The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1836-07-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LIVERPOOL POLICE.  THE POLICE AND THEIR STICKS.—On Saturday, at the police office, a private of the 23d regiment was brought before the magistrates charged with having been (hunk and very unruly in Whitechapel on the afternoon before. He had struck the police three times in coming to Bridewell, and they, as they stated, had been obliged to strike him in their own defence. The prisoner appeared with a tremendous wound on the temple, covered with a large plaster. He said that in coming along to Bridewell, the police dragged .him very roughly and caused him to resist, and one of them then struck him on the head with his stick a most severe blow, completely laying his head open, whilst the blood flowed in torrents. Had some gentlemen not interfered he should have, it was his belief, been murdered. Mr. Hall very severely repr;manded the officers for using their sticks as they had done. He would not allow them to strike persons on the head. If they were unruly, it was surely enough to strike them on the arm and hold them till further assistance arrived to carry them off. The police of Loudon were never allowed to carry sticks except at night. if this violence were not put an end to, the magistrates must summarily discharge such policemen as they found making use of it. The prisoner must be discharged, he had already been sufficiently punished. He should see Mr. Whitty and the watch committee on the subject; this violence on the part of the police must be put an end to. '  SEAMAN'S WaGEs.—On Saturday, at the police office, Wm. Shute, seaman a-board the Nora Crane, appeared before the magistrates to complain against the captain for not having paid him his wages. Mr. Crewe appeared for the complainant. Shute deposed that'll° had sailed from Hull, in Nov. last, at £2 Ios. per month. He had signed articles. The ship went from Hull to Yarmouth, then to Venice, from thence to Palermo, from thence to St. Petersburg, and arrived in Liverpool on Saturday last, having been out eight months and sixteen days, and he claimed altogether a balance of £l9 16s. The captain said he objected to pay the seaman on the ground that be was incapable to do semau's duty. He had shipped as an able bodied seaman, and was able to do little better than a lad, and could not properly do the duties he was set to do. On entering Venice, he was throwing the lead and had called out six fathoms of water, when he was luckily near, and found that there was only two fathoms and a half, or the safety of the ship might have been endangered. Mr. Hall said the captain must point out something more to him than that. The log book was then produced, and several parts pointed out where the complainant had been put down as incapable of performing seaman's duty. Mr. Hall said, though not a good seaman, still he would be worth some remuneration. The captain said lie had offered him, before a witness, 455. a-month. The mate was then examined, who proved the general inability of the seaman.' Another seaman was called for the defence, who deposed that complainant did his work as a good seaman; but the captain bad frequently found fault with him. Mr. Hall said, putting aside the evidence of tl/c interested parties, he thought the evidence of complainant's not performing his duty .properly was made out, and he thought the offer of captain to tray him £2 ss. a-month a very fair one. He should order that amount to be paid.