The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Tuesday, four Irish persons were several"
for allowing pigs to sleep in their dwellings. fid
Twenty persons were fined on Tuesday for occuP'l,
cellars not in accordance with the act. All the cellar'
been cleared out, but had been re-let.
A SHIPPING AGENT FINED.—An information
heard, on Thursday, against Thomas Wilson, shiPP
agent, Bath-street, who was charged with demanding
a seaman, named Bradford, the sum of £1 for getting
a vessel.
WINDOW BREAKING EXTRAORDINARY.—...„a,..r4Ol
wood, the keeper of a hotel, appeared before Mr. B
on Thursday, to charge a dissolute looking fellow
breaking his windows. It transpired that Mr. Her:o
had sustained, within the last two years, losses, ffflwrj
wilful destruction of windows, to the amount of 'II",
The man was ordered to pay three shillings and Silt„ee
the amount of damage, and costs, or to be inii9P'
three days.
INFORMATIONS AGAINST PUBLICANS.—On Frlt
veral publicans and beersellers appeared before Mr. Po
ton, to answer informations laid by the police, for bP
company in their houses, and selling liquor at hours;
than those allowed by law. One of the defendants, •',l
Turner, who keeps a house near the Clarence Dovic,,,
fined £5 and costs for having fourteen men in his 51
at half-past three o'clock on Sunday morning.,4
Rushton told the defendant that he would lose his 11'
if he did not take care.

On Thursday, several wretched looking being ic:e
brought up on various charges. In each case it apPe
that they had committed the offences for the expressio
pose of being sent to prison, as they had applied for cy
at the parish-office without success. They were reuo:!,,,
till proper enquiries shouli be made. In the Ines°
Mr. Rushton desired Mr. Parkinson to go up to
Workhouse, where a meeting of the Select Vest
being held, and to make a statement of the bacts3'll'
now at work. At a subsequent period of the day,io
Grey, one of the overseers, appeared in court, a° ti
two persons above alluded to were handed over t°
parish, with directions that their wants should be
tended to.
LOAN SOCIETIES.—On Wednesday the officers 0
North British Friendly Loan Society appeared atg
Police-court against several borrowers, whom thce
summoned for arrears. The cases for the most pars
of the usual description, and orders were made upon
parties to pay the money, Mr. Rushton repeating ad e
to the several persons summoned to have nothing l't)
with such societies. Several similar cases came before,.
court on Thursday, in the course of which it appeareelb
loans had been advanced to parties to enable them' 0510
off former loans. Mr. Rushton observed that this
illegal mode of doing business, and that the money o,,ulei
ced under such circumstances was clearly irrecovex'aud
point of law, and that if the societies issued distress ly
rants, they would be liable to have proceedings to
against them.
A SALUBRIOUS LOOCALITY.—On Tuesday, an IrAl's
man named John Curran was summoned before the voi
gistrates on a charge of keeping pigs in a cellar under°
his house in Cherry-lane. The offence was not deflot
but Mr. Davenport, who appeared for the defend
called for a tall Hibernian, who gave the classic narereot
O'Hara. The witness said he lived next door to Cu
and had done so for about fourteen years, and no "t 1)
sance arose from the defendant's pigs • he added, thOe
neighbourhood was the " cleanest and nicest in Pct,
pool." (Laughter.) Mr. Rushton.—" Do you mea°o
say Cherry-lane is the nicest place in Liverpool ?"
witness repeated what he had previously stated, and
added, there had been no deaths in that neighbour'
whilst he lived there, except one single person, 11° ber
was " plagued with the asthmatic, but he lived rp
many years before he died." (Renewed laughter.) je
Rushton.—" You are calling a place a salubrious ne,x
bourhood which is the worst in Liverpool without es
n{
tion ; there are more deaths from disease, want of 'lei),
lation and other causes, and more suffering *on'
health, than in any other district of the town.' A 11°d
officer stated that the defendant had about three an{?half tons of manure near his house, the stench from ljP4l
was quite intolerable. Mr. Rushton enforced the u;
fine of 205., and ordered the removal of the pigs.

RAILWAY RECEIPTS,

The following are the receipts of railways for the pastl
that is to say, up to the date to which the respective
are made :

Week 1 1847.
ending I Amount,

e s. d.
Tan. 0 0 0
0 0 0
——o 0 0
29 524 0 0
——o 0 0
——o 0 0
30 73 0 0
27 669 0 0
1 700 0 0
29 654 0 0
30 410 0 0
—29 i 3188 0 0
29 681 0 0
30 , 10020 0 0
—29 ; 870 0 0

-23' 1120- 0 0
-29; 716 0 0
-- 29 1 1730 0 'Y
--
29 945 0' 0
- 29 1669 0 0
-30 16008 0 0*
-29 106 0 0
8005 0 0
- 28 1117 0 0
0 0 0
--
29 103 0 0
-- 30 33504 0 0
- 30 696 0 0
__ 29 6073 0 0
30 6269 0
--
29 2047 0 0
- 30 501 0 0

--
29 17737 0 0
- 30 604 0 0
0 0 0
-- 29 1717 0 0
- 30 1524 0 0
__ 29 1714 0 0
- 29 5742 0
__ 29 1 2272 A 0
0 0 0
--- 29 468 012
-29 1 6439 0 y,
--28 671 0
-- 29 1747 0 0 (~
- 30 549 0 u
-- 30 153 0 0
- 29 788 0 0
--
29 10119 C 0
--
29 610] A 0