The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-14 00:00:00

ABERCROMBY WARD.

The contest in this ward between Mr. Earle and Mr.
Lee, was of the most exciting character, and although Mr.
Earle was returned by the respectable majority of 12,
the history of municipal contests in this borough affords no
instance of a sharper conflict. From an early hour in the
morning, the opposing candidates were running neck and
neck, the result of one half hour's polling shewing a
majority for one, the next turning the scale in favour of the
other. This state of things continued up to three o'clock,
when Mr. Earle was nine a-head ; by half-past three, this
majority was reduced to five, and the utmost anxiety
prevailed as to what the final result might be. Immediately
after the last named hour, it was evident the conservatives
had polled to their last man, whilst on the contrary, Mr.
Earle's friends kept arriving in quick succession up to
four o'clock, when the poll closed, with the veteran reformer
standing at the head of the poll by a majority of twelve, as
we have before stated. The numbers were, for Earle,
333, for Lee, 321. This we believe is a larger number of
electors ;than ever before polledin the ward. On the result
becoming known, it was received with the most enthusiastic
applause, the crowd continuing to cheer as they proceeded
toMr. Craig's, Mulberry-street, Mr. Earle'scommittee-room,
where it was announced that gentleman would address the
electors. When the large crowd had assembled in front of
Mr. Craig's,
Mr. GEORGE MAXWELL, Chairman of Mr. Earle's
election committee, addressed the assemblage from the
window of the committee-room. On making his appearance,
he was loudly cheered. He said Gentlemen, by the
return of our friend Mr. Earle, 1 consider we have achieved
an immense triumph. (Cheers.) You have not only got
the best man that could be found for the representation
of the ward, but you have set an example that I hope
other wards will not be slow to follow. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, it has been, as I said it would be, a
well-contested fight, and the result is most trium-
phant. (Cheers.) I have not in my possession the
gross amount of the poll, but it is sufficient to tell you Mr.
Earle has a majority of 12. (Cheers, and a voice " 13.")
Very well, there is luck in odd numbers. (Cheers and
laughter.) I think, gentlemen, we owe a debt of gratitude
to those independent volunteers whose great exertions have
led, in a great degree, to this noble result—(cheers) ; and I
consider the thanks of every friend of freedom, both in and
out of the ward, the thanks of every freeman in Liverpool
are due to those volunteers who have so nobly fought and con-
quered. (Cheers.) Mr. Earle is here to speak for himself,
and I will detain you no longer, but return you my. thanks,
and congratulate you in having secured so able, so indepen-
dent, and so fearless a representative. (Loud applause.)
The votes for Earle are 333, for Lee 321 ; majority for
Earle, as I said before, 12. (Cheers.)
Mr. EARLE then came forward and was enthusiastically
cheered. He said, gentlemen and brother burgesses, it is
usual, when about addressing such an amazing concourse of
persons as I now see present, and one so respectable, for a
person to come prepared to address them. I myself so little
expected to stand in the position I now do, that I have pre-
pared no speech whatever. (Hear, hear.) I can scarcely
believe my own eyes that I am your representative —(cheers)
—in that most august assembly, the Town Council of Liver-
pool. (Cheers and laughter.) Gentlemen, I owe you my
most cordial thanks for the good feeling and kindness you
have shown towards me. I do not thank you for returning
mu to tau croioe.,n., 4 m 4.1,„,,ir you for 0 rood opinion
of me. (Cheers.) I prize it most highly, gentlemen,
and I consider it a very great honour to be returned in
the manner you have returned me. (Great applause.)
It is highly hooom.blo Lu ) ourselves, end most complimen-
tary to me. (Cheers). I must say one word on an expression
I used in my address to you, which was "my having the
audacity to appear before you." (Laughter). Now, gentle-
men, that was used entirely as a joke, and not with the
intention of being serious. The gentleman that uttered
those words (Mr. Brakell) I do not know, even by person,
nor by his calling, but I must say I have received from him
the most handsome letter that man could pen. (Hear, hear).
If I had entertained any bitter feelings, which, God knows, I
did not, for he did not offend me, and had they been ever
so bitter, the letter I have received from him would have
obliterated them for ever. (Cheers). I think it is only due
to that gentleman to state that, being an opponent in politics,
not that politics have anything to do with it,—on the present
occasion. (Cheers). Everybody knows what I am; I never
changed, and never shall change. (Loud cheers.) Your
exertions have been most astounding. (Applause). I could
not have conceived you would have managed the matter in
the way you have done, and in retiring from this window,
and wishing you health and happiness, I have most cordially
to thank you for your kindness. (Great applause).
Mr. ROI3ERTSON GLADSTONE, after repeated calls, then
came forward, and was loudly cheered. He said, gentle-
men, whatever may be said of your representatives, whether
it be for good or evil, you have this day returned an honest
man—(applause) • you have decided that question—(hear,
hear) ; and you have equally decided another, that in travel-
ling to a man's brains, you should not have to go through
his stomach. (Loud applause.) Now, one of the next won-
ders you will hear of will be that a certain representative
retired from this ward, and was made an alderman of, in
order to make way for Mr. Earle. (Cheers and laughter).
Wonders never cease, and the rapid succession with which
one election has followed another, almost makes the word
" defeat" change its meaning and become victory. (Cheers).
Gentlemen we may all of us differ in opinion, but surely in
the regulation and management of our local affairs, we may
continue to sink some little differences, and strive to do our
utmost for the benefit of the whole community. (Cheers).
I am quite sure of this, you will find in Mr. Earle, the same
straightforward, honest, honorable defender of your inte-
rests he has always been. (Cheers). And he has this ad-
vantage over many, he speaks his mind. (Cheers). He has
no double meaning ; no double fence ; you know what he
intends when he speaks, and what his mind is, and I believe
a more straightforward, able representative you could not
find in this community. (Cheers). I beg leave to thank
you most kindly for listening to those few remarks. (Hear,
hear).

Mi.. CHARLES WILLMER then proposed a vote of thanks
to Mr. Maxwell, the Chairman of Mr. Earle's Com-
mittee.

Mr. STEWART seconded the motion which was carried by
acclamation.

Mr. MAXWELL was extremely obliged for this instance of
their good feeling, and after the extraordinary exertions they
had used that day, he would do no more than briefly thank
them, and say, that whenever he could be of any use in the
liberal interest, whether it be in a municipal or parlia-
mentary contest, he was at their service. (Cheers).
The proceedings tken terminated with three cheers for
Messrs. Earle, Gladstone, and Maxwell.

PITT STREET WARD.
At the close of the poll in this ward the numbers were—
For Mr. William Mann 221
For Mr. John Smith
Majority for Mr. Mann —s2
A large crowd assembled outside Mr. Mann's committee-
room, Park-lane, where they were addressed by the friends
and supporters of that gentleman.
Mr. RINDIER announced the state of the poll, amid loud
cheers, and congratulated his friends upon the noble victory
they had achieved in having Mr. Mann to represent their
ward in the Town Council. They would find him a most
efficient member, and most worthy of the confidence which
they had that day shown by the result of the poll that they
placed in him. (Cheers.)
A voice in the crowd—" Where is your Mann." (Loud
cries of " order," cheers and laughter.)
Mr. Rimmen : A. gentleman below has asked where is Mr.
Mann. lle is in London upon the Pilot Committee busi-
ness, and he will be here on Monday, and will then have to
thank you for the lush honour which you have this day done
him, and I am certain, from my knowledge of him, that you
will never have any cause to regret this day's proceedings,
and that you never could have a more efficient representative.
(Cheers.) I know no man more worthy of the honour you
have done him, and in him Mr. Jeffreys and Mr. John
Gladstone will have a most able colleague. (Cheers.)

Mr. W.-P. JEFFREYS, who was received with loud cheers,
next spoke. He said he was one of Mr. John Smith's per-
sonal friends, although he had that day voted in favour of
Mr. Mann, as one whom he thought infinitely superior to
Mr. John Smith to fill the office of town councillor, and
become his (Mr. Jeffrey's) colleague in Pitt-street Ward.
(Cheers.) However highly he thought of Mr. John Smith's
capacity as a literary man, he would give them his sincere
opinion, that they had that day chosen a gentleman who
had proved himself most capable of fulfilling the onerous
duties of a town councillor, and who had performed these

duties and the duties of a dock sommittee-man for six years,
to the entire satisfaction of all, whether whigs, tones, or
radicals. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) ,He was extremely
sorry for the position in which the friends of Mr. John
Smith had again placed that gentleman. They had put him
a second time in the balance, and he had been found want-
ing. (Cheers.) He sincerely regretted that injudicious
friends had placed Mr. John Smith in such a position, and
he hoped they would learn after a second defeat within
twelve days, to do something better for their friends in
future. Mr. John Smith might well say—" Heaven save
me from my friends!" (Cheers and laughter.) After the
unblushing hypocrisy of their opponents, in declaring that
they were not going to canvass the ward, that they were not
going to coax any one to vote, yet they were found, with
renewed energy, in every street and lane ; not a house did
they leave, not an elector did they spare, where they had the
slightest hope of succeeding • and they canvassed, coaxed,
Goled, and threatened, until they got " yes" or " no."
ear, hear.) But the result proved that "no" was more
frequent than " yes." (Cheers.) When would these people
know when they were properly thrashed? They reminded
him of the Irish drummer, who had the very unpleasant
duty to perform of flogging a poor deserter. Whether the
drummer flogged high or flogged low he could not please the
deserter. (Laughter.) Now, they had flogged their oppo-
nents high and flogged them low, and if they were not now
satisfied he was sure whenever they come again they would
flog them in a double manner. (Cheers.) They had chosen
a gentleman in every way worthy of their choice, and on his
behalf he thanked them. Mr. Mann would very soon return
to thank them in person, and he was very sure they would
have every reason to feel highly gratified with the selection
they had made. (Cheers.)
Mr. JOHN RICKY expressed his regret that Mr. Mann was
not present himself to express his thanks. It had been the
wish of his friends and neighbours that he (Mr. Rigby)
would allow himself to be put in nomination upon that oc-
casion, ;,ut he told them, with all due deference, that they
had elected a man very much better qualified to represent
them in the Town Council than he could have been, a man
who was well known to the community at large, who had
served them faithfully and efficiently for a number of years
without a stain upon his character. (Cheers). He had no
'doubt that when persons saw the efficiency of Mr. Mann in
the Town Council, although they might have opposed him
upon the present occasion, they would congratulate the men
of Pitt-btroot Ward upon having elected so efficient a
representative of their Intel cata. (Cheers.) They were
opponents merely upon the day of election, (hear, hear); and
he for one would be very sorry that his friends and neigh-
bours whom he had known for years, should, after the election
was over, have any word or charge to bring against him.
(Hear and cheers).
Mr. CHARLES CALLis, who was loudly cheered congratu-
lated the meeting upon the result of the struggle in which
they had been that day engaged. The :election of that
day was caused by the elevation of an old and tried servant
of Pitt-street Ward; and the members of the Town
Council had paid a compliment to that ward, through Mr.
Toulmin, by.havine raised him to the position of an alderman
after he had served the town faithfully for fourteen years.
(Cheers). The compliment was to the electors of that
ward, not to Mr. Toulmin; because they were the men who
had sent him into the Council. (Hear, hear) They had been
called upon that day to exercise their privilege again, and they
did so in the same noble manner as ever, and recorded their
votes for a gentleman who had faithfully served them.
(Hear, hear.) The election had been conducted respect-
ably, and upon behalf of the committee he could say that
not one word had escaped them or any of the supporters of
Mr. Mann for which they had that day to apologise. (Hear,
hear.) They did not indulge in personalities—they did not
go and pick holes in the coats of their opponents —they
asked the electors to exercise their common sense, and the
electors had done so. (Cheers.) He hoped that out of the
numerous assemblage there no one would go away with any
unkind feeling towards himself or any of the supporters of
Mr. Mann. (Hear hear.) He was not aware that he had
said one word which could possibly offend any of their
opponents. Mr. Callis concluded by stating that Mr. Mann
would thank them personally at the Vine Tavern, at seven
o'clock on Monday evening, and again expressed his con-
viction that Mr. Mann would do all in his power to promote
the happiness, comfort, and well-being of every elector in
Pitt-street ard. (Cheers.)
The assemblage then broke up.

IRELAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

DUBLIN, SATLTDAY EVENING.

INCUMBERED ESTATES COURT.—Yesterday the ex-
tensive estates of the Earl of Glengall were brought
to the hammer by the Commissioners In the
rental, they were described as—the fee and in-
heritance of 'the town of Cahir, the manor of Cahir,
the manor of Rehill, and the manor of Castlegrace,
all situate in the barony of Iffa and Offa West, in
the county of Tipperary ; Redmondstown, in the
barony of Iffa and Oft East, in said. conntv : pre-
mises M
in the town of uffle!, In the baronies of
Iffa and Offa East, and Upper Third, in the coun-
ties of Tipperary and Waterford ; and the lands of
Derrinlaur, in the barony of Upper Third; and
County of Waterford. The first two lots which
made up a profit rent of £64 in the town of Cahir,
wers sold to Mr. John Sadlier, M.P. for £l6OO. The
same gentleman also put-Chased lots 9-to 12inelusive,
lot 5 of another division of the property, and the
whole of the manor of Castlegrace with the excep-
tion of one lot. The principal other purchasers
were Captain Daniel, Mr. Grant, Mr. Shean, and
Mr. Morgan. The bidding was very brisk, and
£204,075 was realised, being beyond an average of
twenty-four years' purchase.
SuorLIFTING.—A respectable womannamed Ryan,
was yesterday brought up at Capel-street Police
Office, charged with having stolen a hair-brush,
from Messrs.
.Cannock and White ; she was also
charged with a similar offence at Messrs. Todd and
Burns. The heating of the case was adjourned.
SHORT TIME IN .THE BELFAST SPINNING MILLS.—
The Belfast Mercury says :—After due considera-
tion, almost all the mill owners of this town anc,l,
neighbourhood have agreed to work " short time,"
commencing on the 28th instant; and the follow-
ing notice has accordingly been put up in their
several mills :—" We hereby give notice that we
shall work three-quarter time, or forty-five hours
per week, until further notice, commencing on
Monday, the 28th day of the present month."
This determination is almost unanimous, as only
two firms out of thirty-one, in Belfast and its
suburbs, have hitherto withheld their signatures.
It may be added, that those signing comprise
three-fourths of the Trish trade, or about 375,000
spindles, and five-sixths of the spindles in Belfast,
and a circuit of ten miles round. It is greatly to
be regretted that the state of the trade requires
that this course should be taken; hilt the extensive
concurrence of opinion may be regarded as the
best proof that it was felt to be necessary thus
to limit production for a time7.--we trust only for a
short time.

THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT SOUTHERN
AND WESTERN RAILWAY.—The widow of the late
Mr. Jelly has put in a claim to the directors for
70001. compensation, which, it is stated, will be
given to her. With the widow of Mr. M'Nally.
who was killed, there has been a disagreement, and
a declaration has been filed, claiming 10,0001.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. M'Sweeney claim
20,0001.

KELLY v. BIRCH.—This case came on fur argu-
ment, to-day, in the Court of Chancery, but has
not yet concluded. _

MISS CANTWELL'S CASE.—This lady, as I have
already stated, is about to bring an action for false
imprisonment against Messrs. Cannock and White,
but the writ of summons will not be issued till
next term, when the proceedings will take place
under Mr. Whiteside's Common-Law Procedure
Act, which comes into force on the Ist of January;
and by which the plaintiff will be less liable to be
defeated on mere technical grounds.

COMMITMENTS BY COUNTY COURTS.—It appears that in
the course of last year 11,044 warrants of commitments were
issued by County Courts, but only 6,231 persons actually
taken into custody on such warrants.

MR. COBDEN ON THE LIQUOR TRADE.—The following
letter was lately reeeived.in answer to an inquiry addressed
to Mr. Cobden as to the best mode of " opening the trade
in spirits" :
" Afidhurst, Nov. 9, 1853.
" Sir,—ln reply to your inquiry, I venture to suggest
that the best way of dealing with the monopoly of spirits is
to abstain from drinking them, which, for upwards of 20
years, I have done. Depend upon it, they are nothing better
than slow poison, even if taken moderately. What they
are when taken in excess the records of our goals, lunatic
asylums, and coroners' inquests will inform you ; and
" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" RICHARD COBDLN."

MAIL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MILPORD AND WATER-
FORD.—The question respecting the re=establishment of the
mail communication between Hobbs Point and Water-
ford is now in full as as the time for opening the
South Wales line approaches. The Waterford Chamber
of Commerce have mooted the advisability of the re-etablish-
ing of mail intercourse, and before long it is likely that
a oompany will be formed to carry out the undertaking,
when it is probable that the mails will be carried under con•
tract. By the means of the South 'Wales line the sea pas-
sage to Ireland would be so much shortened that passengers
to the south of the sister country would infinitely prefer the
shorter sea route from Milford to Waterford than the longer
one from Bristol to Cork, or the lengthened journey via
Holyhead.

THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

CorrecipotiVenct.

RIVER NA VIGATIOX.

POLICE COURTS-SATIIRDAY•

LIVERPOOL.

Tones v. Corkhlil.—Mr. Mansfield delivered judgment in
this case. He recapitulated briefly the facts given in evi-
dence. The circumstances, he observed, gave great excuse
for the act of Mr. Corkhill, although they could not abso-
lutely justify an assault in point of law, but it appeared the
blow was given in the hurry of the moment, under circum-
stances of great irritation, and when Mr. Corkhill was, per-
haps, led to suppose that Mr. Jones was coming towards him
for the purpose of putting him out of the booth. The court
was therefore of opinion that a nominal penalty would, under
the circumstances, be sufficient. The sentence was, that
Mr. Corkhill pay a penalty of ls. and costs, or be imprisoned
one day.
James Sherbury was sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment for picking pockets.

Mary Travers was charged with having stolen a quantity
of wearing apparel from the house of Christiana Frazer, of
Brownlow-hill.

Mr. Clough complained of the pawnbrokers who received
the clothes. It appeared by the report of the officer that they
had been served with notice of the robbery, and notwith-
standing, they made no report of having received the pro-
perty until the officer went there to inquire, through infor-
mation which he had received from the prisoner. He had
had to make the same complaint before upon two or three
occasions.

The pawnbrokers, it was stated, were John Epsom,
Richard Ross, Richard Ilewson, London-road ; and Margaret
Oxberry, Fontenoy-street.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

STREET ROBBERIES BY PROSTITUTES.—Mary Broclrick
and Ellen Ridley, two women of the town, were charged by
Ann Barry with forcibly taking from her two shawls in
Dutton-street. Officer 165 stated that at half-past eleven
o'clock on Friday night, the prisoners passed him carrying
itwo shawls, and when he was a little way from them they ran ;
Immediately after Barry came up crying out that she had
ost the shawls, and that the prisoners had dragged them off
her back when she refused to treat them with think. They
were committed for seven days each.
Esther Miller, a girl of the town, was charged by William
Jervis, a young sailor, with picking his pocket of two sove-
reigns in a public house in Wellington-road, at half-past two
on Friday afternoon. The sailor said he was drunk at the time
and knew nothing more than that he had the two sovereigns
in his possession when he met the girl. A boy proved that
he saw the prisoner put her hand in the sailor's pocket and
take something out, she then showed two sovereigns to a
man who sat next her. Mr. Clough said that this man
could be had as they knew who he was. The case was then
remanded to Monday.
CURIOUS AFFILIATION CASE.— On Saturday week a case
of affiliation occupied the attention of the magistrates in the
Police-court, for a very considerable time, and owing to the
singular turn which the case. took, it was adjourned to Sa-
turday last. The facts, as detailed in evidence, appear to be
as follow :

Jane Wilcock, a young girl, summoned Frederic Shrivall,
professor of music, occupying business apartments in Myrtle-
street, for the usual allowance for the maintenance of an
illegitimate child. The plaintiff swore that she entered de-
fendant's service on the 23rd of July, 1852 ; on the 25th of
November in the same year, illicit intercourse had taken place
between them, and again in about a mouth afterwards. On
the 29th of August, in the present year, she had been con-
fined in the Workhouse.

Mr. Evans, solicitor, appeared for the defence; and on Sa-
turday last, Mr. Aspinall, barrister, conducted the case for
the young woman.
The defence set up was this, that Jane Wilcock whilst in
the service of Mr. Shrivall, had been in the habit of drink-
ing habitually, and also of receiving male visitants into his
house at night, and returning home at most unseemly
hours.

Harriet Kinsly swore that she had frequently seen the
young girl drunk, and that almost every night she had men
with her in the kitchen; according to her account, Wilcock
was " a regular bad one." •
Mr. Shrivall deposed to the habitual drunkenness of the
girl, stating that during a service of six months she had
been drunk at least thirty times. He also mentioned on
Saturday, that he had heard that a Mr. M'Clelland, living
on the Cheshire side of the river, was the real father of the
child.

Mary Hurst, a girl casually employed in the house swore
that upon one occasion she saw her master kissing Wilcock,
his arms being about her neck at the time, and she had then
remarked as to the improper nature of such familiarity.
Mr. M'Clelland appeared on last Saturday, to rebut the
charge as against himself ; he said he had only heard acci-
dentally of his name being mentioned on the day before,
and that he came forward on public grounds prepares
to disprove the charge, in order that it might not be made a
practice, assassin-like to stab a man's character behind his
back. The magistrates said, that in their minds there was
no aspersion whatever on the character of Mr. McClelland,
for anything mentioned in that court with respect to him
was entirely unsupported by proof. Mrs. Shrivall was
examined, and she swore positively to the drunken habits of
the plaintiff, and to the late hours at which she used to
return home almost every night, sometimes at twelve o'clock,
and never sooner than eleven, and always in a state of
drunkenness. The witnesses were all removed from the
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Shrivall, on the part of Mrs. Greyson, Cavendish-terrace,
MPriince'Ls-epaacrhkni, ansU swore that she had waited on Mrs.
Shrivall, on the part of Mrs. Greyson, Cavendish-terrace,
Prince's-park, subsequent subsequently
Wilcock from Shrivall's service, to inquire of her cha-
racter, Mrs. Shrivall had given her a' most excellent
character, not only generally, but for sobriety, and during
the 'time that plaintiff remained in her service she had no
fault whatever to find with her, except a want of physical
strength, her conduct had been most excellent, and she had
no reason whatever to suspect that there was any tendency
to drunkenness; on the contrary, her habits were those of
perfect sobriety.
Mrs. M'Clelland, mother to the gentleman mentioned be-
fore, swore that she never had a better servant than the
plaintiff. She never saw in her the slightest tendency to
drunkenness; on the contrary, an accusation of the sort with
respect to her had caused her (witness) the greatest surprise.
Elizabeth 'Williams deposed, that after the birth of the
child she called on Shriven, on the part of the plaintiff,
and he did not deny the, charge.
Mary M‘liay, the mother of the plaintiff, deposed to the
same thing.
After the conclusion of the evidence, Mr. Evans the at-
torney for the defence, applied to the magistrates to ad-
monish the reporters not to mention this case. The
magistrates said they had no power to do any such thing,
that was an open court, and the press should use their own
discretion ; the decision was that Mr. Shrivall should pay
the highest sum the court could award, that was 2s. 6d. a
week.