The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-21 00:00:00

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same result as that on the

former occasion : the vindicator of the "'theory of surfaces"
having made several mistakes, and received innumerable hard
bumps, left the field in possession of his talented and victo-
rious opponent

'orcister Journal.

CAREENING A SHIP wlrn Poexsn INDULGENCES.—
In the year 1709, the privateers of Bristol captured a Spanish
galleon, on board of which were found five hundred bales
of indulgences, which, containing 16 reams to a bale, were
computed to amount to 3,840,000 indulgences. These were,
to be imposed upon the people, and were to be sold, the
lowest at 3 raels, (a little more than:2o pence,) but others at
50 pieces of eight, (about £8 sterling) ; and ,Captain Dampier
informed Bishop Burnet, who has recorded the faat, that
there was such a vast quantity of these indulgences that the
seamen careened their ships with them.— Church of England
Quarterly.
THE RECENT MURDER NEAR CHIRK.—On the evening
the murder, Emma Evans (who was to have been married on
Christmas Day) shut her shop door, as sbe usually did at
nightfall, but left the house door open, as she expected a visit
from her intended husband. She had been smoking a pipe
of tobacco, but a short time before an entrance had been
effected by the murderers she had laid the pipe aside. It
appears that one of the murderers, on secretly entering the
house, had struck the deceased a violent blow on the back of
the head, which felled her to the earth, and two other blows
were then inflicted on the fore part of her hear. The unfor-
tunate woman still struggled, and one of the murderers, hav-
ing placed his knee upon her face, a knife was drawn across
her throat, which terminated her existence. A kick from one
of the assassins dislodged some of the deceased's teeth, one
of which was driven through her upper lip, and left the mark
which was supposed to have been made by the tobacco pipe,
and induced the belief that she had been murdered while do-
zing quietly in her chair. The public will have satisfaction
in knowing that both the unhappy prisoners are truly peni-
tent, and await with the greatest contrition the decision of
their fate at the coming assizes.--Shropshire paper.

THE CONVICT DELAHUNT.—ThiS murder of the boy Ma-
guire, received the last sentence of the law on Saturday last.
He is to be hung on the sth of February. In the course of
Saturday evening, on the governor taking his customary
round of inspection, and visiting Delahunt's cell, the con-
vict, on Mr. Allison making some casual remarks on his
situation, entered freely into conversation with him. The
following is substantially what took place. As to the truth
of the prisoner's allegations the reader will readily judge.
He admitted that he had taken the, knife produced on his
trial out of his sister-in-law's house, but he denied having
himself perpetrated the murder. It was, he said, committed
by a man named Doyle and a prostitute, in whose company
he (Delahunt) met him the sarne.day. He had some know-
ledge of Doyle previously, but he had 'never seen the female
before. To a question as to how he came to know the mur-
dered child, he answered, " 0, I did not take away the child
at all." The governor remarked to him that it appeared
strange how he should have been seen with the child in so
many different parts of the city just before the murder, and
no other person in their company. Delahunt admitted that
the circumstance did appear rather strange, but that it hap-
pened in consequence of his companions being too cunning
for him, and therefore they kept at a distance of fifty or one
hundred yards behind him while he was taking the child
about the town. He was then asked what could be the mo-
tive to commit the shocking crime ? He replied that it was
for the purpose of being taken care of in the Lower Castle-
yard, arid maintained there until admitted to prosecute some
person to be charged with the commission of the offence.
He denied that it was by his hand the murder was committed
—it was by the man and woman ; the latter having cut the
boy's throat. Being questioned as to how long he had been
making up the horrible business with these people, he said
he had merely met with them by accident in the neighbour-
hood where the child was playing al the evening he was mur-
dered, and but a short time before he was taken away. They
told him what they were going to do ; asked him would he
join them, and he consented to do so ; until that he knew
nothing whatever about the matter, and he only took the
child on before them, and into the lane where they murdered
him. The governor asked him why, if he had :no nrevious
knowledge of what was about to be done, did he take away
the knife so long before from his mother's house ?, The pri-
soner admitted he had taken the knife, but he could not ac-
count for his doing so.—Dublin Evening Packet.
" BENEFIT" SOCIETIES AGAIN.—On Wednesday last,
Francis Forbes, John Meek, and William Jefferies, were
committed by the Stourbridge magistrates, to take their trial
at our next assizes, for being jointly concerned in uttering a
cheque of £2OO upon the Stourbridge and Kidderminster
bank, with the view of defrauding the " Traveller's Hest"
Lodge of Oddfellows, on the 27th ultimo. Jefferies was ad-
mitted to bail on finding two sureties in £l5O each, and en-
tering into his own recognizances of £3OO ; Meek and Forbes
not being able to find sureties, have been brought to Wor-
cester gaol. It seems, from the evidence, that the prisoner
Meek having 'n'ot possession of the common seal of the lodge,
together with Forbes and Jefferies, proceeded to the bank,
Jefferies forging the name of William Smith to the cheque,
and Meek and Forbes falsely pretending that they were office
bearers of the lodge. No suspicion of the fraud was enter-
tained till Thursday last, when it was discovered that the
money had been withdrawn, and that Meek and Forbes had
fled. They were traced to Liverpool, apprehended there,
and a trifle more than the amount stolen was found on the
person of Meek's wife, who with her two children bad ac-
companied them. The facts were proved by the eashier of
the hank ; Edward Nash, secretary of the lodge ; Davies
and Williams, stewards ; and Bowles, the publican at whose
house it meets. The defence was the flagitious one used by
the miscalled benefit club meeting at the Dolphin, in Copen-
hagen-street, of this city, in poor Wixon's case—" That as
the society was not enrolled, it could not be made out; and
that Meek, being a member, had as much right as any other
to draw the money ; that he could appoint, and in fact did
appoint, Forbes to assist him in receiving it ! As the lodge
was no more than a corpo..ation 'self-constituted, they could
not indict any person for felony, so no fraud could on their
part be proved against the prisoners." This case strongly
illustrates the caution we lately held out to provident per-
sons, about to join benefit societies,' to inquire whether they
were duly enrolled under the new act ; for it is clear, by the
circumstances above recited, that unless these societies take
shelter under the act, their members, individually and col-
lectively, will be subject to egregious villany and fraud.

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SHIPWRECK OF A BELFAST VESSEL., AND Loss OF ALL
ON BOARD.—We are sorry to announce the loss of the
schooner Montagnaise, Wilson, master, at Tory Island, on
the night of the 7th instant, on which occasion all on board
perished. The Montagnaise was the property of Mr. Hugh
Casement, of this town, and was 49 tons register. The fol-
lowing letter has been forwarded to the Collector and Comp-
troller of Customs, Derry :
" hanisbofin, Coast Guard Station,llth January, 1842,