The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-08 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

EXTRAORDINARY RACE.-On Monday morning, at five
minutes past five o'clock, fifty -two carrier pigeons belonging
to different persons at Brussels, were let loose in Liverpool,
and started off with the swiftness of the wind, on a race to
the Belgian capital. They had been brought over to this
place covered up in a basket, for a grand trial of their swift;
ness and sagacity in returning to their homes, and the win-
ner of the stakes will carry off a handsome sweepstakes. They
were set at liberty in the neighbourhood of St. Luke's
Church, and immediately rose to at least double the height
of its tower, after which they all started off to the south
east, the direct route to Brussels, with incredible rapidity.
When they were let loose, the morning was bright arid beau-
tiful, but if the rain should have been as heavy in the south
east, during the day, as it was here, their flight will have been
greatly impeded, and some of them will be likely to lose their
way across the channel. We shall be curious to hear the
result of this extraordinary race.
TRAFFIC ON RAILWAYS.-Mr. Richard Dawson, of this
town, has published some very interesting information on the
subject of railways. Much credit is due to Mr. Dawson for
the patient and careful consideration he has bestowed upon
the subject. The following table, compiled by that gentle-
man, forms the gross receipt of 38 railways now in operation,
from the Ist January, 1842:
, to the 25th June, 1842,inclusive
£ s. d.
Arbroath and Forfar
Birmingham and Der by Junction
Birmingham and Gloucester
Brandling Junction
Chester and Birkenhead
Dundee and Arbroath
Dublin and Kingston
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 18 weeks
Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock..
Grand Junction 206,723 9 0
Great North of England 31,136 2 1
Great Western
Hayle, 18 weeks
Hull and Selby .
Lancaster and Preston 11,428 18 3i
Liverpool and Manchester
London and Birmingham......
London and Blackwall
London and Brighton
London and Croydon
London and Greenwich..
London and South Western
Manchester and Birmingham 10,392 5 10
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 14,695 18 7
Manchester and Leeds
Midland Counties ..
Newcastle and Carlisle 36,339 4 8
Newcastle and North Shields 9,203 2 2
North Midland .
North Union
Northern and Eastern
Preston and Wyre ........
Sheffield and Manchester 6,608 13 5
South Eastern and Dover, 5 weeks
Ulster
York and North Midland

2,031,010 11 71
Deduct 40 per cent. for working 812,404 0 0

£1,218,606 0 0
Thus it will appear, that, on thirty-eight railways now in
operation, for which returns have been published, the gross
receipt for six months this year is £2,031,010
From which deduct 40 per cent. for expenses.. 812404

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Leaving to be divided amongst the proprietors £1,218,606
Be it, however, remembered, that even in the construction
of these important undertakings, every shilling has been
expended in our own country; and thus the wealth has been
distributed amongst the working class of the community,
and the £812,40-1, deducted for one half-year's expenses, has
also been appplisd in the same useful way, in providing em-
ployment for the labourer, artificer, and mechanic, and thus
rendering a great benefit to our country.
Our readers attention is directed to the following
Messrs. commu-
nication (translated from the German) addressed to
Rowlands' agent at Cologne :—'• ]3, Straitz Euggasse, Co-
logne, May 23, --
1841.—Mr. Tim. S. Ditges.Sir,—l have
much pleasure in informing you of the extraordinary effects
of ' ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL.' For above nine years I
had not a particle of hair on my head, when I was casually
recommended to give this celebrated oil a trial. I accordingly
purchased two bottles at your estanlishment, and strictly
followed the printed directions ; in the course of two mouths
my head was covered with fine short hair, which I had cut
off, and continued to persevere in time use of the oil. The
result is, that after five months perseverance. I can now boast
of as good a head of hair as any luau in this city. In justice
to the inventors I make this acknowledgment, and shall feel
greet pleasure in satisfying_
any incluiry.—l salute you with
respect, ,ADAM bAIJEIt, Bth Artillery Brigade."
—See advt.

The Aeadiai Captain tLyrie, sailed front Liverpool on
Tuesday afternoon with her Majesty's mails for Canada and
the United States. She had GO passengers, amongst whom
were Lady Bagot and family.

Yesterday morning the policeman on duty found the body
of a man in a court leading out of Chisenhale-street. We
have not heard the cause of the man's death, but are informed
there were several marks of violence en his body.

PROCESSIO,.i

—The town was yesterday placarded with
bills announcing that the procession Of the teetotallers had
been abandoned, and that the anniversary would be kept up
by the other contemplated festivities. We are glad to say
that the Orangemen do' not now purpose walking; and we
therefore hope to see these unmeaning displays no longer in-
l&ged is by any class of the community.

MECHANICS'S INSTIT

The number of visitors to
treet seems daily to

the extraordinary exhibition in Mount-,

increase. • .10 the latter parts of each day the crowd is indeed
so great tit no single visit can do more than give a very su-
perficial notion of the several arrangements. We rejoice to
observe, that the public will now have an opportunity of re-
peating their visits, as often as they please, without any pro-
portionate increase of charge. The advertisement, in another
column, states, that on and after Monday next, when half
the time of the exhibition will have sxpired, season tickets,
for the remaining three weeks, will be issued to the public
at 2s. 6d. each. We trust that very many will avail them-
selves of the privilege thus considerately granted. The fact
that above 16,000 children, belonging to the various charity
schools, have been invited to attend this exhibition gratui-
tously, is a sufficient evidence of the committee's desire to
do the greatest possible arpouut of good.
ROBBERY BY A BOY FROM IBIS MASTER.—A lad,
named George Stevens, was, yesterday, charged before Mr.
Rushton with robbing his employer of a quantity of thread.
Inspector Anders said, that about five o'clock on the pre-
vious afternoon, he saw the prisoner in Scotland-place, and,
as he appeared to have • something bulky about him, he
stopped him, and found concealed in his trousers three
packets containing 31bs. of thread. On questioning him, he
said he was shop-boy at Mr. Farrell's ByroM-stret, and had
been sent with the thread to a house in Kirkdale. Mr.
Joseph Farrell said he was a smallware-dealer in Byrom-
street,•and that the prisoner had been with him about nine
months as errand-boy. About two o'clock on the previdus
day, he sent the prisoner for some thread into the store-
room, where it was packed up in bundles of (Abs. each ; and
desired him to unpack same of it, and put it on separate lbs.
on the shelves of the shop. He left the shop while the pri-
soner. was doing so, and, on returning, about half an hour
afterwards, sent him home to his tea. About half-past
three, Inspector Anders called and • showed him Whs. of
thread, which he claimed as his. He had so large a stock
that he could not have missed it. The prisoner was com-
mitted for trial.

CHARGE n' THEFT AGAINST A WATCHMAN.—A man
Rained William Mulholland, and a woman who gave her
name as Eliva Mulholland, were yesterday placed at the bar
of the Police-court, on a charge of having stolen a quantity
of starch.—lnspector Edwards said, that on the previous
night, about ten o'clock, while he was on duty in Simpson-
street, he observed the female prisoner come out of Watkin-
son-street into the former street; and as she appeared to be
bulky, he suspected something was wrong, and followed her.
On getting up to her he found she had something concealed
under her shawl, and put some questions to her respecting it.
She said it was starch, and that she had got it yonder—
(pointing in the direction from which she had come.). He
told her she must go back with him and spew him the place.
On the way back she said she had got it at the starch works
in Bridgewater-street, where her husband was employed as
watchman. He then took her to Brick-street bridewell, and
there took from her four parcels, each containing 5 lbs. of
starch. He afterwards went to Mr. Tarbuck's works,
Bridgewater-place. Bridgewater-street, where he found the
male prisoner,—who admitted in court that the female was
his wife. Two keys were found upon him.—Mr. Charles
Gildersleeves, clerk to Mr. Tarbuck, said the prisoner was
watchman on the premises, and that he went on duty at six
in the evening, and remained till six in the morning. \% it-
ness had left the counting-house at six o'clock on the previ-
ous evening, at which time he gave him the key of the office,
to give to Mr. Tarbuck's young man when he brought the
dog down. The key of the starch-room was kept in the
office. He missed four parcels of starch, of 5 lbs. each, in
paper, similar to those produced : and they were there at six
o'clock. The prisoner said that he had done nothing what-
ever; he had never given away an ounce. He was committed
for trial at the sessions. As the female was, it appeared, his
wife, she was discharged.

STEALING CLOTHES FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE.—At
the Police-court yesterday, an ill-clad young man, named
William Dyson (before known to the police), was placed at
the bar on a charge of stealing a quantity of clothes. Eliza-
beth Townley, wife of a watchmaker, residing in Prince
Edward Terrace, Everton, said that about two o'clock on
the previous afternoon he placed a quantity of clothes con-
sisting of table cloths, shirts, and other articles of wearing
apparel, on a table under the cellar kitchen window, which
was down, and went up stairs to make the beds. In about
an hour afterwards, some one knocked at the door, and she
went down, and was told that some one had carried some-
thing off. She then missed the clothes, and went to Rose-
hill 13ridewell, where she found them in charge of an officer.
Police-constable Bryan Wiuterscales said, that about half-
past three that afternoon, he saw the prisoner with a little
boy crossing from Prince Edward-street to the north Hay-
market. The boy was carrying a large bundle. He stopped
them, and asked the boy where he was taking it to. The
prisoner said he was taking them to his sister's in Garden-
lane, to be washed. He then asked where they had got
them. The prisoner replied from his sister's in Everton.
He seized the prisoner ; and the boy then threw down the
bundle and escaped. He took the articles to bridewell,
where they were immediately afterwards claimed by Mrs.
Townley. The prisoner said that the boy had told hire that
he had got them at his sister's ; that that was what be had
said, and that he knew nothing of them. He was committed
for trial at the sessions. He had before been three times
committed, and once discharged for want of evidence. The
clothes were stated to be worth about £4.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—CURIOUS CASE RELATIVE TO THE
JURISDICTION OF CORONERS.—On Saturday forenoon last,
two young men, sons of Mr. James Cooke, of Moor-place,
accompanied by another youth, went across the river to
amuse themselves on the Cheshire side. Below Egremont
Ferry, they each hired one of the ponies, kept on the shore
for the recreation of visitors, and rode along to New Brighton.
On reaching the pier, they alighted to get a glass of ale at
the small public-house there, taking the animals close to the
wall, where they usually stand side by side until they are
again wanted. One of the young men (Cooke) on leaving
the spot passed between two of the ponies, and happening, it
is supposed, to touch one of them in getting through, the
animal, either alarmed or vicious, struck out his hind legs
twice, giving him, in the second instance, a violent blow in
the abdomen. He did not, however, feel so much hurt, but
he was able to remount and ride back slowly to the spot from
which they had started. He came back to Liverpool with
his companions, who, as he now complained a good deal,
took him to Mr. Crips's surgery in Dale-street ; but that
gentleman not being at home, they took him to his father's
house, where he arrived about two o'clock. Mr. Steward,
of Seymour-street, was sent for, and he sent Mr. Mc Fie, of
the same street, to his assistance. That gentleman used
such means as he considered proper for his releif, but
without avail, as the young man, after lingering in
great pain, died at about eight o'clock on the following
morning (Monday.) The deceased was, we learn, 24 years
of age. The borough coroner summoned a jury, who viewed
the body ; end an inquest was commenced next day, and part
of the evidence taken, when Mr. Curry found that he had no
power to proceed, in consequence of a recent decision of
Lord Chief Justice Denman, who lays it down that both
the cause of the death, and the death itself must occur
within the district over which any particular coroner has
jurisdiction, to enable him legally to enter into an investiga-
tion of this nature, and receive the verdict of a jury ! In this
case as the cause of death arose in Cheshire, and the death
took place in Lancashire, it appeared that under this strange
meaning a construction of the inquest act, neither he, nor
the coroner for the Cheshire districts have power to act.
This, we have heard, is also the opinion of our acute Town-
clerk, on reading Lord Dennian's decision. The conse-
quences in this case are lamentable. The desolate father of
the deceased young man, is naturally unwilling that the
body should be taken back to Cheshire and brought back for
interment here ; and he has no power to inter without a
coroner's order, which cannot be granted without the inter-
vention of an inquisition ; so that the remains which have
been above ground since Monday morning, must remain so
sine die, unless some speedy alteration of the law by a new
act of parliament take place, or an order be received from
the Home Secretary, suspending the operation of the law
under the peculiar circumstances of the case. We under-
stand that the Town-clerk, on learning the facts, promptly
wrote to head quarters, so that one or other of these alterna-
tives will, it is to be hoped, be resorted to. The Coroner
has also written to Mr. Churton, the coroner for that part of
Cheshire where the accident occurred, but whether that gen-
tleman will act upon his own responsibility, and thus render
himself liable to an indictment,—or decline to take proceed-
ings,—is not yet known. One method, though a surrepti-
titious, and perhaps an illegal one, has been suggested to us,
by which the difficulty might be overcome ; and that is, that
the body should be taken in the coffin privately to some
churchyard, and so left as to be found ; and if no one come
forward to claim it, and no witnesses attended, an inquest
would would take place, and a verdict returned of " Found
dead, apparently from an injury of the abdomen, the body of
a man unknown." After which the order for burial would
be issued, and the father might then step in, claim the body,
and inter it where he pleased. Such a resort (were it avail-
able—which we doubt in the advanced state of the case) would
probably, however, be as repulsive to the relatives of the de-
ceased as the painful position in which they are now placed.

NEW LANDING STAGE AT THE EGREMONT SLIP.—We
arc glad to say that a large new landing slip is about to be
placed on the Seacombe and Egremont slip, on an improved
plan, by which the river steamers, as well as others of a
larger size, may at all times—even at low water—securely
land or embark passengers and carriages—a desideratum of
great importance to the public, and the want of which has
long been severely felt. The slip is now undergoing altera-
tions for the purpose of receiving the stage, and the stone
work, under the able management of Mr. Tomkinson, is al-
ready in rapid progress. The greater part of the upper layer
of stones on the slip had to be removed, and will be replaced
by others of a large size, put together in a manner to resist
the heaviest seaway that can assail them, and forming a rather
more gently inclined plane than the former one. The breadth
of the slip will be 15 feet. A handsome stage of about 75 feet
in length and 12 feet wide, fenced at each side by three rows
of chains supported on iron uprights will run down the in-
clined plane, and by means of a tramroad laid on the strand,
extend about 6U feet into the river, beyond the sea-wall,
meeting, at low water, a large landing vessel, designed and
built for the purpose, and alongside of which thesteamers may
ofse incsutreeplpymgake fast, so that the inconvenience to passengers
acciss a number of vessels, as hitherto, at such
times of the tide, will be obviated. The carriage or stage
will run on four handseme iron wheels, the outer ones being
larger than those at the top, by which the surface will be
nearly level. This large stage will be worked by chains and
machinery adequate to move it readily out or in, as occasions
may require. The immense framework erected over the
side, by Mr. Tomkinson, and which has excited so much
public curiosity, is admirably contrived for the removal of the
large stones to be taken up, and the replacing of the newly-
prepared blocks—to form the superstructure of the new ship.
By means of powerful winches fixed in framework of great
span, strengthened on the tension principle by chains and
iron rods, and moveable both longitudinally and transversely
on railways laid on the upper beams, the tackie may be
lowered perpendicularly to any required point; and stones of
several tons in weight may be raised or deposited by the
exertions of a few men only. This is an improvement
in heavy mural architecture which was unknown to our an-
cestors, rind enables the workmen, without danger to them-
selves, to complete in weeks what they could not otherwise
accomplish in years. We heartily congratulate our towns-
men, and more especially our fair townswomen, on the
erection of this landing-place, which, without in the slightest
degree disturbing the course of the river, and thereby form-
ing sand-banks—an evil inseparable from all permanent
stone piers forming projections—will enable them to embark
or land comfortable and dry at times when they would
scarcely venture to encounter the inconvenience and danger
at our ordinary pier-head and steps—where one must follow
the other like a flock of sheep through a gap. The whole
will probably be completed, and opened for public use, in
about two months. We entertain no doubt of the practical
utility of the new landing stage; and strongly recommend to
the Corporation and Dock Trustees the construction, as
speedily as possible, of similar stages for the other passenger
and carriage slips—particularly the slip at George's-pier,
where landing is often difficult and hazardous, and not un-
frequently impossible.

A petition from this town against the new Poor Law BIT
*as presented in the House of Commons on Wednesday, to
Sir 'Howard Douglas.
The second reading of the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway Bill was fixed for last night, and the Liverpool Im.
provment Bill was to be read a third time, when the Lords
amendments would be considered.
We beg to call attention to the advertisement in our first
page of the lecture for the benefit of Christ Church Schools.
On Congregational Singing; " it is a subject of great
importance at the present moment, and will, we think, excite
deep interest.
PICKING POCKETS ON BOARD THE RAILWAY BOAT.—
A notorious character, named Thomas Brown, was commit.
ted yesterday, at Birkenhead Town-hall, to the House of
Correction, fur a month's hard labour, for attempting to
oiek a lady's pocket as she was leaving the railway boat at
Monk's Ferry, on Tuesday last.

SCROFULA

last, an interesti
fore the Operati,

ND ITS EFFECTS.—On Wednesday evening
ing lecture was delivered on this subject he-
ves' Philosophical Association, at the request

of its members, by a mrdicii
confines his practice to the
eases. The lecturer, after pu
of this fruitful source of miser
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society in questio
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usefulness to its members

FATAL. ACCIDENT ON BOARD SHIP.—Qn Wednesday
afternoon, about three o'cloc%, William Marshall, ware-
houseman to Mr. Duncan Gibb, had Occasion to go on
hoard the " England," lying in the Brunswick Doek, to
look after the cargo, when by some accident he fell into the
bold, by which his head was so dreadfully fractured that part
of the brain protruded at one ear. He was carried in a
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gasping and
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an,: he expired soon afterwar,
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the parties not beinE, aUle CO give a satisfactory account of
themselves, Mr. Kewlev gave them in charge to the police.
These facts being proved, and the coat being identified by
Mr. Higgins, the prisoners were committed to Knutsforsi for
trial at the next quarter sessions.
MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.--The Dock Com-
mittee held their weekly meeting yesterday, when the follow-
ing members were present :—Messrs. Holt, Holmes, Aikin,
Molyneux, Tobin, Shand, Nicol, Bold, and Middleton. In
the absence of the chairman and deputy-chairman.. Mr. Holt
was called upon to preside. The Surveyor reported that he
had settled with the owner of the horse injured by the dock
railway, as described in our last, for the sum of £3 10s. The
Sub-committee of Works recommended that a portion of the
pavement opposite the dock master's house, at Clarence
Dock, be taken up and macadamized, in order to deaden ti
noise of the carts, of which Mr. M`Bride, the dock-maste
coinpiaiued.—Ordered. The
mended that gas-pipes be lai
North Harbour Master, and ti
they paying for the gas const
part of the Marine Surveyor's
the bell beacon had been launc
the end of next week. This
committee separated.
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY COMPANY
A special general meeting of the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway Company was held at the Cotton Sales'-room, in
the Exchange BuildingS, on Tuesday, for the purpose of
having the draft of a bill now before Parliament " for better
enabling the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company
to extend the line of the said Railway and for amending and
enlarging the powers and provisions of the Several Acts re-
lating to such Railway," submitted to the proprietors present
at such meeting. Shortly after one o'clock the chair was
taken by Charles Lawrence Esq., the president.—The chair-
man stated that the late general meeting had authority to
make a junction between the Liverpool and Manchester line,
and the Leeds and Manchester at Hunt's Bank, Manchester.
The object of the present meeting was to state what the act
of parliament specified, and to give the proprietors if they
thought necessary, the opportunity either of rejecting or of
approving of the bill now before the House. The Chairman
concluded by calling on Mr. C. W. Clay, the clerk of the
company, to read the notice which had been given to the
public concerning the holding of the present meeting, and
also the clauses which had been inserted in the short Act of
Parliament.—Mr. Clay read the notice, and a draft of the
bill accordingly. The preamble recited the several acts
pasted regarding the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and
stated the expediency of giving powers for effecting a junc-
tion between the Liverpool and Manchester and the Man-
chester and Leeds Railway. The bill enacted, in the first
place, that the powers of the several recited acts should be
extended to this act. By the second section, the company
were authorised- to make a junction railway at and near
Hunt's Bank. The third section authorised the sale and
purchase o? land by this company from other companies, and
authorised those other companies to sell to this company.
Vhe, fourth section prescribed the mode of constructing the
railway at Hunt's Bank, by means of a viaduct specifying
the breadth and height. The fifth section enacted, that the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway should make a wall or
fence -to screen the intended railway from the New Bailey
IPrison, and the view of persons using the railway. The sixth
section referred to the construction of the railway at Man-
chester, and other particulars respecting the viaduct. The
seventh section enacted that the expenses of the act might be
paid out of the general funds of the company ; and the eighth
and last section stated, that the present was a public act.—
The Chairmab stated, that in these several sections consisted
the whole of the bill. If there was no objection to it, he
called upon the proprietors to affix the seal of the company
thereto.—Mr. Rotberam proposed a resolution which had
been previously prepared, and which was to the effect, that
the bill be approved of, and that the directors be authorised
to affix the seal to the same, subject to such alterations and
additions thereto as they might deem • necessary or parlia-
ment might approve.—Mr. Van Zeller seconded the resolu-
tion, which was unanimously adopted.—Thanks were then
returned to the chairman, and the meeting separated.
EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF A CONSIDERABLE SUM
OF MONEY.—Yesterday, at the police court, a man named
Ralph Lowe was placed before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of
obtaining felonious possession of £9O. Mr. Bailey, sail-
maker, of Richmond-row, said, that on Monday last he sent
his son, William Bailey (who appeared at the bar as a wit-
ness), to draw a sum of money due to him by a Mr. Mann.
His son did not return, and his absence caused him great un-
easiness, more particularly as he soon afterwards found that
Mr. Mann's clerk had paid him £9o,—namely, one £5O
Bank of England note, nine sovereigns, and a bill for £3l.
He had heard that he had gone to Preston, and went there to
endeavour to find him, but without avail ; and he then began
to apprehend that he might be drowned, or that some other
fatality had befallen him. At length he got a clue to the fact
that he had got into the company of the Bibbys—then in
court as witnesses—and:that he had gone to Chester on a
spree" with one of them—the husband. He had since
learned that he had left the money in Bibby's house, and
that the prisoner had gone there and stolen it. Mrs. Bibby
(the wife) being sworn, said that the son of William Bailey
had come to her on Monday during her husband's absence,
and laid a parcel on the table—which he said contained bills
—telling her to take care of it until he returned, and not to
tell any one about it. On Tuesday morning he went to
Chester, in company with her husband. The latter came
back same evening, and brought a letter from William Bailey.
She could not read, and the prisoner came in, read the let-
ter, and afterwards went up stairs and took the parcel from
under a mug where she had placed it for safety, and with-
out opening it took it away with him. He burnt the letter
after he had read it.—Another female said that the Bibby's
lodged at her house. The prisoner came in with Bibby. She
saw Mrs. Bibby take the notes out of herbosom, and Bitiby said
something about going to London. (It appeared that the bill
for the £3l was payable there.) Jas. Bibby, the husband,
said be went with young Bailey to Chester on Tuesday, and
came back same evening. Bailey wrote a letter and gave it
to him. He met the prisoner yesterday morning for the
first time since he (witness) returned from Chester, and went
with him home from the dock. Some further evidence was
given, partly of a contradictory nature, and also tending to
implicate the 13ibbys in the robbery, as well as Mr. Bailey's
son. Mr. -Bailey said that the first time he had seen his son
since Monday was on Wednesday morning. Mr. Rushton
immediately ordered the witnesses, Bibby and his wife. and
Young Bailey, to be taken into custody, remarking, that it
was a cruel robbery, in which they were doubtless all impli-
cated. They were all taken into custody accordingly, and
remanded for further investigation. Orders were also given
that they should not be allowed to communicate with each
other, and that they should be separately confined. Bibby
IS, we learn, a boatman.

two wearing
isoner, Brown, and,

same sub-committee recom-
d down iu the houses of the
le master of George's Dock,
imed. The chairman, on the
Sub-committee, reported that
:hed, and would be ready by
was all the business, and the

APPREHENSION OF THOS. GILMOUR, SON OF

THOS. PARR GILMOUR.
s On Wednesday afternoon, Thos. Gilmour, a very good
looking youth, about sixteen or seventeen years of age, and
one of the sons of the person who was lately dismissed on a
charge of swindling, was apprehended in Bootle, by police-
officer Kelley, charged by John Ascroft, stonemason, with
stealing a silver watch from his house. The case was heard
Yesterday before John Formby, and R. E. Harvey, Esquires,
w„° of the county justices, at Messrs. Leigh and Eaton's
O'unee, Leigh-street.
I: t`ehecca Ascroft said she was wife of John Ascroft, and
'tved at Bootle. On the 31st of May the prisoner came to
her house with Thos. Parr Gilmour to live. He gave his
name as Gorst, and said that Mr. Gilmour was his guardian.
He left her house on the 10th ult. A day or two before that
her little girl, Martha, was playing with a silver watch, when
she heard the prisoner say he would give the girl some shells
for the watch. He said he would give her some shells and a
piece of coral from abroad, and that he must have it. He
would get it to tick and sell it to the blacks for £2. She
(witness) told the prisoner he was not to get the watch,
and
she also told the littlegirl that it was riot her's to give away.
moor, in the Isle ofer hmoause on the 10th to go to Mrs. Gil-
Sunday after the pi ironer
soner came to her house t
n.
l went.e reoi ns s Te dh
utrhsed a wy
a ltaesht t ohne pt rhi e-
watecget a box belonging- to his father.
She asked him for the
in the Isle of Man. He solclaeh4 he said he got it repaired
She told's
fish-hooks to get it re-
paired ; it cost 7s. 6d,
e wouhldi nib's i na lgs et
h' eowna."tc7he dbuaecskdsahye,
when he called again, that if h
would take something from the money his father owed her.
The prisoner said the witness him the watch. He
offered her half-a-crown for it,
proposed
se to bring some coral
the husband said that
d
would be too much. He then p
beads when he came back. He then
gave some thread
to tie the watch to his chain. It wasashn
scheme got up, for
W
she saw him going out of the house. ;'hen he went back
again to the house, she brought old George in, in order that
he might be a witness, if he acknowledged that she did not give it to him ; but he (the prisoner) knew very well what she
was up to.
Police constable Kelly said lie had received information
from Mrs. Ascroft that the son of Thomas Parr Gilmour had
a watch from her house. He got a description of the youth,
and was requested to apprehend him when he saw him. Oil
Wednesday he saw him at the shop of Mrs. Ewens, grocer,
and took him into custody. He asked him if he were the
son of Thomas Parr Gilmour, and he said he was, arid that
he had come there in search of two boxes which his father had
left there. He told him that if his father would come and
give the receipt for the two boxes he would get them. He
!Lsked hiui if he know anything of Mrs. Ascrott's watch, and
he said he had given it to his father yesterday. He offered
t
0 go and get the watch if the officer would allow him ; it
would be found on his father's person. The prisoner said he
was always
fore he had sent h-imiettoi,
getting ' rouble about his father ; not long be-
for some goods, and when
he got there the tierailway
father had Guardian Society had stopped them, and his
beat him very severely for it.
The witnesses were then eross-examined• by
who offered to act a a gentleman,
Ascroft acknowledged of agreement
s attorney for the prisoner, and Mrs:
about the coral beads that there was some sort
and the watch.
Mr. Formby sa there was some doubt in this case, alld
as that was al
be discharged. ways given in favour of the prisoner, he mutt
The youth bowed to the
to return the Witch to m magistrates and retired, promising

tiiseUsslON ON PilltENoi3OGT

Oe intimated on Tuesday, a discussion was comnielked
on Monday evening, between Messrs. Rumball and Brindley,
on this much-contested subject. Mr. Crisp took the chair.
Mr. RUMBALL commenced by observing, that they had
met to discuss one of the most important questions that could
agitate the mind of man; they were met to consider whether
we knew anything of ourselves or not • for phrenologists de-
clared that if their science was false there was no science, no
philosophy extant which gave man an insight into his own
nature. He had the honour to profess his belief in phreno-
logy ; his opponent declared that it was unfounded in fact
and pernicious in consequences, and he having done so pub-
licly, he felt he (Mr. Rumball) had a right to call upon him
to establish the assertions he had put forward. As a phre-
nologist he (Mr. Rumball) believed in the immortality of the
soul. Throughout all nature we found that form was indica-
tive of quality ; and, if man's mental results were influenced
by their transmission through his body, it was a matter of
moment to ascertain in what part the transmission took
place. The brain, in man, was the special organ of the
mind, and in proportions to the size and quality of that brain
would be the power of it. Size was power throughout the
world, every thing being equal; but phrenologists said, fur-
ther, that the brain was not one organ but many, and that
the whole of it acted in every mental operation. The brain
was a congeries of organs; and it was comprised of many
elementary faculties which were developed as the man grow
up, and they constituted his individuality of character. Cer-
tain parts of the brain were adapted to the manifestation of
them, and the size of that particular part of the brain would
be indicative of its power. If we looked at the history of
phrenology, it would shew the means whereby the powers
of the various portions of the brain had been discovered. A
sketch of Dr. Gall and Dr. Spurzheim's history was
given by Mr. Rumball, in support of this proposition, and
he narrated a number of their investigations. His own in-
troduction to the science was founded upon facts. He had
attended Spurzheim's lectures, and was convinced of the
truth of phrenology. After that he became a pupil of Beth-
lehem Hospital, and took the portraits of 80 patients as well
as he could, and on referring to the physicians' books, he
found that their configuration corresponded exactly with the
description of insanity therein entered. The last proposi-
tion he should advance on this occasion was, that the size of
the brain could be told from the skull, and this proposition
it would be for his opponent to overthrow. On this subject
he explained that craniology might be false, yet phrenology
true ; in the course of which he stated that the frontal sinus
which was thought by Combe to furnish some objection to
phrenology, in fact aided to prove it. One hour having
elai
•ed

RINDLEY then came forward. He said that he had
been captivated by the doctrines of phrenology, but that on
investigaring them more closely be had come to the conclu-
sion that it was not a system based in truth, and that it had
no scientific accuracy upon which it could be maintained.
He had next directed his attention to the grand rules laid
down by phrenologists, namely, the examination of persons
endowed with peculiar powers, and comparing those powers
with the peculiar form of their heads, and this examination had
led him to the same conclusions. The question would be,
was phrenology a sound and fair system. He was not bound
to take any new view which Mr. Rumball had thought
proper to advance ; and he had expected he would have laid
down a little more clearly what were the fundamental princi-
ples of phrenologists, as laid down in their books. lie,
therefore, was not bound to take any new system which Mr.
Rumball might lay down. The phrenologists had not dis-
covered a true system of mind, or Mr. Rumball would have
proved what he had not had yet proved, that the brain was
composed of many organs. There was no proof at present
that phrenologists amitted the immateriability of the
mind ; but he (Mr. Brindley), in some of their writings had
read that they denied it. He denied altogether that it could
be shown, that animals exhibiting peculiar instructive powers
had corresponding brain organs that would warrant the
judgment they had those powers. Mr. Rumball next said
that the skull was an index to the brain. He admitted this
was pretty nearly correct, but this was not the point in de-
bate. The point was whether the skull was a correct index,
in their minute shades of difference, to the 37 organs, and
this proposition he combatted :at considerable length. Mr.
Brindlev s hour having expired,
Mr. RA) MIIALL, in a reply of a quarter of an hour, con-
fined himself to a reply to the objection that phrenologists
did not explain the true system of the mind. He contended
that they did not make any such profession ; nor did pure-
nology)ead to materialism.

BRINDLEY rejoined, calling upon Mr. Rumball for
his proofs of organology. _ _

• Each of theca
disputants occupied another quarter of an
hour, and the discussion closed until Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY.

The discussion was resumed on Wednesday night, at the
Portico, between Messrs. Rumball and Brindley, when a
much larger meeting was assembled. Mr. CRISP again
took the chair.

The debate was carried on with great spirit, and much
more of fact and evidence was adduced both pro. and con.
Mr. RUMBALL opened the debate, but occupied his time
chiefly in recapitulating what had been gone through on the
previous evening—several times challenging Mr. Brindley to
bring forward his objections taken front the structure of the
brain.

Mr. BRINDLEY, in reply, observed that, Mr. Rumball
having challenged this discussion, in order that he might
prove the truth of Phrenology, it was for him, first of all, to
point out the evidence derivable from the anatomy of the
brain. For, continued Mr. Brindley, suppose I was to come
forward with a new hypothesis concerning the organs of
sense, maintaining that instead of only 5 external organs of
sense, we possessed 50 such organs, would it not naturally
be expected that, as I was introducing a new system in op-
position to that which had long been received as founded in
truth, that I, in the first instance, should produce evidence
in support of my new views?

It ;Would not be for an opponent to show that we had only
5 organs, but for me to prove that we had 50 ; precisely so
was it, in this instance, with Mr. Rumball and Phrenology.
That gentleman states that the brain is not one mental organ,
but that it is 37 pairs of independent organs—let him then
first show upon what evidence his new views are supported.
Mr. RUMBALL, in reply, contended that he had already
done this by going to comparative anatomy, and shewing the
variable brain structures in different orders of animals, and
again referred to the distinct offices performed by the_ motory
and sensory nerves, and concluded by once more insisting
upon Mr. Brindley's offering his objections_derivable from
the structure of the brain.

Mr. BIUNDLEY said it was plain that either he must bring
forward his opposing arguments, or no information would
be given touching the formation of the human brain ; and,
therefore, although it was quite out of order that he should
show the brain to be contradictory of phrenology, before it
had been shown to support that theory, he would at once pro-
ceed to enumerate what appeared to him to be facts strongly
subversive of the brain's being subdivided into pairs of organs,
as marked out by phrenologists. He had there a real brain,
and not a mere picture, nor a chalk cast. First, then, no
two brains were precisely similar in the number, situation,
and form of the convalutions, and in no brain did those con-
valutions correspond with each other in the two hemispheres;
how, then, could those hemispheres be said to contain 37
pairs of organs. Secondly, nearly one-third of the con-
valutions were situated at the base of the brain, and nearly
another third between the hemispheres, so that the phreno-
logists who had accounted for all our mental manifestations
had only accounted for little more than one-third of the
brainular convalutions. Thirdly, a yet stranger objection
arose from the fact that the convalutions, called by the
phrenologists mental organs, were so very variable is the
depth to which they covered the brain, that while in some
parts they were nearly an inch through, in other parts they
would only be half an inch, quarter of an inch, or even an
eighth of an inch ; how, then, was it possible for any man to
decide what was the relative development of those convalu-
tions, even when the skull cap was removed, without you
could also cut through the brain itself; yet, in the face of
these demonstrable facts, which there was the brain to prove,
phrenologists, by a mere examination of the exterior of the
skull, could pretend to decide accurately the degree of power
in each part of those convalutions, which, after all, were
one continued unbroken mass.

Mr. RUMBALL admitted the ♦ariable character of the
convalutions, also that they were thickly spread over
the base of the brain and between the hemispheres, he
also admitted that the corticle of convaluted surface
of the brain did vary in thickness, or depth, as described
by Mr. Brindley, but urged that, notwithstanding, these
things did not militate against the truth of Prenology
—for he cared nothing about the convalutions—Gale, the
founder of Phrenology, discovered that men with certain
dispositions had peculiar prominence in one particular region
of the head, the situation of which being accurately defined,
enabled Phrenologists to point out corresponding dispositions
when a corresponding fulness of the head existed.

Mr. BRINDLEY very briefly replied to these last observa-
tions ; the whole of his important objections bad not only
not been disproved, but their validity was actually admitted
by Mr. Rumball, and the whole of the evidence in support of
Phrenology was now settled down to a merequestion of thick-
ness of skull ; but even that should not serve him, for if Mr.
R. would now declare that he was satisfied with the proofs
from the anatomy of the brain, he was prepared at once to
meet him on the skull,—only let him point out distinctly
what was to be the order he intended to pursue in the subse-
quent part of the debate.

• .
Mr. RUNIBALL offered some further observations respect-
ing the ❑erves of motion and sensation, and stated that evi-
dence from skulls should next be gone into, and that he
would examine the heads of six living persons of known cha-
racter, and by this Phrenological manipulation would declare
their true dispositions, talents, &c.
Mr. BILINDLEY then gave notice that on the next evening
he would bring up a variety of opposing facts, drawn from
Phrenological developments of a number of murderers and
other criminals.—We believe it is his intention to bring for-
ward casts of the heads of Good, the murderer, Courvoisier,
Blakesley, Fieschi, Burke, Hare, Bishop, Williams, Thurtill,
and others.

The CHAIRMAN then announced that on Friday evening
(this day) the discussion would not commence until half-past
seven, that hour appearing more convenient.

THE ASSAULT ON ONE OF THE POLICE AT BIRKENHEAD.
—On Monday last James Bennett, one of the parties who
made the ferocious attack on Grooves (as mentioned in Fri-
day's STANDARD) was brought before J. D. Maddocks and
Henry Winch, Esqrs., and fined 40s. for the assault. In
default of payment he was committed for one month. Yes-
terday Thomas Bennett, who had joined his brother in the
attack on Groves, attended before J. R. Shaw and Henry
Winch, Esqs., and was also fined forty shillings. In default
of payment he was committed to the House of Correction for
two months, to be kept to hard labour.
ASSAULT ON THE SPECIAL HIGH CONSTABLE OF
WIRRAL H tiNDRED.—A strong, rough-looking person,
named John Jackson, was, yesterday, placed before J. R.
Shaw, and 11. Winch, Esqrs., at the Town-hall, Birkenhead,
on a charge of assaulting Mr. George Palmer, Special High
Constable of Wirral Hundred. Mr. Palmer stated, that on
Saturday night, about half-past ten o'clock, there was a
fight in Chester-street, Birkenhead, and a large mob had
collected. He went to disperse the crowd, when Jackson
knocked him down and kicked him over the chest. He was
also kicked about the head and other parts of his body, and
his hand and arm were very much bruised, as he supposed
by their being jumped upon. Elliot, one of the night-police,
also charged the prisoner with an assault on him. The
officer appeared with his head bound up, and stated that his
staff had been wrenched from him, and he was so beaten by
it as to be in a state of insensibility for some time. At the
commencement of the disturbance he had requested Jackson
to go home quietly, but he swore he would not, and had
struck him (Elliot) a blow on the face which knocked him
down. The magistrates said it was high time to put a stop
to such brutal attacks on the officers, and therefore they
should commit Jackson for trial at the next sessions.
THE FUNDS.—The Stock-markets were in an active state
to-day, but prices did not improve, though they were rather
firmer in consequence of this being the first day of private
transfer. The supply of money among the dealers is already
t,getting large, as the payment of the dividends will of course
itocnrease the amount available for the purpose of accommoda-
•
. .ed, 100'
:::71:817he last price of Consols for money and the account
tsss.jvteodmitiman;d
3Bank Stock, 166 to 167 ; Exchequer-bills,
2cl
Cer:
unurttioes2,6
issue, 445. to 465. premium ; and ditto, 2id. issue, 475.
good to- per Cents. Reduced, 914 to 92 ;31 per
Lon- A sto ; New 34 per Cents., 994 to 100 ;
instances no variat"
Bonds, 245. 152,4•, India Stock, 2474 ex.-div. ; and India
hardly so .dpremium. The foreign stock-market was
closed at 214 to ;Ditto general aspect, though in particular
Cents.. 33t to 4i occurred in value. Spanish Actives
, New, 2U to ; Portuguese 5 per
5 per Cents., 351 to Ditto 3 per Cents., 191 to 204 ; Mexican
to 66 ; Belgian, 102 t .mq•colombian, 224 tot ; Brazilian, 64
to I.—Wednesday B1,"11°3 ; and Dutch 24 per Cents., 51;1

kEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL

'Me Town CoulAl held a general meeting on Wednesday
in the Council-aliaMber, as the adjourned third qurrterly
meeting for such Eiitters as were peculiar to a quarterly
council, and as a monthly council for the remainder. The
MAYOR presided.