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

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.-SATURD.44.

(Before Mr. RAFFLES.)
STABBING.—JAiIiet3 Davidson WAS charged , ssith
stabbing James Callan, on Fiiday night, iu Copperas.
hill ; The proseciddr, it appears, was drunk, and the
prisoner was .sober. . They Quarrelled; :and Thl7:(4°ll,
struck Callan, wha fell, with a knife, The pr.l:l
ran away, but returned again immediately, ruilf,„.
with the crowd, was identified, and secured.—Sent
trial to the sessions. 1 1

A 13aurA,L. ZusuANn.--Joha Evans, 179, Neale'
field-road North, was brought up pn a charge ot.
threatening the life of his wife. The threat was made.
on Friday, when the prisoner comtititted a number Qf
assaults upon the poor womin,-. who was :rescued from
his cruelty_by the neighbours.--Sent to jgcal f9r,94r"
months. At the expiration of the term of his imprison'
merit he will have to enter into recognisanas to keep the
peace for six Months:' • •

POCKET-PICKING. ,James Roberts was charged
with picking the pocket of a lady (named Dav,ies, on
Friday, in Hackin2s-hey, where the prosecntrix skied
observing a girl dancing the highland "sting,—Sent to
goal for three months. . '
FALSE PEET'ENCES.—WiIIiam 4ilyer, a man of ooln,nr,
was sent to the sessions for trial, on a charge of übtain-
ing from fohn Cusack, residing in Mersey-stteet,
quantity of clothing by false pretences. .

• ,
The colonial produce markets during the week have
been rather unsettled, partly from OW sudden ad*fince
in the Bank rate. Some of the -principal articles do
not fully support the' late! improvement, while others
have . again shown- an upward tendency, especially
coffee, for which the demand continues with much
animation. •

TROOPS PROM brinA.—On Thursday afternoon a parry
of cavalry and infantry troops, to the number of .58 men
of all ranks, arrived at St. Mary's invalid establishment",
from India, having disembarked 'at Gravesend from the,
East' India' troopship Marlboreugh; 117 days out from -
Calcutta. . The Mailhoroligh brinighthnMo upwards of
200 troops, all of Whoin are__ men _who have completed
their term of:service for which they- enli4ld, and have
been sent home to be discharged. The' healthy troops
were detained at Gravesend, to be sent to their various
depots,; from.which,they, will be granted their; discharge.
.A.S.UlteßLSE.—Among the visitors to the recently-erected •
baths in Galashiels were two men from the.country, Who
were much puzzled and pleased with their construction:
Oneof- them,: anxious to give his neighbour the benefit
of his discoveries, leaned into the bottom of a shower;,
bath, and in this position was explaining hovethe water. •
flowed out, when a rope ahove attracted the eye, of the
other visitor: He seized hold of if, klying, "this'll be
the bell for ringing for mair water na,"
,and,, biz a tug, n•edpious stream descended On the ihe' a ttnit
shoulders of his companion:- much to- the .sintiriseiiii
well as the discomfiture .of his neighbour
ly
FORGED Fivi POUND NOTES.—On Friday, at thel
City Police emir; 'Manchester; Edward Wilcock, genie"'
time since imprisoned for biting off the nilse.4 1414"91114
with whom he-had cohabited; :was..Awed , with titter-•iu
ing a forged .)3 44pf England note. .On Thursdayl,
nigh( last the 'prisoner' purchased'a'pi* of 'gin at'M
King's AIRS and ,tstidereit ig note in 1pai.:;•:
ment. He mimed the not.ewilh!the name of:" Henry-;r
White," and it was taken. The .note was next,
to a butcher, and then to a baker, neither of wliOM
detected its false character ; and it was only found to
a forgery on the baker taking it to:the
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN .1014anavlapys:_YxsgEmo,,,i,.1
—Yesterday morning, between three and four o'clock,'
a rapidly de‘trnstive' AO, attended with serious laft;el
property, h4ppened 'on 'the extensivh premises of M4rsk,
Edmand Folkard and Co., 15* 1414744 e. :Polka-
constable isfo: V, who &rst disearered. the. five,
sonridecl an alarm, and sent for the escapes. kter sow',
trouble, the whole of the inmates were made sensible 0..1-
their impending danger, when they'made an attempt to -
descend by the, staircase, but on reaehing the, second floor
landing they were met with such .ptikwerful
.body
smoke that they ran into a room op the second floor, and
presented'theinSelves at the WindoW crying piteously for
help. , Conductor Paine rescued them, sending thent
down through the canvas trough of the escape itOiaiet.Y‹.
Engines arrived in rapid succession, and got to work in
an admirable manner, but the fire-was net extinguished -
nntil the hack warehouse was- destroyed. It is only
justice to the escape-man to. say that by his Prompt
arrival the lives- of these persons were aaved., as there was
no possibility for tllem to have effected their escape? and
they must have been suffocated orburnt to death.
REFUSAL of• lacer:, .—On Tuesday there its
an adjourned licensing magistrates' meeting at
Vestry-room, , St. Martin's-lane, in order to reconsider
the circumstances under which, Amotigst otos, the
licenses attached-to the premieles occupied- by at
ham, the Cambrian Stores, Castle street, Leicester-square,
and those of. Ben Gaunt, of the Coach and horses, St.
Martin
bad been recently_ suspended.
ia ' s-Igoe,
,;.'
Sleigh, 'who appeared for the parochial anthoritie3fr
called their, attention to the (acts detailed:by us •a fort:-
uight_ ba4k as, to. Tom. Paddock, the pugfli -ha • been stabbed by another man 41Lang. harct's pay lags `
remarked on the extremely large assemblies Which
coA-
gregated around his house-ort-tho very eye cf c4y 'great
plete nuisanee to the in.photritatilveltay:
to
of
refuse
fins t, and whieh he vas: 1114 d'
mete •tO say were a corn,
asked the '-such most . . • e parish, and he
on behalf of Langham it was-urged not
be
hnenegld tsopeoanitsyibiree
pfourditahteeds!ab.Tbiheng,, which was an act
-the license,
magistrates, how-
ever, refused the license. Caunti case was next brought
On., The parochial objections to his retaining a lieensd
were certain • alleged gambling transactions which had,
taken place in his house at various periods. In this
eaae, also, the.lieense was refused. An appeal, it 14
ittid, will be made in both cases.

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the Parish of Torteth-park, at his
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