The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL BTANIARD.

A FARMER CHARGED WITH INCENDIARISM.—Oo
Tuesday last, Mr. '1 hos. Chinery, a respectable tarrner,
was charged at the Castle liedingham (Surrey) Petty
Session with setting fire to farming buildings in his occu-
pation. The evidence was very slight against the pri-
soner, and he was acquitted.
FATAL. FIRE. —At a fire which took place on Thursday
evening last, about eleven o'clock, upon the premises
occupied by Mr. W. Argent, hearth-rug mar.utacturer,
16, London-street, Ratcliff, a poor woman, 72 years of
age, was so shockingly burned that she has since died.
The damage by the fire to the building, furniture, and
stock was inconsiderable.

IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.—Up to the present time
the number of persons confined in Lancaster Castle, for
debts of and under £2O, who have availed themselves of
the new act, is 24. There are 97 debtors still in the
Castle. Of these about 43 are in for debts of and below
£2O, and several are preparing to make the necessary ap-
plication.

ACCOMMODATION BILLS.—At the Central Criminal
Court, on Tuesday, a young man was indicted for haling
obtained a sum of £350 by false pretences. It appeared
that be bad presented for discount an accommodation bill,
which he represented to have been given in regular busi.
ness transaction, and so obtained discount. The accused
escaped conviction by a flaw in the indictment, which
misdescribed the scene of the alleged transaction.
A vessel which arrived in London on Thursday morning
from Ichaboe, with a cargo of guano, reports that on her
departure from that island there were not less than 46
British vessels taking their turn to bring home guano. In
the neighbouring island there were eight more ships simi-
larly occupied. It is interesting to know that this new
branch of traffic affords so much employment for the
shipping interests of this country.

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ANGLING.—Last week was the best of the season for
anglers. Sir Richard Sutton caught 52 salmon and grilses
—one day's take in the Inver amounting to 9; another
day at the Beauly 5, one of the fish weighing 17th. Mr.
J. M. Campbell, landed 15 from Laxford ; Colonel Hay,
5 ; from the Kirkeg Mr. Maxwell took 8 ; In the Ness,
Sir H. Meaux, Mr. Arabin, and other gentlemen have
taken some grilses.—lnverness Courier.
RIVALS TO ROYALTY.—On Monday, the sth instant,
the wife of Mr. 'l'. Thomas, hatter and inkeeper of Pro-
bus, Cornwall, was confined of a daughter. The worthy
pair most loyally chose the Queen's wedding-day for their
own nuptials, and with equal loyalty have kept even pace
with her Majesty in the nursery, their fourth little one
having been born but a few hours before the infant
prince.

MURPERS.—A woman has been committed at Bristol
on a charge of " wilful murder," for killing an infant
child, the daughter of a man with whom she cohabited,
and who had a wife living, but whom he has deserted.—
On Thursday, a man named New, whilst in a state of
drunkenness. murdered his wife at Richmond, in Surrey,
by stabbing her with a knife, in consequence of her re-
fusing to give him more money to spend in drink.
EXECUTION.—On Friday last the extreme penalty of
the law was carried into effect on Mark Sherwood, for the
murder of his wife at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The prisoner
confessed his guilt, but denied that the murder was pre-
meditated, and asserted that it was his wife's provoking
conduct at the moment he was shaving which led him to
commit the crime. He died in a very penitent frame of
mind.

FATAL CASE OF SOMNAMBULISM.—On Sunday week,
William Noon, aged 72, who lived with his son-in-law at
Ison-green, near Nottingham, rose from his bed in a fit of
somnambulism, put on his coat and waistcoat, opened the
window, and jumped out. The poor man's scull was frac-
tured by the fall, and he was otherwise dreadfully injured.
At the inquest the following verdict was returned :—That
the deceased accidentally fell out of his chamber window,
he having got out of bed and gone to the window in his
sleep.

THE TEA TRADE, Aug. 19.—The tea market has been
steady since our last, although the large prospective sup-
ply rather presses on it, and it is considered will prevent
that decided improvement which the excellent consump-
tion going on would otherwise occasion. At the public
sales of 28,000 packages, but a very limited proportion
found buyers, and this is partly to be ascribed to the dis-
satisfaction manifested at the present system of weighing
in some of the docks. The deliveries last week from the
London warehouses were 519,7141 b., being rather under
those of the previous week.

A HOPEFUL FAMILY.-At the last Wells Assizes a
most notorious character named George Culliford, of Il-
chester, was tried on four indictments, three for burglary
and one for sacrilege, and transported for the term of his
natural life, having only been liberated from gaol about
five days, during which period he committed all these
offences. The judge, told him if the law had not been
altered, he would most assuredly have left him for execu-
tion. This makes seven of this family in a short period
that have been sent out at Government expense.—
Western Flying Post.

IMPORTATION OF RACOONS.—ILFRACOMBE.--A far-
mer in the parish of Ilfracombe having set a vermin
trap in one of fields was surprised one morning last
week to find in it a racoon, which, as it was merely
caught by its claw, he was enabled to secure and preserve.
Another of the same species was lately taken at Lynton,
and a third has been traced to Ilfracombe. They are
supposed to have found their way to this country in some
of the timber vessels which have lately arrived from Ame-
rica—the two near Ilfracombe were probably from the
vessel wrecked at Wollacombe.—North Devon Advertiser .
" THE BITER BAT."—About a fortnight since, a young
man, neatly dresses, having the appearance of a country
schoolmaster or dissenting minister, and calling himself
John Duncan, went round to many of the booksellers in
Bristol, and ordered quantities varying from six dozen
to 100, of a 6d. pamphlet, entitled " The Biter Bit."
The books were never called for, and it was found on
comparing notes, that 3,000 copies had been procured
from London at his request. The pamphlet is a farrago
of nonsense, detailing the quarrels of two itinerant lec-
turers.

NOVEL FRAUD UPON TH•E BANK OF ENGLAND.—
About three weeks since a £5OO note was presented to
one of the cashiers for payment in specie, being marked
to all appearance in the usual way, and having the corner
torn off. It was discovered afterwards that the note,
although genuine, had been stolen, and the number stop-
ped at the bank ; but that the delinquent himself imitated
the red-ink mark of the chequer, and thus obtained pay-
ment. Two notes were got rid of in this manner, and
the Clerks' Guarantee Fund at the bank will, it is said,
have to make good the amount, £l,OOO. The parties
guilty of the fraud are as yet unknown.
THE COLLIERS.—The whole of Lord Londonderry's
collieries are fully stocked with men, and again i❑ active
operation. The Little Town Pitmen (a colliery belong-
ing to the executors of Lady Durham) have also gone in ;
and the men at Sherburn Hill and Lumney (under the
same owners) have also resumed their employment. Old
Hetton having brought upwards of 100 Welshmen, at
once convinced the old workmen that they must either go
to work or have the colliery filled up without them; so
they, at last, had the good sense to make sure of what
was left to them. North Hetton is also in full work.—
Durham Chronicle.
ROBBERY AT THE EARL OF HARROWBY'S.—At the
Marlborough-street Police-office, on Thursday, Alfred
Walker, a bug destroyer, No. 41, Vere-street, Clare-
market, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, on suspicion
of having been concerned in stealing from the residence
of the Earl of Harrowby, No. 39, Grosvenor-square, be-
tween £4OO and £5OO in bank notes and gold, and some
articles of jewellery, the property of Elizabeth Tarbox,
the housekeeper. The wife of Walker, and a man em-
ployed about his lordship's house, named Tuddenham,
were also included in the charge. Walker was remanded
for a week, and the other prisoners were discharged. The
property had been taken from the bedroom of the house-
keeper.

It will be heard with regret, that " the Duke" was
seized, on Sunday week, with a fit of deafness, of so extra-
ordinary a character as to produce some uneasiness among
those more immediately about his person. His Grace has
always been subject, more or less, to slight attacks of this
kind, which is accounted for, by saying that he supposed
the roar of the artillery in his various battles had de-
ranged or impaired the auricular nerve ; but this last at-
tack was so decided as to make him completely deaf; and
though he went to his office in the Horse Guards, and at-
tended the Cabinet, and his general health appeared alto-
gether unimpaired, yet at his advanced age the slightest
symptom of derangement cannot but be regarded with un-
easiness.

A JUVENILE SUICIDE.—On Saturday last an inquest
was held at Sneinton, near Nottingham, on the body of
Frederick Smith, aged 14 years, who met his death under
the following melancholy circumstances :—The deceased,
who was a servant at Mr. R. Morley's, had been a witness
of the execution of Saville the murderer, and had often
since been heard to say that he should like to know how
hanging felt. On the day of the inquiry he had done his
work in his usual cheerful manner, but in the afternoon
he was found suspended by a cord from a tree, quite dead,
and from the manner in which he was discovered, there
can be little doubt that he was experimenting upon the
theory and practice of hanging. This makes the fourteenth
death which has taken place in consequence of Saville's
execution.

SERIOUS ROBBERIES.—On Wednesday, at the Central
Criminal Court, Octavius Clarke (son of an eminent de-
ceased divine) was indicted for stealing a gold watch, two
gold rings, a coat, and other articles, value £2O, the pro-
perty of D. S. Leese, from the dwelling-house of Anne
Hetherington ; a gold watch, value £5, the property of
Alexander Stewart ; a mare, value £l5, the property of
George Smoothy ; and also a number of less valuable
articles, the property of divers persons residing in the city
of London. On being called upon to plead, the prisoner,
in a low tone of voice, said he was " Guilty." The Com-
mon Serjeant said that the depredations of the prisoner
had been of a most wholesale nature, and bad been carried
on in a most systematic manner. The sentence of the
court was, that he be transported beyond the seas for the
term of ten years.
POWER OF THE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS.—There
has been rather a long correspondence going on for some
time between the commissioners and the guardians of the
Bradfield Union, Berkshire, relative to the appointment
of a master to the workhouse. The commissioners refuse
to sanction the appointment of a Mr. Brangwin ; and the
guardians will not discharge him. The former in a letter,
dated July 27, say, "it is not their intention that the
workhouse shall remain in Brangwin's charge;" and the
guardians resolve, that they will not proceed to another
election, till the charges against Mr. B. are known and
proved to their satisfaction. Last week Mr. Brangwin
was brought before the magistrates, and Mr. Assistant
Commissioner Parker laid an information against him
under the act, which subjects persons disobeying the
commissioners' orders, to fine and imprisonment. The
magistrates were compelled to convict Mr. Brangwin, and
they fined him one farthing.