The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

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street (beer-house) ; Anthony
teth-park (formerly the John Bull Inn) ' • Thomas Gardener
Park-street, Toxteth-park, corner of Mann-street (beer.
house) • Sarah Jones, Park-street, corner of Llanrwst-street
(beer-house) ; Henry Washington, Sefton-st. (beer-house).
—Removals:—Joseph Arrowsmith, to 45, Great Nelson-st.;
John Robinson, Park, to Laurel-street ; Wm. Dawson, from
Crooked-lane, to Dantzig-street, east side Union Dock. No
new licenses were granted to the applicants from West Derby,
Everton, or Kirkdale.

SACRILEGE.-At the Birkenhead Police-court, on Thurs-
day, Samuel Hinde. George Taylor, Elizabeth Hughes, and
Sarah Powell, were charged with breaking into Liscard
church, and stealing a quantity of Prayer-books, Bibles, &c.
Robert Davies, sexton of the church, proved that on Sunday
last he locked up the church, fastened the windows, &c. He
found the vestry window and another had been broken, the
fastenings were unloosed, and he missed a quantity of books
out of the church. George Taylor, sexton of the church,
saw the prisoner Taylor loitering about the church on Sun-
day morning. Henry Mosley, an inspector of police, in
Liverpool, stated, that on Monday evening he was informed
by John Gristlewaite, one of the police, that a quantity of
stolen books were in the house of Peter M`Nance, in Pr(
ton-street, Liverpool. He went there with inst
and Gristlewaite, and in an unner room they fo

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prisoners, and between thebedrand the mattrass about fifty
prayer-books, bibles, and hymn-books; many of them had
the names of the owners in them. The other officers con-
firmed this statement. The Rev. John Tobin and Mr. John
Wilson identified books found by the officers, as their pro-
perty. The prisoner Hinde, after being duly cautioned, de-
clared that " the other three prisoners were all innocent."
The prisoner Taylor and the two females stated that they (lid
not know the books were in the room until they were taken
into custody. The prisoners were fully committed for trial.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH, STOCKPORT.—On Sunday week,
two sermons were preached in this church, by the Rev.
Thos. Nolan, of this town, in behalf of the Stockport
National Schools. The collections amounted to £37 14s.
The Stockport Advertiser of Friday last saps, in reference
to the discourses—" Never perhaps, on any occasion, not
even excepting the time when the Rev. M. O'Sullivan, the
great champion of the Protestant faith preached in behalf of
the same institution, have we seen the church of St. Peter's
so crowded, every corner was literally crammed, and many,
through an anxious desire of hearing the voice of him from
whose lips, probably, they first heard the glad tidings of free
and full salvation through faith in the blood of a crucified
Redeemer, and under whose ministry they were first pene-.

trated with a sense of their own vileness as sinners, arid led
to cry out, " What shall I do to be saved," were glad to re-
main in the open air. Nor is this to be wondered at, when
we remember the untiring zeal with which Mr. Nolan
discharged his ministry amongst them—how he was " instant
in season and out of season"—how, for the space of four
years he ceased not to warn them, and to teach arid to preach
unto them Jesus, how, through his instrumentality the gal-
leries of St. Peter's Church were erected, and thereby be-
came the means of admitting within its sacred and hallowed
walls those whom our adorable Saviour has pronounced
" blessed," (" for to them the Gospel is preached") viz. :
the poor, and who, previously were excluded in consequence
of want of accommodation.

COMMITTAL OF A LIVERPOOL CAPTAIN FOR WILFUL
MURDER.—At the Thames Police•ofice, on Wednesday,
Captain Partridge, late master of the ship Jarrow, of this
port, was brought before Ballantine for final examination,
charged with the wilful murder of three Spanish seamen on
the high seas. We have already given the previous hearings
of the case. Mr. J. Fisher said he shipped at Liverpool, as
chief mate of the Jarrow, on the 9th of March, 1841, on a
voyage to Benin, on the coast of Africa. The ship remained
at Benin for five months, and some Kroo boys were shipped
to assist in the navigation of the vessel. From Benin the
ship proceeded to Prince's Island, where she remained for a
few days, and shipped four Spaniards, three of whom after-
wards died from ill usage. Witness was disrated as mate
between Benin and Prince's Island. The log was kept by
him until the latter part of June, 1841, and during the re-
mainder of the voyage by the captain himself. Two of the
Spaniards died between Prince's Island and Teneriffe, and
the third at Teneriffe. The first one who died was called
Jose, and was very well and hearty when he came on board.
The captain repeatedly beat Jose in a very brutal manner.
The first time he beat'him was a fortnight after he came on
board. The Spaniard did not work to please the captain, but
he most undoubtedly did his best, and was a very willing
man. Jose was beaten over the neck and shoulders and

other parts of his body with a rope. The vessel we.
short of provisions, and for the first three weeks Jose re,
ceived the same allowance as the other men, but afterwards
only received half that quantity, and he became gradually
weaker and weaker till he died. The captain beat the de-
ceased generally with a rope's end, or the bight of a rope,
and on one occasion with a billet of wood. Jose was pressed
to work hard unnecessarily, when he was unfit to do so.
He was very unfairly treated, and great cruelty was exercised
towards him. The name of the second mate was Mariana,
and he was one of the stoutest and best seamen of the four,
and in good health when shipped. Mariana was first beaten
on the supposition of having stolen some canvas. The cap-
tain ordered a Kroo boy to flog him with the bight of a rope,
and he was most unmercifully flogged, and had nothing on
his back at the time but an old cotton shirt and a worn-out
Guernsey frock. He saw Mariana beaten by the captain on
several other occasions. The man was not steering as the
captain wished, and was flogged with the end of the main-
boom sheet. The captain after that struck him a violent
blow with his fist. The man was very often struck at the
wheel, and I recollect his being struck there with the log-
slate the day before his death. The log-slate was a heavy
double backed one, and the captain struck Mariana two
heavy blows with it, one on the face and temples with the
flat part of it, and another on the top of the head with the
edge of the slate. The man bled very much, and his eyes
were swollen. There was a cut an inch long across his
temple, and on his crown there was an indentation so big that
witness could put his thumb into it. Blood and water were
oozing from the wounds down the man's face. He died the
following night in the forecastle. After the captain had
beaten Mariana he send him up to the rigging. The Spaniard
attempted to come down, but the captain flogged him up
again. The night was very cold and blowing hard, and
when Mariana was taken down he was to all appearances
dead. His limbs were stiff and cold. He was thrown over-
board three or four hours after he died. The man was not
in a fit state, from hard usage and weakness, to be sent either
to the pumps or the rigging. He got worse, and appeared to
be quite silly after he was beaten. The witness said the third
Spaniard who died was also repeatedly flogged by the captain
and knocked down. He died at Teneriffe after the ship ar-
rived there. The quarantine doctor came alongside, but the
captain did not report the condition of the Spaniard, or ob-
tain any medical aid for him. The prisoner was then formally
committed to take his trial at the next Old Bailey sessions.

INFORMATIONS AGAINST PUBLICANS AND BEERHOUSE
KEEPERS, FOR INFRACTIONS OF THE RECENT ACT FOR
THEIR REGULATION.—On Friday upwards of forty publicans
and beerhouse keepers were brought before Mr. Rushton and
Mr. Logan, at the police-court to answer informations pre-
ferred against them for various infractions of the new act re-
gulating such houses, and requiring that none of them shall
open until one o'clock on Sundays ; remain open beyond
twelve on Sunday night ; or at any time entertain improper
and disreputable characters. The proceedings excited much
interest in a crowded court, and occupied the bench for
several hours. The cases respectively were fully and pati-
ently gone into, and every advantage of substantial defence
was permitted to the accused, many of whom brought for-
ward witnesses. A very few only succeeded in procuring
an acquittal on good grounds •, but a large number got off in
consequence of accidental technical informalities in the laying
of the informations. The cases, with a few exceptions, in
which it appeared that lodgers were in the houses, or that
there were some palliating circumstances, were nearly alike,
—namely, the serving of ale or porter early in the morning,
before opening is allowed, or at night beyond the prescribed
hour of midnight, and also entertaining drunken and disor-
derly persons. To go through the whole, would weary our
readers; and we confine ourselves to the general summing
up of Mr. Rushton, after all had been heard ; the deci-
sion, except in a very few cases, in which the houses had
hitherto been respectably conducted, and the alleged delin-
quency appeared excusable, being delayed until the close.
Mr. Rushton, in pronouncing judgment, observed, that all
these cases were under an act recently passed, and of which
the parties were all advised, to preserve the peace of the
town, and to prevent those scenes of drunkenness and riot
in the streets, on Sundays, by which the town had been so
long and lamentably disgraced. As a proof of the excellent
effect of such a regulation, he had to state the reduction in
the number of riotous and disorderly cases was, owing to its
operation, in one day only; no fewer than 97; there having
been 155 of such cases last week, and only 78 brought up
last Monday. He considered that such a law abated. much
of the profligacy that had hitherto prevailed, and added
greatly to the general respectability of the town and to the
comfort of the people. He felt great reluctance to impose
heavy fines ; many of the cases were not so flagrant as to call
for the severest penalty, and a large number had fallen through
merely from accidental informality. He could assure those,
however, who were implicated, that, where the fine was re-
duced or remitted, they should be hereafter narrowly looked
after; and he hoped and trusted that all would take caution,
and conduct their houses in future in a proper and respec-
table manner. He then imposed the fines in each case, and
concluded by remarking that this was the first and only time
in which the extreme fines would not be exacted. It would
be their look out if they were visited more severely ; for the
magistrates were determined, in future, to put down such
conduct, which had an undeniable effect in deteriorating the
morals of the town, and producing destitution and misery
among the working classes in particular.

ANNUAL COUNTY SESSION.—The annual general ad-
journed sessions for the county of Lancaster were held at the
Court-house, Preston, on Thursday last, at eleven o'clock.
Thomas Batty Addison, Esq., Chairman of the Preston
Quarter Sessions, presided. There were sixty-two magistrates
present, amongst whom were the Rev. Jonathan Brooks,
Rector of Liverpool, Peter Bourne, Esq., Theodore
--Psq, Adam Hodgson, Esq.,
Rath-
bone, Esq., Thomas Rodick,
and other gentlemen from this neighbourhood. In the
course of the discussion on the accounts, the Rev. J. Horton
protested against the charges for the conveyance of prisoners
from Rochdale to Manchester, from Ormskirk to Kirkdale,
and' to and fom other places in. the county. Mr. Rodick
complained of the cost of printing, and objected to the salarY
of the Chaplain, but was declared out of order. The accounts
were all passed, those of the treasurer of Kirkdale Prison
Bs. 10d. The several rates required for
amounting to £8,390
general anetther purposes. were brought forward, discussed,
and passed. Colonel Rawstorne moved a resolution to the
effect, that the court should take into consideration the
system of secondary punishments as, under the present
system, tending to the increase of crime, and that the silent,
combined with the separate, system be generally adopted.in,
all the gaols of this county. The resolution was seconded by
James Heyward, Esq. On an amendment, moved by Adam
Hodgson, Esq., the following were appointed a committee to
inquire into the subject,
and to report to a future court :
The Revds. Jonathan Brookes and J. T. Horton, Colonel
Rawstorne, and Messrs. J. F. Foster, E. J. Lloyd, RObert
Lomax, Edward Dawson, Adam Hodgson, George Lomax,
and James Clarke (Recorder of Liverpool.) A motion, pro-
posed by the Rev. J. 'l'. Horton, to request the Government
to pay one half the expense of the rural police, in this county,.
out of the consolidated fund, was negatived by a large majority.
A motion, proposed by C9lonel. Austin, to the effect, that, in
consequence of the reduction of the constabulary, an assistant
chief constable be 'deemed sufficient for the present establish-
of October pext, was passed. Some other
Ment. from the lst,
business of no having been disposed of, the
general interest
meeting broke up at five o'clock.

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