The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

ROBBERY OF NOTES.—SESSIONg COURT.—On Wed-
nesday, William Mitchell and John Burgess were tried
before the .Recorder' on a charge of having feloniously
stolen, on the 26th of October last, one bank note, for the
payment of £5O, eight sovereigns, and 30s. 6d, in silver,
the property of Mary Mathison, and John Burgess was
further indicted for having received the same, well knowing
them to have been stolen. The circumstances of the case
were given at some length in our police intelligence a week
or two ago. Mitchell was found guilty, and the other
prisoner acquitted. The witnesses were then bound in
recognizances of £5O each to appear and prosecute Bur-
gess at the next sessions upon another indictment, which
will then be preferred against him, for having received the
property, knowing it to have been stolen. The Recorder
deferred passing sentence on Mitchell.
THE MARRETS.—It would, perhaps, be invidious to
notice otherwise than generally the plentiful provision
made for Christmas by the caterers of good cheer. But
we cannot pass over the " shov," for really it was so, at
the shop of Mr. Tomlinson, where two fine heads of bulls,
with gilded and decorated horns, attracted the attention
of passers by. Some splendid meat was offered for sale,
and, no doubt, a good portion of it would be disposed of.
There were some fine carcases of animals fed by John
Latouehe, Esq., of H irriston- hall, Kildare; and, although
we must feel grateful for the provision thus sent over to
England, we could not help wishing that every Paddy had
a joint for his own table. A monster pig was displayed at
the shop of Mr. Clarke. It wei4hed forty eight score and
four pounds; and we observed grunters from the piggeries
of Sir Thomas Birch, Bart., our respected M.P., and also
from those of the Marquis of Londonderry.
DARING OUTRAGE AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR
LIVERPOOL.—On Monday evening last, one of the most
daring and impudent robberies which we have for some
time heard of, occurred on the West Derby-road, near
Liverpool. About half-past six o'clock in the evening, J.
Houghton, Esq., and his three sisters, accompanied by
Miss Toulmin, sister to Mr. Councillor Toulmin, were
proceeding in a iiackney-coach from their residence at
West Derby, to the Philharmonic Concert, at the Colle-
giate Institution, and when they arrived near the Zoologi-
cal Gardens, about one mile and a half from Liverpool,
five men, armed with large horse pistols, and one with a
formidable carving knife, which looked indeed more like
a swood, rushed from the hedge into the middle of the
road, and having got possession of the horse'S head, stop-
ped the vehicle. Three of the men then presented their
pistols to the occupants of the carriage, a fourth presented
a pistol at the head of the driver, whilst the other, who
had possession of the horse's head, said to the driver that
same hi-AM rnli'l7-eTte t tint Tie
animal's neck. In the meantime, the rest of the mis.
creants continued to hold their pistols to the heads of the
affrighted passengers, threatening that if they did not give
up all the money in their possession, they would shoot
them. Fortunately, they had at the time very little in
their possession ; but their threats were se appalling, more
especially to the females, that Mr. Houghton gave up to
them all the money he had in his possession, which was,
luckily only a few shillings. At this moment, one of the
omnibuses to West Derby, from Liverpool, was approach-
ing, on seeing which the villains made off with their booty.
The ladies were so alarmed at what had happened, that
they declined to proceed ou to the concert, but stepped
out of the hackney-coach, and the whole party returned
to West Derby in the omnibus. Only a very few minutes
before the above outrage took place, a gentleman was re-
turning home from Liverpool, on foot, when five men,
supposed to be the same party, jumped over a wall into
the road, and jostled him off the footpath, and were pro-
ceeding to attack him, when an omnibus came up, and
they made off towards Liverpool.