The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

ROYAL (ALLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, EDINBURGH.
Amongst the gentlemen admitted as licentiates, after the
examination on the 28th ultimo, was Mr:John Burrows,
surgeon, 23, Clarence-strcet..
FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.—II i 8 rumoured in
well-informed sporting,' circles that the fight betwixt
Sayers and
,Heenan, has been all but arranged to come
off,iti.t,ho Isle orMan on.an early day.
SUNDAY EVENING SERVICES.—The fifth of the series
Of divine services for the especial benefit of persons who
do not attend churches or chapels, took place last even-
ing at Hengler's Circus, the 'officiating minister being
the, Rev. W. M. Taylor, who took ~for his text " The
Great' Salvation:" _ _ _

THE GREAT TASMANIA., ENQUIRY. Considerable
excite-merit prevails 'throughoitt the country among the
friends .of the discharged and, absent Indian. soldiers.
Letters dailv..,arrive..at., the..Coroner!s-Pourtc enquiring
whether such and such parties embarked from India in
the unfortunate ship the Great Tasniania.
:123.NeA.RHIRE. 7-RIFLE VOLUNTEERS:—` er i.egret to
learn, from a 'correspondent, that .differenees hive arisen
between the lit and 15th divisions which will, possibly,
reventilieir brigading together. COncessions were re=
quired to be made to the'lst of a nature which the 15th
considered contrary vii military rule. It is to be de-
plored that any Corps in the county-should be placed in
such a singular position, the other volunteer bodies in
this town having already formed themselVes into hat-
talioris.• ' ,

LLVSRPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY. —Return for week
ending 31st March :—Admitted : In-patients, 36; pin-,
e.atients; 26 -; surgical casualties, Discharged
(:
ired, .19; relieved, and. at own request, 17; made out-
patients, 3; irregular, 1; dead, Remain in the house,
For the 'ensuing week :-L-XiSiters, M6srs,
Edward Gibbon and-Rev. R. Leicester; Physician, -Dr.--
Inman ; Surgeon, Mr. Long..HoUSC Surgeon, Mr. T. S.
Walker; Junior House Surgeon, Mr. H. G. Rawdon;
Chaplain, Rev. E. Poole. -.C. Wilson, Treasurer.
NARROW ESCAPE.—On Saturday afternoon a lady,.
residing in Wellington-road, fell in Lord-street, and
but- for the timely assistance of Police-constable Hess
(600),—a very active and vigilant officer:, who has by
his exertions saved the lives of many persons . under
Circumstances similar to the: present—she would have
been run over by an omnibus which was passinglull
speed at the time. ;he was conveyed, in a state of great
hcitement, to the Coroner's Court, *here Mr. P. F.
Curry paid her every attention. We are happy to add,
that beyond the fright, she received-no-serious injury.
ALL FOOLS' A -WICKFP HOAX.—The follow-
frig notice was posted on. the walls of the town on
Saturday afternoon :—" Notice to rifle volunteers. The
Members of the various corps are requested 'to assemble
it four o'clock to-morrow, at Lime-street Station, to do
honour to the Duke of. Cambridge, who is expected to
arrive by the 4.20 train, on his way to Dublin. Central
committee, St. George's-crescent." As was, no dhubt,
intended by the thoughtless perpetrator of so silly a
joke, many hundreds of the volunteer rifles and artillery
men, in full unifottn, presented themselves at the place
and hour stated in the bill, and found that they had
been made the victims of a first of April fool's errand.
INQuEsTs.--The following inquests were, held on
Saturdar,-before the Coronerl--Orr- the lindr
of Mark. McClus'ky, 27 years of age,
,the poor fellow
who fell off the stage' the' 'Clarenee graving-dock on
Thirsday. Verdict,'" Accidental death."—On the body
of Richard Burrows,' 39 'years of residing at 16,
Pleasant-street. '1 The deceased was employed'as cotton-
porter at a warehouse in Van,dries-street. On Friday he
fell down a set.. of stairs, twelve feet in !depth, at the
warehouse; and was conveyed to the Northern Hospital,
inhere he; expired the same evening. Verdict, " Acci-
dental death."—On the body of Charles Johnson,' 17
years of age; residing with his mother 'at' 6, Nelson-
place, Edge7hill. The deceased had: been subject, it
appears, to epileptic fits for more than six years. On
Friday night he returned to his room,. which is lighted
with gas, about ten :o'clock. Next morning, between
bne and two o'clock, Mrs. Johnson heard a 'cracking
noise, and jumped out of bed, thinking that her son was
in a fit. , She proceeded. to his room, which' was in a
blaze: She immediately ran back to her own apart-
ment, lifted up the window; and sprang a rattle, the
sound of which attracted the attention Of, Mr. William
Carryer, shipping-master at the Sailors' Home, who
entered the- burning -bedroom, and found the deceased
On a bed on the floor burnt to death. Verdict, " Found
burnt to Aeath.7 • : : •

COURT NEWS.

SATURDAY, MARCH 31.
The Queen took equestrian exercise this' forenoon, in
the Riding•SchOol attached to the palace. Her Majesty
was accompanied by the Princess Alice,
The, Prince-Consort paid. a visit of inspection this
morning to the new Military Hospital, at Rochester-row:
Prince Alfred went to Mr. Illayall's photographic rooms
to-day. .
Her Majesty had a 'dinner party 'in the evening. The
company comprised the Princess Alice, the Prince of
Wales, 'Prince Nicholas of Nassau, Prince Alfred, Prince
Victor of Hohenlolie, Lord and Lady Chiclleater, Lord
and Lady Newport, Lady Caroline Barrington, the Earl
and Countess of Tankeville,- Lord Llanover, Lord C.
Pagarth4"Right Hon. S. and 'Mrs. Herbert; Sir J.
Rorailly„ Mrs. Gladstone, Mona. de la Rive; the Equerry
in Waiting to the 'Prince of Wales, and Major Cowell.
During the dinner the Grenadier Guards band, in
attendance at the palace, performed R.ossini's overture
to " Guillaume Tell," with selectiona from the compo-
sitions of Mendelssohn, Donizetti, and other composers,
Concluding with the .National Anthem.
The-Queen and Prince Consort, with the royal family
and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, are expected
to leave the Palace on Monday, for Windsor Castle.
On Thursday next,. the sth instant, the confirmation
of his Royal Highness Prince. Alfred will take place. in
the private Chapel, Windsor Castle.
.0m Saturday, the 21st instant, her Majesty. will..hold
her fourth levee, this season, at St. James's Palace.
On. Sattuday, the: 28th instant, the Queen :will told
her second D raving-room, this season, in St. James..
Palace. . .
The Queen's birth-day will-be celebrated at court by
a Drawinvroom, appointed to -be -held-on Pridarthr.
18th of May.

RESIGNATION OF THE LORD PROVOST OF ABERDEEN.
--Resolutions - involving a vote of censure on the'Lord
Proviiit _and two _ councillors of Aberdeen—privately_
" ooncocted'l and agreed to by a majority of the cuuncil3-
1--brought forward without previous notice, or: even the
Common courtesy of a timely intimation to the gentle-
men tONissailed, and at a meeting, too, iihich, being
specially called for a simple piece of routine business,
was not likely to be attended except by those members
who I,tad been let into the secret;, have driven Lord
Provost Anderson to the only alternative of ,
honourable man—resignation of the civic chair -and
of his seat a the council=a step which has raised him
immeasurably in the estimation not only of his fellow-
Citizens, but of many- competent judges in other com-
m :Alexander- Anderson, Esq., advocate, is well
known, 'and highly respected,for his intelligence, inde-
nuonitnie,sau,
pendence, and public 'spirit, his -mine being most inti-
mately associated with some of the most important public
and national enterprises of the day. His recent-election
tosthe chiefl magistracy pf his native city did honour to ,
the unanimous, choice of the. citizens; and the majority
of the council whose ill-advised conduct has induced him
to resign, scarcely uphold their reputation for caution
and. discrimitiation ;, for; by acting as they have done,
they have not only lost the services of the best man
among them, but' they have played into the hands of a
well-known party, operating behind the scene; whoSe
first desire is to gratify a personal jealousy, and whose next
most anxious wish is-to carry out a personal crotchet in
the face of the public will and of their own former
hollow professions when in power. We congratulate
M. Anderson on the manly course he haS taken; and
our worst wish for the majority is that they may yet
have the good sense and candour to see their error,, and
retract it before it, is too late. We observe similar
expressions of interest and 'sympathy in a well-informed
metropolitan circle,

SOU-I'II:LANCASHIRE
ASSIZES.

♦
CROWN • COURT.:—SATuunAy,
(Before Mr. Jzcstree. Ha)

, .
CHARGE OF MANsLAGHTRR.—WiIIiam Doming (23)
was, indicted for the manslaughter of Henry Parr, a
collier. Mr. Laresche was for the prosecution, and Mr.
Simon for the defence. •It appeared that the prisoner
was the engine-driver at the Little Delf Colliery, 'and
the deceased, wirs.a boy employed in the colliArY
the roads. It 'appeared that on the lath of February
last, some of the miners had to come up to the'pit's
mouth ; that Thomas Atherton, a collier, rting• the bell
twice for the cage, Which' was about. a yard from the
bottom of the shaft,'ohe lowered • that it was loWered

accordingly, but,that it was immediately raised again,
and .the deceased being only partially in =it urns severely
crushed. He_died from the injuries received, six days

a fterwardq.—The*defence was that the,prisoner tbougt
there were three knOcks, which meant that the cage was
to be raised, and it was proved that since this accident
the hell had'been removed from the pit's month to the
engine-room, about eighteen yards distant, so that there
would be` less chance of a repetitiOn of an occurrence so
unfortunate as this.--41is lordship said it was plain there
had been 'a mistake, and it was f 0..• the jury to say
whether the prisoner ought to be -convicted in order
to convict him, the jury must be satisfied that the
prisoner had been guilty of culpable negligence, and
that the accident was caused by the absence of ordinary
care oil his part in the discharge of his duties.--The
jury :returned a verdict of "Not Guilty," and the
prisoner was immediately discharged:

BIGAMY ,AT LIVERPOOL.--ThO Inas Cooper (43) was
indicted for having, at Liverpool, on the 18th of August,
18.53, feloniously married Mary Bnrland, his wife Jane
Cooper, whom he had married in 1836, being then
alive.—M r. H. Mansfield prosecuted.-Guilty.—Two
months' imprisonment.
ATTEMPTED HIGItivAV ROBBERY:—John Lowe (19)
and Francis Pitchford (25) were indicted for having, at
Wigan, on. the 24th of February last, feloniously
assaulted one Thomas Tickle; with intent to rob him.
Mr. Fitzadam • proscuted, and Mr. Scott was for the
defence. It was elicited in evidence that the prosecutor,
a farmer, attended the market at Wigan on the day in
question; and after having finished his business went to
a public house, where he had much liquor, and during
,the evening • the prisoners were there. The prosecutor
very foolishly displayed his money, and it was contended
that the prisoners had an ample . opportunity of seeing
the money. About ten o'clock Tickle left the public-
housa4,, and whilst walking up the street a man ran
against him, struck him on the aide d the head, knocked
him to the . ground, and then covered up his. mouth,
whilst a second man tore open his :breeches, and
attempted to rob him, but they suddenly decamped with-.
out having effected their purpose.—A Wigan police-akar
stated that he had. watched the prisoners and the .prose-
cutor on the ground, but as he was at a distance he
thought, it was an ordinary street scuffle, and did not
interfere at the time. As he approached them, the pri-
soners got off the ground and walked away rapidly.—
Gnilty.—pitchford had been four times punished for
acts of violence at various times, and was now sentenced
to eighteen months' imprisonment; and Lowe to twelve
months' imprisonment; both with hard labour.
STABBING AT Bourorg.—lieury Steele (24) was
indicted for having, at Bolton, on the Bth of March last,
feloniously stabbed one Francis Culican, with intent to
do tkiffi:giievous bodily harm. Mr. Torr prosecuted.
The ease was one of no general interest, and arose out
of a public-house quarrel about drink. The prisoner
was convicted of the lesser offence of unlawfully wound-
ing, and' was sentenced to eighteen months' imprison-
ment.

ASSAULT' AT BURY.—John -Fox was indicted for
having, at Bury, °Tillie 9th:of February last, feloniously
assaulted, beat, cut, and wounded one Dominic Moran,
thereby occasioning to Win great bodily harm. Mr.
HopwoOd prosecuted and Mr: Torr defended the
prisoner. The prisoner had, quarrelled with the prose-
cutor, who was the means of procuring his discharge
from the employment in which he was engaged; and
meeting the prosecutor in the street assaulted him so
severely that for some time he was unable to attend to
his work. The prisoner, since the unfortunate occur-
rence, had paid the doctor's bill and given 43 to the
family of the rprosecutor,—Quilty.—ln coasideration,of
the,; pecuniary atonement made by .the . prisoner, his
lordship, instead of sentencing him to eight months,
ordered him to be kept in gaol fOr three months, and to
he subjected to hard labour.
'BURGLARY AT PRESTON.—Michael Harrison (36),
John Rawelitle (38, "tint-Ttlonitis TOWers (24), 'were
indicted for a burglary at, Preston, in the house of a
labourer, named Thomas Lee; and stealing a scythe, a
file,--and other articles. --The wife of-the-prosecutor was
" flitting," and the prisoners .helped her to carry her
goods. In return she gave, them 4d and some coals;
but they went to the house some time afterwards, it was
alleged, and carried off several 'articles, which they had
no authority from her to take away. For the defence a
witness' was called; who distinctly stated that he. heard
Mrs. ;Lee tell the prisoners to take the articles in ques'-,-
tionL-all of which were of very small value—for their
allowance. The jury returned, verdict of guilty of
larceny 'against Rawclitle and Towers, and of not guilty
against 'Harrison. A previous conviction for felony' was
proved against Raweliffe, who was, sentenced to five
years' penal servitnde,. and ToW4S to six months'. im-
prisonment.
The court then rose.

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NISI PRIIJS. COURT.—SATURiAY
(Before kir. Jiistice Blaplrburri.)

POWELL D. y.)—This ease, which
was brought to recover compensation for damages sus7
taMed by the plaintiff in consequence of the non-fulfil-
ment of the covenants of a lease held by the defendant,
was resumed at• the sitting of tbe court this morning.
The jury gave a verdict for the plaintilf,--Damag, ou
farthing..

EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS OF COMMERCIAL
• DELINQUENCY.
FRA,TR AND ANOTHER, ASSIONEES, T. LEVY AND
ANOTHER.—/Special Jury.)
_ .

In this case the plaintiffs are the assignees of James
M'Clure, jun., a bankrupt; and the defendants are
Messrs. Ellas Levy 'and Co , job and fent. dealers,'High-
street, Manchester. -Mr., Wilde, Q.C., and Mr. Wheeler
were for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Overend, Q.C., and Mr.
Milward for the defendants. ,The action Was brought
to recover possession of a large quantity of goods, which
M'Clure .it was alleged, had disposed of to the defend-
ants under-fraudulent circumstances. Mr. Overend said
the case had already excited considerable discussion and
feeling in Manchester; and therefore, on behalf of the
defendants, he had to ask that -no gentlemen from that
city might be sworn on the jury. But his lordship said
unless it were shown to him that any of the jurymen
possessed some personal interest in the issue, he should
most certainly refuse such an application. The jitry
were then sworn.

i Mr. Wilde, Q.C., then opened the case to the jury.
Ile said the action-:ivas brought by the assignees of a
bankrupt named M'Clure with a view to . the recovery
from the defendants of a large quantity of goods which,
it was contended, were disposed of by the' bankrupt
tinder such circumstances of, fraud on his part in obtain-
ing the goods from the creditors, and of connivance on
the part of the defendanta as would entitle the plaintiffs
to set aside those sales and obtain repossession 'of the
goods so .improperly obtained. Although the amount
involved was not very large, the assignees of M'Clure's
estate felt. it. their dilty to be at all needful trouble,
and to incur all neoesssary expense to bring this ease
to an issue in a court of jiistice ; 'in order, if possible, to
Suppress a system of dealing and a mode of transacting
business which, should it be persevered in, must inevi-
tably be destructive of credit . and business in Man-
chester and other towns: • Now, in the present case; a
serious charge was involved, but he' believed that it
ivoiild be amply borne out, by the evidence that he
ibmild produce before them. It appeared that, Mr:.
lames . M'Clnre, junior, began the business on which
the questions now before the jury arose on the
Bth of August, 1859, and the period during which
e carried on that business extended only to the 23rd
of September following '---a period' of about six weeks.
M'Clure, jun., was the nephew of a gentleman of that-
hame•who had previously carried on the business, but
the elder McClure had not attended personally to his
affairs since the Ist of Jilly. 1859. In the interval be-'
tween the Ist of July and the 18th of August, the
business was managed by the bankrupt on behalf of his
uncle, and. although that hnsiness' up to the Ist of July,
averaged a very small amount of motley, yet, from that
time up to the 18th -of August goods to the extent of
Many thousands of pounds were obtained on credit, and
disposed of in the following way ;---Between the 18th
of August and the 26th of September, the business of
M'Clure to his regular customers amounted to £279.;
but the present defendants and some other gentlemen,
whose names the jury would presently hear, together
disposed of no less than £2,654 worth of goods in those
few weeks, the defendants being what were known in
Manchester as "job and fent dealers." • On the 18th of
August. M'Clure, .jun., became the .proprietor of the
business,
,nnd at_ ogee proceeded to enlarge his sphere of
action, arid it turned out when he stopped 011 the %Prd
bf 'September that he had sold £333 worth of goods to
his regular customers; but, to the defendants and to the
other 'gentleinen to whom he had just referred, and who
carried on a similar business to the defendantS, he had
disposed of goads to'the amount of .f 2,933. The jury were
not to suppose that the bankrupt got this sum of money.
£2,933 was the amount at which the goods were
invoiced, but the actual sum McClure received' was only
about £1,200. . The modus operandi in disposing 9f the
goads would appear to have, been thus : that. the defen-
dants came to the bankrupt's warehouse„.would make an
offer of a lump sum. for the whole lot of goods, and
M'Clure 'Would make out an invoice 'to the defendants
at a figure reasonably below the real value, hut that
invoice did not'represent the actual amount paid by the
defendants, the sum ,of money paid .heing much below
that represented :on the face of the invoice. The whole
mode of transacting the business, said the - learned
counsel, was such as to leave no doubt that the defen-
tants wereiin a state of complicity with M'Clure, jun.,
nd that they perfectly understood what they were doing
he goods disposed of to the defendants were generally
Of a , standard value, and in the Manchester market

were saleable at all times at, say, about 5 per cent.
below the invoice price. but they were actually sacrificed
to them, at a loss ranging from 20 up to 50 per cent.
below the invoke price; they were invoiced to the
defendants at a considerable loss, but the money actually
paid was very much even below that considerable loss.,
Thellearned cbunsel, at great- length, quoted instances,
in, which he said he should prove that the defendants
had been in complicity with M'Clure, jun., and had
been making away with the goods obtained from his
cre,ditors in a fraudulent mann.er... Thelearned cannel-
then proceeded to call witnesses
.inrsupport of his- case.
James li‘Clure, the bankrupt, stated that he acted in
uncle's-businesspia in the- early part of last year, and
he ceased to take an active part in the business towards
the latter end;of June. After that time he managed on
his own behalf; and he first saw Simeon Sampson
about the middle of Aneust. Samuel Levy intro-
duced him, and said he (Sampson) would buy gook
in the same way as he did=—cash. In about
ten days afterwards he saw Sampson, sold goods
to. him, and continued to do so 4p to the time be
stopped payment on the 22nd •September. The other
defendant, Levy, did not interfere personally with the
business, and all his; transactions were with• Sampson.
He had eight or nine transactions with him, und he
always paid cash. He obtained the goods on credit,
and sold them to the defendant for ready money, making
out the invoices in Sampson's office. He did not make
out the invoice for the money which was actually given
to him. Sampson told him what he was to write down,
and he made out the invoices aceordinglY. He said he
had. bought goods of John,Allen ; and they. Were part
of the goods sold to levy, The goods from Taylor,