The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-04 00:00:00

POLICE COURT-YESTERDAY.

ATTEMPTING TO PICA POCKETS AT CHAPEL.—WiIIaM
Lawler, a decently dressed young man, was charged with
attempting to pick a young lady's pocket at Copperas-hill
Roman Catholic Chapel, on Sunday last, at the morning
service. He was perceived very adroitly lifting up the dress
of the female, and given in charge to policeman 164. Re-
manded for a week.

SEln°uBAaasv=T AND ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.
Patrick Costello, an incorrigible boy, who has been several
times before the magistrates, was brought up for attempt-
ing to steal some coal from a wheelbarrow, which John
Williams, another boy, was wheeling along Maguire-
street, on Saturday night ; and when Williams's father
came up, Costello struck the boy on the eye with a piece
of broken mug, which burst the ball of the eye and de-
prived him of sight. The little fellow appeared in court
with his face tied up, and his father stated that the eye
was completely gone. Costello was committed for trial.

ROBBERY BY AN ERRAND ROY.—William Hobson,
errand boy, was charged with stealing several pairs of
shoes from the shop of Mr. Lowe, Paradise-street. On
being apprehended, the prisoner said his sister wanted a
pair, so he took them home. He was remanded #ll this
day.
DARING STREET ROBBERY.—John Thompson James
Eccleston, Wm. Hunt, Michael Hegan, and Henryllegan,
were charged with a violent assault and robbery upon Mr.
Reed, in Rose-place, on Saturday night.—Superintendent
Ride stated that, about a quarter to eleven o'clock on
Saturday night, Mr. Reed (who is a coal-agent, and re-
sides in Upper Beau-street,) went to Rosehill-station, and
gave information that he had been robbed ; upon which he
took another officer and accompanied Mr. Reed in the
direction of Buchanan's public-house, when he identified
the two Hegans as being present at the time of the rob-
bery. Superintendent Ride apprehended the two men,
whn immediately stated that they were present, and saw
Eccleston and Thompson running away.
this information, the two latter were oUpon receiving
vvii Forwards
apprehended by Superintendent Ride.—Mr. Reed stated
that, as he was going up Rose-place, he was assaulted by
several men, one of whom pulled him back, and another
put his hand over his eyes. He was then nearly strangled,
and his pockets rifled of £1 10s. and a tobacco-box. He
was rendered nearly insensible, and one of the men struck
him on the month, after which they all ran away. He saw
the two Hegans, but did not believe they took an active
part in the assault. Thompson was the man wl;to held
him, and Eccleston took the money from his pocket. There
were ten or eleven men altogether.—Superintendent Ride
here requested that the two Hegans might be discharged,
as there did not appear to be any evidence against them.
—Mr. Dodd, the prisoner Eccleston's solicitor, objected to
this course of proceeding ; and Mr. Owen appealed to the
bench against Mr. Dodd's objection.—The Hegans were
then discharged from custody, and Henry Hegan was
examined as a witness. He stated that he and his brother
had been having a quart of ale at Buchanan's public-
house, and, on coming out, saw Eccleston and two or three
more men running away from where the robbery was
committed ; they merely went to see what was the matter.
—Michael Hegan was next examined, and identified the
three prisoners as the parties who were running away.—
On being apprehended, Thompson admitted that he robbed
the man, but no money was found upon him. Hunt was
apprehended on Sunday night.—Mr. Reed said Hunt was
present, but he could not swear that he took part in the
assault. Hunt was then discharged from custody.—Mr.
Dodd addressed the bench in defence of Eccleston ; at the
conclusion of which Thompson and Eccleston were both
committed for trial at the assizes.
COTTON STEALING.--Ann Sheridan, of Back Leeds-
street, and John Whitehead, were charged with having a
quantity of cotton in their possession, supposed to have
been stolen. Mr. Clough said the woman had been in
custody several times, and her house had been repeatedly
watched, in consequence of the MerellP4o missing cotton,

and she was suspected of receiving and sending it away.
On this occasion detective Grisenthwaite proved that a
quantity had been removed from her house to the railway
station, and Whitehead gave directions to the carter who
conveyed the cotton. The latter was discharged with a
caution ; but Ann Sheridan was committed for a month.
A FLOUR-STEALER.—Ann Duffy, a girl who is well-
known as a regular dodger, about the docks, and has been
already convicted of stealing cotton, was committed for
two months, for having a quantity of flour in her posses-
sion, which she could give a very indifferent account of.
ROBBERY BY A. SERVANT.—Joshua Taylor, a man who
had been some time since employed as shopman at the
eating-house of Mrs. Armitage, Dale-street, was brought
up for stealing a quantity of silver spoons, wearing apparel,
and other articles, from the house of his mistress,, with
which he decamped in November last. He was also
charged with stealing a carpet bag from the shop of Mr.
Picton, in Lime-street, since the committal of the previous
robbery. Tickets of several of the articles were found in
the prisoner's possession. He was committed for trial.

Bincmeßy.-:--Mar6ret Wilson and Elizabeth Wilson
were remanded for seven days, on a charge of being con-
cerned in a burglary at the house of Mr. M`Dermott, in
Huskisson-street, from which place about £2O worth of
wearing apparel had been stolen.
PICKING Poc KETS.—Henry Smith, charged with picking
pockets on Saturday night, in St. John's market, was
committed for a month.—Catherine Whaley, for a similar
offence, was committed for six weeks.
STEALING MEAT.—James Clary was charged with
stealing a leg of veal from the shop of Mr. Chairs, butcher,
Titchfield-street, on Saturday night. Remanded till this
morning.

STREET ROBBERY.—Thomas Sweeney and Frederick
France were charged with robbing Thomas Battersby, in
Banastre-street, on Saturday night. Battersby had been
treating the prisoners to some drink, and on going along
the street, they set upon him and stole a half-sovereign
and four or five half-crowns from his pocket. He gave
inforMation to a policeman, and the prisoners were appre-
hended. A half-sovereign was found upon one of the
prisoners. They were both committed for three months.

MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Wednesday a painful sen-
sation was created throughout the Regent's Park district
of St. Pancras by the discovery of a shocking murder and
suicide, at 47, Clarence-gardens. The house was tenanted
by James Martin, a shoemaker, about 57 years of age, who,
with his wife, occupied the parlours, letting the remainder
out in lodgings, one of the upper rooms to his married
daughter and her husband. Shortly after eight o'clock on
Wednesday morning Mrs. Whybrow, Martin's daughter,
came down stairs, and not finding either her father or
mother up as usual, knocked several times at the front
parlour door, ocupied as their bedroom, but receiving no
answer, she effected an entrance, and then discovered the
place deluged with blood, and the lifeless bodies of her
parents lying across each other on the bed with their
throats cut in a shocking manner. Her screams imme-
diately brought the other lodgers and neighbours to her
assistance, and it was then discovered that the. murderer
and his victim were quite dead and cold. A shoemaker's
knife, covered with blood, was found on the bed near the
right hand of the former. Both Martin and his wife were
in their ordinary night-dress. On searching the room a
letter, now in the possession of the police, was found, and
identified by the daughter as being in the handwriting of
Martin, stating the circumstances which had led him to
the commission of so horrible a crime. From this it would
appear that Martin was in very embarrassed circumstan-
ces, and that he had promised to pay his landlord half a
year's rent, which was due to him that day, but was unable
to do so. He (Martin) was under an impression that his
goods would be seized, and that he and his wife would
have to go to the workhouse, to prevent which he resorted
to this terrible alternative.

THE NEW ACT ON THE COASTING TRADE, which has
just received the royal assent on Thursday, repeals the
152 d and 191st sections of the 16th and 17th of Victoria,
c. 107, and enables the Queen to exercise retaliatory
powers, as in the 324th and two following sections of the
same act. This act destroys "the last rag of protection,"
as stated, providing by the 2d clause that every foreign
ship which, after the passing of the act, is employed in
carrying goods or passengers coastwise from one part of
the United Kingdom to another, or from the Channel
Islands to the United Kingdom, or from the United King-
dom to any of the said islands, or from any of them to any
other of them, or from any part to any other part, " shall
be subject, as to stores for the use of the crew, and in all
other respects, to the same laws, rules, and regulations to
which British ships when so employed are now subject."
Further, by the 3d section it is enacted, that foreign ships
employed in the coasting trade shall not be subject to
higher rates than British ships, and with respect to pas-
sengers it is stated to be expedient to provide for the
safety of passenger steamers ; and it is enacted by the con-
cluding provision that every foreign steam vessel carrying
passengers from one place to another on the coast of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the
Channel Islands shall be subject to the provisions of the
Steam Navigation Act, 1851. The coasting trade is now
thrown open to foreign vessels in the same manner as to
British ships.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-FRIDAY.

Royalist has been brought prominently into notice for
the Metropolitan Handicap, and as little as 5 to 1 taken
about him. Newminster is nearly as good a favourite as
ever for the Chester Cup, 14 to 1 being the highest 'offer;
there is also a marked improvement in Marc Antony ; and
20 to 1 was taken several times about laalbec.

METROPOLITAN JIANDI&P.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Benson's Royalist—taken freely.
oto 1 ~ Mr. Law's Jonathan Martin—offered.
11 to 1 „ Mr. Oreville's Muscovite—taken.
11 to 1 „ Sir J. Boswell's Annie Sutherland—taken.
12 to 1 „ Mr. Howard's Virago—offered.
15 to 1 „ Mr. W. H. Barrett's Haco—taken.
22 to 1 „ Mr. G. Mather's St. Clair—taken.
25 to 1 „ Mr. Saxon's .Black Doctor—tk., aft. off.
25 to 1 „ Mr. Mare's Ariosto—offered.
GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
9 to 1 agst Count de Prado's Aquila—offered.
10 to 1 „ Mr. T. Parr's Defiance—offered.
25 to 1 „ Mr. Murland's Ammonia—taken.
CHESTER CUP.
14 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Newminster—taken.
20 to 1 „ Mr. Knowles's Baalbec—taken.
20 to 1 „ Mr. Megson's Brown Brandy—taken.
25 to 1 „ Mr. Powney's Marc Antony—taken.
33 to 1 , Lord Wilton's Duchess of Lorraine colt—t.
45 to 1 „ Mr. Benson's Royalist—offered.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
7 to 2 agst Lord Derby's Boiardo—taken.
THE DERBY.
6 to 1 agst Mr. R. E. Cooper's Autocrat —offered.
30 to 1 „ Lord Derby's Boiardo—taken.

THE CHASE.
The NORM STA.FFORDSIIIRE HOUNDS will meet
This day, April 4 .........Three Crowns, Stoke, near Stone
Friday, April 7 Ercall Heath
Each day at half-past ten o'clock.
Sir W. W. Wyrues HOUNDS meet

To-morrow, April 5 ____
Chirk Castle
Saturday, April 8
Each day at half-past ten o'clock.

Chief Justice broke down in the race for the Northamp-
tonshire Stakes.

Mr. Mare has purchased Lord Exeter's Ilex, 5 years old,
for 500 guineas. _ _

Mr. Lister has bought Prevarication, by John o'Gaunt,
from Mr. Liley.

Alembic, it is now stated, is in training at Northleach,
under the care of Isaac Day.
Mr. J. M. Stanley has changed his colours from " all
cherry" to " all green."
William Carroll, the jockey, after along illness, resumed
his professional duties at Northampton, last week.
Another old and well-known supporter of the turf, the
Duke of Portland, father of the late Lord Geo. Bentinck,
died last week.

The Emperor's Vase at Ascot will this year resume its
old title of the Ascot Cup, being a piece of plate of 300 sovs.
in value, made up by 200 sovs. from the race fund, added
to a sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, with the Emperor's
Plate conditions. The Russian Emperor had actually
ordered the usual piece of plate, but the stewards of the
Jockey Club, in conjunction with the Master of the
Buckhounds, have determined to decline the gift.
A series of mishaps occurred in the race for the North-
amptonshire Stakes, on Wednesday last, by which the
lives of several of the jockeys were placed in great danger.
At the top turn, one of the horses ran against Swiftsure,
and drove him over a post, which inflicted a severe wound
under one o'f his knees. The horse falling on his head,
the rider (C. Prior) was thrown on his neck, and in endea-
vouring to recover the saddle, his spurs lacerated the
horse's shoulders, one of them afterwards becoming fixed
between the girth and his side. This caused him to break
away, and on reaching the half-mile post he swerved to
the inside, and the rider of Ptolemy (Bates) being unable
to pull him off, he struck into Swiftsure's heels, and fell
heavily, Swiftsure receiving a deep cut in the hollow of
the heel from one of Ptolemy's plates. Several horses
following in Ptolemy's track avoided him, but Mr. Sykes
(ridden by Preece) fell over him ; and the confusion was
heightened the next instant by Veteran (ridden by 011i-
ver) and Red Lion (ridden by Cartwright) coming into
collision, and falling over the other two. Little 011iver
was u instant, apparently unhurt, but Cartwright,
Preece, and Bates lay on the ground insensible. They
were immediately assisted by the bystanders, and removed
to the town in flys. Bates at first suffered severely from
one of the horses kicking him on the head whilst on the
ground, but was able to get about again during the even-
ing.. Cartwright and Preece are both severely injured,
and are still obliged to keep their beds. Red Lion and
Veteran escaped scatheless; Mr. Sykes received a bad
wound in the tendon of the off hind leg ; and Ptolemy
was so seriously injured in the hip as to make it extremely
doubtful if he will ever run again.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS.

♦
BIRTHS.

Ou the 24th ult., the wife of Edward R. Chamberlain,
Esq., RN., of a son.
On the 25th ult., at Wavertree, Mrs. H. Fenwick, of a
son.

On the 26th ult., at Rock Ferry, the wife of E. N. Per-
kins, Esq., 14th Regiment Bengal Army, of a daughter.
On the 26th ult., the wife of William Erlam, Renshaw-
street, of a daughter.
On the 26th ult., at Dingle-view, Dingle-lane, Mrs. Geo.
Irvine, of a daughter.
On the 27th ult., Mrs. David Buxton, of a daughter.
On the 27th ult., at Acre-terrace, Everton, Mrs. Ellis
Marsden, of a son.
On the 28th ult., the wife of Mr. James Kearns, Brown-
low-hill, of a son.
On the 29th ult., at Oxton, Cheshire, the wife of Wm.
Horner, Esq., of a son.
On the 30th ult., at Newark-villa, Birkenhead, Mrs.
Hill, of a son.
On the oth ult., /14 104 V-street, Mrs. Wm. iiapd, of
a daughter.