The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-07 00:00:00

LOCAL NE WS.

TOE COUNTESS OF WILTON.—The pubic will hear with great
satisfaction that this amiable lady is now taking under her im-
mediate•protection six boys front so many indigent families in
Prestwich deprived of one parent, to be employed in the grounds
at Heaton Park, clothed, maintained, educated, and then ap-
prenticed to some trade or calling, at her ladyship's sole cost.—
This benevolent act is another valuable feature in the weli-known
character of the countess, and is likely to be a blessing to the
objects of it.

PRESENT TO RICH kiln DA wson, ESQ.—Yesterday two gen-
tlemen,• members of the Liverpool district of the South Lanca-
shire Conservative Association, presented their district honorary
secretary, Mr. Di son, with a beautiful mold snuff box, as a
token of the society's gratitude for his unwearied labours.in the
formation of that constitutional and loyal body. The edges of
the box are •ornamented with a rich massive chased border.
Mr. Dawson's family arms are engraved on the lid of the box,
and are encircled with the folloWing inscription Presented
to Richard. Dawson, Esq., by the Liverpool members of the
South Lancashire Conservative Association, for the great ser-
vices rendered by him at its format:on. Sept. 4, MIL" The
date is commemorative of the great dinner at Newton, when the
Earl of 'Wilton presided as chairman. Speaking of the •inten-
tion of the society to snake this present, the Liverpool Chronicle
of Saturday last says, "ill owe vet we may differ (rota Mr. Daw:
son on political subjects, we must hear testimony not only to his
private worth hut to the zeal and energy which he has displayed
in behalf of the party to which he belongs."

NORTII CIIESHIRE.-1t is with heart felt satisfaction that we
announce that a surporter of judicious improvements in church
and state, but decidedly conservative, with whom self-aggran-
diiemeut or the emoluments of office are no objects, and who
can thilrefore devote his time and abilities to the interest of the
county and the gond of his country, will certainly offer himself
to the constituency of the northern division of this county 'for
their suffrages whenever an opportunity may occur.—Siockport
Adrertisdr.

LIVERPOOL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—These gardens will be
reopened for thd ensuing season on .Monday, the 11th May.
We refer our readers to the advertisement in this day's Standard
for the particulars of the entertainments to be given on that
occasion. The following presents have lately been received:—
An Ursine sloth and a monkey frmn Captain Harding, ship
Bounty Hall • an American black bear from Captain Nichol-
sou. ship Ho; a Caffrarian eat from Captain Adam
M'Minu, ship Hibernia; an Indian buffalo from Captain Ellis,
ship Tyrer; a black carrasow and a ground dove from James
Aikin, Esq., Alfred-street; an American fox from Branson
Sands, Esq., Bred; lield-house ; a ring-tailed monkey from Cap-
tain Goma. ship Isabel; an American. deer and plants from
Captain Masters, brig Tamiso; a Peruvian fox from Captain
Sprott. brig Philomela; a curious tortoise from Captain Simp-
son, Beat-street; a monkey from the Rev. M. Joseph, Sey-
mour-street; an Indian monkey from Captain Highat, ship
Gipsy; a large tortoise from Mr. Grebow, mate of the brig
Pa.rsee ; an African monkey from Mr. S. H. Clarke, jun.. Up-
per Pitt-street; a large Sitnia monkey from Captain Eskelly,
brig Sophia.

TOXTETH-PA RK.—At a meeting of the subscribers for watch-
ing and lighting Mill-street and its vicinity, held on the 3d
instant, at the Public-office, Toxteth-park, it•was unanimously
resolved, that the moneys arising from the sale of lamp-posts,
lamps, after paying to the late treasurer the balance 'lnc to
him, should be appropriated to the use of the following charita-
We institutions :—St. James's School, £5; St. John -Baptises
Ditto, £5; the Barrington School, £5; the British Schools,
Warwick-street, £5; • District Provident Society, £5; the
Stranger's Friend Society, £3. 2s. 6d.
DRAWBACK ON SOAP.—Memorials from the chamber of com-
merce, and from the various trades in this town, have been ( or
are about to be) forwarded to the board of trade, representing
the injury which will accrue to commerce if the provision of an
act passed some time ago, disallowing after a certain date (now
nearly expired) the drawback heretofore allowed on soap, be
put in execution.—Manchester Chronicle.
PENDLETON.—LIBERALITY IN FAVOR OF THE CHURCH.—
The very old Sunday-school at Pendleton is about to be taken
down, and a new one on a handsome scale, in connexion with
and nearly adjoining to the beautiful church, is to be built im-
mediately. On Monday a voluntary subscription was commen-
ced to obtain the necessary mtaus fur this object, and a sum
amounting to betwixt four and five hundred pounds was most
liberally subscribed in a short time, by a few of the principal in-
habitants; so excellent a spirit in support of the established
church animates that rising district.
BA nnAtiors-MttnEß NEAR BURY.—A most savage murder
was committed on Tuesday last, in the neighbourhood of Bury,
under the following circumstances :—.P; man nameirJaines Bar-
low, a calico printer, had for several years been in the habit of
treating his wife and family with great brutality, and latterly
his conduct became so outrageous, that the poor woman was
compelled to leave him, and she went to lodge with her children,
in a house at Woodhill. About tour o'clock on Wednesday
afternoon, Barlow went to the house, and endeavoured to pre-
vail upon her to live with him again • but she declined to do so.
He then took a written paper from his pocket, and laid it on his
wife's knee, but she threw it behind the fire, lions whence he
snatched it and put it again into his pocket. Then, after re-
maining silent for a few minutes, he suddenly seized her by the
legs, and drew her off the cnair upon the floor; on which the
woman with whom she lodged, appreheirding some further vio-
lence, ran out of the house to procure assistance. Oa her re-
turn with one or two of the neight4ours. they fount the poor •
woman with one knee on the floor, her hands and arms shockingly
mangled, and her husband with a butcher's knife in one hand,
which he had plunged up to the handle iu her throat, and hold-
ing her by the hair with the other baud. One of the women
who had come iu immediately seized him by the coat collar to
pull him away, on which he relinquished his hold of the knife,
and struck the woman a violent blow with his fist. Ile then
drew the knife flour his wil'e's throat, and endeaVoured to stab
her to the heart, but the knife glanced from her stays, without
wounding her; on which he completed his desperate purpose by
cutting her throat, and she expired on the spot. When one of
the women exclaimed she was dead, he said that he had come
for the purpose of killing tier; and that they might hang hiin'or
do as they pleased with him. Seeing a number of people col-
lecting about the house, he rushed out and attempted to escape,
but beim; closely pursued, he gave himself up, and was commit-
ted to prison. On Thursday an inquest was held on the body,
before .Mr. Deal den, and a verdict of wilful murder was return-
ed by the jury against the husband, who was committed to Lan-
caster Castle for trial. The poor woman is stated to have been
a person of very correct conduct, and of very mild temper, and
her industry and management in bringing up a large family
with very small assistance from her husband, were the admira-
tion of all her neighbours.
DEBATE ON THE IRISH CHURCH Qt'ESTION.—CObbeII,, in his
Register of last Saturday, speaking of the debate on Lord John
Russell's motion, says :—" During this debate I have heard
more fine speaking und the promulgation of more error than I
have ever before listened to in my life; and I cannot refrain
from expressing, with some degree of gratitude, the very great
pleasure which I enjoyed during the delivery of the speeches of
Lord liowick on the one side, and of Mr. Gladstone and the
Selicitur-General on the other side. Lord John Russell's
speech was good, but with those of the other three gentlemen I
was delighted beyond measure. They made me forget the suf-
focation which 1 was enduring from the crowded state of the
house."

IRISH TENANTS.—We take the following from the Clunmel
Advertiser:—" On Weonesday last a man named Andrew Hunt
was ejected from some land which be held near Windgap, and
on the forlowing day returned and was in the act of taking away
the windows from the house, which he claimed as his, when the
wife of the silan who had been put in care of it (he being from
home) endeavoured to prevent hint. Hunt, determined not to
be impeded in his design, struck the poor woman wit h the
coulter-of a plough 'on the head and fractured her skull : she
remains in a senseless state. Hunt has been committed to Kil-
kenny gaol by 'Hill W. Rowan, Esq., to abide his trial at the
next assizes of that town." hunt was ejected for non-payment
of rent by his landlord, George Sheppard, Esq., of the city of
Waterford, previously to the summer assizes of ISM. He did
not allow the record-16 go to trial, but consented to a judgment
by which his landlord vt possession in the month of November
following, and appointed a man to hold and take care of the
estate for him. Hunt subsequently took forcible possession
from this man, but he was,.lr,wever, dislodged. On the night
of the 23d March a party of moon appeared on the estate and (lug
up and carried away eighteen apple trees. Its extent is about
one hundred statute acres and beiT.4. tine arable land is of con-
siderable value. blunt was a man moving. in a superior grade
to the generality of Irish farmers. The windows of the house
formed a part Or the property let to Hunt, and his attempt was
them efore an offence against
.aspecial act 6f. parliament passed
expressly to prevent the . and malicious destruction of
dwelling-houses in Ireland. Mr. George Sheppard is the brother
of Mr. Sheppard of this .town, who married a daughter of the
late Admiral Murray.

A fire broke out, in the middle of last month, in the pope's
apartments et Rome, which it was at one time feared would
have eioiangered the vatican itself, but b) great effswrts it was
got under. It was ascertained to have been occasioned by the
negligence of the servants.

NEW ROTARY ,TRAM ENGINR.—An engine on this principle
has lately been invented and patented by John Reynolds, Esq.,
of Pontrhydyven, in this county, which is calculated for great
power in a comparatively small compass, and in all probability
will supersede the reciprocating engine, either for locomotive or
marine purposes. One of twenty-horse power has lately been
constructed, by way of experunent. It is similar in form to the
Earl of Du ndonald's engine; and although the experimental one
was imperfeety packed and bored, vet it worked with six per
cent. friction, and snaking sixty revolutions in a minute, with a
pressure of 50lbs. upon the inch. There is one now in course of
manufacture, and the first trial of its capabilities will be on the
Manchester and Liverpool railway; it is expected to be ready
in about two months, the friction of which will not exceed three
or four per cent.—The Cambrian.
WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.—WIGLEY T. 04601:MAN MAHON.
—This case. which our readers will remember was one of au
assault by the latter on the former, near the end of last term,
within the precincts of the Court of King's Bench, was to have
come on on Thursday before a bench of magistrates at these
sessions. It was removed, at the instance of the plaintiff Wig-
ley, by certiorari to the King's Bench, where it will be tried the
first week of next term. The defendant had his witnesses in
court, and was prepared to enter upon his own defence. From
the number of gentlemen in court the case seemed to have ex-
cited no inconsiderable interest, which could only be equalled
by the subsequent disappointment expressed at its postpone-
ment. The defendant, we understood, expressed himself most
anxious for the trial to be proceeded with, as he had business of
importance in Ireland which demanded his immediate presence.
Ile has now to await the issue another fortnight.