The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We can state emphatically. that the gentleman referred to in
the letter of Mr..l. W. Green, in our 1 st publication, is not
the author of the communication in a former paper of which
Mr. G. complains.
" An Old Inhabitant of Liverpool" has been rather long in disco
vexing the authorship of the Thinking Man's letters. The fens
of Lincolnshire are better adai,ted fur" thinking" than the noisy
streets of Liverpool.
We should be glad to forward the benevolent object of " A Friend to
Ireland," who wishes to see a church erected in Liverpool where
the service may be conducted in the Irish language. Perhaps
this notice may suggest the idea to some benevolent persons who
may have it in their pov.-er to accomplish the design.
It is impossible to gratify the wishes of every correspondent. Fre-
quently we are compelled at a late hour on Mon my night to with-
draw communications, the interest attached to which has vanished
before our next publication, and it is then useless to make a spe-
cific acknowledgment of their receipt, with a reason for their non-
insertion.

Efir Etberpool &t mart.

TUESDAY 1110RAING, DEC. 10, 1844.

We find the following amongst last week's pro-
ceedings of the Repeal Association :
" A sum of £8 from Liverpool was acknowledged, and
the announcement of this fact led the Liberator' to state,
en passant, that he was sorry to hear that some most un-
seemly squabbling had lately taken place among the Li-
verpool repeaters ; but the committee of the association
had sent over Captain Broderick on a special mission to
try and effect a peace among them, and he had no doubt
that so able a diplomatist would be successful in his
undertaking."

A somewhat less amount than usual, this, from
the repealers of Liverpool; and yet far, far too much
to be so tyrannously extorted, and so fruitlessly and
wickedly wasted. From how many a wretched
and half-starving family has a meal been snatched
to make up this small sum of eight pounds ! How
many of those whose pennies or shillings have been
forced from them by the " goad ecclesiastic," to
swell this subsidy to a beggar and an impostor, are
at this inclement season without a blanket to cover
themselves or their little ones ! And yet, mark the
griping eagerness with which the slightest weekly
increase or diminution in his basely-earned dole is
• watched by its recipient. Eight pounds for the ex-
tortions of a week in Liverpool is a falling off. But
a fortnight ago it was boasted that, on an average,
• Liverpool contributed to his capacious and bottom-
less wallet twenty pounds a week; and Capt. Bro-
derick, an " able diplomatist" (!) is forthwith sent
over on " a special mission" to heal the dissensions
amongst the repealers of our town, from which it
is surmised the falling off has occurred. And no
doubt by this time the diplomatic captain has suc-
ceeded in his object. No doubt the peace, so de-
sirable, has been made, and the unfortunate gulls of
the arch-demagogue have been taught that they may
quarrel and break each other's heads, in private, ad
libitum, but, as a body of repealer-, they must be
harmonious for the future, because dissensions
amongst them tend to diminish the Rent
But a word or two about the dissensions in ques-
tion. Of course we have not the entree of the con-
clave in which they have taken place. We under-
stand, however, that some meddling person or other
has had the unreasonableeess to ask for, that most
awkward document to treasurers and secretaries of
Irish associations, a " debtor and creditor statement"
of monies received and expended; and required to
know, moreover, upon what weighty errand sundry
members have been, from time to time, in the habit
of visiting Dublin, or their friends elsewhere, at the
expense of the Association. There has been, in
consequence, we are informed, but we can scarcely
believe that Daniel himself would allow the prece-
dent to be established, some disgorging of money,
suspected of being thus misappropriated. We pre-
tend to no intimate acquaintance with details; but
the main facts which have caused the dissensions
deplored by him are those which we have stated.
The providers of the great Irish cormorant have
been doing a little business on their own account—
pecking a little for themselves—and have allen out,
as a certain description of people will fall out, in di-
viding spoil.
To one piece of information, however, which hue
come to our ears, connected with this affair, we
must direct the attention of our readers. It is ge-
nerally imagined, we believe, that, when the various
sums of money, recorded weekly, as having been con-
tributed to the Repeal Fund are paid over to the
treasurer in Dublin, the aggregate amount is applied
to the general purposes of the association, or, more
properly, to the various wants of Daniel and his
fellow-conspirators. No such thing ! A considera-
ble portion of each contribution is, almost invariably,
remitted back again to the place from which it was
originally forwarded, to he expended according to
the pleasure of its industrious collectors ! Thus
the thousands, so glibly talked of, as having been
lodged in Dublin, are, after all, only like shop-
keepers' dummies, made up for shew, and speedily
melt into hundreds. The most important conside-
ration, however, which arises from this singular
kind of management, is the nature of the relation,

ship which it establishes, between the parent asso-
ciation in Dublin, and the district associations
throughout the kingdom. The wardens and other
conductors of the latter not only feed the rapacity
of the great agitator, but are his paid slaves! They
grind their duped fellow-countrymen—force from
them their last penny or their last potato—and re-
ceive an, actual fiaecl per tentage upon the amount of
their extortions, 60 to be expended in supplying
their news-rooms with the seditious trash, which
emanates from the repeal press, or for any other
purpose which the arch traitor who employs them
may point out, as most calculated to forward his
daring projects. Surely this is a machinery of mis 7

chief and rebellion which ought not to be Permitted

in a well regulated country.

The very existence,

in every great manufacturing and commercial town
in the empire, of associations, such as these, whose
leading members are the hired and paid servants of
a man, the boasted object of whose incendiary pro-
ceedings is the dismemberment of the empire, ought
to be an inducement to all persons, having at heart
the interests of their country, or their own interests,
to be careful to surround their property and their
persons with loyal men; and to shake from their
confidence every favourer or member of such asso-
ciations. Truly the arch incendiary spoke not with-
out reason, when he threatened the shipping in the
docks of Liverpool, and the factories of the maniac-
luring districts with " a blaze." He knew in what

hand; were placed the direction of the excitable

passions, the wild revenge, of the masses of their

Irish population of those towns, to any outrage
which might be pointed out to them.

We promised in our last, to return to the subject
of the recent collision between the Magistrates and
the Watch Committee. Our object was to notice
the injurious operation which a concession of the
authority, contended for by a portion of the Magis-
tracy, must have upon the officers and members of
the police force ; and we now proceed to an exami-
nation of the question. But first let us define what
we have always understood, and what, we believe,
the law has always understood to be the respective
functions of the Watch Committee and the Magis-
trates.

In the hands of that body has been placed by
the municipal act the formation and regulation of
the police force of the borough, with an over-riding
power, however, in the Magistrates to suspend on
certain specified grounds. With the Watch Com-
mittee it rests to diminish or augment the strength
of the force, to determine the hours and the place of
their duty, and the number and powers of their
officers. When thus appointed, regulated and offi-
cered, the entire body, become subject to the direc-
tion of the Magistrates sitting in the discharge of
their ordinary functions, as constables under the
statute law of the land are subject to such direction ;
and may be suspended for offences recognised un-
der that law, viz. : neglect of duty, disobedience of
orders or unfitness for service. No further powers,
on the part of the Bench, have ever been contended
for here, or in other communities where similar po-
lice bodies have been provided by the municipal or
by special acts. We have never heard of Magis..
trates in the metropolis, or 'elsewhere, attempting to
extend their control beyond the plainly recognised

power of noticing and punishing such breaches of,
duty, neglect or inefficiency, which come judicially
before them.
For the first time, however, the Bench of this town
have claimed a more extended authority, and assume
the right of determining what shall be disqualifica-
tions for service in the force, beyond the ordinary
legal disqualifications. "No umnber of an Orange
or a Ration society," they say, " shall he permitted
to belong to the police force." Here is palpably an
interference with the very first power of the Watch
Committee—the power of appointment; and the
right of the Bench so to interfere once conceded,
how far may it not be pushed ? They go further,
however, and claim now the right to issue "regula-
tions," which shall override those of the committee.
They claim the right of interference with the inter-
nal discipline of the force. They call before them
members and officers of that force, to report upon
the conduct of private individuals or members of
another body; which was not legally before them,
and assume the right, upon that report, to issue
their censure of such conduct. They frame orders,
which in effect set aside the authority of the Watch
Committee, and direct them to be communicated to
the force as their dicta, to be observed without refe-
rence, or even the show of respect to the authority
of that committee. Finally, they make the superior
officer cf the Committee—the Head-Constable—
under a very intelligible threat as to the consequence of
refusal, the instrument of conveying to the force
under his con rol what w cannot but corsPer as a
marked insult of the hod; which appoin ed, which
pays, and which should exclusively regulate them.
Mr. Rushton—we use his name most prominently,
not because his authority is personally of any supe-
rior weight to that of his magisterial brethren, but
because they appei.r to permit themselves to be con-
trolled by him in this matter—Mr. Rushton main-
tains that, in the steps which the Bench have thus
far taken, they have acted in strict accordance with
the law and for the public advantage. With the
legal part of the question we shall here have nothing
to do. In our opinion this has been already settled,
by the greatly prepondering weight of the opinions
taken, in favor of the claims of the Watch Commit-
tee, to which is mw to be added the opinion of the
present Town-clerk. But that the course taken by
the Magistrates and persisted in can by any possi-
bility result in good to the community we utterly
deny, and shall endeavour to show.
In all bodies similar to police bodies, the main
source of strength, and the only source of complete
efficiency, muEt be discipline. In using this word
we do not mean that portion of military discipline,
which consists in perfectness of drill, the capacity
of walking in strict line, or of executing expeditiously
certain evolutions; but a perfect recognition of the au-
thority of superiors, and a proper regulation of the
different grades of that authority. Such a system of
discipline has been established in the police force of
Liverpool, and we believe in a degree of perfection
which is surpassed by few, if by any, other bodies
in the kingdom. It is perfectly obvious, however,
that no discipline, and no efficiency in the exercise
of their duties, can be expected to remain in a force
which has more than one sup rior authority to look
up to for orders. The dilemma in which Mr. Dow-
ling recently found himself is a strong exemplifica-
tion of this. He had an order of the magistrates to
carry out, in itself illegal. He was required to carry
it out in a manner insulting to the Watch Commit-
tee, whose paid officer he i 3. If he refused to obey
the Magistrates he was threatened with their cen-
sure and feared dismissal or suspension from his
office. If he executed their order, he incurred, in
the first instance, the consequences of an illegal act,
and in addition, the censure of the Watch Committee,
who had an admitted power of dismissal. How was
he to act ? How did he act. Mr. Rushton, illegally
we contend, relieved him from the execution of one
part of the Magistrates' orders; his own legal know-
ledge deterred him from the execution of another
portion, (the reading to the police force of the libel
upon Mr. Parker, conveyed in the preamble to the
resolutions,) and for so doing no censure proceeded
from the Magistrates; and the coincident tenor of
the resolutions of the Watch Committee saved him
from any difficulty as to the rest. But had the
Watch Committee dissented from the resolutions in
question, or issued counter resolutions, in what po-
sition must Mr. Dowling have been placed ?
To descend, however, a little lower, what might
be the operation of this Magisterial assumption of
authority upon the conduct of the inferior officers,
and even the private members of the police force ?
Their head has two masters, and has promulgated
to them the orders of both. Are they in the execu-
tion of their duty to pause to consider which cf the
two they are to obey. The magistrates, in the case
already referred, have said, " report to the commis-
sioner of ponce, who shall report to the Bench."
The committee have said, "report to the head con-
stable, who shall report to us." So long as these
two offices of " commissioner" and " head con

stable" are in one individual, it is perfectly easy to
satisfy the requirements of both bodies. But sepa
rate them, and what will he the result ? Why we
shall have one portion of the force, in cases of in-
terference with them when on duty, running with
their complaints to one functionary, and a second
portion to another. We shall have the force divided

into two factions—a kind of " red and white rose"
war carried on in the midst of a community which
pays both contending parties—combative llogber-
ries on their beats falling foul of each other on every
available pretence, and a now disciplined body, in-
tended to be the guardians of our persons.and pro-
perty, degenerate into a dangerous nuisance.
It is perfectly obvious that such a state of things
—such utter disorganisation as must result from a

concession, to the Magisterial body, of the powers
which they claim to exercise, independently of the
Watch Committee—could never have been contem-

plated by the legislature. We defy any man of com-
mon sense and common fairness to point out how
the admitted powers of "regulation," possessed by
the Watch Committee, can be exercised in conjunc-
tion with similar independent powers of regulation
in the Magistrates, or any other body. The notion
is preposterous. One party or the other, it is clear,
the Watch Committee or the Magistrates, must
abate their pretensions. The former must either':
become a mere registering body—a committee with-
out powers—or the Bench must confine itself to the
exercise of, what has always hitherto been consi-

dered, its legitimate authority, and abstain from in

:erference with the police tOrce, except when the

acts of any of its members come judicially before its

notice.

We have given insertion in another column to a
letter addressed to Lord Sandon, not because a
portion of the remarks which it contains is at ad
applicable to the noble lord to whom it is addressed,
which they are not,. but because of the ability with
which it is written and the pertinence of the lessons
and remonstrances which it contains to the back-
sliding and spurious Conservatism which we see
around us on every side. We rejoice to be able to
record our implicit confidence, and that of the ma-
jority of his constituency, in the faithfulness of Lord
Sandon to his past professions, and to his thorough
Protestantism, as on several recent occasions mani-
fested. We would remind our correspondent that
it may be, and most probably is, from no consent of
his lordship, a subscriber merely to the fund raised
for repairing the church referred to, that the amount
is being expended in semi-popish desecrations. We
are assured that, from all our knowledge of his cha-
racter and principles, such an appropriation of it
would be very far from his inclination.

We have inserted in another place a letter from
Mr. Miller, late head-constable of this town, in
which some charges have been directed by him,
quite unnecessarily, against our respected chief ma-
gistrate ; and we have been requested to pablish
another letter by the same writer, btit we did not
receive it in time for insertion to-day. Upon ano-
ther occasion we may express ourselves upon both.
At present our columns are fully occupied.

The Rev. S. Crap:. who resigned the chaplaincy of the
workhouse, in this town. for the curacy of Harborough
Magna, has been promoted to the incumbency of the
newly-formed district of St. Thomas's, Coventry.
ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The monthly meet-
ing was held at the Mersey Hotel, on Tuesday evening,
and was very numerously attended. The commodore read
a list of other noblemen and gentlemen desirous of joining
the club. It contained the names of the Risht Hon.
Lord Viscount Combermere, Combermere Abbey, and
respectable merchants, shipowners, and others, thirty-one
in number, all of whom are to be balloted for at the next
meeting in January. A new marine compass was offered
for the inspection of the meeting by Lieutenant W. Lord,
R.N., invented by a friend of his, Captain West, R.N.
It is constructed on a plan to diminish the oscillating and
rotatory motion, so common to compasses in general
during tempestuous weather. It is very ingenious, and
also simple in its nature.

I GROWING PROSPERITY OF THE COMMERCE
OF LIVERPOOL.

On the occasion of a recent meeting of that celebrated
body, the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester, its
chairman went a little out of his way to twit the people
of Liverpool with the asserted fact, that the revenue de-
rived from the customs of our port had been for some
years, and was still, stationary. We have now the plea-
sure of informing that gentleman and the public, that
such is not the case. We are assured that the customs
revenue of Liverpool for the past year is likely to yield
upwards of £4,500,000 sterling, a sum greater by very
nearly half a million than the amount contributed List
year. So much for fact, and actual figures against mere
assertion. We may add however, for the satisfaction (?)
of our jealous neighbours of the great manufacturing
wen, that from all present appearances we are not at all
likely to stand still at this point, but, on the contrary
every indication is manifesting itself of a still further
advance in our relative position amongst the othrir ports
of the empire. It is a little singular, by the bye, what
pains the " liberal " people of Manchester take, from
time to time, to cry down the prosperity of a port, the
rise or fall of whose commerce certainly affords a very
tolerable index to the prosperity or adversity of the trade
of their own town!

ANOTHER ATTACK ON MR. DAVID

HODGSON.

A correspondent of the Journal of Saturday last, as-
serts that the subject of the leading conversation on
'Change, on Friday, was the "political" speech of Mr.
Hodgson at the Mayor's dinner on the previous day. The
chairman of the Watch Committee, the writer says,
"spoke Conservatism ;" and he represents the effect of
the speaking in question as having been to excite some-
thing nearly approaching to the disgust of the auditors.
We need use very little hesitation in demonstrating this
assertion,a gross misrepresentation ; and it will, perhaps,
not be very consolatory to the scribe, if indeed he needs
to be told, what are the real facts connected with the
speech in question. Mr. Hodgson, unexpectedly so far
as he himself was concerned, was called upon, by the
unanimously expressed voice of the company, to respond
to the toast of " The town and trade of Liverpool." The
call was received by most parties present as a tribute of
compliment to that gentleman for the firm and manly
stand made by bim in defence of the privileges of the
council against the attacks of the borough Magistracy.
His response to the toast was untinctured with a particle
of feeling calculated to embitter or call for reprobation ;
and he sat down with the same cordial greeting to reward
him, which had called him to stand up before his fellow-
guests.

On Saturday, the Rev. Hugh M`Neile received from
" Amiens" £5, to be divided, in such proportions as he
thought proper, between the Irish Society and the Sailor's
Home. The reverend gentleman has divided it equally.
giving £2 10s. to each of these excellent institutions.
THE LIVERPCOL FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COM-
PANY.—WiIIiam Potter, Esq., of Liverpool and Birken-
head, has been elected a trustee cf this company, in the
place of William Brown, Esq., who, as we mentioned
some weeks ago, has become one of the directors.
THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGHT.—It is now stated in
the city circles that the tenders made for the fourth par-
cel. of Canada debentures being below the Government
price, we shall have no information from the Treasury on
the subject till Tuesday or Wednesday next. No great
importance appears to be attached to the delay, because
the value of the security as a marketable one has already
been sufficiently tested by the terms on which the pre-
vious portions were taken. The English securities have
been rather better to-day, although the amount of busi-
ness transacted was not large. Consols, Reduced, and
Exchequer-bills, all show a trifling improvement. The
final quotations were—Consols for the account, 100 to 4;
Three per Cent. Reduced, 1004 to 1 ; Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents., 1024 to 103 ; Long Annuities, 124 ;
Exchequer-bills, 565. to 575. premium ; India bonds, 735.
to 755. premium ; and Bank Stock, 2071 to 2081. The
foreign stocks also improved a shade, particularly the
speculative descriptions, which are generally more or less
influenced by the position of business in the English
market. Spanish Five per Cents. were at the close of
the day quoted 244 to 25; the Three pp- Cents., 364 to
4 ; Peruvian, 264 to 271 ; Portuguese, 554 to 564 ; Mexi-
can, 364 to 4 ; the Deferred, 164 to 4 ; Dutch Two-and-
a.-Half per Cents., 634 to 4; the Four per Cents., 274 to
; the Five per Cents., 99 to 4 ; Danish, 89 to 90 ; Co-
lombian, 144 to 4; Chilian, 100 to 102; Bt.enos Ayres,
36 to 37 ; Brazilian, 88 to 89 ; and Belgian, 1011 to 1021.
THEATRE-ROYAL, CHURCH-STREET. BENEFIT OF
MR. REYNOLDS, BOX-KEEPER.—We observe that Mr.
J. Reynolds, whose politeness every frequenter of the
boxes at this theatre must have had occasion to acknow-
ledge, and none more so than the members of the local
press, takes his benefit on Wednesday evening, when an
excellent bill of fare is announced. We trust he will be
rewarded with a bumper audience.
COMPARISON OF THE TUBULAR WITH THE COMMON
Borenn.--Messrs. Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy, of Liver-
pool, are now making two steam-vessels for the Russian
Government, the boilrs of one of which is to be of the
tubular, and that of the other of the flue description. The
vessels and engines are as nearly as possible the same,
and the result will be to establish a very fair comparison
between the merits of the different kinds of boilers. The
flue boilers are, as might be expected, something larger
than those upon the tubular plan.
ROYAL CORK YACHT CLUB.—It will be in the recol-
lection of our readers, that at the late regatta at Cork, our
townsman, J. C. Ewaet, Esq., in his yacht, the Edith,
during the race of £6O, very gallantly saved the Union
yacht, belonging to Mr. J. Morris, of Cork, from proba-
ble destruction,—an act of humanity not the less merito-
rious from its involving the abandonment of the position
which the Edith held in the contest. The members of the
club marked their enduring sense of Mr. Ewart's conduct
by the presentation of a very beautiful snuff box.
A PROPER ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF GOOD BEHAVI-
OUR.—The Thomas Battersby, belonging to this port, on
her late voyage hence to Ichaboe, lost her captain by
sickeess, the command of the vessel consequently de-
volved on the mate. On the vessel's return, the owner
inquired of the new captain how the crew behaved on his
taking the command, and afterwards; and in consequence
of his favourable report of them, the' owner desired that
each of the crew he presented with half a sovereign (in ad-
dition to their full pay) as a mark of his approbation of
their good conduct. The brave fellows were much
pleased.

LATURDAY NIGHT CONCERTS.—Notwithstanding the
piercing cold of the weather, the concert at the Nelson_
street Assembly Rooms was very numerously attended,
and wens off with great told/. Miss May Swain, Miss
Fairhurst, Mr. Ryalls, and Mr. Crank, were the vocalists,
and the selections made were most pteasing. Mr. ltyalls
sang splendidly, and was frequently encored. An excel..
lent extract was read on the elevation by the mental cul-
tivatiou of the working class. We learn that there will
be a grand tea party in Christmas week.' Mrs. Ware
will, next Saturday, gike her lecture to her own sex.
Misses Witnall and Joseph will give their services, and
Mr. Martin will perform on the musical glasses.

COMMITMENT. —Yesterday, at the Police Court, a
female, named Mary Johnson, with an infant in her arms,
was charged with sundry thefts from the house of Miss
Mary Ann Shepherd, who resides in Vernon-street. The
prisoner had formerly been in the complainant's service
but had been discharged some time ago. The servant
who succeeded her latterly became lame, and the priso-
ner was called in to assist in cleaning the house. On Sa-
turday she was employed up stairs, and Miss Shepderd
soon after missed two sovereigns from her drawer, (a
shilling being put in the place of them.) She accused the
prisoner, saying that the money had no doubt gone in the
same way as a gentleman's breast-pin that had before
been missed. The prisoner denied it, but Miss Shepherd
called at the prisoner's lodgings and had her box searched
in presence of the landlady, when the pin, a gold brooch,
a cap, a pair of silk socks, and other articles identified by
the complainant were found—also some money in silver.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.--
At the monthly meeting of this society, held in Christ
Church School, Christian-street, on the sth instant, a
very splendid snuff-box, made by Mr. Hausburg, Church-
street, was given to Mr. Storey, their second steward,
hearing the following inscription :—" Presented to Mr.
John Storey, by the members of the Liverpool Protestant
Benevolent Society, as a small mark of their esteem to-
wards him for the faithful discharge of the duties of stew-
ward, November 5, 1814; also, a very elegantly-bound
Bible and Prayer-book, with suitable inscriptions, were,
at the same time, presented to their highly valued and es-
teemed brother and steward, Mr. George Beg,..crs." It gives
us pleasure to hear that this excellent societylis still pro,
gressing, and that their funds in the bank are upwards of
£3OO ; this sum, considering the many heavy calla upon
their funds, is highly creditable to the management. It
will be seen by the advertisement in another column, that
there are a few vacancies in the society, in consequence of
the removal and death of some of its members. We would
recommend those who are desirous of joining the society
to make early application, as we understand the number
of its members is limited. A copy of the rules of the
society may be seen at our office.
ILL-TREATMENT OF A SEAMAN.—OR Friday a miser-
able looking woman, named Sarah Connolly, was brought
before Mr. Rushton on a charge of plundering William
Craig, a young sailor, of his hat and trousers, in a house
of ill fame in Vauxhall-road. It appeared that on the
previous night the complainant met the prisoner, and was
persuaded by her to go to the house, where she said he
would get a good night's lodging for sixpence. When he
went in he found two men who asked him to stand treat
which he refused. He then went up stairs but found the
place so wretched that he wished to retreat. When he

clone down stairs for that purpose the men;ttacked
swearing that if he did not treat them, off should come
his jacket. A tussle ensued, and they threw him on the
floor, the prisoner holding him by the throat, while the
mistress of the house pushed a handkerchief into his
mouth to prevent his making a noise, and the men pulled
off his jacket, waistcoat, and hat. He was then told to
be off, otherwise he would be struck on the head with a
bottle which one of them held in his hand. They ran to
the door, and called " Watch," when a policeman came.
On their returning the was door open and the men gone.
The prisoner, who pretended to be asleep, was apprehended
The clothes were worth 345. The prisoner was committed
for trial.