The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

NUISANCES.—At the Police-court, on Friday, a whole
host of peisons appeared before Mr. Rushton, and were
fined for offences against the Sanatory Bill.
On Tuesday fifty four persons, who presented fearful
pictures of wretchedness, poverty, and filth, were each
fined twenty shillings and costs for either occupying or
letting off cellars.

On Saturday, Mr. Chilcott, cigar-dealer, &c., in Bas-
nett-street, was called to answer a charge of assault
on a young girl named Sarah Graham. Mr. Jameson, the
magistrates' clerk, stated, that he believed the case had
been settled in court ; that he himself had seen Mr. Chil-
cott's attorney pay over money to the complainant. Mr. '
Rushton, with a view of reprobating the practice, asked
for the parties, but was informed that they had left the
court, and the matter dropped.
COMMITTAL OF IRISH MENDICANTS.—On
about a dozen Irish of both sexes, who preferred
or begging to anything in the shape of work, either in this
or their own country, were brought up before Mr. Rush-
ton, at the Police-court, upon the charge of mendicancy.
Mr. Rushton gave them the option of going across the
water to Ireland, if they thought proper. This, however,
they declined, and were sent to gaol for various periods.
One rascal had a dozen soup tickets in his possession.
Mr. Rushton expressed a determination to put an end to
the nuisance of street begging as far as possible.
SEAMEN'S CASES.—On Tuesday, two cases relating to
seamen were brought before Mr. Rushton. The first
was a claim for wages by James Cummins against the
Captain of the ship Barber. The skipper denied the
right of the claim on the ground that the plaintiff had de-
serted the vessel at Cork. The fact was corroborated by
several witnesses, and the case was dismissed.—The second
case was a charge preferred by Captain Giffrey, of the
Agenora, against a coloured man named Seldon, who had
shipped as Cook at London, for Quebec, and back to Li-
verpool, but who had deserted at Quebec, whereby the
captain had incurred an expense of £7 ls. 4d., through
being obliged to hire another man. Mr. Rushton, after
a severe censure, ordered Seldon to pay the above amount,
or be committed for two months. The money not being
forthcoming, he was sent to gaol.—On Saturday, Henry
Pettigrove, seaman, summoned the owners of the ship
Glover for discharging him without payment of a balance
of wages, which he alleged to be due. He had, he stated,
signed articles, in St. John's, Newfoundland, fora voyage
to this country, and back again to some port in America,
at £4 10s. a month, but was told here that his services
were no longer required. It was stated, in reply, that
the complainant, with several other seamen who had been
engaged,had been sent downbya saging sloop to thevessel
lying at Eastport, but, by threatening the life of the cap-
thin of the sloop, forced him to return. They were
brought before the magistrates, sent by another vessel to
join the ship, and the instructions to the owners here
from the agent there were to stop the wages of the men
to the amount of expense incurred. Mr. Rushton told the
applicant•to go about his business, and said he hoped that
none of the.parties who had acted in that manner would
be paid one farthing.—John Lateman, late chief-officer of
the Maid of Athens, summoned Mr. John Broadfellow,
captain of that vessel, for arrears of XS 15s. alleged to be
due. The captain, it appeared, had disrated the mate, on
the 3d of September, during the voyage from Constan-
tinople to this port, on the ground that he had been ne-
gligent in the discharge of his duties and insolent to him.
The case was sifted at great length, the negligence not
proved, and the chief "insolence," it appeared, consisted
in addressing him as a man, and not by the title of cap-
tain. Mr. Rushton ordered the wages to be paid.

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