The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-10 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.

ASSAULTING THE POLICE. On Thursday, Danie
Kelly, well known to the police as a disorderly character,
was fined 21s. for a brutal assault on a police-constable in
Pownall-square, on Wednesday night.
ATTEMPT TO STAB.—OR Thursday, John Kidd, with
two women, respectively named Sherry and Stewart, were
charged with an attempt to stab constable No. 189. The
officer, with another, was attempting to apprehend Kidd
in Colton's vaults, when Kidd struck at his breast with
an open pocket-knife, but was prevented inflicting a
wound by the other constable, who struck him on the
head with his stick. The women were discharged ; Kidd
was fined 40s. and costs, or one month's imprisonment.
CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST A PUBLICAN. —On
Thursday, Thomas Donaldson, publican, of St. James's-
street, was charged with assaulting police-officer 609. The
complainant had gone to the prisoner's house in search of
a thief, when he was struck by the prisoner. The magis-
trate said he had no doubt about the assault; but, as the
officer would not leave the house when he was told, he
would discharge the prisoner.
CAPRICE OF FORTUNE.—John Bentinck Lomas, for-
merly a half-pay officer, was charged, on 'Wednesday,
%Al) h tying been drunk and disorderly. Some years ago,
he disposed of his half-pay to government, and became a
settler in Australia ; he held a large tract of land, and was
appointed to a high position in the police in the colony.
In consequence of having heard that some property had
been bequeathed to him in Yorkshire, he came over to
this country, to find he had been deceived ; he became
insane, and was received into the Wakefield Lunatic
Asylum. Being dismissed, he found himself utterly desti-
tute. His next stage in misfortune was as the bearer of
a letter to the police of Liverpool, from the police autho-
rities of York, promising to contribute to the expense of
sending him again to Australia.—Mr. Clough found a
vessel, the passage in which was to be £lO ; but, when
the promised aid arrived from York, it proved to be 53.
which was given to the poor fellow, who seemed, in a fit
of desperation, to have spent it in drink.—Mr. Mansfield
ordered his discharge.

EMBEZZLEMENT.--On Wednesday, a man, named
John M`Shane, was charged with having embezzled va-
rious SUM 3 of money, to the amount of about £B, which
he had received on account of a Mr. Shelly, agent to a
brewery at Sutton.

CURIOUS CASE OF FORGERY.—A young man, named
John Burton, was examined on Wednesday, upon the
charge of forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange for
£l9l. The prisoner represented himself as having been
engaged in the malting business. In August last he was
in Denbigh, North Wales, where he purchased two horses.
He appears to have had some transactions with an inn-
keeper of the town, Mr. Edwin Hughes, who, on one oc-
casion, he observed to place some money in a cash-box.
In a few minutes after this he proposed to give Mr. Hughes
£lO for the cash-box with its contents, whatever might
be the amount. Mr. Hughes assented, and the cash-box
was handed over to Burton. Thew proved to be within
the box between six and seven pounds in cash and some
memorandums, among which was a bill drawn by Man-
ders and Co., porter brewers, of Dublin, on Mr. Edwin
Hughes, for £l9l. The bill was, however, not accepted.
About five o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday Burton
called upon Mr. Ashe, spirit merchant, of South Castle-
street, Liverpool, to whom he presented the bill to be
cashed, but he was told it was not accepted, and there-
fore not negotiable. At the same time an accepted bill
was shown to him, as he appeared ignorant of the required
form. Two hours after this Burton presented the same
bill, now purporting to be accepted by Mr. Jonathan
Hughes, of Denbigh, to Mr. Roberts, tea-dealer, Royal
Bank-buildings. The account he then gave of himself
excited Mr. Roberts's suspicion, and he was handed over
to the police. On Wednesday Mr. Jonathan Hughes, who
is the father of the original possessor of the cash-box,
proved that the acceptance was not executed by him, as it
appeared to be, Burton was therefore commited for trial.
MATRIMONIAL DIFFERENCES.—Mrs. Jane Hillyer ap-
peared on Tuesday, against her husband, Emanuel Hillyer,
who was in custody on a warrant for threatening her life.
Mr. Owen appeared for the complainant, and stated that
she had him in custody four or five times for serious
assaults, and that she considered her life in danger. She
had sought protection under the roof of a Mr. Hodson,
when her husband burst into her room, and attempted to
seize her by the throat. He was ordered to find bail.

On Saturday, James Tinley and Owen Curran, were
committed to prison for three months, having been found
under suspicious circumstances in the sample-rooms of
Messrs. Wm. Clare and Sons, Exchange-buildings.

YESTERDAY.
SMUGGLING.—John Johnson, a sailor, belonging to the
steam-ship Prince. of Dublin, was fined 10s. for smuggling
a bladder of whisky; and Daniel Dwyer, also a seaman,
was fined 20s. for smuggling a gallon of whisky. Neither
of the parties being able to pay the penalty, they were
both committed to gaol.

STEALING WEARING APPAREL.—John Wilson, a sea-
man, was committed for two months, for stealing a jacket
and pair of trowsers belonging to another seaman (a
black), on board the schooner Brailsford, now lying in
dock, in this port.
POCKET PICKING.—Mary Mooney, an elderly woman,
and two other females, believed to be her daughters, who
quitted Dublin by the steamer, on Thursday evening last,
and arrived in this town on Fliday morning, were appre-
hended on Saturday night, attempting to pick the pocket
of a young lady in Byrom-street. His Worship, in
sentencing them to three months' commitment, remarked,
that Liverpool swarmed with parties from Ireland, who
made a trade of pocket-picking, and it was necessary to
convince them that they would not be permitted to pursue
their avocation here with impunity.
RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY.—JOIIII ArGaVey, a
labourer, in the employ of Mr. James Clayton, brewer,
and James Dickson, a provision-dealer, in Vauxhall-road,
were charged with receiving, the former a £5 note, and
the latter a £5O note and some £lO notes, part of a sum
of £136 10s., which had been stolen from the person of
Mr. John Gordon, a cattle-dealer, residing at Belfast,
but transacting business in this town on the 22d Januai y
last, they knowing at the time that the same had been
stolen. It appeared that Gordon, who was the worse for
liquor at the time, was induced, about seven o'clock in the
evening of the same day named, to enter a night cellar
with two women of bad character, whom lie treated with
a glass of spirits each. He also took a glass himself, and
immediately after drinking it lost all consciousness. When
he recovered he found that he had been robbed of the sum
above named, which had been previously in his pocket,
consisting of a £5O note, four £lO notes, a £5 note, some
Irish notes, and £29 10s. in gold. The police were in-
formed of the circumstance, and, on making inquiry, they
obtained information which led to a visit to Dickson's
shop, when, after some conversation, that person admitted
that he had changed a large sum of money in bank notes
for two females, from whom he had received £3O for his
trouble. Ho was then taken into custody, and £2l 9s. 6d.
found in the house was impounded. M'Gavey, the other
prisoner, it was ascertained, had obtained change of a £5
note from Mr. Clayton. his master, on account of a female
who had lodged at his house, and who, he stated, owed
him 6s. 6d— which she paid out of the £5. Evidence of
these facts having been taken, the prisoners were remanded
till Monday next.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—AIfred Lloyd and James Wil-
liams, otherwise Keeley, were charged with having on
Sunday night assaulted and robbed Charles Robinson,
marine store dealer, Grayson-street, of the sum of
£7 Ils. 61 The prisoner Lloyd came up to the com-
plainant in Tabley street, and said, " Mr. Robinson, are
you on your way home ? " to which he replied in the
affirmative. He (the prisoner) then put his left hand
round his neck, and his right over his mouth, and threw
him down on his back, while two others came up and
robbed him of the above sum. The prisoners stated that
they would be prepared to prove an alibi, and they were
remanded till this day.

NEW BRUNSWICK.---MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.— The
late Hon. W. Chipman, Chief Justice, has by his will di-
rected the interest of £lO,OOO to.be paid annually to the
Diocesan Church Society of New Brunswick, and made
handsome bequests towards the permanent maintenance
of the Madras School, and towards the endowment of St.
John's Church.

ACTIVITY IN WOOLWICII ARSENAL.—Fifteen thou-
sand shells have been ordered to be immediately packed
ready for service, and sent away for the different ports
throughout England. A still larger order is daily ex-
pected • many of the men work overtime, and additional
men and boys are to be entered to complete the supply
required. Among the orders specified are four artillery
waggon-loads of ball-cartridges, and 3000 new guns for
actual service. An addition of from 300 to 500 men and
men and boys is to be made in the working department.
Some of the engineers " on strike " have applied for em-
ployment in the Arsenal.

- MR. GRANTLEYIfERKELEY AND FREE TRADE.-Mr.
Grantley Berkeley, M.P., has addressed the following
reply to an application from the secretary of the Glouces-
tershire Agricultural Society, for a subscription to the
fund for inducing the Agricultural Society of England to
hold their annual meeting in that city :—" Beacon Lodge,
Jan. 30, 1852.—Sir,—I regret very much that it is out of
my power to subscribe to the funds of the Gloucestershire
Agricultural Society for the object they have in view, as
explained to me in your letter of the 27th. The admission
of slave produce under the name of Free Trade,' has
so utterly reduced my means that, as a Colonial farmer, I
BM absolutely ruined,—Yours, faithfully, GRANTLEY F.
BERKELEY."

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL

SOCIETY.

The eighth meeting of this society for the session Wal
held last evening in the Royal Institution, J. B. Yates*
Esq:, president, in the chair.

The. SECRETARY read a letter from Theodore W. 11411‘.
bone, Esq.. president of the Royal Institution, expressing.
the pleasure of the committee that Mr. Yates's portrall,
should hang in the committee room of the institution.
,"
has accordingly been placed, in a good light, by the fade
of that of Dr. Trail!.
A fraternal exchange of publications with a similsr
society in Kilkenny was agreed to; Mr. Alfred Holt Wag
elected a member; and a donation was handed in from
the Royal Astronomical Society.
Mr. Cox drew attention to some objects from Alvan'
dria, including a deposit like mortar from the water of
tank ; scoriae from the baths, &c.—Mr. EDWARDS?. 01,
Berry-street, exhibited a drawing of a curious chamois&
apparatus, in which gas was used to great advantage 11
means of the atmopyre burner. The apparatus itself wal
in full operation in the hall.
The PRESIDENT read three letters from Miss Brovilir
afterwards Mrs. flemans, addressed to Matthew Nichol",
son, Esq., from Bronwylfa, Asaph, in 1809, 10, and
11. At the date of the first she was only fifteen years 0€
age ; and in this one only did she sign her name in full.
The paper for the evening was then read by Dr. INMAN;
on the microscopic qualities of hair, illustrated by sever"
well-executed drawings.

MRS. CATHERINE WINTER adVertiSES a controve..---
lecture on what she calls the Apostate Church of Eng'
land. She is a recent convert to the Church of Rome'
and we have no doubt that her advocacy of her new prin'
ciples will be received by the public with as much respect
as her lectures on Bloomerism.
THE AMAZON.—On Tuesday the Board of Trade a'
quiry into the circumstances connected with the loss 01,
the Amazon was concluded, with the exception of soca°
opinions to be taken on spontaneous combustion. When
the report was made, it would be sent to the Board of
Trade.

LORD BROUGHAM'S NEW COUNTY COURTS BILL."'
On Saturday Lord Brougham's hill on the County Cout.'ts
was printed by order of the House of Lords. In Its
present shape it contains 28 sections. The salaries of the
judges may be increased to £l5OO a year. An appeal 15
to lie in case either party is dissatisfied in point of 110
where the cause was tried with or without a jury.
GREAT WESTERN STEAM SHIP COMPANY.—The se'
counts of this company, which have just been published/
show some very disastrous results. The whole of the
original £lOO shares are written off as a total loss. The
loss on the Great Britain alone was £107,896 7s. 2d., apd
on the works £47,277 Os. lid. The amount arising from
the sale of the Great Britain and the works has been re-
ceived in dividends by the holders of the new or prefer-
ence shares.

CHARGE OF ROBBERY AND MURDER AT NEWMARKET•
—On Friday last a female convict, named Newman, under
sentence of transportation for life at Newmarket, COn"
fessed that John Dugard, , man with whom she formal,'
cohabited, had murdered Mr. Betts, at the Ncivvmarket
Fair, held in November, 1850, by means of a life-preserver'
in the shape of a riding-whip handle. At that time Di"
Bard, being in the midst of a crowd, escaped detection•
The verdict returned by the coroner's jury at the time►
on view of Mr. Betts's body, was one of " wilful murder
against some person unknown." Dugard was committed
for trial.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Friday last, Mrs. Anas-
tasia Mayor, the divorced wife of a respectable gentlemerl
in the East India service, who appears to have been
seduced by a Captain Farquhar, in the same service, some
eight years ago, committed suicide in the office of bet
husband's solicitor, Salisbury-square, Fieet-street, by
taking a considerable dose of essential oil of almonds. She
had parted with what private property she possessed after
quitting her husband, and was reduced to great pevertt
and distress. This was believed to have been the cause of
the desperate act by which she sought to get rid of the
mental agony and burden of life which she had long com-
plained of.

DESTRUCTION OF A LARGE FACTORY BY
Sunday morning, about eight o'clock, a fire broke oat
in the extensive premises of Thomas Freen and Co., ce-
ment and plaster of Paris merchants, No. 3 wharf, Re;
gent's Canal, Kingsland-road, London. Thefire is believed
to have originated in the oven-houses in which the gYPsee:l
is baked to convert it into plaster. The whole of the fac"
tory was destoyed and 'part of the roof burned off' the
oven-houses. The stock-in-trade and splendid machine*:
was also rendered comparatively worthless. The loss, 115
a moderate computation, will amount to some thousands
of pounds.

STEAMBOAT SUNK AT LONDON BRIDGE.—On Suncia9
morning the Ant steamboat, plying from the Adelphi pier
to London Bridge, while on her passage from the first"
named place, with a large number of passengers, and
being in the act of passing under one of the arches of the
bridge, was forced by another steam-packet upon a heap
of stones, placed in the bed of the river to strengthen the
piers of the faulty arches, and a portion of her bottom et
once gave way. The water rushed in at the aperture with
great rapidity, but the vessel proceeded to her destination
and all the passengers were safely landed. The vessel
soon afterwards sunk ; but so near to the pier as not t°
impede the navigation.
A MODERN JACK SHEPHERD.—On
while Mr. Rix, a farmer at Shirley,betTweheunrs
Ashbourne, was proceeding to the last-named place, oe,
Thursday
Derby wee
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horseback, a young man walked up to him, and presentee
a loaded pistol at his head, swearing he would instant!'"
blow out his brains unless he gave him ss. Mr. 11°
complied ; but presently meeting some other travellers
on the road, he told them what had occurred, and the
robber was parsued, disarmed, and taken into custody
The highwayman ultimately turned out to be Mattheif
Cooney, a lad of 15 years old, from Manchester, who had
been enamoured of daring exploits by reading the adven-
tures of Dick Turpin, Jack Shepherd, and other high'
waymen. He has been committed for trial.
IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.—On Saturday, in the Co
of Exchequer, a judgment was delivered, setting aside
the verdict given in June last against Messrs. Coutts and
Co., for paying a check to Messrs. Gosling's which be,:
been crossed with the words " Bank of England," to
order that it might be paid only to that establishment'
The grounds stated by Baron Parke for this decision
were, that there is no custom among bankers to attend
to specific crossings, and to forbear paying a check to ons
banker that may be distinctly crossed with the name e'
another; while, secondly, if such a custom were really
recognised,9t would be illegal, since it would amount t,0,.
an infringement of the Stamp Act, which only exeml,l7.,
checks payable to bearer. The effect of crossing
check," continued Baron Parke, " is not to restrict the,
negotiability of such instruments." At the same time,
however, his lordship admitted that the custom of croe:
sing checks thus—"—and company" rendered it
obligatory that they should be paid to no one but f!,
banker, and that any house disregarding it would do so at
their peril. " The object of that custom," he said, "is
not to insure payment to any particular bank, but that
the checks so crossed and paid may be more easily traced,
,
It is not intended thereby to restrict the negotiability 1:;
checks, but to compel the holder to present them throne_
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parties of known respectability. The usage may °l'
highly beneficial to the public, but the check still re'
mains payable to the bearer." This decision has (wee:
sioned considerable difference of opinion among al
mercantile and banking communities in the city
London. - -

THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD DlGGlNGS.—Accounts of the Australian gold mines have been received from Sydney ~
the 11th November, being a month later than the last
dates. £hey confirm all the anticipations thus far enter:
tamed of a permament and increasing yield. At Ba!ll
urst, and on the Turon river, operations were bell
steadily carried forward, and new deposits were found vclt
sufficient frequency to show that the ultimate results al
likely to be precisely similar to what has been realized at
California. The fresh spots chiefly mentioned are ef
Braidwood and Lake Bathurst, about 150 miles south °'
Sydney, and conseq iently in a direction different to the
discoveries hitherto, which have been to the north-weeli
Including the amount shipped in the present vessel (abo
£80,000), the total export from Sydney had alreadi
reached £34o,ooo.—This was during a period of fi:len
months, and as it was estimated also that at least £loo,°'
was still in the hands of miners, it would appear that thog
total production has been at the rate of upwards °I;
£1,050,000 per annum. Some considerable quantities °;
the gold from the Port Philip mines had found their Way
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to Sydney, and had been readily bought on account 13.,
their great purity. One thousand ounces, purchased 17,
one party at £3 4s. Gd. per ounce, were found 71 per cent;
better than standard. The increasing shipments to o°l'd
land caused the bills drawn against them to be effe,r,e4
daily at lower prices, and the rate of exchange had faird
to 6 per cent. discount. The scarcity of money, couPle,
with the wholly disproportionate arrival of goods and Prot
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duce, had created a ruinous state of affairs in the imP°`,.
market. Flour had fallen from £25 to £9 per ton, stlglii
from £23 to £l7, and everything else in proportion. Jose;
before the departure of the present advices, the Legislaq,
Council had taken a most important step with a -view 1.:
promote emigration from England, they having unal°,
mously made a recommendation to the Colonial govelr
ment, which had been acceded to, to remit £175,000 le
the purpose. There was an increasing scarcity of handl
which threatened to put a stop to many import
works. Common labourers were receiving 20s. a-weelr!
and it was doubted if the railway company would be
enabled .to obtain a tender for their second contraci;
At a place called Mount Alexander, it was said one r0,,e0
had obtained 11 pounds weight in 48 hours. 11)0
Phoenician, by which the above advices have he'
brought, arrived at Plymouth on the 3rd instant, th°
making the unprecedentedly short passage of 83 dal'
Part of her cargo consists of 74 packages of gold dugti
weighing 22,849 ounces, valued at £Bl,ooo.—Times.,-}

LIVERPOOL cATrriACMARKET, FEB. g•
The supply of both Cattle and Sheep at to-day's market f 56
less than that of last week. The numbers offered were,
Beasts and 5,966 Sheep. With a pretty large attendance ,e
buyers and:a good demand,Beef and Mutton realized an advent
of id. per lb. on the prices of this day week; and at an ear'
hour everything of good quality was sold up. Beef rant
from 4id. to 54d., and Mutton sid. to 64d. per lb.: sinking
offal. _de

LIVER TOOL .
TUESDAY, FEB. 10,
PR'NTED AND PUBLISHED Of
TUESDAY MORNING'

EVERY

BY THE PROPRIETOR, ROBERT PEARSON THAMES'
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STANDARD GENERAL PRINTING OFFIL'''

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