The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-08 00:00:00

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ATT,,V A G AIN,T. A Ilt..in.rcAN.—On Tuesday, at the
Ponce-office litebtod Chilh•ott appeared to anstaer.a charge
made against loin by Inpeeio, Simpson. The latter stated.
that Mr. ChilleOtt kept a puttlic-rouse in Riehmond-stirel. On
r-dav, the 21:ii instant, at nearly two o'ci.ek in the morn-
ing, he was passing the house, when he heard a noise. lie
knorked at the :lour, and he was adinitted by Mr. Chilleott.
Ile found 'in the hooseseveral persons, five of whom 'were in-
toxicated. Cross-exaMined by Mr. e remembered
what he said wino he wiolt in very well. Ile said, it. was ex-
ceedingly improper. to have petsons drinking there at that
haul-. lie retnetniterod a person named Bed, who addressed
him. He said to Bell—Don't yuu interfere with me in my
duty; you have sent roe a lawyer's letter, and if ever you in-
terfere:with toe in my duty, I will send you to Bridewell. Mr.
Chilleott : Dul you•ever know me to have persons in my house
at such an tour ft,fore ?—lnspector; No, I never did. Mr.
Chilicott Do you not know rov house to be a well-conducted
house?--Inspector: I know it to be a disreputable house. Mr.
Chillcott: Do you know the names of the persons who were
there ? —lnspector : Not of all. I know a few of them. There
was yourself, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Bell, Mr. Baker, and Mr.
Matthew Robinson. Mr. Robinson was sober Mr. Chilleolt:
Yes, and that Mr. Baker whom you have mentioned is a clerk

in Ali. Whittv's office Mr. Whitty: I beg to state, that Mr.
Baker is nut a clerk in my office. Two police officers were
callerL They stated that they accompanied Inspector Simpson
on the occasion in, question. They saw seven men, five of
whom. were drunk, and two sober. They did not know the
names of any of the individuals. They had seen disorderly
characters in the house. Martindale, au officer of the court,
wove(' a previous conviction against Mi.. Chillcott. Mr,
Chill-
cott called Al,. Parsons, solicitor, of this town. He said he
was at Mr. Chilleott's house on the night in question, Before
he proceeded with his evidence, he requested Air. hall to allow
him to sale why he had called there. There was an action
pending against Alr. Chillcott, in which he was engaged as
attorney for that gentleman. The case was on the point of
settlement, and he had called to tell Mr. Chillcott that such was
the case. He called between eleven and twelve o'clock, having
been detained at his office until past eleven. Mr. Baker, who
was a clerk to Mr. Whitty, had quarrelled with his clerk and
knocked hiui down. .The inspector came in and said they were
all drunk. It' seemed, he said, that his clerk, Bell, had made
some i'dielioist that he was almut•to enter au ection, and this
had prUduced an ill feeling in the mind of the inspector towards
him (hl r. Parsons.) The inspector said, "Oh ! you have
threatened to send me law, -but Pll serve von cult." A ilusitin
having 'again been made to Air, Baker, Mr. Whitty said Mr.
Baker Iva§ 'an exceedingly respectable young than. He was
not, however, a clerk in his office, Ahotit six months ago he
was employed in his office for two weeks :only. Hall said
the case was proved very fully.: Mr. Chillcott don't think
the-evidence of those policemen should be taken even on oath.
Mr. Hall: Mr. Parsons has proved the case. If we were to
throw out of consideration all the other evidence, his testitnonv
proves the case most completely. Mr. Chilicutt was fined
£2 lOs. and Cliti,

DAMAGE. To A VESSEL 1111( A STEAMER.-110 proprietors
of the Bebbingten, one of the steam•-boats plying to and I..mona
the look Ferry, appeared at the Police-office, on Tuesday, by
their solicitor, Mr. Moss, in answer to a summons . procured
against them by the owns-rs of the brig Clyde. The gentleman
who representedl.the owners of the Clyde, stated, that she was
lying in the stream, and was about to enter one of the docks,
when the steamer Behhington ran against her bows and did
much damage. The pilot who was in charge of the Clyde was
called. He stated, that the latter vessel was within a reasona-
tde distance of the pierhead, with very little way upon her—not
more than one knot per hour—the tide running about two knots.
• The-Be'thingtort left the pier and attempted to go a-head of
them.- The John Anderson lay her own length front them, and
between the two vessels the steamer was trying to pa,s. They
bailed her, 'and told her to stop a short titne. Those on board
the steamer Stopped the paddles for an instant, and then he
heard a cry of •' Go on—hard a starboard." Immediately the
steatnercame across their bow, forcing them over against the
John AnderSon, breaking their head rails, and carrying away
the bowsprit and
_part of the rigging. The main-topmast was
also broken off by the stock, and it fell amongst the men of the
John Anderson. A shipmaster anti a shipwright, who had ex-
amined the injuries, Were called. The former stated, that it
would cost ..C5 to repair the damage done to the rigging, and time
latter said, the other injuries which the. vessel had sustained
could not be repaired under £l6. Mr. Hall said, they had
proved a damage of £2l. By sec. 115 of the 6 Geo. IV, he could
• not interfere 'whet e the damage claimed was mote than £2O
The solicitor for the owners of the Clyde thought; as the act
specifi,al that a redaction of one-third was to be made for the
difference between oil and new materials, that the sum which
they claimed was in reality under £2O, as, in point or fact, they
tmely claimed two-thirds of £2l. Mr. Hall said, the act evi-
dently intended that the power to interfete should be governed
by the amount of damage proved.
• CHA FIGES OF EIoMICIDE AGAINST A SHIP'S CAPTAIN.—Phi-
Iip Partride, captain or the Vigilant. belonging, we understand,
to Mr. Quaile, of this port, was, on Tuesday, brought up at the
Poke-mike, on two charges of flogging and ill-treating two of
Ilia bands on board, ou theirhotneward bound voyage from at,
Coast of Africa, from the effects of which they flied. The first
case gone into was a charge of illt resting a boy named William
Davies., From the testimony of the second mate and several
seamen, it appeared that in April last, when within five weeks'
sail of this port, the captain knocked the deceased down as he
stood at the wheel, and kicked him as he lay on deck. The boy
was at the time ill of a dysentery; but, notwithstanding, he
was flogged almost daily, and sometimes repeatedly in the day,
until about the 12th day Pram that on which he was knocked
down, when he died. One of the seamen said the boy conti-
nued to grow worse daily, but he was still flogged and ill-treated.
"dr doubt
ebsurgeonhastened ()
the boy'sftheves dei e•sattiiated. that the injuries received no
'He might have recovered with
kind treatment. The next charge Wa3 for flagging and ill-
treating the cooper on board; but the surgeon was of opinion
that he 'died •a natural death. He hail suffered from an attack
of fever on the coast, and was mueh emaciated. Mr. Hall le-
marked strongly on the•brtitality of the captain beating a man
who was so etucciat ed. The prisoner wass remanded for further 1
examination. On Wednesday the captain was again brought •
up, and fully committed to take his trial for homicide at the
Central Criminal Court.

PUFFlNG."—Yesterday, at the Police-office, two noted
" duffers,"—sellers of sham foreign silks, sham tobacco. &c. to
the credulous, stained Barnard Letruard and Murray, were pla-
ced beforethe Magistrates on a charge of attempting to sell
smuggled tobaCco. A .yiang man named Wilson, stated, in a
lung round-about story, that the prisoners came to him and
offerers to sell him some tobacco cheap. fie said he wanted
about albs, and one of theist, L&lnard, went in fetch it, and
Caine back with a large sealed parcel apparently of tobacco,
sealed up. They weighed it, and it weiehed nearly four pounds,
when they said, as he wanted only three pounds he should have
it as three pounds, awl -wanted 2s. a lb. for it. lie bid them ss.
for it, and after some hat gaining. they
agreed to take it. He
had not the money, hoWever, to pay thew for it, and they refus-
ed to let him keep it without. and so, he being the keeper of a
bonded warehouse—Mr. Hall, " And, therefore, very honest, no
doubt,"—he gave them into custody. Mr. Dowling said, the
charge ought to tie for selling something, for it was not tobacco.
There was a small hole torts in the parcel at the top under which
was tobacco, but all the rest was sawdust. Mr. Dowling then
tore open the parcel, and exp•tsed about half an ounce of tobaC-
co just where the parcel was torn at the top, and all the rest
tightly packed saw-dust. Mr. I wish I could get rid of:
Murray, and drive him out of Liverpool; he is one of the great-
est
knaves in the town." Prisoner Murray--" Well, it wasn't
use as sold the tobacco, it was this man, and him as bought it •
wanted me to sell him some French orandy." Mr. Hall—
" You bargained with him for ss. tor that parcel of saw dust."
Prisoner Leonard—" Pease yer honour, ,he never meets uz in
the street but he's olers asking for tobacco." M r. What
are you?" Mr. Parkinson—" Ile is one of the duffers that go
about the town." Prisoner Leonard—"'{'here's nobody about'
the Docks but he (complainant) wants to buy 'lsects of; he's
tormenting us every day for 'fiaoc,. He gets both negro-head
and cabbages and 'smuggles himself." (A laugh.) Mr. Hail
—" Is that any reason why you should sell him saw-dust?"—
This ilumfoundered Leonard. It appearing, that the complain-
ant had paid nothing, there was n,t fraud. Mr. Hall—" The
very first time I have such evidence as I can lay hold of, as to
Discharge them
You, Murray, particularly. I tr,Failyl,
" Good morning, Sir." It may warn suite credulous simpleton
gWitt you sent out of the coup-
h much cool impudence—
you
being duped, to state, that Mum ray, than whom there IS
not a greater thief in the town, and who is always prowling
shunt, is a middle built, dressed always in a •
blue jacket like a
nearly bald.
aged man,
ha lY
visttiogutapa did, bloated face, and is

DEFINITION OF "NOT PARTICULAR! y Dittimi."—Yesterday
at the Police.offii.e, a silly fellow, who had the night before been
robbed of his coat at a house of ill fame, in the midst of his story
was asked by Mr. Hall, who is some times exceedingly spicy in
his Police-office remarks, " Well, I suppose you were di unk ?"
Complainant—" Oh, not particularly drnnk ." Mr. Hall—
" Drunk no usual?" Complainant was quite posed, but would
not admit that he was usually dtuuk.

STEP, I,ll$G GLASSES FlipM Punt ICANS.—Cases of pilfering
glasses from publicans are continually occur:lug at the police-
court, and that body of tradesmen must be great sufferers from
ttsfiii,sicchot.u;,%ey.
iny:(szera measure hint
pgru-atsatnherznt,:utthiins.thempro.llll3..e,Loz:
publican, of Scotland-road, appeared to prefer a charge against
a woman for stealing ,me of his glasses. He said his losses from
minutes
.lt
gtni it,
;l etshote) i
greatagnl a
os st.
having his glasses stolen amounted to lOs. a week. The usual
plan ,is to have the name of the owner scratched on the side,
when stolen the glass was taken to persons who made a living
by it, the nitme ground . nu'. and in a few
. hart polished,
bcen ahnisill,t)hsserien vs:ialissnwoayb,ontgi%rtainiey ikillaeillitiblyiti:
.having his.na:ne cast in the glass, so that it went right through
uaynhdieltill,e,uaes
twhaesunstola
lg rgVi,n geasitt i
Imiign tr.
o u IFilde tPhreu-d.gilicaesds- it
assptenet specimen
water bottles, 5... v. This hint may he useful to the class of pub-
licans.

liontm:r .--Yesterday at the policemifice, Mrs. Leonard, the
wife of Mr. Thomas Leonard of the Derby Arms Inn, near the
Zoological Gaialetis, appeared:before the Mag,istrates to charge
One 91' her servants,. Elizabeth Brodie, wilt) having robbed her
of some money. Mrs Leonard stated that she, had £6. in silver
in a tin box which belonged to her father (Mr. Atkins) and put
it
,into her
bed room. On Tuesday inioninkr, on. going for it
and counting it, she found £l. 15s. short. As no one had been
in the roma, hat herself and the chamber maid, she wept down
tremble(l very much and sail, do von
liking it?accuse me
culled r
a.irs and taxed the chamber maid with having taken it. Thz
pohuei.lll and g.)ve her into custoilv, and the money was found
on her. 'rho Prisoner, in defence, ;lolled the charge, and will make you pay for it if yon d,;." She
it. was all a mistake of Nlr. Leonaid's • that ier mistress
ll) wi!s
troubled with a very bad memory! he prisoner was fu.
committed to take her trial.

CRICKET,-_A mach will he play
the members of the Liverpool, and Wavertree clubs, on the
ground of the
ftirmer, to commence at two o'clock precisely.
Lord Stanley left town at an early hour yesterday morning
to attend the Manchester races, and thence to Knowsley for a
few days. His lordship is expected to return to St. James's-
square on SaturdAy next.—Morniny Herald, Wednesday.
George IV., though not generally -noted for disregard of
foreign tinsel, gage an especial injunction that nothing that
was not or British fabric should, on any account, he used at his
coronation-_a reollation which was falthtully adhered to.

The Midland Counties' Railway is rapidly "progressing" (,is
the Americans would say) in the immediate neighbourhood of
this'town, and along the.whole line on both sides of it. Beyond
the Freeman's Piece, the workmen are now engaged in a deep
Ciining elaNev soil, and will soon reach the spot where a
short tunnel is tc, be made. On the Iltimberstone road, a con-
siderabie excavation is bei.Lig made, over one part of which there
will Is' a bridge high enough to allow - coaches and other ve-
hicles to pass under it. Every possible exertion seems to be
Used hy the directorsao comp ete the undertaking in due time;
and there can be no doubt that they will succeed in doing so.
lc is quite evident to any casual observer of the progress which
is daily made in the work, that there exists great energy and
talent in theanithaoing department ; and we are glad of it, for,
to speak The truth, we should be sorry that the " Midland Coun-
ties" should •be exceeded in any respect by any other railway
in the LerThester Chrotriclei

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

EATII

On Tl.le4d3V e.euling the, manageis lit ito theatrfs; taking ad-
' vintage of toeCiictitistance of mi. Valitivaihmi pas•oug tiroi2J:l
the town en, route from At Loudon, i"
play Hthafet.. It was but to be eslittce,i that an Actor so ;.;eile-
rally a favourite as adi.Va‘oteutuotr is in Liverpool, pla yi,:e nt
one of his best characters, stwind attract a 'ero \tiled audience ;•
and such was the Lase, fur hot it boxes and pit were quite full
The very enthusiastic reception; with which Mr. Vandenhoff
was greeted on' his re-appt•arance ott those•boards where his
earliest Inespiau of iris were mailejand where the grolind-work
of his succeeding fame was firmly laid, while it was the deserved
reward of his exertiolls, must at the saine.iiiite have been highly
flattering to him. In personal appearance, Mr, Vandenhoffbas
much improved from his hip over the Atlant4C.; when we last
saw him about 12 months ago, there was a deg-ee .of lankness
about his limits and person, whica has 110 W been changed into
robustness. There are many original points in Mr. Vanden-
huff's Hamlet, wherein he widely differs - from his contetnpo-
rat ies ; some of them distinguished by much beatity•;. Some of
them defective. His Hamlet is not the the unsteady, frett'ol,
wayward, boiling-over personage that Chas. Kean makes him :
nor yet that mixture of sentimentality and passion, and deliverer
of studied catching points of eloquence and pathos of language
that Macready makes him. He represents hint as a thoughtful
grave man, one slow of purpose, of mature consideratam, yet •
quick of wit. Ills acting on this conception of the character
was a near approach to perfection; his demeanour was thought-
ful, not slightly shaken, and his speech slow; this accoreed well
with that stiffuess of gait and fixedness of 1, ante, which time is
fast giving to him. But the question then arises, is this the true
conception of the character of a young man of about 25 years of
age, such as Hamlet is represented ? and we confess we think
this extreme thoughtfulness and gravity of demeanour is Only
the distinguishing attribute of a much older man than Hamlet:
It is true that the circumstances in which Hamlet is placed must
be taken -into the account ; but yet there is all elasticity about
the temperament of youth which is the very opposite of that fixed
gravity of character which Mr. Vandenhoff represents Hamlet
to have. The temper of youth is not like the continually bent
bow. His soliloquies, were delivered as soliloquies, and not as
if bellowing to an audieure at a distance, as we have sometimes
heard actors give them, with the most -outrageous rant. They
were characterised by the slow low utterance of deep and de-
termined feeling, whilst the audience seemed forgotten. Occa-
sionally, however, this was carried too far, in his utterance being
so low that the word or the sentiment was lost; this is an ap-
parent fault in the opposite extreme which ought to be avoided.
Mr. Vandenhoff s Hamlet, in the scene of the Players before
the King, far surpassed any representation we have before seen
of this part of the play.' It was excited, yet cool and deter-
' mined; watchful .and keen, without womanish flurry and his
by-play was exceedinolv clever. When the King asks," What
do you call the play r' he gives the answer with a ready yet
bitter' sarcasm—"the mouse trap;'` and proceeds to give its
history with pointed coolness, instead:id' humbling the words
out, head over heels after the inanner of Chas. Kean. Though
we rarely see a better Painiug than Mr. Baker, he was this
evening fully equalled, and in some points surpassed by Mr.
Farren's Po./onius. His folly was delivered with a graver face,
and told more pointedly. One word with regard to the manage-
ment. We cannot admire the inconsistency of laving down a
carpet in the scene of the Players before the King. This is
hardly chronologically correct in the history of carpet,. There
was another point of bad taste. The female ',..:ttendanis at the
solemn and very striking scene of the burial. of instead
of being all dressed simply and in while, were ad,rded with all
the colours ot the rainbow, green ribbons and pink handker-
chiefs being in profusion. The rear was brought tip by one of
the R.idgways, in a big, dirty cloak, covering a courier's suit,
which turned the whole scene ;into burlesque, and when they
marched off, the audience, insiea•l of sympathy, expressed their
merriment. These are points which caght not to be overlooked.
At the conclusion of the lila v Mr. Vandenhoff was loudly called
fur, and, after an interval, inane his appearance. He was en-
thusiastically clOered. He briefly expressed his gratitude for
the welcome with which he was again received in his native
laud, and retired 'amidst great cheering. Mr. barren has been
the chief' attraction during the rest •oi the week, by his unri-
valled acting in several favourite comedies.