The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-05-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

UNFOUNDED CEIA.noE.--Michael Pepperton, a gentish 'looking young Irishman, accompanied by a witness of more aristocratic mien,,(said to be the son of a magistrate of Ireland,) stepped into the witness box to charge Wm. Collopy and his wife with having robbed him of seven or eight sovereigns, on Sunday night. The prisoners, who are persons of respectable appearance, keep a -lodginghouse in Porter-street, the same at which -Gleeson, the reputed murderer, lodged ptior to committing the crime laid to his alarm Pepperton, when before The magistrate, stated that Mrs. Collopy had taken the-money from his pocketin -the yard,. though he did•not see her in the act. When the policetnan went into the hose, between one and two •o'clock this morning, a purse, containing five sovereigns, was handed to him by Collopy, on whose person three other sovereigns were found in bridewell; some money 'was also taken from the female. Collopy stated that there-was a general row in -his house on the night in question, and that he found the purse under a tea-pot, and-supposed it might have;been abstracted,by some of the company. The case was,dismissed, with -an order -to restore the money to the complainant.  A rAcTroNf  3H T.—Sven 'lrishmen, of as many varieties of type of 'Celtic countenance and Celtic inisery,,and whose names:appeared on the police-sheet to be, Martin Callahan, -James Kelly, Michael Callahan, John nagan, Miehadi M'Cormick,Pwrielaliggins, and. Edward Kenny, were charged with a riot, and assaulting the police. The:prisoners constituted:as many of oneside of two bodies of =combatants as half a, dozen policemen: were able to .capture. From what transpired it seems' that for several nights -a faction fight between the,natives of Mayo atd Sliv-has,been raging in Martin-street, Scotland-road, and the neighbourhood, with all the ferocity atterant on an Trish outbreak. Constable-651 appeared with his head 'bandaged, rendered necessary fi•ora% blow he received by a stone, whilst endeavouring 4ocuiet the distattance on Saturday evening, at half-pa.t nine o'clock, and another  onicer produced a number of- deadly weapons, such as pokers;%whielt were used by theinfuriated rnffians in the onslaught. _As they were giving their evidence, the officers identified the leader of the opposing faction in the court. Mr. Rushton immediately ordered 'him to be taken into custody ; his name isMuckley ; he is a middleaged man, and a pensioner. The scene; as-described by the police, which these fiery people have been enacting on -several evenings of late is truly fearful, and being such as to -place the entire neighbourhood in danger; itwas stated that the paving-stones have been actually taken-up during The day, and reserved for use-as missiles ataaight ; and ,Superintendent Anders stated that nothing in his experience equalled it, except it were the old feuds-at Lace'sstreet, " though it exceeded them." Another witness 'stated that the origin was to-be traced to the circum1-stance of a-cellar having been let to one of the party; jthe owner of which refused to allow it to be applied as the ,occupant desired, which might be understood from the 'fact of her having, soon after she got possession, introduced a piper-and a number of disreputable characters, who aroused the neighbours with their boisterous revels. Mr. :-.Rushton, after addressing a few words to the -prisoners, the purport of which was that'he regarded it as a scandal upon the mem before him, that they could be guilty of such barbarities, whilst so many of . their poor countrymen were starving, and assuring -them we should not submit to have the peace of ;Liverpool disturbed by their lawless bghtings, fined tthe whole seven men .C 5 each.—A female was then -called to give evidence against Buckley. 'She stated that be broke in the window of her house, and afterwards:aided his companions by supplying them with brickbats. More details she could not give, as she was afraid to put her head out of the,door to observe what was going an. This man was remanded. And the next case supplied another of the offenders,Jarnes Maloney,eharged with assaulting policeman 964 in Standish-street,.at about one o'clock in the morning; he was bleeding from wounds recei-eed evidently in the fight in Martin-street. He was adjudged the same amountof fine as the others.  wirmimegmeolrza..uww......olliman  Pin)