The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-22 00:00:00

THE CASE OF AIR. ROBERT FOULDS

Mr. Cobb appeared on behalf of Mr. Robert Foulds, druggist,
Pitt-street, under the following circumstances :—Mr. Cobb
said it night be in the recollection of the bench that a short
time since Mr. Foulds was sent for trial on a charge of receiv-
ing a quantity of India-rubber, knowing it to have been stolen.
He was tried on that charge; and acquitted. When he was
discharged one of the detective-officers then took him into
custody, and after being an hour in custody he was again dis-
charged. The officers, in searching his premises, seized on a
quantity of bees-wax, and in fact they committed a trespass;
and now they had summoned him, in order to snake him
account for the possession of the wax, and— Mr. Rehoe : I
beg your pardon. If you are about to ask for an adjournment
of the hearing we have no objection, but in this stage of the
proceedings you have no right to enter into the facts. We are
quite ready to go on with the case. Mr. Cobb : He was' taken
into custody on this very charge, and discharged from it. Mr.
Garnett: Not in this court. Mr. Cobb: .No ; not here. Mr.
Aiken did not see any objection to a postponement of the case,
if that was what Mr. Cobb required. Mr. Cobb said that was
all he wanted ; and the summons was then allowed to stand
over till next Tuesday.

(Before Messrs. AIKEN and PEEL.)
SEAMEN'S WAGES.

Captain Cleaver, of the ship Earl Derby, was summoned by
two sailors, named Nicholas Changan() t and John Bell, for
wages, the former claimed £l7 Os 6d and the latter over £l5.
Mr. Cobb appeared for the claimants, and from his statement,
the case appeared to be this. The claimants signed articles at
the Mauritius for a twelve months voyage, which was finished at
New Orleans, in April last. The parties demanded their dis-
charge, but as the captain had no money to pay, an order was
given for the amount on the owners, Messrs. C. Moore & Co.,
of Liverpool. The affair was arranged before the Consul, and
the papers and orders put into the hands of the captain. The
men contracted some debts in New Orleans but they signed •
new articles to come to Liverpool. It seems that there is a
summary process for the arrest of sailors for debt in New Or-
leans, and the men were taken off the ship just before she
sailed, and they were retained there, and the ship was obliged
to leave without them. The captain then treated them as
deserters and on this ground refused to pay them their wages,
and said he paid them enough of money in New Orleans to pay
their debts. The men admitted that they got money from the
captain, but not enough to pay their debts. The men were
taken by force from the ship, and the mate said they appeared
willing to remain on board and claimed his protection, but
the parties who took them said they were officers. The magis-
trates thought there was some trick practised at New Orleans,
but they thought the men should be paid, and made an order
accordingly.

(Before Mr. RATHBONE, Jun.)

HOMOEOPATHY AND ALLOPATHY NO LONGER

NECESSARY.

Whoever may be the medical adviser of Mr. Hugh Crook,
he seems to have introduced a new system of medical juris-
prudence that is likely to explode all diseases that flesh is heir
to. Mr. Hugh Crook, it appears, lives in Prince William-
street, and from the evidence of police constable Hunt (817) it
appeared that on the 10th inst. the defendant fired a pistol in
the street, to the danger and annoyance•of the public, and con-
trary to the bye-laws of the town, the penalty for an infringe-
ment of which is £5, and for which offence the defendant was
summoned to appear and answer. The policeman having
proved the offence, the defendant said he was troubled with a
complaint, and his doctor told him the only thing to cure it
was discharging of pistols in the street ! This sort of physic
was not believed in by Mr. Rathbone, who tined him 2s 6d and
2s 6d costs.