The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-18 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS,

QUICK DISPATCH.—On Wednesday, the sth instant,
the ship Lydia was berthed in the Waterloo Dock, and
within 37 hours discharged a cargo of above 400 hogsheads
of sugar ; then went into the Graving Dock for repairs ;
and by Wednesday, the 12th inst.. had taken a full cargo
for export on board, and sailed next day.
SMUGGLING.—On Tuesday, George Gottfried, and
and Frederick Meras, Prussians, were charged with
smuggling from on board the Frederick, in the Brunswick
Dck Ms, and 30Ibs respectively of leaf tobacco.
They were each convicted in a penalty of £100; but Mr.
Rushton stated that as they were foreigners, and this was
perhaps their first offence he would recommend their case
to the lenial consideration of the Board in London.
FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—A crowded assem-
blage met in the Music-hall on Friday evening, to hear a
statement from Dr Cunningham and Mr. Begg, of Edin-
burgh, regarding the position and prospects of the Free
Church. Considerable disappointment was felt when it
was announced from the chair that these gentlemen had
not yet arrived. The auditory were, however, unwilling
to adjourn, and listened to addresses from the chairman,
(Rev. D. Fergusson), Dr. Raffles, Mr. Gardner, Dr.
Blackburn, and Mr. Welsh.
EDUCATION OF NEGRO CHILDREN.—A very respect-
able meeting of a branch of the Society for the Advance-
ment of Education among the Negro Children of the West
India Islands was held, on Friday evening last, at the
Music-hall. Adam Hodgson, Esq., was in the chair, and
the meeting was addressed by the Rev. Mr. Lawrence,
the Rev. Mr. Ewbank, the Rev. Mr. Reynolds, and the
Rev. Hugh .tVPNeile. From the report of the secretary,
it appears that the society had received, last year. £lOB in
Liverpool, a larger sum than bad been collected by any
other branch.

FA LSE PRETENCES.—John Wright, beerhouse-keeper
and shipping master, was on Wednesday charged, before I
Mr. Rushton, with obtaining money from several seamen
on pretence of finding them ships. T►ie prisoner had a
placard in his window to the effect that seamen were wan-
ted for the schooner Margaret, about to sail for the coast
of Africa. The prisoner charged them ss. and 10s. each
for shipping notes, and said the vessel belonged to Mr. I.
0. Bold, but on inquiry no such vessel could be found.
A vessel of that name had been chartered by Messrs. Bold,
but had sailed tea days before. The prisoner was re-
manded.

ROBBERY PROM A WAREHOUSE.—On Wednesday, a
the Police-court, James Cosgrove was charged with steal-
ing 981 b. of currants, from a warehouse, in Kitchen.
street, the property of Mr. A. Mongredien. Some men
in the adjoining yard had, on the previous Monday, ob-
served a hole in the wall of the warehouse, and some cur-
rants strewed about it. On the following evenink the pri-
soner w.,s seen coming out of the yard with a bag on his
back, and was detained. bag contained the quantity
of currants stated. The prisoner said he was carrying it
for a man who had given him a shilling far his trouble.—
lie was committed tor trial.

DRIVING VEHICLES THROUGH THE STREETS ON
SUNDAYS.—On Tuesday last, William Welsh was sum-
moned before Mr. Rushton, for drivinz his whitechapel
through Great Crosshall•street, opposite the Welsh inde-
pendent chapel, on Sunday afternoon last, during the
hours cf Divine service. It appeared that the pace of
worship alluded to was amongst the chapels and churches
res ecting which the Mayor caused notice to be given a
short time ago that if parties should drive al )ng the streets
in which they were situated during the hours of Divine
worship on Sundays, they would be liable to a penalty.
Mr. Rushton said the full fine was 405., but the defendant
roust pay 20s. and costs.
It behoves us always to be on our guard, when alone we
should watch our thoughts, when in society our ton4ues,
and when in our families our tempers. Indeed, upon our
properly guarding the last depends much of our social
happiness and domestic comfort, taking care to counteract
that continued irritability of mind which is the precursor
of ebullitions of passion. But our malts' disposition is
so intimately connected with our physical condition, that
what is frequently considered ill-temper, or peevishness,
is in reality but the result of a derangement of the diges-
tive or other organs of the body, and requires medicinal

not mental remedies. To such we recommend with con-
fidence " FRAM PTON'S PILL OF HEALTH," as being cer-
tain in its effects, and gentle in its operation.
Tow NOTE ROBBERY.—Francis Trapps, the person
concerned in the robbery of ..t.:100 notes, was again brcut..tht
up, and the following evidence produced as to another
of the £lOO notes stolen from the District Bank. Mr.
Blease, cashier at the Custom-hou-e, said he recollected
prisoner coming to him on the 28th of May, and asking
him for change of a £lOO note. He said it was for Littler-
land, Davies, and Co., and that it was to pay dues.
The prisoner at his request, marked the note, and signed ,
James Croskell on the back of it. He (Mr. Blease) ob-
tained the change, and handed it over to the prisoner.
The witness identified the prisoner when shown to him
amongst others, at the Bridewell. Mr. Mather, recorder
at the Custom-house, gave the number of the note re-
ceived from the prisoner ; it was No. 16,694, and was
identified as being one of those stolen from the bank on
the 28th ult. The prisoner was fully committed for trial
at the borough sessions in July next.
UNJUSTIFIABLE ACCUSATION.—On Thursday a gen-
teel-looking man, named Charles Hunt, a clerk, was
brought before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of assaulting
and annoying Mrs. Alice Thomas, who keeps a respecta-
ble house in Russell-street, where the prisoner, a married
man, had lodged for twelve months. It appeared that on
Wednesday night last, while in a state of intoxication, he
had broken into her room, and behaved in so violent and
outrageous a manner that she was obliged to give him into
custody. Mr. Owen, for the defendant, proceeded to put
questions to the complainant with a view to insinuate or
prove that defendant had not for a long time slept in his
own bed ; but Mr. Rushton stopped this unmanly course,
for if a man were guilty of what was insinuated, nothing
could add so enormously to his crime as to come into
court and declare it. He believed it was a foul libel on
the female, and ordered the prisoner to find bail, himself
in £5O, and two sureties in £25 each.
IMPORTANT CORN CASE.—In the case of Barrow v.
Arnaud, Lord Denman delivered judgment on Tuesday.
The defendant is the collector of customs at this port, and
the plaintiff a corn-merchant in the same place. Upon
the Thursday next, after the Friday on which the Sliding
Scale Act received the royal assent, Mr. Barrow applied
to Mr. Arnaud to sign a bill of entry, for the admission
of a certain quantity of wheat. The day of the applica-
tion was that upon which the first weekly average was to
be made by the controller of the corn returns, and it was
made by him upon that day, but not transmitted to Mr.
Arnaud until the following day. Mr. Arnaud not having
any certificate of the average under the new act, demanded
the duty which would be payable on the repealed statute ;
and as Barrow contended that the latter statute (the 9th
George IV. c. 60) having been repealed, no duty would
be payable under it, he refused the demand of the duty,
upon which the defendant refused to sign the bill of entry,
for which refusal the plaintiff brought the present action
to recover damages for the injury which he had sustained
in losing a market for his wheat. The case having come
on for trial at Liverpool, the jury found a special verdict,
which embodied the facts of the case as we have men-
tioned them above. The only question for decision was,
whether the legislature had not in the Sliding Scale Act
omitted to make any provision for levying the duty upon
the importation of corn during the six days which inter-
vened between the day upon which that act obtained the
royal assent and the day upon which the first weekly ave-
rage was to be made under its provisirn.. The judgment
upon the verdict was given for the defendant.