The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-13 00:00:00

YESTERDAY

Three men were brought up for picking pockets in St.
John's Market ; one of them eight times previously com-
mitted, others not known. Three months.

A little boy, apparently about ten years old, was com-
mitted for picking pockets in Tithebarn-street. One
month.

The captain of an inward bound vessel was fined £5 for
having on board a box and a-half of cigars and 3 lbs. of
tobacco, which he had not entered at the Custom-house.
CLIARGII OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—A young man named
Michael Duffey was charged with embezzling the property
of his master, Mr. Jonathan Atkinson, of Edgar-street.
Two witnesses deposed to having paid sums of money to
the prisoner—£9 11s., and £6—which he had not ac-
counted for. The prisoner received an excellent character
from the clerk of his employer. When taken he acknow-
ledged that he bad £lO left, and that he had taken a pas-
sage to America. The prisoner was committed to the
sessions.

BRUTAL ASSAULT UPON A LITTLE GIRL.—A brutal
fellow in the dress of a labourer was brought up for an
indecent assault, accompanied by atrocious ill-treatment,
committed upon a little girl on Sunday night. The case,
the details of which are totally unfit for publication, was
heard in the magistrates' private room, and a fine of £5
or two months' imprisonment, inflicted, with bail. The
prisoner appeared in court with his head bandaged, having
been roughly handled by the neighbours on discovery of
the offence.

MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.—On Friday
an inquest was held on the body of Eliza Read, the wife
of Robert Read, a comic singer at one of the numerous
cheap concert rooms which abound in this town. On the
evening of Thursday he was walking home with his wife,
who had been to fetch him home from the house where
be sang. On reaching the house, about one o'clock,
after swearing at her, he struck her under the ear, when
she fell down senseless. Blood gushed from her nose and
mouth. A surgeon was sent for, who pronounced her to
be dead. Several witnesses were examined, who stated
that the prisoner was frequently drunk, and that when in
liquor he was in the habit of abusing her, though when
sober they lived together quietly. After hearing the evi-
dence, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against
the prisoner. The parties lived in Bridport-street.

CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE DONE TO A
CARGO OF WHEAT.—On Wednesday, the hearing of a
case of considerable commercial importance occupied the
attention of the judge of the county court for several
hours. The plaintiffs were Messrs. R. T. Woodward and
Co., and the defendant Mr. Darling, a shipowner. It was
a claim for damage, by reason of alleged carelessness,
done to a cargo of wheat consigned to the plaintiffs, and
and brought from Galatz to Liverpool in a ship belong-
ing to the defendants. The plaintiffs are corn dealers in
this town, and the defendant is the owner of a ship called
the Darling, and the latter had been engaged to br;ng
over, for the plaintiffs, a cargo of wheat from Galatz. On
unshipping the wheat, a large portion of it, near to the
surface, beneath the decks, was found to be damaged in
consequence of, as alleged by the plaintiffs, the careless-
ness and want of due management of the defendant, in
allowing the water to ooze through a fissure in the decks,
and through the bulwarks of the forecastle, by reason of
which the wheat became heated, clotted, and baked into
cones. The judge, after recapitulating the case, said
there had been nothing shown, taking the casualties of
the sea into consideration, to prove that the damage ne-
cessarily happened in the particular way stated by the
evidence of the plaintiffs, and a non-suit was accordingly
taken.

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