The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-11 00:00:00

`VtoLuNT ASSAULT.—Murdock Al'Quin, mate of the
ship Atlantic, was yesterday fined 10s. and costs, at the
Police-court, for a most vicious assault on the shipkeeper
of that vessel, by beating him severely, and attempting
to strangle him with a rope. In defence, he said he had
found the complainant asleep.
CHILD DESERTION.—Yesterday afternoon, a parcel
which proved to contain a child about three weeks old,
was left in the counting-house of Messrs. Rawlinson and
Co. Tithebarn-street, along with a note from the mother
addressed to the parties in question. The child was
promptly conveyed to the workhouse, but the mother, an
Irishwoman, who is known, and who a few days ago ap-
plied to the authorities for a pass to Ireland, has thus far
escaped the vigilance of the police.
PERSONAL BEAUTY !—Amongst the most valuable
attributes of beauty, whether regarded as conducive to
manly purity and grace of aspect, or as auxiliary to femi-
nine loveliness, a beautiful set of Teeth must ever rank
among the most important elements of a favourable per-
sonal appearance. The embellishment and preservation
of the Teeth and Gums have therefore ever been regarded
with peculiar interest, and amongst the mass of prepara-
tions suggested for these desirable purposes, we would
particularize ROWLAND'S ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice,
as unrivalled for its excellence in purifying, embellishing,
and preserving these important and attractive objects.—
See advt.

HOUSE BREAKING.-At the police-court yesterday,
two well known characters, named Wm. Mar tin and John
Jones, alias Miller, were charged before Mr. Rushton
with having entered the house of Miss Elizabeth Welsh,
in Daulby-street. From the evidence it appeared that
Miss Welsh, in company with the servant, locked up the
house on Saturday morning, and on returning shortly af-
terwards found the key turned in the lock without libe-
rating the door ; at that moment the prisoners were seen
to leap from a wall that encloses some waste ground ad-
joining the house, and pursued by some painters who were
working opposite. They were joined by several police-
officers and an inspector, and ultimately captured in the
fields adjoining Whitefield-house. One of the pri-
soners was seen to throw a needle-case from him, and on
the other was found a handkerchief, both of which were
identified as Miss Welsh's property. Property to the
value of £3O had boen deposited ready for remoual, and
almost every drawer in the house was forced, though the
parties could not have been in the house more than a
quarter of an hour. They said nothing in defence, and
were committed for trial at the next sessions.

DEATH OF A FEMALE.—Yesterday week an inquest was
held, on view of the body of Ellen Lancaster.—The sister
of the deceased, who lodges in Atherton-court, Atherton-
street, said deceased was between 30 and 40 years of age.
On Friday afternoon last, deceased went to witness's
house to see her. She seemed very dull and low hearted.
She complained of being weak, and said her inside was
gone. On the following day (Saturday) witness left her
between one and two o'clock. Deceased was then in the
same state as in the morning. Just as witness was leaving
her, she said she would lie down a little. Witness re-
turned home a little before six o'clock, and on going into
the room saw the deceased lying on the bed. Witness,
who thought she was asleep, put her band under her head,
and found her neck stiff, and she then saw that her throat
was cut. She called for assistance, but she was quite
dead. Mr. Taylor, surgeon, saw the deceased after death.
She had a large deep wound in her throat, two inches
wide, and two deep. The right carotid artery and the
windpipe were both divided. If the limbs of the scissors
(found under the bed clothes) were open the wound might
have been made by them. A wound (which had been made
in the abdomen) would have caused death if she had lived
two or three days, the bowels protruding, but the wound
in the throat was the cause of death, which must have en-
sued in about a quarter of an hour after it was made. The
jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased was
found dead with her throat cut.

ATTE➢IPTED PUBLIC-HOUSE ROBBERY.—On Satur-
day evening last, about eleven o'clock, Mr. John Andrews,
publican and coach proprietor, Scotland-place, on going
up stairs to his room to get some cash to pay his men,
found a door open which generally was kept shut, and he
saw his cash boxes, which were always kept in a closet,
lying on the bed. He was about to call out to the parties
below, when he fancied he heard somebody in the room.
He looked below the bed, and saw a man, who knocked
the candle out of his hand, and the room was then in
darkness. Mr. Andrews instantly seized bold of the fel-
low, and held him by the throat so firmly that he called
out, " Don't choke me." Mr. A., at the same time, cal-
led out " Murder," but, in consequence of the noise be-
low, occasioned by the companions of the prisoner, who
had been in the house all the evening, the shouts were not
heard by any of the servants. Mrs. Bond, however, who
lives next door, heard them, and went into the house and
told Mrs. Andrews. A niece of Mr. Andrews' then went
up stairs, not having a candle with her. she returned tell-
ing the parties below that some one was murdering her
uncle. A coachman, named Smith, then went into the
room, and as the niece was returning up stairs again with
a lighted candle, two men, who were on the stairs, knocked
it out of her hand. Other parties, however came up,
and the fellow was secured. Upon his person was found
a great number of skeleton keys, and, in the room, pick-
locks were afterwards discovered. On the way to Rose
Hill Bridewell the prisoner made his escape, but on Wed-
nesday, Inspector Anders apprehended him at the George's
Dock. He was brought before Mr. Rushton, on Thurs-
day, and gave his name as James Meyers. He was com-
mitted for trial.

THE ASSIZES.—The following circular has been for-
warded to the profession :—Prothonotary's Office, Preston
July 3d, 1843. The next assizes will commence, at Lan-
caster, on Saturday, the 12th August, and at Liverpool,
on Thursday the 17th August. The records in cases to be
tried at Lancaster, and at issue on or before Friday, the
28th of July, should be ordered on that day ; and in those
to be tried at Liverpool, and at issue on or before Wed-
nesday, the 2nd of August, should he ordered on that
day. The two last days for making up issues in time for
trial at the next assizes will be :—ln causes to be tried at
Lancaster, Thursday, the 3rd of August. In causes to
be tried at Liverpool, Tuesday, the Bth August, on which
days the records must be ordered. Eight exclusive days'
notice of trial in all personal actions must be given for
the next assizes in causes at issue in time for trial at the
last Assizes. The jury process for the trial of causes at
Lancaster, will be issued at Preston, on Saturday morn-
ing, the 12th August ; and for the trial of causes at Li-
verpool, on Thursday morning, the 17th August. Rule
day before the assizes, Thursday, 20th July instant. Rule
day after the Assizes, Thursday, 14th September next.
Declarations against defendants in gaol on writs of capias,
must be filed on or before Tuesday, the Isth August next.
In pursuance of a rule-of court of March Assizes, 1842,
the causes intended to be tried at Liverpool, will be en-
tered in the following order :-Ist. list. Salford Hundred ;
2nd list. West Derby Hundred, or elsewhere. The
causes in the second list will not be called on for trial
before Wednesday, the 23rd August next. The business
of the public offices will be transacted at Preston during
the Assizes.

THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—On Wednesday even-
ing a public meeting was held in the Amphitheatre, to
receive a deputation from the Free Church of Scotland.
The house was crowded, with the exception of the gallery,
which was not quite filled. A. C. Dunlop, Esq., filled the
chair. The Chairman having explained the object of the
meeting, the Rev. Mr. Sorley, minister of Belhaven, said,
the Church of Scotland was struggling for one great prin-
ciple among others, that of the right of the congregation
to have a voice in the election of their own ministers. It
was essential that the individual who was to be ordained to
the pastoral office of superintending the spiritual wants of
a congregation should be acceptable to that congregation
as for anything given. The rev. gentleman then went over
the various matters which had brought about the differ-
ence which now existed, and referred to the actions which
had taken place in the courts of law, by which it had been
decided, that so long as they retained their connexion
with the Establishment they could not carry out the prin-
ciple of non-intrusion, though it was deeply engraven on
the statute books of the Church, and that such was the
case was rendered clear by the bill which was introduced
into the House of Lords by the Earl of Aberdeen, by
which it was declared that it should not be legal for any
presbytery to protect the people. After the decision had
taken place, they resolved to relinquish certain claims at
that time, in the hope that an amicable adjustment might
be secured, on terms honourable to all parties ; and they
further resolved, when the veto prevented her from car-
rying her intention into effect, to desist from further
proceedings till the dispute was brought to a close. While,
however, they were resting on their arms, they were in-
volved in a most harrassing warfare. The opposing party
tried to drive them from the position which they taken up.
They exposed them to all kinds of difficulties by which
they might be driven from their course. They were de-
termined to impose on them the neeebsity of ootins in
opposition to their fundamental principle, and in doing so
they had taken the entire government of the church into
their own hands ; in other words, the courts of law pro-
ceeded to cancel all the proceedings of the church, and
without any reference to the word of God they introduced
their laws. By one fell swoop they deprived between two
and three hundred ministers of those rights which they
were entitled to by virtue of their office, and the church
of every thing that was peculiar to her sacred character.
They were thus driven to the alternative of being obliged
to submit to their most odious and obnoxious degradation,
or leave the establishment altogether, and cast themselves
upon the resources of Christian liberality. They had
adopted the latter course, and they would not return to
seek the favour of the state by the surrender of those
principles in defence of which the blood of their fore-
fathers, like dissolved snow, flowed down the hills and
valleys of their native land.—(Cheers.)—The meeting
was next addressed by the Rev. Dr. Cunningham and the
Rev, Thomas Guthrie, who powerfully advocated the ob-
ject which called them together. Mr. Thomas Blackburn
then moved a resolution to the effect that the Free Church
of Scotland had maintained a faithful regard to scriptural
truth, and that the meeting thought the movement calcu-
lated, under the divine blessing, to promote the cause of
pure and undefiled religion.—Dr. Raffles, in a feeling
speech welcomed the deputation to Liverpool, and offered
them the use of his chapel and that of his pulpit. "My
pulpit," said the the Rev. Doctor, " is open to them—
(cheers)—and the pockets of my people—(ioud cheers)—
as far as my people permit me to say so, for I neither
seek to lord it over their consciences nor over their pock-
ets.—(Cheers.) I am persuaded that if either Dr. Cun-
ningham, or the Rev. Mr. Guthrie, or any other minister
in this great cause, but once gain access to my pulpit,
their hearts and pockets are open.—(Cheers.) I there-
fore, with my whole soul, second the resolution."—The
meeting was next addressed by the Rev. E. Parry, a
Church of England minister, by the Rev. H. Carpenter,
by Mr. P. M. Stewart, M.P., the Rev. C. M. Birrell,
Baptist minister, Mr. Alderman Bulley, the Rev. H.
Hampton, of St. James's*Church, the Rev. J. Kelly, Mr.
John Cropper, the Rev. H. Hargraves, and Mr. C. H.
Jones.—A hymn was then sung, and the benediction
having been pronounced, the meeting broke up about a
quarter past ten o'clock.