The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-07 00:00:00

POLICE-COURT-A :ESTERDAY.

STONE THROWING.—SeveraI lads were charged with
breaking the peace, and causing considerable damage to
property, by ' warring" with stones. They were fined
two shillings and sixpence each, and in default of payment
will be imprisoned two days. The young desperadoes
appeared quite indifferent as to the alternative of impri-
sonment, perhaps from experience of its mild character,
as they had been in durance since Saturday night. It is
almost a pity a little salutary corporal punishment could
not be inflicted, as all other means have proved defective
in attempting to do away with this unendurable outrage
on the safety to the property and persons of the inhabi-
tants.
MENDICANTS.—There were not so many of the mise-
rable Irish brought up as unfortunately has been the case
every Monday morning for a long period. One woman,
who appeared on this charge, attempted to play off the
stale imposition of being deaf and dumb. The police had
requested the atten!ance of Mr. Tatlock, a gentleman
connected with the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. That gen-
tleman attempted to converse with the woman by signs,
which was impossible, however, as she was evidently
unacquainted with his system. He was of opinion that
she was not dumb at all, but certainly that she had not
been educated. Mr. Rushton was also of opinion that the
dumb could soon easily be made to speak in this case, and
directed that the same treatment should be observed as
was resorted to in the case of a man in custody a short
time ago, who, on being told that he was to have nothing
to eat until he asked for it, found the power of speech in
about an hour after his imprisonment.
ROBBERY FROM ST. JOHN'S MARKET.—EIIen Lyon,
a woman of decent appearance, was committed for two
months for stealing a breast. of veal from the stall of Mrs.
Goulding, a butcher, St. John's Market. She had been
detected previously in a similar offence.
SHOP ROBBERY.—EIIen Depage, also a woman of
respectable appearance, was committed for twenty-one
days for having stolen a bottle of pickles from the shop
of Mrs. Smith, in Great Homer-street, on Saturday
night. The prisoner went into the shop just as it was
about to be closed, and contrived to get possession of the
bottle, which was found under her arm.
Ronsaay. IN A BROTHEL.—Two wretched-looking 1
women, named Joyce and O'Niel, were put up for rob-
bing a man, named Augus Colquhoun, of £22. It ap-
pears that the imprudent Scotchman, who is an old man,
on Sunday evening strayed into one of those dens of ini-
quity which abound in the vicinity of Garden-lane.
While there he fell asleep, and when he awoke he found
that a £2O bank note had been abstracted from his pocket
book, and that a purse containing two sovereigns and
some silver had also disappeared. The former prisoner
was seen by another girl, who appeared as a witness, to
take the purse from the man. The prisoners were re-
manded, and the victim appealed to the magistrate for
advice, and received a sharp admonition in return.
A MALICIOUS CHARGE. —A woman, who gave her
name Jane Fox, was charged by another woman, named
Catharine Loran, with having attempted to pick her
pocket, on Saturday evening, in a shop in Great Char-
lotte-street. The prisoner assured Mr. Rushton that the
charge was false, and had been trumped up by the com-
plainant in revenge against the prisoner, who had on a
former occasion been robbed by Loran's husband, and
had consequently preferred a charge against him. The
complainant positively swore she had no knowledge of the
prisoner whatever, when suddenly one or two officers
stepped forward and corroborated Fox's statement relative
to the counter charge, the complainant forgetting her
positive averments, attempted to give a different colouring
to these circumstances, though, in doing so, admitted
their having taken place. Mr. Rushton at once dis-
charged the prisoner, and observed to the complainant
that she merited an indictment for perjury.
CHARGE ,ON SUS PICION.—A Seotchnian, named Archi-
bald Shaw, was charged with having concealed himself in
the house of Mr. J. B. Neilson, Falkner-square. Mr.
Neilson's' footman stated that his master was leaving the
parlour door with him about four o'clock on Saturday
afternoon., when the prisoner was observed standing
behind another door, near the kitchen. Mr. Neilson,
naturally conceiving that he could have no lawful business
there, despatched his servant for a policeman, and the
man was conveyed to bridewell. The prisoner entered
into a long narration, the 'object of which was to show
that he went into the house to ask for employment, under
the impression that he was applying at an office, and con-
tended there could be no concealment intended, as the
servant was cleaning the passage when he entered, the
door being open. He further stated that lie had spoken
to some joiners, whom he knew. and who were at work in
the house. The latter statement was proved to be false,
and he was committed to prison for one month. Another
fellaw, who was in company with him, contrived to escape.

There was, on Saturday, a reduction in the return of
cholera cases for the metropolis, compared with the re-
turn of the day before; but the,
Kennington, number of cases is ex-
tremely heavy. In Lambeth, ennington, Bermondsey,
and the low-lying districts, active house to house visita-
tion has been carried on, under the regulations of the
General Board of Health, for the treatment of the pre-
monitory symptoms of the disease in the earliest stages.
CHRISTIAN SISTERHOOD.—We understand that it is
the intention of the Rev. Joseph Baylee to establish, at
Birkenhead, if sufficiently assisted, an institution " which
will provide a home for many a Christian lady, and secure
to the church, services which are now lost." The reverend
gentleman proposes to take a large house and furnish it,
and to receive into the house " a number of ladies who
desire to devote themselves to the service of Christ."
They would form a Christian family, " with no other for-
mality than an ordinary well regulated family, with simple
morning and evening prayers as in any other family.
They would pay their own expenses—some would engage
in school-teaching ; others in visiting the sick, and all
in some works of piety." «'e are fully alive to the
objections which may be raised against such an object,
but we hope that the known scriptural firmness which
characterises all the proceedings of Mr. Baylee, will secure
this institution from all tendency to romanizing or tracts-
rian influence. We expot to furnish a fuller outline of
the plan in our next.