The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

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company, who also owe the Dock Commissioners £50,000.
It has been remarked that they are a private trading com-
pany, incorported by an act of parliament, dated 30th
Tune, 1845. The third section declares that certain share-
',lers, among whom are named Sir Isaac Lyon Gold-
%rt., Joseph Bailey, senior, Joseph Bailey. junior,
`"--, Mr. Alderman Thompson, Marcus F.
' , John Laird, William Potter,
ea Travis Clay, James Gandy, and
John Laird, Esqrs., shall form a company under the pro-
visions of the Companies' Clauses Act; and those gentle-
men whose names are in italics, together with Robert
Barbour, John M`Viccar, and James B. 13oothby, shall be
the first directors of the company. By a subsequent cir

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have taken place in the direction-:-Mr. Jackson, who has
sold out, and Mr. Boothby having withdrawn, and their
places supplied by Mr. Am orose Lace and Mr. William
Laird. The capital is comprised of shares of £lOO each,
on which, however, only £35 has been paid up.
It is remarked upon by some as strange that a rich and
powerful company, containing shareholders of such un-

doubted wealth, should have- borrowed from the Dock
Commissioners at all, or that the loan should not be repaid
at a moment when it is so much wanted ; that the Dock
Company have absolutely dismissed nearly all their work-
men, and the great public works of the town are suspended

ecially as to do so it would only
..)e necessary to call up a small portion of the £GS per share
remaining to be called personally, although as members of
another trust, and thus relieve the Dock Company from
one-third of its present difficulty, about £l3O to £150,000
only being required to complete the outer works. Above
all, it is incomprehensible to most
now so anxious to have the bills passed, should at the
very last stage have been using every exertion to get
clauses inserted
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE

EMBEZZLEMENT.—A clerk in the service of Mr. Frazer;
merchant, Chapel Walks, was on Tuesday last committed
for trial on a charge of having embezzled upwards of £6O
belonging to his employer.
ASSAULTING A FEMALE. -On Wednesday, John
Whetstone,. marine-store dealer, was fined 50s. and costs,
or to be imprisoned forty-two days, for assaulting Johanna
Cronin, who, according to the shameless confession of the
defendant, had been living in his houie, and there lost her
character.

ROBBERY.—Two lads, John Patterson and Matthew
Lynch were, at the police-court, on Tuesday, committed
for trial at the sessions, on a charge of stealing a quantity
of silver plate from the house of Mr. Graham, Peel-street,
High Park, on the previous day. The articles were found
on the person of one of them, and both of them had pre-
viously been seen together.
SAVAGE ASSAULT ON BOARD AN AMERICAN SHIP.—
George Douglas, mate of the ship Columbia, was on Tues-
day last, at the police court, committed for trial, for a
brutal assault on the previous day on a seaman on board,
named Taseley, during which the prisoner forced his fin-
gers into the eyes of the complainant, and bit off a large
portion of his nose.
STRATAGEM TO OBTAIN RELIEF.—A gentleman from
the parish office charged two men, on Friday, at the police
court, with breaking a window in that establishment. It
appeared that they knocked at the door of the office, at half-
past six o'clock on the previous evening, and demanded
relief; their application was rejected in consequence of
being made after hours. Immediately afterwards a crash
was heard, and it was found they had hurled a stone at the
window ; they were taken into custody and conveyed to
Bridewell. Both the men urged their extreme poverty
and inability to procure relief as the causes of the misde-
meanour. One of the men said he had been forty-eight
hours without food. They were each fined ten shillings
and costs, or to be committed to prison for ten days.
OCCUPATION OF CELLARS NOT DULY CONSTRUCTED
AND VENTILATED AS DWELLINGS.—No fewer than fifty-

six of the occupiers of houses in Laces-street, Midghail-
street, and other streets in that neighbourhood, were
brought by summons before Mr. Rushton and Mr. Bolton
on Friday, for having let off their wretched cellars to the
tenants then inhabiting them. It appeared the cellars,
were for the most part only about six feet in height, and
that the ceilings of them were only about a foot or a foot
and a half above the level of the street. • It also appeared
that the lodgers consisted of Irish immigrants, and that in
nearly every one of the cellars fever had been, and still i 4
In every case Mr. Rushton imposed a fine of 205
, and said it was his firm determination to inflic
a similar fine for every day the cellars should thereafte
continue to be occupied. He observed that the town w
sd that, in defiance of the law,
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Jars, and thus spreadi
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Committee had made. up their minds to clear the whole
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the unwholesome cellars..

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