The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

to him, and he. went to the dour and drank it. areaves ad-
nutted, that he took a piece of bread and cheese into the house
with hiin, but denied the other statements. Mr. Crewe had no
ev;itence, and the defend; & was- tined in the penalty of £5.
The next case was that of a person named Turner, who keeps a
beer-house in the Park, licensed for the liquor to be consumed
off the premises. At this house Greaves procured a glass of ale
in the same mariner as iu the last case. 'lhe defendant was
fined £5. •

ShcutaNG A HUSBAN 6.—Yesterdav, at the Police-office, a
smart-looking girl, rather trimly dressedj named Mary Connor,
who gets her liveiihood by the unrothautic occupation of selling
fish, appeared before the magistrates to prefer a complaint
against a tall gaunt-looking Irishman, for robbing her of her
fair fame atdrutation," and to secure the services of" their
makinghonors'' in
an honest woman" of her. What a wide
distinction of meaning there is between the application of this
adjective to the different sexes ! What an immense difference
of value there is in the common acceptation of it when so ap-
plied ! Pope has described "an honest man," as "t he noblest
work if God." "An honest woman," (we will not say how
correctly the term is used) according to the belief of the
complainant, and in the generally understood acceptation of
the phrase, is " the easy work of a magistrate."
The complainant, who was habited in a smart bonnet, and an
equally smart red gown, having cast two or three reproachful
glances at " her gay deceiver," and given her head one or two
cousequential lateral nods, and polled up her sleeves tight
round her wrists, as if about to utter the war cry " come out,"
previous to pugilistic encounter, came oat with her tender tale of
love's deceit as follows :—On the- 22d of April last, his—
(nodding at the prisoner)—his brother fetched me to a public-
house from my own door. I sells fish, you see. And he said
as how somebody wanted me in the house. I goes in and sees
him (nodding at the prisoner) and another girl in company—
Mr. II A LL.— What did :his man do to you?
Complainant.—Well, we had some ale together. and as we
war coining eawt he tired me away, you see; but I wouldn't,
and fought all I could, and see how he's tore all my cap and me
gown; I never touched 'em since, (unfolding out of a bundle
a shapeless quantity of rags.)
The complainant then proceeded by nods and inuendos. and
the very bashful application of the corner of her white apron,
to intimate that she was
" A victim to delicate love,
In Dawson street, Williamson-square."
that he with whom 'she had " kept company," had
" Despised all laws but those which love had made,"
and that the consequence was she pleaded her cause before
their
worships in a double capacity, and not with a singleness of
interest, and concluded with strenuously calling upon them,
" to make an honest woman of her."
Mr. D.kVENPORT, who appeared for the prisoner, said,—
." What can the man do? He proffers to marry her—that is all
she wants. He will marry her to-morrow, I dare say."
The prisoner intimated his assent. (A laugh )
Complainant (with great eagerness of manner)—" Then
don't let him out till it is done. . (Loud laughter.) Oh, if yer
honners 'II please not to let him go till he 's made a honest girl
of the, and then he may go where he likes ?"
Mr. DAVENPORT renewed the promise on the part of the
'prisoner, with which the complainant, however, was not satisfied.
Mr. HALL said she, was very right.
Mr. DA vgivPonr—The man canaot be married here.
Mr. HALL—Why not?
Mr. DAVENPORT—The man has been very kind to her.
The prisoner sighed pathetically, and surveyed the ceiling..
Complainant—Yes, too kind. " Oh, thou false one!" (with
a deeply sonorous sigh, such as a hawker of herrings only could
emit, and which seemed to join
" Griefs to his griefs, and echo sigh to sigh ")
The scene here was growing quite touching, when the illusion
was suddenly dispelled.
Defendant—Too kind! yes, these last two years.
It was astonishing how rapidly. on hearing this, the abused
fair one ceased " doing the amiable." She bristled up as turkey
cocks are said to do at sight of a red rag, and with a sharp nod
of her head and sharper reply, and with a tone of voice which
sounded as if fresh out of the pickle-tub, she addressed him with
Don't say that, Pat."
Mr. HALL put a stop to the threatened recrimination, by re-
manding the prisoner to think over the matter, as he (Mr. Hall)
thought it rather a bad case.
BRUTAL CONDUCT.—Yestenlav, at the Police-office, an Irish
pieman was brought up, charged with hrotally ill-using a la-
bourieg, man, named Joseph Holden. The complainant ap-
peared with both his eyes swollen up and blackened, and the
bridge of his nose broken. He stated, that on Sunday be went
to the North Shore for the purpose of bathing, and passed the
prisoner, who was selling pies, and tossing with a boy. The
boy's halfpenny stuck in the sand, and he cried out to him
(complainant " Master, is that a head or a tail ?" Ile (com-
plainant) said it was a head. The pieman appeared to have,
lost, and swore at him, calling him a bloody Welsh --,
and asked him what business it was of his. He then put down
his can, and followed him and knocked him down, and before
he could get up again, struck him a violent blow across the
eyes with a stick. This statement was corroborated by a wit-
ness —Mr. HALL said it was a most brutal and unprovoked
assault, and ordered the prisoner to pay a fine of £3. or in
default to be committed for two months to the Borough Jail.

LIVERPOOL PREPARATIONS FOR CELEBRATING
THE CORONATION.

On Friday the general committee appointed to carry the
wishes of the.meeting into effect met, and in the übsence of his
worship the Mayor, Adam Hodgson, Esq. was called to the
chair. The unanimous feeling of the committee was that a
procession of the various trades was one of the most efficient
means which could be adopted for giving eclat to the occasion;
but considerable difference of opinion prevailed about the
banners and emblems to be carried in the procession. Some of
the conunittee were for confining them to the banners of the
benefit and trade societies, fearing that the exhibition of party
colours in the profession might disturb that unanimity which
ought to exist on such an occasion. Others, again, Contended
that the banners of Mr. Ewart and Lord Sandon woad be ex-
hibited, whether the committee gave its sanction or not; and
as men of all parties joined hand and heart in celebrating the
Queen's -coronation, no apprehension need be entertained of
any improper ebullition of reeling arising out of such a cir-
cumstance. It was resolved eventually that the electioneering
banners of all parties indiscriminately should grace the proces-
sion. The subject led to a division, when three-fourths of the
'committee voted fur the resolution. The propriety of a partial
illumination• also underwent discussion, but the feeling of the
committee was against it, on account of the extreme length of
.the day, which would cause the hilarity to be procrastinated
beyond reasonable extent. A proposition to illuminate the
Ti;wn-hall alone, was also made, but received little favour.
Some of the committee were favourable to the ft ee admission of
the public to the Zoological and Botanic Gardens. It was stated,
however, that Mr. Atkins, the proprietor of the former, would
have a gala on the occasion of the coronation, which would
prevent hitn from coming to terms with the committee; and the
Botanic Gardens of themselves were much too limited to ac-
commodate the public. so that the proposition fell to the ground;
but it wasannounced that the Royal Institution would be thrown
open to the public on that day. In order to fill up the time be-
tween the termination of the procession and the commence-
ment of the fire-works in the evening. attention was directed to
the Regatta on the river in the afternoon. The state of the
tide will be admirably adapted for the aquatic display, it being
high water about three o'clock. • The propriety of hiring a
number of steam-boats to peiambulate the river during the Re-
gatta was discussed ; but as insuperable difficulties stood in the
way of getting a sufficient number of them to accommodate the
public, and as those who could. not be accommodated would pro-
bably' 'feeldissatisfied, the project was abandoned as hopeless.
But the committee resolved to address a letter to each of time
steam-packet companies and proprietors, requesting that all
their available vessels might be ordered into the river on the
Coronation day.
The General Committee, after , listening to a variety cf
suggestions, was then divided into sub-committees; the first,
or Finance Committee, being, as its name imports, occupied in
raising the " sinews or war"—the most essential part of the
orogramine ; upon the second, or Procession Committee, will
devolve also very arduous duties; the School Committee will be
occupied in providing refreshments for the juveniles in all the
public schools of the town. The only public school which will
join the procession will be the Blue Coat School. The Music
Committee and the Signal Committee (the latter is intended to
arrange the hoisting of all the Ail's' flags in the port—the firing
of the salutes, Bic., and was facetiously termed the noisy com-
mittee by some of the members,) will have their respective
duties ; and these comprise the various sub-divisions of the Ge-
neral Committee or main-trunk. The sub-committee met on
Saturday morning at the Sessions-house, fur the first time, at
eleven o'clock, and will sit daily until the eventful {2Bth. The
meetings of the general committee will be limited to twice a-
week (Wednesday and Saturday,) until the coronation week,
during which it will sit daily.
The Committee, it wou;d seem, do not contemplate a public
dinner—at least it formed no part of Friday's programme. We
regret this, because melting would have rendered the day mote
cheering and truly gratifying to the humbler classes than the
rt.'t,f-v zo-nt of a good dinner. Perhaps 'he successor the Finance
thatideifree may yet render it pracncable.