The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-19 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

to him, and he went to the door and drank it. Greaves ad-
mitted, that he took a piece of bread and cheese into the'house
with him, but denied the other statements. Mr. Crewe had no
evidence, and the defendant was fined in the penalty of £5.
The next case was that of .a person named Turner, who keeps a
beer-house in the Park, licensed for the liquor, to be consumed
off the premises. At this house Greaves prodnied a glass of ale
in the same manneLas in the last case. ,Tbe.defendant was
fined £5.
SECURING A HUSBAND.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a
smart-looking girl, rather trimly dressed, named Mary Connor,
who gets her livelihood by the unromantic occupation of selling
fish, appeared before the magistrates to prefer, a complaint
against a tall gaunt-looking Irishman, for robbing her of her
" fair fame and reputation," and to secure the services of " their
honors" in making " ass honest woman" of her. What a wide
distinction of meaning there is between the application.of this
adjective to the different sexes ! What an immense difference
of value there is in the common
,acceptation of it when, so ap-
plied! Pope has described "an honest man," as " the noblest
work of God." "An honest woman," (we will not say how
correctly the term is used) according to the belief of the
complainant, and in - the generally. understood acceptation of
the phrase, is " the easy work of a magistrate."
The complainant, who was babited in a smart bonnet, and an
equally smart red gown, having cast two or three reproachful
glances at " her gay deceiver," and given her bead one or two
consequential lateral nods, and pulled; up her sleeves tight
round her wrists, as if about to utter the war cry " come out,"
previous to pugilistic encounter, came out with her tender tale of
love's deceit as follows the 22d of April last, his—
(nodding at the prisoner)—hii-brother fetched me to a public-
house from my own door. I sells fish, you see. And he said
as how somebody wanted me in the house. I goes in' and sees
him (nodding at the prisoner) and another girl in company—
Mr. HALL.—What did this man do to you?
Complainant.—Well, we bad .some ale together. and as we
wur coining eawt he ticed me away, you see; but I wouldn't,
and fought all I could, arid see bow he's tore all my cap and me
gown ; I never touched 'em since, (unfolding out of a bundle
a shapeless quantity of rags.)
The complainant then proceeded by nods and inuendos, and
the very bashful application of the corner of her white apron,
to intimate that she was
" A victim to delicate love,
In Dawson-street, Williamson-square."
that he with whom she had " kept company," bad
" Despised all laws but those which love had made,"
and that the consequence was she pleaded her cause before
their worships in a double capacity, and not with a singleness of
interest, and concluded with 'strenuously calling upon them,
" to make an honest woman of her."
Mr. DAVENPORT, who appeared for the prisoner, said,—
" What can the man do? He proffers to marry her—that is all
she wants. He will marry her to-morrow, I dare say."
The prisoner intimated his assent. (A laugh)
Complainant (with great eagerness of manner)—" Then
don't let hini out till it is done. (Loud laughter.) Oh, if yer
honners 'll please not to let him go till he 's made a honest girl
of me, and then he may go where he lilies ?"
Mr. DAVENPORT renewed the promise on the part of the
prisoner, with which the complainant, however, was not satisfied.
Mr. HALL said she was very right.
Mr. DAVENPORT—The man cannot be married here.

Mr. HALL—Why not?
Mr. DAVENPORT—The man has been very kind to her.
The prisoner sighed pathetically, and surveyed the ceiling.
Complainant—Yes, too kind. "Oh, thou false one!" (with
a deeply sonorous sigh, such as a hawker of herrings only could
emit, and which seemed to join
" Griefs to his griefs, and echo sigh to sigh.")
The scene here was growing quite touching, when the illusion
was suddenly dispelled.
Defendant—Too kind! yes, these last two years.
It was astonishing how rapidly, on hearing this, the abused
fair one ceased "doing the amiable." She bristled up as turkey
cocks are said to do at sight of a red rag, and with a sharp nod
of her head and sharper reply, and with a tone of voice which
sounded as if fresh out of the pickle-tub, she addilessed him with
" Don't say that, Pat."
Mr. HALL put a stop to the threatened recrimination, by re-
manding the prisoner to think over the matter, as he (Mr. Hall)
thought it rather a bad case.
BRUTAL CONDUCT.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, an Irish
pieman was brought up, charged with brutally ill-using a la-
bouring man, named Joseph Holden. The complainant ap-
peared with both his eyes swollen up and blackened, and the
bridge of his nose broken. He stated, that on Sunday he went
to the North Shore for the purpose of bathing, and passed the
prisoner, who was selling pies, and tossing with a boy. The
boy's halfpenny stuck in the sand, and he cried out to him
(complainant ), " Master, is that a head or a tail ?" He (com-
plainant) said it was a head. The pieman appeared to have
lost, and swore at him, calling him a bloody Welsh --,
and asked him what business it was of his. He then put down
his can, and followed him and knocked him down, and before
he could get up again, struck him a violent blow across the
eyes with a stick. This statement was corroborated by a wit-
ness.—Mr. HALL said it was a most brutal and unprovoked
assault, and ordered the prisoner to pay a fine of £5, or in
default to be committed for two months to the Borough Jail.

LIVERPOOL PREPARATIONS FOR CELEBRATING
THE' CORONATION.

On Friday the general committee appointed to carry the
wishes of the meeting into effect met, and in the absence of his
worship the Mayor, Adam Hodgson, Esq. was called to the
chair. The unanimous feeling of the committee was that a
procession of the various trades was one of the most efficient
means which could be adopted for giving eclat to the occasion;
but considerable difference of opinion prevailed about the
banners and emblems to be carried in the procession. Some of
the committee were for confining them to the banners of the
benefit and trade societies, fearing that the exhibition of party
colours in the procession might disturb that unanimity which
ought to exist on such an occasion. Others, again, contended
that the banners of Mr. Ewart and Lord Bandon would be ex-
hibited, whether the committee gave its sanction or not; and
as men of all parties joined hand and heart.in celebrating the
Queen's coronation, no apprehension need be entertained of
any improper ebullition of feeling arising out of such a cir-
cumstance. It was resolved eventually that the electioneering
banners of all parties indiscriminately should grace the proces-
sion. The subject led to a division, when three-fourths of the
committee voted for the resolution. The propriety of a partial
illumination also underwent discussion, but the feeling of the
committee was against it, on account of the extreme length of
the day, which would cause the hilarity to be procrastinated
beyond reasonable extent. A proposition to illuminate the
Town-hall alone, was also made, but received little favour.
Some of the committee were favourable to the flee admission of
the public to the Zoological and Botanic Gardens. It was stated,
however, that Mr. Atkins, the proprietor of the former, would
have a gala on the occasion of the coronation, which would
prevent him from coming to terms with the committee; and the
Botanic Gardens of themselves were much too limited to ac-
commodate the public. so that the proposition fell to the ground;
but it Was announced that the Royal Institution would be thrown
open to the public on that day. In order to fill up the time be-
tween the termination of the procession and the commence-
ment of the fire-works in the evening, attention was directed to
the Regatta on the river in the afternoon. The state of the
tide will be admirably adapted for the aquatic display, it being
high water about three o'clock. The propriety of hiring a
number of steam-boats to perambulate the river during the. Re-
gatta was discussed ,- but as insuperable difficulties stood in the
way of getting a sufficient number of them to accommodate the
public, and as those who could not be accommodated would pro-
bably feel diisatisfied, the project was abandoned as ,hopeless.
But the committee resolved to address a letter to each of the
steam-packet companies and proprietors, requesting that all
their available vessels might be ordered into the river on the
CorOnation day.
The General Committee, , after; listening to a variety of
suggestions, was then divided into sub-committees; the-first,
or Finance Committee, being, as its name imports, occupied in
raising the :‘ sinews of war';—the most essential part of the
programme', upon the secoffd, or Procession Committee, will
devolve also very arduous duties; the School Committee will be
occupied in providing refreshments for the juveniles in all the
public schools of the town. The only public school which will
join the procession will be the Blue Coat School. The Music
Committee and the Signal Committee (the latter is intended to
arrange the hoisting of all the ships' flags in the port—the firing
of the salutes, &c., and was facetiously tettned the noisy com-
mittee by some of the members,) will have their respective
duties ; and these comprise the various sub-divisions of the Ge-
neral Committee or main-trunk.. The sub-committee met on
Saturday morning at the Sessions-house, for the first time, at
eleven o'clock, and wilt sit daily until the eventful ‘,O th . The
meetings of the general committee will be limited to twice a-
week (Wednesday and Saturday,) until the coronation week,
during which it will sit daily.
The Committee, it would seem, do not contemplate a public
dinner—at least it formed no part of Friday's programme. We
regret this, because nothing would have rendered thejlay mote
cheering and truly, gratifying to the humbler classes than the
enjoyment of a good dinner. Perhaps the success of the Finance
Committee may yet render it practicable.