The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-09 00:00:00

DARING ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES.

Chi Saturday, et the Tfristol quarter Sessions, Margaret
Carter, was thafged with stealing seven £5 notes from
the person of Mr. Motet Parker, a fernier, of Winford;
and Charles Russell, a waste b'aket, of Rristol, was
charged with feloniously receiVini th'eni.. At four
o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th of Deceth'ber last
Carter was in the High-street of the city with het Md.:
lady, another woman, named Ford, when the prosecutor'
came along, and Carter asked him to treat her ; he con-
sented, and the trio repaired to a little public house in
the vicinity. The farmer had on two waistcoats, and in
the pocket of the under one he had seven £5 notes. He
was perfectly sober at the time. In an inner room at
the inn some beer was supplied them, and Carter began
pulling prosecutor about. He requested her several
times to desist and to he etintent with her beer, but she
persisted, and ultimately undid his Waistcoat. He had
two or three times satisfied himself that his notes were
safe, but presently Ford left, and almost inatriediately
after Carter ran off. Prosecutor instantly missed his
notes and gave chase, but missed the girls in the crowded
streets. He, however, described them to the police, and
on the following day they were apprehended. The next
morning Ford made a statement to the effect that she
saw Carter take something from prosecutor's waistcoat-
pocket and put it into her (Ford's) pocket. She sub-
quently found a roll of paper there, and took it to a
publican named navies, who told her that it contained
six £5 notes. She desired him to keep them for her,
and then went home. She there found that she had
another note in her pocket. Presently Russell came in,
and she showed him the note and told him she believed
Carter stole it and six others from prosecutor. Ile said,
"Oh, right; let me have the note, and I will
get it chlnged." He pressed her to fetch the other
notes for him, but she declined to do so then. Carter
nest came in, and abused her for showing the notes.
On the morning after the rotrbcry Russell gave Ford
three sovereigns and Carter one, anti Ford gave him the
six other notes. The police thereupon apprehended
Russell, and Ford being allowed to give evidence
against the other two, she was liberated, while they
were committed for trial. On Saturday last Russell
offered prosecutor anything in reason not to appear
against him, and offered Ford £2O if she would go to
Ireland, or would prevaricate in the witness-box. Mr.
Ribton, in a forcible speech, contended that Russell
could not be convicted on the unsupported testimony of
Ford, an accomplice. The Recorder carefully summed
up, and the jury fotind both prisoners guilty. Russell
was sentenced to three years' penal servitude, and Carter
to eight months' imprisonment.

ARRIVAL OF THE TRANSPORT EPSOM.—PLYMOUTH,
Monday.—The transport ship Epsom arrived here this
evening in tow of her Majesty's ship Spiteful, with 120
naval and military invalids, in charge of Captain Sweet,
of the 21st Madras Native Infantry. The Epsom left
Hong-Kong on August 5, the Cape on the 18th, and
St. Helena on Nov, 28. She touched at Falmouth, and
telegraphed to this port for assistance. The Spiteful
was accordingly sent. The invalids will be landed
to-morrow.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE COUNTESS OF EGIINTON
AND WINTON.-011 Saturday the mortal remains of
the late Adela, Countess of Eglinton and Winton, were
interred in the family vault of Eglinton, in Kilwinning
churchyard. The obsequies were of a private character,
only a few of the relatives and immediate connections of
the family being present. After the hearse, which
was drawn by four horses, containing the body of the
deceased, came the carriage of the late countess, empty ;
then came Lord Eglinton in his private carriage ;
Lord Montgomerie ; Lord Mahlon and the Hon. Mr.
Capel, the late countess's brothers; the Hon. Mr. Seaton
Montgomerie; George Montgomerie Hamilton, Esq.,
of Sundrum: Lord Ingestre; the Hon. William North ;
the Rev. Dr. Campbell, minister of Kiivrinning ; the
Rev. Mr. Somerville, of Irvine, and the servants
employed at and about Eglinton Castle. On arriving
at the ancient burial ground the coffin was borne from
the hearse to the family vault, into which it was shortly
thereafter lowered, the solemn and impressive service of
the Church of England, of which her ladyship had been
a member, being read by the Right Rev. Bishop Wilson,
of Glasgow and Ayr. The pall-bearers were the Earl of
Eglinton and Winton, Lord Montgomerie, Lord Mal-
den, the lion. Mr. Capel, Lord Ingestre, the Hon. Wm.
North, Vernon, Esq., Captain Alexander Montgo-
merie, G. Montgomerie Hamilton, Eiq , of Sundrum;
Patrick Boyle, Esq., of Shewalton. The shops in the
town were closed during part of the day, and hundreds
of the inhabitants, dressed in mourning, lined both shies
of the street along which the cortege was to pass. All
met to pay the last marks of respects to her who was
much loved and respected in life, and now deeply lamented
in death.

THE WEATHER AND THE PARIES.—The scenes that
took place in London on Monday on the ice in the diffe-
rent parks were such that can with difficulty be desfribed,
more especially the proceedings of that night upon the
Serpentine river in Hyde-park. About 8,000 persons
were bold enough to venture upon the ice, but after
eight o'clock at night several hundred persons- formed
themselves into skating parties, and each carried a lighted
flambeau. The light thrown up by so many links
burning at one time bad a most extraordinary effect.
One sheet of fire seemed to stretch from the bridges sepa-
rating the Serpentine from Kensington-gardens to the
bridge near the Albert-gate. Every precaution had been
taken by Mr. Williams, the superintendent of the Royal
Humane Society, to prevent accidents. Dangerposts
were placed in those parts of the ice not considered safe,
but in spite of which several of the more reckless climbed
the poles and affixed fireworks to the top, which were
ignites, to the danger of drawing scores of persons upon
the most treacherous portion of the frozen surface.
During the torchlight and pyrotechnic display several of
what are termed " express train" matches were per-
formed, in whicn several members of the Skating Club,
a great number of ladies, and volunteer riflemen took
part.

ENGLAND NOT ALONE TN HER STrAmE.—Drunken7

ness is the beginning and the end of life in the great
French industrial centres. Against this vice, what can
the salaries of women and children do ? The women's
labours help the drunken husband on his road to ruin:
The child is born with disease in his bones, and
with evil example before him. Shut up the wine shops,
autocratic mayors of manufacturing towns have cried ;
but the evil lies deeper than the art of a locksmith can
reach. The root of it, not the surface, must be attacked.
The root of it lies in the absence of virtuous. homes.
The girls who work in the factories are the children of a
drunken father, and, probably, a mother lost to the
sense of shame, which belong to women from nature.
These girls mix with drunken apprentices—need we add
a word to describe the result? All that the young cou-
ples want is a hole to lie and sleep in. 'Marriage is far
from being de rigueur. The evil lies so deep, that
mothers of illegitimate children are tempted by the
Benevolent Society of Amiens with a monthly gift of 7f.
to suckle their offspring. This temptation is necessary
to keep the poor babes from nurses, "au petit pot," that
is, nurses who feed their charges on goat's milk or cow's
milk. There are manufacturing towns (Lille for instance)
where the women have followed the example of the men,
and have added drunkenness to their other vices. It is
estimated that at Lille, 25 out of every hundred men, and
12 out of every 100 women, are confirmed drunkards.
Here there are even women's wineshops, where the
unfortunate frequenters drink coffee and spirits, while
their babes lie drugged at home with a "dormant," as
the popular infant's narcotic is called.--Dublin
city Magasirs,