The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-07 00:00:00

SOLAR SPOT.—About half-waybetween the eastern edge
of the sun's disc and its centre, a very beautiful dark spot
may now be seen, travelling towards the right, accompanied
by the usual luminous border, and may be distinctly seen
(when the atmosphere proves favourable) with telescopes of
moderate power, having the eye protected with a piece of
dark-coloured glass. _ _

--MISS CRELLiNTS CASE—BAIL FOR COPELAND.—On Fri-
day, at the Police-court, an elderly man, named John Lee,
offered to become bail for Copeland. He was interrogated
by the bench as follows :—What are you ?—A beer-seller and
builder in general. In general ? What do you mean ?—I
mean that lam a builder. Where do you live?—At No.
24, Vine-street, where my beer-house is situated. How long
have you lived there ?—Since the sth of February. What
were you before ?—I was in the coacbmaking department of
the Grand Junction Railway. What wages did you get ?—A
guinea a week latterly. What had you before ?-18s. a week.
How long had you the guinea?—Perhaps about a year: Had
you any other business at that time ?—Yes, I kept a beer-
house then at 38, Vine-street. How long have you kept the
beer-house ?—About two years. Had you any other means
of living?—Oh,
yes; I have property of my own. What is
the nature of it?—Money. To what extent ?—I cannot say
exactly. Cannot you say whether you are worth £5O, £lOO,
or £lOOO ?—Well, £5O. Have you got it now ?—Yes, I have
£lOO. In what ?—I have £lOOO in one lot in three houses,.
and £BOO in another lot. Do you mean lent on them ?—No,
I mean landed property. Are they mortgaged ?—Three of
the houses are mortgaged, the other two are free. What is
the rent of the free houses I—£Bo. Do you know Copeland?
Yes. How long have you known him I—Nearly twelve
months. Have you received any promise of indemnity from
him either directly or indirectly? No; it is a voluntary act
of humanity. How happens it, having this money and those
houses, that you were arrested a short time since ?—lt was
through a misunderstanding between two parties, and I got
arrested not knowing the judgment that was against me.—
William Leveratt, one of the superintendents of police, stated
that about five weeks ago Lee had been for four days con-
fined in the house of Lawton, a borough officer, in Temple-
street, for debt, and that he (Lee) was very near being con-
fined there again last week, but the matter had been compro-
mised. In reply to questions from Mr. Snowball, Lee stated
that the houses, which were not mortgaged, were situated in
Vine-street—that they were not numbered—and that they
were his property without any incumbrance on them, but that
the deeds had not yet been drawn. Mr. Rushton refused to
take the bail.

INQUESTS.—The following inquests were held on Friday,
before Mr.• Curry, the borough coroner:—On the body of
Charles Willett, a man aged W. It appeared that the. de-
ceased was one of the hands on board of the ship " John
Franklin," which arrived at this port from Buenos Ayres on
the morning of Wednesday last. The vessel sailed in Febru-
ary last and the deceased was quite well. About the end of
April he became ill, and though he so far rallied that he
could do some light work, he relapsed about ten days before
the arrival of the vessel and was confined to his hammock,—
in which he was found dead on the vessel arriving in the
river. One of the hands had spoken to him a quarter of an
hour before. According to the evidence every possible at-
tention had been paid to, him in his illness, and his death was
immediately communicated to the authorities. The deceased
was asthmatical, and had no doubt died from natural causes.
The verdict was returned accordingly, and we notice the cir-
cumstance merely to show the institution of " crowners quest
law" takes especial cognizance of sudden deaths, so as to de-
tect instances of foul play.—The next inquest was on the
body of a male infant found on Thursday, in St. Nicholas's
Church Yard, in a deal box. It was proved on a surgical
examination that the deceased was still born. Verdict ac-
cordingly.—An inquest was also held on the body of William
Sharman, a boy three years of age. The father of the de-
ceased is employed in a coal flat running on the canal, and
belonging to Messrs. Jonathan Blundell and Son. On
Thursday afternoon the father missed his child from the ves-
sel, and after searching for him for some time in vain, went
in a boat with another man and dragged round the flat. The
body was found, after being immersed from the time the de-
ceased was missing about three hours. Verdict—found dead,
but how deceased got into the water there was no evidence
to show

NEW BRIDGE OVER WALLASEY POOL.—ItiS, we believe,
the determination of several influential gentlemen, resident
in Birkenhead and its vicinity, to erect a bridge across Wal-
lasey Pool. The undertaking is highly important to the in-
habitants of Seacombe, New Brighton, and all the surround-
ing neighbourhood, as when the bridge is completed it will
shorten the distance between Birkenhead, Seacombe, and
New Brighton, about seven or eight miles. The results that
will naturally follow this great saving in distance will be a
vast increase of trade in the town of Birkenhead ; and an
equal advantage will be derived by the inhabitants on the
other side of the pool, in consequence of the increasing num-
ber of visitors that will travel through their respective dis-
tricts. We have seen a drawing of the intended bridge,
which is designed by Alfred Yarrow, Esq., civil engineer.
It will be a draw-bridge with ornamental work—working
upon stone piers, at a height of thirty feet above the present
surface, having seven timber arches of twenty feet span each,
leaving a water way of nearly two hundred feet. The bridge
will be approached by
.a new road across Bidston Moss. The
contract for the work is taken by Messrs. Walker and
Craven, of Birkenhead. We learn that ten years ago an
attempt was made to cross the pool by a bridge, but it failed
in consequence of not being properly constructed.
THE CASE OF INJURY iNFLICTED BY A WIFE ON
HER HUSBAND.—V e Teport in our last the particulars of
this case as they transpired on the first hearing. On Friday
the case was again brought on in the police-court. John
Carroll, the injured husband, said he was a blacksmith, and
had four children by his wife the (the prisoner). The latter is
now pregnant. They had been married eleven years. He
had a dispute with her on Monday night. He had come home
at a late hour, and a quarrel had ensued between them. He
struck her, but only once. He then recapitulated the cir-
cumstances of being asleep, and being awakened by the pain,
&c., as stated in our last. He was injured on the right side
of the face and down his neck. (Witness's face was wrapped
up, but he had not, we learned, lost the sight of his eye.) A
surgeon was brought in by a neighbour.—Mr. John Dames,
surgeon, said he was called in. He described the injuries to
the face and neck. The skin was broken by the application
of vitriol. Mr. Macintyre, who had also been called in, con-
curred with the last named witness. He found the complain-
ant's face much swollen, and the skin broken, and its vitality
destroyed. The bottle containing sulphuric acid found in
the house, and now produced, would cause such injuries.
Both of the medical gentlemen were shown the shirt and the
singlet worn by the complainant, and the pillow on which he
lay, in all of which the cloth was burnt, by, as they conceived,
such a liquid. An apron worn by the prisoner was also pro-
duced with some holes in it, but they were, not so clear as to
the cause being the same. Inspector. M Donald said that
soon after he went to the house the prisoner wished to make
a disclosure and he cautioned her. She said no person but
herself and the children were in the house that night, (when
the complainant was in bed and got
. up injured,) and that no
one could have entered and done it. He had also repeated
what he had before said—that she had also stated that she
and her husband had differences, and that her husband had
accused her of attempting to take his life, -and that she had
replied (as we understood the witness) that lie had attempted
to take her's when she was last confined. The witness pro-
duced the phial—a small one—which had been found in the
house, and which appeared to be about half full of a dark co-
lbured liquid—said to be sulphuric acid.—Mr. Rushton cau-
tioned the prisoner as to what she might say, intimating at
thd same time that he should commit on the evidence he had
beard. She said with considerable emphasis—" lam inno-
cent." She was then committed for trial at the sessions.
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—WiIIiam Davis was, on
Saturday, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with having
embezzled certain moneys belonging to his employers. The
prisoner, it appeared, has been a clerk in the service of Mr.
William Holton, who was formerly a partner with Mr. Corf,
butcher. This partnership was dissolved in July last, and
the prisoner was employed to balance the books and collect
the outstanding accounts. In the course of a month, an
agreement was made that he should receive £1 10s. per week
for his services. About this time, he made a proposal ttoMr. Holton, that he should receive £2 per week, in consi-
deration of his earning for that gentleman £5 per week by
" putting him up to the trick of discounting bills" for ne-
cessitous people. Mr. Holton declined this offer, conceiv-
ing that the business would not be creditable. The prisoner
continued in the service of Mr. Holton till last month, when,
in consequence of the books not having been properly at-
tended to, he was discharged from the office of bookkeeper,
but still permitted to collect accounts. On Friday week it
was discovered that the prisoner had received a sum of
£1 2s. 6d. due from Mr. John Crosthwaite, which he had
not accounted for. The prisoner made an offer to balance
the accounts, but this was declined. It appeared that the
prisoner had received, each week of his engagement, £1 on
on account, and had been allowed to take meat each week on
account of the balance. Mr. Holton denied that he had
authorized the prisoner to appropriate any accounts which he
might collect. On Monday last the prisoner sent in a ba-
lance sheet, acknowledging the receipt of sums of money
from various parties, which sums he had not accounted for.
The prisoner was remanded.—Yesterday he was again ex-
amined, when two further cases were proved against him,
and he was committed for trial at the sessions.

ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING EDUCATION IN TIH
WEST INDIES.—On Friday the annual meeting of the Liver-
pool Ladies' Association for Promoting Education in the
British West Indies was held at the Charitable Institution-
house, Slater-street, and was rather thinly attended. The
chair was taken shortly after two o'clock by the Rev. W. W.
Ewbank, minister of St. George's Church, Everton, who
opened the meeting with singing and prayer. Mr. Adam
Hodgson, who first addressed the audience, said it should he
recollected that the great act of generosity on the part of the
English kingdom and government had been confined in a
great measure to the planters of the West Indies, and that
the negro population had now arrived at a peculiar crisis.
(Hear.) They were in a state of transition, in
tvleliirehintitedsr
osopceilaield7anidill"nucwwafse:l7i;gasb,lep prospects, being icTersCrcevs, and pursuits
inculcated. Mr. Hodgson alluded with thankfulness to the
gratifying accounts which had reached England of the pro-
gress of the work in the West Indies. The Chairman said
he believed the objects of the. Society for Promoting Educa.
tion in the British West Indies were gen.:Tally known, and
therefore unnecessary to be detailed.. Those objects were
not to establish schools, but to help either the first establish-
ment of schools in the N 4 est India Islands, or afterwards to
afford assistance when the schools had been established. The
Chairman read a letter fro.m Miss Lloyd, setting forth that
the society had strong'. claims than usual on the benevolent.
The society had been instrumental, since its commencement
fifteen or sixteen years since, in educating seven thousand
scholars for about the sum of £15,000 a.year. The instruc-
tion communicated by itinerant teachers had led to the for-
mation of regular schools in districts where the negroes were
heretofore accustomed to meet under ,the shade of a tree.
, at a time like the present,
Thes-
w he n
judicious committeeietye
ffsahrotns regrettedlwder thatwere
most needed, the Church Mi
havebeen compelled to withdraw
sionary Soc.
from the West Indies, a circumstance which would have the
effect of causing many schools to be abandoned, unless the
Ladies' Society should be induced to keep them up. The
committee further regretted that Her Majesty's Government
had come tothe
the resolution of withdrawing their grant of £7OO
when it was to cease altogether. The com-
a year from society., by reducing it to one-fifth every year
however, resolved to keep up their schools as
possible. _ Miss . Lloyd concluded by saying
drl:Bo3l6b:earal, and that. the. committee looked to
nce from Liverpool, in the last year, had
yearlmtoil
niat
gtt euetnhabtesial
year forlii continued and increased support.
this year
said the emancipation of the slaves
which interested the people of this country,
beenTla Liverpoolit veevr.yvt
esevthich.he had taken a somewhat active part. He
consider, the question of giving freedom to the
light of a
hb.oion. He considered that the negroes
andsla
nevery
ea oneisnu bti nhj
coulde
of justice to set them free. But if there
had been wronged !v. they were in that condition, and
gaectonnected with that subject which more than
an act
uponns mind, it was. the duty of taking
tawhnaayst
oni
fares
pressed
care that while England
w"performing an act of justice,
that act should issue inblessing and not in injustice—in other'
words, that freedom should be a blessing and not a curse.
Without' such efforts as the present, and without the use of
such instrumentality as the meeting would put in motion,
the of the rank weeds which were constantly
the freedom of the negroes would be incomplete, because'
in the unc.onv.erted heart of man. He, they were were all
not but rejoice in the formation and continuance
springing u
musty aware that the home government
fore, could
of such a society as. the. one they were met to support. He
withdrawPe their. small grant from the society,
great. subject of regret; but they were all
hadwere notaha
about
beenta
which was a very.
too well acquainted with the nature and, warmth of British
benevolence to suffer themselves to despond in such a case.
The Rev. Mr. Bateson subsequently addressed the meeting
after which the proceedings terminated with the singing of
the doxology.