The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

DRY ROT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST,INIIRD.
DRY ROT IN VEGETABLE SUBSTANCE MAY BE PREVENTED
by steeping them in a solution of sulphate of zinc (white vitriol),
or sulphate of copper (blue vitriol), substances which are
worth about 345. per cwt. I have used them both for the last
18 months, and find them as effectual as corrosive sublimate,
used by Mr Ryan, which costs £l9 12s. per cwt., besides his
patent-right charge of £8 Bs. per cwt. Sulphates of zinc
and copper being so cheap, and free from patent, will, it is
hoped, lead to their universal use iu all cases where dry rot
is liable.

I would strongly recommend that wood be inserted in the
solution as soon as the tree is felled; the juices being then
in a fluid state, will allow the solution to penetrate every part
of the tree. I have in my possession leaves taken from the
top branches of a tree, which are completely impregnated
with the solution of sulphate of copper. Indeed, albumen
(the cause of dry rot,) has such an affinity for either of the
above salts, that if a hole about an inch in diameter be bored
in a tree, and then filled up with either sulphate of zinc, or
copper, or corrosive sublimate, the salt will, in the course of
a day or two, entirely disappear, having been dissolved and
taken up by the the juices of the tree, with the albumen of
which it forms an insoluble compound. This is best shown
by mixing the white of an egg, which is nearly pure albumen,
with a quantity of water, and then droping into the mixture
a solution of the salt in water, the albumen will be instanity
precipitated. White of egg is, therefore, an antidote for the
above poisons, and those trees which decay soonest will be
found to have most albumen in their composition.
In my experiments I tried other substances, said to have
an effect in preserving timber, such as common salt, alum,
sugar of lead, sulphate of iron, (green vitriol) but found they
had little or no effect.
Liverpool, 29th Aug. R. S. NEWALL.

A J 0 B!!

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL ST4ND.4RD.
St tt,—l have just made a calculation by whichl'l find that
no less a sum tha❑ about £150,111t. will legitimately fall into
the pockets of the " Sweaters,was soon as they shall have
completed their pious labours of reducing the original to the
recently proclaimed standard weight of gold coin in, this
country.

What blessed muffs her majesty's ministers are to be sure.
Yours,
HARRY BULLION.

Water-street, August 30, 1838

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CURIOUS CASE OF FORGERY.

Matthew Marwood was on Monday placed before Mr.
Hall, charged with having defrauded a young man named
Thomas Briscoe, and further with having committed a
forgery on the Union Bank of this town.
Thomas Briscoe, the prosecutor, stated that about the 20th
of December last, he came to this town from Parkgate. He
entered into the service of Mr. James Wilson, a butcher, of
Cleveland-square. Matthew Marwoud, the prisoner, was
Mr. Wilson's cash-keeper. Witness had in the Chester
Bank, one hundred and fifty-four pounds, which his father
had left him. About a week after be came to Liverpool he
drew the money out, the prisoner being aware that he had
done so. Three days after he had drawn it out, the Prisoner
told him that if he chose to intrust him with it, be could lay
it out for him, so that he (witness) would receive eight per
cent. in return for it. Witness upon this gave him one hun-
dred and forty sovereigns, with which he said he would pur-
chase banking shares, or lay the money out at interest, so as
to make the best return possible. A few days afterwards,
the prisoner presented the prosecutor with a banker's cheque,
(produced.) of which the following is a copy:
"No. 69. Liverpool, Jan. 4, 1838.
LIVERPOOL UNION BANK.Pay
or Bearer.

Received from Thomas Briscoe one hundred and forty
pounds,'
Per M. MAEWOOD,
£140.03. Od.
JAMES LISTER."
Mr. Briscoe proceeded to say, that the prisoner informed
him that he had put the whole of the money in the Union
Bank. The prisoner told him to take care of the cheque,
and if' he wanted any money at any time he was to ask him
(the prisoner) for it, until they went to the bank together,
when they would have a settling. After that the prosecutor
received about seven pounds from the prisoner. Just before
dinner, on Monday week, witness requested the prisoner to
go with him to the bank, that they might square accounts
with each other. Witness did not himself know where the
Union Bank was. The prisoner put him off, saying, "we
will go to-morrow." Next day came, however, and witness
did not see anything of the prisoner, nor did he see him again
till he saw him in custody. , Witness had communicated the
transaction to Mr.' Wilson, who, on Friday last, at noon, re-
quested lion to show the cheque which the prisoner had given
to him. Mr. Wilson, on seeing the cheque, took the prose-
cutor with him to the Union Bank. The cheque was shown
to Mr. Lister, the manager of the bank, who having stated
that it was a forgery, the assistance of Constable James
Chalmer was procured, and they went in search of the pri-
soner. They found him in Cleveland-square, where Chaliner
took him into custody.
It appeased, that Mr. Wilson had received £4O. from the'
prisoner on account of the prosecutor This sum was due to
Mr. Wilson by agreement with' the prosecutor. The cheque
was proved to be in the prisoner's hand-writing. The de-
ficiency due to the prosecutor was stated to be £93. It fur-
ther appeared, by the testimony of the prosecutor and Mr.
Wilson, that the prisoner stated he was about to sail for
South Australia with Captain Porter, of the ship Porter. It
is said that he has purchased some land in South Australia.
James Chalmer, constable, stated, that he had received

the cheque and information of the fraud from Briscoe, and he
took the prisoner in Cleveland-square. He said to the pri-
soner, " I have some very unpleasant news for you." The
prisoner said, " What is it ?" Ctialmer said, " You are
charged with having forged a cheque upon the Liverpool
Union Bank." The prisoner said, " I will tell you the truth
—I did write it." He (the prisoner) then called out to Bris-
coe,' "Oh, Thomas, I never thought you would do this."
On the way to Bridewell the prisoner said, " I will pay all
the money if you will let me go to my friends." Witness
said, " You are charged to me; I cannot do it; you must
go before a magistrate." A cheque-book of the Union Bank
was found upon the prisoner, and two notes which stated that
he was going to South Australia.
Mr. James Lister, the manager of the Union Bank, proved
that neither the cheque nor signature were in his hand-writ-
ing The prisoner had formerly kept an account at the Union
Bank, and was furniihed with a book. The prisoner had
not had any money there for the last six months except a
small deposit which he drew out in a few days. The prisoner
had nothing to say in his defence, and was committed for
trial. ,

Disc ACEFUL TRANSACTION.—On Wednesday, at the
Police-office, a good-looking servant-sort of female was placed
at the bar charged with having robbed the keeper of a
lodging-house in this town, named Robert Maxwell. The
complainant stated that on Monday,•about one o'clock, he
met the prisoner at the docks, and went with her to treat her,
and finally they went together to a house in King-lane, where
he passed the night with her. He had foursovereigns in his
trowsers pocket, which he wrapped up and placed under his
pillow. He went to bed about eleven o'clock at night.
When Lls awoke in the morning he found only one sonereign
and sixpence in copper in his pocket. He was sober enough
to know what he had, but was not sober. There were other
girls in the house. but he did not fasten the door. There
was no other bed in the room. He asked the prisoner for
the money, and she said she had not got any. Another girl
then came and searched her, and she dropped a sovereign,
which he got. He taw the prisoner drop it. When he
charged her with having got the money she began to cry, and
told hint to put her in Bridewell, and he said he would. Mr.
Hall—" Pray where do you come from ?" Complainant—
" I have been twenty-nine years in Liverpool." Mr. Hall—
" You ought to have known better. Do you keep house in
town ?"' Complainant—" I do, sir." Mr. Hall—" You are,
a married man ?" Compl:tinant—" Yes, sir." Mr. Hall—
" Awl have a family of children?" Complainant—" Yes,
sir. She used to live a servant of mine." The prisoner
being asked what she had to say, said, " I lived servant with
him, and met hitn on Monday, and he would treat me till I
was tipsy, and then led tne to a house I never was in before."
Mr. Hall (to complainant)—" Is that true ?" The com-
plainant shook his head. Prisouer—" And when I awoke
next morning, ' Oh dear, says I, let me get home before I am
seen.' He then said he had lost some money, and that I had
got it, and I told him to call a policeman. When I got home
I told my mistress what had happened." Mr. Hall—" Where
do you live ?" Prisoner—" In Church-alley, with Mrs. Ed-
wards; and I can get a good character at the last place I
have been to." Mr. Hall inquired who the other girl was
that searched her ? Policeman—" She is a brothel-house
keeper." Mr. Shuttleworth said, it was very Litely that she
had dropped the sovereign to throw suspicion on the prisoner.
Mr. Hall (to the Complainant)" Your evidence requires
confirmation, sir; I must see that other girl." The prisoner
was then remanded. She cried bitterly during the examina-
tion. The complainant, a man half a century old, appeared
perfectly shameless.

RECKLESS FOLLY OF SAILORS.—On Wednesday, at the
Police-office, one of those frequent pitiable spectacles of the
folly with which sailors "spend their money like asses, after
working for it like horses," was exhibited. A young sailor;
with an immense quid of tobacco stowed away in one cheek,
appeared to prefer a complaint against a girl of the town for
having robbed him. He stated his case as follows—" That
there girl, your honour, made it her business to put her hand
in my pocket and take out my purse; she emptied it of the
money, and then threw the purse in my face. Here's the
purse." (Holding up his empty purse.) Mr. Hall—" Were
you sober ?" Complainant—" Yes, as sober as lam now."
Mr. Hall—" What were you doing to let her put her hand
in your pocket and steal your purse ?" Complainant—" I
felt her doing it once,-and told her to drop it." • The landlady
of a public-house where the plaintiff had been with the pri-
soner, said that she saw him in the house in the course of
Tuesday, and raw him count seven sovereigns in his purse.
He changed one for a pint of rum, and sat drinking with the
prisoner and another girl. He then went out and bought
the prisoner a lot of things—the cap which she had on, a
handkerchief, gown, &c., and they came in again and began
drinking. The complainant then pulled a lot of silver and
copper out of his pocket and threw it on the prisoner's lap,
and then the other girl got vexed with him, timd said he had
done more for the prisoner than he had done for her. The
complainant then said he was drunk or he would not have
done it. It ended in his losing all his money. Mr. Dowling,
—" He told me he was drunk." Mr. Hall—" How is it that
you told me you were as sober as you ate now ?" Complain-
ant—" Well,'l was." Mr. Hall--", Are von not quite sober
now?" Complainant—" No. (A laugh.) I said I was
neither drunk nor sober." Mr. Hall—" I suppose you rarely
ate quite sober ? We must have you here when you are
sober; do you think you can come sour to-morrow ?" Com-
plainant—" Yes." Mr. Hall—" Well, come to-morrow, and
don't let any grog come within your lips. Put the prisoner
back."

•-•
Yesterday the complainant again 'appeared at the Police-
office. Mr. Hall.—" Well, are you sober now ?" Com-
plainant.—" Yes, sir." The complainant then recapitulated
his complaint. On Monday he went to an auction room, and
bought some flannels and other things to make drawers of,
which he intended the prisoner to make for him; and for
doing it he bought her a shawl, a cap, a handkerchief, a pair

of stockings, and a pair of boots. (Laughter.) She took
the flannel home with her, and next day when he called fur
his drawers she picked his pocket as above described. It
appeared also that he had been making the servant girl a lot
of presents of flannel and linen. Mr. Hall.—" You have
been making presents to every body; the truth is you have
got money about you, and don't know how to get rid of it."
Complainant.—" If I had kept company with the girl I
should never have said anything about it. (Laughter.)
Will you ask her what presents I made her ?" Mr. Hall.—
"Oh, we know that; that cap and that handkerchief she has
on." Prisouer.—" And a gown, and petticoat, and a white
shirt, and four sovereigns." (Loud laughter.) Mr. Hall.—
"Did she not give you the four sovereigns back again?"
'Complainant.—" Yes, sir." Mr. Hall.—" Discharge her."
SHOPLIFTING.—EIiza Rigby, Margaret M‘Lean, Mary
Ann Clarke, and Mary Ireland, were on Wednesday placed
at the bar of the Police-court, charged with having stolen
four pieces of prints from the shop of Messrs. Shaw and
Hill, Manchester fent warehouse, Old Haymarket. It ap-
peared that on Tuesday morning, the four prisoners went to
the shop of the prosecutor, at a few minutes past eight
o'clock. They asked a lad who was behind the counter to
show them some dresses. They examined a great variety of
articles, and at length left the shop without buying any
thing. About half-past eight o'clock the same morning,
police-officer Taylor, No. 334, was on duty in Scotland-
place, when he met the four prisoners. As he knew two of
them to be bad characters, he looked at them intently. This
it appears alarmed them, for they threw away four pieces of
prints into a cellar and ran away. Intent on securing the
property, he allowed the prisoners to escape. He succeeded
however, soon afterwards in capturing the prisoner M‘Lean,
who told him where they had stolen the prints from She
also declared that she would not be taken without the others.
She gave the officer such information as enabled him to
take the other three prisoners. Raving seethed them in
Bridewell, he went to the shop of Messrs. Shaw and Hill,
who had not yet missed the property. They immediately
claimed it, and showed the officer the pieces from which the
prints had been cut. Two of the prisoners bud been dis-
charged from the Borough gaol on the same morning,
(Tuesday) at seven o'clock. The prisoners were all com-
mitted fur trial.

CHARGE OF UTTERING BASE COlN.—Yesterday, at the
Police-office, a young man, habited. as a gentleman's ser-
vant, named Moore, and who, we understood, was the ser-
vant of Mr. Martin, the barrister, was placed before the ma-
gistrates on a charge of attempting to pass a bad half-crown
at Mr. Sampson's the Champion public-house, opposite the
New Market. Mr.i Sampson stated that he came in the day
before, and after ordering some refieshment asked change
for a sovereign; as soon as he had got change he charged
Mr. Sampson with having given him a bad half-crown; and
Mr. Sampson threatened to have him apprehended. He
said he would go for a policeman himself, and shortly re-
turned with one, and Mr. Sampson said he should now
charge him as he persisted in his statement; and ordered
the officer to take him into custody, and search him. The
officer searched him, and another bad half-crown was found
upon him. The prisoner said that he had five shillings given
him by a Mrs. Alexander, in London, wrapped up in paper,
and on opening it he found two half-crowns, one of them a
a bad one; and his master said he would not for £5 have
given a had half-crown to a servant in that way. This half-
crown he had in his pocket when lie went to' Sampson's
house, and on getting change said he knew one of the half-
crowns to be a bad one, for he had seen one before upon
which a dispute arose, which ended in his being taken into
custody. He showed the policeman the bad half-crown on
the way to Sampson's. This was found to be correct. Mr.
Hall said under all the circumstances it was a case in which
he thought he ought to discharge the prisoner. The prisoner
was accordingly discharged.
SEASONING CASKS AT THE DOCKS.—Yesterday, at the
Police-office, Mr. Wm. Waddle was summoned before the
magistrates, for seasoning water casks on the Prince's Dock
Quay. An officer deposed that a number of water casks had
remained full on the dock quay for six days, which belonged
to the defendant. Mr. Hall said this was an abominable
nuisance. They had no business whatever to remain there.
Mr. Dowling said the mischief was, that the casks when sea-
soned were turned up, and all the water poured out of them,
which flowed all over the dock quay; and he had known in-
stances of bale goods to an immense amount having been
spoiled by water flowing underneath them. Mr. Hall.—
Twenty shillings and costs. Mr. Waddle.—They are for South
Australia; and if you had to drink water out of a new cask
for four months, you would.see what it was.
UTTERING BASE COlN.—Yesterday, at the Police-office,
Mary Burns, a female of disorderly habits, was placed at the
bar charged with having in conjunction with a man named
Dixon, who was committed on Monday last for the same
offence, endeavoured to pass base money. Constable Flock-
hart stated, that from information he had received he had
apprehended the prisoner, who denied to him that she had
been in company with the prisoner Dixon. Mrs. Lyon, the
keeper of a public-house, stated that the prisoner on Thurs-
day last came into the bar of her house along with Dixon,
who was committed on Monday, and asked for two glasses of
wine. They were served with the wine, and then Dixon
said he had no silver, could she give him change, and then
handed to her a good sovereign She was going. to get it
when lie asked the prisoner, " havn't you got sixpence ?"
and told her (Mrs. Lyon) to stop and give him the sovereign
back, as the prisoner had perhaps got the money. She did
so, and then Dixon said, •‘ I think you had better give me
change, I don't think she has got any money," and gave her
a bad sovereign. She told him it was a bad one, and then he
told her to give it him again, and he paid her with Gd. Mrs.
Hope, the keeper of a public-house in Gilbert-street, and
Mr. Brookfield, the keeper of an eating-house in Percy-
street,. both described similar attempts by the prisoner along
with Dixon, to pass off base sovereigns upon them on
Thursday night. Mr. Hall said he should detain her and
leave it to the mint to decide whether or not they would
prosecute her along with Dixon.

JUVENILE THlEVES.—Yesterday, at the police-office, two
girls, the oldest of whom was nut above 11 years of age,
named Charlotte Jones and Mary Roberts, were placed at
the bar, for the fourth or fifth time, charged with shoplifting.
Mr. Roberts, of Whitechapel, said, the children came into
his shop to buy some stockings, and while the young man was
engaged with one of them, the
.other contrived. to secrete two
pieces of silk handkerchiefs, worth between £3 and £4. A
gentleman who happened to he looking in at the window, saw
her doing this, and gave him information, when she was
searched, and the goods found secreted under her frock. Mr.
Hall.—" She is only 9 years old, though au old offender. I
am sure I don't know what to do with either of them." The
youngest said the man at the window gave her a shilling to
buy the stockings, and told her to steal the handkerchiefs, and
then went and told of her.--.(A laugh.) Mr. Hall.—" I sup-
pose her parents send her out " Mr. Parkinson.—" I believe
they do ; the youngest has been here a dozen times. "'They
were each sent for a month to the Borough House of Cor-
rection.

EXPENSIVE FOOD.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, an
Irishwoman named Catherine Ityley, with a child at her
breast, was placed at the bar, charged by another Irishwo-
man, dressed in an old grey cloak, with the usual number of
holes, forconvenient ventilation, which generally adorn the
garments of the lower class of Irish, with having stolen' a £5
note from her. The complainant stated, that on Wednesday
her little boy found a Bank of England £5 note in the street,
and the prisoner took it from him. When discovered, and
told to give it up, she would not, a'nd on an officer being
called she attempted to swallow it.—A policeman said that
he was told on Wednesday night that the prisoner had taken
a £5 note from the complainant's little boy, and would not
give it up. He went up to her, and asked her for it. She
was chewing something, and could not speak; at length she
Attempted to swallow something, and said she had not got it.
He asked her what she had got in her mouth, and suspecting
it was the note, seized hold of her, and positively choked it
out of her throat.—Mr. Dowling said, when first the note was
brought to him, it was a small piece of pulp, and with much
difficulty he had contrived to spread it on paper, and the
amount and number' were not destroyed.—Mr. H all (to com-
plainant) : What is your husband, pray ?—Complainant :
He is a chicken butcher. (Laughter.)—Mr. Hall: Well,
he is worth a good deal of money, is he ? —Complainant :
He's worth 12s. a-week, his wages.—Mr. Hall said he must
have some inquiry made as to how she came by the note.—
The prisoner said, " The little boy put it in my mouth, and
1 chewed it, not knowing what it was." (Laughter.)—She
was put back for further inquiry.
A TEE-TOTALLER IN '!'ROUBLE.—Yesterday, at the Po-

liceo-ffice, an individual named Patrick Hughes, from Ire-
land, was charged with having been found drunk in the
streets, and unable to take care of himself. The Bridewell
keeper handed to the magistrates a card found on him, from
which it appeared, that he was a member of a tee-total so-
ciety. Be that as it may; he had got himself so teetotally
drunk, that the officer said when brought into Brideweil, he
could not give his name. Mr. Hall.—" Pray, how long have
you been a member of this temperance society ?" Prisoner.
—" Sixteen months this day; and going to Ireland I got
myself transferred as a tee-totaller, and got a drop of beer
on the occasion, but I did not taste any spirits whatever—
not a drop of spirits. I happen to be on my,way to America."
Mr. Hall.—" It is a most fortunate accident. Then I sup-
pose you don't want this card again, showing that you are
a temperate man ?" Prisoner.—" Why, sir, I'm temperate
against spirits, sir." (Loud laughter.) Mr. Hall.—" Well,
you are going to America, are you ?" Prisoner.—" Yes,
sir, I am." Mr. Hall —" Well, off with you."

Owing to the lateness of the harvest partridge shooting has
been in many places postponed to the 10th, and in others to
the 14th of September.

TAKING IT COOLY.--A professional firm of this town hav-
ing applied to a man at West Bromwich for a small !amount,
received in reply, the following, whfch we think may be consi-
dered as the quintescence of the art of "taking it coolly."
We give it verbatim et liberaiim :—" Jintlemin I should- be
sory to anser your Letter to give you any ofense But to send
you 13. 5. o..returne of poste is as likly as a shipe to sail
Down Oxford Street in London your Obedent.
THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Mr. Atkins was fortunate
in having a fine evening yesterday, when the splendid mimic
effect of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius was repeated to a
garden. Another grand illumination and gala is an-
nounced for Tuesday next, when Monsieur D'Ernst will
exhibit his magnificent fire-works. The price will on this
occasion be raised. It was erroneously stated in our last
that it was the intention of Mr. Atkins to break up the
mountain.

DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—The fourth season ball at the
Castle Mona Hotel was held on Monday last, and was both
numerously and respectably attended. Dancing commenced
at ten o'clock and was kept up until an early hour in the
morning. Mr. Phillips's excellent quadrille band was en-
gaged from Liverpool, and the waltzes and quadrilles were
iashionable and well executed.

On Sunday night her Majesty's steamer Firebrand arrived
in the river from Holyhead, on her annual voyage of inspec-
tion, having on board Lord Minto, the First Lord of the
Admiralty, accompanied by Admiral Sir William Parker,
Admiral Sir Charles Adam, Sir William Symonds, Surveyor
to the Navy, and Mr. Stifnal, private secretary to Lord
Minto, &c. &c. The Admiralty flag was hoisted on board
her Majesty's steamer Redwing; and on Monday morning
the party, attended by Captain Chappell, R.N., commanding
her Majesty's vessels on this station, inspected her Majesty's
steamers Avon, Lieut. Townley, R.N., commander; Lucifer,
Lieut. Phillips, R.N., commander; and the Sheerwater,
-Lieut. Tudor, R.N., commander. His lordship and suite
visited 'Change on Monday, and on Tuesday left the port in
pursuance of their ulterior objects.
THE THEATRE ROYAL.—Mr. Harley has during the week
been exercising his comic powers at this theatre. Last
evening Mr. Kuowles's new play of " Woman's Wit" was
performed to but a thin house. Mr. Harley played as Clever
with great humour. Miss Faucit is improving much, and
gradually acquiring more of nature and less of affectation in
her performing. The part of Eustace, a most unnatural and
strained character, was miserably played by Miss Cleaver.
This lady's forte is light comedy; she is wholly unable to
grasp the characters which she lias lately taken on the Li-
verpool stage. Her attempts at tragedy are indeed "stale,
flat, and unprofitable—hurried and unmeaning rehearsals
of words without one spark of sentiment or feeling—nothing
but words. We have seen her some years ago play in light
comedy -pieces—" the lnvincibles" for instance—remarka-
bly well. She is sprightly enough in these shallows, but
sinks and is overwhelmed in the depths of tragedy. We
were glad to see Mr. Stuart able to perform so well as Wal-
sinhham after his recent serious accident of breaking his
arm. To-night Harley plays as Di. 011apod in the "Poor
Gentleman." It is one of his best characters. Every thing
betokens a cramming house for Mr. Clarke's benefit on
Monday.
Steam navigation has been brought to such perfection that
a person may now go at mid-day from London-bridge to West-
minster by "Starlight," and he may return at mid-night by
"Daylight," or he may have his choice of doing it by "Moon-
light," or "Twilight," there being four steam-boat omni-
buses called by these delightful names, This has quite cap-
sized the watermen, who, when they see "Starlight" take
the place of "Daylight," draw their nightcaps over their
eyes, and go to bed.