The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Friday, a young man, named
John Stringer, was committed ter trial charged with hav-
ing stolen 3s. 6d., the property of Mr. Evans, clock and
watchmaker, of 'this town.
THEFT BY A CHARWOMAN.—On Friday, Hannah Hul-
loch was committed for trial upon the charge of having
robbed Mrs. Hughes, of Clayton-square, at whose house
she had been actin as charwoman.
THEFT BY A W OREM AN.—A mon named John Ker-
foot was on Friday committed for trial by Mr. Rushton,
upon the charge of selling bricks from his master's kiln,
at Kirkdale, which he had no authority to do.
COLLISION.—On Wednesday, the Police-court was a
considerable .time occupied in hearing a case of collision
on the river. The Highland Mary was on the previous
Wednesday lying at anchor, when the schooner Diamond,
corning. up with a strong tide, struck her heavily on the
starhofird bow, carrying away the cutwater. The High-
land Mary had at once to let go the anchor, with 7.5 fa-
thoms of chain, and put into the Prince's Dock for re-
pairs. The damages, it was stated, did not exceed £2O.
It was left to Mr. Askew, the harbour master, to ascer-
tain the precise amount, an order for payment being
awarded by the court.
DRUNKENNESS A NECESSARY EVIL.—At the Police-
court,' on Thursday, a female, whose name we don't give,
was summoned to appear before Mr. Rushton on a charge
of drunkenness. The lady did not appear in propria
persona, but sent her husband in her stead. The case
having been proved by a policeman, the husband intimated
that he had something to say in extenuation. "Do you
deny her being drunk ?" said Mr. Rushton. " She was
taken ill some time ago," said her spouse," " and she
was ordered to take spirits. I admit that it is an evil,
though it is a necessary evil." Mr. Rushton—" 0 no,
there can be no necessity to get drunk." The lady was
ordered to pay ss. and 4s. 6d. costs.
A SIMPLE COWKEEPER.—On Saturday, a young man,
of the name of Michael Conway, was brought before Mr.
Rushton on a charge of having robbed a cowkeeper named
Owen, of his watch. Owen stated that he was in Sum-
merseatt, a notorious place for thieves and bad characters
of all descriptions, about eleven o'clock on Friday night,
and that, as he was in the act of entering a public house
to get what he called his "nightcap,"or, in other words,
his last glass for the night, the prisoner came up to him
and asked him what time it was. Owen replied, between
ten and eleven. The prisoner told him that he particu-
larly wanted to know the exact time, and should be ob-
liged if he could tell him to a minute. Owen immedi-
ately drew his watch from his fob, and was about to feel
at the minute hand when the prisoner seized the article
and gave it a tug. It happened to be suspended round
his neck by a very thick, strong chain, which resisted the
tug. A scuffle then ensued between them, and in the
course of it the prisoner gave the watch another very se-
vere tug, and the clasp of the chain gave way. He then
made off with it, and was pursued sharply by the cow-
keeper. After running through various streets, he was at
length arrested by an officer in Chisenhale-street, but he
had not the watch then in his possession, and there was
very little doubt that he had in the course of the chase
passed it to one of his confederates. He was committed
for trial.

A PUGILISTIC POLICEMAN.—On Saturday, a tall, ath-
letic policeman, 'of the name of Spencer, was brought
before Mr, Rushton on a charge of being drunk, fighting,
and breaking the furniture in the house of Mr. Charles
Howell, eating-house keeper, 27, Tithebarn-street, the
night before. The prisoner had a black eye and sundry
bruises and contusions about other parts of the face,
which showed but too plainly that he had not come off
altogether scatheless in his recent encounter. Mr. Howell
stated, that he had met with a great many ferocious cha-
racters in his time, but never such a one as the fellow in
the dock ; in fact, his opinion was that the prisoner was
a devil incarnate, and not a human being. The
night before he entered his house drunk, and, not
being satisfied with fighting with and turning every
man out of the eating-room, he ran down stairs,
seized a heavy poker, broke some of the furniture with
it, and swore that he must have somebody else to fight
with'. Several were obliged to fight against him in self-
defence, and others had to fly out of the house for their
lives, for he brandished the poker over his head and laid
about him on all sides. Mr. Howell, who was labouring
under severe indisposition, said that a similar scene of up-
roar, terror, and dismay, had never before been created by
any twenty men in the neighbourhood. Mr. Rushton
ordered the prisoner to pay 2s. and costs for the damage
done to the furniture, and ss. and costs for being drunk,
and to be forthwith dismissed the force.

Bistrtrt pays'.
On. Saturday at the Borough Court, Bolton, a person
in that town, agent for the sale of Dr. Coffin's medicines,
was bound over to the Quarter Sessions, to answer a
charge of practicing as an apothecary and selling medicine
without a certificate for that purpose.
WIGAN.—The Manchester Express says that.
Standish, M.P., is dangerously ill ; but the Preston Pilot -
says that the report is very likely an election ruse.—On
Saturday week, the cabinet-maker's workshop and con-
tents of Mr. John Cooke, near Scholes Bridge, were
destroyed by fire. The loss is £3OO.
On Sunday week two sermons were preached by the
very rev. the Dean of Bangor, at the parish church of
Eastham, on behalf Of the suffering Irish, after which the
sum of £2l was collected ; also, on the same day, a ser-
mon was delivered by the Rev. Thos. Collinridge, for the
same purpose, and a collection made at the private chapel.
of Sir W. Massey Stanley, Bart., at Hooton.
SUBSCRIPTION AT MANCHESTER.—The amount sub-
scribed in Manchester and Salford for the Irish and
Scotch is £7OOO. Amongst the subscriptions we see the
munificent one of £315 from Messrs. William Grant and
Brothers (half for each country), and one from Messrs.
J. and N. Philips and Co. of £250 for Ireland, and
" young men in the employ of H. Bannerman and Sons,
£95 4s. 2d."
MRS. BUTLER.—We noticed in our last that Mrs. But-
ler, late Fanny Kemble, had been in negociation with Mr.
Bunn, for an engagement at Drury-lane Theatre ; but Mr.
Bunn, having offered her just one-half the amount she
asked, she declined to accept her engagement there We
now learn that this celebrated actress is to make her first
reappearance on the British stage on the boards of the
Theatre-Royal Manchester, in all probability in the month
of February. -
CHILD POISONED.—The village of Garston was thrown
into a state of great excitement on Tuesday evening by
the circulation of a report that a woman, named Mary
Bates, had poisoned her child, half a year old, by the
administration of laudanum. Bates was taken into cus-
tody by one of the rural police, and an inquest was held
on the body of the child on Thursday, when, it appearing
that the woman had administered the dose to the infant
to keep it asleep whilst she went out to work, and not
with any felonious intent, she was discharged.
In proof of the increase of heat gained by burning the
smoke, we may cite the experiments of Mr. Henry Holds-
worth, of Manchester, who has shown, that in the front
flue of a furnace, of common construction, the thermo-
meter seldom rose above 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit, and
often fell below 900 degrees, the mean being 975 degrees ;
while in the same furnace, when consuming its smoke,
the mean temperature was 1,160 degrees Fahrenheit,
ranging between 1,400 degrees and 1,000 degrees. The
quantity of water evaporated by a pound of coal was one-
half quarter more than when the smoke was not con-
sumed.

A NEW RACE-COURSE FOR MANCIIESTER.—It is stated
that a site has at length been fixed upon to be converted
into a race-course, and that in a few days the necessary
lease will.be signed. The place chosen is the low ground
near Agecroft Bridge, in Pendleton, the property of John
Fitzgerald, Esq., of the Pendleton collieries; but we have
not heard the extent of the ground, nor the price which is
to be given for it. , It appears, however to be a prevalent
opinion that an enormous sum must bei expended before
it can be got into a proper condition for horse-racing.
The races at Newton are, this year, to take place in
Whitsun-week, doubtless in consequence of there being
no races on Kersal Moor at that time.

SUICIDE AT WARRINGTON.—On Wednesday an inquest
was held at Sankey Bridge, before Mr. Heyes, coroner, on
view of the body of Joseph Hanley, aged' 34, carter to
Messrs. Winstanley and Hobson, flour merchants. He
was a steady, careful man, and put his spare earnings in
the savings -bank. On going, on Saturday, to his money-
box for this purpose, he found £2 had been taken, which,
he ascertained, his wife had taken and squandered in drink
and other vile ways, in consequence of which he became
intoxicated, and on the following day, while labouring
under head-ache, and in the absence of his wife, he hanged
himself by a clothes line from the banister of the stairs.
Verdict, Temporary insanity."
THE WARRINGTON FILE MAKERS' TURN-OUT.—It
will be recollected that several of the workmen in the em-
ployment; under contract, of Mr: J. Edelsten' file manu-
facturer, absconded some months ago, at the dictation of
the Trades' Union, without any assigned reason or com-
plaint of grievance. Several of them, after inducing others
to leave, were apprehended, and some were kindly re-
ceived back by Mr. E., but soon afterwards again
absconded, taking others with them. Seven or eight of
the runaways were apprehended in various parts of the
country ,and taken before the Warrington magistrates ;
three of them were committed for three months. An
atteulpt was made to show that Mr. Edelston (who had
forgiven several others) did not pay time regular wages ;
but this was not proved, and Mr. E. said that if it were he
would be the first to respond.