The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

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his speech about the erection of a new gaol. We can
bear testimony to the good feeling displayed by this
gentleman; and although we cannot entirely concur in
his remarks, yet we believe the worthy alderman, in the
exuberance of his zeal, only meant to express his
anxiety to administer first to the temporal and spiritual
wants of our brethren at home, before we undertake,
at great cost, to dispense these blessings in distant and
unknown regions; and surely there is ground for such
anxiety when we see the awful destitution and want of
spiritual instruction in our good town of Liverpool,—
borne out by the astounding and alarming fact, that
Juvenile crime in Liverpool amounts to 66 per cent.,
whilst in Manchester (where children are more numer-
ous from the circumstance of the factories drawing
them together from distant parts) it only amounts to
48 per cent. Glad, indeed, should we be to see any
feasible plan proposed, calculated to diminish this
frightful and daily increasing evil. Is it not matter of
Wonder, blessed as Liverpool is with so many excellent
and pious clergymen, churchmen, and dissenters,
rivalling each other in works of love and charity,
that we should stand notoriously above every other
town in the kingdom as regards the amount of juvenile
delinquency ? Would that the recording angel could
drop a tear and blot out this stain from our annals !
We certainly think it a duty that both foreign and
home missions should be liberally and freely supported,
but we must not forget—charity begins at home ; and
that so long as our cellars, alleys, and back streets are
flooded with crime, and such a lack of spiritual in-
struction exists, we may express our doubts whether
our countrymen, who are perishing on our threshold,
possess that portion of our temporal and spiritual
solicitude to which they may fairly lay claim and are
justly entitled.

We might illustrate this by the sympathy which was
so warmly called forth on the occasion of the recent
calamitous fire in Hamburg; not only were our feelings
excited, but our purse-strings were unstrung, and
something like £60,000 for the sufferers were the fruits.
This certainly redounds to the honour and credit of
the nation. But here let us ask, what has there been
done on account of the sufferers in the recent con-
flagration in Liverpool ? Literally nothing ! A few
Pounds, shillings, and pence have been subscribed, and
nothing more; yet, surely our townsmen are as worthy
of our benevolence as foreigners, whose first and great
desire is England's downfall
This is what we apprehend the worthy alderman
complains of, that our sympathies should be so easily
excited and our hands stretched out to dispense to
strangers what our neighbours are destitute of and
perishing for at home.
We are inclined ourselves to trace, in a great mea-
sure, the awful increase of juvenile crime in Liverpool
to the false system of education introduced and carried
out in our Corporation Schools since the municipal
act came into operation ; for it is a curious coincidence
and fact, that juvenile crime has increased in an un-
precedented degree since the year 1836, and that as
the system of teaching adopted began to develope
itself and its fruits became known,- crime rapidly aug-
mented ; the trials at the quarter sessions were actually
doubled from 1838 to 1842 ! Six sessions are now
held in lieu of four in each year, and the necessity of
having a sessions every six weeks is under discussion.

There is another reason connected with the increase
of crime in our police-courts which we cannot go into
at present ; we must defer this to a future occasion,
and meanwhile express our thankfulness if the recent
debate should lead to such remedial measures as to
lessen crime, and wipe out so foul a stain as is the
fact, that juvenile crime is greater in Liverpool than
any other town in the United Kingdom !

Before these remarks meet the eyes of any large
portion of the Conservative burgesses of the town, we
trust that in the majority of the contested wards they
will have made the return of their candidates secure
even against the most desperate trickery to which the
degraded Radical faction can resort. Nothing like a
good lead when you are opposed to an enemy as craven
as he is tricky and malignant ! In some wards, how-
ever, we have a real and perhaps a hard struggle to
fight, which will require all the energies and all the
watchfulness which we can exert; and to the struggle
in these wards we now briefly address ourselves.
And first with respect to West Derby Ward, we ob-
serve that the walls of the town have been extensively
Placarded with the name of a third candidate—a pro-
fessing Conservative. " A weak invention of the
enemy," Gentlemen of West Derby ! The Conserva-
tive Committee of the Ward recognise no Conservative
Candidate except Mr. Plumpton. Support him with
all your strength, and you will do a deed worthy of
yourselves and of the ward of West Derby !
In Castle-street the Conservatives have, in Mr. Hugh
Hornby, " A foeman worthy of their steel." By energy
and perseverance they can beat him we are confident;
and we trust that we need scarcely call upon the Bur-
gesses of that oft contested ward to do their duty.
Saint Peter's—GlßßALTAß—must also be energeti-
cally fought. The Burgesses have a Candidate of
Whom any ward might be proud; and if they will
stand by him until the stroke of four by St. Peter's
Clock, they will be rewarded by a Conservative shout,
such as was never heard since a fishing coble first an-
chored in the port of Liverpool.
Pitt-street, too, must not rest satisfied wtth less than
such a victory as that which sent a Rathbone wailing
to Green Bank, or that which brought an Aspinall
once more into the Council. We have no fear, how-
ever, for Pitt-street, meanly as the Whig battle is
fought in that ward.
-Vauxhall, St. Anne's, and Rodney-street are all con-
tested, and must all be won ! Doctor Blackburne must
be sent to his gallipots, Mr. R. E. Harvey to his
brewery, and Mr. James Mulleneux to rack his brains
and his gin casks in his own distillery.
ENERGY, ENERGY, and VICTORY IS OUR OWN !

Mr. Whitfield, the botanist, has left Knowsley Park on a
fresh mission to the coast of Africa.

POLICE COURT.—There was not a single case of public
Interest at the Police-court yesterday. The improvement
Act continues to work admirably in reducing the num )er of
disorderly cases.

...IVWFULLY SUDDEN DEA TIT OF A 13RIDE.--On Sunday week,
MISS Peers, of Fontenoy-street, was to have been married at
St. Augustine's, and was on her way there in a coach. She
Was suddenly seized with a fit, and although she was imme-
diately taken home, and medical assistance rendered, she
never rallied, and died in an hour or two, in her bridal dress.
The poignancy of grief of the wedding party may be con-
cived from this sudden visitation of Providence.

A YOUTH SCALDED TO DEATII.—On Friday an inquest
was held at Mr. Gough's, Woodside Hotel, before H. Chur-
ton, Esq., coroner for the southern division of the county of
hester, and a highly respectable jury, of which Mr. Robert
liarwooll was foreman, touching the death of Thomas Dent,
1; youth about 17 years of age, who was scalded to death on
Wednesday last, at the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Sta-
tion, in Birkenhead, by the giving way of a cock attached to
the stationary steam engine. The jury returned a verdict of
accidental death.
BAZAAR IN THE CALEDONIAN SCHOOL.—We are gra-
tified to learn that the Bazaar connected with the Ladies'
Clothing Society of the Scotch Church, went off remarkably
well on Tuesday. Notwithstanding the unfavourableness of
the weather, the place was occasionally crowded during the
course of the day, and the proceeds amounted to Sixty•six
Pounds odd. This will be a seasonable help, and on the
Principle of this excellent clothing society will do a world of
tood.

ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH.—Friday being the twenty-seventh
anniversary of the consecration of this church, the church-
wardens selected it for the presentation to its late minister,
the Rev. Thomas Stanley Bowstead, M.A., of the testimo-
ral of esteem, consisting of a complete set of robes both
anthe desk and the pulpit, suited to his rank in the church
4 his standing in the university, with an elegant silver
have commissioned them to present to him on his promotion
'0 the vicarage of Tarvin, after a ministration of nearly 26
Years. This tribute of respect was presented by the
s,
p church-
donors ardens, Messrs. Simpson and Ritson, on behalfA of the
, accomto anied by a letter expresive of their united
od vvishe which the rev. gentlemans made a suitable re-
ly The th : former of these pieces of plate will remain for
Mint Messrs. Jones and Suns', and the latter at
essrs. Wordley and s. Jones
it ROYAL.—By an advertisement in our last,
114111 be seen that the lesees have engaged the celebrated
pruintleeri for next week, and the famous Thalberg, the
a of piano-forte players. Madame Ronconi, who is
co4nngstress of some eminence, is also engaged. Ronconi
touling as a stranger here, our readers will doubtless be glad
know something fmo him. He succeeded Tarnbuiini at the
vollers House. He ay be styled a first-rate artist ; his
vaic„es a baritone, and possesses all that can render a voice
noiaule—it is mellow, manly, flexible, perfect in its into-
th_ltni, and agreeable in its register ; his vocalization is of
Itulbest school, bearing evidence of his own diligent study,
distitnif the careful tuition of his late father, who was the most
kus: guished teacher in Milan. Ronconi is an educated
19an as well as a singer, and his theoretical, as well as
Pieacectsic.al acquirements, enable him to lead the concerted
Parke In which he is engaged. From the strong and every
The,,,eli Preference that' has been given to concerts at the
will Royal, and musical entertainments, the speculation
adve2o doubt be highly successful. It will be seen by the
the itisernent that Miss Gardner takes her benefit on Friday,
4 cleva,,st night of the season. She is a delightful singer, and
at all;F actress, and is deserving of strong patronage, and
'lines endeavours to please her hearers.

THE NEW TARIFF—ITS EFFECTS..—CapitaI joints of
mutton, beef, and pork, were selling in the different Liver-
pool Markets on Saturday last at sd. per lb.---Inferior
parts at 3d.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday week a man
went into a druggists shop, at the bottom of Dale-street,
Liverpool. He asked for tincture of rhubarb, but the shop-
man, in mistake, gave him laudanum instead. The unfortunate
error was discovered shortly afterwards, and every exertion
was made to find out the man's residence, but without suc-
cess. Next day (Sunday) bills were printed and posted on
the walls, as well as delivered by the hand, stating the cir-
cumstance. Still no discovery as to who had got the lauda
num could be made, until nine o'clock at night, when the
poison had caused the death of the child to whom it had been
administered under the belief that it was the tincture of
rhubarb. The child was 18 months old, and the medicine (as
it was then thought) had not been given to it till nine o'clock
on Sunday morning. An inquest was held on the body on
Tuesday, when a verdict of " Manslaughter" was returned
against the druggist's assistant, who was committed to take
his trial at the assizes.
BRUTAL ASSAULT ON AN IRISH REAFER.—At the
Birkenhead Town-hall, yesterday, Thomas Rodgers, a plas-
terer, was charged by an Irishman, named Richard Scott,
who is at present engaged at Poulton to get up potatoes,
with an assault and attempt to rob him, in the churchyard
of Bebbington, on Sunday evening week. The complainant
stated, that about nine o'clock on the evening mentioned he
was passing through the churchyard, when three persons
came up to him, one of whom told him to " deliver."
Thinking this was a joke, he said, " Good night, gentlemen,"
when the prisoner knocked him down, and he was severely
kicked and beaten by the party, who searched his pockets,
but finding only two tobacco-boxes, they threw them at him.
The prisoner was fined £5 for the assault.

THE FUNDS : SATURDAY EVENING.—An evident ten-
dency to decline was observed in the prices of English stock,
which it is believed the absence of business in a great measure
caused. Throughout all last week, although it will be recol-
lected the government broker was a buyer to a small extent,
no very great improvement occurred in the condition of the
market, and indeed it was once or twice remarked among the
more influential dealers, that it really appeared there was
then hardly sufficient call for stock to support the quotations
current. These facts are, therefore, quite enough to account
for to day's aspect of the Stock Exchange. Consols for
money and the account closed 93f1 to :af ; Bank Stock, 165 to
166 ; India Stock, 253 to 255 ; Exchequer-bills, 58s. to 60s. ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 9n to 93; Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. Reduced, 100;3- to ;17 ; New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents., 1000-; to 4 ; Long Annuities, 121 In foreign stocks,
Spanish Actives were quoted 18 to k; ditto Three per Cent.,
214 to ; Mexican, 325 to k ; Colombian, 20i to 2147; Portu-
guese Five Per Cents., 371 to 38:1 ? Dutch Two-and-a-Half-
per Cents., 525 to ; Danish, 821 to 831 ; Brazilian, 621 to
631 ; Belgian, 1031 to 1041; and Peruvian, 151 to 161.
RURAL LONGEVITY.—In our obituary of Friday last we
recorded the death of a patriarchal and truly worthy charac-
ter, Mr. John Yates, the clerk of Hale Church for the ex-
tended period of 46 years. His predecessor, Satnl. Bushell,
officiated for the still longer space of 49 years. The village
of Hale has long been proverbial for its salubrity and the
longevity of its inhabitants. The late John Blackburne,
Esq., of Hale Hall, was representative in parliament for the
county for the unusual period of 46 years. A late incum-
bent, Mr. Airey, officiated for 31 years; and the present one
is in the 31st year of his ministry. The late schoolmaster,
Henry Layland, filled his situation more than 40 years.
Last Christmas we had to notice the death of " old Nanny
Lackey," aged 94 ; and between the years 1830 and 1834,
there were living at Hale—Thomas Turton. (agent to John
Blackburne, Esq.,) aged 93 ; Sarah Hawksey, 94 ; Ellen
Bayley, 99 ; and Esther Halsall, 104 years.

THE FISHERMAN'S SHIPWRECK SOCIETY.—The claims
made upon this society are overwhelming. Amongst others
may be mentioned the Hope, Captain Steel, from Quebec,
lost lately on the Goodwine. The crew, sixteen in number,
had to be supplied with necessaries, and sent home. The
crews of the Combatant and the Beverley, from Guernsey,
and the Water Nymph, from Newcastle, are all distressing
cases. The crew of the iron steamer Brigand, amounting to
twenty-five persons, have been assisted by the branches of
this society at Penzance, Bristol, and Liverpool. Eight
other crews have also just made application for relief. In
the case of the Beverley, upwards of £3O was obliged to be
expended in forwarding the crew from Lydd, in Kent, to
Guernsey. It will be seen from an advertisement which
appears elsewhere, that the society is coming before the
Liverpool public to seek assistance; and surely, connected
so closely as this town is with the mercantile marine of
England, so many persons leaving the port as sailors, and
trusting their lives with " one field plank between them and
eternity," as there are, we cannot but believe that rich and
poor, old and young, will feel it their bounden duty to do
something in its behalf. There is hardly a family without
some member of it a seeker after fortune or subsistence on
" the wide and open sea." Let us, then, imagine one dear
to us cast upon our shores penniless, friendless, and home-
less. What a comfort must it not be to reflect, that that
relation, by making application to any of the agents of the
society, can find relief ! Parents, wives, brothers, sisters !
think. of this, and do not turn a deaf ear to the appeal that
is made to you. You must contribute to it : it is your duty
to support this excellent society.
CONVICTION OF POACHERS.—On Saturday evening last,
a number of persons, who are suspected to be regular
poachers, were observed by some of the Cheshire constabu-
lary at Rock Ferry, having just arrived by the steamer.
They were watched, but contrived to elude the vigilance of
the police until Sunday morning, when three of them were
taken into custody by Newton and Groves, who gave their
names as Wm. Davies, John Webster, and James Nelson,
the two latter having on each of them a couple of hares,
which had evidently just been killed, as they were quite
warm. Another of the gang, on seeing the constables, ran
off towards Birkenhead •, but he was pursued by Groves, and
taken into custody on George's Pierhead, with two nets on
him, and a lumher in his care. He gave his name as James
Moorcroft. The four parties were brought up yesterday, at
the Birkenhead Town-hall, before the Rev. R. M. Fielden
and J. Deane Case, Esq., when the above facts were proved ;
and on the prisoners being asked what they had to say in
their defence, Webster said the game he had in his posses-
sion was given to him by a person named Shaw, at Chester,
to be conveyed to a dealer in game in Liverpool, and that
Davies was assisting him to carry it. The magistrates asked
Sir W. Stanley's gamekeeper, who was in court, to examine
the game, and state how it had been killed ; and having done
so, he said all the hares had no doubt been caught in nets,
and had come by their death from having their necks pulled
out. The whole game found in pcssession of the poachers
consisted of six hares and one rabbit. As nothing was found
on Davies, he was discharged • and a like decision was come
to in the case of Moorcroft, die nets and dog being declared
as forfeited. With respect to Webster and Nelson, the bench
fined them £3 and costs, for having game in their possession,
not being licensed dealers.
SWINDLING BY A PRETENDED PRIEST.—At Lambeth
Police-office, on Thursday, Peter Hughes, a tall and well-
dressed man, who had been in custody for some days on a
charge of obtaining, according to his own account, one hun-
dred guineas, by falsely representing himself to be the Rev.
Mr. Kavanagh, parish priest of Ballykennan, in the county
of Wexford, Ireland, and stating that it was for the purpose
of building a Catholic chapel in the parish, was brought before
Mr. Norton for further examination. From the publicity
given to the former examination of the prisoner and the exer-
tions of Inspector Donnigan, many important facts connected
with his life and adventures have come to light. It appears
that he had been in business at Liverpool, as a cotton mer-
chant, but had failed, and became a bankrupt. He subse-
quently opened an office there as an emigration agent, and,
by holding out specious promises to the enterprising, suc-
ceeded in fleecing a number of persons of their last farthing,
and left them to wander about the streets penniless. On the
24th of October, 1839, he was apprehended on a bench war-
rant, a true bill of indictment having been found against him
for defrauding William Frederick Constant of £l5O, and he
was committed for trial by the borough magistrates. There
were two other indictments against him, one for defrauding
a person named Rice of £3O, and the third for conspiring
with others and obtaining large sums of money. On the 6th
of January following he was tried at the borough sessions, at
Liverpool, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, so that
be had not been discharged from prison until the 6th of
January last. In proofs of these facts, Inspector Donnigan
produced a letter which he had received in reply to one of his
from a police inspector at Liverpool, and enclosed a portion
of the sessions calender which contained the charges against
the prisoner and his sentence. A gentleman named Winter,
residing in Pentonville, who had read the report in the news-
papers, a's i wrote to Mr. Norton, stating he had no doubt
the prisoner was the person he saw tried at Liverpool for
gross and extensive fraud, for which he had been sentenced
to two years' imprisonment. Mr. Winter was present during
the examination on Thursday, and recognised the prisoner
as being the person at whose trial he had been casually
present. Mr. Donnigan produced two letters from Dr.
Keating, Catholic Bishop of the diocese in which the parish
Ballykennan is situate, the one enclosing a letter which had
been sent to him (Dr. Keating) by the prisoner, stating that
he was in a position to collect sums of money for building
and repairing chapels in his neighbourhood; that he had then
£5 Bs. collected for that purpose, and requested his sanction
to go on with the subscription, and stating that no answer
had been returned to the prisoner's communication. The
other letter denied, in the most positive terms, that the pri-
soner had any sanction whatever from him (Dr. Keating)
either to commence or continue any such subscription. Mr.
Donnigan also produced a letter from the Rev. Mr. Kavanagh,
whom the prisoner personated, denying all knowledge of the
prisoner, and, of course, any sanction to collect subscriptions
in his behalf. Evidence was then given of the prisoner hav-
ing obtained money under false pretences. At the close of
the proceedings, the prisoner requested that he might be re-
manded beyond the present sessions, and hoped that in the
interim he might be admitted to bail. Mr. Norton told him
he certainly would not admit him to bail, but remanded him
for another week.. During the examination, the court was
crowded with persons from whom the prisoner had received
subscriptions.
LIVERPOOL LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SOCIETY.—The
twelfth annual meeting of the Liverpool Licensed Victuallers'
Society was held, on Thursday last, at the large room of the
York Hotel, for the purpose of transacting general business.
It was rather numerously attended. Upon the motion of
Mr. Hay, the chair was taken, at three o'clock, by Mr. James
Hamer. The secretary read the report, which, after setting
,forth the result of the opposition to the clauses affecting
licensed victuallers in the Improvement Bill, recommended
strict conformity to the law now in force. The report pro-
ceeded to say, " In regard to an item of £287 Bs. 6d. to Mr.
George Robinson, as one of the deputies on this business, it
is necessary to remark that it includes a sum paid by him to
Messrs. Plitt and Sherwood for counsel fees, our parlia-
mentary agent's bill expenses £139 12s. 6d., and other con-
tingent expenses which your committee have allowed, with
the exception of sundry charges amounting to £7 16s. ld.,
which they resolved unanimously in committee should be re-
turned to the society. In consequence of this resolution, the
chairman demanded payment from him, which was refused,
and afterwards called upon him at his residence, but was
treated with contumely." The sum realized by the annual
ball was £122 Bs. ld. The accounts were read, and it ap-
peared that there is in the bank, &c., in favour of the society,
£l2lB 4s. Mr. George Robinson addressed the meeting, for
the purpose of showing that the charge of £7 10s. was
properly made. Mr. Thompson moved that the £7 16s. ld.
be allowed Mr. Robinson, and that a vote of thanks be given
to the deputation for their services while in London. Mr.
Davies seconded the motion. Mr. May contended that the
committee had acted perfectly right in resisting the demand,
inasmuch as the allowance of £lO a-week to the deputation
was, in his opinion, amply sufficient for all requisite purposes
for men in their situation of life. Mr. Counsellor Jones
thought £lO a-week amply sufficient to defray the expenses
of the deputation. Mr. Green thought Mr. Robinson would
be very reprehensible, if the money were not immediately re-
funded. Mr. May moved, as an amendment, that Mr. Ro-
binson be requested to pay back the money forthwith. Mr.
Green seconded the amendment. The question was put to
the meeting, when the amendment was carried by a majority
of twenty-one against eight. After some discussion, the re-
port was received and adopted. The nine following persons
were appointed on the committee, in lieu of the nine who re-
tired :—Messrs. Coombes, Hughes, Davies, Townley, Eyres,
Lobley, Morris, Owens, and Cowell. Mr. Clare was re-
appointed treasurer, and Mr. James Robinson, secretary ;
after which a letter was read from Mr. Benwell, the poet
laureate of the society, stating that his benefit was fixed to
take place at the Theatre Royal on Thursday night next, and
soliciting the support of the members on that occasion. It
was arranged, that Mr. Benwell should be generally sup-
ported by the society; after which thanks were returned to
the chairman, and the meeting separated.