The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-16 00:00:00

POLICE IN7'ELLIGEIVCE.

APPEIT A PiiELIC-60USB Tuesday two men 'of
colour, named Wilson and Sewed, were charged before the ma•
gist rates with having violently assaulted a straorau whose name
did not transpire. Wilson, who is an elderly luau, keeps a pub-
lic house or beer-shop somewhere about the doi4s;. and Sewell.
it stout, muscular young '' nigger," with a' tot bidding- anti
somewhat ferocious expression of countenance, is an initiate of
the house, and acts, it was said, as champiou for hiS elderly
friend in cases of emergency. The complairtant, whose head
was boundt•op with a handkerchief, staled that on Monday
night he went into Wilson's house, where he sat. down, Awl got
a pipe of tobaCco. While sitting quietly, Sewed came forward,
and, Wilbont provocation, struck him on the bead, or witch he
inflicted several wounds. A witness deposed that on going up
the street, where Wilson•l house is situated, he heard a noise,
and his shipmate's voice calling out for help. He shoved the
door open, and saw Sewell spike the complainant, and knock
hint down ; afterwards heed him down and struck him.
Witness then •` bolt" through the door, and " hauled"
his companion out. A shirt of the complainant's was here pro-
duced, which was stained in different places with blood. Sewell,
in defence, entered into a Minnie detail of the whole circuit"-
stances, from which it appeared that there had been previouily
three other men along uith the complainant, who had raised a
row in the house, and assaulted : •and on his (Sewell's)
attempting to defend him, they aimed a blow at his side with a
knife, which he parried with his ani", in which he received a
severe cut. (S-well was here iecoired to show the •cut iu his I
arm, which he did.) The men atterWards broke the door, anti
then departed, leaving the complainant alone. In .answer to
Mr. Hall, the witness for the complainant said that when he
went to the house three men came runnfrig nut; he could not
tell_ who they here, but when he entered the hose he saw Wil-
son and a woman striking the prisoner. Wilson gave similar
evidence to Sewell. Mr. Hall conceived that the statement of
Sewell and Wilson was confirmed by the admission of the COW. -
plainant's witness, as well as by the injury which Sewell hal
sustained in his arm. and said, before the magistrates could
punish the prisoners, they most lie perfectly satisfied as to the
previous conduet of the complainant. Under the circumstances
the prisoners must be discharged.
STEALING BOoES }ROM A IiAILWAY CARRIAGE.—On Tues.
day, an old offender, named John Worthington. was placed at
the bar of the Police-court, to answer to a charge of having
stolen a pared containing books to the value of 355.• from one
of the railway carriagts. Richard Roonev stated that he was a
canvasser for periodical publications. anti resided, in Liver-
street, Manchester. On Thursday afternoon he came by one
of the railway trains to Liverpool. lie had a parcel of books
and specimens which he placed in the cirriage beside him.
There were two other men in the carriage, one of them was
muffled up. He had occasion to alight at Pink-gale. and be-
fore he could get back the train hart started for
,Liverpool.
When he arrived by the next conveyance, he went to the Rail-
, way-offle, but was there informed that no parcel such as he de-
scribed had come forward. He could not say that the prisoner
stole it. One of the officers •stated that he saw .the. prisoner
crossing from Lord-street to Whitechapel with the parcel of
books produced, and on asking how he had come by them, was
informed by the prisoner that he had purchased them- from a
bookseller at Rainhill. The officer told him there was no book-
seller at Rainhill, and took him into custody. The books were
then taken to the prosecutor's lodgings, Who named them all
before he had seen the parcel opened. The prisoner, in answer
to Mr. Hall, said he had found the parcel by -the side of a hedge
at Rainhill. He was committed for trial.

EXCISF. INFORM ►TION.—OU TtleSdaV, John Stirling, cook on
hoard the John Min rim. from Si. Joini's, N.B , appeared be-
fore the magistrates to answer to au inform .tion chargitw him
with having smuggled 451bs. of manufactured tobacco Mr.
Stokes, acting tide-wader to the Customs. deposed to havmo
searched the vessel on the 3I illSlntli. and (mind the tobacco iu
question stowed in the coat-hote. On the sth instant the pri•
sower gave ltiluself lip. in order to meet the penalty he had
placed about £l6 of his wages in the hands of the 'Captain's
brother; but NI r. Hall told him that the in igislrates had no dis-
cretionary power: they must inflict the futi penalty of £101). ur
six months' imprisonment. Taking, into 'c nsideration, how-.
ever, that he hail given himself op, and that he bad a wife and
Gently, 'n aintly, they ought make a representation to the Board in his
favour, 'The captain was then ordered to give up the money in
his il,trids, and the prisoner's clothes, to Mr. Dowling, to be
taken care of.
Itottumty —Yesterday, an abandoned female, named Moore,
was brought before the magis tate along with two other females,
cha.rged with 114 vine robbed a man of his watch the night be-
foil-. The complainant, an art ILati, stated that ou Wednesday
evening he met the three pi isoners, anti stood talking with the
prisoner Moore, for a shot! time, when he discovered that she
had picket! his picket of his watch. The other two prisoners
were standing near at the time. lle immediately called a pi,-
licem,n. and gave the whole of them in chatge. As there was
no evidence implicating any of the prisoners lint nittre, the
oilers were dischar,ged. More was committed for three mouths
to Ki kdale, In the trearlrmill.

JoKK Ann NO JO K K.— Yestenla y, at the Police-office, a lad
employed in a Mondry m this town, was placed helot, the
gist rates, charted with knocking at the Burial:zit Jail door, anti
running 11,Va%. An officer deposed that Ike was on duty near
the Borough Jail altout one 'o'clock that morning, is hen he saw
tho prisoner knock at the 13,troogh Jail door, and run away,-
and he in consequeno e took hint into custody. A person Irmo
the Jail stated ;lon it WfOi a very common practice fur people to
knock at the Jait door at one or two o'clock in the morning,
and when he hail g :1 up and gone to see what was the matter
he found tot person there. The prisoner said that he awl' some
others uere going home frion their work. and were iurkiny, and
they th.tught it would be a flue hid; to tan tan at the Jail door,
and knock up the Jailer. Air. Ball said lie shi,uld fine him ss.
and costs, or send him for seven days to the place he had been
SO MIXIOOS to get admittance into.

MARK ET WOMEN'S SQ UA BBLI,S. —Scarcely a day passes but
some of the holders of stalls in the di..ereren. markets are iitiln•
molting some of their neighhouting stall-keepers before the
magistrates for assaults: all the parties are invariably women.
We know not how this Can be explained, unless we resort to
the phrenological theory, which will perhaps tell us, that the
belligerents have all the combative organ Yen fully developed;
ergo, wherever the organ of combativeness is largely developed,
it follows, ntirenologicaliy, that the individual possessing the
unftatunate tmoulterant-e is a market woman. -Leaving, how-
ever, that philosophical disquisition to the pro and anti phrenolo-
gists profoundly to determine upon, we proceed to the particular
anti individual troubles tit* Mrs Biddy Cairns-and Mts. Tabi. ha
Powell, of liowooll-square mat ket. Mrs Bally Cairus is a rat
anti short little limn:111, of that -description termed "dumpy;"
anti were it not for the pouting lip she had, and the tear which
glistened on her smooth. round cheek, she would have present-
ed the appearance of those good•hutuoured and jolly personages
who belting to the "laugh and grow fat" yeasts.. tier daily and
seentimental occupation, as she nerself set forth, is to attend al
au nyster.stall. Mrs. Tabithit Foweli, on the contrary, who ap-
peared
as the defendant, like her namesake, Mrs.Taloilm Brant
bit.. of hon. repute, was or tall, thin, bons, spare, vinegar, brunt.
hie-busby appearance, deeply pitted also with the smitil•pox,
increasing the ovens helining unanunt of her charms. Mrs Bid-
dy Cairns, after pathetically wiping her eye with the corner rat
a very much sidled white apron, dropped a courtesy to the Ma-
gistrate, and proceeded to state her heavy grievauces. Trial
person's servant, sir, came to rite to ax me to lend her the luau
of a stool, sir, as Mrs. Powell she said, had a pertickler wish
to sit down as site wits a heating. Well, sir, 1 lent her a stow,
for to heat her dinner Minn—this was on the Fritiay, you mind,
in Pownall-square market • anti situ see, I've 'tidily been late!)
in that market."—Mr. " Never mind how long you base
been there, I don't want to know ; tell me the assault."--Alrs.
Biddy " NVell ; about seven o'clock I went back for the stool;
she Veepsa stand a good way off me. When I went she was
not at her stand, hot as I was coining attar. she came and say.
10 me, Wity have you been at my standing?—you had no
right to flitch the stool;' and then She called ine such names!"
—Mr. Hall: What did she do? I want to come at that; never
mind the names."—Mistress Biddy: " She called me Yen bad
names; shocking names !''—Mr. Hall: "That is doing
nothing."— Mistress Biddy: " Well, she tuk my oysters gut itt
my basket and threw 'em at me, anti cut my face with 'rm."—
She called a witness, who gave similar testimony. Mts. Tabi-
tha was then called on for her defence. She said, " A lady—
Mrs. Hemingway., came to me and said ' Will you take case tit
my stool?' which I did, anti it is not that person's (camplaiii•
ant's stool at all; anti when sit, took it daily, I went to her and
said, by Mrs. Hemingway's borders, will you give me that
slued?' when site vatic(' rue everything amiss, and said I was
over kind with married, and I've been 25 yea's a widely,
the monster ! So, I said to her, ' Did you hever se the
done anything amiss to the valeation of a hoyster ?' taking
one out of her basket; and sne said • she did;' when
I put the holster dots n again on the basked and it fell nit

th,. door, can yfiti dein it ht.u, ?" ninth and !wild:

saw'' at the e piaitiant.) An ether maiCet woman nanieo
kobinsen. bete stood up in the witness box to give evidence on
behalf of the defendant. She said --" I stand right hltpustle
and seed tile quarrl; and because Mrs. r"w-II wttaiti
her the table, :he calekd As,ten
Mrs. can Els, sue is a very little ill-natured. beg, Lidding ;
she's olers a quarrelling it ith one or oibet': -1 don't 101,,w that
titer's a hiller uatred woman in the Im'e market; she's con-
t ineally a brewing some tuischiel " Mistress Cairns, Ott hear
lug this chemical nevus:46,d), elevated tier e)es, "as ducks are
won't to do in thunder," and slowly and impressively ,jacu-
14ted "Oh, mi!" Mr. all said the nest time he heard of an)
squabbling of this kind tinting on 10 t lie ma: ket. he should sent.
for Mr Graham the inspector, and arrive at the truth. and pun-
ish those who deserved it. At present there wet e witnesses on
each sole tendering opposite evidence, and there was U 0 arriving
at the truth. Complaint discharged.

THE ROY AL Astputin lime.— Mr. Bates, the spirited
manager of Ibis theatre, takes his benefit on Monday night.
The toils announce great attractions for the eveutug. Iheie is
little doubt but that he obtain a bumper.
THE LlViiit THEATRE.—Alliaetive ni)velties-coutitthe to be
brought out at this agreeable. little theatre. On Monda), even-
ing, a nes% piece called " Rory l/More," is going to be brought
out, Mr. lianiuntt playing the part. of Rury 1:ore. .1u
sentations of Irt,h character Mr. lia)niund is inferiour to uo
actor on the stage.
Mr. JAMES RUSSELL r. Russell takes his 'benefit at the
Theatre Ito)al, Manchester, on Monday. hits Rory ()Wore is
svokeu of.

CATHOLIC CHARITY BAft..—The annual ball in aid of the
Rinds. of the, beni:yotent lustnution will take place on Monday
evening ilex!. The arrangements are under the direction of a
linna)e r of gent ientun, who will act as stewards, and we don hi
not eve' y thing will he conducted on the Pa ins liberal scale as
has tontine, The refreshments wi.l be ptoyided by Nlr. Horne,
asskteo Li) Mr. Ty rreli, of Sutton, the gentlemeu who catered
so successfully tor the Bachelors' Ball. \Ve hope the attemi-
allett will lie such as to evince the zeal which the public of Li-
verpool feel in prosecuting any lieuevolent purpose. This in-
stitution has very powerful claims to the public patronage, and
we hope the liberality of our townsmen will enable the i.ommit.
ice to carry out their plans ut beueuolence by enlarging their
sphere of action.

HINTS FOR PUNSTERS.—If you can make a pun, you vrill
pass for a wit. A few blots, the' efore, on the part of punning
tray be acceptable. If gentleman. meets von, and in tar
course of conversation expresses !►is surprise how such a one
gels his bread, say, you think he .assorts lies priieuies It at the
baker's and sometimes at the chandler's Shop. If the. saint
gentleman observes, he did not exactly mean that, but was
anxious to know how the other lived. you can reply. " ►ouch as
usual—sometimes a joint, sometimes a pudding." These smart
rejoinders will stamp you at iinve Cl wit 01 the first Wafer; but
if any of your friends are so dull as nut to comprehend the force
and hi illiaucy of your jokes, laugh youiseil—the eacoethes
ridendi" being contagious, you are sure to infeet the mast in-
sensible Never tniral the bitter sarcasm of oue Samos: John
son, LL.D. He was very ignorant, althou:!lt he did eampile
tlietiona►y. liltratdtce a pun whenever you see alp oPportunity.
Should %tat be waking with a very shirt friend, tap him on the
shoulder. mid SAV. " 8., VIM ate a happy dog." Ili- demands
the reason. " Z•sutida li. you never wear a great coat, or lie
tang in I►etl." You could not ni•tke a .e btiillant reply.
T•ke care that lotus be west-tiniest, and ala•ats at the expense
id the aged and helpless. Fur instance. flan elderly I..entlts
maii, travelling with you. iu the same Stage, Should exi.iess a
desire to gel oni and strach his legs when the coach changes
horses, say. " For heaven'avakey dvalutiiii-four &e fa Sue .lufax
ciltAtelt IZ kv-Gta:4l,

Si..l-X()NP EDTTION.

Standard Office, Three o'Ciock.

The, Bristol Mail had not arrived. at Birmingham
viiiien the train left. T.x delay is aselibed to a heavy fall

of snow.'

The► Liverpool Steeple Chase is postponed to Montiy,
the SAI Wadi,- and the Grand Coursing Meeting is also'
postponed to Tuesday, the 6:h, and lirv;dne:qa?,, the
7th Match, weather permitting.

LIVERPOOL MARKETS.

CORN MARKET-- FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1838.

Although the wind frloWs strongly from the gast with intense
frost, many vessels' contfune to find their way into this port
daily from various parts of the wovld, bat none with foreign
Grain or Flour of late: those however, coastwise and from lie-
laud since Tuesday, add to ths; arrivals then stated, 5,000 qrs.
Wheat, 900 qrs. Barley*, 10,9(X► qrs. Oats, 717 Vs. Beaus, 5,000
sacks Flour, and 13,5(X) of Irish Oatmeal; which with 16,959
of Oatmeal. the amount of last week's supply, make upwards
of 31,0(X) sacks of this article in the course of the last tett
days, and is the' largest quantity we eve? recollect iu the same
space of time,

To 'fleet these arrivals and samples offering from granary,
we have had a fair demand for Wheat at this da%'S market,
from both consumers and speCulative buyers, with increased
fijmness in the trade; and though the canals are still closed,
an advance of 2,1. per 70Ibs. upon Tuesday's rates. has been
t•enerally obtained.—Four, at the carne time, was in moderate
request, and held steadi!y on full as high ►erms as before.

The Oat trade. exhibiting more animation than of late, sales
to a tolerable extent were effected, chiefly to hold over, and, in
some instances. an improvement of V. per 45.1i5. was realized,
yet the advance towards the close of businesi appeared rather
to check the detinand.

Oatmeal. attended with a fair inquiry and more disposition to
purchase, an amendment of 3,1. per `Ziollis. was acquired, but
the majority of samples being ivithheld, and still higher prices
partially asked, the transactions on the uh cle, in consequenCe
were not considerable.

Barley. Malt, Beans, and Pease, continued to rule in the
same languid state as last tiotti'd, but without any decided
chango in value:

In bonded articles, the only sales which Piave transpired since
our last retort are limited to a few hundred sirs. of inferior hard
Wheat at 34 10.1. per 70tbs., and 1500 to 2000 barrels of old
States' Plait. at 254 to 254. 6d. pet barrel.

Alf ERIG

If; lithe ES,

41" 711 !As. s d x.l BR s, Imp. met 4(I I 0
Irish aged red.. 6 8 fir 710 Irish . .... 4s oal6 0
Do. dried white, 7 6.. k 6 FLOUR, tr, 2go ttiS.
Do.tindried new 6 6 6 1 En..r.lt Irish sop. 45 0 47 0
Thrflish
Canada ..... 0 0 0 U Do. meeo uls
OA TN, 45 His_ Do. thirds.-- 18 0.. 22 0
Irish
it 4f, 60 IhS Do.
fish
..3 3. 3 8 BRAN, 440.:11151... 1 0.. 1 3

AVEItAt;E PIIICE OF BurrEß,
S U sl,l
Bacon, 49• cwt 46 47 0
limns, dry 64 0 64 0
Do. wet — 0 0
Firkin Lard, 5l 0 0 I
Bladdered d 0..... 64 0 .. 6I 0
Greas, Butter .... 40 0 .. 41
I'r:!ur Mess Beef,
V-tierce, 98 0 -110
Prime 1111-,s Pori.'
4Y Lirrel, 78 0.. 80 0

sn S D
nbrid'D. ...... • • 81 0 `1 "
Waterford.
Coleraio.

Carlow
L meriek
B •ifast •• 0.. 0
9J 0.. 110 0
Derry
Cork, 2ds — 0 . ii
Newry
Dundalk
,Sligo.

- _ U

ARRIVAL
From the 6th February. to

S OF COI
the 12th F

'elatiary, inclusive.

DESCRIPTION.

COAST-

) SES. TS
. T 6tr:".

Wheat , QrN
Bark)
Oats trti
Flour Sachs
Ditto Barrels
Nlalt Cwt
Oat ',cal Loads
Bran
Beans Qrs
Peas Qrs
Rye....
Shelled t
Batleseed
Indian Corn. Qrs

891:?
131
8967

9365
177
5046'
90t3

CO'I"R)N MARKET.—'I Wu o'curert.
There. has been rather more doing to-day; the sdles amount
to fully 30(.X1 bags at steady prices; the business of the week is
18,550 hags, all to the trade.