The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-20 00:00:00

THE FIGHT FOR £2OO ASIDE.

The contest for £2OO aside between Brettle and
Mace was appointed to come off yesterday morning.
A special train was chartered from the Great
Western Railway, but in the hurry and confusion
caused by a great assemblage of roughs intent
upon travelling free, the commissary with the
ropes and stakes was left behind. He followed,
however, by. the regular six o'clock train, and
reached Goring about half-past seven. There,
however, the police interfered, and a move was
made to Wallingford-road, near which the ring
was formed, and the men duly entered. Six
rounds were fought, occupying twelve minutes,
in which mar had all the best of the contest,
when the po ice interfered, and the referee ordered
the men to meet again this day ; till then the
battle stands adjourned.

MORE ABOUT THE " ABODE OF LOVE."
Yeeterday morning an application was made at
Judges' Chambers, on behalf of Mrs. Price, for a
writ of habeas corpus, directed to her husband,
the Rev. Lewis Price, to produce her before Mr.
Baron Wilde, at his chambers, and to show cause
by what authority he had forcibly removed her,
and refuSed her permission to return to the
Agapemone, and join brother Prince and other
inmates. The judge.made an order for the issue
of the writ.

The following appeared in our later editions of
yesterday :

GARIBALDI'S MOVEMENTS.
NAPLES, Sept. 15, rid Marseilles.
15,000 Garibaldiaus have gone to besiege
Capna, and afterwards Aversa. It is said that
50,000 Neapolitans are behind Volturno.

AUSTRIA AND VENEA.
The Times says, that, whatever the result of an
immediate conflict might be, time alone would be
sufficient to wrest Venetia from the Austrian
empire. Without an army kept upon its present
footing Venetia is lost: with an army on its
present footing the empire is ruined. Russia is
just as deeply embarrassed as Austria, only with
a social instead of a federal question. From that
quarter no aid is to be expected in the case of an
Hungarian rising. There is nothing .for it but
submission to the tendency of events.

THE POPE.
The Times thinks the French would be glad if
the Pope were to withdraw. The mission of
the French garrison would then be at an end ;
the French occupation would cease; Rome might
become Italian at once; and Garibaldi might pro-
claim the unity of Italy from the top of the
Quirinal.
The Herald says that the retirement of the
Pope from 'Rome, whether he withdraw to
France, Spain, or Austria, could be but temporary ;
but it would imply the removal of one of the
'most serious obstacles to the work of consolida-
tion, and it would wipe away the disgrace that is
inflicted on the Italian name by the combined
occupation of the Italian capital by a foreign

torce.
The Chronicle insists that. it, is the clear policy
of his Holiness to remain where he is. If he has
practically ceased to rule in the eastern portion
of his territory, he can rely upon the French
army of occupation to defend Rome itself against
all corners ; and he has not ceased to be the
chief of the Church.
The Advertiser is of opinion, that if his Holi-
ness labours under apprehensions for his personal
safety, or if he feels the degradation to be intole-
rable of remaining in a place in which he has
been shorn of all his power, in either case his
natural determination will be to seek a more
congenial place of abode in some other locality.

THE HOP TRADE.
The first importation of continental hops of
the growth of 1860, arrived yesterday, and haN4
been sold for brewing purposes at .£l4 14s. per
cwt., duty paid. The quality and flavour are
alleged to be excellent. A large importation is
expected. On the Ist of January next, the
customs duty on foreign hops falls from 455. to
20s. per cwt., being only 6s. per cwt. in excess
of the excise chargeable on. British hops of this
year's growth.

Sir Harry Smith continues in an extremely precarious

state.
The Daily News says that Messrs. Cartali and Co,
merchants, of Manchester, have stopped payment with
liabilities computed at about £40,000.
The Emperor has given orders for the construction of
a road round Paris, within the fortifications. It will be
twenty miles long and 120 feet wide. The footpaths
will be bordered with trees. [A description of this new
road was given iu our Paris correspondent's letter of
Tuesday last.]

THE MURDER IN COMER

This tragical affair caused considerable sensation yes
terday,
and the Police-court was crowded with persons
anxious to see the accused and hear the details of the
case preferred against him. His name is Thomas
.Neesham, described as a porter, and apparently about
thirty-seven years of age. He appeared dreadfully
affected at his terrible position. In addition to what
appeared in our paper of yesterday, Mr. Kehoe, in open-
ing the case said the prisoner is charged with the wilful
murder of his wife, by stabbing her to the heart with a
knife, in Gomer-street. Three weeks ago, the prisoner
and his mother and wife, took a cellar at 29, Gomer-
street, but it seems the prisoner does not do any work,
but deceased used to go out washing. He then stated,
in substance, what will be found in the following
evidence.
Mary Clay, widow, 29, Gomer-street, said—The priso-
ner and his wife lived in my cellar for three weeks. I
never saw the prisoner do any work, but deceased was
an industrious woman. A little before nine, last night,
I heard the prisoner ask for tobacco. She called him a
prig and a transport, when he called her a drunken —.
Heard the prisoner run at her as if going to strike her,
and directly afterwards heard the deceased say " Oh, oh."
I heard the tongs as if it had been used and fall on the
floor. The deceased shouted out " Look at the knife in
his hand," and immediately afterwards she cried out,
" Oh, mother, come and keep me." The mother said,
" I will go out and look for William, and have you
both put out." I was coming with some butter, and
saw deceased come out of her own celler, and saw her
fall in the street about five yards from the cellar door.
I thought she was drunk. I saw the prisoner come out
of the cellar before her and pass me, but he did not say
a word. He went up the street, and I did not see him
return. From the tune the quarrel commenced until
she died was about ten minutes, He asked if she were
dead, and said he did not intend to kill her. He had a
knife open in his hand.
Mr. Kehoe said be had several other witnesses to
examine, but would not do so now until after the in-
quest, but he would call as much as would enable his
Worship to remand the prisoner until Friday.
Mr. Superintendent Tomilson was examined, and
said—About a quarter before 11 o'clock last night I
arrested the prisoner in a passage in Soho-street, and I
told him what I took him for ; and he said, " Yes, I
stabbed her, but I hope she is not dead." I said she
was, and he said, " I am very sorry, for she was a good
wife to me, and supported ma for the last two years.
She aggravated me—in fact she was drunk, and I unfor-
tunately stabbed her." I asked him for the knife, and
he gave it to me out of his pocket. (He produced it.)
Mr. Kehoa—ls there blood on it ? There is. The
prisoner appeared to be much troubled, and sorry for
what happened.
Dr. Gill, of Islington, said he was called to see the
deceased, and found a deep wound iu her side. She
was dying then. No doubt the wound caused her
death, and it must have entered her heart, or he
would not have died so soon. I have not yet made a
post-mortem examination. The wound is only about an
inch long.
Mr. Raffles—ls it deep ? Oh, yes ; I can put my
finger into it. It has penetrated into the cavity of the
chest, and no doubt entered the heart. She was in the
last gasp when I saw her. This knife would have made
the wound, and I find blood on it.
Mr. Raffles—Prisoner, have you anything to say ?
Prisoner—Yesterday morning she went to work, and I
went about three o'clock to look for her, but they said
she was not there : that they had sent her with a shawl
to another place. I went there, and they denied her.
About six o'clock she came intoxicated, and fell on
the top of the stairs. I asked her where she had been,
and she said, at Syke's brewery; and I said she was not,
when she agreed to go with me to the place where she
was working, and she then took me to a brothel where
she had been. We quarrelled then, but had some
glasses of ale after that. When we .went home we
quarrelled about some tobacco. One thing fetched on
another, until it came to blows. She aggravated me very
much, and I had a knife in my band cutting tin tobacco
when she called me a —, and a returned transport.
T went to hit her, but God knows / did not know if I
had the knife in my hand or pot. I have been in bad
health, and not able to work, and for the last twelve
months I am under Dr. Adams and Dr. Games. God
I knows she was the best friend I had in the world.
' The prisoner was then remanded to Friday.
• It appears that the prisoner was flied in 1849 for
stealing £137, and was sentenced to ten years' trans-
portation. He had also been committed six times, and
was discharged six other times.
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ACCIDENTS ON TUESDAY.—David Taylor, a sailor, re-
siding in Denisou-street, received a severe stab wound
in the neck by 'a
man who is now in custody, in Water-
loo-road. Eliza 110fahon, residing in Sherwood-street,
the Clarence Dock
slipped off the footpath and severely injured her knee.
Thomas Pellian, a labourer, residing in Stevvart-street,
fractured his a
lea b} falling down at
gates while' in state of intoxication. Arthur Kennay,
.up..oh4 tamn..rtsiding in r•
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by a car in,_,Allale-str..eet, and. sastailled a severe inury to
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