The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-21 00:00:00

PRESTON.

OPEN AIR MEETING OF WEAVERS.
PRESTON, SATURDAY.
This afternoon, an open air meeting was held In the
niT42rd; and was numerously nttende4 hy the power.loom
weavers of the town and neighbourhood. Mr. Waddington,
of Preston, presided, and all the chief delegates were
present, including Messrs. Cowell, Walton, Grimshaw,
Matthew, Brown, &c.
Mr. MUTTER remarked that the manufacturers' associa-
tion in Burnley (where he resided) professed to be hostile
to all combinations. But with what grace could a combined
Society profess to be opposed to the principle of combination.
As wdll might the staggering drunkard say he was opposed
to drinking and that he was a friend to teetotalism.
Mr. MArrnEw having addressed the assembly,
Mr. GEORGE HOWELL referred to a meeting held last night
at Holmfirth, Yorkshire. An Independent minister in that
locality (the Rev. J. Macfarlane) being solicited to preside
over that meeting, he wrote to Mr, Thomas Miller, the
champion of the millowners of Preston, in order to ascer-
tain whether a reduction of wages took place in 1849, and
whether the millocracy of Preston gave any pledge to re-
store the amount when trade revived. Mr. Miller's
reply was as follows ;
" The wages were reduced in 1849, but no promise was
made by the general body of the masters to raise the wages
again at a future time. We ourselves made none, and I
know many others who made no such promise. There may
have been some individual cases, where some such hopes may
have been held out at that time ; but I believe them to have
been very few in number. lam aware that such a state-
ment as that alluded to has been frequently made, and the
masters have had it in contemplation to give it a public
denial. The reason they hve not done so is, that they
think it unsuitable to meet every charge which is made
against them. My opinion is, that it is desirable to place
the fact right before the public, and I believe their intention
is to do so the first opportunity. There has been a consider-
able advance of wages since last January."
He (Mr. Cowell) fully believed that Mr. Miller never made
any such promise. But he would tell them why. He did
not think that any operative in the employ of Mr. Miller ever
dared to stand before him ; if he had attempted such a
thing, he would be told to put his coat on and go about his
business, (Hear, hear.) On Tuesday night, he (Mr. Cowell)
attended a delegate meeting in London. The trades there
represented expressed their determination to use their utmost
exertions to secure subscriptions in order to feed the Preston
" revolters." (Cheers.) Having completed an outline of
his mission during the week, Mr. Cowell, at great length,
referred in terms of condemnation to au article in the Times
of Friday, on the Preston strike, and next stated that tho
riot which took place at Blackburn last week, was owing to
the Preston manufacturers going over to that town for the
purpose of inducing the Blackburn masters to close their
mills. He concluded by calling upon the operatives to be
firm, and they might rest assured that they would ultimately
gain their object.
After several other speeches, the meeting closed with
three cheers for the ten per cent,

IRELAND

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING.

THE CLONMEL ELECTION.

The deputation of the league yesterday met
what the Freeman calls " a large body of the electors
and non-electors of the bOrough." Messrs. Lucas,
Gray, Duffy, and Father O'Shea addressed the
meeting, and were enthusiastically received. They
were all loud in their deprecation of Mr. John
O'Connell, who, however, still stands his ground.
It has been since ascertained that the committee
of electors have decided in his favour, and the
respective parties belonging him and to the League
were very near coming to a physical encounter on
yesterday evening, The Tipperary Free Press and
the Telegraph concur in representing the reports of
the Freeman sent from Clonmel as a tissue of mis-
representations—whilst they themselves, affirm that
there is no doubt of Mr. O'Connell's return, and
that the greatest enthusiasm prevails in his favour.
Dr. Gray, it is thought, will be the league candi-
date,

THE WAY IRISH APPOINTMENTS ARE MADE.—A
matter at present pending in the court of chancery
evinces, to say the least of it, the want of due
caution shown in selecting officials for Irish ap-
pointments. You may recollect that some time
ago, I stated that a Mr. Mae Dougall had been
promoted to a very responsible and profitable

situation. in the courts. The selection was made
by the .attorney-general, whose clerk Mr. Mac
Dougall was. It has now come out, that at the
very time this piece of good fortune happened to
him, a proceeding was being pressed on in the ,
court of chancery, with the intent of striking him
off the roll of attorneys, to which profession he
belonged. The accusation against him is that he
prevailed on a gentleman whilst in a state of lunacy
to sign certain deeds of transfer and mortgages,
and the affair will shortly undergo a lengthened
investigation,—a preliminary part of which has
been already.commenced. People are very free in
their censure of the attorney-general, to whom
good taste would certainly have dictated a post-
ponementcharacter was perfectly cleared.
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SINGULAR INSURANCE CASE—During the after-
sittings of last Trinity term, a singular case against
the London and County Assurance Company came
on in the Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff !
was a Miss Devereux, and the action was brought
for £1,500, the amount of a policy on.her n2other's
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London and county establishment stepped in and
interfered to get the plaintiff's patronage for his
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protest against the dallying course pursued by the
goyernment. A proclamation has been posted up
for 10,000 volunteers for the navy.
THE FLOUR TRADE IN IRELAND.--The weekly.
arrivals of wheat in Dublin, by the Great Southern
and Western Railway, have lately averaged 12,000
sacks, On one day last week, 9,700 sacks were
lying on the platform at the King's bridge terminus.
Large quantities of foreign are ground at the mills
in Cork and its. vicinity, and forwarded to Dublin.
The railway company have been unable, on some
occasions, for want o.f an, adequate supply of goods'
trucks, to despatch at once the extra quantities of
produce offered to them for transmission,

_ .
THE BISHOP OF JEausALEm. —The following cir-
cular letter has been addressed to the several clergy-
men of the diocese of Dublin, Glendalough, and
Kildare, in transmitting to them copies of the
protest adopted by the four archbishops of Eng-
land and Ireland,

"Palace, November 4, 1853.
" REV. AND DEAR SIR—I forward you a paper drawn up
and signed by the four archbishops of our church, which we
have felt ourselves called on to make public.
" You will observe that we do not pretend ourselves to
pronounce any decision as to the complaints that have been
made of Bishop Gobat. But we have declared—what we
certainly are competent to declare—that the charge publicly
brought against him did not emanate, as it appeared to do,
from any authority of the church,
•cc For myself, I have not become minutely acquainted
with the particulars of what has taken place at Jerusalem,
but I have not learned that anything the bishop has done,
or proposed to do, is at all at variance with any stipulation
made at the first establishment of the bishopric. It does not
appear that he ever claimed authority over those who chose
to adhere to a different communion, or assumed any terri-
torial titles of dignities inconsistent with the just rights of
the magistrate.
"Now, this is the kind of claim and assumption which,
when recently made by the Pope and his prelates in our
country, excited general alarm and resentment. But it was
well known that the Pope and other ministers of his church
always invited Protestants to join that church, and were
ready to receive converts into it. And of this no complaint
was made. Bishop Gobat, as far as I can learn, has done no
more than to invite and receive into communion with our
*hose who consider our doctrine and worship to be
pure and scriptural, and who wish to ronounee what every
sincere member of our church must regard as grievous error.
I am, dear Sir, very faithfully yours,
(Signed) Ijp. DueLfx.",
-P QL,..row CO URTS.-SATURDAY.

SMUGGLING.—Owen Owens, a seaman, was convicted of
smuggling lib. 14oz. of foreign manufactured tobacco,
which was found concealed on his person—of the value of 18s.
9d. Ile was ordered to pay the value of the tobacco or be
committed for 14 days. Samuel .Raddon, seaman, was
charged with smuggling three-quarters of a pound of
tobacco, which was found in his pockets, cut up, when
stopped by custoin.house officer on the Brunswick dock
H quay, e was fined 7s. 6d., or go to gaol for 7 days.
STEALING CorroN.—A young girl, named Catherine
Murphy, was convicted of stealing cotton, which was found
upon her when apprehended. She has been committed twice
before for the same offence. She was sent to gaol for one
month.

PICKING PoclcE9N—Ziward Donovan and Tames Conran
were charged with picking the pockets of various gentlemen
of handkerchiefs in Leigh-street and Richmond-street, at
half-past seven, on Friday evening. When arrested, four
silk handkerchiefs were found on the person of; Donovan.—
They were both sent for trial to the sessions. .

John Santer, Robert Betts, and Moses Turlong, were
charged with picking the pocket of Mr. John Woodward of
a silk handkerchief, (in Friday evening in Tithebarn-street.
Joseph Holmes, a private watchman, saw the three priso-
ners endeavouring to pick several gentlemen's pockets, and
at length perceived Betts accomplish his purpose; he at
once arrested him and took the handkerchief from him,
which Mr, Woodward identified. Betts, who had been six
times before committed, was sent for trial to the sessions,
the other two prisoners were ordered to bo imprisoned for
ono month each.

ROBBERY OF AN EMPLOYER.—George Williams was ar-
rested betwen five and six o'clock on Friday evening, at a
brothel in a lane off Dale-street, by detective officer Scott,
having in his possession five new silk handkerchiefs and
seven pairs of gloves ; he endeavoured to account for this
property by saying that he was a dealer in such articles.
The officer subsequently made inquiries, the result of which
was, that the goods were identified by Messrs. Cook and
Townshend of Byrom-street.
The manager in their establishment proved that on
Friday morning prisoner, who had been in their employ-
ment, was discharged for being drunk ; the value of the
goods produced was altogether two pounds ten.
The prisoner was sent for trial to the sessions.

COMMITMENTS. —Mary Simpson convicted of stealing
3 lbs. of butter from the shop of Mr. Henry Thompson, 8,
St. James's-place, was sentenced to be imprisoned 21 days.
Isabella Johnson was charged with stealing a bonnet and
counterpane from the house of a woman named Johnson, in
Albion-street. Prisoner was lodged for charity on Thurs-
day, and on Friday evening at dusk she absconded with the
property. Ordered to be imprisoned for 21 days.
John Swan, a little boy, for knocking down a girl of about
his own age, in Stanley-street, and robbing her of seven-
pence, was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment.
Mary Ann Ryan, a girl of the town, arrested in Preston-
street on Saturday evening, running away with a watch on
her person, supposed to be stolen, was remanded for seven
days.

. .
James Allen for stealing 24 lbs, copper from Bandon grav-
ing dock, 21 days' imprisonment.
THE ALLEGED ILL,IISAGE OP SEAMEN ON BOARD THE
AMERIC4N PACKET-MP: GREAT WESTERN.--John _Forde,
second mate on board the above ship, was brought up on
the charge of ill treating men upon the high seas, who are
now in the Northern hospital, Mr. Bluck defended the
prisoner. It was decided that the vessel being American,
the magistrates had no jurisdiction, and the case should be
referred 'to the American consul, The officer said that he
had applied at the office and was told the consul could not
interfere.

MANCHESTER.:
WAREHOUSE ROBBERY. —On Saturday, at the City Police
Court, Manchester, two men, named Thomas Garstang and
Joseph Rawson; were charged with having, on the previous day,
stolen 18 yards of wrappering, of the value of 375., the
property of Mr, Thomas Forshaw,. packer, Palace-street
Buildings, Inspector Mayburyl of the deteotive department,
stated that in consequence of information he had received
he went on the previous day to the warehouse of Mr.
Forshaw, and as did so ho saw the prisoner Rawson standing
in an entry about 20 .yards from the, warehouse, with a
sheet of wrappering and a rope under his arm. Rawson
was looking toward Forshaw's warehouse. Witness then
situated himself so as to command a view of the doors of the
warehouse, and in a few minutes afterwards he saw the
prisoner Garstang come out of the engine‘house, and walk
in the direction to where they had seen Rawson standing.
They remained there for a couple of minutes or so, when
Rawson came out with a bundle of wrappering upon his
back, tied round with a rope, and went towards Palace-street
with it, When he had got a few yards from the warehouse
Garstang came out. Witness followed him, passed him, and
followed. Rawson, who was carrying in his hand a piece of
paper. He followed him to a cellar in Queen-street, into
which he went, and returned directly afterwards without the
bundle, but he had a piece of wrappering and a rope in his
hand, similar to those he had when witness first saw him.
Witness then went up to him and took him into custody.
Ile told him he wos charged with stealing a piece wrappering