The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

which they cannot accoun

in plain clothes observed a person enter the store of

respectabl

-dressed pot

It appeared that about 8 cwt. of Indian corn had been
taken to the store, and that it had that morning b,2,en
claimed by a man named M'Gee, but that M`Gee was
the owner or occupier of the store, and of others in the
town. The magistrate said that he had no doubt but

that the corn was the plunder of the poor wretches about
the docks, who were istduced by these dealers to commit
depredations.—On the same day Mr. Rushton committed
three other persons for trial at the sessions, for similar
practices. In one case a quantity of copper nails had
been stolen, and an attempt had been made to disfigure
them by the action of fuel. They were, however, identi-
fied. _ .

A IVEALTUY

—Mr. Latham, one of the re

ItiZisl:6 The captain taY;;;:gre'r goodsA ro'ihe Wen-t'Oat"Xii, lieving officers for the West Derby Union, appearen
fore Air. Rushton, on Friday, and made the followit
believing them to be good and cheap, and signed his name
statement :—IIe said, pointing to an old man in the to that that effect in an order-book which the vendor carried.
In a day or two after, good:, amounting to £7B were deli-
William Harris has received relief from the Owl.,
vered at the ship's side, and, on the captain's refusal to Toxteth for the last eight months. Having received somt.
information relative to him, when be came for his weekly
take them, as being contrary to the order, he was arrested - ..,,1. on
• T allowance

I searched him, and found .ti ir...,,,.. ~__
person. He has been receiving from us during the whole
period named two shillings per week, in addition to which
he is in receipt of four shillings a week from the Trinity
Hospital, and twelve shillings per quarter from the Trinity
fund. When the old man first applied fo,r relief, he repre-
sented himself as being too old to work, that he had lat-
terly been employed as a ship-keeper, but this resource
had been withdrawn in consequence of his
years, that his wife was sick, and in a state of destitution,
He was relieved : his wife died, and was buried at the ex-
pense of the parish. Regularly at the commencement of
tne quarter his case was brought before the board, and
1 the relief received. Mr, Latham concluded by saying he
had no doubt the old man had been employed during the
whole time he was receiving relief, as he had been em-
ployed as ship-keeper only the night previous ; be was
also supposed to have money in the bank. The old man
had nothing to say in his defence, and the magistrate,
who seemed at a loss what course to adopt, ordered him
to be put down.

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caster Castle. He states that forgery has been added to
fraud. Twenty gross of steel pens had been swelled into
two hundred gross, and fifty gross of lead pencils into
five hundred gross, his original writing in the order-book
having been made in figures, and not in words. The
writer says,—" In vain I requested to have the goods
taken back, referred to my £lO limit, to my complete and
utter inability to raise £7B, &c. My signature was to the
bond, and it was mere idle verbiage to "rail it off," parti-
cularly as we were battening down the batches, and it be-
came a good game to play to deprive the owners of their
captain just as the vessel was on the point of sailing."
The letter is well written, and the unhappy victim is evi-
dently a superior man.
NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL.—Tho splendid
structure in Salis bury-street, called " St. Francis
Xavier's," is nearly completed, and will shortly be
opened. The architect is Mr. Scholes, of London, and
the work has been mpeiinteaded- by Mr. Hildick, of this

increasing