The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-21 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL DOCKS

THE TRUSTEES of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS do
hereby give Notice, that they are ready/ to receive
TENDERS FOR A LOAN OF MONEY fot periods of
Five or Seven Years. Interest at the rate of Pour Pounds
Five Shillings (41) per Centum per Annum will be allowed :
payable half-yearly either in Liverpool or London, or re-
mitted to the party, at the option of the lender ; and parties
tendering are requested to name the period for which they
may be willing to lend. _ _

All Letter; must be addressed to GEORGE WITHERS,
Esq., Treasurer, Dock-office, Liverpool, not later than
FRIDAY, the first day of July next.

By order, DANIEL MASON, Secretary
Dock-office, Liverpool, Thursday, 2Sth April, 1842.

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND
MANCHESTER RAILWAY. 1 .
TENDERS FOR LOANS.
►PHE Directors are prepared to Grant MORTGAGES,
-11- under the powers of their Act of Parliament, for
LOANS of MONEY in sums of not less than £2OO each,
and for periods of three, five, or seven years, at the option of
the lender. Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum
will be paid half-yearly, for which interest warrants will be
given for the period agreed on, payable at the Company's
bankers in London, Manchester, or Sheffield.
Further information may be obtained at the Company's
offices in Manchester or Sheffield ; at the office of T. J.
Parker, Esq., Sheffield ; Messrs. Bagshaw and Stevenson,
Manchester ; or Messrs. Johnson, Son, and Wetherall,
Temple, London.—By order,
JOHN PLATFORD, Secretary.
Manchester, 27th April, 1842.

BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.
THE Directors of this Undertaking will receive Ptoposals
for LOANS OF MONEY ON DEBENTURES, to
be issued under the provisions of the acts of Parliament, in
the month of OCTOBER next, in sums of not less than
£2OO, for terms of three, five, seven, or ten year* on Interest
at the rate of £5 per Cent. per Annum, payablerEalf-yearly,
at the Banks of Messrs. MILES, HARFORD,IU►d Co., Corn-
street, Bristol, and Messrs. BARNETT, HOARE, and Co.,
Lombard-street, London.
For Moneys immediately advanced the security of Loan

Notes under the Seal of the Company will be given, which
may be exchanged for Debentures in the said month of Oc-
tober.

Tenders, expressing the Sums and Terms of Years, to be
addressed to the undersigned, at the Company's Office,
Exchange Boildings, Bristol.

By order of the Committee of Management,
ROBERT FLETCHER, Secretary
Office, Exchange Buildings, Bristol,
30th May, 1841.

THE HIGHBURY MURDER.

LONDON CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, JUNE 18TH

Saturday having been appointed for the trial of Thomas
Cooper, charged with the wilful murder of Timothy Daly, a
police-constable, the court was filled with well-dressed per-
sons of both sexes, although it was not so crowded as is

;enerally the case when the trial of any criminal who has
rented great excitement in the public mind is about to take

n o'clock Mr. Justice Patteson and Mr. Baron
Gurney took their seats upon the bench, when Thos. Cooper
was immediately placed at the bar.
The prisoner, who is 23 years of age, and described as a
bricklayer, has very much altered in his appearance since his
incarceration in Newgate ; he is evidently still very weak,
and was accommodated with a chair in the dock.

Messrs. Bodkin and Chambers conducted the prosecution,
and Mr. S. Horry defended the prisoner.
After the circumstances which have already been before
the public had been detailed in evidence, Mr. Justice Patte-
son summed up, and the jury after consulting together for
about a minute pronounced a verdict of Guilty.
The learned Judges having put on their black caps,
Mr. Justice Patteson addressed the prisoner as follows :-
-.

Thomas Cooper, after a long investigation of your case the
jury have come to the conclusion that when you shot the po-
liceman, Timothy Daly, you were in a state of mind to be
fully aware of what you were doing, and I think no person
who has heard the evidence adduced can have any doubt that
they have come to a right conclusion. With respect to the
facts of the case, it appears that on the sth of May you went
out and with loaded pistols—whether for the purpose of rob-
bing or not, I cannot say, but on two previous occasions you
did go out for that purpose, and actually committed two rob-
beries, and having done so, threatened to shoot those per-
sons if they attempted to give any alarm—whether you went
out with the same intention on the day in question is known
only to yourself ; but on that occasion you met the policeman
Moss. You ran away as soon as you saw him, and upon his
following you and expressing his determination to take you
into custody. you threatened to shoot him ; and when he at-
tempted to lay hold of you,
_you fired a pistol at him and
wounded him in the arm. You then attempted to escape,
but being :overtaken and surrounded by a number of per-
sons, amongst whom was the deceased, you fired two pistols,
with one of which you severely wounded Moss, and with the
other you deliberately shot Daly dead. (The prisoner, who
did not appear to have been paying the slightest attention to
the observations of the learned judge, but stood looking
earnestly and gnashing his teeth at Inspector Penny,
who stood near the dock, here clinched his fist and
shook it in a menacing manner at him.) Mr. Justice Patte-
son having observed his conduct said,—Prisoner, you had
much better listen to me than keep shaking your fist at any
one. As I was saying, you wounded one of the parties who
attempted to apprehend you and killed the other, thus send-
ding. him out of the world unprepared to meet his Maker.

can be no doubt that you have been led to the corn-
. Sion of the offence by a long course of dissolute habits,
and by a determination, at all hazards, to evade the end of
And when yeu were subsequently spoken to by
mother to pray to God for your soul, you replied, That
,n did not want preaching to, you had had enough of that
already." Whether since that period you have thought
better of it I cannot tell, but I most earnestly recommend
You to apply the short time you have to remain in this world
to repentance and prayer, to obtain pardon and mercy of
God, through the merits of our Saviour. Your life is just-
ly forfeited to the offended laws of your country, and you
cannot expect pardon, in this world ; and I should be very
wrong indeed if I led you to believe that you can obtain
toarrlon here, but I trust you may obtain pardon in another
d' I again earnestly intreat you to seek pardon of that
Lordshipiiid knows all things.
fortn.then passed sentence of death in the usual

Th ,„;
and ilitvso:ner was then led from the bar, shaking his fist,
'ertnt threats of vengeance against all the witnesses.

" I see the ;ll-
an Irish_prieent/7_lll in your face," said a Western judge to
replied Pat, .4 that mast bar. " May 't reflection,leaseor worship,"
TnE Quww,e Tut be a personal sure."
rounds of the newsrB°N.—The statement that went the
Queen's Prison, is uorerza a short time ago, relative to the
the walls. This •
ars. It was stated that the correct in one or two particu-
rules had been brought within Prisoners residing within the
I'Queen's
those prisoners who lived w• • is an error,
Prison Act coming . uhin the rules previous to the
quired to remove within the Zia operation, will not be re-
No new prisoner can now claim `am °,f twelve months to come.
com-
pelled to reside within the wane aa: rules, but all are
matter of course. The
prisoners from the Fleet and the other
of a re brought to the
been received, but they are expected prisons have not yet
" Queen's Prison" in the course
hitecross-
Fifty or sixty prisoners will, it is said, be or ten days.
Whitecross-street today or to-morrow, but /se ri.,,17 ,- .1
GU from
street is the county prison, this removal does not take place
in consequence of the new act. There are not
',try many
rooms now vacant in the Queen's Prison, but „le_
the 're-
movals from the other prisons shall take place, eine
will be occupied, and in most of them, in fact in Zi room
persons will be placed. Those personst who object to °tee_
a room with another person will have o pay !in a few eill
ling weekly to induce him to find accommodation elsewhere.
—Morning Chronicle, .Ifonday.
FALLING IN OF A THEATRE.—The following details of
this lamentable accident are given in
ea letter from Jena, in
the Fraakfurtur Journal .—" Thep erformance was for the
benefit of the persons reduced to distress by the late fire at
Hamburgh. Permission having been given to use natural
instead of artificial decorations ; and real shrubs, flowers,
trees, and grass-plots, were substituted for painted scenery
as is occasionally done at the Vienna Theatre. The innova-
tion so far succeeded, that the house was filled to overflow-
ing. The reigning Grand Duke of Reuss Schleitz and his
family honoured the representation with their presence. The
piece was the Carpenter) Czar Told Zimmermann (the Czar ail(' the
In the secondfrom an episode in the life of Peter the Great.
cracking tV; after a discharge of musketry, a noise of
the pit with aulter
r was heard, and the ceiling fell down upon
in this part of the house
crash. The majority of the audience
buried under the nirse made their escape, but many were
was done with all possible When these were removed, which
of the soldiery, 1e promptitude, with the assistance
eighty-seven more twenty-nineor less persons were found dead, and
Ducal family, and all there severely injured. The Grand
galleries, escaped unhuri.-rsnAs who were in the boxes and
Duke's riding-house, and had been
theatre was the Grand
sion. M. Khristen, the niVeen fitted up for the occa-
mention."
tect, has been arrested, and
will be subjected to a legal pr

finprrial Tiaritairitut;

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TriunsuAY.
In reply to a question from Earl Minto,
The Earl of ABERDEEN said that it was the intention of
the Government to bring in a bill to remedy an omission in
the act relating to prize money for the capture of slave ves-
sels, and vessels sailing under piratical colours. That act
made no provision for the distribution of the prize money,
and for that omission a remedy should be provided. _

- _
The Sugar Duties Bill waa read a second time, and ordered
to be read a third time this day.
The Earl of It AnNoit, in moving for a return of the quan-
tities of corn admitted into this country under the acts of the
years 1325 and 1826, said he did so for the purpose of ena-
bling him to ask a question of the Government as to whether
it was its intention to take any step to relieve the great dis-
tress prevailing in the manufacturing districts throughout the
country. The noble lord stated several facts illustrative of
the distress in Sheffield and other places, and argued that
Government was called upon to do something before the close
of the session. He at once admitted that, in bringing for-
ward this question, he was actuated by hostility to the corn
laws, and he had to observe, with respect to the one recently
passed, that it had been productive of no relief, for corn had
been progressively rising ever since that act had passed.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that there were various
measures under the consideration of the Government calcu-
lated to give relief to the manufacturing interests. and through
them to the whole population. Beyond those measures the
Government did not intend to adopt any others.
Lord KINNAIRD regretted that Government did not re-
sort to some extraordinary measures, believing as he did that
there was not only most appalling distress prevailing, but
great danger likely to arise out of it.
The returns were then ordered to be made.

Lord HOWDEN repeated a question he had proposed on a
former evening as to whether the reports from the consular
authorities in Syria agreed in the accounts he had received
from private sources as to the state of anarchy and disorga-
nisation prevailing in that country ?
The Earl of ABERDEEN said that the recent accounts from
Syria had less of the character of anarchy and disorganisation
than previous ones, but still there was much in the govern- i
ment of Syria, and indeed of every other Turkish province,
which called for disapprobation ; but the question was how far
we could interfere in such matters with a due respect to the
independence of the Turkish empire? When we undertook
to restore Syria to Turkey, we did not undertake to govern
it also ; still in good faith we were called upon to see to the
due execution of certain matters relating to the inhabitants
of Syria, and such interference becoming unfortunately ne-
cessary it had taken place in concert with the other powers of
Europe. There was the most perfect concert on the part of
the five powers, their great duty being to see that the popu-
lation, and more particularly the Christian population of
Syria, were protected in the enjoyment of certain privileges
which they before possessed, and which had been promised to
them, under the auspices of the British government, and also
that they should be relieved from the burden of taxation.
In the latter respect the pledge has been redeemed by the
Turkish government, and their lordships might rely that
everything would be done by the British government which
could be justifiably attempted.
The LORD CHANCELLOR laid upon the table a bill for the
purpose of regulating the practice of county courts in Eng-
land, after which their lordships adjourned.