. per pound, and coals are now brought to our own
doors, at a reduction,, within a short period, of fully 2s. per ton;
and from the impulse giving to mining speculation in this
neighbourhood, the mice will unquestionably be still further
reduced. There seems, indeed, to be hardly any limit to the
production of coal in the vicinity of this tuwn, under which the
coal is said to extend. •

NOVEL CONVEY ANCE.—A large steam-boiler, fourteen tons
weight, made by Messrs. Foster and Griffin, of Liverpool, for
IL Haigh and Co., of Dodder Bank Distillery, in Ireland, was
safely conveyed across the channel in the folltiwing enterprising
manner :—lt was thrown into the Mersey at Liverpool, and
towed across the channel by the Ballinasloe steamer, Captain
Mulholland, by whose great attention this hitherto untried plan
succeeded, and the boiler was safely taken into the river Liffey,
floated up the river Dodder, and landed at the Distillery. • The
success of the undertaking reflects the highest credit on the ma-
nufacturers, as it proves the superior manner in which the work
was executed. Had it not been perfectly tight, it would have
been impossible to.take it over in this safe and comparatively
ealy way.
eOISON FROM EATING A TOAD-P ADDOCK.—An inquest was
held yesterday before Robertson Gladstone, Esq., coroner, on
the body of John Riley a boy of nine years of age, who had
gone out with some other boys on Thursday morning last to
gather blackberries. They observed a coach stop on the Kirk-
dale-road, they being at the time in a field adjoining it; and a
person got off the box, and picked up something in the hedge,
which appeared like a mushroom. He broke it in two, and
threw it on the ground. The deceased, John Riley, ran and
picked it up, and eat some of the stalk. The same evening he
was taken 111, ou his return home: and his mother and father
being at Bolton at the time, there was only an old woman to
attend to him, who was ignorant of the cause of his' illness. On
Friday his mother returned, and immediately procured medical
assistance; she found him in a high state of delirium, and it was
with the greatest difficulty that he could be confined to his bed.
In this state he lingered until three o'clock on Sunday morn-
ing, when he died. From the time that professional aid was
procured every thing that skill could devise was resorted to.
—Verdict " Accidental Death."

HONESTY REWARDED.—On Thursday morning last, as John
•Hainsworth, a waggoner in the employ of Messrs. Firth, carriers
from Leeds, was descending the hill at' the entrance into Brad-
fora, he found a small parcel, which he delivered to one of his
employers immediately on his arrival. On being opened it was
found to contlin the l&rge sum of 1:12,000, more than half of
which was in cash. It had been lost by the representative of a
Leeds house on his way to Bradford market that morning. The
waggoner was presented with the sum of five pounds !-lalifux
Guardian.

The British and Foreign Bible Society has expended since its
establishment £1,967,058 18s., and issued in Bibles and Testa-
ments 8,145,456 copies.
ROBBERIES.—The town, we regret to say, is now full of
thieves. During the week there has been an attempt at house-
breaking every night, but, in almost every instance, owing to
the activity of the watch, without success. On Tuesday night
the house of Mr. Cyrus Morrall, in Toxteth-park, was broken
into. The robbers entered throuh the front parlour window,
the sash of which was forced up %y means of a crow-bar, and
the shutters broken open. Fortunately, the door of the parlour
happened to be locked, and they were thus prevented from
ransacking the other parts of the house. The only articles
carried off—were some silver tea-spoons and sugar-tongs, and a
musical snuff-box. On Wednesday the snuff-box was pledged
at a pawnbroker's, by a woman named Charlotte Bellion, who
was, consequently, taken into custody by the police, together
with five lads who lodged in the house. She said that she got
the box from a gentleman in Dale-street, at three o'clock
in the morning. They were brought before the Mayor on
Thursday, when two of the lads were discharged, and the
other prisoners were remanded, and the woman committed.
—On Thursday morning plate to the value of about forty
pounds was stolen from the dwelling-house of Miss Watts,
Norton-street, Islington. The thieves effected their en-
trance through the back yard, and forced out a pace of the
kitchen door. So cool were they in the execution of ithe
robbery, they broke most of the plated articles and left them
behind, probably as not suited for the melting-pot. They
escaped unheard"; but, as they were passing through Islington,
one of the watchmen observed them with the bundle, and,
suspecting they had been out on a " conveyance" excursion,
sprung his rattle. They dropped the plate, and instantly gave
leg-bail. The plate was restored to Miss Watts in the morn-
ing.—On the same night some thieves concealed themselves on
the premises of Mr. Smith, wine-merchant, Hanover-street,
until after the doors had been locked. They then proceeded to
burst open all the drawers in the counting-house, and, having
filled the cans with spirits, ready to carry away, undid the bolts
of the delivery-door, and prepared to escape. Fortunately, the
Watchman made his appearance, and they decamped, taking
with them a body-coat belonging to the warehouseman.

DIABOLICAL INCENDIARISAL ATTEMPT TO FIRE A COT-
TON MILL—On the night of Monday fortnight a most diaboli-
cal attempt was made to set fire to tie extensive works, lately
erected, at Blackpits, between Rochdale and Haslingden, by
Messrs. Turner and Co. The incendiary had broken one of
the squares in a window of the card room, and thrown in two
bunches of matches, lighted at both ends. One of the bunches
fell upon the floor, and after o, portion of the ends had been con-
sumed, had gone out without doing any mischief. The other
had fallen on a drawing frame and set fire to the cotton near
the rollers. The several blazing portions of the cotton had fallen
into one of the cans which stood underneath the rollers. The
rollers fortunately stopped the upward progress of the flame,
and there happening not to be much cotton in the can, and its
depth preventing the neeessary supply of air to support com-
bustion, after burning a short time, it had also become extinct.
The two bundles of partially consumed matches were found on
the following morning, and every exertion has been since made
to discover the perpetrator of this diabolical-crime, but we are
sorry to say without effect; although the proprietors of the mills
have offered a reward of a hundred pounds.—Manchester Guard.