The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-01 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL.

PROFESSOR WILJALBA FRIKELL,
TO-NIGHT, AND EVERY EVENING,
AT EIGHT O'CLOCK.
GREAT SUCCESS OF THE NEW TRIM.

LIVERPOOL POLICt

(Before Mr. RAFiFs.).
1021901110 M
ind outfittbri Encc-gtreet charged his brother Edward
..,ra ' triSon who carries on the same business at the Custom-
house Arcade, with having annoyed him.—Mr. Cobb
appeared for the complainant anti Mr, Billet fer the
defence. It appeared that on the previous evening the
defendant' Went to his brother's shop td dddiPlain of it.
Customer pf , his ~liatftig beoiA itiotitded„ tti go 'to ,his
brother's shop, The,.totfiptainat or4elibd hit Med td
trevent his Oktrarice, whichWaS One, q.nd the defendant
hen. used some violent lanAnage: . A oli6eiagi
eplied and ideWidAnt ;Orat! tiVtitig lute custody:
Having lkeirel Biliek's.defence, Mr. Raffles , said he
unite iinderstcuid that the difference was ab.out.a customer,
but he did not think the defendant was justified in doing
what he did. though on the other hand he did yt think
the brother should have gone to the extreme of giving the
defendantinto eu.stotly: If, liOeVer, the defendant would
Proltiige, not to "go to his brother's shop again he would
hilt hind him to keep the peace. The required promise
Was given and the case was then dismissed.
CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY BY FALSE PRE-
TENcEs.--William Booker, a young mulatto, was charged
with having obtained the sum of £5 by false pretences,
from Mr. Kindling, of Monument-place. Mr. Cobb
appeared for the defence.—The prosecutor stated that on
the previous evening thPprisorter caute OA& libitse
and introduced hlroself al an did schoolfellow of his
hi:Other:- Ite also said that he was nephew to Mr.
'Cleorge Booker and of Mr. Septimus Booker ; that he
hadjust come from America in the Asia, on board which
vessel he had a large amount of property, which he
would clear on the following day. To pay the expenses
of clearing he borrowed £5 from the prosecutor. The
prisoner alio represented that he bad come to England
to take possession of some property, Ed *hibi he was
Vititled, an which *as Valued at £lO,OOO.—Mr:
Ratites (tie the PrOseCaOr) : I suppose you lent him the
Maley ecause you knew him.—Mr. Kindling : Yes, sir.
.--='111"r. Raffles : Then there is no charge of false
.pre-
tences.—Mr. Kindling t He said be was the nephew of
of Mr. Booker, and that he had come to a large amount
of property.—Mr. Cobb : He is Mr. llookdr's nephew--7
Mr. Kindling : He has no property to reCeive.--=-Mr.
Raffles : As a man pf the world you should have satisfied
yourself of that. If you chose to believe any cock-and-
WI story he may tell you, he cannot be punished.—The
Man was then discharged.
ASSAULT ON A CHlLD.—Catherine Slevin, a 'riddle-
aged woman, was charged with having assaulted a
child named James M‘Donald, about five years of age.
It appeared that on the previous day the child was
playing with others in Mill-street, and ventured too
near a cask which the prisoner had purchased, where-
upon she seized a piece of wood and struck the child
with it on the head, separating the ear from the scalp.
She said in defence that the blow was accidental, as she
merely threw the piece.of wood to frighten the children;
but a witness having stated that the child was on the
ground at the time, and that she deliberately struck hint
on the head, she was ordered to pay 40s. and costs, or
go to prison tot three Months.
Stsi,EciEn man named Isaac Best, who
represented himself as the mate of the ship St. Helena,
was brought up on suspicion of having stolen a silver
watch. Mr. Cobb appeared for the prisoner. The
watch, which was valued at £lO, bore the following
inscription :—" Presented to Sergeant Richard May, by
the members of the Haigh Volunteer Rifle Corps, as a
token of their esteem and gratitude far his services as
drill instructor, 27th Feb. 1860. Haigh, near Wigan."
The prisoner offered the watch for pledge at the shop of
Messrs. Stankey Brothers, Oldhall- street, and as he was
unable to give a satisfactory account as to how he became
became possessed of it, he was taken to bride well. The
prisoner, who alleged that he had only arrived in Liver-
pool from America on Saturday, and that he purchased
the watch for thirty shillings, was remanded for seven
days.

MAXING Tilt Most OP A MrsrourtiNE.----At a meet-
ing of the Gloucester Town Council last week the
following circumstance was alluded to :—The wife of a
person resident of the city having lately died, he deter-
mined to have her interred at the Cemetery. During
the funeral ceremony the eye of the mourner seems tot'
have lighted upon the sand which had been removed
from the grave, and as it was of good quality, ho at
once resolved to possess himself of a quantity of it.
Conceiving, we suppose, that he had acquired a right to

the freeholdby payment of the burial fees, he took a cart
to the Cemetery for the sand, and- on the keeper inter-
posing to prevent the desecration, he thteatened him

with .ihe penalties of the la*. The keeper was some-
what frightened, and allowed one cart load of the soil

to be removed; but by this time the extraordinary claim
had been communicated to the authorities, who imme-

diately put a stop to the proceeding.
THE MURDER OF WILLIAM SANDS.—Norwithstanding
the great exertions of the police, the solution of the
mysterious murder of William Sands, at Camber, near
Winchelsea, Sussex, seems as distant as ever. Last
week a man named William Stredwick was brought up
at the. Town-hall at Winchelsea, charged with being
concerned in the murder. The only evidence offered
against him was,that at about the time of the murder he
presented himself at his lodgings with every appearance
of having been engaged in a straggle. He also offered,
at the same time, two duplicate tickets of watches for
sale for ss. The prisoner was discharged on that charge,
but was afterwards apprehended on stwpicion of stealing
the watches. Government has offered a reward of £lOO

to any person who khan give such information as shall
lead to the discovery of the murderer or murderers, and
Sir George Lewis will adviSe the grant of her Majesty's
free pardon to any accomplice, not being the.person who
actually committed -the murder, who shall give such
information as shall lead to the same result.
FRIENDLY. SOCIETIES.—On Friday evening Mr. Tidd
Pratt, Registrar of Friendly Societies in England,
delivered a lecture at the Workmen's Institute and
Benefit Club, York-road, Lambeth. Mr. Pratt said tables
shOuld be computed on a scale insuring an annual sur-
plus. A friendly society during the first ten years of
its existence would not have more, probably, than half
the claims made upon it for sickness that it would have
in the ten years succeeding. Members ought to be
induced to join while hale and young. To this end no
allowance should be made during the first year of mem-
..„

hership. The delay till infirmity stole upon a man,
when his entrance was little better than a fraud, should
always be discouraged. Mr. Pratt censured the prac-
tice of holding meetings of benefit societies at public-
houses. Foundations of intemperance were by this
means laid ; and it was very much to be deplored

that scarcely any business could be conducted among
English working men that was not somehow asso-
ciated with beer drinking. The investment of the funds
was a very important matter. By a recent Act there
was a limitation to the modes of investment. It was
very right that there should be restrictions placed upon
the actions of trustees. It appeared that forty-four

societies had lent money to a great brewing company
which had failed, and these societies had been asked to
take shares in the company as a means of getting their
money back. lie strongly advised that no man should
become a member of any society the rules of which were
not legally certified. The certification did not cost one
halfpenny. A member of an uncertified society had no
means of prosecuting any defaulting officer.

MACAXLAY'S LEGAL TRAINING. —lf you gave
Caner a tarsal bone, he constructed you, with unerring
certainty, a humming-bird or an elephant. If you gave
Macaulay a casual passage from a letter, he would
divine, with strange precision, the circumstances of that
letter; the occasion of its writing, the reason of its
publication or non-publication, the way in which' the
writer was connected with some great event of the time,
and in which the letter bore ou that event. But his
jndgment of the character of the man, or character of
the event, was another matter altogether, and tasked a
different order of faculties, with which we arc not now
concerned. If we were to seek a rival to Macaulay in
this peculiar province of clear and cogent reasoning
from fact A to fact X, imparting to conjecture
the force of truth, we should probably find him
rather among lawyers than writers. In truth, the his-
torian always retained, and to his great advantage,
many of the mental habits as well as many of the tastes
and joyous recollections of the bar. lie was at once
the most Paleyan and most forensic of historical
inquirers. When he entered the arena of controversy,
you might doubt whether he had donned his armour in
the Senate House of Cambridge or the Assize Court of
Lancaster. We may assume (as Coke assumed, lament-
ingly, of Bacon) that had he only stuck to the law he
would have made a great lawyer. But it is open to
doubt whether, as a judge, he would have done more of
service by the marvellous luciditywith which he would
have drawn out a series of circumstantial evidence
' before a jury, or more harm by his tendency to force
the various considerations attending a complicated case
into conformity with his own too complete and too vivid
ideal of that case.—Cornhill Magazine, for March.
THE POLICE AND THE PUGILISTS.-011 Tuesday last
Superintendent Everist, the active and intelligent
superintendent of the K.C.C. for the Chatham district,
received information that a prize fight between Travers,
the Black, and another man named Mace, was to come
off that day within his district, and he at once took
measures to prevent it. The men, he understood,
awned re
at
to arrivethat
raltaSeeoutthhee City of Rochester steamer,nd, in Essex, by the railway,
belonging to Messrs. Boucher and Giles, was to meet
eientor, K,
ea
onet .sergeant, and The vigilant
them and convey them to the field of combat, which
wasa
superintendent,five constables, proceeded in a fast sailing boat, engaged
ppointed t o
w itthake anpli?.nc sep
by the superintendent, against wind and tide, until they
got round Upton, where the wind was favourable for
them, and they sailed on to the White Horse at the Isle
of Grain, off which place there were no fewer than forty
vessels—eight or ten of them of a large class, evidently
laden with spectators of all classes to view the approach-
ing combat. With the coolness of an experienced
tactician, Superintendent Everist lay on and off with
his clipper till he saw the City of Rochester approach-
ing from Southend across the river Medway towards
the Kentish shore. She then steamed up the river
towards Sandgate Creek, having on board the pugilists
and about fifty others of equal respectability, although
some of them were of a higher rank than the
others. Thewolice-superintendent kept his boat hover-
ing about the landing - place, thinking it advisable
to allow sufficient time to elapse as would prevent
the combatants removing to any other spot in the
county to carry on their pastime. When he saw the
ring had been formed, he landed under a wall near the
spot, and was not observed till he was close to the rine.
The stakes and ropes were immediately pulled up, and
the ruffians cammenced running away in every direc-
tion, making for the steamers and boats. The tide at
that time was ebbing fast; the superintendent returned
to his boat and made chase, the others having consider-
ably the start of him. All sail was, however, crowded,
and he beat every boat except the steamers: On com-
ing to Folly Point they saw the men had landed
from the City of Rochester, and at about half a mile
distance the stakes were pitched, the ring forma, and
the ruffians beginning to fight—on which the superin-
tendent and his men laude d and proceeded to the rind,
into which Everist jumped over the ropes, when
' the pugilists and their seconds sprang out of the
ring and made their escape, whilst the spectators ran
towards their boats, in attempting to reach which one of
them was nearly drowned. They again started for a
more favourable spot, but Everist, with his clipper, was
in such hot pursuit that they were compelled to proceed
to Stroud, where they landed, and proceeded to London
by the South-Eastern Railway. They were so much
astonished at the rapidity and success of his movements,
that several ringleaders assured him, "noon their
honour," that they would not come into his district any
more.—Kentish Gazette.

THE DOUBLE MURDEF, AT BOLTON-UPON:
DEARNt.

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Little more tlia tlifee ;years ago the murder of an
aged couple, attended it Hictlinstanees of
atrocitY, was perpetrated in the rural and secinhea
village of Bolton-upon-Dearne, On the night of the
14th of DCCCCORr; 1.5. M, =f will TcracillliVred that Luke
White, an aged person, who was the village postniastd,
and kept a small druggist's shop, and was a local
while Apparently ertgaffed in preparing his
the timid Sthile oil() ddrild
to his shop door, and on going to see what was wanted,
he was knocked down and ruthlessly murdered. its wife,
hearing a:4*9t4? 01. P shop, appearedi while going nlong
the papage leacliql from the, hOtise into tge shop t 4 Lek
hat was the natter, to have been met and also murdered,
both bodiei being found weltering in a pool of blood
in the forenoon of the next day. No traces of robbery
having been committed were visible; and the affair
was enshrouded in the most impenetrable mystery.
Although every effort was made by Colonel Cobbe and
the superintendents of the neighbouring divisions of con-
stabulary, and large rewards offered, not the slightest
clue could be found to the perpetrators of the horrible
gild the eOrtnier's inquest; after sitting for a con‘
siderable time, was obliged to return an open verdict.
The only person to whom the finger of suspicion pointed
was White, the village constable; but no object could
be shown, nor could the slightest evidence be
duced to in any way connect hint With the dreadfill
,deed ; but, on the cOritrarY, it was shO4i. that tile
idtdeased had been one of his irainiest supporters, arid
had that day been engaged in getting up a memorial
to Colonel Cobbe in favour of White being permanently
stationed in the village. However, nothing corning to
light, White left the village, arid has since ii: tug living
to Some extent as a suspected niaii in his riatiVe town
Of Barnsley; in aiiiimis eipectatiiin that soniething
would tiirrl hp to *travel the mystery, and restore
him to the position he had formerly held in the
estimation of the world. Recently, however, we are
glad to say, circumstances have transpired which are
likely to throw some light upon the tragedy. On
the day the murder was committed a hawker was said to
have been in the village of Bolton, vending caps and
small wares, but no clue could be obtained to him after-
wards, nor could he in any way be conneoted with the
commission of the deed. During the past week an
Irish hawker, who is said to be undergoing six years'
penal servitude at Portsmouth, has made certain state-
ments to a companion relative to the affair. These
were, communicated to the governor of the gaol in which
he is undergoing his imprisonment, and information has
since beeti forwarded to Ast*ocid, sdpeririterideiti Of
the West Ridini, constabulary at Doncaster, whO has king
ekertedlimselr to obtain a clue to the tiagedy. Mr. 1
AstslioOd, we_understad, has beeti to Portsmouth, and
had aififiterview With the hawker, Who has pointed out ,
the guilty parties, stating that, although he hiniSelf
did not commit the murder, he was in the house
when the murdered couple were lying dead on the
floor. The names of the perpetrators have not yet been
made known; neither has the nature of the confession
further than what has been stated, although we under-
stand he completely exonerates White from. any par-
ticipation in the murder. The most, active inquiries
have been made for some days, and information of
the facts having. been communicated to the Secretary
of State, we are informed warrants have been issued for
the removal of the prisoner from Portsmouth to York;
and for the apprehension of the parties criminated. The
hawker has given some particulars as to the articles he
was selling in the village at the time, and the persons to
whom he sold them ; and the police are now making
inquiries with a view to the affair being unravelled.
The matter is exciting the greatest interest in the district,
and it is hoped that the mystery in which the tragedy
has so long been enveloped will soon be cleared away.

THE DRESS OF VOLUNTEER OFFICERS,

The following letter has been addressed by Mr. Sidney
Herbert to the respective lords-lieutenant of counties :
(corr.)
".War Office, 15th February, 1860.
"My Lord,—My attention having been recently
directed, to the practice adopted by some of the volun-
teer corps, in which a silk sash is worn over the uniform
by honorary members, and even in some cases by en-
rolled members when not upon parade, I have to request
that, as the practice in question is open to considerable
objection, you will signify to the officers commanding
artillery and rifle volunteer corps, within the limits of
your jurisdiction, that the custom of wearing the sash
shall be discontinued in those instances in which it may
now prevail, and shall not be introduced for the future.
" I may observe that this article, when worn in the
regular army, is the distinguishing mark of an officer,
but that it forms no part of the dress of either artillery
or rifle corps in her Majesty's regular forces.—l have
the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient
servant, " SIDNET: HERIIERT."