The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-20 00:00:00

GRA NGEMOUTH, OCT. 18TH.

,ARRlVFD.—Hoffnung, Meyer, from Hamburgh ; Star,
Ramsey. Rotterdam.

SATl:in.—Airdrie, Binnie, for Stettin ; Lady Zetland,
Williams, Rotterdam; Ebenezer, Watson, Rouen; Resolu-
tion, B'jouess, Dram.

GLASGOW, Ocr. 18.
ARRIVED.-Emily, Woods, from Marseilles; Edinburgh,
Brown. Alexandria; Victoria, --, New York.
LEITH, Our. 18.
ARRIVED.—Hanna, Morris, from St. John, N.B.

POLICE COURTS.-YESTERDAY,

LIVERPOOL.

FURIOUS DRIVING.—John Smith, for furiously driving
his spring cart in Lime-street, was fined 10s. and costs.
A CAUTION TO YOUNG BOYS.—John Redington, a young
boy, who did not appear, was charged with setting off fire-
works in Mansfield-street, on Sunday evening, was fined Is.
and costs.

A number of people, for keeping pigs, and causing nui-
sances, were fined. The fines varied from 2s. 6d. and costs,
to 10s. and costs.

BREAKING WINDOWS.—John Leathwaite, was charged
with•breaking a pane of plate glass, valued at £1 2s. He
was ordered to pay 225. and costs, or be committed for 21
days.

SMUGGLING.—James Pallinan, a seaman, for smuggling
one pound and a quarter of Cavendish tobacco, was fined 10s.
HELPING HIMSELF.—The keeper of a spirit vault, in
Harrington-street, charged Edward Keating with having, on
Tuesday evening, stolen some rum from his establishment.
Prisoner had come in under the pretence of getting a glass
of ale, and prosecutor caught him helping himself to
a tumbler of rum from the tap ; and he had a bottle, also
stolen from his shop, ready to receive it. Officer 584
arrested the prisoner. The magistrate, finding from the
evidence that prisoner was in liquor at the time, treated it as
a drimken case, and fined him ss. or three days in prison.
PICKING POCKETS. John Defy was put forward by
officer 576, charged by John Finnegan with picking his
pockets in Pownall-square, at 6 o'clock on Monday evening.
The officer witnessed the robbery, but two of the prisoner's
accomplices suceceed in making their- escape. The magis-
trate sentenced Defy to six days imprisonment.—Patrick
Lynch was observed, on Tuesday evening, by a detective
officer, in Queen's-square, attempting to pick several ladies'
pockets. Prisoner had observed the officer, so that the latter
was obliged to arrest him before he saw an actual theft
accomplished. As the prisoner was not known to the police,
the magistrate discharged him.
Ellen Gilligan, Bridget Walshe, Michael Walshe, and
fohn .Dawson, all children were charged by a detective
omcer witn naming tneir possession, at the gate of V ictorla
Dock, a quantity of clean cotton, which, when the officer
came up, they were endeavouring to conceal. The magis-
trate discharged Dawson, (as he had never been before the
Court previously,) but sentenced the other delinquents re-
spectively to seven days imprisonment.

JUVENILE DErnAvrry.—An interesting little girl, named
_Eliza Cave, nine years of age, of whom it was stated that
she went regularly to school and knew her prayers, charged
a boy less than herself with having knocked her down on
the steps of St. John's Market, on Tuesday evening, and
stealing from her person the sum of three shillings. Prose-
cutrix positively swore that the prisoner was the lad who
knocked her down, but stated that there were two other
little lads in his company who succeeded in getting clear off.
The magistra.e mercifully remanded this very young delin-
quent until this day, in order that an endeavour might be
made to communicate with his friends. It was stated that
his mother was the inmate of a lunatic asylum.
THE EFFECTS OF JUVENILE MISCHIEF.—Richard Swin-
chatt, a boy about fourteen years of age, summoned
through his father Henry Swinchatt, five boys, whose ages
varied from sixteen to twelve, William Henson, Alfred
Stewart, James Beving, John Worrall, and William Werrall,
for £5 damages due to plaintiff by an assault committed upon
him on the 2nd of August last. The items of the claim were
surgeon's bill, £2 15s. ; boy's time lost from work, 6s. ,
plaintiff's time, 10s. ; sundry expenses and damages, £1 95.,
making in all, £5. Mr. Wheeler appeared for the plaintiff.
The boy Richard Swinchatt was examined, and gave his evi-
dence very distinctly. He stated that he was in care of a
donkey cart upon the day in question, and was driving up
Paddington, when the boys summoned, with some others,
wanted to get into the cart, and swung out of it behind. He
did not let them get in, and after he had driven the cart to
the stable, he was coming back again, when one of the boys
said, as he passed, " Let us give him a good thrashing."
Henson gave him a blow which knocked him down, and
then kicked him as he lay upon the road. Alfred Stewart
struck him with a large strap, having a buckle. James
Beving struck him with a stone wrapped in a handkerchief;
and the two Worralls also struck and shoved him. He became
insensible, and when he recovered found himself lying in bed
in his mother's house. He was not able to go to work for
three weeks, and suffered a great deal of pain, from the
effects of which his head felt very heavy still. There never
was any quarrel before between the boys and himself. A boy
eight years old, named Bibby, a man named McClellan, and
Mrs. Swinchatt, were examined, and corroborated the evi-
dence. The boys gave various excuses for their conduct
Worrall admitted striking with a handkerchief, but denied
that there was a stone in it. Court—Was it knotted ?
Worrall : It was. Court : And soaked in water, perhaps ?
Worrell : No sir. Stewart admitted striking with a strap
and buckle. Beving alleged that the boy struck him first
with a whip. The Court pointed out the shame and expense
which the defendants had brought upon their parents by
joining to beat a little boy as young as the youngest of them.
One of them was a big boy, who ought to be able to fight a
lad twice the size of the boy they beat, and yet he joined
with five or six others, and beat that child in such a way
that he fell into fits, and it was through God's providence
he did not die, in which case they would be liable to trans-
portation, or to very long terms of imprisonment. They
should also feel the cowardice of such an act. He pitied
their parents very much, who had to bear the expense, and
he pitied the poor little boy, who, perhaps, might never re-
cover the effects of the injuries, and never be strong in con-
sequence of their act, for which they should answer in the
next world, if not in this. The Court then ordered that all
the actual expense and costs borne by the plaintiff should be
paid by the parents of the defendants.

CHARGE OF BURGLARY.-Hugh Iff'Grady and John
1W Grady, two young boys, charged on Tuesday with break-
ing into a grocer's shop in Harding-street, were yesterday
fully committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions.

MORE YOUTHFUL BURGLARS.—Robert O'Neill and Win.
Clarke, boys of about fourteen years of B,i-re each, were
charged by. officer 711, who said that yesterday morning he
saw the prisoners i3laevcr;.r._ctroot, trying all the doors,
front and ram O'Neill had been committed in last July
.even days, and Clarke had been formerly charged for
stealing a hen ; they were now committed for three months
each.

AN UNSUPPORTED CHARGE. —Martha Bescott, a respectable
looking woman, was put forward, charged with having in
her possession a silk watch-guard of small value, which a
lady named Mrs. Wake, of 47, Simpson-street, Preston, said
had been. stolen from her so long ago as 11th January, 1851,
along with a number of • other articles ; her house having
been on the occasion broken into and robbed. Last Satur-
day Mrs. Wake saw the guard in possession of a little girl,
who was offering it for sale at Preston, and who, upon being
interrogated, said she had got it from the prisoner. The
magistrate (Mr. Smith) said that this appeared to him to be
an unsupported charge. There were hundreds of yards of
exactly this kind of chain to be bought every day. Mr.
Clough said that he was surprised at the prisoner being sent
from Preston on such evidence, and he had doubts as to pay-
ing the expenses of the officer who was sent with the pri-
soner from Preston. The magistrate said that would be
altogether at his (Mr. Clough's) discretion, and discharged
the prisoner.
A YOUTHFUL SP wurstkur r.---,Tames Fender, nine years of
age, was charged by officer 51, who, on Tuesday morning,
in Mary-le-bone, found him with a game cock on his person
for which he could not account; when the prisoner saw the