The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-13 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

(Before Mr. RAULEs-)
AN (MANGE LILY.
A young woman named Margaret Mercer was charged under
the following circumstances appeared that about three
o'clock on \Yet:lmlay a young woman was in Lime-street,
having an orange lily in her hand, which the prisoner, for what
reason did not appear, considered obnoxious, and she Made an
attack on the bearer of the yellow flower. A young man went
to the assistance of the girl, but the prisoner was more than a
match for the two, and they were obliged to take refuge in the
public-house of Mr: Capel, Lime-street, where the prisoner
followed them and threw a stone, which hit Mr. Capel in the
eye, and also broke a square of glass. The prisoner made some
sort of a rambling stateMent, not to the purpose. She was fined
El and costs, or a month's imprisonment.
ROBBERY FROM A SHIP.
Peter Car-telmg, the steward of the Ismyr, in the Prince's dock,
3P,,i Joule Gooding, his wife, werecharged by Captain Summers
of that vessel for having stolen two sextants, two coats, an
opera glass, spectacles, and other property, value £2i. The
male prisoner was the steward of the ship, and the captain left
him the keys of the cabin and charge of all the property. Some
time ago, he began to, loge little things, but dal not suspect the
prisoner. However, on Wednesday he missed the things above
stated, and, as he heard that the female (who looked reapect-
able4, was in, the habit of going to the ship with, the man's
meals, he got a policeman, and searched the house of the pri-
soners, at 7 Court, Heath-street, where they found some of the
spectacles and other things that had been stolen. At first the
woman said she took theist to try a pair, and to ask the captain
for them afterwards. Subsequently the man said he took theta
from the ship. The valuable portion of the property \visa not
found, and the prisonera were remanded, in order to have
search made fok tb,e property.
THE VALUE OF CIIARACTRIt.
Harvey, a carter, who lives in Vauxhall-road, was
charged with having 150 lbs. of copper bolts in his possession, for
which he could not account. Mr. Cobb defended, and said his
client got a pint of beer from, two men to cart, the bolts, arid
then they went away, whehhe took the property home, and that
was the only way he could account for their possession: Mr.'
Cobb then called two witnesses .to give the prisoner a good
character, and one of them said his name was Denis Tracey.
He said the prisoner was a very honest man, and he never
knew him to be guilty of anything except what all other carters
were guilty of. Mr. Raffles, enquired what that was, and the
witness replied : Only stealing a few bale ropes to get a pint
of beer. (Loudlau.ghter.) Mr. Raffles: Well, Mr. Cobb, what
do you say to that Mr. Cobb: Oh, your worship, I did not
ask him that. Witness : Why, nine-tenths of the carters of
Liverpool do it, and it's not considered any harm. The tgii:
nes* was asked where he lived, and he said, "I live nu place ;
I roost on a stick." The prisoner was fined £2, wbach one of
his friends paid for him.
TAKING PLEDGES.
Mary Guy, alias Roche, of Limekiln-lane, was summoned at
the snit of an officer of Inland Revenue,, for taking pledges as
a pawnbroker, without license, Mr. '2,amdall appeared for the
prosecution, and Mr. Cobb for the defence. It appeared that
some time ago a woman named. Mary Lea'e, who lived in
aits.ottiems, and bar isouas .were seized.
The defendant agreed. to advance £6 to Leale, and to get the
goods in pledge, sind was to receive sixpence us the pound a week
for the adve,tsee of the money. This was paid for some weeks,
and ultimately the complainant went with the whale of the
money and demanded, her goods. The defendant was then
summoned before the magistrates fox refusing to deliver up
the property ; tm order was made for the restoration of the
goods, but the defendant still refused to comply with the order,
and the present,charge washrought—the penalty for the offence
being £5O. Several witnesses were called pro and con, but the
magistrate considered the case proved, and fined the defendant
in a mitigated penalty of £l2 10s., and costs, or one month'',
imprisalanacilta

(Before Messrs. TYRER and Hon.:aims.)
BAD MEAT.
George Gregory, butcher, Trowbridge-street, um% summoned
by Inspector Reed, for exhibiting the carouse of a,cow which
was not fit for use. Fined 10s. and costs.--.Sams pork
butcher, Richmond-row, was tined ss. e. 44 costs for a similar
offenoe.—George Smith, of the Abbodoir, Trowbridge-street,
was summoned by Inspector Reed, for having the carcase of a
beast hung up for sale which was not fit for human food. Mr.
M‘Gowan was for the prosecution, and Mr. Cobb for the de-
fendant. Mr. Reed was examined, and proved that he saw the
carcase hanging up, withoutthe head or tail. He tried it by a
jury, ar.,l•it was condemned. To Mr. Cobb. he said the meat
was sweet, but not fit for human food, because it was un-
hcaltky, or sickly. Mr. Cobb maden,long address for the de-
fence, and called Mr. Easthana to disprove the case, but the
magistrates thought the cask st4tained, andlued:the del octant
20s. and costs.

CONTEST OF BRASS BANDS AT THE.
CRYSTAL PALACE.

The first contest; on Tuesday afternooni went off with
great spirit, and presented features of uncommon inte- •
rest. • Froth ten o'clock a.m. no less than forty-four
bands :of brass instruments, divided into six compd.,
=tits, performed in succession, before appointed judges,
on platforms erected in various parts of the building.
At three 'o'clock the4pembers of these forty-four bands
assembled together in the Handel Orcbistra, and played
the following selection Rule' Britannia," " Halle-
lujah," Handel ; "Wedding March," Mendelssohn ;
" The, leavens are telling," Haydn ; " God save tbe
Queen."

.Thp effect of the combined legions of " blowers,'
(upwaph of 1,200 strong) was tremendous. The organ,
which accompanied them, and which on less exceptional
occasions is apt to drownoverythinfz, was. scarcely audi-
ble in the midst of .the brazen tempest. Nothing less
than the never " monste-gong-drum" could prevail
against it. The whole performance was conducted with
wonderful energy and 'precision by Mr. Enderby Jack-
son, of Hull. After this colossal display, twelve bands,
selected by the judges as the most worthy to contend
for the prizes, out of the forty-four who had been
heard in the morning (two from each platform),
appeared in the Handel Orchestra, and alternately ex-
hibited their strength. The, prizes were awarded as
follows,:—First prize : £4O in. money, with a silver
cup for the bandmaster, and a champion contre-bass iu
E flat, value guineas, presented by gr. Henry
Distin ; to the Blackdyko Mills band. Second prize :
£25 in money, to the Saltaire band. Third prize : £l6
in money, to the Cyfarthfa baud. Fourth prize : £lO
in ;honey, to the ,Darlington Saxhorn band. - Fifth-
prize :£5 in money, to the Dewsbury band. The
contest was to be resumed next day.

The attendance on Wednesday afternoon, at the second
and final contest, was far more numerous than at the
first', the numbers present being considerably over 22,000.

tThe bands selected by the judges as worthiest to con-
tend for the prizes—again twelve in number-then
successively- exhibited their strength in the Handel
Orchestra. The first prize—£3o in money, with a
sliver cup for the band-master, and a complete-set of
Boosey's Brass Band Journal, in sixteen volumes,
presented by
.the publishers —was awarded to the
Cforth& band (conductor, Mr. R. Livesly), from• Messrs.
Ciawshay's 'lronworks, South Wales. The piece selected
for this blind was Verdi's overture to Nfibucco. The
second prize—£20 in money—fell to _the Dewsbury
band (conductor Mr. John Peel), who played a selection
from the same composer's Ernani : the third prize—£ls
to the Saxhorn band of Mr. James Bagnall's Ironworks,
Goldehill, Staffordshire (conductor Mr: J. Blandford),
for a scene and polacca by Perry; the fourth prize—£lo
—to the Chesterfield band (conductor, Mr. H. Slack),
who (in the costume of the Derbyshire Rifles)', gave a
selectipu from Lecrscaa Borgia; the fifth prize—£6—to
iheband from .Meltham Hills, Yorkshire (conductor, Mr.
H. Hartley), for aperformance of the "Hallelujah Cherns" '
of Handel. The Blackdyke:and Saltaire bands, with
had won the first and second prizes ou Tuesday, were
prohibited from contending on this occasion. Tie extra
prizei—an electro-plated cornet-a-piston by Courtois
(presented by Messrs. Chappell and Hammond), and an
electro-plated euphonion in B flat (presented by Meisri.
Boosey for the best solO cornet and basa players),.were
consigned to Mr. W. Blandford '(Goldshill band) and
Mr. John Walker (Cyfarthfa baud). The prizes .were
delivered to ,the successful competitors by Mt. John
Bewley, gederal manager of the Crystal. Palace. A
great deal of enthusiasm was elicited, and it *as nearly
nine o'clock before the proceedings had Dome to au end.
For a first experiment'of this kind the fleece* was quite
extraordinary. -

Mr. J. A. Wise, who hai sat t'or Staprd about tight
years, has announced his uttentiOn of resigning his seat.
A Cabinet Council was held on Wednesday afternoon
at the official residence of the. First Lord of the

. .
Treasury, in Dawning-street.
'Lord Robert Montague, M.P., has been doing the
p'opular by /sending at a large meeting of tbe Loudon

Opet atges in. favour of themine hours movement.

,The Mild banquet, under the auspices of the Royal
Agricultural Society, was held .the Music Saloon,
Canterbury, on Tuesdair,evening, Lord Walsiugharu,
President of the Royal Society, in the chair.

The 4th company of the Royal Engineers, which has
been 'for several yeaii in India; is now on its passage
home, and is daily expected to- arrive at head-quarters,
Brompton barracks. •
The journals of Bohemia announce the recent dis-
covery, near the town of Pecka, in that country, of the
Wink of an antediluvian tree, twenty-four feet long, and

weighingl,s74lbs. It was cut-up into four portions to
be conveyed to the Geological Institute at Vienna.
It appears that during the terrific gales of tbs. fow
months that have passed of ale present ypar, the life-
boats in connection .with the Royal National Life-boat
Institution have been. instrumental in rescuing one
hundred and fifteen of our fellow-creator? from a
watery grave.
TUE PAPAL Racar rrs.—A Vienna letter says*:—
" Many of the men who volunteered for the Papal army
have returned to this- city ffoth the Pontifical States,
becalm the promises made to them have not been ful-
filled. One ease of complaint is, that notwithstanding
their having enlisted for a particular au, the officers
insist on sending them to any corps they please. Some
men entered for Are infantry have been incorporated in
the artillery, and vice verse,"

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT. TO CANADA.—
Plymouth, Wednesday Morning.—The screw steam
sloop Greyhound, 17, Commander Francis W. Sullivan,
one of the Chaungisquadren, in attendance on the Prince
of Wales when he sailed hence on Wednesday morning,
returned to the Sound last night. She reports that,
when last seen. from near the Land's End, the squadron
was in two lines.; the Hero was the van-ship, and was
under steam, steering west.' ;. - T r
A MOTHER AND. CRILD . BURNED TO DEATI—;AIL
inquest was held on Monday last at Blackburn, before
John Hargreaves. Esq., on the bodies of Ellen Mago-
nagle, the wife of a tinman, and• her infant daughter,
who were burned to. death. It appeared .that from.
Thursday to Saturday of the previous week the wretched
woman and her husband had been pursuing a course of
dissipation, as was their usual practice when they had
• money. On the morning of the latter day they entered
their miserable dwelling iu a state of intoxication, when
the man seems at once to have fallen asleep, from which
he was aroused by the shrieks of his wife and the screams
of the child, both. being in flames. •As soon as aid
could be procured they were removed to the workhouse,
where they lingered iu agony till Monday,- and expired.
The jury returned, a verdict of accidental/death in both
cases.

...

SUICIDE OF Allt JAMES WEiTON.—On -Wednesday,
Mr. Walley, the coroner for West Middlesex, held a
long inquiry at the private residence of James Weston,
Esq., government contractor, manufacturer. of Roman
and Portland cement and English and -French plaster,
carrying on oue of the largest trades.in London, at Mil-
wall, Poplar, and St. Andrew's . Wharf, Blackfriars.
Some time ago, a clerk named Hookey was given in
charge by him for embezzling from him something like
L'Bo. He was remanded, but died before being committed
for
.trial. This seems to have preyed upon the•mind of
. Mr. Weston. On 'Saturday morning the housekeeper,
"upon going into his bedroom, found him in bed in a
dying state. A surgeon was sent for, uud he promptly
"attended, but the unfortunate gentleman expired in
spite of all that vitta done, including the application of
the galvanic battery, in less than half an hour after the
arrival of the surgeon. The :pot modem examination
showed that he had taken a mixture of prussic aeid and
ammonia, which had caused death. The jury returned
a verdict accordingly.

ANECDOTE OF GARII3.U.DI.—III the " Memoirs de
Garibaldi," written by Alexander Duma.4, and for some
time. past in course of publication in the Siicle, Garibaldi
relates that so far back as 1833; when mate of a ship
which was then at Marseilles, he saved from drowning
a schoolboy, named Rambaud, who, whilst playing- in a
barge in the port, had accidentally fallen into the water,
and that he had to plunge three times before he rescued
the lad. "As I had just before been condemned to
death," said Garibaldi, " I had assumed the name of
Pane, and it is probable that the person I saved never
knew my real name." The Siècle now Publishes a let-
ter, signed "J. Ramband, 9, Rue de l'Ecluse, at the
Batignolles," in which the writer says that it was he
who was saved in 1833., and that it is " with great emo-
tion and joy that he had learned the real name of him
to whom he owed his life." -
Youziu 'MAIDENS AND MUBIC.—I compare a young
maiden very often with the various pieces of composition
in "music." There are maidens- as clasiical and
sterling in their nature as a symphony by
Beethoven ; touching our hearts with sounds
grand and celestial, like thine which pervade the
Great Universe. There are others, who resemble an
oratorio by Haydn. There is too much sassetity in
their nature, and the world with its rotity finds no
room in their imagined height. Thee are others like the
songs, without words, by
.21fetutassolm. They aropso:
io ,
Bused with deep Inelodie but, unfortunately,theiyesreso
ought
careless and indifferent by whom -these v
to be perfoiw4;or executed. At length theref,acrelelo;
aidens
like a by Strauss. Merl" 4914 e., as the whole
ens
i.sa mere dance, life a mere exci4onslit aid
world a ;mere fashionable lscdtsvom.
itsß7lo7esefftitzi:oti:,
maiden should be an lir-rinOttior cfrsri,of
oratorio, song awl


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