The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-27 00:00:00

METHOD OF ROBBING MERCHANT3.—An
method of warehousemen plun-
has just come to light

extensive and systemat
dering the importers of grain, 8a

that on the corn

. being delivered from the ship, a plus
ed in the sack placed in the weighing

weight is conc

scale as a counterweight to the sack in which the grain is
contained. Thus an overweight is obtained in each sack
of merchandise weighed, and thus, when the grain is
thrown into bulk, the dishonest warehouseman is enabled
to abstract, by calculation, a given number of sacks, leav-
ing the merchant to whom it was warehoused his full
weight of commodity, but, of course, robbing the shipper
to the amount abstracted. During the week two ware-
housemen, in the service of Covas and Co., were brought
before the magistrates for this dishonest practice, and
also a man named Blackburne, who keeps a warehouse in
Frederick-street, which, it has transpired, has been a de-
pot for merchandise obtained by this and other dishonest
methods.

SENDING A THREATENING LETTER.—A young man
(a Scotchman), who gave the name of William Gregg,
was placed in the dock, charged with sending a letter to
Mrs. Stebbing, owner of the Royal Amphitheatre,
stating that, if she did not send him 5..5, he would burn
the theatre to the ground. Mrs. Stebbing immediately
handed the letter over to the head-constable, who depu-
ted Bates, one of the most active of the detective force,
to find out the writer. Bates sent a blank sheet of paper
in an envelope by the post to the following address,
which was in the prisoner's note to Mrs. Stebbing :
Nathaniel Jackson, at Mrs. Cook's, 11, Copperas-hill.
Bates then watched the house, and saw the postman de-
liver the letter. Shortly after that a boy received the
letter from Mrs. Crook, and went up Copperas-hill. He
followed the boy, and saw him give the letter to the
prisoner, upon which he took him into custody. The
letter was found in one of his pockets. A groom of Mr.
Copeland's, the present lessee of the Amphitheatre,
stated that he knew the prisoner. He had been in.the
employment of Mr. Pablo Fanque, but was at present
unemployed. He lived at Mrs. Kehoe's, Bolton-street,
and was often allowed behind the scenes at the theatre.
Mr. Rushton remanded him for seven days.
COMMITTAL FOR BIGAMY.—On Thursday, Margaret
Leech was charged with having intermarried with George
Armstrong, her former husband being still living. Mr.
Parsonage, clerk of St. John's Church, stated that he was
present on the 10th of August, 1849, when the prisoner,
who, represented herself aka widow, was married to Geo.

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OPERATIONS FOR THE WEER

Plant Department.—Cuttings of geraniums, verbenas,
and other bedding-out plants should stow be struck ih
abundance, or at least as many as can be comfortably

flower earlier in the summer, and, although
a little extra labour is required during the winter, a less
number will suffice to cover a given space. Insects of
every description ought to be thoroughly subdued, and
this is a very proper time to commence a thorough exami-
nation. Any of the varieties of scale, if suffered to har-
bour now, will multiply exceedingly, as the plants become
less able to repell their attacks, and the more crowded
state of the house allows their depredations to proceed less
observed. Our weapons of warfare consist of tobacco-
water, sulphur, lime, hard soap, and water. By repeated
applications of tobacco-water we have exterminated all
sorts of scale, without injury to any plant. Sulphur is
the best remedy for red spider. Lime-water becomes in-
dispensable, in expelling earth worms from flower pots
and orange trees. Camellias, chrysanthemums, &c.
almost sure at this season to require itsassistance. Creepers,
either in pots or trained up the rafters of a house, ought
to receive constant attention ; in the latter case they ought
not to be allowed to ramble at will,—darkening the house
and occupying space to the injury of other plants, still a
cite regard must be had to the natural habits of the plant,
and stiff farmality avoided. Roses for spring flowering
may either now or in the course of another week (their
fitness for the purpose varying very much in different
localities,) be lifted and potted ; the points of their shoots
shortened, they will form freSh feeders before the winter
sets in. But this method, although answering a purpose,
is not what we would desire to recommend. An old friend
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Kitchen Garden.—Crops of borecole, &c., may still be
planted with advantage; but, where the ground will be
wanted for early spring crops, we rather advise theproper
preparation of it for such. In no case would we advise
one crop to•be taken at the expense of another. This we
call the penny-wise and pound-foolish maxim, and it is in
danger of being, acted upon by garden ocooomists of the