The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-16 00:00:00

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.members of tb'n
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TDh.Ce.bLasiFnesßs
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council, also the treasurer's statement of accountres,inag
to elect officers and sectional members of the council fo
the 'wing/session. Mr. Thomas Avison, the treasurer,
from which it appeared
read his ciatetoeuti, of accounts,
that the receipts list yearAincluding balance from last
account) amounted to T. the expenditure
to £306 Is. 5d., leaving a balance in Beal of Xl2: 14s. 6d.
It wag moved and seconded, and passed tiiihmuro- us,yl ,
that the accounts as read be adopted, printed, and' Cir-
culated ; as was also the adoption of the following
report:—
At the termination of the twelfth session the retiring council
• have to report the continued success of the society's labours
; in the varied departments of inquiry to which it is devoted, as
the annual volume now ready for distribution will, they feel
• assured; satisfaetorily prove.
Retiring the session the council, in continuation of the course
' adopted in the preceding year, recommended for removal from
the roll of Mentbers the names of certain gentlemen whose
subscriptions Were in arrears and their suggestion having
been acted on, the list mafno* lie regarded as showing very
closely the effectiie strength of itierodety—ali important con-
sideration in regulating the eiplendfttife, Vic large arrears
apparent in, former sessions htive thus been fri great measure
sweat away, and they, hope the' collection of those. outstanding.
which are convacatively inconsiderable', will be adeoniplislied
with little difficulty.
Intercourse with kindred' SbeletieS' haS bberf increased, and
the additions to the libtary critifinuC to be as numerous and
valuable as heretofore. The musehm, hOvreVer, has received
but sew contributions, a circumstance to viniell! the council
advert with the hope of inducing members interested in Mare.-
ological subjects tu contribute more liberally to the extension'
of the collection. The society's room, at 57, Ranelagh-street,
will be open every evening of meeting, from five till a little
before seven, and members who cannot attend may obtain
books by a written application to the assistant secretary.
The annual excursion was this year made to Shrewsbury and
Wroxeter ; and the usual miscellaneous meeting of the society
was held by invitationtf the proprietor, Joseph Mayer, Esq.,
vice-president, at Ills museum of antiquities. A brief account
of the ptoceedings on each of these occasions will be found in
the. aPpendix ' to, volumeXf I.
The treasurer's halo* sheet showS tire receipts for the
year to' have been' £303 19s 4d which sum, witti the balance of
£l4 16s 7ci from' last year' .shows a gross: total of £31619s lid:
The entire pajiments ate 2306 ls'sil, leaving a' balance in hand •
amounting to £l2 149 kt. There haVe been no COnsiderable
extra charges, and the aceo.urkis will shove tkat the expendi-
ture has been governed by the aduteresburces.
The council regret to state that, in consequence of his
inability to attend the meetings, the treasurer, ThoS:AviSon,
Esq., has decided to resign his office, which has beat Held by
him from the time the society was founded. In these eireuff:
stances the council have nominated as Mr. Avison's successor
William Burke, Esq.
Agreeably to the laws, the names of six gentlemen are sub-
'ratted for appointment to the various sections, in the place of
those vbh•cr retire from the council.

The election of officers was next proceeded with. Sir
Etiniard Oust was ananimously re-elected president ; and
as Mr: Thoinas AviSon, the treasurer, wished to resign,
Mr. ,Thirke was elected to fill that office. Votes of
thatiks were ptssect to time retiring officers ; and to Mr.
Thomas A.'fison, foi the able .rnaliner he had
executed the ddieS his' office since the society's for-
mation, twelve years. ago.----,TII Hon.. Sir Edward Cast,
in replying to the vote of thanks. iiWlr *as' tendeted to
him, expressed his obligations to therii iO thbfr. kind-
ness. He was only sorry that he was so rarely Ode to'
attend their meetings. They would easily see, howevet;
the Oh so many calls upon his time, and residing, as
he did, a ig etalsiderable distance from their place of
meeting, it was not Often that he could attend. One of
the gentlemen, in moving tfre /etc of thanks to him,
had alluded to a present he was atbuct.to make to the
society. It was an ivory sceptre, which (heiMs informed
by Lord Ellesmere) belonged to the old kings of tfetatrd:
It was usual for legned societies to have some antiquity
of this kind upon their table, and he had great pleasure
in presenting this one to the society. He suggested,
also, that the study of the ancient sceptre and mace
would probably prove one of interest and profit to
sot/ales like their own.

LIVERPdOLau COURT.—YESTERDAL

(Before Mr.
A FIGHT ABOUT A HUSBAM).

Caroline Davis, of Hanley-street, charged Rlizahefir
Samburn, of Norbury-street, for having knocked out
one of her teeth, and for having inflicted a serious
wound on one of her arms with an oyster shell. Mr.
Cobb Was for the prosecution, and Mr. Bluck for the
defenee.
at
parties are keepers of infamous houses,
and the a seemed to have been a sanguinary one on
all sides, and it EirOe abnut Mrs. Davis's husband.
It appeared that this repUttable,Mr. Davis had lived for
two years with the amiable deteilda'n'ti. brit lately he
repented the.errors of his ways, and went to tesiJe with
his legal spouse. This caused an ill-feeling, aed ort
Saturday some dozens of the unfortunate females who
locate in the streets above named, after imbibing a
certain—or rather uncertain quantity of alcoholic and
otber fermented liquors, pitched into each other. The
complainant having met the defendant, a collision at
elide took place, when Davis upbraided the other with
the "Igo.), of her husband, and then, as alleged, the
defendant inflicted a setiorts wound on her arm with an
oyster shell, and also kiidcked out one of her " grinders."
A surgeon from the Royal infilt mary proved that the
wound was serious, and he feared erysipelas would set
in, as there were all the symptoms of it. About a
dozen of witnesses were examined at either side, and
certainly his worship exhibited a wonderful amount of
patience in having all the evidence called by the learned
advockes in the case—which wasted a considerable
portion of the public time—in a case that might have
been decided in some ten or twelve minutes. The
prisoner was let out on her own recognisance for a week.
TAKE CARE OF WINGED COATS 1

A young fellow named Vrancis Hoffman, who is
"excellently well known" to the police far his extra-
ordinary curiosty in trying what the poclicts of other
people Ordain, was brou'ght up on a charge of hoing
picked the pocket of a young widow lady, named Ellen
Wharton, who lives at Oxton. Mt prisoner is a
peculiar-looking young man, and was neatly dressed,
having a " winged over-coat," but no sleevs in it, for
the easier purpose of using his arms in conteyirg the
property of other people to a capacious pocket inside
one of the " wings" of the " Inverness wrapper."
Mr. Cobb appeared to defend him, although on the
the evidence there was not a particle of ground for a
defence. Mrs. Wharton said—On Saturday I came
across to shop, and when in Derby-square, at the corner
of Castle-street, there was a crowd waiting until some
carts crossed. I felt a hand in my packet, and, on
turning round, I caught the prisoner in the act of pick-
ing my pocket, and I held him till the policeman took
him. I did not know then what I lost, but I since find
that I lost a two-shilling piece, and I can't say if I did
not lose another shilling. The officer who had the
prisoner in charge said he got a two-shilling piece in the
prisoner's hand, fast between his thumb and forefinger.
The sister of the prosecutrix corroborated her state-
ment. Mr. Cobb asked his worship to deal summarily
with the case, but as the prisoner had already been ten
times in gaol, he was "plodded" again and sent before
the Recorder.