The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-11 00:00:00

How TO PAY YOUR RENT. —James Igo (a rather
" appropriate" name) went to lodge with Mrs. Mary
Rawson, a beerhouse.keeper in Burlington-street, and on
the first week's rent becoming due, he not having where-
withal to pay it, coolly " appropriated" a shawl, two
veils, and other articles of wearing apparel, belonging to
his landlady, for that laudable purpose. It appears that
after getting possession of the articles, he took them
to a woman named Mary Cain, who pawned them for
him, and politely handed the proceeds to Mrs. Rawson.
The trick was soon discovered, and both parties were
brought before Mr. Mansfield yesterday. Igo turned out
to be " an old hand" at the same sort of business, and
as sent to prison for one month as a reward for his inge-
nuity in "raising the wind," but the woman was discharged.
PASSING BASE Colic —A boy, named Martin Rona-
ghan. was remanded for seven days on a charge of passing
a base half-crown on Mary Finnaghan, a beerhouse-
keeper, on Sunday last. The complainant stated that the
lad had also given her a bad shilling a fortnight previously,
in consequence of which she had been on the look out for
him.

THE REWARD OF VIRTUE.—A GRATEFUL YOUNG
MAN.—Our sympathies are often excited by the destitu-
tion and poverty of some of our fellow-creatures, whose
circumstances seem to render them fit objects for the
exercise of our charity ; but how often in such cases does
it turn out that those on whom we have bestowed our help
are unworthy of such kindness. Take the following
touching case as an instance :—Frederick Bean, a young
sailor, was charged with robbing £8 from John M'Gratch,
of 77, Sparling-street. It appeared that on the 12th of
last month, Bean came to the house of the complainant,
and stated that he was without food or money, and in a
state of great destitution. M'Gratch, who is a hard-
working, honest man, was induced from his story to take
him and give him lodging and food until such time as he
should procure employment. After staying two days, and
doubtless learning during that interval some of the " family
secrets," the prisoner decamped, taking away with him the
sum mentioned (amassed from the fruits of complainant's
industry), to obtain which he had broken open a box in
one of the bed-rooms. After committing this extra-
ordinary act of ingratitude, he entered on a course of
dissipation, and was at last traced to a brothel in Glouces-
ter-street, where he was apprehended on Sunday last.
The evidence not being quite complete, he was remanded
for a week.

WAREHOUSE ROBBERY.—Thomas Johnson, James
Hickey, and another youth, were charged with breaking
into the warehouse of Mr. Scott, ship store-dealer, Mason-
street, on Saturday evening. The warehouse is only one
story high, and has a sloping roof, close to the edge of
which some carts were reared. The prisoners had climbed
up these carts and got to the roof, through which they
had broken, and so gained access to the interior of the
building, where they made a complete ransack, and endea-
voured to break into the " safe" by undermining it; but
although they managed, with the aid of instruments, to
tear off the outer screws, the interior fastening bolls were
too "patent" to give way, and they failed to effect their
purpose. On Mr. Scott's warehouseman proceeding to
ope❑ the premises yesterday morning, however, he missed
four cheeses, several samples of teas, bottles of wine, and
spirits, Etc. On the night of the robbery Johnson was
seen loitering about the neighbourhood, and taken into
custody as a suspicious character, and on his person was
found the handle of a knife known to belong to him, the
blade of which was discovered in the warehouse. The
other prisoners. who were known to belong to the same
gang, were apprehended in a court in Greetham-street, on
Sunday morning. The case was retnan led for seven days.
" A BROTH OF A BOY."—A youth, named Patrick
Brady, was sent to prison for two months, for assaulting
the police with various instruments,, in the shape of thick
sticks, pokers, and an iron hammer. Although a mere
lad, it took three officers of the local force to convey him
to bridewell, as, in consequence of the resistance of the
low class of characters in the neighbourhood, one single
policeman was not found bold enough to undertake the
task.

A female was sent to prison for two months for stealing
a book, a sovereign, half a crown, and a penny, from a
man who had been in her company on Saturday night. _

FATE. OF THE WHITEHOUSE r AMlLY.—Carollhe and
Edward Whitehouse, mother and son of this notorious
family, were brought before 111 r. Mansfield, having been
remanded from the previous Monday. In addition to the
full particulars which we published last week, several
other parties appeared in court, whom they had en-
deavoured to victimise under various aliases. They were
committed for trial, but we believe bail will be taken for
their appearance. During the examination of the pri-
soners, the venerable gentleman who represents the "head
of the family" was observed in court, consulting with
Mr. Davenport, their solicitor.