The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-02-21 00:00:00

POLICE C UR T.--Y ESTERDAY

CRINGE OF STEALING FROM TUE WRECKED GOODS
DEroT.—William McEvoy, a respectable-looking; young
man, was charged with stealing, from the Wrecked Goods
Depiit at Prince's Dock, a parcel .of goods, consisting of
two• or three silk handkerchiefs, a .shawl, and some other
similar articles, on Saturday evening. M'Evoy was ob-
served by the depOt-keeper going- out with something
under his coat, and caused him to be taken into custody,
when the goods referred to were found on him. For the
defence, it was stated that the defendant had accompanied
his father-in-law to a sale of wrecked goods, at which he
purchased goods to a large amount, in proof of which a
bill of sale of the goods, and receipt for payment, was pro-
duced. The averment of M'Evoy was, that he took the
articles he was accused of stealing for part of his father-
in-law's purchases, and was carrying them off in that
belief. He was discharged.
GAROTTE ROEBERY.—Patrick Collins, well.known to
the police as a " duffer" or " ring-dtopper," was charged
with having, in company with two others not in custody,
assaulted, half suffocated, knocked down, and robbed an
American seaman of a gold finger-ping, in Oldhall-street,
on Saturday night. The prosecutor stated that, as he was
coming along the street at the time referred to, he met
the prisoner and two others, who spoke to him on some
frivolous topic, when the prisoner suddenly put his arms
round prosecutor's neck, and nearly choked him, one of
the others striking him a blow which knocked him down.
The prisoner then forcibly took a gold ring off witness's
finger, with which he succeeded in making his escape for
the time. Collins was subsequently taken into custody,
but the ring was not fcund. The prisoner told a long and
rambling story as to having offered the prosecutor a gold
finger-ring and a pair of ear-rings for sale, in doing which
the prosecutor very unwarrantably charged him with rob-
bery, when he (prisoner) ran away. He was remanded, to
allow time for procuring further evidence.

ROBBING A FELLow-LoDGEa.—Edward Kirwan was
charged with stealing, from his lodgings, a silver watch,
a silver guard-chain, a silver watch-key, and a gold watch-
key, the property of John Donnelly, who lodged in 86,
Key-street, the same house as that in which the prisoner
lodged. Donnelly stated that he last saw his property
safe on Friday afternoon, and it was then in his room ;
on Saturday morning he missed it, and circumstances in-
duced him to suspect the prisoner, whom he caused to be
apprehended on the charge. Kirwan did not say any-
thing, and was remanded, to allow time for finding the
property.
CURIOUS THEFT OF A COAT.—John Field, Christopher

Hartford, and Alexander Brown, sailors, were charged
with stealing a coat, on Saturday night, from a woman in
Mercer-court, Redcross-street. Prosecutrix was taking
the coat to a tailor, when the three men took it from her,
and refused to return it. She did not know any of them.
Field said, he and his mates, the two other prisoners, were
out having a lark, and his coat was stolen. Meeting the
prosecutrix with a coat, which he believed to be the one
he had lost, and being a good deal in drink, he took it
from her, and put it on, and, as it fitted him, he enter-
tained no doubt at the ime that it was his own. The
prosecutrix admitted the kreater portion of this state-
ment to be true, so far as she knew of the matter. Hart-
ford and Brown were, therefore, discharged ; and Field
was remanded for a day, to allow of inquiries being made.

ROBBERY IN A HOUSE OF ILL-FAME.—A BOLD MA-
ElNEE.—Margaret Gibbs was charged with robbing a
seafaring elderly man of ten sovereigns and some silver,
on Saturday night. From the prosecutor's statement it
appeared he had accompanied- the prisoner to her lodgings,
he being in liquor at the time While in the house with
the prisoner, she put her hand in his pocket, and took the
money away ; this he perceived her in the act of doing,
but being afraid of the parties belonging to the place in
which he was, he did not attempt to prevent her from
taking the money, nor did he give any alarm till the next
day, when, meeting with a policeman, he had her taken
into custody. No part of the stolen money was found
upon her, nor was any found in the apartment which she-
occupied. The magistrate, in dismissing the case, re
marked on the singular and imprudent, as well as im-
moral character of the conduct which the prosecutor had
admitted himself to have been pursuing.

ANOTHER ROBBERY BY A FELLOW LODGER.—John
M'lntyre was charged with robbing a fellow-lodger of the
sum of nine shillings, consisting of two half-crowns, one
shilling, and the rest in copper money ; and also with
having removed a pair of boots and a pair of trousers be-
longing to the prosecutor, from an upper room,with intent
to steal them. The prisoner,who was known to the police,
was sentenced to be imprisoned for one month.
STEALING FROM A Snor DOOR.—Ann Shields, a decent-
looking married woman, with an infant in her arms,
charged with stealing two pairs of worsted stockings from
the door of a hosier's shop in Tithebarn-street, on Saturday
last, was remanded till to-morrow, on account of the ab-
sence of a principal witness.
POCKET PICKING IN THE STREET.—Bridget Denham,
a girl apparently about 12 years of age, was charged, at
the instance of George Whittaker, with attempting to
pick pockets, on Saturday afternoon, in the vicinity of
Lime-street Station. Whittaker stated that he saw her
make several deliberate attempts upon the pockets of dif-
ferent individuals, and, when witness was enabled to reach
her, she suddenly threw away an empty steel-ring purse.
He laid hold of her, and found 4s. in her possession. He
had her taken into custody. The prisoner, although so
young, is well known to the police as an incorrigible pick-
pocket, having been several times convicted and twice
discharged. She was sentenced to be imprisoned for three
months.

STEALING PROM A Snot IN MILL-STREET.—John
Clarke, charged with stealing a piece of oilcloth from the
door of Mr. Renny's shop, in Mill-street, on Saturday, was
was remanded till to-morrow.

STEALING BnooMs.—John Hawthorne, charged with
stealing six brooms from a shop in Brownlow-hill, on Sa-
turday, was sentenced to be imprisoned for 14 days.
STEALING A COACH-WHEEL —John Stewart (a boy),
charged with stealing a coach-wheel from the yard of Mr.
Lyon, coach-builder, Soho-street, on Saturday, was sen-
tenced to be imprisoned for one month.
PASSING Ben MoNEr.—John Bradley was charged
with attempting, on Saturday evening, to pass a bad
shilling at a shop in Great Howard-street. This was at
least the second time he had done the same thing. The
prisoner, was remanded for a week.
ANOTHER ROBBERY IN AN IMPROPER HOUSE.—Mary
Daly was charged with stealing a gold watch and some
money from the person of a foreigner, whose name did
not transpire, and who could not speak English. It
appeared the prosecutor, who was attended in court by an
interpreter, had been induced to accompany a female to
the house of the prisoner, and that among them they
robbed him of his watch, &c. The watch was found in
the prisoner's possession, and she was sentenced to two
months' imprisonment.
ASSAULTING THE POLICE. —John Irvine was charged
with being drunk and very disorderly in Chadwick-street,
on Saturday night, and also with kicking and assaulting
the police when ordered to be quiet and go home. He
said he was so drunk that he did not know anything
about it. He was ordered to pay a fine of 205., or to
suffer fourteen days' imprisonment.

Tun DESIGNS of the Messrs. Hay, architects, of Liver-
pool, for the new Workhouse, Lunatic Asylum, and In-
firmary for the county of Stirling, have been unanimously
selected in preference to all the other designs sent in.—
Stirling Journal.
FOUND DEAD.—On Sunday morning, the dead body of
an elderly female, named Ann Hall, residing at 20,
Hughes-street, Toxteth-park, was found by a boy lying
upon some waste land near Warwick-street. She was a
person, it appears, of very drunken habits, and there.
were no marks of violence. The inquest will be held to-day
NEW MAGISTILATE.-011 Thursday last, at the Court-
house, Preston, Richard Blomeley Postlethwaite, Esq., of
The Grange, Milnthorpe, qualified as a magistrate for the
county.
LECTURE ON LIrE INsuasircs.—On Tuesday evening
Mr. Byrom, of Liverpool, inspector of agencies for the
Anchor Life and Fire Insurance Co., London, delivered a
lecture on this important subject at the Mechanics' Insti-
tute, Avenham, • Thomas Walmsley, Esq., Mayor of
Preston, in the chain—Preston Chronicle.
The Athenmum, in noticing the Faussett collection of
Saxon antiquities, which has been a second time refused
by the trustees of the British Museum, says, " Several
dealers are ready to buy the collection, in order to sell it
piecemeal. A nobleman, well known for his love of anti-
quities, is prepared to avert any such catastrophe, by pur-
chasing the collection at the price named. A gentleman
of Liverpool is anxious to take it thither." We under-
stand that this last gentleman is our townsman, Mr.
Mayer, whose private enterprise and love of knowledge
have induced him to add an Egyptian Museum to the
attractions of the town.
Sr. Axis's Soutun.—lt will be seen by an advertise-
ment that this fashionable reunion takes place on Thurs-
day next. The names of the gentlemen advertised as
stewards will, of themselves, prove a guarantee of its
respectability and high tone.
Da. EDWARDS and Mr. J. A. Forrest are, we understand,
engaged with Mr. Hartnup, at the Royal Observatory, in
attempting to obtain photogriphs of the moom.
MESSRS. ARNOLD AND CO. were, on Friday, fined £lO,
by Mr. Mansfield, for stowing-away, in a cellar which was
not fire-proof, 300 or 400 barrels of rosin.
THE Rsv. F. H. W. Schmitz has accepted the office of
chaplain to the German emigrants who pass through this
port on their way to America and Australia.
THE replyEAM-SHIP ALPS, Capt. Little, which has
temporarily ed the British and North American
mail steamer Niagara, sailed hence for Boston, United
States, on Sunday, at 2 30. p.m., with about forty pas-
sengers, a fair cargo, and the usual mails.
ASYLUM 808 ORPHAN BOES,—The annual meeting will
be held to-morrow, but will be adjourned until the new
building is ready to be inaugurated. The committee so-
licit donations for the building fund, as well as annual
subscriptions.
A COMMON DANGER.—Galignani presents us with a
case, wherein a shopkeeper's assistant was condemned by
the Tribunal of Correctional Police, to 50f. fine and 160 f.
damages, for having struck on the head with his shutters
a lamplighter. The practice of running out of shop-door-
ways, with shutters, is one of great danger to casual pas-
sers by ; and a still more reprehensible system is that of
suddenly shooting up the shutter from an ambush beneatn
the pavement, at the risk of decapitating any one who may
be looking in the shop window.
THE " GOLDEN" LINE AUSTRALIAN PACKET GUIDING
STAB, which was to have proceeded into the river on Fri-
day, was detained by the gale, and, in consequence of the
neap tides, may possibly be delayed until Saturday next.
She has on board a full and most valuable cargo, consist-
ing of upwards of 2,000 tons, besides sixty passengers in
the 'tween decks, and thirty in the cabin, her full com-
plement.
" Bunws's COMMERCIAL GLANCE," just issued, gives
the exports of manufactured goods during the past year.
It states that we sent 129,190,5071b5. of yarn out of the
country, being an increase over 1852 of 4,693,8671bs , and
over 1851 of 2,110,0001b5. Our export to the Levant and
Turkey has fallen off to the extent of 3,000,0001b5., while
to Germany it has been increased about 1,000,0001b5. Our
exports of calicoes stand thus, in yards :
Plain- Printed and dyed.
1853 844,415,003. ..... 551,071,567
1852
1851..... —797,472,964 429,899,458