The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

A SAVAGE.—At the-Police-court, on Saturday,. a• man
was remanded on a charge of having bitten a piece from a
man's nose with whom he was quarrelling.
DANGER OF BAD COMPANY.—On Saturday, several
persons preferred complaints against prostitutes of halting
robbed them whilst they were drunk and asleep.
" She is not known for felony, sir." said the bridewelt
keeper, speaking of an Irish girl brought before Mr.
Rushton, on Saturday. " Yes, indeed." responded the
girl, " I was never here for any villainy before"!
On Thursday Police-officer 401 was su'pended, by order'
of Mr. Rushton. It appeared he had been abusing two'
prostitutes, and had afterwards insisted on preferring the
false charge of drunkenness against the girls to cover his
own offence.

ASSAULT.—On Saturday, four men. were fined 20s.
each for assaulting Mr. Howell, appraiser and auctioneer
for the County Court. The complainant had distrained
some furniture on the premises of one of the defendants,
who wished for an inventory of the goods before they
were taken from- the house, and which was promised to
be sent afterwards.

A FATED FAMILY.—A little boy, about seven or eight
years old, was sent to gaol for fourteen days, on. Tuesday
last, for breaking. a shop window, and stealing a pie. He
had been once committed and six times discharged before
for kindred offences. It was stated that nis brother had
been transported, and that the whole family were bad
characters.

INGENIOUS SmutiGLING.--On Wednesday a man,
named William Markham, cook on board the Clyde, was
stopped by a police-officer, who, upon searching a box
which he carried, found the model of a ship, and the sides
of the box lined with 4.lbs. of foreign tobacco. Tho pri-
soner was fined 40s. and costs, Mr. Rushton directing that
the ship should be restored, as he presumed the ship swas
not made of tobacco.

INFORMATION UNDER TILE BUILDING ACT.-Mr.
Harrison, tea-dealer, of Fox-street, was summoned, 00
Thursday, for having a projection over his shop. The
information was laid under the 67th section of the act,
and was for erecting a signboard, which projected four
feet over the footway, and a show tea urn, which pro-
jected twelve feet. Mr. Harrison was hound over, as is'
usual in such cases, in his own recognisances in £5O, to'
ensure the removal of the nuisance within a week.
FEIGNING.-It was stated at the Police-court, on
Saturday, that the complainant in a petty assault case
was herself the defendant on another charge about
month ago, and that she obtained her liberation from
hridewell y affecting to be seized with the pains of labour-
This was all the delivery she required. Two years ago
she is said to have played a similar trick, with similar
success.

MISCONDUCT OF BAILIFFS.—On Thursday an aged
couple, named Hugh and Eliza Kelly, were brought up,
charged with having assaulted George Barnes, whilst a
distraint (for only two weeks' rent) was being made. The
bailiffs having effected an entrance, the old man assaulted
Barnes with a poker. He pleaded in defence that the
house was not properly entered, but that the bailiffs had
broken in. There was some reason to believe this state-
ment, as Police-constable 326, who was standing at the
entry, heard a crash. After a rebuke to the parties pro-
secuting, the prisoners were discharged.
FORGING SHIPPING NOTES.—OR Friday a sailor,
named James Barrow, was brought up before Mr. Rush-
ton, charged with having forged the signature to a ship-
ping note. It appeared that a short time since the pri-
soner went to an outfitter named Cross, and, presenting
shipping note signed James Tindall, represented that he
belonged to the ship John Robinson, of which Messrs-
Campbell and Rudd were the agents. Having got value
for the note, the prisoner went off, and was not again met
with till Thursday night. It appeared that the sig,nature
to the note was a forgery, and it having been stated that
there were three or four other cases against the prisoner,
he was remanded till Friday next.

THE BURIAL ACT.—Peteriiiee, the sexton of St'
Patrick's Chapel Cemetery, was summoned for making
interments, in violation of a provision in the Health AO'
which requires that a deposit of at least two feet six
in depth of soil shall be made after each interment." „s
grave twenty feet deep had been dug, into which COI"-ii
were lowered. It appeared upwards of three feet of 0.
was placed upon each coffin after it was interred, but this
soil was removed each time another coffin was put in.
Mr. Rushton ruled that the requirements of the act had
been complied with, and ordered the information to be
sexton of fhe Weslelan
Chapel burial-ground, Stanhope-street, was charged with
a violation of the act. In this case one part of a coffin
that had been interred had only eleven inches of earth
upon it.. Fined 20s.

Etstrirt et .5,

The new parish church at Runcorn is now nearly com-
pleted.
On Thursday week a woman at Spotland, near Roch-
dale, was killed by a flash of lightning.
• Another person (making eight) died on Tuesday,
the effects of the late boiler explosion at Preston•
Great rejoicings took place at Wigan on Thursday, in
honour of the majority of Francis S. Powell, Esq., son
the Rev. B. Powell, of that town. • .eat
The military encampment on Kersal Moor is a
attraction to the inhabitants of Manchester and the neigh-
bouring:towns.
On Wednesday, two men were killed at Ince-hall COl-
liery, near Wigan, through a bucket, which was bdin4
lowered into the pit, falling on them, in conseouence °
the breakage of the rope.
Two fellows, named Plate and Corgan, from this town,
who were engaged in a fight on Longshaw Coaimon,
linge, for £lO a side, on Monday, with their second,
Clarke, also from this town, have all three been commit-
ted for trial at the next Kirkdale sessions. from
EMPLOYMENT IN MANCHESTER.--The official return
shows that there are 1,637 hands more employed iLLWQrk'
ing full time, as compared with the nuinber employed oft
June 6, and a decrease of those out of employment of
610. As compared with last week, the return is as fel'
lows :—Working full time, 31,382 ; last week, 20,745;
working short time, 5,272; last week, 6,274; wholly ous
of employment, 7,793 ; last week, 8,400.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE THOMAS GREENALL, ESQ
The remains of this deeply lamented gentleman (whose
awfully sudden death occurred on Saturday week), were
conveyed to their final resting-place (St. Helens') „"
Thursday. The Mayor of Warrington, in compile"'
with the general wish, having given an invitation to the
inhabitants to meet the funeral procession, a large nurol,.
her of the gentry, clergy, and tradesmen, assembled not
St. James's Church, Latchford, in order to testify the'"'
respect for the memory of their departed neighbeur'
Many shops were closed, and the streets filled with sPe:-
tators. Mr. Greenall was the eldest son of the law'
Edward Greenall, Esq., the extensive brewer, of Waders-,
pool ; brother of G. reenall, Esq., M.P., and also ni
the late P. Greenall, Esq.,. and father of the Rev. Tos*
Greenall, incumbent of• Grappenhall.
KNUTSFORD QUARTER SESSIONS.—The Sessions coo-
menced on Monday, at Knutsford, before Trafford Traf-
ford, Esq., chairman, and a full bench of magistrates:
There were fifty.four prisoners for trial. Amongst th'
county business transacted was a grant of £lBOO, pro-
posed by Lord de Tabley, for a lock-up at Knutsford*
with houses and offices attached, for the residence of the
warders of the House of Correction. The treasurer
submitted a statement of accounts for the present quilr;
ter, showing the demands to be £11,967 13s. ls—t°
e
receipts £8,227. 16s. Bd. The probable expenses for
Michaelmas quarter, including the balance, were £140510
13s. 2d. ; the receipts (including• River Weaver tolls
the amount of £5000) £13,568 lls. To meet the de
e
ciency a county rate of one farthing, which will produce
£1,073, was proposed and adopted. M. MainWer,:o
was appointed deputy chairman, on the understarns';
that he is to take' the criminal business of the sess'e,.."fti
in consequence of .the increasing defect of 'the chairrni'"
vision. .
ROBBERY OF Mn. DAWSON.—At Knutsford Sessi°/'
.
last week, Mary Hughes and Hugh Murphy were•sespi
tenced to seven years transportation, for felonietft
receiving notes to the amount of £lOO5 from Mr. .105703
Dawson, of Tranmere. The particulars of the case led,
recently reported. Three other prisoners were acquit
one of whom, the chairman said, was the most guilty
son according to the evidence. stn°
ANNUAL SESSIONS.—At the annual sessions at rr,,,e„toil
on Thursday, the following were among the magis"-w-
-present :—T. B. Addison, Esq., Chairman, James 1."-se,.
rence, Esq., J. B. Yates, Esq., John Rosson, Esticlerbi
of
The Chairman said that the guardians of the est
hundred had sent a remonstrance against the exPewcest
the maintenance of lunatics. They
.stated that the on
per head had increased from 6s. to Bs. 9d. liegaiv
Chairman) could only state that the cost per head a,Pror an
well Asylum was 14s. The County Treasurer askPe och
assessment, for general purposes, of id. in the P° tbo
which, after some conversation was allowed.. "bow
county bridges no assessment was required. For thed. „AO
tic asylums, d. in the pound, raising £3,867 /33.; li6th
allowed. For the general police expenditure,
ld. in the pound, raising £BO9, was asked for; en° iorTP
The following assessments, for local expenditure, le id.;
Lonslale hundred, id. in the pound ; Smith Lonede, .A 0
and Amounderness, id. in the pound, were allow of
sevep,
-increase of six constables for the Kirkdale division, iistriCe
constables for Slackshead, near Colne,of one for tbeaflowed•
of Rusholme, and two for the Bury division, were al Sesi
Mr. J. B. Yates gave notice that at the adjouraueuce
sions he would move, " That in future, in consegdivisidis
the-great excess of business from the southern
..in_tpr
every alternate Sessions be held at Nevqr_ov(
Willows." Mr. T. B. Addison said he shoulttralute bP
an amendment "That a committee 'of nlag? •clitu
tpe
aointed to report on the ex af d4"witirsiit
county of Lancaster into two orpediency more ridings%
coti OP
tinct and separate commissions of the peace,
gaols, 840.,, and for which distinct rates be mouY