The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-22 00:00:00

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P4kiHRASIA.—This agreeable and interesting exhibition is
remaining open for a few nights longer. It is one of the best
panoramas that has been exhibited in this town for years.
THE HARP.—This graceful and noble instrument is now
greatly in fashion amongst the higher circles. Those who
wish to become proficients should apply to Mr. Barre de
Ballicourt.

AVILHEM'S SYSTEM.—Miss Hammond, whose vocal and
instrumental abilities we have frequently had the pleasure of
noticing with commendation, has commenced teaching on
the Wilhem system. Her classes are exclusively for ladies.
SUDDEN DEATH.—Last night, a man, in the garb of a
sailor, called at a house of ill fame in Sir Thomas's-buildings,
and had scarcely sat down for a moment, when he expired,
without the slightest intimation of any previous illness.

VALUABLE PROPERTY.—We notice in Mr. Williams's
advertisement, which appears elsewhere, that he has some
very valuable property, of every description, on sale. Those
who are desirous of investing money, cannot do better than
apply to him. He has also some excellent houses to let, in
eligible situations.

SOMETHING NEW.-111e members of a Society held at
the house of Miss Vicars, in Tarlton-street, Church-street,
have appointed Mr. Neville, at the corner of North John-
street, in Lord-street, to take their likenesses, to be placed
in the Bar. Many are already done. When the number is
complete, it will be the most unique exhibition in the king-
dom.

SCROFULA.--In referring our readers to Mr. Allen's ad-
vertisement and address, we may state that we have seen se-
veral very eulogistic testimonials of his skill and ability in
the cure of this disorder. In one case the grateful feelings
of a patient, who was restored to health while under his
hands, are too eloquently described not to be true.
MR. TEMPLETON'S CONE ERT.—This accomplished singer's
concert this evening is expected to be very fashionably at-
tended. The programme is very well selected. Our friends
frae the Tweed" will be delighted to notice that several
specimens of Scotch minstrelsy will be sung in the course of
the evening.—Mrs. St. Allan is announced, we perceive, to
perform a solo on the pianoforte ; this will, no doubt,
gratify most of our musical readers.
UTTERING BASE COIN.—A woman, named Mary Ann
Proctor, was brought up yesterday, before the atipendiary
magistrate, on charges of having uttered to two different par-
ties two base shillings, in payment for bread, fx.c. The cases
appeared to be clearly proved, but, as some further evidence
against her is expected, she was put back for further exami-
nation.

A Loyal Orange Benevolent Lodge was opened on Monday
evening last, by the district master and officers, at the St.
George's Tavern, Shaw's-brow, above one hundred of the
brethren attending, with a good band, playing several national
airs.' Many new members were made, and the utmost good
fellowship and harmony prevailed to a late hour, when the
company separated.

A BAILIFF COMMITTED FOR THEFT.—Yesterday, one
of the low wretches who execute distraints against the poor,
named William Astbury, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on
a charge of stealing a coat. It appeared that Mr. Daniel
Hughes, tailor, missed a jacket from his workshop in Lord-
street, on 'Wednesday afternoon, and gave information to Mr.
Tunstall, pawnbroker. It so happened that the prisoner
went to Mr. Tunstall with the jacket, and he was accord-
ingly given into custody. The jacket was identified. The
prisoner said a woman had given it to him to pledge. • lie was
committed for trial at the sessions. The prisoner was a few
days ago before the court on a charge of gross misconduct, if
not dishonesty, in making a distraint, but, owing to some
technicality and defective evidence, he then escaped. •
TIIE COLUMBIA STEAMER.—The London Standard of
'Wednesday evening last, contains the following remarks,
which are very judicious :—" No apprehension whatever
need be entertained for the seeming delay in the arrival of
the steamer Columbia, with the North American mails of
the 4th instant. At this period of the year the transit in all
parts of Canada is extremely difficult, and the breaking up
of the frost frequently occasions a delay of many days in the
passing of mails from one part of the province to another.
The steamers from New York to England have several times
been detained for Canadian mails, owing to the state of roads
after the winter season. We hardly need remark, that the
Columbia, like all the other ships of her line, is found in
every respect as a first class sailing ship, having great abun-
dance of spars and sails, with 60 days' provisions 'and 40
puncheons of water over and above what is usually consumed
on the passage.' The very admirable code of instructions
prepared for the guidance of their commander and engineers,
seems, to us perfect. and to provide for every contingency.
e have no doubt that on the arrival of the Columbia her
performance of duty will prove of the same character that has
so eminently distinguished this line of steamers, and which
has obtained such high credit for the gentlemen to whom
their management is entrusted.

STEALING A BASKET OF -VALUABLE CLOTHES FROM A
CART.--Persons from the country who receive clothes from
families in the town to wash, would do well not to leave their
carts for a moment in the street, as we have now to record
the second instance within a week of a theft of clothes thus
left, for a very short time, without any one to watch them.—
Yesterday, at the police-court, John Edwards, a youth, Ca-
therine O'Donnell, an old woman, Ann O'Donnell, and
Julia O'Donnell, her daughters, and Matthias Mulligan and
Jane Fitzpatrick, young people, were brought before Mr.
Rushton, on a charge of being concerned in stealing a basket
of clothes. Some of the prisoners had been apprehended
early in the week, and were remanded till that day. A long
investigation was gone into, but the principal facts were as
follows :—lsabella Banks, of West Derby, was employed to
wash clothes by families in the town, and amongst them by
Mr. P. Bourne. She received a quantity of wearing apparel,
table linen, &c., to wash, at that gentleman's house last week,
and sent them back in a wisket by her cart on Saturday af-
ternoon last, in care of a young man named Orred, who drove
the cart. She alighted at Mr. Bourne's, leaving the cart op-
posite the door, and was absent only a minute or two. Mean-
time the wisket, which was at the tail of the cart amongst
other similar packages, was carried off. The prisoner Ed-
wards, with whom was another boy, was seen with it in the
neighbourhood, but got off with it. He was afterwards ap-
prehended. It did not appear that the other prisoners, two
of whom were.taken into custody only yesterday forenoon,
were the actual thieves ; but a portion of the goods were
found, some of them mutilated to avoid detection, were found
in their lodgings in Banastre-street. Edwards, it appeared,
lodged with the O'Donnell's. The articles found were all
identified as Mr. Bourne's, by his servants and others. The
prisoners were all committed for trial at the sessions. The
loss in the goods not yet found was stated to be £3O.
A CUSTOMHOUSE-OFFICER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.—
At the Police-court yesterday, Thomas Taylorson, a gen-
teel-looking man, was placed at the bar, on suspicion of
having abstracted a quantity of tea and wool from two of the
bonded warehouses under his charge. Mr. Dowling briefly
stated the case, and witnesses were then called.—Police-
officer Kehoe said, that between four and five o'clock on
Tuesday afternoon last, he, and police-officer Tool, saw the
prisoner at the junction of Park-lane with St. James's-street.
He passed them, and as he appeared to be bulky in his per-
son, and also carried a bundle, they followed him, one behind
the other all the way into Mill-street. Witness spoke a few
words to the prisoner as he passed, he having known him
slightly before. At the top of Mill-street the prisoner went
into a field, near St. John the Baptist's Church, Toxteth-
park. He shortly after observed two women gathering tea
from the ground in their aprons. The prisoner wore a
shooting-coat at the time, similar to that produced. Wit-
ness found the coat in prisoner's house, and there was some
tea in the pockets. Police-officer Tool, who was with the
last witness, and a short distance in advance of him, said he
saw the prisoner throw from the pockets of the coat, several
times as he went through the field. quantities of tea, some of
which he (witness) took up. He followed the prisoner, who
had a bundle in his hand, and stopped him in High Park-
street, a short distance from his own house. He found the
bundle to contain dishes (crockery-ware), with some cotton
between them. On stopping him, the prisoner said, " Oh! you
are rather late ; I know what you were dodging me for." On
cross-examination by Mr. Davenport, witness said, there
was a little girl with-the prisoner when he was in the field,
and whom he sometimes led by the band. He denied that
he said to the prisoner, on accosting him, " Oh ! damn you,
you have thrown it away; but I'll be revenged of you."
Prisoner was not taken into custody then, but yesterday af-
ternoon. Prisoner asked him to come into the house and
search it, but he did not then do so. Kehoe explained that
the reason why he did not take him then was, that he knew
him to be a custom-house officer, employed in Bath-street,
and he would first make inquiry to ascertain if tea was kept
in it, and give information to his superior officer. The pri-
soner was apprehended on Wednesday, in a bonded tea ware-
house in Bath-street. The same witness found on the person
of the prisoner, at the Bridewell, several coloured papers,
with Chinese characters upon them, usually contained in
packages of tea; but it was explained, by a custom-house
officer in court, that such papers were frequently lying about
tea warehouses, and that any one might pick them up, so
that the circumstance of their being found upon him was
not considered of any consequence by the court. Mr.
Green, surveyor of the customs in the district to which the
prisoner belonged, said the prisoner was a third-class locker,
and had to attend, amongst other warehouses, to Dover's
bonded tea warehouse, in Great Howard-street, where he
had charge of a great quantity of tea. His duty was to be
at or about that warehouse on Tuesday last. Christopher
Walmsley, a superintendent locker, said he saw the prisoner
there twice on Tuesday, and the usual hour to leave was four
o'clock. The prisoner had access to all the rooms; and the
keys belonging to the custom-house were given him every
morning. A gentleman, whose name we did not hear, said
the sample of tea produced (which had been picked up in the
field) was black tea, good congou, like some in the ware-
house, but it was much mixed with dirt and dust. All the
tea chests in the warehouse had been opened ; but no tea
was missed. The samples taken out were not weighed, as
an allowance was, made for them, and the quantity was
so small as notimaterially to affect the general weight. He
could not positively swear to the tea being from the parcel
of the same kind in the warehouse, but he thought it was.—
Mr. Jones, the warehouseman, said the prisoner had been
locker there since the Ist of January last. It was impossible
to miss a small quantity, as there were 400 or 500 packages,
all of which had been open above a week. He admitted, on
cross-examination, that tea was sometimes spilt in the gang-
ways.—Kehoe, being recalled, said that he searched the pri-
soner's house, and found in an upper room the bag of wool
produced. (The bag was about the size of a coffee bag, and
open at the top.) He also found a whole bottle of wine, and
another bottle containing a small portion of champagne—also
produced. (The evidence respecting the wine was not pur-
sued.) Mr. Zwilchenbart looked at the wool, and considered
it to be floe Merino, but partly damaged. He had some
wool in Hodgson's warehouse in Bath-street, and was of
opinion that it was of the same kind, and his property, but
he would not swear positively to its being so. It could not,
however, be missed, as it was partly damaged, and put into
a top room to dry.—The magistrate said, that he wished to
have the opinion of a regular wool-broker, and an officer was
sent to bring one.—A man employed to watch the warehouse
said he had seen the prisoner there in his capacity aslocker,
and he then wore the coat produced.—The prisoner, after
being cautioned, said that part of the wool was from Cum-
berland, and he had had it at his house. He had taken part
of it to pack a jar in a cask; other parts of it were mere
waste, which he had used in packing the jar, which he then
sent to his house.—A brother of Mr. Danson, wool-broker,
having examined the wool, said it was Buenos Ayres and
Saxony wool.—Mr. Rushton said that this was one of those
cases in which he considered it his duty to commit. The ar-
ticles taken were but of small amount ; but as it was of im-
portance to merchants that their property should be protected.
The prisoner, moreover, was a person employed confidentially
to protect it. He was the custodier of valuable goods, and
was therefore the more amenable. The jacket in which the
tea was carried, too, was skilfully made with large pockets.
The prisoner was committed for trial at the sessions. He is,
we learn, a married man, with a family.
RADICAL ABUSE OF THE CLERGY.—The Rev. F. Close,
of Cheltenham, at a meeting of clergymen, at Dublin, on
Friday, made the following observations :—We must not
mind abuse in radical newspapers and at radical meetings, if
we are determined to do good on a great scale ; the sneering
epithet of political parson must have no power over us. I
rejoice when We are assailed with such epithets; then I am
sure we are getting on well—our enemies never cry out un-
less they are hurt.
A correspondence has taken place between the Belgian and
British governments respecting the conveyance of letters and
packets to and from America
about to touch at a port in the British Channel,
on her way
by the British Queen steamer,
no decided answer, Consul has re-
ceived The Belgian
the
British government'but it is understood that
take anything but will not allow the alluded to to
steamer
passengers and samples from this country.

ATTEIVIPFTOGALVANIZE THE DEFUNCT

REPO ASAOCIATI6N:

We are informed upon authority, which we are ready to
give BOND for, that an attempt is just now making to resus-
citate that defunct thing, the Reform Association, by uniting
it with the Protector Society. For this purpose the begging-
box is going round—fine promises are being held out—but
without avail. Reformers will not bite, even over their beer
and wine, and the very providers thereof are shy. The rea-
son no doubt is, that William Rathbone, the triple X, the
ex-mayor, ex-councillor, and ex-alderman (that was to be)—
the rejected of Pitt-street and North Toxteth—is the lucky
individual selected to preside over the restored unfortunate !
Our informant is the barmaid of the Angel, who, we repeat,
has given Bonn for her authority.