The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-07 00:00:00

POLICE COURT v ESTERDAY.

TIIEFT BY A COAL CARTER.—Richard Banks was
charged with stealing a lump of coal from a cart of coals
from which he was employed to drive on Saturday last.
He was seen to take the coal from the cart, but no evidence
being forward to show a deficiency in the nominal quan-
tity, he was remanded till this day (Tuesday).
ROBBERY BY A SERVANT GlRL.—Margaret Rimmer,
servant with Mrs. Ronaldson, keeper of a public-house in
Copperas-hill, was charged with stealing several sums of
money, at different times, from her mistress. Suspicion
of the thefts was first excited by Mrs. Ronaldson missing
small sums, and by the prisoner, who was known to be
very indigent,i purchasing several little articles of finery.
On being charged with the abstractions, the prisoner at
first denied the allegation in the most positive terms ; on
being threatened with the police, however, she admitted
having stolen money on several occasions ; and on search-
ing her box, the sum of £1 bs. was found in it, which
prisoner confessed to belong to her mistress. She was
given into custody, and repeated her confession of the
thefts before the magistrates. She was sentenced to be
imprisoned for two months.
ALLEGED GAROTTE ROBBERY.—Patrick Carroll was
brought up on remand, charged with having been con-
cerned in robbing a man named McCulloch, ou the 26th
of last month. McCulloch had been, according to his
own account, set upon and nearly strangled, and other-
wise injured, by a band of three or four ruffians, who
robbed him of his watch, and fourpence-halfpenny in
money. From a description given by McCulloch, the
prisoner was apprehended by Detective Laycock, and on
being seen, along with others, by the prosecutor, he was
at once identified as one of the depredators. hen be-
fore the magistrates, however, McCulloch declared he was
not sure of the prisoner, and could not swear to his
being one of the party who had ill-used and robbed him.
The prisoner was, therefore, discharged; the magistrates
remarking on the singularity of the prosecutor's certainty
at one time, and uncertainty at another, relative to the
prisoner's identity.
STEALING A DRESS —Patrick G 31311 was charged with
stealing a merino dress belonging to Mrs. Coolin, from
a clothes-line in Gerard-street, where it had been hung
out to dry on Saturday. The case was clearly proved,
and the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned for three
months. .

PICKING POCKETS.—Mary Ann Murphy, an old ac-
quaintance at the Police-court, was convicted of stealing
a small parcel from the pocket of a gentleman, on Satur-
day last, in St. John's Market. She was sentenced to be
imprisoned for two months. _ _

STEALING FROM A. PUBLIC-ROUSE. Mary Ann
Wilkins was charged with stealing a coat from the public-
house kept by Mr. James, in Green-street, on the 14th of
February last. From the evidence it appeared that the
coat had been hung up on the back of a door leading from
the bar to the back yard, and that, during the absence of
Mrs. James, while the house was in charge of a little girl,
the prisoner came and obtained a glass of ale, which
having got she requ?sted to go into the back-yard, and
shortly after her departure the coat was ?hissed, an had
not since been found, nor had the prisoner been again
seen till Saturday last, when she was taken into custody.
She was remanded fora week.

ATTEMPTING TO Pica POCKETS.—Ann Foley was
charged with attempting to pick the pocket of Mrs.
Hallam, of Nursery-street, Scotland-road, on Saturday
evening in Queen-square. The prisoner was not successful
in abstracting anything, but the prosecutrix was quite
positive the prisoner's hand was in her pocket, and having
had her pocket picked recently gave her into custody. On
being apprehended, the prisoner, who is a well-known pick-
pocket, was very violent. She was sentenced to be impri-
soned for three months.
ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—Johnßeddingtonwascharged
with a violent assault on a female, in:Commerce-street, on
Saturday night. John Nicholson, in passing from his
own house, saw the prisoner strike and knock down Ann
Keoch with a heavily-loaded stick. He knocked her down,
and beat her repeatedly while she was lying on the ground
and unable to rise. Keoch was suffering so severely from
the effects of the assault, that she was unable to attend.
The prisoner was remanded for a week. The witness
applied to the court for protection, as there were a number
of the prisoner's associates outside•, waiting to illtreat him
for giving evidence. The magistrate directed the officers
to afford every protection to the witness.

LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.

YESTERDAY.

Tax first March Court opened yesterday, but the busi-'
ness was limited,—J. W. Harden, Esq., of the Cheshire
County Court, presiding in the place of Mr. Pollock, who
is absent in London.
INSOLVENCY CASES.—John Jones, baker and flour-
dealer, Islington, applied for a renewal of protection,
which was granted till the first July court.— Joseph
Fairclough, Fletcher-street, Toxteth-park, engine driver,
coal and provision-dealer, appeared on his adjourned ex-
amination. Mr. Cross,p opposed, urging that it was simply
a petition to get rid of a judgment obtained in that court.
Mr. Harden said he would leave the case to be decided by
Mr. Pollock, an arrangement, however, being made for
the liquidation of the debt.—Richard WarbUrton, stone-
mason, Smithdown-lane, appeared on his first examination,
and his final order fixed for the first of June court.—
John Langdon, of 74, Roscoe-street, boot and shoema-
ker, appeared on " his last examination, which he
passed, and a day for his final order was appointed.—
John Langsdale, 8, Derby-place, Edge lane, West Derby,
commission-agent, passed his first examination.— John
Alexander Dalton, tailor and draper, 3, College-lane,
appeared on his first examination. He was opposed
on the ground that a great part of his debts had been
contracted within the last 12 months, and that he had
made over some furniture to his mother. His adjourned
examination was fixed for the first court in April. The
seventh and last insolvent who appeared before the court
was Isaac Knowles, butcher, of 188, Faulkner-street. He
came on his first examination, was opposed on behalf
of two creditors, and supported by Mr. M'Oubrey, barrister.
The case was eventually adjourned till Thursday next.

FRAUD SUMMONSES.—Orders for to Lan-
caster Castle, for 30 days, were granted against the follow-
ing parties for neglecting to pay, after judgment, the
respective amounts attached to their names :—Joseph
Ruddy, 33, Crosshall-street, labourer, lls. 4d. ; Thomas
Stanley, butcher, 39, Trowbridge-street, £3 12s. ; John
Banks, beerscller, 20, Banastre-street, £1 18s.; Moses
Yearsfey, gentleman, No. 50, Lodge-lane, £l4 14s. 10d. ;
Charles Brown, draper's shopman, Scotland-road, 9s. Bd. ;
Thomas Parkinson, colour-dealer, Elizabeth-street, Kirk-
dale, £5 2s. 3d. • James Ward, provision-dealer, 14.9,
Vauxhall-road, £3 16s. Bd.; and Peter Dennet, watch-
maker, at Mr. Cain's, optician, Waterloo-road, £3 12s._

After disposing of some interpleader cases of no public
interest, the court adjourned about half-past one o'clock.

POCKET-PICKING Is AN OAINIBUS.—At the Police-
court on Friday, and by adjournment, on Saturday, Eliza-
beth Walker was charged with picking pockets in the
Aigburth omnibus. The prisoner was attired in a black
satin dress, cloth mantle, gray victorine, and green velvet
bonnet, lined with white satin. She was first charged
with attempting to pick the pocket of Mrs. Hill, wife of
Mr. W. Hill, of 18, Cumberland-terrace, Parliament-street,
who stated, that, on Thursday morning, she and Mr. Hill
were returning from Aigburth, when the prisoner stopped
the omnibus in Mill-street, got in, and seated herself next
to her. She soon afterwards felt something at her pocket,
and, on feeling if her purse was safe, she distinctly felt
some ones hand, and the prisoner instantly withdrew her
arm. She then withdrew from the prisoner. When the
omnibus stopped in Castle-street, the police-officer, Russell,
of the detective-force, asked her if she had missed any-
thing, and she replied that she had not, having taken care
of her pocket. Russell then took the prisoner into custody.
Having been committed for trial on this charge, she was
further charged with stealing a case of surgical-instru-
ments from the pocket of Mr. Haicks, surgeon, who stated
that, °Oche 27th ultimo, he was proceeding to Aigburth
in the omnibus, having a box of surgical-instruments in
his dress-coat pocket. During a portion of the journey,.
and while the prisoner sat next to him, he felt something
at his pocket, but on looking round could see nothing.
The prisoner got out opposite St. Luke's Church, and soon
afterwards, on feeling for his instruments, found that a
hole had been cut in his pocket, and the case abstracted.
It was a morroeco case, and contained about a dozen in-
struments, She was also committed for trial on the second
off,

ANOTHER RECANT/121102V
JOHN'S CHURCH-.

a T ST.

YESTERDAY (Monday) morning, four adults were re-
ceived into communion with the united Church of England
and Ireland, by the Rev. W. F. Taylor,'M.A.' assisted by
the Rev. G. L. Ireland, 8.A., in St. John's Church. It
is gratifying to every true Churchman to zee the cause of
the reformation thus progressing so satisfaCtorily in this
town. These results are mainly owltn.-, to the labours of
the Special Mission toßomanists, established in connexion
with the Protestant Reformation Society. We sincerely
wish that a similar movement were carried on, not only
in every district in Liverpool, but in every town through-
out England where the Romanists congregate. This
would he the most effectual method of meeting the Papal
aggression in this country, by effectually carrying on a
counter-aggression on the ignorance and superstition of
Romanists. Legislative enactments are good in their
way, but no legislation can ever change the heart or con-
vince the urncerstanding.—About seventy persons have
been received into the Church, at. St. John's, since the
establishment of the mission.

SERIOUS COLLISION ON THE LANCASHIRE
AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.

i WIG A:N, MOND A.T.
Tins morning, a few minutes after seven o'clock, an
alarming collision occurred on the Lancashire and York-
shire Railway, near this town, by which several passengers
received severe braises, and considerable damage was done.
The six o'clock train from Liverpool to Manchester left
the Wigan station about seven o'clock, and in about four
or five minutes afterwards it arrived at a siding belonging
to the Ince Hall Colliery Company, almost immediately
adjacent to the shaft of the Arley Mine, where the late
explosion happened. At this point an engine, belonging
to the Ince Hall Company, which had been running a
number of waggons on to the main line for Liverpool, was
rehiring to the siding, and just as it was crossing the
main line towards Manchester, the passenger train from
Liverpool came up, and a violent collision between the two
engines took place, the consequence of which was that the
engine belonging to the Ince Hall Company was thrown off
the line, and fell more than half-way down the embank-
, ment, whilst the tender was detached from it and forced
on to the main line to Liverpool, thereby blocking up the
line, and impeding the traffic for some hours. The two
engine drivers were much injured by the collision, as well
as several of the passengers in the different carriages
attached to the train to -Liverpool. The report of the
collision spread throughout the town with considerable
rapidity, and the different officers of the company were
quickly on the spot, when it was ascertained that about
twelve passengers were injured, some of them seriously,
i and medical men were at once sent for. It was found that
a young woman from Haigh, the wife of one of the men
employed in the Haigh Foundry, had sustained a very
serious injury, her thigh having been broken by the shock.
Mr. Schofield, proprietor of the Victoria Hotel, Wigan,
was also one of those who received fractures, and besides
several broken limbs, other of the passengers received
bruises on the face and in different parts of the body, one
man's face being very much cut and disfigured, in addition
to which his note was almost cut off. The injured parties
were attended to by Messrs. Fisher and Wright, surgeons,
and after some delay the passenger train proceeded.
The tender of the other engine (much damaged) was
removed, and the line cleared in about two hours after the
accident. It was very foggy at the time the collision took
place, and the accident is attributed to the impossibility of
1 the engine-drivers seeing the signals.