The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-18 00:00:00

in which is contained the death-doom of the Maynooth

grant.

" Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again,
The eternal years of God are her's :
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies."

Honour to SPOONER,—he has done the state and
religion good service.

I am sorry to say that Lord DERBY has bad a very
severe fit of the gout, which has disabled him from
attending to his official duties for the last three days.
He was obliged to absent himself from the privy council
and the cabinet council held on Saturday, but the violence
of tha attack has much abated, and it is hoped he will be
able to resume 'his functions to-day or to-morrow at
farthest. lie is an indefatigable minister, and the
country never had a more hard-working and attentive
administration than the present. Indeed, DISRAELI, and
PACKINGTON, and WALPOLE devote themselves to the
public business with such zeal and watchfulness that the
only fear we can have is that they may overstrain their
energies and impair their health. But they have estab-
lished one great fact, to wit, that men need not be place-
holders and red tapeoffieials by profession, in order to be
clualifierl to carry on the government of the country with
honour and success.

The gigantic glass house in Hyde-park, which has been
so long " going, going," is at length " gone." It was
knocked down—not actually, but metaphorically, or in
auctioneer's phrase—fairly, on Thursday last,-and it is
.new on its way bodily to Sydenham. Its end is worthy
of its beginning. It was a huge money speculation at
first, and it answered its purpose amazingly. It is about
to be turned to another huge speculation, and it remains
to be seen whether the shareholders will make a profit or
" gain a loss" by the enterprise. It is a curious appli-
cation of the capital of a company, originally formed for
'the purpose of constructing iron ro,:ds, to invest it in a
gl'rss building; but so it is. How the shareholders of
the Brighton and South-Western lines will like this new
spec of the directors, it is hard to say. They have not
found the rails pay over well, but they have got some-
' thing out of them nevertheless. Should they hear of a
grand smash some fine morning, they cannot be much
surprised. Those who meddle with edged tools will get
cut ; and those who traffic in glass must expect to hear
occasionally of disagreeable breakages. But that is their
affair. To the Londoner—that is, the I'h'est•end resident
—the great object is to get rid of the monster nuisance,
its accompanying dust, omnibuses, and racket, and
to get hack the beautiful green park to its former health-
creating condition. That object is gained, and so adieu—
a last adieu to Sir JOSEPH PAXTON and his monster
green-house.

WAGNER is still dumb : the Vice-Chancellor has put a
chancery padlock on her mouth, and the only key that
can open it is the hand of LUMLEY. All the HOBBS'S
in Westminster-hall cannot pick the lock which his
honour has forged, and thus the " pretty singing bird"
is rendered of no more value to any one than a common
domestic silent fowl. As "no song, no supper," is the
principal clause in the contract, and as the lady and her
papa (who is a thoroughbred Jew) will have " the bond,
the whole bond, and nothing but the bond," it follows
that she must either sing for LUMLEY, at her Majesty's
Theatre, and sack the money she agreed to accept, or
take herself off. The German bird who can sing, and
yet who won't sing, cannot be made to sing; but she may
be made to know that there is something in England
besides money—and that is a love for honesty and fair
dealing.

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.

YESTERDAY.

OPEN-AIR PREACHING.—A fellow, named Mackenzie,
who is known to the police as a disorderly character, was
charged by constable 456 with the following offence :
The policeman stated that on the previous evening, a
young man was preaching to a number of persons congre-
gated on the vacant ground at the west side the Prince's
Dock, when the prisoner wilfully interrupted the discourse
by his disorderly conduct. A gentleman drew the officer's
attention to the man's conduct., and he attempted to take
him into custody, when he resisted, and struck the
officer.—Mr. Mansfield fined the man ss. for being drunk.
SAVE ME FROM MY FRIENDS.—John Macready, a
man of respectable exterior, was charged by a person
named William Vaughan, with having stolen £3 ss. The
latter met Macready in Lime-street, on Friday, and after
shaking hands with him, it was proposed they should have
a friendly glass together. Macready said he had no money,
upon which his friend offered to pay. He went to seve-
ral public houses,and finally to one at the corner of Greek-
street, and Copperas-hill, where Vaughan fell asleep, and
when he awoke he found belied been robbed of his money,
and that his friend had very unceremoniously left him.
It was alleged that the latter, before leaving the house,
was observed to have his hand full of silver. The case
was remanded to this day for the evidence of Mrs. Davies,
the landlady.
CAUTION TO PANNBROKERS.—Ann Banes was brought
up under the following circumstances :—On Saturday last,
Mr. Byford, pawnbroker, Dale-street, gave a man into
the custody of constable 650, for offering a watch in pledge
at his shop, in reference to which police notices had been
issued so long ago as December. The man, whose name
is Peter Buller, satisfied the police that his wife had
bought a duplicate of the watch some time since, when
it was pledged at Mr. Perry's, Brownlow-hill, from a
woman named Barnes, who was taken into custody on
the charge of having stolen the watch. A man of
respectable appearance, who resides in Manchester,
stated that on the evening of the 26th of December last,
as he was passing down Lord-street, a female came up
and threw her arm round him. He disengaged himself.
and immediately after missed his watch, a muffler, and a
silk handkerchief. A bill was issued by the police on the
following day, describing the watch, a copy of which was
served en every pawnbroker. Notwithstanding this notice,
the watch had been pledged at Mr. Perry's ; but he was
unable to identify the prisoner or the watch, as, he said,
the transaction had occurred so long ago. It was released
on the 21st of February by Buller. Mr. Mansfield in-
quired why the watch had not been stopped after the cir-
culation of tha police notice. The pawnbroker did not
appear to be furnished with any good reason on this point,
and Mr. Jameson, the magistrates' clerk, doubted whether
he was not liable to an indictment. The case was
remanded to this day for the production of one of the
pawnbroker's books.
James Owens, John Hardy, John Parkinson, James
Anderson, and Margaret Cassles. were brought up in the
Nisi Prius Court, before Mr. Smith, on the charge of
having broken into the premises of William Jones, and
stolen therefrom a number of pairs of boots and shoes.
The complainant is deaf and dumb, and gets his living by
keeping a small boot and shoeshop in Great Howard• street.
On Friday night, the shop was entered from the roof, and a
great part of the stock carried off. Some of the prisoners
had been seen loitering about the shop on the previous
day. Marks, a detective officer, accompanied by 717, went
to a house in a court in Adlington-street, on Saturday,
where all the prisoners were assembled, and a great
portion of their spoil. Some of the goods were
found at Mr Healing's, pawnbroker, Scotland-place.
—Mr. Wybergh examined these articles and pointed
out to the magistrate that the name of Jones, the maker,
was marked inside. The magistrate wished to know from
the person who attended for Mr. Healing, why some
notice had not been taken of this when the goods were
pledged. The reply was that they were much pressed
with business at the time. It was the opinion of the
magistrates' clerk that the only effectual way of putting
a stop to this venal system would be by indicting all
pawnbrokers who may risk the consequences of receiving
pledges under such circumstances. All the persons were
committed for trial.

STEALING A WATCH.—Margaret Robinson, a married
woman, was committed to prison for two months, for rob-
bing a sailor, named King, of a watch, in Norfolk-street.
ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.— Mexancler Scott, a porter
in the employment of Mr. Howell, of the White Bear,
Dale-street, was remanded on the charge of stealing a
small quantity of wine from his master.
ROBBERY BY A LODGER.—Elizabeth Keane was re-
manded to Wednesday, for stealing a counterpane, a can-
dlestick, and other articles, from her lodgings in Elliott-
street.

SMUGGLING.—A man named Francis was fined 10s. for
smuggling lloz. of foreign manufaetured tobacco. The
tobacco was found in his stockings, on board the Scotland,
from Mobile.

CAUTION TO LODGING-HOUSE KEEPERS.—A respect-
able female named Kilfoyle, who keeps a lodging-house
in Dale-street, charged a man named William Fox with
having stolen a work-box containing a gold wedding ring.
The prisoner had lodged at the house two or three nights.
On Saturday evening about half-past seven o'clock he
came home, and soon after, under the pretence of requiring
to wash his hands, he went up stairs. In a few minutes
from that time he came down and left the house, when
the work-box was missed. Tile inquiry was remanded to
this day to afford an opportunity to the police of discover-
ing the stolen box.
ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.—John Welsh, a respect-
ably-dressed young man, recently in the service of Mr.
Richmond, woollen draper, of Paradise-street, was brought
up charged with having received £1 18s. 61., the money
of his employer. Mr. Stubbs, a person in the same es-
tablishment, deposed to having sent Welsh, on Tuesday
last, to the house of Mr. Ashgrove in Bevington bill, with
a pair of trousers and a vest ; having authority to receive
the payment. The amount, £1 18s. 61., was paid, and
Walsh absented himself with it. When asked for his de-
fence, he said that he was so drunk on the day in question
that he was not in a condition to be responsible for his
actions. Since the occurrence he had been in treaty
with Mr. Richmond to make up the sum by weekly in-
stalments. Mr. Mansfield adjourned the case to this day,
when Mr. Richmond will be in attendance.

CAUTION TO SHIPPERS OF MERCHANDISE BY MEN•
OF-WAR.—It will be remembered that when the unfor-
tunate Birkenhead left Portsmouth, a large quantity of
Wines Was shipped on board of her. These wines were
duly insured as far as the Cape of Good Hope ; but as
only a portion was landed at Simon's Bav, the remainder
being lost in the vessel, we understand -that the under-
write at Lloyd's have refused to pay the amount, stating,
as their reasons for so doing, that the voyage was com-
pleted on the arrival of the vessel either in Table Bay or
Simon's Bay, and that there was no clause in the policy
by which the Birkenhead was allowed to proceed on a
sk might be inctirred.
fresh trip, by which an additumm