The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-29 00:00:00

June 29, 1547.

S TEALING LEAD.—A young man, named John Williams
was yesterlay charged at the Police-court, before Hugh
Hornby, Esq., the sitting magistrate, with stealing a small
quantity of lead from a house in Tontine-terrace, Prince's
Park, the property of Mr. Richard Edwards, of Newing-
ton, who has the contract for the plumbing, &c., and who
stated that he had over a few weeks past lost about £4O
worth of lead from the houses in the row. The prisoner,
who received a good character from his former employers,
but was committed for trial.

STEALING A WATCH.—Jamas Lawler, second engi-
neer belonging to the Medina, steamer, charged a
man, named Wm. Lashley, with having stolen a watch his
property. The watch was stolen from the cabin of the
Medina a few weeks ago ; on the same day the prisoner
came on board to speak to Lawler with whom he was ac-
quainted. It appears the man was taken up at the time
and discharged, but was again arrested on Thursday, it
having transpired that he had sent his wife to pawn the
watch at the shop of Mr. Howard, of Christian-street.
He was committed for trial.
PICKING POCKETS IN THE COLLEGTA.TE INSTITUTION.
—On Friday, a dull, stupid, country-looking fellow, who
gave his name Jonathan Oldham, and who is supposed to
have come from Macclesfield, was brdught before Mr.
Rushton, on the charge of pocket picking. Bates, an
active officer of the detective department, stated that he
was in the Collegiate Institution on the preceding after-
noon. About seven o'clock in the evening, he observed
the prisoner, who came behind him and raised the left side
of his coat. This act confirming the suspicions he before
entertained, he watched the man until ten o'cltpck, when
the company were about to leave the place; he•lost sight
of the man for a short time at this juncture, and ran
down the hall stairs. Upon seeing him, the prisoner made
for the library, where Bates took him. Upon searching
him, quite an assortment of articles was found upon him,
including a pocket-book, card-case, keys, pocket-handker-
chiefs, gloves, et id genus omne. The greater portion of
these were concealed under his shirt. The exertions of
the officer had only been successful in the case of a pocket-
book, which belonged to Mr. R. Shannon, draper, of
Scotland-road. The depositions in this case were taken,
but the man will remain at the Bridewell to afford an op-
portunity of other cases against him being proved. The
prisoner, whose appearance is the,very reverse of that of
the members of the swell mob, declined to say anything
in his defence.

GROSS IMPOSITION ON MEDICAL OFFICERS. Mr:
Callan, one of the parish surgeons, appeared before Mr.
Rushton, on Friday, to lay the following charge against a
woman who stood in the dock. Mr. Callan stated that
the woman called upon him that morning, and requested
to be furnished with a certificate that her husband was ly-
ing at home ill from the effects of a broken. rib. In answer
to the magistrate, Mr. Callan explained that it was cus-
tomary for the parish officers to supply poor patients with
such certificates, which, upon presentation at the parish
office, were the means of gaining relief to the holders. In
the present instance he suspected fraud, and though he
made out the certificate in the usual form,. he retained
possession of it. It was handed to the magistrate, and
set forth that John Taylor, of Fontenoy-street, was lying
ill. Mr. Callan had instituted inquiries in the neighbour-
hood of the street named, and the result was, that no such
person as the presumed patient exists. FrOm what was
stated, it transpired that, occasionally, paupers had been
furnished with these medical certificates, although their
abodes had never been visited, an onussionLwhich Mr.
Callan said was unavoidable from the number of his pa-
tients-700. Mr. Rushton said the number.was much
too great, and inquired if the authorities had 'been made
acquainted with the fact.' He replied they had;-and that
they had given him permission to engage another assist-
ant, (he already having one,) but as yet he had been un-
able to procure one. He further stated that 500 of the
number were fever patients. The woman was put down
until further inquiries should be made.
IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANTS.—At the police-court, on
Tuesday, Mr. George Saul,—perhaps better, known as
B. M. Byrnes and C0.,--passenger agent, Waterloo-road,
was summoned by Wm. Spence, to show cause why ha
refused a passage to Quebec; and subsistence money on
shore; the vessel in which he had engaged having sailed.
The amount claimed by Mr. Spence was £l5, and the
question was whether Mr. Saul was bound to take charge
of the passengers who had been shipped by Mr. Francis
Pinkerton, of Belfast, his agent; but whose agency he
contended had been withdrawn. From the evidence of
Mr. Pinkerton it appeared that he had acted as agent to
Mr. Saul since the beginning of March, and that he had
issued 240 or 250 tickets on, behalf of Mr. Saul since that
time. A list of vessels, including the Intrinsic, in which
the emigrants should have sailed, was furnished to him
by a person in Mr. Saul's office, named Shaw. He had
received several letters to say he was to forward no more
passengers, but he had brought 72 by the Sea King after-'
wards, all of whom had been received by Mr. Saul and for-'
warded to their destination. Mr. Spence, the complain-'
ant, said' he received a ticket from Mr. Pinkerton, at Bel-
fast, for which he paid £l4 lds. 6d. After he paid his.
passage, he came to Liverpool, and presented his ticket at
Mr. Saul's office, where he was told that the ship for that
date had gone out. Mr. Saubsent a Mr. Hume with hill;
to' procure a lodging. Next day he went to Mr. Saul
again, who told him he did not like to be annoyed by beg-
gars. He had turned some out who came from Belfast.
His ticket was dated Belfast, 10th June, for the ship In-
trinsic, to sail on the 16th June for Quebec. At the con-
clusion of the investigation, Mr. Radcliffe addressed the
bench on behalf of Mr. Saul, and said if the magistrates
so decided, they were prepared to pay the expenses of
the passengers, and forward them by the first opportunity
to' Quebec. Mr. Rushton commented on the proceedings
of Mr. Saul, and concluded by giving him the benefit of a
doubt, inflicting a nominal fine of £lO, and directing that
all the passengers be fully satisfied to the approval Of•
Lieut. Hodder, the government agent.

LIVERPOOL NOT MORE FEVER-SMITTEN
THAN SOME OTHER TOWNS.

The tradesmen of Liverpool are feeling severely the
effect of the imputation cast upon our town, that it is the"
great recipient of what is now very generally termed the
" Irish fever." We have enough of fever, it is true;
rather too much of it. But we are not solitary in that
respect. We are the recipients of the mass of Irish paw
pers swarming into England ; .but we are not on that ac-
count the exclusive recipients of fever-smitten Irish'
Fever, it is confidently said, is not imported, and the for
cases found on board the Irish packets seem to favour
the assumption that it is greatly generated here in the
unwholesome lodging-houses to which the Irish resort.
It is even more rife in the manufacturing towns of the
interior than in Liverpool. Manchester is full of it. In
that town additional fever hospitals have had to be pro-
vided. Leeds has fever in abundance, and of an aggra-
vated type. In fact, wherever these poor destitute peOPir
travel to, fever is abundantly propagated. We give tho
following report from Warrington
" THE heist' FnvEn,--This malignant disease is noif
rapidly spreading to almost every yard, court, and Oa,
throughout the borough. The nuisance committee and
ttohweinrsohifiipce,
wrsithhavtheebveieenwindefatigable
g tinie horntlheir exertions
cleansing and removing all nuisances threntoout the
der from getting to such a head as to baffte
Although fever is raging in its worst form in those places
occupied by Irish lodginghouse-keepers, they still persist'
in filling them with trampers of the most filthy descripT
tion, in several instances the police officers have found
many as forty persons lodgirig in one room of very smal.,
edbiclealdsikll skill.
dimensions. The effluvia arising from this dense mass e'
beings has been such as to cause .the most unpleasell,
feeling. Mr. Cruikshank, the relieving officer, reportew
to the board of guardians, at their meeting, on Wednes-
day; that the accommodation for the patients at the fever
hospital was now insufficient,. and that more room war`
required. The board then ordered that Messrs. HelsbYr
the builders, be directed to make another new shed, off'
larger size than those already erected."
Another from Rochdale Typhus and the black fat!.
are very prevalent in Rochdale and the neighbourhaea"
On Monday two deaths occurred in one house in Castletu°
from fever, which the parties had caught pt one of the loic
Irish lodging-houses. Fever wards have lately hee..,11
erected on a large space of waste ground at Cronkeysbe"
a short distance from the town."
It-is only justice, moreover, to the tradesmen of Liver-
pool, that we should impress upon strangers, the fact that
the sickness of which our weekly returns give evidence:
as existing in this town, is not to be met with in thou`
parts of the town which are chiefly resorted to by,visitoq
coming on business or-in search of healthy recreation.
is principally to be found in filthy places into which 01',,f
one- in a thousand of the respectable inhabitants
_`.'o
Liverpool ever enter,, and into which it is certain. that P
stranger need go.

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of Capt. Marryatt's book being able,to exchange sig",till
with vessels in the merchant service; and, what is"- of
more important, the saving of much trouble to offiee'fitg,
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,efc thc,
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