The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-22 00:00:00

lIL-TRE NECROPOLIS.

The presence of the government inspector in the borough on
the two preceding enquiries has been taken advantage of to
enable the solicitor re?resenting shareholders of the Necropolis,
and the solicitor representing the graseowners not being share.
holders, to remove difficulties which had arisen in the way of
effecting some arrangement for the future management of this
place, without totally closing it, which should be satisfactory
to the friends of persons who have been buried there. Every
dssistan ce to carry out that object has been rendered on
the part of the Health Committee, and at a public meeting held
before the inspector, terms were suggested as the basis of are
agreement for the settlement of that part of the question. This
arrangement, aided by the effect of the enquiry which has
taken place, and by a proposed addilonal order of her Majesty
in Council, will, it is hoped, effectually prevent the repetition
of improper proceedings by persons connected with this
cemetery, and so far satisfy the demands made by the Health
Committee for the protection of the public. With reference,
however, to the question of ulterior measures against parties
who may have already have been guilty of malpractices, the
Town Clerk will shortly be in a position to report fully, in
accordance with the iustructions of the sub-committee
appointed to consider that subject.
Mr. Spiel observed that these enquiries proved how
impartially the committee had acted in the matter. Ot
the cemeteries inquired into, one was under the direction
of the E,tablished Church, another under that of the great
body of Dis-enters, and the third under that of the
Roman Catholics ; and he was certain they would con-
trive- to act so until all that was objectionable in the,
interment of the dead in cemeteries within their jurisdic-
tion was completely removed. (Bear, hear.)
The Chairman thought that the restriction of a single
interment in a common grave was an injustice to the poor.
In a family grave more than one person might be buried,
and he thought the same rule should apply, under certain
restrictions, to common graves.

Mr. Hodson thought that any tuch system would again
lead to indiscriminate burials. He thought also that
the present system of bu?i=ls was an erroneous- one,
the object being to preserve, not to destroy, the body.
The Deputy Town Clark observed that the committee
had no power to make any such regulation as that
suggested by the chairman.
The Chairman said that with the present rastricti ms he
did not know what the poor would do. As to St. Mary's,
J4dge Hills where many of them were buried, it amounted
almost to a virtual closing of the cemetery.
This concluded the businese.

MARSEILLES, Wednesday.—Several chests of muskets
have been landed in Tuscany ; they have been seized by
the authorities Numerous arrests have taken place. The
concordat with Naples has bees definitely agreed on and
signed. The Archduke Maximilian has begun the work
of digging out and deepening the canals and the lagoons
of Venice, for the purpose of facilitating the access of larger
vess•ls to the streets and quays.
QUERN'S HALL, BOLD•STREIET —VOUSDEN'SENTERTAINDIENT
—With much regret Mr. Vous,len has to inform his
numerous and kind patrons, that he will not be able to pre-
sent himself before them at the Queen's Hall this evening.
He has struggled for several days past with a violent cold
and malignant sore throat, which quite prevents his being
able to appear, at least before Monday next. Although
anxious to appear, even almost at any sacrifice, his me ical
attendants utterly refuse to permit him to leave his apart-
ments before Monday; and he trusts the kind indulgence
of the public will, under the circumstances, be awarded to
him.

POLICE INTELLIG PSC tY.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR MAVSFI.U..D.

Seamus ASSAULT.—TWO or three days ege re publishe I
the details of a sericns assault corn ni -re l b, a smith,
named Edward lee tee, on another smith, teemed 'Jemee
Hayes. Yesterda' the prisoner wa- banigh up on remenai,
When Mr. Bluck appeared, for him. The evidence was
.repeated, and, in addition, surgeon Evans stared the
injuries on Haye's head were very severe, enough not,
in his opinion. fatal The man, it appeared. was eulejec,
to epileptic flee sad of ceurs3 the injury
.on the heed
would aggravate sueh a dieeese. Mr. Bluck content:el
that the affair was purely accidental. Me. Mansfield said
he would not decide the case ; he would send the prisoner
for trial, but weuld take two sureties in £lO each for his
appearance. The bail was put in, and the prisoner
discharged.
BLACK AND WHlTE.—Margaret Bennett, a vary white
girl, and Francis G-eeen' a very black man, were charged
under the riot act, with having crea ed a disturbatce in
Park-lane. The prisoners had a crowd of persons about
them, and were pitching into," (a ring- phrase) each
other, after the most approved fashion of " Deaf Burke."
Officer 554 did not think this so t of fun at all edifying to
the inhabitants of Park-lane, and he interfered, when
they appeared to enter into a spontaneous conspiracy, and
turned on him, and the female made a blow with a glass
tumbler at his head, and if it had struck him it would have
killed him. The prisoners were fined £1 each, or in
default one month's imprisonment.
Motto Ketereet.—Maria Sullivan was charged with
having stabbed Rose Hutchinson. The parties reside in
Peter-street, and had a quarrel, when the prisoner drew a
penknife, and struck the other two blows, one above
the othec below the eye. Surgeon Davis said the wounds
were severe and incised. The prisoner was sent for trial.
Ass/tut:rpm A WM.—Patrick Bell, the keeper of a
beerhouse in Bannister-street, was brought up by Lynch
142, on a charge of having committed a desperate assault
on his wife, Mary Bell. The woman's fee) presented a
fearful appearance from the violence. The officer
said he heard awful screams of murder issuing from the
house of the prisoner, and on going there, he heard the
woman shouting out for assistance, as her husband was
killing her. He went into the h ruse and found him beating
her in the most savage manner. The complainant, when
she entered the box begged hard for the prisoner, saying he
was the best of all husbands in the. world ; he was the
most affectionate man on the face of the earth, and he
never beat her, only when he got drunk. She would not,
by any means proceed against him. Mr. Mansfield: Then
you withdraw the charge ? Complainant : Oh, yes sir,
he is the kindest of all earthly husbands. The officer said:
When I
_arrested him last night, he said "when I get out
this time, I will kill her in earnest." Complainant: Oh,
sir, let him go this time, he is very kind to me indfsd.
Mr. Mansfield: No, I will require him to enter into his
own security in £2O, and two others in £lO each, to keep
the peace, or in default two months imprisonment,
ASSAULT ON THE POLICS —A powerful looking young
man, named Thomas Guy, was charged with having violently
assaulted police officer 274. Mr. Bluck defended. On
Thursday night week the officer was on duty in Limekiln-
lase, about half past two o'clock, when he heard loud
cries of murder and police. He went to the place, and
met an inspector of night men, who told him to hasten on,
as there was some one ill-treating a female. He went
forward and saw the prisoner, but the female ran away.
He asked the prisoner why he had acted so, and an alterca-
tion followed. The constable said the prisoner struck him
two or three desperate blows on the forepart of the head,
but he could not tell with what weapon.' In reply to
Mr. Bluck, the officer said he did not see the prisoner do
anything before he took him into custody, and he admitted
that he struck the prisoner several blows with his staff, but
not before he was struck and cut by the prisoner. A sur-
geon deposed to the nature and extent of the wounds on
• the complainant's head, which were extensive and contused,
lent the night inspector said he saw the prisoner strike the
officer, but he did not see the first of it, but he heard the
screams of a woman. Mr. Bluck made an aVe ad-
dress for the prisoner, and contended that the
officer had no right, in the first instance, to
arrest him. He did not, according to his own showing,
see him do any wrong, and therefore he had no right to
arrest him. Mr. Muck called two witnesses, who swore
they heard the prisoner implore the officer to let him ge ;
that he lived in the house, the door of which he stood at ;
' and that the policeman could summon him, if he had d -)ne
anything wrong; but he refused. and then a scuffle fd-
lo wed, and the witnesses said the officer struck the pri-
setter several times with his staff. On this Mr. Bluck
called for the discharge of the prisoner, and his worship
discharged him.
MORE ASSAULTING.—A wild-looking fellow, named
Patrick Rock, a carter in the employment .of J. Lorton,
master carter, of Limek In-lane, was charged with having
assaulted his employer. The prisoner and his master con-
veyed some goods in a cart from the stage to a warehouse
in Chapel street. The prisoner was under the influence
of drink, and refused to leave the goods without fret
getting paid. The master interfered, as he was quite willing
to leave the goods without payment. A dispute followed,
when the prisoner struck the complainant. They made up
the affair, and went into a public-house, where they had
same ale. Whilst in the house, the prisoner drew what is
called " a carter's wedge" from under his apron, and gave
Lemon a violent blow under the eye, which split his cheek
to the bones The prisoner was sent for trial.

&CAM COMMUNICATION WITII IRI LAND.—Thc4 arrange..
ment between the Post-office and the different companies
for putting the communication between London and.
Dublin upon an improved footing, is, I be-
lieve, on the verge of completion. Exacting condi-
tions on the one side, and a desire to somewhat too large a
pull at the treasury on the other, served to delay this mea-
sure ever since Mr. Herbert's committee in 1853. lam
not acquainted with the details of the new arrangement
now being concluded, but I have some reason to know that
the time allowed will be eleven hours and a half from Eas-
ton square to Sackville street, and that a train each way at
7 30 every morning, one from London at 8 30 p.m., and one
from Dublin about an hour earlier with a better class of
vessels between Holyhead and Kingstown, this arrange-
ment would give great advantages over that now in force,
and would reasonably meet the views of those interested
in both capitals.—London Correspondent of Freeman's
Journal

THE IRI:H SECRETARYSHIP.—We learn from oar Lon•
don correspondent that Lord Elcho is now the favourite
for the Irish Secretaryship. It is a neck-and-neck race
between the Scotch Lord and the Hebrew Jew, and both
are nearly equally qualified for the part by their zeal for
centralization. Mr. Bernal Osborne's sentiments respect-
ing the Viceroyalty are known, and he must be admitted
to be a good judge of what requires sweeping out from
the nooks and corners of the castle. The Scotch Lord, it
may be remembered, rendered" himself remarkable some
time sines by a proposal for abolishing the Irish Post-
office. His very latest act in Parliament was the intro-
duction of a bill to prop up the effete Scottish Universities,
and to render their traffic in medical diplomas perpetual.
This feat Lord Elcho undertook last wetk, and actually
p.ocared the first reading of a bill for the effecting of that
obj at, which we trust every Irish representative will
oppose. Lord Echo is the eldest son of the Earl of
Wemyss and March, and represents the County of Had-
din gton. —Dublin Evening Mail.
ANOTHER SAERILEGI)US OUTRAGE.—In our last it was
our painful duty to record an act of sacrilege happily rare
in this part of the world—namely, the entrance into the
church at Jonashorough, and the destruction of the large
Bible and Prayer-book which hod bean deposited in the
vestry. We regret to hake to state, in this day's publica-
tion, that, on Saturday sight, the parish church of Cam tough
was broken into, and the Bible and Prayer-books were
treated in a similar fashion as at Jonesborongb, and portions
of both were discovered in a field close to tha church. The
constabulary authorities are most active in their endeavours
to discover the perpetrators of these wanton outrages, and
we earnestly hope that their labours may prove successful.
That two such dastardly offences should have been com-
mitted in the samo week, and in two parishes not far
removed one from the other, is a circumstance which cannot
be in'erpreted as otherwise than extremely discreditable to
!he dißtriet in which they were perpetrated, The oli-!ct
in both cases seams to have been precisely the Fame ; it was
not the hope of plunder, but the malevolent design of out-
raging two places of worship, ald exposing the Bible to
indignity an] destruction; that impelled. the lawless m's-
creants.—Newry Telegraph
ANOTHER FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—The Cymmer
colliery, belong.ng to Messrs. George Insole and Co , in
the Rhondda Valley, near Pont-y-Pridd, has been the
scene of another shocking accident, by which two men
have lost their lives. About twelve months ago the. e
works were visited by one, of the most frightful catas.
trophes that has even been known in the history of mining
in South Wales. At that time an explosion took place
between the princ7pal working levels and the shaft corn-
ti ng with the Ihml, whereby the air courses were cut
ff, and somes here about 120 inert and boys were seffo-
cated by the choke or after-damp. In the present. instance
the deatas of the two men, who wore brothers, named
Jones, were likewise caused by suffocation. The coal
raised at the Cymmer works is difficult to work with safety,
and great precautions have been used in consequence. On
the present cceasiou the firemen erected barriers, and
ordered the miners, and amongst them the two unfor-
tunate men who were killed, net to go beyond thwe
barriers. With a recklessness which is too often found
to exist amongst the class of labouring miners, they
disobeyed the overseers' orders, and hence the accident by
, which they both were deprived of life.