The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-29 00:00:00

immense concourse of people,
on foot from Mansfield, to wit-
ness the disgusting exhibition. From the period of his con-
demnation, the Unhappy man showed the deepest signs of
contrition, acknowledged the justice of his sentence, and
longed for the arrival of the period when his sufferings would'
terminate. He was repeatedly visited by the chaplain, the
Rev.-M. Butler, and has been-a willing recipient of religious
instruction. Jones retired to rest about midnight, and arose
at six o'clock. The rites of the church:were administered to
hint, and at eight o'cloCk he was conducted to the press-
rooin, where he was heavily ironed. On his passage to the
scaffold, he asked to see his grave: and was conducted to the
yard in which it was dug; he surveyed it with great calmness,
and threw a letter into it, requesting that it might not be
opened. When the rope was put round his neck, he said to
the hangman, " Not quite so tight, if you please ;" and then
the poor man affectionately shook hands with all around him.
The scene was most affecting ' • but Jones appeared the least
moved of any. At the drop be addressed the spectators,
prayed aloud for several minutes, shook hands with the exe-
cutioner, and gave the signal for the fatal launch. He ap-
peared to suffer very little.

Workmen are engaged in sinking an Artesian well in Pic-
cadilly, London, just by St. James's Church.

THE NEW TARIFF.—At the sheep fair held at Caister, in
Lincolnshire, last Friday, good hogs sold at 30s. to 355. per
head, which at the corresponding fair last year would have
brought 40s. to 455. very prime 50s. On the . Saturday fol-
lowing, beasts sold from to £3 per head under the last

year'SPrices.,
A JUDICIAL BOLL.—Judge Bull, at Nenagh, congratulated
the grand jury " on the growing decrease of crime which ha d
taken place in that division of Tipperary."
COUNT'S( MAGISTRACY.—The two senior magistrates for
the county of Lancaster, are, Lord Skelrnersdale and Sir T.
D. Hesketh, Bart., the first having qualified in 1800, the
second in 1806. The whole number of magistrates in the
county is 313, made up as follows :—in Lonsdale Hundred,
43 ; Amonnderness, 18 ; Blackburn, 38 ; Leyland, 21 ; West
Derby, 81 ; Salford 109. _

THE ELECTROTYPE APPLIED TO MAKE COUNTERFEIT
Corst:—Base coin is extensively in circulation in Worcester.
Pence and halfpence, in particular, have been successfully
counterfeited, having every appearance of genuine coin, by
the chemical application of a solution of copper on a lead
body. The deceit may be easily detected by rubbing tbe sus-
pected pieces'against any rough substance, by which the coat-
ing will be removed.
EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—One of the soldiers of
the Guards in the, St. George's Barracks loaded his firelock
with ball cartridge, just after the drums had ceased last
evening, while four other men were in the room, and com-
menced firing, whether at either of them it is not possible
to say, but immediately on his,doing so the others most im-
properly left the room, instead of disarming him, and he
continued firing for some time, until the whole of his am-
munition (12 rounds) was expended. One of the shots
seared a man who happened to be near. During this time
he was so furiously excited that nobody durst enter the
room ; he then threw, himself from the room be was in, that
being a top room, into the barrack-yard, clearing most mi-
raculously the iron railing, and is now,carried to the hospi-
tal, of course in a • hopeless state. He had been drinking
apparently very little at the canteen, and had but a short
time previous obtained some bread, some of which was
found on the table.—Times of Thursday.—We take the fol-
lowing from the Times of Friday :—Thomas Hutchins is a
private in the third battalion of the Ist regimenf of grenadier
foot guards, now stationed in the Mews Barracks, Trafalgar- •
square, and was considered the finest man in the regiment,
measuring 6ft. 2 in. in height, and stout in proportion, and,
when uninfluenced by liquor, was a quiet, inoffensive person;
but a little drink would sometimes excite him to an extraor-
dinary degree, and cause him to quarrel with his comrades.
On Wednesday night, at about nine o'clock, after having in-
dulged rather freely, he retired with three others to one of the
sleeping-rooms at the top of the building for the night, where,
however, he had not been many minutes before he commenced
quarrelling with a man named Greene, whom he at length
threatened with his vengeance, and, fearing the consequences,
Greene made his escape down stairs, and informed the ser-
geant that Hutchins was drunk. The sergeant immediately
repaired up stairs, and ordered him down to the orderly-
room, for the purpose of testing his sobriety. He, however,
struck the sergeant under the ear with his bayonet, and
slightly wounded him. Another man was slightly wounded
in the face in endeavouring to rescue the sergeant, who, but
for his interference, would no doubt have been murdered.
All, however, rani out of the room with the exception of one
man, who had got into bed, to whom Hutchins said, " You
have never injured or given me any offence ; I shall not there-
fore hurt a hair of your head." Hutchins, however, now
commenced firing at the door, imagining, no doubt, that some
of them were on the other side of it. Six bullets passed
through the door, which is about two inches in thickness, one
of them lodging in another door at the end of the passage,
which is about 12 feet in length. He also fired through the
front window at the sentries in the yard, who, however, for-
tunately escaped. Hearing several persons coming up the
stairs, he threw up the back window, and flung out his belt
and pouch, and having exclaimed. " Now, you , follow
me," precipitated himself from the window into the back
yard, a height of about 50- feet, when a rush was instantly
made, and he was found lying upon his back in a state of in-
sensibility. He was immediately placed upon a stretcher,
and conveyed to the barracks hospital in Rochester-row,
Westminster, where he was attended by Drs. Johnson and
Bellam, of the regiment, who discovered that his left arm was
broken ; but the extent of injury sustained could not then be
discovered. On inquiry yesterday at the hospital, it was
ascertained that he had been spitting blood the whole of the
day, which proceeded from the internal injuries he had re-
ceived, and which are of so serious a nature as to preclude all
hope of his recovery. The flagstone upon which he fell was
broken into several pieces, but not a spot of blood was to be
seen. Hutchins is in the 28th year of his age.
MONOPOLY OR NOT MONOPOLY, THAT'S THE QUESTION?
—To the innumerable instances which have been recorded of
the wealth amassed by certain members of " the League,"
and whose svmpathising howl for the poor has gained them
no little public notoriety, we wish to add another to the cata-
logue. The iniividual to whom we now refer is, perhaps as
:noisy as the loudest we could select in his denunciations
against all monopolies, landed or commercial, and yet he is
himself the original proprietor of an immense manufacturing
establishment within six miles of this borough, having, up-
war4s of 500 tenements, of one kind or other in connexion
with it, which his work-people are compelled to occupy at 3s.
and 3s. 6d. a week to be deducted from their wages, though
scarcely one of them ever cost more than £7O in the erec-
tion ! The rent-roll alone of this individual is not less than
£lOOO a year ; and when the accumulation of profit which
must accrue from the labour-of 1500 pair of hands, is added
we think there is little room for complaint on the score o,
avarice or monopoly in others.—Stockport Advertiser. f
THE LATE SCANDAL CASE IN PARIS.—The appeal of
Mr. Lawson? keeper of the Bedford Hotel, in Paris, against
the decision of the civiftribunal, which had sentenced him to
pay Mr. Cassidy a sum of 2000 f. damages, for illegal arrest,
(a foreigner, even when naturalised, not enjoying the right of
arresting another foreigner for a debt contracted by the lat-
ter,) came before the Cour Royale on the 21st instant. Our
readers are already acquainted with the particulars of the
scandalous affair which led to this prosecution. M. Blan-
chet pleaded for Mr. Lawson, that the arrest of Mr. Cassidy
had caused no prejudice to his fortune or consideration ;
that his client had not been actuated by malevolent intentions
towards him ; that be had considered himself legally autho-
rised to arrest him ; and that he had been only guilty of an
error. He accordingly demanded the repeal of the judgment
which had condemned Mr. Lawson to 2000 f. damages. M.
Da appeared on behalf of Mr. Cassidy. The court, after
hearing the opinion of the attorney-general, confirmed the
first sentence, as respected the illegality of the arrest, con-
demned Mr. Cassidy to pay to Mr. Lawson a sum of 725 f.
which he owed•to Mr. Lawson, but, considering that Mr.
Cassidy did not appear to have experienced any prejudice
from his arrest, exonerated Mr. Lawson from the payment of
the 2000 f. damages, and sentenced Mr. Cassidy to the costs.
HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—A monthly statement of
hemp, flax, and tallow, has just appeared from the house of
one of the first brokers in the trade ; and according to this,
the miantity of hemp on hand is 5,194 tons, the delivery for
the month 9f. February being 798, at a price of £35 to
£35. 10d. for clean per ton. The stock of flax is given at
912 tons, and the delivery at 144 tons ; the price of good
twelve-head flax being 48s. per ton. The stock of tallow is
stated at 29,685 casks, and the delivery for February at 8,323
cash, the nearest price during that period being, as it is now,
about 48s. for good P. Y. C. Compared with the same
period last year, this statement shows a decline of about £3
per ton in hemp, and an increase in the value. of tallow of
about 2s. per cwt. Flax appears to have undergone no varia-
tion.—Shipping Gazette.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE:—A singular event, attended
with serious consequences, lately occurred near Chard.
During the hurricane of last week, three elm trees, which
stood in close companionship, were blown down in a meadow
belonging to Mrs. Clarke, adjoining the Ilminster and Crew-
kerne roads? and on the following day some workmen were
employed to remove them. One of the trees being conside-
rably larger than the other two, its limbs lay uppermost, and
upon those of the other trees. The branches the workmen
were removing, while some children were enjoying themselves
with a ride on the more elastic of the branches of one of the
small trees ; when, to their astonishment and alarm, the
trunk which had afforded the children amusement, suddenly
and swiftly rose into its wonted position, throwing two chil-
dren, named Cleal and Baulch, horizontally through the air,
into an adjoining field, breaking the thigh of one, and the
collar-bone of the other. The little sufferers are likely to
--Western Luminary.

recover

THE CHURCH IN FRANCE. —The heads of the Catholic
Church in France labour under the strongest infatuation. 1t
is not enough for them to rebel against the government and
attack the university ; they must also assail foreign govern-
meuts. The.Arehbishowg-Faris,so humble, so obsequious,
endive* fir obey the dictaas of mower, when he was a can-
didate for the episcopal see of that capital, now presumes to
give lessons to a neighbouring state. The Abbtl Affre has
the effrontery to issue a manifesto against Espartero. lie
takes part in the difference which has arisen between the Pope
and the Cabinet of Madrid. He publishes, under the form
of an instruction to the faithful of his diocese, a real diplo-
matic note, in which he charges the Spanish Government
with conspiring against the unity of the church, and condemns
beforehand a schism, which he anticipates. The French
clergy was not guilty of so bold and extravagant an act at a
period when it was all powerful, and the pastoral letter of M.
Affre shows what it would be capable of doing should a more
firm hand than that of the present cabinet not check its
audacity.—Courrier Francais.
COPYRIGHT BILL.--This bill, which has just been brought
into the lower House of Parliament by Viscount Mahon, Sir
R. H. Inglis, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. C. Howard, contains
thirty-two clauses, with schedules. The third clause enacts,
" That the copyright in every book which shall, after the
passing of this act, be published in the lifetime of its author,
shall endure for the natural life of such author, and
at the time
of his death, and shall be the property of each author and his
•assigns ; and that the copyright in every book which shall be
published after the death of its author, shall endure for the
term of thirty years from the first publication thereof, and
shall be the property of the proprietor of the manuscript from
which such book shall be first published." The preamble of
the bill is as followz :—" Whereas it is expedient to amend
the laws relating to copyright, and to afford greater en-
couragement to the production of literary works, of lasting
benefit to the world, be it enacted, &C.
THE CAUSE OF MALONE V• O'CONNOR.—NENAGH,
WEDNESDAY EVENING.—At eight o'clock this evening the
jury delivered their verdict in the great property cause of
John Malone, of Gardiner-street, v. O'Connor, Tuite, and
Ardill, finding for the defendants. It will be remembered
that, for some years past, John Malone, of Cobourg-place,
claiming to be the heir-at-law of Anthony Malone, sought
the possession of the extensive estates of the late Richard
Malone, amounting to about £14,000 per annum. After a
very protracted litigation before the courts in Dublin, and
the House of Lords, John Malone, of Cobourg-place, aban-
doned his claim on receiving a life annuity of £4OO. The
present claimant, John Malone, of Gardiner-street, who had
filed his bill in 1834, but had lain by whilst the suit of the
other claimant was pending, then came forward to assert his
right, and the Court of Chancery directed an issue to try his
heirship of Anthony Malone. The issue was tried at the
assizes, and, after three days. has just terminated with a ver-
dict for the defendants, Hugh Morgan Tuite, Esq., M.P. ;
Thomas Ardill, Esq„ solicitor ; and Mrs. Alicia O'Connor,
sister of the late Richard Malone.—Dublin paper.-