The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Saturday, a little girl who had been in -the service
of Mrs. Paulina Newsham, the lady of the distinguished
rider of that name in the French company, was committed
for trial for stealing £l4 and a gold ring from her mistress.
DAMAGE TO A SHIP.—On Wednesday Mr. Rushton
decided that the owners of the packet-ship Montezuma
were entitled to £19105., for damages done to the ship by
a collision with the Iron Prince (screw steamer.)
RAISING MONEY FRAUDULENTLY.—On Tuesday, Mr.
Rushton, after hearing evidence as to the character of
Longmead, acquitted him of the charge of raising money
by representing himself as connected with a Life Assu-
rance Society, which had no existence. Massey was con-
victed, but Bennett is still at large. Longmead is to be
admitted as a witness. _

THE SANATORY ACT.—On Tuesday an information was
iaid against Francis Dalton, of Cherry-lane, for killing a
pig there. The defence was, that the pig was for personal
use, and that no breach of the law was intended. The
magistrate dismissed the case, observing that information
should not be laid in cases like that. He was killing a
pig himself, and everybody was killing a pig at the pre-
sent season of the year. The law did not contemplate
informations being laid against a person killing a pig for
his private use.
WAR AGAINST MARINE STORES.—On Saturday,
marine store dealer, in Mersey-street, was sentenced by
Mr. Rushton to fourteen days imprisonment, for having
bought a coil of perfectly new rope, worth 175., for 2s.
Two other keepers of marine stores were sentenced to
two months' imprisonment, for having goods in their pos-
session for which they could not satisfactorily account.
All their licenses were revoked. In compliance with Mr.
Rushton's wishes there is a force of nearly fifty officers
engaged in watching these receptacles of stolen goods.
O'vEncriAßGE.—On Thursday, MT. Wm. Critchley, a
pawnbroker. London-road, wag rmivirtpd by Mr_ Rush-
ton in the penalty of £lO and costs, for having taken more
than the legal interest on a pledge. A Mrs. Wells had
purchased the duplicate of a silver watch, which had been
pledged with the defendant for £3, from a woman named
Woodruff. When Mrs. Wells applied for the watch she
was told it amounted to £3 10s. Complainant expressed
her fear of being imposed on, but was told it was all right.
Upon inquiry, however, it proved that the legal interest
was only seven shillings and sixpence. Mr. Pyke, from
the office of the parish solicitor, appeared to prosecute.
The defendant was not present.
PITIABLE CASE OF DISTRESS. —On Saturday, two
little girls, sisters, were brought before Mr. Rushton, on
suspicion of having stolen three shirts. The mother of
the children said that she was a washerwoman, and that
they were on the brinkq of starvation. She had some
washing from several families, and had pledged some sheets
belonging to one of the families for her rent, and was now
pledging the shirts to redeem the sheets. She had ap-
plied for relief to the West Derby Guardians ; but was
told that they would pass her to Ireland, where she had
not been since she was 18 months old. Mr. Rushton
censured her for illegal pledging ; but told the officer to
take her again to the overseers and remind then that they
bad no right to remove an applicant after a residence of
five years. _ _ _

IMPOSITIONS OF LODGING-HOUSE KEEPERS.—On Fri-
day, a poor Irishwowan came before Mr. Rushton for the
purpose of lodging a complaint against a lodging-house
keeper who refused to give up possession of her goods.
Complainant, who is a widow, with six children, arrived
here from Ireland by the John Munn, yesterday week, and
took up her quarters at 59, Great Howard-street; the
agreement was that she was to pay 6d. a-day for herself
and family, and to have the use of the kitchen. The time
for her embarkation for America having come, the pro-
prietor of the house made a charge of one shilling a-day
extra for storage of her luggage. The case is only one of
a numerous class which are frequently heard before Mr.
Rushton, who invariably punishes the lodging-house
keepers for such unjustifiable demands. He ordered a
summons to be issued immediately, as the complainant
was booked to sail for America the same day.
THE SANATORY ACT.—On Thursday last, Mr. Brether-
ton and the committee of the board of guardians of the
Wirral union, who have formed themselves into a board of
health, under the disease prevention act, appeared before
the Birkenhead Police-court, to apply for summonses
against a number of parties to show cause why certain
nuisances should not be removed. Twelve summonses
were eventually granted against the commissioners of Bir-
kenhead, for nuisances at the slaughter houses and the
depository of night soil ; against the gas company for nui-
sances at the gas works, for open drains and filthy deposits
along the boundary ditch between Tranmere and Birken-
head, in the neighbourhood of Clifton-park ; against Wm.
Jackson, Esq., M.P., and J. S Jackson, Esq., who was on
the bench, and expressed his satisfaction at the conduct of
the committee in taking the matter up, assuring them that
every nuisance that they could point out on his property
should be remedied to their satisfaction. There were also
sum monses granted against J. G. Chamberlaine, Esq., of
Chester, and Wm. Sharp, Esq., of Clifton-park, the for-
mer for a nuisance in Tranmere-pool, and the latter for
one at the Woodlands, near St. John's Church. Mr. W.
W. Perry, one of the guardians of Tranmere, said the in-
habitants of the township of Tranmere were -.•-ry anxious
to remove every nuisance, but tbcy • it should
be done by themselves and. not by the board. Drs.
Vaughan and Hunter Robertson have been appointed
medical superintendents of the board of health, and Mr.
Lewis Hornblower their surveyor.
PROFITABLE BEGGING.—CURIOUS CASE.—A few days
ago, a respectable-looking person, named Thomas Hol-
land, was committed to the Borough Gaol, by Mr. Rush-
ton, for one month, on a charge of street-begging. He
was in the habit of accosting persons in the street as if to
ask his way, but on their listening to him he would solicit
alms in the most supplicating manner, representing him-
self as a "decayed tradesman." For some time the
delinquent has been in respectable lodgings in Rock-
street, Toxteth-park, kept by a widow, who has also
several other lodgers, clerks in the Custom-house and
mercantile establishments in the town. He was con-
sidered at his lodging as a retired g&itleman of limited
income. He was always a complete epicure in his diet,
and unsparing in procuring for himself all the choice
edibles which the most fastidious taste could desire. To
breakfast he uniformly had his broiled chop or steak, and
was most particular as to the quality of his tea and coffee.
In his other meals he was equally hospitable to himself,
and on all occasions his appetite was perfectly astonishing
to the inmates of the house. During the time he re-
mained in the house, he would sit before a huge fire which
he always insisted should be kept up, his feet being com-
forted by extra carpets and rugs, and his legs wrapped up
in blankets. He seldom turned out of the house until
eleven or twelve o'clock in the morning, except on a
Saturday, when he was always ready for his breakfast by
eight o'clock. He was very fidgetty if his meals were not
always ready at the moment he wanted them, and would
tell his landlady that she could always look after the young
men's wants, but because he was "a poor old gentleman
he must be neglected." He had latterly become so
tedious that she gave him notice to quit, but he declined
to receive it. He was always very prompt in the payment
of his board, and until his committal his landlady had
not the remotest idea that he was obtaining his livelihood
by begging. This was only found out by his unaccount-
able absence from home for a few days. At the time of
his committal, his larder was well stocked,