The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

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Consulting Surgeon, William Gill, Esq.
—"se Visiters, Rev. T. Hornby Sanderson,' Esq.
'Chaplain,,Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq.
Rey. Wm. Hughes.—Honse-Surgeon, Mr. Parker

GIVING A FALSE DRAVt.:IIT OF WATER.--At the
police-court, on Friday, John Hooper, mate of the Cro-
hne, was mulcted in the penalty of £5, for having given
a false draught of water to the master of the Coburg
Pock.—Mr. Rushton. in adjudicating, said he had some
Montag whether he was,discharging his duty if he did not
tflict the full penalty .of £2O; for if such things were
allowed, property to an enormous extent might be de.
stroyed.

ROBBERY AT THE SARACEN'S HEAD HOTEL.—OD the
might of Thursday, or early on the morning of Friday last,
several of the bedrooms at the Saracen's Head Hotel,
Dale-street, were entered, and a considerable amount of
Property, belonging to the lodgers in the house stolen.
Amongst the articles taken were a silver watch, a gold
guard chain, a black satin vest, an ivory rule, anew black
coat and trousers, a pair of Wellington boots, and money
to the amount of £7 in notes and silver. The thieves are
supposed to be a man and woman of respectable exterior,
who slept at the house, and who decamped at an early
hour in the morning.
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EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Thursday, at the Police Court,
Patrick Helton was brought up, charged by David Jones,
ginger-beer manufacturer, with having received money
from various parties on his account,. an. d not handing it
over ; he has also made false entries in the collecting,
book. The prisoner was in the employ of Jones, and on
the 20th April Last he received from a person named Raf-
ferty the sum of XL, and only paid over lls. Several
,other instances were also adduced of a similar kind, and
-Abe complainant stated that he had been defrauded by the
Prisoner to the amount of £7 or £B. He was committed
lox trial at the sessions.
?3xtxxxxunAn CosottssiorrEns.—On Tuesday evening
~PeO,:rcial meeting of the Commissioners of Birkenhead
autravened at the Town-hall, for the purpose of passing
Ea.:I:I-accounts. The chair was occupied by J. D. Case,
took DiThe chairman said, that when the adjournment
Clerk ' 4ce On that day fortnight, it was expected the law-
wo
11 I 'Would have returned from London, and that he
however hare been present on that occasion. As he was,
best way
:', detained in London on important business, the
f would be to adjourn the meeting for a week ;
" by that time, he would certainly be back, and then the
laideaunts already prepared would be submitted to him, and
wfbefore the meeting. The chairman then read a letter
j;), 2 Mr. Peter Howard, one of the commissioners, in
hoo-r that gentleman, being about to leave the neighbour-
for some years, tendered his resignation upon the
„°_,llnd of indisposition. The resignation was accepted ;
ftuu the board adjourned.
orders TRA DIN a.—The police having received strict
Iles to lay informations against all persona selling arti-
prid°n Sunday, a number of 'informations were heard on
Several were laid against parties for selling
be es and cakes, and Mr. Rushton, in the course of
itio—'ng the cases, said the law provided that no person
toluld exercise any labour in their ordinary calling on the
eery strictly,'S Day- The courts of law had construed this law
Ulan.and held that the person should be a trades-
artificer, workman, or labourer, and he would also
construe it • stectly. He could not say that the persons
before-named mould come under the denomination of
tradesmen, workmen,
artificers, or labourers, and there-
fore he he would acquit them ; but they must remember,
if they exposed their goods for sale, the officers could sethem, and they would be torleited. 'Nine persons,
sidi
.ng in the neighbourhood of Vauxhall-road, 13eving-
-194. "Bbt and Oldball-street, ware severally fined se.