The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THE BEER-SuoPs.—On Friday, after several beer-sel-
lers had been fined, Mr. Rushton observed, "Mr. Wy-
bergh, remember that in all cases where they do not pay,
we will sue them under the act, and have their sureties
enforced. How many are there of these cases to-day ?"
—Mr. Jameson : " Seventeen."—Mr. Boothby : " Four-
teen beerhouses."—Mr. Rushton : " I will make them
pay every farthing, or proceed against their sureties ; I
will not have them continually debauching the town in
this way."

ROBBERY Oi• LINEN.—On Thursday three men and
two women were sent for trial, charged with stealing a
quantity of linen which had been consigned to Messrs.
Vianna and Jones for shipment. On the 9th instant the
linen was placed on the quay of the Salthouse Dock, pre-
paratory to being shipped for Glasgow ; it was subse-
quently found that the box in which it was deposited had
been broken open, and eight pieces of the linen abstracted.
The stolen property was traced to the house of one. of the
prisoners, in Hodson-street, where all the prisoners were
apprehended. .

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ROBBERY BY A TRADESMAN
Tuesday, a very respectably-dressed young man, of th_
name of George North, was committed for trial, on a
charge of having robbed Mr. Dawbarn, tailor and draper,
of Bold-strJet, of a quantity of property. The prisons r
had acted n' 1"."

ASSISTANT

some time, and slept at lodgings in another'
part
of the town. Suspicion having been excited that he wEs
not pursuing an honest course, the police-officers searched
his lodgings on Monday night, and found three waistcoat
pieces, six vests, a black dress= coat, and other articles,
the whole of which were identified as Mr. Dawbarn's

property

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On Wednesday the windmill at Cockerham, near Lan-
caster, was burnt to the ground.

Measures are being taken to establish at Lancaster an
Athenaeum' on the model of the Manchester Athenaeum.

It is believed that £lOO,OOO a-year would not clear the
duty on illicit spirits made in the parish of Manchester.
On Wednesday, the Bishop of Chester consecrated the
new church of St. Mark, Bredbury, near Stockport, and
on the following day the new church of St. Mark, Dukin-
field.

There is a
Macclesfield,.

great improvement in the silk trade of

Middleton, Failsworth, Leigh, and the
The number of unemployed is rapidly di-

vicinities.

minishing

Work in the cotton mills at Bury and Heywood appears
to improve every day. The operatives generally are em-
ployed ten and some twelve hours per day. There is
every appearance of this state of things continuing.
THE JEWS' SOCIETY.—On Sunday sermons were
preached at Chester by the Rev. F. Parry and the Rev.
M. Margoliouth, in behalf of the auxiliary in that town
to the Jews' Society. The Marquis of Cholmondeley
presided at one of the anniversary meetings yesterday,
and the Bishop of the Diocese at the other.
Until a recent period Manchester was not a corporate
town. The manor was sold in 1596 by John Lacye, mer-
cer and citizen of London, to Sir Nicholas Mosley, for
43500 ; it remained in this family up to 1845, when the
Town Council passed a unanimous resolution to purchase
the Manorial rights from Sir Oswald Mosley, of Rolleston,
in Staffordshire, for £200,000.
Two MEN DROWNED.—On Saturday week, at mid-
night, two men, named John Porter, aged about 55, and
Robert Dawson, aged about 28, were drowned in the brook
near Shaw's Bridge, at Clitheroe. The night was very
dark and stormy, and the deceased are supposed to have
fallen from the bridge into the stream, which was much
swollen.

THE LEAGUE BANQUET.—The list of guests up to
this time, who have accepted invitations, includes upwards
of twenty members of the legislature, besides other public
men. It is expected the Free-trade-hall, which is to be
decorated for the occasion, and will have an organ erected
in it, will be fitted with seats to accommodatQ from 2,50
xo x,OOO persons,