The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

A RIVAL TO Mn. ALDERMAN EvANs.—A correspondent
of the Albion suggests, indeed earnestly recommends, to the
reformers the propriety of their putting Mr. John Holmes in
nomination for the mayoralty. We should be glad to see
both gentlemen nominated.
Lord Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at the
Adelphi Hotel, on Thursday evening from London, and em-
barked, on Friday night, for Dublin, in the City of Dublin
Steam Packet Company's Contract mail-packet the Princess.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—Edward Scott was put forward before
Mr. Rushton on Friday on a charge of having embezzled is.
the property of John Rooney, a baker, of No. 20, Spring-
field-street. The complainant deposed that the prisoner had
been in his service about ten or eleven weeks, and that he
supplied his customers with small bread. The prisoner was
employed to carry it out and to deliver it to his customers.
His duties were to receive payment for the bread which he
delivered, and to hand over the amounts to his employer.
He served Mr. Brannen, of No. 20, Hanover-street, with
bread to the amount of 35., and Mr. Lund with bread to the
amount of 4s. About two o'clock on Monday afternoon he
sent the prisoner to receive the moneys due from those par-
ties ; after having been paid by them he put the ,amount in
his pocket, and was subsequently arrested in a state of intoxi-
cation in Vauxhall-road. He was committed for trial,

STEALING A BOlLER.—William Thompson was charged
before Mr. Rushton, on Friday, with having stolen a boiler,
the property of Mr. Samuel Martin, of No. 14, Netherfield-
road North.—Joseph Robertson depbsed that he was an
ironmonger and locksmith, and that his shop was in Vaux-
hall-road. About eight o'clock on Wednesday evening last
the prisoner and another man brought a hand-cart, with a
copper boiler, and a leaden flange, to his door. They said
they had brought it from the house of a gentleman who
would call in the morning about its value. Witness asked
his name. They said he lived in the New-road, but refused
to name him. Tne prisoner and his companion then left the
boiler in the shop and went away. About eight o'clock the
following morning the prisoner called again and asked whe-
ther the gentleman had come to the shop in the interim.
Witness said not. The prisoner said he came to be paid for
his trouble, and that he would await the gentleman's arrival..
Witness then went out and procured the assistance of con-
stable 827, by whom the prisoner was taken into custody.
John Carty, gardener to Mr. Martin, deposed that he left
the boiler safe in the washhouse on Wednesday night, and
that on the following morning it was missed. The boiler
found was identified as the property of Mr, Martin. The
prisoner was committed for trial.
STEALING &MAR.—George Bird was put forward at the
Police-office, on Friday, on a charge of having stolen five
pounds weight of sugar, the property of Sir Thomas and Jas..
Brancker. George Swindles deposed that he was an acting
locker in her majesty's customs, and that on Wednesday
last he was,on duty at Leicester's No. 165. bonded ware-
house, in Sefton-street. About half-past eight o'clock in
the afternoon of that day Mr. Birkett had a lorry at the
warehouse door in question. The driver came in and said he
had called for Messrs. Brancker's sugar. Knowing that the
Messrs. Brancker had sugar in the bottom room, witness
weighed a number of bags of it, and knew that one bag, num-
bered 474, weighed before leaving the warehouse 1 cwt. 1 qr.
13 lbs. When the lorry had been partially loaded, constable
• 350 came up and gave witness some information whichcaused
him to reweigh the bag of sugar No. 474, and he discovered
a deficiency of 5 lbs. The prisoner had been employed by
Mr. Birkett as a porter to remove the sugar from the room
to the lorry, and when the deficiency was ascertained he was
missing. James R. Eastwood, a clerk, deposed that be saw
the prisoner make a hole in the bag after it had been placed
in the lorry, and scoop the sugar thereout. He was Cora-
Rifted for trial.

Ronfigny }l, M Tl:r rfair*ON o :4170.—Wa have, ort.
two forroor oceasiony;, untieed tini robbery by some prostitutes
or £l7O from the person of '1 oas Kelly, immediately on
his arrival from America. A esierday another of the parties
who robbed him, calling her name Sarah Marshall, was
examined at the Police-court, when Kelly swore that she
held his arms whilst the others robbed him, but that she also
saved his life by requesting her companions not to kill him.
She made no defence. Committed to the sessions.

SHOCKING ACCIDENTS.—On Tuesday afternoon John
Dye, a poor Irish reaper on his return from harvest, was
passing along Great Howard-street, when a bale of cotton
fell from a warehouse several stories high, and struck him to
the ground. He was immediately conveyed to the Northern
Hospital, Leeds-street, and found to be so dangerously iti-
jured that but slight hopes are entertained of his recoNexli.—
On the same day Patrick Cormick, while engaged in unkad-
ing the ship Martha Ritchwood, now lying in the Prince's
Dock, fell from the deck into the hold. He was immedi-
ately conveyed to the same hospital, when it was found that
he had sustained a dislocation of the shoulder, compound
fracture of the leg, and a severe wound of the hip. He now
lies, as may be supposed, in a very precarious state.
THE PORTICO CONCERTS.—The second portico concert

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took place on Friday last, and was extremely well attended.
Many of the songs and glees were encored ; indeed, the
audience appeared as if they were determined to have
enough, and to applaud to the very echo, " till echo did
applaud again." Mr. Stott sung Wade's " I've culled every
flower" very well. •` Lady of beauty" was capitally and
effectually given by Miss Stott. Messrs. Case,- Stott, and
Davies. Hutton's ballad of "The first adieu" was sung by
Miss Stott. This young lady has a sweet voice, but her
enunciation is very bad. We could not ascertain what the
song was about; and had it not been announced in the bill
as an English song, we should have been in difficulty to state
whether it came, as neighbour Constance says, from " Italy,
or Germany, or France." The chorus, " Daughter of error,"
was encored. Mr. Davies sung Purcell's fine scena, " Mad
Tom," "As it fell upon a day," by Mrs. Armstrong, and
Miss Stott was amongst the repetitions : they sung it with
much taste. " When a little farm we keep," by Miss Stott
and Mr. Horuby, was encored they gave it wits much
spirit. Last evening the third concert came off, and was
equally well supported as the others. We believe some pro-
menade concerts are to begin here upon a novel plan.

A. BEGGING IMPOSTOR.—Patrick Murphy, a man having
the appearance of a decent mechanic, was placed before Mr.
Rushton on Saturday last, charged with having solicited
alms from a gentleman named Frost, and with having pre-
sented a begging petition bearing forged signatures. Mr.
Frost, on examining the signatures, immediately perceived
that several of them purported to have been written by parties
with whom he was intimate, and that they were forgeries.
He ordered a police officer to be called in : upon which the
prisoner, whose demeanour had hitherto been most bland
and gentle, as became one who humbly sued for alms, began
to show, that, as well as the cunning of the fox, there was in
him a spice of the wickedness of the wolf. Rushing at Mr.
Frost, he endeavoured forcibly to re-possess himself of the
petition. He knew well where the shoe pinched. Could he
destroy the petition, the chief testimony againSt him would
be wanting. Mr. Frost, however, held it fast, while the pri-
soner tugged manfully to carry his object. Finding that he
could not get,the petition to his mouth, he endeavoured to
carry his mouth to the petition, his great object being evi-
dently to eat his own words. Mr. Frost, however, foiled
him, and in due time the officer arrived and took him into
custody. In reply to the Questions put to him, he said he re-
sided in Scotland-road, and had received the petition from a
person named Smith. The officer sought for this Smith at
the place where Murphy said he resided, but no such person
could be found. Mr. Rushton asked the prisoner what he
had to say for himself. He replied that he was passing Mr.
Frost's door, when a person requested that he would take that
document (the petition) in and give it to the master, waiting
for an answer. Mr. Rushton committed the prisoner to gaol
for three months.

A COOK IN A MEss.—The master of one of the vessels
belonging to this port appeared, on Saturday, before Mr.
Rushton, to show cause why he refused to pay to William
Allen a balance of wages claimed ,by the latter. Allen
proved, that he shipped at this port to go to Donegal, thence
to Quebec, and back to Liverpool, in the capacity of cook,
at £3 per month. The defence set up by the captain was,
that Allen, having shipped as cook, was unable to perform
the duties of that office. In the first place, he was a man of
very filthy habits. He kept his galley in such a condition
that it became necessary, at length to turn him out of it
in order that it might be put and maintained in decent order.
Mr. Rushton requested to be informed, specially, of the
rounds for the allegation that he was unable to perform the
duty for which he had shipped. The mate and sevaral of the
men were called to testify touching the plaintiff's qualifica-
tions as a cook. From their testimony, it appeared, that
when the applicant attempted to make soup, lie made, what
the sailors called " a regular mess of it." By the way of
making it extra good, he put into the pot all the materals he
could think of, boiling herrings, peas, pork, barley, potatoes,
and dumplings all up together, thinking, thereby, " to make
the gruel thick and slab." Then, it appeared; he had no
notion when any articles of food were done. Eggs he boiled
too bard, potatoes too soft ; he would do a piece of pork till
it was nothing but fibre, and the next day send to the men
a piece of beef half raw. Moreover, and above all, he had,
spoiled the captain's cakes. Mr. Rushton: " How was
that ?" Mate : "He sent some cakes into the cabin, and
they were not fit to eat." Allen : " I didn't' make 'em.

The steward made 'em. He brought 'm to me ready made.
It wasn't my business to make cakes." Steward " Well,

if it warn't you business to make 'em, it were'-your business
to bake 'em. They were properly made, but-iliej, were not
properly baked. The complaint was, that theYsVere not pro.
perly done." Allen : " Well, "the steward came to me, and
he would have 'eni whether they were done or not." It was
proved, generally, that Allen was but an indifferent cook.
The captain, very fairly, called upon the seamen to say what
the complaint was worth. One said 30s. a month would be
fair wages ; another thought he was entitled to £2. The
captain expressed his willingness to give him £2, which was
awarded.

ROBBETLY BY A SHOPMAN.—At the Police-court yester-
day a genteelly-dressed young man, named Henry Jutres,
was charged with having robbed his employer, Mr. Minton,
mercer, of Bold-street, The prosecutor stated, that the
prisoner was his service as a shopman, and having some
reason to doubt his honesty, he asked him on Saturday for
the key of his trunk. He produced it, and they went uP
stairs together, when six silk handkerchiefs and several pairs
of gloves were found in it. In the first instance he said big
mother had given him the property, but .therwards he con,
fessed to the robbery. The prisoner. had been in his service
a month. Mr. Minton then handed up a paper to the bench,
which we understood to be a recommendation of the prisoner
to mercy on the ground of his respectability, Mr. Rushton
said, he should be glad to attend to the recommendation, but
the public had a right to be protecied against depredations
of this sort. Felony by a person in the situation of the
prisoner was aggravated by the respectability of his position.
A poor creature who stole from necessity there was no sym-
pathy for, except in common with all the unfortunate ; but
where a man in good clothes, and without the temptation of
necessity plundered, the respectability of his position came
in to weaken justice. This was the exact position in which
the prisoner stood. Mr. Minton had made this charge
against him, and though it was
.a painful duty to send the
prisoner for trial, it was his duty, and lie should do it. The
prisoner was then sent for trial at the ensuing sessions.

ST. HELEN'S.—SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—A tradesman
of this place, a brazier and tin-plate worker, named John
Critehley, met with his death on Saturday week, under most
painful and exciting circumstances. The deceased, accom-
panied by his wife, had been out the evening previous, and,
before returning home, called at a public-house, where they
continued until the multiplicity and strength of their pota-
tions subdued the husband's propriety. When they left the
carousal, which was at an early hour after midnight, Critch-
ley was much inebriated. On their arrival home, a quarrel
ensued between the husband and wife, the consequence of
which was that the latter determined to take up lir!. /Wart,
ment separate from the husband for the night, Soon 'after
she had retired she heard a noise, as of some one falling; bud
imagining it was merely her husband staggering to and fro
in his room, she contented herself, and went to sleep. She
arose at her usual hour next morning ; but shocking, indeed,
to her feelings must it have been when, on descending the
stairs, she found her ill-fated husband a stiffened corpse.
Ifedical assistance was, however, procured, and it was found
that the neck of the deceased was dislocated, and, by other
bruises on his body, there was'no doubt but he had fallen
down stairs, which caused the noise his wife heard before
going to sleep, but, perhaps, unfortunately attributed to an-.
other source. An inquest has been held, and a verdict of
" found dead" returned. •

PRESTON AND WYRE RAILWAY.—On Tuesday the half-
yearly meeting of the proprietors of this company was held
at their office in Kin William-street, London. The chair
was taken by Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, Bart. It appeared
from the report, that in spite of the manufacturing distress
and the unfavourable state of the weather, the traffic on the
railway from the Ist of April to the Ist of October had been
to the extent of 107,920 passengers, which was considerably
beyond that of the former half-year. A steamer, called the
Epress, daily plied on the lakes, and other steam-boats were
now going between Fleetwood and the Isle of man, White-
haven, Liverpool, and Glasgow, and a large traffic was going
on between Belfast and the manufacturing districts of Lan-
cashire. The commerce of the port of Fleetwood had in-
creased so extensively as to dictate the necessity of a dock for
large vessels, and to leave the quay free for steam-boats and
coasters. The iron facing of the wharf at Fleetwood, and a
pier for landing cattle at all times of tide, were completed.
A large edifice, called the North Euston Hotel, had been
erected, and a church had been finished and consecrated, and
the new town of Fleetwood was forming rapidly. The works
of the railway stood well. The total cash for traffic during
the half-year was £20,811, which left a net profit after ex-
penses of £8,504 Is. 5d., which was to be appropriated to
the payment of a dividend of £1 ss. per sharp of £25. The
total cash received on account of the railway was 1:;310,000,
and towards the harbour £67,000. A large sum Wing, still
necessary for the completion of the other works a the com:
rainy, a further issue of new shares of £25 and a reduced
rate was proposed by the directors. Mr. Phillpetts having
suggested an alteration in the report, it was agreed to an 4
then adopted. A vote of thanks was then passed to the
.directors for their gratuitous services, and the meeting ad.
journed.

GROSS MISCONDUCT, AND DISMISSAL OF A. POLICS.
OFFICER. —Two young men, of respectable appearance,
named Abraham Hollis and Frederick Buxton, appeared at
the police-court, yesterday, before Mr. Rushton and Mr.
Houghton, having been admitted to bail to answer a charge
preferred azainst them.by police-officer No. 114, whose name
is William 'fon, The officer stated that, about ten o'clock
on Saturday night, he observed the prisoners in St. John's
Market going about from stall to, stall without purchasing
any thing, and suspecting them, he took them both to the
market-office. There he searched them and found two rabbits
upon them which they said they had hongbt in the market.
On being asked where they had obtained them they pointed
out the stall, and it was found that their statement wa,s MP'
yet, notwithstanding this, he carried them to Hotbarnrstrer4
Bridewcll, where he booked them as drunk and disorderlY:
Mr. Rushton asked the officer why he had not set them
liberty when he had ascertained that their story was true?
The officer replied that he was afraid of being reported to the
Watch Committee. Mr. Rushton then said the conduct of
the cfficer had been most disgraceful. Having ascertained
that the story of the young men was true, and clearly know-
ing that to be the fAct, in order to save himself, he came into
court and said he had lopked them up although he knew them
to be innocent. The :office; must be broken, and he should
Th
not enter the force again. e younz men must be dis-
charged. He was very sorry for what had&c&-urred to them;
their only remedy for what they had suffered war by aict.ipPt
at the same time it was a sacrifice whiCh all good men reAls.,t
make up their minds to submit to. The 'condUct of
not be taken on the force again, add he k,
officer had ,been ,unfeeling, but he could only pledge hipse!A
that he si,Leuldnew
that he would not be admitted without his (Mr. Rushton s)
consent. The nfficer on duty at
Botham-street Bridewe4
said when the officer
brought the young men there, be .54ici
he knew them to be bad chrzActers, and he had taken tb.01,,,
h
upon suspicion, and on this accaupt he insisted upon hav,Wo
them booked. Witness was rather doubtful of the caste, De"
cause he observed that the officer was the wors,e for liquot,
nevertheless he did book them, but told the head popstabr
immediately on his arrival. Mr. Rushton.—You ox,loo
have sent to me and 1 would hive discharged them.- 2,a
Whitty said the bridewell keeper's instructions were to sep,
his great surprise they
forthe inspector, in all such cases. On his (Mr. Whitt).l!Y
arrival be thought the young men were not booked, bufiatS
been a want of due caution on the part ,of the briu
were. Mr. Rushton said theirpoies
keeper, and it must not occur again. The hrhlaw.eilii_ k‘,c61x11,4
eF
sairthe was very sorry for what had occurred, Da '
be more careful in future. The parties then left the Amt'