The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-26 00:00:00

.SHOP LIFTING.

Michael Murray, described as a sailor and ship keeper,
living at 21, Lower Mersey-view, Bootie, and Mary Murray,
said to be his wife, were brought up by detective officers
Wilson and Scaife, on a charge of having stolen a quantity of
drapery goods from the Liver Establishment, Church-street.
Mr. Bluck defended the prisoners. Wilson said there was a
"sale" at the Liver, and he was on duty there along with
Scaife. He saw the prisoners go into the shop, and from
something that he had previously observed, he paid particular
attention to their movements, and directed Mr. Allinan's (the
Managing partner) attention to them. Thiy were watched
for an hour and a half about the premises, but they did not
parehase anything. He saw the woman suddenly jerk some-
thing under one of her arms, and then they left the shop, and
went to a Valle ho-ase in Elliot-street, where they remained
some time, and then went back to the shop again, and pur-
chased a small quantity of calico. He arrested them, and found
a quantity of silk handkerchiefs with them, and in the public
house where they had been, he got the shop tickets that had
been on them, the prisoners having torn them off there.
The handkerchiefs were taken from a table in the shop,
where Wilson had seen the woman 'jerk something
under her arm. Scaife then went to the priso4er's
lodgings, and found a considerable quantity of goods, such as
ribbons, handkerchiefs, gloves, eoburgs, umbrellas and the
like, and from the evidence of Mr.' Allman, it appeared that
the greater portion of these things had been stolen from the
Liver within a short time. Mr. Block cross-examined all the
witnesses, with the view of showing that the property might
have been purchased by the prisoners, and said he " was
instructed that such was the case. Mr. Allman, however,
denied that the goods were purchased, and said that some of
them had only recently been received from Paris. Mr. Block
addressed the bench and dwelt on the respectability of the
prisoners. Mr. Allman said perhaps it would throw some
light on the character of the prisoners, to state that they stole
the sugar crusher out of a public house where they were
drinking. (Laughter.) Mr. Block contended that they were
unknown to the police, and said he was instructed to say that
they could produce evidence to show that they had purelia.ed
the goods. They were remanded for that purpose.
(Before Messrs. lioncarrox and CHILTON.)
CHARGE OF ASSAULT BY A POLICEMAN
_

Police-officer 727, William Jones was stimmoned by a girl
named Catherine Dunne, who sells fruit in the street, for
having assaulted her. The girl stated that about two o'clock
on the 17th, she was at the corner of Cockspur-street, when
the policeman came up and told her to move out of that ; she
was about to do so, but not being smart enough, he flung the
fruit about the street, and dragged her to the "coal hole," but
did not charge her. He thumped her on the way to the station.
Mr. Bluck cross-examined the girl, but she persisted in the
statement. A man was produced who corroborated the state-
ment. For the defence it was stated that the girl was ob-
structing the footway, aril she refused to go, when he merely
put her out of the way. The complaint was dismissed. • .
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
A young and rather elegant-looking female named . Sarah
Cobb
Schofield, summoned her husband sylvanus Schofield, publican,
.51, Titchfield-street, for having assaulted her. Mr. was
1 for the complainant, and Mr. Bluck for the defence. kr. Cobb
said before he entered on the case; he would make a proposition
that would save a great deal of trouble and exposure. If the
defendant agreed to sign a deed of separation the wife would
not require anything more. She would have nothing les, as
sitecould not live with him in. consequence of the cruelties
practised on her. The defendant gala he would allow her Sc.
a, wc..e.ii, Mr. Cobb : She does not want anything;' all she
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VOLUNTEER MOVEMENTS

THE RIFLE CONTEST AT SOUTHPORT.—The Newton
review rifle contest, by the Manchester Volunteers, com-
menced yesterday at Southport, and will extend over
this and the three succeeding days. On Monday, the
arrangements were comp.leted, the ground enclosed, and
the targets and firing' points fixed. The committee have
established their head quarters at the Royal Hotel.
The weather yesterday was all that could be desired,
and there was a large muster both of volunteers and
visitors,—the whole interest of the day centring in the
contest for the Grand Cup, for which there were no less
than 245 'entries. To-day, Mr. Robert Barnes's prize
and the Legh Cup are to be contended for ; to-morrow,
the Ladies' Cup; and on Friday a £2O prize (to be shot
for at 900 yards), and a 'Whitworth rifle. The pro-
ceedings will close on Saturday with, it is expected,
some crack shooting for a C5O prize and the Southport
Cup. A special train, at reduced fares, leaves Liver-
pool every morning at eight o'clock for Southport, from
the Tithebarn- street station.
PRESENTATION ON SATURDAY NEXT.-011 Saturday
next the 3rd Cheshire, or Wallasey, Company of Rifle
Volunteers intend doing themselves the honour of pre-
senting to their captain, 'William Chambres, Esq., a
very handsome sword and belt, complete. The affair
comes off at or in a field at Somerville, midway between
Seacombe and Poulton, Cheshire. There will be pre-
sent about 800 or 1,000 troops; consisting of detach-
ments from the Ist, 2nd, 4th, and 3Gth Cheshire Rifles,
Ist battalion Lancashire Rifles, 4th division Lancashire
Artillery, and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and sth Cheshire Artil-
lery, all under the.command of Lieut.-Colonel Bousfield ;
and it is very probable that Colonel Wilbraham, Lient.-
Colonel Brown, Major Walter, and Lieut.-Colonel King,
will be present on the occasion. The sword is the gift
Troops
to the non-commissioned officers and privates. T
ops
to be on the ground at a quarter to five p.m.
APPROACHING VOLUNTEER REVIEWS.—It iS stated
that there is to be a review of volunteers at Stirling on
the 13th October by the Duke of Montrose. There is
also a rumour that the Duke of Hamilton is contem-
plating a grand review of volunteers in Lanarkshire,
and that Lord Clyde will probably be present. -
OUR "VOLUNTEERS" ON THE PARIS STAGE.—The
Opinione Aratiorale remarks :—" Among the ballets being
performed at present in Paris, one is very pleasing, and
has bsen universally re-demanded. It is that of the
'Riflemen! The English Volunteers, represented by
troops of pretty girls in uniform, go through the drill
with a precision which pleases, and a grace which charms
the spectators."
THE QUEEN AND THE CARLISLE VOLUNTEERS.—The
printed order which was issued from head=quarters to
the effect that not the slightest show of consciousness of
the Queen's presence should be manifested, was rigidly
disregarded at every point of the line where an inhabi-
tent could be found, and could find a point from which
to look and shout "Hurrah !" So it was in Carlisle
Major Salkeld had intimated to the artillery that
their presence would be required at the station
on Monday night, as a guard of honour .to the
Queen. The Mayor at once wrote to the authorities to
ask permission for the attendance of the rifles like-
wise. The letter came couched in oracular language
from the pen of the 'courtly Phipps—" Her Majesty
was at all times happy to see her volunteers." It
was enough—a hundred " good men and true "
sprang to arms, and stormed the " Citadel " in the
Queen's name. And so it came about, that 'instead
of being received on her arrival by a posse of speech-
less porters and dumb bells, her Majesty's eyes and
ears were greeted with a gay sight and joyous sounds
which must have thoroughly and agreeably .dispelled
any drowsiness that migAt have come over the royal
party. Her Majesty and the Prince looked with evi-
dent interest at the volunteers, whose appearance
was certainly picturesque and striking. Sir Charles
Wood, who had alighted from the train with General
Grey, came up to the High Sheriff (Mr. P. H. Howard),
and shook him cordially by the hand ; and shortly after
recognising Major
.Brougham through his volunteer
disguise, ran to him and almost embraced him. He
evidently wanted to carry him off and introduce him to
the Queen, but the Major would not stir from his post,
and Sir Charles subsequently appeared to find out that
such a step would have been a breach of discipline on
the one hand and a breach of etiquette on the other. As
the train set in motion Mr. Hodgson, regardless of the
Strict injunctions to silence, waved his hat and called for
"Three cheers for the Queen." They were given with
great heartiness by those who were not under the spell
of obedience, but the effect would have been much
heightened had the volunteers, who had received instruc-
tions to be mute, shown less discipline than they did
and disobeyed orders.—Patriot.

THE VOLUNTEER SHOOTING MATCH IN ALTHORPF.
PARK.—Great preparations are going on at Earl Spen-
cer's seat, Althorpe-park, in anticipation of the coming
volunteer shooting matches and review. A great num-
ber of men are engaged preparing the ground, and erect-
ing temporary buildings for the occasion, one of which
is of no ordinary size. There are several prizes to be
competed for, one of which is the County Challenge Cup ;
and should the weather he anything but wet, it is
expected that on to-morrow (Thursday, 27th September)
will he witnessed, at Althorpe,• one of the grandest
gatherings that has ever been seen in that part of the
country.

A DEFENCE OF THE POP 'S IRISH
BRIGADE. • •

. The following letter has been addressed to the London
Times by George Bowyer, Esq., 11. P., which fully bears
out the views we advocated in connection with this sub-
ject on Friday last:—
" Sin,—With reference to your leading article on the
'surrender of a portion of the Irish troops at Spoleto, it
is but justice to state that those 600 men were cut off
from the rest of the Papal army, and that they sur-
rendered to 25,000 Sardinian troops under Geiferal
Fanti. Surely there can be no disgrace in surrendering
before such overwhelming numbers ; and an obstinate
resistance would have been folly, especially as it could
lead to no military result.
" I must add that no one could suppose that General
Lamoriciere, with a force under 20,000 men, most
of them raw recruits, could successfully resist 50,000
Sardinian regular troops. But such a gross outrage as
the Sardinian invasion could perhaps scarcely be antici-
pated, even in these days of piracy and revolution. If
General Lamoriciere had had fair play, he would have
defended the Papal States ; buti placed between Gari-
baldi and a Sardinian army of 50,000 men, no general-
ship and no bravery could be of any avail.
" I cannot conclude without entering my protest
against the term •" mercenary" applied to the Irish
troops of His Holiness. A mercenary is a man who
serves for pay and plunder; but those men enlisted to
fight for a sacred principle, to defend the head of the
Church and the Vicar of Christ against the assaults of
his enemies. If you call them mercenaries why do you
not apply the same term to the Englishmen, Poles,
:Hungarians, &c., who have joined Garibaldi ? Yet the
brave Irishmen are called mercenaries, while Garibaldi's
foreigners are applauded as heroes. I protest against
this as unfair and unjust."

ST. MARTIN'S HALL.—The interior of St. Martin's
Hall, recently. destroyed by fire, is about to 'be restored,
the walls having been found, on a careful survey, not to
have sustained such a large amount of damage as was
at first represented, and only a small portion will have
to be rebuilt. A large quantity of debris, being the
remains of the roofs of houses and galleries which fell
inside the building, has been, removed; and a body of
workmen are engaged in making preparations for carry-
ing out the work. . A great portion of the stone stairs
is left entire, nevertheless they will require some repairs
in order to sustain in safety.the immense weight imposed
upon them.
THE GREAT EASTERN AND THE LADY ELGIN.—It is
a remarkable circumstance connected with the loss of
the Lady Elgin on Lake Superior that the sad accident
took place on the anniversary of the explosion on board
the Great Eastern on her trial trip from the Nore to
Portland harbour, the late lamented Mr. Herbert
Ingram, M.P., being one of the passengers on board at
the time of the occurrence. The ill-fated gentleman
was on that occasion indirectly under divine providence
the means of saving the lives of the majority of those on
board, for it was out of compliment to him that they
remained remote from the scene of ,the explosion in the
dining saloon, and were actually engaged in pledging
his health at the moment when the watr jacket of the
funnel burst with a crash never to be forgotten by those
who heard it. The very day before he left England he
playfully joked with the writer of this notice upon his
having declined to make his voyage to the New. World
in the Great Eastern.

MR. LINDSAY'S VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES.— The
New York Herald, referring to this subject, says :—Mr.
Lindsay is no doubt sent here to confer with Lord
Lyons, precisely as Mr. Cobden was despatched to
Paris to confer 'with Lord Cowley upon the recent
treaty of commerce between France and England,
and as Lord Elgin was sent out here to negotiate the
reciprocity treaty with Canada, of which province he had
been governor, and was naturally supposed to be
acquainted with its affairs. This mission has undoubt-
edly been prompted by the immense increase in the
shipping trade and commerce of the United States. As
long as our foreign trade was confined to the Atlantic and
the Gulf, England thought or cared little about our
views upon the navigation and coasting laws ; but now
that our trade with China, Japan, and the East is open-
ing up, and that our coasting trade extends round the
Horn, from the eastern to the western shores of the
continent, the British Government is anxious to obtain
for British shipping a reciprocity of that favour which
American vessels enjoy according to the coasting and
navigation laws of England.
ELOPEMENT IN STTSSEX.—A disgraceful affair has
lately occurred at Hayward's Heath. A fellow named
Wood, an itinerant preacher, succeeded so far in ingra-
tiating himself in the good opinions of many of the
people around the Heath as to induce them not only to
support him, and make him several valuable presents,
but also to build him, by subscription, a temporary
chapel near the Lunatic Asylum. Ile had no diffi-
culty in procuring credit at the shops, bakers, &c.,
and has been for some time running up scores anti
getting into debt; but the summit of his scheming
hypocrisy was only reached a few days ago, when
it was discovered that he was missing, and that the
wife of a poor man in the employ of Mr. Wedden,
was 'also lion, eq. It has since been reported that
both of them have been seen in London ; and
what makes a bad matter worse,' the worthless
woman, on leaving her husband, took with her the
whole of his wearing apparel, .as well as her own,
with £26 in cash ; also every valuable she could
lay her hands on ; while her paramour, whose
wife was staying with a friend in Brighton,
took away with him not, only her own clothes, but
two new hats and three or four pairs.of gloves he bad
-prothired the evening before from the shop of Mr.
Curtiss, and the poor woman on her return home found
the house denuded, and all her own clothes carried off
by the faithless couple. Mr. Curtiss, before he was
aware of the fact, met Wood in London, when he
told him it would he all right with the hats and gloves
on his return ; but he has not thought fit to return.
since. To the credit of some kind-hearted neigh-
bours, Mrs. Wood and her two children have been
cared for,' and something handsome subscribed
for their maintenance ; bet the fellow's dupes are
quite indignant at being so grossly deceived. The rascal
eer
represented himself as formerly belonging to the preen
but this is doubtful. His wife, it is said; has Y
letter from him exhorting her to bring y..ly the oleliZendl a
in the fear of. Ood, anti stating that when she received
it he should be crossing the water;. but it is to be hoped
[ that the police will cross his track and-stop his knfoxvois
—so.y.9e4-• Adyertigr,
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