The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-SATURDAY.

A BEGGAR..

Felix M'Quilliam, a young man of squalid and distressed
appearance, and evidently in a bad state of health, was placed
before Messrs. Rushton and Roskell, on Saturday, for hav-
ing solicited alms at several houses in Pembroke-place. The
police-officer on that district stated, that, having seen the
prisoner thus offending against the law, he took him into
custody. The officer produced a number of papers which
he found in the prisoner's possession. These were principally
certificates of the distressed state of the prisoner and his
family, and begging petitions. One of them was a certificate
in the following terms, purported to have been written by
the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, the signature, and the body of the
note, being all in the same handwriting t—" I believe the
bearer, M'Quilliam, to be a proper person and deserving ob-
ject of charity : he has been recommended to me by Miss
Ward, 4, Pembroke-place, who has visited him. I have also
made further inquiry, which has been satisfactory. He has
been afflicted with paralysis, and is totally unable to work at
his business. He is a land-surveyor, and has a wife and three
children in great distress.—August 13, 1840.—Rev. Hugh
M'Neile, St. Jude's Church, Liverpool." There was also a
certificate in the same hand, signed " Hugh M'Neile," that
" Ann Nl' Williams" and her husband Felix had placed two of
their children, through him, in the Church of England School,
on 17th May last. Another of the documents was signed
"J. Roose, Bedford-street." It set forth, that Felix
M'Quilliam was a fit object for charity, aad that he was a
land-surveyor, and afflicted with paralysis. Another note,
signed Felix Nl` Quilliam , written in a good hand, was address-
ed " Madam," but there was no name or superscription, so
that it might serve to send in to any lady. The charitable
disposition of the party for whom it was intended was highly
lauded, and the petitioner indicated his want of .C 2. 15s. 6d.
to release his goods from pledge, upon compassing which he
stated his intention of taking his family to Scotland. A simi-
lar note, merely soliciting alms, without any superscription
or address, commenced " Rev. sir." A more formal and ge-
neral petition, setting forth the distress of the memorialist,
had at the foot the following names :—Mrs. Radley 108.,
Lord Derby £l. 10s.' Rev, Hugh M'Neile £l. ss. There
was also a memorial addressed " To his Grace the Earl of
Sefton," stating the distress of the writer and his family, and
soliciting relief. At the foot of this were the same names as
above, but opposite to the words " Lord Derby," instead of
1:1. 10s., only #3. appeared. The remaining document was
a lottery ticket for a sixteenth share, dated 1798, and signed
by Mr. Bish, formerly of great notoriety. The officer said
he had called upon Mrs. Radley that morning, and she knew
nothing of the prisoner, nor had she given him any money.
I-1c had called upon Mr. M'Neile and Miss Ward, but they
were neither of them at home. Mr. Rushton (to the pri-
soner): "What have you to say, sir?" Prisoner : "IsiOthing."
Mr. Rushton : "This is a forged signature." Prisoner : "No,
sir, it is not." Mr. Rushton : " You don't mean to represent
this as the signature of Lord Derby, because I know that it
is not?" Prisoner : " No, I don't say that it is Lord Derby's
signature." Mr. Parkinson, in reply to a question from Mr.
Rushton, said the prisoner was not known. Mr. Rushton
ordered that he should be committed to the House of Correc-
tion for a month.

At the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street, London,
there is exhibited one pound of glass, spun by steam into a
thread 4000 miles long, and woven with silk into beautiful
dresses and tapestry.
On Saturday week a serious accident' happened in the family
of the Hon. and Rev. T. Erskine, the vicar of Beighton.
Two of Mr. Erskine's daughters, who were amusing them-
selves by
mbyri.gnTithionmg
apsapEerrwskiitnhea, burning-glass, asked their bro-
ther,
a_ squib. Not observing any sgpiavrek thhee mposnorireide gaionimpeo wfrdoemr
hisso flask upon the paper, and the whole instantly exploded.
cut the
from the flask struck the young gentleman ;
ricotta wound on (
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across,
but
w and
we
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glad inflictedtosaa
yd ebeep i
sanddo
isneg-
well. One of the yong:ladies was considerably scorched,
and the other slight!yu6h
Shlfield Iris.
Email.. A rather laughable incident occurred on Mot.-
day afternoon, on Van Amburgh's caravans arriving at the
theatre. Some hundreds of persons were assemtled to see
the beasts transferred to their temporary
the scenes," which was effected by placing
quarters "behind
waw
sufficiently large for one of the animals, close'g a box or cage,
ls ci
to the caravan,
and then withdrawing a spring door, upon w
lt,
were and
tby which the " Brute
s
Tamer" orders a lion, or a tiger,
ani-
malsthe
maaryeo carried
to
keep in
offseparately.
them
0 b Tto
Twowhilst Van Arnburgh
policemen
; go into
was engaged in arranging the transfer, a lion gently put part
of his head through the hole in the top of the box, and helter
skelter went the crowd in all directions. One of the police-
men was quickly down Southernhay ; and the other across
the circus—men tumbling over boys, and women and chil-
dren screaming most lustily; whilst the noble king of the
forest
" Look'tl most proudly on the vulgar crew
Whom statutes govern, and whom fears snixlue."
—Woolmer's Exeter Gra:etie•