The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

AT ALDERMAN *OOVRIIPPS.

John Berry and (Tames Taylor, two celebrated bur-
glars and robbers, were b 1 ht .tIP a1.,,r4n on a charge
of being concerned in the burgla'rV Miff robbery com-
mitted in the shop of Alderman Woodrtlff, ?ark-lane,
on the night of the 13th. Mr. Bluck appearec.'' for
Taylor, and Mr. Cobb for Berry. Some further evi-
dence was given, and thus the case was advanced a step,
and the prisoners were again remanded.

FRIDAY.
cAunkig fp ErNOWBA LLE RS.

Several person were clAttged by the police with
being, disorderly in the streets, artd throwing snowballs
at each ahead(' at the public. The practice of throw-
ing snowballs is very dangerous; and often leads to ill
consequences. The magistrate censured the conduct of
the parties, and fined them Js. each Where assaults were
proved.
Several cab-drivers were fined for liehigdilink and

is capable of taking care of their horses arid vehiele,s;•
and others, who had been up before, were ordered to
be reported to the Car Committee.

DESTITUTION.—A HARD CASE.
A pretty and neatly-dressed woman named Ellen
Swan, who had two pretty children with her, was
brought up by police-officer 704, who said he got her
in the street the previous night destitute; and as she
had no money nor no place to go to, he took her to the
station. The poor woman, who seemed intelligent,
in answer to Mr. Raffles, said—l came from Perth
to seek my husband. who came here, but I. could not
find him. Mr. Raffles—Have you any friends here ?
No, sir. Mr. Raffles—Nor money ? None, sir. Mr.
Raffles—You ought to go to the Workhouse and seek
relief there. Woman—l have been there; but they
would not send me back. Mr. Raffles—Why not ?
Because I was born in Ireland. How long have you
been in Perth ? Over 17 years : I was reared there and
married there. Mr. Raffles—ls your husband a native
of Perth ? He is, sir : he was born and reared there.

I don't know anything about Ireland, except that I was
born there ; but I have no friends nor relations there.
Mr. Raffles thought she should be sent back to Perth, and
ordered the officer to take her to the Workhouse and
try if they would send her back, and if not let them
defray half the expenses, and he would pay the other
half, to send her back to Perth. The poor woman ex-
prpsed her gratitude to the worthy magistrate for his

A CHRISTMAS 130 X.—CURIOUS STATE ur NT.
Alice Smith, a young woman of a singularly fine
figure, was charged with having stolen over £4 from
William Dodson, who described himself as from Run-
corn. The prosecutor seemed to have commenced
keeping his Christmas holidays already, for the effect of
his last night's boozing had not altogether evaporated
with the night mist, that gave way to the influence of
" Sol." It appeared that Maister Dodson was dodging
about the town the previous night, looking out for
"adventures." He not only met one adventure, in the
shape of the prisoner, but two more, in the shape of
comrades. Along with this trio of graces (for they were
all fine specimens of mother Eve's daughters), he invited
them to take supper, by way of a Christmas box. They
went into an eating-house, where he called for beef an
mutton, and ham and eggs, and the other delicacies
of the season. There is an old proverb which says,
" good eating deserves good drinking," and Mr. Dod-
son's organ of benevolence being in a highly developed
state—notwithstanding the frost and snow, that were
quite enough to freeze the genial current—he sent for
liquor gdori Anglia ad lib, and the four drank rings
round them, until they did'nt care for Sing Poo, the
Emperor of China, the King of Sardinia, nor Garibaldi.
In this glorious state of happiness they might have con-
tinued, no one can say how long, had not Morpheus
most treacherously deserted them, and when the prose-
cutor opened his peepers, he began to try his pockets
with the feelers of his forefinger and thumb, when he
missed some seven sovereigns ; and then, in place of
lauding Miss Smith for her frugality and carefulness, he
wound up the Christmas box by lodging her in the
bridewell on a charge of having broken one of the rules
of our legal code. The female searcher, at the station,
got the sum of money lost by the prosecutor, tied up in
the corner of the prisoner's necktie. The prisoner told
the following story: She was a native of SLllelens,
and some years ago she met with the prosecutor, who
induced her to leave home with him. He is the rather
of her two children, and every time he comes to town
he gives her money. She said the money in this case
was given to her by him in the usual way. The pro-
secutor was then called, and asked if the story was true ?
and he replied that he never saw the prisoner before in
his life. The girl strongly persisted in the statement,
and the prosecutor as strongly denied it. The prisoner
was sent to jail for a month.

HARLEQUIN.—From all accounts, there is no doubt
that the harlequin of our stage and theatrical booths in
the days of Garrick, and for his impersonation of whom
Rich became so famous, was a faithful impression of this
curious type. In one respect Rich did not strictly follow
the prescription we have given for playing Harlequin.
His grief was not always laughable, and it is said of him
that, "in one or two ()this pantomimes, his taking leave
of Columbine was at once graceful and affecting." Was
ever ancestor so dishonoured in his descendants as is the
eccentric but amiable sentimentalist here denoted in the
gentleman with the particoloured and bespangled tights
who bears his name in the present age, and who betrays
no more feeling for the nominal object of his affections,
nor, indeed, any more human emotion whatever, than the
wooden baton passed through his girdle ? In France,
the character of Harlequin, which was there not con-
demned to the silent system, rose to a high degree of
importance. Besides exciting mirth by the general
absurdity of his behayiour, he was made the mouth-
piece of biting sarcasms on the age and the prevailing
follies of society, and in many instances his was the
principal character in the piece he played in. One of
the best French Harlequins was Carlin, as he was called
theatrically, although his real name was Carlo Berti-
nanzi, he being an Italian by birth. Fleury, the actor,
in his amusing Memoirs, devotes a chapter to a delinea-
tion of his qualities as an actor, as well as his character
in private, where he seems to have carried many of the
eccentric attributes of the part be assumed in public.
His chief merits were an extraordinary accent of candour
and simplicity in his dialogue, and the marvellous nature
of his pantomimic gestures. To the authors who wrote
for him he was a perfect godsend, for such were his
powers of humourous expression, that he invested all
he said with a prestige of comicality that would make
the most commonplace speech seem the acme of wit-
ticism. Harlequin was expected to amuse his audi-
ence by introducing a great deal of that practical
fun which is now the principal ingredient of pan-
tomime ; and when Carlin slipped as he came on the
stage, or in a night-scene stumbled over a post or ran
up against a wall, it was done with such a natural air,
that his audience could scarcely refrain from crying out
to him to "take care." He possessed also the gift of
improvisation, and would seize upon any unexpected
incident during the performance to graft upon it all
sorts of supernumerary drolleries. Frequently, when
children were brought to the theatre to see him, they
would be so impressed with the perfect good faith and
raality of the droll good-tempered fellow before them,
that they would address him from the boxes ; and he,
using the very wide privilege of his part, would enter
into a colloquy with the little people, and with the
greatest art would work in these digressions into the
substance of his part, so as entirely to delude country
folks into the belief that the whole performance was
designed, and on subsequent nights they would raise a
cry for the scene of "harlequin and the children."—
From "Temple Bar" for January.

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