Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-01 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. 'HOME' CIRCUIT.-MAIDSTONE, JULY 30. Musnza.—This day, Charles Chemley, aged 22, water man, was indicted for the wilful murder of Elizabeth Jones. The prisoner in this case was a birgeman, and the deceased was a girl of loose character, belonging to 3ffaidstone. It appeared that on the 9th of March, the deceased and her sister, who is also a girl of the town. fell in with the prisoner and another man, who was the captain of a barge, and the deceased's sister agreed to accompany the prisoner on board his barge, and the deceased was to go on board the other barge with his companion. A d spate took place between the prisoner and the sister of the deceased, and it appelaed that upon some violence being used or threatened by the prisoner, she left him, and went on board the barge where the deceased was, and here some further altercation took place, and the prisoner struck the deceased a violent blow on the back of the head with a broom, from the effects of which she died three days afterwards. The prisoner was found guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. ANOTIIZR ATTESIPT MUBDETt —George Parker , 25, Was indicted for the capital offence of shooting ary Anne Eliza Taylor, with intent to murder her. The prose cutrix, a very good-looking girl, stated that she resided with her parents at Northfleet ; and at the time of the occurrence she had known the prisoner about nine months, and they had been keeping company together and were to have been married. The prisoner kept a tea and coffee shop at Rosherville, and she used to take care of it for him and return at night to her father's to sleep. On the Thursday before the 30th of May she had a disagreement with the prisoner about a ycung man speaking to her, and he squeezed her so hard upon that occasion that she was compelled to call for assistance, and the young man she referred to came into the room and struck the prisoner. After this she went home to hsr father's house, and did not go to the prisoner's shop any more until the Saturday following, when she went to fetch her things. This was the 30:h of Msy. She saw the prisoner, and he asked her to be friends with him, but she said she could not after what had occurred on the previous Thursday, and that she was in " everybody's mouth " She then, it appeared, went up- stairs and the prisoner followed her, and said, "Do you intend to have me, or do you not ?" And she replied, " No, I don't intend to have you." The moment she said this, he drew et pistol out of his right hand pocket and said, " You shall have the contents of this." She heard the click of the pistol, and the moment she did so, she rushed down stairs. The prisoner tried to stop her by lacing hold of her cloak, but it came off and was left in his hands. She went out of the prisoner's shop and sat on the cell of a window next door, and the prisoner came up to her at d said, " What's the matter with you ; I have not touched you, have I." The prosecutor replied, " No, get away from me, I don't want you to touch me," and upon her saying this the prisoner stsbb:d her in the side with a knife. She did not see him strike her with the knife, but she felt the blow, and found afterwards that she had received a slight injury in the left tile, aid that there was also a small cut in her left arm, but she was unable to say how this was occasioned. The prcsecutrix, in answer to questions put to her by Mr. Ribton, said that it was originally arranged that after they were married they should proceed to Australia, but the idea was given up, although it was quite settled that they were to be married. The prisoner had bought her a bonnet and a dress, and she had gone out f a walk with the young man she referred to with this bonnet on, and he came to the c' flee-shop on Thursday; and had some tea. The prisoner Caine in after tea and said he would not have him there, and she said, in reply, that he had come there to have his tea, and she could not turn him away. From the evidence of other witnesses it appeared that the prisoner was in a dreadfully excited state at the time of the occurrence, and that he struck the prosecutor two or three times before the pistols were produced, and that he attempted to discharge a second pistol at himself. Two pistols, it appeared, were taken from the prisoner, one of which appeared 'o have been recently discharged. The other was loaded with powder and ball, but did not appear to have any cap on it. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of net guilty, and his lordship said that without desiring to cast any reflection upon the verdict, he felt it his duty to order the prisoner to find sureties to keep the peace tower% the prosecutrix for the space of two years, and he at the s ime time said hs should advise him not to molest h or have anything to do with her in future. THE MANALLUGUTER OF A MILITARY OFFICER.--Samuel Baker, who was convicted on Tuesday of the manslaughter of a young fficer belongi ng to the 44th regiment, and who was originally charged with wilful murder, was brought up for judgment. Mr. Justice Willes, in passing sentence, said he had taken time to consider, and had conferred with his learned colleague the Lo-d Chief Baron upon the subject, with a view to see whether there were any circumstances in the case that would at all reduce the quality of the crime that had been committed by the prisoner, he was sorry to say that he could not find anything that altered the opinion he had originally entertained, that the crime he had committed was of the most aggravated character. Even supposing that the unfortunate deceased young man had made use of improper language 4o his wife, it was no justification for his deliberately taking a deadly instru ment such as a poker, and striking him about the head with it in the savage manner that he had been proved to have done, and his conduct in leaving him upon the sea shore in the state in which he was found, and evidently not caring what became of him, or whether he lived or died, was brutal in the extrerma. His lordship concluded by stating that he felt it to be his duty, under all the circum stances, to order him to be kept in penal servitude for the remainder of his li e. NORFOLK CIRCUIT.--Noßwlca, JULY 30. Mtreeze.—James Able% 52, a nurse in the Great Yarmouth workhouse, was charged with the wilful murder of Angus Steward, a pauper under his care. The evidence disclosed shocking brutality on the part of the prisoner, who sobbed frequently during the proceedings, and ap peared to suffer great mental distress. There were six persons in the north ward of the workhouse. The prisoner went to the bed of the deceased and finding misconduct, stripped off the bed clothes, and with some foal expressions said he would get a stick for him ; not finding one he took a small brush, and putting the deceased's hzeis under his arm, struck him sixteen times behind with the flat edge. He then took the deceased out of bed, put his feet on the floor, and with his doubled fist struck him first on one &de and then his head fell over on the other. He also kept swearing all the time, and said he would be the death of the man who had been paralysed about seventeen months. The deceased called out, " Pray don't hit me any more, you'll kill me." Those were the last words he spoke, although he did not die until the evening. Af, er these blows-with the stick, the prisoner hit the deceased vio'ently with the bed board, and then (te use the expression of one of the wit nesses), " hove" him into Me night chair. The deceased was struck with the flat part &.t the bed board, and after he was in the chair his head fell forward, upon which the pri soner told him, with an oath, to hold it up. Prisoner hit him several times on each side of his head, and tore his hair out. On behalf of the prisoner, it was urged that he had been irritated by the deceased's dirty habits, and that he was guilty of manslaughter only. The jury hiving taken this view of the case, Mr. Justice Williams sentenced him to fifteen years' penal servitude. TIPPERARY CIRCITIT.-- 7 NEruall, JULY, 27. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT —AN ATTORNEY SENTENCED TO Two YEARS'IMPRISONMZNT WITH BARD lABOUR.—Rowan Patrick Cashell, Esq , William Edmun, and David Hayes, were indicted for an assault on Denis Brien, in the town of Nenagh, on the .sth of July, instant, with inteneto do him bodily harm. Mr. Cashell is a gentleman of respectable position in the town of Nenagh, and several of those who were called on the jury objected to serve, in consequence of being personal friends of his. Mr. George, Q.C., stated the case, and expressed his regret that it was his duty to prosecute for SO grave an offence a person of the respecta bility and station of Mr. Ci.shell,an attorney known to many in the county. It was a duty however, which should be discharged, and the law knew no distinction of persons. Counsel then proceeded to refer to the facts which arose out of a claim to a small house in Nenagh, of which the prosecutor got possession under a decree from the Assistant-Barrister. It had been set by Mr. Cashell, pending the redemption, to one of the other prisoners, and on the 6th of July last all the prisoners entered the house, beat and ill-treated the prosecutor, dislocated his leg, and fractured his ribs, from the conse quences of which he was still suffering. The prosecutor was carried in, a helpless old min, and his appearance created a deep sensation in a crowded court. He stated that he had been in possession of a small house in Nenagh, of which Mr. Cashell claimed to be owner, and having paid £7, and £2 odd costs, he was on the 26th of June put back into posses-ion ; on the 61 of July the three prisoners came to Ifs house, and by orders of Mr. Cashell proceeded to attack him and drag him out ; he was taken by the throat, knocked down by the Hayeses and leaped upon, and he then lost his senses until he found himself lying in the channel with his leg dislocated. Several witnesses baring been examined, Mr. Johnstone addressed the jury for the prisoners, arguing that the prosecutor was hurt by a fall over his doorway as he came out. Witnesses for the defence were then examined ; and His lordship charged the jury, who convicted the prisoner of an assault with intent to do the prosecutor grievous bodily harm. Mr. Johnstone applied to his lordship to impose a Ene instead of sentencing Mr. Cashell to impri sonment, as he had lately suffered an attack of paralysis, and his medical advisers were of opinion that his life plight be endangered by imprisonment. His lordship said hat any case of that kind should be made to the Executive. He then proceeded to pass sentence on the prisoners. He said that, if the counsel for the crown felt that they had a painful duty to perform, he was not less so in being obliged to pass sentence on a gentleman of the position of one of the prisoners, a member of the pro fession of solicitors—a profession which no one entertained a higher respect for than he did, He was glad the jury had acquitted the prisoners of an assault, endangering life . If they had been convicted of that offence, he would have no alternative but to sentence them all to penal servitude, and the shortest period of penal servitude he could have inflicted would have been three years. His lordship then observed upon the perfect equality of all men before the law. When men violated the law and were convicted of crime, no distinction could be made in favour of the rich or the educated. On the contrary, he regretted that he was obliged in this case to draw a distinction between Mr, Cashell, who was the instigator of this offence, and the men who acted under his direction, and that should be in favour of the latter. Tne sentence of the court was, that Rowan Cashell should be imprisoned for two years and kept to hard labour, and that the other prisoners be imprisoned for twelve calendar months and kept to hard labour. The prisoners were then removed. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1857. THE SUPPRESSION OF HOU3E3 OF ILL FAME. At the commencement of the present week, a number of memorials were forwarded to the authorities by certain respectable inhabitants of different localities, complaining of the nuisance and annoyance they experienced from the efcablishment of houses of a disreputeble character in their immediate neighbourhood. The consequence was that the police were instructed to indict the offenders, and they were each committed by the stipendiary magistrate to take their trial for the offence at the sessions. The grand jury having found true bills against each of the persons so convicted, yesterday they were brought before the Recorder, G. Henderson, Esq., to receive their trials. The parties were Adelaide Eccles, of Belgrave street, off Erskine street; Mary Lawson, of the same place ; Jane Morris, of Eldon-street ; Mary Evans, of alontague-street, Jeremiah and Ann Kelly, of Eldon street ; Mary Evans, of Montague-street ; and Elizabeth Farmer, of the same place. All the prisoners, with the exception of Farmer, pleaded guilty, by the advice of their counsel. In the later case, evidence was given by several females clearly establishing the charge, and the jury pronounced her "guilty," although she most emphatically denied their statements, and said she get her living by needlework. In the case of, the girl Eccles, it was proved that she hal been only three weeks in the house, and that it had been furnished by a Mrs. Monderfield, of Hotham-street. By the order cf the Court this woman was sent for, and upon being questioned by the Recorder, admitted the fact, and was severely lectured by that gentleman, who told her that she was equally liable with the prisoner to punishment, for having furnished and let the house for such purposes, bat, on her promising never to so offend again, no punishment was awarded to her, although the Recorder expressed an opinion that it was his desire to punish the parties who let such houses rather than those who kept them. In the course of the inquiry which took place into each of the cases, it appeared that the houses ware let by Mr. Bennett, house agent, of Lord street, and Mr. Hargravea, of Soho-street. Mr. Bennett was ordered to attend the court, and upon his appearing, the Recorder stated that he could not conceive how a person calling himself respectable could let houses to such persons, and expressed it as his determination to punish such patties as soon as he could have a clear case against them. Mr. Bennett denied that he had any knowledge of such transactions, and stated that he had done all he could to prevent it, whenever he found out that such parties were in his house, by giving them notice to quit. The Recorder cautioned him to be more careful in future, al he was determined to make an example of such persons. The prisoners were all then brought up to receive the sentence of the court. Jetemiah Kelly was sentenced to five months' imprisonment, and Ann Kelly to two months ; Mary Morris was sentenced to four months. In each of the above cases it was proved thrt the parties hal received notices from the police to desist from their unlawful occupations, but had not paid any attention to it. The other offenders, Mary Evans, Mary Lawson, Adelaide Eceles, and Elisabeth Marmer, promised most faithfully that they would never again enter upon such a mode of life, and were therefore bound over in their own reeog nizances of £25 to come up and receive the judgment of the Court, when mile t upon. This concluded the business cf these protracted sessions. SPOILING AN EAGLE'S NRzT.—Two foresters of Inn spruck, assisted by some sportsmen, lately gained pos session of an eagle's nest, and in it a young eaglet, about six weeks old, which they carried alive to Innspruck. The nest was found at some little distance from the river Sulzenbach, in a small cavern, situate in a side of a rock, and about 150 feet below tree summit. One of the foresters, named Tscban, had himself let down by means of a rope, with a piece of wood placed as a seat. The young eaglet not having given its visitor a friendly reception, but, on the contrary, inflicting several severe wounds on his hand an 1 arm, Tsclaan wes compelled in his defence to strike it with part of a sheep which he found in the nest. The eaglet was at last mastered and placed in a basket, and 'J'schan was again hoisted up, glad to escape from the dreadful stench which arose train the remnants of dead animals in the cavern. While this was going on the female eagle was sect hovel ing above, but at very consider able height. She was not fired at, as the guns were reserved in case of an attack from the male. An eagle has for the last 40 years built her nest sometimes on the rock of Solstein and at others on those of the Hechenberg. The damage caused by these birds to the game and smaller cattle in the neighbourhood has been very considerable. SHOCKING AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday morn ing, about ten o'clock, a shocking accident occurred in Drake-street, Rochdale, which resulted in the death of a carter, named Richard Jackson. It appeared that the deceased wee employed by his father, named Robert Jack son, of Coekhall, Wni'iorLll, farmer, but formerly a stone dealer, in company with his brother Jehn. The decease I had come to Rochdale with a load of flags, had delivered them, and was returning. On his way he had called for some slabs of wood, which ha put into the cart. They extended over the shalt horse's head, and, as the cart moved along, the escillation of the slabs caused the horse to take fright. Deceased held the first horse, but imme diately took hold of the shaft horse by the head, which fell and knocked him down. The horse rose again instantly, and set off, when one of the wheels passed over the head and neck of deceased, and killed him on the spot. Deceased, who is not married, and about twenty years of age,was removed to the Rubin Hood Inn, close by. He has borne a good character, and was much respected by his acquaintances. CHESS ASSOCIATION.— MANCHESTER MEETING, -- The meeting begins on the sth of August (Wednesday next), with a consultation match between foreign players, repre sented by Messrs. Anderseen, Horwitz, and Kling, and some of the most celebrated English playere. Then comes a return match between Messrs. Harrwitz and Lowenthal. Great interest was excited in the former contest between these gentlemen ; the victory in a match of twenty-one games being only decided by the odd game. The next is a match between Ireland and Scotland, represented by the best Scotch and Irish players present at the meeting ; the conclusion.of the match between Oxford and Manchester, left unfinished at the Leamington meeting ; a match between the Birmingham and Liverpool clubs, also between various other clubs, represented either by cham pions or committees. Following these matches will be a one-game tournay, among eight of the players present, the prize being a handsome set of Chinese carved ivory chessmen, presented by Mr. Lamport, the late Secretary to the Manchester Club. Then comes a one-game tournay, in which sixteen players will take part; the prize a set of chessmen, large size; and the awarding of a prize to the composer of the two best prgblems, the judges a committee, Mr. Kieg in the chair. Two self-taught blind lads, who, after only six months' practice, play a strong game, will attend the meeting. It is hoped that the players present will have an opportunity of witnessing the wonderful blindfold chess of Messrs. Anderseen and Harrwitz. In all cases where clubs, &c., shall elect to play for a set of chessmen, the association will contribute one-half the expense, each club having, previously to the match, sub scribed one-fourth. In consultation matches, in order to save time, the c:ub which shall first win two games, shall be the victor, unless otherwise arranged. The following gentlethen, with others, have been invited, and many of them have kindly promised to attend :—Messrs. Anderseen, Barnes, Bird, Boden, Brien, Buckle, Cattley, Greenaway, Harrwitz, Horwitz, Kennedy, King, Lewis, Lowenthal, Mealey, Mongredien, Newham, Owen, Staunton, Walker, Wayte, Withers, &c., also Gamma and Delta from Scot land, as well as Sir J. Blunders, Rev. G. Salmon, Messrs. Hunt and Sydney from Ireland. The meeting will be held at 'Wovenden's Hotel, Market-street, at the corner of New Brown-street, where arrangements will be made for the accommodation of visitors. _ _ -- • ---- bliss Skins IN LIVEaPOOL. - --A full-length and correct Likeness of Miss smith is just added to Allsop's Crystal Palace Wax-work Exhi bition. Lime street, Liverpool, modelled from a drawing taken during er trial at Edinburgh, and positively the only one taken.—Advt. Cass AND base Boxes.—The next important thing to the posses sion of cash is, how (when you have got it) to keep it safely, either in the counting-house or at home. The same remarks apply to deeds and other valuable documents. We have seen a large and varied stock of both these desirable articles, manufactured expressly for Mr. E. T. Hall, of South John-street, that challenge attention. These boxes are made on new and admired principles, and WHOM patent locks, which defy the ingen uity of any "pick-lock" in the world to open, except with the legitimate key. To merchants, solicitors, and others, these new safes, on a small scale, must prove valuable indeed —Northern Daily Times, 21if Nay, last POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. BEFORE MESSRS. HOLT AND OREM. DESERTING A FAMILY.—Thomas Jones, a lath cutter, was charged by Mr. Hughes, out-door inspector, for hav ing deserted his wife and family. The prisoner had been in gaol for a month formerly, for a like offence. He was sent to gaol for two months. PLUNDER FROM A SlllP.—James Eden, a cotton porter, who was engaged on board the ship 'Defiance, discharging cotton, was convicted of stealing some things out of the cabin of the ship, and sentenced to a months' imprison ment. SUOP PLUNDER.—RaIph Howard, an assistant at Mr. Eaatdales, draper, Byrom-street, was charged for stealing some glove s, handkerchiefs, stockings, and other things, the property of his employer. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to throe months' imprisonment. FILIAL Arm-mesa—Ellen Vallaley, who resides in Shad well-street, was charged with having attempted to kill her mother. The facts were these :—The prisoner's husband is in Australia, and since he went away it was stated that she led a loose life. On Wednesday morning week the prisoner came in, (she was out all night) when her mother asked her where she had been all night? when she knocked her down stairs, and she was so much injured that she was not able to attend until yesterday. Surgeon Wall, of the Northern Hospital, said the old woman had a serious wound on the head, and it might have been done by a blow or a fall. A. boy proved that he saw the prisoner beating the old woman with a poker and toasting fork. The prisoner said her mother was drunk and fell down stairs. The officer who had charge of the case, said the prisoner, when he was taking. the old woman to the hospital, said she would kill the old woman. The old woman was quite sober. The prisoner was sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment, and at the end of that time to find bail for six months longer. ASSAULT.—A fellow named Thomas Cannon was charged with having assaulted James Ford, by striking him with a stone on the head The prosecutor had purchased some thing from the captain of a ship, and was conveying it away in a cart, when the prisoner demanded payment for alleged work, but complainant refused, not having em ployed him, when the prisoner hit him with a stone on the side of the head, and cut him severely. The prisoner was remanded far a week. ASSAULT BY A HUSBAND.—Cumors CASE.—John Grey, a master carter, residing at 51, Cheapside, was charged with having assaulted his wife. Mr. Bluck was for the complainant and Mr. Goodere for the defendant. The case was very singular, and nothing could be more different than the appearance of both parties. Mrs. Grey was a well-dressed, decent-looking female, about thirty-five years of age, with a head of hair " firey red ;" whilst the defendant presented a dirty, careless appearance, and a razor, with the addi tion of soap and water (even Pike water) would have been a decided improvement to his face. He appeared about 50 years age. The facts of the case were these : On the 10th July the defendant came home, after being out all night. She asked him if he had spent the evening with Mrs. —, and he replied he had, and that he would bring her into the house, and keep her there. This, as may supposed, was not calculated to "throw oil on the troubled waters" of Mrs. Gray's feelings, and some alterca tion followed, when the assault complained of took place. Mr. Goodere : Did you call him " old blind Simon ? Yes, and he called me a " red —." Are you married to him? Ye s, lawfully. Is your former husband alive? I don't know anyth'ne about him for twelve years. He went away to Manchester, and there was a great fever there about the time, and it was supposed he died, as I never hoard of him since. Had you 15s. a week allowed yon by the defendant ? Yes, but he never paid *me. (Laughter.) How many times have you had your husband up here ? About thirteen times. Defendant : I want to be separated from her—l can't live with her, as she promised to poison me, and burn the stables and horses. Mr. Goodere (to complainant) : How much money did you receive on Saturday? I don't know. Did you receive £5O? Yes, I did that, at least. Da,endant : She got over £BO at least. Mr. Goodere (to complainant): What did you do with the money ? There were plenty of people to be paid wirh. it. Did you pay them? No, not yet. Did you go to the Bold-street savings' Bank with his bank book? Yes, but he was with me. Mr. Holt : We cannot enter into these differences or arrangements with them; all we have to deal with is the assault. Mr. Goodere then addressed the bench for his client, when the bench decided on bindieg the defendant to keep the peace for twelve months. " Tan GARYOWEN Bovs."—Two persons named Thomas M•Grath, and James Carden, were charged for having assaulted Adelaide Lemon, of No. !NI, Summer-street. Mr. Cobb was for the prosecution, and Mr. Bluck was for the prisoners. It appeared that the pri soner I\l'Grath, occupied apartments in the house of complainant, and that he got into arrear of rent. He was attempting to get his furniture out of the window, when the complainant went to prevent him until he paid the rent. A squabble followed, when the prisoner stabbed him in the back part of the shoulder with a small pocket knife. This was proved by the woman and her daughter. At five o'clock the next morning the two prisoners rushed through the house, shouting that they were " Garyowen boys;" they broke the windows, and assaulted the com plainant and her husband. 351‘Grath was sent for trial, and the other prisoner was ordered to pay a fine of £2 and costs, or one months' imprisonment. THE WAY WE6T OP ENGLAND GENTLEMEN ARE TREATED. —Agnes Brown and Rebecca Millar, one the keeper of an infamous house in a court off Norbury. street, the other an unfortunate woman of the town, were charged by police officer 301 on suspicion of having stolen a watch from a " West of England gentleman," who gave his name as Francis Royd, and who said he was stopping at pre,ent at Aigburth with some friends. The complainant is rather of strong exterior and remarkable appearance ; he is about twenty-four years of age, with light hair and moustache, and his appearance contrasted strongly with that of the two prisoners, who were old, coarse, dirty, and disgusting looking. The only thing the complainant could tell about the affair (as he was drunk when he lost his watch) was, that on Wed neiday night he lost his watch at some place,but where was a mystery ; he remembered being in the house with one of the prisoners, but he could not tell if he had the watch at the time. He identified a key that had been attached to the watch when it was stolen from him ; the key was found on one of the prisoners. A. shoemaker named Wharton, who lives in Parliament-street, said the prisoners offered the watch to him, saying, they wanted to make away with it, but he refused to have anything to do with it. Inspector Kehoe said, if the prisoners were remanded no doubt the watch would be found by the police. The prisoners were remanded accordingly. BEFORE MR. HAMILTON. INTEnesTiNa To PUBMCANS —Francis Daly, the keeper of a beer-house in Chadwick-street, was summoned by officer Bolton, for refusing to admit him on Sunday morn ing. Bolton proved that he demanded admittance, but was not allowed into the house, although he waited two or three minutes. Mr. Goodere, for defendant, asked— What clothes were you dressed in ? Private clothes. Who sent yon out, sir, in private clothes ? The magis trate said that was not a point he could take cognizance of. Mr. Goodere said it was not only illegal, but uncon stitutional. to send out policemen in plain clothes, for the purpose of entrapping publicans, and, in fact, creating crime instead of preventing it. It was a fostering of the spy system that was not tolerated in any part of England save Liverpool. His worship said he had nothing to do with the spy system, all he had to do was to administer the law. Mr. Goodere contended that it was illegal, and he said the rule was that a policeman, when demanding admission to a public house, should wait at least five minutes before he went away to bring a summons for refusing to admit him. He appealed to Mr. Wybergh on the point. Mr. Wybergh replied that the late Mr. Rushton had laid it down so, and it was acted on at one time. With regard to police going about on Sundays in coloured clothes, he was of opinion that they ought not to do so, and he believed the chairman of the watch commit tee was of the same opinion. Mr. Hamilton said as there was a doubt about the time the policeman was kept at the door in the present instance, he w.:aild give the benefit of it to the defendant, and dismiss the case. Richard Owen, publican, was fined Gs. for Sunday trading. There were several beerhouse cases, but the details were void of interest. BIRK FM" FAD. Magistrates - present—J. D. Case, J. S. Jackson, Esqrs , and Rev. Mr. Colon. _ SHEET STIALING. — James 13 attersby, a labourer, living in Meacock-street, was charged with stealing five sheets, the property of Patrick Whellegan, a lodging-house-keeper. The prisoner bad sold three of the sheets to a marine store dealer, named Pryal, for is. 3d., and the other two were found wrapped mind the prisoner inside his trowsers. Twenty-one days' hard labour. ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.—Thomas M'Alevey, an Irish cattle dealer, was brought up charged with stopping James Morgan, on the highway, near Eastham, assaulting him, and rifling his pockets of Is 7d, The prosecutor, who is in the service of Mr. Murdock, of Little Sutton, stated that on the 29th instant, he was riding his master's horse on the turnpike road from Bromborough to Sutton, and when he had got about a quarter of a mile out of Brombo rough,the side of the road. If .;s horse was walking at the time, he saw th e prisoner a n d two other men standing at when the prisoner came u 5 to the horse's head, and laid hold of the bridle, and then struok him (the prosecutor) twice on the head and face with the ash stick produced. (Prosecutor bore several marks on his face, and a very severe bruise over the left eye.) Prisoner then let go of the bridle, and took hold of his legs and tried to pull him off the horse. The other two men also came to assist him —one of whom went to the bridle, and the other assisted in pulling him off the horse. The one who had hold of the bridle, then let the horse go, and when they had got him (prosecutor) down, they commenced kicking and beat ing him, the prisoner, at the time, kneeling on his breast, ultimately, he found that they had taken his money out of his pocket. The prisoner cross-examined the prosecutor, and elicited from him that after all the ill-usage he had received, he had actually gone and bad some drink with chem. The Bench said, that being the case, there was an end of the robbery, and they would deal with the case as that for an assault, and fined the prisoner the full:penalty of five pounds or two months imprisonment. H.M.S. HASTINGS.—CharIes Hammons, a marine, be longing to H.M.S. the Hastings, lying in the Sloyne, was brought up, charged with being a straggler from that vessel, which means that he had strayed beyond his time allowed him to be on shore. He was ordered to be handed over to the Sergeaet-Major who was in attendance to receive him, that he might be dealt with by the authorities on board the vessel. A INTEw ACT—" OUT FOR A SPREE."—A spicy-looking young man, who gave the name of Francis Short, of 28, Christian-street, Liverpool, and that by profession he was one of the adjuncts of the Colosseum, was summoned for refusing to pay the sum of lOs for a ride on the 23rd inst, with some companions (not all males), from Woodside Ferry to Moreton, Woodchurch, Arrow, Oxton, and back to Woodside. Defendant admitted having taken the trip, bat that ho thought the demamel rather too high, and to show that he did not want money he had left a sovereign in the care of the barmaid at the Adelphi vaults, Woodside, to abide the decision of their worships to-day. Cabby was, however, all smiles, and knew he was right, and pro ducing his book he very soon pointed out the different fares to each place, as he did not come back by the same road ;. and Mr. Short, without being' long detained, was ordered to pay the fare and lOs 6i costs, or in very short time his goods and chattels would be in a distressed state, upon which Mr. Short said he would not be long in getting his sovereign he had left in the shade. In a very short time one of the old " George and the Dragon" made its appearance, and Mr. Short, having added a sixpence to keep it company, retired behind the scene, thinking, no doubt, that he had played his part admirably, and that Cabby would like to give him an encore. It was stated in court that it was a very long ride for a short man, and that had Cabby been up to the mark, and traced the map properly, he might have put on something more, which would have enabled him to have gone and seen Mr. Slrort's next performance—" A trip into Cheshire." EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT OF A DUMB GIRL IN LIVERPOOL-REVELATIONS! Yesterday, at the morning sitting at the Police Court, a drunken looking, half clad, but rather good looking female, named Ellen Reed, was brought up before Messrs. Holt and Sheil, by effieers 634, and 648, charged under the following strange circumstances. It appeared from the evidence of sevcal persons, including the police, and a respectable female named Ellen Fineday, who lives at 74, Wolfe-street, Park, and in whose house the prisoner lodged, that some short time ago the prisoner took a room in the house named, saying she was a marrie woman, and that her husband was engaged in seine factory. She had three children—the eldest a dumb girl abort five or six years old; the second, a girl ahout four years old, and the third, a baby at the breast. The owner of the house did not exactly like the movements of the prisoner, but yet she said nothing to her. On Thursday evening, the prisoner seeing a men pass, said, "Oh, there is my husband," and she called him into the house. From what transpired, the owner cf the house was induced to send for the police. The officers on entering the room, found the dumb girl quite naked and lashed to a table and chair in the centre of the room, in the following way. There was a rope tied round her waist, and from this, at her b - Ick, there was another rope tied ; this was brought down her back, and through her lower limbs, and again made fast in the front of the child's person, from the rope round her body. It was then secured to the chain and table, so that the child could not stir. There was a large and vicious-looking ulcer on the child's back, produced by the frictien of the rope. The police said when they asked the prisoner why she had treated the child so, she replied it was mad. It appeared that whilst the officers were releasing the child, two women called to see the prisoner, and one of them rocagnised the man (alluded to, who was called in by the prisoner) as her husband. Up to this time, he lay concenled in a bed, and had nearly smothered the youngest child, that happened to be in bed, in order to hide himself. When he was dis covered, he charged the prisoner with having robbed him of a sum of money. When he was called in court yester day, to sustain the ch arge, he did not answer, and the whole case was remanded for further investigation. THE MURDER OF Mg. Ltrrix —The trial of Spollen will, we understand, be proceeded with at the ensuing commission of Oyer and Terminer, which opens on the 4th inst. The case for the Crown will be conducted by Mr. Brewster, Q. C.—Dublin Evening Mail. HOLY WA"' E 11.—Ererybody (s ,ys a correspondent) knows that holy water is an article of faith to the spiritual sub jects of the Pnpe, and we hear occasionally of their imita tors baptising au infant supposed to be dying, afterwards burning the water and breaking the basin, lest they should be put to some unholy purpose; but it may surprise mlny to learn that in a dissenting chapel in Landon the minister baptising some infants announced that he had brought the water from the Pool of Siloam on his way from Jerusalem. Perhaps it will quite as much surprise the pnblic to be informed that the attendant at a chapel near Huntingdon most reli,iously preserves the water used for baptising for making her tea. Tux SADLEIR ESTATES.—On Wednesday. on the applica tion of Messrs. Murrough and Kennedy, solicitors for the London and County Bank, the Commissioners of Irish Encumbered Estates fixed Tuesday, the 17 h of November, for the sale of a portion of the estates of the late John Sadleir. The rental of this division of the property is about £4,000 a year. Twenty years' purchase being the average rate of the Irish land market, this slice of the mysteriously acquired possessions of the suicide ought to produce at least £BO,OOO out of the £250,000 or £300,000, the estimated gross value of all the estates which from time to time came into Sadleir's hands. A "BLOODY MURDER" IN AUSTRALIA.—It was rR moured that a cruel and mysterious murder had been committed near the dry diggings of Daylisford. There is a large deep waterhole, in a secluded spot, which one might easily ima e ine to be the scene of such a deed. Blood was seen near the rim of the hole, and in several places down the side. The police were on the alert—the neighbourhood was in an uproar. Drags of all kinds were procured, and the inspector and his men were all the week indefatigably engaged in endeavouring to solve the enigma. At length their labours were crowned with success. Something heavy was felt on the drag ; it was slowly and solemnly raised to the surface. It was the mangled body of—a dog !—Melbourne Age. TOTE STRONGEST FORCE IN NATURE —When a visitor at the late Sir Robert Peel's, in the year preceding his death, a scientific lady who was amongst the company assembled a' Drayton Manor, while at dinner, determined to make the most of her time, asked Mr. Stephenson the question, "What do you consider the most powerful force in nature i" Few men care for h owing science thrust upon them at every hour of day or night, and perhaps Mr. Stephenson felt that, or probably the answer came from a deeper source, and was not only a clever compliment but a very good reply—" I will soon answer that question; It is the eye of a woman for the man that loves her . for if the woman looks with affection on a young man, and he should go to the uttermost ends of the earth, the ree)lleetion of the look will bring him back.' There is no other force in nature that could do that." —Life of Sir George Stephenson. ANTI-MORMON ItIOT IN BIRMINGHAM.—D - . Brindley, of Leamington, formerly well known from his crusade against socialist doctrines, has for some months past de voted himself to the exposure of Mormonism in Birming ham. The result has been that for several weeks the chapels of the sect have been the scene of disturbances of a very disgraceful character. On Sunday afternoon a man named Horsley, on ,leaving Allison-street chapel, was chased through the streets by mere than a thousand men and women. His coat was torn to shreds, and having taken refuge in a cab, he and the cabman were pelted with stones. Later in the evening a more serious affair oc curred in Thorp-street, where the Mormons have another chapel. Dr. Brindley had been preaching opposite the place of meeting to a crowd of two thousand persons; the crowd rushed into the chapel and began a running fire of comment on the sermon, some of the language used being of not a very edifying character. President Aubry, who was preaching, was compelled to close his discourse abruptly and dismiss his flock. A most disorderly scene then oc curred ; the women were hustled, insulted, and bespat tered with mad ; the men had their hats knocked off, and were pushed about from side to side; and hootings, oaths, tin-kettle harmonies, &c., lent completeness to a scene not often witnessed in Birmingham on a Sunday evening. Quiet was temporarily restored by the police. On Monday morning the chapel doors were again broken open, lock fast closets were ransacked, and a large number of music and school books were torn and strewn about the yard. The police are now in charge of the premises. Threats of an intention to burn them were freely circulated Amongst the crowd on Sunday evening. HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A DOG. George Smith a plumber, residing at 7, Queen street, Dalston, appeared at the Clerkenwell Ic'olice-court, London, on Thursday, in answer to a summons obtained against him at the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, charged him with having cruelly ill-treated and tortured a dog. Phoebe Bungard stated she was a laundress, at 22, Tottenham-road. On the 7th July, about two o'clock, she was informed that defendant had been cruelly ill-using her dog. She went out and saw the dog lying in the road, moaning piteously, having its skull shattered, one of its eyes protruding, and its hind quarters much mangled. After lying in the road for some time, the poor animal got up, crawled into the house, dragging its hind legs after it and uttering the most piteous cries. Witness was so horrified at the sight that she hardly knew what to do, but after some time, she got a person to put it out of its misery. The dog was an exceedingly harmless and inoffensive animal. Mrs. Lane saw the defendant strike the dog with a heavy hammer six or seven times over its head and body, after which he picked the poor animal up, and threw it into the road, at the same time exclaiming, That's the way to cook the -." Mrs. Jane Sophia Knott, and Sinclair and Love, officers of the society, who attended is prosecute the case, gave confirmatory evidence. The defendant did not deny the charge, but said the dog flew at his children, and he struck it once or twice with the hammer for the purpose of killing it. Mr. D'Eyncourt remarked, that probably the dog was a little ill tempered, but that was no reason why the defendant should have recourse to such a revengeful and cruel method of torturing it. Had he destroyed the dog, and not let it suffer, the case would have been differ ent. It was a most cruel act, for which the defendant wood have to pay a fine of 405., or in default fourteen days in the House of Correction. A TOBACCO:, PETTICOAT.-CRINOLINE SUPER• SEDED. Lottie Dartdemere, a little Dutchwoman, who carried an infant in her arms, was brought before Mr. Yardley, at the Thames Police-court, on Thursday, charged with smuggling 21 lbs. of foreign manufactured tobacco, by which she had incurred a penalty of £lOO. This was an infor mation exhibited by Mr. J. A. 'Milford, a tide surveyor, by order of the Board of Customs. It appeared that on % the arrival of an Antwerp staamer, on Thursday, at St. Katherine's-wharf, the prisoner, who was a passenger, wds about to leave the vessel, when her extraordinary bulk attracted the notice of the revenue officers on board, who politely asked her if she had any goods liable to duty in her possession. She made signs in the negative, but the officers transposed her to a female searcher, to whom she declared that she was enceinte. "Then you must allow me to ba the widwife," said the unrelenting English woman, and she accordingly proceeded to strip the Dutch woman, and took from her a huge petticoat which encircled her person, and which was lined throughout with com pressed tobacco. The prisoner then stammered out an excuse that as ladies wore crinoline petticoats in England, to give them a very bulky appearance, she had substituted tobacco, which was cheap in Holland. The excuse was not cre ited, and the prisoner was taken into custody, the case reported to the Board of Customs, and this prosecu tion instituted. The prisoner, through an intepreter, pleaded guilty. A custom-house officer produced a large petticoat made of canvas, with straps attached to make it fast to the shoulders of the wearer. It was filled with tobacco. Mr. Yardley said he had no alternative but to sentence the prisoner to pay a fine of £lOO to the Queen, and in default to be imprisoned for six months. The prisoner hoped she would be allowed to take her baby into prison ; and, as it was only eight months' old, she was allowed to take it with her. THE Rr.CENT ABDUCTION CASE. Mr. Solomons. of the firm of Joseph and Saul Solomons, attended at Worship-street Police-court in the coarse of Thursday, and, addressing Mr. Hammill, the sitting magisr trite, said—l have to make an application to you, sir, in reference to a person named Aarons, charged before you recently with ab lucting from her father's residence a young lady named R -becca -Pass. The accused, I believe, stands remanded, and my application to you now is that ho be brought up and discharged, inasmuch as an arrangement satisfactory to all parties concerned has been effected. Enquiries have adduced the gratifying fact of the gentle man for whom Mr. Aaron was presumed to have acted in the affair, being respectably connected and altogether unexceptional in character and circumstanc.:s. This has been clearly ascertained ; and, moreover, he has pledged his honour immediately to marry the young lady, whose fair fame remained unsullied. Under a knowledge of the whole facts, therefore, I, as the family solicitor, have counselled that Mr. Pars should withdraw from the prose cution, and he is desirous of doing sa accordingly. Mr. Hammill: It is desirable that the statement should be made in the prosecutor's hearing. Is he present? Mr. Solomons : I believe so, or in the adjoining office. Mr. Pass was then called into court, and the preceding appli cation recounted to him by the magistrate, who added, "is the matter as described ?" Mr. Pass : It is quite correct. Mr. Hammill : Then I, too, am gratified that a case which, when previously brought before me, presented such apparently bad features should now wear a different complexion, and terminate so satisfactorily. The prisoner was instantly sent for to the House of Detention, and dis charged. It was understood that Miss Pass sojourned at a respectable lodging alone, until Monday, when she returned to her parents. POISONING OF A HUSBAND BY HIS WIFE AT PONTEFRACT. During the past two or three days the utmost excitement has pre vailed in Pontefr et and the neighbourhood in consequence of the a , leged poisoni , g of a farm labourer, named John Speed, (residing near the parish church), by his wife Fanny Speed, who is now in custody on the charge of poisoning her husband. It appeirs that the deceased, who was a quiet inoffensive man, was taken poorly on Wednesday week, ant continued so until last Saturday, on the esen ing of which day he died somewhat suet I enly. A melical man having been called in, and a rumour prevailing that the deceas-d hat been poisoned, Messrs, Thomas Sailes, Charles Macro% Wright and Simpson, surgeons, made a post mortem examination of the body on Monday last. Oa the same day, an inquiry was oi.ened in the Town Hall, before John Foster, Esq , the borough coroner, and a respectable jury. The evidence of the medical gentlemen having been adduced, which was to the effect that a large quautity of poison had been found in the stomach of deceased, and the proceedings tending to criminate deceased's wife, as being the per , on who had administered the poison, the enquiry was adjourned until this day (Friday). Toe content- , of the stomach were in the meantime to be sent to Mr. Morley, surgeon, of Leeds, for the purpose of being analysed. So great was the excitement caused in the town, that during the proceedings in the Town Hall, many hundreds of persons assembled in the adjo nhag streets, who were anxious to hear the result of the inquiry. The deceased's wife, who is reported to have not one of the best of characters, was taken into custody on Tuesday morning, and still remains in charge, awaiting the result of the coroner's inquisi tion. It is staled that she recent y attempted to purchase poison at a shop in Pontefract, hut did not succeed. A large cone ,nrse of people followed the funeral of the deceased, which took place on Monday evening ; but so great was the feeling entertained against the priso ner, that she was not allowed to follow her husband's remains to the grave. The parties had only been married about eighte in months, and deceased was about twenty-eight years of age. el ny rumours are afloat in the town aiidsneighbourhood of Pontefract respecting the ocenrrcnc:•, which, for the ends of justice, it will be as well to reserve to a future stage of the inquiry. MR. BRIGHAM YOUNG AND THE LADIES. In a recent lecture delivered in Utah by the Mormon President, the Wiles of the territory were addressed as follows:—Some women will set emptyings in the morning and let them stand until they sour, and mix up the flour with them and sweeten it with saleratus, and then knead it ready for baking ; and if Sister Somebody comes in, th-y will sit down and begin to talk over old times, and the first they know, the bread is sour. " Dear me ! I forgot all about that bread !" and into the oven she puts it and builds up a lug, fire, and again sits down to visiting with her neighbaur, and before she thinks of the loaf there is a crust on it from a quarter to half an inch in thickness. So the bread is spoiled, there goys one quarter of the flour, the bread is sour and disagreeable to eat, and the husband comes home and looks sour, and is sour, as well as the bread. tie finds fault, and that makes the wiie grieve, and there are feelings of unhappiness and dissatisfaciion in the family. The husband may be a good man, and the wife may be a good woman, and try to please har husband, and to do as much as the old lady did who said "it was impossible for her to please her husband in baking bread, for If it was halt dough he did not like It, and if it was half burned up he scolded about it." You may say that it is hard work to please a man—yes, and woman too. But when a man does hss duty in providing for a family, there can reasonably be but little complaint on the part of any sansible woman. A man may be good and industrious, may be an excellent mechanic, and in many things a diligent man, as in the case with a number with whom I an acquainted, yet go to his house and esk, "have you a pig in your pen ?" " No, I have nothing to feed a pig with. I cannot keep one." Sit down to his table and he has not a ynontt ful of meat from week's end to week's end, unless he buys a little. "Have you a cow ? ' "No, I have nothing to feed a cow ; I cannot hire a pasture, and were Ito hire one driven to grass as far as the herd boy go she would not give milk enough to pay the herd bill." I have been in worse places than this and kept a cow. I have taught the brethren how to live upon less than 5 dollars, 3 dollars, or even 2 dollars a day for the support of a small family, and when men complain that they live here on bread alone, they do not reflect that they do not know how to provide for themselves. Years pass away one after another, and I see more and more that there are but few men and women that are even capable of taking care of themselves temporally. SYDNEY SMITH AND COLERIDGE.—In London be saw a good deal of Sydney Smith, and some anecdotes are re lated. The best thing is the commencement of a charity sermon by the witty Dean, as reported by Mr. Crosse, " Benevolence is a sentiment common to human nature. A. never sees B. in distress without wishing C. to relieve him." Coleridge he never met, but he tells of his brother, Richard Crosse, who was as ardent in metaphysical as he himself was in physical science, visiting the old man, and coming away after listening to him for three hours, when be was in the middle of his second sentence !—Memoirs of sindrew Crosse. EXTENSIVE BURGLARY. Thomas Henry Mason and Harriet Jarvis, were broligbi up at Marlborough-street, London, on Thursday, for ft' examination, charged with feloniously breaking into warehouse of Charles White Tapling, and stealing P perty valued at £l5O. Mr. Lewis, of Great MarlboronA,, street, was for the prisoners. Inspector Rope y Mackenzie said, from information he received, he 0 11 1 1 , about three o'clock in the morning of the 9th inst., to si ' New Compton-street, and in a back room on the 0 ,7 0 floor he found the prisoners in bed together. 4 0 told Mason, who was dressed, to get up, and iv° Mason rose from the bed, he searched the room, li c a g behind the door he found a large chest, which contnill' thirty-five pieces of tarburet, several needlework cushionti and other property. Under the bed he fonil id a quantity of table linen and other articles. He lc) Mason, who was half drunk, that he charged him SC / ,‘ having stolen property in his possession. The prison!: were then conveyed to the station-house, and when they.; Mason said he bought the property found in the wool; Messrs. Debenham's auction rooms, and then declared, would answer no more questions. He afterwards ma ll more minute search of the rooms, and found en property. Police-constable Attwood said he found skele''' keys, files, screw-drivers, life-preserver, and other plements of an experienced burglar in the t 0 occupied by Mason. He afterwards went to 10, Portland road, where a robbery had IT previously committed, and found that one of ), 0 skeleton keys opened the street door. On inner door marks were found corresponding to one of house-breaking implements. Charles White Tapit gentleman, Clarendon-lodge, Maida hill. In May last hired the shop of the house 16, Portland-road, and Oar:, in it a quantity of goods for the purpose of warehousl them. No one was left to look after the goods consequence of a communication from Inspec" Mackenzie he visited the shop, and found it had stripped of property worth £l5O. The goods D O prcduced were part of the stolen property. A needle o _ ,A° owned by the female prisoner was one of the artl sto'en. Henry Donkin, constable belonging to the Lon e , o and North Western Railway, said he was present I / Mason was tried at the Central Criminal Court for burg' —he was committed and sentenced to nine months' i-1 1 1 6 , sonment. The prisoner Mason said he gave the nee% case to Jarvis, who was ignorant of the way in which became possessed of the property. Fully committed. A NEGRO EXECUTION. John Dorsey, the coloured man who murdered a lel Irishwoman in March last, by cutting her throat, on vire, l l 4 charge he was convicted, has been executed in the 1 -'1 Prison, New York. Father du Banquet, a Catholic pri' o l was with the doomed man all night, and gave dim spire t „0 consolationepraying with him in his cell. The priest '3 up while Dorsey slept, and, upon the accused awaking priest dressing himself, the ceremony of mass wa - .; perforola and Dorsey partook of the sacrament. Shortly el nine o'clock a procession, headed by the sheriff Ig o his deputies, was formed, and marched from 0 prison hall to the execution ground. The doomed rl4 was supported by his spiritual adviser. Dorsey 11370 been placed beneath the scaffold, the sheriff informedlp that he could then make any remarks that he desired. 11, made a lengthy speech, but being a mixture of Ergr o il French, and Portuguese, it was difficult to understatiU that he said. The substance was as follows ( IV morning, my brothers and sisters. lam thankf u l to _ a o Jesus for leaving me my health to pray to Him and prerit myself for my God ; and I am content and prepar i er meat my Judgment, and I hope to s ee you At'aj heaven. My dear friends, I ha v e b een thien while I was in prison, that it was very hard g o be hung on such slight evidence as this. In first place, in this case I would like to knolf anybody on this earth, standing before me on this gal or before God, can say to me that I am the murderer °f oo l girl, or to say that they saw me speaking to this girl beg time in my life. I wish to let you all know ho w m y tr° 4 4,l came about this girl or this murder. I gave a staterety of it to the governor first, and then to the reporter of to g New York Tribune, and he gave a statement of it as I 41 him, and it was correct. I am resigned to my fate 'V my death with Christian fortitude, and die in the gre c li God. I am happy in religion and lam content, 0 ; 1 forgive every one in this world. I am goi ng t o meet P: judge. He is above all earthly judges, an d I h o p e he 4 forgive me for all the sins I ever have done ; an d I 11° ;c1 to meet you all in Heaven. Farewell, all ye b ro therst g sisters." At ten minutes before 10 o'clock, Do r sey he v 7, taken leave of his spiritual advisers, the sheriff and oth° the rope was adjusted about his neck, and the black 80 placed over his eyes. The sheriff then drew his sword s , ..a signal, the fatal rope was severed by the executioner, Pof in a moment the murderer was jerked up to the heighted the beam, falling upon the slack of the rope with r io t violence. His struggles were but few and short. Ye t to s some time after being suspended a quivering of the was perceptible, After banging twenty minutes, the e 5 ), geons present pronounced the man dead, swhen the boil was lowered and placed in a neat coffin. The execlitl.t, was conducted in the most order:y manner, and was 1 1 1 0 nessed by abaut 120 persons, including the sh er iff and immediate officers. A lIEAVY BILL FOR SHAVING. At the Cork City Court, the following case was reel' tried : Richard Neville Parker, appellant, v. William Piriet Respondent. Mr. Clarke, Q C., said that the process was brought fcr sum of £26, due for works, labours, and services render; by the respondent. It was an action brought against Parker, who was executor of Mr. Edward News° l 2 deceased, in his representative capacity for works rends l ' to Mr. Newsom in his life time. His Lordship : What are the services? ' Mr. Clarke : The process d oes no t s t a t e , b u t I thi n k for shaving. (Laughter.) His Lordship : Shaving! £26 for shaving ! Mr. Clarke : Yes, my lord ; he'd shave you lordshiP Mr. M'Carthy, counsel for respondent, having enter° the court, His Lordship inquired for what was the action brough t Mr. M'Carthy: Tne evidenc . o will show that m y lord' His Lordship : But we don't want to know anytb'' about it. The process doesn't state what it is for. „ Is Mr. M'Carthy : He was sent for by the late M r . Nevily nearly four years ago, and employed principally— His Lordship : To do what ? for Mr. M'Carthy : To shave him. He shaved him nearly four years. His Lordship : And he got £5 a year for shaving. a i Mr. M'Carthy : Principally for that. Ho was engstl' in other capacities also. His Lordship : Is he a barber ? (To respOndent) .. you a barber ? ta Respondent: No, my lord, I served my time weaving. His Lordship : To everything ! He served his time to everything. (Laughter.) Respondent : To weaving, my lord. His Lordship : Oh, weaving Mr. M'Carthy : I believe he is a watchman, my lord. a His Lordship : Then he sent for the watchman to shad° him. (Laughter ) The respondent was then sworn, and deposed that April, 1853, he was was passing by Mr. Newsom's 44, one day, and Mrs. Newsom call e d hi m an d t o ld hi m t h a t .3,t a Newsom wanted him; he went up to him, and asked 1 1 1 would he shave him ; witness replied that he wo u ld, 8 .., 11 , did so; he performed that service up to th e p er i o d of AP' Newsom's death, nearly four years after. Mr. Clarke submitted that it was an attempt made aft af d Mr. Newsom's death to extort mone y. Th ey were will:Ivo to give £5. His Lordship : I'll reduce the decree from £2G to £lo' EMBEZZLEMENT AND SUICIDE.—A young mai, who hag been for saveral years a salesman in a respectable Glasgo/ warehouse, was recently suspected of having embezzled al appropriated a quantity . of goods, the property of bt employers. He had obtained leave of absence for a fe" days, and proceeded to Helensburgh on Friday. Fror o circumstances which afterwards transpired, a petition we presented to the sheriff, and a warrant granted for b l 9 apprehension. II? was taken iuto custody at Helensburgh on Saturday morning, and when the steamer was approach' ing Greenock he suddenly threw hims e lf overboard. 1 was rescued from the water in a few minutes by some boat men, who at once proceeded t o hi s ass i stance . Th ey haat however, scarcely got him into the small boat, and wer e proceeding towards the west quay, when he cut 11 0 throat. When brought ashore he was conveyed to 0 10 Greenock Infirmary. The windpipe was found to he i severed, and a large gas h i n fli cte d, t h oug h t h e pr i nc ipal arteries, it seems, have not been cut. He lies in a very pre carious state. Th e G reenoc k correspon d ent o f t h e N o rtli British Mail gives the following account of the matter " On Saturday afternoon William Wood, late salesman to William Gilmore and Co.. of Glasgow, was apprehended at Helensburgh on a charge of embezzlement, by Mt' Miller, messenger-at-arms, Glasgow, and conveyed to Greenock in the steamer Alma. While the boat was pag; sing West Quay, Wood jumped overboard, but was rescue,' by two Norwegian seamen who were passing. Who! taken into the boat, however, bo dre w a razor f r om bl' pocket and cut his throat. He was remitted to the infit' mary, where he lies in a critical state.''