The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

Three parties were, on Tuesday last, convicted of in-
fringements of the building act, on information laid by
Mr. John Jones, surveyor, and were severally fined ; but
were allowed 21 days to remove the defects complained
of, which would save the levy.

Captain Wilson, master of a vessel lying in the Coburg
Dock, was summoned to the Police-court, last Tuesday, to
answer a charge brought by Mr. White, who had ordered
the removal of his vessel without effect. A penalty of 40s.
and costs was inflicted.

CAUTION TO MASTERS OF VESSELS.—The master of a
foreign vessel, the Lord Oakley, was fined by Mr. Rush-
ton, on Tuesday, in the sum of £l5 and costs, for interfe-
ring to prevent Mr. Bolton, the consignee of the ship and
a licensed master-porter, from completing the discharge
of the cargo. The magistrate observed that the master
had rendered himself liable to a fine of £5O.

RAISING A DINNER.—Joseph Joyce was detected com-
ing from the King's Dock, on Thursday, with another
man's dinner in his pocket. The fellow, it appears. had
watched his opportunity, and in the absence, as he
thought, of observers, contrived to abstract from one of
the carts the frugal meal of the driver. The stolen viands
were valued at twopence, and the man was put down,
preparatory to being dismissed.

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WHOLESALE ROBBERY.—On Tuesday, a marine-store
dealer, in Vauxhall-road, named Doran, was brought up
charged with being in possession of 51 tons of iron, stolen
from Great Howard-street. Ten tons altogether had been
stolen. The prisoner said that a man named Dodd had
sold it to his wife, and that he wished to give the man
into custody, but a policeman refused to take the charge.
The case was remanded.

MASTER PORTERS.—On Tuesday, Mr. Rushton fined
the master of a foreign vessel £l5, for discharging her
without a master porter. The vessel and cargo were con-
signed to Mr. Bollon, who advanced the freight as far as
he thought prudent, and on his declining to go further,
the defendant removed the vessel, and discharged her,
though he had been informed that by doing so he would
render himself liable to a fine of £5O.

DESTRUCTIVENESS.—On Thursday, a female, named
Esther Dalton, was brought up for breaking windows.
On the previous evening the prisoner, without any assign-
able cause, deliberately smashed several of the windows
in St. Barnabas' Church during divine service. She was
proceeding further in the destructive work when arrested.
In the Police-court she threatened to kill Mr. Rushton
and all in court. She was pronounced insane, and or-
dered to be removed.

STEALING CORN AND HAMS.—On Thursday, a man
of respectable appearance, named John Dickson, formerly
warehouseman to Messrs. Chapman, Bowman, and Co.,
was charged with defrauding that firm. It appeared that
nine bags of Indian Corn had been missed at one time,
eight at another, from a warehouse in Greenock-street,
and two hams from a warehouse in Denison-street. It
was the prisoner's duty to deliver the bags of corn, but he
failed to do so, though he made an entry in the book to
that effect. !It was proved that the hams had been sent
to the prisoner's house in Cheshire, at his own request.
The other nine quarters of corn had not been traced, and
in order to give time for further inquiries, the prisoner
was remanded.

iDttrirt 49.e1D5.

the guardians of the Bolton union have decided, by a
majority of sixteen to three, not to appoint a chaplain for
the workhouse.

At the late Lancaster election, Lord Stanley was accused
of having stated at Preston, some years since, that " he
could do without the swinish multitude." His lordship
wrote to his accuser, and in reply the latter has been
obliged to confess that "he is satisfied that the statement
rests on no sufficient authority."

A servant girl, at Manchester, was on Saturday nearly
poisoned by eating the coloured ornaments of an old con-
fectionery cake. The unfortunate girl still remains very
ill. The injurious ornaments were yellow, the colouring
of which is made of a sub-sulphate of arsenic, or, as it is
commonly called, king's yellow.

INCENDIAAISM.—SamueI Shepley, an operative cotton
spinner, was committed on Wednesday week to Chester
Castle, for trial at the ensuing assizes, charged with setting
fire to the St. Helen's Mills, at Dukinfield, on the morn-
ing of the 16th January. The damage done was to the
amount of nearly £lO,OOO.
SUSPECTED MURDER.—A fortnight since, Elizabeth
Johnson, aged 20, a drawer in Messrs. Turner's card-
room, at the Throstle Nest, Blackburn, eloped with
Burke, a married man, to Glasgow, whence they returned
by a Liverpool steamer, and arrived at Chorley last week,
where they were seen together. This week the unfortu-
nate woman was found in the river. Burke has been
arrested on suspicion of having been accessory to her
death.

CHANGE RINGING.—On Monday evening, the 27th day
of March, 1848, a true and complete peal of Grandsire
Triples, consisting of 5040 changes, was rung in the tower
of the parish church of Prescot, in two hours and forty-
two minutes, by the undermentioned ringers :—Robert
Clitherow, treble; John Bullock, second; Joseph Hut-
then, third ; William Byron, fourth ; M. D. Dumbell,
fifth ; Lawrence Wainwright, sixth ; James Halsall, se-
venth ; and James Rose, tenor. Conducted by John
Bullock.

The petition against Mr. Armstrong's return for Lan-
caster has been printed, and if its allegations are sustained
by anything like credible evidence, there will be a speedy
close to the learned recorder's parliamentary honours.
The first clause in the petition alleges that Mr. Stanley,
the petitioner, had a majority of votes—the main question,
as we are informed ; and this allegation is supported by
fourteen others, which state as many grounds on which
the petitioner rests his case. The prayer is that the re-
turn may be amended. The petition will be heard in ess
than a fortnight.
EMPLOYMENT AT MANCHESTER.—The return, as com-
pared with that of last week, gives the following results :
Two cotton mills previously working full time with a full
complement of hands, are now working short time ; three
more are working with a portion of hands employed; and
two less are stopped altogether. Of the hands in the cot-
ton mills, there are 1,416 more working on short time ;
585 less' on full time • and 7311ess out of employment. Of
the total works included in the table, there are three fewer
working full time with a full complement of hands ; five
fewer working short time ; and two fewer stopped ; these
are all working full time with a portion only of hands em-
ployed. There are 572 hands out of employment, of whom
504 are working short time, and 68 full time. The return,
therefore, is favourable.
EXTRAORDINARY REVELATION.—It was rumoured on
Friday evening that information had been obtained re-
specting the mysterious disappearance eight years ago,
of Mr. Charles Schofield, builder, of Eiiery-street, whose
body was subsequently found in the river Irwell. The
story told is that a person in his last moments has made
a confession to the effect that he and his son were to-
gether on the night of the 10th of February, 1840, in a
place named, and that Mr. Schofield entered and joined
their company under circumstances that induced him (the
father) to strike Schofield. The blow proved mortal, and
to conceal the body they hid it in a cellar for about eight
days, and afterwards threw it in the river. It will be re-
collected that Mr. Schofield, on the night of his death,
had been with a party celebrating the Queen's marriage,
and that the body of the unfortunate gentleman was not
recovered for a month afterwards.—Manchester Times.
THE SALT FIELD OF CHESHIRE.—We learn from the
Literary Gazette, that at a meeting of the Geological
Society, on the 3rd ultimo, a paper was read by Mr. G.
Wareing Ormerod, of Manchester, entitled, " An Outline
of the principal Geological Features of the Salt Field of
Cheshire, and the Adjoining Districts." The salt mea-
sures are exhibited in the best manner in a line from Mow
to Middlewich and Northwich, and along the lower valley
of the Weaver. Near Congleton and Church Lawton,
the saliferous and gypseous beds have athickness of about
650 feet. At Northwich, the beds have been sunk into
500 feet, and at Middlewich, where they underlay the
former, 309 feet, or above 800 feet in all. 'I he salt water
in some places oozes out naturally ; at other places is
found by boring often below the level of the sea. At
Middlewich the water contains about 21 lb. of salt in a
gallon. Where the salt has continued to be washed out
from the interior of the earth for a long period in this
manner, the ground above often sinks, and considerable
changes of level take place, interfering with the drainage
and navigation, and occasionally submerging large tracts
of ground, so as to form lakes.
FORGERY IN MANCHESTER.—On Friday a young man,
named Pownall, was brought up before the magistrates at
Manchester, charged with being concerned in an extensive
forgery which was committed the other day on the Branch
Bank of England. On Wednesday, a young man, named
William Francis Naughton, in the employ of Messrs. A.
and S. Henry, merchants, of Manchester, called at the
Branch Bank of England and presented a cheque for
£3400, purporting to be signed by the firm. The signa-
ture was so like that of the firm, and the young man being
known to be in their employ, the cheque was cashed with-
out hesitation. Naughton having obtained the cash, in
six £5OO notes and four £lOO notes, immediately went to
the bank of Sir Benjamin Heywood and Co., and asked
for a letter of credit on their house in Liverpool for £l5OO,
which was refused. He then went to Messrs. Cunliffe,
Brooks, and Co., and made the same request, but the
clerk, before doing so, sent to the Bank of England to
ascertain whether the notes had been fairly obtained, and
was informed that all was right. Still suspecting there
was something wrong, Naughton was desired to call in
half an hour, and the letter would be ready for him. The
clerk kept:the notes, and in the meantime sent on to
Messrs. 'Henry, when the forgery was discovered. Naugh-
ton, of course, did not return, but made off for Liverpool,
and Mr. Beswick stated that in a few days he would no
doubt have Naughton in custody, and, therefore, he ap-
plied for a remand of the prisoner, which was at once
granted, till yesterday.