The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-02-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BURGLARIES AND MURDEROUS ATTACK.—Recently, the rectory of Lea was broken into, and plate, amounting to upwards of £3O in value, taken therefrom. The parsonage houses of Laughton and Blyton have, also, been plundered ; and the vicarage of South Leverton has been ransacked, and the whole of the plate packed up, but fortunately the burglars were disturbed before they had an opportunity of taking it away. We have now to record another attempt on the rectory of Saundby,which had partly succeeded ; but through the determined spirit of Mr. Hudson, and his capital defence of his house and person, the burglars have not been successful, but on the contrary, one of the guilty party, at least, was captured. He turns out to be a returned convict, named Joseph Palmer, alias " Duddy Palmer," a native of Clarborough, with whom, from all we can learn, were three other guilty associates, who are still at large. Palmer was brought up on Wednesday week at Redford, when, after a long examination, he was remanded. Mr. Hudson, whose face Was covered with blood, was well enough to give evidence before his brother magistrates. The shirt he had on whilst engaged in the affray was exhibited, and presented one mass of blood. A gun, the stock of which had been broken into three pieces ; a life-preserver, heavily.charged with lead ; and a bludgeon, partially covered with blood, which the burglars had left on the premises, were also produced.— Hull Packet.  EAST INDIA SHirrucer--dTht East Tpulia• and 'China Association have publishe t eir annual comparative statement of the number of British ships, with their tonnage, which have entered inwards and cleared outwards from and to places within the limits of the East India Company's Charter in the years 1846 and 1847. The return of shipping entered inwards shows a total increase, in favour of 1847, of 150 vessels, with 66,543 tonnage, the respective numbers being 852 vessels, with 360,039 tonnage, in 1846, against 1,002 vessels, with 426,582 tonnage, in 1847. Of this increase the port of tonnage ; e and most Bristolnumerous London received 107 vessels, with 47,830tonnge and Hull, ,• Liverp oo9l,v3e2ssveis, vessels, with 3, with3.7l36t,so2n3natgoen.n aarivals this year have been from Madras, Bombay, Singapore, and Penang, the Mauritius and the South Seas. The ref urn of shipping cleared outwards shows a total decrease of 16 vessels in the year 1847 compared with the preceding twelve months, though with respect to the gross amount of tonnage an increase of 17,782, in measurement, is established for the same period. These results are thus arrived at :—ln 1846 the clearances included 979 vessels, with 413,849 tonnage, while in 1847 they 'included 963 vessels, with 431,631 tonnage. The port Of London in this respect was in decrease 1 vessel, but the tonnage showed an increase of 8,207 in measurement ; Liverpool was in decrease to the extent of 22 vessels, with 2,492 tonnage increase, while Bristol, and Hull, and the Clyde, and other ports contributed, on the other hand, an increase—in the former case to the extent of 2 vessels, with 829 tonnage, and in the latter case 5 vessels, with 6,254 tonnage. The chief clearances with tonnage have been for Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Singapore, and New South Wales.  A