The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.
(BEFORE MR. CROPPER
PREPARING FOR CHRISTAIAS —A female named Mary
Hornby was charged with having stolen a quantity of butter,
cheese, bac ,n, and herrings, from shops in Park-road, and
the case being clearly proved she was sent to prison for one
month.
THE CHARGE AGAINST FAincLoonti.—J. W. Fairclough,
who stood remanded on charges for having obtained money
• under false pretences, was again brought up. Ther were
several additional charges preferred against the prisoner.
and amongst them was one by Mr. Hall, from the firm of
Gibbs, Bright, and C_)., who said that the prisoner called a.
the office with a p creel, and demanded 76 61 fur it ; witness
refused to pay at first, and the prisoner went away. He
called next morning, and witness paid for the parcel. I
was opened by the p n.ter, and contained old books. There
were several other persons pr, sent who paid the prisoner
na•mey for parcels, all of which were found to contain old
books. The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

EXECUTION OF THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSIN OF
THE KING OF NAPLES.

On the morning of Saturday, 13th of Decemb r, the pri-
soner was taken from the barracks of Ferrantina, to the
prison of Castel Capuano, and thence escorted by a detach-
ment of the Cacciatori and the congr: gation of the Bianchi
to the Church of the Refuge ; after which be was led to
the Ports Capuana, where the troops were stationed and the
scaffold was erected. Oa arriving in front of his battalion,
the prisoner, who wore his uniform, was stripped of his
dress, and clothed in a black shirt, according to the term-
of his sentence, with a large placard upon his chest, bear •
ing the inscription, " L'uomo enapio," Placed upon a cart,
he was taken the round of the troops, and then brought up
to the scaffold, which he mounted, talking and maintaining
the same firm c7iaracter, and firing his ey is Ott
the crucifix. The last words o' Melano were—" Viva Ia
Petrie ela Liberta !" Another report adds, " That from
the Vicaria to the Church of Refuge his eyes were not ban-
daged, and in the church he answered wit h a loud and cleer
voice, to the prayers of the Padri Assistenti. Then his eyes
were blinded, in spite of his en'reaties to the contrary, that
he might look upon the people. He walked with a firm
step, and rather too quick to please the Padri. He then
stopped a little. and begged again to be unblinded, but in
vain. To those who assisted him he said Padri, it is
glorious to die for our country and for liberty ;' and even on
the very steps of the scaffold he repeated the same expres-
sions. To the last prayer he uttered the responses with the
same firm voice, the people ji ining with him, and weeping.
Even the soldiers of his battalion were deeply moved, and
some of the officers wept. In fastening the rope the execu-
tioner =treated the criminal, so much as to excite one of
the fathers to strike him twice. Theexecution was long and
painful, either through the inexperience of the executioner
or the irritation created by the blows which he had received
from the Padre tssistente." During the last night the
prisoner &sired those who assisted him to read a book
entitled 0 The Life and Death of the Good Christian."
Lieutenant Fiori, one of the judges of the Council of War,
has been put under a rigorous arrest for having uttered
various insolent remarks to the criminal and the advOcate in
the public discescion.
•

A BURGLAR SHOT BY A IVO3LIN AT
BARNSLEY.

The recent murderous attack upon Mr. Bradley, and the
Bolton and Rotherham mu. ders, have led great numbers of
the inhabitants in this quarter to provide themselves with
firearms. The first result of this general aiming has been, that
on Friday morning one of these depredators, whilst in the act
of breaking into a houso in the outskirts of the town, was shot
by a woman. About two o'clock on Friday morning Mrs
hraithwaite, a widow, who keeps a genet al provision and grocery
shop near to the temporary station of the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire railway, was aroused by hearing her shop bell
ring. Being a tall, spirited woman, she opened the window cf
her bedroom, when she saw four men (three of them being tall
and powerful, dressed in round j ickets and caps) at the door,
one of them apparently trying to open it. On asking what
they wanted, one of the parties said to the others, "Two of
you go to the back door, and let two of us stop hero." Mrs.
Braithwaite then said if they di I not at once go away, she should
fire upon them. Not appearing to go away, she fired down
upon them from a long Ilfla barrelled pistol, containing a heavy
charge of shot, when one of the robbers immediately fell,
tittering a deep groan.' The three remaining, then assisted
their companion up and carried him away, before doing which
Mrs. Braithwaite saw one of the men tear a piece off his shirt,
and apply it apparently to the neck of the wounded man. An
alarm was made, and, on some assistance arriving, the place
was examined, when it was found that the burglars had tried
to effect an entrance by forcing the window shutters, and having
failed in that, had tried the shop door. Close by the place
where the wounded man fell, a piece of old cotton was found
saturated with blood, which had, no doubt, been used by his
comrades to staunch the wounds, and for some distance, traces :
were discernible. The police were immediately put upon the
scent, and there is little doubt but the burglars will be cap-
tured. From the commencement thus made, and the general
feeling of insecurity which pervades the town and district, the
present winter promises to be one of no ordinary character.
The demand for revolvers is very great, and there is every
appearance that if robberies aro attempted, bloodshed will be
the result.

AN ANTI-VEGETARIAN VIRGIN.—One of our north
country pitmen, who had turned vegetarian, went a
courting to a pluckylass in the colliery village, and
"popped the ques ion." " Oh," said she, "go along
with you! Do you think I'm goieg to be flesh of
your flesh, and yon living on cabbages ? Get a vegetable
marrow, man ; I'm not an animal of your sort." And
off she bouneed,leav ing hiin, like LordUllin, "lamenting."
Gateshead Observer.
SALARIES, &C IN THE PUBLIC OFFICES.—A. light blue-
book, recently publifflied. gives some information on the
subject of salaries and emoluments in the public cifices:
shows, en resume, that whereas on the first of January,
183.5, there were 3,886 persons employed in the various
public departments, from the Treasury downwards, there
were only 2,79,1 so employed on New Year's-day, 1856 ;
and th st, whereas the total am ,unt of salaries in 1835
was £101,012, it is now reduced to £91,106. The
eecrease is chiefly noticeable in the Ordnance, the (late)
War Office, she Admiralty and Naval Departments, the
Customs, and the Goneral Post-office. The average
reduction of salaries is £26 per head on 3,886 persons,
and the average increase £32 10s. on 2 791 persons. The
salaries and emoluments of officea usually held by members
of either House of Parliament amounted to £114,010 in
1835, and on the Ist of January last to £109,125. The
salaries of the diplomatic corps amounted in 183.5 to
£126,250, and on the Ist of January, 1856, to £123,035
The aggregate salaries of the ciusular corps have increased
from £BB 320 to £126,815.
CONSTABLE FOR FLINTSHIRB —There are thirteen candi•
dates f r the office of chief constable of Flint, all of whom
with the exception of tw ), are wholly unacquainted with
the Welsh language, How those gentlemen who are
ignorant of the Welsh language are to perform the duties
of the office properly and efficiently is beyond the compre-
hension of most persons, and to those conversant with the
language and its almost unpronounceable names of pines,
such as Brynellyllon, Dymeirchion, &c., how they ate to
get over the dilliculties of so clearly and distinctly Priam,
lating those crackjaw words es to render them intelligible
to those from whom they might make inquiries as to any
crimes committed at such places, is a complete mystery.
It is stated that most of the candidates seem cot t) lay the
slightest stress upon their acquiring a knowledge of the
language as an indispensable qualification for the appoint-
ment, but 83 long as such a large proportion of the
inhabitants of Flintshire continue to speak the Welch
4nguage, it wou d be an insult to the county to elect a
man ignorant of their language. Notwithstanding the
many reports in circulation as to the probability of the
Welsh language being entirely ignored in making the
appointment, it is confidently anticipated that those
gentlemen upon whom devolves the responsibility of
appointing the chief constable will exercise the same degree
of circumspection as has hitherto characterised them in
making appointments to otber public offices.