The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

On Tuesday, four Irish persons were severallylifi
for allowing tugs to sleep in their dwellings.
Twenty persons were fined on Tuesday for occupy,il
cellars not in accordance with the act. All the cellars,
been cleared out, but had been re-let.
A SHIPPING AGENT FINED.—An information fa:,
heard, on Thursday, against Thomas Wilson, shiPPl';
agent, Bath-street, who was charged with demanding
a seaman, named Bradford, the sum of £1 for getting
a vessel.

WINDOW BREAKING EXTRAORDINARY.—Mr. 11„n
e„'
wood, the keeper of a hotel, appeared before Mr. Rusß:tii
on Thursday, to charge a dissolute looking fellow
breaking his windows. ' It transpired that Mr. HeYlle
had sustained, within the last two years, losses, from t 0
wilful destruction of windows, to the amount of
The man was ordered to pay three shillings and sixPel
the amount of damage, and costs, or to be imprisoo
three days.
INFORMATIONS AGAINST PUBLICANS.-011 Friday 6e'
'
venal publicans and beersellers appeared before Mr. WISb.
ton, to answer informations laid by the police, for hat
company in their houses, and selling liquor at hours ?to
than those allowed by law. One of the defendants, .1°,5"
Turner, who keeps a house near the Clarence Dock, 78
fined £5 and costs for having fourteen men in his lit
at half-past three o'clock on Sunday morning.
Rushton told the defendant that he would lose his licr-
if he did not take care.
On Thursday, several wretched looking beings
brought up on various charges. In each case it appet':
that they had committed the offences for the express Pei
pose of being sent to prison, as they had applied for rel'e4
at the parish-office without success. They were remanue
till proper enquiries shoull be made. In the meantille
Mr. Rushton desired Mr. Parkinson to go up to W. 5
Workhouse, where a meeting of the Select Vestry „"
being held, and to make a statement of the bad sYstei;
now at work. At a subsequent period of the day,
Grey, one of the overseers, appeared in court, and th,e,
two persons above alluded to were handed over to tub
parish, with directions that their wants should be av

tended to.
LOAN SOCIETIES.--011 Wednesday the officers of the
North British Friendly Loan Society appeared at t'Ll
Police-court against several borrowers, whom they 1';
summoned for arrears. The cases for the most part Wei)",
of the usual description, and orders were made upon
lce
parties to pay the money, Mr. Rushton repeating adlo
to the several persons summoned to have nothing to
with such societies. Several similar cases came before tb°
court on Thursday, in the course of which it appeared
loans had been advanced to parties to enable them to P'zi;
off former loans. Mr. Rushton observed that this was as
illegal mode of doing business, and that the money advBl.l,;
ced under such circumstances was clearly irrecoverable
point of law, and that if the societies issued distress vl3`
rants, they would be liable to have proceedings
taken
against them.
A SALUBRIOUS LOOCALITY.—On Tuesday, an Ir,-„
man named John Curran was summoned before the 'IV
gistrates on a charge of keeping pigs in a cellar underne3
th
his house in Cherry-lane. The offence was not dented'
but Mr. Davenport, who appeared for the defendant
called for a tall Hibernian, who gave the classic name °
O'Hara. The witness said he lived next door to Curra.,ri'
and had done so for about fourteen years, and no IIT:e
sance arose from the defendant's pigs ; he tided, that 0
neighbourhood was the " cleanest and nicest in Livef;
pool." (Laughter.) Mr. Rushton.—" Do you mearl,4
say Cherry-lane is the nicest place in Liverpool ?"
two
witness repeated what he had previously stated, and
added, there had been no deaths in that neighbourliooe
whilst he lived there, except one single person, and l're
was "plagued with the asthmatic, but he lived they
many years before he died." (Renewed laughter.) 1‘1„
Rushton.—" You are calling a place a salubrious neigh„
bourhood which is the worst in Liverpool without exat,
tion ; there are more deaths from disease, want of vent)
lation lation and other causes, and more suffering from
..„-'
health, than in any other district of the town." A polir
officer stated that the defendant had about three angel°,
half tons of manure near his house, the stench from vvili.jj
'was quite intolerable. Mr. Rushton enforced the use"
fine of 205., and ordered the removal of the pigs