The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-18 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

.
A HELPMATE.-0a Tuesday, at the Police-office, a gocal-
lanking woman, who was decently dressed, named Margaret
Campbell, was placed at the bar charged with Laving been
drunk and disorderly. A respectable-looking mechanic (het
husband) appeared to prefer the complaint.. .Addressing the
bench, he said, "The prisoner at the bar is my wife, and lam
sorry to say through her general conduct I um nearly ruined."
Mr. Hall—" What has she dune ?" Complainant-=-" Why she
drinks, she pawns my clothes, she runs me into debt—." Mr.
Hall—" But what particular charge have you against her ?"
Complainatit--." Why for leaving her house last night, and get,,
ting drunk. I had forgiven her for previous drunkenness, and
the day before went to see a friend at Birkenhead. But a 'bort
time before she had been off drinking a week, and I had some
suspicion of her, and returned earlier than was expected to see
if she was attending to her duties. I. returned home, but she
was not there. I then went to a cellar iu Warren-street, and
found her drunk in a bed, and-I found she had pawned my last
blankets to get the drink. I can show the magistrates billB
that she had run me into debt for things that I knew nothing
of; in fact, she has almost ruined me."•; Mr. Hall—" I am
very sorry for you, but it is not a case in which I can interfere."
Complainant said he should be glad if he would order that his
wife should receive a separate allowance. He was a joiner, and
had an aged mother to support; but he would allow his wife ss.
a week. Mr. Hall said he was very sorry for the complainant,
and he would arrange with Mr. Evans for him to pay ss. a week
at the Parish-office for the support of his wife. 'ehe prisoner
was then discharged with a severe reprimand on. her disgraceful
conduct. _ _

BiRR-110VSE INFORMATION.—On Tuesday, at the Police.
office, Anthony Kelly, keeper of a beer-house in Crosbie-street,
was summoned on an information laid by ibspector Postle-
tbwaite for keeping his house open at improper hours. The
information was laid as a third offence, for which the defendant
was liable to a penalty of £2O, and to the suspension of 'his
license for two years. Inspector Postlethwaite deposed that on
Monday week,, at a quarter past one o'clock in the inoruing, he
went into Kelly's house, and found seven women and eight
men' sitting down and drinking ale • two of the men and one of
the women. weie drunk, and the whole compafiy was very dis-
orderly.' ,A _policeman corroborated this statement. Inspector
Roberts deposed that Kelly had • been fined is the 22d of July
last of a second offeuce. The defendant's wife appeared tb an-
swer the summons, and stated that she had a child christeued
that Sunday, and had invited some of her own relatious on the
occasion. She could take her oath that no one else but herre-
lations were there, and whom she was treating. Mr. Hall said
she had incurred a very heavy penalty; it was a third offence,
and the magistrates had power to disqualify her from selling for
two years.- Under the, act of parliament she had forfeited not
than £2O. Perhaps the kindest thing to them would be to
prevent toe,.. _.--eing on the house' as they could not conduct
it properly, and were coa., _ ~it-
Kelly said she had invited her i subjectedri.. "to fines. Mrs.
d could t t
them out : it was a very hard case. Mr. tir
make the act of parliament, and must be guided by iat,i..d,-11_"
magistrates adjudged her guilty of the offence, and, being a.
third one, imposed the penalty of £2O with costs. If there were
'any circumstances as to the time of payment, she might come
and state them. It was greatly to be lamented that such per-
sons should continue to carry on these houses; they could not
resist the temptation of selling at improper hours. hlr. Whiftv,
said they could hardly live if they did not. The wife of the
defendant, an interesting looking woman, with an infant in her
arms, on hearing the fine, burst into tears.
A LITERARY Terur.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a
young man, named Samuel Pickup, was placed before the ma-
strates, charged by a respectable looking widow, named Mary
Bowcock, with having come to her house, in Back Grove-street,
on Tuesday morning last, under pretence of baying been sent
by her landlord to paint, and colour her house. He was ac-
cordingly admitted, and removed some things from her back
room to her front room, for the purpose of making ready. In
the front room, were a number of books, piled on a table. On
going out to dinner the prisoner saw two broken panes of glass
in her kitchen window, and said that her landlord ordered him
to put them in, and to borrow the money for the glass from her,
and he would stop it from the rent. She replied, she bad no-
thing but gold, and sent him to her daughter's shop for the
silver. Her daughter refused to give him it, and on his return,
she gave him a sovereign, and ire never returned. On Wed-
nesday, she examined her books, and missed a Gazetteer, a
Guide to the Lakes, Pilpays' Fables, Don Quixote, and other
books. Letitia Grimely, whose husband is the keeper of a beer-
house, in Beckwith-street, deposed, that the prisoner gave the
books above named, into her_ charge, and desired her not to
deliver them to any one but himself. Hearing that the prisoner
was in custody, she gave the books to a policeman. Policeman,
Robert Foote, deposed, that he took the prisoner into custody
from information he had received, and received the books in
question from Mrs. Grimely. The complainant identified the
books produced as her property. The prisoner, in defence, said;
• he had had a little drink, abd that was the reason he got the
• money. He was committed to take his trial. •
ASSAULT AT Sun.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, Thomai
Seweus, a man of colour, appeared to prefer a complaint before
the magistrates, against Captain Charles Kaiu, the captain of
an African trader, for violently assaulting him at sea. The
complainant addressed the magistrates in broken English.—
It dwas on de sebenteent of Septemba, bound from Africa, it
dwar my watch from eight o'clock in de mawnin, till twelve in,
de day. De watch was called, and we cons on deck. Had not
bin dere long, when de Captain sing out aft, to haul in de
starboard main-braces. As I was rnnnin, I lost my cap. We
haul in de main-braces. Ses 1 to Mr. Wintiuton, ses I ' is dat
my'cap you got on ?' De Captain sing out, who is dat, dat is
speaking forrad ?' No anso made; we hold on de brace. Tont
ask me dat my cap ?' Captain sing out, is dat gib talkin?
God d— his black soul, a son of a --, why dOn't you sun
a handspike down his treat ?' Den fuss ting be gib me a kick
in de back, and I went on all fours, and knock'd anoder man
down wid it. So him com agen, and met me wid dis main to'
gallau brace, (pulling about six inches of rope out of his pocket
which be had cut off,) and knock me on de head. Down I
went; I got up, down I went agen, and he kept me Win,
and rising, till I don't know. I den went away, but bib
knocked me so. I could nut eat my (Juana, and I went to de
wheel, and he hurt me very much in de back fur tree days afte.
He struck me wid de rope altogedda about de head and
shouldas. Another seaman deposed that they had just left
Calabar and were about under the line when the assault occur-
red as the complainant had stated. He knew of no rule against
their speaking. The complainant had complained much about •
his back. He (witness) had had a quarrel with the captain,
and was going to leave the vessel. The captain, in defence,
said that when he gave the command from the poop the cora-
plainant appeared nut to care about him, or whether he worked
or not. He appeared to him as though he would not work, so
he took a rope to him, but did not kick bim to his knowledge.
He had no witnesses. Mr. Hall said more abominable tyranny
he never knew; it was perfectly shocking that any one possess-
ing the authority which the captain did on board that vessel
could have so far forgotten himself as to have treated the com-
plainant as he had done. There was no language he could use
sufficiently strong to express the abhorrence of Ins brother ma-
gistrate and himself. He was only sorry that be had not power
to inflict a heavier fine than the law allowed. The magistrates'
did all they could to preserve subordination on board a vessel,
and not to encourage seamen to prefer complaints; but iu this
case there was a total absence of every thing like defence. He
must pay £5 and colts or in default go to the borough gaol for
one month The money was immediately paid, and the &ten-
ant left the court.

•
PROTECTION OF THE BANK OP ENGLAND AGAINS'
FIRE.

The recent fire in the printing department within the Bank
of England, and the vast importance of there being a full assn.'
ranee of safety for the enormous amount of securities and mo-
neys deposited in this national establishment, may render the
following account of the means of protection against any acci-
dent from fire, which the Bank possesses within itself, interest-
ing to the public generally. In the first place, the entire build-
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anwriigethhditnelyetitleoesddegtrianobogem;iewrfhecLcthly, fire proof. There is a nightly guard
of 32 soldiers sent from the Tower, who have each his assigned
post within the building. There are besides a number of por-
tars, of the principal clerks, and of other officers of thaesta-
bliableent, constantly resident within the building A_,"--`-':
watch of the confidential officers of the gar y• ..at; take turns
in.rotation, is. rigidly required .- ,!,,ueral survey of every de-
.,artnietit andnit— -,r Life wattling is made by those gentlemen,
ryno are on duty thrice in the course of every night,—namely,
at ten o'clock, at midnight, and at four o'clock in the morning.
Occasional surveys of the more important apartments are made
in the intervals between these stated times, of inure or less ex-
tent, according to circumstances, and the degree of vigilance of
the gentlemen whose turn it is too keep watch. It is to this
wise precaution that the timely discovery of the recent fire is to
be attributed. The gentleman who was making the midnight
survey, discovered the fire, and gave the alarm to all the resi-
dents within the building, whose untried aid, together with the
assistance of upwards of twenty of the soldiers on guard, having
for nearly an hour proved ineffectual in-repressing the. fire, in-
formation was, in the first instance, sent to the Sun Fire-office,
which is immediately opposite the principal entrance of the
Bank. By the advice there received, the authorities of the Bank
were induced to send for Mr. Braidwood and his men from the
lead fire-station in IVatling•street, but every precaution wad'
taken to prevent any alarm spreading outside the walls of the
Bank. Three 'large engines of the fire establishment were
placed in Princes-street, and every thing was got in readiness
for carrying the hose over the external wall ufAlie Bank, had,
an emergency arisen. There are seven very excellent tire en-
gines kept within the Bank, which are monthly inspected by
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LoaD liticTollslllP OF AitERDILIN UNlVRititTi:—On Wed-
nesday last the Senatus Academieus of the University and King's
College, Aberdeen, unaniinously re-elected the Right Hun. the
Vicount Arbuthnot Lord Rector of the University for the ensu-
ing year; and Mr. Charles Bannerman, of Critnobibogate • Mt.
John Gat lock, of lleathcot ; Mr. Robert Grant, of Tillifour ;
and Mr. Thomas Abereromby Duff, of Haddo, asiesiors foe the
same period:—Scottish paper.
The melting of the late heavy fall of snow, followed byelmest
constant rain, has caused serious floods in many parts of the
Colintry.