The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-06 00:00:00

AN UNFORTUNATE " SPOONEY"

An unfortunate-Looking boom, named Matthew O'Rourk,
11110 probably was a descendant of the world-renowned Billy
tile behlylial of that note, was charged for haying stolen a
spoon fr.int tile Pelican Hotel, Islington*flags. The prisoner
Might ha7ie been the identical "tongs!' of an O'Rcutk who
rddb., On the flack of tics eagle id the Moon, Where he spent a
rilmith hik friend, " the nian thiiimdighiencd regidri.
The world e;idently had negledted 11i. O'llourizi for it Made
no laW tohnike hint riCh;bdt, on the contrary; had taken ton-
, derfril paiaS to enact laws to punish him for being pdor, and
no ddribt felt the injii,LtiEe.of tPi2, distrii3otion of pit-
0c rty in this ttillunai' Re; consoled himself
bY thinking he Would live till lie died despite the reVolittions of
fortune's merry-go-round or time's whirligig; and although
he might not have a coffin covered with armorial bearings, and
a long obituary in the newspaper, commencing thus---.‘ We
deeply regret," and so forth, "to record the death of Matthew
O'Bourk, Esq., pauper.' " Yet it was some comfort to
know that the sceptered king could not occupy more of his
parent earth that he could, namely, .7 feet by 3 ; and then
Blair's Grave chtne uppermost in his mind, and he imagined
he was telling Louis Napoleon or Alexander the Great,
"scoundrel! that's thy resting place; and this is mine." ln-
dinging in Mundane ideas of this sort, in a fit of abstraction,
lid sirolled intd the kitellen df the Pelican! front Whieh apart-
ntent issticd eet4iin ihkrils di
. . Cabbage. eggs, and bacmi,
Enotigh.to set the portals
Of a vacant s.tonrich aching :
And although a pelican's nest was not a likely spat to obtain
material to remedy the collapse in the stomach, yet lie pro-
burtA sortiething there in the shape of a silver spoon, which
he could, by a process only.known to pawnbrokers, transmute
Into mutton and potatoes, and he marched with that article,
lint wit+ stopped in iiid progress, and the artiee found in his
Pus6mion. Ilt?ford the nt,gistrAteB, he scorned to tell a lie,
and toe his veracity he WO sent to Jail for one month. A
Conipletcßlustration df the assertion, that the law was made
td ;in/10 his licingli.tingtt, viilictitt regard to morals; but
after. dli, "Honesty the best .
•
(lefore Mews. Anucs and ooTir.)
PUBLICANS' AND BEERSELLE BS' CASES.
Joseph Arnold, publican, Great Crosshal I-street, was charged
with permitting drunkenness. Case proved, and fined 20s and
costs. "

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Diary Leighton, beer-house keeper, Barmouth-street, was
charged with refusing to admit the police. Acquitted.
Chtigtoftetletnian,; Scotland-road, charged with Sunday
trading. Fined 5s and costs.
Samuel Incharn, beer-house keeper, Boundary-sire_i;
tads
charged with Sunday trading. Dismissed.
Edward Williams, beer-house keeper, Upper Mann-street,
was fined 5s for Stinday trading.
• Joseph Armstrong, publican, St. Andrew-street, was sum-
ndlineid„tfaor. a:e at 172...„,:r. Cobb, for the
(1060°!:i., vittnesi6 cUsprove the ch trge, and it was

TftE'B,VV-R_ PTVIYP-OISMNG k't SANDAL,

NEAR: IVAICEPIEtD.:

The inquiry in this case vas Fesdriii4 rn ThAirsday
morning, at the "Wakefield Court House, befefe E.
Tew, Esq., T. Foliambe, Esq., T. IL Holdsworth, Esq.,
and E. T. Tew, Esq.. The prisoner, Emma Stringer,
. was placed at the bar at eleven a.m. She was again
cwen4e4
,by:. Mr, Wheelhouse, of Leeds, instructed by
-Mit: Salter, di
.112,fintry i
.Mr. Shaw, o!' Wakefield,
instructed by Wilkefichl, being for
the prosecution. The healing oonsiderable
interest. .. _ - _

--IMary Link, 'a dressmaker, Iv—he had been on tering Of
considerable intimacy with the deceased, stated that she
slept at deceased's on the night of the 2nd of August,
and also on the night preceding the 7th. On both
occasions. she was awakened by the deceased, who was
Omitting and purging. The prisoner went
to her immediatelY,',4ltit Oen she came back she said
Miss Adamson had been ia,Vai-iPiltsielettess.
Cross-examined--She always nWegfed,
,to' behave
kindly to the deceased. On the night of the. 'rpri of
August the deceased and Mr. Wood took tea out of the
same tea-pot.
The Rev. John Young (Roman Catholic) was next
examined. His evidence was the same as that given
before the coroner.
Mr. Charles Fernandes (the solicitor for the prOsecu-
dot) was
,next examined, lie said that, acting under
the direetfong. of the Rolf: Sandford John Cyril Adam-
son, the brother Of fife dec'easdi and her executor, lie
had taken riesseSsion ihepikierik the home. The
prisoner xeineved, f«e fibres and a carpet flag off the
20th of Atk,fitit;,ydt.before. she did se she aqoWed him
to examine them. EiliC..COVnied to' him foi the bid
she had had, and she dlairned Oa.of ft £ls' for *ages;
and £7 15s. 6d., money, advanced td Miss. hdaasoii.
There was a 3s. 6d. for mourning.. •
The other witnesses were those who had been exa-
mined at the inquest, and they added nothing material
to their statements.

Mr. Wheelhouse next addressed the bench for the
defence, making a speech which lasted an hour and a
half, ge submitted that there was no evidence which
VrottJd,jipqfythe bench in subjecting the prisoner to the
punishment ot,teing' ttommitted for trial on the charge
of murder. He wodld take out of the. case entirely the
evidence of Mr. Nunneley and Air:. ljardtt, for It was
too suspicious to be relied on. He asked the Veffeh
not to accept the testimony of the Leeds doctor as one
who was eminent as a toxicologist, for his eminence was
founded upon the evidence given in Palmer's case, and
that being opposed to nearly all the London doctors who
gave evidence for. the crown, he. considered it not repu-
tation but notoriety. There had been no poisonfound
by the medical man who made the analysis under more
favouraule circumstances than he did ; and if poisonswere
&and trithe eltent of three grains, as Mr. Nunneley said,
might it not hate been.introduced into the Viscera by
accident ? Might not Mr. Reynaids, ilho was only a
wholesale druggist of Leeds, have brotight it NIT/ his
own shop, or it might haVe been introduced by his son,
as he went from the compounding of his father's drugs.
Supposing for a moment, however that the deceased
died from poison, she was in the habit of doctoring her-
self; but could they suppose she had so died, when her
death was accompanied by no symptoms of arsenical
poison ? With regard to Mr. Baron's evidence,
he contended that they could not accept that after
the evidence that had been given with 'regard to
the disposition of the deceased's property—the
git of it to a Catholic charity. With regard to
'the 'Timid/ dit the pirepberty: he the/light the fact that
Mr. Fernandes having, Ntitho'lit aulhotity, gone.itito the
house of deceased, justified the prisoller" id taking Care
of that which she knew would have to lie deceirrited fo'r
by her: The other evidence he considered very situ ;;
and he asked for the prisoner's discharge.
The magistrates retired for twenty minutes, and on
their return into court, Mr. Tew announced that they
had determined to commit the prisoner for trial at York
for the murder of Miss Adamson.

She was committed accordingly, the witnesses being
bound oi,et to prosecute.

LLEA.vrtf. ot_ tit* D!jiir a' gdia4oLlC—We regret to
state that his Graie dies Dttkd qt Norfolk dill remains
very ill, at his temporary residea at Littlehtimpton ;
but the recent reports of his medical attendants have a
more favourable tone. The noble duke has taken
rey CAttage for another month, and we heartily hope
that at the expiration of that time his Grace may return
to Arundel Castle greatly invigorated in health.—Test
'Sussex Gazette.
erVITA VECCift-- &.he Toulonnais says :—" It has
Veen decided to establish a naval direction at Civita
Vecchia. 1.60;a4n df frifgato and a lieutenant will be
sent to that station from TotffOrti with all the requisite
staff of clerks. The Neapolitan frigate I,a S.,anitu, which
was under repair at Toulon, has been safely trio'dred,
and all the workmen withdrawn, until it shall be known
for what Government the works are to be continued."
GENERAL SCRUIDT.—General Schmidt, late of the
Papal army, has addressed the following letter, dated
Altdorf the 26th ult., to the Sclttoytz Gazette :—" I read
in au article of your journal in which there is a qUestion
of My stay at Ttirin, the following phrase :—` A passport
for Switzerland Was accorded to the prisoner, on con-
dition that he would not take up arms against Italy.'
I beg td ebsertee in eotreotian of this statement, that I
did lick oas d prisoner to Turin, for according to the
terms of the 6apittilatidd of Pertigia, no one of atiy
corps, whether officer or soldieri.Was nilicie a prisoner of
war ; and at Turin a passport of ari ordinary traveller
was given me, and no promise like that of which you

speak- was exacted." - .
SECRET DIPLOMACY.—A somewhat strange incident
is at the present moment serving as the subject of dis-
cussion in the Prussian journals. 'lt is stated that
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Count Perponcher, the Prussian Minister to the King of
Naples, placed at the disposal of King Francis at Gacta
the Prussian vessel Loreley, to carry secret despatches to
the Commandant of the fortress of Messina. The

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National Gazette and all the liberal press comment very
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seVerely on this act of the Prussian diplomatist.
Slties Pnisoiltus mom PitauorA.—The Norwelliste
Vaudois under date* df. Verne; 2Sth says :—" The
first convoy of Swiss takeii ffisdners at Perugia was to
arrive at Lucarno last evening:, and the Tnrin Cabinet

has made arrangements for sending. the others in detach-
ments of 150 men daily. At Genoa the inquiry into the
nationality of the whole of the persons captured has
shown that, with the .exception of nineteen, they arc

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ilatirbs of Switzerland, and that every one of the officers
is Swiss."

BOAILS IN FRANCE.—The Yonne journals state that,
a few days ago, as many as thirty-five wild boars were
seen together by a peasant in the neighbourhood of
11(IgitY. Idttt he; inetead of summoning the inhabitants,
allowed his ddg to attack them, and they dispersed.
The people, howeVer, Of that fil/agg and of the neigh-
bouring one of La Chapelle, armed With gitnsi pitch-
forks, scythes, and clubs, collected and made a Mint
after the animals. In the course of a short time they
succeeded in killing twelve, the others escaping.
TuRNING THE TABLES.— Tile Opinion Nationale
has the following paragraph :—" There has just appeared
dt lianoVert at
is
Court bookseller's a new map of
Europe, which s remarkable for the absence of the
powerful State which in cur day the name of
France. It has pleased the German geo'grapber to blot
us out of the book of life of the nations. lid generously
gives to Belgium our northern departments; to Ger-
many, Lorraine. AlsSee, and a part of Franche-Comte ;
Switzerland annexes to herself the valley of the Bkone ;
and apatn arouses the Pyrenees, and establishes herself
peacefully on both bulks of the Garonne. As for Paris
we do not know who is t 6 fio'gs'oz it. The honest Ger-
man, in order to turn the difficulty, wit( rtfobably make
a present of it to •Abd-el-Kader."

COMPULSORY ENLISTMENT FOR TIER NAVY.--TIIC
ilioniteur. publishes a decree, ordering that, men whose
names stand on the maritime conFcription-lists having
seffed the Btate for six years, shall not be liable to be
again called oil td serge either afloat or in tie arsenals,
except in cases of emergeriq. The decree is founded
on a report from the Minister of lia:firle, who proposes
the measure to the Emperor, in, order that the men to
whom it refers, may not be impeded in entering the
'merchant service or vessels engaged in the fl,,herieS, and
may thus feel a degree of security favourable to their
interests.

Tsa LATE, PRINCE OF SERVIA.—The late Prince of
Servia, Milescli Obterlovitch, born in 1780, was the son
of a peasant, and began life es a farm-servant and
shepherd. Having, some years after, distinguished
himself under Cara Geor:-.,rievitz, in fighting again it the
Turks, he was appointed waivode. When Cara Georgie-
vitz took refuo.e in Atistria, Milosch continued the
struggle until 1815, in which year he was named prince
of his country. Having been compelled to fly by the
revolt of 1839, he was recalled in 1858. It is rumoured
that when he left. Servia he took with him immense
sums of money, a million ducats of which he entrusted
td the keeping of the late Baron Sina. His son Michael,
Iffich *as born in 103, married the - Countess Julia
Ilunzady id MI, but he has no child. Prince Michael,
who was educated at iierliri, Is a man of a gentle nature,
the very contrary to his father in that respect,
BORN TO BE A MAN, DIED A GROCE.H.---4 grocer's
apprentice, a fine young man of twenty-five, named
Arsene, who loved literature neither wisely nor well,
lately hung himself in his master's house, in Paris.
Upon his table, amidst a heap of books, was found the
following.letter, the orthography of which was not on a
-par with the style !—" I am but. a grocer and shall never
be anything else. I always think of that. caricature
representing a grocer standing on the threshobj of his
door, and making this reflection—' Born to be a man
and condemned to become a' grocer.' He who thus
judged our calling was in the right. For many years I
have tried to improve my mind ; I have read, an I even
copied out., hooks which I don't understand. All this
muddles my head, and I find that I become more and
more stupid every day. The longer I live the worse I
shall be. Now, I remember to have read somewhere
that a man should-apply his intelligence to be useful to
humanity, and as I see I shall never be fit for anything
brit to weigh cheese and dried plums, I have made up
My mind to go to another world which I have heard of,
and see whether there may not be a place for me there.
I ask pardon of my 'brethren.for speaking in thii dis-
paraging way of our common profession ; but I defy
them to point out a single instance of a grocer having
ever made hiS way to a higher position. There arc
plenty of manufacturers who have become deputies and
are decorated and loadel with all sorts of honours, but
the like lias .never happened_ to a grocer.. For these
reasons I have determined to bang myself. I beg my
parents to erect a simple tombstone to my memory,
to inscribe upon it these words, 'Born to be a man ;
died a grocer."
OUR AUSTRIAN SYMPATHIES. England must fra-
ternise With AuStria. Surprising as this declarationtiiat may
r
seem, its truth will be apparent from the facts, that, and
the last ten years the Austrian nation bas paid t
eem
did in the tenthan it
to the amount of. 800,000,000 follies
ten years'
is 1,300,000,0b0 florins larger than
at 100,000.000
ago; that State property vatiuee
deficit expected in
florins has .had to be sold; that
1861 is 39,000,000 florins in case of peace ; and
preceding; v thatl national debt
w a r
circumstancescontribution"
are f .
:uncial committee ; and what
stated in the report of athe..m
Theset3.h2a.ototoh.eoopoeofineleri:srepesru:bujiten_cutannetet.beall
f,..ainerr:,frain from exclaim-
-su " Nine to my arms,
ing to his Austrian
taxationel ru:
Englishman that reads them
! Let us compare what our
my brother in
llq
fleabites." We are told . that the
exceedingly onerous that it
war contribution
friend' Disraeli ca
so
. evenc as that impost, it is assessed with
the utmost t i,.
cannot long be levied• How verylike our own income
tax !Perhaps-.
and levied so as to inflict the
greatest hinconvenience. Whilst, therefore
the Austrian subject of confiscation,
John
Mr. Gladstonepossible
hugs the
embrace the Finance Minister of
Austria!
may