The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

YESTERDAY.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY ON SHIPBOARD. - Antonio
Carlin, a steward on board the Eliza Maria, Captain
Mausich, a foreign vessel lying in Stanley dock, and Peter
Polo and John Costilage, seamen, were charged with
stealing £2O, two gold watches, and five shirts, from that
ship. Capt. Mausich, through an interpreter, stated that
on Sunday evening he temporarily absented himself from
his ship, and on his return he found that a drawer in
the cabin had been broken open, and the above property
abstracted therefrom. The steward, Carlin, was left on
board the ship when the captain came on shore, but when
Capt. Mausich returned he had decamped, and shortly
afterwards the robbery was discovered. Information was
given to the police, and the prisoner Carlin was appre-
hended about one o'clock on Monday morning in a board-
ing-house in Sparling-street. In the parlour of this
house the officers found the five shirts, which a female
belonging to the place stated had been brought there by
the prisoner. The two other prisoners were apprehended
in Brunswick-street between 7 and 8 o'clock this (Mon-
day) morning. On the person of Polo was found a sum
of £3 Ss. 6d. and two gold watches, identified by the
complainant. On Costilage £1 15s. was found, along
with a Spanish dollar, a watch, and several copper coins,
also claimed by Capt. Mausich. The case was dealt.
summarily with, the prisoners being each sent to prison
for two months.

STEALING A QUANTITY OF SHIP METAL. A man
named Ryan, a marine-store dealer, and another named
Conway, in the same line of business, though not on his
own account, were charged with being in possession of
stolen property of the description we have named. The
articles consisted of brass bolts, copper sheathing, and
other old metal, supposed to have been stolen from one of
the graving docks. On Saturday afternoon, two of the
detective force seized the property in Salthouse-lane,
whilst be'rg convelei, secreted in bags, in a shandry, to
the store of an extensive dealer, to whom it was to be
offered for sale. The boy in charge of the shandry swore
that the bags were the property of Ryan and Conway, who
had often employed him on the same service. Mr. Owen
appeared for the prisoners, and caused considerable
merriment in court during his cross-examination of the
witnesses; but was unable to save his clients from a con-
viction ; and they were accordingly sentenced to one
month's imprisonment, Ryan's license as a marine-store
dealer to be revoked.

A CASE OF CABBAGE.—Margaret Jackson was sent to
prison for 21 days on suspicion of stealing a large quantity
of cabbages. Officer 283 met the prisoner on the Walton.
road with 32 heads of the vegetables concealed in a basket,
for the possession of which no satisfactory account could
be given.

COMMITTALS.—Agnes Batty, for stealing 21bs. of beef
from a stall in St. John's Market, on Saturday evening-
-14 days. John Welsh, for stealing a deal end from a tim-
ber-yard in Bridgewater-street—three months. John
La

ey, for stealing a window-shutter from an empty house
in Hurst-street—seven days. Elizabeth Jones and Ann
Tudor, for picking pockets in St. John's Market, on Satur-
day evening—three months' each. John Cassiday, for
stealing a table, the property of James Gee—two months.
Patrick Monaghan, for stealing two pairs of trowsers from
a house in Augustine-street—twenty-one days.
ILLEGALLY PLEDGING.—A miserable-looking woman,
with a child in her arms, was sent to prison for ten days,
being unable to pay the fine of 10s., with 25., the value of
the article, for illegally pledging some clothing entrusted
to her care by a person who sent her with some articles of
wearing apparel to get mangled.

ROBBERY OF BPWARDB OF £2O BY A FEMALE.—
A. woman named Charlotte Coyle was charged by Mrs.
Sohan, of No. 10, Denison-street, with stealing a purse
containing 15 sovereigns, a £5 note, and some silver, and
sundry other articles. From the statement of the com-
plainant, it appeared that the prisoner, who has a hus-
band in Dublin, came over to this town some time ago,
and, during her visit, lodged at the house of the com-
plainant. She came again subsequently two or three
times, and always stayed at the house of the complainant.
By this means they became pretty intimate, and the
prisoner was treated as one of the family. A few weeks
ago she came on her present visit, and, as usual, resided
with Mrs. Sohan. On Friday last Mrs. Sohan showed
her the purse. and they counted the money together.
In the evening of that day the complainant had occasion
to take the purse out of her pocket for the purpose of
paying a party a shilling. After settling her account
with this person, she laid the purse on the kitchen
table, the prisoner being present at the time. About
half an hour after she missed the purse, but
every one in the house denied any knowledge of its
whereabouts. Nothing further to lead to its discovery
transpired until Sunday morning, when Mrs. Sohan found
some of the steel beads, and other ornaments belonging
it, lying on the floor of the privy. She gathered them
up, placed them in a small bag, and deposited it in one of
parlours. On mentioning the circumstance to the prisoner,
some time after, she sought for the bag where she had
left it, but discovered that it had been removed. This
roused her suspicion, and she opened the prisoner's
trunk, which was lying unlocked on the floor of one of
the apartments. The first thing she saw on opening the
trunk was a bottle of eau de Cologne, her (complainant's)
property. She did not make any further search at the
time, but observed the prisoner lock the trunk almost im-
mediately after. They then went to Copperas-hill chapel
together, but as the service had commenced before
they reached there, the prisoner declined going in late,
and left the prosecutrix, who went inside. On returning
home, after service was concluded, Mrs. Sohan found the
prisoner was not there, and she saw no more of her until
yesterday morning, when she (the prisoner) returned to
the house. Upon this a police-officer was called in, who
took her into custody, and proceeded to make a further
search of her trunk. Among the contents were found a
Cameo brooch, the bottle of Cologne water before men-
tioned, some handkerchiefs, and other small articles, the
property of the complainant, and the missing purse, which
was fastened up in the lining of a cloak. The prisoner had
been making extensive purchases on Saturday, saying she
had received a post-office order from her husband for £5.
The evidence was conclusive, and Coyle was committed for
trial.

A LEGAL TANGLE.—The following specimen of legal
phraseology was furnished to the Times last week from
the rolls of one of the courts :—" Gloucester Venue.—
Judgment is signed for the plaintiff, on the defendant's
demurrer to the plaintiff's replication to the defendant's
fourth plea; and judgment for the plaintiff on the plain-
tiff's demurrer to the defendant's rejoinder to the plain-
tiff's replication to the defendant's seventh plea."

FRACAS WITH AN M.P.—On Monday evening as one
of the members of the 'louse of Commons was proceeding
through Westminster Ilall to the House, he was accosted
by a gentleman who angrily addressed him in rather irri-
tating language. The hon. member answered with two
blows of his stick. The bystanders interfered, but some
more assaults followed, and the affair ended by the lion.
member knocking down the stranger, who was removed
in the custody of two police officers.
The Pittsburg Visitor says of vegetarians :—" As for
not making walking sepulchres of themselves, it is what
not one of them can avoid. Every one has swallowed a
hecatomb of living creatures, and the difference between
them and the beef-eaters is, that they prefer to gulp their
prey alive and whole, while the others have theirs killed
and dressed. Fruit, vegetables, and water teem with ani-
mal life, and the more of these one eats and drinks, the
more happy families he consigns to a living tomb."
CURIOUS DRUIDICAL CIRCLE IN FURNEES.—It may be
called a curious circumstance that near Urswick, in Fur-
ness (Lancni-hire), there are the remains of what is appa-
rently a Druidical circle, the interior of which is divided
into several compartments by curved walls, with a small
circular enclosure in the centre like the nave and spokes
of a wheel. The diameter of this curious relic, which is
known in the neighbourhood, I understand, simply as
" Stone Walls," varies frCan 350 to 315 feet.—Builder,