The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—It will be seen that the
proprietors of these charming gardens are still giving their
totes twice a-week : the attraction does not seem in the least
to abate.

A JEWISH FUNERAL.—On Sunday last, a long train of
mourning and hackney coaches was observed proceeding
along West Derby-road, preceded by a handsome hearse,
and attracted considerable attention. We ascertained, on
inquiry, that it was the funeral arocession of Mr. Marks.
a member of the Jewish persuasion, whose death is an-
nounced in our obituary. There were no less than fifteen
mourning coaches and four hired vehicles.
Tim LICENSING SusstoNs.—The general anneal licen-
sing sessions took place on Friday, at the SessiOns-house,
Chapel-street. There were 138 applications, namely-101
for houses in Liverpool, 26 for Toxteth-park, 5 for West
Derby, 4 for Everton, and 2 for Kirkdale. The follolling
only were granted :—David Evans, for house 39, Bridport-
street, before a beer-house; John Wood. Crown-street, cor-
ner of Sun-street ; Ninian Cunningham, Gill-street (beer-
house) ; Elizabeth Jenkins, 41, John-street South (beer-
house) ; John Hughes, Rathbone-street, corner of Nile-
street (beer-house) ; Anthony Summers, Blake-street, 'Fox-
teth-park (formerly the John Bull Inn) ' • Thomas Gardener,
Park-street, Toxteth-park, corner of Mann-street (beer-
house) ; Sarah Jones, Park-street, corner of Llanrwst-street
(beer-house) ; Henry Washington, Sefton-st. (beer-house).
—Removals:—Joseph Arrowsmith, to 45, Great Nelson-st.;
John Robinson, Park, to Laurel-street ,• Wm. Dawson, from
Crooked-lane, to Dantzi.•-street, east side Union Dock. No
new licenses were granted to the applicants from West Derby,
Everton, or Kirkdale.

SACRILEGE.—At the Birkenhead Police-court, on Thurs-
day, Samuel Hinde, George Taylor, Elizabeth Hughes, and
Sarah Powell, were charged with breaking into Liscard
church, and stealing a quantity of Prayer-books, Bibles, &c.
Robert Davies, sexton of the church, proved that on Sunday
last he locked up the church, fastened the windows, &c. He
found the vestry window and another had been broken, the
fastenings were unloosed, and he Missed a quantity of ooks
out of the church. George Taylor, sexton of the church,
saw the prisoner Taylor loitering about the church on Sun-
day morning. Henry Mosley, an inspector of police, in
Liverpool, stated, that on Monday evening he was informed
by John Gristlewaite, one of the police, that a quantity of
stolen books were in the house of Peter M`Nance, in Pres-
ton-street, Liverpool. He went there with inspector Smith
and Gristlewaite, and in an upper room they found the four
prisoners, and between the bed and the mattrass about fifty
prayer-books, bibles, and hymn-books; many of them had
the names of the owners in them. 'The other officers con-
firmed this statement. The Rev. John Tobin and Mr. John
Wilson identified books found-by*the officers, as their pro-
perty. The prisoner Hinde, after being duly cautioned, de-
clared that " the other three prisoners were all innocent."
The prisoner Taylor and the two females stated that they did
not know the books were in the room until they were taken
into custody. The prisoners were fully committed for trial.

ST. PETER'S CHURCH, STOCKPORT.-011 Sunday week,
two sermons were preached in this church, by the Rev.
Thos. Nolan, of this town, in behalf of the Stockport
National Schools. The collections amounted to £37 14s.
The Stockport Advertiser of Friday last says, in reference
to the discourses—" Never perhaps, on any occasion, not
even excepting the time when the Rev. M. O'Sullivan, the
great champion of the Protestant faith preached in behalf of
the same institution, have we seen the church of St. Peter's
so crowded, every corner was literally crammed, and many,
through an anxious desire of hearing the voice of him from
whose lips, probably, they first heard the glad tidings of free
and full salvation through faith in the blood of a crucified
Redeemer, and under whose ministry they were first pene-
trated with a sense of their own vileness as sinners, and led
to cry out, " What shall I do to be saved," were glad to re-
main in the open air. Nor is this to be wondered at, when
we remember the untiring zeal with which Mr. Nolan
discharged his ministry amongst them—how he was " instant
in season and out of season"—how, for the space of four
years he ceased not to warn them, and to teach and to preach
unto them Jesus, how, through his instrumentality the gal-
leries of St. Peter's Church were erected, and thereby be-
came the means of admitting within its sacred and hallowed
walls those whom our adorable Saviour has pronounced
" blessed," (" for to them the Gospel is preached") viz. :
the poor, and who, previously were excluded in consequence
of want of accommodation.

COMMITTAL OF A LIVERPOOL CAPTAIN FOR WILFUL
MURDER.-At the Thames Police-office, on Wednesday,
Captain Partridge, late master of the ship Jarrow, of this
port, was brought before Ballantine for final examination,
charged with the wilful murder of three Spanish seamen on
the high seas. We have already given the previous hearings
of the case. Mr. J. Fisher said he shipped at Liverpool, as
chief mate of the Jarrow, on the 9th of March, 1841, on a
voyage to Benin, on the coast of Africa. The ship remained
at Benin for five months, and some Kroo boys were shipped
to assist in the navigation of the vessel. From Benin the
ship proceeded to Prince's Island, where she remained for a
few days, and shipped four Spaniards, three of whom after-
wards died from ill usage. Witness was disrated as mate
between Benin and Prince's Island. The log was kept by
him until the latter part of June, 1841, and during the re-
mainder of the voyage by the captain himself. Two of the
Spaniards died between Prince's Island and Teneriffe, and
the third at Teneriffe. The first one who died was called
Jose, and was very well and hearty when he came on board.
The captain repeatedly beat Jose in a very brutal manner.
The first time he beat him was a fortnight after he came on
board. The Spaniard did not work to please the captain, but
he most undoubtedly did his best, and was a very willing
man. Jose was beaten over the neck and shoulders and
other parts of his body with a rope. The vessel was very
short of provisions, and for the first three weeks Jose re-
ceived the same allowance as the other men, but afterwards
only received half that quantity, and he became gradually
weaker and weaker till he died. The captain beat the de-
ceased generally with a rope's end, or the bight of a rope,
and on one occasion with a billet of wood. Jose was pressed
to work hard unnecessarily, when he was unfit to do so.
He was very unfairly treated, and great cruelty was exercised
towards him. The name of the second mate was Mariana,
and he was one of the stoutest and best seamen of the four,
and in good health when shipped. Mariana was first beaten
on the supposition of having stolen some canvas. The cap-
tain ordered a Kroo boy to flog him with the bight of a rope,
and he was most unmercifully flogged, and had nothing on
his hack at the time but an old cOttbn shirt and a worn-out
Guernsey frock. He saw Mariana beaten by the captain on
several other occasions. The man was not steering as the
captain wished, and was flogged with the end of the main-
boom sheet. The captain after that-struck him a violent
blow with his fist. The man was very often struck at the
wheel, and I recollect his being struck there with the log-
slate the day before his death. The log-slate was a heavy
double backed one, and the captain struck Mariana two
heavy blows with it, one on the face and temples with the
flat part of it, and another on the top of the head with the
edge of the slate. The man bled very much, and his eyes
were swollen. There was a cut an inch long across his
temple, and on his crown there was an indentation so big that
witness could put his thumb into it. Blood and water were
oozing from the wounds down the man's face. He died the
following night in the forecastle. After the captain had
beaten Mariana he seta him up to the rigging. The Spaniard
attempted to come down, but the captain flogged him up
again. The night was very cold and blowing hard, and
when Mariana was taken down he was to all appearances
dead. His limbs were stiff and cold. He was thrown over-
board three or four hours after he died. The man was not
in a fit state, from hard usage and weakness, to be sent either
to the pumps or the rigging. •He got worse, and appeared to
be quite silly after he was beaten. The witness said the third
Spaniard who died was also repeatedly flogged by the captain
and knocked down. He died at Teneriffe after the ship ar-
rived there. The quarantine doctor came alongside, but the
captain did not report the condition of the Spaniard, or ob-
tain any medical aid for him: The prisoner was then formally
committed to take his trial at the next Old Bailey sessions.

INFORMATIONS AGAINST PUBLICANS AND BEERHOUSE
KEEPERS, FOR INFRACTIONS OF THE RECENT ACT FOR
THEIR REGULATION.---On Friday upwards of forty publicans
and beerhouse keepers were brought before Mr. Rushton and
Mr. Logan, at the police-court to answer informations pre-
ferred against them for various infractions of the new act re-
gulating such houses, and requiring that none of them shall
open until one o'clock on Sundays ; remain open beyond
twelve on Sunday night ; or at any time entertain improper
and disreputable characters. The proceedings excited much
interest in a crowded court, and occupied the bench for
several hours. The cases respectively were fully and pati-
ently gone into, and every advantage of substantial defence
was permitted to the accused, many of whom brought for-
ward witnesses. A very few only succeeded in procuring
an acquittal on good grounds ; but a large number got off in
consequence of accidental technical informalities in the laying
of the informations. The cases, with a few exceptions, in
which it appeared that lodgers were in the houses, or that
there were some palliating circumstances, were nearly alike,
—namely, the serving of ale or porter early in the morning,
before opening is allowed, or at night beyond the prescribed
hour of midnight, and also entertaining drunken and disor-
derly persons. To go through the whole, would weary our
readers; and we confine ourselves to the general summing
up of Mr. Rushton, after all had been heard ; the deci-
sion, except in a very few cases, in which the houses had
hitherto been respectably conducted, and the alleged delin-
quency appeared excusable, being delayed until the close.
Mr. Rushton, in pronouncing judgment, observed, that all
these cases were under an act recently passed, and of which
the parties were all advised, to preserve the peace of the
town, and to prevent those scenes of drunkenness and riot
in the streets, on Sundays, by which the town bad been so
long and lamentably disgraced. As a proof of the excellent
effect of such a regulation, he had to state the reduction in
the number of riotous and disorderly cases was, owing to its
operation, in one day only, no fewer than 97 ; there having
been 155 of such cases last week, and only 78 brought up
last Monday. He considered that such a law abated much
of the profligacy that had hitherto prevailed, and added
greatly to the general respectability of the town and to the
comfort of the people. He felt great reluctance to impose
heavy fines ; many of the cases were not so flagrant as to call
for the severest penalty, and a large number had fallen through
merely from accidental informality. He could assure those,
however, who were implicated, that, where the fine was re-
duced or remitted, they should be hereafter narrowly looked
after; and he hoped and trusted that all would take caution,
and conduct their houses in future in a proper and respec-
table manner. He then imposed the fines in each case, and
concluded by remarking that this was the first and only time
in which the extreme fines would riot be exacted. It would
be their look out if they were visited more severely ; for the
magistrates were determined, in future, to put down such
condnct, which had an undeniable effect in deteriorating the
morals of the town, and producing destitution and misery
among the working classes in particular.

ANNUAL COUNTY SESSION.—The annual general ad-
journed sessions for the.county of Lancaster were held at the
Court-house, Preston, on Thursday last, at eleven o'clock.
Thomas Batty Addison, Esq., Chairman of the Preston
Quarter Sessions, presided. There were sixty-two magistrates
present, amongst whom were the Rev. Jonathan Brooks,
Hector of Liverpool, Peter Bourne, Esq., Theodore Rath-
bpne, Esq., Thomas Rodick, Esq., Adam Hodgson, Esq.,
and other gentlemen from this neighbourhood. In the
course of the discussion on the accounts, the Rev. J. Horton
protested against the charges for the conveyance of prisoners
from Rochdale to Manchester, from Ormskirk to Kirkdale,
and to and fom other places in the county. Mr. Rodick
complained of the cost of printing, and objected to the salary
of the Chaplain, but was declared out of order. The accounts
were all passed, those of the treasurer of Kirkdale Prison
amounting to £8,390 Ss. 10d. The several rates required for
general an titer purposes were brought forward, discussed,
and passed. Colonel Rawstorne moved a resolution to the
effect, that the court should take into consideration the
system of secondary punishments as, under the present
system; tending to the increase of crime, and that the silent,
combined with the separate, system be generally adopted in
all the gaols of this county. The resolution was seconded by
James Heyward, Esq. On an amendment, moved by Adam
Hodgson, Esq., the following were appointed a committee to
inquire into the subject, and to report to a future court :
The Revds. Jonathan Brookes and J. T. Horton, Colonel
Rawstorne, and Messrs. J. F. Foster, E. J. Lloyd, Robert
Lomax, Edward Dawson, Adam Hodgson, George Lomax,
and James Clarke (Recorder of Liverpool.) A motion , pro-
posed by the Rev. J. T. Horton, to request the Government
tb pay one half the expense of the rural police, in this county,
out of the consolidated fund, was negatived by a large majority.
A motion, proposed by Colonel Austin, to the effect, that, in
Consequence of the reduction of the constabulary, an assistant
Chief constable be deemed sufficient for the present establish-
meat from the Ist of October next, was passed. Some other
Business of no general interest having been disposed of, the
meeting broke up at five o'clock.

DANCING.—Mr. Harwood, it will be seen, is advertising
his intention of giving private lessons ih this necessary ac-
complishment previous to his evening classes commencing.
Mr. Harwood's style of teaching is such as will fit any one
to enter a ball room with pleasure to themselves and gratifi-
cation to their friends.

NEW NEWSROOM.—A new and very commodious news-
room has been opened in Great Charlotte-street, Queen-
square, near Whitechapel, by Mr. Campbell, late librarian
to the Brougham Institute. All sorts of publications, con-
servative, liberal and radical, are taken in, with the maga-
zines in abundance. The terms are so reasonable that no
one can complain of the 'price. We recommend the in-
habitants in the vicinity to patronize it extensively.
THEATRE ROYAL.—Mr. James Russell commenced last
evening a short engagement, giving his inimitable sketches
of character and delightful songs. Mr. Russell is, without
exception, the sweetest ballad singer on the stage, while in
his Pasticcio song, he shows that lie can execute passages in
the florid and Italian style, with great effect and ability.
JUNIOR CLUB-HOUSE.—Last evenbw, a rather nume-
rously attended meeting was held in the large rooms over
Mr. Willan's shop, in Bold-street, for the purpose of consi-
dering the propriety of establishing an institution in the
nature of .a club, under the above title, for the use of young
men in mercantile and other situations. The principles of
the proposed institution were discussed at considerable
length ; and at the close the meeting was adjourned till Thurs-
day night.

FATAL ADCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—On Thursday morn-
ing, between eleven and twelve o'clock, as a boat attending
upon the New York packet ship Virginia, which arrived in
the Mersey that morning, was in the act of bringing a hawser
ashore, she unfortunately came in contact with a small steamer
proceeding down the river, when, to save themselves from
being crushed, two of the men leaped overboard ? one suc-
ceeded in laying bold of a rope, and was saved ; but the other
was unfortunately drowned, having, it is supposed, received
some injury which caused immediate death, •

HOBSON'S CHOICE OF THONIAS BOLTON.—The Albion's
" Thinking Mau," on Monday, thus thinks :—"/ think that
Thomas Bolton made a very sensible speech on Wednesday.
Thomas is improving. At one time he was rather in my
black books. But that was when we were all a little spoiled
by political prosperity. Misfortune has done us all good, by
teaching us a little humility, and Mr. Bolton is again up to
the mark, and true as the needle to the pole.' " Poor
Thomas—an unkind cut this of your friend the Alderman !
'When radical Socinians were " plenty as blacberries" in the
Council, you were nobody in his eyes. But misfortune has
" taught us a little humility ;" (!) and we are reconciled to
put up with Thomas Bolton ! Thomas is "up to the mark"
now ; or has the mark come down. to Thomas ? Tell us,
good thinking man !

A large rope, forwarded on Thursday last from Messrs.
Coltart,Clark, and Co.'s works, in Lodge-lane, appeared to
attract considerable attention, whilst being conveyed through
the streets, on its way to the place of shipment at the
Duke's Dock, and various were the surmises as to its in-
tended use. Though made up into the smallest possible
compass, yet the coil was nearly thirty feet in circumference,
and three feet in depth. The rope was 200 fathoms in
length, made without a splice, and 13 inches in circumfer-
ence, and contained such a number of yarns, which if singly
extended, would have • reached the distance of about 350
miles. It was made, we understood, for a mine on the mid-
land counties. and intended to be used for lifting the pump-
gear, often of great weight in such works; and as no expense
is ever spared by the proprietors of first rate mines, the
ropes used by them, are always ordered to be made of the
very best materials and workmanship. The rope now noticed
cannot fail in these particulars, to reflect the highest credit
as well on the manufacturers, as the proprietors of the
mine, exhibiting the skill and ingenuity of the former, the
liberality and enterprising spirit of the latter.
THE IMPROVEMENT ACT.—We are happy to say that the
publicans' clauses in the Improvement Act continue to pro-
duce most beneficial results in the way of suppressing drun-
kenness. From five o'clock on Sunday morning to one
o'clock at noon, only two persons were placed in Bridewell ;
and at the Police-court, yesterday, there were only eighty
prisoners for examination, 21 of whom were charged with
felony, (but one case only was sustained,) and two for smug-
gling, leaving 47 for drunkenness. The average number' of
prisoners at the Police-court, on Mondays, before the act
came into operation, was 150.

ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—At the Police-court, yes-
terday, a respectable-looking man, named John lyl`Mahon,
was charged with having stolen three waistcoats, the pro-
perty of Joseph Fowden and Thomas Fowden. The priso-
ner was a servant at the prosecutors' house, which is in
Dingle-lane, Kirkdale : two of the waistcoats were found in
his box, and a third upon his person, by Ralph Fowden.
The prisoner made no defence, and he was committed to the
Borough Gaol for trial at the next sessions.

DEATH FROM DROWNING.—On Saturday last, an inquest
was held at the house of John Bell, the Pig and Whistle,
Tosteth-park, on view of the body of Richard Davies. The
deceased was gardener to John Cropper, Esq., Dingle-bank.
On Wednesday last, deceased and three others went to bathe ;
the tide was then coming in ; it was between twelve and one
o'clock. The men who accompanied deceased jumped in
first, and they were bathing, when deceased jumped off the
rock, where the water is deeper than at the place where the
others were bathing. Deceased went overhead immediately,
and on rising called'loudly for help. Two of the men joined
hands, and made an attempt to assist deceased ; but, getting
out of their depth, and being unable to swim, they were
obliged to look to themselves ; and it is not unlikely that
they would have shared the same fate as the deceased, but
that a person who had been working at Mr. Cropper's very
opportunely came to their assistance, and held them a ladder,
by the assistance of which he pulled them to the shore. A
boat was immediately procured, but the body was not found
until the tide was running out, when it was discovered, dash-
ing against the rocks, not many yards from the place where
the unfortunate man was drowned. Verdict, " Accidentally
Drowned."

SUDDEN DEATH.—On Saturday last, at the Red Lion
Inn, in Lowton, an inquest was held before John Heyes,
Esq., the county coroner, on view of the body of Ann Farn-
worth. Deceased was doing the work of a servant for a few
days, at the House of Mr. Barrett, of Lowton. She had a
fit on Thursday night last, from which, however, she soon
recovered. On Friday morning, about half-past six o'clock,
Mr. James Hill, a farmer, residing opposite Mr_ narrett'g
house, was informed by a' little athat rtac.a.ed woo lying
on the floor. He went immediately and knocked Miss Bar-
rett up, when they found deceased lying on her back, with
hem head against the leg of a table, quite dead. She was
dressed, and had evidently been making the fire, when she
must have been seized with a fit. Verdict—Died by the
Visitation of God.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held yester-
day (Monday), before the•county coroner, at Great Crosby,
on view of the body of Mr. Robei t Heyes, a gentleman who
lived at Crosby, and whose death took place under the most
painful circumstances: Mr. Reyes has for some time past
been labouring under a severe illness; and on Thursday
night, after the family had retired to bed, the deceased was
awakened by Mrs. Heyes calling out for something which
she was in want of. Deceased immediately got up, and, in,
the hurry, he missed his footing and fell down stairs. A
surgeon was called in, when it was found that the spine of
the deceased was very much injured ; and although every
possible assistance was rendered, deceased only lingered
about eighteen hours. Verdict—Accidental Death.
On .Saturday last an inquest was held at the house of
Alice. Westmore, at West Derby, on view of the body of
Henry Green, a man about fifty years of age. Deceased had
been at a dahlia show at West Derby village, and he and
one of the witnesses, John 'Lucas, who lives servant with
Mr. Freme, returned from the village about half-past ten
o'clock, and the deceased and Lucas walked together as far
as Mr. Freme's house, past which there is a style road,
which is the nearest way to the deceased's house. Deceased
carried a cabbage in his hand, and was fresh in liquor. On
Friday morning Lucas was informed that deceased was
missing, and that a hat and a cabbage were found floating in
a pit, which is about seven or eight roods from the style
road, leading past Mr. Freme's to the deceased's house.
The pit was immediately searched with drag hooks, when
the body of the unfortunate man was found. There was a
foot mark at one side of the pit where he appeared to have
fallen in. Verdict, found drowned, without marks of
violence.

PORT NATAL.—By the Bland, which left the Cape of Good
Hope on the 30th of June, and arrived at this port on Fri-
day, the following intelligence has been received :—" On Sa-
turday evening, the 27th of June, an anonymous despatch
was received in Cape Town from Port Natal, via Graham's
Town, stating that Captain Smith's party had been cut off to
a man, that the Boors had taken possession of the two
schooners then lying in the bay with stores, &c., viz., the
Mazeppa and Louisa, and some fears were apprehended for
the Couch, then on her way with a small number of troops
from Port Elizabeth. Her Majesty's ship Isis sailed from
Simon's Bay, the 28th June, for Port Natal, and report said
that the Fly and Bramble were to follow immediately. A
person who was supercargo of a Dutch schooner in Natal,
some time ago, supposed to have been instigating the Boors
to rebellion, is now in prison in Cape Town." It will be seen
this unpleasant intelligence rests on no official or even suffi,
cient authority. At the same time the circumstances in
which Captain Smith's party was placed, render it, we re-
gret to say, only too probable.
THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENlNG.—Business in the
English stock-market was not characterised by any important
feature, and the ordinary course of dealing did not influence
prices in a material degree. Consols for money closed 92,7, ;
Consols for account 931; India Bonds, 249 to 251 ; Ex-
chequer-bills, 495. to 51s. premium ; and ditto 2,1. issue,
51s. to 535. premium. In foreign securities also little busi-
ness was transacted. Rather more firmness is observable in
the quotation for Brazilian, which is called 661 to 674 ;
Spanish Actives closed 161- to ex. the coupons ; Ditto 3 per
Cents., 211 to 8 ; Portuguese 5 per Cents., 351 ; Ditto 3 per
Cents., 201 to 11 ; Colombian, 201 to 21,1; Belgian, 102 to
103 ; Danish, 831 to 841; Dutch, 21 per Cents., 521 to 1;
Mexican, 351 to 6; and Peruvian, 15 to 16. In mining
shares to-day quotations were made for Copiapo at 8.1 ; Real
del Monte, unregistered, 21; and ditto, Loan Notes, 40.
Joint-stock Bank shares were quoted—Australasia, 53 ;
British North America, 35 ; Colonial, 20 ; and Union of
Australia, 31.