The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-06 00:00:00

COUNTY COURT-YESTERDAY

(Before JosnrH PoLLocK, Esq.)
GREEN V. GoLDING.--The plaintiff is an omnibus cad,
and he sought- to recover 10s. from the defendant under the
following circumstances :—lt appeared that Mr. Golding
was returning home some short time since, in one of the
'West Derby omnibusses, of which the plaintiff was the cad,
and in leaving the omnibus, he left his snuff-box on the top.
By and bye, not finding the box in his pocket, he conceived
that he must have dropped it, and he accordingly got bills
posted up, offering a reward of 10s. to any one who would
bring it to him. The plaintiff found the box on the om-
nibus, but did not inform either the driver or his employer
of the circumstance. He retained the box in his possession
for three days, and immediately on seeing the bills, he came
forward and claimed the reward. Mr. Golding said he de-
fended the action on public grounds, because he conceived it
was the duty of the plaintiff to have given up the box im-
mediately on finding it, to the proprietor of the omnibus.
His Hononr concurred in the propriety of the defence, and
said that he was constrained solely by the wording of the
bills to allow the plaintiff his claim. He severely censured
the conduct of the plaintiff, and pointed out to him that it
wit., his duty, and the duty of all in n. like situation, to have
given up the box immediately to his employers, so that the
ownership might be traced, as in the present instance it
might easily have been done. That the plaintiff had not
done, and he therefore thought it right to tell him that he
had rim a very narrow chance of being convicted of felony.
Claim allowed, and costs out of pocket.

GLASGOW AUSTRALIAN TRADE.—In consequence
of the late unfavourable news from Melbourne, large ship-
ments of flour, cigars, and miscellaneous goods of every
description, intended for that market, are hem°.b discharged,
and several ships on the berth have been withdrawn.
THE CHOLERA IN LONDON--Although the Ge-
neral Board of Health has not commenced issuing daily
bulletins of the progress of the cholera in London, as it has
for some time with regard to the towns in the north, where
this fearful scourge has appeared, the disease is decidedly
increasing in nearly every part of the metropolis. The
weekly report of the Registrar-General, published on Tues-
day evening, contained the particulars of -47 fatal cases,
distributed over London in the week ending. Saturday last.
In the previous week there were 29, and in the week before
that, only 16. There can, therefore, be no doubt that it is
extending paiticularly in the low-lying districts upon the
banks of the Thames, some' of which are in it most disgust-
ing and dangerous state from the want of proper drainage
and of the ordinary means of cleanliness. All the pairshes,
however .are bestirring themselves actively, and the General
Board Of Health, in every case where it has no right of
legal interference, interposes with practical recommenda-
tions. Yesterday [Wednesday] there were special services
in the churches belonging- to the Establishment in the
deanery of Southwark, and in many parts the day was kept
with the same solemnity as the appointed Fast-day of 1849.