The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-29 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

STEA LING A COAT.—Steven Evanson was placed before Mr.
Hall, en Saturday last, charged with having stolen a great coat,
the 'property of Edward Lloyd. The latter stated, that he was
a stable boy at the stables of Thomas Roby, publican, Warwick-
street, Toxteth-park. Between eight and nine o'clock on
Thursday night last, he hung his top-coat on a nail at the upper
end of the stable. where he left it, and went out without locking
the door. In 'about half an hour he returned, when he found
that the coat had been taken away, but the cape left behind.
On that morning (Saturday) he had seen the coat produced in
the possession of Mr. Gal Way.. It was his property, Mr. Gal-
way stated, that he was an assistant in the shop of Mr. Kitchen,
pawnbroker, Park-lane. The prisoner had pledged the coat
with him for twelve shillings. Police-officer Whalley, who took.
the prisoner into custody, stated, that, on searching the prisoner,
be found in his possession the pawn-ticket for the coat. The
prisoner said, be had found the coat in Park-lane. He was
committed for trial at the Borough Sessions.
A METROPOLITAN IN THE COUNTRY.—A swell, dressed, at
all points, quite the thing, was placed at the bar of the Police-.;
court, on Saturday, charged with having assaulted Police-officer
John Temple' and another officer. Temple stated, that, at
twelve o'clock on the preceding night, he heard a disturbance
in London-road, and went to see what was the matter. He
found the prisoner kicking up a row, and endeavouring with all.
his might to astonish the provincials. He (Temple) requested
him to be quiet and betake himself to his domicile, but the pri-
soner was determined to show the bumpkin country officers a
little of the metropolitan play; so he put himself in a pugilistic
attitude and fired into them right and left. Poor Temple was
speedily overturned, and the other officer, who bad come up to
his assistance, came in for a share of the good things which the
prisoner was so liberally dispensing. The two officers, however,
soon overpowered the Cockney, and he was lugged off to the
Lock-up. Mr. Hall asked the prisoner what he was. The
prisoner replied, that he was a tea-dealer, front London. Mr.
Hall—" You have come here on business, I suppose?" Pri-
soner.—" No." The prisoner refused to give any further
account, either of himself or the transaction. He was ordered
to pay a fine of 10s. and costs. In default, to be committed fur
11 days.

STEALING CHEESE.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a woman
named Mary Leigh, was brought before the magistrates,
charged with having stolen a cheese, on Saturday night, fr,n,
a cheese shop in Freeman-street. A witness stated, that he
was coming up Dale-street, about seven o'clock on Saturday
night, when he saw the prisoner go into Mr. Rushton's cheese
shop, in Freeman-street, and take a cheese,' and put it under
her cloak, and walk off. He then gave_her into custody. Par-
kinson, the Bridewell keeper, said that the prisoner was
known ; she had been. tried at the sessions for stealing a cheese
before, and had been imprisoned twelve months for it. The
prisoner said that distress had compelled her to do it. Since
she had been out of prison, she had had nothing to keep her of,
and she had had no meat all that day. Mr. Hall enquired what
the cheese was worth, and was told, about 15s. A police-officer,
who-took her into custody, said she had 2s. on her person when
she was taken into custody. The magistrates ordered the irifor
mations for her commitment to be taken.
DOG FIGHTING.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a Young
man, named Thomas Price, appeared before the magistrates
on a summons charging him with dog-fighting, on Saturday.
Policeman 35, stated, that on Saturday, the defendant was fighl.
ing his his dog with another,_ on the plot of waste ground be-
tween Renshaw-street and Bold street, at three o'clock in the
afternoon. The defendant said that he lived in Cropper-street,
near the Arcade, and his dog began fighting with another, and
he ran out to try to get him off, when the policeman came.
The policeman denied this. Mr. Hall, "Have you any- tiro-
perty toiray a fine r —Defendant, "No Sir." Mr. Half, you
must pay a penalty of 205., and in default, be committed for
sixteen days to the Borough Gaol.
STEALING BY DEPUTY.—Yesterday, at the Police-office• a
girl about fourteen years of age, named Jane Brennan, was
owng si t
brought before the magistrates, charged with having stolen
some pig iron from the docks. A dock-policeman stated, that
a little before twelve o'clock that morning, he saw the prisoner
giving a little child a piece of pig iron, which she had. in her
hand, to carry over the dock-bridge. Mr-
D li
the prisoner had four or five little children, whom she ema dlahat
yed
to pick up iron, and carry into the town for her. She .was well
known about the docks. Parkinson, the bridewell-keeper,
p
sail she had been committed before for similar offences. Mr.
Hall said the prisoner thought she would be protected by em-
ploying the child to steal for her , - he should commit her for
seven days to the house of correction. •

MR. HEMMINP'S LECTURES .ON. CHEMIS

TO EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDdED,
SIR,—Having just seen your report in Friday's (the 18tli)
paper of Mr. Hemming's first lecture on cheinigry, at the
Mechanics' Institution, I must beg to point out two inaccu-
racies of an important nature, which I doubt not •from your
known candour.you. will take an early opportunity of correcting.
In that part of your report which notices some of, the causes'
which modify and-sometimes reverse the order of chemical ef-
finity, you ascribe to Mr. Hemming the folloWing statement,
"Iron has so great an affinity for oxygen, that it decomposes
water,-and takes tho oxygen from. it... If we add • acid to the
water containing the iron, the acid will dissolve the oxide. as
soon as formed, and thus continually present a new surface for
oxidation. In this manner hydrogen is liberated from iheoA-
ter. Oxygen thus has a greater affinity for iron than bydrn

has."
So far the report is perfectly correct; but you conclude the
statement thus:—
" But if we heat the oxide of iron in a tube, and pass a cur-
rent of dry hydrogen gas over it, the hydrogen will have an
affinity for the iron, and leave it in a metallic state in the tube."
I was present the whole of the lecture alluded to, and per-
fectly recollect that the statement made by the lecturer was, not
that the hydrogen had an affinity for the iron, but that the hy-
drogen would, under the circumstances alluded to, exert a supe-
rior attraction for the oxygen of the oxide of iron, and by
combining with it, produce water, leaving the iron in the tube
in a metallic state. ,-
The next error is the following:—Your report says, Potas-
sium is made from the alkali potash. By heating potash, which
is a compound of oxygen, carbon, and metal. in a close vessel
with-charcoal,,the charcoal takes away the oxygen and the car-
bon from the potash, and the metal flows over."
The lecturer did not assert that potash was a compound of
carbon with oxygen and the metallic based, but that it was a
compound of oxygen with the metallic based, which, by expo'
sure to a high temperature with charcoal, yielded its oxygen to
the latter, and the metal became reduced.
Justice to the professional talents of a gentleman who de•
servedly' stands high in public estimation has induced me to
trouble you with these remarks, your early insertion of which
have no reason to doubt, as the dissemination of erroneous
statements'is calculated to injure thOprofessional reputation of
a public man; and I am satisfied that the errors in question
could only have arisen from inadvertenCy attendant on the
hurry arising from a very, limited time occupied in getting
up
the report in question, the general accuracy of which I have
great pleasure in bearing testitnony to. —I am, sir, &c.
G. FUME, Practical Chemist.,
Lime-street, Liverpool,2sdtslVay., 1836.

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