The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

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h uputi hue cummitLee I tressed when the captain beat
the employment of Mr. Sherlock, If they (the men at the pumt

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—Mr. Bold moved that the several officers, clerks, &e.,
they might have saved him.
of the committee, should have a week's leave of absence
Henry Ilopray, another seaman belonging to the Arabia,
to visit the Exhibition. The heads of the various de- and at presentliving in Gibraltar-row, deposed to many of
partments to make the necessary arrangements, &C. the facts sworn to by the preceding witness.
Agreed to. From this evidence it transpired that wt..<
being beaten with the rope, he cried out " irt
asked if there was not anybody to save hit

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ler," and
During

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

!se inflictions tho captain wa

by, and never

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charge of abstracting several Dutch and American coins
ojeCrcsoi;psieeises- reytnhdedeady" captain
and some clothes from the chest of the mate, on board the
Madeline, Hamburgh vessel, lying in the Queen's Dock.
They had also of
several watches, stolen from Dock. occasions
witness never heard him say anything to the officers
vessels. Two of the prisoners, Isaac and John Thomas, on the subject. It appeared the man's sufferings were
were committed for trial, aggravated from the fact of his being very ill clad, and the
On Thursday an engineer, named William Meadows, season excessively inclement ; his clothing was a cotton
was charged by Mr. Norris, chain-cable and anchor maker, slop, an old waistcoat and pair of trousers.
Norfolk. street, with wilfully damaging an engine employed Jonas Stanford and George Anderson followed with their
in the work carried on at his establishment. Two
fans connected with the blowing apparatus were smashed, anything to say in their defence. Both declined to say
the damage being caused apparently by a piece of wood or anything.
a piece of iron, both which were found in the machinery. DI -...r.
Booth commented in strong terins on the conduct
The prisoner was remanded. of the prisoners. He said they had been guilty of expes-
' WHOLESALE MANUFACTORY OF TEA AND TOBACCO.— sive cruelty ; indeed the offence might turn out to be
On Tuesday two important excise informations were. heard murder. By their cruelty they had driven the man to
commit suicide. It was too serious a charge for him to
jb e. fo
Stevens,there
carries
the
first
businesscasee was
e apigeatienrs, te
on nn
~in Lower Parliament-street, in this,
town ; adjudicate on, even if he had the rower. He should coin-
extensive scale mit them both for trial at th assi. On being asked if
'and the charge was that of having manufactured, as tea, bail would be accepted, Mr.e Boothzes agreed to take bail to
a quantity of the leaves of the plane tree, birch tree, and the following amount :—Recognizances for each £2OO
other trees. In December last the excise officers visited with sureties of £lOO each.
the premises, and found in a room over the counting-house a -
'of Mr. Stevens, 53 ponds of tea, in a completely finished THE SWEDISH EzdieameTs.—The committee hays
state. On proceeding into a higher room, 218 pounds of been able to ship off five of these unfortunate persoks,
plane tree and birch tree teems, in various stages of man- and we• hope the public will respond liberally to the
ufacture, were discovered, making in the whole 290 pounds. r,enewed appeal in their behalf which appear -
Mr. Phillips, analytical examiner to the Board of Excise Vertising columns.

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