The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Wednesday a number of persons were fined 10s. and
costs for letting off cellars unfitted for human habitation.
On Thursday a youth was committed for theft who had
been previously seventeen times committed and five fillies
discharged.

On Wednesday a large number of occupants of shops
in Fontenoy-street, were fined ss. and costs each, for
exposing goods for sale outside their premises, and to the
inconvenience of the public. _ _

CRUEL ROBBERY:-At the wreck of the Portia, of
Sunderland, off Blackpool, the mate, Henry Buban, with
difficulty contrived to save his chest, which he brought
here and left at the railway station, when it was stolen.
It was subsequently traced to the possession of a black
man named Henry Thornton, who was on Wednesday
committed for two months.

CHARGE AGAINST A CUSTOMS LOCKER.—Henry
Grey, a locker in the tobacco warehouses in this port, was
brought before Mr. Rushton. on Tuesday, charged with
stealing 5001bs. of tobacco, which was alleged to have been
stolen in 1848. The charge was supported by witnesses
of very questionable character ; and though the felony
was positively sworn to, Mr. Rushton declined to commit
Gray, but ordered him to be remanded, to see whether
any corroborative evidence could be produced.
SMOKE INFORMATIONS.—At the police-court, on Wed-
nesday, Jonathan Robinson, the master of the corporation
steam-boat Vernon, was summoned before Mr. Rushton
for not consuming smoke, and fined £5 and costs.—Mi-
chael Neville, ironfounder, Lime-street, was also fined £5
for a nuisance caused by the smoke issuing from his chim-
ney. Mr. Rushton intimated that a fine of £5 per day
would be levied until the nuisance was abated. In the
case of Mr. Milward Storer, proprietor of the rice mill in
White-street, who was summoned for a similar offence,
the case was postponed for a month, Mr. Storer under-
taking to raise his chimney, and make other necessary
alterations to remedy the nuisance.
BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS V. THE CORPORATION
OF LIVERPOOL.—At the Birkenhead police-court, on Fri-
day, Mr. Conway, barrister, assisted by Mr. Rudd, the
manager of Woodside ferry , applied, on behalf of the
Birkenhead commissioners, for compensation from the
Corporation of Liverpool to the amount of £l9, for inju-
ries sustained by the Queen, Woodside steamer, in conse-
quence of having been run into by the Fanny, Birkenhead
(Corporation) steamer, on the 15th ult. Mr, Blair, bar-
rister, assisted by Mr. Venn, appeared on behalf of the
Corporation, in opposition to the claim. The magistrates
decided generally in favour of the Birkenhead Commis-
sioners. Mr. Blair then raised the question of costs, and
ultimately it was agreed that they should be taxed by Mr.
Townshend, clerk to the magistrates. Another case of
collision was head on Saturday, between the same parties,
in which the Commissioners were again victorious.

A SMALL BOAT IN TROUBLE.—Henry Phillips, owner
of a river boat, on Wednesday summoned the captain of
the Express steamer, for running down his boat, and en-
dangering the lives of the three men that were in it. He
claimed £l4 as the value of the boat. From the evidence
it appeared that the complainant and two men went out
" on speculation" to the Crosby channel; but during their
excursion one of the oars broke, and they had to scull
with the other against the tide. In this disabled state
they proceeded towards the Jenny Lind steamer, but the
crew refused to tow them. They then made towards the
Express, but (as alleged by complainant) in consequence
of there being no look-out at the bows of the steamer, the
boat was run down, and the three men were with difficulty
saved. For the defence it was proved that there was a
proper look-out on board the steamer, and that the acci-
dent arose in consequence of the boat's crew coming too
near the steamer, with the view of hooking on, to be
towed into the river. The case was accordingly dismissed.

A PUBLIC HANDICAPPER.—Since the Ist of January,
1850, Mr. E. W. Tapham, of Chester, has handicapped
upwards of 1,400 horses for different engagements.
SISTERS OF MERCY.--tAt the recent anniversary of the
German Hospital in London, the healths of the Lord
Bishop of Manchester, and of the other English clergy
who supported the institution, having been drunk, the
Right Rev. Prelate, in returning thanks for himself and
the clergy, spoke with great force, and with a sincere con-
viction, on the benefits which were likely to accrue to
English charitable institutions b 7 the introduction into
them of Protestant Sisters of Mercy. He had often
admired the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy. He was
free to confess—widely though he differed from the fol-
lowers of that persuasion—he honoured and respected a
Roman Catholic, if he was sincere in his religion. That
women should devote themselves to the Christian duty of
visiting and comforting the sick was originally and genu-
inely Christian. It was not enough to tend the diseased
and afflicted, to assuage the sufferings of their bodies,
and to smooth the dying pillow under their drooping
heads. Those who watched beside the bed of suffering
and death had a higher,. a more important, a more sacred
duty to perform. They ought to enlighten, to comfort,
and to speak words of love and peace. This the Roman
Catholics had understood ; and ought we, who owned the
same obligations, but to whom our religion held out a
higher and a purer hope, to turn away from the sufferings of
the soli, and confine our care and attention to the body?
Such, a course of action would be unworthy of the princi-
i plea of Protestantism,.