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been committed during the night, in Turk's-
The deceased was named Thomas W

ilcock, and was a

vendor of nuts and fruit. He had been drinking with
men, named James Parker and Ralph Ireland, in the
Turk's-head public-house, and had some high words
there. About two o'clock in the morning Wilcock left
the house, and was followed by Parker and Ireland ; and
the former was heard by a man named John Atkinson, a
bailiff, who lives in the yard, to say, " Now I'll give it
Fknn Frtr rsrhol- hact r7.nnn to mn I..fore time." A
disturbance took place, and Atkinson went t o the window :
and on looking out he saw Parker strike Wilcock twice on
the head. and knock him down. Another man, named
Joseph Livesey, who was present at Ihe time, saw Parker
knock the deceased down, and after he fell, he gave bin,
several kicks on the head and neck with his foot, and
then ran away. The police were then called to the spot,
and it was found that Wilcock was quite dead ; a quantity
of blood having flowed from his nose and ears.
body was then conveyed to the lock-up, and sl

afterwards Parker and Ireland were apprehended in a
Louse in Turk's-head-yard. The prisoners were brought
before the magistrates, at the Town-hall, yesterday

(Monday) morning), when the above facts were deposed
to, and an application was made to have them remanded
till the result of the inquest on the body should be
known. The application was granted, and the prisoners
were remanded till Wednesday. Au inquest will be held
on the body to-day (Tuesday).

POLICE COURT: YESTERDAY.

A NICE DISTINCTION.—A miserable woman, advanced
in years, of the name of Glassford, was charged with
stealing a shawl from the shop of Mr. 'William Kewley,
Brownlow. hill, on Saturday night last. A person, named
Allen, in the employment of Mr. Green, pawnbroker, de-
posed that, when the woman came to pledge the shawl,
his suspicions were at once awakened by the hesitation
which she displayed in accounting for her possession of
the shawl. On inquiry he discovered where the shawl
had been procured, and immediately led Mr. Kewley to a
knowledge of his loss. The woman said she had not stolen
the shawl, nor had she ever stolen anything in the whole
course of her iife. She happened to be passing the shop
on Saturday night, and she felt the shawl under her feet,
and so, of course, picked it up. Mr. Nicol : And then
went and pawned it. The prisoner said she was a poor
widow woman, and had never cemmitted " any robbery
in the world ;" but she was, notwithstanding, sentenced
to be imprisoned for seven days.
AN OLD THIEF.—Mary Banks, an elderly woman, was
charged with stealing a shawl from Bridget Judge, No.
11, Addison-street, on Friday last. The prisoner went
to Mrs. Judge's house, under pretence of asking for some
individual of whom she was in quest ; and, when Mrs.
Judge turned her back, the artful woman extracted the
shawl from a basket which lay convenient. Twenty-one
days' imprisonment. _ _

STABBING CASE : CONNUBIAL WARS.--John Crewe
was charged by his wife, a woman apparently older than
himself, with stabbing her on the afternoon of Saturday,
in his mother's house. They had been taking tea toge-
ther, when something occurred to mar their felicity, and
so Crewe took the knife with which he was cutting some
ham, and made a thrust with it at the bosom of his spouse.
She held up her hand to protect herself, and saved her
throat at the expense of two fingers, which were cut
seriously. So ran the wotr.an's story ; and she further
averred that her husband used her most cruelly, that he
separated from her, and went to live at his mothers's,
that he frequently beat her till she was blue, and finally
that he told her to go out at night, and rob men—making
the most violent threats if she did not comply with the
request. The prisoner denied the allegations ; and stated
that, although be admitted having once been a bad cha-
racter, he had for a long time been endeavouring to re
form, and the only obstacle in his way was his wife, who
was addicted to the most evil habits. From the state-
ment of the officers, it seemed that the complainant was
one of the most notorious thieves in the town. The pri-
soner was accordingly discharged.
Two MODEL SOLDIERS.—Isaac Woolmer, a private
in H.M. 46th regiment, was charged with having stolen
from a brother private. on the passage from Belfast to
Liverpool, a pair of stockings, a pair of muffatees, and
other apparel. It appeared that the soldiers on board the
steamer had got drunk over a bottle of whiskey, and were
not very well aware of what they did, so that the pri-
soner was discharged.
HOUSEBREAKING.—WiIIiarn Campion, a young house-
breaker, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, for
surreptitiously introducing himself into the wash-house
occupied by Mr. Blackeley, Grafton-street, at the early
hour of five o'clock on Monday morning. The lad had
to climb over an eight-foot wall in order to get to the
out-office, where he was found by Mr. Blackely busy
making a selection of goods, which he doubtless meant
to " appropriate."
STEALING A RING.—A flashily-dressed young man
charged a prostitute, named Sarah Ann Brown, with steal-
ing a gold ring from him on Saturday night. He was
walking along one of the main thoroughfares of the town,
when the girl accosted him ; and, as he entered into con-
versation, she drew nearer to him, and before he knew,
whipped the ponderous gold ring from his little finger—a
work not very difficult to achieve, as it was " a loose fit."
He at once accused her of the theft, when she flung the
ring away. A policeman recovered the precious article,
and the magistrate told the prosecutor he ought to be very
thankful that he had not lost it, and discharged the girl.

A FATHER AND DAUGHTER.—A melancholy case came
before Mr. Nicol, the culprit being Frances Story, a
young woman apparently under twenty years of age, and
the prosecutor her own father, an old sailor, who had not
taken the extreme measure now adopted without great
sorrow and pain. Since the death of the girl's mother,
twelve years ago, he had refrained from going to sea, for
the sake of his fmnily ; he had been a hard-working man,
and had contrived to save a little money, but all his efforts
were likely to be rendered unavailable by the wicked actions
of Frances, who had become intimate with a circle of
idle and dissolute girls, whose unprincipled conduct she
soon began to imitate. She had repeatedly robbed her
father, and on Saturday she broke open a private box, ab-
stracted from it a gold watch and some silver spoons, the
former article being immediately pledged with a Jew
pawnbroker for the sum of £2. The girl wept bitterly
during the investigation of the case, and appealed to her
father to get off ; and, in accordance with the magistrate's
suggestion, the prosecutor agreed to see his daughter pri-
vately, and the case was accordingly remanded.
A FEMALE TRIUMVIRATE.—Mary Tallon, Jane Swann,
and Eliza Dolan, charged with breaking into a bakehouse
in Great Howard-street, and stealing therefrom a quantity
of wearing apparel, belonging to Mrs. Georgians Anderson
(with whom one of the party had been employed in the
capacity of a domestic servant), were remanded for seven
days.

DISHONEST 'Bus CONDUCTOR.—A young lad,
named James -Wright, who had been employed by the
Messrs. Busby, 'bus proprietors, for the past five weeks,
was committed for trial, on a charge of embezzling va-
rious sums, received in the shape of fares from the pas-
sengers. The dishonest young man was conductor of the
omnibus running from Dale-street to Cabbage-hall.

FEMALE RIBI3OI,IISM. Louisa llarwood and Eliza
Jones were committed for trial on a charge of stealing
ribbons from a shop in St. James's-place, on Saturday
last, the accusation being substantiated by a young shop-
woman named Isabella Woodburn, and another young
lady, who saw the robbery committed.
A SPECIMEN OF YOUNG LIVERPOOL—Horner Rhodey,
a miserahle-looking child, with features prematurely
pinched and sorrowful, was charged with having broken
into the blacksmiths' shop of Mr. Wells, in Bridgewater-
street, about 10 o'clock on the night of Saturday, with
some felonious intent. The boy intimated that lie lived
with his father and mother in Brick-street, and it was
accordingly resolved to remand the case till the parents
were consulted with on the subject of their hopeful son.
ITALIAN REFUGEES.—Three Italian refugees of very
dissolute appearance, two of whom had timber legs, were
charged with committing a gross breach of the peace in
Crosshall-street on Sunday. The culprits had got half-
seas over, and from their state of inebriation they became
quarrelsome, and fought with great vigour, the battle
being put a stop to by the interference of the police. The
culprits were discharged with an admonition, which, we
fear, will not have much influence upon them, if we may
judge by the frequency with which the same individuals
have been in scrapes of the kind.
STARCH STOLEN.— Jane Hynn, for stealing
of starch and blue from her late master, Mr. Thomas
Radcliffe, in Circus-street, was sentenced to twenty.one
days' imprisonment. James Man-
THEFT OF COCOA.—Edward Murphy and
Saturday the 22d
vor were charged with stealing coco received information
that cocoa had been sold to Messrs. Tvngg.a ss e d,
• instituted inquiries, when
by a person named Mulligan,
t len from M•
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it was discovered that it had been s o _ r. Single-
burst,
had quired the goods dis-
honestly Redcross-street, by his Mph and Manvoari and by
turn, quantity
them sold to Mulligan, who, inisPosed of it to
advantage. Mulligan, in replyeto
athe queries of the pre-
siding magistrates, said that h h
had no suspicion what-
shooenveesrtlyth;atbuttbehepwas told by the Bench that they did
not consider lie bad come out with very clean hands.
The prisoners were sentenced to imprisonment for two
months.

LIICTU RE THIS EVENING.--011t readers will notice
that the Rev. John Kelly will deliver the fourth lecture of
the series on Protestant Nonconformists, in the Concert-
hall, this evening. The three first lectures on Noncon-
formists, Milton, and Cromwell, has been delivered to
crowded audiences.

DOCK
MEETING OF THE

LAST

REFORMS.
POLYTECHMC ,SOCIETY

NIGHT

The usual monthly meeting of the Polytechnic Society
was held at the Royal Institution, last night, at eight
o'clock,—Mr. Horner, the president, in the chair. The
Mayor having promised to honour the society with his
presence, and the subject for the evening being Mr.
Grantham's plans for improving the working of the docks
by a high-level railway and water cranes, there w
large attendance. As the subject was considered on
great importance to the town at large, invitations had
been sent to the members of the Town Council and the
Dock Committee, several members of which we observed
present

The PRESIDENT, who was supported by Mr. Hohne,
,e mayor, baring stated the object for which the society

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time. In requesting his audience to excuse any little
omission which he might make, he reminded those
present that he had some small claim to their favoura-
ble consideration. He had been one of the earliest
members of the present society, and in its infancy
he occupied that chair when it was not such an honourable
post, perhaps, as it had now become. He had further
on more occasions than one brought forward subjects for
their consideration, in the treatment of which it might
be thought he was over sanguine, but, as in the case of,the

screw propuision, he had proved himself a true prophet
With regard to the method of landing passenger:

from seagoing steamers which he had at tha
period of the Society's history the honour
of expounding to them, he believed it
now about to be carried into practical effect—the
being but little varied from those which he had then

mitted to their attention. The subject to which he now
proposed to dircot their attention was a local sul)ject of
unrivalled importance. All of them were perfectly aware
of the very imperfect condition, at the present time, of
that branch of their local business included in the
conveying of goods to and from the warehouses and the
nd unleding vessels at this port.
a subject entitled to attention
ed years ago since the first
ucted. He believed the

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