The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-02 00:00:00

YESTERDAY.

A woman named Mary Williams, the keeper of a lodg-
ing-house, was sent to gaol for seven days for having
stolen drinking glasses from the public-house's of Mr.
Lumb, Great Crosshall-street, and of Mr. Parr, Vauxhall-
road.

THEFT FROM A BOY.—Mary Ann Jones was commit-
ted for trial, for having stolen half-a-crown and three
fourpenny-pieces from the pocket of Joseph Calligan, an
errand-boy, in the service of Mr. Steele, of Strand-street.
The lad had received the money as his week's wages, and
on Saturday night, when leaving his employer's premises,
on his way home, and at the bottom of James-street, the
prosecutor came up, and saying, "I know you," threw
her arms around him. Immediately upon her leaving him
he missed his money, and from a description he gave of
her to the police she was subsequently apprehended.
HOOKING IT.—A porter named George Lee, was
charged with stealing a sheep's head from the stall of Mrs.
Close, butcher, Dale-street. The officer having charge of
the case, said the prisoner had been given into custody for
stealing the head from the stall, by hooking it away with
a cotton hook. He (the officer) had not himself seen him
in the act of doing so, but this was the statement made
when he took him into custody. As no other person ap-
peared in court to prefer the charge, the prisoner was dis-
missed.

CAUGHT AGAIN.—A notorious young fellow, named
James Bulkley, who upon many prior occasions had re-
ceived the fostering attentions of the police, who were very
anxious to make a professional acquaintanceship with him,
was brought up in custody with another lad, named John
Melville, on a charge of attempting a robbery in the dwell-
inghouse of Mr. John Johnson Stitt, of Northumberland-
terrace, Kirkdale. Mr. Luke Pearson Pickup, a com-
mercial traveller in the house of Messrs. R. C. Gardner
and Co., stated that he resided at No. 3, Albion-street,
opposite to the house of Mr. Stitt. On the previous 'day,
about half-past eleven o'clock, whilst engaged in discharg-
ing the offices of his toilette, in his dressing-room, he no-
ticed the two prisoners " dodging" about Mr. Stitt's
house, and in consequence was induced to keep an eye on
them. He saw the taller prisoner, Bulkley, lift up the
parlour window and enter. He (witness) put on his
clothes, and ran immediately across the field to Mr. Stitt's,
and having violently rung the bell, requested a female
servant to lock the parlour door, whilst he entered the
house by the window. He found Bulkley ensconced be-
neath a table, and dragged him out, when the young gen-
tleman assumed an air of great indifference. During a por-
tion of the time of his detention he carelessly reclined
upon the sofa, and then took his stand with his back to
the fire and, with great nonchalance observed, that he
should have no objection to take " six months in the
borough" as his chance in the affair. An officer was
called, and the prisoner was given into custody. The
other prisoner was subsequently apprehended by po-
lice-officer Grace. Ann Sheldon, servant to Mr. Stitt,
stated that before going to church, at a little before eleven
o'clock, she had placed the silver plate used at dinner on
the table in readiness. This was found, when Mr. Pickup
entered the house, heaped together, evidently for the
purpose oa being conveyed away. Both prisoners were
committed to the sessions.

ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH.—The first of a series of
lectures on " The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of
England" will be delivered on Sunday evening next, by
the incumbent, the Rev. G. W. Warr. The course will
be continued by the reverend gentleman on the Sunday
evenings during the winter months.

MR. COLLES'S MORNING ENTERTAINMENTS promise,
as we prophesied in our last, to be quite as attractive, and
as fully attended as they were last winter. His rooms in
Bold-street, during the past week, were visited by a very
large number of our fashionables. who all seemed highly
pleased at the amusement provided for them ; indeed,
some of Mr. C.'s illusions are so perfect, that, in despite
of their being performed in a private room, close to the
spectator, and in broad day-light, they positively defy
detection ; and only add another proof to how much
quicker the hand is than the eye. Many of his visitors
have likewise provided themselves with some of his inge-
niously-made apparatus, with which to amuse their
families and friends during the Christmas holidays, which
will now so soon be here. We know of no more cheerful
or innocent method by which a winter's evening may
be enlivened, than by some of those laughable tricks and
deceptions which never fail to excite the astonishment
and mirth of both old and young. (fr, C.'s advertise-
ment will be found in another column.)