The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Saturday, four tenants in St. John's market were fined ss.
each and costs, for having small quantities of unsound meat in
their possession.
FURIOUS DRIVING.—John Copeland, driver of Morris's
Bootle omnibus, and David Storer, a car driver, were on Tues-
day last each 'fined 20s. and costs for furious driving. On
Thursday several other parties were fined for a similar offence.
BRUTALITY OF CARTERS.—On Tuesday, John Martin and
William Hackman were fined 20s. each and costs for abusing
their horses. The defendants yoked the animals together, and
made them pull in opposite directions, in order to test their
strength.
STEALING CARTS.—On Friday, a man named George Demp-
sey was committed for trial, charged with stealing a new hand-
cart, value £6, the property of Messrs. Graham and Bradley,
auctioneers, Shaw's-brow. The prisoner had the use of the
band-cart to remove the furniture.—On the same day, a boy
was remanded on the charge of stealing a cart from a piece of
ground near the new north dock works.
On Wednesday morning, at the Court-house, Egremont, be-
fore Messrs- J. C. Ewart and Henry Wiuch, a charge of drunken
and disorderly conduct was preferred against Mr. Edward Or-
ridge, by Mr. Edward M. Coulburn, one of the proprietors of
the New Brighton and Egremont Ferries. The evidence was so
contradictory that the magistrates could not come to a conclu-
sion. The affair occurred on a Sunday evening, when the de-
fendant was waiting for the boat to leave the ferry at Egremont.
SINGULAR CAsE.—On Thursday, a man named James Deemy
was brought before Mr. Rushton, on the charge of smuggling
whiskey. •He was seen leaving a vessel in the Clarence Dock
with two gallons of whiskey in his possession. The defence set
up was, that the whiskey was a present from a person at Glas-
gow to a friend in Ireland. The Excise-officer who laid the in-
formation, stated that in such cases the quantity conveyed must
be 20 gallons, and that must be under bond in order to avoid the
penalty. Mr. Rushton said he was compelled to impose the
mitigated penalty of £25, and advised the defendant's friends
to memorialise the Board of Excise with a view to obtaining a
further mitigation.
ROBBING THE POLICE-OFFICE.—A CASE FOR PHRENOLO-
oiSTS.—A middle-aged woman named Eliza Taylor, was brought
before Mr. Rushton on Thursday, charged with having stolen a
gown piece from a shop in Great Charlotte-street, and a quan-
tity of ribbon and yarn from the establishment No. 42, Rane-
lagh-street. She was further charged with having stolen
several articles from the Police-office in High-street, on her be •
-ins- -taken-there. A looking-glasera-brush, and an umbrella,
she laid hold of there, and attempted to secret them be-
neath her dress; she also stole a coat from the billet-office ad-
joining ! She was sent for trial. The prisoner's mother said
that she had not been in her proper senses for the last seven or
eight weeks. Mr. Rushton ordered that a surgical examination
should be made, and the result, we believe, was a declaration,
that the prisoner is insane.
CHARGE AGAINST EMIGRATION AGENTS.—William Galla-
gher, an Irishman, preferred a charge against Basil Hackett
and Co., emigration agents, whose address was said to be 113,
Waterloo-road, of having failed to secure a passage for him,
as contracted, to New York. He had paid to Hackett, or to
ssme one acting for him, £ll to secure a passage for himself
and two sons in the Forest Monarch, which was to sail on the
28th of June. No passage had been provided, however, and
they bad been detained here, without any detention money
being allowed to them, at considerable expense. Lieutenant
Hodder said it was a common practice for passenger agents to
have " runners," who got hold of intending emigrants and
took the risk of getting them on board any ship that might
offer. The defendants did not appear, and a special messenger,
who was sant, returned with a statement that they were not to
be found. Mr. Rushton intimated that if they did not appear
and satisfactorily explain the matter, he would inflict a penalty
of ..t"10 for the detention of each of the intending emigrants.