The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-21 00:00:00

WANTON ASSAULT.—Mr. Edward M'Knight, a ware-
house keeper, was brought up before Mr. Rushton, on Sa-
turday last, to answer a complaint preferred against hint bY,,
John Might, one of the foremen of Messrs. Samuel and
James Holute. It appeared that Messrs. Holme are re'
building the warehouses in Formby-street, and that they
had tied a rope, called a guide-rope, round some bars of the
window of an opposite warehouse, of which Mr. M'Knight
is the occupant. Mr. M'Knight came on the ground in a
furious passion, and ordered the foreman to take off the rope
immediately, with which he was about to comply' w',„,,
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M`Knight took out of his pocket a large knife, and Cep'
menced cutting the rope. Might begged him not to do 0:
as he would untie and remove it, telling him that if he Cu`
the rope he would bring down the hoisting machinery from
the top of the wall, and would probably kill the men working
beneath it. M'Knight, however, persisted in cutting awsY
the rope, when Might, alarmed for the safety of the work-
men, told him he was a very bad man to do such a ma'
thing, and again entreated him to desist, that he might secure
the " derrick," and liberate the men from danger. Mr'
M'Knight still persisting, Might gave the alarm to the
workmen, and pushed M'Knight on one side, to enable him
to loose the rope, when the latter succeeded in cutting it a
two, but providentially no mischief was done to the work-.
men or the machinery. He then took a brick off the
ground, and struck the complainant on the head a me'st
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terrific blow, which laid open his temples, and covered the
poor fellow with blood. He appeared in court with 1115
head bandaged up, and the assault was clearly proved bAY
several witnesses. The defence set up was, that Might bat'
struck at M'Knight ; but this was clearly proved not to baye
been the case, but that the conduct of the defendant had
been of the most violent nature. Mr. Rushton cocarnerlA
with great severity on the conduct of the defendant, and to
him that had the case been taken to another court, it No: wit
have been of serious consequence to him. He regretted the
it was not in his power to inflict a heavier punishment for
such an aggravated assault on a man who was in the perfor-
mance of his duty, who was displaying every disposition ,_t°
accede to the wishes of the defendant, and who had througu-
out exhibited the greatest forbearance. He ordered Mr:
M`Knight to pay a penalty of £5, and again regretted Oa'
it was not in his power to make the punishment heavier.
CORPORATION SALES.—The following are the particular
of the result of the sales of the Corporation property, tYd
Messrs. Winstanley, on 'Wednesday. Notwithstanding
badness or the times, the prices may, in general, be coast
dered pretty good, some very high. The sales were, as 00,4
upon leases for seventy five years, subject to the purchase
the ground rent and to such covenants as are usually insert";
in the Corporation leases, and to such further covenats ea"
restrictions as might be named at the time of sale. Lot La,
house, on the east side of Whitechapel, No. 60, and cane'
of Dawson-street, in the occupation of Richard Boucher,
£705; ; lot 2, two houses and a shippon, and land attache'
thereto, on the east side of Peter's-lane, No. 31, in the ocea;
pation of Lawrence Wilkinson and James Turton, £79° 'b%
the
occupation a house on the west side of Crooked-lane -No. 16, in :
occupation of John Rogers, together with the house at
back, in Murray's-court, No. 10, in the occupation of
of
Matthew Ternan, £340; lot 4, a house, on the south sidel,
Thomas. street, No. 52, in the occupation of Margaret Fred
Hams, £275 ; lot 5, a house, on the east side of Lower v,
rick-street, No. 17, in the occupation of James Walk!or,
£2BO (sold subject to particular covenants); lot 6, a hou'O.
on the south side of Itichmond-street, No. 12, in the 0°
pation of Thomas Taylor, £655 ; lot 7, a house, adjoining tot
above, above, No. 10, in the occupation of John Roche, £540;
et,
8, adjoining the above and at the end of Williamson-stre. 9,
No. 32, in the occupation of Edward Griffiths, z£77o ; I°l'6
three houses, on the east side of Williamson-street, "Nos. 0
28, and 30, in the occupation of John Needham, Wm. .19°300
Hemming, and Francis George, £793; lot 10, a house, of
the north side of School-lane, No. ,43. in the occupation
1.0
John Edward Kelly, together with the house at the bae,ir',,,
Brooks-alley, No. 14, in the occupation of David Lieasaiet
£435; lot 11, a piece of land, at the corner of Cases-stk
and Ranelagh-street, containing about 90 square yards,
ss. per yard, or £1,552 10s. ; lot 12, a piece of land, front;
the Salthouse Dock Quay, at the corner of Charlotte-00
containing about 220 square yards, not sold ; lot 13, a P,l,teci
of land, in Couts-street, together with buildings ere''d,
thereon, containing about 1,479 square yards, 21s. per Ya'th
or £1,552 19s. ; lot 14, a piece of land, at the corner of Sluto
John-street and Atherton-street, containing about 149 aqiu!of
yards, £789 14s. ; lot 15, a piece of land, at the south sinth
'Hardman-street, and corner of Pilgrim,street, together wore
the building erected thereon, containing about 342 6q-et,
yards, £525 ; lot 16, a house, on the east side of Pitt-scree
No. 31, in the occupation of John Balshaw, £275.