The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-24 00:00:00

-dr, large, and therefore commodious, and for constructive
strength are unequalled, we believe, in the world. They,

place, were con

masses of ashlar, grooved and tongued together in the
beds and points, and arched with ashlars in a similar
manner: Subsequently, they have been lined all round

with boiler plate. The doors and window shutters of
them are all double plata, rivetted on frames, and hung
to huge frames of cast iron in single castings—the whole
being, when shut, quite impregnable from without, and
afford perfect security to the deposited property in them.
The whole arrangements of this bank are found admi-
rably adapted to the purposes for which it was designed ;
and the perfect security which it affords from fire, and
other sources of danger, by the constructive skill with
which the materials have been put together, offers an
excellent example of what may be done by one conversant
with his art, and at a cost not much beyond that of an
3rdinary erection. We understand that the original e3ti-
gate (which has not been exceeded £5OO or £600) for
,e whole of the new pile of buildings, including the
'le manager's house (which is commodious and
,nt), the two adjoining shops, with the houses
`or the same, and four suites of offices besides,

bank, t
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The original contractor was

John Toni

kin Son

The contractors for the joiners' and carpenters' work,
which has been so well executed, were Messrs. Haigh,
Nicol, and Co. The slaters' and plasterers' work has
been well executed by Mr. M`Kee, Old Haymarket; the
brass-work by Messrs. Preston and Ross ; the iron-work
by Messrs. Weber and Co. ; the plumbers' and glazers'
work b 3 Mr. Richard Edwards ; and the painting by Mr.
Alexander White. The whole of the work has, we be-
lieve, given great satisfaction to the architect, Mr. Cun-
ningham, who has given in this erection, externally and
it, tern-tiny --another proof-or .M•aes—sional
. skill
and correct taste.

POLICE INTELLIC

ENCE,

CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—Edward Hamilton was
charged at Alanchester, on Friday, with embezzling money
to the amount of £lB7, the property of Messrs. Neild,
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Monies and Co., wine and spirit merchants, Hanover-
street, Liverpool, his late employers. He was committed
for trial at the sessions, but allowed to go out on bail.
A PRACTISED SWINDLER.—On Saturday, Stephen
Williams, a man of colour, dressed in the garb of a sea-
man, was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of
obtaining 20s. 6d. and a handkerchief by false pretences.

days ago the prisoner went to a boarding-house
"r. John Seed, and represented himself as stew-
hip Mary Johnson. As his story was believed
fitted as a lodger. No sooner had he gained

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the confidence of his landliird than he borrowed the money
and property above-named, with which he decamped, and
did not return again to the house. On being discovered
he was given into custody. Mr. Rushton said that he
could not do anything in the case, as the prisoner had
been taken in as a lodger, and the money lent to him.
The chief superintendent of police said the prisoner had
been brought to the police-office at least twenty times
within the last two months for offences of a similar cha-
racter :Ao that now charged against him. He had been
living for the last twelve months by the practice of swin-
dling. The prisoner was discharged.
..-. CHARGE OF ROBBING THE PARISH WORKHOUSE.—
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On Friday three parties were brought Ul7l;egr"e'lir.
Rushton, on the charge of robbing the parish workhouse.
Three parties, named Mary and Elizabeth Gregory, mo-
ther and daughter, and Wm. Anderson, watchmaker, son-
in-law of the elder prisoner, were charged with robbing
the parish workhouse of an enormous quantity of soap,
sugar, bread, potatoes, tea,, coffee, snuff, clothing of all
sorts, and in fact a bulk, of articles which would have
filled a large cart. Mr. Robinson, of the firm of Lowndes,
Bateson, and Robinson, appeared to prosecute, and Mr.
Charles Pemberton for the prisoners. The facts of the
case may be stated as follows :—ln consequence of some
private information given to police constable No. 600, he
entered the house of the elder female prisoner, at Brown-
low-hill, and saw a boy on Thursday about noon take a
large basket thence to the house of the prisoner, Ander-
son, in South-street. Upon entering the house the police
searched the basket, and found a quantity of potatoes,
bacon, mutton, bread, pork, &c. The house was then
searched by the inspector and other policemen, and some
tea, soap, and a variety of other articles, which it is sup-
posed belonged to the parish, were found. The boy stated
that he had brought, the things from the house of Mrs.
Gregory, who is the assistant storekeeper of the Liverpool
workhouse. On going there, the police found a large
quantity of soap in bars, female clothing, and all descrip-
tions of pieces of cloth cut up for making, and, indeed,
most of the articles used for clothing the inmates of a
workhouse. Upon the person of Mrs. Gregory were found

some keys and four enormous pockets, any of the latter
being large enough to hold a leg of mutton. It was
proved that the boy (Brownbill) had been in the habit for
the last eight months, excepting perhaps Sunday, of calling
daily at the house of Mrs. Gregory, and carrying a large
basket full of provisions, &c., up to the house of her son-
in-law (Anderson), and he was occupied in this manner
for three hours daily during the time we have mentioned.
There could be scarcely any positive identity of the great
bulk of the articles, for there had been but little time to
examine them. Mrs. Todd, the principal storekeeper,
stated that she examined the articles produced, but,
though they were of the same description as those at the
Liverpool Workhouse, she could not identify any of them.
She also stated that Mrs. Gregory, the elder prisoner, had
faithfully accounted for all the cloth and materials that
had been entrusted to her to distribute for the purpose of
being made up.