The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The usual monthly meeting of the Council was held
yesterday ; Hugh Hornby, Esq., the president, in the
chair.
After the routine business had been disposed of, the
report of the committee on Mercantile Law Reform and
Tribunals of Commerce, which had been read and ordered
to be printed on the 16th ult. for the use of the Council,
was, after an animated discussion, formally adopted ;
and instructions given for its general circulation. The
further action on these important subjects is contained
in the following resolution :
" That the Council accept the invitation to send a
deputation to the conference in London, conveyed in the
circular of the Law Amendment Society, signed by Lord
Harrowby ; and that the special committee be requested
to confer with the various chambers of commerce and
mercantile associations, in order to carry out the objects
referred to in the report."

Among the communications were :
Letters from the Sunderland Shipowners' Society on
the burdens on British shipping.
From the Foreign-office, in reply to the memorial of
the Chamber, on the subject of differential duties charged
in the Mexican ports, stating that Lord Malmesbury had
forwarded instructions relative thereto to the British
minister in Mexico.

From Mr. Thomas Carse—On Decimal Currency ; re-
ferred to the Special Committee on that subject. On
Differential Rates of Carriage charged by Railway Com-
panies ; referred to the Railway Charges Committee, and
power was given to confer with the Dock Committee and
other bodies thereon. On International Postage; referred
to the Postal Committee. On a Reduction of the Wine
Duties; ordered that the opinion of the Wine and Spirit
Association be requested thereon.

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.

YESTERDAY.

SMUGGLING.—Two persons, named Joseph Lloyd and
Philip Wilson, were fined 10s. each and costs, the former
for bringing ashore from a ship in the river Ilb. 6oz. of
foreign manufactured tobacco, and the latter, three blad-
ders of brandy. In default of payment, they were ordered
to be committed for 14 days.
PLAYING AT PITCH AND Toss.—Three boys were
fined ss. each for playing at pitch and toss on Sunday last.
In default of payment, they were ordered to be im-
prisoned for three days each.
RIOT AND ASSAULT UPON THE POLICE.—On Sunday
night, about twelve o'clock, one of those disgraceful riots
which so frequently take place in that neighbourhood
occurred in Hodgson-street, Scotland-place. The parties
were all low Irish, but how the quarrel originated is not
known. When the police interfered, it appears, a regular
attack was made upon them by both parties of belli-
gerents ; pokers and other weapons were freely used,
stones showered upon them from the roofs of the
houses, and one officer so severely injured about the
head that he was carried to the Northern Hospital in
a state of insensibility. Only three of the rioters were
apprehended, but several others are known to the police,
and warrants were issued for their apprehension. The
names of the parties brought before the court are Thos.
Casey, ,Catherine Gulloden, Mary Jeffreys, and Jno. Burke.
Mr. Mansfield said people would suppose from the evi-
dence adduced in sc ch cases that we were living in a town
I inhabited by the most ferocious savages instead of amongst
civilized people. These assaults took place almost every
week, and human life was not safe. In every case he
should visit the guilty parties severely. He sentenced
each of the prisoners to pay a fine of 405., and in default
of payment to be imprisoned for two months.

PICKING POCKETS.—One of the swell mob, who gave'
his name as George Woods, was placed before Mr. Mans-
field charged with picking pockets. Bates, one of the
detective officers, stated that on Saturday, about two
o'clock, he watched the movements of the prisoner, who
was amongst the crowd when the dock gates at St,
George's Pier were open, and attempted to pick the
pockets of several ladies. After seeing his hand in the
pockets of four ladies he apprehended him, but only found
a few coppers on his person. He was committed for three
months.—Another person, named John Herbert, was
sentenced to a like period of imprisonment for attempting
to pick pockets at the Baptist Chapel, in Myrtle-s:rce;.,
on Sunday evening, as the congregation were leaving that
place of worship.
CHILD STRIPPING.—A female named Kelly, who had
been eight times committed previously, was brought be-
fore Mr. Mansfield, and committed for trial on a charge
of stealing a pair of shoes belonging to a little boy, three
or four years old. It appeared that the child, with an
elder brother, went out to meet their father on Saturday,
on his return from wqrk. At the corner of the street
where they lived (Eldon-street) they met the prisoner,
who gave the elder boy a penny to go an errand. During
his absence, she took the younger child away in her arms
on to the Canal-banks, and was about stripping him when
his cries attracted the attention of a man near, and she was
apprehended. Finding herself detected, she threw the
shoos away, and dropped a parcel in the Canal.
SHIP ROBBERY.—A youth named James Flannelly,
alias Edward Maher, was committed for one month for
stealing clothes from a vessel in George's Dock.

THE FRUIT VENDERS AT THE SAVINGS' BANK.-It
will be oheerved from the notice of a meeting of the fruit
venders of Liverpool, given elsewhere in our columns,
that Mr. Feeny kindiy offered to assist them in securing
their little savings, by meeting them on Monday morn-
ings at the Provident Society's office, Queen-square. A
considerable number we learn accordingly attended, and
made small payments of from twopence and threepence to
one shilling, and some of even more. In consequence of
the committee sitting only an hour, all tho parties could
not be attended to ; and we learn that a whole day each
week is to be devoted to them. It was very gratifying to
observe at the meeting the improved appearance and dress
of those assembled.

THE FOLLOWING ADVERTISEMENT appeared in the
Times of 'Wednesday :—" It is enough : one man alone
upon earth have I found noble. Away from me tor ever.
Cold heart and mean spirit, you have lost what millions,
empires could not have bought,. but which a single word,
truthfully and nobly spoken, might have made' our own
to all eternity. Yet are you forgiven ; depart in peace;
rest in my Redeemer.",