The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-26 00:00:00

LITERAT URE.

MEL-rouA : A Quarterly Review of Social Science; No. 9.
London : Partridge and Co.

The title of this Quarterly sufficiently explains its
character and its object. We all know now what social
science is. It mould be a shame if we did not, after
having had it so fully and forcibly expoudned and MIL:-
trated in St. George's-hall. Social science is itself
sneliora altogether. This review professes to treat it in
its ethical, evangelical, political, and ameliorative
aspects—the very aspects, indeed, which the Association
for the Promotion of Social Science has in view.
Mdiora, therefore, is calculated to be a powerful auxi-
liary iu that cause. It is, moreover, an interesting
periodical in a literary point of view.

TILE INVENTOR'S GUIDE BOOK ; or, Plain Directions
for Obtaining Letters Patent, &c. By William
Walker. London, George Philip and Son. 1860.
Intending patentees may obtain from this little volume
a correct idea of the total cost likely to be incurred by
them in securing the property in their inventions in the
most effectual manner, as well as the best mode of pro-
ceeding. The author has had great experience, and is
perhaps the most competent adviser on the subject of
British and colonial, and foreign patents, for inventions.
A copy of the work should be in the hands of all
inventors and patent solicitors, as the best practical
guide of the kind extant.

New INveNtian.—Tne Nsw FOUNTAIN greater
annoyance than a bad steel pen can hardly be met with---the
difficulty is to get a good one. Amongst the recent improve-
ments the new " fountain pen," just introduced by Rudhall
and Co. is the best we have ever seen. Jly a simple but effec-
tive contrivance the ink is retained in a fountain, by means of
a second inverted barrel above the writing nib, and this barrel
can be taken out at any time, so the pen can be kept perfectly
clean without any chance of being corroded. Another feature
in this pen is, that one dip in the ink will last for five minutes'
quick writing. The pen itself is of the finest description, and
in merchants' offices, banks, and indeed in every place, it will
be found to fill a want felt by every one up to this time. We
have tried !his splendid pen, handed to.us by Mr. E. T. P all,
South John-street, and can pronounce it perfect, and WO are
me all who use it will 10. ye a full verdict in its favour,

Detective-oflicer Laycock brought up a woman, named Mary
Glennan, Ideseribed as a "female man-catcher," living in
Porter-street, on a charge of having robbed two poor Irish
emigrants, named Mary Moore ;nd Anne Lovell, of £4 7s 6d.
Mr. Bluck was for the prisoner. The pse was heartless on
the part of the prisoner. It appeared that the husband of one
of the complainants (who is the brother of the other) is in
America, and that he paid the passage of the two, in America,
and sent them tickets accordingly. He also sent them
£4 in cash to pay the passage of a child which he wished to
Wore out. The two poor women arrived here from Waterford,
a day or two since, and on landing they were met by the
prisoner, who had a girl that acted as " a decoy duck," and
they induced the emigrants to go to the prisoner's house. On
going to the house the prisoxer asked them if they had any
money, and, if so, to give it up to flier, as it was likely some-
thing would happea it. The poor creatures had only £4 7s. 6d.,
which they gave to the prisoner to keep, and as soon as she
got it she called a lot of dissolute people, and went, on the
"spree," and Porter-street was in au uproar for a couple of
days. The women being ready to go on shipboard, demanded
their money, when the prisoner laughed at them, and told
them to go to the County Court and recover it at a shilling a
week. In place of going there they were directed to Mr.
Swerintandant Kehoe, and the latter sent Laycock, who put
the Fraudulent Trugtee Act into operation, arrested the pri-
soner, and recovered a one-pound Irish note of the money.
Mr. Bluck did all he could to get off the prisoner, but his
worship said the Fraudulent Trustee det was made to meet
such cases as the present, and he would teach thieves like the
th.t they could not rob poor enixg-r.L.. imp -
nity. This being the first case of the sort that came before
him, he would remand the woman for a week, and allow her
to pay the poor women, but in future, in such eases, he would
send all such offenders for trial. Mr. Bluck said the money
would be paid, and the prisoner was remanded to this day, in
order to give her an opportunity of paying the money over to
the owners.
(Before Messrs. GRANT and GLADSTONE.)
BEERHOUSE CASES.

Sylvanus Schofield, of Mile-end, was charged with Sunday
trading : fined 20s. and costs. Thomas White, Carlton-street,
was charged with selling ale on Sunday : dismissed. Thomas
Webster, Prescot-street, was charged with doing business at
_ .

illegal hours dismissed. Patrick Doyle, Thomas-street, was
summoned with selling at illegal hours : fined 2s. 6d. and costs.
John Ward, Bell-street, was charged with selling ale on soil.;
day morning : dismissed. Robert Plunket, Blundell-street,
was summoned for refusing to admit the pollee when they
demanded admittance at four in the morning ; the defence was
that the inmates were in bed, and that the house was
robbed by burglars : fined 10s. and costs. Michael Girwan,
Limekiln-lane, was charged with doing business at illegal
hours. Officer 703 said he saw a woman leaving the house
with a jug, and he added, with great emphasis, " I convinced
her it was ale." (Laughter.) He proceeded to say that there
was a woman drunk, and a man speechless drunk, because he
heard him speaking (loud laughter), and all this happened at
the contrary side of Limekiln-lane. Here a geographical
inquiry as to the "contrary side?' of the lane took place, and
the result of the whole case was a dismisii.—John, Middleton,
St. Anne-street, was charged for doing business at illegal
hours. The defence was that the parties in the house were
friends, and were treated : dismissed.—Jane Gray, of Edgehill,
was charged forhaving her house open after eleven on Saturday
night, contrary to the act : dismissed.—Charles Seaman, West
Derbk-road, was summoned for having done business at pro-
hibited hours. In this case it vq-s stated the ale was drawn
before eleven o'clock': dismissea.—jolm Jones, of Paddington,
was summoned for selling ale at illegal hours, Mr. Cobb was
kitchdeferieP
uouse, which was net the licensed portion of the
premises, but this point was overruled, and defendant was
fined ss. and costs.

A FRENCH OPINION OF ENGLAND.—What astonishes
some men is the extreme facility with which England
at the present moment recedes and becomes the England
of other days, without regard to all the trouble taken to
rsfortc. her. Despite Diiraeli and his paladins of Young
England, despite Cohden and his bales of cotton, despite
Bright and his peace theories, despite Prladstone and his
vague, evangelical, humanitary ideas, the present gene-
ration backs, rears, will not advance with the age, but
starts back to the days of yore. We have a striking
proof of it in the recent prize-fight which so scandalised
the French public the other day. It is nothing more
than the awakening of "the beast" which it was
attempted to smother with money-bags, but which, at a
given moment, rises, stretches itself, and with a terrific
roar sends the vile coin right and left for the sole plea-
sure of being at e,:ise ac.d feeling that it is alive. What-
ever disgust this may cause you, I beg of you, neverthe-
less, to take it for what it is—a sign ! the sign of how
this nation is bored to death by all the ultra-civilising
notions shouted into its ears for the last fifteen years.
Observe that Lord Loraine, in assuming as regards the
recent prize-€o.t the views of every well-bred man on
the Continent, ran foul of the Englishman of the old
school, represented by Lord Palmerston. Now, the
latter, whatever faults he may have, has always shown
himself a perfect gentleman in word and deed; but he
is a thorough-bred Englishman, an Englishman to the
back bone, and by no means inclined to relinquish the
popularity ho enjoys at the present moment on that
very account.--A7i Z de In Religion.
A FAMOUS ROBBER.—It was stated a short time
back that a man undergoing imprisonment in the prison
of B4nlogne-sur-mer for robbery, under the name of
Aaron, had been recognised as one of a very desperate
band of burglars, seventeen in number, who were
arrested in the south of France in 1851, but all of
whom, singular to relate, succeeded in escaping. This
Aaron, who effected his escape fi-om the prison of Pau,
was sent back there. Three days ago he was brought
to trial before the court of assizes of the Basses-Pyrenees
for robbery and burglary. In answer to the President,
he stated that he had passed by the different names of
Alexander, Henri, Dufour, Leon, Martin, Jacob, and
Aaron, but that his real liable is David ; also, that he
had represented himself to be a Belgian and a Roman
Catholic, but that he is really a Frenchman and a Jew.
He said also that he had been condemned in almost
every one of those names ; and that after his escape in

1851 he went to Brussels, where he was condemned to
four years' imprisonment for robbery, which he under-
went ; that then he went to Germariy and to England ;
and that on returning from England he had stoppea at
Boulogne, and had there been condemned. Proof was
then given of several robberies and burglaries committed
by him in 1850 and 1851; and among them were these :
—At Libourne, where he resided some little time, he
passed himself off as a corn cutter, and by affecting to
be a rigid Jew, obtained the confidence of a rich Israelite
trader, named Doliveira. He ended by robbing him of
‘30,000f. worth of goods. At Bayonne he broke into
the shops of a watchwaker and lacemaker, and stole
from one goods to the value of 12,000 E, and TiOni the
other 3.0,000 f. It was stated to the court that the pri:
soner had extraordinarily skill in disguising himself,
and that he spoke several languages with facility. The
jury declared the man guilty, and coudem4e4 haw to
twenty years' hard labyttr,—Oglivißoi,

Mr: Raffles consented, and Gotain Robins was called.
He said he was not aware until Thursday that there
would
be a Board of Trade enquiry. He had been at
sea since 1835, and had been 14 years in command of
vessels making foreign voyages to America, the Medi-
terranean, Southern Africa, India, and China. 'The
Leicester left Charleston on the 17th ult., at five p.m.,
and after a pretty fair voyage, arrived off Cape Clear at
eight o'clock on the morning of the 14th of this month.
There was then a strong breeze from E.S.E. At six
p.m; the rind veered to the southward, and the weather
cleiired up. From three o'clock, and until ten p.m. on
the next day, the course was generally W.E. by E.—
sometimes a little more northerly. At this time the
wind was S.W. by S. ; the rate of sailing after rounding
the Tuskar, about 7 knots per hour. Shortly after ten
pan. the stunsails, the staysails, and the mizenroyal
were taken in, and the courses hauled up ; the weather
was at this time hazy. They got everything in readi-
ness, and expected to see the Stack Light, but could not
do so. He (witness) sent a man to the map44e,44, rho,
after remaining there some time, said he was unable to
see anything of the Light. Presently the man at the
look-out said he could see land, and witness told the
mate to see what it was. Witness had the helm put
hard a-starboard ; the wind was then upon the starboard
quarter. A few moments after this the vessel struck,
just outside the Roscommon Beacon, distant about 300
yards. They immediately backed the yards, and used
every effort to free the ship ; but she commenced break-
ing up almost immediately. Witness then ordered the
masts to be cut away, in order that she might keep
together as long as possible; it was about one o'clock
a.m. when they struck. Finding that the ship was
rapidly breaking up, they (with great difficulty) got the
long-boat out, and entered it. They pulled out to sea,
and were picked up by the steamer Eleanor and James,
and taken to Holyhead. Up to this time about one-
third of the cargo has been saved. Since witness has
been a master he never met with a similar accident; one
of his ships was burned; but the owners and under-
writers were satisfied that it was spontaneous combus-
tion, and acquitted him of any blame. Ike was offered
another ship 'a week after this accident to the Leicester.
At the time of the wreck the tide was at half-flood.
Captain Harris said the master appeared to have done
everything—used every precaution, except that most
necessary one of heaving the lead at the proper time.
Before turning the Tuskar, he had undoubtedly done
everything that a seaman should do, and the only fault
was in not heaving the lead when he could not see the
light.

David Ross, chief mate of the Leicester, confirmed
the captain's statement. Every precaution was taken.

Witness had sailed for a long time with Capt. Robins,
and believed him to be a most zealous, attentive, and
cautious officer.

Mr. Lamport, of the firm of Lamport and Holt, said
he had employed Captain Robins for six or seven years,
and had found him a most industrious, sober, and atten-
tive servant. Tie left their employ on the occasion of
to Messrs. Rathbone Brothers.
Mr. Rathbone, jun., was also called, and gave evidence
equally complimentary to Captain Robins.
Mr. Raffles intimated that the captain's certificate
would be sent with the evidence to the Board of Trade,
and would, no doubt, have weight with them.
The result will be known shortly.

polpc, May 25.
The Charles B. Truitt, which has been lying in our
waters for the last five or six months, sailed with her
cargo of Hiles from Queenstown yesterday morning for
Liverpool. She was freighted by the Gatibaldi Corn-
mittee in New York, but having arrived here after the
war had terminated, she lay at Queenstown awaiting
orders from the States. It is possible that Garibaldi's
recent movements have occasioned the vessel's departure.
[The receipt of this piece of telegraphic news in
Liverpool, seems to have given rise to a widely-
circulated report yesterday evening that the mysterious
barque had just come into port, awl had begun
to land her warlike cargo, which was being
hurriedly stowed away in the cellarage beneath
the printing premises formerly occupied by Mr. Fraser,
in Cable-street. The rumour spread like wildfire and
created a considerable amount of vague and indescribable
excitement. On enquiry, however, we ascertained that
the vessel had not arrived, o.nd that the only foundation
for the alarm was the simple fact that a large number
of muskets, recently purchased by Mr. Glazebrook,
merchant in this town, from the Austrian Government,
were deposited last evening in the above-mentioned
place.]

It is the Bishop of Worcester and not the Bishop of
Winchester that is seriously indisposed.
Yesterday morning the anniversary of th 9 Princess
Helena's birthday was kept in London with the usual
demonstrations of loyalty and respect.
PIEDMONT "COMING? THE OLD SOLDIER" OVER THE
EmrEnon.—The Emperor of the French is said to be
more and more dissatisfied with the Piedmontese, who,
his Majesty seems to believe, are (to use a vulgar phrase)
"coming the old soldier over him." When Savoy was
to be handed up to France it is clear that it was not
Savoyards, who have been converted into French
citizens, that were meant, but something quite as valu-
able—namely, the land that bore them. Now, it is
very well to fight for an idea ; but, after all, a bargain
is a bargain: The T!iedniontese do not appear to have
as good a notion of this elementary maxim as people at
the Tuileries, and the former have employed the interval
before the ratification of the treaty itt selling as fast as
they can, and to the highest bidder, not merely the
personal property of Victor Emmanuel, but the Crown
lands which should revert to France. This is rather
sharp practice. France, doubtless, glories in her new
subjects, but if they bring nothing with them there will
be matter for complaint.

LUNATIC
ARTEICLE;sSIE.LD Pumi.—TlAENTeoFrroeßspcoinßLYnßt
orfeot:sthve EwyEoprceTsote,A.-
shire Chronicle relates what seems to be a gross case of
oppression under,for.aw,irtohrokutl; colour of. Mrs. Muni-
living at Pershore,
tef:so-rin4d,e'
fell
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melancholywith ov e over-susceptible nde Plit
apathetici ble feelings
state,of
owingaff ec-
to the absence of a beloved son, which appears at
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nil not necessary,
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last to have rendered it des'
'o;nt; Lunaa"Asuy-luiu"."XTVlire`c
half-a-year, she recovered her mental tong:—
to be fit to be sent home on trial, as it is calslod,fbafro.ra:
month. She remained for some time, not only
neither dangerous nor disagreeable, but fulfilliyngelhnegr
household and neighbourly duties properly and well, and
to the satisfaction and comfort of her husband and
family, and betraying by no sign cr symptoni that she
stood in need of watching or restraint. At length the
husband received an order to take back his wife or send
a medical certificate of her recovery. The last was
denied him by the medical officer of the union, because
he had not seen the patient during her absence from the
asylum; the other alternative Mumford rejected,
because his wife exhibited the greatest repugnance
to going back, the bare idea of it begetting a return
of her former melancholy. In consequence, at the
end of ten weeks, two female attendants were sent
over to bring the woman back. The husband and
children rose in arms against this outrage on the natural
affections, and on an Englishman's home. A police-
man--a race " ever but in time of need at hand"—
pushed the husband on one side, and rudely prevented
him coming to the rescue. The poor wretch, between
grief and indignation, sunk on the floor irk a At, and
while the frightened household were crowding round
believing hire to be dying, the messengers from
the asylum seized the opportunity to force Mrs. Mum-
ford, struggling, protesting, and appealing, into a fly,
and carried her back to the asylum.

SERIOUS BOAT ACCIDENT IN THE FORTH, AND 1
NARROW ESCAPE.—On Thursday afternoon, about half-
past three o'clock, as the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee 1
Railway Company's steamer Express was crossing the
Firth to Burntisland, some persons were observed in
the water, clinging to a partially submeqe4 bcat. The
captain directed the steamer to arils the sufferers, and
a boat was immediately lowered and sent to the rescue.
A stiff breeze was blowing, and the waves were
breaking over the wrecked people, but the boat soon
returned with them, four in number—two ladies, a
boy, and a young man. The ladies and the boy were
insensible. The passengers immediately took charge
of them, and every effort was used to restore animation,
and before the steamer reached Burntisland these efforts
were partially successful. The sufferers were removed
at Burntisland to the Forth Hotel, and professional
assistance was sent and telegraphed for. In a short
time Dr. Christopher, of Burntisland, was in attendance,
and under his directions, and those of Dr. Dewar, from
Kirkcaldy, the patients gradually recovered. They
are all members of the family of the Rev. Mr. FAlgav;
of Edinburgh, mother and daughter, and two sons,
the ald,F,' r, yoi,ng naval—ofcer, and they had left
Aberdour in a pleasure boat, which had unfortu-
nately somehow or other capsized. When they were
seer and picked up by the steamer, the sufferers must
have been in the water from twenty minutes to half an
hour. Dr. Allshorn, their family attendant, was sum-
moned to Burntislaud from Edinburgh, and remained
with them all night. The three young sufferers have
pretty well recovered from the effecis. (41. the accident,
and Mrs Edgq--to whom the accident was the most
serious, as she had only just recovered from a very
revere illness—is also happily out of danger. Great
praise is due to Captain Morrison, of the Express, and
his crew, for the prompt manner in which they rescued
the Edgars. The family are indebted Is,o them for life,
as, from their numbed condition when rescued, it is
certain that in a very few minutes they would have
perished;

(From the correspoudent of the Irish Times.)
A paragraph, cat and dry, appeared in all the London
newspapers on Saturday, to the effect that Sayers and
Heenan had met in Bell's Life office, and come to an
amicable arrangement, by which each of the combatants
was to have a belt equal in point of value and magni-
ficence
to the " belt" itself ; that Tom Sayers was never
again to appear in the P.R., but had suspended his votive
tablet in the form of resigning all cl;inA to the prize, which
was thereupon to, be rolled into the midst of all prize-
fighters, with an inscription upon it—" Let the fair one
take it." A prophecy that Heenan would be the man
was added. The paragraph smacked suspiciously of copy
written to order ; and with the exception of an ending,
which contained an intimation that the heroes woulcl be
exhibited, a la Tom Thumb, for a Iseilegt, yev the seir.e
in all. Now this interesting document, holding up to
public yip the pious resignation of Tom and the
Benicia Boy, was, as Mr. Vincent Scully would term it,
all "bosh." It is a feint to throw moralising editors
and scrutinising senators off their guard, to blindfold
the religious public, and to put Sir Richard Mayne and
the Home Secretary on a wrong scent. Sayers and
Heenan will fight ; the place is named ; the day is fixed.
If a quiet suburban spot—a postscript of London, as
Mrs, 13. Stosye wonld call it—canna be managed, the
combatants will shut themselves up in a room, into
which not more than a dozen will be admitted, and
there and then the destinies of England and America
will be decided. I ventured, in anticipation of the last
great event, to name the 16th, or morning of the 17th
ultimo, as the day, and I did not hit wide e,f the
mark. Perhaps I may, with a faint id* that I am
on the right track, fix upon the lath of next month
as the day for the ranawal of the combat. That day
is selected as quite sufficient to allow Tom's arm to
recover, but not to afford him any interval for training.
I may venture to add that the odds are greatly in the
Benicia Boy's favour. He, by this time, is well up to
Sayers' science, and will, when the renewal takes place,
look oat for his eyes : be is every day improving iu
his training, and in another month will be no longer
the boy, as far as inexperience goes, whereas Tom must
depend upon the past knowledge and practice. Our
worthy Prime Minister will have another opportunity
of going in for athletic sports afforded him, and perhaps
he may be induced to give Parliament a holiday for the
spree.

The Channel fleet, consisting of the Conqueror, 101 ;
the Donegal, 101 ; the Algiers, 91; the Aboukir, 91 ;
the Trafalrr.ar, 91 ; the Centurion, 80 ; the Mars, 80;
and the Dia lam, 32, left Portland harbour on Wednesday
ark.) noon for a cruise in the Channel. The Blenheim,
GO, i 5 the only ship of war now at Poxtland,
THE DEnny DAY.—The Derby Day—the Derby Day
—the great holiday of hardworking England ! We have
not as many Saints' Days as they have in Continental
gen cralli:suCc eed F-rom
the Premier down to the poor cabby, we all own the in-
fluence of the time. Cares, anxieties, and worries for the
space of one day are consigned to the vasty deep. Vpon
that day all blue devils commit suicide. Creditors are
not. Bills of exchsnge and promissory notes cease to
I run. Work is forgotten. Han. members ran away from
their Parliamentary duties, and gentlemen who have no
Parliamentary duties leave their private affairs to take
care of themselves. The two tall sentries at the Horse
Guards feel a mad desire to give their two huge
black horses a breather up Whitehall in honourable
rivalry. The nurses with the perambulators would
like to run their vehicles against each other for the
Two-Year-Old Stakes ! The baker's boy, who delivers
the rolls at the door, has a small bet with Jenny upon
the favourite, intimating by a wink that he is not
without pretentious to, that character. if the great
heart of England, during those twenty-four hours, were
opened, upon it would be found engraver in sanguine
characters a list of the running horses, with the names,
weights, and colours of the riders !—Once a Week.

MASTER-DOCA9 AND THEIR SERVANTS.—There is a
dog residiag in the borough of Southwark who keeps a
blind man. He may be seen, most days, in Oxford-
street, hauling the blind man away on expeditions
wholly uncontemplated by, and intelligible to, the man ;
wholly of the dog's conception and execution. Con-
trarywise, when the man has projects the dog will sit
down in a crowded thoroughfare and. meditate. I saw
him the other day, wearing the money-tray like an
easy collar instead of offering it to the public, taking
the man against hit, will, ou the invitation of a disrepu-
table eitr, apparently to Yisit a dog at Harrow—he was
so intent en that direction. The north wall of Burlington-
house-gardens, between the Arcade and the Albany,
offers a shy spot for appointments among blind men at
about two or three o'clock in the afternoon. They sit (very
uncomfortably) on a slooping board there, and compare
notes. Their dogs may always he observed at the same
time, openly dispgazin Vac men they keep to one-
another, and settling where they shall respectively take
their men when they begin to move again. At a small
butcher's, in a shy neighbourhood (there is no reason for
suppressing the name ; it is by Notting-hill, and gives
upon the district called the Potteries), I know a shaggy
black and white dog who keeps a drover. He ifs E‘ dog
of an easy disposition, and too frequently allows this
drover to get drunk. On these occasions it is the dog's
custom to sit outside the public-house, keeping his eye
cn a few sheep, and thinking. I have seen him with
six sheep, plainly casting-up in his mind how many
he began with when he left the market, and at what
places he has left the rest. I have seen him perplexed
by not being able to account to himself for certain
particular sheep. A light has gradually broken
on him, he has remembered at what butcher's he left
them,y off his nosh, andinualz studrt shown himselfo4fhgorave s Iti,sfactiorr has caught
amuch
relieved.
have been abundantly
by
If I cov,hk at any time have doubted the fact that
it was he who kept the drover, and not the drover
who kept him, it would
proved' his way of taking undivided charge of the
six sheep, when the drover came out bspagtred with
red ochre and beer, and gave ho.“ wrong directions
which he calmly disTegarded. I:l,e' has taken the sheep;
entirely into his own lauds, has merely; remarked, with
fesßeetful firmness,. " That instruction Would place them
under au omnibus ; you had better confine veur attention
to yourself _You will want it all;', a4,d, has driven his
Charge away, with an intelAgenee Of ears and tail, and a
knowledge of '41,-tsiness, that has left his lout of a man
very, WY far behind,--,Dickfnes il(1 Of Par