The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-08-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY AND CHEATING AT CARDS AGAINST "JOHNNY" BROOME AND OTHERS. John Broome, the ex-pugilist, John James, of London, and Charles Staden, of Brighton, have been committed for conspiring together to cheat and defraud Wm. Hamp, a young gentleman twenty-one years of age, from Herefordshire, of fifteen sovereigns, ten half-sovereigns, one halfcrown, and three bills of exchange, value £lOO each.  At the Bridgewater assizes, Mr. Francis, a surgeon, sued Messrs. Robert and John Leach, attorneys, of Mat_ lock, for damages sustained in consequence of the negligence of the defendants as his professional advisers. It appeared that the defendants had left out of the conditions of sale of some property the fact of the lunacy of a lady who had willed the property to the plaintiff. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with £250 damages. An old woman named Mary Oliver, many years resident in the village of Shadforth, Durham, died last week at the advanced age of 101 years. The previous death in that village, only three weeks since, was that of an old man of the name of William Spears, who was in his 95th year ; and, in the same parish, there is now living a farmer, in full possession of his faculties, who is in his 99th year.  On Saturday last, James Kershaw, aged forty-five, cooper, of Dewsbury, died in a fit, brought on by excessive drinking for three months. On the Wednesday before the inquest, about twelve o'clock. he had another fit, which resulted in his death. It appeared from the evidence that he was inebriated at the time he was seized. The jury returned a verdict of " Died in a convulsion fit, from the effects of excessive drinking." A train on the Great Western Railway filled with persons who had been at the Great Exhibition, on Sunday morning last, came to a standstill on the line between Bath and Bristol, owing to want of water or coke or some mishap to the engine. Whilst standing it was run into by a return engine and tender from Bath and about 20 of the passengers were injured by the concussion but happily none of them seriously.  James Wailing, a man about 60 years of age, lately discharged from her Majesty's navy, with a pension, attempted, on Tuesday last, to murder a woman, 19 years of age, named Martha Moyse, with whom he had been living at Ipswich. He inflicted some wounds on her left jaw with a razor, but she got away from him before he injured any vital part. An alarm was given, but before he could be secured he cut his own throat in such a way as to cause his death three hours afterwards.  The Globe says that since Sir John Romilly took his seat in the Rolls Court, on the 15th of April last, he has cleared off every portion of the business of the court. He has disposed of 90 causes and re-hearings, 101 further directions, pleas, demurrers, and exceptions, 25 claims, 3 special cases, 160 petitions, besides short causes and consent petitions. Judgment has been given in every instance with a single exception, in which it was thought that by delaying a decision the parties ma) be brought to an amicable arrangement. We lately copied from the Birmingham Journal the account of a swindler who has been defrauding several ladies in that neighbourhood, by advertising that a situation as family governess was to be had, with a salary of £lOO a-year, and all the attractions of a tour through Italy and the Levant. The governess is to go with the family, but it is a continually demanded preliminary that she must deposit £65 in her new employer's hands, by way of prepaying her travelling expenses. We observe the same knavery has again appeared at Worcester, so we repeat the warning,—the offer is a snare.—Manchester Examiner.  FALL OF A DvEnousE.—On Wednesday morning, between one and two o'clock, the roof and a portion of the walls of Mr. Brayshaw's dyehouse, East-street, Leeds, fell with a tremendous crash, greatly alarming the persons in the immediate neighbourhood, and doing considerable damage to the cloth in the process of dyeing. Fortunately, the men who worked late the previous evening had left, or the consequences might have been of a more serious character. The roof, from its connection witht he chimney, had become unsafe and &newts or matinee past.—Leith isialipteeer.  PORTA: PLATE, June 26.—The Ann Eliza, Cook, laden with mahogany and dyewood, in leaving the port for Cabaret, on the 21st June, struck upon the rocks, and it is feared will become a wreck.  FLEETWOOD, Aug. 10.—The smack Reform, Larvey, of and from Whitehaven for Liverpool, sank off Black Coombe, yesterday. Crew saved.