The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Saturday, a man named Thomas Bond was com-
mitted for trial, charged with stealing threebarrels of flonr,
the property of Messrs. Woodward and Co.

A: WILLING WIFE.—A fisherman was summoned at
the Police-court, charged with being drunk. His wife,
who appeared for him, said, that when he was sober,
,he
was one of .the quietest men in the world ; but when he
got drunk, poor fellow, he did not know what he was do-
ing. He was fined ss. and costs, when his wife, loving
soul, said, " You must take me for it, for he's gone out
fishing."
CELLAR RESIDENCES.--A number of individuals were
summoned at the Birkenhead Polite-court on Tuesday,
for infringino, the provisions of the Birkenhead Improve-
ment Acts by letting their cellars separately as dwellings.
The magistrates granted a week in order to give the par-
ties time to clear their cellars; and on the eiviration of
that termthey will be subjected to a fine of ss. per day so
long as the cellars are let as habitations. No less than
nine persons were found in, one cellar.
EMBEZZLEMENT AND ROBBERY IN LONDON.—On
Saturday, Soloman Warshaw, a foreigner-, was charged
with having embezzled the sum of £2, and stolen ten
coats, the property of Mr. Forger, tailor and draper, of
Regent-street. The principal evidence was that of Mr.
Daniel Graetis, who stated, that, in consequence of the
prisoner having suddenly decamped from the establish-
ment in London, he followed him to Liverpool, and found
that he had taken a berth on board a ship called the Mary.
Pleasant, bound for some foreign port. The prisoner
was taken into custody, and the coats were found in his
possession. Mr. Rushton ordered that he should be
taken to London in custody of an officer.
SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—John Burns was, on Wednes-
day, brought before the magistrates, and fined £lOO, for
smuggling tobacco.—On Thursday, Wm. Henry Evans,
steward on board the ship Columbus, from Pernambuco,
was convicted,in the penalty of £lOO, for smuggling 23
lbs. of snuff and 131 lbs. of cigars, and, on Friday, John
Morris, a passenger in the ship Liverpool, from New
York, was brought up at the Police-court charged with
smuggling tobacco. It appeared, from the evidence, that
there were three barrels and half barrel of Indian flour in
the vessel, marked J. M., which the prisoner claimed as
his, and sought to land, but suspicion arising in some way,
the barrels were removed by the custom-house officers,
and,, on being opened, 100 lbs. of Cavendish tobacco. was
discovered in two of them. The case was brought home
to the prisoner, and he was fined in the amount of 4100.
INFORMATION UNDER THE BUILDING ACT.—On Wed-
nesday, Mr. John Robinson, one of the building survey-
ors, appeared in support of an information against Mr.
Thomas Stanley, for building an addition to the outer
wall of his house, in Wilbraham-street, contrary to the
provisions of the 4th section of the building act. In an-
swer to a question by the bench, Mr. Robinson said the
premises were perfectly secure, and no danger could pos-
sibly arise from the mode adopted by the defendant ; but,
according to the oath he had taken, there was no other
course open to him but to lay the information. After
hearing the case, Mr. Rushton said the defendant had
been guilty of an informality, so far as regarded the act,
but as no danger could possibly arise from the alteration
he had made, the case would be dismissed. Mr. Robinson
did right in laying the information, and should act in a
similar manner in all future cases, and allow the magis.
trates to deal with, them,