The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-18 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.—YESTERDAY.
(Before Mr. RAFFLES.)
ASSAULT.
Michael Stanley, beerhouse keeper, of Dublin-street, charged
Patrick Murphy, a labourer, residing in Salthey-street, with
having assaulted hint. On Wednesday evening, the prisoner
entered the house of complainant in a state of intoxication, and
became very disorderly, when he was put out by Stanley.
The prisoner then broke the window in pieces with a scraper.
The complainant went to give him into custody, when Murphy
struck him on the head with the scraper, and cut him down to
the bone. The prisoner was remanded to this day, in order to
have the doctor, who attended complainant, present.
ASSAULT ON SHIP-BOARD.
Thomas King, the second mate of the American skip, Even-
ing Star, was brought up on remand, charged with having
violently assaulted George Sandes. It appeared that on Wed-
nesday week the complainant went on beard rather " fresh "
from liquor, anti after some time an altercation followed, and,
as complainant said, the prisoner got a belaying pin, and beat
him over the head, cutting him severely. He was in the hos-
pital since. A sailor, who was on board at the time, was
examined, and proved that he saw the prisoner beat the com-
plainant with the pin, and added that the prisoner swore he
would make some of them feel the weight of "Bully King's"
arm before they arrived out. (The prisoner is a powerful
young man, and said to resemble Heenan, the boxer, in stature
and physical proportions.) A surgeon from the Northern
Hospital stated that th, complainadt was much injured, and
lost a vast deal of blood; in fact, he thought at one time that
the man would have died from exhaustion. He was still very
weak, and not able to leave the hospital; he never saw a case
where so much blood was lost; he had to pour brandy down
his throat to revive him, when he thought he was dying. The
prisoner made a long rambling statement, but hardly anything
to the purpose; he admitted having struck the man in the
irritation of the moment. The prisoner was sent for trial.
AN HOTEL DODGER.
Thomas Huxley was brought up by Scaife, of the detective
police, on remand, charged with having stolen wearing apparel
and other property from several hotels in town. Mrs. Birrell,
of the Liverpool Arms, 163, Duke-street, said the prisoner
came to lodge at her house in the early part of March, and
represented himself as a commercial traveller. He had a
double-bedded room, in which a Captain Cook also slept. The
captain is gone to sea; and she missed a black dress trousers,
a satin vest, an umbrella belonging p, the captain, and two
remnants of prints, two table-cloths, at.d a variety of other
articles, and two or three pawnbrokers proved that the pri-
soner pledged the articles. Mr. Collins, owner of the Salutation
Hotel, Mersey-street, said the prisoner carne to his house and
ordered a supper for twels e. He slept in the house, and stole
a quantity of property out of a portmanteau belonging to a
Mr. Holland, and also come property belonging to Mr. Collins
himself, including a gold pencil-case out of a workbox. The
prisoner owed Mr. Collins over £7 for a supper that he ordered,
saying he was leaving the country. (A Voice : So he is about
to leave the country now.) And he owed Mrs. Birrell about
£5. Mr. Holland proved that he saw his property iu a pawn-
shop, and it was proved that it was pledged by the prisoner.
The prisoner, with great effrontery, said all the property
belonged to himself. He was seat for trial. (There was a
curious story told about the prisoner, but not in evidence.
Some time ago, he humbugged and swindled a lady at Bootle,
by representing himself as a clerk in a railway, and proposed
marriage to her; was accepted, got her gold watch and bolted
with ia„..lt was stated that he alto had "done" several of the
lady's friends and some drapers, on the strength of the mar-
riage. The police have been on his track for the last four
years, but could not catch him up to the present time.)
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT OF £3OO.
James Frame was brought up by Detective-officer Carlisle
ou a charge of having embezzled about £3OO belonging to
Messrs. Helliwell, of Castle-street, and the Quadrant, Lime-
street. An application was made on the part of the prisoner to
Pdatpone the case, as he alleged it tea an actpipt, and not a
criminal charge ; so the details Were not gone into, and the
case was allowed to stand over to this day,

(Before Messrs. AIKEN and G. HoL'r.)
SEAMEN'S IN'AGES

Captain Robinson, of the ship 6cetinica, was summoned
by some of the crew for wages. Mr. Grimmer was for
the complainants, and Mr. Bluck for the defence. The
points iu dispute arose out of certain stoppages made by the
captain, who alleged that the deductions were right. The
captain in one case read a note from the log, in which he
stated that he gave the man " salts and senna," when the man
replied, "Oh ! if I had broken my leg, you would have given
me that." This caused much laughter. The accounts between
the parties having been adjusted, orders were made accordingly.

GOVERNMENT PROCLAMATION AGAINST
ENLISTMENT FOR THE POPE,

D 1,131.111, May 17.
The following Government proclamation appears in
the evening papers :
CAUTION.—FOREIGN ENLISTMENT.-All persons con-
cerned are hereby required to take notice, that, by the
provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act, 59 Geo. 111.,
sec. 69, it is a misdemeanour, punishable by fine and
imprisonment, for any subject of Her Majesty, without
her license for that purpose, to obtain., to engage, or tp
go to any foreign place with intent to enlist, or to enter
himself to serve any foreign prince or potentate in any
military capacity, although no money, pay, or reward
may have been actually paid to or received by
such person for his use or benefit ; and further,
that if any person whatever shall hire, retain,
engage, or procure any person, or who shall attempt or
endeavour to hire, retain, engage, or procure any person
whatever to enlist, or to engage to enlist, or serve, or be
employed as an officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, for or
under, or in aid of any foreign prince or potentate, or
agree to go or embark from any port of Her Majesty's
dominions for the purpose, or with intent to be so
enlisted, entered, so engaged, o employed, whether
enlisting Toney, pay, or reward, shall have been, or
shall be, actually given or received or not, such person
or persons are to be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour,
punishable by fine and imprisonment. And, further, all
masters of any ships or vessels knowingly and willingly
taking on board such persons as aforesaid, are liable to
a penalty of £5O for every person so taken.

JOHN L. O'FARRELL, Commissioner of Police,

Metfopalitaii Police•offipe, Dublin Castle, May 16, 1860.

DARING ADVENTURE & F..kTAL RESULT.

Another of those fatal accidents so common in some
parts of Scotland from young men and boys daringly
venturing to climb the rocks in search of sea-fowls' eggs,
occurred at Noss Head on Sunday afternoon. The
sufferer is a blacksmith's apprenti.co, named William
Donaldson, sou of i 1 r. 4.ohu Donaldson, carter, Coach-
road, who left his father's house about mid-day, and
along with some companions proceeded to Noss Head.
About three o'clock, when about had-way between the
Head and the Castles of Sinclair and Girnigo, Donaldson
expressed his resolution of descending the face of a steep
rock, about 100 feet high, in search of eggs, and had
only descended a few feet, when, in turning himself, his
foot slipped, and he was precipitated to the bottom, and
killed on the spot. The alarm was instantly given, and
the tide being out, a number of persons proceeded, to the
spot where the unfortunate .ad had fallen, and had the
body taken up,

Iler Majesty gave, on Wednesday evening, a state
ball, to which a party of 1811 were invited.
Vegetation in Belgium, so long retarded, has during
the last few days, letters state, made most rapid progress,
and seldom have the trees and shrubs been seen to throw
out their flowers and leaves so rapidly.
It is stated that the liabilities of Messrs. David Jones
and Co., and Messrs. Thompson, Symonds, and Co., of
Sydney, do not exceed £lO,OOO in England, and
£120,000 in the Colonies, and that tshe assets are of
nearly equal the amount. The cause of the stoppage is
said to be speculations oe a Junior partner.

THE BRAVE VOLUNTEERS.—In Glasgow the volun-
teers have been guilty of creating several serious dis-
turbances in the city, during which they have drawn
their bayonets and flourished them about in a very
unseemly and reckless manner, and threatened to use
them indiscriminately against the lieges.
THE ISTHMUS OF SUEZ CANAL.—The first general
meeting of shareholders of this undertaking has been
held in Paris, at the Herz Hall. The attendance was
Brous, and resolutions for vigorously carrying on
the works were passed with an amount of spirit and
determination scarcely anticipated.
MARRIAOE THROUGH THE NEWSPAPERS IN TURKEY.

—The Turkish newspaper published at Constantinople
contains the following advertisement .—" A young girl,
Delisch by name, of the (Circassian) tribe of the Nogais
seventeen years old, very handsome, of good family, and
haxiug received an excellent education, her brother
bearing the title of Bey, makes the offer to marry some
young man, provided he succeeds in pleasing her. Par-
ticulars may be heard of at Hafiz Pacha's, president of
the commission entrusted with the entrol. of the emigra-
tion from Circassia."

A POINT WORTH liatowtNo.—lt having been stated
that, uncle; the new. Stamp Act, all adhesive stamps on
receipts for money require to have the date as well as
the name or initials upon them, a gentleman in Dundee
has written to Mr. Angus Fletcher, Comptroller of the
Inland Revenue, Edinburgh, enquiring whether such is
the case, and has been informed, in reply, that this is
not required for ordinary r.peipts, but only for bank
cheques and the other stamps specified in the schedule
of the act.

CURIOUS CotrictnExcE.—The wooden bridge of the
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway across the Tyne at
Scotsw,ood was destroyed by fire the other afternoon.
It is a curious circumstance that on that same day, at
noon, a meeting of the Newcastle Town Council was
convened for the special purpose of adopting measures
to oppose the amalgamation of the Newcastle and
Carlisle with the North Eastern Railway, unless this
identical structure was removed, as it was a great
hindrance to navigation and river improvement. But
while they were assembled, a telegraphic message arrived
that the bill was thrown out in committee, and they
had not long dispersed when intelligence arrived in the
town that the edifice itself was in a blaze. The tire is
supposed to have been eaufed by the hot ashes from an

engine.
THE REPORTED Loss OF A DROGHEDA STEAMER.
—A correspondent, writing from Drogheda, says :
" I am happy to inform you this rumour, which caused
such a deep sensation here, has proved to be exagger-
ated considerably. This morning the St. Patrick arrived
in port, showing, however, some severe marks or' the
accident which gave rise to the report. It appeared
after leaving Liverpool on Sett:4day evening a dense
fog rose, and shortly afterwards, having shut off steam,
she came iu contact with a vessel outward bound. The
bow of the St. Patrick sustained considerable injury—
the bowsprit and figure-head having been carried away,
together with the scroll-work on the sides, &c.

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HOLLOWAT'e OINTMENT AND PILLS.—Hope for all. What-
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have tried these inestimable remedies. Whether the disease
be internal or external, spontaneous or the result of violence.,
if a cure be possible, Holloway's IM,E4lCarae,AB willefftZt it.
The severity or duration of thepalady is no bat io the success-
ful influence exerted 'yy these. twin, ny;Cticites, which cleanse,
purify, and, invigorate every solid grid fluid in the body, and
comp,eteiy teriovate the diiestion. They render every organ
of sec:elk:on healthy. These admirable antidotes to disease act
Ann:elate-,3,Y pp the absorbent system, lungs, heart, and circu-
laticin_, ,hereby they invariably give energy, tone, and vigour,
to 'all the natural fiFicti9ns 9f life. 16

ROBBERY BY A CLERK OF £295.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

At the Warrington Borough Court, Jones Sydenham,
a respectable-looking young man, aged 20, was brought
up under the following extraordinary circumstances .
About three o'clock on Monday morning, the prisoner
went into the police station at 'Warrington, and
said he had come to give himself up for robbing
his employers, Messrs. J. B. and T. H. Perks, corn
dealers and millers, Shad, Thames, London, of £295,
on the previous Saturday evening. The prisoner
produced a bag containing £l2O in gold, a cheque
for £l3, another bag containing £6l in gold,
a third bag containing £B4, a portemonnaie containing
£l2 1 ls. 3d. in silver, 4id. in copper, a silver watch
and guard, a knife, and a return ticket from London to
Manchester. The Messrs. Perks, who up to that time
were ignorant of the robbery, were communicated with,
and on Monday a telegram was received from them,
stating that they would send down a Mr. Duer by the
earliest train to watch the case. It appears that the
prisoner committed the robbery on the Saturday night,
and left London for Manchester at nine o'clock on Sun-
day morning. He left Manchester the same evening,
and walked to Warrington, where he gave himself up.
Mr. Duer was in attendance, and said the young man
had been seven years in the employment of Messrs. Perks,
and during that time had borne an unblemished character.
It was scarcely a month since he had recovered from a
fever, and both the Messrs. Perks and himself believed that
he had committed the robbery in consequence of some
sudden impulse ari3ing from deran'cment of the intellect..
The fact of his taking a return ticket flora 1.,.)ad0n
to Manchester was sufficient to show that he had no
settled idea of absconding with the money. Therefore,
he was there on behalf of the Messrs. Perks to with-
draw the prosecution, to take charge of the young man,
and to give a receipt to the authorities at Warrington
for the restitution of the money. It was explained, how-
ever, that the legal course must be to get a warrant
from London for the prisoner's removal there, and that
when the prisoner was before the metropolitan magis-
trates it would remain with the Messrs. Perks to act in
the case as they might think proper. The prisoner was
accordingly remanded, to allow this course to be
follewed.

POISONING BY MEANS OF SALTPETRE.

The Scotch newspapers record the trial iu the High
Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, of Elizabeth Smith, or
Walker, for the murder of her son, under the following
singular circumstances :—The prisoner's child, born in
1857, was placed by her, in April, 1858, in the hands
of a Mr. and Mrs. Innes, Greenside Edinburgh. She
herself went into service as 4 nurse, and remained as
such until January last, when she came to stay with the
Inneses. She lived with them until her eon's death,
on Thursday, the Bth of March. It appeared that she
did not take kindly to her child, nor it to her. Up till
the day of his death—indeed, till within three hours
of it—the boy was in good health, romping and running
about the houses of the neighbours. At five o'clock on
that Thursday afternoon, the prisoner, her son, Mr. and
Mrs. Innes, sit down to their tea, and shortly after the
meal is over, Mrs. Tunes draws attention to one side of
the child's face being flushed. The prisoner, who had
never before done so during the whole of her stay, pro-
posed to take it out for a walk. The child is dressed,
and she and it leave the house about twenty-five minutes
to six. About twenty minutes past six they return,
the child vomiting violently and nearly rigid with
cold. In her declaration, given subsequently before
a magistrate, she says the child was with her during
the whole time they were absent. The child gets
worse, and Mrs. Lines proposes to send for a doctor, a
proposal which is resisted by the prisoner. Between
eight and nine the child, which meantime has been put
to bed, is discovered to be dead. She next applies to
two medical men for a certificate of the cause of death,
but is refused. Meantime information is lodged at
the police-office, the result of which is that the pri-
soner is apprehended, and Dr. Littlejohn makes a
post morteN examination of the body. On the opening
of the body, the stomach presented unequivocal indica-
tions of irritant poisoning. An analysis of the contents
of the stomach and of the different internal organs, con-
ducted by Dr. D. Maclagan, establishes beyond a doubt
that the child had been poisoned, by what ? Not
by arsenic, nor pruzsiz acid, nor corrosive solalimati,
nor, in fact, by anything which his hitherto been
known as a poison, but 137 a substance which is
in daily use for the coxing of beef and ham, or for
the manufacture of match=paper or gunpowder. In
point of fact, this is the first case on record in
this or any other country of even alleged criminal
poisoning by saltpetre. Writers on toxicology do
refer to cases of poisoning from its accidental admi-
nistration, but they are few in, numbers. Now the
evidence of the medical men regarding the properties of
this salt is of the greatest possible importance, for it
1 appears that, while it is so common an article of demand
that it is sold by nearly every drysalter, victualler, and
grocer, as weli as by druggists, it is so cheap that a fatal
dose may be purchased for one halfpenny. When admi-
nistered in sufficient quantity, it begins to show its
effects in an unusually rapid manner—generally in five
or ten minutes; and, after but a short and painful ill-
ness, hurries its victim to the grave. The jury found
that the charge was "not proven ;" but the facts of the
case, so far as they are ascertained, should yet not be
without their value to the publio.

FEARFUL AQCIDENT ON THE NORTH
LONDON RAILWAY.

On Wednesday afternoon, about two o'clock, a very
alarming accident happened to a passenger train on the
North London Railway at Bow. The train was from
Camden Town on its way to :Fenchurch-street, up the
curved incline which connects the North London with
the Blackwell line. On the train reaching the top of
the incline abreast the works of the Great Central Gas
Company, there was a violent jerk and crash, followed
by two other shocks of as severe a character, and a
rolling or jumping motion of the carriage, as if it was off
the line, and then the train was brought to a sudden
stoppage. A most fearful scene presented itself.
The engine, a large powerful six-wheeler, was lying
on its side, enveloped in steam, completely
across the down line and the road heed by the
Gravesend (Tilbury), Woodford, North Woolwich, and
other lines. Neat to the engine was a second-class
passenger (break) carriage, and the escape of the
occupants appears most marvellous. The part of it
used•as the guard's break was shattered to pieces and
how the guard was preserved from instant death seems
most surprising. This carriage, with the next, had been
dragged off the line, and apparently had been shattered
and ripped by a rail which had been torn up by the
engine, and was standing up perpendicular between the
two carriages. Fortunately, there were not many
passengers in the train, and, more providentialty still,
they all escaped any serious injury, with the exception of
an elderly lady, Mrs. Sutherland, who sustained a serious
contusion on her face. They jumped and scrambled out
of the carriages as best they could, and made their way
to a more distant part of the line, it being feared that the
hissing prostrate engine, which was sending forth dense
volumes of steam, might explode. The excitement for the
moment having somewhat subsided, inquiries were made
after the engine driver and stoker, and it was ascer-
tained that they, too, had been most miraculously
spared. The poor fellows had stuck to their post to
the last; and, as tlae engine slewed round and turned
over, they were thrown forward some few feet on to the
permanent way, and escaped save a few bruises. As
soon as they had somewhat recovered, they did their
best to lessen any further mischief arising from the then
somewhat dangerous condition of the engine ; and the
guard, with as much expedition as possible, gave the
necessary signals to stop all traius, up or down.

HORRIBLE MUM—A horrible accident took place
two days ago in the large manufactory of chemical pro-
ductions of Mll.l, Perret, at Perrache, near Lyons. The
overseer was going through the establishment when he
slipped and fell into one of the vats sunk in the ground,
and in which was being prepared a chemical compound,
the principal ingredient of which was a very strong
acid. Although taken out immediately by the workmen
who were near, so violent was the action of the corrosive
preparation, that the unfortunate man's eyes were com-
pletely burnt out, and his flesh fell in flakes from his
bones. Still he survived four hours.
BRUTAL WIFE MURDER.—Another of those disgrace-
ful outrages for which South Staffordshire has of late
become notorious, has occurred in the outskirts of
Wolverhampton, resulting in the death of a woman
named Elizabeth Evans, by the hand of Edward
Humphreys, a boatman, with whom the unhappy woman
lived as his wife, assisting him in the management of his
boat. As is general among their class, Humphreys and
Evans lived in the boat, which was moored against
Sheldon's timber-yard, at the bottom of Canal-street,
and not far from the stations of the Great Western and
London and North-Western Railways. About ten
o'clock at night Evans left the boat, in company
with some female acquaintance, and Humphreys,
suspecting with truth that they were gone to get drink,
regarding which he had had, it appears, a quarrel
with Evans earlier iu the night, followed them. He
overtook them near the railway bridge on the Cannock
road, and, accosting the unfortunate woman, asked her
with an imprecation how she would like his fists. She
replied that she was not aware that she had done any-
thing to induce him to strike her, to which he rejoined
by beating her savagely (he is a powerful fellow, about
six feet high, and stout in proportion) until she reeled
and fell against the fence. A companion of the
deceased's expostulated with him, on which he, looking
at his victim, cursed her, and declaring that, if she were
not yet dead, he should kill her, dealt the half-un.conscious
wretch a violent kick on the side. She gave a faint
scream, and apparently ceased to exist, for she showed
no signs of life afterwards. The body was conveyed to
the Fountain Inrk bard. by to await an inquest. The
murderer was taken, into custody about two b,Qt/re after,
wards, Pa lodged in the lock-up.