The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

or tne cleansing of =—
Rushton for neglect of duties

and costs.
A MAGISTERIAL POLICEMAN
man, named James Mu

—On Tuesday an Irish-
Av, was brought up before the

magistrates, charged wiih'iioting. gr. Raathbone, who
was the complainant, said, that, when in Brown-street,
he was told that a man was beating his wife. He went
.... •

As no officers were about:he said he must film officer
himself, when the crowd, as usual in such cases, took part
with the man. The man was eventually imprisoned.

rie WOULLI HUI, Have appearett against, U 1111 Will 1
thought it necessary that these things should be

stop to. I

such scenes. l'be prisoner, however gallant he had been
in abusing his wife at home, showed the white feather in

court, and said he most humbly begged Mr. Rathbone's
pardon and would never do it again. Mr. Rathbone said
he had no vindictive feeling in bringing him forward.
His object would be accomplished if people were taught
that these scenes could not be allowed. After an admo-
nition, he was fined ss. and costs.

RIOT IN ST. ANDREW-STREET.-011 Tuesday, threw
men, named Wa'thew, Tilston, and Rogers, were brought
up at the Police-court, charged with rioting in St. Andrew-
street. The prisoners, it appeared, had been drinking,
and one man having been taken into custody, they at-
tempted to rescue him. A mob of people were gathered
together, and stones were flung at the officers. They were
eventually taken to bridewell in a car, which they broke on
the way, nine shillings having been paid for damages. Ro-
gers, whose head was bandaged, said he had been working in
Cheshire,. and the policeman struck him with his stick.
This was acknowledged by the officer, who said that he
used the stick in self.-defence, and if he had not done so,
he would have been killed, The magistrates finm

thew 20s. and costs, Tilston 10s. and costs, a fine which
would have been heavier but for the punishment he got,
and Rogers was also fined 10s. and costs; or seven days
imprisonment. The defendant, Walthew, has written to
a contemporary, stating, that if he had been allowed, he
would have produced witnesses to prove his entire inno-
cence—that he was not in St. Andrew-street at all—and
that his only offence was a remark on the brutality of the
police, for which he was taken into custody.

CRUEL FRAUD ON IRISH EMIGRANTS.
ant complained on Friday at the Polk

A. poor emi-

-court of the

conduct towarc

Gormanby. The miden
manby had, by false reprE

2 was to the effect that Gor-
3entations, induced Daniel Har-

raganand three others to ship themselves for Pugwash

North Americ

instead of St. John's, New Brunswick,
the place to which they desired to go ; Harragan landed
in Liverpool on the 11th April, and two days after en-
quired of Gormanby if he had a ship for St. John's. De-.
fendant said he had a vessel called the Sophia for that
place, and asked for the passage money. Harragan re-
plied, that he had his wife and two young women who
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were outside he would speak to them first. - Gormanbi
said there was no time to be lost, and if he did not pay
the money the vessel would put to sea before they could
reach her. Harragan went and afterwards returned with
his wife, to whose enquiry defendant gave the same an-
paid him £B, the passage money for herself
She then brought in the girls, and they
they then left the office.