The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Samuel Towers, Thomas Castle, and Thomas Livesey,
of Dale-street, were each fined 2s. 6d. and costs for al-
lowing their cars to stand for hire in front of their pre-
mises.

A CHARGE DISMISSED.—An unfortunate girl was
charged at the Police-court on Friday, with having stolen
some wearing apparel from a procuress keeping a brothel
in Manchester, calling herself Rosenberg.—Mr. Rushton
dismissed the case, stating that he would sooner believe
the prisoner than the prosecutor.

POOR PROCEEDS OF POCKET-PICKING.—Frank Old-
acre, a boy, who states that he earns his livelihood by
scavenging, was brought up on suspicion of having picked
a gentleman's pocket at the camp at Everton. The boy
was observed pressing on the gentleman, and on the latter
searching his pocket, he found that a half-consumed cigar
was gone ! The prisoner was remanded.

CAUTION TO CAPTAINS. - A summons was beard
against Captain M'Kay, of the ship Jenny Lind, for
bringing into dock 25 lbs. of gunpowder, instead of depo-
siting it at the Magazines. The defendant had acted in ig-
norance of the rules of the port, and Mr. Rushton said the
penalty was £lOO, but he would inflict the lowest fine,
which was 20s. and costs.

ROBBING AN EMIGRANT.—A man, of decent appear-
ance, who gave the name of William Nellins, charged
Ann Wilson with robbing him of £4 Bs. The complain-
ant said he was a stranger, and had come down to Liver-
pool to emigrate; he was induced to go and lodge at a
house at Heaton-street, where the prisoner resided, but,
after being there a short time, he found that his money
had been ken. The prisoner, who was the only person
on the premises, was taken into custody. Some of the
money was found. The prisoner was sent to gaol for
three months.
INFORMATION UNDER TAE BUILDING ACT. —On
Thursday, at the police-court, Mr. John Robinson, build-
ing surveyor of the North District, appeared against Mr.
William Layfield, builder, of Bootle-lane, Kirkdale, who
had been served with a notice to remove one marlin and
eleven spars from the roof of five houses row being erected
by him in Elizabeth-street, Kirkdale, contrary to the 61st
section and schedule Bof the Building Act. The case
was proved, and the defendant directed to enter into his
own recognizances of £lOO to make the work to the satis-
faction of the building surveyor within one week.
CUDDY, THE CHARTIST SELLER OF PIKES.—It seems
that this infatuated personage is likely to be involved in a
more serious scrape than he or his friends at first imagined.
Mr. Rushton, the stipendiary magistrate, sent for Mr.
Yates, the prisoner's attorney, on Friday, and informed
him that in the course of this week his client would be
again brought up, and committed for trial, upon the charge
of having been implicated in a treasonable conspiracy.
The trial will possess unusual interest, as it is expected
that much of the alarming information in the hands of
the mayor and magistrates as to the treasonable designs
of the clubs in Liverpool, will be submitted in evidence..
CHARGE OF MUTINY AT SEA.—On Friday, Captain
Graham, of the Mountaineer, attended at the Police-
court, with almost the whole of his crew, his object being
to watch a case in which his steward was the accused, and
his boatswain the accuser. The charge of mutiny fell to
the ground, and resolved itself into one of attempting to
stab. From the account of William Attwater, the boat-
swain, it appeared that Collins, the steward, had, on the
141 h of July, while at sea,.rushed ou the boatswain with
a drawn knife, and attempted to stab him. A quarrel had
taken place between the two men, which resulted in the
way already stated. Collins stated, and produced wit-
nesses to prove his assertion, that he did not attempt to
use the knife, until provoked, by being struck several times
by the complainant. Mr. Rushton was of opinion that
the boatswain's conduct had been extremely flagrant, yet
confessed that nothing could excuse the use of the knife.
He dismissed the case, and advised the captain to with-
hold the steward's wages from the time he had been im-
prisoned, or if he had paid him, to deduct the amount
from the boatswain's wages.