The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

A SLEEPY MATE.—Thomas Atkinson, the mate of the
Princess Victoria, appeared on Friday at the police-office to
claim from the captain of the vessel a balance of wages due
to him to the amount of £l7. 17s. It appeared that the ves-
sel had sailed from this port on the 16th of March, and was
bound to Constantinople and Odessa. She returned on the
18th of October. The mate claimed (less the amount re-
ceived) wages for that period, at the rate of £5. a month.
Captain Chambers demurred, in the first instance to the rate
of wages, which he stated to be £4. 10s. a month, not £5 ;
and in proof of his assertion handed in the ship's articles, in
which the mate's wages were so set down. The mate asserted
that the sum was not inserted at the time of signing the ship's
articles, and that a verbal agreement between himself and
the captain had been made, by which it was arranged that
he was to have £5. a month. In the course of the dispute it
came nut that the advance which had been made to the mate

was £2. 10s. a month ; and as the advance is generally to the
extent of half-pay, the magistrate thought that a strong fact
in favour of the mate's assertion. The second ground of
objection was, that the claimant had not performed his duties,
l'he captain stated that, when in the lower part of the Archi-
pelago, on their homeward passage, he deemed it necessary,
in consequence of those waters being.infested with pirates,

to keep a strict watch; but on two occasions he went upon
deck, when it was the mate's watch, and found him asleep:
The 14th or August was the last time when the mate had been

detected asleep, and from that day the captain told him he
must cease to consider himself as mate, and go forward and
work as a common seaman. The mate complied with the
order, and another man was put in his place. The mate ad-
mitted that he had been once found asleep, but attempted to
excuse himself on the ground of his severe duties; he had
frequently been on deck twenty hours out of the twenty-four.
Mr. Hall said, that as the claimant himself admitted the fact,
there need be nothing further said about it. He had neglected
his duty at a very important period, and reudeied it impera-
tive on the captain to substitute another person in his place.
He ordered that the mate should be paid at the rate of £5. a
month up to the 14th of August, and at the highest rate for a
common seaman in the vessel—namely, £2. 15s. a month for
the remaining period.

A CRUEL TRICK UPON A TRAVErLEß.—Bernard Leonard,

a well known bad character, was, on Saturday, placed before
Mr. Hall, charged with having successfully practised the
trick called duffing, upon a poor Hibernian reaper, whom he
had succeeded in defrauding of the sum of his worldly wealth.
It appeared that the Irishman was on his way to his native
country, with the savings which he had been enabled to make
during the harvest in, this country. He was going to make
inquiry about the packet, but he could not tell what street he
was in, when he saw Leonard pass him. The latter stooped
suddenly, and picked up a parcel. He looked at it fur an
instant, and, turning to the Irishman, asked him if he had
dropped it. He replied in the negative. Leonard, accord-
ing to the custom in such cases, requested his intended dupe
to assist him in opening the paper. This was done, and a
glittering chain and seats were produced. Leonard took from
the parcel a folded note, and opening it, asked the Hibernian
if he were a scholar. " Here I am," replied the latter,
" sufficient to read written hand any how !" The note was
handed to him, and he read as follows :—" The fine gold chain,
and elegant gold chaste seals, £s3—paid." Another individ-
ual, who is known to belong to the honourable fraternity of
duffers, was called upon. He appeared to be passing casually.
He examined the chain and seals, and gravely pronounced
them to be worth £6O. "'Very well," said Leonard to the
Irishman, "we are in luck;—we've got a prize. You were
present when I found it, and you shall have your share. I'll
behave like a gentleman to you." The prisoner and his
companion persuaded the poor fellow to go with them " into
the town," where, they said, they would share the value of
the property. They took him through several streets, till,
having walked nearly two miles, he grew tired, and expressed
his determination to return. They then took him into an
entry, where Leonard asked him if he had any mony. He
said, yes, he bad £9 103 , which he had saved from his wages
during the harvest. Leonard said, " Well, I shall give you
£lO for your share, if that will satisfy you." The poor
Hibernian, of course, was delighted. Leonard persuaded
him, that the best way to bind all parties would be for him to
give the Irishman the chain and seals, as a security that he
would return with the £lO. "And," said Leonard. "you
must give me your money, as a security that you will return."
The poor man, thinking he had in his possession worth £5O
or £6O, consented to this arrangement, and delivered up the
money, upon which the two rogues left him. " Dhe minnit
I'd give dhe money," said the Irishman, " my heart misgave
me." He waited for a considerable time; but, it is needless
to say, his two friends did not return. His misgivings then
became very violent, and be went and gave information to
the Police. Levi Underwood apprehended the prisoner on
Friday night, but no portion of the money was found in his
possession. It was expected the other rogue, who is well
known, would be taken in the course of Saturday. The
prisoner was temanded.
CONCEALING CONTRABAND GOODS.—John Jones was, en
Saturday, charged before Messrs. Hall and Houghton, with
having had, secreted in his premises, 30ib. of negrohead
tobacco. The case was fully proved on the evidence of the
officers of Excise, who found the property in a trunk. Mr.
Crew appeared for the defendant, and attempted to prove,
that the trunk and tobacco had been left at bis house by a
sailor. This defence failed, and the defendant was convicted
in the mitigated penalty of £25.
'l'ttu FURIES.—There was, on Saturday, a treat for the
lovers of the marvellous, in the circumstance of two Furies
having been brought under the cognisance of the human au-
thorities, for having, unlawfully, harboured certain spirits;
whether the same were good or evil, is a matter to be decided
between the bacchanals and the tee-totallers. Patrick Fury
and Sarah Fury were summoned, by invocations from the
most potent servants of the Board of Excise, to appear be-
fore Thomas James Hall and Richard Houghton, Esquires,
judges in such cases, more inexorable far than Minos or
Rhadamanthus. "The Great Magician," who discovered

the secret machinat►ons of these illicit dealers in alcoholic
liquid against the revenue, is called Culsbaw. What spells
he used more than those which he obtained from the spelling
book we have no means of knowing, as such individuals are
as secret in their dark doings as the waters of Lethe. Cer-
tain it is, that he did, somewhere, obtain information, which

led him to suspect the Furies of unlawful doings. Fury, it
appears, follows the appropriate occupation of fireman on
board one of the City of Dublin ckinpany's steam-boats.
From his constant occupation at theWrnaCes, it is presumed,
may have derived the common exclamation, "Fire and
Fury !" On the 16th of September last, Culshaw watched
Mrs. Sarah Fury, as the gallant Don Giovanni is said to
have watched the furies, "Flour of Brimstone and Cream of
Tartar," in the dominions of Pluto. Culshaw, however, had
nut to go so far as Tartarus, but he met Mrs. Fury "stalking,
like a ghost, all along by the church-yard." Nothing daunted
by her awe-inspiring appellation, he conjured the-name of
the Honourable Board or Commissioners, to make palpable
to his external senses the articles which she carried beneath
her apron. Spell-bound stood Mrs. Fury, and not a charm
could she muster, to allay the suspicions of the exciseman.
Slowly and reluctantly, in obedience to his repeated adjura-
tions, did she produCe, from beneath her vestments, a bottle
of whisky, not the first spirits that the puissant officer had
raised. Having seized this "bottle imp," he insisted on ac-
companying Mrs. Fury to her domicile, a celler in Porter-
street. Here the exciseman, in exercising his skill in exor-
cising, managed to deliver more spirits from their dark re-
treat, in an old oak chest which was hidden in a corner. No
less than ten quart bottles of whisky were set at liberty by
the valiant and skilful officer. It appeared, that Patrick
Fury was in the habit of bringing whisky from Ireland, and
that Mrs. Fury was in the habit of selling it to such as wished
to be placed under spiritual influence. The Furies were fined
in the mitigated penalty of £25.
BRUTAL CONDUCT.—Yesterday, at the Police Office, a
man named Patrick• Brennan, an Irishman, was placed be-
fore the magistrates, charged with beating and ill-using his
wife, and putting his child upon the fire. A policeinan stated,
that on Saturday night he was on duty in Scotland-road,
when he heard screams front a cellar. He went to see what
was the matter, and found that the prisoner and his wife had
been quarrelling, and the prisoner had got one of his dill-

drew, 'which he was il'-usin. His wife was trying to get it
from him, when he told her if she would net be quirt he
would put the child on the lire. He had no sooner said this
than he seized the child, and put it on the coals on the tire,
and he (policeman) took him into custody, after rescuing the
child. The wife said that the prisoner was an oysterman ;
that he was continually ill-using her, and had also put her
on the fire, and burnt her arm. The prisoner said he could
not live with his wife. He was willing to allow her ss. a-week,
but he could not live with her. The wife said she could not
live with the prisoner, and said she would take 3s. a-week
sooner than live ,With him. Mr. Hall said he must give her
6s. a-week. The prisoner agreed to do that. Mr. Hall said
he was a worthless fellow: he must promise not to go near
his wife again, or he should commit him. Prisoner.—" If
she lives dhere for sivin years, I'll not trouble her." The
Wife,—" dyin' wid his ill thratement." Prisoner.—

" Dyin' ? she's been dyin' afore: she olers dyin'." The pri•
soner was then discharged on his promise to pay the 6s,
a•week, and not to molest his wife.

ALICE GRAY AGAlN.—Yesterday, at the Police Office, the
notorious Alice Gray, one of the most drunken prostitutes in
the town, was again brought up to Bridewell. Whether
Alice be the very Alice for whom some poor love-sick Wight's
'6 heart was broken," or not, we do not pretend to say. We
remember her first appearances at the Police Office, when
she was tolerably decent looking; and certain it is that she
has " dark brown hair:" but whatever her " brow" may have
been, over which it was braided, it has long, from drunken-
ness and debauchery, ceased to be one of "spotless white."
Alice appears to be afflicted with an odd kind of monomania.
Gin and religion have some odd kind of relation in her mind,
and whenever she takes the one, she is immediately taken
with a violent affection for the other, and forthwith begins
preaching. Policeman 77 stated that on Sunday morning,
to Skelhorne-street, seeing a crowd of 40 or 50 persons col-
lected, he went to see what was the matter, and found Alice
in the centre of them, expounding doctrinal points of theo-
logy on faith. As she would keep preaching away, he was
obliged to take her into custody. Mr. Hall.—Well, Alice,
you will not
.give over your old practices. Alice.—Well,
Mr. I was expounding to poor misguided sinners the
doctrine of saving grace; but as it's disagreeable to the au-
thorities, I'll not do it again on the Sunday: but iu the course
of the week I will not promise. On the Sabbath mornings
I'll leave it to the clergy in future.
Mr. Hall.—Well, take care: you have been once or twice
in jail for the same offence. Discharge her.
Assaucr,--Yesterday, at the Police-office, a Welshman,
named Jones, who lives in the house of a cobbler, in one of
the back streets in the neighbourhood of St. John's Market;
was placed at the bar charged with having been found stripped
in the street, and with assaulting. Goff, the market constable.
Goff stated that he was passing down the street, and saw the
prisoner stripped in the street, challenging his landlord to
fight. He was quite drunk, and he tried to persuade him to
be quiet, and go into the house. He at length went in, ran
up stairs, seized a poker and ran at Goff, and aimed a blow
at Goff 's head with the poker, but luckily hit the banisters.
The force with which he struck had been so great as to bend
the poker. Goff then took him into custody. The landlord
had no charge to prefer against him. He did not know why
he had so behaved. The prisoner then went into a long tale
about his having lived seven years with his landlord, and that
he had been very ill used, and had his door broken open,
and had been seized by the neck and almost choked, which
was the reason of his "turning out." The landlord, who ap-
peared to be a Welshman, here broke out in a great rage.
" He came to my toor fery trunk; and I haf a little tog; ant
when he came in te little togs•parket at 'im, Why te tevill,'
says he, 'to you keep a ting of tat sort to annoy me ?" I tont
keep no tinge to annoy you,' said 1. I had no sooner spoke
than he gef me a plow on the eve, and then stripped naket
into his puff to fight. I could het' knocket him to pieces, put
1 wouldn't touch him." Mr. Hall ordered him to pay 5s and
costs for assaulting Guff, or to be committed fur three days.

KIRKDALE QUARTER SESSIONS.—The quarterly sessions
for the county commenced, at Kit kdale, on Thursday morn-
ing, before the hey. Jonathan Brooks, Chairman, R. 13. Wil-
braham, Esq., 'l'. Thornely, Esq., IMP., Sir Thos. Brancker,
P. Ellames, A. Hodgson, 'l'. Rawson, T. Itodick, F. h orrnhy,
Peter Bourne, and H. Gaskell, Esqrs., and eight other Ma-
gistrates. The Chairman, in his charge to the Grand Jury,
stated, there appeared no case in the ca;endar which required
any particular observation from him, nor was he aware, that
any alteration had occurred in the criminal law, during the
last session, to which he need allude. He was pleased to
learn, that a place had been appointed, in the Isle of Wight,
for the reception of the juvenile offenders, with a view to
their reformation: that the Secretary of State for the Home
Department had it in his power to direct them to be sent for
a part or the whole of their sentence, for which well devised
experiment he gave the government great praise. Charlei
Turner, Esq., was Foreman of the Grand Jury. There were
forty seven prisoner for trial for felony, and six for inisde-
rneanours. The cases of felony were almost all of a petty
nature.