The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CASE OF RUNNING FOUL oN THE RIVER.—On Tuesday,
antes Dennis, commander of the Woodside steamer, King.

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fisher, appeared before Mr. Hall, having been summoned
under an information from -- Lloyd, commander of the
Monk's Ferry steamer Dolphin. The information laid under
tife statute charged the defendant with having, on the" 10th
instant, "wilfully, negligently, and carelessly" run the King-
fisher against the Dolphin, and 'damaged her; and further,
that he had refused to pay the amount of the injury.
Mr. Askew, the harbour master, sat on the bench. with Mr.
Hall, giving the latter the benefit of his nautical experience, -
according to the usual custom in cases of thiS 'nature. Mr.
Davenport appeared in support of the information, and Mr.
Mallaby attended for the defendants. • -
The master of the Dolphin, Captain Lloyd, stated, that on
Tuesday, the 10th instant, about four o'clock P.M., he was
bringing his vessel from Monk's Ferry to Liverpool. When
he was about three-fourths of the way across the river he saw
the Kingfisher, Woodside packet, coining toward's He
immediately called out to them to alter their course,- at the
same time stopping and reversing the wheels of his own
engine. The Dolphin was going N. 8., and the Kingfisher
S.W., whence, instead of turning to S., she altered her
course to W.N.W., and ran into them. They (the Dolphin)
were struck in the fore-gangway, on the starboard side, by
the Kingfisher.
Mr. Mallaby said, if it should really come to a question of
damage, he had no objection to leave it to the estimate of Mr.
Askew. He had no observation to make further than that
his witnesses would swear just the reverse of what the wit-
nesses from the Dolphin had swot n. Mr. 'Wallaby called -
James M'Larren, an engineer, belonging to the steam-ship'
Liverpool. Witnsss stated that at the time mentioned by the
witnesses, the Kingfisher was conveying him and others on
board the Liverpool, which was lying a little to the north-
ward of Woodside. They (the Kingfisher) had been, running
up in slack water, and had just turned across towards the
Liverpool, when he saw the Dolphin coming bowsrm to them.
The captain of the Kingfisher called out to-them to put their
helm a-starboard, and to reverse. He observed that the Dol-
phin, instead of reversing, made one turn a-bead and then
stopped. The engineer of the Kingfisher stopped his engine
and then reversed. The Dolphin first steered to 'port and
then to starboard. The Kingfisher's helm - was• put hard
a-starboard. The head of the Kingfisher was west and by
south.

Several other witnesses were examined on both•r.ides.
Mr. Hall, in deciding, said, the testimony of the parties
on board the Dolphin agreed in ever!• material point. It was
perfectly well known that, when two vessels met, it was pro-
per for each to starboard the helm, and that if either of there
put it port they did wrong. W hen he looked at the evidence
of those on hoard the Kingfisher, there was no agreement in
it. One said she was steering W. and by N.; another, that
she was steering W.N.W.; and a third, that she was steer-
ing W.S.W. One stated that she had no steerage way, and
did not answ"er her helm; another slated, that she turned her
head to the S.: and the first witness spoke to' that which
was impossible, that when the helm was Tut •starboard she
turned her bows to the W. The last witness had stated that,

if the-Dolphin had put her'helm to port, she would have gone
clear ; while the other witnesses said if she had put her helm,
to starboard she would have gone clear. Under these circum-
stances' they were of opinion that the damage must be paid.
Mr. Davenport was agreeable that the _ amount of the
damage should be referred to Mr. Askew; -and Mr. Hall
ordered it to be paid, according to the amount. which he
should estimate. .

ASSAULT AT SEA.—Allan Campbell, master of the brig
Water Lily, appeared on Wednesday 'before Messrs. hlall
and Maxwell, having been summoned bylawes•Renton, a
seaman on board the above vessel. The complainant slated
that on Sunday, the 16th Sept., the Water Lily left,St.John'a,
Newfoundland, on her homeward voyage for LiVerpOol. - To-
wards evening be sent a man aloft to perform some duty at
the sails. When the individual descended to the deck, an
altercation ensued between him and the captain, which ended
in the captain striking him. Complainant was looking on,
when the captain, with an oath, asked him if he intended to
take the man's part. Without further provocation the caP-
lain immediately struck him (complainant.) At ten o'clock.
the same night the captain was again quarrelling with one "t
his men, when complainant, who had just gone on deck, es"
claimed. " What's the matter?" . The captain again accuse"
him of taking part with the man whom he was contending
with. The complainant denied this, upon which the calltate
took up a billet of fire wood and, swearing at him (complain-
ant) struck hint several violent blows. He next seized a
handspike, and running after the complainant, knocked hit°
down the fore-scuttle. He pursued him below, and repeat-
edly struck him with the handspike. Several seamen corro-
borated the above statement. Captain Campbell said he•
shipped the complainant on the day when they left-Newfound`
land. The moment the man entered the ship -he began t"
quarrel with one of his messmates. was ordered to be
quiet, but he persisted in using abusing language and threats'
The captain told him that he saw what sort of troublesomeperson he was, and he repeated his order that the quarrelliq
should cease. At twelve o'clock at night they were settirigt.
the lower studding-sails. He (the captain) ordered one..oh
the men to go aloft and perform some particular duty, wh'''
was done so awkwardly that he remonstrated. .W When the mane
came down he began to abuse the captain, telling him!)
knew how to do his duty as well as anybody. The complat_a:i
ant interfered, as he (the captain) had expected, and joit,
the other man inabusing him. Not content with this,l::
seized him (the captain) by the throat, and twisting his hiol a
kerchief tightly about his neck, said, " there you
there's a squeeze for you." He (the captain) upon this "
na":
up a small piece of fire-wood and struck the complaina,tn.t
few blows. lie denied baiting used a handspike at all,
said ho bad commanded a vessel ten years and had never r . 1:_1.1
a complaint made against him by a man, nor had his brig bt
osherwise than peaceable and orderly till thecomplainan
tered her. The mate and steward of the Water Lily ‘,e.l-,e
called on behalf of the captain, but they were unable to 6fnroo`ie
any thing material, as they had not seen the whole no
transaction. Mr. Hall said he was persuaded there s,%;es,
necessity for so much violence on the pat t of masters
.t,''out
sell. It seemed that when such persons got put slightte:, first
of temper, they conceived they were to seize upon the
implement that came to hand and inflict blows with "oloy
was unfortunate that when men had' power they so Ire
abused it. The defendant was. fined £l. 10s. and costs.

A covenant. has been entered into between her Alajesh'all
Ministers and the-O'Connell faction, that her MajestY
dept
pay a visit to Dublin. . If it should fail, the disarpoi"lntit.s,
may cause another and a wider -breach between the '3reed tua
and perhaps woefully demonstrate or how weak a
Whig Ministry depend for power.
A centipede of nine inch in length was found on Pil'nbrir-
last na
log of teak, while being split by one of fll--e,:set
wrights of Woolwich Dock-yard, and is now lii he posse:, -0.
of Lieutenant Pearce, R.N., one of the principal officers.
that establishment. It was in a very lively state at the Frio,
of its emancipation.
RUSSIAN WOOL —The Russian goVernment has mate.Fosiderable advances to
_native- purchasers, so that
tat 40 d
to selr,
ie re-

English and French, from Leghorn, were tied mar-
turn empty. Russia hopes to glut Chinese and Persia
kets with her own cloth.—Leeds Mercury.
OwENism.—We regret to see this town infested with a
regular succession of lectures On the pernicious doctrines of
Robert Owen and his disciples, who, by means of ridiculing
the Scriptures, and the professors of religion generally,
dealing out plausible theories of Socialism, exhibiting phan-
tasmagoria' pictures of happiness, holding social tea-parties,
and getting up dances, contrive to inveigle thc,ughtless
• young persons of both sexes into those meshes of infidelity,
which the older and more. he title -s minions of mischief are
but too glad.to assist in weaving.ss It is still more to be
lamented that these disgraceful and demoralising lectures are
allowed to outrage public d •• nd rejig
the morning and • • decency d • jai,. til_cla,n,- 110eid
evening cif every sa 4 iot4 piety during
Mercury,