The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-24 00:00:00

SALE OF THE LATE SIR THOMAS STANLEY'S
STUD, AT HOOTON.

The following were the prices at which the horses of this
capital stud were sold by Messrs. Lucas and Co., on Tuesday
last : _ ,

BROOD MARES.—Ritbbitcatcher's dam, a Brown Mare,
33 ; Augustina, 20 ; Blue Bell. a Bay Mare, 76 ; Bay Mare,
75 ; Violet, a Gray Mare, 26 guineas.
FOALS.—Bay Colt, by Birdcatcher, 10; Bay Filly, 42
guineas

- YEARLINGS
46 ; Bay Colt, 28 guineas
HORSES IN TRAlNlNG.—Apothecary, 82; Chesnut Colt,
54; Chesnut Colt, 40; Brown Filly, 31 ; Bay Colt, 150;
Chesnut Colt, 55 guineas.
HUNTERS.—Gray Mare, a well-known first-rate hunter,
113 ; Warwick, a Bay Gelding, 110; Scampering Dick, 90 ;
Bay Mare, 46; Gray Mare, 61 ; The Count, a Chesnut
Gelding, 37 ; Captain, a Black Ditto, 25 ; Chesnut Gelding,
40 ; Glasgow, a Bay Gelding, 44 ; Button, a Bay Ditto, 23
guineas.
CARRIAGE HORSES•—Lawrie Todd, 19; Bay Gelding,26 ;
Bay Ditto, 18 ; Piccadilly, 35 ; Gasparoni, gs guineas.
HACKS.—Bay Mare, 21; lay Cob Pony, 20; Bay Cob
Pony, 21; Bay Gelding, 18; Chesnut Mare, (Hanoverian,)
18 ; Bay Gelding, 37 ; Gray Pony, 24 ; Gray Gelding, 28
guineas.
HALF-BRED STOCK.—STALLION.—Jack Palmer, 66 gui-

-Brown Filly, 28; Bay Filly, 9 ; Bay Colt,

neas.
BROOD MAREs.—Bay Mare, 27 • Brown Mare, 16; Brown
Mare, 12 ; Chesnut Mare, 17 ; Lady Fanny, Gray Mare, 17 ;
Bay Mare, 22 ; Black Mare, 18 guineas.
YOUNG HALF-BRED STOCK.—Bay Gelding, five years old,
14 ; Brown Gelding, 23 ; Bay Gelding, 36 ; Bay Filly, 13 ;
Black Gelding, 25 ; Chesnut Filly, 29 ; Brown Filly, 21 ;
Gray Filly, 24; Chesnut Filly, 20; Gray Filly, 16; Bay
Gelding, 8 ; 'Crown Gelding, 14 ; Gray Filly, 10 ; Bay
Gelding, 9 guineas.
The following are the prices procured at the sale of
thorough-bred stock, by Mr. Lucas, on Wednesday :
Charley, 37 ; Gilbert. 240; a Chesnut Colt, 170 ; David,
180; Bessy, 52 ; a Chesnut Mare, 11; a Bay Filly, 14 ; a
Chesnut Mare, 14 ; a Bay Gelding, 11 ; a Bay Gelding, 28 ;
a Chesnut Gelding, 35 ; a Brown Gelding, 16 ; a Bay Geld-
ing, 35 ; a Chesnut Colt, 38 ; Piccaroon, 38 ; a Brown Filly,
24 ; Pye-annot, 27 ; a dark Brown Horse, 54 ; Lady Middle-
ton, 30 ; a black Gelding, 22 ; tho Stallion Bay Conqueror,
50 ; a Bay Mare, 31 : a Brown Filly, 37; a Gray Horse, 44;
a Bay Gelding, 21 ' • a Pair of Phaeton Horses, 52 ; a Bay
Mare, 21 ; a Brown Gelding, 32 ; a Bay Carriage Colt, 38 ;
the Baron, 17 ; a Bay Mare, 36 ; a Bay Gelding, 46 ; a Bay
Gelding, 13 guineas.

DETECTION AND APPREHENSION OF

SMUGGLERS

A very extensive seizure of smuggled brandy was made by
the inspector of the Bedminster division of the Bristol police
and the collector and officers of Excise on Monday last, in
the neighbourhood of Bridgewater. For some time past the
excise authorities have had reason to suspect that contraband
spirits were " run " on the Somersetshire coast, in the neigh-
bourhood of Uphill and Bridgewater, and efforts have been
made to detect the smugglers and bring them to justice. A
few days since, Inspector Bosworth received information
that there were two waggons laden with brandy stationed
at a beer-house at Conglesbury, a village of Somerset-
shire. The inspector upon receiving this intimation imme-
diately waited on Mr. Amy, the collector of excise
for the Bristol district, accompanied by whom, Mr. Bishop,
the collector's clerk, and Messrs. Bowsher, Frailey, Kent,
and Walton, excise-officers, he went in search of the
smugglers. On arriving at Congresbury, on Sunday, it was
found that the waggons had been driven away at seven o'clock
that morning. They next traced them to Churchill, from
Churchill to Cross, from Cross to Bridgewater, and from
Bridgewater to North Petherton, at which village the pursuers
arrived at 3 o'clock on Monday morning, and found the wag-
gons containing the contraband spirits standing in the street
in front of an inn. In one of the waggons they found a
man, and a boy named Charles Baulch, from whom they
learned that their companions were in the inn. They then
went into the inn and called up the landlord, and there
found a man named George Tucker Kirtain, a resident
of Plymouth, who was pointed out as the principal, a man
named Richard Baulch, father of the boy, and a lad named
Charles Edwards. On examining the waggons, they were
found to contain 133 kegs, each of which contained about
four and a half gallons of spirits of brandy, of very high
strength. The men were immediately taken into custody,
and the waggons, with their lading, and six horses by which
they were drawn, seized and duly branded with the Queen's
mark. The prisoners were then conveyed to Bristol by the
railroad, and, by direction of the Excise authorities, taken
before Captain Edwards, of Brislington, a magistrate of the
county of Somerset, by whom they were remanded till Tues-
day. On that day they were again brought up before Captain
Edwards and Mr. H. Ricketts, who, after hearing the case,
were of opinion that it could only he adjudicated upon by the
magistz ates of the district in which the offence was commit-
ted. The prisoners were then taken back to Bridgewater,
and charged bofore Mr. George Brown, a magistrate, with
having the spirits in their possession without having a regular
permit. Aftor hearing the case, Mr. Brown ordered Kirtain
to pay a fine of £lOO to the Queen, or in default to be impri-
soiled for four months in Wilton gaol, and there kept to hard
labour; Richard Baulch to pay a fine of £5O to the Queen,
or be imprisoned for three months ; and Charles Baulch and
Charles Edwards, against whom the evidence was not consi-
I dered conclusive, were discharged.