The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-09-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IONS FOR WAGRS.—A boy 'mimed Richard Thornhill appeared before Alderman Sir John Tobin; in ouppert of a sew. mons for wages, which be had caused to be issued against.a person named Hewson, a master of a.vessel. The complainant stated that he had engaged with the defendant at Liverpool to re to Glasgow and back again, for which, it was verb Ally agreed, he.. sl?ould receive half a seaman's wages. Captain Hewson said that he was in the employ of Messrs. M'Cracken, Jamieson, and Co. merchants, of this town, by who:o he had been ordered to take a certain small vessel to Glasgow and back to Liv'erpool.. He had engaged the complainant to go with him, agreeing to board him during the period that he should remain with him, and to give him one pound for the whole run. He had advanced the complainant ten shillings whew in Liverpool, and ten sbillings in Glasgow, at which latter 'place he had paid hiiu board-wages.. The run occupied twenty-one days, and he (the captain) conceived that Ire -had fulfilled his agreement. The boy acknoiledged that he had received one pound, and .said, in reply to a question from the magistrate, that he had not sigsed any agreement. Alderman ,Sir John 'Tobin was of upinion that the coniplainaut had been sufficieutly- remunerated,; he, therefore dismissed the case. flrKaTaanAY.—(Before HORSEA ear !' A. GENT LEM AN LY Ass utT.—An athletic raddy--lacedanetent Bhton, named Griffiths' Williams, exhibitit)g a pair of Taney coloured eyes, consequent upon diver, blows inflicted by Mr. Paddy M'Alister, the culprit standing in the dock,' appeared in the witness-box against the said Paddy. Mr. Griffith Williams, having bobbed his head reverentially to the bench, held up a switch of iron about an inch thick, and said. " Last night I was in mine ped, snorin' as pleasantly as possible, and thinking of nothing in the 'versal worlt bot my ,treams, when I was suddenly 'woke by a hammering on my head with this poker, and it was this gentleman (pointing to Paddy M'Alister) scot did it. The Maine.—Your face 'does not bear the appearance o gentlemanly treatment. Complainant.—True, your worship, I didn't think it was a gentleman at first. The Mavoe.—Did you think it was a lady? Complainant.—Not exactly; I thought, may be, it was the nightmare. (Laughter.) Stinttieworth.—Flow do you know it wasthe prisioner who struck you? Prisoner.—Becos my wife found the poker 'on the stairs. (Laughter.)' This evidence not being precisely conclusive against the prisoner; Mt. Griffith Williams's better half was called to substantiate the charge, and, being the more eloquent of the two in deelamatioo, stated the case more fully The facts is," said she, "these here: my husband was in bed, and I hears it tremendous row in the bed-room; I runs up stairs. and, on my roads, meets with Mrs. l'Sl'Alister, the prisoner's wife, who's an Irishman as well as her husband, and says I, 'What''. the row ?' ' Nothing,' says she, only Pat says he'll have your husband's Welsh' life.' Will he ?' says 1; ' we'll see about that, an IriSh vagabone,' on which Mrs. hl'Alister says, ' Dont' be alarmed or at all flustrated, my dear, for he doesn't intend to kill you.' Well, your worship, on that I goes' into the bedroom and finds Paddy there murdering my husband with all his might, with his fisseses; I run back again for assistance, and tumbles over the poker, which he had thrown away." Other witnesses displayed equal oratory in corroboration of Mrs. M'Alister's statement. The prisoner, in his defence, said it was only a bit of a' pleasant rowing, in which the *omen were concerned. Thewomen, said be. all came into the room and asked me to fight Griffith, and, the drink being in, of coorse I did. He was ordered to find bail.  THE MOUNTAIN AND THE Mute.—An flttOrDry /TOW to the magistrates for the postponement of a case of assault until this day, in consequence of a principal witness refusing to attend, The attorney stated' that the charge was one of a serious nature, and had been aggravated that morning by the defendant' throwing a dead mouse into the plaintiff's shop.—The app,lication was granted. There were few cases before the magistr:ti-sto-day, and none pory,..ssit*lsluch ititete;t,' • .