The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-08 00:00:00

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY,

(BEFORE MR. CHARLES CHALONER.)

CALL TIIIS NOTHING !—Police-offioer, No. 7.61, charged
a mechanic named Hugh J. Wallace, on suspicion of
having stolen a shawl. He said, at an early hour in the
morning be met the prisoner in Thurlow-street, and
seeing some bulk under his arm, he asked what he had
there ? He replied " nothing." "Do you call this
nothing?" replied the constable, at the same time
drawing the shawl from under the prisoner's arm. He
could not give any account of the article, and he was
remanded.

SHOP LIFTING.—A young female named Winefred
Ferguson, was charged with stealing a shawl from the
shop door of Messrs. Robertson and Mason, Old Hay-
market. The prisoner was rather the worse of drink,
and on Saturday evening she ran off with the shawl, but
was caught in John's-lane. She was committed for
seven days.

OPEN CONFESSION.—A lady named Mrs. Pve, of Nether-
ton, who was attired in rich wedding garments, charged
a well dressed young fellow, named James Mathews,
with picking her pocket of a white cambric handker-
chief, in Byrom-street. The prisoner said—My band
happened to fall into the lady's pocket, and I was taking
it out when she caught me. He was committed for two
months. (It was said the lady had a large sum of money
in the same pocket at the time.)
STEALING GEOCERIES.—Henry Kevin, a porter, in the
employment of Mr. Tate, grocer, James-street, was
charged with having stolen a quantity of articles, his
property. The things were found in the prisoner's
lodgings, at 4-court, Pellew-street. He was committed
for two months.

THEFT BY A SHOPMAN.—A respectable looking young
man, named John Hughes, was charged with stealing
three sovereigns from his employer, Mr. William Morris,
grocer, residing in Oldhall-street. The prisoner was in
the employment of prosecutor as one of his shopmen,
and he was suspected not to be honest. The com—
plainant marked some sovereigns, and yesterday morning
he called a policeman, who, on searching the prisoner,
found three marked sovereigns on him. The prisoner
attempted to account for the possession of the money,
but failing to do. so, he was sent to gaol for two
months.

THE LIVERPOOL HOWEOPATHIC
DISPENSARY.

TI 1E annual meeting of the subscribers to, and friends
of, this institution was held yesterday afternoon, at the
Clarendon-rooms, Mr. Yate Lee in the chair.

Mr. Capper, the secretary, read the following
REPORT.

This dispensary was first established in 1841, and has now,
therefore, been in existence fourteen years. The number of
patients treated during this period has been 37,000. The
number of now patients during the last year was 3,407. Tho
total number of prescriptions dispensed in 1855 was 16,161.
Throughout the year the charity has had the benefit of the
services of a qualified house-surgeon, and his exertions have
been attended with the greatest success. Since the Ist of
March a special register has been kept of patients visited by
him at their own homes: The number of patients thus visited
has been 353, and the number of such visits paid 2,367.
The subscribers to the dispensary will be much gratified by
the following official testimony to the success of homoeopathic
-practice in acute diseas. In a return made last May to the
House of Commons, of papers and letters addressed to the
Board of Health relating to the treatment of cholera, which
were produced upon the motion of Lord Robert Grosvenor,
the following passage occurs. Dr. Macloughlin, ono of the
Medical Inspectors of the Board of Health, addressing one of
the Medical officers of the Homoeopathic Hospital, Golden-
square, says:

You are aware that I went to your hospital predisposed
against the hornceopathic system ; that you had in me, in your
camp, an enemy rather than a friend, and that I must, there-
fore, have seen some urgent reason to come away so favourably
disposed as to advise a friend to send a subscription to your
charitable fund ; and I need not tell you that I have
taken some pains to make myself acquainted with the rise,
progress, and medical treatment of cholera, and that I claim
for myself some right to be able to recognise the disease, and
to know something of what the medical treatment ought to
be; and, that there may be no misapprehension about the
cases I saw in your hospital, I will add that all I saw were
true cases of cholera, in various stages of disease ; and that I
saw several cases which did well under your treatment which,
I have no hesitation in saying, would have sunk under any
other. In conclusion, I must repeat to you, what I have
already told you, and what I have told every one with whom I
have conversed, that, although an allopath by principle, educa-
tion, and practice, yet, was it the will of Providence to afflict
me by cholera, and to deprive me of the power of prescribing
for myself, I would rather be in the hand of a homoeopathic,
than an allopathic adviser."
In addition to this important testimony the committee have
great satisfaction in adding a tabular statement of the acute
cases and the results, the patients in such cases having been
attended at their own houses by Dr. Gwynn, the present
house surgeon, since the Ist of March last.

[This statement showed that the total number of acute cases
under treatment was 204, of which 177 recovered, 2 were
relieved, and 13 only died.] _

The above evidence, adduced from official as well as local
sources, is in itself sufficient to disprove the statement that
homoeopathy is unable to cope with acute disease.

At the Southwark Police Court on Saturday, John
Satchwell, an excavator, and Maria Satchwell, his wife, two
middle-aged hearty-looking persons, the latter with art
infant at the breast, were brought before Mr. A'Beckett.
by the parish authorities of Bermondsey, charged with.
wilfully neglecting to provide proper food and nourish-
ment to four of their children, aged 5,7, 10, and 11 years,
whereby their lives were in danger from starvation.
Charles Slow, assistant relieving officer of Bermondsey
parish, stated that on the previous day two females brought
to the workhouse two children, one about five years old and.
the other about seven. They were in a dreadfully
emaciated condition, and could not stand. They had all
the appearance of having been starved. He admitted them
into the house, and ordered them to be supplied with food.
After that he went to No. 4, Mellich's-place, and there he
saw the female prisoner, when he told her about the two
children, and that he thought they were dying. She said.
it was not her fault. There were at that time four children.
in the room, and he asked her if they Lad had any food..
The eldest of the children said that they had not since the
day before, when they had a little bread. He sent three of
those children to the workhouse, and after they were gone
he asked the female prisoner whether they had any food.
on Christmas Day. She said they had nothing from Christ-
mas Eve until eight o'clock on boxing morning, when she
gave them a little plum-padding; that her husband had
been out all Christmas Day, and fared sumptuously, and
that she went to him at six o'clock, and had tea there, and
stopped till near two o'clock the following morning. lie
asked her where her husband was. She replied at work,
and from information he received, he went to St. Katharine's,
Docks and took him to the station-house, and afterwards
met the female prisoner and gave her into custody.
Mr. John Dixon, surgeon, said that on the 29th of last
month the female prisoner brought three children to hiss
surgery, and presented an order for medical relief. The
poer children were in a very bad and emaciated state, con-
sequent upon insufficient diet, and he had no doubt that.
they had been starved. Four of the children were by a
former husband. Thomas, three years old, and the other,
an infant at the breast, were the offspring of the present
marriage. The two latter were healthy and strong, but the
others were in a dreadful state. Their bones were actually
protruding through the skin, and they could not stand,
from weakness and want of proper nourishment. They had
been gradually starved, and could not have lived long. One
of them, Maria, was so bad that he thought she must have died
in a few hours. However they were all promptly attended
to in the workhouse, and were in a fair way of recovery.
The poor neglected children were here introduced, and.
exhibited one of the most horrifying and melancholy
spectacles that was ever witnessed in a court of justice, and
caused cries of "shame" to proceed from every person in
the court. Mr. A'Beckett observed that he never had a
case of greater inhumanity before him. What answer had
the prisoners to make to the charge? The male prisoner said
that all his earnings he gave to his wife, to do as she
thought proper with ; and the latter said that all the
money he gave her, she spent to keep him in food.
Mr. A'Beckett told them there was no excuse for their
brutal and .inhuman conduct; and it was fortunate for
them that the circumstances came to the knowledge of the
parish authorities before either of the poor children
perished, or they would now most likely have stood before
him charged with a more serious offence. He should com-
mit them for trial to the next sessions, and direct the five
children to be kept in the workhouse, where he was sure
every care would be taken of them. The prisoners, who
during the examination seemed quite unconcerned about
the nature of the charge against them, were removed from
the dock ; and the children were conveyed in a cab, under
the care of two nurses, to Bermondsey Workhouse.

YESTERDAY'S MARKETS

LIVERPOOL CATTLE.—Beef met a slow sale to-day,
and at rather reduced rates. The show was extremely
rough, and many of that description are on hands since
last week. There was a fair sale for sheep, at full prices.
Supplies—Beasts, 2567 ; sheep, 9297. Prices—Beef, 4icl
to 6141; mutton, Sid to 6d, per lb.
DUNDALK CORN.—Wheat, 40s to 435; oats, 14s to
16s ; barley, 20s to 235. Market small.

LOND6IST:CORN.—The supply of English wheat was
very small, nearly the whole in very damp condition, dry
samples commanding the extreme rates of last week, but
the others were a slow sale at former prices. Foreign
wheat was in more demand than of late, and in some
instances prices were obtained, which were not recently
obtainable, but the business done was generally of a.
retail character. For barley there is more inquiry at
last week's rates. Beans and grey peas aro is per qr.,
and white peas 2s per qr., cheaper. Oats are a fair retail
trade at full prices. Flour is steady, at the extreme
prices of last week.

BOROUGH HOP.—The market is quiet, and prices
are steady at the following rates:—Low new, from 50s to
603; middling, 70s to 90s ; fine, 95s to 112 s ; ditto East
and Mid Kents, 115 s to 1355.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

TATTERSALL'S.-YESTERDAY EVENING.

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.

100 to 30 agst Fly by Night—taken,

DERBY.

8 to 1 agst:Wentworth—taken.
10 ... 1 ... Fly by Night—offers to take.
20 ... 1 ... Artillery—taken.
20 ... 1 ... Polmoodie —taken. '
23 ... 1 ... Peter Wilkins—taken.'
40 ... 1 ... The Prince—taken.
50 ... 1 ... Aleppo—taken.
66 ... 1 ... Ring-dropper—taken.::

CHESTER CUP.

1000 to 20 agst Imogene—taken.
1000 ... 20 ... Rifleman—taken.
1000 ... 20 . . Quince—taken.
1000 ... 20 ... Flatterer—taken.
1000 ... 10 ... Vandyke—taken,
1000 ... 10 ... Aleppo—taken.