The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—MoNDAY

Charles Morris, an old offender, was placed at the bar on
a charge of having picked the pocket of Mr. Thomas Goodi-
son, of a silk handkerchief on Saturday night.
The prosecutor stated that he was a clerk in the service of
Messrs. Golborne, Dobbs and Co., and that he resided at
No. 2, Moon-street. About ten o'clock on Saturday night,
he was in St. John's-lane, when he was told that his pocket
had been picked by one of a gang of four lads. He imme-
diately missed his handkerchief, and having informed police-
constable No. 173, of the robbery, they proceeded in search
of the thieves. The prisoner was taken soon afterwards,
and on being searched the handkerchief was found upon
him. The vaue of it was about four shillings.
John Kirkham, police-officer 173, confirmed the testimony
of the prosecutor.
The prisoner on being asked what he had to say, replied
that he had never been guilty of a felony before, and • hat he
was not guilty of this.
Mr. Rushton inquired how many times he had been before
the court.
Mr. Parkinson, the main Bridewell-keeper, stated that he
had been ten times committed. on various charges, and that
he had been liberated on two other occasions.
Mr. Rushton committed the prisoner for trial at the next
sessions.

DETECTION OF AN IMPOSTOR.
Henry Jones, a somewhat respectably dressed man, was
charged with having imposed upon the public by soliciting
aid on the ground that he was a ropemaker, from Ormskirk,
whose establishment had been burned down some weeks ago,
by which calamity himself and family had been reduced to a
state of destitution.
Mr. Askew, the harbour-master, stated that in the fore-
noon of Saturday, the prisoner called at his office and soli-
cited relief. He presented a document of which the follow-
ing is a copy :
"This is to certify that the bearer, Henry. Jones, rope-
maker, has lived in this place for the last six years • that
upon the night of the 17th day of June instant 11; was
alarmed by the cry of fire, which had originated by some
evil disposed person or persons setting fire to his outbuiii,.
ings, and it had gained so much progress that they could not
stop the devouring flames till the whole of the property was
entirely consumed. The said Henry Jones states, that by
the above melancholy event he has sustained a loss of property
to the amount of £6OO sterling, which will prove his utter
ruin unless he is aided and assisted by a generous public, he
having a wife and two children entirely dependant upon him
for support. We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that
the aforesaid statement is authentic, and we confidently re-
commend him to the notice of the charitable and humane,
both in this and in his own neighbourhood, and humbly trust-
ing, that by making his case known, there will be funds
raised to commiserate his distressing situation. Given under
our hands at St. Helens, in the county of Lancaster, this
22d day of June, 1840.
Rev. James Furnival, £5.
George Hall, Wm. Smith, Churchwardens.

Collected by us, £22 10s: 6d.
SUBSCRIPTIONS.—Derby, £5; Mrs. Dyson, £1; Peter
Greenall, £3; William Pilkineton and Brother, £3; Mrs.
Speakman, £2; Mrs. West, £1; W. P. Cottam, £2; Mrs.
Taylor, £2 ; J. Ashton,Dugdale, £1 ; Henry
Holmes, £1; Wm. Barry, 10s; Thos. Bolton, lOs ; B. B.
and Co., £3 ; H. M. R., XL"
Mr. Askew stated that he desired the prisonia to call again
in the afternoon, but he did not. However, 64; morning,
about seven o'clock, as he was at breakfast, the prisoner
called at his house and sent in his name, Henry Jones. He
was told to walk to the office, where he (Mr. Askew) wonld
meet him in few minutes and give him something. In the
mean time, on looking in the Albion, he found the description
of an impostor who had been heard of by the police, and he
was convinced this was the man. On arriving at the office,
therefore, he gave him into custody.
Police Officer No. 50 stated that he received the prisoner,
and that on leaving Mr. Askew's office he made a violent
but unsuccesful attempt to escape.
Mr. Rushton called on the prisoner for his defence.
The prisoner said he was in a public-house on Friday night,
having a bottle of ginger-beer, when a man told him he would
put him up to a plan of getting plenty of money if he would
give him half of what be got.
Mr. Rushton.—Who is the man?
The prisoner replied that he did not know. He was igno-
rant of the consequences. He knew the paper was not true,
and he was eery sorry it had happened.
Mr. Rushton told him some of the signatures were forged,
and some were genuine, and that a considerable sum appeared
to have been obtained. Lord Derby's signature was a for-
gery ; Mr. Henry Holmes's and Mr. Thomas Bolton's were
genuine. There was a regular manufactory of these sort of
documents, for the purpose of defrauding the humane, and
it was necessary an example should be made. By a certain
act of parliament, every person found going about collecting
alms, under false pretences, was to be deemed a rogue and
a vagabond, and to be liable to three months' imprisonment.
That punishment he should now award the prisoner.

STEALING IRON.
John Ryan was charged with having stolen about 2 ewt. el
iron, the property of Messrs. William and John Lockett, of
King-street.
Mr. J. P. Robinson, the prosecutor's clerk, stated that the
iron in qu-stion was deposited in a gateway under the office.
About three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, a person asked
him if he bad given any orders for the iron to be removed
out of the gateway ? He replied no ; and then he was told
that the prisoner had taken it. He immediately went out,
and overtook the prisoner in Bean's Gardens, with the iron
upon his shoulder. Witness kept near to him until he met
police officer No. 461, who apprehended him.
The prisoner then said he had taken the iron because he
had nothing to eat.
He was committed for trial.

EXTRAORDINARY Frsu.—Daniel M'ltlenaman, of Lifford,
caught a sturgeon at the Green Brae fishery, at Lifford, on
Saturday week, which was fully ten feet long, and five feet in
circumference, and weighed 3cwt. and 151 b. Twelve months
ago there was a fish of the same Mud caught in the same
place, but it was scarcely so large.—Belfaat Vindicator.
The Duke of Northumberland has recently introduced into
the conservatory at his graces seat, Sion House, on the
Thames, a large collection of plants. shrubs, and fruit tries,
from the Philippine Islands. A considerable number of birds
and other objects of natural history have alsh been received
by the noble duke. from the same interesting quarter of the
world.—Newcastle Journal.
The immaculate member for Gateshead, Mr. Cuthbert
"Rippon has scarcely shown his face iu parliament during
the whole' of the present session. He was, however, hunted
'out of his retreat yesterday week by the treasury whipper-in,
and brought to the " scratch " as one of the forlorn hope, on
Lord Stanley Irish registration bill—for what consideration
Aloes not appear.—lbid.
COUNTERFEITS.—" No law (says the old adage) was ever
made, but there was immediately made a way to evade it ,”
and it may be added, that no article of merit or of value was
ever yet produced but it was immediately counterfeited, and
the base imitation palmed on the public as real. The spirited
proprietors of one of the most indispensable articles of the
-toilet, have suffered so much, and so long,-from this species
of fraud, that they have called iu the aid of some of our
most eminent engravers on steel, who' as our readers will
perceive by our advertising columns, have produced a Label
so perfect, yet so minute, that ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL
is repeated nearly 1500 times, comprising nearly 30,000 let-
ters, in such a style of perfection as to set all counterfeits
at defiance.—See advt.
PURSE is to be lamented that the national
character is pride, and the meanest of all pride, purse pride.
Even a poor lord is despised, and to increase his fortune a
necessitous peer will condescend to marry into a rich citizen's
family. An overweening affection for money, and idolatrous
worship of gain, have absolutely confounded the general in-
tellect, and warped the judgment of many to that excess,
that, in estimating men or things, they refer always to
" What is he worth?" or "What will it fetch?" Were we
to point out a person as he passed, and say, " There goes a
good man, one who has not a vice, he would scarcely be
noticed ; but exclaim, " That man is worth £500,000," and
he will be stared at till out of sight.
ADVANTAGES OF COMMERCE.—AS the same country is
- rendered richer by the trade of one province with another;
as its labour becomes thus infinitely more divided, and more
productive than it could otherwise have been ; and as the
mutual interchange of all those commodities which one pro-
vince has and another wants, multiplies the comforts and
accommodation of the whole, and the country becomes thus,
in a wonderful degree, more opulent and more happy ; so the
same beautiful train of consequences is observable in the
world at large, that vast empire, of which the different king-
doms may be regarded as the provinces. In this magnificent
empire, one province is favourable to the production of one
species of produce, and another province to another. By
their mutual intercourse, mankind are enabled to distribute
their labour as best fits the genius of each particular country
and people.—Mill's Commerce Defended.
SNAKE SHOT.—A huge black snake was recently killed in
this state, upwards of thirty feet long. On opening him he
was found to contain two squirrels, five birds, and two young
negroes.—Mise. paper. [This is nothing to one that was
killed in this vicinity, measuring upwards of forty rods. Our
snake, on being opened, contained a family Bible, the un-
expired lease of a three-story brick-house in Royal-street,
three boxes of Peters' pills, with directions, an unfinished
mile of the Nashville railroad, three stray horses. Ciffi's
trombone, three packages of tickets in the grand lottery, a
Dutch music grinder with his barrel organ, a plan of the city
of Uncle Sam, lost since 1837, and a pair of old peg-bottomed
boots, which the owner is respectfully requested to prove and
take away.]—Tit for Tat.

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