The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-12 00:00:00

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DEATH FROM THE FALL
Yesterday an inquest was ht
touching the death of Jam

turpentine and tar dis,
be remembered, that some
on the body of another man,
who came to his death in the infir
accident. The circumstances of
precisely similar, and we need, tI•
the principal facts. On the 20'•
(who was a labourer, aged 47
on a stage composed of bri
engaged filling the pans wi
about nine feet high from t.
was a large iron taro-
_

~ LC
Whilst so-engaged the tank all at
down the stage on which th
made their escape, and in doh
fallen materials. They he
calling from under the ....
covered all over with with tt
his face and shoulder. Bloo“
He was conveyed to the Scutt
opinion of Mr. Rishton,
Mr. S. Holme, the built
thicker than the act req
attributed to an unforest

times arise even when ii

The deceased
lingered until Saturday
juries he had received

DISCOVERY OF S

o'clock on Saturday n

hoe were

.Iking aloe

served a spring cart sta-ndir

and some coarse wrappers
part. Suspecting that ti

1 by ' fot

so hadtoV
thee ont

uy
neath Lloyd put inhis hand and felt some perL
parc ELM
els,
could not at the moment ascertain of what they consist
Kehoe took out one of them, and, by the light of the {
supposed it to be muslin. Replacing the article tI
stood at a little distance, and shortly after saw the drii
and, as it afterwards turned out, the owner of the c
come out of the public-house, get into the.v
drive rapidly to Lace-stn
stopped him in that street
shaw, a fellow who had be
sions, and is well known t
thieves in North Jo')

which were five in nu

no fewer than 63 pie

officers p

were stamped with 6
Dromore, Ireland. 1
161, 163, 170, 171. an

the street for about an 1101
whether any of his accomp
ante, but, as none of them

manner in which he h

unsatisfactory, he was

linens, which were va
moved to Mr. Dowlir

rty was not found.—

court, yesterday, but
dent

quired to make further
mended.

'he usual monthly

rs. Will
Green.

, Horner, Ke.rr

3vement Conmiiitf

,hould be

ing one last year
on the rates of town
receipts of the towns
tations formed, the
provements had ahno
culations made of the u
allowed £lOOO, as last y
voted to that purpos(
such allowance woul
pound. Additional
of £5OO, and the len;
twelve miles ; but it
add to the amount collected

a!aries were n

crease of expenditure would a►
ment, as the staff was now
trued to increase, and, with t
creased numb- ••f building
ment rate. I'* e whole re
township purposes, no ral
it it had been decided it

to the reserve fund of the,
Mr. Stansfield said that t
be printed was now ready,
a body of matter relative I
prospects of Birkenhead, i
Wallasey Pool Docks, am
with plans, &c. The price 1
the fact with a view to tile app
he estimated at £4O or £5O)
pensary,—in doing which he
his trouble in ctrennrinff ft

curred, and returned thanks to
'abortr he had bestowed. Mr. Al
the Wallasey Docks, said that
them, and that the general belief
but one large dock-road, which. i

the ferr

3n fort

under them

L. Jur. pen-an
winch, which was then a d-ink sketch
read to the meeting. The writer stated, in effect, that he in a string or row. M,
r. u.
W. Ja,.....,_
had gone no further than to file a bill in Chancery, which time to perfect the plans; that parth
was merely initiatory to bringing the matter before the actively engaged on the subject; but th.
court ; that when the facts were there, he should be happy were deposited they would have to be d
to meet the necessary parties with his proposals for the Admiralty, as well as the Commission,
future management of the school ; that the proceedings Forests, would have to decide upon,
he had instituted on his own responsibility would be at them, irrespective of the Commiss;
his own expense, if no factious opposition were offered ; disapprove of the plan handed in on tn
but if otherwise, he should not consider himself bound should call it "the Appleton plan -(laug
by any pledge in reference to legal expenses ; and that should not like Mr. Appleton's natal, to be
should the funds of the school thereby suffer, the oppo- to/posterity with it—it so resembled a string of sausages—
sing parties must be alone responsible for the evils that (great laughter.) The Board then adjourned.
might follow.--Mr. W. Healing then moved that the fol- A FEMALE SAILOR.—At the Police-court, on Satur
lowing resolution be printed and circulated :—" That this day, a robust and rather good-looking young femal
vestry condemns the address circulated throughout the though certainly not a "Black-eyed Susan," named M-
parish under date of lst December, and signature of garetJohnson was placed at the bar, she hav;.---1-
Henry Winch, as mischievous in its tendency, and erro-
neous in its statements; being calculated to undermine Spinks's, the Brunswick tavern, ~.
and destroy the confidence of those parents who send The complainant, however, did not appeai ,
their children to the Free Grammar School, and to deter and it was stated to the Court by Mr. Parkinson, of the
others from availing themselves of its usefulness. Ills main bridewell, and several other officers, that she had
vestry also disputes the right assumed in the said address been to sea in the garb and capacity of a sailor, and after
to institute proceedings in the Court of Chancery on be- Naving, since her return, some months ago, become "un
half of the parishioners at large, without their authority." fortunate," and thrown upon the town, that she had es-
-Mr. Parry seconded the resolution.—The Chairman pressed penitence for the course of life she had taken, of
expressed his disapprobation cf Mr. Winch's letter, and which she was heartily tired, and therefore wished to be
stated that it ought not to have been addressed to him ; admitted into the female penitentiary. From what was
that the writer ought to have been present ; and that be stated, and information we otherwise derived, her story is
should oppose its being entered in the parish book.—A asated,
follows :—She is a native of this town, and now 19
long discussion then followed, in which Mr. Woodward, years of age. About twelve months ago she was married
Mr. H. Meadows, Mr. North, Mr. Healing, the Chair- to a seaman named Johnson,. who left her and proceeded
man, Mr. Mann, Mr. Parry, and others, took part. The on a voyage to British America. h soon after ' rigged"
Chairman and one or two others did not impugn Mr. herself as a sailor, and went in pussit of him in a timber
Winch's motives, but the former thought he had com-
mittedS. an overt act, which, to say the least, was an extra- where in vain she enquired "Oh where shall I my true
ordinary, if not a presumptuous one, calculated as it was love find ;" for whether from not expecting her, from
to sow dissension in the parish. Some considered the " cruel fate," or from incontinency, he bad embarked for
language of the resolution too strong; others (including another part of the world. She remained at St. John's
the Chairman) thought the occasion called for the ex. with the Thetis for three weeks, and returned with her,
pressions used. Mr. North wished them to be modified, after a voyage out and home of five months—during the
and that there should be added the words, " particularly whole of which time it does not appear that her sex was
pending an amicable negociation for the settlement of the discovered. When she afterwards became "an unfortunate
affairs of the school," which was done. The resolution, female," she frequently appeared in her rambles as a
as thus amended, was carried by a large majority. Mr. young "man unknown"—in jacket and trowsers, and in
Woodward demanded a poll, but this being objected to this guise there can be no doubt experienced some strange
as illegal, it was withdrawn.—Mr. Mann then moved, adventures, as she had caught up the parlance of the fore-
and Mr. North seconded, a resolution as follows : castle. A female c0mp.r,;,..,--- - ••• •
" That this meeting have eve!, rnnAJ..,,,- :._ ,_ T 1
the P

iiies drive. He presented
the dock into smaller ones.

were in Lo.ndo

,fter_the plan.

Ts of Woods and
nd perhaps alter

limater

r the Union Doc
linst hc

____—........qp.mun was with her at the time when
„, ......... ...., y uumiuence in the Kev. the assault with which she was charged was committed,
Hector, and request that he will use his own discre- and it appeared that seeing her " sweetheart" assailed,
don in the defence to he made against the bill ; but that she was tempted to lend the aggressor a tew blows dealt
he and the other defendants, in their respective behalves, out with that muscular energy which she had acquired in
do give full effect to the earnest desire of this meeting to her nautical practice. Whether she had while on board
oppose by all means the attempt seeming to be contem- become so adept as to " hand reef and steer," _ and ter
ated by the bill to separate the school from the church." to stand a chance, in the loss of her ..-- -- •
The Rector explained that he could only be included in ma or a- commander in ---
.' -- -...nrpcentative, but he would make the learnt;
but Mr. Rii.'-'
•

the bill

passed a vote of thaal

)ther E

ut Ills socitors. inrme that she
strong and decisive, not "factious" anxious to to pursue ax
lilt such as would secure the school f
Ind.—Mr. Marsden said it was clear l'eniteuttai y allU uispatcnea an officer with her
)e severed from the church.—The asylum—where we doubt not she may have an 0pp0...
.rried nem. con.—The meeting then of so far redeeming herself that, if her purpose
sto the chairman, and separated. good, she may yet become a useful member of societ

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