The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-23 00:00:00

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oY§Ttits.—" He was a bold mail who first eat an oysteri'
Those who enjoy this delicious little fish are referred to Mrs.
Marcroft's address elsewhere.

THE POLICEMAN DODD.—This person, whose case is
reported in another column, resigned his situation in the
police force yesterday.
INQUEST ON THE BODY OF A RIOTER.—In the case of
Joshua Lyons, who died from the effect of wounds inflicted
on him during an attack on Mr. Morris's Cotton Factory,
the jury, at the inquest which was held on Saturday, and by
adjournment on Wednesday last, returned a verdict of " jus-
tifiable homicide."

SOMETIIING NEW.—A large establishment in Oldhall-
street is about to be extended. To do honour to the occa-
sion, the purchaser of £l5 worth of goods will receive, as a
compliment for his support, a new hat worth a guinea—and
of £lO or upwards a hat value 14s.—of £7 a hat value I is.
6d.—of £5 a hat value Bs. 6d.—of £4 a hat value 6s. 6d.—
of £3 a hat value ss! What next?
ST. BARN.kI3AS' CHURCH—SCRIPTURE READER.—On
Sunday next, sermons are to be preached, and collections to
be made, for the purpose of providing tracts for distribution,
and supporting a scripture reader, to labour in the poor and
populous district assigned to this church. The importance
of this work is obvious from the character of the population
inhabiting the district. Until the erection of St. Barnabas'
Church. in 1841, they were comparatively without opportu-
nity or instruction ; their number, amounting to nearly
12,000 souls, renders it impossible that any one clergyman,
however zealous, could be physically equal to the task of
ministering to them individually. The Pastoral Aid Society,
by a recent well-timed grant, enabling the incumbent to se-
cure the services of an efficient curate, has only mitigated,
but not remedied, the evil ; and the result of the scripture
reader's labour for the last eighteen months, during which
they have been in operation, has fully justified the wisdom of
the arrangement. So that the appeal is made, not to attempt
a doubtful experiment, but to maintain one already tried and
crowned with success. The reader's visits are completely
under the direction of the incumbent : a journal is duly
kept, and regularly submitted to his inspection.. The sum
required is about £4O; and from the previous liberality of
the congregation of St. Barnabas', and the names of the ad-
vocates, we are confident that the amount will be realized.
MONEY MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—In the English stock-
market business continues exceedingly dull, with scarcely
any alteration in values. Consols, for money, closed 92/ to
; ditto, account, 93, sellers ; India Stock, 249 to 251 ; Ex-
chequer-bills, 495. to 51s. premium ; and ditto, 24d. issue,
51s. to 535. premium. A decline of rather more than one
quarter per cent. occurred in Dutch stock on the arrival of
to-day's Netherlands mail, but otherwise the transactions in
foreign securities were not in any degree remarkable. This
fall is supposed to have followed the receipt of news respect-
ing the new Dutch loan, but nothing of a certain nature as
to its character or import was known during business hours.
Belgian left off 102 to 103; Brazilian, 674 to 68k; Danish,
83 to 84 ; Dutch, 21 per Cents., 521 to t ; ditto, 5 per
Cents., 1024 to I ; Portuguese 5 per Cents., 354 to / ; ditto,
3 per Cents., 21 to 4 ; Colombian, 201 to 21 ; Mexican, 35
to / ; Spanish Actives, 164 to 4; ex. coupons ; and ditto,
3 per Cents., 214 to I. In railway shares, Birmingham and
Derby closed 40; ditto and Glocester, 40; ditto, New, 13 ;
Eastern Counties, New, 84 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 474 ;
ditto, New, 5 ; Great Western, 821 ; ditto, New, 591;
Brighton, 334 Birmingham, 182; South-Western, 58 to 4;
Manchester and Birmingham, 201; North Midland, 57 ;
ditto, half-shares, 284 ; and South-Eastern, scrip, 5/. In
other descriptions of shares the only transaction noted was
the quotation of Bolanos scrip at 51 to 4.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.---On Saturday evening a fatal
accident took place on the sands in the river Ribble, about
seven miles from Preston, under very distressing circum-
curnstances. The river at the spot where the accident oc-
curred is between three or four miles wide, and when the
tide is out it is easily crossed by foot passengers, under the
direction of guides, who are well acquainted with the channels.
Warton, a distance of seven miles from Preston, is the
nearest way to Southport and Lytham, and the unfortunate
individual whose life was lost was William Grimbledesten,
the landlord of the Hesketh Arms, on Hesketh Banks, who
was highly respected in the village, and who acted as a guide
to the opposite shore, He had been at Preston purchasing
spirits from Mr. Hunt, a wine-merchant, whose stores he
left at an early hour in the afternoon. He was accompanied
across the first channel by the guide on the opposite side,
from Warton, unttl he was considered out of the reach of
danger. Subsequently, however, he mistook his way, and
got entangled amongst some fishing nets' when the tide
rapidly approaching, he was surrounded by the water, and
his cries for assistance were heard on both shores for up-
wards of an hour. A boat was put off, but, the night being
very dark, the persons on board could not reach him, although
they heard him in his last dying agonies. His body was not
discovered until the next morning, when it was found en-
tangled among the fishing nets.
PRESTON GUILD.—AII vestige of this Guild for another
20 years passed away on Friday night, when a tradesmen's
fancy and dress ball was held at the Guild-rooms in the Corn-
exchange, and at which about4oo persons attended. Although
not so numerous as on the previous occasion, many of the
dresses were very superb ; arid amongst the company were
the Mayor and Mayoress, the Recorder and Town-clerk,
Mr. Townley Parker, the late member for the county, and
many of the leading gentry. Dancing was on this occasion
kept up till a late hour in the morning. The total sum re-
ceived on the occasion of the Guild was about .C 2,500, and
after the payment of all expenses there will remain a surplus
of about £3OO, which will be devoted to the public charities
of the town. A sum of £5O has been awarded to the differ-
ent Catholic, and one of £65 to the Protestant schools, being
in the proportion of about 3d. per head for each scholar, and
a large sum will be given to the House of Recovery. Many
of the manufacturers have acted with great liberality in allow,
ing their hands a holiday, paying them their wages as usual;
and amongst others Mr. Alderman Jackson paid his hands
a whole week's wages in advance. Notwithstanding the
very large influx of strangers into the town, the robberies
was comparatively few, which was to be attributed chiefly to
the vigilance of the police, who apprehended 40 suspicious
characters during the week, who were committed for trial or
held to bail, besides which many others were detected and •
ordered out of the town. Two females, recognized as noto-
rious prostitutes from Liverpool, still remain in custody,
being remanded on suspicion of the late bank-note robbery.
The quantity of dresses sent down for the occasion was very
great, the stock of one habit-purveyor weighing upwards
of 35 cwt.