The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-17 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT-SATURDAY

TRIAL AND ACQUITTAL OF MARY GOOD AND GAM-
BLE.-At ten o'clock, on the arrival of Baron Alderson and
Justice Coltman, the prisoner Mary Good was placed at the
bar, and pleaded not guilty of having " comforted and main-
tained" the convict Daniel Good after the commission of the
murder.

On the jury being sworn,
The Attorney-General rose and addressed the court for the
prosecution. He said he was not justified in calling any evi-
dence to support the case, in consequence of it having been
clearly proved, by documents which were in court, that the
prisoner was the lawful wife of Daniel Good. He also begged
to state that there were many most respectable persons in
attendance to speak on her behalf; and her character, he
considered it his duty to state, up to the present time, was
irreproachable.
After some few observations by Baron Alderson,
The Jury acquitted the prisoner.
The prisoner was then indicted for receiving a piece of silk,
value ls. and other articles, well knowing the same to have
been stolen by Daniel Good.
No evidence being adduced by the Attorney-Gnneral,
The Court ordered her acquittal.
Richard Gamble was next placed lat the bar, and 7pleaded
" not guilty" of having been accessory after the murder of
Jane Jones ; and also of receiving several gowns and other
property, knowing them to have been stolen.
In this case no evidence was offered, and

The Jury acquitted the prisoner.
Baron Alderson (to Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate)
—Let the prisoner be immediately discharged.

THE CONFLAGRATION AT HAMBUR.GH

BREMEN, MAY B.—The senate of Bremen has just met
to consider of means to assist the unfortunate city of Ham-
burgh.
Three o'clock, p. m.—The number of fugitives increases.
The senate has decided that our troops shall be sent with all
speed to Hamburgh, and all our carriages are put in requisi-
tion fo convey assistance and provisions. Thousands of un-
happy beings have been wandering for these two days in the
streets unable to find shelter, they having lost their all, and
apparently perishing from want and misery.
FRANKFORT, MAY 11.—The senate bad fixed the sum
which it proposed to take from the public treasury, as a gift
to the city of Hamburgh, at 25,000 florins, but the repre-
sentatives of the citizens and legislative body have raised the
sum to 100,000 florins (about £10,009•)
ANTWERP, May 13.—The enormous losses caused by the,
dreadful conflagration at Hamburgh have already excited,
wherever the news has reached, the public sympathy and
generosity. The Cologne Gazette has opened a subscription
at its office, to which, in a few minutes, 4000 francs were
contributed by 150 persons.
The Handelsblad at Amsterdam and several Brussels jour-
nals offer to receive subscriptions, and we (the Journal du
Commerce d'Anvers) have been solic;ted by several persons
to receive subscriptions at our office. We doubt not that
Antwerp, which, as a commercial city, must particularly sym-
pathise with Hamburgh, will not be behind Frankfort, Co-
logne, Amsterdam, and Brussels, and other subscriptions
will soon be opened to afford some relief to distresses so de-
plorable and so extreme.
We this moment learn that a subscription is opened at the
Hanseatic consulate. . _

The fresh subscription received on Change by the Han-
seatic Consul, and those at the office of the Journal du Com-
merce d' Anvers already exceed 20,000 f.

From the Prussian State Gazette.—"We, Frederick
William King of Prussia, &c., to all to whom these present
come greeting. By the inscrutable decree of God, the city
of Hamburgh has been destroyed by a fire such as there has
been none in Germany within the memory of man. The
dreadful misery and distress of that city, the prosperity of
which is so intimately connected with Germany, will, as we
confidently expect, be felt through the whole of our German
father-land, and especially by our faithful subjects, as a gene-
ral misfortune. In order, therefore, to afford our faithful
subject an opportunity of manifesting their sympathy by
deeds, and, considering the extraordinary extent of the dis-
aster, we have ordered, that in all the communes of our do-
minion, a general collection shall be made in all the churches,
and from house to house, for the relief of the sufferers by the
fire at Hamburgh ; and our Ministers of the Interior and of
Ecclesiastical Affairs are to see to the execution of this ordi-
nance.

" WILLIAM FREDERICK
" VON ROCHOW.
" EICH HORN.
" Given at Berlin, May 9, 1842."