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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-05-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE MURDER OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL EXAMINATION OF COURVOISIER THE VALET, • -AT BOW-STREET.•  - (From the Morning Herald of Tuesday.) The investigation which took place before the police authorities„ at the residence of the deceased nobleman in Norfolk Street, Park-lane, having produced a sufficient train of circumstantial evidence against the accused, to enable those engaged in the enquiry to send the case before the chief magistrate at Bow-street, the valet Courvoisier was removed from Norfolk-street at twelve o'clock on Sunday night, in a hackney-coach, and conveyed as privately as possible, to the station-house of the F division, guarded by several constahles. He was then locked up in one of the cells, and closely watched during the night. At an early hour in e morning, the fact of his having been sent, to the station-house soon transpired, and a great crowd of persons collected in a Bowstreet, for the purpose of obtaining a sight of the accused. During the day, the street in front of the com t, and opposite the station-house, was yearly impassible, and towards evening it became necessary to call out several constables to keep the footway clear. The curiosity of the public was further excited, by the rumour that Richard Gould and Jarvis and his wife were also at the station-house, and that another investigation would take place upon the subject of the murder of Mr. Templeman, which proved to be correct. At ten o'clock, Mr. JARDINE took his seat on the bench, for the purpose of disposing of the night charges, which being more numerous than usual, °coupled his attention until a quarter to two o'clock, by which time, Mr. nobler, the solicitor, arrived, to conduct the prosecution against Courvoisier, on the part of the commissioners of police. Mr. Flower, of Hatton-garden, was also in attendance on behalf of the prisoner, and on the bench we noticed, besides the chief magistrate, and Mr. Jardine, Lord Montfort, Major Anderson, the Hon. Mr. Byng, Mr. Dyer, son of the police magistrate, Mr. Yardly, secretary and chief clerk to the commissioners of pollee, and several other gentlemen. None of the relatives of the deceased nobleman were present. At two o'clock, the prisoner was brought from the station, in custody of Inspector Peirson, of the A division, and three constables, and placed at the bar. He is a middle-sized man, rather stoutly made, and aged, we should suppose, about 30 ; the expression of his countenance is dull and heavy, and there is not much of a foreigner in his general appearance; he has a down look, and his face and lips were deadly pale. As soon as he was placed in the dock, Mr. Flower, the solicitor, addressing the chief magistrate, said that he had received instruction to attend on behalf of the prisoner, and on his going to the station for the purpose of obtaining an interview with him, he found, contrary to the usual practice, that he could not be seen, even by his professional adviser. Mr.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-08-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHARGE OF MURDER.  James Al' Kiveringan, aged 30, was charged with having killed George Washington, in this town, on the 21st of July. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, and so the .prisoner stood charged in the calendar ; the Grand Jury had returned a bill for wilful murder, on which the prisoner now stood for trial. Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Murphy conducted the prosecution, Mr. Wilkins the defence. Mary Brown sworn.—(This witness is a woman of colour.) —I am a widow residing in this town. I knew the deceased. His name was Washington. I know the prisoner slightly. He keeps a public-house iu Stewart-street. In July last I remember coming up Stewart-street, about eight o'clock in the morning. I saw WlCiveringan standing a few doors from his house. He had a stone larger than my fist in his hand. I saw Washington pass inc. He went on a-head of me towards the prisoner. The prisoner stood on the footwalk, and Washington stepped off to pass him. (Washington, the deceased, it appeared, was a black man.) There were two other persons with the prisoner. When Washington had passed them, he put his foot on the parapet to go on it again. The moment he did this, M`Kiveringan struck him with the stone between his two shoulders, a very severe blow. The deceased fell. As the deceased was falling, the prisoner succeeded his blow with his foot, kicking him on the side of the head. As this was done I ran up. I said, " Oh, Mr. Washingion's dead." Two or three men and women ran up to help him up. He could not speak, but bled at his mouth, nose, and ears. I saw the deceased conveyed home. He did not recover his senses while I remained with him. Cross-examined by Mr. WI LKIN s.---I am a native of America, and I get my living by washing for seamen. The deceased was rather infirm. (It appeared that he was 63 years of age.) One of the men who went up when he fell was Mr. Smith ; has since gone to sea. Margaret Treadwell stated, that on the morning of the 21st July she was in Stewart-street. She saw a crowd, and the deceased, George Washington, lying on the ground. He was insensible, and blood was coining from his ears, nose, eyes. and mouth. I raised up his head and gave him a drink of water. He gave a kind of cough, and the bloody water all came gushing back again. Bridget Lyon.—l reside near Stewart-street. I recollect the morning of Tuesday, the 21st July last. I went out that morning in consequence of having heard something about a black man. I crossed over the street, and saw the black man lying, as I thought, dead. I went by direction of Treadwell to get a drink of water. Witness described the application of the water as the last witness had done. About 25 minutes after I saw WlCiveringan in the street. He said to a woman that he had on the night before got beaten by a coloured man, and he would beat every coloured man he came across. Cross-examined by Mr.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-08-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ARMSTRONG.—After I had met Fagan, I went down to the ship, with the intention of getting an officer to take the prisoner. I saw the prisoner there, but I did not speak to him. I knew him to be the same man. No one spoke to him in my presence, but they had been speaking to him. I beard this from Campbell. By Mr. Murphy.—l did not see Charles Fagan that morning. He was transported afterwards. John Burrows.—l am a labourer in this town. In July 1838, I lived next door to Sheridan. I remember being at home one afternoon, and hearing cries of murder. I went in and I found Sheridan in the bed. There was another man and a woman. . The woman was Sheridan's wife. The man and Sheridan were in the bed fighting. Sheridan was in the bed and the man was leaning over. I ran over and pulled the man off him and put him out of the cellar; There was, another man standing outside the cellar. Sheridan appeared  as if he had had some drink. There was a little blood on one cheek. I remained in the cellar about ten minutes, and Sheridan continued in the bed. I did nOt observe that he made any complaint.  Patrick Campbell, labourer.—l lived in the house over the cellar occupied by Sheridan. I was at home in bed when this occurred. I had my clothes on. I went down stairs when I heard the noise. I stood at my own door. I saw a man outside stripped, whom I supposed to have been Charles Fagan. I went into the cellar and I saw another man. To  the best of my knowledge and belief it was the prisoner. lle was standing on the top step and looking into the cellar. He had all his clothes on. He was proclaiming against Sheridan for the using of his wages. Two police officers entered the street, and the man who was stripped entered my house  and hid himself under the table. The prisoner stood in the street telling the people the wrongs that Sheridan had done him in not giving him his wages. I don't know when the  officers went, but when they went away the prisoner came into my house. When he entered he began to tell me that he was much exhausted by separating Charles (his brother) and Sheridan. I gave Charles a shirt to put on him, and _ .  after that they went away. I heard one call the other Charles, and the other call out Patrick. His own shirt was all torn  and dirty. I went the next day to the King's Dock by desire of Sheridan. I saw the prisoner there: He is the same man to the . best of my knowledge. Isaid—" Fagan, what  fetches you here ?"  He said—'  " Why ?" I said-L'  ."-Sheridan  won't live." He said, as near as I can recollect, that he might die, for he was a great rogue, and he (Fagan) got tremendous abuse between Sheridan and his brother Charles.  I never saw the prisoner from that day till he was recently  taken into custody.  By Mr.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-09-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE INDIA, STEAM-SHIP,  This beautiful specimen of naval architecture took an experimental trip on Tuesday, from Blackwell to Sea Reach, for the purpose of trying her machinery, prior to her depar • ture on Saturday (to-morrow) for another hemisphere. The India has been more than once described, and it will be only necessary, therefore, for us to say, that alterations have been effected by throwing a portion of the width of the saloon into the private cabins, and making them drawing-rooms in miniature, rather than mere ante-rooms for the passengers. The deck has been raised nearly two feet, and thus the saloon is the loftiest we remember to have seen, and the cabin, or, as oar East India friends would term it, the caddy, is the most airy apartment in the vessel. The day was unpropitious for such a trip ; it was, in fact, a regular soaker. Popes were entertained that at noon the sun would burst through the clouds which impaired its brilliancy, and that a glorious evening might compensate for the disappointment of the morning : it was not to be ;—rain, unpitying and unrelenting, interfered with the contemplated arrangements, and ultimately no less than 60 or 70 gentle' men were compelled to amuse themselves as they best might beneath the spacious decks, which, under more favourable auspices, would have been a delightful promenade. The experiments were upon the whole satisfactory. The vessel maintained the average speed which she ought to have kept up had she been laden, and the inspection of the machinery afforded the greatest gratification to the gentlemen present, most of whom joined the company at breakfast on Tuesday morning. • On arriving in Sea Reach, various manoeuvres were resorted to, with a view to test the capabilities of the India, and all of them were attended with a satisfactory result ; to use a nautical phrase " She behaved herself well." A very handsome entertainment was given by Captain Henderson, on the return to town. Several gentlemen addressed the company on the importance of steam communication with India, and their sentiments were warmly responded to by the meeting. The conviviality was kept up until a late hour, when the vessel returned to Blackwell.  We have only to add that there were many gentlemen on board who had served as officers in India. Those gentlemen spoke in the most indignant terms of the conduct of Lord Cardigan, in applying the term " Indian officer" to any one as a term of contumely, and their observations were cordially responded to by the meeting.—Morning Herald.  DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE  The Ballyshauvon Herald states that two men, named Smith and Carr, have been arrested for the murder of,Samuel  The Board of Works is about to expend LIO,OOO in redecorating the entire suite of state apartments at St. James's  The fixed income of the Deanery of Durham, under the  new law, is £3OOO, and the Dean required to be in residence  eight months out of the twelve.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-04-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHARGE OF MURDER. Joseph Knight, aged 33, was charged with having, at Manchester, murdered a female child, not baptized. There were several counts in the indictment, charging the prisoner with having deprived the child of life in several ways, by suffocating, strangling, drowning, &c. Br. Brown and Mr. Brandt conducted the prosecution; Mr. Venables and Mr. Wilkins defended. The prisoner presented himself at the bar with a firm and almost bold demeanour. As the indictment was being read, he exclaimed, boldly and abruptly, " I cant't hear ! I can't hear!"  Mr. WILKINs.—Your counsel can hear : don't you inter, fere.  The prisoner was furnished with paper and pencil. He put on an aspect of very intense and inquiring scrutiny as the counsel for the prosecution were addressing the jury ; and, with many occasional odd gesticulations, took notes of what was said.  Mr. BRANDT detailed the circumstances of the case, up to a certain point, to the jury. It appeared, the prisoner bad formed an improper connexion with the wife of his brother. The latter had been absent abroad for some time. The result of the intercourse was, that the prisoner's sister-in-law was pregnant by him. They were both wishful, when the child was born, that it should be removed, in order that the husband, when he returned, should not see it, and the prisoner undertook to convey it to a hired nurse. The mother believed that he had placed it in safety. At length the neighbours began to wonder what had become of the child, and the rumours that were rife begot inquiry. The prisoner's statements were unsatisfactory, and, at last, he was taken into custody and examined before a magistrate. He would not give any account of where the child was, and, in consequence of this, he was remanded several times. At length he stated that the child had been very closely wrapped up to keep it from the cold, and that, as he was going to the nurse, he stumbled over some stones and fell to the ground. When he got up, be uncovered the infant to see if it were hurt, and found it dead. Upon this he took it and threw it into the river. The river was searched, but no child was found.  Mr. BRANDT said, there was this difficulty in the case which he did not know how to get over : the law required either that the body of a person slain, where an indictment for murder was preferred, should be forthcoming, or that evidence of the death should be produced. In this case, as the body had not been found, the only evidence of death was the prisoner's own statement. There the difficulty was : if they took a part of the prisoner's statement as evidence, they ought, in justice, to take the whole, and believe all his story. His LORDSHIP said he had noticed the difficulty, but he waited to see how the indictment would be framed. With such evidence, it would be impossible to find the prisoner guilty. A verdict of acquittal was taken. Mr. WILKINS said, Mr. Amos has just informed him that it is the general opinion of all the visitors of the prison that Knight was insane.  The
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-10-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

COTTON.—There has been less doing during the past few days ; holders, however, continue to demand higher rates, and sales have been made at an advance of 4e per lb. Accounts of damage done to the crops by weather, insects and floods, are pouring in from all quarters. In many cases these reports are without the slightest foundation, and in all greatly exaggerated. Many letters from disinterested person: state that it is their impression that the crop will not fall much short of hut year. The buyers, as usual, are exaggerating the crop, and the planters state that it will fall short 25 per cent. In the extreme southern ports the buyers have mostly left the cities. The stocks are very small, and consequently the transactions unimportant. The following is a table of stocks, sales, prices, and remarks for the week previous to the date affixed—  Stocks. Sales. Prices. .Remarks. New York, Sept. 5. 6,000 5,000 81 all advance 4 c N. Orleans, Aug. 25, 18,198 2,300 a 101 improving Mobile, „ 26, 14,561 700 7a 9} advance 1 c Apalachicola, „ 20, 3,098 51 aB4 Augusta, ~ 31, 3,000 1,000 6a 9f improving Savannah, „ 28, 2,283 601 84- a 94 firm The first bale of new cotton received at Savannah, sold at  llets on the 27th. The Morality Herald furnishes an account of the  blowing up of an aqueduct over Chippewa Creek, by by which two schooners, which were in the canal at the time, were seriously damaged. It was supposed to have ,been done by the miscreant Lett. • More Indian murders are reported to have taken place in Georgia. A gang of one of the aboriginal tribes bad set fire to and devastated a large amount of  property in Camden county. A melancholy affair had recently taken place at Phillipsburg, near Montreal, between Lieutenant Farquhar and Captain M'Adam, of Colonel Dyer's voluntary corps. According to one account, Mr. Farquhar had resigned his commission, and Captain M'Adarn having made some offensive remarks on the subject, a verbal  message was sent, demanding a meeting or an apology. The captain refused to receive any but a written message, when Mr. Farquhar attempted to horsewhip him. The captain pulled a pistol from his pocket ; a scuffle ensued for the possession of the weapon, when the charge exploded, and Mr. Farquhar was mortally wounded. Another account states that Captain M'Adam accosted Mr. Earquhar in the-street, and, after a few words, drew a loaded pistol which he had concealed under his clothes, and discharged its contents into the body of his unfortunate victim. Captain M'Adam was in the gaol of Montreal. Papers had been received at New York from Jamaica to the 17th of August, a few days later than those which we acknowledged on Tuesday. Great complaints were still made respecting the conduct of the negroes. The accounts from diflia-ent parts of the island respecting the droughts, and the destruction of the coffee crops, are gloomy in the extreme. We sub
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-10-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

COTTON.—There has been less doing during the past few days ; holders, however, continue to demand higher rates, and sales have been made at an advance of -lc per lb. Accounts of damage done to the crops by weather, insects and floods, are pouring in from all quarters. In many cases these reports are without the slightest foundation, and in all greatly exaggerated. Many letters from disinterested persons state that it is their impression that the crop will not fall much short of last year. The buyers, as usual, are exaggerating the crop, and the planters state that it will fall short 25 per cent. In the extreme southern ports the buyers have mostly left the cities. The stocks are very small, and consequently the transactions unimportant. The following is a table of stocks, sales, prices, and remarks for the week previous, to the date affixed—  Stocks. Sales. Prices. Remarks. New York, Sept. 5, 6,000 5,000 8}- all advance 1 c N. Orleans, Aug. 25, 18,198 2,300 61 a 10+ improving Mobile, „ 26, 14,561 700 7a 91 advance 1 c Apalachicola, „ 20, 3,098 51 aBl Augusta, „ 31, 3,000 1,000 6a 91 improving Savannah, „ 28, 2,288 601 81 a9l firm The first bale of new cotton received at Savannah, sold at llcts on the 27th.  The Morning Herald furnishes an account of the blowing up of an aqueduct over Chippewa Creek, by by which two schooners, which were in the canal at the time, were seriously damaged. It was supposed to have been done by the miscreant Lett. More Indian murders are reported to have taken place in Georgia. A gang of one of the aboriginal tribes had set fire to and devastated a large amount of property in Camden county. A melancholy affair had recently taken place at Phillipsburg, near Montreal, between Lieutenant Farquhar and Captain M'Adam, of Colonel Dyer's voluntary corps. According to one account, Mr. Farquhar had resigned his commission, and Captain M'Adam having made some offensive remarks on the subject, a verbal message was sent, demanding a meeting or an apology. The captain refused to receive any but a written message, when Mr. Farquhar attempted to horsewhip him. The captain pulled a pistol from his pocket; a scuffle ensued for the possession of the weapon, when the charge exploded, and Mr. Farquhar was mortally wounded. Another account states that Captain M'Adam accosted Mr. Earquhar in the street, and, after a few words, drew a loaded pistol which he had concealed under his clothes, and discharged its contents into the body of his unfortunate victim. Captain M`Adam was terthan in the gaol of Montreal. Papers had been received at New York from n Jamaica to the 17th of August, a few days later those which we acknowledged on Tuesday. Great complaints were still made respecting the conduct of the negroes. The accounts from different parts of the island respecting the droughts, and the destruction of the coffee crops, are gloomy in the extreme. We sub
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-10-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

COTTON.—There has been less doing during the past few days ; holders, however, continue to demand higher rates, and sales have been made at an advance of le per lb. Accounts of damage done to the crops by weather, insects and floods, are pouring in from all quarters. In many cases these reports are without the slightest foundation, and in all greatly exaggerated. Many letters from disinterested persons state that it is their impression that the crop will not fall much short of last year. The buyers, as usual, are exaggerating the crop, and the planters state that it will fall short 25 per cent. In the extreme southern ports the buyers have mostly left the cities. The stocks are very small, and consequently the transactions unimportant. The following is a table of stocks, sales, prices, and remarks for the week previous to the date affixed- Stocks. Saks. Prices. Remarks. New York, Sept. 5, 6,000 5,000 81 all advance c N. Orleans, Aug. 25, 18,198 2,300 6 a 101 improving Mobile, „ 26, 14,561 700 7 a 91- advance; c Apalachicola, „ 20, 3,098 5a 81 Augusta, „ 31, 3,000 1,000 6a 91 improving Savannah, „ 28, 2,288 601 81 a9l firm The first bale of new cotton received at Savannah, sold at llets on the 27th.  The Morning Herald furnishes an account of the blowing up of an aqueduct over Chippewa Creek, by by which two schooners, which were in the canal at the time, were seriously damaged. It was supposed to have been done by the miscreant Lett.  More Indian murders are reported to have taken place in Georgia. A gang of one of the aboriginal tribes had set fire to and devastated a large amount of property in Camden county. A melancholy affair had recently taken place at Phillipsburg, near Montreal, between Lieutenant Farquhar and Captain SPAdam, of Colonel Dyer's voluntary corps. According to one account, Mr. Farquhar had resigned his commission, and Captain M‘Adam having made some offensive remarks on the subject, a.verbal message was sent, demanding a meeting or an apology. The captain refused to receive any but a written message, when Mr. Farquhar attempted to horsewhip him. The captain pulled a pistol from his pocket; a scuffle ensued for the possession of the weapon, when the charge exploded, and Mr. Farquhar was mortally wounded. Another account states. that Captain M 'Adam accosted Mr. Earquhar in the street, and, after a few words, drew a loaded pistol which he had concealed under his clothes, and discharged its contents into the body of his unfortunate victim. Captain M'Adam.was in the gaol of Montreal.  Papers had been received at New York from Jamaica to the 17th of August, a few days later than those which we acknowledged on Tuesday. Great complaints were still made respecting the conduct of the negroes. The accounts from different parts of the island respecting the droughts, and the destruction of the coffee crops, are gloomy in the extreme. We sub