The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-07 00:00:00

ADDRESS TO SIR ROBERT k:EL.

The close of the long debate in the House of Com-
mons on Lord John Russell's motion on the Irish Church
question, reached Liverpool early on Saturday morning.
As' soon as the result of the debate became known, a
meeting was held at which an address to Sir Robert Peel
was agreed to, in order to give a public expression of
the entire confidence. reposed in his Majesty's present, ad-
visers, by the gentry, clergy, merchants, bankers, and
the inhabitants of this place generally. Although co-
pies of the address were not sent round to .the places
where signatures to public documents of this kind are
usually taken until after three o'clock, it was signed by
more than four thousand persons in the course.' of the
evening. The names added to it yesterday amounted to
about five thousand, MAKING IN ALL ABOUT NINE
THOUSAND SIGNATURES! About eighteen hun-
dred signatures were taken at THE STANDARD OFFICE,
in the course of Saturday evening and yesterday, and
from personal observation we are enabled to state that
the sheets signed at our office contain the names of every
grade Of society in the town. We earnestly rem-men:l
a perusal of the address, a copy of which will be found
among our advertisements. In doing so, we have to in-
form our local readers that it will be despatched to Lon-
'don by this night's mail. Those, therefore!, who are fit-
vourable to the address will take care not to miss the op-
portunity. The people have only to express their senti-
ments in this gratifying and constitutional manner, and.
faction will be most effectually put down.

LIVERPOOL POLICE REPORT..

FRlDAY.—Before the M A YOR and Alderman P. BOURNE.

ROBBERY AT THE ItoYAL HoTEL, MANCHESTER.—LouiS
San Martin, the Spaniard, who was taken into custody by Saw-
ley, an officer belonging to the Manchester police, On Sunday
evening last, was brought before Sir Thomas Brancker at the
Mayor's Court on Monday, for power to have the prisoner
handed over to the Manchester authorities, where he stood
charged with having robbed a gentleman, who was staying at
the Royal Hotel in that town, of a sum of money amounting to
£6-3. examination before the magistrates at Manchester,
terminated in his acquittal on that charge, the evidence not
being sufficiently strong to warrant his detention, as no portion
of the money was found in his possession. The prisoner was
again placed at the bar on Monday, along with another foreigner,
who, although no specific charge was brought against him, was
suspected of being an accomplice, he belie", found iu the pii-
souer's company at the Angel Inn, Dale-street, where they were
both apprehended. The prisoner (San Martin) stood charged
with having entered the house of Mr. Barke, landlord of the
Wellingtoa Inn, Dale-street, and stealing front a drawer in
Mr. B.'s bed-room, a valuable gold hunting watch. From the
eVidence of Mr. Backe, it appeared that on Wednesday last he
missed the watch in question, while searching for a penknife,
deposited in the same drawer. He had not opened the drawer
containing the watch for about a fortnight previous to the rob-
bery, but at that time it was safe. On discovering his loss he
gave information thereof to the police, and circulated hand bills
giving a description of the watch. It having come to the know-
ledge of Mr. Mendelson, a jeweller and silversmith, residing in
Manchester, that the prisoner had been taken into custody ou
suspicion of the robbery at the Royal Hotel, it occurred to
him, from the description given of the prisoner, that it
must be the same individual who had offered for sale a
gold watch at his shop the day before, under rather pecu-
liar circumstances. Oa entering the shop of Mr. Mendel-
son, the prisoner drew from his waistcoat pocket a gold
watch, and
.presented it to Mr. Mendelson, at the same
time muttering something which he did not understand.
Mr. Meudelsou opened the watch, and on inspection noticed
the dial as having letters in the place of figures to denote the
hour, and likewise observed the maker's name to be Hornby.
The prisoner then took a piece of paper that lay on the counter,
and wrote upon it some figures, and then handed it to Mr.
Mendelson. On the paper, near the top, was marked £3O, and
underneath it. £24, which he concluded was the price given and
the price asked for it;. on Mr. M. shaking his head. by way of
dissent, the prisoner took up his watch awl departed. I'he
boots of the Royal Hotel, on being called, deposed to the pri.
sonar's having slept at the hotel on the night the robbery took
place; his having seen the prisoner as early as half-past live the
'next morning, who asked him what time the first train started
fur Liverpool, and on being informed hastily pulled out a gold
watch, which he (the boots) observed had letters on the dial in
lieu of figures. Ile saw the prisoner leave the house at half-
past six-on Sunday morning, for Liverpool, and heard the pri-
soner express himself .in tolerable English. Ou the gentleman
at the Royal Hotel making his loss known he (the boots) was
sent off to Liverpool, accompanied by Sawley, in quest of the,
prisoner, Whom they apprehended the same evening, alorig with
his companion. Wine the prisoner was being searched, he
was asked by the boots what he had done with the watch he had
seen hint with in the meriting;-- the prisoner, in answer denied
his being possessed of one. The chambermaid Of the Welling-
ton also spoke to having seen the prisoner, while following her
avocation, in the act of walking up stairs in the direction orthe
room front whence the watch was stolen; she asked his business
there, and was told that he wanted some gentleman whose name
she did not recollect.
Considerable time was taken up in the examination, the pri-
soners having expressed a wish, although able to speak French
fluently, to have a Spanish interpreter. This task was at last
undertaken by Mr. Lucas, who made them acquainted with all
that was passing. From what transpired on the examination
it was shrewdly suspected that the pi isoners could speak Eng-
lish. San Martin was fully committed to the sessions, and his
fellow-prisoner discharged. At the conclusion of the examina-
tion the prisoner produced front his pocket a slice of bread,
which he held up to the Mayor, at the same time asking, through
his interpreter, for a better sort. of food. San Martin looked
unutterable things when told that his request could not be coin-
lied with.
SATURDAY.—(Before the MAYOR and Mr. Ald. Hoespa Lt..)
Louis San Martin and Joachim San Martin, the two Spa-
niards, were brought up again to-day, when the former was
committed on the charge preferred against bins by Mr. Burke,
of the Wellington Inn, Dale-street. There not bjing sufficient
evidence to identify Joachim with the robbery, he was dis-
charged.
CONVIeTION FOR SELLING WINES AND SPIRITS IN THE
Ttr,:avin-ltovar..—Rebecca Bowman, the keeper of the sa-
loon in the Theatre-Royal, was Summoned before the magi-
strates at the instance of the Excise, charged with retailing
wines and spirits in the theatre, not being duty licensed to do
so. The sale of the spirits and wines was proved by the Excise
officers, and it was stated that the same system had been car-
ried on for three years to the•detriment of those who were li-
censed according° act of parliament. Mr. Wilkinson, a bar-
rister, appeared for thedelendantottid in mitigation urged that
the defendant was not aware she was acting illegally. In the
saloons of the theatres in London it was the practice to sell
Mines and spirits with other • refreshments, and informations
were not laid against the parties, although they were not li-
censed. Ile considered that the prasent case was one in which
the magistrates might exercise justice with mercy, and miti7
gate-the fine. The defendant had a large family, and a bed-.
ridden husband, a - 1 he, thought that the menials of office who
had preferred the charge could ha ,u better employed themselves
than in selecting a-violin. of Inisloquile to pounce upon. ' -
At the conclusion of the learned gentleman's address, Mr.
Holiday Flewber, the collector of Excise, said, that the obser-
vations which the learned gentleman had indulged in reflecting
mpon the Excise officers were uncalled for. Tim information
was laid at the instigation of those who paid heavy licenses, and
it was the duty-of the Excise to protect them. The course
which had been taken was not the way to obtain a-mitigation of
the fine.

Mr. Alderman Horsfall said that the officers were acting in
conformity with their duty, and he agreed with the collector
that the ienection was undeserved. •

Mr. Wilkinson asked the magistrates to recommend the
case of the defendant to the Excise board in London, with a
vi • v to mitigate the line.
The magistrates said they would rather the recommendation
emanated Iron"' the collector. _

The collector observed that he would prefer the magistrates'
recormnendation, as he did not see how, with propriety, he
could recommend a mitigation of the fine after the reflection on
the Excise.

Mr. Wilkinson hoped that any observation he had mada
would not injure the cause of his client, and after some con-
versation between the magistrates and the collector, the latter
consented to withdraw the information for selling. wines, and
the conviction of £l2—£ LO was taken on the spirits.

YUSTEBDAY.—(Before the_MAyoa and Mr. Alderman JOHN

BOURNE.)
ENLISTING.—A man named M'Cloud, alias Holt, was charged
by a sergeant of marines with enlisting with him and taking the
shilling, he being discharged from. the 83d regiment as unfit
for service. It was shown to the satisfaction of the magistrates
that, by enlisting with the complainant, the prisoner had
obtained money under false pretences • but, as it appeared that
he came within the rogue and vagabond act, ho was committed
as such.

A NURSERY FOR THIEVES.—Anne Stewart, an Irishwoman,
with a child in her arms, was placed at the bar along with five
female thieves, not one of whom appeared to be more titan
thirteen years old, charged with receiving a quantity of wearing
apparel belonging to a•washerwouian named Ledbetter. It ap-
peared from the evidence that the complainant had left the
clothes, which she was returning to the parties, for whom she
washed, in the yard of Mr. Come►, Peinbrok-place, for safety ;
whilst absent for about half an hour they were stolen, and infor-
mation was given to the police. Butler, a constable, having
obtained a clue to the offenders, repaired to the female prisoner's
house, in Bradbury-court, Preston-street, and there fo-and the
clothes. The female prisoner was alone in the lower part of the
house, and denied that any other persons were there. It was
discovered, however, that a nest of young thieves were in the
upper rooms, and the constable succeeded in eppiehending five
of them, three having escaped. It further appeared that the
female prisoner kept a house for the purpose, not only of receiv-
ing stolen goods, but of training., young boys to the committal of
cr►me.. The offence was clearly proved aoinst the prisoners,
and the magistrates committed them to the sessions fur trial.

Chantrey has just finished a whole-length statue of Mrs.
Jordan, with two of her children—one of them, Lord Munster,
iu her arses.