The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-20 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

SUDDEN DEATIL—On Saturday afternoon William
loinson, a dockgateman at Runcorn, went into an eating-
house in Park-lane, and after eating a small quantity of
food fell down, and died immediately. An inquest will
be held to-day.
COUNTY MAGISTRATES' • COURT.—At this court, on
man,
Saturday,
before Mr. S. Stewart, George Barton, a
coach
living at Aigburth Cottage, was brought up
on remand charged with having commi,ted an indecent
assault upon a little girl eleven years of age. He was
sent for trial at the assizes.

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CORONER'S COURT.—At this court, on Saturday, an
inquest was held before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, on
the body of George Pritchard, a beerhouse keeper at 42,
Vauxhall-road. It appears that the deceased has been
Very much depressed in spiritsefor the last six months,
PO much so that he had been unable to attend to his
business. On Thursday last he left the kitchen of the
house about twelve o'clock, and at two o'clock the same
afternoon was found suspended by a rope from a nail at
the top of the house. The jury returned a verdict of
"temporary —insanity.”
PRESENTATION TO MR. ANDREW STEWART.--011
Friday evening a very gratifying presentation took
place in the board-room, at the Commissioners' offices,
Hamilton-square, Birkenhead; the recipient of the
testimonial being Mr. Andrew Stewart, who for ten
years past has faithfully and diligently discharged the
very onerous duties of the responsible office of trea-
surer to the Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners.
Mr. Stewart has been compelled, through ill health, to
resign his (Ace, and the Commissioners at their last
meeting passed a resolution expressive of their sense of
the admirable manner in which Mr. Stewart had
served the township. A more substantial recognition
of Mr. Stewart's worth has been made by his brother
°fficers, than whom no body of gentlemen could better
appreciate the suavitir in modo combined with the fort liar
Yn re. The presentation took place on Friday, and the
chair was occupied, in the absence of the Law-clerk to
the Cornmissioners, Mr. Ambrose Waln, by Dr. C. 0.
Baylis one of the township commissioners. Nearly the
Whole staff of officers was present, and not a few of
the ratepayers. The chairman dwelt upon the
!leieney of Mr. Stewart in his late arduous office,
the respect in which he was held by everybody
au the township, and the sense that the, corn-
Zaissioners entertained of 'the valuable services he
had rendered to the ratepayers. Mr. Edward Mills, the
surveyor, on behalf of the officials, presented the testi-
adenial,•which consisted of a very elegant timepiece, a
beautiful spirit-stand and decanters, and a chaste
service,' consisting of a silver teapot, coffeepot, sugar
basin, and cream-ewer, all of which were from the
celebrated establishment of Bevan and Weare, Argyle-
street, Birkenhead. Mr. Stewart, whose feelings com-
Pletely overcame his power of utterance for some time,
expressed his deep sense of the kindness and courtesy
that he had ever received from his brother officials, and
thanked them briefly, yet feelingly, for this, the crown-
lag act of their affability. Mr. Galloway, the oldest
township official, gave expressioa to the deeply-rooted
rlection and respect of his co-officers for the late
treasurer. They revered him as a father, and had
otnd him ever ready, whether in their private
their public capacity, to assist them with
public
advice.
He trusted all the officers in the
service at Birkenhead would follow in
I'le. footsteps of Mr. Stewart, and that when they
..e.t_tred, they might be held in as great esteem as that
With
was, both by the ratepayers and by those
kr' whom business brought them constantly in contact.
v._ • Atherton, Mr. Carrie, and Mr. George Griffiths
^4he tring addressed the meeting, the proceedings concluded.
.e_otmpany subsequently partook of refreshment, and
!wart's future happiness and better health were
"Tel4tlY Icasted.

AMERICAN MAILS.—The royal mail steam-ship
Africa sailed on Saturday for New York. Besides the
usual mails, she takes out about 50 passengers and a
valuable r•argo. •
READINGS FROM SCIIILLER.—Mr. Huber gave his
second reading from the writings of this favourite
Author, on Saturday last, at the Medieal Institution,
Hope-street, the subject being •' The Piccolominie."
Mr. Huber is quite competent to do justice to his
subject, and to any one acquainted with the German
language, in which Mr. Huber reads, an hour or two
spent with so able an expositor of the German Shaks-
peare will repay the student. The reading's are to be
continued on Saturday next.

RIFLE CORPS PARADE.—On Saturday afternoon the
members of Captain Bousfield's Volunteer Corps attended
parade at the Islington barracks, in the presence of a
great number of ladies and gentlemen. After being
put through their evolutions 'by Captain Bousfield, his
company, together with the Fairfield corps, marched
from the barracks, down Islington and Dale-street, to
the Exchange, from whence they returned by the same
route. The corps were accompanied in their march by
'several hundreds of persons ; and the military bearing
and appropriate dress of the volunteers were subjects
of generaLobservation.
SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS AT CHRIST CHURCH
SCHOOLS.—At the usual Saturday evening concert for
working men, at Christ Church Schools, Christian-street,
on Saturday evening last, the chair was occupied by
T. S. Raffles, Esq., the stipendiary magistrate. The
entertainment for the evening was entitled " The Songs
of Shakspere," the vocal part of which was interspersed'
with remarks, by the Rev. J. W. Twist, on the life,
writings, and genius of Shakspere. The vocalists were
the Misses Greaves, and Messrs. Pemberton, Kelly, Carr,
and Simpson, all of whom excelled in the perform-
ance of their various parts, and were warmly applauded.
At the .conchision of the entertainment, Mr. Raffles,
responding to a vote of thanks, said he thought the
thanks should be tendered by himself, for he had
derived great pleasure from the evening's amusement;
and ho was sure he was only expressing the opinion of
every one present when he said that he was greatly
pleased by the lecture of Mr. Twist, and also by the
efforts of the singers. He was glad to see so many
working men present, and he wished those concerts were
more numerous. If they- were, he, as an individual,
would have great cause to rejoice, for his labour on
Mondays would be considerably lightened. (Hear, hear,
and applause.) Votes of thanks to Mr. Twist for his
lecture, and to the vocalists for their services concluded
the proceedings.
LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT, SATURDAY.—Be
Richard Bevan.—The court was occupied on Satur-
day in hearing, the examination of Mr. James Bevan,
son of the bankrupt, chiefly relative to his conduct and
disposal of certain property situated at and near West
Derby. Mr. Dodge appeared for the bankrupt, Mr.
Aspinall for Mr. James Bevan, and Mr. Deighton, in-
structed by Mr. Hull, for the assignees.—Mr. James
Bevan stated that he had become entitled to some pro-
perty under the will of his uncle James, but that in the
year 1850, he executed a disentailing deed. His father
had managed the property up to this time, but had
never rendered any account to hint of the monies
laid out upon it. In 1850 he joined his fa-
ther in a mortgage upon the property, the sum
being £9,860. There was no arrangement that witness
should undertake his father's liabilities, but there was
au arrangement that he (witness) should have an
annuity out of the property during their joint lives.
This arrangement was not in writing, but witness be-
lieved it was made in Mr. Stockley's office. The agree-
ment was that witness should have equivalent to £3OO
a-year. The property, after paying interest on mort-
gage, &c., did not yield £3OO a-year ; but witness
lived with his father. He had no- doubt he got
more than £3OO, but lie . did not keep any account
how it went, and he did not know that his
father kept any. His father did keep a horse for
him, however, and a drag. He knew the property
did not realise £3OO a year, because. he had seen the
schedule which was attached to the mortgage deed. He
never made any estimate of what the property would.
produce; he never thought of it. There was no other
agreement, that he was aware of, between himself and
his father at the time of the mortgage, besides the
agreement for the £3OO a-year. Mr. Deighton
pressed for the producticu of .an agreement, dated Sept.
17, 1850, between Richard and James Bevan, which,
after some objections on the part of Mr. Dodge, (who
said that he held it on behalf of Mr. Ward, who
had a lien upon it,) was produced for reference merely,
a copy being marked for the purposes of the court.
Witness said that this agreement was executed by him
and his father, and signed in Mr. Stockley's office.
He believed'Mr. Stockley suggested the agreement—the
reason assigned being, that atter the mortgage was paid
off. he should have the surplus. Mr: Stockley, or who-
ever suggested it, told him, that the property belonged
to him (witness) and that he was entitled to receive the
money. He kept possession of this document for some
time, but parted with it recently to Mr. Ward. He had
no reason for parting with it, but Mr. Ward had a safe
and he (witness) had none. He had borrowed it since
to read it over, but he could not give any reason why he
wanted to read it over. It was last year when he got
it back from Mr. Ward to read over, but he was not sure
what part of the year. When he deposited the deed with
Mr. Ward, Mr. Ward was acting as his solicitor iu a
matter between him and his father. His father owed
him a large balance but could not pay it, and Mr. Ward
suggested that he had better buy his father's life
interest in a house and some land in Town-
row, West Derby, and also .buy a piece of land
adjoining the Leyfield House. The amount of the pur-
chase money was to go against the debt. The balance
due from witness's father at that time was about £7OO
or £BOO. It was for money lent, and had been running
on for some time. Witness had been selling copperas
for his father upon !commission. At the beginning of
1857 there was a balance due from witness to his father
•on account of these copperas transactions of about
£l2O, and from the beginning of 1857 to 1859 his
father had contracted a debt with him of upwards of
£l3OO. The witness produced two sheets of paper and
a variety of other memoranda respecting these matters,
though the dates appeared very confused, and though he
admitted tbat several items were wanting on both sides
of the accounts to make them complete. Witness said
he had no means beyond this annuity of £3OO a-year
until he received the money from the sale of the pro-
perty. He paid off about five thousand pounds
of the mortgage, having recovered from Mr. Schawbe,
one purchaser, out £7,000, and £1,200 or £1,300 from
Mr.' Pownall, another purchaser. It was out of the
£3,3( 0 remaining that he lent his father the sums
mentioned. He banked the money that he received
from the sale of the property, in the Union Bank. Mr.
Ward received part of the purchase money for a Len
which he had on the deeds. In reply to further questions
the witness stated that -during his management of the
property he had no exact means of knowing the amount
which he received from it, -beyond'the bare amount of
rent and interest charges, and he had declined iu answer
to the application of. Messrs. Fletcher and Hull, to
furnish them with a statement. upon this subject, denying
their right to such information. The examinatioa. of
Mr. Bevan was then adjourned to Tuesday, the 28th
inst.,—the 6th' of !larch being fixed for the last
examination of, the bankrUPt. Its honour intimated
that for the present, at least, he should suspend the
allowance to the bankrupt.