The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH.
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40 AR ...AULT WITH INTENT TO Roa.--George Rubinson was committed
la_ hal, charged with assaulting Mr. William O'Brien, and attempt-
kko rob him of his watch. Mr. O'Brien lives in Scotland-place,
(41 cn his way home, on Saturday evening, between seven and eight
oicek, was met at the corner of Great Nelson-street by three men,
of whom asked where he was going. He answered that he was
4..4g home, and was then immediately knocked down. An attempt
the then ma, de to take his watch, but it was too well secured by the
; it was 'however, left hanging out of his fob. lie called out
at, "order," and the ruffians took to their heels, one of them running
tlt,ti Great Nelson-street, followed by Mr. O'Brien, calling " Stop
NT"
and a person who was passing stopped the fugitive, who
of 6efl to be the prisoner, and was i
as dentified by the prosecutor as one
We party by whom he was attked.
4 w;IIOLES A LE DEALERS IN BUTTER.--Daniel Morrison, Mary Morrison,
tat,o, and having
al' epos wife of James M`Millan, were fully
eel been
for having in theiession a quantity of butter' which
l':'!'oen stolen. On Thursday last, Messrs. Laycock and 'Whitten
!Itit,.tved into their warehouse, in Rigby-street, about five hundred
41`,,c4 of butter ; the next morning on opening the warehouse, the
ti `.'e door was found wide open, and the staple of the lock lying on
tatsciiddle of the floor. About thirteen casks were supposed to be
kfaijo, of which notice was given to the lice. yrom some pre-
ingformation obtained by Mr.e John Shipp,po Superintendent of the
4tt4htly Watch, that the butter stolen from Messrs. Laycock , and
,it!en was on the premises of Mrs. Mary Morrison, in Mason-
he went to the police-office. and from thence to Mason-street,
t, eoustable Elias P. Lloyd, and another. The. prisoners were found
ktg,o.house.; one of them dragging something in a sack which Lloyd
/et gold of, when he was attacked by all the three prisoners, but was
kkred by Mr. Shipp. The sack was found to contain broken hoops
eah, staves from butter casks. There were two other persons in the
4"4 room, but they did not assist the prisoners. One of them said
rattily, as the carter, and looked after the horse, which was afterwards
WO in the cellar. In the back room up stairs were found two jars
ether
; five firkins stripped of the hoops were found in the cellar ;
upon the horse muldin ; in the back yard another was found,
10 the privy two others ; the whole was taken away in a cart. In
it.'oom where the prisoners were found was a large fire, the top of
high was covered with the hoops and staves of butter casks.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 28.
thel7nes Hughes was committed for trial for stealing two deal boards,
11 troperty of Mr. T. Redman, joiner, from some new buildings in
litt ?Grove. A person named Edward Robinson, living in Magee-
Net, met the
.prisoner in Nash Grove, between seven and eight
44°,ck last evening, with the boards (both together are 38 feet long,)
cinch's. shoulder, and knowing them to belong to Mr. Redman, he im-
Iv-lately collared the prisoner, and had him conveyed to bridewell.
c!s an old offender.
'N'roms' INFORMATION.--John Garner was convicted before Sir
?irge Drinkwater, in the penalty of one hundred pounds, for having
1410 possession, on board the ship John Jay: from New York, a
`44:;" quantity of manufactured tobacco, and being unable to pay, he
committed to gaoi. •
THURSDAY, Nov. 29.
IkA,--elsE INFORMATION.-- William Dugby Dodd, paper stainer, ap-
tc, i;cd to an information charging him with omitting and neglecting
°II 0/L.4:63 9s. 94d., being the amount of duties charged and incurred
tl th ‘" square yards of stained paper, made by him, and was convict-
,, ,creof, and sentenced to a penalty of £l2l, 19s. 61d., being double
of the said duties, according to the statute.
la
,11.,0rt Shaw, owner of the hackney car, No. 161, was convicted
Withyenalty of ss. and ss. costs, for suffering the said car to be used
4„50t having the same in good repair and order.
D tltne4 Quigley, was fined ss. and ss. costs, for placing a block in one
'44eavenues in St. John's Market, contrary_ to the directions of the
.41111tendent.
otti:'l3lEN.---Janzes Jones, for standing with his cart in Great Char-
Wit -street, tile same not being appointed as a public stand, and he
Si'log engaged to load or unload goods at the time : and John
"leta--745, Scutuid Letishate, and Samuel Leathers for like' offencea.
Ar6Beveraly fined ss. and costs in each.ease.
nitl-81. Mary appeared to an informatton agains.t Messm. Mills
tk,'Lcrs, wine and spirit dealers, charging them with placing two
na„"colis on the foot-walk, in Nash-street, when a conviction was
4/,:unced in ss. penalty and ss. costs.
bag ! William Ford, for hw placing a quantity of sand -and rubbish on
ay, Mulberry-atreet : Mr. Joseph ilarri.on, lor placing a

quantity of bricks and stones in the same street; and Mr. Thomas
Garner, for placing a wheelbarrow on the foothpath in Roe-street,
were severally convicted iu penalties of ss. and costs ss. in each case.
Mary jiti' wai committed for trial charged with stealing a 4:3
note of the Settle Bank, too sovereigns., a guinea, and about' £2 in
Navel', from Mint reakell. The prosecutor, arrived in Liverpool on
Sunday, frorn Dent, in Yorkshire,,with some sheep for sale ; and, on
retailing- from .tho market on Monday evening, between seven and
:eight o'clock, he went into a public house in' Williamson-square,
where heniettbe•prisoner, who asked him to treat her, and he did
so, and afterwards accompanied her to a house in Grosvenbr-street,
where he passed the night, and on awaking in the morning found that
his pockets had-been emptied of the contents, as stated aboVe, the
pri4uner Was missing, but was • apprehended about eleven o'clock on
Tuesday night, at a public house, in Scotland-road. She had sent a
person to get the note changed at Mr. Blanshead's public .house in
Sawney Pope-street, but Mrs. B. not liking the appearance of the
note, refused to change it. The prisoner acknowledged taking the
money, and said she had since destroyed the note.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3.

Mary 43rown, was committed for trial, for stealing a hearth rug and
several chimney ornaments, the property of 11irs. Elizabeth Morris.
The prosecutrix, who is a widow, keeps a publichonse in Great
George's-place. and on Saturday:evening, between -seven and eight
o'clock; tier daughter met the prisoner. going along the passage to-
wards the front deor..with the articles in .;questian,.which had been
placed in a room up stairs, in her possession, and stopped her, and
sent for a constable who took her into custody.
at re DENT THEFT. --Aka Baxter was Scinutaitted for trial for stealing
five shillings in cop money from Mrs. Elizabeth Hinton. The
prosecutrix is a widow. . keeps a butcher's shop in Ranelagh-street,
and about eight o'elo -on Saturday morning the prisoner went to
hersliop to purchase a pound of heef steaks, with which she served
him, He gave her a soverei7n„ with which she sent a person to get
change, and then gave him 13s. in silver, and was looking for a live
shilling parcel of copper, which she had shortly before laid- on the
deik, 'to -give him -the remainder of his chang,e .(5-1[1.) when the pri-
soner ran otf. She _pursued him " Stop thief," and he was
stopped in St. John's
.I‘larket by one of the market-lookers, who
found on his person .193. in Silver arid'a five shilling parcel of copper,
which the prosecutrik identified, by the
.paper m which it was'
wrapped, as being the samewhieb she had missed from the desk.
HidnwAv R013132R1LY.---fi/thinas Booth, was committed for trial,
charged with assaulting Elizabeth Griffin, on the highway, and steal-
ing trom her person a silver hunting watch, and two seals. The
prosecutrix, li,es in flail's-place, Vrederick7street, amid on _Wednes-
day evening last, about seven o'clock, She was going along Park4ane,
and when she approached the corner of Rent:-Street, a man seized her
by the•throat and held her so tight that she could not tail out. Two
or three other men surrounded her and one of them thrust his hand
into her pocket and took out the watch with the seals attached to it.
A woman nauae4 Sarah Tongue, Jiving .in Titehfield,street, with
whom the prisoner lodged about four mouths ago, was applied to, by
him, on Thursday morning, for'a, loan of ns. on the watch, which he
said belonged to another man, who was 'then .in his company. She
had not that sum in her possession, but accompanied the prisoner and
his companion to the shop of Mr. evan, pawnbrokner, in Scotland-
road; where she went in said offered the watch in pledge, and Mr.
Kevan told her that it hail been stolen, and detained her until the
arrival of Flockhard the constable,' into whose custody he gave her
and the watch, and she pointed out the prisoner as the man who had
given it her to pledg,e. .The prisoner on being taken into custody said
that he got the watch from a man named Grant, but that he did not
know where the man lived. The watch was identified by the prose-
cutrix as the same that was taken from her as above described. The
seals have not yet been found.

THE LIGHTHOUS2S at Burnham, for the benefit of vessels on the
Br;0.01 Channel, are completed. 'A dinner was given on .Friday last
to the men, (about fifty in number), at tlae.Hatel, by Mr. Nelson, the
architect.

Loss OF THE SWALLOW CUTTER, WITH RECRUITS FOR
DON' Pnnao's ARMY.—The -Swallow cutter, a vessel hired by
the agents of Don Pedro for the 'conveyance of recruits from
this Country to Oporto, and which about three weeks since left
the river Thames with a number of young men for the army of
Don Pedro, who where-enlisted the principal part of them at
Mr: Hostler's. Nottingham Arms, Nottingham-street, St. Mary-
la-bonne, was wrecked off the coast of Devonshire in a gale of
wind, but the whole of the crew were rescued from a
_watery
grave by another vessel, and were landed at Dartmouth, about
thirty miles from Plymonth.—On Wednesday last, a number
of the poor fellows arrived in London, having walked from
Dartmouth, assistance of nearly 200 miles, many of them in a
most pitiable ehndition, having neither shoes nor stockings,
being compelled to beg their way up to the metropolis; a num-
ber of them appear to be quite satisfied with their first expedi-
tion and decline re-entering.—London Standard.
MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK.—The Dartmouth, of Dartmouth,
bound for London, laden with wool, leather, vegetables, &c.
_having on board the master, a mate, two seamen, with two boys,
and a female passenger, .was wrecked on the 10th inst. off Jury's
Cape, Sussex. The officer of the Coast Guard, Lieut. George
Davies, obtained the loan of a boat for the purpose of attempt-
ing a rescue of the crew, then seen clinging to the rigging.
He was dissuaded by the most experienced seamen surrounding
him. He, owever, leaped into the boat, and, hailing the
.crowd, gain the voluntary .assistanceof four seamen, They
had made so way towards the wreck, when, the boat, nearly
swamping, wads driven back on the
.shore. '1 he lientenant then,,
with the assistance of the seainen on shore, carried the boat a
mile, for the purpose of enabling her to Tun with the tide.
They. re-embarked, when, after difficulties and dangers easily
imagined, they
.succeeded in saving the only one of the craw,
then remaining. The other six had become victims of the
storm : they had; died long before the wave arrived which con-
signed them to the deep. The boat safely reached the shore
amidst the cheers, loud and animated, of the assembled multi-
tude, who expressed their admiration of the brave and intrepid
_conduct of the lieutenant.—Exeter Gavette.

ADMIRALTY COURII; 29.

Tin BODDINGTON.---JUDGMENT.

This was a case of great interest to the shipping and mercantile
claeses, and counsel having been heard on last court clap,
Sin C. Icon counsel
gave judgment to-day. Ile said, this was a ques-
tion relative to a charge of interest on insurance on bottomry bond.
The Boddington fell into great danger in leaving Calcutta river, and
was compelled to return for repairs. The master borrowed a sum of
£2318 on a bottomry bond, but it appeared from the accounts that in
this snip was Included £B6 for insurance. The court had no informa-
tion wl* had effeeted this'insurance, and, though it was the practice
in some cases formercha.nts to be their own insurers, it was not the
custom to place every charge for insurance on a bottomry bond. The
master of the vessel had agreed with Messrs. M'lntosh, of Caleutta,
for the advance of money at twelve and a half percent. per annum, on
Lottornry, and it was contended that the charge for insurance could be
upheld, as it grew incidentally out of the transaction. The registrar
of merchants had disallowed the claim as irregular,and unusual, apd
the court was now prayed to allow this charge. He (Sir C. Robinson)
had slot been able to find any case of this kind, although, in 1813, a
charge somewhat similar was made and disallowed. The absence of
precedent was not favourable to the claim. The premium charged on
the bond was moderate ; as, however, it was contrary to the practice
of merchants to make such a charge for insurance, great inconvenience
would be produced by any alteration in the rules of the court. The
essential principles oflaottoinry would not be upheld if this claim was
allowed. Maritime interest could only be allowed on the ground of
maritime risk: Insurance -did not, in this case, partake of the charac-
ter of maritime risk. It would be a violation of the great principle of
bottomry to allow such a charge, and he thought he could not with
safety alter the report of the registrar of merchants.
In reply to an application for the charges, Sir C. ROBINSO:q said,
that as a great principle had been involved, he shoUld allow general
expenses.