The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

roLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

DIVIDING THE Sroth.—Three little boys were brought
up on suspicion of having stolen upwards of sixteen shil-
lings in copper, which they were dividing about half-past
three o'clock on Sunday morning. They were rt tuf.nded.
SAFE CARRIAGE.—Thomas Madden was charged wills
having stolen a pair of Soots and a piece of beef from
Pilot-boat No. 8. He pleaded that he had been employed
to carry the goods; but as he had the hoots on when
taken into custody, it was considered going a step too tar,
and he was committed for one month.

CHARGE or RAPE.—John Benson, a respectably.
dressed young man, was charged with the above ofience.
Ann Green, an unmarried woman, aged 23, stated that
she was returning to her father's house in Duke-street,
Everton, when the prisoner accosted her, and alter some
conversation wanted her to take a glass of brandy, but she
refused. She turned up Earle-street to go home, and went
throttah a passage leading to Duke-street. He dragged
her up an entry out of this passage, and put two sove-
reigns and some silver into her hand. She refused it.
He then knocked her down. She became helpless, and
he committ, d the offence. A policeman pursued the
Prisoner, and took him into custody at the Haymarket.
In cross-examination she stated that the offence was com-
mitted within a few yards of her father's house. Witness
having prevaricated in answer to a question, Mr. Simon,
for the prisoner, contended that the case would be met
by treating it summarily as an assault. This was acceded
to by the bench, who inflicted a penalty of X 5.
AN OLD OFFENDER.—John Morrison, who had pre-
viously been eleven times committed, was charged with
stealing a pair of shoes from the forecastle of a schooner
in the Canning Dock, and committed for three months.
Suspicious CHARACTERS.—SeveraI men were charged
with loitering about the streets at unseasonable hours,
and one of them, John Riley, who was found in Cheap-
side. between two and three o':lock on Sunday morning,
without his shoes, was sentenced to one month's im-
prisonment.

ROB:Ill:RIES ON SrtlPßOAßD.—Robert Kerr was charged
with lacing stolen wearing apparel belonging to one o
the crew of the ship Garrick. Remanded for aweek. Other
articles belonging to memberi of the crew were found
secreted in different parts of the vessel, and ordered to be
restored to their owners.

CHARGE OF SMUGGLING.—Mr. Cordukcs, of the firm
of M'Kibbin and Cordukes, provision merchants, of this
town, appeared to answer the charge of having 6 lbs. and
some ounces of tobacco in his possession, on his arrival
per Niagara, from Boston. It appears that when the
amount is over 611'. the full penalty of £lOO must be
inflicted. The case, however, has been remanded, until
Mr. Brook, the Solicitor to the Customs, communicates
with the Commissioners at London ; and in the mean-
while Mr. Cordukes deposited ;£ICO as security fur his
appearance.

A BAZAAR will be opened to-day, in the Exchange, at
Preston. in aid of the funds for the restoration of the
parish church of that town.

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.-0. Fridayevening the Rev.
H. H. Higgins, M.A., incumbent of St.. John the Evan-
gelist's, delivered the first of two lectures on the Molluscs.
WE are informed that after Mr. Phelan, of the Grapes
Hotel, had met with his fatal accident, at. West Derby,
his bo 'y was plundered of his watch and v. broach by a
man employed at the Sefton Arms, who has since ab-
sconded.—Albion.
INQUESTS YESTERDAY.—On the body of Margaret
Dougherty, aged 64 years, whose husband, Charles
Dougherty, a salt-hearer, residing in Preston-street,
found her lying on a bed on the floor, with her head on
the bolster, and her feet on the floor, quite dead. It
appeared that they were in the habit of getting intoxi-
cated together. Verdict, " Died from excessive drink-
ing."—On the body of Patrick Barrett, aged three
months, who died on the passage from Sligo to Liverpool.
The mother stated that she and the child suffered from
sickness and exposure to cold, and sometime before day-
light on Friday she found the child dead in her arms.
Verdict, " Accidentally suffocated by the mother.', 0a
the nody of Thomas Boyer, who met With his death on
l,osard the Frank Pierce, lying in the Waterloo Dock,
having fallen through the hatchway. Verdict, " Found
with injuries. how received no evidence."
ARTIFICIAL DAYLlGHT.—lllumination by gas was an
important invention, diffusing the blessing of light where
, aarsehwo whiecvhe
s improvedthe ffault
formerly all was darkness, and doing perhaps more than
any other single discovery towards the advance of civllisa.
nastFeraednli
upon the idea, Frenchman,
of all artifir•ial light, has
tion. M. T. roupaenadui,
devised a means by I wb.tct e
actual rays of the glorious luminary of day - are cony(-yed
into nooks and corners of (lark back
irooms where they
nation, ih
ncver be
but a fore penetrated. This is fl '
I easing reality,of no ght of the imagi-
which we Lave the best
evidence, inasmuch •as It has been applied with great
success to our own publishing office. Any of our readers
are welcome to inspect the application of this invention;
an I't, is ut justice to M. Troupeau to state that he re-
ceived a prize medal at the great Exhibition, and has also
obtained honorary distinctions in France for the merits of
this unique but valuable discovery. Not the least part of
the value of this ingenious adaptation of scientific skill is
with reference to the sight. The best of gas burners is
painful to the eye when used for any length of time ; but
M. Troupeau's daylight reflectors have all the geniality
of the source from whence its Illuminating powers are de-
rived, and those whose premises are unfortunately de-
prived of the ordinary means of illumination will find this
an invaluable substitute. London, with her many dark
holes and corners, has tried it, and the patronage which
has been bestowed upon it by many of the principal •
establishments for their back offices will chew that it is
generally appreciated. Many of our readers may remem-
ber seeing it in the great Exhibition ; but we may state
that it is a kind of highly polished ate ; protected by
glass, and so placed as to throw the sun's rays into any
corner where they are most wanted.