The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

Till liITIIPOOL Al BALA,

had been fined £5 by Mr. Rushton, for not obeying some
orders given by the dock-master at the Queen's Dock, he
not knowing,. at the time, that he was a person in-
vested with office. Referred to the harbour-master's sub-
committee.—Mr. Thos. Withers, an assistant in the
treasurer's office, resigned his situation.
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—The first half-yearly
meeting of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce was held
on Thursday, T. B. Horsfall, Esq., the president, in the
chair. In opening the proceedings Mr. Horsfall alluded
most feelingly to the loss the country had sustained by
the death of Sir R. Peel, and then referred to the two
prominent features in the report of the council—the Mer-
cantile Marine Bill, and the subject of the settlement of
commercial disputes by arbitration. With reference to
the former they took exception to it on the ground of its
centralising spirit, and as respected the latter, bye-laws
to be submitted, would form the basis of their course of
action, and they had for their object the adjustment of
disputes in a conciliatory and economical manner, and
without delay. The report, embodying the bye-laws re-
ferred to, was then read and unanimously approved of.
After some discussion the Chamber resolved to memori-
alise government in favour of a modification of the stamp
duties on an equitable principle. Thanks were then voted
to the chairman.

From the evidence . f the two- husbands and other wit-
nesses the following facts transpired :—The prisonerwas
first married on the 12th of March, 1843, at St. Luke's
Church to Frederick tustin a seaman, who, after a resi=
Bence with her of a fet v month went to sea, returned, and
again resided with his -wife for a short period and their
finally left her. On th.T Bthof March, 1849, the woman
contracted the second marriage at St. Peter's Church
with a man named Matti rows, an- engineer, employed at
Messrs. Gardner's block 'manufactory ; with this man she
has lived from that period to the afternoon of Friday last,
when circumstances trauspired which. led to her being
given into custody on the a hove charge. in her defence
she stated that, Austin left her in a state of destitution a
few months after he was married, and that since that
period he had never corresponded in any way with her ;
that from this circumstance she was under the impression
that he was dead, and this belief was confirmed by a per-
son who knew him abroad, and who informed her that
her husband was dead. She had represented herself to
the second husband as a widow. Mr. Booth informed
the prisoner that although her defence might avail her in
another court, it could have no force there, and that she
must be committed to take her trial at the assizes.

SMUGGLING.—An athletic Irishman named•Macavoy,
was placed in the dock on a charge of smuggling. It ap-
peared that he had been stopped between nine and ten
o'clock on Saturday night leaving the Nelson dock, and,
upon being searched, a seizure of seven pints of whiskey
was made. The prisoner got up a very plausible defence ;
he stated that he was in the practice of driving cattle as
they were landed from Ireland, and that the whiskey refer-
red to was in a basket which belonged to the mate, who
requested him to bring it ashore; in proof of his innocence
he would show them two notes sent to him to bridewell
on Sunday. Upon these notes being handed in alittle
merriment was occasioned from the fact of their contents
indirectly inculpating the prisoner, they were instructions
as to the policy he should adopt in the dilemma. It was
evident the fellow could not read. He was convicte&in a
penalty of twenty shillings.
IRISH MENDICANCY.—There appears to be a decrease
in this miserable class of offenders ; a few were brought
before the magistrates yesterday, but not nearly so many as
has been usual on the Monday hitherto.