The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-TuESDAY.

CHARGE OF STABBING.
A decently-dressed good-looking lad was placed before
Messrs. Rushton and Earle, charged with having stabbed his
fellow apprentice.
The complainant was a fine little boy, aged twelve years.
He had not been seriously injured. He stated that he had
warmed a pie, which had been sent for his dinner, and had
given the prisoner a portion of it. The prisoner requested a
piece more, and offered his knife that the complainant might
cut a piece. The complainant not wishing to give any more,
said that the knife was not large enough, and was turning
away when the prisoner made a thrust at him with the knife,
and cut him in the thigh.
The foreman of the establishment, at which the two boys
are employed, confirmed the above statement. The wound,
he said, was very slight. The little fellow sat down, and was
beginning to cut his pie, when he felt the blood trickling
down his leg. He immediately cried out, upon which he (the
foreman) examined him, and found that he had been cut.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he merely thrust his
knife at the lad in play, and had no intention of hurting him.
There was another boy in the room at the time, who saw the
whole transaction.

Mr. Rushton ordered this boy should be sent for. The
case was adjourned, and in about an hour the other appren-
tice arrived. He conceived that the thrust had been made
in mere play. The foreman stated that this lad was not pre-
sent at all when the circumstance occurred. The witness
said he was there, but the foreman could not see him because
of an intervening door.
Mr. Rushton said, if he conceived that the offence had
been committed wilfully, he would certainly punish the pri-
soner severely. He was willing, however, to believe that it
had been accidental, but he hoped the prisoner would be wary
how he used a knife in future. The prisoner was discharged.
VIOLENT FEMALES.
Ann Driver appeared to prefer a charge of assault against
Mary Ann Ruebottom. Both complainant and defendant
were young, decently-dressed females, and neither of them,
according to their own account, were of very reputable cha-
racter.

Ann Driver, whose face exhibited several bruises and
scars, stated, that Mary Ann Ruebottom had come to her
house on a visit, and that, while there, she drank too much
wine, and, at length, picked a quarrel with her, and ultimately
threw a tumbler glass violently in her face, which had marked
it in the mahner which the magistrates could see.
Mary Ann Ruebottom stated in her defence, that she was
sent for, to drink wine with a certain gentleman. The gen-
tleman paid her very great attention, upon which Ann Driver
became jealous, and in her fury took up a bottle of wine,
and hammered her head with it. She bore this hammering
as long as she could, but at length finding it exceedingly in-
convenient, she thought it best to put a stop to it at once.
To effect this, she seized a tumbler glass, and threw it at the
face of her antagonist, the gentleman having, in the mean
time, wished them both a good evening.
Mr. Rushton ordered Mary Ann to pay a fine of ss. and
costs. As the money was not forthcoming, Mr. Parkinson
received the young woman into his care, the sentence being
that in default of payment, she was to be imprisoned during
seven days.

CAPTURE OF A WHALE.-011 the 9th current, the shore
of Tain presented the novel sight of a huge whale, towed in
by three boats belonging to the fishing village of Cairnsburgh.
It was captured off the quicksands in the Frith of TaM,
better known by the name of Gizzen Briggs, by the crew of
the Morning Star of Cairnsburgh, on their way, with twenty
or thirty others, for mussels to the shores of Tain. Its ex-
treme length of the nose to the tip of the tail, 75 feet 4
inches ; length of head 28 feet ; girth round the thickest part
of the body 36 feet, as nearly as could be ascertained ; length
of jaw-bone 151 feet ; breadth of tail 14 feet 4 inches ; and
of fin 6 feet.--Scottish Standard.

THE LATE PRINCESS AUGUSTA.—Her late royal high-
ness's carriages, horses, harness, &c., were on Monday sold
by auction by Messrs. Tattersall, at Hyde Park-corner.
They were described in the catalogue as " the property of
an illustrious personage, deceased," and consisted of 16
dark bay barouche horses, and carriages, &c. Her late royal
highness's town carriage, with the royal arms of England
superby emblazoned, yellow hammer-cloth, &c., fetched 71
guineas ; a travelling landaulet, 64 guineas ; the garden chair
in which the late princess was driven through the grounds at
Frogmore, 12-& guineas ; a barouche, 19i guineas. The horses
averaged 60 guineas a pair; and the total proceeds of the
sale did not realise more than £6OO.

THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM.—The occupiers of allotments
on the manor of Clist St. Laurence, belonging to the Exeter
Church Charity Trustees, recently assembled to pay the rent
and outgoings ; and it is with the greatest satisfaction we
learn that every shilling was paid with the utmost willing-
ness. After supper, many expressions of thankfulness to
those who had come forward to assist the poor in procuring
the field were poured forth with a warmth which showed the
true feeling of the heart. The Westwood division of occu-
piers, belonging to Clist Gerrard, Broadclist, have also met
for the same purpose, and, having discharged the whole,
gave similar testimony of gratitude to the trustees for the
grant of the field. The number of the allotments are at pre-
sent 2t. —Devon Chronicle.
NEWPORT DOCKS.--On Wednesday, the 7th instant, a
special general meeting of the shareholders of this magnifi-
cent undertaking (which will give to Newport the largest
sea-lock entrance in the world) was held at the Dock-house,
Samuel Homfray, Esq., in the chair. Mr. Homfray an-
nounced that the whole amount of the capital authorised to
be raised by shares had been subscribed. Power was, there-
upon, taken at the meeting to raise a sum of £15,000, which,
with the former loan of £25,000 from the Palladium As-
surance Company, will complete the lock, and a sufficient
part of the originally intended basin, to answer the purposes
of the trade for some years at least. It is expected that the
Dock thus completed will be opened for the reception of
vessels in the month of January or February next. The
works, when completed, will have cost the sum of £120,000.
Of this, one-third will have been borrowed, and the remain-
ing two-thirds will have been subscribed by a comparatively
inconsiderable number of the gentlemen and tradesmen of the
town and neighbourhood of Newport.—Bristol Mirror.
THE WHALE FisnEßY.—The Prince of Orange, whaler,
Straiton, master, from Davis's Straits, arrived at Leith on
Wednesday, having two whales, about twenty tuns of oil.
This vessel left the ice on the 23d ult., being in lat. 56. 40. N.,
lon. 61. 20. W. Left there the Caledonia, of Kirkcaldy, hav-
ing caught two whales, about 20 tuns of oil ; and also the
Grenville Bay, clean. The masters of these vessels had de-
termined to remain where they were during the then moon-
light. At the time the Prince of Orange left the country, a
great body of heavy ice stretched in a diagonal direction from
lat. 75. 12. N. on the eastern side, to lat. 64. N. on the west-
ern side ; there were few if any slacks to be found in the ice
from lat. 74. to lat 71. The highest latitude which Captain
Straiton could obtain during the season was 75. 48. N. He.
got, however, as far as Navy Board Inlet, in lon. 82. W. The
Caledonia, ofKirkcaldy, and the Alexander, of Dundee. which
has one fish, sixteen tuns, together with the Hannibal, of
Peterhead, which has also one fish, sixteen tuns, were for the
most part on the west side during the season, and not more
than eight whales were seen all the season by the four ships
above mentioned. Captain Straiton only saw two whales,
besides what he caught. The season, on the whole, has been
an average one as to weather ; but Captain Straiton says that
' finis ' may hereafter be written on the bluff side of Cape
Farewell,--/S'eottish Standard.