The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-30 00:00:00

,peared that the

nt to gaol for twenty-one days, in de-
similar offence, arid that she did not
vs house until Wednesday last
-;n, and make her comfc

m her conduct and give up drunkenness.
This she refused to do, and made use of language to the
effect that she would " do" for him and his family. She
remained in her husband's house on Wednesday and
Thursday, but was in a continuous state of intoxication ;
and on Friday she arrived home in such as beastly state
that he refused to admit her, but offered to pay for her
lodging elsewhere. Instead of acceding to this, she
attracted a crowd about the door, broke the windows, and
was given into custody. Mr. Mansfield was of opinion
that it would be useless to ask her to find bail for her
future good conduct, as she could not get it, and to send
her to gaol in default would only exasperate her the more,
and cause her to commit greater depredation, when her
period of imprisonment expired. As Mr. Martin had
offered to allow her Ss. a week, he would remand Mrs.
M. until the follewing day, with the hope that some of
her friends would enter into an arrangement satisfactory
to both parties.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A LETTER CARRIER.—A
serious charge of extracting money from a letter was
heard before the magistrates in their private room, OR
Thursday. The delinquent was a young man, named
John Morgan, who has been employed as a letter carrier
in the Liverpool Post-office; and the charge was of having
stolen a £lO and two £5 notes from a letter addressed by
Mr. A. A. Steele, of Bolton, to Messrs. Startin and Fry,
of Sweeting-street. One of the notes, of which the num-
ber was known, and which had been stopped at the Bank
of England, bad been traced by Inspectors Bates and Ph-
trick to the hands of the prisoner, by whom it had been
paid about six weeks ago to a horsedealer at the Great
Homer-street Fair. The prisoner was remanded for seven
days, and it is expected that several other cases will be
discovered against him
On Tuesday,

„ young gentlemen, who gave their
names as Flavius Joseph Hudson and Arthur Joseph Hill,
were fined 10s. each for wrenching off the knockers of
doors in Bute-street and Everton-crescent.
ASSAULT.—On Tuesday, Benjamin Cottrell, plasterer,
Seacombe. was charged by his stepfather, James Horgon,
beerhouse-keeper, Shaw's-brow, with an assault. It ap-
peared from the examination that there had been a dispute
between the parties about money matters, a sum of £5OO
having been sold out of the Three per Cent. Consols, by
the complainant, which was alleged to be the property of
defendant's wife. He had called for the purpose of having
a settlement, and, being intoxicated at the time, an assault
had ensued. The .defendant was .tined 103. and costs.
ASSAULT AND ROBBERY ON BOARD A VESSEL.—At
the Police-court on Tuesday, five sailors, named John
Devlin, Robert Pwing, Daniel O'Neale, John Ewing, and
John Brondy, were brought up. They were employed on
board the American ship Parliament, which had received
an accession of five more to her number, previous to leav-
ing the port the evening before. From the new sailors
the old ones sought to obtain drink, which being refused,
a scuffle ensued. The prisoners proceeded to 0--. e fore-
castle, and stole the clothes of the complainants, which
were afterwards found in as empty berth. This latter
offence was not, however, pressed, and for the assault the
prisoners were respectively tried. Devlin was sentenced
to pay £5, or be imprisoned two months ; Ewing and
Broady, 405., or be imprisoned one month each ; Pwing,
20a., or to be imprisoned fourteen days. O'Neale was
discharged.
A RUMPUS ABOUT A BONNET.—On Tuesday a French-
woman, of stylish exterior, whose style and title trans-
pired as being ” Madame Amy Rnserberg," preferred a
charge against a widow named Thompson, and a married
woman, of having taken from her residence, in the pure
locality of Hotham-street, a bonnet, valued at £1 15s.
Madame Amy, it appeared, requires being occasionally
reminded of her indebtedness, and one of the prisoners
had called upon her for this purpose on the evening of
Monday last ; and after she had left, the bonnet was
missed, and had not since been seen. There had been a
row on the occasion of this visit, and some smashing of
windows by the French lady's kind neighbours. After
hearing the pros end cons of the affair, the magistrate
(Mr. Benn) dismissed the case, considering the parties
about equally respeetable.—On Thursday, the same
" Madame Amy " summoned another female, named
Miss Smith, for having caused the breaking of her win-
dows above referred to. It transpired, however, that
Miss Smith, having called on the Monday night when
the breakage occurred for a little account owing by one
Madame's lodgers, was assaulted, severely beaten, and
• out of doors into the street. For this assault and
Jolting, the French lady was ordered to pay 20s. and
losts ; and Miss Smith, as having been not quite guilt-
of the window-breaking, to pay the damage, 103.