The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

SUNDAY SHAVING.
On Tuesday, Joseph Doubleday 'appeared to answer _s.
charge preferred against him by police-officer 407. The of
cer stated, that on Sunday, the 10th instant, he saw sever
al
persons enter the shop of Mr. Doubleday, and, believing
they had gone in for the purpose of being shaved, he went to
the shop for the purpose of ascertaining the fact. He found
the door fast, and desired to be admitted, but was refused
He then looked through the door and saw a man, one side of
whose face was lathered and the other half shaved, sitting in
a chair. Mr. Doubleday questioned the officer very minutely,
as to what he had seen. The officer admitted, that he ha
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not seen any person operating. Upon this Mr. Doubleday
exclaimed triumphantly, that the officer had not proved an):
case, as the man: might have lathered and half shaved himself
for what any one knew to the contrary. Mr. Hall said, the
reasonable inference was, that he (the barber) was exercising
his worldly calling. It was for him to prove the contrail by
his witnesses. Mr. Doubleday : "Oh ! I have no wit'
nesses." I brought witnesses last time, and they were of no
use. The defendant was fined five shillings.—John Wil-
hams was charged in like manner. The officer had seen a
man sitting in the shop with a cloth round him, and his face
lathered. Mrs. Williams appeared for her husband. She
said her husband did not lather the man. One of the King a,
Dock-gatemen called upon him on Sunday afternoon, and
they went out together. While they were absent, a man,who said he was going into the country, entered, and said he
wished particularly to be shaved. She told him, that there
was no person at home who could shave him. He said,
" then let me shave myself." This she permitted ; but, be-
fore he had finished the operation, her husband came in, but
he did not interfere. Mr. Hall : " And what was he to give
you for permitting him to shave himself." Mrs. Williams
Oh ! we never charges nothing for people as shaves them'
selves : we never did in our lives." Mr. Hall : " What, (hi
you suffer them to be upon your premises, and provide them
with razors, and lather-box, and towels, and hot water, with-
out payment ?'' Mrs. Williams : " Yes, we do : perhan
if they thinks proper to make us a present, why we takes it.
The defendant was fined five shillings. Thomas Benion was
similarly charged by police-officer 260. The latter stated'
that he saw two men enter the shop. He went to see what
would occur, when he found one of the men seated, and the
defendant with the lather-box in his hand. Mr. Half: " Was
that all ?" " Officer : " Yes." `• Then you were too soon:
He was meditating a breach of the law but had not committed

it. He is acquitted.If
Certain of the barbers, it appears;
have made up their minds to set the law at defiance, or, at all
events, to pursue their avocations on the Sabbath, and abide
by the consequences. The following is a copy of a declara'
tion whidh was thrown on the table of the police-court, bi)i
one of the fraternity. It has, we believe, been pretty we'
circulated by certain of the barbers amongst their customers,
and it expresses, in most extraordinary verse, their deter'
mination.

Since all my brother chips have met,
And had a scog o'er heavy wet,
And have resolved to have their way
By not shaving on the Sabbath day,
Aud since they're sudden pious grown,
By letting people's beards alone,—
Now I, myself, on block of state,
With wig profound upon my pate,
Do issue this decree : to wit,
On Sundays, in my shop I'll sit,
Until some customer's command
Shall bid me on my legs to stand.
And should a hypocrite pass by,
With neck of starch and squinting eye,
Let him turn in, and I will make
Excuses for religion's sake.
I'll show him the great teacher's plan
Did on the Sabbath good to man ;
Giving the apostate Jews a crawful,
By telling them the thing was lawful.
Sickness was cured, if it appeared,
And banished ; then why not a beard ?
Which, as a blot upon the chin,
Should disappear from off the skin.
Who says the law I more abuse
By shaving than in cleaning shoes ;
- In cooking, or in carving meat,
Or taking chaps from prayers to eat ?
Did not religion's author say,
'T was lawful, on the Sabbath day,
If ox or ass, by step or fit,
Should chance to fall into a pit,
Let Jews write what they would or say,
To drag them out on Sabbath day ?
Then why not I my plan pursue,
And to a Christian turn a Jew ?
Therefore, as I'm a Dicky Sam,
I do not care a single
For all that modern saints may write,
Or pale-faced hypocrites indite.
So man of toil, with beard oppressed,
Come to my shop, and have it dressed.
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Doubtless, those who have put together the above silly and
ribald effusion have a great notion of the effect which it r_
likely to produce. The doggrel, however, will have a lift!
effect as their own extreme cunning has had in saving them
from the penalties of the law.
Several barbers were successively called upon, and charged'A
on the evidence of the officers of police, with having exercise:
their worldly calling on the Sabbath-day. Some of thew(
adopted what they considered exceedingly injurious modes °,
defence. Mr. Flanninghan was charged by police-officer 3tv,
who stated that he entered the shop, and saw the defendant
lathering a man. Defendant, (an Irishman :) " Was I 13;
thering, now, or shaving?—Now mind, you're on your oath;,
which was it ?" Policeman : " You were lathering him
" There, your worship,—there ! he says I was a-latherin!
him,—mind that ! Now, policeman, was it me or my icurs
neyman?" Officer: "It was you: your journeyman 5c,"...
standing beside the fire." Defendant : " Ha-ha-ha! (laligl:t
ing)—he was standing beside the fire, was he ? then how co "
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he be lathering the man ? Mind that, your worship."
Hall : " Have you any witnesses?" Defendant :NO::
Mr. Hall : " You are fined five shillings." Defendan.'i,
" Oh, I wont pay it then. I'll go and fetch plenty of ,sl,„,
nesses, if that's what you want." The defendant went asap
in a hurry, but some person having informed him of the us ,
less errand upon which he was departing, he returned, 0_
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loudly demanded a receipt, protesting strongly that he wow_.",
have one before he would pay a farthing. Charles Gill°Pci
another of the fraternity, was opposed by a person who 11,,
got shaved on his premises on the preceding Sunday vceeL
This defendant cross-examined the informer very minute",
as to what part of the house he was shaved in. The witness
described the room, to which he said he,was shown by the
defendant's wife. " Ha-ha !" said he, " that's not my.roo/I
at all ; it's let by me to the Christian Co-operative Society3.;,l
^ • -,- bari annibe.-_,rnuta *.."•ert"'"' bP did
not himself pursue hissUfld y calling on the Sunday, nor
he order anybody else to do so. In proof of this, he cane'
his young man. This individual swore that the room in which
he shaved was let to the Christian Corporative Union Society'
but it appeared he (witness) shaved in it on Sundays, while
his master was at work scraping beards in his other sholb
The customers here were let in at the back door, by the.ntle;
fendant's wife. The defendant was fined five shillings. I
Waller, charged with a similar offence, thought to get offf
because the gentleman entered the shop for the purpose
getting a tooth extracted,—the barber having, after this
ration, shaved him into the bargain. He was fined five sIIP-•
lings. George Knight was accused by police-officer O'Brien'
The latter stated, that he entered the shop on Sunday morn'
ing week, and found the defendant curling a person shair'
He went in afterwards, and saw a man, who had just bec,
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shaved, wiping the lather off his face. The defendant might
have been acquitted, as the man seen by the office„
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might have shaved himself, there being no evidence to prove
that Knight operated upon him. The latter, however, 01',
sisted upon his boy being called. " Who shaved the man?,
asked Mr. Hall of the boy. "Oh !" bawled Knight " that,'
not a fair question, you know, Mr. Hall." (Laughter.(i
The lad soon proved the case, and Mr. Knight was fine
five shillings. Francis O'Toole was charged by police-officer
65. The officer said he saw five men go into Mr. O'Toold,
cellar, and through the window he saw Mr. O'Toole shalt
them. Mr. O'Toole, in great wrath, said his premises we't,
a cellar, and he had no where but the establishment in which
he shaved to invite his friends. He denied, in toto,
ghat
the officer had said. Officer : "He told me that, if I 51c.
them shaved, I might come every Sunday, and see the same'
for he would do it.' Mr. O'Toole :" I didn't ;—I deny ',
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in toto. My shaving establishment is my residence ;
my primises, and dhey wor my frinds dhat I invited to collie
and see me." Officer : " I saw the men go in with dirt!'
faces and long beards, and come out with clean faces and 11
beards." This the bench thought was prima fade evidence
against le panvre barbiere : he was, accordingly, fined fi"'''
shillings.

PROFUSE .
On Tuesday, John M'Cabe andBLEEDING
Thomas Brookfield were
charged before Messrs. Hall and Currie, with fighting in the
public street. Police-officer 79, stated, that shortly after 01'`',
o'clock that morning, he was passing along Great George"
street, when he heard a great outcry and hubbub. He well;
to see what was the matter and noise, and found the two 13el"
soners fighting. Brookfield got M'Cabe down, and '3",, ,S
kicking him. M'Cabe stated, that he was passing along the
street, when he was set upon by a number of car-driver,.
who knocked him down and beat him most shamefully. k
fellow-prisoner was also a car-driver, but he did not strike
him ; on the contrary, he was the only one amongst theta
who picked him up when he was knocked down. The officer
stated, that when he arrived at the spot the prisoner Brook'
field was kicking the other most violently. Nothing of the
sort," exclaimed M'Cabe, " I was struck on the nose by the
others, and was delivered of the major part of the blood that
I had in my body." (Laughter.) Mr. Hall : " I supP°l
you bled .gin." Prisoner : " No, sir,---I was not drunk.
Mr. Currie : " It is not often that a man is drunk, accord,
ing to his own admission." The officer said Brookfield had
on the preceding night, charged the other with having abused him. Mr. Hall : " I suppose they have talked it over to-
gether. Well, if he chooses to be kicked, he may : it is
matter of choice with him." The prisoners were discharge"
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WANTON OUTRAGE.
On Tuesday, a man, who described himself as a master
watchmaker, was placed at the bar. The Police-officer 011
duty in St, Paul's-square stated, that on the preceding 0'1;
ing, a young girl was passing through the square, when
prisoner took from her a jug of milk which she was carrying'
and threw the contents in her face. She called out for the
Police, and he immediately crossed over to her assistance'
As he was advancing, the prisoner threw the jug also at VI
head. He immediately took him into custody, and march
him to Bridewell. A very decent-looking girl stood forwal
and stated that she met the prisoner as the policeman Gibe
described. He asked her to give him a drink of milk.
presented her jug to him, and told him to take a drink. in-
stead of doing so, he dashed the milk all over her persorit
and afterwards broke the jug over her head. Mr. Parkinso,ll
said, when the prisoner was brought into Bridewell, the only
excuse which he made was, that he had not thrown the
upon the girl, but had thrown it into the street, The Pre.
was wetted all over with the milk. It did not appear tha;
the girl's clothes had suffered any material damage. Th
prisoner was ordered to pay sixpence for the value of the jig
and milk, and five shillings and costs for the assault. i
default of payment, he was to be committed to prison I°r
seven days.

THE NELSON TESTIMONIAL.—The committee have mane
their election from the designs sent in for the "Nelson Tes“-
monial ; " and the result of a competition open to all the
talent of the country, and that has produced nearly one Wl-
dred and fifty designs, and employed the genius of almost as
many artists during several months, is a Corinthian 011°11
with a statue of Nelson at the top. Oh most lame and hi'
potent conclusion ! The fitness of the thing is on a par with
the originality of the idea. Shall we not hear of some jol
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tar enquire, as he looks up at the statue—that is, if his -
eyes can make out the hero's features—" What has the adrar
ral done that he should be mast-headed? " Mr. Railton is
the author of the successful design ; which is as showy as tile
York column is bald : the bronze railing round the toP ",
a scarcely less conspicuous feature than the statue above'
The question " Who is to be the Sculptor ? has still to be
decided.
REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE OF THE DAYS OF Till
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MONTH.—OR the 31st of July, 1683, Lord William Russel-.
was executed in Lincoln's -Inn-fields for the stand' which
made in supporting the Protestant religion against the ig;
trigues of the Court, in the reign of Charles II„ formed I,
Roman Catholic interest in favour of the popish Duke t
York ; as also died Sydney—hence the revolution of 16.00
(see the biography of these two illustrious martyrs.) On th
31st day of July, 1834, Lord John Russell's Bill for the AP:
nropriation of the Revenues of the Irish Protestant Church
in aid of Roman Catholic Education went into a committee
of the Commons' House of Parliament ; the effect of which s
was in direct opposition to his noble ancestor's and Sydney a
glorious struggle, for which they gave up their lives. Lor
,
William Russell was the son of the first Duke ; Lord Job
Russell is the son of the seventh Duke.