The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-15 00:00:00

LOCA L, NEWS.

PRESTON RACES.—it is intended, during the approaching
Preston Guild, to revive the races in that town. They will
be run upon " The Holme," in Penwortham • and, should
there be success in a good meeting, they will continued
annually. In former years Preston Races were among the
most attractive in the kingdom.

LAUNCH OF A NEW PILOT-BOAT.—On Tuesday after-
noon, a new pilot-boat was launched from the ship-building
yard of Mr. Thomas Royden, Baffin-street. It is well
known to those who take an interest in national matters,
that there is no class of vessels in the construction of which
more pride is taken than our pilot-boats. No pains
nor expense are spared to render them as perfect as possi-
ble in model, materials, and workmanship. Those "in
commission," if we may use the naval term, are regularly
surveyed at stated periods; and whatever is requisite to in-
sure their stability, is ordered and at once supplied. The
number of boats in use up to this time has been eleven ;
and it has been the custom, whenever one of them was con-
sidered unfit for further service, to build another, which
took her place, and assumed the same number. For some
years past, however, a desire has been expressed to have
an additional boat in the service ; but until recently the ap-
plication was rejected. At length the order was given, and
Pilot-bc,;:t, No. 12 has been built ; and she made her first
appearance on the waters of the Mersey on Tuesday. The
day was beautifully fiae, and a vast concourse of ladies and
gentlemen congregated in the yard to witness the launch.
At a quarter before two o'clock her last supports were
knocked away, and, after a short pause, she shot forward
into the water amid the mingled cheers of the spectators and
of those on board. The impetus carried her forward into
the river, where a cannon was fired from her deck. This
was responded to by similar salutes from Pilot-boats 1,3,
4, and 10, which, decked with gay colours, were sailing to
and fro near the scene of action. The crews of the respec-
tive boats answered the cheers of the company in No. 12,
and of the spectators by similar testimonies of rejoicing.
The guns were loaded and discharged several times, as the
vessels made sail down the river. The new boat was quickly
got under sail, and a trial was made of her qualities by a
trip round the light-ship, when she fully answered all expec-
tations of her possessing good sea-going qualities. She has
a punt, built by Mr. Jones, of Tabley-street, fitted up with
air-tight cylinders, which, it is anticipated, will prevent the
loss of life that has occasionally taken place. These cylin-
ders add very little to the weight of the punt, and can be
fitted up at very little expense.

TUE DANGER OF DELAY.—Evorybody knows that delays
are dangerous, but few have had so striking a proof of the
fact as that which occurred a day or two ago, to a worthy
shipowner on the banks of the Clyde ; who, though he may
not always be able, as in the instance we are about to narrate,
to "command success," yet, in the exercise of every do-
mestic virtue, as well as in the sterling integrity of his
character as a man of business, and his warm, disinterested
generosity as a friend, habitually lives up to the higher
standard of Cato,
We'll do more, Sempronius,—we'll deserve it.
He had a vessel in Liverpool about to go to sea, and he came
up on Saturday to see her off, having previously arranged to
meet his better half on Monday morning at Belfast, where
she had gone to enjoy a short holyday with a relative. His
vessel did not sail as appointed ; but properly preferring his
wife to his ship, he was still determined to take his passage
that night by the Belfast boat. On applying at the packet-
office, he was told that the hour of sailing was ten o'clock,
but that she would not go till half-past at the least. As the
time drew near, he called upon one or two friends to take
leave, and the partings were so difficult, or the "doch an
dorrish" was so often repeated, that ten o'clock struck while
yet he had half an hour's walk between him and the Clarence
Dock. Still he made himself quite easy, resting upon the
assurance he had received at the packet-office. At last he
began to think that no time was to be lost; and when he
came within the walls of the dock he was convinced of the
fact; for there was the boat just steaming across towards the
gates. With the speed of lightning he flew round to the pier,
in hopes to intercept her; and with a certain line of Young's,
we presume, concerning " procrastination," mingled with
various compunctious reflections, in his mind, he began to
congratulate himself upon being " just in time." But un-
happily he was only "in time to be too late ; " the vessel
being on the opposite side of the passage, and not deeming it
worth while to stop her way in order to take him on board.
However, another light was just now seen beginning to move
on the other side of the dock. It belonged to the Dublin
boat. This was better than nothing. He could still fulfil
his engagement, though at considerable additional expense
and inconvenience in the land journey from Dublin to Bel-
fast. The steamer was hailed; the captain condescendingly
brought her alongside, arid he stepped on board. Bnt, alas
" misfortunes never come single." At eight o'clock on Sun-
day evening his friends were astonished to see him again in
Liverpool. A heavy gale of wind had sprung up in the course
of Saturday night, and before the vessel had reached Holy-
head she was disabled in her machinery, and obliged, with
considerable danger, tq make the best of her way back to port.
In the meantime, the Belfast boat had proceeded steadily on
her way, and arrived in safety at her destination ! Our baffled
voyager, who, amongst his other excellent qualities, takes all
his crosses very philosophically, was, nevertheless, resolved,
out of sheer spleen, to have nothing more to do with Dublin ;
and another Belfast boat would not be going before the
middle 01 the week. He had, therefore, nothing for it but
to go down to Greenock, and thence cross over to Ireland,
where no would probably arrive four days after his time,—
fully convinced, as we have no doubt he would be, of the
valne of Lord Nelson's advice, " Always be twenty minutes
too soon."

CH ARGE OF BREAKING INTO A HOUSE WITH INTENT
TO COMMIT FELONY.—Three young men—John Fagan, Je-
remiah Burns, and Wm. M`Moran, were yestereay charged
with being concerned in the entering of a dwelling-house
withintent to rob.—A police-officer (Tool) said, that about
ten oclock the previous r, ht, while he was in Bevington
Bush, he heard an alarm of stop thief, and saw Fagan run-
ning without his shoes, pursued by a female with a child.
He pursued him, when the prisoner M`Moran came up and
endeavoured to prevent him from apprehending the runaway ;
upon which he struck M`Moran on the arm to keep:him back.
The other prisoner then came up, and a crowd was raised in
the street. A rattle was sprung, and some other officers
came up, when bricks were thrown at the officers, one of
which, thrown by Burns, struck constable Tool on the
shoulder. It further appeared that one of the prisoners had,
before the officer saw them, been seen to drop a small crow-
bar, which was produced; M`Moran also threw a dagger or
knife over a wall, and a picklock was also found on Fagan,
who had a piece of deal which had belonged to the window
of a house. They were afterwards secured in Paul-street.--
Mrs. Disley, wife of a car-keeper in Bevington Bush, said,
that she was below stairs shortly before they were appre-
hended, when she thought she heard a foot in the room above,
and sent a girl and a child up stairs to see. One of the lat-
ter went up and saw the prisoners in the room, one helping
the other out of the window, by which it appeared they had
entered. The piece of board fitted the inside frame of the
window. Mrs. Disley went out to the outside when the
alarm was given, and though she had a child in her arms she
ran after Fagan, overtook him, and held him for some time.
M`Moran had a Scotch cap when seen in the street, but bad
a hat when in court. There were marks on the piece of board
as if made by the crowbar, and a chisel was also found. It
appeared, too, that a box which was kept in the room, and
which contained money had been disturbed, an attempt hav-
ing apparently been made to force it open : but no property
was missed but the piece of wood that had secured the win-
dow inside. Mrs. Disley could not positively swear that she
had left the window fastened : indeed, it appeared that she
had not been up stairs after three o'clock, and that the win-
dow was frequently left open all day. The evidence as to
the breaking into the house was not complete as regarded
Burns, who, hosvever, had assaulted the officers while in the
execution of their duty. The prisoners had been respectively
committed on former occasions, one of them eight times,
another sixteen times, and the third twenty-four times—the
delinquencies appearing to exceed each other in arithmetical
ratio.---Mr. Rushton committed M'Moran and Fagan for
trial at the assizes, and ordered that Burns should pay a fine
of £5, or he committed to gaol for two months, and, further,
that he should find bail—himself in £2O and two sureties in
£l5 each, or be further imprisoned for two months longer.

The Worihipful the Chancellor of the Diocese has been
pleased to appoint the Rev. Thomas Halton, M.A. Curate
of Liverpool, a surrogate for granting marriage licences.
NEW COUNTY MAGISTRATE.—At the Kirkdale Quarter
Sessions, yesterday, Richard Earle, Esq. qualified and took
the oaths as a magistrate of the county.
QUEEN'S LETTER.—On Sunday evening last, in obedience
to the Queen's letter, a sermon was preached in St. Barna-
bas' Church, by the Rev. Thomas Nolan, when a collection
was made which amounted, ineilAding a donation from a lady
in London, to £l7 ; to which was also added a further dona-
tion of £2, to be applied exclusively to the Stockport relief
fund.
ASSAULT ON POLICE OFFICERS, AND ATTEMPT TO
RESCCE.—Yesterday, three men, Michael Quinn, James
Mann, and Patrick Dollins, were placed at the bar of the
Police-court on this charge. It appeared that Quinn (who
said he had just come to the town) was seen by the police, on
the previous day, so much intoxicated that the officers
thought it proper to take him into custody for safety. He
strongly resisted, and struck and kicked them. The other
two came up, and obstructed them, creating a mob and dis-
turbance in the street, one of them striking the officers, and
the other attempting a rescue. Quinn was fined 55., Mann
lOs. and costs for the assault, and the other the same sum
for the attempt to rescue.
OUR OWN LONDON !—Which of our readers have not
seen the most splendid city in the world ? We, ourselves,
should like to have a peep at Pekin, which is said to out-
rival London in population ; but we wohld venture to risk a
small wager that the splendour of the latter in architecture,
wealth,—whether patrician or plebiau, arts and sciences, and
all that a profnsion of mental and moral power can produce,
would cast into shade the boasted magnitude and strength of
the renowned and oriental city. An opportunity now offers
itself for our friends to avail themselves of a visit to the cen-
tre of attraction for everything interesting and useful, on
such terms as are totally unprecedented. An advertisement
in another column will show that 28s. will convey a visiter
to the metropolis and back. What will come next? !!!
DOCK COMMITTEE, YESTERDAY.—Present
Barclay, (Chairman) Molvneaux, Holmes, Bailey, Tobin,
Evans, Aikin, Smith, Nichol, Sandbach. In consequence
of the projected removal of the deadhouse, the sub-corn-
rnittee recommend that a space within the boundary wall,
near the south-west side of the Prince's Dock be appropriated
for that purpose. A place on the North Pier Prince's Basin
was pointed out as an eligible situation for a life-boat house.
The removal of the chain stove to the Toxteth Dock was also
recommended and that the middle pier of No. 2 and 3
Graving Dock be lowered three feet at the west end, and one
foot at the east end. A letter was read from Mr. Gage,
;vishing to know whether the committee thought him entitled
.° any rem uneration for his attendance on the Dock Commit-
tee along with Messrs. Walker and Cubit, stating at the same
time that he would leave the matter entirely in their hands.
After a short conversation it was decided that Mr. Gage was
not entitled to any thing. The annual grant of £5O was al-
lowed to Mr. Wainwright. A memorial from Mr. Walker
was read, which had been referred by the Council to the Dock
Committee, complaining of the removal of the pumps for the
89ply of horses with water, and representing the inconve-
nience which had arisen in consequence. It was decided
that the pumps should be restored. The financial business
was then proceeded with, and the committee soon afterwards
adjourned

;—Nressr:

EXTENSIVE ROBBEILY.—On Tuesday, at the Police-court,
a notorious thief, named Matthew Mann, was put forward
i
on a charge of having been concerned with two others n
robbing the " Legs of Man" public house, in Nova Scotia,
of the sum of £BO. Mrs. Fryer stated that she was the
landlady of the house in question, and that on Saturday, the
18th ultimo, the prisoner, with another man, entered the
place, sat down in the sitting-room, called for a glass of
sherry each, and handed her a £5 note to pay for the drink,
and to receive the change. She went into au adjoining room,
where she deposited the note, and took the change, which
she handed them out of a chest of drawers. They remained
!About half an hour, and then left the house. On the follow-
ing Monday (the 20th ultimo), the prisoner, with two other
Inen, came again to the house, and called for cigars and a
glass of sherry each. They sat down in the sitting-room on
the first floor. After having served them, witness had occa-
sion to go down stairs for some copper, and on her return
she met the prisoner and his companions coming down
against her. They said " Good morning, Mrs. Fryer—we
cannot stop any longer." She then went into the room
where they had been sitting, arid, to her surprise, saw four
.to notes lying on the floor. On examining them she disco-
vered her own marks, and perceived at once that they had
been removed from her drawers in the next room. She then
examined the drawers, and found that the contents, which
consisted (independently of the notes) of seventy-one sove-
reigns and £9 in silver, had all been abstracted. The sove-
reigns and the silver had been taken, and the notes had
doubtless been left for the purpose of preventing identifica-
tion of the money should the thieves be apprehended. Mr.
Fryer identified the prisoner as one of the party who had
been in his house on the occasion. He was fully committed
for trial.

DEATH OF Two CHILDREN (TWINS) BY AN OVERDOSE
OF OPlUM.—Yesterday an inquest was held before P. F.
Curry, Esq.,
ou view of the bodies of Edward and Thomas
Hughes.—The mother stated that she and her husband lived
in Lorton-place, Lorton-street, Windsor. The deceased
were twins, and were seven weeks old. Edward was a very
delicate child from his birth, and was frequently convulsed.
On Monday last she had occasion to come to the town, and
rather overheated herself. On her return borne she gave the
deceased the breast, and directly afterwards they became
griped. She was informed by a woman whom she did not
know that a little paregoric would do them good. A man
named Jones, who lodged in the house, said, on hearing her
mention it, that he would go for some. She told him to ask
the druggist which would be best—syrup of poppies, or pare-
goric,—and gave him a phial to bring it in. He brought a
mixture back with him, and told her to mix a teaspoonful of
it with three of warm water and sugar. He did not say what
it was, but that the druggist bad said it was something better
than paregoric or syrup of poppies. She gave a teaspoonful
and a half to Edward, and a teaspoonful to Thomas, which
made him vomit directly after. Both fell asleep immediately
afterwards. She laid them down, and they directly appeared
to breathe with difficulty, and with a noise in their throats.
They both fell into fits, and remained in them till the follow-
ing day, when Thomas died about three in the afternoon, and
ward died on the same evening about eight. Jones said
he. had_ got the medicine at a shop in Parliament-street, kept
and told
Plands ; and on Monday evening she went to him
n
. told him the children were worse ; and on teliing him
how she had mixed the medicine up, he said it was all right,
and went with her and saw the children, and said they would
goon come round, and that she need not be alarmed. He
did not say what the medicine was. A surgeon was sent for
before they died, and tasted the medicine, and said it was too
strong for them.—Jones said he had brought the medicine
as stated, and given the directions he had received. He paid
2d for it. Mr. James Simson stated he was assistant to Mr.
Plands—(he is, we believe, himself a surgeon). He asked
the age of the children, and was told two months. Paregoric
or syrup of poppies was mentioned by the man, and he (wit-
ness) said he would give him somethino. milder : and lie gave
him twenty drops of wine of opium, and two drachms of pep-
permint water, and told him to mix it as had been stated,
and that a teaspoonful was to be given when it was so mixed.
On the same evening the mother came and said the children
were worse, and witness went with her to see them and found
them living. One of them appeared to be in a fit, and both
Were in a languid state. He immediately went out and
brought Mr. Nottage, the surgeon. Next day he heard they
Were both dead.—Mr. J. B. Nottage said, that when he first
saw the children one of them was in convulsions, and the
other extremely low. He used some remedies and they both
Partially recovered. Both afterwards relapsed into fits, and
continued in them till they died. He was of opinion that
death was caused by an overdose of opium causing convul-
sions. A teaspoonful of the mixture, described by the last
witness was too much for a child of a delicate constitution,
bnt not for a healthy child.—The jury, under the circum-
stances, returned a verdict of " chance•medley" against the
mother—it not having been stated by the man who purchased
the medicine that the children were of weak constitution.
CHARGE OF STABBING.—A seafaring man, named Charles
Smith, was yesterday placed at the bar before Edward Rush-
ton and Charles Challinor, Esqs., (the sitting magistrates,)
on a charge of a wound
all. a knife .on another
sailor of the name of Thomas Ballingall. The complainant,
very big stout man, with his head bandaged up, said that
be and the prisoner had embarked at Greenock on board one
of the Glasgow steamers for this port, and that after they bad
proceeded to sea about five hours, a quarrel ensued between
himself and the prisoner and two other men ; that they
wrestled together, and that the prisoner being unable to
overcome him, took a knife and made a stab at him, wound-
rag him in the head. He got the knife from him, and in doing
I;in got his finger also cut. The complainant admitted that
e was himself rather groggy at the time, and that he did not
know what the quarrel was about, but he believed it arose
fre'rn "a parcel of nonsense" about some provisions. Two of
the sailors of the vessel saw the prisoner
make an attempt to
stab complainant, aiming (as one of them thought) at his
breast. It appeared from the further evidence that the
parties had been fighting, after aggravating each other, in the
fore cabin, and that while the prisoner was afterwards eating
some bread and cheese, with the knife in his hand, the com-
plainant got him down and struck him on the face and side
of the head, giving him a black eye and a bruise under the
ft,igh;_ ear. Mr. Rushton strongly deprecated the resort to
~--”°,,,t(cire under any circumstances, and said that but for the
"ence of the prisoner being struck when down he would
havefine
sent him for trial. As the case stood he must pay a
"ne of 20s. and costs, or be imprisoned a month.
BUNFOUNDED CHARGE AGAINST Two FEMALES AND A
ny.--Yesterday, a man, named George Avery, appeared at
ra Police-court, and charged Margaret Avery, his wife, Geo.
,veiry, his son, and a female named Ellen Kelly, with as-
-fir ting him at his own place of business, and obstructing
k_in in taking away his own goods. The prisoners, who had
ucen brought up by warrant, were all well dressed. The
rea i'lainant said that he was the husband of the prisoner
to trhgaret Avery, and that on Saturday morning last lie went
the e " he Glas,,ow and Dumfries Tap," where she and
etherstak alived, under Mrs. Wilson's, in Regent-street, to
asay his furniture, when he was assaulted by the whole
(,"enl—his wife dealing him out a blow on the face. He
ivasa manufacturer of fishing tackle, that lie had occasion
periodically to go from home on business for a considerable
time together, and that his wife conducted the house in a
shameful manner during his absence; entertaining rough and
~ ,
irnpropercompany, and disposing of his property as she thought
so that he had determined to remove it from the place.
She had, he added, taken away £2OO worth of his goods on
one occasion when he was absent,
.and was in the habit of
getting
There was, also anothe
drunk continually, and misconducting, the place.
a marine, who !Lid als r defendant in the house at the time—
a ship in the river, ,and
(oi assaulted him, but he was on board of
him. The evidence looks warrant could not be served upon
fendants ; but a very difid rather black against the de-
elicited from them and their witness by Mr. indle, who
appeared that the complainant
was in the habit of going from e for a long time together ;
that he had on one occasion lishis family without any
adequate support for fifteen rnot
th; that the tap Was taken
by the wife in her own name;
aatdquantes of fishing
tackle were sent to him by his wife son, to sell when he
was absent; that he did not send honlyany money in return ;
and that the family were almost solce.linsuapriported by the ex-
trly manner.
ertions of the wife, who kept the ta
It was further stated, that the complainantoTam•
()gone to the
house, between six and seven o'clock in the
.I.aorry
no fewer than four rascally " bum-bailiffs,' to to, morning
with
the goods ; that the wife was in bed at the time
she was compelled to rise in her night clothes only ; alanc7
that
She did not assault him, but merely sat down on the
box
containing her own clothes, and begged of him not to carry
them away. Mr. Dowling corroborated some of the facts,
adding that it was not the first time he had deserted his
family, and afterwards came and took away the property
ey had themselves realized. The son also gave testimony
to the unfeeling conduct of his father, in depriving them of the
means of subsist ; and the landlady of the house where the
tat) was was in courteee
to show that it was let to the wife, but
her eviuence did not affect the legal point at issue, and was
not therefore taken. Mrs. Avery said that carrying off the
agiLodr hearing all
her and her family destitute. Mr, Rushton
caring all the evidence, said, addressing the wife, who
that it was one of those
cases in which Re could not interfere in her
appeared to be. much distressed,
. hr. The
complainant had availed himself of a right given to him by
law, to take the gooci lie should, however, certainly
and it was illegal to obstruct him.
went in such a r
parish
, certainly refuse to inflict any punish-
chargeable to the case,. and if the wife and family became
to maintain them, o
he would be taught tr in, he should compel the complainant
default, send him to a place where.e
Pendants were then d(.? do
kis
ischarged.
duty towards them, The d -
'A young gentleman
ing in the Severn, h-
on iveadgned 20, was drowned whilst bat
Way,