The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-12-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ROBBERY OF PLATE.—On Tuesday evening, between five and eight o'clock, the house of a clergyman, in Chatham-street, was entered by thieves, and a quantity of silver plate carried off, valued at about £2OO. It conssisted of dessert spoons, soup ladles, table forks, teapot, &c. In an affiliation case, heard at the Manchester Borough Court on Wednesday, one of the applicants admitted, with the utmost effrontery, that she was seeking to father her second child, and that the father of her first-born was her own step-father! Johnston, the captain of the ship Tory, who stands charged with three murders on the high seas, has been further remanded until this day, being incapable of undergoing examination, in consequence of excessive weakness and indisposition. On Sunday last, the annual sermon in aid of Moorfields School was preached, in St. Nicholas's Church, by the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, when the sum of £33 16s. Bd. was collected. The Mayor, the Recorder, and Corporation officers attended. _  ..... . On Tuesday, a young woman, named Catharine Logan, met her death by being run over by a lorry at the bottom of Manchester-street. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against the driver, who was going at too great a speed for such a crowded thoroughfare. REFUSING A BILLET —On Saturday, Mr. Randell, publican, of Redcross-street, was fined 40s. for refusing to billet two soldiers. The defendant said he had only a few months since returned from abroad, and was ignorant of the law. . .  The public are warned against a person who has been soliciting money about the town on pretence of a letter purporting to come from the vicar and churchwardens of Walton, and recommending him as a special object of charity. No such recommendation has been given to any  one up to this date. The woman who gave evidence against Captain Jot  stone, of the Tory, it appears, had formed an intimacy with Dunn, one of the ciew, and also a witness; and while she was in court, he went to her lodgings, opened her trunk, and decamped for Liverpool with £37 of her money. She is a married woman.  Oa Wednesday, Mr. Samuel Harvey, a horse-dealer, was brought up before the magistrates under a warrant, on a charge of threatening to horsewhip Mr. John Ashton Case. A disputed commission about the purchase of a pair of horses led to the misunderstanding. lie was ordered to find bail to keep the peace, himself in £2OO,  and two sureties in £lOO each. Oh Thursday evening a fire broke out in a four-story warehouse occupied by Mr. Oldham, silk-manufacturer, Manchester. Considerable damage was done to the premises ; and Mr. Oldham's stock, valued at £3,000; was destroyed. The fire originated through a piece of binning paper, which had been thrown carelessly down after lightine the gas, com•nunicating the flame to the goods. No lese than fifteen persons, shopkeepers of Birkenhead, appeared on Monday to answer charges preferred by Mr. Reed, Inspector of Weights and measures, for . .  weights and scales were declared forfeited ; and William Hayes, who had been previously convicted of a similar offence, was ordered to pay a penalty of 10s., and Bs. 6d. costs. _ _