The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-30 00:00:00

yen for the de-

To be imprisoned for three weeks

Samuel Diggle and Abraham Nabb were indicted for
breaking into the house of John Berry, at Birtle-cum-
Bamford, on the 6th of February, 1846, and stealing
therefrom some money and various other articles. Samuel
Diggle guilty, and Nabb not guilty
transportation

Senten

15 years'

FORGERY.
man of co

Stephen Williams,

py Lady Str

for forging and uttering two forged shipping notes for the
payment of £2 103. each, to Owen Miller, of Liverpool,
on the 24th of Dacember last, knowing the same to have
been forged. The forgery was committed on the firm of
Messrs. Duncan Gibb and Co. _ _

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the notes in question, but that he was ignorant of the
forgery. He said they were given to him, with a request
to get them cashed, and that he did get them cashed ;
but when he did so, he did not know that they were
forged.—Guilty of uttering the forged notes, but not
guilty of forging.—Sentenced to be imprisoned and kept

The court then adjouined till nine o'clock this morning

if the Lew
n of gei

weapon

magistrate

perfectly scandalo

home, and ext,

The Grand Jury of the county Donegal, including Lord
George Hill, Sir J. Stewart, Col. Conolly, passed a resolution
last week expressive of their grateful sense of the liberal sym-
pathy displayed towards Ireland by the people of England.
The Provident Clerks Mutual Benefit Association continue,
its operation ; and we are glad to find that its benefits are pro-
perly appreciated by the useful class of young men for whost
advantage it offers so much.
The sum of .
proceeds of a pr
lour, was then indicted ~.•

,0 has been remitted to Edinburgh as the
Le fancy bazaar held at Stratheden House,
teden and Campbell, with the assistance of-her
friends, for the relief of the Highlanders.
At the Bury St. Edmond's Assizes, Catherine Foster, aged
18, was found guilty of the wilful murder of her husband, by
administering arsenic to him in November last. The prisoner
was quite unmoved.
Saturday last being operating day at the Eye and Ear Intl',
er mary, six persons underwent

succession), ror tne
restoration of sight: four for cataract, and two for the forma-
tion of artificial pupils. Two of the cases are particularly de-
serving of notice: one a girl fifteen years of age, and the other
a child five years old, both born blind.

24th ultimo, a young man,
*Torthern Hospital with

as taken to th

1 and the hCemorrhage consequent thereon, he died Oiliti-e'26-6;

THE HOSPITALS.—We regret to say that both the Northern
and Southern Hospitals are full to repletion. The Northern
Hospital has at present accommodation for 100 patients
8 or 10 more have been placed on beds on the floor.
Southern ' •

ospital will aCcommodate from 50 to 60 patient;
The Infirmary is also very full.

At a most respectable -meeting last week, an address. was
voted to the Rev. R. J. M‘Ghee, on his departure from Ireland
to the living of Holywell, Hants, to which he has been.pre-
sented by the Duke of Manchester. The Earl of Roden was in
`‘e chair, and on the platform were the Hon. S. Maxivell, Arch-
on Magee, the ArchdP-- --ov. and a large body of

Lcon of Er

Assizes, on Saturday, John Bowyer, aged 55,
a pe,. c,_ntlemanly appearance, and who has, for upwards
of thirty.years,peactised as a solicitor in the' own of Petworth,
- creer, were found guilty of feloniously demanding

carrell, t

of an abominable offence. They were sentenced; to. trans-

IE REPEAL ASSOCIATIONS, OLD AND YOUNG.—The World
iturday gives a schedule of the debts of the poor Old Repeal
..;.+;nrt 1-I‘r sulkinh it nrtrzonl-ce

prin.ter,„t'3oot9 the Er

Journal, together with "several other heavy. items." "iYlr.
O'Connell," continues the World, "has sent over ~t'so weekly
for several weeks to keep the doors of Conciliation. Hall open;
otherwise they must have been closed."
DARING OUTRAGE.-011 Monday evening, as Mr..G. K. Har-

greaves, of Everton, was proceeding home along Everton-
terrace, he was attacked by two ruffians, who. struck him
violently on the head with a hammer, which sent him reeling
to the ground. They then attempted to take his watch, but
did not succeed, as his cries brought the timely assistance of a
gentleman from one of the neighbouring houses, upon which
the villains took to their heels, and made good their escape.
The hammer. which the assailants used was a very formidable

STREET ASSAULTS.—Yesterclay, six young, men, Milrae,
Welch, Regan, Hughes, Lynch, and Dogharty, were charged
by several police-officers, with' lingering in the streets at a very
late hour, and with otherwise being bad and suspicious charac-
ters. Some of them, after lengthened evidence, .sbowed that
that they were not so culpable as was stated. if at all_ and the

others were proved to hake been old offendei's in various ways.
The result was, that Milrae, Welch, and Regan were sen-
tenced to three mon9is'. imprisonment; and Lynch, Hughes,

ANOTHER BEGGING IRIaN FARMER.—Yestertlay, before Mr. Rushton, an old Irishman, in plain and coarse, but not
ragged attire, was charged with begging in the streets. A 1914
letter was found upon him, from his brother in the sister Isla'
from which it appeared that the prisoner kept a farm in fR
land, and had there left with the writer of the epistle a
COA
and a colt, which he had been at some fairs to sell • also
vising him that he would soon leave his ownf rid
also B~
over to England, where the prisoner's suceessur. mendicant
has doubtless been great.
.Mr. Rushton sail conduct was
es coming here who were well off at
‘s, the distressed
such impostors

no money from, in many (
country. He should treat