The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CAUTION TO BUILDERS.—On Wednesday Wm. Clegg,
builder. was charged by the building surveyor with erect-
ing a building to be used as a store-room, attached to
premises occupied by Mr. Ward, as an eating-house, in
Preeson's-row. The place was not fit for the purpose,
being built over the privies and ashpits, and such as was
not allowed by the act of parliament, neither had any
notice been given to the surveyor before proceeding with
the work. The defendant excused himself by saying that
his men erected the building, and he was ignorant of it
until it was completed. Mr. Rushton fined the defendant
£5.

BRUTAL ASSAULT.—Robert Lee and Catherine Sum-
ner, who were remanded on Monday, were brought up on
Wednesday, at the Police-court, charged with a brutal
assault upon a seaman named Henry Latham. On the
previous evening Latham was passing through Clement-
street, when he met with the female prisoner, who re-
quested him to accompany her to a house in the street.
Latham did so, and he was instantly robbed of some
money which he had in his pocket. He was then desired
to leave the house, but refusing to do so, the female pri-
soner struck him with the poker, and he fell to the ground
insensible. Whilst he lay on the ground the male pri-
soner repeatedly kicked him. Both prisoners were com-
mitted for trial.

A man, whose name did not transpire, was charged on
Friday by a superintendent of the London and North-
Western Railway Company, with having travelled on that
line from Manchester to Edge-hill station without having
a ticket. The prisoner in his defence stated that he had
expected his brother would have met him on his arrival
in Liverpool, but he had been disappointed. He was or-
dered by the magistrate to pay a fine of 405., or be im-
prisoned for twenty-one days.
THEFTS OF COTTON.—On Tuesday, eleven women and
children were charged with stealing cotton from carts, and
selling it to James Dobson, a marine store dealer. Some
of the children, who were young, were acquitted; the re-
mainder were sent to gaol for periods of seven, twenty-one
days, and three months. Dobson, whom the magistrate
characterised as a wholesale manufacturer of felony, was
sent to gaol for two months, and his license to be forfeited.
Mr. Rushton said it was one of the best things the police
could be employed about to look after and break up these
receptacles for stolen property.
A SPECIOUS BEGGAR.—A young Irishwoman, named
Catherine Foster, was committed to gaol on Tuesday for
one month, for begging. She had been at the houses of
many respectable individuals in Abercromby-square and
elsewhere, and by representing that her father had been
killed on the railway, with other fictions, she had suc-
ceeded in levying considerable contributions.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT.—Three women were charged
on Friday with creating a disturbance in the Workhouse
Shed, Brownlow-hill. The keeper of the sheds appeared
in court, and stated that hearing a noise he went in to
make them keep quiet, when he was immediately shoved
out by the prisoners ; he procured assistance, but they
were again turned out by the prisoners. Mr. Rushton
ordered them all to be imprisoned for twenty one days.

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Mr. Thos. Edmondson, of Broughton, Manchester,
(who failed in 1832, and paid Bs. 3d. in the pound,) has
just paid all his creditors the remaining 11s. 9d.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Monday a young man,
named Thos. Weaver, was killed on the railway between
Bolton and Manchester. As he was returning by the
train, he put his head out of the carriage, while passing
under a bridge. His head came in contact with one of
the pillars supporting the bridge, and rebounded from the
pillar against the opposite side of the carriage window,
the blow fracturing his skull.

John• Knowles, the operative shoemaker and successful
candidate for the Manchester Protestant Prize Essay, was,
not many years ago, an avowed socialist, and removed
from Wigan to Manchester, for the express purpose of
having an opportunity of hearing the socialist lectures
then delivered in the Hall of Science. At the request of
a friend, be attended a Wesleyan chapel one Sunday
evening ; his mind was impressed ; he attended again and
then again ; he renounced socialism, became a member of
the Wesleyan society, then a Sunday schoolteacher, then
a local preacher ; and was accepted by the last Wesleyan
Conference as a candidate for the ministry.
Andrew Davis' a child aged seven years, lost his life at
MancheAer, on Wednesday week, by a bead, which he
had put in his mouth, getting into his windpipe.
A copy of Doomsday Book has been presented to Dr.
Shepheid's library, at Preston, by Mr. Pedder, the late
mayor of that borough.

The corporation of Preston intend to discontinue the
salary of £l5O per mar paid to the mayor, and intend it
to be distributed among the charities of the borough.
JUBILEE.—On Monday our highly esteemed town-
clerk, Mr. Palmer, completed the fiftieth year of his coro-
nership, having been elec.ed to that important office on
the 12th of November, 1799. What renders the mention
of this subject still more remarkable, is that all the three
condidates who offered themselves on that remote occa-
sion, should still be in the land of the living ; the other
candidates being to wnsmen, John Winstanley, Esq., and
Mr. Edward Forshaw.—Preston Pilot.

GAS EXPERIMENT AT SOUTHPORT.—We are happy to
learn from our correspondent, that the experiment
with the new hydro-carbon gas was made on Monday night
(being the first on a large scale) with perfect success.
The gas at first was dim, but as soon as the air had issued
from the pipes it burnt with unclouded brilliancy. We
sincerely congratulate Mr. White on this happy consum-
mation, the result of his arduous labours, great outlay,
and anxiety, undertaken midst so much opposition and
ridicule. We hope in a future number to give some
account of tile process by which this economical and clean
gas is produced. We hear Belfast is about to be lighted
by the same process ; the authorities only waiting the
result of this trial.

THE COCK AND THE CAT. —As Mr. John Fairhurst, of
Longton, farmer, was getting out wheat in his barn, on
Wednesday last, the, cat was very deliberately on the
watch amongst tho sheaves, ready to pounce upon any
luckless mouse that showed itself when turned out of its
warm cover. &game cock,,whichwas near the barn door,