Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-17 00:00:00

prisoner at Liverpool, on the G A M th of It along Pai.lc-lane, on the the prison front and bit the n( who w drunk at the time,' st t, when gipped in 3e ot the prosecutor. The Piisoner of not guilty, and pleaded guilty. George Frederic ing, at Liverpool, on thi of exchange for £l6 9s Sentence deferred. ie dwellin SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES, -TUESDAY CROWN COURT [Before Mr. Baron WATSON.] Ilis lordship took his seat this morning at nine o'clock Peter Smith, who was found guilty yesterday of an indecent assault on Rachel Cleworth, a child only eleven prisoner was as brought up to receive sentence. The e master of the New Church National= mdale, near Bury, and the prosecutrix was one of his pupil gravest di: the persoil of ease"was one of the most atm painful to the vi cider the position in which you w( that child's protect( and it was iat of attempting to Peter Smith; 'yolildave been con- it of th girl only eleven years of age. Th xis I have ever heard life to eontempl laced: You were her as to lead her to walk in the paths of virtue and morality : but, instead of this, you have been the party to corrupt her, and make her acquainted with things that, at her tender years, she should have been ignorant of. The law, as it now stands, is scarcely adequate to the pLnishment of your offence. I feel that I shall not do my duty if I do not punish you to the utmost extent the law 711ows. I am horrified when I -..„onnf 41-4- +rsnlz m ace yesterday 1 USIA-A..IJ U. Luc; u.5.11101,11/11 taw, in this court. It was most painful to see such number Of little children brought here to prove an offense that, at their youthful age, should have been kept from their knowledge. But yoti dragged them into court to prove the case against you. Had you acknowledged your guilt, even at the last moment, I Lg.,. felt some commiseration for you; but, as it inigni, nay - s, I confess I feel disgusted a nd horrifiedat the offence, l and the exhibition you have made. I shall inflict th e full penalty the la w allows, which is, that you be imprisoned for the term of two years. John Edmonds, who was found guilty of assaulting and robbing Michael M'Allister, was sentenced to six years' penal servitude. William Broadhurst and John Pilkington, who were found guilty yes' rday James Seo at Bolton, were sentenced to penal servitude, the former for ten years and the latter for eight years. His lordship said that he was determined to do his utmost to protect quiet people in the streets, and in the outskirts of towns, against outrageous attacks of this kind, by passing a very severe sentence in every case. MA.INTSLAI ITER AT STRETFORD Isaac Burgess, aged 19, who yesterday pleaded guilty to haviy.,g, at Stretford, killed Thomas Berry in a fight, . . was sentenced to six days' imprisonment William Breckleton, aged 22, was indicted for having, at Liverpool, on the 11th May last, feloniously assaulted .Robert Hall, and stolen from him four sovereigns. On the 11th May last, the prosecutor, a shoemaker, living in School-lane, was passing along Brownlow-hill, n this town, when he was knocked down by a blow on the head, and robbed of four sovereigns. The prisoner - vas a pprehended, and was identified by the prosecutor as the person who assaulted and robbed him. On enter- mg the witness box, the prosecutor, Hall, sa.._ prisoner was not the man who assaulted him. The pri- id that th Soner was consequently dischar„, The Governor of Kirkdale. Gaol then said that he could account for the conduct of the prosecutor that the court had just witnessed. Hall had been himself appre hended for burglary, and was now awaiting his trial. Since he had been in gaol, he had admitted that he hai never been robbed at all ; but had given Breckleton in charge through spite, believing him to be the person who,Thayi to convey another, tc tion, whict one of ti Breckleton was not the man, and he, therefore, with drew the charge. - STABBING AT LIVERPOOL Charles Arran, aged 27, was charged Liverpool, 041 the 14th May last, feloniousl j Edward Penzelius, with intent to do him some g bodily harm. L 1 having, at y stabbed The prosecutor was a licensed victualler in Beach street, Edge-hill. He stated that he went to bed about half-past two o'clock iA the morning of the 12th June last, and that he left everything in the house quite secure. On rising about seven or half-past seven o'clock, he found a sash window open, and the property particu larised in the indictment missing. The prisoners were seen by Inspector Hough at half-past fonr the same morning, with a bundle containing the property that was Both prisoners were found guilty. Sentence BIGAMY deferred. Charles Simpson, aged 32, was indicted for having, at Liverpool, on the 3rd June last, feloniously married Ellen Jane Watts, his' first wife being then alive. The prisoner married Mary Burnett at I Church, in this town, on the sth March,lBss ; and, on the 3rd June, this year, .he married Ellen Jane Watts, the former wife_being still alive. The difficulty in this case was to•prove the identity of the persons who con tracted the first marriage, for the only witness who was called was now almost blind. She swore, h owever' that she was able to identify them by their voice s . Ver dict guilty. Sontence deferred. The court adjourned. T LIVERPOOL St. Peter ievous The prosecutor, a sailor, was leaving a dancing saloon in Kent-street, in this town, on the night of the 14th _May last, in company with some women and the pri soner. A quarrel took place, blows were struck, and, in a strn .sued, the prisoner stabbed the prosecutor in three different parts of the body. The jury found the prisoner guilty of feloniously wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Sentence deferred. .0e which e lANSLAUGHTER OF A WI iLFORD Richard Brown, aged 59, was i Salford, on ti slain his On the wife, M feloniou, wife, threw her on the floc She wa aken to the . Manct died in a few days, in conseqn, had received. Verdict guilti mendation to merci strong recom- NISI PRIUS COURT. BEFORE MTh BREACH OF CONTRA e ninintiff in f:),;. YESTERDAY USTICE HILL.) WRIGHT V. NAYLOR Wright, and the defendant was a farmer named James Naylor, who had been a tenant under the plaintiff on a farm called Bromley Pool Farm, at Belmont, near Bolton. The action was brought to recover compensa tion from the defendant, for an alleged breach of his agreement as to the proper cultivation of his f arm , and ..•, lILLLIALLIIg, All iv tale, lel. U., aria ..ur. Millward appeared for - the plaintiff, and Mr. James Fernely for the defendant. The'learned counsel for the plaintiff stated that the defendant became tenant of the farm in question in the spring of 1858, at which time it was in thorough repair, and there was a considerable quantity of manure upon the laud; but instead of cultivating it in accordance with the custom of the country, he had sold off the whole of the produce, which had seriously deteriorated the condition of the land, and he had also allowed the out-buildings to become delapidated. _ _ After the statement of the learned counsel. it was agreed to enter a verdict for the plaintiff, subject to a reference to a respectable farmer, who should inspect the property CLAIN' FOR PERSONAL INJURY -WALWORTH V. BARTON In this action the plaintiff was a poor woman, residing in Ardwick, named Ann Walworth, and the defendant, Thomas Barton, was a millowner, in Union-street, Ardwick. The declaration alleged that, through the negligence of the defendant's servant, a bag of waste had been allowed to fall from one of the upper windows of the defendant's mill upon the plaintiff, by which she was very seriously injured, and for such injuries .she sought compensation by the present action. Mr. Wilde, Q.C., and Dr. Wheeler appeared as counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Monk, Q.C., and Mr. Leresche for the defendant. The plaintiff, it appeared, had for upwards of twenty-seven years worked as a weaver at UVIIIpJVIIJ 11111 l VBUXII.,4II'X .11.1111V1Ulf, 411 U upon LUC 6th of June last she was going to , dinner to her own house, in Smith-street. When passing by the defendant's mill, there being at the time no inEeation of anything being lowered, a large bale of waste fell upon her, from the fourth story of the mill. She was knocked violently against the wall, one of her aneles was dislocat( bone in her neck was fractured, and she was of heilvise seriously injured. The poor woman had previously been a superior mill hand, being able to superintend four looms, and being enabled to earn, clear for herself, eighteen shillings a week, with which she supported herself and her mother. In consequence of her injuries she was confined to her bed for a considerable time, and was not only unable yet to resume her employment, but was permanently injured to such an extent as to be unfitted for the same employment as she had previously followed. - The injury to her neck had rendered her unable to straighten her head, unless when she was in a lying positiOn. The bale, it was s t a t e d by a w it ness , was being lowered by hand, and not by a teagle. Appli-' cation had been made to the defendant for compensation; but, though expressing his sorrow for the poor woman, he asserted that the accident was not his fault, but that of the engineer. Dr. Pennington, who was attending to the woman, deposed to the injuries which she ha received. On behalf of the defendant, it was contended that be was in no respect respongible for the accident. He had been in the habit of giving the waste, called blowings, to a poor man named John Riley, the engineer's brother, who had removed the waste with his own assistance, and the defendant's servant had nothing to do with it. He was doing so at the time of the accident. Riley was called, and stated that, e the time he was removing the waste, none of the defendant's servants were on the premises. After this evidence, his lordship directed the jury to find a verdict for the defendant : '; but they assessed the damages at'*loo, and leave was given to the plaintiff to move for that amount. HOPKINS V. 'T NET AND ANOTHER In this action the plaintiff was Peter Hopkins, who was an importer of German yeast, culling on business at Kingston-upon Hull, and the defendant was a dealer in yeast in this town. The action was brought to recover the sum of £27 14s. 9d., 'the balance of an account for yeast supplied by the plaintiff to the defendant. Mx bigby Seymour appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Sowler for the defendant. As the case illy( A matters of account solely, it was formally entered for the hip that the accounts slit a verdict should be stiff, with ti nderstand- be referred to some corn STABBING AT BURTONWOOD d 35, was indicted 1 Bryan Conroy, a,„ Burtonwood, on the 19th Y 1 _ Joseph Taylor, with intent to maim t of a d struck the prisoner prisoner then - came behind, wound for having at Liverpool, on the cut and 1 him'greN The p 3rd of July last the prosecutor was in July last Lsoner and the prosecut en by t prisoner and three o liam Jackson, with int withdrew Sentence deferred iT LIVERPOOL sth of The p. lIOILSE STEALING AT WARRINGTON. George Hang, alias John Hang, alias John George Hall, 21, was indicted for having, at Warrington, on the 19th June, feloniously stolen a mare, the property of Thomas Richardson. The prosecutor was a farmer, living near Warrington, and the mare in question was seen safe in a field near there about nine or ten o'clock on the night of Sunday, the 19th June last. On going to the field early on Monday morning, the mare was gone. On Sunday night the pris'oner was seen near the field, and he wag after wards found at Bradford offering the horse for sale. The jury found the prisoner - guilty of receiving the horse, knowing it to be stolen. Sentence deferred. ASSAULT AND ROBBERY AT LEVERPOOI Henry Thompson, Liverpool, on the 4th of June last, fl Elizabeth Davies, and robbed her of eightpena prisoner was undefended. 20, was indicted for having, at 1 -miously assaulted The The proseentrix,awidow, earning a livelihood by Nvashily, stated that on the night of Saturday, the 4th June, shei was returning along Chadwick-street from her Work, and th a t th e pr i soner came up , se i ze d her by the I :4 ll ,de o r,s, struck her with his fist, knocked her down, i a ,„" eightpenee from her pocket. There was a near Verdict CASE OE EDUCTION WAINWRIGHT V. BOWEL Mr. Wainwright, the plaintiff in this action, was a ropemaker at Thirlestone, in Yorkshire, and the defend ant, John Bower, was a farmer, and the owner of Wat son House, about six miles from Eaglesfield. The de claration alleged that the defendant had seduced the plaintiff's daughter, when deprived of her servo by he (the plaintiff) had been Mr. Overend; Q.( Kempley appeared tor the plaintiff, an( for the defendant. Mr. Overend, in opening the case, dance in the case would go been acquainted with each oth close intimacy did not comm, 1857. On that day the plainti : Woodhouse chapel, and the de: home, and made a proposal of a 11 • following week he -calk and MI until Good Friday ie plaintiff's ision, however, she visitedfhe defendar It was under ied her the defendant obtained possession of her person ; anc in September she found herself in the family way The defendant afterwards told , her it was " all right," to come on a certain d Ann Wainwright, plaintiff's daughter, was then exa mined. She said—l am a daughter of the plaintiff, and was 19 last February. My father has six children, five brothers and myself. My mother has been confined to her bed from illness for the laSt nine years, and I have had the management of my father's household affairs. On the 23rd of April last I was delivered of a child. John Bower, the defendant, was the father of the child. I had been acquainted with the defendant'for years ; , he resided at Thirlestone with his uncle, who was a farmer, residing about a mile from ns. He made proposals of marriage to me on Good Friday, 1857 ; and I continued to receive his addresses. My enga g ement was made known to my father and mother, and to his uncle and aunt. He was in the habit of visiting me about three or four times a week at my father's house. He gene rally left at ten or eleven o'clock at night, but he never stopped after the family went to bed. . He went to live at Bagbsfield after the death of his uncle. I apppointed to meet him at my 'aunt's, who lived near Pilling. I went to my aunt's on the 18th of July, and I remained with her till the fol lowing. Tuesday. The defendant visited me on the Sun clay and Monday, and he accompanied me to the railway station. We were too late for the train, and had to wait for some time at the station. In August last, with my father's consent, he took me to visit the Belle-vue Gardens, at Manchester, and upon that occasion he slept at our house with my brother. On the following day he made me choose n pattern of silk for my wedding 'Tress, and I afterwards bought a dress of that pattern. In September I found myself in the family way - , and I then wrote to the defendant, upon which he came to see anc the at my father's. . I told him my con said it was all right, adding that he would com in about a fortnight and arrange about the marring( possession o Vatson T's house, somewhere about June my brothers keeps a small public-house near where we live, and sometimes when they were busy I waited there. At this stage of the case a consultation took place, and it was ultimately agreed to enter a verdict for the plain tiff—damages £2OO. ACTION ON A PROMISSORY NOTE.-CARRINGTON V. BARNES, The plaintiff in this action was a widow residing at Manchester, and the defendant, who was an engineer, resided at Knotty Ash ; and the action was brought to recover the amount of several promissory notes which had been given by the defendant — to the plaintiff. The plaintiff was the defendant's Sister ; and in 1856, whilst she was living as a servant in the house of Mr. Men delsohn,,a jeweller at Manchester, she advanced the sum of £4O to the defendant, receiving from him a promissory note for the amount. In 1857 s h e a d vance d ano th er sum of £4O, and subsequently a further sum of £46, for both of which sums she also received promissory notes from the defendant. After this, in consequence of her health failing, she came to reside with the defendant, and upon leaving his house, she discovered that the lock of her box had been tampered with, and that the de fendant's acknowledgments had been abstracted. There was no evidence offered on the part of the defendant, and the jury returned a verdict for the amount claimed. ACTION )R SLANDER. KNOWLES v. LEVINGSTONE.—This was an action for slander. The declaration stated that the defendant had uttered certain slanderous words about the plaintiff, im puting that he had been guilty of fraud in his capacity as overseer and guardian of the poor for the township of Ince. The plaintiff was Thomas Knowles, a partner in the firm of Knowles & Co,, coal proprietors, of Ince, and the defendant was Richard 7 Leving!tone, a publican, residing at Wigan. Mr. Overend, Q. 0., and M. Mill: ward were counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Monk, Q.C., and Mr. Mclhuish were for the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff had for some time held the office of overseer and guardian of the poor for the township of Ince, and the alleged slander was uttered of him in capacity. A collector of the rates, named Stew' 4- it appeared, had been a defaulter to a considerable amount ; and at a meeting at the Walmsley Arms, in March last, previous to the election of overseers, the plaintiff produced a statement showing that the fol- LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.-TUESDAY. [BEFORE MR. 3. AIKIN.] THE CHARGE OF MURDER The little girl, Mary Ann Gibbons, was again brought up this morning on the charge of wilfully murdering a little boy, named John Thompson, son of John Thomp son, a police-officer. As on the previous day, Mr. Cobb appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Bluck for the defence of the prisoner. Detective-officer Wilson was the first witness called, and deposed that he measured the distance from Mr Thompson's house in Conway-street to Bankhall-bridge, and found it to be 1 mile 4 furlongs and 210 yards From .the house to where the child was found, vas 1 mile 4 furlongs and 160 yards. From the house to Doncaster-street, where Mrs. Jones said she met the prisoner, was 3 furlongs exactly. From the house to Athol-street bridge was 5 fwiongs and 170 yards. From where the child was found to where the the boy John Fox, was 380 yards prisoner met 22nd July, and on that day he was instructed by Mr. Clough to make enquiries respecting Mrs. Leatham. He took the prisoner clown to the Polieo-office, and in the presence of Mr. Clough she stated that she had never seen the woman in her life: Mrs.. Leatham then made a statement as to where sho had been, and he enquired and found it to be csrrect. The little girl distinctly told me that she had never seen Mrs. Leatham in her life till that day. He heard a little boy at the coroner's court say that he saw Mrs. Leatham take the child down Great Homer-street. He first made that state ment-at the police court on the 22nd of July, and then at the inquest on the 23rd, which was Saturday. POlice:officer 731 stated that, from inforniation he received, he arrested Mrs. Leatham on the charge of having murdered the child. The little boy said to him, when he was taking the prisoner to bridewell, and without being asked; that that was the woman who Mr. Cobb said he had ahost of witnesses, if he could call them, who would prove that Mrs. Leatham could not have been a party. . . first took Mrs. Lea tham into custody. Mr. Cobb said it was quite rig account for Mrs. Leatham's whercf o'clock on that evening to eleven at night. John Thompson, father of deceased, said he never knew Mrs. Leatham, nor was he aware that any of his family knew her, before the death of his child. Police-officer Thomas Barkley, 6, stated that, on the 21st July, he was present when the child was brought into the dead-house. Ife saw the policemen and the prisoner there at that time. When the little girl was asked what she was, she stated that she was a servant She was then asked what she was child; and when she got into the Netherfield:road a boy told her that he saw a woman take a child along Netherfield-road. She was asked what directions she her mistress, an( to go to bridewell and tell - the child's father. She said she did not go ; and when asked why, she said 1 - ..ecause the boy told her that the woman took the child that way. _ She was asked if she had seen the woman, and he was again asked why she went to the she answerer at a man tol woman went that way ; and when she went to the canal bridge, she saw the body of the child floating on the John Carroll, the flatman who had been examined on Monday, said he knew the canal bridge, and a per son standing on that bridge could not have seen the Dr. Ayrton was called, and proved that he made a post 7 mortenz . examination of the body, and found that Leath ha been causec waft of air, and, in opinion, by drownin This chised the case for the prosecution. Mr. Bluck, for the defence, said : I will not occupy your time at any length, for I am afraid that, taking .oniously stabbed and disable him. immei indicted Dniously sailors. On the Maguire-street. by the valour of the ) encounter the third tne itrixoccurrence took place, and tlld Was enabled to swear positively to the of the Prisoner. Previous conviction was proved Sentence deferred. BURGLARY AT LIVERPOOL. Rob er i t Collins , aged. 24. nna n_, . _ against the prisoner 0 - µlilt , cted for havityr at Liver lug Y~ •"..h`-.Luang broken into an! e - n 7 "" " house of Thom as Breniinnil ente re d tl an( _....n.-bLreet, Ed ge hill , leretrom a coat, ugbox Of Chars, and upwards of nine shillings in money _ • ••• .4tZ , l: - )Ye,Et t.., ptalartSll 3t aolittariaatai basica vi -.101.............. He said he bac and was da,,riacir last year Cross-examined by Mr. James.—The defendant used to work in the fields as a common labourer. One of Atobacra a4B JOA NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. towing rates had Coal Company, £lO9 ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, £97 16s. 3d.; London and North western Company, £179 10s. 3d., and a further item of £2B, making a total of £414, which .the defendant said had been received and not properly accounted for by the plaintiff ; and added that, with the connivance of the plaintiff, the sum of £2B had been taken from the rates to pay the rent of another overseer named Croft. After the plaintiff's case had been partially heard, Mr. Monk said the whole of the money had been accounted for, and it was then agreed to withdraw a juror ; and five other actions arising out of the same transaction, it was - There being no more causes ready for ship proceeded with the trial of prisoners BURGLARY IN LIVERPOOL. Edward Osborne was charged with having committed a burglary at the house of Mr. Benjamin Ainsworth, the Atlantic Hotel, in Regent-road, and having stolen a watch and chain, the property of John Hale, a bar-. man at the hotel. Mr. Raffles prosecuted. It appeared that on the evening of Sunday, the 27th of May last, the inmates of the house went to bed about turply..,,i.pir The prosecutor, the barman, lei unlocked, nd before gettim watch and chain on tl nis bed-room door into bed he placed his About four o'clock in the morning he was aroused by a noise on the stairs, and, on getting up, he found that his watch and chain were missing. The missin g property was traced to the prisoner, who had offered to pledge them with a pawn broker in Highfield-street. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. • Thomas Jones and Julia Lyons were found guilty of a burglary at the house of Mr. William Hetherington, Daulby-street, in January, 1858. The prisoners were foul guilty. There was a previous conviction against the prisoner Jones, and he was sentenced to penal servitude for four years. _ The female prisoner was ordered to be imprisoned for fifteen calendar months, -..__- THE LIVERPOOL GAS COMPANY, Yesterday the annual meeting of this company was held in the offices, Newington ; Mr. Hardman Earle presiding. There were also present Messrs. John Stewart, Joseph Cooper, Charles Mozley, George H. Lawrence, W. R. Sandbach, Radley, Booth, Cooke, Morris, Barton, Chas. W. Reid, Steele, King, Millard Hatton, Atkin, Berry, It. Houghton, John Perrins. Arrowsmith, Gill Crosbie, Gerrard, &c. The SECRETARY read the following ANNUAL REPORT " In pursuance of the resolution of the proprietors passed at their meeting in August last, the directors sold on the 15th September Yost 436 'shitieOF£TO : each, which realised £22,106, of which sum £11,206 consisted of premiums ; and in pursuance of the reso lution of the proprietors passed at their meeting in February last, the directors sold, on the 18th day of March last, further five hundred £25 shares, which •ealised £25,696, of w1 ,4- ' 1.196 consisted - —tun 11.5, " of ph._ ums, making an aggregate of premiums derived from the two sales of £24,402 available capital for the pur poses of the company, without any dividend being pay able thereon. The shares last sold have been fully paid up, and a resolution will be submitted to the proprietors for converting the same into consolidated stock. " The accounts which will be submitted to the pro prietors show that the profits of the company for the year ending 30th June, 1859, fall short of the amount requisite to pay the usual dividends by the sum of ..£5,599 1 ls. ld., a result attributable to the three fol lowing causes, viz., the increased price of cannel, the last reduction in the price of gas operating upon an en tire year's sale, and the new capital upon which divi dend is now payable. "It will b, ;sary to take the above slur. £5,599 1 I fund, in order to wends, leaving a balance in such fund o from ti sum of £9,402 E half-year ending the 30th June last, which the recommend to be paid, are a dividend of £5 per cel company, and 12s. 6d £25 shares, which wen )elieve that ere long tl -mentioned (sill be fully made $ by the enlarged consumption of gas. " The directors beg to inform the proprietors that th four following gentlemen retire by rotation from th( board of directors, but are eligible for re-election, viz, : Mr. Mozley, Mr. Reade, Mr. Wm. Robertson Sandbach, and Mr. Thompson ; and that Mr. Wm. Drury Chidson, one of the auditors, retires by rotation, but is eligible for re-election. his is one of t must say t ae most extraor that ever fell to my lot. Crimes of this nature are never done without motive, and, looking to the evidence, we find that she was fond of children, and had had no quarrel with her mistress or the child; and her mistress said she was fond of children. From the age of the girl, it would seem almost impossible that could have been guilty of the crime laid to her charge this case has been conillucted almost entirely from circum stantial evidence, and I do not know whether I am right or wrong, but I do not think that it was fair for the officers to let this poor girl :"go on making "a statement that was to be used against her without first having cautioned her. I think she should have been cautioned', as it seems to have been her own showing that placed her in the position which she now is. She is sent for the child. She comes back to her mistress'and she goes again a second time, and when she goes away, why does le come back, if she had any intention of taking the ? Ido not think that this case has been got up fairly, though, I must say that, so far as Mr. Cobb child's lif has beeW concerned in it, it has been perfectly fair. We find a boy who gives certain evidence after he is brought here, but why was he not brought here at first I men- before the coroner, whether their evidence was in favour or against tie prisoner at the bar, should have been brought here. It appears that there was a woman named Mrs. Leatham—God forbid that I should say anything against Mrs. Leath= ; at the same time, when we look at the girl, without any motive, I think that you can hardly come to the coliclusion that that little girl, who had been so kind to the child, should go to the water in the canal, and put that child in and drown it. It seems strange that the boy, John Fox, says now that he did not remember before the coroner that the girl said to him that the child was not to be taken out if it was alive. You know how, for you can depend upon that ; dO you believe she could be so hardhearted - ''ve she said so, why did that there was a child in the that child is committed for Lt somebody else will come up she is innocent. If some- and if you do Ix o and tell the be )ility it would put on your she lore faith in the law of my country than to k that a child of her age would be hanged if she were found frailty. I know it would be a sentence of death upon her if she were found guilty by jury; bat ;he is only fourteen years of age, and she looks younger r was satisfied of her inn - men-. we have very little more evidence than before him. She was then discharged. 1 cannot believe that this poor child could be capable of the crime laid to her charge. Mr. Aikin said, it is a very distressing case ; but, under all the circumstances, I think there has been sufficient evidence to warrant me in committing the prisoner to take her trial. I deem it prudent to make no further observation than that I think it my duty to commit her for trial. Throughout the whole of the evidence given on both days the :little prisoner stood apparently less concerned than any of the spectators that surrounded her. She will be tried during the present assizes on the capital charge of wilful murder. (Signed) HARDMAN EARLE, Chairman." The stater: eat of accounts was then read. The CHAIRMAN said he did not think he had much to say in addition to what had been communicated to them in the report and by the statement of accounts. The distinguishing feature in their proceedings last year was that .they had been obliged to retrench on the reserve fund to the extent of £5,600, which had been brought about, in a great measure, by the increased price of cannel. It was well known to most of them that, for mom some years past, they had been working under a very ao advantageous contract for the supply of cannel. That contract was taken many years ago, at very red uce d c prices. It had now expi re d, and they were nove consuming cannel at a very increased price. At the same time, their consumption was increasing 1 four or five per cent. per annum. That was not all 1 nett profit, but was so in a great proportion, inasmuch t,, as the same mains supplied it. And they hoped by 1 economical management, which they believed they 1 , could lay claim to, that next year they would be able to I show a different result. At the same time they could 4 not hold out any prospect of a reduction in the price of • c gas to the public. That he believed out of the question. rowed £lO frOm him, and ga-le him all 1.0. U. -in the All they could hope for was not to retrench further on name of Mr. Waterbury, and he afterwards found that the reserve fund, but rather to add a little to it if pos- it was without Mr. Waterbury's knowledge or consent. sible. He concluded by moving that the report and the It was found that £43 had been unaccounted for, and statement of accounts be adopted. The motion w as secon d e d by M r. R a d le it was feared that some d e f a l ca ti ons had not been dis y, and carried. covered.—A remand was granted until Thursday, in On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. order to give time for further investifrati ,,,, Mozley, it was resolved that a diVidPna f... 41,.. t_ir year end' [BEFORE MR. A. CASTELLAINE.] EMBEZZLEMENT.—George Fisher, a respectable-look ing man, was brought up in the custody of officer John Langon, charged with embezzling several sums of ly from his employer, Mr. Waterbury, ship chandler and sailmaker, Bath-street. Mr. Black was engaged for the defence of the prisoner. Mr. Waterbury w9° d said as examined, anc the. prisoner was employed by him as book-keeper, and he had entered in the books kept by him several sums of money, as having been paid to different parties, but it was afterwards' found that t 1 vv.& u uuu 14.31, wie rate of live per cent. On the consolidated stock of the company, or 12s. 6d. per share of £25 shares, be declared payable to the pro prietors, less the income-tax, on the 18th instant. Other formal resolutions were passed, and a numbor of gentlemen were re-elected as directors. On the motion of Mr. Radley, £5OO was voted ff reran- a ,aese entries were incorrect. Of these entries, one was to Messrs. Ireland, by which he said that he had paid them £7 3d. ; another one said Messrs. Holgrave & Co. had been paid £lO ; another that Hindle & Co. had been paid £4 1 -- -4 H. Wood & os. ; and anotuer that A— Co. had been paid 19s.—Wm. Geves, a ship-chandler, was examined. and bp at.taa +lint rhA nrisoner had bor- WIFE BEATING assaulted her. It appeared that Jennings was a•master shoemaker, residing in West Derby-road, and employed a number of men ; but his conduct was such, for some __.,,aera tion o f the directors: __ . .... p vzbium t or tne corn -1 plainalit . to live with him. She detailed a series of A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the btlsi- assaults and brutalities that had been committed-upon DOss 0 the meeting, her by hor husband, the dekadant, stating that ho was frequently out all night playing cards and drinking. On Tuesday last she got up out of bed, haviug been ill for some time previous, and the defendant said she was drunk, whereupon he commenced to beat her in a most shameful manner. Mr. Bluck was engaged for the defence, and produced a witness, who stated that he was present, and the complainant was drunk. In opposition to that, however, several witnesses swore that she was perfectly sober. The magistrates said that, as the hus band and wife could not agree, it would be better for them to separate. Au agreement was then come to that he defendant —eekly, for the hould pdv his wife lOs maintenance of herself and child. BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES IN ENGLAND The twentieth annual report, containing the detailed abstracts of the births. deaths, and nianiages which were registered in the year 1857, in England and Wales, was printed on Monday by command of her Majesty. It appears that 1,401,080 names have been inscribed in registry during the year, and that 318,194 The births of 663,071 children, persons were married. and the deaths of 419,815 persons of all ages, were 243,256, registered. The births were in excess 1 which' is somewhat below ti tuber expressing the natural increase of the population, as, owing to a defect in the English Registration Act, all the births are not regis tered. The recorded natural increase of the population of England and Wales exceeded 666 daily. The births exceeded by 5,618 the births in 1856, and the deaths also exceeded the deaths in that year by a much larger United Kingdom became more active after the Russian war, and in year 1857 the emigrants amounted to taking a proportional part of the number of mmscer tained birthplaces. the English emigrants will be raised America, 39,375 to ti Zeala•' [than Colonies and New 37,333 to the United States 236 natives of Er le bratec REPORT OF THE POOR-LAW 130ARD. A thick blue-book of 300 pages contains the 11th Annual Report of the Poor-Law Beard. The report proper, of twenty pages in length, is soon disposed of. In the year ended Lady-thy, 1858, the stun of £5,878,386 was expended for the relief of the poor, being a decrease of £20,370, as compared with the ex penditure of the preceding year, or. 0.3 per cent. The rate per head on the pe - r ,..ation was Cs. Old., and s compared with 1856-7) li . d. In the districts, there was a decrease of 2-0 and-0.5 per cent. respectively ; but in the Surrey (metropolitan) district, there was an increase of 1.2 per cent. In 1833-4, with a population of 14,372,000, the sum of £6,317,255, or Bs. 91d. per head, was expended in relief of the poor ; whereas in 1857, with a population (England 20,000,000, the. expenditure was 6s. Old. per head. The average of the years, from 1834 to 1858, was 6s. 2d. per head. On the Ist of July, 1858, (in 629 unions) there were 793,606 paupers of all classes (including insane and vagrants) in receipt of relief, against 789,640 in July, 1857. T' and Wales' i) of nearly Ins is tantamount to an increase of 0.5 per cent. There were 123,538 (out-door) widows and able bodied persons in receipt of relief on the Ist of July, 1858. On the Ist of January, 1859, on the other hand, there were, in 642 - unions, 862,078 paupers in receipt of relief, against 948,222 in January, 1858 ; this shows a de crease of 86,144, or 9.1 per cent. The able adult paupers also at this time (January 1, 1859) exhibited a decrease of 19.8 per cent. The decrease in the average number 0 of paupers of all cla s ses in r e ce ipt o f relief at one time in 1858, as compared with 1849, is 16-5 per cent. ; and as regards able-bodied paupers, the decrease in 1858, as compared with 1849, is 32-8. The metropolis has fully participated in the improved condition of the year. The returns of pauperism show that a decrease n the" numbers relieved has, with three exceptions, aken place in each week of the last year as compared with the corresponding week of the previous one. 37,868 1 -4-1 , sexes attended workhouse and liqt• a a T.adV-daY, jet set 10J0, anu Llle amount of tin guardians in respect of the was paR achers of t The board are doing all in their power to improve the education of pauper children, and " the management of the schools is on • a most satisfactory footing." In the metropolitan district the education consists of moral, mental, and industrial training; the branches of industry taught include carpentering, tailoring, the use of the steam-engine, shoemaking, spade husbandry, music (to fit the boys for the p u bli c b an d s ), cooking, baking, sew ing, dairy-work, lau n d r y, an d house-work. 231 were assisted to emigrate by the board last year, persons e rites of the Estab with the returns of the previous year, it that the marriages according to t appears le rites of the Esta 2,588, whilc lished Church decreased to - the extent of the marriages in the registered places and registration offices increased from 25,718 to 28,066 being nine per cent. in excess of the- former number riages in Roman Catholic places of worshii 7,360, being less by 167 than those of the previous The mar- Sixty-seven "marriages the year by members or th 3 churc marriages nine were by special lieens( 102,062 by banns, and 3;748 b tam IN of Frienc 21,250 by license, superintendent reAristrar's 100 married 5 years of age ; and that of ever 18.10 women, or 11.84 persons of bot The proportion of minor's ste—Y in 1847 to 12.03 in the year in the year 1857. In London , 8 men reased from 8.72 856, and slightly dc of the men and 12 five counties in which the proportion of men marrying as minors was highest were Bedford, Huntingdon, Cam bridge, Buckingham, and Northampton. The five counties Bedford, Mtn- In the was highest were Stafford, Durhan tingdon, ar_d the West Riding of Yorkshit south and midland counties early marriag( prevalent, and -the Registrar-General say minors " everywhere appeared to marry le is also ungallant enoug that it is the most ignorant among the g twenty-one. The details of re-: interesting. It seems that . 2: men, 14 were widowers and 86 bachelors. Of ever) 100 women married 9 were widows and 91 spinsters number of spinsters ; 5,908 bachelors marri 14,293 widowers married spinsters ; widowers married widows. In signing ti their marks. while 97 ; 332 women and 61,765 made their Marks. Of the men 72 per cent:: and of the women 61 per cent., were able to write their names ; of the men 28 per cent., and of the women 39 per cent., could only make their mark. " This," says the Registrar-General, " implies a great deficiency in the elementary education of the neonle. Bat indi- cations of improvement appeared were educated persons married evident that the education of the peoi onwards after the passing of the Reform Bill, and has since made considerable progresA. In 1846, 67 men, in 1857, 72 men, in every 100 wrote their names ; the years al.Tc proportion of women writing rose in the same period from 52 to 61. The progress of the women has been greater than the progress of the men ; and in the following counties the women who write exceed the men in proportion :—Surrey (out of London), _ H Sussex, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Oxford - tingdonshire, Essex fordshire, and Rutlandshire learning the women also prob In Bedfordshire the women a only 51 in 100 who marry writ In Staffordshire the blackness of folk, In other over the people ; less than half, or ( write their names. The Welsh will - labo disadvantage until they all learn the Eng in infancy ; of the women in Monmouthshire on in North Wales only 43, and in SouthW 100 who married, wrote their names. (50) ; but the women in Lancashire ar in still thicker darkness, for only 44 in names ;s only 38, in )O vio ____....-- HOLLOWAY'S PILLS cure headache, bile, loss of atm tite • can Lken without danger from w and require no restraint from 'ln They act mildly on the bowels, wi riping, ~s trengthen the stomach, promos action' of the liver, purify the blOo'd, brace the nerves, and invigorate the rove an admira It is impossible to speal COLONISTS IN PARLIAMENT. -' ,Afr. Jol who has just been returned as the Conser for Dartmouth, was formerly of llobar Dunn was a colonist of consideralit political and commercial circles. Hi the old Legislative Council, and as chant and shipowner is still largel Australian colonies. Curiously enc candidate on this occasion was Mr. m extc r cold a health also an eminent merchant of Premier of New South Wales under the new tion establishing responsible government. son has established for himself a consideral Mr. Donald- potation as a financier and an able speaker Zealand Gazette. ?id Net, ELECTIONEERING TACTICS.- Gloucester assizes on Monday, relative to tion at Cheltenham, in one of which William Cla was charged with having forcibly prevented Admiral Talbot from voting for the Conservative candidates ; and Jermyn Colbourn, Levinia Colbourn, and Wallis Mullis. and preven - ted him from voting on the Liberal side. The admiral had come from Gork to record his vote. lie arrived only a few minutes before the close of the poll, and was When hi was stopped, and the admiral prevented from leaving.. The principal part in these proceedings was taken by the defendant. Admiral Talbot stated in his evidence— knocked down by falling over another person. ---- I got up I - was embraced by the defendant, who said—' I'll take care of the admiral.' I desired him to let me loose, but he kept on pressing me back clos to the great gates. That went on for several -- minutes. I had known the defendant as the keeper of the Bell for some time. While this was going on the rest of the people were inside the gate:: Filling I could Ares not clear myself from my friend's (Mr. Clark's) arms, I it was not m voluntarily walked to the station, the defendant follow- " You!" crii powers or music, that he requestca wh en him to play on the organ before the King at Divine service. Cockpen played with exquisite s kill, never attracted his Majesty's eve. But at the of the service, instead of playing the common _d used, he played up " Brose and Butter," wit h All his energy and characteristic merriment. The was ordered into the "My liege, it was not me, dropped upon his knees. Zen in t :ation some one ca Led my a in a momei of Charl( Where's the ,lOckpen presented himself n J. .vor plaithaiin your life treatment I was restrained from voting. I did not go to man; I was like to dance Coming out of the churc • the poll." The defendant was found guilty, but was dis- " I once danced too," said Cockpen ; "but that was charged on his own recognizances. In the other case, in when I had land of my own to dance on." " Como which the voter, who is an old man, had had laudanum with me," said the King, taking him by the han d ' . given to him in his drink, the female defeidant was ac- "you shall dance to ' Brose and Butter' on your olvil quitted, and the two others were' MIte110(.1 to be impri- lands ' nineteenth generation," and he cr solle4 one month each, „.atu to ti as good as his promise. -1 and Queries. AUGUST 17, 1859. ♦. SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH YORKSHIRE —On Friday, Thomas Rotheram, a man of RAILWAY got on the Sc _ —lt Yorkshire line, when he was struck ny an advancing train, and hurled at least twenty yards. He again fell upon the rails, and the whole train passing over his body he was completely decapitated, and his Ts and arms cut from his body. HAPPY Famii,v.—There is a ricatur ivately circulating in Paris representin g th e Emperore Napoleon puffin . : a cat, a dog, a monkey, a parrot, a woman, and a serpent, all into one bag. The Emperor Francis faites vows ?" "An Italian Confederation," replies Ind you will be so good a ,- o y " Very willingly replies the s to put one of your arms into i 800,000 clitis." lIIDUCTION 0 this case, in which a habeas _tine the Rev. Hugh Hanna, , byterian minister at Belfast, to produce Ellen Magee before the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench in Ireland, he would deliver the cliild up to her mother; inithat, Is it was admitted that she would be fourteen years of 0- for nurture ceased, it mu s t b e a dd e d, as acondition to the order, that the child sho u ld b e p ro d uce d b e f ore him on the 23rd instant, when she might be allowed to choose IMPORTANT TO GAME - PRESERVERS _ IN GAME.—At the Mansion-house, London, on Satur day, Mr. Philip Caretmg, poult erer an d d ea l er i n gam e, Leadenhall-market, was summoned, upon the informs" tion of Mark Loome, for ha v i ng , on th e 4 th o c , „ • • ND DEALERS August, Ye pheasants and sit ive partridges after the expiration of fen days from the of -February. Mr. Orridge, in opening the case, _ appeared on behalf of the Association for the . Prevention of the Sale of Game out of Season, as it had been established for the purpose of putting an end to the offence with which the defendant was charged, and for which under the Ist and 2nd Wm. IV., chap. 32, he was liable to a penalty of £1 for each bird found in his. possession. The learned gentleman then read the 3rd and 4th sections of the Act, which recite that any person who shall knowinglyhave in his possession or contract for any game out of season, except in a mews or breeding place, should be liabl Mark Loome, a ) the penalty; and he then callea perannuated detective, who deposed was now i le employment of the society, and veyed by a j he went into the defendant's , lookin at some fowls. and saw .ssed to defendant rds he saw the basket covered with calico and con- to the South-Eastern Railway station, Lspected it, and found that it still con- had -t a been removed, - and a new one put • Gurney, Esq., Nutfield, Redhill." Mr. !fence, contended that his client, being. a I to sell live birds,. se, and that there such ag Ind .en by the witnesses t Of lav At the eame.tint a guide to' nalties :ociety would, under satisfied with a conviction, and •ed the defendant to pay 145., being „ . LAIRD OF COCKPEN.---BROSE AND BUTTER. — The licentiousness and thoughtlessness of King Charles 11. have become proverbial, and his good nature, which; qualifies these, but ill atones for his ingratitude to those who suffered forfeiture and persecution in hic cause. When he remained in Scotland, suffering the rPhlllto nil -.0 • _ the battle of W, • r austere Presbyterianism, before ter (1651), his chief confidant e Laird of CoCkpen, called by manners of those times, Blythe kpen followed Charles to the Hague, and laying Scottish tunes, and his sagacity avourite tune w arose and Butter." It was played to and he was awakened by it. however, Blythe Cockpen was he NVandered upon the lands which he ghted his mer r y monarc h . Ch ar l es ; s him when he we At the ReAeration (16i30,3 1 once owned in Scotland poor and unfriended. Ceekpen wrote to the Court, but his letters were never presented, Wearied• and incensed, he T were travelled to Lon - don, and placed himself in all linking the eye of his -Majesty might But he was never noticed, and his mean garb did not suit the rich and. embroidered doublets of court ; so he was insulted and pushed away from approaching the King's presence. Cockpea at length attempted by cunning what he could not accomplish by plain dealing. lie ingratiated himself with the King's organist, who was so enraptured with ri 9 •