The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

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bridewell; it was claimed by another shopkeeper. It
seems she has been placed in the Fame predicament before,
and a term of two months in the borough gaol was awarded
to her. The other female was discharged.
CHARGE ON SUSPICION.—A young female of very
respectable and rather prepossessing appearance, who gave
her name Ann Firth, and stated she came from Hudders-
field, but had neither father nor mother, was charged with
having stolen a quantity of wearing apparel from a lodging
house in Hunter-street. The prisoner confessed to having
taken the thines out of the house, but added that she had
brought them back again that morning. Mr. Rushton
directed inquiries to be made into her case, and accord-
ingly remanded her.
ROBBING AN EMPLOYER.—John Robert Taylor, a man
in the service of Mr. Matthew Haves, wine merchant, was
charged with robbing his master of six dozens of wine and
a book. The man, who is apparently about the middle
age, and of rather respectable exterior, betrayed a good
deal of emotion on being placed at the bar, so much in-
deed as to shed tears. Mr. Hayes stated that he had on
more than one occasion missed wine from his stock, but
did not suspect the prisoner of having taken it. On Sa-
turday a gentleman called to make a purchase, and after
looking over a good deal of wine, selected a single case,
which he desired to be opened. Upon Mr. Hayes request-
ing Taylor to open the case, he fainted, and acknowledged
its contents had been abstracted. He told the magistrate
that he had not sold the wine, but drunk it on the pre-
mises. He was committed for trial.
BASE COlN.—Several cases of passing base coin were
reserved to have the opinion of Mr. Powell, the Crown
prosecutor in such cases, and who has comedown to attend
the assizes. One fellow who was taken up for attempting
to pass a base sixpence, had about him several soda bis-
cuits, in which numerous other pieces of spurious money
were deposited.
JUVENILE DEPREDATORS.—WiIIiam Eastee and Thos.
Jones, two mere children, were put up charged with steal-
ing a quantity of cigars from the premises of Mr. Waugh,
Mount Pleasant. Jones, although so young, has been
five times previously committed. He was sent to prison
for five months, and his companion for two.—Another
urchin, named William M'Parlane, was charged with
entering the premises of Mr. Roe, publican, Norfolk-
street, and stealing a joint of beef. He was remanded.
A girl, charged with being drunk and disorderly,
pleaded that she had been sent for a glass of whiskey on
Saturday night for another girl attacked by the cholera,
when the constable took her into custody. While she
was in bridewell, the girl alluded to died, and had since
been buried. The officer had been to the house, and
found this to be the fact. Mr. Rushton reproved him for
having locked the defendant up.—ln another similar case
a respectable looking woman, (out on bail), alleged that
she had been engaged in tending her husband and admi-
nistering to his necessities. Half an hour after she had
been taken to bridewell, her husband was a corpse. Mr.
Parkinson corroborated this statement, and the defendant
was dismissed, the fine being excused.
The number of Irish charged with begging was aboutthe
average. In two instances, the destitution, though appa-
rent'from their squalor and tatters, was not real, as sums
of money—in one case a few shillings, and the other one
shilling and fourpence—were found in their possession.
These delinquents, when they found that they had to be
imprisoned twenty-one days, and to be deprived of their
ill•gotten gains, were very anxious to be sent home, but
the request was naively rejected by the magistrate.
SMUGGLING.—Judith Walters was brought up on a
charge of smuggling three-eighths of a gallon of whiskey.
She was a servant of the steward of the " Pride of Erin,"
plying between this port and Dundalk. She was fined
fifty shillings, and in default of payment will be committed
to prison for one month.—John Marrs was committed for
seven days, for having smuggled a pint of whiskey. He
was apprehended in the Clarence Dock.—Peter M`Farlane
and Michael M`Kellor, the one a stoker, and the other a
cook belonging to the " Pirate," Trafalgar Dock, were
charged with smuggling three boxes of cigars and twenty
pounds of tobacco. The tobacco was found concealed
beneath the boards of the floor of the engine-house, in
1 the coal-place, and a portion in the engine itself. The
officer heard a noise, as if the boards were being broken
up, and directly afterwards M`Farlane came out : this
took place early on Sunday morning. The evidence not
being entirely conclusive. the case was remanded.

We are glad to learn that St. Paul's Prince's-
park, is duly licensed for the solemnization of marriages.
We learn that Mr. Whiteman liberally placed at the dis-
posal of the tent committee of the Fancy Fair the marquees
and other apparatus of the Brunswick Club.
The timber erection on the new landing-stage will be
finished in a week or so. The centre is intended to afford
promenaders shelter •in wet weather. At the two ends are
refreshment-rooms. These will be let to some confec-
tioner, and the rent arising will, it is supposed, afford
good interest for the gross outlay.
BOY DROWNED.—On Saturday, John Brown, the mate
of the schooner " Sarah," lying in George's Dock, ob-
served a body floating on the water. It proved to be that
of a boy named Thomas Benjamin Jones, son of John
Jones, a police constable. He had never been seen alive
since Monday morning last, when he left home to go to
school.

TRIP TO THE LAREs.—Should the weather continue
fine we have no doubt that all the tickets for this trip will
be sold before going, as every one talks of going. We
would therefore recommend early application to those
who have not already provided themselves. Dependence
may be placed on Mr. Marcus's punctuality in the matter
of excursion trains. Six is the hour named for departure,
from Edge-hill, punctually.
EXAMINAI lON OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At
meet-
ing of the board held on the Bth instant, Mr. John H.
Bowman, first mate of the barque " Sarah," of Belfast;
was examined and found duly qualified for a second class
certificate as master. Also on the lath inst., Mr. Samuel
Flood, late mate of the " Enchantress," of Whitehaven,
was found qualified for a second class master's certificate.
THE LEVESON-STREET MnanEns.—We understand
that Mr. J. C. Grocott is the professional gentleman em-
ployed in this town to conduct the defence of the alleged
murderer, but we are not informed as to the party who
supplies the funds for the purpose. We believe that a
Mr. Russell is to be the leading counsel for the defence,
and though we are not personally acquainted with him, it
is stated that he is fully competent for the duty which
will devolve upon him.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday, John Henderson, a
man in the employ of Messrs. Nicol and Hamer, steam
sawmills, Grafton-street, was engaged in some operation
at what is termed a jemmy. The jemmy is a machine
which moves along a train road, laid down on balks of
wood, raised to an elevation of about ten feet from the
ground. When in the act of descending, his foot slipped,
and he fell to the ground. He was taken immediately to
the Southern Hospital, labouring under concussion of the
brain. of which he died about ten minutes after admission.
Conrous OceI7IIRENCE.—On Monday night, Ellen
Cunningham, aged eleven years, was sitting on some steps
in Jordan-street, when Margaret M'Ginn, another girl,
struck her several times upon the bead and side with a
handful of broom. The child complained of her violence,
and was very sick ; on going home she became seriously
ill, and was attended on Wednesday by Mr. Gildersleeves,
surgeon. who stated that she died on Thursday, of pleu-
risy, but there appeared no mark of external violence. A
post mortem examination showed that death had been the
result of natural causes.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On Friday, about twelve.
o'clock, a person, whose name is supposed to be Wilson,
went on the coach from Woodside to Hoylake. On hia.,
arrival there he got down, and attempted to cross over MI
Hilbre Island. In about an hour afterwards he was found
drowned in the passage between the island and the coast.
Nothing is known with certainty as to how he got into
the water. He was a man of genteel appearance, about
thirty years of age, five feet seven inches in height, dark
hair, and had on dark gray trowsers, and dark coat and
waistcoat; had upon him an eyeglass, a silver watch,
which had stopped at twenty minutes past twelve, and a
sum of £4 13s. The name of "Wilson" was written in
his hat.

THE DOCK-RATING QUESTION.—We beg to remind
the friends of dock-rating, that at the adjourned meeting of
the Council. to be held to-morrow, a portion of the
tress will-be the election of five members of the Council, fa.'
take the seats of the five retiring members, Messrs. Ro-
binson, Chilton, Wood, Mann, and Aikin. It is becoming •
obvious that without some legislative interference, or a
concession by the Dock Committee, on the subject of
rating our vast and increasing Dock Estate, the ratepayers
of Liverpool must positively break down under their
accumul ting burthens. It is, undoubtedly, gratifying to
contemplate the rapid progress which the port of Liver-
pool is making ; to see her fast engrossing the commerce
of the empire. But with this progress and this commerce
comes an increase of pauperism, which it is obviously
unjust to call upon the inhabitants and shopkeepers of
Liverpool to bear alone, or mainly, whilst the localities in
which our leading merchants, shipowners and others, who
principally profit by such progress, reside, are almost
exempt from an; burthen dt all. Nothing, we think, can
be fairer than that the commerce of the port itself should
contribute its quota, through the medium of the dock
rates ; and no doubt every advocate in the council of
" dock rating" will be present to-morrow to secure, as far
as possible, the return of such parties as approve of that
important measure.
EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—An inquest was held
on Saturday, and by adjournment yesterday, before the
borough coroner, on the body of Peter Maddocks, a ware-
houseman, 23 years of age, who came by his death under
circumstances which still remain in part a mystery. It
appears that on the morning of the 6th .of January last de-
ceased left his home for the purpose of enjoying the re-
creation of shooting, for which purpose he took with him
a gun. About two o'clock he was brought home wounded
by shot in the side, of which wounds he died on the 9th
instant. From the evidence of Mr. James Musker, and
a gamekeeper named Pairclough, it transpired that about
ten o'clock on the morning of the 6th of January they
were at Moor Green, Walton, when they heard a cry of
" Murder," and upon running to the spot from whence
the cry proceeded found Mr. Maddocks kneeling near the
'wall of Mr. Ellison Harvey's premises; lie was wounded
as described, and near hint was his gun broken, the barrel
being at some distance from the stock. The mysterious
part of the affair was that he did not tell the witnesses
how the casualty had occurred, nor did lie ever during the
seven months intervening between his death acquaint his
wife with the circtm.stances. She said she asked him
once and lie replied lie would tell her another time, but
she never repeated the question, Lecau,,e she was afraid to
do so. He said I.e was on the ground a quarter of anX \ !c 4
hour before assistance came to him, and that the gun wasw
broken by his striking it against the wall, to cause art. ~440/\:
alarm. The coroner recommended an open verdict as the, „0 •
only possible way of disposing of the case. . •
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