The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-03-27 00:00:00

YESTERDAY'S POLICE,

CRUEL ROBBERY.—A man and his wife were committed for
trial, charged—the woman with stealing and the man with re-
ceiving, with a guilty knowledge—a quantity of bacon, a knife,
and two sovereigns and eleven shillings from an emigrant in a
public-house. The latter was in the greatest distress, as the
ship in which his passage was secured had sailed, but Mr. Rush-
ton directed an officer to endeavour to get the passage trans-
ferred to another vessel. •

THE STONE THROWING NUISANCE.—No less than six cases
in which young boys were charged with throwing stones, were
heard by Mr. Rushton. The offence, in the majority of in-
stances, had been committed on Sunday. The lads were each
fined two shillings and sixpence. Mr. Rushton expressed him-
self determined to put the intolerable nuisance down.
STEALING TEA.—Four women, Mary Hoyle, Jane Burns,
Ellen Edwards, and Bridget Kehoe, were charged with stealing
tea from a vessel discharging on the west side of George's
Dock. All the prisoners were old offenders, and were sent to
prison for twenty-one days._ _

MocK AUCTIAS.—JoIin Gallaher, Patrick Barker, and John
M`Cardy were brought up on a charge of felony. The two for-
mer were lately in the employment of a Mr. Michael Riley, an
auctioneer, and are relatives; they lodged in Mr. Cardy's
house. Barker had been suspected by his employer, who had
caused his boxes to be searched, in which were found a yard of
satin, a shawl, and other articles of property claimed by Mr.
Riley. Gallaher was apprehended as an accomplice, and Mc
Cardy, having incited the others to obstruct the police in their
search, was also taken into custody. Mr. Davenport, who ap-
peared for Farker, elicited from the prosecutor that the two
prisoners, while in his service, were in the habit of attending
auctions and bidding against the public, paying for and car-
rying away those articles which were knocked down to them,
under the order to bring them back immediately after the sale
concluded. The prosecutor insisted that the articles in ques-
tion had never been put up for sale. Mr. Rushton inquired
whether any person was in the habit of selling for Mr. Riley,
to which he replied there was. The magistrate at once deter-
mined to have him sent for, and addressing the prosecutor,t
said he did not know whether they were not all liable to be in-
dicted for a conspiracy. Mr. Riley said his men only bough
at the reserve price. Mr. Rushton : Ajury may be called upon
to decide that. You hold out to the public what appears to be
a beta fide sale, and have a parcel of fraudulent fellows placed
there to bid against them. The case thus stands adjourned.
IRISH MENDICANTS—More than a dozen of these wretched
beings were placed in succession in the dock, charged with
plying their craft in various parts of the town. Few accepted
the alternative of being returned to Ireland, preferring tempo-
rary imprisonment, which the magistrate impoied, in some
instances, for the term of twenty-one days. There seems to
be no decline in these begging offenders; the constant stream
of pauper immigrants arriving from Ireland, supplying the
places of such as have been disposed of by being placed in
prison, or passed back to their own land of idleness and want.
The fear these wretched creatures have of being sent home
again is so great that all sorts of deceptions are had recourse
to, though vainly, with the object of imposing on the parish
officers, as to the length of residence in the town, in order to
claim the right of relief on the spot, or at least the right of
remaining in the town.

STABBING.—A sweep, named James Turton, was brought up
charged with a most brutal and cowardly act, committed on
Saturday night. It appears that between ten and eleven
o'clock, he and another fellow went into a brothel in Preston-
street, with a girl named Ann Gardener; while in the passage
of this house, without any apparent cause the sweep drew a
knife, with which he inflicted a severe wound in the right eye
of the wretched girl. After this vile act, it seems he gave the
weapon to his accomplice, as, when he was taken, no knife was
to be found. Another girl witnessed the act. The wounded
girl was taken to the Northern Hospital, where her wound was
attended to by Mr. Lynch, who stated that the schlerotid
artery had been incised. Mr. Rushton committed the man
for trial at the next assizes, and expressed an opinion that
the girl's case would be better attended to within the hospital
where the causes likely to lead to inflammation would be
checked.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S, LAST NIGHT,

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES,
7 to 4 against Tartar (taken)
4 to 1 Westow (taken)
9to 1 n Loupgaron (taken)
12 to 1 Fernhill (taken)
14 to 1 . Vasa (taken)
15 to 1 « Valencia

METROPOLITAN HANDICAP
8 to 1 against Lugar (taken)
9to 1 r, Dada (taken)
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
5 to 1 against Canezou (taken)

TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES
3 to 1 against Honeycomb (taken)
7to 2 i, Nunnykirk (taken)

CHESTER CUP.
12 to 1 against Joc o' Sot (taken)
Business very slack.

DERBY.
7 to 2 against Flying Dutchman (taken)
7 to 1 Tadmor (taken)
Bto 1 N Nunnykirk (taken)
30 to 1 # Strongbow
40 to 1 N Escalade
40 to 1 , Chatterer
45 to 1 p Westow ktake 50 to 1)

DERBY, 1850.
50 to 1 against Sea Serpent (taken)
50 to 1 Harding (taken)
50 to 1 n Tordesillas
50 to 1 n Mildew
50 to. 1 Brington