The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-09 00:00:00

should be lorlhcoming, and discharged his wife.

A NEW WAY OF RISING IRE WIND.—On Tuesday an
Irish pig-jobber, who said he had been in the habit of coming
to Liverpool for twenty-eight years, was charged at the Police-
court with attempting to carry off a bed from a house where he
lodged, under pretence that fie had been robbed of his money.
The complainant, though rather advanced in life, was stout
and vigorous, and at any rate had sufficient strength to carry a
feather bed on his back from the attic to the kitchen. When
he was asked his reason for removing the bed, he entered into
a long detail, the amount of which was that he had been robbed
of while he was asleep, by his trowsers having been cut at
the pockets. He had not taken the bed out of the house, but
only down stairs till he could recover his money. Mr. ' Dowling
here stated that be bad received information of various pranks
of the same kind which the prisoner had been performing.
Wheti he wanted to raise money, he btought charges against
individuals with whom he came in contact that they had robbed
him. Davidson, of the bridewell, stated that the fast time the
complainant had been there he had char"ed him (Davidson)
with having robbed him of 25 or 26 sover'elo.ns. With respect
to the pretended cuts in his trowsers they appeared to be of old
date. Mr. Hall said if he could find out that the prisoner was
taking property out of the house, in order to carry it away, he
would send him for trial. He was then dismissed.
BURGLARY.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, three lads,
named Preston, Cassidy, and Barclay, were placed before the
magistrates, charged with having broken into the house of
Mrs. Sylvia Rainey, of Bootle, on the night of Saturday week.
Miss Eliza Grant, a young lady of colour, stated, that she
resided at Mount-pleasant, and was on a visit to Mrs. Rainey,
who resides at Bootle. On Saturday night week she was awoke,
about one or two o'clock, by a man holding a candle in her
face. He asked her for the money. She said she bad no
money; he said she had, and she again said she had not. There
was another lady in bed with
.her who screamed out, and the
man said, " Silence; or else it will be worse for you." The
lady screamed again, and
,t,hen he shouted to another man,
"to bring that knife there; and on his saying this, the other
lady screamed out, and they then ran away. She could only
identify the prisoner, Preston, who was caught in the house.
Mrs. Sylvia Rainey deposed, that she was sleeping in the, next
room, and heard a terrible noise in the lobby of the breaking of
boxes, and got up to see
what was the matter, when she saw
two men in the lobby, and immediately ran to the window and
screamed out, when she heard a policeman knock. She again
screamed, and the policeman then ran as hard as he could
to the door. She saw the prisoner, Preston, and other two,
breaking boxes in the lobby. She gave notice to the police of
the articles she had lost. A number of things were taken out
of the house. Police-officer I& stated, that o'n the 25th of
February, at two o'clock on the Sunday morning, he was on
duty, in Bootle-lane, when he heard a scream from the house of
Mrs. Rainey. He ran there, and saw Mrs. Rainey at the win-
dow, with a baby in her alma. He iintnediately after caught
the prisoner, Preston, Coming out of the front door. Inspector
Thompson said that he heard the policeman knock; and on
going to Mrs. Rainey's, found Preiton in the custody of the
officer, and on going round to the back of the house, he found
the parlour window broken open and the thieves escaped. In
the garden he found a hat, which he produced. Ellen Alston,
the keeper of a beer-house in Ben Jonson-street, deposed that
the three prisoners were all at her house in company on the
night of the robbery, and left at nine o'clock. Airs Kelly de-
pond that on Sunday morning after the robbery, the prisoner
Cassidy came to her house to borrow a hat. Peter Howlet,
who in the first instance was taken into custody on suspicion.
deposed; that on Sunday seeing the police about the neighbour-
hood, in Ben Jonson-street, and hearing of the robbery, he met
Cassidy. and told him about the police being about, and Cassidy
said he knew it; they were after him. Cassidy afterwards told
him that he was concerned in the 'robbery, and that Dixon had
stolen the rings and gold chain, and Woolwich bad got the
breast pin and wore it on that Sunday. Constable Ainsworth
deposed that he went with Lloyd to a house in-Heaton-street,
on the Sunday, front information they had received, and broke
into a house, in which they found Cassidy and Barclay endea-
vouring to conceal themselves. Barclay said his name was
Williams. They then both confessed to the robbery, but said
it was the first time. The hat found was tried on Cassidy'S
head, and fitted it exactly. They were all three committed for
trial.

Disc)Roma,/ PAUPERS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office,
three paupers from the Workhouse, were placed before the
magistrates charged with violently assaulting a black man,
named Sambp, also in the Workhouse, and knocking out several
Of his teeth. The complainant fully proved the charge. The'
prisoners had quarrelled with bim for thrusting himself in
amongst them at supper, and they had afterivards waylaid him
in the workhouse and given hini the beating of which he com-
plained. Mr: Hall said it was highly necessary to preserve
order in the establishment, and he should therefore visit this
shameful conduct of the prisoners, who were subsisting on
charity, with a severe punishment. Two of them, named
M`Naspy and Piers, who were the worst, must pay £5 or be
committed for two months to the I3orough Gaol; a third, Cow-
ley, must pay ss. and costs, or be committed for three days;
and the fourth, named Lyon, to be discharged, with a reprimand.
A HORROR-STRUCK Pol.i6Rmax.—Yesterday, at the Police-
office, the keeper of a beer-house in Albion-street, named
Samuel Sliakeshaft, was summoned before the magistrates to
answer the charge of perniitting disorderti conduct in hii house.
His wife answered the suinnions: Inspector Thompson stated,
that on Sattirday night he heard some singing in the house, and
on going in saw a disorderly woman quite drunk, and two
thieves singing ; Inspector Hackey would state the nature of
the song. Inspector Hackey.—" I saw the same. sir,; and
they were singing to,the tune of "A roaming we will go."
"And a robbing we will go;
For to support her,
• 'We went a robbing night and day."

And tha woman was leading the chorus, so I inn): them. all
into custody. (A laugh.) Mr. 11a11.—You are acquitted. You
cannot call singing that song being disorderly. The wife here,
in a peremptory tone, demanded of the inspector, "Now, sir,
1 should like to know who you call a disorderly 'oonian." Her
story was, however,' cut short by her being told that she was
discharged.

CORRESPONDENCE.

COMPENSATION TO COUPORATION TENANTS_

TO THE EDITOR OF TFIE LIVERPOOL S'T.dieZPARD.

Si e,—As the Corporation (sitboti^b a discretionary power has'
been ve'ted in t liesa'hy the act of parliament) refuse to compen-
sate their tenants,. whose premises are required fur improve--
merit 4, are the Town-courted justified in- .attorring a servant or.
the ColouialOffiee,, and ,of the Irish. Government, an office
rent free, or to entertain an application for a stun of moue, to
provide lodgings 'for an officid, the duties.of witsse office are of
no benefit whatever to the inbabitantii of Liit.rpt•x)l, however
useful, they may be to individuals from- other pails Of the king-
dom? If the 'town-council !arises* authority to give the Go-.
vernment the use of an office rent free,und to augment the
remuneration of a servant of Government, (not under the con-
trol of the Corporation,) perhaps some of your readers will
direct attention to the source from which such authority is.
derived, as every provismo of the Municipal Bill appears to
prohibit such au appropriation.'.
Your obedient Servant,
SCROTATOR.

TO THE SURVEYOR OF THE BOROUGH OF
LIVERPOOL.

Sts,—Map I request a favourable notice, or report, from you
to head quarters, if you agree with' me that a must beneficiar
accommodation may he given to the public, by opening a pas-
sage for pedestrians from the West end of Gascovne-street to
Carruthers-street, 4i/order to allow an approach (through Mr.,
Carter's marble orra, as now permitted) to the foot-way over
the Canal, wherehy people can advance to the northern docks,
&c., with a celerity and cotivenienCe tb "whiCh the natives of
that crowded neighbourhood at prestot appear to be utter
strangers.

Again,—That passengers may be Closed the great advantage
of a thoroughfare (on sufferance) from Shaw's-brow to. St.
John's-lane, through the Old Infirmary Ground, of else throngb
the Cnurch-yard; in the latter case a moderate extra corn-,
pens'atibn might be given to the beadle of St. John's, for un-:
locking the gates for twelve hours every day. 100 doubt this:
short approach towards the heart of old Liverpool would be
found a ho,m of considerable value and estimation by every one.
Your's' respectfully,
SESTEK.

. •
TO CAPTAIN GRIFFITHS, OF THE SHIP
"POWHATTAN."
' beg leave, on behalf of self and crew, to return you'
myy very grateful thanks for the extreme kindness and attention
shown to us from the date of your relieving us from the wreck
of the " Byron," until our landing in Liverpool.—l am, Sir;
yours respectfully, • CHRISTOPHER FORREST.
Liverpool, March 8. 1838. •