The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

in the night time. He would not have left the ship to COTTON STEALING.—There was about the usual coin.-
the mate if he had seen a fog at the Mull of Galloway. plement of cases of this description. The mode of levying
If the harbour light was made a quarter of a mile off, contributions on the cotton merchants and dealers has
there could be no difficulty in keeping a quarter of a mile attained to complete system, and it is carried on with
off the land. The speed of sailing is about ten to eleven the utmost temerity by the persons engaged in it, plying
miles an hour in fine weather. their avocation under the very noses cf thosa who arer
John Gilmann—ls dockmaster at Liverpool. He con- presumed to he in charge of it. An Irishwoman, who
sidered the general equipments of the Orion were good. gave her name Margaret Spelman, was cha zed with steal_
She was properly supplied with boats. He knew Captain ing loose c itton that morning. This wk,m it appears,
Henderson ; his character was always good. He knew was only liberated from prieon on Saturday, where she
Williams, and he was a steady man ; he attended to his had been confined for the same offence. As a ruse to ex-
duty as a seaman. cite the sympathy of the magistrate, she declared if she
Captain Robert Crawford, Princess Royal, corroborated were pardoned she would go home. Mr. Aikin drily ob..
in general the evidence given by Captain Boyd, and added served, he wished she would stay there, when she returned
that after passing the Mull he was in the habit of going again, but for the next month she would have to sojourn
to rest. It was a fatiguing and anxious duty to take the in the borough gaol.
ship up the Clyde, and required great attention. He WARRING WITH STONES.---.
thought it reasonable that he should take the rest before brought before Mr. Aikin, at the
this. charged with " warring" with stone
Captain James M`Kellar—Has been on the Glasgow become almost universal thra- -
and Derry passage. He was thirteen or fourteen years on fraught with considerable d
the Glasgow and Liverpool line. He had no particular to person and property.
watch. The watches were divided into two—first and most of them were dischar
second. The second mate is the starboard watch. He fine being imposed on other._
had no more charge of the second mate than of the first. were kept by the police on the a
Ha was on deck passing the Isle of Man al
Galloway. He went to rest where he thought he could
go wilt safety. The general course was N. 4W. He len
considered that was a course to give a wide berth to the Ra
land. It would not require any alteration until they were
past the Blackhead. If they were near Dunman
luarter of a mile, that course would carry them cle
Cr -fain of

A number of boys were
e Police-court, yesterday,

. This nuisance has
at the town, and i 3
abitants, both

.nger to the it

and Mull of I t

A a 1 Dav

The pri
Jacob

..,aptain James Hardie—He is cap..— -.
He has commanded sixteen years. Captain Hender
has been a year in command of the Orion. He is a

seaman—none better

After passing the Null of

on a fog coming on he would not go to bed.
N. W. Dunman Head has deep water, an
of a mile is good enough berth. If there
the land

go to rest
:ler Clarke,

value, and

A great part of t