Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES. CROWN COURT.—MONDAY. [Before Mr. Baron WATSON.] His Lordship, on taking his seat this morning, pro ceeded to pass the following Lying wit SENTENCES. .1 - - - comp, ..ae terms oi „,..._ Ralph Fletcher, for bigamy, at Tyldesley, imprison- served a counter notice upon the plaintiff requiring pay ment and hard labour for three calendar months. , meat of £324 145., being the amount expended on the Edward Miller, for forging an order, at Manchester, unexhausted improvements on the farm, and that . until suchpayment made, he should retain possession of - Tor the delivery of baby clothing, penal servitude for five years. This was at least the second offence of the farm. 'Aft w e a r s the case had proceeded for a short - which the prisoner had been guilty. time, it was agreed that the cle i_ fc_n , d , an ,. t no_u_l(l ,, siv l e up the farm, on the unuersta...-- b ASSAULT AT PILKINGFON. profits. Thomas Tootell, aged 30, was indicted for having, at Tilkington, on the 27th May last, feloniously ravished )7 FOR SLANDER.—BRACEGIRDLE V. BAYLEY. Ann Wilson, a girl thirteen years of age. No resist- fcolarimthetpolatihnetiff. mean j 'lr al intiff in this case is an attorney's clerk, resid ence having been made by the prosecutrix, the prisoner i ng . - i n e kt f o l ekport, and the defendant resides in Manches was acquitted. FELONIOUS ASSAULT BY A SCHOOLMASTER AT CULCHETH. ter. Mr. Temple, Q.C., and Mr. Fernely appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. James, Q.C., and M r . L eresc h e Peter Smith, aged 33, maste r o f th e N a ti ona l School for the 41efendant. at Culcheth, was charged with h av i ng , on th e 27th The learned counsel for the plaintiff, in stating the June last, feloniously assaulted and ravished Rachel ease, said that the plaintiff was formerly an attorney's Cleworth, a girl of eleven years of age. The prosecu- cler k , an d d ur i ng th e t i me t h at he had been such clerk he - trix attended the school, and the offence was committed had acquired a peculiar experience in gettincr up pedigrees in the school-room. The assault took place on the and searching for documents in connection with titles, Monday, but the child did not inform her mother until preparatory to such cases coming before an attorney. the following Thursday, though she had refused to go In that capacity he had been employed by Mr. Bayley to school on the Tuesaay, Wednesday, and Thursday. (the defendant) on several occasions, and upon one On re-examination, the prosecutrix admitted that she occasion he had been employed by the defendant for the told two little girls that the prisoner had never touched purpose of collecting together a number of records and hoer, but said that her mother had desired her not to tell I: i th le e p r i d ai o n ci ti i ff me i nts. In the course of that employment, any one that the offence had been committed. The pri lad had to consult a person of the name of boner was a married man. Johnson, who was the coroner for a portion of the The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence de county of Chester. Some little time after this employ- J'erred. - meat a .dispute took place between the plaintiff an d th e ASSAULT AND ROBBERY AT LIVERPOOL. defendant, and in consequence of this disput e th e John Edmonds, aged 19, a stron g -loo k i ng man, was indicted for having, at Liverpool , on the 6 th April last, defendant called at th e h ouse o f a person named Gatley, and there saw Mrs. Gatley and the plaintiff's wife. Upon _feloniously assaulted Michael M'Alister, and robbed him of half-a-crown. that occasion he s t a t e d, in th e presence of Mrs. Gatley, . The prosecutor, Michael M'Alister, a dock labourer, after asking the plai n tiff' s wife some questions a b ou t a stated that, at one o'clock in the morning of the 6th o f carriage, that he w as ver y sorry f or h er an d her children, but that the plaintiff had done such thin gs th a t h e cou ld April last, he was returning from his work at Canning transport him. He added th a t h e wou ld t ransport hi m, Dock, and that when passing along Whitech a p e l the prisoner came up to him and a s ked t o b e t rea t e d . Th e unless the sum of 1 - 115 was re p a id t o hi m , w hi c h h e - prosecutor refusing", the prisoner knock e d hi m d own , charged the plaintiff w ith no t h av i ng proper l y appro- We then kicked him when down, and robbed him priated. He also said that he would transport him for h of half-a-crown out of hi s wa i s t coat poc k et. The having forged a lette r i n M r . J o h nson ' s name. Th e prosecutor had eight shillings defendant then went to -a .person of the name of G ues t. of his trowsers, but th a t wasnot touched. After the in an inside pock e t Mr. Guest was then enga ge d i n ge tti ng up some c l a i ms i - 3. obbery, he was again k noc k e d d own , an d ki c k e d b y in connection with which th e pl a i n tiff was emp l oye d , the prisoner and two other persons. Th e p rosecu t or and he told the plaintiff that h e s h ou ld b e we ll rewar d e d - then went in search of a policeman ; after mee ti ng w ith if the claim were succe ss f u l, p rom i s i ng him £l,OOO. +one, they found the prisoner at the corner o f H oo d- The defendant, on thi s occas i on o f hi s v i s i t to M r. :street, Whitechapel, and the officer then took him into Guest, recommended him to take his business away from custody. The prosecutor admitted that he was the worse the plaintiff, telling him -that the latter had forged a Hof liquor, but said that he had been working very hard letter from Mn. Johnson. The defendant further m all day, and that he (lid not get anything to drink until commended Mr. 4uest to tell a person of the name of about eleven o'clock at night. A former conviction was Saxby to take his business away from the plaintiff. - proved against the prisoner, and it was stated that he The consequence was that both Mr. Guest and Mr. had been six or seven times in gaol. Saxby did take their business and papers away from the Verdict guilty. Sentence deferred, plaintiff. It was for the slanderous words thus spoken ASSAULT AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT BOLTON. of the plaintiff, and the special damages he had sus- William Broadhurst, aged 21, and John Pilkington, Wined, that the present action was brought. Mrs. Bracegirdle and M rs . G a tl e y were exam i ne d, aged 27, were indicted for having, a t B o lt on , on t h e 12th April last, assaulted J ames S cowcro f t, and stolen and deposed to the above-n ame d c i rcums t ances . r. from his person three fi ve p oun i notes, s i x sovere i gns, Mth Guest was next examined, a n d s p o k e t o th e v i s i t and a purse. Mr. Higgi ns appeare d f or the prosecu- of the defendant to his house, on w hi c h occas i on h e Lion ; the defence was co n d uc t e d by Mr. Fearnley for charged the plaintiff with f org i ng a l e tt er f rom M r. Pilkington, and M r . H o p woo d f or B roa d hurst. The Johnson, and recomm e ndi ng hi m t o t a k e hi s b us i ness prosecutor, James Scowe ro ft, s t a t e d th at h e was seventy- away from the plaintiff Mr.prapgirdle, the plaintiff, was nex t exam i ne d , an d lone years of age, and th a t h e carr i e d on b us i ness as a . TA verdict was no was five years inthe employ of Mr. Stringer, at Stockport, and had subsequently been engaged in getting up pedigrees, and had been so engaged by the defendant. The witness spoke to Mr. Guest and Mr. Saxby taking their papers and business away from him • in consequence of what the.defendant had stated fr n al_ -_ Druggist, in Urown-street, Bolton. On the night of Tuesday, the 12th of April last, as he was returning to his residence in Silverwell-street, he was attacked by the two prisoners, who seized him by the, throat, Cl his arm, kicked him, and robbed him of three notes, and about £6 in gold. Ti I - sad been so weakened - by the injuries he received that lie could not, when he appeared before the magistrates, identify the prisoners, and the difficulty was increased by their being then dressed in different clothing.. no The witness was subjected to amination by 31_ he had submitted to counsel in tl engthened cross-ex- James, in reference to a case which present trial was the first public occ prosecutor had positively sworn agai t . Lston on w the st them. son, and as to fees which he had paid to counsel and his clerk. He stated that he had Mr. Johnson's autho rity for doing so.* He was also examined as to a receipt which it was_ alleged he had given, (receipt shown to witness,) and stated that he never saw the receipt before. Had been employed by the defendant to recover a sum of money from a person named Knight in the County Court. Did not take a summons out agaiast Knight. Charged defendant thi r ty s hilli ngs for he summons, which he had not taken out. Was not aware that that eighteen shillings and sixpence was the highest -sum charged for a summons in the County Court. His Lordship said this showed the necessity of per sons employing duly qualified professional men to do professional work. Mr. James hoped that the public would benefit by such • The defence was, thatthe identity of the pri soners and the identity of the notes had not been proved, and that, so far as Pilkington was concerned, he had not teen seen either to change a note, or to receive any part of the property. The jury found both prisoners guilty. A previous conviction was proved against Pilkington. Sentences deferred. MANSLAUGHTER AT NEWTON. John Bott, aged 45, was indicted for having caused the death of two children at Newton, on the 7th June last, by the falling of a cathead. . On the afternoOn of the 7th June Just painters were Intll,at Neiton. It was usual, when painting the out side of factory windows, for e painters to use a cat head, or projecting plank, about eight or nine feet in expenence shillings he was to be naid in the cou Au= vidiGl cAt,euulug over brie parapet. Tile palm._ in a basket, which he coald work up and down by mean, of ropes passing through a pulley attached to the cat. head, and could thus place himself directly opposite to his work. One end of the factory had been painted, and the cathead was then removed to the other end of the building. Two men, named Overend and Bright, were employed in fixing the -cathead over the next por tion to be painted. The prisoner, it was alleged, properly interfered with the ropes, and the result wa that the cathead fell from the top of the building to th ground, striking two children who were passing at tl I. causing Arne, ana _Heir death. After the examination of two or three witnesses, tl prosecution was withdrawn, and the prisoner discharges DEATH FROM FIGHTING killed ThomdS Bar', at Stretford. i'he j deee' the prisoner were fighting together at the titn, tense deferred. The court then rose. 4 , NISI PRIUS COURT. (BEFORE MR. JUSTICE II ILL.) Ms Lordship entered the court at ten o'clock, an before the business commenced, he stated that MI Baron Watson hoped to be able to finish the criminc cases by the end of the week, and therefore he (Ali Justice Hill) should continue to try the common jur cases up to Friday next, the day on u hich the speck jury cases were fixed to commence. On that day h Mr. BarOn Watson yhich it woul .3dimmo, amongst the special perhaps be better that Mr. Baron Watson s as, having been mixed up with the case himself might be somewhat hampered in trying it. ANDERSON 47. CRICIITON.—ACTION ON A BILL 0 .ExenArroE.—ln this case Mr. Overend, Q.C., and Mr. Spinks appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Wilde, Q.C., and Mr. Bre4t for the defendant. In this case the plaintiff and defendant carried on b us i ness i n Glasgow and Man chester as drysalters and commission agents, under the Firm of Anderson and Co., the plaintiff residing in Glasgow, and the defendant in Manchester. The part nership existed from August, 1855, to September, 1858, when it was found that it had not turned out a profitable one, and it was agreed between them that the accounts should be gone through, with the object of ascertaining how they stood towards each other. The result was, that, from the statement of the accounts, it appeared that the concern was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum 'of £1,582 4s. 7d. For thi s sum the defendant agreed 'to give the plaintiff acceptances, namely, £4OO at three months, £4OO at four months, £4OO at five months, and the balance, £382 4s. 7d., at six months. The three acceptances for £4OO each were paid ; but when the fourth bill for £382 4s. 7d. became d ue , w hi ch was on the 4th of March, it was dishonoured, and it was for the amount of the bill that the present action was brought. No explanation had been given by the de fendant with reference to this bill having been dis honoured ; and as all the other acceptances had been met, it was difficult to suppose that the defendant could now set up that the bills had been obtained by fraud The learned counsel having stated the plaint& called the plaintiff and other witnesses in support of it. OR the part of the defendant, it was said that he accepted the bills on the distinct understanding that he ,as to supply him with goods to the amount, and dm+ he did not do so, and consequf—' • ' - vhich the bills were le d en i e d that .the g"r - - he conditions upon been carried out. .anership accounts be, for the perelai to stand over, ntiff. E ims Was an action of ejectment. ;Captain llopwood, of liopwood Hal tat tvas a farmer. ltr. and Mr. TemplP, ri The plaintiff the action w as b by theCieuf!eenrd, as tenant. 11 1 a nd 14 The dtfendaut had for some time been a tenant of Cap tain Hopwood, who desired to get possession of the farm for the purpose of converting it into a D park ; he there fore gave the defendant notice to quit on the 22nd of June, 1858. The notice was given requiring possession to be given up at the customary periods. The defend ant, instead of -- 1 h the terms of the notice -examined y, lie fc n was examir the man s xe of t: ready for sea le he was to ibout ten days ago, d then hat in the ch know. The ) go to I Id it' she w len went on to towed him a of know exactly ow she joined him, but mid have been staudir. ui he passed, without his boy, aged line years, said he ...orone, court, and he told that he knei little Thompson, who was drowned. re saw him taken away by a woman the day before he ras drowned, and he thought she was a yellow woman, ut he could notsayhe would knowher. The day after he r as taken away I heard Mrs. Thompson say to a woman let he was drowned. He saw the prisoner at the woner's court. He was told to look around the court nd see if he could see a woman like the one that took [rs. Thompson's little boy away, and he again identi ed Mrs. Leathern as e corona Mr. Cobb said it woula be necessary to have the evi MR. BRIGHT AND HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW. (From the Saturday Review.) Patriots, like their fellow-men, are born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. A cloud has descended on the House of Bright, and dimmed its glory. The tale is a sad one, albeit an instructive. Here was one who was the great Apostle of Reform. Autumn after autumn he was wont to raise the fiery cross, and to rouse the clans, and to thunder a terrible crusade against iniquity throughout the land. This was a wicked world, he vountry gentlemen were corrupt, the aristocracy was insolent, journalists were venal. As for the Peers, he loved nothing better than tumbling them, especially the spiritual ones, in the dust. Ile tilted - ,t the Press, and left that abandoi prostrate in the mud. But Purity of Election was his favourite battle-cry. The sword of the Lord and the ballot-box ! No tampering with independent voters ! Electioneering noblemen trembled ; domineering land lords were conscience-stricken, and shuddered at the thought of an approaching epoch when Birmingham and Principle should have it all their own way ; men - bowed their faces, and cried with one accord—" Be hold ! John Bright is honest and upright, and he is terrible in his wrath." When an Apostle requires buffetinq_ hA is crivAn amount of buffeting are afflicted with two. came to Mr. Bright in the domestic guise of his in-law. How often has a " brother near the throne," by ill-conduct brought discredit on the reigning Sove reign ! It is a significant and pleasing fiction of the Spanish constitution, that the Queen of Spain has no legs. An over-mundane walk, a human personality, too much intercourse with the world, ties of friendship and kinsmanship, bring royalty into difficulties. Just so, great public characters should keep clear of the various trammels of social and domestic life. If Brutus never had possessed sons, his theories would not have set at nought in his own home. Why did Mr. an especial Humiliation Bright have brothers-in-law ? It was very unwise of such a man to commit himself to relatives at all. He should have retired, like a hue prophet, into the wil derness; apart from men, and there remained with a leathern girdle about his loins, fierce, solitary, and un compromising, feeding only on the largest locusts and the very wildest honey. This Is the way in , which the House of Bright was buffeted for its pride. In an hour when some malicious electoral influence ruled the planets, and the star of Bright was not in the ascendant, the citizens of Wake field and Huddersfield cast their eyes about for repre sonintivn mem 4,, ,m,,,11 4.-11 and to strengthen the 'ommons, With all his popular prestige, Mr. Bright a lonely life in that aristocratic place. It is ideed a sad thing, as it has been well said, to be the only believer. To continue properly his mission, Mr. Bright must have his friends about him. And What firmer friends than a man's own kinsmen ? Where should unwavering fidelity and uncomp rom i s i ng . purity be found if not i n th e family of John Bright ? So thought Wakefield and Huddersfield, each anxious to be a humble instrument in the exaltation of that illustrious race. As they had proposed, so it was arranged. Mr. Bright's brothers-in-law, like the brethren of Napoleon, had greatness thrust upon them, and with much the same result. Huddersfield and Wakefield obtained the privilege of raising Mr. E. Leatham and Mr. W. Leatham to honour, and of delegat .. ing an Aaron and a Ilur to uphold the hands of thegr, eat legislator in his conflicts with the Amalekites. Why should malicious Fortune select the y and loftiest for her lash ? Parliament has met, Election Committees have sat, and sad things have happened. The enemy has been too strong for the Prophet and his supporters. They have turned his batteries in the most unfair - way against himself, and played on him with his own artillery. This is, indeed, audacity, and it is most irregular. They insist on strictly scrutinizing all the details of the election of the two :Fare brethren. What ! Shall not the race of Bright pass unarrested ? Are the pockets of people connected by marriage and religion with the apostle of no-bribery to be felt ? A clouanier might as well insist upon search ing the Pope's person for smuggled Bibles, as an Elec tion Committee question the strict integrity of a pure Leatham. Why, ye simple inquisitors, it was to defend our English constituencies from the poisonous influence of corruption that these two virtuous gentlemen were sent to Parliament. It is not their side, it is the other side that is corrupt. Fair play is fair play, and those who have said Shibboleth ought, in common justice, not to be detained. Would ye seethe a kid in its mother's milk, and ^ unseat the kinsman of a Bright for . bribery ? ht's marriage connections are Strange and needless as it may seem, mimittee nevertheless met, heard evidence, and has lally adjudicated on the Wakefield and Huddersfield ections. e suspicion Upon perusing the reports of the two cases, obvious thought will occur to most minds. What an expensive principle Purity of Election must be when you take it with you to the hustings ! Who would sup pose that £l,lOO had been necessary to persuade the pure electors of Wakefield to vote for the pure candidate ? Individual purity in that enlightened town apparently cost from £lO to £3o—little or no reduction being made on the strength of a connection with Mr. Bright. Beer, too, seems in a wonderful way to have been mixed up with Purity of Election in the heads of the non electors; and Wakefield for a short time enjoyed a saturnalia of the two combined. While the Par liamentary Committee abstained from asserting that Mr. W. Leatham had taken a personal part in the pure proceedings in question, they could not but recognise the fact that bribery had been practised, and the blameless Licinius lost his seat in consequence of a vio lation of his own much-loved sumptuary law. So one of the Apostle's bretheren is lost to the House of Com mons. Though one is taken, the other, happily, is left. A. similar purity of election had prevailed at Hudders ield, but there was no proof that Mr. E. Leatham or is agents had been implicated in the matter. Purity ad, alas, been bought also at Huddersfield.- It is true -+ Huddersfield it was not uniforthly paid for, and o, perhaps, was less expen ecured by Its - triumph' was ...nanging pigs at double their value, by porter, by bank notes, unfortunately only pay- Ale • Bank of Elegance. But, at Huddersfield, /lowed as a marketable commodity, have uo doubt it rising. This, of course, explains all. The com- Aittee have cleared the friends and agents of the sitting nember from the imputation of illegal zeal in the cause puritK. Licinius the Second is on l y convicted of laving ad injudicious adherents. He hims e lf escapes. sincerely cmgratulate Mr. Bright that his domestic The Society for the Diffusion n Parts might have been Motion is not greater. ' f John_Brights. in Forei, erwhehire 4 Looker -on grieve that the devoted troop bas suffered Lny loss. Their leader counted them at break of day, md by noon where are they ? But Mr. Bright rides on undaunted in his Parliamentary crusade. The Moral Guard may be unseated, but they never surrender. Thinned by the enemy's cross fire, dropping here and there about the field, the little band press on with flying colours. The Apostle of Purity never resigns —never is humiliated. Merses profundo—pYrior evenit. The following ,day he' appears more radiant, if possible, than ever with purity and intolerance. Brutus did net abdicate bec;ause his family were beheaded. Next morning finds him with his axes and his lictors hard at work. He executes awful justice on the mem ber for Pontefract, whom he condemns before his crime is known. He is all for stern measures and no compro mise of principle. Never was he greater than upon the iniquity of Mr. Overend. We are sorry for it. We had hoped that the resu lt o f the Walrpfinm - - Laughter.) , -When . he inserted the charge of thirty old to insert all that was likely to have County Court Or in the Salford Hundred Court, Mr. Saxby was next examined, which closed the plaintiff's case. On the part of defendant it was alleged that he was justified in the statement he had made respecting the plaintiff, in consequence of the manner in which he had deceived him in various transactions, but that he had never intended to impute felony to him. Mr. Bayley, the defendant, was examined with refer ence to the plaintiff's connexion with Mr. Johnson, solicitor. Witness had seen Mr. Johnson ; and that der`' s told b;— —wan nim that the plaintiff was not his clerk, as he had stated, and had made use of his name in sub mitting a case to counsel, without his authority, and that if he came into his office again he would kick him out. He told plaintiff's AVM +h.+ b. 1-1 1,--A A Mr. Johnson's name, but did not say that he could transport plaintiff for forging a letter. His Lordship having summed up, the jury found a verdict for the defendant. [The case was tried at a previous assize, . verdict was given for the plaintiff—damages £25 The court rose about half-past five o'clock. when a COURT AND OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The gome Secretary, Sir G. C. Lewis, is the minister in official attendance on the Queen during the royal --- It is stated that either the Duke of Newcastle or Lord John Russell will accompany the Queen and the Prince Consort to Balmoral at the end of the present Court Circular intim eral of the female nobility and gentry who have lately made appli cations for private audience of the Queen have been re minded that Court etiquette will henceforth be the rule, not the exception, at Buckingham Palace. It is now fully understood that there will in future be xis private audience for ladies at the Queen's Court. Mr. Herbert Fisher, .the eldest son of the Rev. Canon Fisher, the rector of the parish of poulshot,Wilts, has been appointed private tutor to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales during his sojourn at Oxford. _ _ the Earl of El Inuinz, who N a will be appointed to Generalsiip of It is said that ucceed Lord the Governor THE RECENT OUTRAGE IN SHEFFIED.—At the Town hall, Sheffield, Richard Brown was brought up, on remand, before W. 'Smith, Esq., charged with attempt ing to murder Joseph Lindley, by shooting him in the head. The prisoner appeared to feel his position more acutely than on any previous occasion. He kissed two or three of his relatives during the proceedings, and fre quently burst into tears. The magistrate announced that the case was adjourned for eight days, and that u, bail, himself in £5O and two sureties in £25 each, would iy be taken for the prisoner's appearance. AMUSEMENTS IN LIVERPOOL. — Open from ten in was at the canal side. She would be about half-an- ji, the morning until ten at night. Allsop's Wax-Work hour in going to the canal side. We have seen her at to exhibition. All th e ki ngs an d queens , f rom an d i n - the canal side, and no doubt th e mur d er was committed • cluding William the Conqueror down to Queen before she met Fox. I hear she still persists in stating Victoria ; also princes and princesses, dukes, duchesses, that Leatham was the party who murdered the child, ..,.s. HOUGHTON and DIXON. lords, eminent statesmen, warriors, poets, divines • though I think I stated otherwise, and that she was A BRUTAL ASSAULT.—A man named Thomas enitty, present when the child was put into the water. If and an old woman named Mararet Jackson, his mother also all the most noted personages of the past and present ages, &c. Allsop's sculpture galleries, containino. such were th e case, she would be as guilty as the person in-law, were charged with committing a brutal assault upwards of 3,000 statues, select e d f rom a ll par t s o f t h e ', who put the child into the water. I think, however, on a young woman named Mary Kind. It appeared world, varying from five to twenty feet in height. that that statement is not true, as she was found on the that the complainant was in Mill-street at twelve o'clock canal bank alone. She said to F ox , D on ' t pull it out on Saturday when the prisoners knocked her down and Allsop's dioramic, panoramic, cos moram i e , an d stereo scopic views, of intense interest. Allsop' s mus i ea l pro- if it b e a child, and alive. I thi n k th a t i s very extraor- struck he r several tirnpc win, atones_ and kicked her on menade. The above attractions are n ow com bi ned di narv _ an d brinerq hnmc th. mad+ ~c ttt _ _ .- . attend at the George's-hall, at the summons of the Age. lie thought it would be well to adjourn the case the next day, that they might have him there. The case was adjourned to this morning at ten o'clock. (Before Mes ..... •••••••,, but.. 01 Gms poor girl in th e h ea d . A surgeon from the Northern Hospital stated forming one large establishment, in the immense an d this t ransac ti on . Now I will propose to pr ove th at the that the complainant had received five severe scalp magnificent building known as the Teutonic-hall, child was alive at this particular time. I know it is a wounds of a danirerons character. It was stated also, next door but one to the County Court, Lime-street. very serious charge. and that it is ri ..„, _ ... ......., ... ..-- -- -- . ~...,: uon or lif e and by one of the T v7iisse , witnesses, the wife of the male rly opposite the Adelphi Hotel, an d de a th t o th e pr i soner ; an d I w i ll ask that you will give prisoner ass i s t e d i n th e assau lt, but She was not i n ic at fid. each ; children under te n us a reman d, an d it w ill b e f or the benefit of the custody. Mr. Bluck, who appeared for the defendants, ach. Mr. AllsoVc exhibition has prisoner if they can give or get anything favourable to stated that the wounds were sustained by a fall, and that 1 the press of Liverpool, London, her, and lam told that further inquiry will be necessary, the complainant whilst in drink first struck the prisoners. be the most perfect, superbly- Mr. Black : I hope your Worship will not think of Renitty was sent to jail for two months, and the female est establishment in the world--a 1 remanding th e case , as it would throw us over the . prisoner for three months. ably be contradicted. Be sure to I assizes. The girl is only about fourteen vnnrc, ~,P -- nificent Aserve the na me, "Allsop, Tut, AlLsop. d 1....un1it be a pity to keep lien to the 4ext 4ssizes, as I I am sure she will be acquitted. ntrance. hole . neon taken . Mr. Cole submitted th .fiver, purify the blood, cleanse the skin, before the medical men were examined, whose evidence ,race the nerves, and invigorate the whole system. could not affect the prisoner, he would ask whether upoil imam, et They prove an admirable restorative of a debilitated such evidence as they bad heard the ' could convi iury -ent t, constitution, creating appetite, correcting indigestion, the prisoner of so serious an offence. The jud.e said he . .nok millings for the poli ce poor- remov i ng bile, giddiness, and nervous or sick head- should hardly think that the jury would con Pict upe n uonation sevuu' -- It is impossible to speak too bierhly of these such light evidence. The jury said they certainly should box received Per Mr. Kenyon, heirs the proceeds aches. not, and at once returned a verdict of not nuilty, Qt a bet, NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.-MONDAY. [BEFORE MR. J. AIKIN.] STREET - PREACIIING.—Thomas Birchall was charged by Inspector Dugan with collecting a large crowd in the old Islington market, on Sunday night, about half past nine o'clock. The inspector said, in accordance with an order given by Mr. Mansfield, he went in com pany with three officers to the ground, and they . found there about 300 people in two crowds, engaged in con troversy. He told them tb go away ; and th e peop l e were going off, when th e prisoner got into a rising part of the ground and told the people not to go, but stand still and not speak, and the police could not touch them. He was ordered to go away, or else he would be taken to bridewell. He was the only one that would not zo s statement away. Officer 432 corroborated the inspector The prisoner put some questions to the witnesses, a. then stated, in explanation, that everyman who was fit fa, society had a right to find it where he could. He went to church on the Sunday morning, and had four or five hours in the day to aroma w _ week, as he lived among a class of people who treated him as an -exclusive being, and threw cats, rats, and cabbage stalks into his place. On Sunday night he was wandering about in Lime-street, to see what the people had to say. He went over towards the waste ground, and he there heard a young man talking about the loss of British liberty. He had just got there when the officers came up, but he never said only that they had no right to interfere. then tailed a young man named Hill, who stated that about half-past nine o'clock he was going down Loudon-road, and on the old Islington market he - a word, a number of people. He went ovei'there, and in about ten minutes after Inspector Dugan, with some police officers, came on to the ground, and told the people to go away and not keep them there all night. Birchall told the people not to speak, but keep their ground. Some other_ witnesses were called by the prisoner.; but Mr. Aikin said it was not necessary to go any further, as his witnesses only confirmed the statement of the police. If the prisoner liked society or controversy, he was not to go to a public place and. collect 300 people round him when it was dark. If he wanted to have controversy, let him and Rose, who differed with him, go to a proper place and at a proper time. Such con duct as he had been ffuiltv of 11-I. + l oad fn A Itronoll nr the peace ' but as none had been committed, he would discharge bim for that time. A PUBLICAN AND A CADMAN.—A respectable-looking man, named Bainbridge, who is a licensed victualler in Oldhall-street, was brought up, charged with assaulting police-officer 526. Mr. Husband defended the prisoner. The complainant stated that, about half-past twelve o'clock, he was on duty in Oldhall-street, when he saw the prisoner get out of a cab and run up Rigby-street. The driver called at him to stop that gentleman, as he had run away without paying him. Ile ran after him up Rigby-street, but before he got up to him he saw the prisoner fall. He then told the cabman not tc mind, as he knew it to be Mr.. Bainbridge, and he woulc pay him in the morning. The prisoner had got up a: far as his own door, when he came back, and said tc complainant, " You b—r, what have you to do with it and at the _ same time struck him ( then took him into custody 20s and costs for the assault. The prisoner was fined JOHN WELSH AND p by, offiCer onn , ino to (1, individual named John. Wel at Towr -,, was brc Stevenson, of the that he tali tro iiv . atild The o a complaint at the police station, and went with a police-officer to the north end of town, and they got the pigs there. The pe told him that two of the pigs died, which to be correct. John Crelly, warehousema_ Messrs. Crossfield and Co., said he bought the pigs fron the prisoner about four weeks ago, and gave hin £5 12s. 6d. for them, which was more than their value The prisoner made a long statement in his defence, in which he said that he had been before his worship for forty years, and had lost a great number of pigs by cho lera, the black sickness ; and all the diseased that ever followed a porker had befallen his stock, and he thought it might be as well to part with the captain's pigs, they should meet with the same fate. This r&olntio was the more strengthened by two of the p died, and as he was in tiu let off,• he was of the T. he beliE If he werZ reii keel le pile( Morris, of the si for seven day CHARGE OF MURDER th Cant A little girl, about fifteen years of age, named Mary Ann Gibbons, was brought up on the charge of having wilfully caused the death of a boy, named John Thomp son, a child about four years and a-half old, by drow ing him in the canal. Mr. Cobb was for the prose( tion, and Mr. Bluck for the defence of the priso Mr. Cobb said : I Ins case I - 1,1,11011. v the prosecution, and I a m instructed by . 11Ir. Thompson who is a police-officer, and the prisoner is charged wi the wilful murder of 1 dinary case. The circumstances at, extraordinary. The prisoner was Thompson, _ and amongst her duties It is a very extrao nding it are mo ant to charge of the child. It appears that, on the 21st July, the little boy, who was four years and a-half old, was in the street (Conway-street, Everton), perfectly well, at half-past eight o'clock in the evening. He was a deli cate child. He was see n by hi s mother in the street at that hour, and it was then clear day. A very few minutes after that time the child was missing, and Mrs. Thompson told the prisoner to go and search for the child. It appears that she did go in search of the child, and here is a most remarkable and important thing. It will be shown that she found the child, and no doubt hid it and then returned to its mother, and said she it. Mrs. Thompson then directed the cy husband t the Rose-hill st but in to Rose-hill neighbourhood of Doncaster statement station w she is se Id not find say about her being in search of a child. She told him that she wanted to go to Bankfield-street, and that she was going to see her mother. She was sent to Rose-hill station, and we find her on the brink of the canal, After some little conversation with Fox, she saw something in the water, and she called his attention to it. It turned out to be the body of a child, the child of Mrs. Thompson she was in search of. That would bring us to about ten o'clock. The child was taken to the dead-house. She knew the child, and could give every description necessary. Now. siinnwa. that . ihe had not been the guilty party, she would have gone tl to the mother and told her that the child was found ; E but she does not present herself to Mrs. Thompson till Iv about three o'clock in the morning, when she told her bi that the child had been drowned. When taxed with w the charge, she makes an extraordinary statement. She tt charges a woman named Leatham. But now she makes cc a very different statement, and says that all she told at at the coroner's court with respect to this woman was untrue; Al and lam told that all she said against that woman was fi( unfounded. I will prove that the child was alive at alf-past eight o'clock ; that the prisoner was seen at dc loncaster-street at nine n.,„1 . _ _ Mr. Aikin said it would be his duty to commit her for trial, and could not grant a remand unless it were asked for tte defence, if the evidence proved Mr. Cobb's statements. Hannah Matilda Thompson was the first witness examined, who said—l live in Conway-street, Everton. I had a little boy, of the.name of John Thompson, four years and - nine months of age. I last saw him alive at half-past eight on the evening of the 21st July. I know the girl—she was a servant. On that night I told her to go and bring Johnny two minute She was only absent about She and she said she could not went out a seconc I then told her to go to Rose-hill When she came back, I took Mold of h ‘,‘ . 9h, Mary, you know all about it, did not know. The child h braid. I did not see the boc She said the reason she was s and she said she red frock with black till Saturi le people we way was bec To Mr. Bluck—The gi Monday till the Thursday. I did not get a characte with her, but took her because her mother seemed re with me froM the spectable. I had seen the child about before when I sent her for him. inquiry before the coroner. I then sta There was a child , .ted what 1-went 1' identif minute or two was an There was an open verdict found. I heardihatthi boy was drowned about one o'clock in the morning The girl said she was fifteen years of age, and did no before the child was missed, that leave, as she did not please me in the work. John Thomson.—l am a police-officer for the borough of Liverpool, and a provision dealer in Conway-strdet On the day in question I was at Rose-hill station, bu the girl did not call there that day between eight am - I never made any inquiries myself abou My house is ten minutes' walk from Rose she would have to nine o'clock the matte: hill. • Ellen Jon€ I reside in New Iledh door to the prisoner's mother. On the 2 street, nex July I me that girl with a cl with a frock on Doncast€ 3 answer I have se her oftei I have no doubt that she was the person that was carrying the chlict. John Fox.—l live with my parents at Everton-view, Bootle. My father is a bricklayer. I remember the 2 1 st July, it was a Thursday. I saw the prisoner on day. It was through the bridge at the canal. came to me, and asked me for Bankfield-street. said her mother lived there. Wh:n we were goin the prisoner said there was a child in the id it was onl-- that She She I was abot said _ a dog, and she said no; it' s a c hild a yard before her, and I turned She began to cr ivliy she cried ; was it round am ,nd I ask Sh( , _. ..... -- me to pull it out, an d I said no, you must p u ll it o and she said no, she would not pull alive. There v -- - '-` --•-- - - we called ( When the n in ti nought it w deadhOU'SE To Mr. Block : I it out if it was t the time. and she would not take it out i II ;o my fad A tell the coroner that she sa John Carr id mother when fwent h'ome said, i remembe nd was goinf out of a nat, on )r on the 1 am...poli, pout fiv he officers that w 24. I was one tie dead body of a child. W, e, am up Reg I the prisoner went with us )ad, - sho told hie that ;hild, but she could not I --- We 1 woutu get to a lamp passed several lamps, but did not discover vhos till we went to Collingwood Dock stopped us and said he thought examining it, 1 opporti t to Collin;., I found it, for I 1 was breathin There was a man his child ; but on ___ was not his. She h a d a good ty of seeing the child at that -time. When we wood Dock there were two or three men I am quite sure tl; mined, and r till I saw was dead wh with my ea ) feel if her in the coroner taken up, Dpippt; information he received, he arrested the prisoner, whe ame she saw the chi. it to t When we were going she had been.lo( . ikin if that was it till tie pris, n that street She then told her't .Virs. Thom' ling about it. She then went back to Mr le was I she knew it Thompson then told her to go to Rose-hill station, ha instead of going there she went up Great Homer-street as she had arranged to meet with Mrs. Leatham ii Scotland-road. She then took the child from Mrs Leatham and they went through a street opposite t , Doncaster-street, and Mrs. Leatham told her to g ;er-street and she wot and no o met Mrs; Leatham toc Mrs. Leat n went z go down Athc When therama Len thc nazi wt AUGUST 16, 1859 ADJUDICATION IN CASES OF ASSAULT: DAILY TIMBS. TO THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN SlR,—May I take the liberty of asking you to 0 0 / the following, as soon as it may b e convenien t for Y° to do so? Is it legal for the s tip en di ary magistrate, Mto Mansfield,) in th e a b sence o f all other maistrates ( ' decide cases o f assau lt summoned before him ? and if so ' may he act in the same manner in cases " booked " ' 6l ,• .. Coburg Dock, Liverpool A -- 1869 ir, yours,ll:7l, gust 15 diary magistrate to decide such cases of assault as single magistrate may, under any circumstances, decide/ whether the def en d an t s may be summoned before 0 33 .: or be " booked by the police." There can be no d i '' tinction made, that we are aware 4f, between the t".. classes of cases. If a single magistru., _ at all, he can certainly do so whenever a case of di e . kind is brought b e f ore hi re , w h et h er b y the police °l otherwise.—ED. N.D.T.] can adjue THE MOTLEY PALM ERSTONIAN TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTH' —As you are a most particular friend and 1 0111 admirer of the Palmerstonian Government, I could o° 4 n.l F - • n ;er (private I received from him a f " Lord Palmerston and - bis ---- party v - ;re mere v boon ' pathists, except on fo r ei gn p o li cy , w h ere blistering 311, bleeding are their chi e f res t ora ti ves. " S uc h an opul ' coming from such a source, speaks volumes. The same gentl eman , g i v i ng hi s op i n i on i n respect T. the position of th e C onservat i ve party, says :—" Conservative cause is fast improving, and will soon t greatly in the a scen d an t . H owever, our strength 11' present is, to sit still in quietness and confidence." These are the opinions of a treat and learned states' man ; and his views with respect to the prekTertoninib us . ., ministry are bey on d contravention.. Every day's OP ° , rience must teach us that the time is fast approach lll 4 when political intrigue rs are no t th e men w h om tu j people of England will p erm it t o h o ld t h e re ins "' power.—l am, sir, your obedient sei Liverpool, Monday iTERITATIS LANCASTER INSOLVENT COURT. List of Insolvent Debtors heard at the Court at Lan' caster, on Friday and S a t ur d ay last, before Robcl,., ie judge of the said court Ppontec first sitting of the new judge, attendance of professional men present this ber there was a lalo Charles Booth, cotton - Moors. . Adjourned for One Month :- waste dealer , Halliwell, near Bolton-1. Petitions dismissed :—Thomas Rigby, butcher, WW. Ormerod Crabtree, pattern designer, Mancheste r Joseph Ogden, clock and watch maker, Oldham. Aajourned to next Cou r t founder and coppersn cloth agent and dealer, Remanded for manufacturer, Ashton-in- Six Months woollen cloth merchant, Remanded for Six Neel victualler, Salford. . Discharged :—Georcve a cotton Mill, Blackburn ; Josepn and dealer. in Blackburn ; John Healey worker, Rochdale ; Henry Clarke, corn .1. - John. Porter, silk spinner, Lancaster worth, machine ma k er , R oc hd a l e ; Edward Whitwol soda water, lemonade, and ginger beer maaufactur er, Salford; James Brownbill, stone-mason, Salford' Thomas Simp son , licensed victualler, Liverpool ; Willi Bird Redish, timber dealer and ship-owner, Liveip o ° . `!: Leonard Fielden, commercial traveller, Manchester! Sarah Broadh urs t, p u bli can , Ewood. near Hasling,del l James Higinbottom, stone-mason, 11.111- . :oal men , tin-113r ibraha l m Butter Chorley IMPROVEMENT IN GENTLEMEN'S HATS. -- Many letters from jime to time have, on this subjec t ' appeared in the " Post" an d " Journal," the origina of which a re t o b e seen a t our shops, 9, DALE' STREET, and 6, CRESCENT . MR. JOHN. SIMPSON, the active partner of the firm of KINNEAR and SIMPSON, begs to state that this improvement in Gentlemen's Hats is his own tion, and registered by him in his own name, a nd 15 " his own private prop er ty. I n b r i nging this invention so prominently before the public, he has avoided sag' in„o. one word about it hiinself. All that has been done has just been to p r i n t, i n th e " Da il y Post.,.'r and the "Liverpool J ourna l," some three or fo,l' letters at a time. The prin c ipl e upon which 06 dvert ~ r ted is t' i io _..isement is inserter, ne one so well expresses Proverbs--" Let another ma n - p ra i se th ee, an d u°t thine own mouth ; a stranger, and not thine own lips. The altogether u wholeninflum of thosenprl letters are 4.1_ written by person s • - - auy urger motive than —Sat they really felt the benefit of Mr. Stmrsosf,' invention, and in such a degree, that they thought n' only just to him to s t a t e the i r opinions, not in words merely, but also in writing. J. Gorsuch, Hair-Cutter and Perfumer, No. I,' Parker-street, begs most respectfully to thank IP' friends and the public for the liberal patronage be stowed upon him during the fourteen years he has, been in business in Liverpool, and, furthermore:, solicits a con ti nuance of their favour, which it shall ever be his study to deserve. He takes the presen t opportunity to announce that the late •partnership istmg between himself and James . Wynes is dissolved; and for the future the business will be carried Of at No. 7, Parker-street, under J. Go rsuc h' s sole superintendenc e . Boarding Schools attended by 016 month. Private families waited on as usual at their residences. An experienced assistant wu be sent round once a month to the following places :---Bootle, Seaforth, Waterloo, Crosby Hultc i ' Rainhill, Runcorn, St. Helen's, Seaeombe, Egr e " mont, New B r i g ht on, Bi r k e n head Park, Clail!):111; ton, Oxton, a n d R oc k F erry. J. G. may be consultell - in all cases of d' vaaUV 111 41 especial attention to the stimulative " Circassian Balm, " (where the hair which, and the Milk of Almonds, I ventor ; and no other is . Gorsuch. CIRCULAR, .—Exchange Hair-cutting and SIT 11 1" poomg-rooms, (over the shop of Mr. Turmeau, cig merchant.) No. 11, Castle-street, Liverpool, August 18 59.—Sir,—In handing you the inclosed card, perm' me to inform you that the partnership hitherto ob i - , sisting bet ween myself and Mr. Gorsuch has terminate d by mutual consent. I shall for the future carry on th i e rooms situate as above, where I trust I may be favourm with your patronage. Nothing shall be wanting 011 my part to deserve your confidence.—l have the honour . to be, sir, your obedient servant, James Wynes. ATTEMPT TO POISON A YOUNG WOMAN.—At the' Wells assizes, on Friday, Thomas Grist was indictea, for admi n i s t er i ng to one Y Sarah L ove l ace a quantity 0 1 oxalic acid, with intent to kill and murder her, at - Nilic ll 4 on the 6th of July. Mr. Yonge prosecuted, and Mr. H. T. Cole defended the prisoner. It app eare d th a t the prisoner was an apprentice to the woman's husband, la ° was a shoemaker at Wells. About seven o'clock ia the morning of the 6th of July, Lovelace had made some tea, havingfilled the kettle at th e p ump. H e and his wife partook of tea, which was g oo d. Ab out e i ght o ' c l o ck Mrs. Lovelace made some more tea, but upon tasting it she found it to be very sour, and burning in her throat. IShe called her h us b an d t o k now w h at was the matte r with the teP Id he 1 1 ......,, A cunt aucictersfieli- __., i.,..._ naving tasted it f oun d a simile.' • • ... all investigations might h ave conv i nced him that his own burning in his th roa t. Th e hus b and sent for friends were as vulnerable as other men, and that cor- emetic , but, as it did no t d o h er any good, 113 ruption is not a s i n pecu li ar to one party. That trium- Livet, a surgeon, was sent for. T o connect t hi s with pliant air of virtue might have been spared us, after the prisoner, it was shown that on the day before th.je , _ . Lovelace h a d ca ll e d i n a pol i ceman, and had told the _ the revelati ons o f w h at takes place even in emancipated constituencies which retu rn to Parliament members of prisoner that he had come to l oo k a t him, so that if ha the family of John Bright. ran away again, he might know him and take him. The + prisoner came to work at ten minutes past six on the 6 th of Jl lie went into wor. HOU SEREEPERS.—The C o ff ee so ld b y Th ompson oxalic y. acid in his business. the It was ksho ke p pt n o t he shop llse"' , s' Brothers. 5, Elliott-street, at is. 4d., is better than you that the workmen might take it. It was kept in a r egular' pay is. Bd. for at any other establishment. d box. The box had been filled on the previous Friday lloLLowAx's PILLS cure headache, bile, loss of appe- It was th en f i lled so full that the lid of the box would tite ; can be taken without danger from wet . or cold, not shut down. Some of it was used on the sth of July and require no restraint from business or pleasure. It was then quite full. After this had happened Love; They act mildly on the bowels, without pains or lace looked at the box, and found that th e oxa lic acidgriping, s t reng th en t h e s t omac h, promote a healthy h a d nearly.ll I._ . , action of the Michael Neville, b' ; Robert Brodie, nith, Liverpool Manchester. ames Fyfe, Ing e faekerfield ; John Whittake/ licens e( ' -ThOmas HolC 'ti t I PO qi L AS 41,;, 4 tAs A re 14..4 th 1441 1, 0 i t : r e °l° Pr u e t4isrted 'qY c 4;:. 4t er, e d to e ''Per t( ' _O O , vit k14:1•1_44 _-: . y ~~] '`~~i 73 i ~ t'riZ o 'ia ; qic' rrt. 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