The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE'

A SLEEPY MATE.—Thomas Atkinson, the mate of the
Princess Victoria, appeared on Friday at the police-office to
claim from the captain of the vessel a balance of wages due
to him to the amount of £l7. 17s. It appeared that the ves-
sel had sailed from this port on the 16th of March, and was
bound to Constantinople and Odessa. She returned on the
18th of October. The mate claimed (less the amount re-
ceived) wages for that period, at the rate of £5. a month.
Captain Chambers demurred, in the first instance. to the rate
of wages, which l stated to be £4. 10s. a month, not £5 ;
and in proof of his assertion handed in the ship's articles, in
which the mate's wages wet° so set down. The mate asserted
that the sum was not insertedat the time of signing the ship's
articles, and that a verbal agreement between himself and
the captain had been made, by which it was arranged that
he was to have £5. a month. In the course of the dispute it
cause out that the advance which had been made to the mate

was £2. 10s. a month; and as the advance is generally to the
extent of half-pay, the magistrate thought that a strong fact
in favour of the mate's assertion. The second ground of
objection was, that the claimant had not performed his duties,
The captain stated that, when in the lower part of the Archi-
pelago, on their homeward passage, he deemed it necessary,
in consequence of those waters being infested with pirates,
to keep a strict watch; but on two occasions he went upon
deck, when it was the mate's watch, and found him asleep.
The 14th of August was the last time when the mate had been
detected asleep, and from that day the captain told him he
must cease to consider himself as mate, and go forward and
work us a common seaman. The mate complied with the
order, and another man was put in his place. The mate ad-
mitted that he had been once found asleep, but attempted to
excuse himself on the ground of his severe duties; he had
frequently been on deck twenty hours out of the twenty-four.
Mr. Hall said, that as the claimant himself admitted the fact,
there need be nothing further said about it. He had neglected'
his duty at a very important period, and rendeted it impera-
tive on the captain to substitute another person in his place.
He ordered that the mate should be paid at the rate of £5. a
month up to the 14th of August, and at the highest rate for a
common seaman iu the vessel—namely, £2. 15s. a month for
the remaining period.

A CRUEL TRICK UPON A TRAVELLER.—BerRard Leonard,
a well known bad character, was, on Saturday, placed before
Mr. Hall, charged with having successfully practised the
trick called duffing, upon a poor Hibernian reaper, whom be
had succeeded in defrauding of the sum of his worldly wealth.
It appeared that' the Irishman was on his way to his native
country, with the savings which he had been enabled to make
during the harvest in this country. He was going to make
inquiry about the packet, but be could not tell what street he
was in, when he saw Leonard pass him. The latter stooped
suddenly, and picked up a parcel. He looked at it for an
instant, and, turning to the Irishman, asked him if he had
dropped it. He replied in the negative. Leonard, accord-
ing to the custom in such cases, requested his intended dupe
to assist him in opening the paper. This was done, and a
glittering chain and seals were produced. Leonard took from
the parcel a folded note, and opening it, asked the Hibernian
if be were a scholar. " Here I am," replied the latter,
" sufficient to read written hand any how I" The note was
handed to him, and he read as follows :—" The fine gold chain,
and elegant gold chaste seals, £s3—paid." Another individ-
ual, who is known to belong to the honourable fraternity of
duffers, was called upon. He appeared to be passing casually.
He examined the chain and seals, and gravely pronounced
them to be worth £6O. " Very well," said Leonard to the
Irishman, "we are in luck ;—we've got a prize. You were
present when I found it, and you shall have your share. I'll
behave like a gentleman to you." The prisoner and his
companion persuaded the poor fellow to go with them " into
the town," where, they said, they would share the value of
the property. They took him through several streets, till,
having walked nearly two miles, he grew tired, and expressed
his determination to return. They then took him into an
entry, where Leonard asked hint if he had any mony. He
said, yes, he had £9 lOs , which he had saved from his wages
during the harvest. Leonard said, " Well, I shall give you
£lO for your share, if that will satisfy you." The poor
Hibernian, of course, was delighted. Leonard persuaded
him, that the best way to bind ail parties would be for him to
give the Irishman 'the chain and seals, as a security that he
would return with the £lO. "And," said Leonard, "you
must give me your money, as a security that you will return."
The poor man, thinking be had in his possession worth £5O
or £6O, consented to this arrangement, and delivered up the
money, upon which the two rogues left him. " Dlie minnit
I'd give dhe money," said the Irishman, "toy heart misgave
me." He waited for a considerable time; but, it is needless
to say, his two friends did not return. His misgivings then
became very violent, and he went and gave information to
the Police. Levi Underwood apprehended the prisoner on
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Friday night; but no portion of the money was found in his
possession. It was expected the other rogue, who is well
known, would be taken in the course of Saturday. The
prisoner was remanded.

CONCEALING CONTRABAND GOODS.—John Jones was, on
Saturday, charged before Messrs. Hall and Houghton, with
having had, secreted in his premises, 30ib. of negrohead
tobacco. The case was fully proved on the evidence of the
officers of Excise, who found the property in a trunk. Mr.
Crew appeared for the defendant, and attempted to prove,
that the trunk and tobacco had been left at his house by a
sailor. This defence failed, and the defendant was convicted
in the mitigated penalty of £2,.-).
THE FUltlES.—There was, on Saturday, a treat for the

lovers of the marvellous, iu the circumstance of two Furies
having been brought under the cog nisouce of the human au-
thorities, for having, unlawfully, harboured certain spirits;
whether the same were good or evil, is a matter to be decided
between the bacchanals and the tee-totallers. Patrick Fury
and Sarah Fury were summoned, by invocations from the
most potent servants of the Board of Excise, to appear be-
fore Thomas James Hall and liichard Houghton, Esquires,
judges in such cases, more inexorable far than Minos or
lthadamanthus. "The Great Magician," who discovered
the secret machinations of these illicit dealers in alcoholic

liquid against the revenue, is called Culshaw. What .spells
he used more than those which he obtained from the spelling
book we have no means of knowing, as such individuals are
us secret in their dark doings as the waters of Lethe. Cer-
tain it is, that he did, somewhere, obtain information, which
led him to suspect the Furies of unlawful doings. Fury,-it
appears, follows the appropriate occupation of fireman On
hoard one of the City of. Dublin Company's steam-boats.
From his constant occupation at the furnaces, it is presumed,
may have derived the common exclamation, "Fire and
Fury !" On the 16th of September last, Culshaw watched
Mrs. Sarah Fury, as the gallant Don Giovanni is said to
have watched the furies, "Flour of Brimstone and Cream of
'Tartar," in the dominions of Pluto. Culshaw, however, had
nut to go so far as Tartarus, but he met Mrs. Fury •'stalking,,
like a ghost, all along by the church-yard." Nothing daunted
by her awe-inspiring appellation, he conjured the name of
the Honourable Board ot. Commissioners, to make palpable
to his external senses the articles which she carried beneath
her apron. Spell-bound stood Mrs. Fury, and not a charm
could she muster, to allay the suspicions of the exciseman.
Slowly and reluctantly, m obedience to his repeated adjura-
tions, did she produce, from beneath her vestments, a bottle
of whisky, not the first spirits that the puissant racer had
raised. Having seized, this "bottle imp," be insisted on ac-
companying Mrs. Fury to her domicile, a celler in Porter-
street. Here the exciseman, in exercising his skill in exor-
cising, managed to deliver more spirits trom their dark re-
treat, in an old oak chest which was hidden in a corner. No.

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►ess than ten quart bottles of whisky were set at liberty by
the variant and skilful officer. It appeared, that Patrick
Fury was in the habit of bringing whisky froth Ireland, and
that Mrs. Fury was in the habit of selling it to such as wished
to be placed under spiritual influence. The Furies were fined
in the mitigated penalty of £25.

BRUTAL CONDl:CT.—Yesterday, at the Police Office, a
man named Patrick Brennan, an Irishman, was placed be-
fore the magistrates, charged with beating and ill-using his
wife, and pulling his child upon the tire. A policeman stated,
that on Saturday night he was on duty in Scotlanl-ruad,

when he heard screams from a cellar. He went to see what
was the matter, and found that the prisoner and his wire had
been quarrelling, and the prisoner had got one of his chil-
dren, which he was ill-using. His wife was trying to get it
from him, when he told her if she would net be quiet he

would put the child on the lire.. He had no sooner said this
than he seized the child, and put it on the coals on the tire,
and he (policeman) took him into custody, atter rescuing the
child. The wife said that the prisoner was•an oysterman ;
that he was continually ill-using her, and had also put her
on the fire, and burnt her arm.. The prisoner said he could
not live with his wife, lie was willing tuallow her ss. a-week,
but he could not live with her. The wits said she could not
live with the prisoner, and said she would take 3s. a-week
sooner than live with him. ilr. Hall said he must give her
6s. a-week. The prisoner agreed to do that. Mr. Hall said
he was a worthless fellow: he must promise not to go near
his wife again, or he should commit him. Prisoner.—" If
she lives dhere fur sivin years, I'll not trouble her." The
Wife.—"' I'm dyin' wid his ill thratement." Prisoner.—
" Dyin' ? she's been dyin' afore: she olers dyin'." The pri-
soner was then discharged on his promise to pay the GA.
a-week, and not to molest his wife.

ALICE GRAY AGAlN.—Yesterday, at the Police Office, the
notorious Alice Gray, one of the must drunken prostitutes in
the town, was again brought up to Bridewell. Whether
Alice be the very Alice for whom some poor love-sick wight's
" heart was broken," or nut, we do nut pretend to say. We
remember her first appearances at the Police Office, when
she was tolerably decent looking; and certain it is that she
has " dark brown hair:" but whatever her " brow? may have
been, over which it was braided, it has long, from drunken-
ness and debauchery, ceased to be one of "spotless white."
Alice appears to be afflicted with an odd kind of monomania.
Gin and religion have some odd kind of relation in her mind,
and whenever she takes the one, she is immediately taken
with a violent affection for the other, and forthwith begins
preaching. Policeman 77 stated that on Sunday morning,
in Skelhorne-street, seeing a crowd of 40 or 50 persons col-
lected, he went to see what was the matter, and found Alice
in the centre of them; expounding doctrinal points of theo-
logy on faith. As she would keep preaching away, he was
obliged to take her into custody. Mr. Hall.—Well, Alice,
you will not giye over your old practices. Alice. —Well,
Mr. Hall, I was expounding to poor misguided sinners the
doctrine of saving grace; but as it's disagreeable to the au-
thorities, I'll not du it again on the Sunday : but in the course
or the week 1 will not promise. On the Sabbath mornings
I'll leave it to the clergy in future.
Mr. Hon.—Well, take care: you have been once or twice
in jail for the same offence. Discharge her.
ASSAULT.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a Welshman,
named Jones, who lives in the house of a cobbler, in one of
the back streets in the.neighbourhood of St. John's Market,
was placed at the ban charged with having been found stripped
in the street, and with assaulting Goff, the market constable.
Goff stated that be was passing down the street, and saw the
prisoner stripped in the street, challenging his landlord to
fight. He was quite drunk, and he tried to persuade him to
be quiet, and go into the house. He at length went in, ran
up stairs, seized a poker and ran at Goff, and aimed a blow
at GA's head with the poker, but luckily hit the banisters.
The force with which he struck had been so great as to bend
the poker. Goff then took him into custody. The landlord
had no charge to prefer against him. He (lid not know why
he had so behaved. The prisoner then went into a long tale
about his having lived seven years with his landlord, and that
he had been very ill used, and had his door broken open,
and had been seized by the neck and almost choked, which
was the reason of his "turning out." The landlord, who ap-
peared to be a Welshman, here broke out in a great rage.
" Ile came to my tour fery trunk; and I haf a little to; ; ant
when he came in to little togs parket at 'im, Why te tevill,'
says he, ' to you keep a ring of tat sort to annoy ine ?" I tout
keep no tings to annoy you,' said I. I. had no sooner spoke
than he gef me a plow on the eye, and then stripped naket
into his puff to fight. I could hef knocket him to pieces, put
I wouldn't touch him." Mr. Hall ordered him to pay 5s and
costs for assaulting Goff, or to be committed fur three days.

KIRKDA I.E QUARTER SESSIONS.—The quarterly sessions
for the county commenced, at Kir kdale, on Thursday morn.:
ing, before the Rev. Jonathan Brooks. Chairman, R. B. Wil-
braham, Esq., 'l'. Thornelv, Esq., M.P., Sir Thos. Brancker,
P. Ellames, A. Hodgson, T. Rawson,'!'. 'Wick, F. Formby,
Peter Bourne, and H. Gaskell, Esqrs., and eight other Mit-
gistrates. The Chairman, in his charge to the Grand Jury,
stated, there appeared no case in the calendar which required
any particular observation from him, nor was he aware, that
any alteration had occurred in the criminal law, during the
last session, to which he need allude. He was pleased to
learn, that a place had been appointed, in the Isle of Wight,
for the reception of the juvenile offenders, with a view to
their reformation: that the Secretary of State for the Home
Department had it in his power to direct them to be sent for
a part or the whole of their sentence, for which well devised
experiment he gave the government great praise. Charles
Turner, Esq., was Foreman of the Grand Jury, There were
forty seven prisoner for trial for felony, and six for misde-
meanours. The cases of felony were almostall of a petty
nature.