The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-17 00:00:00

POLICE COURT Y.- - E STE RD AY.

SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—Richard Forth was fined 20s.
and costs, or ten days' imprisonment, for smuggling 151bs.
of cigars from a vessel in the Nelson-dock ; and John
Clark was fined 153. and five days' imprisonment for
smuggling one pound of tobacco from the same vessel.
PICKING POCKETS.—A lad named Henry Jones was
committed for three months, for attempting to pick the
pockets of several ladies in St. John's Market, on Satur-
day night last.
COMMITTAL OF A 'MARINE. STORE-DEALER.—A man
named O'Hara, keeping a marine store in Oil-street,
was committed for two months. At ten o'clock on
Saturday morning his place was on fire. After it was ex-
tinguished, a quantity of cotton was found on his pre-
mises, for which he could not satisfactorily account. He
had been three times before committed. He produced a
licence, but on the magistrate's clerk examining it, it
proved to be an expired one.

MILNER'S FIRE SAFES.—WIC have seen two Bank of
England notes, of £lOO each, which were placed in one
of Milner's Patent Fire-resisting Safes, and exposed to
a large fire in Dublin, a few days since, one of them for
2i hours, and the other for six hours. The completeness
of the test, and the identity of the notes, are attested by
the signature of Robert H.Kinahan, Esq., the Lord Mayor
of Dublin ; and the appearance of the notes has no per-
ceptible difference from those which have not been sub-
mitted to such a fiery ordeal.
JESUITISM UNMASKED.—A singular publication has
just taken place of an emblematical sheet, intended to ex-
pose with clearness, simplicity, and completeness the
diabolical system of Jesuitism. It is entitled " Symboli-
cal and Historical Monument of the Impious, Murderous,
and Sacrilegious Religion and Doctrine taught,supported,
and constantly practised by the disciples of Don Inigo
de—, the chief of the society calling themselves of
Jesus." It was designed by M. David du Voisin, the
son of a Vaudois of Piedmont, as best suited to the ima-
gination of the Italians and to excite their curiosity, and
Pope Clement XTV. was so highly pleased with it that he
ordered several thousand copies to be struck off and
circulated. The widow of the author left the copyright
to her youngest daughter, the mother of the present
possessor, Mons. L. A. Du Puget, of Peel-street House,
Princes Park, Liverpool, and he has had a fac-simile
very neatly and correctly engraved on stone, and it is now
published with an accompanying sheet containing an ex-
planation and translation. It is an interesting specimen
of symbolical teaching, and will, no doubt, be preserved
by many as a great curiosity.
THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL ON THE STAMP
DUTIES.—Yesterday a special meeting of the Council of
the Chamber of Commerce was held for the purpose of
taking into consideration the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer's resolutions on the Stamp Duties. After some dis-
cussion the resolutions were referred to a special com-
mittee, with instructions to report to a future meeting.
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Peets of the Literary and Philosophical Society. It ap-
peared that a special meeting of the council hadbeencalled, to inquire whether the subject was a suitable one
for discussion, and this bad probably led to the idea that
there was an intention to prevent its being read on
technical grounds. The paper itself occupied so much
time, that the discussion was brief ; and several gentle-
men seemed to think that the criticisms on past opera'
11914 Were too Stringent.