The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

" OH THIS LOVE," &c.—Love, like death, is no respecter
of persons. Virgil tells us of the latter, (and all experience
bears him out,) that " pale death knoCks with equal hand, at
the palace of the prince and at the cottage of the poor;" and
the former visits alike noble and plebean, civilized and
savage bosoms, animates the generous youth to the emulation
of noble deeds, or fires his mind with jealousy, which Solo-
mon has called " the rage of man." Even so it was with the
two humble individuals who are to be the subject of this brief
history, and whom we immortalise in these our pages. Wm.
Escoline, by trade a carver and gilder, pale, and evidently
love sick, and " with the green and yellow melancholy" of
which Shakspeare sings, impressed on every feature, ap-
peared on Wednesday before the magistrates, to complain of
an assault committed upon him on Sunday last, by Henry
Trelfoid, a weigher in the customs, a stout, florid, good tem-
pered looking youth, evidently fully content with "gentle
avours." The complainant, with a most rueful countenance,
stated, "On Sunday afternoon, I wos walking near the
Custom-house, where I meets this 'ere young man; and we
had some words; when he said, will give you a muzzer,'
(laughter), which I understood for to mean a thump on the
mouth. Not having a mind for a muzzer, I told him he'd
better not ; that if he did I would get a policeman to him;
when he gave me a blow on the eye, and blackened it as you
see," turning the dark side of his face to the light the magis-
trate's countenance. He called a boy as a witness, who saw
the blow given, which he described, as knocking the com-
plainant's hat off, and sending him into the middle of the
street. On being asked why he had struck the complainant,
the defendant said he was very sorry for it, but it was in con-
sequence of the complainant giving him the lie. " It was all,"
said the defendant, " about a love affair." " I beg pardon,"
said the complainant, " there is no love between us." " I
dare say not, said Mr. Hall. " Nor jealousy neither," fol-
lowed up the complainant, " I'd scorn it." " That is no
reason why you should strike him," said Mr. Hall to the de-
fendant. Defendant: " Why, sir, he put himself in a hatti-
tude of hoffence, pulled off his gloves, and buttoned his
coat." Mr. Hall: "He showed very iittle judgment if he
did."—(The defendant bowed on receiving the flattering
compliment to his superior prowess.) " Why." said the
complainant, "I niver bed any gloves on; them's things as
I don't wear." Mr. Hall to the defendant: " You must
curb your passion, sir; you must not inflict blows on a per-
son. You must pay 10s. and costs, and in default of payment
be committed for 16 days to the Borough Gaol. On hearing
this decision the defendant looked very blank, and put his
hands into both pockets to sound them, knowing well there
was nothing to cheer him there, when love opportunely came
to his assistance, and rescued him from the claws of the
constable. The hand of a young female was • obtruded
through the crowd over his shoulder, and between its fore
finger and thumb was offered a sovereign—(a sovereign re-
inedy for many of the ills of life)—while a female voice was
heard to say, " Here, Henry," in a tone, no doubt, to
Henry worth a thousand sovereigns. He tendered the money
and the fine was paid, and with a smiling and triumphant
look he joined the cause of rivalry, whilst his rival looked
daggers and walked away.
SHOPLIFTING.—Margaret Webb and Elizabeth Webb,
mother and daughter, were placed at the bar of the Police-
court on Wednesday, charged with having stolen several ar-
ticles at the shop of Messrs. Jeffrey and Morrish, drapers,
Church-street. Stephen Evans, one of the assistants at the
above named shop stated that between three and four o'clock
on Tuesday afternoon he saw the two prisoners sitting near
the counter. He asked them if he should attend to them and
they replied that another person was getting what they re-
quired. Witness soon became engaged with another custo-
mer, and was again at liberty before any person attended to
the prisoners. One of them said, " I suppose you can serve
us." At this time they had been in the shop full three quar-
ters of an hour. Each of them had on a cloak. Witness told
them that he could attend to them. The prisoners requested
that some calico and some red flannel might be shown to them.
This was complied with and they further asked to see some
silk handkerchiefs. Nine pieces were displayed before them.
While the prisoners were engaged turning them over and
looking at them, the foreman called witness to another part
of the shop, whence he returned immediately, and missed
some of the handkerchiefs. He took them to another part of
the shop, counted them and missed two pieces, one contain-
ing seven and the other five handkerchiefs. The master of
the shop was informed and he invited the prisoners into the
warehouse where one of the pieces were found in the possession
of the elder prisoner and the other was found on the floor near
her. Police officer Davies Maden was sent for and he took
the prisoners into custody. The elder prisoner declared that
she had never touched the property and the daughter con-
firmed this statement taking the whole blame upon herself.
The prisoners were committed for trial.
SELLING UNSOUND HAM.—A shopkeeper was summoned
on Wednesday, on information from Inspector Holden,
charged with having exposed for sale eleven pounds of un-
sound ham. Holden described the meat as being badly
cured and tainted at the bone It was ticketed at 4d. per
pound. This was the third time the satne individual had been
summoned for similar offences. He was fined ss. and costs.
with an intimation that if he repeated the offence the full
penalty of £2 would be exacted.

CUPID AGAIN.—The mischievous little god never sleeps;
night and day he is alike busy playing his pranks. Yester-
day, at the Police-office, a young man named Peter Mail-
ham, and a servant girl, named Catherine Fogg, were placed
before the magistrates, charged by Mr. Barton, with being
"suspicious characters." 'I he fact was, he somewhat more
than suspected them, of being (what the world calls) " in
love" with each other. It appeared from Mr. Barton's state-
ment, that the female prisoner was his servant, and that
when he called her up on Wednesday morning at seven
o'clock, she complained that she had had no sleep during
the night! (" 'Cos why ?" as the Cockneys say, we shall
see :) and that she felt exceedingly unwell. Thinking that
she was unwell he told her she need not get up, and procured
a char-woman in her stead to do the house work for the day.
In the course of the day he sent the char-woman up with
some breakfast for her, who, on approaching the bed-room
door heard some hurried whispers—" For God sake what
shall I do? where shall I stuff myself?" " Here, get in be-
tween the bed and the wall; keep close to the wall," said
Catherine Fogg. This awoke the charwoman's suspicions.
Women are generally suspicious; and, on the principle of
" set a thief to catch a thief," there is nothing like setting a
woman to find the tricks of another woman out. At dinner
time Mr. Barton considerately sent the invalid some wine
and water, which it was the charwoman's business again to
convey. Determined this time upon a surprise, she stealthily
proceeded up stairs, and presented the wine at the bed side,
without any previous warning. Far be it from us, however,
to accuse a charwoman of curiosity, or, indeed any woman.
We attribute her noiseless step to pure kind heartednes, and
anxiety not to disturb the invalid. But, alas, that we must
tellit! " Oh frailty! Thy name is woman." Shades of all
the Catherines, who would have believed it! Donna
Julia was not the last of her kind. She however, as Byron
sings, had address enough ingeniously to tumble the bed-
clothes, and conceal her darling Juan from searching eyes;
not so the heroine of our story ; for, on the impertinent looks
of the char-woman peering through the bed-curtains, whose
form should meet her astonished gaze, snoozing besides
Catherine Fogg, but that of Peter Mailham, the identical
prisoner at the bar. The char-woman was quite shocked; at
least—she said she was; and in a heat of virtuous 'indigna-
tion posted down stairs and informed the family of the cause
of Catherine's illness. It appeared that the night previous,
after the family had retired to rest, Catherine had risen and
admitted Peter into the sanctum sanctorum of her apartment
—the very " holy of holies." This fully accounted for her
sleeping so little during the night. It appeared that weary
at last of Cupid's pranks. she courted the approach of Mor-
pheus, and, encircled in his soft arms and those of Peter
Mailham, had forgotten bright Phoebus' approach, till the
voice of her master aroused her. What was to be done in
such a predicament; ber master was up and Peter could not
be got unobserved out of the way. Woman's wit came ready
to her aid, and she instanter feigned to be dreadfully ill; and
had hoped by this manmuvre to get the day over, conceal
Peter, and let him out scaith!ess during the ensuing night.
But the cruel fates had not so willed it; for after keeping
him safe under the bedclothes for fourteen hours, the un
lucky char-woman spied his whiskers! This being the state
of the case what was Mr. Barton to do? He very naturally,
we think, began to suspect them of something, and therefore
called in a policeman and had them both taken to Bridewell,
and booked as "suspicious characters." As may be supposed,
Peter looked very simple before the magistrates, nor less
simple she for whom for fourteen hours be had suffered so
much. After receiving a lecture on the impropriety of his
conduct from the magistrates, he promised, as be said, "to
make all straight" and marry the girl, and they were both
discharged.
STEALING GLASS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a man
named Moffit, who represented himself as a glazier, was
placed before the magistrates on a charge of stealing a quan-
tity of glass from an empty house. A workman, occupied in
finishing some new houses in Fox-street, stated, that on Wed-
nesday night he left off work at a quarter to five o'clock and
left the premises secure. On returning to the premises after
tea, he found the door broken open, and whilst he was getting
a light the prisoner came down stairs and ran away, and he
followed, and apprehended him with three large squares of
glass in his possession, which be had cutout of one of the win-
dow frames up stairs. The prisoner denied that he knew any-
thing of it, but said he was apprehended by a policeman, be-
Cause the witness, was running after him. It appeared that
he had been committed for eight days before for a similar of-
fence. Mr Hall sentenced hint to three months imprison-
ment in Kirkdale.

SUMMONS FOR SEAMAN'S WAGES.—Yesterday, at the Po-
lice-office, Captain Robinson, of the brig John Scott, from
Monte Video, was summoned before the magistrates by his
cook, Thomas Randalls, for refusing to pay him his wages.
The complainant, who had but one arm, stated that he was
engaged as cook at £2. 10s. per month, and shipped at Li-
verpool on the 27th of March last, to perform the voyage to
Monte Video and back; he arrived in Liverpool again on
Saturday week, and the captain refused to pay him his wages.
The captain said, his reason for not paying him was that he
had behaved very ill the whole of the voyage, and on the ar-
rival of the ship in Liverpool, he had left the ship without
permission, and had also instigated others to do the same
On the passage home, he told him (the captain) that he
was sick and wanted an emetic. He (the eaptaln) gave
him one, and he refused to take it, and said, he thought
it was not one, and he was in consequence two days ill for
want of medicine. He also told hint that he would keep the
emetic till he got to Liverpool, and have it analyzed, as he
believed it was poison. Mr. Hall said, because the man re-
fused to take his emetic, that was no ground for refusing to
pay him his wages. The captain said then, that at Monte
Video the men, instigated by him, had knocked off work be-
cause they had not a breakfast to their liking, and he had
had them, in consequence, before the British consul there,
who had also partaken of the breakfast which had been pre-
pared for them. He had paid the other men their wages,
but had withheld this man's because he was the ringleader of
the others to do wrong. The chief ground of his complaint
was, that he had left the ship at Liverpool, without permis-
sion, before her cargo was discharged, and had induced the
other men also to leave her while her anchors were over her
bows. Mr. Hall said, in general the captain was anxious to
get quit of his crew, and get lumpers to discharge his vessel ;
but he had a right to demand the services of his men
if he wished them. Mr. Davenport, who appeared on behalf
of the complainant, wanted to know if the Captain's ob-
jection to the cook was not because he was a religious man.
The Captain said he had pretended to be a religious man be-
fore the consul at Monte Video, and had said that that was
his (the Captain's) objection to him; but when the consul
gave him the book to swear by, he would not take.an oath
to the truth of what he said, and the consul called him " a
d—d psalm-singing rascal." Mr. Hall said he should de-
duct one month's wages, which he had forfeited by leaving
the ship without permission, at Liverpool, and ordered the
balance of his wages, £l3 3s. 6d., and costs, to be paid to
him.

MAD DOGS.—Some suspicious cases of " canine madness"
having been reported to the mayor, his worship, in conformity
with an act passed the Ist of Victoria, has issued a notice,
calling on the owners of dogs to keep them up for three
weeks : in default, the owner of any dog found at laige will
be subject to the penalty of five pounds.

KNUTSFORD YEOMANRY BALL—The above ball took place
on Friday last, the 14th inst., at the County Assembly
Rooms, George Hotel, and was very numerously attended,
203 persons being present. The ball was opened by Wil-
braham Egerton, Esq., with Miss Holland, and the dance
was kept up with great spirit till nearly six o'clock on Satur-
day morning. Among the fasbionables present wore Wil-
braham Egerton, Esq. (Tatton Park), Lady and party,
'Patton' Egerton, Esq., M.P., and Lady, Ireland Blackburne,
Esq., M.P., Mrs. Glegg and daughters, —. Townsend, Esq.,
—. Trafford, Esq., —. Leigh, Esq., Chas. Cholmondeley,
Esq., and daughter, Mrs. J. Sbackerlev, H. Croft, Esq., and
friends, C. Holland, Esq., family and party, J. Pownall,
Esq., 1-1. Long, Esq.. Lady and party, R. Dean, Esq., Lady
and party, Aines Igiuson, Esq. (Liverpool), J. Roseow, Esq.,
family and party, &c., &c.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE_

MANCHESTER.--TUESDAY EVENING.

The attention of the speculators has been, for some days,
completely taken up with the Chatsworth Cup; and the
prices have fluctuated in various circles. We give those of
the most important market thus:—

THE •C
HATSWORTH CUP.—(For all ages.)
7 to 1 against Empress. (t.)
Bto 1 „ Major. (t)
Bto 1 „ Venus. (t)
9to 1 „ Pepper. (t)
10 to 1 „ Lightning. (t freely)
100 to 1 „ Hollyhock. (t)
The following have been selected :—Mr. Bake's Major, by
Lowther, out of Miss Whip; Mr. Edwards's Pepper, by
Merlin, out of Fly; Mr. Hunt's Hollyhock, by Bolivar; Mr.
Mavall's red dog Nelson, by Grasper, out of Venus; Mr.
Bold liohinson's-Empress, &c. &c. Most of the subscribers,
&c. to the stakes, have left, to be present. Many of the
greyhounds were seen yesterday, en route, in the highest
trim.