The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

LITIRPOOL STANDARD,

the new erections there.—The Master Porters' sub-com-
mittee recommended that the license of Messrs. Melhuish
and Co. should be suspended, in consequence of their
having, without authority, appointed a person to unload
a vessel of which. they were the consignees. After consi-
derable discussion, the subject was deferred for a week.—
It was ordered, in order to prevent inconvenience to the
public service, that the Canada steam-ship should have
the preference of a berth in the Queen's Graving Dock.—
..A. letter was read from Mr. B. Smith, of Club-moor, point-
ing out that the sediment which accumulated in the dock
basins was very serviceable for top dressing.—A letter was
read Captain Knight, chairman of the public meeting on
the use of lights and fires on board ships in the docks,
requesting that the evidence taken on the subject might
be printed. As the evidence was only obtained for the
use of the committee, and had not yet been reported
upon, the request was declined.
HEALTH COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.-Mr. Newlands
explained that the top of Falkner-street is lying in an
unfinished state as the street is now undergoing a process
of raising, and bottom stuff was being put in as fast as it
settled down. The medical officer reported the deaths
for the week at 180, being 11 fewer than the previous
week, and 54 below the number of the corresponding week
of last year. During the quarter ending 30th March, the
deaths registered (including 114 on which inquests were
held) were 2,439, being 15 less than in the previous quar-
ter, the mortality of which was lower than any other re-
corded, and 729 less than in the corresponding quarter of
1849. in which only 31 deaths were registered from cholera.
The mortality from zymotic or epidemic diseases, was
lower than in any previous quarter, being 399 against 652
in the December quarter, and 777 in the March quarter
of 1849 ; diseases of the lungs caused 914 deaths, being a
weekly average of 70, against 87 in the March quarter of
last year.—lt was resolved that, in future contracts for
sewering, the committee should retain the power of
watching, with the view of giving employment to super-
annuated servants of the corporation.—A request to put
down wooden pavement opposite the Bankruptcy Court
was declined.—lt was considered desirable, in filling up
the situation vacant by the discharge of Mr. Kilsey, to
promote some suitable person already in the employ of
the board, and the subject was referred to the General
Purposes Sub-committee.

the trunk as her own, and had taken it away to the house
stated. The landlady of the house began to suspect from,
the manner of the prisoner, and her stating she had lost
the key of the box, and proposed to break it opene.that
all was not right. She lent the prisoner her keys, but
none of them would fit, and she advised the prisoner not
to break it open, but to w,it till a key could be got. After
her absence for a time, she found the prisoner had forced
open the trunk, and the latter showed her several dresses,
&c., taken from it. It also contained some papers.
A Scotch female, who lived opposite, was sent for
to read the papers, and she found them to be
testimonials of character in behalf of the com-
plainant, Miss Larkin. The prisoner threatened to
burn the papers, saying that the whole were her own
property. One of the recommendations was addressed to
a gentleman in Toxteth-park, and the prisoner being
dispossessed of the property, (value about £2,) this ad-
dress led to the finding of the complainant. The defence
made by the prisoner (a poorly dressed, but not vicious-
looking girl,) was, that she had a similar trunk on
board, and that, finding no other like it on board, she
had taken it as her own. The prisoner was committed
for trial. The captain of the steamer represented to Mr.
Rushton that the complainant, whose mother was a
widow, with three younger daughters, had not the means
of remaining in the town (especially if her clothes were
retained) until the sessions, and might bo reduced to
want if she were not allowed to return in the meantime to
Ireland. Mr. Rushton instantly said she should have
her clothes by all means, and permission to go, adding
that, as the captain knew her, he should let him know
when he should bring her back as a witness.
ILLEGAL DETENTION OF PROPERTY. —Catherin e Carroll
appeared against Pierce Sandars, a lodging-house keeper,
for his detaining from her, two beds, and other property,
worth £l4, which had been deposited in his house, and
for the rent of which complainant had paid him £2 in
Irish notes, though but a short time had elapsed since
they were placed there. His plea in defence was, that she
had never properly asked for them. " Then why are you
here ?" said Mr. Rushton. "If you do not instantly
restore them, I will mulct you in £l4 and costs." He said
he would. Mr. Rushton told the woman to go and get
her things instanter, and if they were refused to her to
return to him.