The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-07 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

The British and North American royal mail steamer
Britannia, Captain Hewitt, sailed, on Saturday afternoon,
for Halifax and Boston. She carried out upwards of sixty
passengers and a heavy mail. The Acadia, which would leave
Boston on the Ist and Halifax on the 3d instant, may be ex-
pected to arrive about this day week.
THE LATE ALBION BAN K.—A meeting of the shareholders
of this bank, recently disolved, was held on Tuesday last, at
the Clarendon-rooms, to receive the report of the directors,
J. H. Sanderson, Esq., in the chair. The shareholders, it
appeared, had received back their subscribed capital, £25 per
share, and the surplus, after defraying all the outstanding
liabilities of the company, would, it was calculated, enable
the directors to make a final payment of nearly £7 per share.
The report was received, there not having been more than
six dissentients to the recommendations of the directors.
The sum of £l2OO was voted: namely, to the directors £5OO ;
to the manager, Mr. Hugh Mackay, £300; to the two cashiers
£l5O each; and to the clerks £lOO.
MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRKENHEAD.—A
public meeting of the inhabitants of the above town was
held, at the Town-hall, on Friday night. to adopt congratu-
latory addresses to her Majesty and Prince Albert, on the
recent providential escape of her Majesty from assassination.
The meeting was numerously and most respectably attended.
J. D. Case, Esq., was unanimously voted to the chair. The
first resolution was proposed by the Rev. Andrew Knox,
who, in a very-eloquent and feeling manner, alluded to the
recent atrocious attempt on the life of her Majesty. He
had, he said, no doubt that such a burst of loyalty would be
manifested throughout the country as would convince her
Majesty how deeply the attempt upon her life was felt by her
people. The other resolutions were proposed and seconded,
in strong sympathetic terms, by the several gentlemen who
took part in the proceedings. Before the company separated
Mr. William Jackson proposed three cheers for the Queen,
as that was the first meeting at Birkenhead in which the
different political parties had united. The proposition was
carried out with hearty good-will.
FORGERY.—Charles Grace was placed before Mr. Rushton
on Saturday, charged with having forged a cheque for £4O on
the Liverpool Banking Company, in the name of his em-
ployer, Mr. Henry Stuart. Officer 182 of the metropolitan
police, C division, stated, that he apprehended the prisoner
in London, as a vagrant. On questioning him he learned
that he had absconded from Liverpool with £4O in his pocket,
which he had obtained by forging a cheque in the name of
his master. He was taken before a magistrate and remanded
for one week, and inquiries were made at Liverpool which
prayed the correctness of the statement. A clerk from the
banking company proved the payment of the cheque on the
21st April last. Mr. Henry Stuart said the prisoner had ab-
sconded from his service a few days previous to the presenta-
tion of the cheque, The body of the cheque was filled up in
the handwriting of the prisoner : the signature was not his
(Mr. Stuart's) handniting. The prisoner was committed
for trial.

SOLAR SPOT.—Abont half-way between the eastern edge
of the sun's disc and its centre, a very beautiful dark spot
may now be seen, travelling towards the right, accompanied
by the usual luminous border, and may be distinctly seen
(when the atmosphere proves favourable) with telescopes of
moderate power, having the eye protected with a piece of
dark-coloured glass.

MISS CRELLIN'S CASE—BAIL FOR COPELAND.—On Fri-
day, at the Police-court, an elderly man, named John Lee,
offered to become bail for Copeland. He was interrogated
by the bench as follows :—What are you?—A beer-seller and
builder in general. In general ? What do you mean ?—I
mean that lam a .bnilder. Where do you live?—At No.
24, Vine-street, where my beer-house is situated. How long
have you lived there?—Since the sth of February. What
were you before ?—I was in the coachmaking department of
the Grand Junction Railway. 'What wages did you get ?—A
guinea a week latterly. What had you before ?-18s. a week.
How long had you the guinea ?—Perhaps about a year. Had
you any other business at that time ?—Yes, I kept a beer-
house then at 38, Vine-street. • How long have you kept the
beer-house ?—About two years. Had you any other means
of living?—Oh, yes; I have property of my own. What is
the nature of it.?—Money. To what extent ?—I cannot say
exactly. Cannot you say whether you are worth £5O, £lOO,
or £lOOO ?—Well, £5O. Have you got it now ?—Yes, I have
£lOO. In what ?—I have £lOOO in one lot in three houses,
and £BOO in another lot. Do you mean lent on them ?—No,
I mean landed property. Are they mortgaged ?—Three of
the houses are mortgaged, the other two are free. What is
the rent of the free houses I—XBO. Do you know Copeland?
Yes. How long have you known him?—Nearly twelve
months. Have you received any promise of indemnity from
him either directly or indirectly ? No ; it is a voluntary act
of humanity. How happens it, having this money and those
houses, that you were arrested a short time since ?—lt was
through a misunderstanding between two parties, and I got
arrested not knowing the judgment that was against me.—
William Leveratt, one of the superintendents of police, stated
that about five weeks ago Lee had been for four days con-
fined in the house of Lawton, a borough officer, in Temple-
street, for debt, and that he (Lee) was very near being con-
fined there again last week, but the matter had been compro-
mised. In reply to questions from Mr. Snowball, Lee stated
that the houses, which were not mortgaged, were situated in
Vine-street—that they were not numbered—and that they
were his property without any incumbrance on them, but that
the deeds had not yet been drawn. Mr. Rushton refused to
take the bail.

INQUESTS.—The following inquests were held on Friday,
before Mr. Curry, the borough coroner :—On the body of
Charles Willett, a man aged 62. It appeared that the de-
ceased was one of the hands on board. of the ship " John
Franklin," which arrived at this port from Buenos Ayres on
the morning of Wednesday last. The vessel sailed in Febru-
ary last and the deceased was quite well. About the end of
April he became ill, and though he so far rallied that he
could do some light work, he relapsed about ten days before
the arrival of the vessel and was confined to his hammock,—
in which he was found dead on the vessel arriving in the
river. One of the hands had spoken to him' a quarter of an
hour before. According to the evidence every possible at-
tention had been paid to him in his illness, and his death was
immediately communicated to the authorities. The deceased
was asthmatical, and had no doubt died from natural causes.
The verdict was returned accordingly, and we notice the cir-
cumstance merely to show the institution of" crowners quest
law" takes especial cognizance of sudden deaths, so as to de-
tect instances of foul play.—The next inquest was on the
body of a male infant found on Thursday, in St. Nicholas's
Church Yard, in a deal box. It was proved on a surgical
examination that the deceased was still born. Verdict ac-
cordingly.—An inquest was also held on the body of William
Sharman, a boy three years of age. The father of the de-
ceased is employed in a coal flat running on the canal, and
belonging to Messrs. Jonathan Blundell and Son. On
Thursday afternoon tfie father missed his child from the ves-
sel, and after searching for him for some time in vain, went
in a boat with another man and dragged round the flat. The
body was found, after being immersed from the time the de-
ceased was missing about three hours. Verdict—found dead,
but how deceased got into the water there was no evidence
to show.

NEW BRIDGE OVER WALLASEY POOL.-ItiS, we believe,
the determination of several influential gentlemen, resident
in Birkenhead and its vicinity, to erect a bridge across Wal-
lasey Pool. The undertaking is highly important to the in-
habitants of Seacombe, New Brighton, and all the surround-
ing neighbourhood, as when the bridge is completed it will
shorten the distance between Birkenhead, Seacombe, and
New Brighton, about seven or eight miles. The results that
will naturally follow this great saving in distance will be a
vast increase of trade in the town of Birkenhead ; and an
equal advantage will be derived by the inhabitants on the
other side of the pool, in consequence of the increasing num-
ber of visitors that will travel through their respective dis-
tricts. We have seen a drawing of the intended bridge,
which is designed by Alfred Yarrow, Esq., civil engineer.
It will be a draw-bridge with ornamental work—working
upon stone piers, at a height of thirty feet above the present
surface, having seven timber arches of twenty feet span each,
leaving a water way of nearly two hundred feet. The bridge
will be approached by a new road across Bidston Moss. The
contract for the work is taken by Messrs. Walker and
Craven, of Birkenhead. We learn that ten years ago an
attempt was made to cross the pool by a bridge, but it failed
in consequence of not being properly constructed.

THE CASE OF INJURY INFLICTED BY A WIFE ON
HER HUSBAND.—We reported in our last the particulars of
this case as they transpired on the first hearing. On Friday
the case was again brought on in the police-court. John
Carroll, the injured husband, said he was a blacksmith, and
had four children by his wife the (the prisoner). The latter is
now pregnant. They had been married eleven years. He
had a dispute with her on Monday night. He had come home
at a late hour, and a quarrel had ensued between them. He
struck her, but only once. He then recapitulated the cir-
cumstances of being asleep, and being awakened by the pain,
&c., as stated in our last. He was injured on the right side
of the face and down his neck. (Witness's face was wrapped
up, but he had not, we learned, lost the sight of his eye.) A
surgeon was brought in by a neighbour.—Mr. John Dames,
surgeon, said he was called in. He described the injuries to
the face and neck. The skin was broken by the application
of vitriol. Mr. Macintyre, who had also been called in, con-
curred with the last named witness. He found the complain-
ant's face much swollen, and the skin broken, and its vitality
destroyed. The bottle containing sulphuric acid found in
the house, and now produced, would cause such injuries.
Both of the medical gentlemen were shown the shirt and the
singlet worn by the complainant, and the pillow on which he
lay, in all of which the cloth was burnt, by, as they conceived,
such a liquid. An apron worn by the prisoner was also pro-
duced with some holes in it, but they were not so clear as to
the cause being the same. Inspector M`Donald said that
soon after he went to the house the prisoner wished to make
a disclosure and he cautioned her. She said no person but
herself and the children were in the house that night, (when
the complainant was in bed and got up injured,) and that no
one could have entered and done it. He had also repeated
what he had before said—that she had also stated that she
and her husband had differences, and that her husband had
accused her of attempting to take his life, and that she had
replied (as we understood the witness) that he had attempted
to take her's when she was last confined. The witness pro-
duced the phial—a small one—which had been found in the
house, and which appepred to be about half full of a dark co-
loured liquid—said to be sulphuric acid.—Mr. Rushton cau-
tioned the prisoner as to what she might say, intimating at
thd same time that he should commit on the evidence he had
heard. She said with considerable emphasis—" lam inno-
cent." She was then committed for trial at the sessions.
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—WiIIiaM Davis was, on
Saturday, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with having
embezzled certain moneys belonging to his employers. The
prisoner, it appeared, has been a clerk in the service of Mr.
William Holton, who was formerly a partner with Mr. Corf,
butcher. This partnership was dissolved in July, last, and
the prisoner was employed to balance the books and collect
the outstanding accounts. In the course of a month, an
agreement was made that he should receive £1 10s. per week
for his services. About this time, he made a proposal to
Mr. Holton, that he should receive £2 per week, in tonsi-
1, deration of his earning for that gentleman £5 per week by
" putting him up to the trick of discounting bills" for ne-
cessitous people. Mr. Holton declined this offer, conceiv-
ing that the business would not be creditable. The prisoner
continued in the service of Mr. Holton till last month, when,
in consequence of the books not having been properly at-
tended to, he was discharged from the office of bookkeeper,
but still permitted to collect accounts. On Friday week it
was discovered that the prisoner had received a sum of
£1 2s. 6d. due from Mr. John Crosthwaite, which he had
not accounted for. The prisoner made an offer to balance
the accounts, but this was declined. It appeared that the
prisoner had received, each week of his engagement, £1 on
on account, and had been allowed to take meat each week on
account of the balance. Mr. Holton denied that he had
authorized the prisoner to appropriate any accounts which he
might collect. On Monday last the prisoner sent in a ba-
lance sheet, acknowledging the receipt of sums of money
from various parties, which sums be had not accounted for.
The prisoner was remanded.—Yesterday he was again ex-
amined, when two further cases were proved against him,
and he was committed for trial at the sessions.

ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING EDUCATION IN THE
WEST INDIES.—On Friday the annual meeting of the Liver-
pool Ladies' Association for Promoting Education in the
British West Indies was held at the Charitable Institution-
house, Slater-street, and was rather thinly attended. The
chair was taken shortly after two o'clock by the Rev. W. W.
Ewbank, minister of St. George's Church, Everton, wbo
opened the meeting with singing and prayer. Mr. Adam
Hodgson, who first addressed the audience, said it should be
recollected that the great act of generosity on the part of the
English kingdom awl 'government had been confined in a
great measure to the planters of the West Indies, and that
the neg ro population had now arrived at a peculiar crisis.
(Hear.) They werein a state of transition, in which their
social condition was capable of being improved, their minds
opened, and new feelings, prospects, desires, and pursuits
inculcated. Mr. Hodgson alluded with thankfulness to the
gratifying accounts which' had reached England of the pro-
gress of the work in the West Indies. The Chairman said
he believed the objects of the Society for Promoting Educa-
tion in the British West Indies were generally known, and
therefore unnecessary to be detailed. Those objects were
not to establish schools, but to help either the first establish-
ment of schools in the West India Islands, or afterwards to
afford assistance when the schools had been established. The
Chairman read a letter from Miss Lloyd, setting forth that
the society had stronger claims than usual on the benevolent.
The society had been instrumental, since its commencement
fifteen or sixteen years since, in educating seven thousand
scholars for about the sum of £15,000 a-year. The instruc-
tion communicated by itinerant teachers had led to the for-
mation of regular schools in districts where the negroes were
heretofore accustomed to meet, under the shade of a tree.
The committee regretted that, at a time like the present,
when judicious efforts were most needed, the Church Mis-
sionary Society should have been compelled to withdraw
from the West Indies, a circumstance which would have the
effect of causing many schools to be abandoned, unless the
Ladies' Society should be induced to keep them up, The
committee further regretted that Her Majesty's Government
had come to the resolution of withdrawing their grant of £7OO
a year from the society, by reducing it to one-fifth every year
year until 1846, when it was to cease altogether. The com-
mittee had, however, resolved to keep up their schools as
long as possible. Miss Lloyd concluded by saying
that the remittance from Liverpool, in the last year, had
been very liberal, and that the committee looked to
Liverpool this year for continued and increased support.
The Itev. Dr, Tattershall said the emancipation of the slaves
was a subject which interested the people of this country,
and one in which he bad taken a somewhat active part. He
never could consider the question of giving freedom to the
slave in the light of a boon. He considered that the negroes
bad been wronged while they were in that condition, and
that it was an act of justice to set them free. But if there
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justice,taking
was one feeling connected with that subject which more than
any other pressed upon his mind, it was the duty
care that while England was performing_ ,an act
that act should issue in blessing and not in injustice—in other
words, that freedom should be a blessing and not a curse.
Without such efforts as the present, and without the use of
such instrumentality as the meeting would put in motion,
the freedom of the negroes would be incomplete, because
they were all aware of the rank weeds which were constantly
springing up in the unconverted heart of man. He, there-
fore, could not but rejoice in the formation and continuance
of such a society as the one they were met to support. He
had not been previously aware that the home government
were about to withdraw their small grant from the society,
which was a very great subject of regret;, bgt ,they were all
too well acquainted with the nature and warmth of British
benevolence to suffer themselves to despond in such aca
The Rev. Mr. Bateson subsequently addressed the meeting
after which the proceedings terminated with the singing of
the doxology.

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH COURT 81LL..--This bill was read
third time in the House of Commons on Friday and passed.
WALTON CHURCH.—The collections at Walton Church,
on Sunday last, in aid of the Eve and Ear Infirmary,

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amounted to the handsome sum of X 55: Dr. Wesley, the
celebrated organist, of Leeds, presided at the organ.
We regret to find that the prospects for the hay crop in
this neighbourhood, contrary to our expectation, are likely to
prove very deficient; there being a very thin bottom, which
the late rain and sun have not at all remedied ; at present the
best meadow hay is selling at Bd. to 9d. per stone of 20 lbs.,
in our market, which is not likely to continue.
LOYAL INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS, M.U.,
L.D.—During lodge business on Tuesday, May 31st, 1842,
the officers and brothers of the Loyal Duke of York Lodge,
No. 2,457, deputed N.G. W. C. Cook to present P.G.
Francis Borrowdale with a handsome silver lever watch, as
a slight memorial of their esteem for his constant and inde-
fatigable exertions for the welfare of their lodge during a pe-
riJd of 18 months.

ROBBERY IN A CHURCH.—At the Police-court, yesterday,
a young girl, whose name was not stated, and who was said
to belong to a respectable family, was charged with having
stolen a handkerchief, the property of a gentleman who was
attending divine service in St. Michael's Church on Sunday.
The prisoner was in the prosecutor's pew when he went in ;
and she remained there till the close of the service. It ap-
peared that during the prayers she contrived to take one of
two handkerchiefs which were in the gentleman's bat, with
which ran off immediately that she arrived at the church door.
She was followed, and apprehended. Mr. Rushton ordered
her to be remanded to this day, (Tuesday,) in order to make
some inquiries respecting her.
ILLEGAL PAWNlNG.—Yesterday an elderly female, named
Maly Gurney, was charged, before Mr. Rushton, at the Po-
lice-court, with having assaulted a young woman, named
Catherine Pennant, the daughter of a pilot belonging to this
port. The charge of assault was abandoned when it was
found that when the prisoner was in Bridewell a number of
pawnbrokers' tickets were found concealed about her person
relating to articles belonging to the complainant. The pawn-
ing, and the ownership of the property havini, been proved,
the prisoner was ordered to pay the value of the goods so il-
legally pawned, and a fine of 40s. in addition. In default of
payment she was ordered to be imprisoned for two months.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.-1 very great treat is pro-
vided for the subscribe.s to this institution by the engage-
ment for to-morrow evening of Mr. James Russell, who a
year or two ago delighted the audience of this town by his
graceful singing and clever impersonations. Mr, James
Russell was the original singer of " the Angel's Whisper;"
and, although we have heard many attempt it since, we have
never listened to any one with even patience, so im-
measurably behind has he left all, in taste, feeling, and ex-
pression. It will, no doubt, be introduced in the course of
the evening. The lecture, on " character," is, we believe,
of a very amusing character, showing the peculiarities of dif-
ferent people, their whims and oddities.
BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE.—The Com-
missioners of police for the township of Birkenhead, held
a special general meeting in the Town-hall last night, for
the purpose of winding up their affairs previous to the annual
erection of commissioners, which takes place this day
(Tuesday), John Deane Case, Esq. took the chair. The
only business before the meeting was the completion of the
rate-book, by inserting in it the names of all those house-
holders who had become rated since the 21st December last,
to enable them to vote in the election. It was stated that
since that time to the present, a period of little more than
five months, there had been an increase of no less than 129
assessments, a striking proof of the rapid extension of the
place. Some conversation of no public interest took place,
at the end of which the book was signed by the commis-
sioners present, and the meeting separated.
IRON.—We had an opportunity afforded us a few days ago
of inspecting the extensive foundry and grate manufactory of
Mr. Bennett, in Sir Thomas's-buildings ; we also were
shewn through his show-rooms. Like everything else of late
years, the hand of refinement, taste, and improvement is vi-
sible in that useful article the fire-grate, as well as every-
thing else that can be constructed of iron. Some of the
grates pointed out to us we have never seen equalled in
either beauty of workmanship, costliness of design, or ele-
gance in appearance. We observed some very excelluntly-
manufactured ovens and stoves, suitable to any sized
kitchen. We also were shewn a very simple chimney-pot
of Mr. Bennet's construction, which will complete a cure of
the most obdurate smoky chimney, the effects exhibited in a
working model are extraordinary, and, of course, must be to
a great degree in the proper sized one. Those who are fur-
nishing should by all means pay this large and- well assorted
establishment a visit. Economy, taste, and excellence ap-
pear combined. _ _

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VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A SURGEON
On Friday an inquest was held before W.S. Rutter, E.

on view of the body of Ruth Barnett, wife of James Bar-
nett, a ,"billy-slubber ," residing near Reddish_ lane, in

Heaton Norris. It appeared t
confined on Saturday morning,
attended by Mr. Thomas Goulden, surgeon, of Stockport
He visited her again on the following day,
more until her death, on Tues

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