The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-29 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS,

There are one hundred persons for trial at the pm
assizes. Of these, five can read and
manner ; seven can read and write well; twent
imperfectly; thirty-three can read and write
and thirty can neither read r

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HIGH TlDE.—Strangers who may
,be here during the
assizes will have an opportunity, to-day, of viewing, from the
various piers, a fine sheet of water, as there is one of the
highest tides in the year. It will be high water at half-past
twelve, and if the wind blows strong-from the west the height
will be above twenty feet, and the scene will be rendered ad-
ditionally interesting by the sailing and arrival of numerous
vessels. . .

CHESHIRE ASSIZES.—The assizes commence on Saturday
next, before Mr. Justice Coltman and Baron Manic. The
following are the particulars of those for trial :—murder, 2
females, one of whom is charged with poisoning her brother
And sister at Malpas, and the other for destroying ber child
at Macclesfield ; receiving stolen goods, 4 i arson, 2 ; forgery,
1; perjury, 1; unnatural crime with a man, 1; rape, 2;
stabbing with intent, 2 ; bigamy, 2 ; base coin, 4 ; horse
stealing, 3 ; burglary, 21; highway robbery, 7 ; manslaughter,
8 ; sheep stealing, 7 ; manslaughter, 5 ; sentence for murder
of the Sandys' children deferred from last assizes), I.

LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.—No cause in the second or West
Derby list will be taken until Friday next. The total number
of causes entered in the Salford hundred list, was 58; in the
West Derby hundred list, 90; total, 148.
Professional Gentlemen and Strangers attending the Assizes,
are 'respectfully informed that every description of BATH,
Warm, Shower, Sulphur, Vapour, and Medicated, as used so
generally in London and on the Continent, may be obtained
on the shortest notice, at the Victoria Baths, Cases-street,
three doors from Clayton-square, near the Railway Offices
and St. John's Market.

Edward Cardwell, Esq., who has been declared the sitting
member for the Borough of Clitheroe, vice Matthew Wilson,
Esq., ousted, is the nephew of Joseph &ATl:date, Esq., the
Ate in a superior Chairman of the South-Eastern Railway Compsny. Mr.
read -Cardwell is a conservative of high promise. As a barrister

be is in most deserved repute, and, from his high and com-
manding talent, bids_ fair to occupy a pro►ninent position in

THE PROPOSED. DUTY ON FOREIGN STARCH.—In answer
to a memorial presented to the Lords of the Treasury, Mr.
Macgregor has informed the memorialists that the duty on
foreign starch imported will be lt

per cwt

BEWARE* OF PICKPOCKETS !--Gangs of pickpockets now
regularly station themselves at the doors or gates of churches
and chapels, where there is evening service, whether on Sun-
days or week-days. They carry on their vocation as the
congregations come out, and' then follow parties particularly
of ladies, whose pockets they pick while proceeding along.
Each gang consists of from five to seven individuals, young
nnen—and boys, and their depredations have of late been very
numerous.

TH E CII URCll.—During the season of Lent, just terminated,
many of the clergy of the metropolis adopted a plan, which,
if generally followed, would be productive of the most bene-
ficial Jesuits. They have opened their churches twice or
thrice a week, and have explained, in a series of lecture-
sermons, the fundamental doctrines of the church. Some of
them have taken the Articles, some the Homilies, others the
Liturgy, &c. We should be glad to see this excellent prac-
tice followed in other parts of the country.
THE COUNTY CONSTABULARY.—At the annual sessions
for the county, to be held at Preston, on Thursday next, a
'motion is to be brought forward for the abolition of the county
constabulary force. The magistrates for the Kirkdale division,
:at a recent meeting, resolved that such abolition is inexpedient,
and they determined to support the resolution of Lieutenant-
Colonel Austin for remodelling the force.
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COMMITMENT.—Yesterday, a man named James Grey,
was committed to prison for three months, for obtaining a
quantity from a seaman's chest on board the Lord Seaton.
He would have been sent fir trial to the sessions, but the
vessel is on the eve of sailing.
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IMPORTANT TO MASTERS AND APPRENTICES.—Magi-
strates have for some time refused to interfere in cases of dis-
pute between masters end apprentices, unless a premium had
been paid upon the binding of the apprentice. On the 23d
instant an act received the royal assent which gives magistrates
power to adjudge in such cases, though no premium has been
paid.
STREET ROBBERY.—A woman named Margaret Williams
was, yesterday, charged at. the police court with robbing a
man named Henderson of his watch. Police constable Robin-
son, about ten' o'clock on Sunday night, saw the prisoner and
Hendersn struggling together in Hackin's-hey. The prisoner
ran off, but he secured her, Henderson having said she had
robbed him of his watch. He took her to bridewell, and re-

turned to the spot at which he had caught her, when he found
a watch without the outer case.. He got a candle, and on
searching, found also the case. The complainant owned the
property, and the prisoner was Committed for trial at the ses-
sions.

Mr. John Dixon, who, for the last five-or six years, has
been engaged as engineer on the Chester and Birkenhead
Railway, has been appointed general manager of the Bir-
mingham and Derby Railway. The success of Mr. Dixon
is the more honourable as the number of candidates for the
vacant situation was very large.
MELANCHOLY ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning„a man
unfortunately fell overboard from the ship Mersey, lying off
Egremont, and though a boat was immediately put off to his
rescue, the tide was running so strong that he was taken
rapidly up the river and met with a watery grave.
BODY FOUND IN TILE RlVER.—Yesterday, an inquest was
held before Mr. Curry, on view of the remains of a man
found on Sunday floating in the river near Seacombe. The
features, from long immersion, were scarcely distinguishable ;
but the body was recognized by his mother, through the
clothes, to be that of Richard Thomas, one of the poor boat-
men who, it will be remembered, were drowned about nine
weeks ago, by the upsetting of a boat opposite the Clarence
Pier. He was 19 years of age, and resided in Fisher-street,
Toxteth-park. The jury returned a verdict accordingly.