The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

at four o'clock on Sun-day mornin

he heard the voices

that on giving the alarm, a police-officer came up, and
apprehended the prisoner, who was then standing against
the house, apparently drunk. This witness, and another
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officer said That the' prisoner was, when he got to tne,
station, shortly afterwards, quite sober. The prisoner
said he was very drunk, had lost his way, and did not
know how to get home ; that he believed he knocked at
the house to get information, but had no intention to rob,
and had never been in custody for any such offence as
that stated. His master Mr. Ellis, of Renshaw-street,
with whom he had been employed for 9 years, was called
at his request, and said that the prisoner had been long:
with him-(as stated) ; that he had never known him to 'be

ii LIM 1J erb us Luem, wno were provided with it smoking ho.,
in cans, were supping it with spoons, also provided. dishonest—the only fault being that he • sometimes last
Much greater numbers brought their own cans or vessels time by the effects of drink. The magistrate who, on the
to take it to their homes, and were supplied with a quart somewhat unsatisfactory evidence had seemed inclined to
for a ticket=soine with more than one, receiving a pro, commit him for trial, said he should give him the advan-
portionate quantity. These tickets are purchasable in
tage of the doubt that arose in his mind from the charac-
various parts of the town, being sold to the benevolent to ter given, and discharged him. •
dispense; and the fund arising from this constitutes the PHEFT OF PALM OIL FROM THE QUAY. —At the
main support of the establishment. The cooking apart-
Police-court yesterday, Owen Kelly and Charles Beattie
ment adjoins, and is well worthy of a visit. There are were charged on suspiciomwith stealing two casks of palm
five large boilers, each of which will contain 100 gallons, oil, part of the landed cargo of the ship Thomas Hunter,
and the soup is made by steam, introduced into these by lying in the Victoria dock, and consigned to Mr. Thomas
pipes, having valves and handles, so that one or all of Benn. The property
was missed on Tuesday week. On
them may be going on with the operation, as may be re-
Wednesday last two casks of oil were seen lying on the
quired. The soup is made from pounded barley, oatmeal,
Clarence dock quay, and .uspicion arose that they were
and flour, with the addition of seasoning, and is thick, the same. The prisoner Kelly had, it appeared, interested
white, palatable, and strong.. When cold it becomes so himself in shipping them, and they were addressed to a
stiff that it may be cut, like a strong gelly, into any shape Person named Shaughnesy, in Dublin, the shipping-note
with a knife. On Wednesday last, 1,100 quarts were being signed by him. The police kept a look out for
dispensed ;on Thursday and Friday respectively, the same him, and he called on Saturday evening at the shipping-
quantity ; on Saturday, 1000 • and on Sunday, 200. Mr. office for the receipt for the packages. A police-officer
David Caig is the 'superintendent, and is permitted to accosted him, and he stated that he 'was merely shipping
give daily from 50 .to 60 quarts to the necessitous who them ; that he had bought them from Beattie, who is a
may apply, and who appear to be totally destitute. One soap-boiler, in Vauxhall-road, and did not know they
police officer attends, but his services are required only were-wrongly come.by. The officer, having given him
to preserve the order of precedence in serving the appli- into custody, went to Beattie, and the latter denied all
cants. We partook of some of the soup, which we found knowledge of the casks, but subsequently at the station'
excellent, but rather insipid. A few donations of sugar admitted that he had given some money to two men on
would enable the manager to make it more tasty, particu- account of palm oil, but that he did not know who they
larly for children. We understand there are two other were. Mr. Davenport, solicitor, called two witnesses on
similar establishments, One in New Bird-street, and one behalf of Mr. Beattie, and their evidence was to the
in Pickup-street, both also in full work. Donations by effect} that on Saturday week two casks were brought to
the purchase of tickets, or otherwise, will be thankfully him ; that he reftried to have anything to do with them,
received by the gentlemen who conduct these humane and that the casks were taken away in a float, The
establishments. prisoners were rei.niauded till to-days fr