The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Wednesday, Charles Roberts, a man of colour, cook
on board the Ivanhoe, was committed for trial charged
with stabbing Robert Hamilton, and inflicting a frightful
wound in his head.

CAUTION TO FOREIGNERS.—On Tuesday last, a mer-
chant of New York, who came to this port by the steam-
ship Canada, was fined £5, for attempting to smuggle a
small quantity of foreign-manufactured tobacco.
EXTENSIVE THEFT.—On Wednesday, an Irishman
named John Corcoran, a dealer in iron, and a resident in
Liverpool, complained against a man and four women of
robbing him early that morning. in a house in Albion-
street, of £B5, consisting of one £5O, one £2O, and three
£5 bank notes, On proceeding to the house the officers
found the £5O note concealed under a mattrass. The
prisoners were remanded.

HINT TO SHOPKEEPERS.—On Thursday, two females
were charged with having, on the previous day, stolen
three pairs of boots, from the doorway of Mr. Goodwin's
shop, Old Haymarket. The magistrate remarked upon
the impropriety of hanging goods outside of the door of a
shop, making a temptation to the needy; but as in this
case the goods were not so exposed, but hung within the
doorway, the prisoners were committed for trial.
MORE RIOTS AT THE WORKHOUSE SHEDS.—Thirteen
girls were brought up on Friday, charged with making a
great disturbance at the door f the sheds—demanding
admittance, and, on being refused, assailing the doors and
windows of the establishment with stones. They were
all described by the keeper of the sheds as thieves and
prostitutes, and when admitted, the deserving inmates
could not dwell in peace with them. Mr. Rushton ob-
served that he did not know what course to pursue : the
only plan appeared to him to be either to receive them as
inmates of the Workhouse, or send them home to their
proper settlements. It was stated that many difficulties
were in the way of this procedure, and that they refused
to be sent away. The overseers were then sent for, as it
appeared that two of the girls had received an order of
admission from the relieving officer, but that the keeper
had refused to admit them4as he had a general order from
the Vestry to refuse admission to all parties who had been
previously six nights in the sheds. The relieving-officer
had not been aware of this order. The two who had
received the order were discharged, and the remainder
sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment each.

YESTERDAY.
AN OVER-ZEALOUS POLICE-OFFICER.—A genteelly-
dressed young man was brought up charged by a police-
officer with having been found drunk and disorderly in
the streets, on Saturday night. Mr. Parkinson, of the
Main Bridewell, said that the accused had not been
booked as drunk, the officer at the station to which he was
sent having refused to book him on such a charge. Mr.
Parkinson said that some of the officers were in the habit
of charging parties with being drunk if they had the
slightest appearance of having tasted liquor. Mr. Rush-
ton said he would not convict the party, and instantly
discharged him.

SMUGGLING.-A seaman named John Garratt was fined
20s. for attempting, on Saturday, to smuggle 211bs. of
foreign manufactured tobacco from a ship recently arrived
from New Orleans.

RAISING MONEY ON FALSE PRETENCES.—Henry Car-
ter and Mary Thompson, who had, a week ago, been
remanded on a charge of obtaining various sums of money
on pretence of having been wrecked on the Skerries Rocks,
near Holyhead, and lost their all, were committed to gaol
for three months, as rogues and vagabonds.
ILLEGAL SALE OF POST-OFFICE STAMPS.—It will be
remembered that, some weeks ago, a man, named Wm.
Ryan, was fined in a mitigated penalty for selling post-
office stamps, on a Sunday, near the General Postoffice,
contrary to the act, which requires the vender of such
stamps to have " a local habitation," and a license to sell
them. The same man was brought up yesterday for a
similar offence, which was proved. Mr. Rushton said he
had dealt leniently with him on the former occasion as he
had pleaded ignorance of the law, and had ordered the
stamps found upon him to be returned ; but as he had,
after warning, wilfully contravened the law, he must pay
a fine of £2O, or be imprisoned for one month, as well as
having the stamps found in his possession seized.
DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Three young men,
Thomas Dunn, John M`Wade, and Michael Maher, were
charged with robbing Mr. Hugh Read, a retired master
mariner, residing at Seacombe, of money to the amount
of £7 10s., on Friday evening, in Queen's-street, Liver-
pool. The complainant said, that as he was passing along
on the night stated, he was suddenly attacked by five men,
one of whom seized him by the throat, and another by
the collar. The grasp made at his throat was such that
he soon became insensible, but he recognised two of the
prisoners. A third part} took his purse out of his pocket,
containing the money, and cut his trouser's pockets away.
The garment was produced. He could not swear what
was done by the prisoner NV-Wade, but he was in com-
pany with the others when they were arrested, on Satur-
day afternoon, by Detective-officers Toole and Patrick.
A considerable sum was found upon them, and also some
articles of new clothing. The prisoners declined to say
anything in their own behalf, and were all committed for
trial at the Sessions.