The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

POLICE COURTS
.-YESTERDAY

LIVERPOOL

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A SHOPMAN.—Peter Parson, a respect-
able looking young man, of very good address, was brought
up, charged with stealing a variety of fancy articles out of
the Shop of hiiemployer, Mi.:Richmond, corner of Church-A.
and Paradise-street. The articles were tound in his box.
Mr. Richmond stated that having missed a piece of cloth he
announced his intention of having the boxes of the young
men searched. His suspicion was principally directed to
the prisoner, who denied that he had the key. Prosecutor
broke the box 'open; and there found, not only the cloth, but a
quantity of other articles, his property. Pnsoner then gave
up the cloth. He had been but four or five weeks in Mr.
Richmond's employment. Prisoner pleaded intoxication in
mitigation of his offence. The magistrates said it was too
clear a case, and they should send it trial at the Quarter
Sessions.

CHARGE OF STEALING COTTON.—iaMeSPOWeiaBCI Richard
Shea were brought up for stealing six bales of cotton from a
warehouse in Kitchen-street, belonging to Mr. Gregory and
taken it to the • railway station at Wapping. The cotton
was identified. Mr. Clough stated that in Shea's case they
were perfectly satisfied that there was no evidence. Powell
was remanded for seven days.
STEALING 'COAL.—Catherine ifeoughan, Cicely Gill,
Ellen Murphy; and Bridget Tierney were charged by officer
254, who stated that about half-past six, on Sunday morn-
ing, he met the prisoners in Oxford-street, each of them hav-
ing at the time a basket of coal, for which they could give
no account. A flat man, who did not appear, told the po-
lice that he lost from three to four hundred weight the
same morning. Murphy had been once committed before
The magistrate said there were good reasons to believe tha
the prisoners were thieves, but as the owner of the coal di
not come forward, they should have the benefit of that donbl
Discharged.
• 'EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.—Michael Bolger,. a clerk
the employment of Mr. M'Corquodale, stationer, Casfie
street, was charged with absconding with 16s. 6d.
money which 'had been entrusted to him by Mr. Mason
cash-keeper to Mr. M'Corquodale, to deposit at the Newtoi
Savings' Bank. The prisoner was arrested at the Birken
head Railway Station with most of the money on his persoi
—X2O in five pound Bank of England notes,- the rest ii
gold. He had bought a pair of trowsers and vest with thi
balance. The prisoner stated that he was going to see hi
friends in Dublin, and meant to return the money. Mr
M'Corquodale said he was very unwilling to press the charge
The magistrates,luwever, expressed an opinion to the effect
that there was no alternative but to proceed with the case;
from the evidence now before them. Nevertheless, the)
would remand the case for seven days.
PICKING THE POCKET OF A DETECTIVE OFFICER !—ln-
spector Bates, of the detective force, brought up Patrick
Colman, whom he charged with picking his pocket on Sun-
day evening, in London-road. Complainant, who found the
fellow's hand in his pocket, had been watching him for twenty
minutes previously. He had been once before committed
for two months, and was now 'Committed for three months.
DRVGGING A GENTLEMAN'S BEER.--The Scotch gentle-
man, whose case we detailed the other day, has since gone
to Philadelphia' and did not appear yesterday, when Joshua
Grimshaw and John Morgan were put forward, charged
with drugging him and robbing him of £lO, a gold watch,
and gold pen. Grimshaw had been since taken in Manches-
ter, by officer 62. In default of the gentleman making his
appearance, prisoners were not sent for trial, but the magis-
trates gave them three months each. •
THE CASE OF STABBING A POLICE-OFFlCER.—Yesterday,
the officer, William Laycock, who was stabbed yesterday
week, in Boundary-street, was able to appear. David Urwin,
the beer-seller, was put forward, charged with the cutting,
wounding, and maiming of prosecutor, who ideritified the
prisoner. A medical man swore that one of the three stabs
was within a finger's breadth of an artery, which, if
opened, would have been a fatal wound. Other witnesses
deposed to pickiiig up the hurt officer; finding his cap, &c.
The prisoner was committed to take his trial at the assizes.
STEALING SHOES . IN THE NIGHT ASYLUM.—.Malachi
llforan and PhoMas BrOwn Were charged by the master of
;he Night Asylum with selling their pass-tickets for Ireland,
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which they had gOt from the magistrates, for sixpence each,
and also for Stealin a pair of shoes, the property of a fellow
inmate. They has' climbed over the. wall, and for a time
escaped, but officer 407 was strict in his search and arrested
the ungrateful vagabonds. The master said, when shoes were
stolen, he furnished the sufferers with others out of
his 'own Pocket, sooner than let them out bare-footed.
The magistrate said it was a horrible case when poor and
destitute persons thus robbed each other. They should have
three months each.
ANOTHER. YANKEE STRIPPED.—Bridget O'Brien was
charged by Jain Meagher, an American sailor, with having
robbed him. The complainant stated, .that he met the
prisoner at half-past two on Saturday evening, and went
to drink' with her, when she extracted from one of those
safety buckskin belts, one sovereign and twenty-five dollars.
The prisoner was defended by Mr. Bluck, who procured her
discharge, by eliciting from prosecutor in cross-examination,
that he was drunk at the time and could not be trust-
worthy evidence.

ROiDERY OF MoNEY.—John Sagar, a gentleman desorib-
Ig himself as " from the Cheshire side," but who would
of give his address, charged Mary Murphy with taking
:11 10s. from his person in Duke-street. His evidence was
uite conclusive, and prisoner having been committed three
mes before, was now sentenced to two months' imprison-
Lent.

A QUEER PosmoN.—Constantine Koetath and Collis

Spells, who said they were Greeks, were charged by officer
370 with being, about two o'clock on yesterday morning, on
the top of a house in Hanover-street, belonging to Mr.
Drillsman, Watchmaker. The officer stated that both prison-
ers were sober at the time (they pleaded drunkenness as an
excuse).. They were remanded until the Greek Consul
could be communicated with.

LARCENY.—Catherine Brien was charged with pledging
a waistcoat, stolen from the house in which she was in service

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in Waterloo-road. The prisoner was fined 3s. 6d., the value
of the article. and 205., or be imprisoned for 14 days.
CHARGE Or PERJURY.--Winifred Howard, who had been
committed by the coroner on Saturday, was put before the
bench, charged on the testimony of Mr. Blake, the beadle of
the coroner's court. The evidence was, that she represented
and swore that she was the wife of the late Captain Webster,
when in truth she was not so. Another woman had appeared,
and proved that she, and she only, stood in that relation to
deceased. Mr. Owen defended the prisoner, and the magis-
trate ultimately discharged the prisoner, considering that
the evidence was not sufficiently conclusive.

such a calamity. For, in the first place, the North had no
reprisals to offer, and therefore there could be no retaliation.
In addition, the North was in itself impregnable ; for what
ambition could be so mad as to attempt to conquer in these
regions. With ambition, in itself
.a fever, you could, not
lay down any rules, and there had been conquerors who
attempted it ; but from the very first to the very last, from the
great Cyrus down to Napoleon, they might observe as a rule,
that no conqueror' -no soldier, had ever attempted to lead
his troops to the North but who had failed, accomplishing
only the destruction of his army, and the prestige of his name..
In ancient history they had one or two instances of attempts
of the south to attack the north, and they illustrated merely
that which was illustrated in the later history of Napoleon,
in going against Russia. The lecturer then narrated the ori-
gin and result of the expeditions of Cyrus and Darius against
the Scythians, and how their innumerable troops were de-
stroyed, as those of Napoleon were, by the poverty, of the
country and the rigour of the climate. It was a very curious
fact, and a very prophetic remark of the greatest of ancient
historians, Thucidides, that if the Scythians were united, they
would be the greatest and most powerful of all peoples. In
ancient times they never were united, but it so happened
'since the Christian era, they' had been united under one
power five different times. There had been five
different 'Tartar or Scythian empires. The first was
that of Atilla and the Huns, the second was
Zangis and his Tartars; the third was Timour, or Tamer-
lane, and his Mongols, the fourth was the Turks, and the
-fifth 'was the Russians. What more remarkable in those
' five empires, was, that as time had been going on, they had
been more powerful, and more civilized, (though none of
them were really civilized,) than the one before it ; and
another remarkable thing was they had all been the enemies
of the church. The two first were simple Pagans, Attilla
and Zangis. Timour was a Mahomedau ; the Turks were
Mahomedans, and the Russians belonged to the Greek
Church. Each of those empires was more lasting than that
which went before it. Attilla's power died with himself;
Zangi's extended to his grandchildren. Timour founded an
empire, which existed to the middle of the last cen-
tury, when the English superseded it, Delhi was his
capital. The Turks were a most remarkable race,
augmenting, and springing up in a most wonderful
way, when they appeared to be almost destioyed,
Russia was composed of numerous Tartar races, and it was
remakable in this respect ; they had the force, ferocity, and.
energy of barbarians in the subject, with refinement and.
civilization in the rulers—those five empires had been all
enemies of the church, and one after the other had been
more powerful than the one,before.— (Loud applause fol-
lowed the conclusion of the Lecture.)
The Rev. Mr. NUDE Tr then briefly addressed the audience,
informing them that the same tickets would do for the next
lecture. He sincerely thanked the Catholics of Liverpool
for their aid in supporting the Institute, and observed that
the sole object of its sstablishment was to provide rational
and innocent amusement for the Catholic young men of the town. This would be his duty, and he hoped to be success-
,
ful in it. (Applause.)