The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Friday, a carter of the name of Robert Owen was
fined 20s. and costs, for cruelty to a horse in Brunswick-
road.

On Friday, Alexander Chine, the cook of the Hottin-
guer, and Ellen ,Batty, weae convicted in £lOO eacb, for
having smuggled eighr and a half pounds of foreign ma-
nufactured tobacco.

A poor Irish lad, of very forlorn appearance, was charged,
before Mr. Rushton, on Friday, with stealing two penny
worth of bread from a baker's shop. The lad was asked
if he would be sent back to Ireland, but declined. and was
committed to gaol for a month.
BASE COIN.—"It is necessary to put our readers upon
their guard against a parcel of fellows who are going about
the town passing base coin. A great number of persons
were committed to gaol last week by Mr. Rushton for this
offence.

The effects of the inclement weather were demonstrated
in the Police-court, on Friday, in the nature of the
charges brought before the magistrate. Two miserable-
looking men were sentto prison in default of paying the fine
for breaking a lamp, which had been done to insure them
the shelter of the borough gaol. Numerous charges of
street begging were preferred likewise.
SAVAGE ASSAULT.—At the Police-court, on Tuesday,
five men, Michael M'Laughlan, Patrick Quinn, Patrick
Kelly, William Kelly, and Michael Kelly, were charged
with a violent assault on the person of Bartho!omew
Monaghan, on Saturday night, in Henry Edward-street.
He was severely struck, and was, moreover, stabbed in
two places near the neck, by two of the prisoners, who
were brothers. On the case being fully gone into, Patk.
Kelly, against whom there was no evidence, was discharged.
The other four were committed to take their trial at the
next assizes. The prisoners were stated to have a pique
at complainant, for having given evidence against them in
a murder case in Ireland.
EXCISE PROSECUTIONS.—At the Police-court, on
xr. Ewcise, preferred
charges against several parties for offences against the ex-
cise laws. An officer of excise proved that he had bought
a bottle of gooseberry wine from Mr. O'Donnell, on the
sth November, and it appeared it was sweet British wine,
he having a license to sell foreign wine. The case went
against the defendant and he was fined in the mitigated
penalty of £l2 10s. Several other parties were fined for
selling tea, raisin wine, &c., without the proper license.
Edward Dugdale, for working an illicit still, was fined
£2OO, and Patrick Maguire, a fireman on board the Ros-
common, Dublin steamer, was fined £25 for concealing 23
bladders, containing 20 gallons of whisky, in a hollow iron
beam in the engine-room of the steamer.
SmoxE.—On Tuesday Joseph Kaye, aliaB Joseph Duke,
master of the Britannia, Birkenhead steam-boat, was
summoned to the Police-court, charged with allowing
smoke to escape from the chimney of the steamer on the
9th instant. The defence being insufficient, he was fined
£5 and costs.—Mr. William Pritchard, proprietor of a
rice mill in Manesty-lane, was summoned for permitting
smoke to escape from his furnace on the 18th instant ; and
Messrs. Edward Clark and Son, proprietors of a rice mill
in Henry-street, were summoned for a similar offence.
Smoke burners were applied to both these furnaces. The
apparatus to the former gentleman's boiler, it was stated,
had cost £200; and in both cases it appeared they had
given instructions to their engineers to be careful in the
use of the burners. A fine of £5 and costs was inflicted
in both cases.

REGULATIONS OF THE SLAUGHTER HOUSES.—OR
Tuesday last four men were brought before Mr. Rushton,
on a charge of felony, in having abstracted from the
slaughter houses at the back of Russell-street, a quantity
of " slink " veal (the calves of cows extracted after the
slaughter of the animal), which it was assumed they sold
for human food. The prisoners were found carrying a
calf of this description, which it appeared they had bought,
they being sub-tenants, so that the charge of felony could
not be sustained. It appeared the Abbatoir Company
had sold such stuff for dogs' meat. Mr. Rushton said
the easiest way would be to give all the tenants notice to
quit, and then re-let the slaughter houses, subject to a
written agreement.—Mr. Townsend said they were deter-
mined to protect the respectable trader and the public
against having the " slinks " brought into use.—The pri-
soners were discharged.