The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-19 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—A young mam,named Ililliana
Wilson, was fined 20s. and costs, on a charge of having
smuggled 1 pound of tobacco, and a quantity of cigars.
He was met by a police officer on Saturday morning,
coming from a vessel in the Huskisson dock, and the
tobacco was found upon him.

MISTAKE OF THE POLICE.—A. respectable-looking
young man, who said that he had arrived in town on
Saturday, was charged with having been found lying in
the street in a state of intoxication, on Saturday after-
noon. The defendant denied that he was intoxicated, or
that he bad even tasted any liquor during the day. He
arrived in Liverpool about noon, and was on his way to see
the Great Britain steamer, when he was seized with an epi-
leptic fit, to which he was subject. When he recovered
he found himself in bridewell. He assured the officer that
he was not intoxicated, and that he was subject to:epileptic
tits; but notwithstanding this statement, the officer refused
to set him at liberty. A young gentleman who was intimate
with the defendant, confirmed his statement, and com-
plained of the negligence and improper conduct of the
police in not taking the defendant to a medical man. Mr.
Mansfield said the police should be cautious in ascertain-
ing whether a man was intoxicated or not, before taking
him into custody. It was, however, possible that a mis-
take had been made by the officer, and he (the magis-
trate) did not blame him. The defendant must be dis-
charged.
BURGLARY AT NEWCASTLE. IYFON-TIPSE.—A man
named Duncan Macmillan was charged with being con-
cerned in an extensive burglary at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne. Detective officer Patrick stated that in con-
sequence of a telegraphic message which had been
received from the police at Newcastle, he watched
for the arrival of a person answering the prisoner's
description at the railway station, in this town,
and on Saturday afternoon he took the prisoner
into custody at the station at Tithebarn-street. From•
information which he had received, he searched his
boxes, and found in them several silk and satin waist-
coat pieces, and other articles of wearing apparel. An
officer from the Newcastle police force stated that the
authorities of that town had reason to believe that the
prisoner was one of a gang in that town who had recently
committed an extensive burglary on the premises of a
woollen draper at Newcastle. The prisoner was handed
over to the custody of the officer from Newcastle, anti
will be conveyed thither to-day.

ROBBERY IN A HOUSE OF ILL-PAMB.—A prostitute;
named Mary Chambers, was charged with stealing a gold
watch and from a man named James Qain, a sergeant
in the militia. On Saturday evening the prosecutor ac-
companied the prisoner to a house in Hotham.street, and
the articles were taken from him whilst he was in her
company. The prisoner was remanded for a week.

BRUTAL ROBBERY IN BANASTRE-STREET.—A fellow,
named John Fagan, was charged with violently assaulting
and robbing two persons named Benjamin Hughes and
James Pritchard, in Banastre-street, yesterday morning,
between one and two o'clock. It appeared that about
half-past one o'clock, Hughes and Pritchard had been at
a public-house, and were on their way home along Banes-
tre-street. Pritchard, who is nearly blind, (and who was
being led by Hughes,) had occasion to stop in the street
for a few moments, and, during that time, the prisoner
and a number of other persons came up, and whilst
Hughes was waiting for his companion, the prisoner and
some of his comrades seized the latter, knocked him
down, and took possession of his hat and coat, and then
robbed him of eighteenpence. Hughes went up to them,
and asked the prisoner and those with him if they were
going to kill Pritchard, on which they knocked him down
and kicked him, and rifled his pockets of a shilling. After
getting away from the gang, the prosecutors met a police-
man, and turned back with him, when they saw the
prisoner, and identified him as one of the parties to the
robbery, and he was taken into custody. The coat the
prisoner wore, when he appeared in the dock yesterday
i wasidentified by the prosecutor Pritchard, as tb-
which he had been robbed. The prisoner w-
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COMMITTALS. —At the Police-court, yesterday, a
woman, named Mary Jones, was committed for trial on
a charge of stealing a camp-stool in Goree Piazzas, on
Saturday last.—Two girls, named Ann Quinn and Maria
Farrel, were committed for trial, charged with having
robbed Mrs. Sarah Roberts of seventeen shillings,' in Great
George-place, on Saturday evening. It appeared that
Mrs. Roberts, with her husband, had been making some
purchases in St. James's market, and were proceeding
home, along Great George-place, when Mrs. Roberts
felt a hand in her pocket, and on suddenly turning round,
the prisoner Quinn was detected drawing her hand out of
Mrs. Roberts's pocket, having abstracted seventeen
shillings. The other prisoner was also assisting her.

SALE OF PICTURES.—We observe that Mr. Branch
has several sales of pictures and drawings under his
management. One to take place to-morrow, in Fa!liner-
street, includes a few specimens of the late talented
family of Williamson; and in the others are numerous
really desirable works of highly esteemed British a
with some of the old masters. rusts,

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ROBBERY.—On Friday night, Mr. James Gibson, tra-
veller,was robbed, in Gore-street, of 4'5 by a
Se,tanfield by name, who "'
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SING.—On Thursday last a woman,
near the place where she was captured.
named Margaret Goose, 40 years of age, residing in Carry-
street, was found in the house with her clothes on fire,
and very badly burnt over her arms, face, and back. She
was taken to the Northern Hospital, where she died on
Saturday last. An inquest was held upon the body'yes-
terday, when a verdict of accidental death was returned.
THE RAGGED SCHOOLS. —We understand that the
whole receipts of to-morrow at the Grand Panorama of
" Uncle Tom's Cabin," which is displayed on several
thousand feet of canvas, and exhibited at the Old Post-
office Chambers, ia Church-street, will, by the liberality
of Mr. Woods, the proprietor, be given for the benefit
of that excellent institution, the Ragged School Union.
THE GREAT BRITAIN.—OH Tuesday last she was taken
into the Sandon Graving Dock, to be examined and
An early day will be named
expected,esili her plates being com-
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departure on her second voyage to Australia. Already
there are many inquiries after berths, and it is more than
probable that the whip will be filled on her second Tenture,