The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-08 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

EXTRAORDINARY RACE.-On Monday morning, at five
minutes past five o'clock, fifty -two carrier pigeons belonging
to different persons at Brussels, were let loose in Liverpool,
and started off with the swiftness of the wind, on a race to
the Belgian capital. They had been brought over to this
place covered up in a basket, for a grand trial of their swift-
ness and sagacity in returning to their homes, and the win-
ner of the stakes will carry off a handsome sweepstakes. They
were set at liberty in the neighbourhood of St. Luke's
'Church, and immediately rose to at least double the height
of its tower, after which they all started off to the south
east, the direct route to Brussels, with incredible rapidity.
When they were let loose, the morning was bright and beau-
tiful, but if the rain should have been as heavy in the south
east, during the day, as it was here, their flight will have been
greatly impeded, and some of them will be likely to lose their
way across the channel. We shall be curious to hear the
result of this extraordinary race.
TRAFFIC ON RAILWAYS.-Mr. Richard Dawson, of this
town, has published some very interesting information on the
subject of railways. Much credit is due to Mr. Dawson for
the patient and careful consideration he has bestowed upon
the subject. The following table, compiled by that gentle-
man, forms the gross receipt of 38 railways now in operation,
from the Ist January, 1812, to the 25th June, 1842, inclusive :
s. d.
Arbroath and Forfar......
Birmingham and Del by Junction
Birmingham and Gloucester
Brandling Junction
Chester and Birkenhead
Dundee and Arbroath
Dublin and Kingston ....
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 18 weeks..
Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock..
Grand Junction
Great North of England
Great Western ..
Hayle, 18 weeks. 3,292 7 11
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Preston..
Liverpool and Manchester
London and Birmingham
London and Blackwall 20,519 14 9
London and Brighton
London and Croydon
London and Greenwich 22,189 18 8
London and South Western
Manchester and Birmingham
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ....
Manchester and Leeds 108,890 13 2
Midland Counties
Newcastle and Carlisle....
Newcastle and North Shields .
North Midland
North Union
Northern and Eastern
Preston and Wyre 4,625 0 5
Sheffield and Manchester 6,608 13 5
South Eastern and Dover, 5 weeks
Ulster
York and North Midland .

2,031,010 11 71
Deduct 40 per cent. for working 812,404 0 0

£1,218,606 0 0
Thus it will appear, that, on thirty-eight railways now in
operation, for which returns have been published, the gross
receipt for six months this year is £2,031,010
From which deduct 40 per cent. for expenses.. 812,404

Leaving to be divided amongst the proprietors £1,218,60G
Be it, however, remembered, that even in the construction
of these important undertakings, every shilling has been
expended in our own country ; and thus the wealth has been
distributed amongst the working class of the community,
and the £812,401, deducted for one half-year's expenses, has
also been appplisd in the same useful way, in providing em-
ployment for the labourer, artificer, and mechanic, and thus
rendering a great benefit to our country.
Our readers attention is directed to the following commu-
nication (translated from the German) addressed to Messrs.
Rowlands' ac,ent at Cologne :—" ]3, Strait:. Euggasse, Co-
logne, May 23, 1841.—Mr. Th. S. Ditges.—Sir,—l have
much pleasure in informing you of the extraordinary
years I effects
of ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL.' For above nine
had not a particle of hair on my head, when I was casually
recommended to give this celebrated oil a trial. I accordingly
purchased two bottles at your estaolishment, and strictly
followed the printed directions ; in the course of two months
my head was covered with fine short hair. which I had cut
off, and continued to persevere in the use of the oil. The
result is, that after five months perseverance, I can now boast
of as good a head of hair as any man in this city. In justice
to the inventors I make this acknowledgment, and shall feel
greet pleasure in satisfying any inquiry.—I salute you with
respect, " ADAM BAuru, Bth Artillery Brigade."
—See advt.

The Acadia, Captain Ryrie, sailed from Liverpool on
Tuesday afternoon with her Majesty's mails for Canada and
the United States. She had 60 passengers, amongst whom
were Lady Bagot and family.

Yesterday morning the policeman on duty found the body
of a man in a court leading out of Chisenhale-street. We
have not heard the cause of the man's death, but are informed
there were several marks of violence on his body.
PROCESSIONS.—The town was yesterday placarded with
bills announcing that the procession of the teetotallers had
been abandoned, and that the anniversary would be kept up
by the other contemplated festivities. We are glad to say
that the Orangemen do not now purpose walking; and we
therefore hope to see these unmeaning displays no longer in-
dulged in by any class of the community.

AIECHAN ICS'S INSTITUTION.—The number of visitors to
the extraordinary exhibition in Mount-street seems daily to
increase. Ai the latter parts of each day the crowd is indeed
so great 1111111 no single visit can do more than give a very su-
perficial notion of the several arrangements. We rejoice to
observe, that the public will now have an opportunity of re-
peating their visits, as often as they please, without any pro-
portionate increase of charge. The advertisement, in another
column, states, that on and after Monday next, when half
the time of the exhibition will have sxpired, season tickets,
for the remaining three weeks, will be issued to the public
at 2s. 6d. each. We trust that very many will avail them-
selves of the privilege thus considerately granted. The fact
that above 16,000 children, belonging to the various charity.
schools, have been invited to attend this exhibition gratui-
tously, is a sufficient evidence of the committee's desire to
do the greatest possible amount of good.
ROBBERY BY A BOY FROM HIS MASTER.—A lad,
named George Stevens, was, yesterday, charged before Mr.
Rushton with robbing his employer of a quantity of thread.
Inspector Anders said, that about five o'clock on the pre-
vious afternoon, he saw the prisoner in Scotland-place, and,
as he appeared to have somethinc, bulky about him, he
stopped him, and found concealed in his trousers three
packets containing 31bs. of thread. On questioning him, he
said he was shop-boy at Mr. Farrell's Byrom-stret, and had
been sent with the thread to a house in Kirkdale. Mr.
Joseph Farrell said he was a smallware-dealer in Byrom-
street, and that the prisoner had been with him about nine
months as errand-boy. About two o'clock on the previous
day, he sent the prisoner for some thread into the store-
room, where it was packed up in bundles of Gibs. each ; and
desired him to unpack some of it, and put it on separate lbs.
on the shelves of the shop. He left the shop while the pri-
soner was doing so, and, on returning, about half an hour
afterwards, sent him home to his tea. About half-past
three, Inspector Anders called and shewed him 31bs. of
thread, which he claimed as his. He had so large a stock
that he could not have missed it. The prisoner was com-
mitted for trial.

CHARGE OF THEFT AGAINST A WATCHMAN.—A man
named William Mulholland, and a woman who gave her
name as Eliva Mulholland, were yesterday placed at the bar
of the Police-court, on a charge of having stolen a quantity
of starch.—lnspector Edwards said, that on the previous
night, about ten o'clock, while he was on duty in Simpson-
street, he observed the female prisoner come out of Watkin-
son-street into the former street; and as she appeared to be
bulky, he suspected something was wrong, and followed her.
On getting up to her he found she had something concealed
under her shawl, and put some questions to her respecting it.
She said it was starch, and that she had got it yonder—
(pointing in the direction from which she had come.) He
told her she must go back with him and shew him the place.
On the way back she said she had got it at the starch works
in Bridgewater-street, where her husband was employed as
watchman. He then took her to Brick-street bridewell, and
there took from her four parcels, each containing 5 lbs. of
starch. Ile afterwards went to Mr. Tarbuck's works,
Bridgewater-place. Bridgewater-street, where he found the
male prisoner,—who admitted in court that the female was
his wife. Two keys were found upon him.—Mr. Charles
Gildersleeves, clerk to Mr. Tarbuck, said the prisoner was
watchman on the premises, and that he went on duty at six
in the evening, and remained till six in the morning. NA, fit-
ness had left the counting-house at six o'clock on the previ-
ous evening, at which time he gave him the key of the office,
to give to Mr. Tarbuck's young man when he brought the
dog down. The key of the starch-room was kept in the
office. He missed four parcels of starch, of 5 lbs. each, in
paper, similar to those produced : and they were there at six
o'clock. The prisoner said that he had done nothing what-
ever ; he had never given away an ounce. He was committed
for trial at the sessions. As the female was, it appeared, his
wife, she was discharged.

STEALING CLOTHES FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE.—At
the Police-court yesterday, an ill-clad young man, named
William Dyson (before known to the police), was placed at
the bar on a charge of stealing a quantity of clothes. Eliza-
beth Townley, wife of a watchmaker residing in Prince
Edward Terrace, Everton, said that about two o'clock on
the previous afternoon he placed a quantity of clothes con-
sisting of table cloths, shirts, and other articles of wearing
apparel, on a table under the cellar kitchen window, which
was down, and went up stairs to make the beds. In about
an hour afterwards, some one knocked at the door, and she
went down, and was told that some one had carried some-
thing off. She then missed the clothes, and went to Rose-
hill Bridewell, where she found them in charge of an officer.
Police-constable Bryan Winterscales said, that about half-
past three that afternoon, he saw the prisoner with a little
boy crossing from Prince Edward-street to the north Hay-
market. The boy was carrying a large bundle. He stopped
them, and asked the boy where he was taking it to. The
prisoner said he was taking them to his sister's in Garden-
lane, to be washed. He then asked where they had got
them. The prisoner replied from his sister's in Everton.
He seized the prisoner; and the boy then threw down the
'bundle and escaped. He took the articles to bridewell,
where they were immediately afterwards claimed by Mrs.
Townley. The prisoner said that the boy had told him that
he had got them at his sister's ; that that was what he bad
said, and that he knew nothing of them. He was committed
for trial at the sessions. He had before been three times
committed, and once discharged for want of evidence. The
clothes were stated to be worth about £4.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—CURIOUS CASE RELATIVE TO THE
JURISDICTION OF CORONERS.—On Saturday forenoon last,
two young men, sons of Mr. James Cooke, of Moor-place,
accompanied by another youth, went across the river to
amuse themselves on the Cheshire side. Below Egremont
Ferry, they each hired one of the ponies, kept on the shore
for the recreation of visitors, arid rode along to New Brighton.
On reaching the pier, they alighted to get a glass of ale at
the small public-house there, taking the animals close to the
wall, where they usually stand side by side until they are
again wanted. One of the young men (Cooke) on leaving
the spot passed between two of the ponies, and happening, it
is supposed, to touch one of them in getting through, the
animal, either alarmed or vicious, struck out his hind legs
twice, giving him. in the second instance, a violent blow in
the abdomen. He did not, however, feel so much hurt, but
he was able to remount and ride back slowly to the spot from
which they had started. He came back to Liverpool with
his companions, who, as he now complained a good deal,
took him to Mr. Crips's surgery in Dale-street ; but that
gentleman not being at home, they took him to his father's
house, where he arrived about two o'clock. Mr. Steward,
of Seymour-street, was sent for, and he sent Mr. Mc Fie, of
the same street, to his assistance. That gentleman used
such means as he considered proper for his releif, but
without avail, as the young man, after lingering in
great pain, died at about eight o'clock on the following
morning (Monday.) The deceased was, we learn, 24 years
of age. The borough coroner summoned a jury, who viewed
the body •, and an inquest was commenced nest day, and part
of the evidence taken, when Mr. Curry found that he had no
power to proceed, in consequence of a recent decision of
Lord Chief Justice Denman, who lays it down that both
the cause of the death, arid the death itself must occur
within the district over which any particular coroner has
jurisdiction, to enable him legally to enter into an investiga-
tion of this nature, and receive the verdict of a jury ! In this
case as the cause of death arose in Cheshire, and the death
took place in Lancashire, it appeared that under this strange
meaning a construction of the inquest act, neither he, nor
the coroner for the Cheshire districts have power to act.
This, we have heard, is also the opinion of our acute Town-
clerk, on reading Lord Denman's decision. The conse-
quences in this case are lamentable. The desolate father of
the deceased young man, is naturally unwilling that the
body should be taken back to Cheshire and brought back for
interment here ; and he has no power to inter without a
coroner's order, which cannot be granted without the inter-
vention of au inquisition ; so that the remains which have
been above ground since Monday morning, must remain so
sine die, unless sonic speedy alteration of the law by a new
act of parliament take place, or an order be received from
the Home Secretary, suspending the operation of the law
under the peculiar circumstances of the case. We under-
stand that the Town-clerk, on learning the facts, promptly
wrote to head quarters, so that one or other of these alterna-
tives will, it is to be hoped, be resorted to. The Coroner
has also written to Mr. Churton, the coroner for that part of
Cheshire where the accident occurred, but whether that gen-
tleman will act upon his own responsibility, and thus render
himself liable to an indictment,—or decline to take proceed-
ings,—is not yet known. One method, though a surrepti-
titious, and perhaps an illegal one, has been suggested to us,
by which the difficulty might be overcome ; and that is, that
the body should be taken in the coffin privately to some
churchyard, and so left as to be found ; and if no one come
forward to claim it, and no witnesses attended, an inquest
would would take place, and a verdict returned of " Found
dead, apparently from an injury of the abdomen, the body of
a man unknown." After which the order for burial would
be issued, and the father might then step im, claim the body,
and inter it where he pleased. Such a resort (were it avail-
able—which we doubt in the advanced state of the case) would
probably, however, be as repulsive to the relatives of the de-
ceased as the painful position in which they are now placed.

NEW LANDING STAGE AT THE EGREMONT SLIP.—We
are glad to say that a large new landing slip is about to be
placed on the Seacombe and Egreinont slip, on an improved
plan, by which the river steamers, as well as others of a
larger size, may at all times—even at low water—securely
land or embark passengers and carriages—a desideratum of
great importance to the public, and the want of which has
long been severely felt. The slip is now undergoing altera-
tions for the purpose of receiving the stage, and the stone
work, under the able management of Mr. Tomkinson, is al-
ready in rapid progress. The greater part of the upper layer
of stones on the slip had to be removed, and will be replaced
by others of a large size, put together in a manner to resist
the heaviest seaway that can assail them, and forming a rather
more gently inclined plane than the former one. The breadth
of the slip will be 15 feet. A handsome stage of about 75 feet
in length and 12 feet wide, fenced at each side by three rows
of chains supported on iron uprights will run down the in-
clined plane, and by means of a tratnroad laid on the strand,
extend about (O feet into the river, beyond the sea-wall,
meeting, at low water, a large landing vessel, designed and
built for the purpose, and alongside of which the steamers may
securely make fast, so that the inconvenience to passengers
of stepping across a number of vessels, as hitherto, at such
times of the tide, will be obviated. The carriage or stage
will run on four handsome iron wheels, the outer ones being
larger than those at the top, by which the surface will be
nearly level. This large stage will be worked by chains and
machinery adequate to move it readily out or in, as occasions
may require. The immense framework erected over the
side, by Mr. Tomkinson, and which has excited so much
public curiosity, is admirably contrived for the removal of the
large stones to be taken up, and the replacing of the newly-
prepared blocks—to form the superstructure of the new ship.
By means of powerful winches fixed in framework of great
span, strengthened on the tension principle by chains and
iron rods, and moveable both longitudinally and transversely
on railways laid on the upper beams, the tackle may be
lowered perpendicularly to any required point; and stones of
several tons in weight may be raised or deposited by the
exertions of a few men only. This is an improvement
in heavy mural architecture which was unknown to our an-
cestors, and enables the workmen, without danger to them-
selves, to complete in weeks what they could not otherwise
accomplish in years. We heartily congratulate our towns-
men, and more especially our fair tovvnswotnen, on the
erection of this landing-place, which, without in the slightest
degree disturbing the course of the river, and thereby form-
ing sand-banks—an evil inseparable from all permanent
stone piers forming projections—will enable them to embark
or land comfortable and dry at times when they would
scarcely venture to encounter the inconvenience and danger
at our ordinary pier-head and steps—where one must follow
the other like a flock of sheep through a gap. The whole
will probably be completed, and opened for public use, in
about two months.. We entertain no doubt of the practical
utility of the new landing stage; and strongly recommend to
the Corporation and Dock Trustees the construction, as
ed as possible, of similar stages for the other passenger
and carriage slips—particularly the slip at George's-pier,
where landing is often difficult and hazardous, and not un-
frequently impossible.

A petition from this town against the new Poor Law Bill
was presented in the House of Commons on Wednesday, by
Sir Howard Douglas. •
The' second reading of the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway Bill was fixed for last night, and the Liverpool Im-
provrnent Bill was to be read a third time, when the Lords'
amendments would be considered.
We beg to call attention to the advertisement in our first
page of the lecture for the benefit of Christ Church Schools,
On. Congregational Singing;" it is a subject of great
importance at the present moment, and will, we think, excite
deep interest. • •
PICKING POCKETS ON BOARD THE RAILWAY BOAT.—
A notorious character, named Thomas Brown, was commit-
ted yesterday, at Birkenhead Town-hall, to the House of
Correction, for a month's hard labour, for attempting to
nick a lady's pocket as she was leaving the railway boat at
Monk's Ferry, on Tuesday last.
SCROFULA. AND ITS EFFECTS.—On Wednesday evening
last, an interesting lecture was delivered on this subject be-
fore the Operatives' Philosophical Association, at the request
of its members, by a medical gentleman who, it appears,
confines his practice to the treatment of that class of dis-
eases. The lecturer, after pointing out some of the causes
of this fruitful source of misery, which he referred to neglect
and bad management during childhood, and stating some
valuable cautious on the subject, gave a short resume of his
mode of treatment, which, from instances which he men-
tioned, appears to have been remarkably successful. The
society in question. though in its infancy, appears to be ad-
mirably conducted, and will doubtless be the means of much
usefulness to its members.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD SHIP--0 Wednesday
afternoon, about three o' 11
clock, William Marshall, ware-
houseman to Mr. Duncan Gibb, had occasion to go on
board the " England," lying in the Brunswick Doek, to
look after the cargo, when by some accident be fell into the
hold, by which his head was so dreadfully fractured that part
of the brain protruded at one ear. He was carried in a
gasping and insensible state to the Southern Dispensary,
where the case was immediately pronounced to be hopeless,
and he expired soon afterwards.
COMMITTAL OF Two WELL-KNOWN THIEVES.--011
Tuesday last two persons, named Andrew Brown and Joseph
Thompson, well-known characters, from this town, were
brought before J. D. Case, Esq., on a charge of stealing a
topcoat, belonging to Mr. Thomas Higgins, tanner, of Tran_
mere. It appeared that in the afternoon of Tuesday Mr.
Higgins discovered that his parlour window had been opened,
and his topcoat stolen, on which he gave information to
Grooves, one of the police, who immediately proceeded to
Liverpool, (having that morning seen the prisoners at Tran-
mere,) where he found the coat in the possession of the
po-
lice,
and the prisoners in Bridewell, Thompson having offere
the coat in pledge to Mr. G. C. Kewley, of Liverpool, who
requested him to bring some one who bad seen him wearing
the coat, when he produced the other prisoner, Brown, and,
the parties not being able to give a satisfactory account of
themselves, Mr. Kewley gave them in charge to the police.
These facts being proved, and the coat being identified by
Mr. Higgins, the prisoners were committed to Knutsford for
trial at the next quarter sessions.
MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.—The Dock Com-
mittee held their weekly meeting yesterday, when the follow-
ing members were present :—Messrs. Holt, Holmes, Aikin,
Molyneux, Tobin, Shand,.Nlcol, Bold, and Middleton. In
the absence of the chairman and deputy-chairman. Mr. Holt
was called upon to preside. The Surveyor reported that he
had settled with the owner of the horse injured by the dock
railway, as described in our last, for the sum of £3 10s. The
Sub-committee of Works recommended that a portion of the
Pavement opposite the dock master's house, at Clarence
Dock, be taken up and macadamized, in order to deaden the
noise of the carts, of which Mr. M`Bride, the dock-master,
complained.—Ordered. The same sub-committee recom-
mended that gas-pipes be laid down in the houses of the
North Harbour Master, and the master of George's Dock,
they paying for the gas consumed. The chairman, on the
part of the Marine Surveyor's Sub-committee, reported that
the bell beacon had been launched, and would be ready by
the end of next week. This was all the business, and the
committee separated.
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY COMPANY.—
A special general meeting of the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway Company was held at the Cotton Sales'-room, in
the Exchange Buildings, on Tuesday, for the purpose of
having the draft of a bill now before Parliament " for better
enabling the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company
to extend the line of the said Railway and for amending and
enlarging the powers and provisions of the several Acts re-
lating to such Railway," submitted to the proprietors present
at such meeting. Shortly after one o'clock the chair was
taken by Charles Lawrence Esq., the president.—The chair-
man stated that the late general meeting had authority to
make a junction between the Liverpool and Manchester line,
and the Leeds and Manchester at Hunt's Bank, Manchester.
The object of the present meeting was to state what the act
of parliament specified, and to give the proprietors if they
a thought necessary, the opportunity either of rejecting or of
pproving of the bill now before the House. The Chairman
concluded by calling on Mr. C. W. Clay, the clerk of the
corn-a-- ,
Ely to read the notice which had been given to the
public concerning the holding of the present meeting, and
also the clauses which had been inserted in the short Act of
Parliament.—Mr. Clay read the notice, and a draft of the
bill accordingly. The preamble recited the several acts
Passed regarding the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and
stated the expediency of giving powers for effecting a junc-
tion between the Liverpool and Manchester and the Man-
chester and Leeds Railway. The bill enacted, in the first
Place, that the powers of the several recited acts should be
extended to this act. By the second section, the company
were authorised to make a junction railway at and near
Hunt's Bank. The third section authorised the sale and
Purchase o? land by this company from other companies, and
authorised those other companies to sell to this company.
The fourth section prescribed the mode of constructing the
railway at Hunt's Bank, by means of a viaduct specifying
the breadth and height. The fifth section enacted, that the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway should make a wall or
fence to screen the intended railway from the New Bailey
Prison, and the view of persons using the railway. The sixth
section referred to the construction of the railway at Man-
chester,•and other particulars respecting the viaduct. The
seventh section enacted that the expenses of the act might be
paid out of the general funds of the company ; and the eighth
and last section stated, that the present was a public act.—
The Chairmah stated, that in these several sections consisted
the whole of the bill. If there was no objection to it, he
called upon the proprietors to affix the seal of the company
thereto.—Mr. Rotheram proposed a resolution which had
been previously prepared, and which was to the effect, that
the bill be approved of, and that the directors be authorised
to affix the seal to the same, subject to such alterations and
additions thereto as they might deem necessary or parlia-
tnent might approve.—Mr. Van Zeller seconded the resolu-
tion, which was unanimously adopted.—Thanks were then
returned to the chairman, and the meeting separated.
EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF A CONSIDERABLE SUM
OF MONEY.—Yesterday, at the police court, a man named
Ralph Lowe was placed before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of
obtaining felonious possession of £9O. Mr. Bailey, sail-
maker, of Richmond-row, said, that or{ Monday last he sent
his son, William Bailey (who appeared at the bar as a wit-
ness), to draw a sum of money due to him by a Mr. Mann.
His son did not return, and his absence caused him great un-
easiness, more particularly as he soon afterwards found that
Mr. Mann's clerk had paid him £9o,—namely, one £5O
Bank of England note, nine sovereigns, and a bill for £3l.
He had heard that he had gone to Preston, and went there to
endeavour to find him, but without avail ; and he then began
t° apprehend that he might be drowned, or that some other
fatality had befallen him. At length he got a clue to the fact
that he had got into the company of the Bibbys—then in
court as witnesses—and:that he had gone to Chester on a
spree" with one of them—the husband. He had since
learned that he had left the money in Bibby's house, and
that the prisoner had gone there and stolen it. Mrs. Bibby
(the wife) being sworn, said that the son of William Bailey
had come to her on Monday during her husband's absence,
and laid a parcel on the table—which he said contained bills
'telling her to take care of it until he returned, and not to
tell any one about it. On Tuesday morning he went to
Chester, in company with her husband. The latter came
back same evening, and brought a letter from William Bailey.
She could'not read, and the prisoner came in, read the let-
ter, and afterwards went up stairs and took the parcel from
under a
out mug where she had placed it for safety, and
peeningwith-
oit took it away with him. He burnt the letter
after had read it.—Another female said that the Bibby's
lodgedat her house. The prisoner came in with Bibby. She
saw Mrs. Bibby take the notes out of her bosom, and Bibby said
!enaething about going to London. (It appeared that the bill
tor the £3l was payable there.) Jas. Bibby, the husband,
said he went with young Bailey to Chester on Tuesday, and
came back same evening. Bailey wrote a letter and gave it
.n him. He met the prisoner yesterday morning for the
first time since he (witness) returned from Chester, and went
with him home from the duck. Some further evidence was
given, partly of a contradictory nature, and also tending to
iropilcate the Bibbys in the robbery, as well as Mr. Bailey's
B°c• Mr. Bailey said that the first time he had seen his son
since 'Monday was on Wednesday morning. Mr. Rushton
immediately ordered the witnesses, Bibby and his wife. and
Young Bailey, to be taken into custody, remarking, that it
was a cruel robbery, in which they were doubtless all impli-
cated. They were all taken into custody accordingly, and
remanded for further investigation. Orders were also given
that they should not be allowed to communicate with each
lather, and that they should be separately confined. Bibby
we learn, a boatman.

APPREHENSION OF TH OS. GI LMOUR, SON OF
THOS. PARR GILMOUR.
, 011 Wednesday afternoon, Thos. Gilmour, a very good
looking youth, about sixteen or seventeen years of age, and
one of the sons of the person who was lately dismissed on a
"charge of swindling, was apprehended in Bootle, by police-
cer Kelley, charged by John Ascroft, stonemason, with
stealing a silver watch from his house. The case was heard
YesterdaY before John Formby, and R. E. Harvey, Esquires,
two of the county justices, at Messrs. Leigh and Eaton's
°We, Leigh t ' Cr-
ebecca Ate
Ascroft said she was wife of John Ascroft, and
lived at I3ootle. On the 3lst of May the prisoner came to
her "use with Thos. Parr Gilmour to live. He gave his
name as Gorst, and said that Mr. Gilmour was his guardian.
He left her house on the 10th ult. A day or two before that
her little girl, Martha, was playing with a silver watch, when
she heard the prisoner say he would give the girl some shells
for the watch. He said he would give her some shells and a
piece of coral from abroad, and that he must have it. He
would get it to tick and sell it to the blacks for £2. She
(witness) told the prisoner he
she also told the little girl was not to get the watch,
and
that it was not her's to give away.
The prisoner left her house on the 10th to go to Mrs. Gil-
mour, in the Isle of Man
Sunday alter the prisoner .weSnhe missed the watch on the
On Thursday last the pri-
soner came to her house to ett.a box belonging to his father.
She asked him for the watclgi, and
fi-
bsialid he got it repaired
in the Isle of Man. Ile sold his
-hooks to get it paired ; it cost is. Gd. She told him. also, on Wednesday,
re-
when he called again, that if he would by'riirliigs7ie watch back she
hi•matlier ov.-ed her.
would take something from the mone
The prisoner said the witness gave
husband
watch. He
and said that
offered her half-a-crown for it, and the
would be too much. He then proposed to bung beads when he came back. He then
to tie the watch to his chain. It was a scheme gmote thread
gave hir:gsosnine coral
she saw him going out of the house. When he wenutpl,3afcelr
again to the house, she brought old George in, in order that
he might be a witness, if he acknowledged that she did not
give it to him ; but he (the prisoner) knew very well what she
was up to.
Police constable Kelly said lie had received information
from Mrs. Ascroft that the son of Thomas Parr Gilmour had
a watch from her house. lie got!). description of the youth,
and was requested to apprehend him when he saw him. on
Wednesday he saw him at the shop of Mrs. Ewens, grocer,
Ileasked him if he we • tl
and took hint into custody.
son of Thomas Parr Gilmour, and , •. he said he was, and that
he had come there in search, of two boxes which nib father had
left there. lie told him that if his father would
_come and
give the receipt for the two oses he would get then.i. lie
asked hint if lie know anything of Mrs. Ascrutt's watch, and
he said he had given it to his father yesterday. He offered
to go and get the watch if the officer would allow him ; it
would be found oil his father's'
person. The prisoner said he
was always getting intotrouble about his father ; not long be.
fore he had sent him to t'iet•aciva for some goods, and when
he got there the Guardia., sotYhad stopped them, and his
father had beat him very severely yfor it.
The witnesses were then cross-examined by a gentleman,
who offered to act as attorney for the prisoner, and Mrs.
Ascroft acknowledged that there
was
some sort of agreement
about the coral beads and
Mr. Formby said there the watch.
r. some doubt was in this case, and
as that was always given in favour of the prisoner,
he must
be discharged.
The youth bowed to the 3
magistrate and retired, promising
to return the watch to Mrs. Ascroft.