The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SUSPENSION OF A POLICEMAN.—On Friday, police-
officer 94 was suspended by Messrs. Rushton and Benn,
for having, in the case of Thompson, a beerseller, of Ever-
ton, who was summoned for an infraction of the improve-
ment act, given evidence which the magistrates believed
to be untrue. Mr. Rushton would not, he said, discharge
him, as he had been in the force for years, but he must
certainly be suspended until inquiries were made.
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY OF A TEA WAREHOUSE.—

About half-past eleven on Thursday night, as police con-
stable No. 665, was on his beat in Carlton-street, he saw
the man take a jemmy, and deliberately wrench three of
the locks from the principal door, the female attempting
to enver him (ma it, is nnllpril in makincr tbn affarnr.f

try. The officer, however, thinking that prevention was
better than making a capture after the offence, took the
two into custody, and on searching the male prisoner
found two locks in his pocket. The prisoners were brought
up on Friday before Mr. Rushton, and committed for trial.
JUVENILE THIEVES.—TWO girls and a boy, not more
tl- 1^ - brougl- ,lice court

nan lU years of age, were ,nt up at the po.
on Friday, charged with having stolen three dress pieces
from the door of a draper's shop, in Byrom-street. A
young man named Henry Brook, deposed to seeing tlu-
boy take tb- I- "

cue goods from the door of Messrs. Townsend
Brothers, where they were exposed for sale. The lad
handed the dresses to one of the girls, who concealed them
under her cloak ; the elder girl attempted to cover the
act. She and her confederate (whose names are Mary
Dowling and Ellen Carroll,) were committed to prison'for
three months. The boy, whose name is Jones, was handed
over to his parents by order of Mr, Rushton.

ROBBERY FROM THE DOCK QUAY.—On Wednesday
last, Roger M'Anally was brought up, charged with
stealing twenty-one barrels of flour from the Waterloo
Dock Quay. It appeared that the prisoner was one
of a party of • persons who, on Thursday last, took a
cart, and removed twenty-one barrels of flour, the pro-
perty of Messrs. Sanders and Claxton, and which had
recently been landed from the ship Garrick. The prisoner
was afterwards identified, and taken into custody. He
said in his defence that he was hired by some man on the
-nd knew nothing of the fraud. The prisoner was
ed, to afford time to apprehend the other
•-" ' 'ay he was brought up,
Jones, and the man who
had hired him, named Thomas Trainer. The prisoner,
Jones, stated that, on Thursday, the 29th ultimo, Trainer
came to him, and asked him if he would take a load of
flour. On replying in the affirmative, he was requested to
s employ a man to help him

He accordingly got Mr.
. Mr. Rushton, on hearing this much of his
evidence, ordered him into the witness box, when he said
that he took the load to Spranger-street, where seven of
the barrels were taken from him, and put into a spring
cart. The remainder, 13, were taken to the prisoner's
premises in Portland-street, and there left. Mr. Wm. Con-
dell, said that that morning, from information he had re-
ceived from Jones, he saw the prisoner, who admitted that
he had committed the robbery. This was denied by the pri-
soner. Mr. Rushton, addressing M'Anally, said he was
glad he had remanded him, instead of sending him to trial,
as he at first intended. By the evidence just given, he was
exculpated from all blame, and he might be discharged.
Trainor was committed for trial.

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

On Wednesday, the usual monthly meeting of the
Council was held at the Town-hall.

The proceeding

FINANCE COMMITTEE
;s of the Finance Co

a recommendation to increase the salary of
clerk to the auditors of town dues, from £7B t

annum

Lloyd,
£lOO Per

.I. Ile OW11.• CLUCK repurieu Luau Luc ....vapvaauc mei:yaw tor
the present year would be £151,000, and the expenditure
£122,000, leaving a surplus of £29,000. Most of this
surplus,. however,, had been already voted away for a va-
riety of purposes, and the actual surplus would only be'
about £2900. He recommended that as the surplus is
small, the Sessions-house and Bridewell be mortgaged,

and that the money thereby received be devoted to the
purpose of completing St. George's Hall.
Sir THOMAS BRANCKER moved the confirmation of the
proceedings, and said that as Mr. Lloyd's duties as audi-
tor of the town dues, &c. were greatly increased, that
gentleman was entitled to a more liberal salary than he at

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present received.
Mr. PARKER' found from the proceedings, that the
contract for seven years, for the supply of gas to the Cor-
poration, had expired in March last ; and he wished to
know upon what terms the Corporation were now sup-
plied ? He believed that seven years ago application was
made to both the gas companies to know upon what terms
they would supply the Corporation with gas. One com-
pany offered to supply it at 42 per cent. under the market
price, and the other company offered to supply it at 45 per
cent. under that price. The 45 per cent. was accepted,
and the contract having, as he had said, expired in March

last, he wanted to know whether any new contract had
since been entered into—whether any application had been
made to the new companies to know on what terms they
would supply the article, or whether the supply had again
glided into the hands of the old company without any in-
quiry at all ? There was a most extraordinary recom-
mendation in the proceedings—so extraord
that he fancied Sir Thomas Brancker must really

wary, inde€