The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-02 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

We understand that the daughter of a high dignitary of
this diocese is likely to be united shortly to a rev. gentleman,
lately curate to a talented Doctor in this neighbourhood, but
now promoted to a rectory not far from Chester.
The Chancellor of the Diocese has been pleased to ap-
appoint the Rev. R. L. Townsend, M.A., Incumbent
Chaplain of St. Philip's Church, Hardman-street, a surrogate
for granting probates of wills, letters of administration and
marriage licences, upon the preferment of his colleague, the
Rev. T. S. Bowstead, M.A., to the vicarage of Tarvin.
EXECUTION OF BRADLEY.—The warrant authorising the
execution of Francis Bradley, for the murder of his wife at
Manchester, has been received by the sheriff. The unfortu-
nate man will undergo the last sentence of the law at eight
o'clock to-morrow morning. We understand that within
the last few days a very gratifying improvement has taken
place with reference to the prisoner's state of mind. He
appears now to be awakened to a sense of his awful condi-
tion, and exhibits anything but the obduracy and impeni-
tence which previously characterised him.
THE ORDNAN CE SURVEY.—Great progress has been made
wick the trignometrical survey of the county of Lancaster.
The neighbourhood of Liverpool is nearly finished, and that
of Manchester is in a very forward state. When completed,
the work will be one of the most valuable ever executed, and
quite unrivalled for minuteness and accuracy.
UN USUAL OCCURREY Ca.—There are at the present moment
in the Coburg Dock, four of the largest steam-ships in this
or any other country—the Great Western, 1,400 tons ; the
Acadia and Columbia, 1,200 tons each ; and the new steamer
Hindostan, recently launched at this port, and burden 2,017
tons ; making altogether a burden of 5,817 tons, and in value
estimated at considerably upwards of £200,000.
GEOLOGY.—John Tomkinson, Esq., of Liverpool has pre-
sented to the museum of King William's College, through
E. Grindrod, Esq., of the Abbey, Ballasalla, two large slabs
of sandstone, dug from his grounds at Stourton-hill, Cheshire.
These slabs are of a peculiar interest to geologists, as they
have in them very distinct impressions of the foot-steps of an
extinct animal, known to geologists by the name of Chir-
otherizem.—illan.z. Sun.

CHARTISTS AT KIRKDALE HOUSE OF CORRECTION--
There are now thirty-eight prisoners in the House of Cor-
rection at Kirkdale, from Preston and neighbourhood, who
have been summarily convicted by the local magistrates, and
adjudged to divers periods of imprisonment for offences con-
nected with the recent disturbances.

FELONY.—A man named Win. Wilson was yesterday
charged at the police court with being found in an office with
intent to commit felony. The prisoner was ratherly neatly
dressed as a person connected with shipping. It appeared
that he had been found behind the door of the counting-
house of Messrs. Verdon and Cullens, in Harrington-street,
with a chisel in his pocket. On his way to bridewell, he
threw two skeleton keys and a picklock into a cart, and some
other similar suspicious articles were found upon him. He
was committed for trial at the sessions.
LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The annual meet-
ing of this society will be held on Thursday, the 29th instant.
Inconsequence of the site of the Old Infirmary ground being
occupied,the exhibition will take place in a field at the top of
Sackville-street, near Roscommon-street. The dinner will,
as usual, take place at Lucas's Repository, and Lord Stanley
will preside.—See the advertisement.
INTERESTING TO LADlES.—Precaution is in no instance
more requisite than with respect to the female complexion.
There are no greater enemies of those distinguished traits of
beauty than extreme heat and dust. It is, therefore, an im-
perative duty upon all ladies who value their complexion, in
all their rural walks, summer promenades, visiting close
assemblies, in the ride, in the drive, and especially when
making aquatic excursions, never to be without ROWLAND'S
KALYDOR, which is the only guardian of the complexion the
deepest research in science ever produced.—See Advt.
GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHlP.—This magnificent steam-
er was on public view on Monday and Tuesday last, for the
benefit of the North and South Dispensaries. The admis-
sion on Monday was after the rate of ls. each person, and
on Tuesday 6d. ; and the aggregate number who visited the
ship was no less than 2,900, being 1,450 for each day. The
receipts amounted, along with £lO received for exhibiting
the Acadia on the second day, to above £lOO. The Great
Western sails 'for New York in the course of to-morrow
(Saturday).
We understand that the shipmasters of Liverpool are now
in the full enjoyment of the advantages promised by Sir
Robert Peel, in his budget, regarding the charge for stamps
required in the pursuit of their occupation. The stamps for
charter parties are obtainable at five shillings each in lieu of
thirty-five shillings, and for hills of lading at sixpence each
instead of three shillings. This is a very important and
valuable concession, which we have no doubt will be appre-
ciated, and placed to the credit of the conservative govern-
ment.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY : NEW SHARES
OF £l2 10s.—We understand that the directors of this un-
dertaking have agreed to suspend, for the present, that part
of the fourth resolution passed at the special general meeting
held on the 17th May last, which attaches forfeiture to the
non-payment of the second and subsequent calls on the
quarter shares, provided the first call (X 3 per share) has
been duly paid. Interest at the rate of five per cent. per
annum will, of course, be charged from the date when the
calls respectively fall due.
BAD CHARACTERS.—Edward Alderson and William
Charlesworth, two suspicious-looking men, were yesterday
placed at the bar of the Police-court, on the following
charge. Inspector Walker said, that on the previous night,
at a late hour, he observed the prisoner Charlesworth
loitering about Harford-street, near Langley's public-house,
and knowing him to be a bad character, he watched him for
some time. He afterwards asked him his business but re-
ceived no satisfactory reply. The other prisoner afterwards
came out of the honse, and both joined each other, and
afterwards ran away on observing the witness, who appre-
hended one of them in Copperas-hill, while the other was
secured by a constable then at hand. On one of them was
found a gilt coin representing a sovereign, and a pack of
cards. They were each committed to gaol for two months.
LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND COMMERCIAL INSTITU-
TION, ST. ANNE-STREET.---We regret to hear that this
excellent institution, which, since its establishment, has
been conducted with spirit and propriety, is about to be dis-
continued, and above all that the committee of management
have found it necessary to call the creditors together. A
special general meeting of the members was held on Monday
last, when the following resolution was adopted :—" That,
this institution not being able any longer to support itself, it
be from henceforth dissolved; and that the committee of
management, with the creditors of the institution, form a
committee for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the
institution." A meeting of the committee and the creditors
was held on Tuesday, when it was determined that all the
property of the institution should be disposed of for the be-
nefit of the creditors. There is no doubt that the depression
of the times has had considerable influence in producing this
result, but there can also be no doubt that it was facilitated
to a great extent by the town council being under the ne-
cessity of declining to render aid for the reduction of the
debt by which it was encumbered. The institution has been
continued for the last few years principally by the exertions
of James Parker, Esq., the member for the ward, for its
maintenance and welfare.

BREAKING TREES IN ST. JOHN'S CHURCHYARD.—On
Wednesday, at the Police-court, Michael Pie was charged
with this fault. It appeared that, on Monday afternoon
last, Mr. Shaw, Secretary of the District Provident So-
ciety, saw the prisoner climb one of the trees, and strip
the branches off, one by one, till he had completely stripped
it. He immediately ran over to him, and asked him how he
dared to destroy the trees in that manner. He said he did it
for a Mrs. Taylor, who kept a standing in St. John's
market, and who sent him to gather the leaves. He was
about to collect and carry away the branches, when Mr.
Shaw sent an officer and gave him into custody. The clerk
of St. John's stated that the prisoner had completely de-
stroyed the tree, and that they often had trees greatly in-
jured by similar means. The prisoner wept, and said he was
not aware he was transgressing the law. He was nearly
starving with hunger, and had not had a morsel to eat that
day, when Mrs. Taylor asked him to get her some leaves, by
which job he hoped to obtain the means of providing a little
food. Mr. Rushton ordered the prisoner to pay is. for the
damage done to the tree, and a penalty of 20s. ; or, in de-
fault, to be imprisoned seven days.
MEETING OF OPERATIVE SHIPWRIGHTS.—A very nu-
merous meeting of the operative shipwrights of this port was
held on Wednesday night at the Carpenters' Room, Bond-
street, to consider the rules and regulations of the trade as
at present amended by the masters, and also to consider the
just right of the men belonging to Liverpool to employment
in preference to strangers—this mode being adopted in all
the seaports of Great Britain and Ireland, Liverpool excepted.
From the statements made by the various speakers it appears
that the rules at present in operation were drawn up by the
employers, who compelled the men to subscribe to them.
The masters now wished to make sundry alterations on those
rules, tending to encroach on the privileges at present en-
joyed by the journeymen. It was confidently affirmed by
the speakers, that if the merchants of the town understood
their own interests they would go hand in hand with the men
against the system of apprenticeship carried on in Liverpool,
as the merchants were charged the same rate of wages for a
boy who had not been more than a week at the trade, that
was charged for a man, and it could not be expected that the
work of the boy could be compared to that of the man. It
was unanimously agreed that a deputation of six journeymen
should wait upon the employers for the purpose of coming
to an amicable understanding on the points at issue. The
meeting throughout was exceedingly temperate and orderly.
CORPORATION BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.—Thesebaths
are now in a fair way of being duly appreciated by both the
middle and humbler classes of the town. There are eight
baths in the establishment, and during the past week 439
persons have attended them. Of this number, 197, at the
moderate charge of a penny each, have enjoyed the cold
bath, and 205, at a charge of only twopence, having indulged
in the hot bath. Twenty-six persons, at the charge of Is
each, have attended the hot private baths, and eleven, at the
charge of sixpence each, the cold baths. Arrangements, we
understand, are in progress which will be highly advantageous
to those who are desirous of attending the private baths. It
is in contemplation, we believe, to make a reduction in the
charge to those who engage to attend them a dozen times
consecutively. The entrance to the private baths is quite
distinct from that of the general ones, and every attention
is shown to the parties who visit them. The establishment
is so valuable, that it would be a great boon if others were
erected in convenient localities. Persons from the extremes
of the town, in every direction, visit the present one for the
purpose of bathing, and the wives and daughters of our
artisans and mechanics, from the most distant neighbour.
hoods, attend for the purpose of performing their laundry
operations.

ESCAPE OF A FAMILY FROM DROWNING.-011 Monday
last, an accident occurred in the vicinity of Egremont, which
had nearly been attended with fatal consequences to seven or
eight members of a family. It happened remarkably enough,
that the father of the family alluded to was a witness to the
occurrence, and assisted in the rescue of his children without
being at all aware, for some time, how dearly he was intc-
rested in the result of the exertions which were making.
The following are the particulars of the occurrence, so far as
we have been able to gather them. On Monday last, about
tide time, a gentleman named Duffie, who resides at Egre-
mont, was passing over the river. As he neared the shore,
he saw that a bathing machine, containing several children
who bad been recreating themselves in the water, had by
some means or other obtained an impetus on the steep beach,
and that it was rapidly descending into deep water. In a few
moments, indeed, it was afloat, and at the mercy of the cur-
rent, driving towards the centre of the river. ' God bless
me !" exclaimed Mr. Duffie, " there's a whole family of
children afloat, and they will all be drowned." He imme-
diately sprung ashore and hastened to the spot, to render
every assistance in his power. Meanwhile, Mr. Railton,
proprietor of the machine, was making the most incessant
exertions to rescue the family from their imminent peril. He
pressed his horse into the water till it lost footing and was
compelled to swim. The machine was afloat, but half sunk,
and from its unsteady motion, strong fears were entertained
that it would turn over. Mr. Railton called to the children
to keep to the middle of the caravan, but it is questionable
whether or not they heard him. At length he found it im-
possible to reach the machine with his horse, but, fortunately,
some individuals had hastened after it with a boat. The
poor little children were found on the seats of the caravan,
up to their necks in water. They were taken into the boat,
and the machine was towed to the shore. Mr. Duffie, who
had been extremely anxious for the fate of the little ones,
was standing on the beach waiting their arrival ; but who
shall speak his astonishment when he saw that they were his
own children! It appears that the little ones, with their
attendant, eight in all, went into the caravan, and were, as
usual, drawn a short distance into the water. Having bathed,
one of the little boys, in order to enter the machine, climbed
when the action on the spokes put the
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Tart THERTSMOCAULODON.—This curious skeleton re-
mains in town to-day and to-morrow, after which it will be
removed. Great many persons inspected yesterday.
MRS. CLARKE'S BENEFIT.—The playgoers must not
forget that Mrs. Clarke's benefit takes place to-night. The
attraction is unusually great. No little curiosity is excited to
see Mr. Macready's Claude Melnotte; after this fine actor
has represented it, the Liverpool audiences will have seen all
the best performers of the character on the stage, and they
will then be able to judge which is the best. We prefer
Charles Kean's, with all its faults. Mrs. Clarke has a be-
nefit at Manchester on Saturday, by invitation of her friends
and many admirers there.

EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND NEWHAVEN RAILWAY.--We
intended to have made a few remarks to-day, on the article
which appeared in the Railway Times, of Saturday last, on
the subject of this undertaking ; but the statements in that
paper do not appear to contain one specific charge on which
we need offer the slightest comment. Perhaps, the best reply
to one portion of it, is afforded by the fact, that (as may be
seen from an advertisement) the Lords of the Privy Council
have given permission to the directors to open the railway
after yesterday by horse power, on occasion of the Queen's
visit. The public will thus be accommodated with trains
every half-hour, which will be continued until further notice.
STEALING FLOUR.—A man, named John Lynch, was
yesterday charged at the Police-court with stealing a barrel
of American flour. It appeared that about four o'clock yes-
terday, he was seen to roil away the barrel from the ware-
house of Messrs. Cearns and Brown, ship-store dealers,
Chapel-street. He was apprehended in the act near Rum-
ford-street. At the time, he stated that a man had em-
ployed him to take it to a public-house in the neighbourhood,
and had promised him 6d. The barrel weighed 19Glbs., and
was stated to be worth 325. He was committed for trial at
the sessions.

CHARTISM.—A meeting of the Liverpool Chartists was
held on Wednesday night at the Nelson Assembly Rooms,
which was rather numerously attended. A Mr. Frazer pre-
sided. The only speakers on the occasion were Mr. Robin-
son and Mr. M`Cartney. The latter, in the course of a very
lengthened speech, stated that two men had been, in the
present week, dismissed from their employment in Liver-
pool, and cast houseless and homeless upon the world,
together with their wives and families, because they had re-
fused to receive and pay for a registration card each, which
card has been issued by the Anti-Corn-law League ! Such
an instance of bigotry and hard-heartedness upon the part of
their employers was received with loud hisses.
ANOTHER COMMITMENT TO THE ASSlZES.—Yesterday,
John Nicholson, a young man, and Betsey Mack, a girl,
were charged before Mr. Rushton with seizing a ragged ill-
looking man, named Kelly., and robbing hiin in the street of
7s. Gd. The alleged offence was stated to have been com-
mitted some days ago, but the prisoners were not appre-
hended until yesterday afternoon, when they were seen
together. They denied the robbery. They were both com-
mitted for trial at the assizes. The prosecution will, we
understand, cost the corporation £l5 to £2O in each case;
whereas the cost under the old law, which left a discretion
with the magistrate, to send such cases to the sessions, the
cost would have been only £3 10s. or £4.
THE FUNDS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The Consol Mar-
ket has declined to-day about one quarter per cent., some
sales effected, it is supposed, on account of the Scotch banks,
having brought forward more stock than was required to
meet the demand of the jobbers. It must also be borne in
mind, that the late advance, which is on all hands admitted
to have been rapid, will probably have shown persons in the
character of realizers who would otherwise have continued
supporters of prices. Money has not increased beyond the
rate of 11 to 2, although the half-monthly settlement in the
foreign market took place. Consols for money closed 921;
Ditto account, 93 ; Bank Stock, 1671 to 165,1 ; India Stock,
251 to 252; Exchequer-bills, 2d. issue, 495. to 50s. pm.,
ditto, 2+d. issue, 51s. to 535. pm. ; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 931 to a; Three and a Half per Cents. Reduced, 911.
to a ; New Three and a Half per Cents, 101 to I; and Long
Annuities, 12 11-IGths to The settlement of the foreign
account was made with very little difficulty, the speculative
dealings of the last fortnight having been of the most insig-
nificant kind. Mexican supports the late small rise, and
closed to-day 35+ to 1 ; Ditto Deferred, 91 to 1 ; Portuguese
Five per Cents., 331 to 4+ • ditto, Three per Cents., 20 to 3;
Spanish Actives, 201 to 14; ditto, Three per Cents., 201;
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 521 to 1 ; ditto, Five per
Cents, 102}; Belgian, 1011 to 1021; and Brazilian, 64+
to 61.

CO;IMITMENT TO THE ASSIZES.—At the Police Court,
yesterday, a decent-looking female named Bridget Dignum,
was charged before Mr. Rushton with a robbery, accompa-
nied by violence. In order to a proper elucidation of the
case, it must be stated that on Monday last an elderly female
named Shaw (now the complainant), was placed at the bar of
the court on a charge, preferred against her by Michael Dig-
num, husband of the prisoner above named, on a charge of
having robbed him of £25 ; but it appeared in the course of
the evidence that the then complainant had been on terms of
intimacy with the woman Shaw ; had frequently given her
sums of money to keep for him, which she had returned ;
and that there was a probability that he bad so deposited the
money with her on that occasion. As the charge of felony
could not therefore be supported, the prisoner was discharged,
with an intimation, however, from the magistrate, that it
appeared she was still responsible for the money so deposited
with her, and that the complainant, Dignum, would have to
commence an action at law against her if she did not refund
it. So stood the case up to the time of the second charge
of yesterday, in which the tables were turned, Mrs. Shaw
being the complainant, and Mrs. Dignum (who had been ad-
mitted to bail), the defendant. Catherine Shaw (complain-
ant), a coarse-looking woman, who appeared with her head
bandaged up, said she lived with her husband, Michael Shaw,
at No. 29, Chesnut-street. About six o'clock on Tuesday
evening last, she went to Crosbie-street, to get some
money she expected ; but did not receive it. As she
was returning, the prisoner came out of a court and said,
" You —, it is you who has my money," and struck
her on the face ; then seized her by the clothes, and pushed
her against the wall; and then thrust her hand into her
(complainant's) pocket, and took out a leather purse con-
taining ten sovereigns. When the prisoner's hand was in
her (complainant's) pocket, she said, " Now I have part of
my husband's money which you robbed me of." The pri-
soner then tore the bonnet from her head, and struck her
several times with a stone she bad in her hand. A crowd
was raised, and the prisoner said to them, " Lay on the
—; she robbed my husband." Complainant, from the
blows, lost her sight, and was taken home in a coach by her
son-in-law. The doctor dressed three wounds on her head,
and she was still (she concluded) sore about the head and
sides.—Joseph Gibbons said, that on Friday night he was
standing with the prisoner at his mother-in-law's door, when
the prisoner said, " the last time that Ann Shaw was in
Crosbie-street, she had to be taken away in a coach and
guarded by two constables, and if she comes again we will
make her so that she will not get out of the street." On
Tuesday evening he saw the complainant, and told her not to
go Crosbie-street, or she would get hurt. She, however,
did go, end in about twenty minutes a large crowd collected
round her. He afterwards saw her without cap or bonnet,
and all bloody ; and he went for a coach and took her home.
Same night he saw a police-officer. The officer stated that
he went to defendant's house, where he found her in bed.
He told her the charge of robbery and violence against her,
to which she stated that she did not do it, but that the com-
plainant deserved all she had got, and more. Nothing was
found upon her.—Mr. Rushton said he should commit the
prisoner for trial. The charge was one of those which, by a
recent act, the justices could not send for adjudication to the
sessions, as a severe punishment would follow conviction ;
and she must, therefore, be taken into custody and committed
to the assizes. The defendant was accordingly taken into
custody; but, after the information was read, she was, on
application, admitted to bail in two sureties of £lOO each.
Mr. Rushton strongly reprehended the conduct of the hus-
band, who was present, and to whom he attributed the in-
stigation of the offence,
COLLISION ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY.—A col-
lision which might have been attended by fatal consequences
took place on the North Union Railway, at the Wallgate, in
Wigan, yesterday, between twelve and one o'clock. A
bank engine is regularly stationed at Wigan, and this' was
proceeding from the Wigan station towards Preston, when a
powerful engine with about 14 of Messrs. Pearson's coal
waggons laden, came up at a good speed from towards
Chapel-lane. The men on the " Bank engine" had not
sufficient time to move out of the way before the coal engine
came up in consequence of the shunts leading on to the
main line being wrong at the time. The engine was there-
fore stationary, and as the distance between the Wallgate
station and Chapel-lane is very short, the engine attending
the coal train engine was unable to stop the train entirely,
though every means were used both by those employed on
the engine and the " breaksmen" on the waggons to lessen
the speed of the train. Both the men attending the " bank
engine," and those with the coal train perceiving that a col-
lision could not be avoided, sprang on the ground, and by
this prudent act escaped the consequences which the shock
of the engines meeting would occasion. The bank engine
was thrown off the line and a little injured, but the power-
ful coal engine sustained no damage. The rails were thrown
out of place, and a quantity of the coal fell from the waggons
when the concussion took place, but very fortunately no
person was injured. The damage occasioned altogether is
trifling; and it is right to add, that no blame whatever can
be attached to any one, the accident arising solely from the
short distance between the two stations, and the circum-
stance of the attendants of the bank engine being unaware of
the near approach of the coal train at the time they were at-
tempting to move from the branch on to the main line.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A CLERK.—At the Police-
court, yesterday, a well-dressed stout young man was placed
at the bar, charged with having obtained under false pre-
tences a sum of money, the alleged property of his former
employers. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
had been a clerk and agent in this town, (in Exchange-alley
North,) to Messrs. Woolfall and Percival, glass bottle, &c.
manufacturers, of Manchester. Then his salary with them
was £l2O a year; that some deficiencies having appeared in
his accounts he was discharged on the 4th May last, and
that he had, after ceasing to be their servant, received a sum
of money—£l4 17s. 9d.—due to them from the Custom-
house, and for which be had not accounted. The prisoner,
it further appeared, had, at the time of his discharge,
retained or drawn money belonging to his employers to the
amount of £2ll. There was, however, a settlement come
to at the time, through the interposition of his father, and
an assignment or legal document (produced in court) was
handed over to his employers, entitling them to the revi-
sionary interest of a property that would accrue to him on
the death of his mother to the amount of £195 ss. 4d.,
which, with a balance of £l4 and odd due to him as salary
at the time, would make the £2ll short; and this being ac-
cepted by his employers, there was an end of all criminal
charge on that score. But after the settlement of the affair,
it appeared that the prisoner had drawn the sum stated at
the outset, (£ll 17s. 9d.,) and appropriated the same in
the following manner :—The complainant, Mr. Woodfall,
said that he and his partner were accustomed to send large
shipments of bottles to foreign countries, on which they
were entitled to debenture or draw-back at the Custom-
house. They had shipped by a vessel for Lisbon, on the
27th of May, twenty gross of champagne bottles, on which
the debenture would be due at the expiry of six weeks
from the day of shipment,—that was on or about the 9th
July. The prisoner had gone on the Bth of July, (a day's
notice being required,) and, it was alleged, signed the neces-
sary affidavit, that the bottles were his sole property, were
shipped by him, and that he, was entitled to the return of
duty, which was paid accordingly. But it appeared, in
cross-examination for the prisoner by Mr. Owen, that the
prisoner had been sole agent for the complainants in all their
shipping transactions; that he had on former occasions so
acted, so signed the debentures, and having received the
money, had paid it over to his employers, from time to time,
to the amount of several hundreds of pounds ; and that the
debenture in question was payable only to himself or his
authorised agent. It further appeared, that none of the
custom-house clerks knew the signature, " John Ackerley,"
to be positively his, nor could they identify him as the party
to whom the money was paid. The money was paid by the
collector's clerk, (Mr. Holt,) but he could not swear to the
prisoner's identity, or to his handwriting. Mr. Woolfall
admitted, too, that he had never asked the prisoner for the
money, nor had he seen him from the time he left the ser-
vice of himself and partner till that morning. He further
admitted that he knew where to find his father; but (it ap-
peared) had not made any strict enquiry in the matter.
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case, as to the gravamen of the offence in law,
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somewhat puzzling, as it appeared not precisely
within either felony (by stealing the rooneY)
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tence, but rather what we believe is termed misfeasance.
or to his
The debenture was payable to the p
dris"ut of any money
agent, and the crown was not wronge
which was not due.—Mr. Rushton said thate more evidence
would be required for the prisoner's commitment,. but there
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CORRESPONDENCE. '4

DECORATIONS OF THE HINDOSTAN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—We have been much gratified by the perusal of your
description of the " Hindostan," in the STANDARD of Friday
last, and feel indebted by your flattering notice of our deco-
ration : there is one circumstance, however, which we are
desirous to mention, (deeming it probable you will continue
the notice, in comment, in your forthcoming valuable paper,
on this subject,) viz., that the panels we are supplying are
principally papier toilcll6, NOT slate, pnly about one-tenth
of them being of the latter-named material. Possibly you
have your impression of their being all slate, from the fact
that the order was given originally for entirely slate panels ;
but subsequently altered, and nine-tenths added of papier
rnfie.he, as being superior in every respect.
The subjects upon four of the largest panels are the follow-
ing, which, perhaps, also you would be pleased to mention in
your next :-1, "The Embarkation of Cleopatra;"--2, "The
Departure of a Greek Fleet ;"-3, " Festival of the Society
of Epicureans in the Garden of Athens ;"-4. " The Rising
of the Nile." Upon these four subjects our first artists have
been engaged, and we have been careful that every part—the
most minute—shall be in keeping, and classically correct.
Therefore, upon the whole, we flatter ourselves that you,
Sir, and other gentlemen whose opinions are most valuable,
will be pleased with the productions as wqrks of art. We
have only been able to complete and send these four to-day,
though a great many of the less considerable panels have
been forwarded some days.
Repeating our sense of obligation for the favourable re-
marks expressed in last week's STANDARD, we have th
honour to be, Sir, your's most obediently,
JENNERS & BETTRIDGE.
Papier Miich6 Works, Birmingham,
August 31st, 1842.