The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-15 00:00:00

ROBBERY IN A "BAD HOUSE."

A young mercantile man, named John Davis, charged a
female named Anne Wilson, who keeps a house of ill-repute in
Finch-street, with having robbed him of 47. Mr. Cobb
defended, and on cross-examination of the plaintiff c:icited all
the facts. He said he was very drunk, h.td been t 4 the Grand
Junction Hotel, then to Rigby's, then to Johnston's, and then
to goodness knows how many other public houst,s....mi.
Cobb : Then you were drunk ? I was.- I3i,w much money
had you ? About £l3. I met a friend of the prisoner's, and
went to the house, when the prisoner pulled the pocket off me,
and took out £7. Mr. Cobb contended that as the prosecutor was
so very drunk, no jury could convict on his evidence, and
therefore it would Le useless to send the prisoner for trial.
Mr. Raffles agreed, and the prisoner teas discharged.

SUBSCRIPTION IN LIVERPOOL FOR THE
RELIEF OF THE SUFFERING CHRIS-
TIANS IN SYRIA.

important The following, relative to the above
subject, was circulated here on Saturday :
" Liverpool, 11th August, 1860.
" SlR,—Your presence is respectfully requested at a
meeting, to be held (by the kind permission of the
Mayor, who has promised to attend) in the Council-
chamber, within the Town-hall, on Tuesday next, the
11th instant, at one o'clock, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the appointment of a committee to
assist the praiseworthy efforts now being made in Lon-
don to raise subscriptions to relieve the urgent wants of
the survivors of the suffering Christians and others
starving in Syria and the Lebanon."
In compliance with this request, a number of our
most influential citizens met yesterday, in the Town-
hall, and the following resolutions were at once, and
unanimously, agreed to by them :-
1. " That this meeting has learnt with deep concern
that a population chiefly Christian, and estimated at
75,000 in number. are now scattered among the moun-
tains and on the coast of Syria, deprived of shelter,
clothing, and food, by recent well-known calamitous
events."

2. "That, although the Turkish Government may,
under the special circumstances of the case, he willing* to
make eventual provision for the relief of its suffering sub-
jects, yet that in the opinion of this meeting, the urgency
of immediate need ov6rleaps all questions of distance and
technical obligation; and demands the administration of
present help, as a simple dictate of human compassion."
3. "That a subscription, he opened in Liverpool, for
contributions in money and clothing, towards the object
now indicated."

4. " That elle following gentlemen he a committee to
carry these resolutions into effect, with power to add to
their number ; that they have full authority to deal at
their discretion with all contributions obtained, but that
they be requested to aet as far as practicable in concur-
rence with the committee already formed in London for
the same purpose:—Chairman; the Mayor of Liverpool.
deputy-chairman, Charles Turner, Esq. ; treasurer and
secretary, William Miles Moss, Esq.; L. R. Bailey,
William Brown, Christopher Bushell, John Cropper,
John Farnworth, -Charles Forget, T. B. For woca,
Charlton R. Hall, John Pemberton Heywood, Joseph
Hubback, W. J. Lampert, Samuel Martin, Charles. P.
Melly, Charles Maclver, G. M. Papayanni, T. Stamford
Raffles, William Preston,
P. A. Ralli, S. G. Rathbone,
J. P. Schilizzi, sen., Halsall Segal", On, Francis Shand,
Richard Sheil, N.--D.- Spartali, J. A. Tobin, William
Rathbone, Esqra."
As the meeting was a private one, we are only enabled
to state that great interest was exhibited by the gentle-
men pregent (among whom were most of the members
of the principal Greek houses in Liverpool), in its objects,
and that a considerable sum of money was subscribed
in the room. A list of the donations to the fund
will be shortly published in our "columns.

THE WEATRBII.—We are happy to say that the
weather since Sunday has assumed a more favourable
aspect, and it is to be hoped it may continue. Sunday,
Monday, and yesterday were particularly fine and warm,
which is so desirable at this moment to bring the cereal
crops to perfection. Up to the present the corn is rather
backward, owing to the long wet, and unfavourable
rains, but even yet, if we are favoured with a month of
sach weather as we have had for the last three days, an
abundant harvest, with the benediction of Providence,
may be expectO,