The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-03 00:00:00

THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE HER MAJESTY..—We
cannot but express our thanks to Mr. Alyward, and Messrs.
Wilmer and Smith, for their kindness in forwarding to our
office, at a very early hour on Tuesday morning, express
editions of the London Standard and Sun, with full par-
ticulars of the diabolical attempt on the life of her Majesty.
LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.—We understand that the days for
holding the assizes on the northern circuit were fixed on
Wednesday last ; and that the assizes for the south division
of Lancashire will commence here on Saturday, the 30th
July. No alteration whatever has taken place in the
" Northern Circuit;" Lord Denman and Mr. Baron Maule
are the judges.

AUDACIOUS AND UNMANLY ASSAULT.—A few evenings
ago, the servant-girl employed by Mr. Quick, inspector of
police, London-road, was sent on a message to Pembroke-
place, and had scarcely been out three minutes when she was
seized by three men in the street. One of them held her by
the throat ; a second placed his hand upon her mouth ; and
the other indecently lifted her apparel, and searched her per-
son, putting his hands also into her breast, as if in search of
money, of which, however, they found none. In her struggle
and alarm the man withdrew his hand from her mouth, and
she gave the alarm, upon which the whole three ran off.
We regret to add that none of the ruffians have yet been

apprehended.
" THE GUADALOUPE," IRON STEAM-FRIGATE.—Thi3
truly beautiful vessel—built for her Majesty's service by Mr.
John Laird, and the launch of which we recently noticed—
made a trial trip on our river on Wednesday last, and fully
realised all the anticipations entertained of her, from her
peculiarly fine and scientific construction. She maintained a
speed of 101 knots an hour, which is very great, when it is
considered that the vessel is of 800 tons burthen, with
engines of only 180 horse-power, and being besides very
strongly built for carrying guns and very heavy masts and
spars. The engines, which are admirable pieces of mechan-
ism, made 22 revolutions a minute, with abundance of
steam, and worked as smoothly and perfectly as could be
wished. Those on board were delighted with her perform-
ance, and many hundreds on shore, to whom the vessel was
a " stranger," beheld her rapid movements with no little
astonishment and admiration. The fitting of her 68-pounder
guns is now in progress of completion, and she will very
shortly be ready for sea. As she is the largest and hand-
somest iron ship of war afloat. and is in every point an
honour to our port, we shall not fail to notice her when she
is fully equipped, before she proceeds to her destination.
PIGEON SHOOTlNG.—Yesterday afternoon, a contest in
pigeon shooting took place at Mr. Sudlow's, the Carnarvon
Castle, in the village of Oxton, immediately opposite to our
" good old town." The prizes—three in number—were for
a considerable sum each, and the matches were well contested
throughout. The first contest was won (by one bird) by Mr.
Thomason, of Tranmere. The same gswtlernan also won the
second prize—the contest being a closeldne between him and
Mr. Shakeshaft. The third prize could scarcely be said to
be contested for, the pigeons being too young to rise in a
manner so as to present a fair shot to any sportsman. The
shooting took place in a field near Mr. Sudlow's, the pro-
perty of Mr. Hugh Williams. From forty to fifty birds were
killed, and the shooting, particularly towards the close, was
exceedingly good. The day was beautiful, and the company
enjoyed from the elevated locality a most extensive and de-
lightful prospect of a large portion of Cheshire, Lancashire,
and the neighbouring counties in Wales, besides a large ex-
panse of the " blue deep." We may state that the recently
poor Hamlet of Oxton has become very much improved of
late years, and now, in itself, as well as in the fine villas that
continue to creep around it, exhibits an improvement which
augurs well of its future importance. With reference to the
pigeon-shooting, we have but to add, that so exciting was
the sport of the day, that another contest is fixed for Thurs-
day, the 16th instant.

CAUGHT AT LAST.—At the Police-court, yesterday, a
stout-looking man, named Dakin, keeper of a beer-house in
Argyle-street, was placed at the bar, on a charge of receiving
stolen property, an offence of which he had long been known
to be guilty, but of which no legal proof could hitherto be
adduced. It appears, that on the 27th of February last, a
respectable tailor had sent his boy with a suit of clothes home
to a gentleman, one of his customers. While passing along
Brownlow-street, a man came up who had acquired some
knowledge of the boy, and plausibly representing himself as
the owner of the clothes, contrived to relieve the lad of the
trouble of carrying them to the house of the rightful owner,
a Mr. Robinson. The delinquent was afterwards apprehended,
and being identified, he was tried at the last sessions but
one—found guilty on the clearest testimony—and being an
old offender, sentenced to transportation for life. The
clothes, however, were not found ; but the police had a de-
scription of the articles, which were not entirely new, and,
as proved yesterday, they were traced to a female who deals
in clothing. A tailor, who lives in Stanhope-street, and
with whom she had had dealings, said that on the day of the
robbery (Sunday morning), the prisoner requested permis-
sion to leave the bundle at his house, as he had elsewhere to
go. The prisoner called for it next day (Monday), and asked
witness if lie was in the habit of selling clothes, as he had
a suit belonging to a gentleman who wanted money, and
would part with them for £2—and certainly not less than
355. The prisoner then opened the bundle, and witness,
who then saw the bundle for the first time, remarked that
the owner must be a drunken fool to part with such a suit
for so small a sum—adding, after some further conversation,
that lie would endeavour to sell them for him (prisoner).
He accordingly took them to the female, who bought the
coat and waistcoat for £2 12s. ; and he sold the trousers to
a man (who also appeared in court), for 12s. The two last
parties, who, as well as the tailor, acted in ignorance of
any felony having been committed, immediately gave up
the articles to Inspector Savare on being called on, and all
of them were identified by them, by the tailor who sold
them, and by Mr. Robinson, the owner. The prisoner was
committed to take his trial at the sessions.
MISS CRELLIN'S CASE.—BAIL FOR COPELAND.—II will
be recollected that (as noticed in our paper of the 20th ult.)
two persons had offered themselves at the Police-court as
bail for Samuel Martin Copeland, who is in custody on a
charge of having defrauded Miss Crellin of the sum of £250,
and that one of them was accepted and the other rejected,
so that
.the question of the liberation of the prisoner re-
mained in stain quo. It appears that Mr. Rushton had
afterwards, from some information he bad received, some
misgivings even as to the person then accepted, and had since
required new bail. Accordingly, two other parties tendered
themselves as bail before him yesterday, and both underwent
a strict examination. Mr. James Harper, a stonemason,
and also a publican, first appeared. He said he lived in Myr-
tle-street, and enumerated considerable property, of which
he said he was possessed, in " the Rectors' Fields," and the
rental of which was, in all, £3OO a-year. In reply to Mr.
Rushton and also to Mr. Snowball, he declared that he had
received no promise, directly or indirectly, and no assurance
whatever, that he should receive any indemnity in the event
of Copeland not making his appearance in court to answer
the charge laid against him. He admitted that he had no
acquaintance whatever with the defendant in the case, previ-
ously to the charge against him having transpired, but that he
had been applied to by a Mr. Leigh, an acquaintance, who
had told him it was only " a lark," and that there was no
danger in his becoming surety. He repeated his assurance
that no promise had been made to him. Mr. Snowball sug-
gested that his bail should not be received, inasmuch as lie
had admitted that lie had no personal acquaintance with the
defendant. Mr. Rushton said that that would be carrying
the law rather too strictly out, and admitted the party as bail.
Robert Birkett then appeared as the other surety. He stated
that he was a joiner and builder, living in King-street, Tox-
teth-park, and that he had six new houses and a quarry—
the houses being worth £72 a-year, and the quarry bringing
an annual rental of £B4. He had received no promise of
indemnity. To questions put, he, however, admitted that he
had a partner who owned one-half the property, and that
there was a mortgage on the houses amounting to £BOO.
Police-officer Thomas Ainsworth, jun., being sworn, said, be
had visited the house occupied by Birkett—recently built—
and found it very deficient in furniture. Mr. Rushton said,
he would not accept of such bail, and added, that he would
require 48 hours' notice of any other tender. The defendant
is therefore still held in confinement.

A STABLE TO LET.—During the night that followed the
last sitting of the Irish House of Commons, a large placard
was affixed to one of the central pillars of the front portico,
with these words :—" This stable to be let for horses, as the
asses that had it could not keep it."
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CAMBRIDGE ELECTION .—in the Court of Queen's Bench,
on Monday afternoon, - Hart, who had been convicted of
bribery at a late election for Cambridge, was brought up for
judgment, and he was sentenced to be imprisoned for the
term of 12 calendar months.
The Paris papers of Sunday are filled with comments on
the final debate which arose in the Chamber of Deputies on
Saturday, on the right of search, and its result, which the
opposition journals consider a defeat of ministers, and which
it would be uncandid to regard otherwise than as a demon-
stration of hostility towards this country.
LYME REGIS ELECTION PETITION.—The committee
came to a resolution on Monday, after a protracted enquiry,
that Mr. Pinney was not duly elected to the present parlia-
ment, and that Mr. Hussey ought to have been returned.
The former gentleman is a radical, and the latter a conser-
vative.

DARING BURGLARY.—On Saturday morning last, six or
eight men, armed with bludgeons, entered the dwelling-house
of the Rev. Henry Sharples, near Blackburn, and decamped
with property to the value of nearly £lOO. They threatened
to take Mr. Sharples's life unless he gave them all had. One
had a pistol, and another a blunderbuss.

THE ROYAL KITCHEN GARDEN AT WINDSOR.—AS the
extensive kitchen gardens belonging to the Crown, com-
prising the gardens at Cranbourne and Cumberland Lodges
in the Great Park, the Maestrich gardens in the Home Park,
and the royal Kitchen gardens at Kensington, are about to
be immediately consolidated into one spacious kitchen gar-
den (containing between 20 and 30 acres of most superior
arable land), now being arranged under the superintendence
of Mr. Ingram, in the grounds attached to Frogmore Lodge,
the whole of the building materials, including five spacious
hot-houses, gardeners' sheds, and other erections at Cran-
bourne-lodge, have just been sold by auction by Mr. Tebbot,
of Windsor, by order of the Commissioners of her Majesty's
Woods and Forests. As soon as the new gardens at Frog-
more are brought into a state of cultivation, the Maestricht
gardens will be thrown into the Home Park, (from which
they are now divided by a high brick wall, some hundreds
of yards in length,) and the gardeners house and the
other buildings will be disposed of by the 'Woods and
Forests. The new gardens will comprise a most extensive
grapery and pinery. The whole of the forcing and hothouses
will be heated upon a novel and most excellent plan by means
of hot water. These will extend, in one line, to the length
of upwards of 250 yards. Close to these will be erected a
residence for Mr. Ingram, the superintending gardener, built
in the Elizabethan style, with a spacious conservatory, ac-
cording to the original plans, on either side. The garden is
now being enclosed by a substantial brick wall, twelve feet
in height, which will present, as may be imagined, a most
spacious and desirable facility for the cultivation and rearing
of wall fruits in every variety. The whole of the expenses
which will be necessarily incurred by these extensive altera-
tions and vast improvements will be met by the disposal of
the site of the royal gardens at Kensington, which will be let
on building leases. It is calculated that the ground-rents will
realize a sum amounting to between £28,000 and £30,000.

AN ALGERINE ExEcuTioN.—A letter from Algiers gives
the following horrible account of the execution on the 3d
inst. of a German who had been condemned to death for
the murder of two of his comrades, near Douera :—Mah-
Chaouche, who had been executioner to the ex-Bey of Tit-
tery, on hearing that he would have to perform his office on
a christian, became alarmed lest he might fail in his stroke,
and have it imputed
to him that he had wilfully prolonged
the sufferings of the convict on account of his religion.--
When the criminal and the executioner arrived at the scaf-
fold, where they had to wait 25 minutes for the warrant of
execution (a circumstance which the letter does not account
for), the contrast between the countenances of the two men
was very remarkable. The German continued to smoke and
converse with those around him with perfect ease, and even
indifference, while Mahmoud displayed the greatest agitation,
At length the fatal order arrived, and the German mounted
the ladder with the utmost alacrity,'and continued to smoke
his cigar untill his arms were bound, and the priest who at-
tended him gave him the cross to kiss for the last time. Now
followed a scewe which it is impossible to depicture. Mah-
moud's first stroke was insufficient, and the efforts he made
until he had completed his task were so horrible that the
surrounding crowd uttered one universal cry of reprobation,
and began to throw stones at the executioner. The general
indignation would have ended in another catastrophe, from
the impression which Mahmoud had apprehended, had not
the mounted Gendarmes attending the execution, by their
great and powerful exertions, kept of the people until the
executioner was conducted to a place of security.—Galig-
nani's Messenger.