The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-23 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

On Friday afternoon the British and North American royal
mail steamer Caledonia, Captain Lott, sailed for Halifax and •
Boston. She carried out between sixty and seventy passen-
gers. Mr. Charles M`lver, one of the co-agents, has gone
out in the Caledonia, on business connected with the steam-
ers composing the line.
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday morning a young
man named Thomas Kenyon dropped down in a stable in
Dale-street, and was instantaneously a corpse. No further
particulars have yet transpired. An inquest on the body
will be held to-day.
POSTOFFICE MONEY ORDERS.—The number of money
orders issued and paid at the Liverpool PostolliCe in one
year, ended the sth July, 18-12, is 126,309 : amount £273,464
19s. 9d. ! In the year, ended sth October, 1838, the number
issued and paid was 6194: amount £9411 Os. Bd. The in-
crease in the number is more than twentyfold, and in amount
nearly thirtyfold.
WAVERTREE CHURCH.—This church, which has been
closed for repairs for a few weeks, was re-opened on Sunday
last. The painting and cleaning of the church was done by
Mr. Codes, of Liverpool. The church has been erected
about half a century, yet there is all that simplicity and mo-
dern neatness in the interior which becomes a place dedicated
to the worship of Almighty God.
STEALING FROM A VESSEL—A youth named William
Knowles was yesterday committed to hard labour, by Mr.
Rushton, for stealing a quantity of wearing apparel from the
forecastle of the ship Godwin, lying in the Brunswick Dock.
The articles belonged to a seaman of the:ship, which is to
sail on the Ist proximo, otherwise the prisoner would have
been committed for trial at the next sessions.

The Rev. T. S. Bowstead, incumbent of St. Philips'
Church in this town, has been promoted by the Lord Bishop
of Lichfield and Coventry to the rectory of Tarvin, in the
diocese of Chester, void by the resignation of the ev. R.
W. Evans. We believe the incumbency of St. Philip is at
the disposal of Mr. Cragg of this town.
ODDFELLOWS.—Yesterday the annual procession of the
Grand United Order of Oddfellows took place along the
usual streets of this town. They were accompanied by bands
of music and many large handsome flags, and presented
very respectable appearance. Their numbers were very
large. We presume this will be the last display of the kind
permitted in the streets of this town.
THE ABDUCTIONISTS.—On Wednesday morning last, by
the quarter to nine o'clock train, John Orr M`Gill, John
Osborne Quick, Richard Jones, Samuel Martin Copeland,
and Jane Clayton, the parties convicted as principals anti
accessories in the abduction of Miss Crellin, were conveyed
to Lancaster, there to undergo their respective terms of im-
prisonment, in conformity with the sentence passed upon
them by the Lord Chief Justice at the assizes just termi-
nated.

LAUGHABLE MISTAKE.—A certain gentleman of this
town, who may occasionally be met with taking his quantity
of Thomas's Welsh ale, was on Sunday last sttending divine
service at a church in the Lake country, when he was not a
little surprised by a request from the officiating minister,
who had mistaken him for a brother divine, to undertake the
performance of the afternoon service. By those, however,
who have noticed the devout exterior of our friend, the mis-
take is not one to excite great wonder. Not possessing a
sermon in his pocket, the request was of course declined.

ST. BEES COLLEGE.—The Bishop of Chester has requested
the principal of St. Bees Clerical Institution, Cumberland,
to increase, if possible, the number of students to 100.
About 60 are at present in training for the ministry in that
college. The Bishop of Chester, as well as the bishops of the
adjacent dioceses, have expressed their conviction of the great
usefulness of this institution, which has sent forth so many
able men into the ministry of the established church.--
Herald.--[We confidently anticipated that the removal of
Mr. Buddicom to this institution would be the means of in-
creasing its utility.]

RATHER SUSPICIOITS.—A youngish man named Noel
Livington was yesterday placed before Mr. Rushton, at the
police court, under the following suspicious circumstances.
A police officer stated that he had o❑ the previous day ob-
served the prisoner loitering at several warehouse doors, and
ordered him away. He afterwards saw him at a warehouse
door in Fenwick-street, touching the padlock, as if attempt-
ing to open it, and on going up, found that he had a small
nail, (which was produced) in ono of his hands. The pri-
soner said, that he had been totally destitute for three days ;
had not had a place to sleep in during the time ; and that he
had done it to attract attention, so that he might be appre-
hended and relieved. Mr. Rushton said, he must know that
if he had applied to the parish authorities, and his alleged
destitution were well founded, he would be relieved. The
prisoner said he bad applied at the Night Asylum, and had
been turned off. He was committed for fourteen days.

THEFT OF COCHINEAL FROM A VESSEL.—At the Police.-
court, yesterday, a man named Casey, his mother, and two
other females, were placed before Mr. Rushton, on a charge
of stealing from a vessel. On Saturday, Police-officer 312
stopped the female prisoners while they were attempting to
sell 3 lbs. of cochineal, (insects forming a valuable scarlet
dye,) for much under its real value, and an examination was
entered into that day, when the prisoners were remanded
until yesterday. It appeared that the property had been
taken by the male prisoner from a ship which was being
dis-
charged in the Brunswick Dock, and at which the male pri-
soner had been assisting the other men for a short time.
The " lumper" who had undertaken to unload the vessel,
appeared as a witness ; and it appeared, from the evidence
of others, that it was no uncommon thing for such men to
undertake such a piece of work for £4 10s. though they
could not accomplish it for less than double that sum, to paY
the men he employed—who were thus left the chance of
plundering what they might catch. There was not, how-
ever, sufficient evidence against the " lumper" on this occa-
sion, nor against the two women not named. The two
Caseys were remanded, before being committed for trial,
until it could be ascertained what quantity of the article was
missing.

INQUEST.—An inquest was held yesterday, before the
borough coroner, on view of the body of Philip Dearden,
an old man from the country, whose death, it was at first
thought, would involve a charge of manslaughter. It ap-
peared that, on the Bth instant, a cab belonging to Mr. Can-
liff was driven by Hugh Parry at a rapid rate down Chapel-
street. The deceased was standing in the street talking to a
carter, and the driver of the cab called out " Heigh ! " as a
warning to him to get out of the way. The old man was
rather intoxicated at the time, and, by some mistake, stag-
gered backwards towards the cab, in place of going the op-
posite way ; when one of the wheels of the machine came In
contact with his heel, and inflicted a severe lacerated wound,
of which he afterwards died. Two individuals who were
standing on the other side of the cab, and who had not an
opportunity of seeing the occurrence accurately, were under
an impression that the cab-driver was to blame; but the
carter, who saw it distinctly, exonerated the accused ; and
the jury accordingly returned a verdict of " accidentally
killed."