The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-12 00:00:00

JOINERS' .SO EE ASST NlG'~il.

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Lagt nigl the aiinuq soireu'of.the Frien.dly.SocietY
of House Carpenters Ad Joiners. Was held intlie Odd-
fellows'-hall in St. Ann-street. The' lidll tvrei beitu'ticully,
decorated with flags, and there was a very riunierOiLt
attendance. Tea, was supplied by Mr. Milbourne of St.
• Anne-street, and gave general satisfaction. The enter-
tainmentsof the evening consisted of a grand concert
by amateurs, interspersed with illustrationS or Burns
by Mr. Admit Gibson, and. overtures by the baud of the
22nd Lancashire Voliinteeftf. The vocalists were
Miss Jonei, Miss Tunstall, Miss Courttiq, Mr: P.
Catterall, Mr. I'. Catterall, Mr. T. Herdern, and Mr.
Williams; and Mr. Roberts presided at the pianoforte.
• Tlii; concert irafq really excellent, and was listened to
with, great delight: ,
Mr. W. ROBINSON, WhO teal clod to' the' Or 7 said
he thought they were setting a goo eldriiiilk,!ol friendl
societies by celebrating their anniversary in that social
' manner. One pleasing feature was the attendance of so
nary iff the fair sex. Ile was sure if a men took his
wife to a:151.414462:_:_te, sppor he would be thought
demsnted or sornetliing. worse ; and )t
,was his humble
opini9n that where, a man was afraid or a:04,10:1 to take
his wife,or daughter, he had better, stop away.blinsaf:
(Applause )
...A Soiner's wife .should Jake, an interest in:
his friendly gopieti,. PI if he,. rokhls stools by theft or
fire it was,an interesting tttiestiou foi her.._ ,istcp, Pe
society insured them against that. glietbd ' nwittbey
fall sick, his society was still with bim ; and, if well
. should be scarce in this town, the society paid his rail-
' tar fate to, qny town that he liked to go to. There was
no trade, perliO, inote,Oposed to, accident than the
joiners, and many noble littildino which struck
the beholder with • admirationi vtcfe hitt a sad
monument of grief to many an unfortunate viCiiro*.
Should a joiner beinjured at his work, so as to be (Rs,
abled from following his usual occupation, the society
thaneed him a small sum to put him in a small Way of
hifsfrieSs. Barely these 'objects were well worthy of the
. aii,pnor,,Ot the joiiiefs Of thq WWII; considering that they
could be attqin§d by a stibsCription .61 titteepem,e per
week. The• teed aTge'S filrid tKoMWhich they paid LTO
for the funeral of a member, and Zd•foi..a foiiier's Wife.-
But then, it was pleaded against" trade set3fAiies i
they encouraged strikeS. That was not the case at all '
events with their society. Working men were not fond
of strikes, fur they knew that they suffered more from
them than any employer could do. The great nine-
hour lock-out in London was caused, not by , trade
societies, hitt the want of them. The speaker then
referred: to' the tiniehisions arrived at by the committee,
lof the, peial Solenco.Associaton, which were he said,
That trade societies beret b'enetciat,, to ttft4nent. ern-,
ployer, and the Alitktit at 'mke; The Chairman iteg
defended the society ffoni the ehag'c,t Or tnipedilng the
work at the building of the Free Library. In eeilai:.
Sion, be stated• that the . society had organised within:
itself a literary society ; and he trusted that this was
mil the first step to making trade societies educational
sot titles. (Loud applause.)
I
he' flrgf pstrt.-of the concert was then proceeded with;
after which ,
Mr. 4 C 440
,Asi.xArl; 46' AVO . feebly with
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applause,',lollrespd thir comPan7,, in his tioda hhyp'y
and fdeepolis mip_ner. xo,.pai4; .Alieri' in'vi'tee, Ord
week's ago to, tiVeN Jlhat sod* h:9 ,was tIOn nfrald.that
he should have an engageillet: -0 Wall 4eigagenient,
he said, in defence of a most injured marl; Irr.. Wan
Thomas, (Applause.) Re had been restored again to'
do in future years what he had done for many years
pasi,—. to do. gyti,,ttell, if not more good, to the labouring
classes in partici:la* tlrd,n,,h:e firmly beltei'ed any medieal
man who ever existed. (Applause:) Mt. Aspinall said he
should not discourse upon "strikes. Theft' toTrety,l,fte saw„
was " united to protect, but not combined to in:Pre.i.'...
.All he should say upon the subject of strikes, in these
dap of assault and battery, was, that when ladies and
getifterneff tvere married for better or worse, they were
united to' piotot, Oki not &combined to injure—they
shoad tteN)er strike eattf (Act ot anybody else. (Laughter
and npprailifel That. WO' ag he siionld say of a striking
character:
.IVO lebin'atlr dft4Wra`idl. ftad (Aver the pre-
amble of tile rules Of the society, of NAM he elpi'essed ,
his waliu. approval;- and said he saw that Ai flitilaiigerS
were 'detirrnined}te work it upon the sonndest and rabSt
satisfactory principles., lie, then
.gaVe the operatives
present sane excellent advice as to their social and
domestie duties, and i'esthriect his seat amid considerable
applause.
The remainder of the concert was,
then _weeded
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with, and a very joyous evening was spent.

LIVERPOOL POLICJ COUItT.-YESTERDAY.

(Peke
.1 11/1. Itttints,)
A-C.l'. • IttISTAIO.
Michael a brass fitter, wsas firelight upi,efrafgml
with beating his wife, Miry Ann ,ITunt. Th'e Odor
woman (who is near her confineutenty tox dismal tale
about the brutality of the prisoner, who *as in: tbir
habit of getting drunk, and whilst in that state he used
to beat her severely. She had forgiven him several
times on his prothise to amend, but her indulgence„it
seemed, only made him worse. On the present occasion
he had boxed and kicked her very severely, and this was
proved, not only by herself, but by others who witnessed
his savage 'conduct. The prisoner said it was all the
fault of drink. Mr. Raffles said it was monstrous con-
duct on the part of the prisoner : Instead of taking care
of his wife in her present position, the fellow used her.
in such a way as to endanger her life. 'lt was'idle to
inflict small punishment on such a man, and, therefore,
he would sentence him to six months' hard labour, and
at the expiration of that time, he must dud two sureties
in £25 each to keep the peace, or to be imprisoned for
six montbs additional.

MORE FURIOUS DRIVIN%
In order to keep people from hanging and drowning
themselves° in this peculiar cut-throat weather, they
must resort to some sort of amusement or excite-
ment, and furious driving appears to be the fashion this
season, so that if the first person singular does not kill
himself, he makes excellent attempts to destroy sonic
third persons plural, by dashing out the brains of half
a dozen of the Queen's subjects on the highways of our
thoroughfares. Mr. Joseph Whitehead, an extensive
cart-owner, was brought up by officer 197, who chargeA
him with being drunk, and driving furiously in. Soho-
street, the previous evening, so as to endanger the lives
of the passengers. The officer said the prisoner was in
a whitephapeli going. most furiously. Mr. Wad : At
what rate was he going ? At the rate of twelve miles
an hour at least. Mr. Raffles : And he was drunk?
He was, sir. In reply to his worship the prisoner said,
I admit I was drunk, but I was not driving. Mr.
Raffles: '\Vhy, the officer swears you were. Prisoner :
No, it was a friend of mine who was driving at the
time. Police-officer 764 was called, and stated that he
saw the whitechapel rushing furiously through the
street; the prisoner and another person were in it, but
he could not tell which of them was driving. Mr.
Raffles fined the prisoner 40s. and costs. The fine was
paid.

A RIPPER!
Thomas C. Lynam, a tailor, was charged by police-
officer 569, who said, last night I got this man lying
drunk in Canning-place, and roused him up. When he
got up he drew this knife—a sailor's knife—and made
swearing ..he would rip me open. I kept. away
from him for a little, but he still followed me, swearing
he would rip me. I then drew my staff, and struck
him on the arm, and knocked the knife out of his hand,
and then caught hold of him. Mr. Raffles Did he
touch You at all ? No sir. The prisoner said be had
no intention to strike the officer. He was fined £l, or
One month's imprisonment.
(Before Messrs. ConnAi.LY and T. ThtrunoNE.)
WHERE BEN BANKS MET A LADY!
A case of peculiar attraction, at least to a certain
number of respectable-looking females, came on for
g'
hearing yesterday before the above magistrates. The
complainant was Mrs. Catherine Banks, a person of
very ladylike. appearance, and who was dressed in. a
style of great costliness, but at the same time there. was
nothin
gaudy nor out of place. She appearid to have
been turned out of a Paris dressmaker's establishment
with the last new fashions, to which her face added
grace. not borrowing grace from the " duds." She
was described is the Wife of Mr. Benjamin Banks, of
Denison-street. The defendant was a person of respectable
exterior, neatly, but not "so costly attired as Mrs. Banks.
The name of the defendant, as. set forth in the docu-
ment that issued forth of the court, commonly called "a
tillamons," was Susan Olson, a resident of Gibraltar-row.
Her face was not exactly as bright as the sun at morn-
iug la4t still she was, as the world goes, good.•
looking and she stood before the two august represen-
tatives of the law, not like Patience on a monument
smiling at grief, or any other myth of a god or goddess,
but just like herself, fat and pleasant, and the twinkle
of her eye as it rested on the valuable velvet shawl of
Ben Banks' wife, said, as plainly as a wink could say,
" Oh if I had you here, wouldn't I soon make Hitters' of
you ?" Mr. Cobb appeared for the complainant, and
Mr. Lightfoot for the defendant. When Mrs. Ben
Banks was just inside the box she was the observed of
all observers. Her . pretty face, and her prettylvelvet
shawl, attracted the attention of every one—one-Was,
as the Yorkshireman—or as our Hibernian friend
would say, as handsome as the other and hand-
sotner Her bonnet—oh goodness gracious—was
the acme of all head adornments, and her fasci-
nating smile, banged that Irish place called Ban-
agher, and of course everyone knows that Banagher
bangs even Yankee Land. When she spoke, her words
dropped out oilier pouting lips like honey from a bee-
hive. Her- take was short, but just as sweet as her
mellifluous voice. Mr. Cobb opened the case with that
degree of flowery eloquence, which has rendered his name
famous in our local annals, and then called his Cleo-
patra of a client to corroborate it, which of course she
felt in duty bound to do ; and probably she would never
have come to a conclusion, if the magistrates had sat long
enough to hear her out. That is a paradox, however, that
fortunately did not happen—if a paradox could happen !
The burden of her tale was this: On the sth inst. she was
in her own housein Denison-street, whenthe defendant 14
some unaccountable means, got into the 'lnaison, and
roaring out at the top of her voice, she asked, " Is Ben
Banks at home ?" This horrid interrogatory was repented
several times, and as often received negatives from the
meek Mrs. Ben. Then, said Mrs. Olson, if he is not
here, you must answer the charge, for Ben says he saw
me in Whitecliiipel. What have Ito do with that, says
Mrs. Ben. I will tell you, says Mrs. Olson, and at the
same time she commenced a furious attack on the corn-.
plainant,- and injured her 'very much in her own house;
tore the hair out of her head. and left her in a state fit
for any surgical operation. This true tale was corrobo-
rated by three or four witnesses, and Mrs. Olson was
doomed to pay 40s. and costs, or.one month's imprison-
ment.

CHARGE OF • ROBBING A TILL.—At the County
Magistrates' Court, yesterday. before Messrs. Preston
and C. Chaloner, Michael Mahony was charged with
attemiAing to rob the till of Miss POrter, stationer, at
Old Swan. Sent to gaol for three months.
DIFFICULTIES IN QUEST (IF A WITE.—An English
bachelor of middle age, who recently came to Glasgow
to occupy an important post on a weekly newspaper in
town, and having got his business arrangements made to
his mind, and feeling that there was one desideratum
with him still, advertised for a wife. As' luck would
have it, one of his, subordinate male employes answered
the advertisement, signing. himself " Emma Gordon,"
with money awl property in her own right. A cor-
respondence followed—seven letters on one side and
eight on the other having passed—and a few days ago a
meeting by arrangement took place. Wlien the bride-
groom elect arrived, he was ushered into the presence of
—no fair one—but fourteen of the sterner sex, all
fellow-workmen with " Emma Gordon." The gentle-
man's feelings may be better imagined than described.
We understand the whole of the correspondence, &e.. is
to,reach the light in a few days by means of a pamphlet,
when the interested in such matters may hear more
:about the "difficulties in. quest of a wife."—Nora
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