The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

James Robinson, broker, Dexter-street, was sent to
gaol for seven days, and had his license revoked, for buy-
ing two foot-scrapers for a shilling cgibch had been stolen
from the doors of different houses.

CAUTION TO PAWNBROKERS.—On Tuesday, a pawn-
broker, named Moss was ordered to pay £5 to Catherine
Madison, at the Police-office, the value of a mahogany
chest of drawers. He had had the drawers seven years
in pawn for 305., and the pledger paid him 6s. 4d. a year
for the accommodation ; but when she came to release
her drawers he offered an inferior set, and attempted to
defraud her by substituting one label for another on the

goods.
PERSONATION or SEX.—A young man, named Michael
Pearson, was brought up at the Police-court. on Tuesday,
in custody, charged by Margaret Evans, of
_Renshaw-

street, with putting her in great bodily tear. It appeared
that the prisoner, who is a young man. from Devonshire,
had applied at-the prosecutrix's house for lodgings, dressed
in widow's weeds. She furnished him with a bed, but
doubting the voice to be that of a man, she sat up all night
in great fear, and in the morning gave the prisoner into
custody. No wrong having been done beyond personal
fear, the transmuted widow was discharged.
CHARGE OF DEFRAUDING A FIRE INSURANCE COM-
PANY.—On Friday, at the Police-court, a man named
Demain, a paper-ruler, was charged with arson, with
a view to defraud the Yorkshire Fire and Life Insurance
Company. It appeared that on the Gth of last month, a
fire took place on. the prisoner's premises in Swift's
Court, Castle-street, and that some disclosures had been
made by the prisoner to the effect, that it was said
that he, by means of a wire communicating with
some sand-paper and lucifer matches, bad produced the
ignition. The case was involved in considerable mystery.
The prisoner was remanded until to-morrow, Wednesday.
Mr. Rushton considered the case of too serious a nature
to accept of bail, for the prisoner's appearance, and he
was consequently locked up.
ROBBERY OF TEA.—John Duffey, a porter in the em-
ploy of the London and North Western Railway Com-
pany, was charged, on Thursday, with stealing a quantity
of tea. In consequence of several robberies of tea from
the railway terminus, at Wapping, search was made in the
dwellings of the men' employed in the yard. On Wed-
nesday. officer Marks went to the shop of the prisoner in
Crosbie-street, andafter entering one of the rooms by the
window—not being able to gain an entrance by the door—
he found a small tin box filled with tea. The article pro-
duced was of the same kind as that lost by Messrs. Peak
Brothers and Winch. The prisoner, it appeared, had
weighed the tea on its arrival in the yard, and had after-
wards trucked,it to another part of the premises. In try-
ing to account for the tea, he said he had purchased it in
Park-lane, but this turned out to be untrue. He was
committed for trial,
SINGULAR CHAR'. OR FRAUD.—On Tuesday, a tall
respectable-looking man. named Timothy O'Callighan
Horgan, was placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with
defrauding several individuals. The first charge brought
forward was that he had by false pretences obtained £6O
from Thos Smith, whom he had engaged as clerk, cash-
keeper, general agent, &c., to the Carrigaully Mills, near
Cork. Mr. Smith said he had come to know the priso-
ner through an advertisement in the Mercury, in which
the applicants were directed to call on him at the Talbot
Hotel. Witness called there, and after a day or two's ne-
gociation prisoner appointed him to the situation, and he
paid prisoner £6O as security. Witness was to go to Dub-

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lin on Fridry night, but, on going too see prisoner, he
found he had gone to reside at the Commercial Hotel,
where the waiter told him, he (prisoner) was probably' a
swindler. Mr. A. B. Walker said he had advertised for a
situation in the Mercury on the Bth instant, and received
a note from the prisoner, who offered him a situation at_
the mill before mentioned. Prisoner finally offered the
situation at a salary of £l4O. Witness gave him twa
promissory notes as security. Prisoner asked him for a
loan of £45. This aroused the witness's suspicions.
Prisoner said he had £4,500 on some life policies, and re-
quested witness to take a letter on the subject to the
post-office, which he handed to him. Witness took the
letter, but opened it when he got out, and 'founil it con-
tamed only a' blank sheet of paper. Another witness
said he had been imposed upon in a similar way, and it
came out that there were no such mills as those named.
Mr. Beswirk, of the Manchester police, identified the pri-
soner, as having been concerned in similar practices there.
Prisoner (who boasted that he had received 160 replies to
advertisement) was remanded.

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On Tuesday, Mr. Thomas Geddes, solicitor, was elected
clerk to the Warrington Guardians by a majority of seven.
C. R. Jackson, Esq., of Barton Lodge, has presented
£lOO to the fund tor providing a poor man's aisle at the
Parish Church, Preston.
The Prince of Parma and his lady visited Manchester on,
Thursday. They were the guests of Lord de Tabley,
having previously been staying at the residence of Sir W
M. Stanley.
On Wednesd

ay a special meeting of the Chester Town
Council proceeded to the palace, and presented a congra-
tulatory address to Dr. Graham. the newly-appointed
bishop.

The fourth and fifth stories of the premises of Mr.
Clayton, engineer and boiler maker, at Preston.,- known-
as the Soho Foundry, were destroyed by fire, on Monday
evening last. The damage is estimated at £lO,OOO.
The large of Messrs. Hineksman and Fur-
ness, in River-street, Preston, was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday morning last. The damage is estimated at
from £lO,OOO to £15.000.

The Art-Union states that the collection of paintings
bequeathed by the late Frank Hall Standish, Esq., of
Duxbury Park, in this county, to Louis Philippe, is to be
withdrawn from the Louvre Gallery, and sent to London-
/.

Sir John and Lady Gerard intend to give a magnificent
banquet and ball at St. Helen's, near this town, early in
the ensuing month, on a very extended scale, to 400 of
the nobility of Lancashire. The Town-hall and Market-
be converted into saloons for the purposes of

rreston Loan ociety, has, by means of adding tigurez...r
his book to sums lent, and inserting sums as lent which
were never lent at all, defrauded the society of £soo►
with which he has got clear off to America. He was a
professed teetotaller, and an " ardent" chartist
The r

gister of electors for the southern division of this
county, for the year 1847-8 included 23.081 names; that
for the present year, 1848-9, contains 22,235, being 846
fewer than last year. The register for the northern divi-
sion, for the year 1847-8, contained 11,619 names ; that
for the present year, 1848-9, contains 11,318; being 301
fewer than last year.

The annual Mess Dinner of the Officers of the King's
Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry, took place at the Royal
George Hotel, Knutsford, on the 15th instant, on which
Occasion a most magnificent piece of plate was presented
by the Officers to their late Commandant,
Colonel Eger-
ton. The plate consisted of an exceedingly handsome
and massive silver candelabrum.
MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A WIFE.—On Thursday. at
Menai Bridge, an inquest was held on view of the body
of Owen Parry, aged about thirty-five, pilot of the Cam-
• • •

brie steamer (Hunter, master.) lt'aPpeared that de-
ceased and his wife quarrelled in their own house on the
night of Bangor Ferry fair, (14th ultimo,) and that the
woman, in the heat of passion, struck him a blow on the
he jury was manslaughter

against the wire

OF MANCHESTER.--A meeting of the sharehol-
ders of the Bank of Manchester was held on Monday, at
which the proposition to recommence the bank under the
advantage of the old charter was discussed, and decided in
the negative. It was determined immediately to
pay eight
shillings ner share of a return expected to amount in the
whole to fifteen shillings ; and it was also proposed to paY
immediately fifteen shillings to trustees for any shares
held by them.

ANTIQUITIES AT CHESTER.—A subterranean passage
at Chester has been discovered, passing under two of the
principal streets : this is hewn out of the solid rock ana
sandstone, and it is just wide enough to allow one peon
to go along,
,with wider pares at intervals, used, no doubt,
as passing prices- This passage has been opened before,
and it appears its internal dimensions are 16 feet high by
5 feet wide, and it is divided by planks into a double road-
way, one above the other, each eight feet high. Ti
is
subterraneous passage has never yet been explored. Its
object has been, there is no doubt, either for defence or
religious purposes.

THE JENNY LIND CONCERTS AT MANCHESTER.—Tha
total receipts of these two concerts at which the Swedish
Nightingale" sang gratuitously for a new wing to the
Manchester Infirmary were £2877. The expenses were
not quite £4OO, so that nearly £2500 remain to realize
that The seconii concert was given in
the great Free-trade Hall on Thursday. and the Man-
clvster Courier thus describes the enthusiasm at the con-
clusion :—" The concert concluded with the National
Anthem, Jenny Lind (who, by the way, articulates
English very well) and Signori Belletti and Lablache_
talking the solo parts, and the Madrigal Society (and
audience) the chorus. This finished, the audience (as if
they had had their feeling pent up since the demonstrations
at the commencement of the concert) burst forth with all
the vociferation of earnest enthusiasm, until the applause
was worked up into a perfect furore. Jenny departed,
and was recalled, and we thought that there never would
have been an end to the `last words.' Even after three
or four grand volleys had been discharged some straggling
shots were fired, until a faint ' one cheer more' died
away in the hall's vast space. Thus were expressed the
Manchester people's admiration of true genius, and their
gratitude for the generosity of one who has laboured for
them in the cause of charity. In their applause Jenny
Lind heard the thanks and blessings of the Poor. Tbrics-
blessed is the creature who is thus blessed."