The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

The retirement of Mr. Sands from the office of
Mayor, at the close of the municipal year, affords us
an opportunity, which we gladly embrace, of making
a few remarks upon the mode in which he has dis-
charged the important functions of that high office.
Mr. Sands, it will he remembered, entered upon the
discharge of those functions under circumstances of
some difficulty. A charge had been preferred
against him, affecting his private character as a mer-
chant; and some men there are who would have
preferred to wave their claim to such an honour,
rather than undergo the searching ordeal necessary
to clear them from the imputations brought egainst
them. Mr. Sands was not such a man. He went
boldly to the proof of the perfect purity of his
actions. He was absolved from every thing which
could savour of even the appearance of dishonoura-
ble conduct by an impartial tribunal; and he en-
tered upon his duties, as Mayor of the second town
in the empire,. with a character for prohihity and
honesty, not sallied in the slightest degree by the
attempt made to do it injury.
Entering upon such an office under such circum-
stances, the conduct of Mr. Sands in his official ca-
pacity has naturally been more strictly subjected to
criticism than, otherwise, it might have been; and
we rejoice to say that the even tongue of malice can-
: not bring against it an imputation. We do not
affect to say that it has been to our own perfect sa-
tisfaction. Upon one subject, and upon one alone
(which will he sufficiently recognized by those who
have been in the habit of perusing our leading
columns), we have felt it necessary to object to his
proceedings and opinions. We pass this by, how-
ever. We know that, on that occasion, the conduct
of the Mayor was dictated from motives the most
pure of what he was led to believe was his duty ;
and we readily wave all further notice of the subject.
We can well afford to an honourable man the right
of private judgement, and esteem him still honest
and consistent, < lthough he may differ from us upon
any particular point not all-important to the cause
of which we are the humble and unworthy advocates.
In the hands of Mr. Sands,—and we have
watched his career attentively,—the duties of the
Mayoralty of Liverpool have been performed with
dignity and credit to the town, over which he has
had to preside. It has fallen to his lot, during his
tenure of office, to dispense the hospitalities of the
Town-hall to many distinguished visitors. It has
b 213 his privilege to entertain royalty; and none
who have attended his entertainments upon any of
these occasions can say that the honor and credit of
this great town was not municently sustained by
him. But better even than this,—because mere
vanity and ostentation could not be said to have been
the impelling causes of action—we point to the
zeadiness shewn by Mr. Sands, on all occasions, to
make his high office subserve to the cause of charity
and the social amelioration of his fellow-townsmen.
In this use of his dignity no man within our memory
has excelled the gentleman of whosr merits, as
Mayor of Liverpool, we are at present recording our
humble opinions.
We take leave of the subject. It required not
even this length of remark. We may, 11,.mrever,
further express our grateful sense of the personal
amenity which has ever distinguished Mr. Sands,
whilst occupying his high office, and assure him that
he will retire into his station as a member of the
council with the good wishes of all, with whom his
more elevated station has brought him into contact.

A paragraph appeared in the Journal of Saturday,
and was copied into the .Albion of Monday, contain-
ing statements respecting the forthcoming election
of mayor, and aldermen of this borough, to which we
feel bound to give the most decided contradiction. It
is asserted—and sneeringly asserted too—that Mr.
James Lawrence is to be elevated to the mayoralty,
by a species of compromise with other gentlemen,
supposed to be aspirants to the office, and agreed to
at a preliminary meeting of Conservative members
of the Council; and a list of names is given of the
parties to be elected aldermen, as a set off to the
withdrawal of opposition to Mr. Lawrence. The
whole of these details are pure inventions,—as false
as they are utterly ridiculous.
No such preliminary meeting as is spoken of has
been held. Of that we are well assured. And,
further, we are perfectly confident that Mr. James
Lawrence would never submit to owe his elevation
to the mayoralty to such a degrading compromise
with other aspirants, as is alleged to have taken
place. Mr. Lawrence submits his claims to that
honour entirely to the unbiassed and unbought con-
sideration of the members of the Council; and we
believe will be elected by their unanimous voice,
although certainly in accordance with no procon-
certed arrangement by which his honor can be com-
promised.
With respect to the parties to he elected to the
office of aldermen, we are assured that not only has
no such arrangement—no such " compromise"—
been entered into, upon the terrns alleged by the.
Journal, and copied by the Albion, but no arrange-
ment at all has, at this moment, been come to, or,
so far as we are aware, attempted. We could not
point; nor do we believe that any other man could '
now point, to the name of a single gentleman whose
aspirations to the honor of election to the office of
alderman is secure, or, from any other consideration
than his merit, likely to be responded to by the
majority of the Council.
We are unwilling, for reasons which on a former
Occasion we have given, to enter more at length into
this subject, or to suggest anything to the Council
with respect to the course for them to adopt. We
leave the elections to be made unreservedly to their
good judgment and consideration.

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGHT.—The funds have
scarcely supported the currency of yesterday. business
having been limited; and the market closing early. Con-
sols for money left off this afternoon 991 to -4; and for
the account, 994 to par. Bank Stock closed 203 to 205 ;
India Stock, 287 to 289; India Bonds, 89s. to 91s. pre-
dtium '1 bree per Cents. Reduced, 99 to 3 ; New Three-
Ind-a-quarter per Cents., 1014 to 101 ; and Long Annui-
ties, 12. Exchequer-bills continue to feel the influence
of the increased demand for money, leaving off to-day at
635. to 575. premium, which within the last fortnight
shows a decline of Bs. premium in these securities, the
quotation having been previously 735. to 755. premium.
In the foreign market business was of the least impor-
tance. Spanish is quoted rather firmer, but the Stock
Exchange Lad closed before The Times was received in
the city with the news of the attempt to assassinate Ge-
neral Narvaez and Baton de Meer. The effect is antici-
p,tted to be unfavourable when the market opens on Mon-
day. Spanish Three per Cents. this afternoon closed at
were—Belgian, atn o,
3o} to ; Five per Cents., 23i to 24. The other prices
11003 ;
Itocloolo2mexbiandiv334 to Brazilian,
lilni3:3asniistho,BB6B44;
to 894; Dutch Two-and-a-fluff per Cents., 624 to -4; the
Four per Cents, 9G4 to i; the Five per Cents., 981 to 99 ;
Mexican, 344 to 4 the Deferred, 15 to and Russian, '
1184 to 1194.

We must say that we have seldom approached a subject
with greater difficulty—with greater regret,—that the
duty should be imposed neon us,—than we now approach
the consideration of the questions tat issue between Mr.
Miller, our late Head-constable, and the Watch Com-
mittee. Upon the appointment of this gentleman to his
onerous and important office, we imagined that we re-
cognised, in his character and reputed fitness, abundant
motives for his selection by the Watch Committee. We
advocated his claims accordingly ; and, up to a very
recent period, we have been under the impression that he
was fulfilling the expectations of that committee and of
the town The event of his retirement, even, we regarded
as only attributable to a mistake on his part of his duties,
and a wrong impression as to the extent to which he was
subject to the controling power of the Committee. Upon
this subject we knew that differences had arisen, which
we trusted that the good sense of Mr. Miller would ena-
ble him to reconcile with the perfect performance of his
duty. Entertaining these views, we regretted the ne-
cessity which he felt of resigning his trust, and were pre-
pared to part with him in the perfect conviction that he
had done his utmost to earn the respect, even although he
could not fulfil the expectations, of the body by whom he
was appointed.
We would willingly have been left under these impres-
sions, as, we are sure, would the Watch Committee.
But—oh what a curse it is to have injudicious advisers,
or a headstrong temper !—Mr. Miller has not been con-
tent with the considerate manner in which the reasons
for his retirement have been sought to be placed before
the public by the Watch Committee, but has rushed into
print, with an evident inclination to provoke a contro-
versy and a siftinc, of the whole subject of his conduct in
the office which he held. With the letter from him which
has resulted it is now our duty to deal ; and being driven
by himself to the performance of that duty, be cannot
complain if we do it unreservedly.
Mr. Miller wishes it to be understood that the sole
ground of his offence is his disobeyal of express orders
on the day of the laying of the foundation stone of the
docks at Birkenhead. Of the precise degree of his cul-
pability here more anon. In the meantime we must beg
to remind him that, although with the charitable intent
to allow his character to go forth to the world with as
little damage as possible, his admitted neglect, or viola-
tion of orders on this occasion was alleged by the Watch
Committee as the ground of their dissatisfaction with
him, it was not, as be must well know, the only ground.
Mr. Miller was not discharged because of his proceedings
on that day. A select committee had for a week pre-
viously, as was well known, through the press, and par-
t;cularly well known to himself, been sitting to inquire
into the general conduct of the police, his own conduct
included. On the very day of his admitted delinquency,
the general committee had been summoned, by the secre-
tary's letter, dated four days previously, to receive the
report of the special committee. It was received during
his absence from the duties prescribed to him on that
day; and we state without reservation that, with that re-
port before it, independent of any thing else, the Board
could have had no other alternative than that of enforcing
Mr. Miller's removal from his (Ace. The late head con-
stable therefore is a little disingenious when he makes use
of the Board's kind consideration for his own future pros-
pects, to raise a charge of undue severity against h'm.
And now, with respect to the circumstance under
which Mr. iller went to Birkenhead, in direct contra-
riety to the orders of the Watch Committee. We give,
at foot, his own statement, and proceed to supply the real
facts, which are a little tortured, and such parts of them
as it suits h s purpose to conceal, suppressed by him.
An application was made to the Watch Committee of
Liverpool, by the Birkenhead commissioners, for a num-
ber of the force to attend on the occasion of the laying of
the foundation stone of the new docks, in order to prevent
, any breaches of the peace which might occur. To this
application the Watch Committee acceded, by granting a
force of fifty men for the occosion, to be sent under the
superintendence of an inspector; and, on a subsequent
application from Mr Miller to be permitted to accompany
them, he was informed that the arrangements were already
made, and that an inspector was sufficient. The subsequent
proceedings of Mr. Miller are detailed in his letter sub-
joined: but some very important circumstances, bearing
materially upon the conduct of the chairman of the board,
whom Mr. Miller accuses of unauthorised interference,
are omitted to be mentioned. Mr. Miller says, correctly,
that on his return in the afternoon, he was reproved by
the daily board, then sitting. He was, in addition, in-
formed that ha must for the remainder of the day confine
himself to the superveillance of the force in the town ;
and that the charge of the police attending at the Pier-
head and at Birkenhead was to be confided to Mr. Dow-
ling. A resolution of the daily board to that effect was
duly recorded in their minus s ; and yet Mr. Miller's
own letter acknowledges his contumacious disregard of
its requirements. He deliberately took upon himself to
perform Mr. Dowling's duties. He ordered an additional
force to be sent over to Birkenhead; and when remon-
strated with by Mr. Lawrence and reminded of the reso-
lotion of the Committee he persisted in refusing to with-
draw that order. He argues in his letter, in defence of
such refusal, that he was not subject to the individual
orders of the Chairman of the Watch Committee. We
say that he was at least bound to obey the resolution of
the Board itself, and abstain from interference with that
portion of the force which bad been placed under the
orders of Mr. Dowling. We tell him moreover that Mr.
Laurence had authority to interfere, being authorised by
the Committee to see their orders carried into effect; and
we tell him, further, that Mr. Laurence never did so in-
terfere as he has represented him doing. Mr. Laurence
never sent back a man of the Force. Mr. Dowling, who was
charge of the Force, and to whom it was left to judge of
the necessity of their proceeding to Birkenhead, did what
Mr. Miller states to have been so officiously done by the
Chairman himself.

We are sorry that Mr. Miller has compelled us to enter
into these particulars, and much suspect that, in the pro-
ceedings which he has taken in this matter, he has been
mislee by evil advisers. We know, and he knows himself
too, that the conduct of the board towards him has been
most considerate ; they were forbearing to the last. Wilful
men however, and he certainly appears a most wilful one—
will have their way, and must of course bear the conse-
quences. If Mr. Miller is not satisfied to do so—if he
wishes a public investigation into his case—let him de-
mand an enquiry into all the circumstances of his conduct
since he took charge of the force, and we are confident it
will not be refused him. Will he try this issue ? It is a
more manly one than the course which he is at present
pursuing.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.

SIR,—A report of the Daly Board of the Watch Com-
mittee having now been published as part of the proceed-
ings of that committee read at the last Council, wherein
I am charged with having " been guilty of a flagrant dis-
obedience of orders," I feel it necessary to the vindica-
tion of my character with the public to enter into an ex-
planation of the circumstances which led to my resigna-
tion of the office of Head-constable ; and I hope you will
allow me the medium of your paper for that purpose.
I at once admit that my orders from the Daily Board,
with respect to the Birkenhead festival, were, that a force
of fifty men, under a superintendent, should be sent to
attend there, and, as readily, that I subsequently deviated
from those orders. But, under what circumstances, and
whether I was justified by them, or, at any rate, that
the committee are not justified in using the strong expres-
sions above quoted, are points on which I confidently
appeal to the public.
Mr. Laycock had, previously to the festival, invited me
to breakfast with him on thatday, which friendly invitation
I accepted. On the day before the festival, Mr. Laycock
called on me, at my office, and, after a few minutes con-
versation and renewing his invitation, was leaving the
room, when Mr. James Lawrence and one or two other
gentlemen entered. A few words then passed between
them, Mr. Laycock saying, that he wished Mr. Lawrence
had permitted me to take charge of the force, and Mr.
Lawrence replying, that the committee had already granted
a force of fifty men ; and that he thought that, with a
superintendent, would be quite sufficient. It might be
inferred, from the report, that an application had been
made for my services, and a refusal, '`in the strongest
terms possible," had been formally given by the Daily
Board. If so, I was not acquainted with it, and only
heard the passing conversation above alluded to.
In the evening I made what appeared to me sufficient
arrangements for preserving the peace in Liverpool ; and
the morning of the festival, I crossed over to Mr. Lay-
cock's, and with no other intention than of accepting
his invitation, and returning again to Liverpool about
ten o'clock. When the procession was forming, some con-
fusion occurred from the pressure of the multitude of
people, and I was then urged by several influential gen-
tlemen to marshall the procession. Fearing mischief
might ensue if this act were not at once promptly per-
formed, I consented, and gave my services, and, as the
first necessary step, I took the Liverpool force under my
own orders, thereby, as I admit, deviating from the di-
rections of the Daily Board. On my return to Liverpool,
I was called before the Daily Board and reproved for this
interference. I expressed my regret at having given
offence, but that I was not conscious of having acted
wrongly.
In the evening, between eight and nine o'clock, I re-
ceived official reports that the men who had been on duty
the whole of the day at Birkenhead were completely ex-
hausted ; and that the crowds of people in' the streets,
and about the ferry, rendered a reinforcement indispens-
able. I, therefore, acting on my own responsibility,
ordered an inspector and twenty men to proceed to Bir-
kenhead. When this additional force was on the point
of embarking, Mr. James Lawrence called at the Central
Station, and asked by whose authority these men were
sent. 1 answered, by my own. He desired me to with-
draw the order. I declined to do so, stating that I con-
ceived that I was carrying out the views of the committee
by supporting the force wich they had ordered to go to
Birkenhead, and that I did not consider be was entitled,
in his individual capacity, to interfere. Mr. Lawrence
then left me, went down to the Pierhead, and, in direct
apposition to me, ordered the men to go back to their
beats, with the exception of four or five, whom he di-
rected to proceed to Birkenhead. Mr. Lawrence shortly
afterwards gave instructions for the withdrawal of the
whole force from Birkenhead. About midnight I again
saw Mr. Lawrence, when he informed me of this inter-
ference, and I then told him that he had compromised
me in the eyes of the whole force, and that I felt it was
impossible for me any longer to retain the office of Head-
constable with advantage to the public or with honour to
myself.
Had the report of the committee which is published
been confined to the result, namely, my resignation, or,
having entered into some detail, had it given an impartial
narrative of the above circumstances, I should have re-
mained silent ; but I cannot allow such reflections as it
contains to pass unnoticed. It is impossible for me, in
this limited space, to enter into any explanation of my
general conduct. The committee and I differed as to the
extent of power and discretion which ought to be vested in
the Head-constable for the due and efficient performance

DEAR WILL,—I told you a week ago how it would be !
but you are a pig-headed fellow, and will always have
your own way. Why on earth (lid you compromise the
dignity of the family, by contesting such an out of the
way place—such a compound essence of vulgarity—such
an Australia and Caliphornia as St. Anne's Ward. I re-
collect seeing by the newspapers, that there was indeed
such a spot; but it was one, where nothing but savages
had been seen, and where it was destruction to a gentle-
man to have been heard of in its precincts. Don't you see
now what a fool you have made of yourself, by putting
out such a ridiculous placard on the walls? And how
all sober, sensible men laughed at it! The most provoking
thing of all is, that notwithstanding the lies put forth by
the Radical press, about Parker's beer barrels, and the
poor Papists, whom he bribed to sell themselves for a
quart of his double X, there were scarcely any of the
gentlemen in the ward would condescend to favour you
with a vote. I went in a quiet way to look at the fellows
who voted for you ; and I am ashamed to say, that striking
a fair average, the lowest of the low, the priest driven
creatures and the cadaverous homunculusses who registered
their votes for you, ought to sicken you for attempting
any more to get into Council. Your attenuated dignity
is gone for ever. and the best thing you can do, is to quit
Liverpool, until your unseemly speeches are forgotten,
and until your services are wanted 1 Depend upon it
that you and Bolton, and Rathbone, and Shiel, and Holt,
and Dicky Vaughan—what's-his-name ?—are a flock cf
gone geese. Your cackling has betrayed you, and the
whole of you may be politically slaughtered a hundred
times over, before any golden eggs can be discovered
among the whole batch. You see what your violence'
and folly have done.
It would not have signified a farthing if you had made
ti political suicide of yourself; but you have sunk our
party we• are irrevocably and irretrievably ruined.
What with your furious and dirty speeches—Walmsley's
ambition—Evans' warehouse scheme—Barclay's stories
in the Wavertree omnibus—your discharging all the old
and tried servants of the Town-hall, and your republican
aristocracy, we are done for, for the next twenty years;
and those cursed Tories, who seem most unaccountably
to have the popular voice with them, will ride rough-shod
over us for the rest of our lives ; and they have got the
government, the parish, the corporation, the docks, the
highway board, and everything else, down to the very
news-rooms, under their own thumbs. It is lamentable
and abominable; but it cannot be helped, and the best
thing we can do is to submit with resignation. We shall
have two Tory representatives for the rest of our days, as
sure as a gun. I don't think there is the slightest chance
for us now, unless we could get up a cry of universal
suffrage and annual parliaments, and so come in again
for a year or two upon the surge of the revolutionary
wave ; and I think it would be a capital move. To be
sure Louis Philippe won't fight • O'Connell is going
down, and the Anti-Corn-Law League is already gone;
the church is too strong; people are sick of the school
question, and think that the schools are going on very
well as they are; and then there's Brooks and M`Neile
among the parsons—(confound them both !) ' • and there's
Jim Aspinall amongst the gentlemen ; Sir Thomas
amongst the merchants; Sam Holme amongst the trades-
men ; • and scores of those hard-headed, ignorant ship-
wrights, and others of the Conservative democracy, who
are all ugly fellows to grapple with, and are not easily
put down. What fools we were to throw the whole in-
fluence of the town into the hands of the shopocracy and
trading classes! Why, there's dozens of tradesmen who
have had the audacity to learn Latin ! and unless we hold
the candle to the middle classes, as they call themselves,
we have no resource but to budge.
But, my dear Will, you must turn over a new leaf :
you must not be so very violent; you must not call
yourself a " terrier," a " leveller," and such like ugly
names ; you must try to be a very " sucking dove," speak
coolly, use a little soft sawder, and get your stomach into
better condition by swallowing a few grains of blue pill
now and then. Ellison will supply you with good ones.
And when you have got the mastery of your ill-tempers,
you must mount the balcony of the Bull Inn, Claytan-
squlre, and tell the people that they are plundered by the
Tories—that they pay a shilling a bushel too much for
ttlieir corn (but don't tell them that, if foreign corn is
imported duty free, they will have 6s. a-*eek knocked off
their wages)—tell them that the advent of the Whigs to
power would be attended with the inestimable blessing of
having Billy Ewart again as our representative in parlia-
ment, and you as member of our Town Council—that
they would then have sixpenny loaves for a halfpenny,
and that money would tumble in without the trouble of
working for it, and that the primeval curse is all nonsense.
And then you can say that Annual Parliaments, Uni-
versal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and all the Yankee
nostrums are great blessings : and would speedily lead
to the repudiation of the national debt, the extinguish-
ment of the peerage, (all but Lord Sefton, because you
have once or twice dined with him); that a president with
£lOOO a year would be cheaper than a monarch ; and that
the bishops and clergy should be like M.D.'s, only sent
for to physic people when they want it ! This would take
with the fools, and they are always the majority ; and so,
by a little cajolery, and a good deal of humbug, you may
perchance, as you dearly wish, get again into that room,
which you once described, in your own elegant phrase-
ology, as " the most ill ventilated room in the town."
You see, my dear Will, I am tendering you good ad-
vice, if you have only the good sense to follow it. Let
me add, however, that the life of a demagogue is any thing
but easy ;—he must go forward, or be left behind! The
expectation of the " people " travels rather rapidly; and,
being easily gulled, they are unfortunately in the habit of
believing all that you mob orators say to them. But I
shall not moralise, for I know your temper is none of the
best, and that a little quiet will be beneficial to you.
Perhaps the Conservatives may yet make you an alder-
man! To be sure a little more cubical space might help
you ; but the vast extent of your mind will always be a
drawback upon your body, and I rather despair of seeing
You look any better. All things considered, you are
better out than in. You would be continually saying
things that would disturb your repose. David Hodgson,
however, is revenged ; and as to poor Thornhill, when he ,
heard you had. lost St. Anne's Ward, he jumped—he
stuttered—he swallowed two pints of half-and-half—he
smoked three pipes of shag,—and, after throwing up his
shocking bad hat to the top of the ceiling, he shouted out
* * * [Here the MS. was so torn that we could not
make it out.]

I am, dear Will,
Your own chum,
Aqua-street, Nov. 4, 1814. * * * * *

John Paley, Esq. is the mayor elect for Preston, and
E. D. Salisbury, Esq. for Lancaster.
The British and North American royal mail steam-ship
Britannia, Captain Hewitt, sails hence with the usual
mails for Halifax and Boston to-day.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.—Un-
der the new charter of this college, the following surgeons,
resident in Lancashire, have had the honour of fellow-
ships conferred upon them .
1 James Ainsworth, Manchester Charles Boutflower, Liverpool
Robert Thorpe, Manchester John Cooper, Liverpool
Wm. Jas. Wilson, Manchester John Prince Halton, Liverpool
Thomas Turner, Manchester John Maurice Banner, Liverp.
John Houtflower, Manchester Win. H. Bainbridge, Liverpool
J. A. Ransome, Manchester Henry Stubbs, Liverpool
Joseph Jordan, Manchester William Gill, Liverpool
Samuel Barton, Manchester James Long, Liverpool
John Windsor, Manchester Abraham Wood, Rochdale
James Dawson, Liverpool J. Stockdale Harrison, Lair.
Robert Bickersteth, Liverpool Samuel Gaskell, Lancaster

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THEATRE- ROYAL—The performances at this theatre
during the nights not occupied by the concerts noticed
elsewhere, have been principally those dramas in which
that excellent representative of Scottish originals and ec-
centrics, Mackay, has won for himself so many admirers.
In one of these, "The Rights of Woman," Miss Mon-
tague has succeeded in making a decided hit, and shown
that she is equally at home in comedy and in tragedy.
Her Widow Blandish is a delightful piece of acting. Last
night Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean entered upon an en-
gagement, when the " Gamester" was performed ; and
we may look for a series of our best standard tragedies.
We are sorry, by the bye, to record the loss of Mr. Comp-
ton, who appeared for the last time on Saturday night,
previous to proceeding to the Princess's Theatre, in Lon-
don. The high success which his talent deserves attend
his steps.
COMMITMENTS.—At the Police-court, yesterday, the
following persons were committed to take their trials at
the sessions, on the several charges stated : A boy
named George Hill, charged with stealing, on Saturday,
a cheese, value 65., from the shod of Mr. Twineham, in
Whitechapel. John Tarleton, for stealing on Saturday,
a pair of boots from the shop of Mr. Henry Plimer, Dale-
street. Mary Watkins, for stealing from the person of
Alexander Mc Kinlay, in Brunswick-street, 15s. in mo•
ney. Mary Jones, for stealing from the stall of Joseph
Birtles, in St. John's Market, 31bs. of mutton—a second
offence of the same kind. Anne Green, charged with rob-
bing James Cawell of 255. in a house of ill fame, in Al-
bion-street. Eliza Hampson, also an abandoned female,
for Robbing William Bibby of his watch, which she after
ward threw on the ground when the police-officer came
up. Charles Turner, on the suspicion of entering and
robbing the house of William Williams, in Bounydra-
street, during the absence of the family on Sunday. He
was seen to come out of a back window, and attempted to
escape by a back passage, after passing several yard walls.
Several drawers were found to have been opened, and a
quantity of wearing apparel, &c., removed for the conve-
nienca of being carried off. The prisoner was not before
known to the police. Sarah Stowman, for robbing a man
named Wiliam Neild of a sovereign ; and Joseph Mur-
phy, ror stealing in Bannister-street, on Saturday, a
jacket belonging to Joseph Blood.