The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—May I beg the favour of your drawing the atten-
tion of the police authorities to a nuisance of a serious
magnitude which is of weekly occurrence in this neigh-
bourhood, to the very great annoyance of the inhabitants
of the street in which I dwell, as also of those adjacent.
Every Sunday afternmin a mob of ragamuffins, amounting
to several hundred, congregate on the common, fronting
my house, and commence pelting each other with stones,
brickbats, &c., so that not only our windows but persons
are endangered by these abominable practices ; and as a
policeman is rarely seen in this neighbourhood, the
offenders escape with impunity.—By inserting this you
will much oblige the inhabitants of this district, and also
your obedient servant,

A CONSTANT READER.
Windsor•street, Toxleth-park, Oct. 5, 1846.

List of cabin passengers per Patrick Henry, Delano,
from New York—left on the evening of the Bth Sept.:—
Mrs. Buckley and two daughters, Mr. Alexander Nelson,
Miss Clarke, Mr. Thos. Green, Mr. A. Auld, Mr. Hyde,
Mr. Heesley, Mr. Rodgers, lady, and two children, and
167 in the steerage.
LAUNCH.—A magnificent iron steam-ship, for the
Cork and Glasgow line, will be launched from the yard
of Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Sons, Sefton-street, to-
morrow (Wednesday), at half-past eleven o'clock. The
launchways along which she will glide into the water will
be of the extraordinary length of about 400 feet.
At the council meeting to-morrow, Mr. Procter will
move that the resolution of the council of the 24th May,
1843, authorising the erection of a gaol on the site of the
Wavertree-ball estate be rescinded, and that a committee
be appointed to consider and report to the council the
most desirable mode of laying out the estate as ground for
public recreation, in connexion with the Botanic Gardens.
We hope sincerely that the resolution will pass.

SAINT ANNE'S WARD.—We learn that the electors of
this Ward have selected Mr. Bennett, the extensive iron-
founder, and one of the most active members of the com-
mittee of the Collegiate Institution, to represent their
interests in the Town Council. A better man, a sounder
conservative, and a more deservedly-respected citizen,
they could not have pitched upon. We trust that the
burgesses will bestir themselves actively to return their
candidate; and especially we warn them to be upon their
guard against whig radical strategy.
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has shown
equal warmth with the Commercial Association in op-
posing the salt monopoly of India ; and, indeed, the ma-
nufacturing interest generally seem alive to the argument
that if three months of the labour which is now absorbed
by the purchase of salt can be directed to the production
of sugar, there will be additional means of purchasing
British goods. The Chamber of Commerce have address-
ed Mr. Aylwin, stating that their directors have decided
upon memorialising the East India Company to relinquish
the monopoly, and to permit the free importation of salt.
STEALING A CASE OF LINEN.—Mr. Rushton, the sti-
pendiary magistrate, was occupied a long time at the
Police-court yesterday, in investigating a charge against
three men, named Frank Downey, James Byrnes, and
Lawrence Ellmore, of having stolen a case of MA linen
valued at £2B. It appeared that on the 29th ult. eight
boxes, and a sample box, of linens were received here by
the Belfast steamer, Sea King, from Messrs. W. E.
Brown and Co., of Balleymena. They were all numbered
and marked WD, with an M enclosed in a diamond ; and
were intended for shipment to Vera Cruz by the ship Reis
Effendi, now lying in George's Dock. The consignee sent
a carter, named Reynolds, to bring them from the Sea King
to the Reis Effendi; and the delivery of the eight boxes, and
the sarnplebox, to the mate of thatvesselwas clearly proved ;
but on the consignee attending in the afternoon, for the
purpose of seeing the measurements taken, one box was
missed. The next day, Saturday, a man named Rice,
who lives in Garden-street, gave information at the
Police-office, to the effect, that Ellmore had, on Friday,
left a box at his house, which he desired should not be
given up to any other person. Three men were with him
at that time, the other two prisoners and another man.
Byrnes, be stated, asked him to keep the box till night,
and he would give him a sovereign. Acting upon this
information the police stationed themselves in Rice's
house, and when the box was called for they secured the
whole of the prisoners. The box was identified, as the
same which was missing. Ellmore and Byrnes were de-
fended by Mr. Bramwell, and Mr. Dodd appeared for
Downey, but they failed in rebutting the charge. The
prisoners were consequently committed for trial at the
next sessions.

THEFTS BY A SERVANT.—CAUTION TO PAWNBRO-
KERS.—At the Police-court, yesterday, a case was
brought before Mr. Rushton which may operate as a
caution to pawnbrokers against negligence in ascertaining
the marks upon articles pledged with them, particularly
wearing apparel and domestic linen. Mr. Dawson, soli-
citor, who lives in York Terrace, Everton, charged his
nurse girl, named Susannah M`Kenzie, with having
plundered the house of a great quantity of property, all
marked, of the value of £3O, and another woman, named
Maria Johnson, with having feloniously pledged portions
of it. M`Kenzie had only been a fortnight in the prose-
cutor's service when table-cloths, sheets, vests, a splendid
cashmere shawl, and many other articles, were missed.
Information was given to the police, who sent printed no-
tices round to all the pawnbrokers, containing a descrip-
tion of each article, and the marks upon them. Suspici-
ons attached to the nurse, and she was apprehended ; and
information given by Mr. Pye, pawnbroker, Marybone,
led to the apprehension of the other prisoner. One
of the officers in the case complained to the court
that the other pawnbokers, two in number, who
had received portions of the: stolen property in
pledge, were not in attendance, although they
had received notice requiring them to be present. The
hearing of the case was consequently postponed till this
day (Tuesday). In ordering summonses to be issued,
peremptorily requiring the attendance of the absent par-
ties, Mr. Rushton said it was really shocking that any
respectable pawnbroker should take property offered in
pledge by strange persons, when the name of the owner
was upon it, and notice of the robbery had been given
from the police-office. In the present instance, Mr. Pye
was the only one out of three who had given information of
the pledging. There was something dreadful in this un-
willingness to aid the ends of justice; and he called upon
the parties to remember that they were keeping stolen pro-
in their possession after due notification of the robbery of
the property stolen. What distinction, he asked, was
there between them and the parties actually guilty ? Such
conduct would assuredly lead to some of them being in-
dicted as a warning to others. The prisoners were then
remanded.