The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-15 00:00:00

brCape. The loss to the revenue from this reduction
is estimated at L 170,000.

Upon foreign timber Sir Robert proposes that the
duty should be reduced in the year 1842 to 1843 from
555. per load, the present duty upon square timber, to
305., and upon deals, to 355. per cubic foot, and lath-
wood, 20s. ; and in the year 1843 to 1844 to
305., and 20s. respectively. Upon Canadian, timber a

corresponding reduction will be made from 10s., the
present duty, to is. upon square timber, and 2s. on
deals and lathwood. The proposition' of the late go-
vernment with respect to this article, it may be remem-
bered, was to reduce the duty upon foreign timber to
455., and to raise the duty (!) upon Canadian timber
To the consumer, to the Canadian,
or to the British shipowner we need not state which

from los. to 15s

proposition is the most favourabi

the loss to the revenue is estimated at £

100,000 a year

It is next proposed to aboliSh altogether the duties
levied upon exporti of manufactured goods, which

amount at present on woollens to £30,000 per annum;
upon linen yarns, to £4,000 per annum ; on silk, to

There is now in Liverpool an American lady who has
crossed the Atlantic fifty-five times !

The Liverpool Improvement Bill, and the Toxteth Park
Improvement Bill, were brought into the House of Commons
on Friday by Sir H. Douglas, and severally read a first time.
SACRILEGE.—On Sunday night some miscreants broke
into the Mariners' Church, and stole therefrom a few books
and about five shillings in silver, the produce of the sale of
25 I prayer-books, &c

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LECTURES ON THE CREED OF POPE PIUS THE FOURTH.
—From a pressure of matters of immediate interest, we are
under the necessity of postponing our report of the Rev. Dr.
Tattershall's able lecture on the second article of the creed
of Pope Pius, delivered in the Music-hall on Friday evening.

It shall appear on Friday.
"The roof of a house kept by a gentleman named Atkinson,
in St. James's-road, Holloway. was blown in during the
storm of Wednesday night, killing one of his servants, and

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so injuring another that her life was despaired of.
SCOTCH CHURCH, OLDHAM-STREET.--We believe Dr.
Laurie is likely to succeed Dr. Ralph in the pastoral charge
of this congregation. Ihe reverend gentleman has been
ucti, many years in the East Indies, in connection with the Scot-
'" tish missions in that quarter.

COURSING AT ALTCAR.—The Earl of Sefton has kindly
granted permission for three days coursing over Altcar, on
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday next, when several large
stakes will be run for. The dogs to be entered and drawn
to-morrow, at the Waterloo Hotel, at four o'clock.
THE Asstzxs.=The assizes for the division of South
Lancashire commence in Liverpool on Thursday week, before
Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Justice Wightman. The former
will preside in the crown, and the latter in the civil, court.
We have not been able to ascertain the exact number of pri-

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Boners for trial, but we understand they are very numerous ;
and that the cause list will be unusually heavy.

LAMENTABLE OCCU RB.ENC E.—On Thursday morning last,
as two individuals were walking along the shore, near Lime-
kiln-lane, Tranmere, they saw a human hand a little above
the water, and, on going to the spot, they dragged out of the
river the body of a gentleman. It was conveyed to Mr.
Quigley's, the Queen's Arms Inn, and soon recognised as the
body of Mr, Gray, a gentleman residing in Tranmere, and
carrying on the business of a ship broker in this town, who
had been missing for a few days.

ROBBERY AND ASSAULT.--At the Westmoreland assizes
on Friday last, before Mr. Justice Wightman, Christopher
lon, who lately kept a public-house in Vauxhall-road in this
town, was arraigned for feloniously-making an assault on and
stealing from the person of Mr. John Benson, carrier between
Sedbergh and Hawes, three guineas, six £5 notes, and other
moneys, the property of the said John Benson. The occur-
rence took place in November last, and full particulars of it
appeared in our columns at the time. No new evidence of
a material nature was adduced, and his lordship sentenced
the prisoner to transportation for

THE FORTH, MAIL STEAMER.—The following is an ex-
tract of a letter addressed to Mr. Shaw, of the City of Dub-
lin Steam Company, from Captain Cobb, of their steamer
City of Dublin, dated Vera Cruz, 9th February last The
gale of yesterday was hard, with a very heavy sea. About
three p.m. the Forth steamer came in among the bunks with
signals flying and firing for a pilot. None would or could go
off to her. Finding her stop in the situation named above,
I procured five volunteers to accompany me, and I suc-
ceeded in getting on board and bringing her safe in through a
channel, (surveyed by me during my leisure hours since 1
arrived here,) and anchored her in perfect safety about 4 30

p.m.-
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY
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—A special

meeting of the proprietors of this company will be held at the
Cotton Sales'-room, Exchange-buildings, this morning, the
15th instant, for the purpose of taking into consideration,
and deciding upon, the most expedient course to be pursued
with respect to the several proposed lines of communication
with the Manchester and Leeds Railway, namely,
_the line

from Cross-lane, Salford, vid the New :Bailey and Hunt's
Bank to St. George's-road ; and the south or new line from
Ordsall-lane. via Castlefield and Store-street, to the Man-

chester and Leeds Station, Oldham-road

CURIOUS COINCIDENCE

—On Friday Mr. J. C. Shaw, of

the City of Dublin Company, received a letter from The City

of Mexico, dated the 22d January, and a letter from Cal-
cutta, also dated 22d January. The circumstance is curious.
On looking at a map of the world, on Mercator's projection,

England forms very nearly the apex of an idosicles iriangle
with these two places, as the crow flies.
CHURCH COLLECTIONS.—On Sunday last the following

sums were collected at the respective churches mentioned for:
the objects specified. At St. Bride's, after a sermon by the
Rev. J. H. Stewart, for the Jerusalem bishopric, J.:82. At

Christ Church, for the schools in connection with the church,
after two sermons by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, .£B3. At Aig-

burth Church, after a sermon by the Rev. Hugh M`Neire,
for the Liverpool Infirmary, the sum of £5B 17s. 4d. At St.
Luke's Church, after two sermons by the Rev. Dr. Byrth,

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for the schools attached to the church, £23 14s. ; and at
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Trinity Church, after a sermon by the Rev. ThornaS Bibby,
for the Deaf and Dumb Institution, £2O, making a gratify-
ing total of £267 11s. 4d.
A WEALTHY' BEGGAR.—On Thursday a most miserable
and poverty-stricken creature, so far as appearance wept, re-
joicing in the name of Matthew M'Quinnon, was brought be-
fore Nicholas Robinson, Esq., at the office of Mr. John
Sanders, solicitor, Leigh-street, on a charge of having been
found begging in the streets. The officer on searching him
found two bags of money upon his person, consisting of a
ten pound note, 19 old guineas, 11 sovereigns, seven half
sovereigns, £1 17s. in silver and copper, and an acknowledge-
ment for £l5 which he had deposited in a loan society in
Liverpool, upon consideration that he should receive at the
rate of 31 per cent. for the sum advanced. It appeared that
the fellow was a native of Ireland, that he bad a wife and six
children, that he resided with his family in the cellar, No.
15, Walker-street, in the Park, and it is supposed that he
raised this large sum of money by obtaining the alms of the
public, and plundering them whenever occasion offered. He
was committed for a month under the vagrant act, and or-
dered to maintain himself at his own expense while in
prison.
WILFUL MURDER.—In our last we gave a few brief par-
ticulars of the death of a young person caused by ill usage in
a place of amusement. On Friday last a coroner's inquest
was held on the body. Thomas Long being sworn, said he
was 16 years of age. and lived in Brooks-street. Knew

deceased. His nacriewasJohn Chambers. He was 16 years

of age. On Friday, the 25th of February last, between ;even
and eight o'clock in the evening, witness had been taking a
walk with the deceased, and they came into the neighbour-
hood of Vauxhall-road, and heard some music playing at a
place called the Prince of Wales Theatre, in Vauxhall-road.
They went past the place, and in consequence, of hearing
what was said of itr-and the priatt4seirig only, one peony, they
went into a set of seats called the gallery. They sat down,
and the deceased took the seat just above witness, but close
to him. Witness did not know any of the persons sitting
near him excepting a girl named Ann Lee. She was sitting
near them. The performance began soon after witness and
deceased entered the theatre. It bad proceeded about a
quarter of an hour when the boys above them in the gallery
and some sweeps who were below them began to shout to a
girl who was singing and dancing upon the stage, " Who
made the boy (or boys) spend a week's wages?" Some girls
who were near them told them and the other boys to shout,
" Emma Templeton." Witness supposed it was in answer
to the question, " Who made the boy to spend his week's
wages ?" They appeared to be shouting it to a girl on the
stage. After they had shouted, the girl on the stage shook
her head and pointed her finger at the deceased, as witness
thought. Witness and deceased shouted " Emma Temple-
ton" when others did. Witness and deceased only shouted
once, but the boys and girls both above and below them
shouted as often as the girl came upon the stage. The per-
formance was over about nine o'clock. Witness and de-
ceased waited in the theatre till all the people nearly had
gone out. Before tbey left the gallery, and while the lights
were burning, John M`Camley and John Kelly came up to
the deceased and knocked his cap off. When deceased was
stooping down to get his cap, both prisoners struck the
deceased with their fists about the face. Deceased covered
his face with his hands. The prisoners, not satisfied with
striking him with their hands, kicked him while he was stoop-
ing down with his hands up to his face. Tbey kicked him
hard about the side. The deceased said, " Oh! there was
more besides me," meaning that more people in the thea-
tre had shouted besides him. The deceased did not com-
plain at the time. Witness called frequently to see deceased
before his death, but did not speak much to him, lest he
should hurt him. Deceased said be was very bad. Deceased
did not strike either of the prisoners. Witness did not
know if the prisoners knew the deceased.—The grandmother
of the deceased said, that on the night in question, about
half an hour after he came home, he moaned dreadfully, and
in the morning he could not dress himself. He went out
the Saturday night after he was kicked, but he could not
walk, and was never out afterwards.—Mr. John Craig, sur-
geon, residing in Mount-pleasant, saw deceased first on Mon-
day last. He was in bed, lying on his back. He complained
of great pain in his belly, which he (Mr. Craig) found to
proceed from retention of urine. Witness relieved deceased.
On the morning of Wednesday, deceased laboured under
great difficulty of breathing, and he was of opinion that it
was caused by lesion of the spine. He died of asphixia, or
rather from paralysis of the organs of respiration. He ex-
amined the spinal column after death, and found the cellular
substance, which connects the posterior substance of the
sheath of the spinal marrow with the hone, filled with a very
concrete bloody purulant matter. The morbid appearance
extended from the base of the skull throughout the whole
course of the spinal canal. The sheath covering the spinal
cord was slightly injected with blood, and the spinal marrow
itself appeared softened in one portion. He was of opinion
that death was caused by the pressure of the matter stated
upon the spinal marrow, and that this matter was the effect
of inflammation resulting from internal injuries. Judging
from the evidence of the case, and the symptoms he himself
saw, he should say that the injury was caused by violence.—
James Hallsall, police-officer, said that he apprehended
M•Camley at a smithy in Neptune-street, and told him he
was taking him and Kelly, who, with another person,
.had
kicked John Chambers, who was then dead. M`Catriley said
he did not kick him with the intention of injuring him. 'Wit-
ness found the prisoner Kelly in a smithy in Robert-street,
and told him why he apprehended him. Kelly said to the
men as he left, " Well, will you come and see me hung ?
The deceased should have kept a still tongue in his mouth.
I did kick him once on the leg." Witness then took them
both into custody.—Mrs. Chambers, being re-called, said,
that when she rubbed the deceased's back it was quite black
in the flesh, and so sore he could hardly bare to have it
touched.—The coroner summed up, and the jury consulted
about fifteen minutes, when they returned a verdict of wilful
murder against both prisoners.
IMPORTANT TO TEACHERS AND PAILENTS.—At the late
assizes for York a case of some importance was tried. The
plaintiff (Mr. Green) lives at Liscard. near Brighton, on the
Cheshire coast, opposite Liverpool, where his wife keeps a
school for young ladies, and defendant (Mr. Emery) is a ma-
nufacturer at Halifax. In January, 1840, defendant sent his
daughter to Mr. Green's school, where she remained a year,
and then was removed without the quarter's notice required
by the terms. The plaintiff therefore sued for ten guineas,
the amount of a quarter's schooling. It was proved that the
defendant's daughter attended the school, and Mr. Watson
endeavoured to prove that the defendant had a copy of Mr.
Green's printed circular, in which a quarter's notice or an
equivalent was stated to be required. It wasalso endeavoured
to be proved that the defendant had admitted the debt. The
proof was this : after the defendant had received a letter from
the plaintiff's attorney, demanding the quarter's payment,
Emery desired a friend to call on the plaintiff's solicitor, and
offer five guineas to settle the matter. Mr. Watson sub-
mitted that this offer was an admission of liability. The judge
thought it was only an affair of compromise for the sake of
peace. Mr. Watson, therefore, called Miss Emery, daughter
of the defendant. She admitted that she saw the printed
terms at school, but she did not take a copy home, nor bad
she seen one at her father's house. She thonght her mother
sent a servant to a friend for one, but did not know that she
got it. She knew nothing about the three months' notice till
she had left school. She supposed Mrs. Green and her mo-
ther had arranged terms. Mr. Watson then called a Mrs.
Dearden to prove the interview of Mrs. Green and Mrs.
Emery, who said that Mrs. Emery said she hoped to per-
suade her husband to let her daughter go to school ; but no-
thing was said about terms, and the prospectus was not
named. Mr. Watson submitted that the terms of the school
were proved, and it might be reasonably presumed that the
defendant knew them before he sent his daughter. The only
point which the judge left to the jury was whether the offer
ofa and the
five guineas was made merely for the sake of peace,
the jury being of opinion that it was, the plaintiff was
ittf)orgoirrnfasiusiited, as his lordship said the plaintiff had failed to
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tisement in the newspapers, that the defendant must have
known.