The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-10 00:00:00

TWO SWELLS IN TROUBLE.

Two well-dressed young fellows, named John Gill and
William De Byres (said to be a foreigner), were brought up
charged with having picked a lady's pocket on the small
Landing Stage. Mr. Bluck defended. It appeared from the
evidence of Mrs. Emma Maudsley, of Seacombe, that on Wed-
nesday evening she was gsing on board a boat at the stage,
when she observed Gill near her, and then she felt some one
press against her, and immediately she missed her purse,
which contained a two, shilling piece, and some other silver
and small things ; she at once caught hold of the prisoner and
held him until a policeman came ; the other prisoner was near
him, and the purse was got quite close to him, but its contents
were gone; amongst some silver got on the latter prisoner,
was a two shilling piece. Mr. Black endeavoured to show
that there was a mistake in the case, as regarded his clients,
but Mr. Raffles sent both for trial as they were well known to
the police

ROBBERY BY A SERVANT GIRL.
Ellen Bradshaw, a servant in the employment of Mr. Gar-
niss, harbour-master of the south docks, was charged on
suspicion of stealing £4l be!onging to her master. It appeared
that the prisoner was about three weeks in the service, and
on Saturday night Mr. Gambia hung up his trousers, in the
pocket of which t ere was £49 in notes and a sovereign. He
had no occasion to look after the money until Tuesday, when
he missed it. There was no oue in the house except his wife
and daughter and the pris mer, and the latter was given into
custody of Redman and Marsden, detective polite. She told
the officers to make Miss Garniss search the drawers in the
house, and on doing so she got £l2 in gold, which was not
there before, and of which the family knew nothing. The
notes were not found. The prisoner was remanded.
SAVED THE MONEY.

Richard Kane, an Irish cattle dealer, was charged with
being drunk and helpless on Waterloo-road. A policeman
found the prisoner in a state of speechlessness, lying on
Waterloo-road, and removed him to the station. when on
searching him he got £lB6 in his pocket. ➢lr. Rattles said it
was lucky for the prisoner that he was taken up, for, had he
not been, his money was almost sure to have been taken from
him. The prisoner said he had such a market (he did not say
good or bad) that he got drunk out of spite. He was fined ss.

CORRESPONDENCE.

LORD DERBY AND THE VOLUNTEERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TIMES.

SlR,—The people of our good old town must have
been much startled this morning on reading the " great
speech," so styled on the placard of a contemporary, of
our gifted townsman, the brother of the equally distin-
guished and quite as erratic Chancellor of the Exchequer.
It may be useful to some of your readers, in order to
prevent their being misled by fictitious sentiments in
these days of preaching " Peace, peace, when there is no
peace," to remind them of the following aphorism :—" If
the soundest mind be lnagnetised by any predilection, it
must act irregularly."
That a member of our Town Council is under the
influence of such a magnet cannot be disputed, after the
puerile display alluded to ; and the question naturally
arises, where is it to be found ? The discovery is easy,
as it lies on the surface—a desire to prop up the reputa-
tion of a public servant, who thought it his duty to
make the annual budget depend upon a commercial
treaty, framed in so loose a manner that a commission
has been sitting for weeks, attempting to arrange details,
which, in all well-matured plans, ought to be fully
digested before they are brought into operation.
The resemblance in mental constitution is particularly
striking, and manifests, in the cases of both brothers, a
total incapacity to grasp with the general bearings of a
great subject.
It cannot, therefore, be a matter of surprise that the
absence of personal discipline should produce an affec-
ted contempt of this important element in the charac-
ter of a community, which has earned for itself impe-
rishable fame in the annals of the country, by fostering
in its bosom the greatest moral work of modern times—
the Volunteer Movement.

Let the members of the various corps here and in the
neighbolzhood, by mustering in large number& in
Knowsley Park, convince the local municipal advocate
of the Emperor of the French that he has reckoned
without his host, (or shall it be written, the invincible
host of truly British hearts, dwelling in our midst,) in

trying to disparage the munificent offer of a nobleman
whose family archives bear witness to the chivalry of
his ancestors, and whose own personal disinterestedness
and patriotic feelings, both as a citizen and statesman,
are recognised by all classes.
Corporate economy is a cheap doctrine, but to be
orthodox, it must be disseminated in another shape and
at a different period—not when the inhabitants of this
commercial hive have the opportunity afforded them of
enjoying an afternoon's recreation, in being invited to
see a proposed military demonstration that will redound
to the credit of the noble and generous mind and heart
which planned it.—l remain, sir, yours truly,
Liverpool, 9th August, 1860. `'INDEX.