The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-04 00:00:00

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LIVE) POOL, PoLicE.

YESTERDAY.—(Before the MAYOR.)
John Green, a lad; an old offender, was committed
.to • ;1)4
tread-mill for three months fur picking the pocket of Zs. Wit;
son of her pocket handkerchief, pnrse, and twu half-sovereigns,
the previous evening, whilst coming over the caual-bridge.
Murray William and Benjamin Mulligan were charged by
Mrs. Firth, of Cunliffe-street, who " keeps a kind of Jerry-
louse," with coming. to. her house on the previous night, and
refusing to leave it. Prisoners swore they would have the best
bed in the house, "bloomed." the candle out "and behaved alto-i
{tether in a very indecorous sort of a way, notwithstanding her
husband had told them they kept no sich an a kind un a house
as Limb!' . This • was the charge. It appeared, however, from
the evidence of Davidson, who tookthe prisoners into custody,
that on searching them he found a large quantity of base copper
coin fo: their possession, on which further charge they were
remanded.
_ _ .

Ann -Davis,' an old offender. who has been twelve times
before the magistrates since February last, was charged with
being
_drunk and disorderly in the streets and "kicking up a
row." She was sent for three months to the House of Correc-
tion, notwithstanding her protestations that it was only the con.
stables that had "a spite' against her.
Ann -Wallis was charged by Mr. Heaton with having pre-
sented to hint for payment some bank post bills, which he heard,
the night before had been stolen. The prisoner was the.person
who had presented the bills'to his vbuug man. Mr. Heaton's clerk
,deposed to prisoner, paying the bills to boon on the previous day:
The owner of the bills not appearing, she was remanded.
-Mary aed, Ann Trainer, two incorrigible rogues, vere :com-
mitted to the sessions,, to take their trial, for stealing a blanket,
the propertY of -11,1rs,.Xeviley; of No. 3, Spading-street. with
whom they had gone to lodge. The blanket had been pawned,
and the prisoner• Mary, iu defence; said she had meant to have
redeemed it but the constable tound her out:- • -
A-blind female, an inmate of the Workhouse, who was in the
"classification," a place reserved there for disorderlies, whose
name we did not }eau', was.charged by Emma Leifer, another'
inmate, Twills violet-111v assaulting her and swearing "-to wash
her hands in her heart's blood." The Assault was fully proved,'
and the prisoner committed amonth to the House of Correction;
for which, with one of her best curtsies, she thanked the Mayor,.
saving, she liked that " tarnation better than the classification."
James Bentley, was charged by Mary Jones, who keeps a
butcher's -stall in -the market, with breaking her nose in .two
places, on F'riday afternoon lust; she also produced a surgeon'4
certificate of the damage which Fed been done to her nasal,
organ, and the: cost ef
.repoiring the same. The prisoner, in
defence, said complainant bad first struck him with a marrow-
bone en the shin. Having no evidence; however, to prove this,
he sae fined twenty shillings and costs, and in deta_ult to be
Cominitted4lir one Month,
ExeostNE UNWHOLESOME MEAT.—Elizabeth Bretland and
Maria Pritchard were charged by 'Wheeler, the inspector of
poultry, with exposing fur sale, in St. John's Market, some
fowls and fish unfit fin- use. After a suitable admonition from
the Mayor, being a first offence they were discharged.
John Paulson, of Bispham-street, was fined 40s. for keeping
his beer-house. open after the hours allowed by law. •

Earl Grey, following' the exattple of other noble landlords,
at his lordship's last audit,' caused' a return of 10 per cent. to
some of his'tenants.

The trial of Mr, notch is expected to come on before Lord
Denman and a special jury at Guildhall, duriug the present
sittings after tern:.
Many farmers are now feeding their cattle on wheat and oats,
as being cheaper than oil cake.
The veteran Lord Lynedoch has been visiting. at Holkham,
and, we are happy to understand that, notwithstanding his ad-.
van Ced age (we believe the venerable general to be in his (Ad
or 93d year), he enjoys the diversion pf shooting, and sees well
enough to kill a bare as she runs by him froin'the coverts. Mr.•
Coke joins and directs the baltues with the same heslth and
energy he has done for many. years.—Nerividi Mercury.
Cardinal Wolsey was not a .native of Ipswich, as ail the his-
torians have erroneously stated. He was born at Long Mel-
ford, near Ipswich, his father being a butcher at that place.
We havebegn,favoured with this erratum fur history by a gen-
tleman who read the fact in a very curious book in the posses-
sion of his Grace the Duke of; Devonshire, intitled "Who was
Cardinal Wolsey

At the back of the altar of Lincoln Cathedral, lies the body
of Michael Honywood, one of 367 persons whom Mary, wife of
Robert Honvwood, of Kent, ancestor of the late M.P. for the
county, lived to see lawfully descended from her—viz., 16 of bee
own body, 114 grand children, 228 great grand children, in al
367 persons, 313 of whom. followed her to her grave.—Kent
Herald.

GOOD NEWS FOR THE BuicicsmtTi. —The Globe evening
paper says—" A new kind of horse-shoe has been invented by
a veterinary surgeon of Taunton. SonierserShire.which is said
In succeed most'eoMpletely. having been tried by an extensive
coach proprietor previously to the inventor taking oat his
patent. They are produced by a machine with steam poner
to the number of 34XX) an hour, and can -be- sold at 2d. each—
one-fourth of the usual cost."

110 A FumNG (Tr PLATE.—The large sum to which unclaimed
dividemts sometimes amount is well known ; the quantity too, of
unclaimed plate in London is very great. At Coutts's banking-
house there is a room filled with chests of plate, deposited there
by persons of whom all trace is lost. Soule have been now
upwards of twenty years there.

LANGUAGE OF THE 'NAO.—If a knight of the whip is asked,
while Aiitygink• horses, "How are you?" the flash answer vow
is, "Very well on oue side, how are you on Colher?"

THE RUNT—CATHOLIC CHAILITY IN IREI. AIN D.-A letter
signed `,`. A Vieshvterian," which appears iu the last number of
the Lohclutoterry Sentinel, states, that whilst the papists of that
district subscribe only £55 Its. for the support of the charitable
institutions there, they have contributed £55 to the"rent for
the mendacious mendicant O'Connell." The protestauts, it is
stated; sith,rribe £1,036 3,6 d. to the charitable institutions,
although 19-20ths of those ieceiviug relief belong to the Itoulau
catholiccommunion. The writer adds—" I almost regret that
...innucv_and Joy...prqtesti:int febew-cit4erts are not
lietler emf;loyjd than in looking 'after the supporting our local
charities, when the Roman Catholics, who derive the benefit
freM them, will make no etfort except when a political object is
to be obtained, or the religion of our fathers to be reviled.".
• A new whaling harpoon has just been invented, at the point
of which there is a cavity, in which is placed a phial of prussic
amt. The harpoon having .been cast, the whale starts back;
and by re-acting upon the line, attached to the harpoon, the
phial is-crushed, and its fatal contents mingling with hiS
very soon destroys his life.
The appointment of Sir Peter tlalket, G.C.IL, as the sur-
cessor of Sir George Cockburn, hi the cumimiud on the West

Indies and Halifaxstation, has been this week officially notified
to the Gallant who,, it is said, 'will hoist his 'big
on board the Melville. Captain P. J. Diiuglas will lvtite.Flag
Captain, and James Smith, .Esq., the Secretary.
PosTnesiocs Lonnixos.—The newspapers contain an ac•
count of a tatal accident near Mezieres, in the Ardennes, where
a Lieutenant Pemonstier unfortunately shot Captain, Domenc;
"the ball (it says) passed through Captain D.'s head, who fell
dead instantly, and then lodged in the body of a shoewaker,"
who died the next morning, leaving a numerous family unpro-
viiled
littaacit OF MARRIAGE CONTRACT.-At the late term of the
Superior. Court, at New Haven, Miss Harriet Potter reel,-
vered a -verdict of 3.0 dollars against Mr. Hezekiah Gilbert,
•for a. breach of a marriage contract. In reference to the above
'salvo for "love unrequited," the editor of the New England
Review thus consnleth: the fair lady :—" Dry up your tears,
Harriet; .350 dollars do not grow on every bush ; besides, as
Charity Vance said, 'the hide and tallow of an old ox will buy
a young steer.'

• Ftaacata---Ou his eighteenth examination, Fieschi, urged by
the presideutto epeak.bur truih, at length assumed a Lobe
of solernuity and said-- Let' all.that I urn about to say Le wi
ten without chauging a single word. I swear by the Most High,
,by man .by the lanai of any father, that I have declared' the
,zruth, o one, not even the king, could have &wan it from
me during the first forty days; but. when I saw at to bed side
Messrs.. Lovocat and ,Bouvier, I immediately deteriniued to
disclose all, and I hare declared all. There was a moment, ou
,the 28th July, when I saw flora the window the 12th Legion
and it! colonel (Lovocat)—those with wheat I had eaten and
drank—a moment wheal .heshated At ten o'etock that
morning I was on the poiut of going to throw myself at the
.feet of .Celenel„ Isovocat and. avowing the whole. I. even. lire-
pared to remove the wooden bars which barricaded my door,
when a rolling of the drums was heard. The 12th Legion
changed its station. That circumstance decided me. Besides,
I considered myself engivierl by honour with Morey and Pepin;
and. moreover, I was indebted a-balance of. twenty francs to
the latter! 1,w,,u1d not pass fora cheat or a coward, and there-
at' e I performed what I had offered and promised to do."
A SBORT LECTURE ON IIEADS.—In one of the lunatic asy-
luins of France, there is a maniac who is labouring under an in-
teresting delusion. His serious impresion iv, that he was be-.
headed during the revolution, and that another person's bead
has been substituted for his own ! Hypochondriacs baveere now
fancied themselves hand-argans, articles of howiehold furniture,
or steam-engines—to say nothing.of beasts, birds, and reptiles.
Some have imagined themselves to be frogs embedded in stone;
others that they were sheets of glass, -and •would break to
pieces (Leing cracked) it' they attempted to move. These are
extreme rases; lint that of the • guillotined' maniac applies,
with stone •sruall variation, to a far larger class of persons than
may be supposed. To meet a man on the outside of a •tnnatie
asylum, who believes that:he has another person's head on his
shoulders, is anything but uncommon. Dow many of our ode-
writers have believed that they were severally possessed of the
head of Pinder ? Where is the orator who hesitates to point to
his own individual caput as the head of Demosthero Scott's
-head is on a dozen pair of shoulders at least ; and there is more
than one writer living who can boast of the identical head of
Milton... We are daily introduced to illustrious members of
the family of the wrongbeads, who have never yet been inside it
lunatic asylum.
EARTNQUAKE.—The Scupulitan Gazette of the 7th instant
has the following accouut of the destruction of Castiglioui by
an earthquake, and the burying of more than one huudied of
its inhabitants under the ruins. In the middle of the night of
the 12th ult., a strong shock of au earthquake was generally, felt
in Calabria Citra; this was followed at intervals by ten other
shucks; souse also were experienced-on the following days. Jr.
the midst of these comm.:ions, Gastiglioni, a district in the
commune of Cosenza, mis levelled to the ground, and one
hundred, out of a population of one thousand, thus metals tins
aitnelvelleetha :Many of the inhabitants who attempted. flight
were seriously wounded by the. falling of the houses. The
small village of Buyello, with a population of three hundred sod
seventy persons, shared the same fate, although with the loss of
only two lives and shout thirty wounded. in -Leppano, a family
of six individuals was hurled in the ruins of a fallen house.: in
Itende, two were killed from the I,atnecanse, and one in Casok. li
Nineteen perished in Santo Pietro a Guanine, where,.als,i,
several houses were thrown to the ground. The buildings its
Cosenza, the capital of the province, were considerably ciauraei.-
ed, although no lives were lost. Calamitous as this event tide
proved, it sinks into insignificance when _compared to a disastei
of the same kind which befel the other Calabria in 1753, a great
part of which, as weli as Sicily, was destroyed by a 11106 t tre-
mendous earthquake, with the loss of 40,000 persons, who
perished in the ruins of towns 4nd villages.
In Persia the husbandmen are yearly admitted to the Kings
table, who addresses them thus:—" We receive our sustenance
from you; by us von are protected; being mutually necessary
for each other, let us live like brethren in amity together."-a-
Mirror:
FAVEuSHAid.—Died lately at Davington, near Faversham,
on the 12th instant, Robert Wraight. at the adVanced age dr 89
years. Although the deceased was possessed of £3200 he lived
in a miserable and obscure manner, and has allowed for several
years jiast, two of hi; own children to be supported by Faver-
sham parish, one up to the time of Abe wretched old man's
death being an invalid inmate of Faversham Workhouse. Be-
tween four and five hundred sovereigns were discovered in a
bag at his lodgings. The board of guardians of the Faversham
union have recently charged the expenses for the maintenance
of the unfortunate invalid to the executors of the deceased, and
of course discharged the other sou from 'the regular parish em-
ployment,