The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-04-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHAIRMAN.-I think you are rather going toofar ;  the meet Mr  was merely going to make a suggestion,  k BB OTT  s tjais—that as there appear to be some errors it nts of the late secretary, a competent  acccountant  be-CHAIRMAN  t has been done  -Then if it has been done, you can give us  he investigation is gone through ; and it is because the investigation is imperfect, from there not being personal communication with Mr. James, that the re Mr. MAL LABY  in going into the accounts, and they gave it as their that through the illness of Mr. James they could not  into form until he had been seen. ' And is he going into the accounts from the  ABBOTT  _ The meeting then separated, the proceedings having'occupied little more than hall an hour.,  EMBEZZLEMENT AND SUICIDE,  We regret to have to state the discovery of a serious embezzlement of the funds of the Steam-tug Company, and the subsequent suicide, by poison, of one of two individuals con ned in the embezzlement  On Wed  clay, the 30th ultimo, Mr. Andrew Clark, who ,een a merchant, but who, for years past, had  -door business of the company,  ir. Arthur,  he manager, to. give him leave or ab tion of N  IRE ABD crios CASE,  tization int  ase of ti  which it created was greater than in any Yarrner instance of a legal inquiry within our remembrance. It was first supposed that the proceedings would take place in the Court of Requests, High-street, in which the public business was transacted during the assizes ; and immediately on the opening of that court the rush to obtain admission was great, and towards twelve o'clock the room and the approaches to it became densely crowded. About a quarter past twelve, however, the business before Mr. Justice Parke having been  brought to a close, in the court at the Sessions-house, it was determined, for the better accommodation of all parties, to take Miss Crellin's case in the usual Police-court just vacated ; and Mr. Rushton, with a view to the ladies then present obtaining seats, told them to go to the top of the court the adjourn and get near to ti meat. By this means many of them got over to the other court; but no sooner did it become known that the proceedings were there to be taken, than a general rush was made by hundreds, who soon crowded the stars, the lobbies, and the magistrates' room ; and the police-officers in attendance  some dif  Illy, when orders were given to admit the public, to prevent serious accidents, so great v :he rush. The curiosity and exciter  3t were extreme, and  Sot a few were considerably crushed at, the doo vere reserved at the right of the bench for the witnesses tnd after a few moments' pushing and scrambling, order wa  The court was densely crows  Lied in every part  Amongst those on each side of bench, we of-Nerved the High Sheriff, William Brown, Esq., Thomas Booth, Esq., J. B. Neilson, Esq., Hardman Earle, Esq., together with a number of ladies, and several of the barristers in their robes from the Nisi Prius Court. The body of the court was for the most cart filled with well-dressed individuals, in females,—the latter in particular, no doubt, ouement of the affair, as it occurred  curious to learn the c