The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-13 00:00:00

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IT4E LIVERPOOL SzTANDARD.

POLICIT LAT l'A'L LIGhNCE

STEALING A LEATHER 11 AT• Box —A young man named
James Gibbous, was on Friday charged at the l'olice•courr
with stealing a leather hat-box from the shop of Rylands and
Clegg, portmanteau-makers, Lord-street. On Thur§day even-
ing, about eight o'clock, Samuel Clarkson, an apprentice with
Mr. Masker, tailor, was putting up the shutterS at his master's
shop, when he observed the. prisoner make a leap at a carpet
bag which was hanging outside Messrs. Itylaud and Clegg's
door. Not succeeding in reaching it, he went into the shop
and soon after came out with a leather hat-box. Clarkson im-
mediately informed INV Hyland, and pursuit was made after
the prisoner, who threw away the hat-box and took refuge in a
cart iu Harrington-street, where he was taken into custody.
The hat-box which was worthBs., was found iu an entry. The
prisoner was committed to the sessions.
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A' SHopMAN.—Thomas Wadley, an
elderly man, was on Friday, charged before Mr. Hall with
having embezzled two several sums of money which he had
received on behalf of his employer, Mr. Pain, hat-dealer,
Byrom-street. Mr. Pain has two shops in Byrom-street, one
of which had been kept by the prisoner fur seven weeks. In
consequence of suspicions, Mr. Pain desired Mr. Shepherd, a
friend of his, to gu to the shop kept by the prisoner after the
regular hours, and purchase a hat. Mr. Shepherd west, as
desired, about half-past eight on Monday night, and obtained
admission, he purchased a hat for six shillings. out of which the
prisoner allowed him lid. for a glass of ale. Next day, (Tues-
day) Mr. C. H. Thompson, London Road, also went to the
shop at Mr. Pain's request, and purchased another hat for 13s.
In the statement of each days business which Wadley gave in
to Mr. Pain's housekeeper, during his absence, he had rendered
no account of the two hats. Papers were handed up to Mr.
Ball containing an account of each day's business on Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday,- on which were marked the price
paid for the hats, and that at which they were said. The pri-
soner endeavoured to account for the price of both the hats by
referring to the price at which another hat was charged on one
of the papers; • but his explanation was not intelligible to the
court. It was elicited, in the course of the investigation, that
hats of the same value were sold 'at different prices. The price
paid by Mr. Pala or the hats in question, was for the first
4s. 3d., sold at 65.; for the second Bs. 6d. sold at 135.• Mr. Hall
said be must see the statement of Tuesday's business before be
could decide the case. It was possible the prisoner might have
left the money that was deficient in the till. Mr. Pain said the
money was always brought to him along with the daily state-
ment. No account appeared in Tuesday's statement of the hat
,sold on Monday evening, and it ought to' have been the first
article on the list, as it was sold after,Monday's statement had
been made up. Mr. Hall insisted on seeing the 'Tuesda'y's
statement, and the case was remanded till it was produced. In
a short time a young lad, named Win. Lancet EvSworthy, who
is in oue of Mr. Pain's shopinen, brought the statement, from
which it appeared that no entry was made of the hats, nor was any
motley found in the till, except two shillings, being the price of
a cap which Coe prisoner had sold on Thursday morning. Mr.
Hall asked the prisoner if he wished to say anything before
being committed. Ile said he had no other statement to make ,
than that he had put down; the whole of the goods sold. lie was
then committed to the sessions.

ASSAULT AT SEA.—Richard Turner, commander of the
Arethusa, a 'vessel trading to Marseilles, appeared before the
magistrates on Friday, to answer to a summons charging him
with au assault on Thomas Sheffield,- a seaman, and one of the
crew of the Arethusa. The complainant stated that on the 20th
ult., in consequence of some tale of the cabin boy, the captain
came to him and told him that he (the complainant) bad been
speaking against him. Sheffield denied that he had ever spoken
in the manner, the cabin boy had stated; but the captain with-
out regarding his denial, "jumped " upon him twice and hurt
his shoulder.—Mr. Hall was rather at a loss to understand-how
the captain had jumped upon the complainant while he was
standing, and repeated the question to which the complainant
replied that he had jumped on his shoulders and threw him
down, and when he rose the captain jumped upon lum a second
time, but did not strike him. The captain, on being asked what
he had to say to the charge, said that if he related all the cir-
cumstances it would take up a long time, but if he did not, he
must admit the complainants charge. Mr. Hall said he must
confine himself to the case in hand. He then stated that the
boy had informed him that the complainant had been speaking
ahout navigating the vessel, as it he (the captain) was mcom-
, petent to it. He was angry at what he .had heard, and went to
the fore-hatchway and jumped upon the complainant, who was
standing two feet below him.—Mr. Hall: Here was a mar, fall-
ing two feet on the neck of another. The Captain : I have suf-
fered enough from him this voyage. I would rather not govern,
if it were to be over such menrnen as he. Mr. H ill asked if he
wished to call any witnesses. Captains I think it is of no use.
Mr. Hall said the defendant had admitted he had done as was
stated by the complainant. It was very improper on his part,..
and the complainant had received au injury in consequence of
it. Suppose the man had been killed, be (the captain) might
have been tried for murder. Although the boy had told him
'what he did, it might be false, yet he -went immediatelyto the
man, and treated him as a guilty person, notwithstanding he
declared that the story was false. The defendant must pay 20s.
and costs, or in default, be imprisoned 16 days in the Borough
House of Correction.

A SINGULAR CHARGE.—A publican, whose name, under the
circumstances, we do not think it advisable to divulge,. was
brought up at the Police-court, on t. rida v, charged with having
robbed a seaman of his watch. The coniplainant stated that he
was the master of a vessel sailing from Code Castle. Ou Wed-
nesday night, betwixt eleven and twelVe o'cloi'k, he went into a
public-house, and was standing with his back to the fire, speak-
ing to a woman who had Come in to sell oranges, when a man,
whom he supposed to be master..? the house, walked into the
room without his hat -or coat, and.upple a suamh'irt his watcli
with which, having broken the, guard, he ran off. The com-
plainant ran out after hiM doWn an entry, but lost him in the
street. lie then gave an alarm, and the police came' Up. One
of the officers said he saw the complainant in the street, who
told him his watch had been stolen in the manner'he had de-
scribed. He (the officer) desired him to go back and find the
house, but being a stranger he was unable to do so. They went
into sesen or eight public-hOuses in the neighbourhood, where
every facility was allowed hint to search, but the watch could
not he found, nor the person who stole it. The complainant
had described the appearance of the man who stole the watch.
The inspector was then made acquainted With the circumstances,
and desired the complainant to go to the street next" day, and
try if he could find out the house. He went, as desired, accom-
panied by au officer, and at once discovered the house, and when
he went in pointed out the master as the person who had robbed
him of his watch. The publican brought forward three wit-
nesses, two of whom spoke as to the high respectability of his
character; and the third, a female, stated that hearing the noise
the complainant made in the street, she went to the dour, when
he pointed out an entry where he said the public-house was in
which he was robbed. This part of the complainant's state-
ment, it appeared, could not be sustained—there being no pub-
lic-house in the neighbourhood situate in au entry. The in-
spector endeavoured to reconcile the statement with the situa-
tion of the prisoner's house, which stood in a very peculiar po-
sition at the corner of a street; but Mr. Hall thought it likely
that the complainant laboured under mistake in the whole affair.
He said it was very odd that the prisoner, who was represented
to be a respectable man, should rob another in his own.house.
It was exceedingly improbable that he should du SO in the pre-
sence of a third party—that he should run away with a watch
before an orange woman. He did not suppose the prosecutor
was telling a wilful falsehood—he believed he was speaking
what he thought to be truth ; but if they looked to the questions
which came before the courts of justice relative to identity, there
were circumstances in the case which rendered his statements
exceedingly doubtful. Mr. Hall than pointed out a discre-
Valley in the complainant's statement relative to the entry, and
said he must discharge the prisoner. Considerable interest was
excited in the court by the case, and a number of respectable
people seemed to await the result with some anxiety.

LIABILITY OF MATES.—On Friday, at the Police-office, Da-
yid Moffatt, first mate of a vessel, neither the name of which
nor of the master was stated, summoned the captain for arrear
of wages, amounting to upwards of £l5, which he alleged to be
clue to him. It appeared that the complainant had shipped to
St. John's, N.B. and back to Liverpool, on the 26th of Sept.
1837, and had arrived here on the 27th ult., being a period of
four months and two days, at £5 101. per month. He had re-
ceived £5 ►n advance, and £43f monthly money, leaving a ba-
lance of £l3 195., which he claimed. The captain refused to
pay this sum. on the ground that, through neglect of duty, the
complainant had occasioned a loss of eleven oars to the vessel,
which were value-1 at £5 4d., besides two jib penantt blocks and
two clasp books, valued at 9/., thus making himself liable to a
deduction of £5 9s. 4d. A lengthened investigation took place
with respect to the liability of the mate, of which we can only
give the principal points. The vessel, according to the mate's
account, had been overtaken with a storm near the Banks of
Newfoundland, and was nearly water-logged. The deck was
covered with wood and ship's stores; the lung-boat, where the
oars are usually kept, was covered overwith planks, and another
boat was "capsized" upo❑ it. In this emergency he had put
all the oars into the jolly boat, which was drifted away with the-
storm, and the whole were lost. There were seven oars, besides
the four which belonged to the boat. The captain knew the
oars were there. They were safer there than on deck, for the
sea was sweeping over it. A witness called by the mate, con-
firmed his statement. The captain, on the other hand, con-
tended; that every thing pertaining to the vessel was under the
charge of time first mate, and as a matter of course, it was ex-
pected whenever the vessel went to sea, that the oars would be
put into the long-boat on deck. It ibis had been done, the oars
would not have been loSt. Seven oars were lost at that time,
the remaining four were lost in the Mersey, before the vessel
came into port. They had bee❑ left in the jolly-boat, which,
instead of being hauled up at night,•was left at the stern of the
vessel; and the consequence was, that the oars were stolen by
some of the fishing-boats. They 'were new oars. In answer to
this the mate contended first, that the captain had taken the
charge out of his hands and given it to the second mate, and
❑ext, that a pilot was on board who had the charge of the vessel.
,The captain denied that he had given the charge to the second
mate: With respect t, the loss of the blocks and clasps, th 6
complainant threw the blame on the second mate. Mr. Hall
was decidedly of opinion that the oars ought to have been put
in the long-boat, and that the complainant was liable for their
loss. He knew it was the first thing attended to atter a vessel
went to sea, along with other arrangements, to have the oars
put into the long-boat. The captai❑ had depended on his doing
so as a matter of course. He must therefore disallow the claim.
At the same time he recommended the captain to make an
allowance for the difference in price betwixt old and new oars,
which the captain agreed to. The arrears then adjudged to be
due to the complainant were £8 175., making a difference of a
few shillings in his favour, as compared with the captain's pro-
posal.

A GOOD LANDLORD.—On Friday, at the Police-office, a
man named Lyon, residing in Brownlow hill, was charged with
having disposed of almost the entire property of a lodger, named
Bennett, during the absence of him and his wife from town.
Two large books, however, Mrs. Bennett stated, had been
taken from their, apartment by him during her temporary ab-
sence, and pawned; he had got into their apartment through
the window. He had offered the complainants EEO as compen-
sation, but they had refused it, as the property was worth more.
Lyon declared that he was as innocent as a lamb, and that
Bennett was acting like an old fox. He then, with a voice
like that of an aged bear which has caught cold, declared that
he was a very illused man, "You see, your worship, my bro-
ther-in-law had died, so we was drinking together in a house
in Prussia-street.' He had been at the funeral, and when he
had had a quart or two, the folks wouldn't chalk no more, and
axed him to stump up. I was a-thinking, you know, very se-
rious about my brother what had gone afore us to kingdom come,
and it were vastly unlikely I should be thinking about paying
shots then. So he says, Jem, I say, a-hitting me a slap on the
back that made me think I was shot, what shall we do to wipe
off the shot and make a raise? What a fellow you are ! says I,
when a poor devil's thinking of dead men, ghosts, and
to ax me to think about ale ! my harrel-etriptier, bawls
he, what ails von ? Don't hail me in no such a fashion, says
I • I'm a thinking deeply of speritual things; and then, unbe-
thinking of what I was doing, I lifted up my pot to take a
draught; but„ somehow of other, it was empty. Have yon no
ale ? says I. Not as much as would damp the tip of a flee's
tongue, says he, nor not a drop more will they draw; so we
may as well draw off except we can raise the wind. Have vim
no money? Money! and I buried my brother-in-law to day.

and we have been (in the fuddle for a c(;rtnight, answers I,
bu-
Eying my hands in my pockets. How shall we raise, then? he

axes. Why, says I, seeing as how the tap's stopped, we must
put something up the spout, and then we can go on grandly;
not what must we put up ? me if I care what it is, says
he: go to my house atm get something. Well, away went,
your worship, ..and took the two biggest books I eould lay hold
of—the family Bible and another—and raised the wind with
them: I put them up the spout for Bs." Mr. Hall said that,
if the prisoner's statement was granted to be true, it formed DO
plea for !ravine' subsequently stripped Bennett's apartment of
ali it contained.° Prisoner—" But he made a moonlight flit of
it when he came to our house, and be said he would rather I
had the traps than the burn-baily. Oh, leave lthn alone, your
worship, he's as big a rogue as any body, if Le likes." The
Lyon, however, could'uot free himself from the toils : he was
committed to take his trial,
UNLAWFUL PLEDGING.—G6NRRODs CoNDUCT.—On Friday,
a poor distressed-looking woman was charged before Mr. Hall
with pledging a quantity of clothes, the property of Mr. Lucas,
tavern-keeper, Hurst-street. The prisoner had for four years
been employed by Mrs. Lucas in the capacity of a washerwo-
man, and had conducted herself without suspicion till the pre-
sent case arose. The clothes she had pledged were worth about
255. and she had raised 23s upon them. The prisoner acknow-
ledged the offence, and said site had been driven to it front dis-
tress. Nine weeks ago she had buried twins, and she wanted
money to pay the expenses of the funeral. Her husband had
deserted her, and she was left with one child to support. She
then referred. to several respectable families, in addition to Mr.
Lucas's, by whom she had been employed, and promised, if
she was allowed till Monday she would sell her goods, and pay
Mr. Lucas for the articles. lu answer to Mr. Hall, Mr. Lucas
said he would. agree to this; but his " lady" was not to be so
easily put off, and raised such objections as occasioned the wor-
thy magistrate to remark, that •in the churse of his experience
he could always (teal better with men • than with woolen ; they
were much more: rational animals. A ,zentleman here came
forward, whom we afterwards ascertained to be Lieut. Bibby,
8.N., and with the true generosity of a British seaman, said
he would guarantee the payment of the money. Mr. Hall said
it was a generous offer on the part of the gentleman, and asked
Mr. Lucas if he was satisfied, to which lie replied in the affirma-
tive. The poor woman was then discharged

THE PUNISHMENT OF Vice AND IMPUUDENCe.-011 Satur-
day, at the Police-office, a clownish•looking fellow, named
Thomas Leaver, who stated himself to be'a huxter from Bolton.
appeared to complain of having been robbed the night before
by a girl of the town, of £B. Au impudent-looking girl, named
Huxley, and three well knoWn thieves, named Murray, War-
burton, and Jones, were placed at the bar charged with the
robbery. The complainant in true colloquial style and iu
genuine Bowton, proceeded to state his charge. lie said—
You see, I was guoing dawn t' streit last noit to my lodgings,
and hoi met with this girl, :you see; an:l shoo axed me if I
would goo Imam with her, you see; shoo kept a hawse of her
own, you see. I goes along with her to where shoo lived. And
hoi'd got £B, you see, tied up in my shirt!' (Laughter.) Mr.
In-your shirt Complainant.—" Hoi IT shirt lap
corner, you see; and hoi'd 2s. 4d. in my breeches pocket, you
see • and shoo fan out wheare t' money lied, you see, and snuo
hoffeed to take it once, bud hoi was bower sharp for hoo.
What have you got here,' says she, • that yoU be afeard on?'
'lt is all my money,' says I. Oh, says she, you need not
be frightened of me, hoi shunt touch anything you have; hoi'm

the misses of the hawse, you see.' Su this morning I lost it,
you see.'" Mr. Hall.—;• And you were very Much surprised,
were you?" Complainant.—" Yea, hoi was; so hot jumped up
and said, hoi will make you foind it. The knot in the shirt was
opened, and theire were seven whole sovereigns and-a-half, and
10s. in silver, all gone ; and a little check purse. Soa hoi said
shoo should foind it, you see." Mr. Hall.—" Well, what hip-
pened then?" Complainant.—" Sea' hoi says, • hoi will hey
money,' you see. ' Hoi've not grit it,' says shoo. •Oh yees,'
says hoi, • you must hey got it.' • Noti,' ses shoo, • Liot'll goo
fur some beer for you.' Soa, hoi follied her into the street, and
cried fur the police, and rims police came, you see. Shoo
wanted to gu back into t' entry, and this big man next to her
(Murray) persuaded me to let her gee into t' hawse, and he
was come from the ship and did not- belong to a' hawse o'' this
seat. The other then hoi seed i' th' entry. Hoi was 'bringin,g
her back, you see, into th' entry, and they said, ' Oh, let her
gooa, and we will fetch a policeman.' Sua hoi did, you see,
and shoo made her escape over t' wall.'" Mr. Hall.—" What
are you?"—" Hoi live in Bowton."—" What business do you
follow ?"—" I follows huxtering and 'so forth; and I Caine to
Liverpool to-buy apples." Police officer-Hogan stated, that lie
went to the prisimer Murray's house, on being informed of the
proleiibt_eur:e,ut,oaisieciit:oc,h),kbliiiiteuihe could not find the money. He after-
wards found the woman and the- men at a disinderly house in
all into custody. The pi isoner Mur-
ray's mother, was the keeper of the house where the rubbery
had taken place. • The prisoners all denied the charge. Mr.
Hall said, his own opinion was that all the prisoners were
guilty. The probability was that the woman had taken the
money and had handed it over to the men. However there
was no evidence to fix any of them but the woman. He ordered
the informations to be taken against her; the rest must be dis-
charged.

ASSAULT AT SEA.—George Hall, master of a vessel trading
from this port, appeared, on Saturday, before Messrs. Hall and
Bolton, to answer a charge of assault preferred against hint by
a seaman, who had sailed with him front Live' pool to Bombay.
the complainant stated, that they ware off the Cape of Good
Hope,. wheu, one morning, about seven o'clock, the master came
on deck. He (the complainant) was at the wheel, and the ves-
sel was one point to windward, the weather being a little heavy.
it did not blow much, but the wind was on their quarter, and
they had the stuusails and the gallant stunsaila on the vessel,
so that he had not strength to hold her steady to a point. He
was, in fact, doing his best. The captain, after observing the
Compass and the ship's head, struck him violently on the wrist,
arkd repeated the blows un different parts of his body. The cap-
tain drove hint front the wheel, and afterwards followed him to
the waindeck, where he again beat him most violently, and
sent him back to the helm. The captain, in reply, said, that he
shipped the complainant as an able seaman. When he went on
deck he found that the ship's head was wrung. He told hint to
starhoard, and he immediately put the helm to port. He re-
peated thiS;order, with the same result, for the-man- positively
did not know which was the starhoard of the vessel. He was
altogether unacquainted with his duty, and knew no more of a
ship than all old woman. He, therefore, gave him a correc-
tion which, in his opinion, and considering the great danger
which might have resulted from the man's ignorance, was very
moderate. " I intend," said the captain, "to prosecute him
as a swindler. He ran away from the wheel; and I had only
about three men out of the whole ship's company who could
steer." Mr Hail said, if the danger that might have resulted
from the man's ignorance was so great, the captain tried a very
novel remedy in beatthg hint from the wheel, and afterwards
following him to the maindeck, and beating him back again.
Beating hint was not the way to teach him to steer. The cap-
tain was opinion, that a correction might imprint the recollec-
tion of his fault upon his memory. The man had sent a solici-
tor's letter to him since came into port, and he (the captain)
had ordered his solicitor to reply to it, upon which the gentle-
man employed by the complainant refused to proceed. Mr.
Hall said, he aould,readilyaccount fur that. A man like that
might be too poor to carry on au action, the costs of which
would amount to £4O or £5O. It was, no doubt, provoking to
find men committing faults in the pet formance of duties to
which they ought to he competent. But masters of vessels had
a much better remedy, for, if the man summoned them for
wages, if it were found that they were nut able seamen, the mo-
ney was not recoverable. It was a pity the superior officers on
board ships did not learn to controul their tempers. They were
not to knock or kick their men a,,out for every offence in the
manner that was too commonly poetised. By a different line
of conduct the service would be more respectable, and the officers
themselves would be more respected by their men. The coin-
plaittant, on a question front Mr. Ilall, said, he could steer very
well, and the reason why he put the wheel to port when he was
told to put it to starboard was, that the captain struck hist so
Violently on the wrist that he was confused, and did not know
what he was about. - The captain was ordered to pay a flue of
10s. and costs, and, in default of payment,' to be committed to
the House of Correction for sixteen days. The money was im-
mediately paid.
CHARGE 01' Poeurev SSEALING.—Thomas Ashlin, aged
about 38, was. on Saturday, placed befote Mr. Hall, charged
with having stolen a number of ducks, from several farmers its
the-neighbourhood of Tarhuck, near this town. Mr. Lace, the
superintendent of St. James's Market, and two of his cousta-
Lles attended. One of the latter (No. 15,) stated, that, on
Thursday he and Mr. Lace received information ofa number of
ducks having been stolen, and, on searching the market, they
found a basket of ducks some of which were claimed by Ed-
mund Sefton, ender the standing of Mary Southwell, a poultry-
dealer. Mary. Southwell.stated, that, -on Thursday morning
last, the prisoner and another man cause to her standing and
offered fur sale a dozen ducks (produced.) She asked them
how much they wanted for them,land alter a while she agreed to
give them sixteen shillings fur them. Edmund Seftou, a far-
mer, of 'fatback, stated, that, on Thursday morning, he dis-
covered that his duck-house had been broken open during the
night, and eight of his finest ducks had beets stolen. Hearing
that his neighbours had, also, lost some ducks, he went to
Liver-
pool to try if he could learn any tidings of them. He went to
Mr. Lace,,who told him to look round the market. Anlongst
his poultry was a remarkably fine drake. This bird was pro-
duced. Mr. Lace said it weighed upwards of 611 s., and several
iudividuals its the court pronounced it the fittest bird they had
ever seen. Mr. Sefton said it was the finest bird in the country,
and he would not have taken a sovereign for it. In looking
round the market he cause to the statolisqz of Mary .Southwell,
who had just commenced the operation of plucking this iden-
tical large drake. He went up to her and said, "My good
woman, that is a very fine bird." She said it certainly was a
remarkably fine bird. He asked her if she had any more ducks.?
She said, no, she had not. He told her, he thought she must
have some more, and requested her to show him to or three
She persisted, however, in averring, that she had no more ducks
He then went and informed Mr. Lace, who, taking with him
two market-lookers, found the large basket produced full of
ducks. Out of these he claimed two others, besides the drake,
as his properly. The ducks were all of very large size. Wm.
Sefton, the son of the last witness, also a farmer at Tarbuck,
stated, that he also had been robbed of eight ducks on the same
night. Ile picked front the basket six ducks, two of which had
remarkable tufts on their heads. These lie swore to as his pi o-
perty. James Moss, another fanner, whose roust had been
broken open on the same night, and seven ducks stolen, identi-
fied three of those produced as his property. Thus the whole
uumber found were claimed. The witnesses were questioned as
to their knowledge of the prisoner, who is a dirty, ill-looking
person. They all stated, that they had seen hint before, and
that he was the son of a farmer at Speke. It seems that he
does not follow any ostensible occupation. He has frequently
been seen selling game to the dealers in the markets, and it is
generally supposed, that he has done some businesses a poacher.
Mr. Hall questioned the witness, Mary Southwell, as to her
reason for telling Mr. Sefton, that she had only one duck in her
possession. She replied, that she was confused, and did not
know what she was saying. The prisoner, in his defence, said,
sulkily, that he did not sell the woman the ducks. The infor-
manous were ordered to be taken preparatory to the committal
of the prisoner for trial. When the prisoner was again brought
up, it was found that the written deposition of Mary Southwell
did not agree with what she had stated at first. In reply to the
questions put to her, she said, that the prisoner was not with
the man who sold her the ducks, but he stood at a distance, and
she had never seen the two in company with each other. This
was nut sufficient, and the woman perSisted in it, though, on
her first examination, she had sworn that they were together
when she bought the ducks. The evidence was not sufficient.
It, therefore, became necessary to send in search of other wit
nessess. These could not he procured in time, and the prisoner
was, inconsequence, remanded. Mary Southwell was also or-
dered into custody, and, for the present, she remains in durance.

A SPORT-MG DICKY SAM.—A genteel looking individual,
named William Harris, appeared, on Saturday, before Mr
Hall, charged by the Police officer on duty in Upper Parliament-
street, with havino• alarmed several ladies by tiring a gun in
that neighbourhood. The officer stated, that, on Wednesday
last,- about.four o'clock in the afternoon, the defendant, armed
with a gun; proceeded along Upper Parliament-street. When
he arrived at the corner of Windsor-street, he saw a little bird
in one of the•trees opposite to Mr. Duncan Gibb's house. He
went up the avenue, and, placing himself beneath the portico,
look aius at a, little bird and fired. • The gun was presented in
the diiection of the street and the Cemetery. A Mrs. Scott and
some other ladies were passing, and they were considerably
alarmed. The defendant said, he had been out shooting at
small birds during the whole day, and, as his fowlingpiece was

loaded, he wished to discharge it before he arrived at home.
Seeing a sparrow in a tree, he thought he wouldshave another
shot. He did nut like to fire from the street, so he went up the
avenue, and fired from the steps of the house. It appeared. fur-
ther, that the defendant dicl not intend any harm to anything
but the sparrow, and that the little bird escaped scatheless. Mu.
Hall said, the practice of shouting was a nuisance even in the
outskirts of the town, but when it was done in the streets it was
still inure serious. It. was only the other day that a aeutlemati
named to him, that several shuts from a gun' had lodged in his
hat : if the gun, in that case, had been presented a lower,
the shot would have stuck in his face. The defendant seas linen
2t s. and costs: in all, £1 3s. Gil.
SUNDAY THlEVES.—Yesterday at the police-office a well
' knowu thief named Juo. Williams was placed at the bar
charged by Barnet, a very active officer, with trying doors,
along with three others. Barnet stated diet on 'Sunday night, at
7 o'clock, he saw the prisoner, along with Ihreeether men, trying
the doors which they passed. He afterwards saw the prisoner
go down by the side of the New Market and try a dour, when
he followed him, and the prisoner immediately ran away. He
pursued him, and after a long chase succeeded in taking him
into custody. It was back doors which he was trying. Mr.
Davenport, who appeared for the prisoner, here Inquired if
there were not some public houses down the street. Barnett:
Yes, 2or 303 yards below. Mr. Davenport: you don't mean
to say that he was trying the door to rob the house? Barnett:
I do sir —Do, you take every person into custody who tries
doors on a Sunday night? Ido sir. Mr. Hall.—He would
not be doing very wrong. Mr. Davenport: Did you not strike
him before he run?—No I did not. Did he take to his heels
immediately? Immediately ; and I raced him down three or
four streets, and at length sought him in a corner of the Mug-
market, crouched ilown.—You want the court to believe he was
hiding hiwseif? lie was hiding himself.—Mr. Parkinson said
he was well known. Mr. Hall said all the thieves were about
at that time on Sunday nights, whets they imagined people were
at chapel or church. It was the tine, when most of the rob-
beries took place. It was perfectly plain what his object was.
He should send him for one month to Kirkdale.
THE NEW CROwN PAPE.Ie
office, a young man named Robert Yestereav, at the police-
Fitz Gibbon, was placed at
the bar, charged with having defrauded several shop-keepers of
various small amounts by means of the new trick of paying for
goods purchased with what purported to be five shilling
papers of copper, but which were
_ nothing but clay and lead. It
appears that the prisoner gad made np a number of imitation 5s
papers of copper, with moulded clay cove e,d with thick lead and
wrapped up in brown paper, and tied will string, and having
all the appearance as well as the weight of papers of copper. lie
went to Mrs. Jane Stewart, Vauxhall-road, leather cutter, and
bought leatherto the amount of Bs. 93., and said he had nothing
but crown papers of copper to pay with, and he would leave
them, and either pay them or call again. This was agreed to,
and the prisoner departed with the leather. On after inspec-
tion of the mere they were discovered to be forgeries. In this
manner the prisoner had duped Mr.--Brown of Thompson St.
hosier, Ann Gill, of Byrom St., leather cutter, John Roberts,
of Vauxhall Road, leather cutter, Michael Divine, of Cockspur
St., bacon dealer, and others. The prisoner was remanded to
afford opportunity for further inquiry.
BURGLARY.—Yesterday, at the police office, two lads, named
Myers and Tute, were placed at the bar, charged with having
attempted to rob the house of a gentleman in Pleasant-street.
A police officer deposed that he was called to No. 20, Pleasant
St. at a little before-6 o'clock on Sunday morning, and received
the prisoners in charge. The lady of the house deposed that at
5 o'clock on Sunday morning, she heard a noise, in the house of
persons moving about, but' as her sons were in the habit of
getting up to read slie did not at first notice it. As the motions
continued, she became curious to know what it was, and trot
up, and perceived lights moving" about in different parts of 'le
house. She immediately called out the names of her sons
James and William, and hearda voice cull out "the drawers."
There was no reply made to her calling, and she, in conse-
quence, suspected all was nut right and called her husband, who
wot up, went down stairs, and seized one of the lads, and fasten-
ing the door, called forma officer, when the Wirer lad was found
concealed. On searching the prisoners, it was found that they
had packed up nine pairs of trousers, three or four jackets. and.
several shirts. Three shirts were found iu possession of Tute,
and two jackets en his person, and in his possession a silver
spoon was elk) found. The other prisoner had three jackets,
two shirts and other articleS tied up in a bundle ready to take
away. All these clothes had beet: thrown over a clothes horse
in the kitchen. • Myers was well known to the officers as a
thief. They had gained access to the house by cutting a hole
in the door of the cellar, mid afterwards withdrawing the but
They were both committed to take their trial

THEFT Al "THE LIVER THEaTuit.-Thomas Parkinson, an
individual who has Leen recently employed as a supernumerary
at the Liver Theatre, was on Saturday, placed at the bar ache
Police-court, charged with having purloined certain articles
front behind the scenes. A 11140 who is employed in some ca-

parity about the stage, stated, that on the preceding night
he left his top-coat, -a silk handkerchief, and a hat in the
property-room. Some time afterwards he missed them, sad the
suspicious of several individuals fell on the prisoner. Some
other articles had previously been missed. A Police-officer
was sent in search of the prisoner, and he was fonnd at his own
house. On searching him, the pocket handkerchief, a pair of
flesh-coloured silk stockings belonging to .the theatre, and a
comforter, the property of one of the musicians, were found in
his possession. The coat had not been discovered, but the offi-
cer was of opinion, that the prisoner had left it somewhere on
his way home. A coat, answering the description. had been
offered for pledge that morning. The prisoner was remanded,
and the officer was directed to make further inquiries.
Yesterday the prisoner was again brought up, but no further
evidence was elicited. It appeared that the prisoner had him-
self been • wearing the flesh-coloured stockings. Mr. Hall.—
" What ! was he performing ?" Complainant.—" Yes, he was
playing a Greek, or something." This autiouacernent, coupled
with the appearance of .the man in the dock, excited much
laughter. Mr. Hall.—" Was the 'controller apart of his dress
also ?" (Laughter.) Complainant.—"No; it belongs to the
fiddlers."—" Did he wear it when he was playing the Greek ?"
—" Oh, no; he had a grand silk dress on in front."—" How
long have you had pun ?"—" Three days."_" What do you
give ban a night?"—" A shilling." (A laugh.) Complainant.
—" And it's very good pay too." (Continued laughter.) Mr..
Parkinson said the prisoner was known and had been com-
mitted. The prisoner said he was tipsy at the time, and knew
nothing about it. The things were in his hat when be put it
on, and he durst not stop fur fear the master should see him, as
he was not fit to be on the stage. He was further remanded
fur inquiry.

PHRENOLOGY.

TO 771 E EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDAZD.

Stn,—Availing myself of the permission you have granted
me, to reply, through the medium of your paper, to the st rictures
upon my lectures, which from time to time have appeared in
your columns, I commence by stating, whereas phrenology pre-
tends to erect a building which, like the ark of old, is sufficiently
capacious to comprise within its limits, not only the human
race, but to preserve !rem the deluge of these opinions which
till now has overpread the world, all creatures, from the bird
that flier's in the air to the beast of the field, and the lowest ani-
mated intelligence which creepeth upon the earth ; so is it a
structure built upon a multitude of facts :end inferences, each
constituting a pillar of support, and without any one of which
it loses its fair proport ion, and, divested of many, it of necessity
falls todhe ground; so with those who loon for the proofs upon
which it rests in the necessarily contracted reports which you
have been enabled to give, find a superstructure wanting in ti
very great degree the foundation which, I flatter myself, I ex-
hibited in my lectures, but which they will in vain look for its
your reports. It is as though a carpenter should make a three
legged stool, which he should declare capable of supporting
every individual who might choose to sit thereon, and an enemy
were to conic into his shop and say, he would take it borne and
try its strength; but as he had only power to take with him the
top of the stool and one leg, he found, when he exhibited it to
his friends, that it top-pled over with its own weight.
Moreover, there are still a number of verbal errors and mis-
conceptiune, which it is incumbent upon me to correct, before
I examine those physiological experiments, which, any critic
fancies, tear up• phrenology by the roots, but which I hope to
show, either prove its truth or refute each other.
I pass over the first two lectures, having alrca'dy, as far as I
could, corrected them, merely remarking, that they come under
the first head, of insufficiency, and commence with the third,
or the second of the course; in it I am made to say, " tabla
erasa," it should be "tabula rasa." You misconceive the re-
sult of dividing the fifth pair of nerves—it destroys sensibilik
dividing the special nerve of .the part, (say the lips,) :destroys
motion. I said cautiousness Ginidity."
In the fourth lecture, for "the vain man was not what God
had made him," read " was vain not of what• he possessed at
birth, but what he had acquired.". For "ignorant as an urn,"
read "ignorant as an owl." Instead of "veneration leading to
consciousness,', as your report would seem to imply, I occupied
a considerable time in endeavouring to show that veneration
and consciousness were distinct faculties ; that, in short, " re- .
ligion was not righteousness." I said " firmness waS a substi-
tute for courage." The whole setsteuce,. cootrasting the poet
with the shoemaker, is misreported. "I'oeta nascitur non fit"
may be considered the text upon which I enlarged.
In the fifth lecture, I thought "space a better name than
locality," not size. The hydatid in my patteni occupied the
portion of the brain allotted to locality and not eaqituality.
For powers of " memory" read mimicry.
Instead of wit being a " discovery of incongruity where con-
gruity was expected," which is Cumbe's definition, I spent a
quarter of art hour, at least, in endeavourin to show the error
of this definition, and to prove my own, which is the following :
" Wit is the perception of a resemblance in things essentially
different, and classifying the two objects in consequeuce of
this resemblance, in "despite of (he differences which so widely
separate them."

`• Why is a pocket-bankerchief like a venomous reptile?"—
"Because it's a, wiper"—illustrates and embodies my definition.
You omit all mention of "comparison" in your enumeration
of the reflective faculties, and attribute to casualty alone the
product of three faculties, viz :—" casualty, comparison, and
wit." Somewhere you say "He does not attribute self-esteem
to man," it should be to animals. These mistakes of the re-
porter are all 1 feel it necessary to notice. In my next I shall
reply to his criticisms.--I ant, &c., JQ. ItUMBALL.

DEATH FROM THE. KICK OF A HOUSE.—On Thursday week
a female infant, aged two years, douotiter of Win. Spence.
coachman to the Mayor, went into the Corporation stables,
Frederick-street, wither she'was in the habit of swing to play.
From the stable she went into the harnss-rooin ; soon after
which one of the hustlers heard her cry out, and on going up
to her, found her lying on her hands and knees at the opposite
side of the stable to the harness-room, and about two yards front
one of the horses. It appeared she had pasod from the har-
ness-room without being observed, and was kicked by one of
the horses so violently that the bones of her face were frac-
tured, and a great deal of blood streamed front it. .She was
carried into the house, and surgical aid procured, but died on
Sunday last. The horses are all perfectly quiet animals, and,
were never known to kick before.

THE LEEDS AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY V. MR. HENRY
TAYLOR.—An inquiry to assess damages under the Leeds and
Manchester Railway Act took place before a jury specially sum-
moned for the purpose yesterday forenoon, at the Coach and
Horses, St. George's-road. The party fur taking whose land
damages were assessed, was Mr. Hen. Taylor of Pontefract.
The land required is situated in the vicinity of St. George's
Church. No offer had been made on the part of the company.
Evidence was adduced on the part of Mr. Taylor to prove that
the property might be rendered very valuable for wharfing pur-
poses, as it was near a branch of the Rochdale canal. which
Might, without much difficulty, be brought into Mr. Taylor's
land, and several valuers were called to prove the value of the
land, the average of whose valuation was about Is. per yard at
20 years' purchase. For whirling purposes the laud was valued
at £44,000, and for building upon at £24,000. The valuers called
on behalf of the railway valued the land at £15,000. or thereabouts,
and the jury, after being charged by the assessor, gave £17,000.
The costs on both sides to be paid by the railway company, and
the price awarded averages 42d. per yard at 20 years' purchase
on the whole quantity of land taken. The counsel for the railway
'company were Mt. Cresswell, Mr. Brandt, and Mr. Wilkins;
and for Mr. TaylOr, Sit F. Pollock, Mr. Foster, and Mr. Duck.
The case occupied the whole of the day.---Froni the Manchester
Cowie?. of Saturday,last.

MERSEY AND IRWELL .JUNCTION WITJI THE ROCHDALE
CANAL—We understand that this work is proceeding most ra-
pidly-; that the contractor, Mr. Mackenzie, experts that an
opening from one end of the tunnel to the other will be made
in a few weeks; and that the canal will be completed by the
latter end of September. It is astonishing that an undertaking
such as this can be carried across a town like Manchester in so
short a time (for it was only commenced in August lasl,) -with
comparatively so little public inconvenience.—Man. Gout ler.

There has never, we believe, been a winter, since their insti-

tution, in which such heavy demands have been made upon the
funds of insurance offices as during that which we are now in,
—Morn. Chron.

Mr, Buckinghatnis giving, at New York, his lectures on

_
Egypt and Palestine, to crowded houses; he has giveneighteen,
and is repeating them; he must have averaged near £lOO. each
lecture.

The late Rev. Wm. Richardson, for fifty•three years the
reverend Vicar of St. John's, Chester, has bequeathed the very
munificent sum of £GOO. fur the purpose of purchasing an Organ
fur that Church.

We understand that Mr. James Booth, the Chancery barris-
ter, and brother of Mr. Henry Booth and Mr. Alderman Booth,
has been appointed counsel to the House of Commons by the
Speaker. •

The Rev. Joshua Finlin ;on' 8.A., of Queen's College, Cam-
bridge, late of Liverpool, has been presented with the incum-
benerof Earls Fleatun, in Yorkshire, by the Vicar of.Dowsbury,
patron.

The consamptiou of gold for gilding at the various potteries
is Said to amount to upwards of 1:600. a week, and the consump-
tion of coals in the same period is about 800 tons.
WRECK OF 1111% KILLARNEY STEAMER.—We perceive by
the Bristol papers that a subscription has beeu set on foot for
the relief of the widows and orphans of the unfortunate persons
who perished in the Killarney steamer. The subscription ex-
ceeds £3OO.
FACT FOa THE NATURALIST.—ADVENTURES OF Two
GEasa.—The efforts made by salmon to regain their native
river are well blown,- and other animals also possess strung
local attachments and a retentive menfory. The following,
however, is the first instance we have heard of geese being en-
dowed of faculties of this description : D. Campbell, a res-
pectable :,beep-farmer, lived at Braley, in the county of
Sutherland, close by a fresh water lake, near the Kyle of bur-
Hess. Subsequently he took the farm of Module, inland Irma
Burley about 30 miles, where he now resides. When he le.t
his former residence, 111 r. C. took with hint, as part of his
moveables, a pair of geese. The wings of the geese were clippett,
and they were carried across the country in a covered basket.
Their new locality did not seem to please this douce and cor-
dial couple; and, accordingly, after residing a few days at
Module, they set off together down the river to Loch Never,
a distance of three miles. Here they remained two or three
days, idle,: which they continued their aquatic excursion fur 30
miles further, to Inver Na,,er. The sea was now before them,
but they boldly entered upon their voyage; they crossed the
Kyle of Tongue, and rounded the Whiten-head, (well known
to mariners as a stormy head land,) steering athwart Loch
and landed at Rispond. the that point of laud at the en-
trance ou the west side. At this place they baited, and after a
short stay pursued their course along the coast till they arrived
at Durin. To save a distance of about twenty wiles by sea,
round Farrethead, the geese then, sagaciously and courageously,
walked across the country to their native lake, liorley, giving
the worthy minister of Durness a call as they passed. The
wanderers had been six weeks on their travels, having per-
formed a circuitous route of about 100 miles, first north-east to
the sea, and then north-west to Loch Barley. The fate of the
poor geese after their long and perilous journey was hard and
uninerited. They had come to Burley (as some other travellers
had done) somewhat hungry and exhausted, and they took the
liberty of feasting a little in a cornfield. Mr. Campbell had
offered a reward to any person that would secure the geese; and,
this failing, he offered to pay the amount of any. damage in-
flicted by their trespass. The grieve, or steward, on the faint
was apparently us ruthless as Coleridge's ancient mariner when
he shot the albatross, fur he shut both the geese. Thus perished
the unfortunate wanderers, whose exertions certainly entitled
them to a better fate. This story is well known in the district,
and tLe correctness of the above narrative can be vouched for
by Mr. Campbell add the other inhabitants'
NA 'Mew ESCAPE PRom A TIGER.-011 a recent shooting
excursion at Jellasore, in Bengal, Mr. T. Campbell, indigo
planter, of that station, was very neatly carried off by a tiger.
It happened that whilst pursuing- his spurt, he wandered away
from his companions. It was early in the morning, in the mouth
of September. The country consisted of wide plains, occasion-
ally interrupted by heavy clusters of bamboo trees and other
timber. Not the slightest suspicion rested with any of the party
that a tiger was within miles of the neighbourhood. No rumours
had been started by the native " rvotta" (limners) that an
animal of the kind had been seen. However, it so happened
that Mr. C., who was accompanied by his groom, leading his
horse, passed into a small paddy field, which on one side was
bounded by a narrow strip of jungle, and having alarmed a pea-
fowl, discharged the contents'of his gnu at it, when suddenly • '
something heavily rushed by him in the jungle. At first Mr. •
C. suspected it to be a hog or a deer, but on penetrating within,
he perceived au extensive lair, arched above with thick inter-
volutions of the Mysoie thorn, and a monkey's skull and other '
buttes lying on the verge of it. There were also two-outlets'
firm the lair, both which led to a green slip, where cattle and
deer were likely to pass, but where Mu. C. entered there was uu
regular track. Nut being supplied with ball, he retreated from
the asylum of danger, and in passing over a wicket to reach
another paddy field, on his way home, he discovered a dead'
bullock at the extreme end of the further outlet, principally
devoured. On inquiry, it appeared that the tiger was, for the'
first time, seen on the night previous, carrying away a bullock
from the little village of Bustom. The animitl hat boured in the
neighbourhood for some weeks, and during the nights ventured
into the town of Jellasore and carried off several men and
women, cows, and horses. So alarming became his depreda-
tions, that eventually application was made .to John Inglis
Harvey. Esq„ the magistrate of. Midnapore, in the matter, who
despatched two chekarries (native sportsmen) to destroy • the
marauder. Some days elapsed. before they could succeed in
discovering his retreat. which they eventually did by means of
watching the flight of the vultures ire° the neighbourhood of the
charnel house. They shot hire by Moonlight, as he was Coln-
meocieg his nocturnal prowls. by the side of a millah, in which
he was slaking his thirst. He was of a tearful size, and the
chekarries pronounced bunt a regular man eater. The skull is
still in the possession of Mr:Campbell, who will keep it its
meruoiy of his narrow escape.