The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MUTINY ON SHIPBOARD.—On Thursday, ten seamen be-
longing to the American ship Columbia, Captain Briar, were
brought up on a charge of mutiny. On the preceding day,
when the vessel was about to sail, all the hands came on board;
but the captain, finding the men had been drinking, took seven-
teen riggers to assist, and desired the men to go below. They
refused, and the three first came up to him, and one of them,
named. Turner. taking up a handspike, struck the first mate
over the head with it, severely wounding him, and then turned
round and also knocked the captain down. A general row
ensued, in which all the prisoners joined ; and the black
steward was knocked off the poop on the maindeck, and seve-
ral passengers were struck and beaten by them. After the
vessel had anchored in the river, the captain got on board a
steam-tug and went ashore for the police, who took the pri-
soners into custody. Five of them, who had been 'guilty of
gross and unprovoked violence, named Turner, Upham, Berry,
Smith, and Johnson, were ordered to pay a fine of £5 each, or
to be imprisoned two months•, Adams was fined 40s. and costs.
or a month's imprisonment ; Prince, Boulton, Poer, and Blair
were eachfined 20s. and costs, or fourteen days' imprisonment.
ILLICIT DISTILLATION.-00 Friday, Mary Carroll, an old
offender, was charged by Messrs. Reader and Chadwick with
working an illicit still in Back Beau-street. It appeared from
the evidence of the officers that business had been carried on
upon a most extensive scale, and that the place was fitted up in
a very artful manner. The officers were of opinion that the
illicit trade had been in operation for a considerable length of
time. The prisoner was fined £3O, and in default of payment
committed to prison for three months. This was a case under
act 7 and 8 Geo. ly., c. 53, s. 33.

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SMUGGLING.—On Friday, Mr. Cassidy, the master of the
Glenaffer, from Charlotte-town, at this port, was convicted in
the full penalty of 'lOO, for having manufactured foreign
tobacco to the amount of 34 lbs concealed in his berth.

PUBLICAN AND BBERSELLER'S CASE.—On-Friday Hugh
Williams, publican, Clayton-street; William Stenson, Christian-
street; John Dickenson, Vauxhall-road; Martin Farrell, Hen-
derson-street. Park; and Arthur Gordon, Rokehy-street. beer-
sellers, were fined 105. and costs, for se ling ale at unlawful
hours. Isabella Hubberts, Stanley-street; Mary Jones, Ba-
nastre-street, and Ann Morris, Banastre-street, beersellers,
were fined 20s. and costs for a similar offence. William Dob-
son, beerseller, who was summoned last Friday for selling ale
at an illegal honr, and who then stated that officers 291 and 302
had brought the parties into his house and ordered the ale.
appeared and repeated his statement. He was fined 10s. and
costs for having, on his own showing, sold the ale at an illegal
hour. The investigation into the conduct of the officers upon
that occasion wr,s read to the magistrates, and officer 302 was
suspended. Officer 291, from some supposed misunderstanding,
was not present, but lie was ordered to be brought on Saturday
to receive the sentence of the court.