The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-18 00:00:00

COMMITISIRNT.....At the Police-court yesterday, two men,
Thomas Regan and H ugh Colville, were placed at the bar
charged with having stolen a watch. It appeared that on
the morning of the 12th instant Mr. John Maclean, pawn-
broker, Greenland-street, who had previously exposed some
watcheS in his window, found that the corner of a pane of
glass had been cpt from one of the frames, and on the 14th
he missed a watch, and had bills printed describing it. On
Saturday last he was shown a watch by a police-officer, which
was that missing. Mr. Allwood, pawnbroker, Vauxhall-
road, said, that on the afternoon of Saturday the two pri-
soners came together to his shop. Colville had a watch in
his hand, which he offered to sell, saying, he did not want to
pawn it. He said he wanted four guineas for the watch,
which had cost eight pounds. Regan said it was a good watch.
Mr. Allwood found, on looking at the printed police notice,
that the watch corresponded with the description of that
stolen, and had the prisoners put in custody. On the way
to the Bridewell, Colville said it was Regan's watch, which
the latter denied. A person also came up and said to Regan,
" What is up, Tom ?" and Regan replied, " I am going to
Bridewell about that d—d watch." Colville said he had no
participation in the matter other than in taking it to the
pawnbroker's. Regan said he found it in a handkerchief and
in a hole of a wall of an outbuilding. The prisoners were
committed for trial.

DEATH OF DAY, THE NEWSMAN.-111 Our list of
deaths is the announcement of the death of George P. Day,
the newsman, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. Day
had been a newsman almost from the beginning of the pre-
sent century. lie commenced the vocation, we believe,
about the year 1803, by carrying out the daily paper started
by the late Dr. Solomon, the celebrated inventor of the Balm
of Gilead, a medicine once in the greatest vogue. The doctor
furnished Day with a horse, on which he rode about the
neighbouring country selling the paper. The speculation did
not answer, and the doctor, after losing a considerable sum
of money by his broad sheet, discontinued its publication.
Day next carried out all the weekly papers then published,
four in number, namely, Billinge's Advertiser, on Monday,
(of which the Liverpool Times is the continuation ;) the
Liverpool Chronicle, on Wednesday, which died in 1809;
Gore's General Advertiser, on Thursday ; and the Satur-
day's Advertiser, which died about twenty years ago. Some
years afterwards lie joined the dealing in old books to the
vending of newspapers, and kept a shop in Dale-street, at the
corner of Cheapside. Here he entered into the London
newspaper trade, which had been monopolised, up to the
time of Day's competition with him, by a well-known indi-
vidual, named Brownbill. Day could not, however, make
the London daily trade pay ; and, like many other people, he
himself could not pay the metropolitan newsman. The con-
sequence was, that Day either gave up the daily business; or
the daily business gave up Day. The London business then
fell into the hands of Mr. Willmer and Mr. Arnold, and
Day, unable to do any good with the daily papers, was com-
pelled to confine himself to the local weekly ones. When in
the vigour of his days, Day rode and " ran to and fro, and
knowledge was increased." But, as " age, with its stealing
steps, began to " claw him in its clutch," Day's running
days were over, and he began, first to walk, and then to
crawl, until, Day's days drawing to a close, bay, who had
been one of the great enlighteners of his day, by the diffusion
of the knowledge which is contained in a newspaper, which,
Lord Brougham says, is " the best possible public instruc-
tor," was obliged to retire from the world, in which he had
played a conspicuous and useful part, and die, like many
other benefactors of mankind, in poverty and obscurity.
Poor Day ! who does not remember his well-known round,
squat, bulky person? who has not heard the blast of his
equally well-known horn, as, laden with his budget of news,
lie hurried and then crawled through the streets of the town ?
" Alas! poor Yorrick !" " The place that knew him once
will know him no more for ever." He has, however, for
the consolation of posterity, left his image behind him in the
person of his son. Young George P. Day, allowing for the
difference of years, is as like old George P. Day as two Ps.
He, too, is a newsman : he, too, rides a horse, and, like his
father forty years ago, scours the country far and wide on
horseback, vending newspapers and enlightening the public :
he, too, earries a horn, or, rather, a bugle, and excels his
father in this, if not in any thing else, in the skill, namely,
with which he plays upon it every favourite and popular tune.
May young Day be as good a man as old Day was, and may
he, surrounded by little Days, end his days, unlike those of
his father, in peace and plenty !—Albion.
PRESENTATION OL PLATE TO THE REV. GEORGE SALT.
—Previous to the departure of the Rev. George Salt to the
preferment to which he has lately been presented, a numer-
ous and respectable meeting was held in the National School,
Wengifor the above purpose, and rarely has it been our lot
to vviffless a more gratifying scene. Pryce Bowen, Esq„ of
Edstaston House, stated that he was deputed on behalf
of the subscribers, to present Mr. Salt with a tea and coffee
service of plate, as some slight acknowledgement of the
value of his services as a minister of the Established Church,
and as a memorial of the regard and esteem in which he had
ever been held. Mr. Bowen then spoke of the loss which
the inhabitants of Edstaston would experience by the remo-
val of a Pastor who had laboured with unwearied zeal
among them for nearly twenty years, and assured the rev.
gentleman that, when he was -far away, his :deeds of charity
and labours of love, would be gratefully remembered : that
his name would be cherished for the faithfulness with
which he had urged on his hearers the blessed truths of
the Gospel , and that as the friend, the adviser, and in-
structor of all within the sphere of his duties, his de-
parture from among them would cause a loss, which they
should all most deeply feel. Sir. contined Mr. Bowen, we
all thought that you ought not to be allowed to depart with-
out some public expression of our gratitude for your services,
and some memorial of the respect and regard which we en-
tertain for you. Arid when I add that, in the subscription
list is found the names of very many of the humbler class in
your chapelry, I state that which must be most gratifying to
your feelings, for it carries the surest testimony to your use-
fulness as a clergyman amongst them. It only remains for
me now, on behalf of all the subscribers, most respectfully
to beg your acceptance of the testimonial before you, and to
express, in their name, and for myself, our united wishes' that
you may be spared to the fulness of years, and that God's
blessing may rest with you and yours.—R. W. Smith, Esq.
of Tilley House, then said, that on the part of the inhabit-
ants of the town of Wem, he had been requested to express
the pleasure they felt in being permitted to join the chapelry
of Edsbaston iri their testimonial to their pastor's worth. Mr.
Smith's speech throughout .was.replete with Christian feeling,
and our only regret is that the limits of our paper do not allow
tulsemtoasntawtaesfucloluycriehrinathewasramid.e
tertinlsis andomg yu
col': at he
rsei rvt,c egreeln;
as he wished him prosperity, he could not but deeply- regret
a separation from one with whom he had so often taken
" sweet counsel." As a clergyman, too, Mr. Salt had been
most exemplary, preaching the word with all plainness, and
labouring in seasotiand out of season, for the welfare of those
committed to his charge. Mr. Salt on rising said, that on
the present occasion. he could not find words
adequate to ex-
press his feelings.' It was not in his power to respond to the
very kind and gratifying manner in which his highly respected
friengl ana parishioner, Mr. Bowen, and his equally valued
friend, Mr. Smith, had thought proper to address him. Hav-
ing, continued the rev. gentleman, arrived at the close of my
ministry amongst you, now that I am about to enter on a new
sphere of duties, you are assembled to soften the pain of
separation, to cheer me onwards by your good wishes for my
prosperity, by your too partial praise of my poor labours in
is district, and by this substantial proof of your approval of
y conduct. While I ponder on the many things in which
'I have failed, you by your acts to day declare, that you over-
look my defects. lam sure you will not mistake my mean-
ing when I say, that costly as this testimonial of your regard
is, its worth is multiplied a thousand fold, as expressing the
approving sentiments of those whose good opinion I prize.
In this act of yOurs to day, I see what I believe was not over-
looked by you—it is an introduction to the distant parish
over whose interests I have been called to watch, being a
guarantee to them that I have not been altogether useless
and unacceptable togny former flock. I take with me your
good wishes, may I not say also, your prayers ? Your
prayers that I may diligently uphold the ordinances of
our apostolic church, that I may faithfully and plainly
preach the Word„ and that God's grace may be with me
that I preach not in vain. I shall only say, in con-
clusion, that my prayers will be offered up for you, and I
humbly beg that every blessing which you ask for me may
be returned a hundred fold into your bosoms." Mr. E.
Gwynn, jun., moved, in'a long and very able address, a vote
of thanks to Mr. Bowen and Mr. Smith, and the Rev. W.
Boulton seconded it. The meeting then broke up. The
service of plate is chaste and elegant. Each piece bears this
inscription :—" Presented to the Rev. George Salt, A.M., as
a memorial of regard and esteem from his late parishioners.
Edstaston and Wem, April, 1843."—Abridged from The
Shropshire Conservative. [The reverend gentleman, to whom the above gratifying proceedings refer, is a cousin of
Mr. C. F. Salt, of this town.]

FURTHER PARTICULARS_ OF THE LOSS OF

TILE SOLWAY

We have, on the eve of going to press, been kindly favoured
by Messrs. Williner and Smith with a Second Edition of the
Morning Post, from which we extract the following
(From our Falmouth Correspondent.)
F, April 16, A.M.
The accompanying despatchesALMOUTH were received byEight the Lady
Mary Wood steamer, arrived last evening at past eight
o'clock, with the Peninsular mails ; her dates of leaving
are
from Gibraltar the 6th, Cadiz the 7th, Lisbon the 10th,
Oporto the 11th, and Vigo the 12th inst.
This vessel brings the frightful intelligence of the loss of
the Royal mail-steamer Solway, which left this Port on
the 3rd instant, for the West Indies, with mails, freight,
and passengers, and reached Corunna on the 7th instant,
quitting that place the same evening at 10 p.m.; it appears
that at midnight of the same day she struck on a reef of rocks
about 15 miles west of that city (supposed the 13aldayo), and
in twenty-five minutes sunk, taking with her the Commander
Duncan, the surgeon, a midshipman named Hull, seventeen
passengers, and twenty-one of the crew, together with the
mails, freight, &c. ; the whole of the boats it would seem
from what we have been able to learn, were got out with the
exception of the one on the starboard paddle-box, and the
survivors reached Corunna the next morning ; a French
steamer-of-war lying there immediately proceeded to the
wreck, and saved the life of a lad who was in a swamped pin-
nace (together with the body of the dead midshipman). They
found the mast-heads of.tbe Solway were above water. Mr.
Lane, the purser, with Messrs. Ancran and Davies, paisen-
gers, came home per Lady Mary Wood, by proceeding to
Vigo.
This dreadful calamity will cause a strong sensation in the
country, and has created in this place the most distressing
feelings, some of the crew being shipped here, and the names
of the sufferers not yet ascertained.

CORRESPONDENCE.

POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY.-SMOKE QUESTION.
____

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SLR,—As it may be expected that I should reply to the
report of Mr. C. W. Williams's paper on the prevention or
combustion of smoke, read at the last meeting of the Poly-
rechnic Society, and which appeared in your Friay's pub-
ication, and in the Albion of to-day, I trust you will allow
state, through the medium of your paper, that I have
'either time nor leisure to engage in a newspaper controversy.
take it for granted, however, that Mr. Will will pub-
'sh his paper; and I anticipate little difficulty in being. then
ble to expose the fallacy of his odd notions, and to annihi-
te the fancied triumph hi which, I hear, he is at present so
.eatly exulting.

I am, sir, yours, &c,
Liverpool, April 17, 1843.

C. J. SMITH

PRINCE GEORGE OF CA!CAMBRIDGE.—We have learned with
extreme satisfaction that his Royal Highness Prince George
of Cambridge has been pressed to accept the appointment of
Colonel of the Staff (an office of a similar character to that
of Commander of the Forces,) under Lord Seaton, in the
lonian Islands ; and that it is more than probable that his
royal highness will be indtFed to efford the country the benefit
of his services in the very important and honorable office thus
tendered for his acceptance.—John Bull.

An ingenious individual at Barnard Castle is said to have
invented a new musical instrument, the tone of which is con-
sidered very greatly superior to the ophiclide, and in conse-
qttence of its being made of wood, its weight doesnot exceed
that of a very light bassoon, whilst the power is said to equal
the bass pipe of a church organ. The appearance of the in-
strument is rather grotesque, being similar in form to two
square wooden spouts stuck together, with a small pipe pro-
jecting from the centre, and an eggcup-looking mouthpiece
at the end.