The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-13 00:00:00

POISONING OF

LADY,

taken ill. He said he was going to Mr. Morley's for
some medicine. I was not in the room when Mrs. Dove
ac-as taken ill. I think Mr. Dove left the house about
eight o'clock. I believe that was the hour because he said
so himself since Mrs. Dove's death. He was in liquor all
the evening. When I went up stairs, about half-past
eight, Mrs. Dove was attacked with spasms, and Mr.
Dove might then have been gone out about half-an-hour,
or it might be three quarters. He came down to me to
ask me if I would go up to Mrs. Dove if Mrs. Whitman
went away, but I can't say whether that was before or
after he went out. I recollect him going out as I went up.
and I made' the door after him.''
The witness here appeared much agitated, and sheaved
much hesitation in giving the answer, on Which
The Coroner said: Why do you hesitate? The Witness
answered that she was nervous in consequence of the
crowded state of the court, which had taken effect upon
her. She was then permitted to retire for a short time.
On her return into court, her examination was resumed.
By Mr. Barrett : I saw Mr. Dove give Mrs. Dove the
medicine on two or three occasions,"and I saw him wash
the glasses out. I can't say how long she remained well
after. On the occasion that I gave it to her, she said she
seemed renewed after it. Mrs. Dove was with me in the
kitchen, when I first came over from Normanton. I got
there about a fortnight before, and we had dinner some
where about one o'clock. I remember Mr. Dove bringing
some jelly, hut I can't say whether it was while
I was washing up the plates. It was in
the afternoon. He brought it to Mrs. Dove, and said,
"You haven't had 3 our jelly. She tasted it, and said it
was very nasty. I tasted it and found it was so. He
then tasted it, and said he could not taste anything the
matter with it. Mrs. Dove said she would not take any
more of it.. It was put upon the table, and I took it and
washed it down the sink. 1 can't say that Mr. Dove
tasted it twice. Mr. Dove said he wanted to take the
glass plate home to his mother.
Henry Harrison was next examined. He said lam a
dentist, and live at No. 5, North-row, South Market. I
know the prisoner, Mr. Dove, and have done so for the last
seventeen or eighteen months. I remember a conversa-
tion with him two months since, at the New Cross Inn,
South-market. Mr. Dove sent over for me by the
daughter of the landlord, and when I got there he asked
me to read over the account of Palmer's case in the papers.
I did so in Mr. Dove's presence. He then said to me,
" Can you get or make any etrychnia? " The landlady of
the house, Mrs. Walker, heard him say this. I said in
reply, "not for the world." He then said, " Well, I can
get some if you will not." Then he went to the door, and
I asked the landlady (not in his hearing), "Did you hear
that ?" He went to the door, and came back. Nothing
more was said about it. I had another conversation with
him at the same house last Thursday, somewhere about
two or half-past two o'clock. He sent for me on that
occasion. I went there in consequence of a letter from
him. I was just going to a funeral. I had not much time
to stay with him. The first words he used were, " Can
th. 23, detect a grain and a half of strychnia, or a'grain ?"
I said, " Have you given your wife any ? " He said, " No,
but I got some from Mr. Morley's man to poison a cat
with, and some might have spilt, and she might have got
some, and the cat is in the midden." That was all he
said. I went away to the funeral, and left him there.
There was a person in the bar at the time, of the name of

BY STRYCHNIA, AT

EEDS

ADJOURNED INQUEST ON THE BODY

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(FROM OUR OWN ir

THE NORTHERN TIMM-LIVERPOOL, TNURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1803.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MECHANICS'
INSTITUTION.

WEST DERBY GUARDIANS

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The usual weekly meeting of this board was held at the
boardroom yesterday. The Rev. W. Badnall presided.
The other guardians present, were Messrs. Ledger,
Mountfield, Seddeley, Bolshaw, Pickup, Medcalf, Pitts,
Roberts, Whitty, Abrahams, Wensley, Harrison, Birch,
Lunt, Edwards, and Mullens.
The clerk reported that he had examined the books
kept by the several officers of the union, and found them
correct

The annual meeting of the members of the Liverpool
Mechanics' Institution was held in the lecture-hall of the
building last night. The meeting was summoned
for seven o'clock, but the proceedings did not commence
until half-past seven. The chair was taken by Mr. Sam.
Booth, and among those present were, Messrs. William
Rathbone, George Holt, 3. flaylock, the Rev. Professor
Griffiths, Samuels, Murphy, &e. The meeting was called,
not only for the discharge of the ordinary annual business
of receiving the report and:electing officers, but also to con-
sider certain proposed alterations in the rules, and a
change in the name from the " Mechanics' Institution " to
that of the "Liverpool Institute and School of Art."
The Secretary, Mr. Astrup Cariss, read the annual
report, which was a very lengthened document. It declared
that the institution was at length placed on a self-support-
Inc, basis. The income for the past year had been
£169 17s. lld. in excess of the expenditure. The useful-
ness of the Institution had been very much developed in
various departments. Several donations were acknow-
ledged. The progress in the different schools was des-
cribed, and the arrangements made by the directors for
opening an advanced college for young ladies in Blackburn
House. The report announced that the directors were of
opinion that the time had come for the change of name
already referred to. The report'coneluded by expressing
regret for the loss of the late president, Mr. W. Black-
burn.
Mr. George Holt moved the adoption of the report, and
congratulated the meeting upon the foundation of self-
support on which they now rested, and which had not
been attained without much anxiety and exertion. He
commended in particular the exertions of the finance
committee of the institution. At the time the institution
was founded, popular education was not in general
favour, and the support then depended very much upon
donations, subscriptions, and general exhibitions. As the
e tecation of the public became more generally favoured,
other institutions of the same kind, in connection with
separate religious creeds, sprang up, and withdrew con-
siderable support from that institution. They were,
therefore, now almost altogether without patronage, on
which the Institution at one time partly rested. Five
pounds would probably now cover the whole of the
patronage subscriptions they received. The subscribers
now gave their money for value received. As, therefore,
they were now wholly a self-dependent association, and
had very much changed their original character, the time
had'come when they should change their title. The name of
Mechancs' Institution, did not now accurately describe
what they were, and prevented many people from send-
ing their children to the schools. The evening school
department was the only part which now retained any
resemblance to the original name. Under those circum-
stances, he advocated strongly the propriety of the pro-
posed change of name. Mr. Holt having alluded to
the diminution of the debt of the institution, pointed out
the unsectarian and universal character of the institution,
which was ready to receive scholars of every religion, and
of the most distant countries. He dwelt upon the progress
which they had made in the department of female educa-
tion, and the department of art, and concluded his obser-
v tions with an eloquent and warm tribute to the charac-
ter and memory of Mr. Blackburn, the late president of
the institution.
Mr. Samuels seconded the resolution, and in supporting
the proposed change of name, shewed that numerous in-
stances of positive loss had occurred to the institution by
preserving the former name, which shut out many from
the schools who would have otherwise availed of them.
He observed that it, was almost with a blush young ladies
sometimes stated that they were educated at those schools
that any one should blush at stating their real
social condition, but that the title of that institution did
not truly represent the social condition of the pupils, and
there were certain feelings in which people were brought
up which could not at once be broken down, and while
they existed, the name of the institution woul 1 be found a
disadvantage to it. The object of the committee in propos-
ing a change ofname was not to propose a name which should
either attract, or untruthfully designate, but one which
should not repel. The committee thought that as the insti-
tution had been the pioneer of others of the same class in
the district, they might claim the title of The Liverpool
Institute, and that the instruction in art which they
afforded in these classes entitled them to add the name
of School of Art.
Mr. Kennedy thought people must be very fastidious
who objected to the name of Mechanic's Institute. He
did not think the mechanics were so much honoured by
having their name adopted by the institution, as the
institution was by bearing their name. He had not the
least doubt that if the mechanics had been called upon to
take a part. in the management of the institution it would
have made greater progress, and have been a greater
honour to the 'United Kingdom. He thought the
mechanics had been a class greatly neglected. Great wrong
had been done to them, by that institution being monopo-
lised among, what be might call, the aristocracy of the town.
He thought it would be much better to continue the name

Cheques to the amount of £209 were voted for the
relief of the outdoor poor within the several districts of

the union.
The master of the hospital reported that last week
there were 110 patients in that establishment, since when
15 had been admitted, 10 discharged, and 3 died. This
week there were 112, and for the corresponding week of
last year, 88.
The master of the workhouse reported that last week
there were 720 paupers in that house, since when 25 had
been admitted, 1 born. 32 discharged, and three died.
This week there were 711, and for the corresponding week
of last year, 743.

CHARGE OF CRUELTY AGAINST THE LIVERPOOL

PARISH AUTHORITIES
A report was then read byMr. Cleaver, to the effect, that
he had, in pursuance of the request made by the guardians
at the last weekly meeting, made inquiry into the cir-
cumstances of the complaint made by a poor woman
named Willis, who stated that she had been forced to
leave the Liverpool workhouse at the expiration of a fort-
night prior to the time of her condneffient, that not a
single article of clothing was provided for her infant, and
that she took it away during extremely cold weather,
with no covering, save one of her under garments—in con-
sequence of which the mother had taken severe cold and
sickness, from which she was then suffering. Mr. Cleaver
stated that he had accompanied the woman to the Liver-
pool workhouse, and having had an interview with Mr.
Carr, had ascertained that the woman's statement was
substantially correct.. The only difference between that
and the representation of Mr. Carr, was that the latter
stated that there was no rule in that workhouse, that all
women should leave that institution at the end of the fort-
night, but that there was not the slightest doubt that the
woman had been induced to leave the house against her
wish, by a statement to that effect by one of the nurses ;
and it was found that two or three other women, with
infant children, received the same intimation, and at the
same time applied for clothing for their infants, wish the
same result. Mr. Carr admitted that no clothing was
ever provided for children born in the house, but in case
any clothing was in hand which had belonged to children
who had died in the house, it was given to children leaving.
He further stated that the woman who had made this
complaint, might have had clothing for her child had she
chose to remain until soma child then in the house had
died

.nd no

Several guardians expressed their surprise at such
conduct and the woman was further interrogated by Mr.
Whiity, a member of the select vestry, from which it
appeared that the woman could have remained in the
house a longer time if she had pleased, as the nurses had
no authority to discharge the paupers ; and that during
the whole period he had been a member of the board,
fourteen or fif' een years, he had never before heard of
such treatment in that workhouse.
Through the exertions of Mr. Gough, the woman had
since obtained a situation, and therefore was no longer
chargeable. The subject then dropped.
The woman, who was very respectable in her appear-
ance, returned the guardians her sincere thanks for the
kindness they had shown her in the case.
After disposing of some routine matters, the board
adjourned.

LIGHT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

FINES ON SHOPKEEPERS AND OTHERS.—His Worship
the Mayor sat yesterday, to hear complaints preferred by
Messrs. Johnston and Kissick, the inspectors of weights and
measures. The following persons were charged, and fined
as follows:—Patrick Reardon, Edgar street, salt dealer,
light weights, fined 2s 6d and costs; Lawrence Montgomery,
marine store dealer, Great Charlotte street, ditto, fined 103
and costs; 'William C. Johnston, grocer, &c., Curry street,
false scales, 53 and costs ; Edward Sharples, grocer, &c.,
Scotland road, same offence, 2s 6.1 and costs ; Hugh Saun-
ders, grocer, Great Howard street, light weights, 5s and
costs; Joseph Daly, Regent street, light weights, 5s and
costs; James French, provision dealer, Regent street, lit
weights, 2s 6d and costs ; Joseph Jones, grocer, Springfigheld
street, false scales and lighq'weights, 58 ; Robert Johnston,
tobacconist, Regent street, false scale, 5s ; James M'Coniel,
grocer, Chadwick street, light weights, 2s 6d; James Agnew,
provision dealer, Saltney street, light weight, 2s 6d; James
Ritchie, greengrocer, Scotland road, light weight, 2s 6d;
J. Reynolds, provision dealer, Scotland road, false scale,' 5s ;
J. Evans, g-oeer, Islington, false scale and -light weights, 5s ;
Jacob Battersby, provision dealer, London road, ight
weights, ss; Edward Davies, William Henry street, grocer,
false weights, 5s ; George Lewis, grocer, Hedley street,
false scale, 5s ; William Ashhury, provision dealer, Vaux-
hall road, false scale and light weight, 2s 6d ; David
Murdock, Paddington, false scale and light weight. 2s 6d ;
Thomas Peel, grocer, Mill street, same offence, 2s 6d ; John
Fell, butcher, Warwick street, same offence, 5s ; James
Dolby, provision dealer same offence, sa; James Barton,
poulterer, Berry street, light weight, 5s ; Robert Griffith,
coal dealer, Park street, light weight and false scale, 2s 61 ;
John Blackburn, salt manufacturer, Nova Scotia street, light
weights, 2s 6d; Hugh Bradley, provision dealer, New Bird
street, light weights, 54 ; Mary Campbell, fish dealer, John's
Market, light weights, 1s; Thomas Ogden, leather dealer,
Park lane, false weights and scale, I Os; J. Whitam, iron dealer,
Vauxhall road, light weights, 2s 6d; John Reardon, Canning
place, nut dealer, false measure, 2s 64 ; Josiah Jones,
SA.ton street, shipsmith, light weight, 53 ; Thomas
M‘Nellee, Gifford street, coal dealer, false scales and
weights, ss. In each of the above cases, costs, varying from
is to 4s 6d, were awarded, as well as the fines, and all the
parties paid both. The following persons were fined, hut
did not pay : —William M'Cadden, salt dealer, St. Martin's
market, light weights, 203 ; Lawrence Lacey, grocer,
Titchfield street, false scale and light weights, 203; Charles
William Nichol, grocer, Curry street, same offence, 20s;
Charlotte Milling, grocer, Currie street, light weights, 2s
6d ; Robert Beadle, Scotland road, grocer, false scale and
light weight, 20s; Patrick Kelly, potato dealer, Clayton
street, false scale and light weight, 5s ; William Hether-
ington, provision dealer, Byrom street, light weights, 20s ;
Richard Newall, coal dealer, Marlborough street, light
weights, 5s ; Ellen Holbrook, Titchfield street, fish dealer,
light weight, 2s 6d ; Michael MiCumisky, provision dealer,
Great Howard street, same offence, 5s ; James Tunstall,
provision dealer, London road, same offence, 20s ;
John E. Smith, corn merchant, South John street,
light weight, lOs ; John Crosby Riddick, tobacconist,
Brownlow hill, false scale and weight, 2s 61; Michael Cox,
salt dealer, St. James street, like offence, 103 ; Denis
Carren, coal dealer, Blundell street, sani e offence, ss; Patrick
Goodwin, salt weigher, like offence, 20s; Richard Flynn,
grocer, St. James street, like offence. 5s ; Joseph Horn,
St. John's market, fish dealer, light weight, 2a 6d ; Mary
Robinson, same market, like trade and offence, 2s 6d ; John
Burke, same offence, 23 6d John Hughes, coal
dealer, Chapel lane, false scale and weight, 2s. 6d;
Denial M'Cabe, Gieetham street, fish dealer, light weight,
2s 6d ; Mary Carroll, coal dealer, Perry street, false scale
and weight, Sc. Costs from 2s 6d to 4s 6d were added to
the above fines.

as it was.
Mr. White asked how the charge of name would affect
the Corporation grant of land to the institution ?
Mr. Holt said the Town Clerk had been waited upon in
reference to that question, and they had a perfect assurance
from him that they were at liberty to change the name to
any natal they pleased with perfect legality. The universal
conviction of the board had always been that a change of
name was desirable. He would much rather that the world
regarded the name of mechanic with as high honour, as he did
himself, but he knew that it did not do so, and he took the
world as it went. Every step which the board had taken
had been deliberated on for more than seven years back.
Mr. White said that when the institution",aas founded, the
mechanics of Liverpool did not fully appreciate and avail of
it, as too many of them were a drunken and outcast class;
but he believed they had now sufficiently improved to be
able to appreciate it, and th2t they would take advantage of
it for the future. He had a ,on educated in that institu-
tion, who was now in one of the western states of America,
and who was quite looked up to there because he had
received his education in the Mechanics' Institute of Liver-
pool. He did not see why they should change that name.
(Hear, hear.)
The Chairman declared that he never would have sup-
ported the proposed change, if it were at all attempted by it
to aim at any thing like what had been called monopolising,
or at all restricting, the advantages which it held out to the
mechanics of Liverpool. He denied that the change of name
would at all impair the use of the institution to the working
classes, and contended that the only object was to effect
what the committee were compelled to believe would be an
advantage to the institution.
Mr. Danson expressed an opinion that if the advantages
of the institution to the working classes remained the same,
there should be no objection to the mere change of name.
Mr. Rathbone objected to all designation of classes, either
of mechanics or merchants, or anything else than men. He
wanted to see the mechanics coming, not merely as
mechanics, but as brothers and as men. He hoped, there-
fore, they would get rid of all class designations. He had,
at one time, a very great liking for the name of mechanics'
institution, and if the change of name were intended to
degrade that class, for whom such large sums had been sub-
scribed, he should have been the las , man to put such a
mark upon them ; but, on the contrary, he thought they
were advancing the mechanics, by placing them under a
general designation. (Hear, hear.)
A aentleman present suggested, that as there was a
difference of opinion, the decision should be postponed for
the present, until the members at large had had more time
to consider.
Mr. Surge proposed, as an amendment, that that portion
of the rep-irt which recommended the change of name be
referred back to the committee.
Mr. White seconded the amendment.
The question was put, when there appeared six for the
amendment, and about fifteen for the original motion. The
original motion was accordingly declared carried, thus con-
firming the change of name.
Mr. Haylock proposed a vote of thanks to the donors of
the institution, which was seconded by Mr. Murphy, and
carried unanimously.
Mr. Rathbone proposed a vote of thanks to the teachers.
which was seconded by Mr. Santley, and carried unani-

CAPITAL CoNvicnoxs.—At the Sligo Assizes on Friday,
a man named John Speed was convicted of the murder of
his wife, and sentenced to be executed on the 14th of April,
The prisoner is a very young man, and it is unlerstood that
he was influenced by jealousy in committing the crime.
George Jones, convicted of the wilful murder of Mr. Hope,
the surgeon of the convict hulk at Portsmouth, will be exe-
cuted at Winchester on the 22d inst.

IRISB REPRESENTATIVES.—Letters from Dublin men-
tions
that all sorts'of election rumours are just now rife,
recent unfortunate events having rendered several vacan-
cies in the Irish representation probable. It is stated
that the present members for the county of Tipperary are
expected to vacate their seats in a few days; and a con- '
servative paper tells us that Major H. W. Massy, chair-
man of the Waterford and Limerick Railway Company,
will probabiy be a candidate for one of the seats.
Vacancies are also spoken of in 'the county of Cork, and
the city of Waterford; for the former of which Mr. Alex.
M'Carthy will no doubt try his fortune with better
chances of success than on the last occasion; while the
name of Captain Wyse, son of the British minister at
Athens, continues to be mentioned in reference to the
latter. The day has not yet been announced here for the
New Ross election, but an active canvass is proceeding in
that borough, and the four candidates are still before the
electors. Mr. Wynn's majority over Mr. Somers at the
final close of the poll in Sligo was 33.
WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.—The following are the
main items of the expenditure in the financial year 1854-
55 on public works and buildings, as shown by a return
presented to parliament, and printed on Saturday—viz.,
for royal palaces an,' public buildings, 171,6421., (includ-
ing 21,027/. for palaces personally occupied by her
Majesty, or partly so, and 21,2681. for the south wing of
Buckingham Palace ;) for royal parks and pleasure
grounds, 62,8181.; for the new Houses of Parliament,
125,5681.; for Holyhead harbour, the Menai bridge, the
Conway bridge, and the Shrewsbury and Holyhead road,
6,8401.; for the salaries and expenses of the Office of
3't, ‘71,76k351., ; 20f ,06r601. ;
Batterseaand for Chelsea
bridge, 10,981/. ; for the Chelsea embankment and public
forthepAßrkr,it3isp,6sBllu; Museum buildings,
roadway, 28,425/ ; for the British Embassy in Paris,
2,304/. ; for the purchase of Burlington-house, in Picca-
dilly, 104,9781. ; for the Embassy at Constantinople,
2,4831. ; for the Consulate at the same place, 4,5061. ; for
the British Protestant Cernetary in Madrid, 1501. ; for
the statute of Charles 1, at Charing-cross, to defray the
costs of plaster ca is and decayed portions thereof, 40/. ;
for the Duchy of Cornwall new office, 7,7601. ; for the
Geological Survey, &c., and Geological Museums,
3,906/. ; for the Ordnance-office, Pall-mall, (additions),
7131. ; for the bas-relief of the battle of St. Vincent,
affixed to the Nelson monument, 412/. ; and for the
ventilation of the new houses of Parliament (" award to
Dr. Reid ") the sum of 1/, Is. 10d. The net balance of
votes unexpended on the 31st of March amounted to
313,7681. .

mously.
Mr. M'llveen proposed a vote of thanks to the retiring
directors, which was seconded by Mr. Williams, and

carried.
Rev. Professor Griffiths proposed, and Mr. White seconded,
the names of the board of directors for the coming year, of
which Mr. Thorneley, M.P., was named as the president.
The resolution was carried without opposition.
Mr. Samuels proposed the adoption of the amended copy
of the rules. The alterations were principally of arrange-
ment, the only change of any consequence being as to the
retirement of directors. A copy of the former, and of the
amended rules, was placed in the hands of each member, and
taken as read.
Mr. White seconded the resolution, which was carried
unanimously.
The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the
chairman. — -

The Banner of Ulster states that extensive preparations
are going forward in the northern province for the cultiva-
lion of potatoes, and, now that so much practical expe-
rience has been gained in this branch of agriculture, it is
anticipated that the next crop will be equal to that of the
past year.
DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIP.--R. Edwards and B.
Edwards, Stainland, Yorkshire, stonemas ons.. W. Beau-
mont and G. Wallis, Hade Edge, Yorkshire, stone mer-
chants. G. Paull, H. Jordan, an&W. M'Cappin, Liverpool,
shipwrights. T. Brocklehurst and J. J. Gittens, Kingston
upon-Hull, general merchants. R. Coop and C. Whittaker,
Lowmoor Iron Works, Lancashire, machine makers.
J. R. Booth and J. H. Booth, Runcorn, Cheshire, grocers,
J. Tasker and H. Price, Liverpool, tea dealers. J. H.
Dal' and R. H. Blackburn, Preston, Lancashire, cotton
spinners. J. Wortly, jun., and H. B. Mason, Sheffield,
haft and scale cutters. Elizabeth Buchanan and J. Loth,
Preston, Lancashire, ladies' seminary keepers. W. Lord
M anche Manchester and G. L. Ashworth, Bury. Lancashire, woollen manufac-
turers. E. Sandford, W. Y. Sandford, and J. Heptiestall,
Conisborough, Yorkshire, engineers, so far as regards J.
u eptinstall. R. Role and H. Ito ,le, Manchester, brewers.
Wr
s Ft
o. n Chadwick,,
Chadwick. W. Wilke and A. Perkins, Leeds, terracotta
workers. Bsiinl kcilb° brokers. sers. ,31-1 s fParreas as °rPegaanr regards J
W. . WF:
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POLICE COURT

-YESTERDAY

(BEFORE MR. ALDERMAN HOLMB.
MORE STABBING.—A man named John O'Reilly, who, in
the course of the hearing of the following case, exhibited a
great deal of intelligence, was charged with having stabbed,
in a serious manner, a female named Sarah Jane Palmer.
The woman, too, was intelligent. Both persons appeared to
be in very tuimble circumstances, and were very dirty in their
persons ; in addition to dirt, the woman's face was
spattered with blood ; her eyes and face were patched up with
sticking plaster, and her left arm was bandaged up. The
prisoner resides in a house, No. 5 Court, Harley-street, and
the facts of the case were these. Some time after seven
o'clock on Tuesday evening, a boy about thirteen years of age,
the son of the complainant, told a police officer that the
prisoner bad killed his mother. The officer went into the
court, and found the woman lying there quite speechless.
He procured assistance, and had her sent to the Northern
Dispensary. He then went to arrest the prisoner, but he
had to break in the door before he could get to him, and then,
after a struggle, he succeeded in taking him into cnstody.
The story told by the woman was this. She had been for
some time past in the Northern Hospital, and whilst there the
wife of the prisoner was kind to her (complainant's) son,
and took him to lodge at the house. When she
(complainant) left the hospital, she went to the
prisoner's house, resolved to pay for the maintenance
of the boy, and she stepped there up to Tuesday night.
The prisoner had some disagreement with his wife. and took
up a new dress which she had purchased, and commenced
cutting it up with a penknife. The complainant thinking she
bad influence over him, interfered, to prevent him cutting nn

id stabbed her in

from the Northern Di.-

ned and dressed the wounds,

was an incised wound, and bad entered the cartilage of the
nose, and passed into the eavit.y of the nostril. Tho com-
plainant's son, the boy alluded to, prov,d the fact of the
prisoner having struck her with the knife. The prisoner cross•
examined the woman and the boy, with great ability and
ingenuity, and exhibited superior education and talent. The
object of his cross-examination was to show that the woman
hail acted with impropriety in the house, had made his wife
drunk, and that the affiir was purely accidental. The Alder-
man, after listening patiently for some time to the prisoner,
said he could not allow him to proceed further, as his lino of
examination did not bear on the case, and, besides, he did not
intend to deal with the case there. His worship said the
prisoner would have an opportunity of using his eloquence and
ability at the sessions, before a jury, and accordingly com-
mitted him for trial.

STEALING BEEP.—Three boys, named John Upton,
Thomas Kavanagh, and John Carlton, were charged with
stealing a piece of beef from a stall, and they were also charged
with stealing the seal belonging to the post-office from an out-
receiving office. The lads ran into the office, snapped up the
seal, and ran away with it. They took the beef in a similarly
hold and daring manner. They were reminded ; they are
under fourteen years o' age.

VIOLENT ASSAULT BY A FEMALE.—EIIen Timming4, a
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resident of Darwen-street, was charged with having committed
a desperate assault on another woman, named Catherine
Williams, residing in the same street. A police-officer said he
heard a great noise in Athol-street, and on going to ascertain
the cause, he found the prisoner running away. He stopped
her, and was informed that she had killed a woman in Darwen
street. He went there, and found a woman lying in a cellar,
insensible and bleeding. A medical gentleman stated that he

attended the injured woman, and found her suffering from a
contused wound on the forehead, and compression of the brain.
She was in a dangerous state at the timo, and he could not at
present tell the result. The prisoner was remanded for a
week.

A VICIOus LITTLE GIRL. —A little girl, named Hannah
Powell, was charged with stealing a pair of small gold ear-
rings from a child named Alice Owens. The prisoner enticed
the child away, took the rings from her ears, and went to a
Mr. Haughton's, in Scotland •road, and said her sister was
hungry, and he consented to keep the rings, •advancing her
fourpence to buy bread, until she could come and release
them. She was remanded.
SMOKE NUliANCE.—Messrs. Wright and Crosshy, proprie-
tors of the Rainford-gardens Rice Mills, were summoned
under the smoke nuisance act, and fined 103. Mr. M'Gr, Tor,
Vauxhall-road Foundry, was fined 10s. under the same
act.

(BEF3RE M. T. RATHBONIL)
TAKING TlME.—Bridget Malony was charged with having
stolen a watch from Thomas Boothby, a ship's steward. The
parties were in a house, and the prisoner, apparently in a joke,
took off his watch and put it on her neck. She then went
away, and in some time he found it wis no joke, anti so he
followed and had her arrested. She was remanded ; the watch
was found.

AN ADMIRER OF PHOTOGRAPHS. —A female, named Ellen
Turner, was charged under the following circumstances. It
appeared from the evidence of James Cuthbert, who has charge
of a photograph portrait establishment in Lord-street, that a
case of specimen portraits had been left, as usual, safe a few
nights ago, but in the morning all were found gone out of the
case. The prisoner was discovered offering two of the portraits
for sale at a brokers. She said she found them in the street,
but this not being satisfactory, she was sent to j ►il for one
month.

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PoCKET PlCKlNG.—Margaret Jones and Ellen Conts, alias
Brown, were charged with picking the pocket of a Mrs.
Pritchard, who resides in Bedford-street. The lady was in a
shop, No. 114, Mill-street, purchasing some small articles,
when the prisoners entered and succeeded in picking her
pocket, but they were detected and secured on the spot. They
were sent for trial.

(BEF )RIC MESSRS. BENN AND RATIIBINE.)
IMPORTANT Eictsr. CASE.—James Weber, the
a Eagle Hotel, Lime-street, w.ls summoned at tho insta

owner of

of the excise, under the tollowhig circumstances. Mr. Broo
appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Bluck for the detendan
who did not appear personally. Mr. Cully, an excise officer,
proved that five apartments in the defendant's house had been
entered for the sale of beer and tobacco, and nothing else. Mr.
D. B. Hill, an officer of excise, stated that on the night of the
24th of January, about nine o'clock, he went to defendant's
house; he called for and was supplied with beer, and paid for
it ; he also obtained a glass of whiskey from the barman, and
paid for it; he got sherry from the defendant himself, and paid
6d. for it. All the liquors were served lin at once, and there
was no time to have sent out for any. Ho saw eight persons
drinking in the house, and wino and spirits were supplied to
them. He told Mr. Weber who he was, and that he must '
search the house. He did search, and in the cellar found
champagne, port, sherry, whiskey, brandy, and gin, all of
which he seized. The defendant was present, and he asked
the witness not to say anything of the affair, and he would
make him an handsome present, and be gave him an 1.0. U.
for £2O, but afterwards he wanted it back, saying he would
make it more. The witness, however, refused to give it back.
In reply to Mr. Bluck, the witness said : I do not
know if the defendant be a foreigner or not ; he looks
like an Englishman. Mr. Geo. Barker, supervisor of excise,
stated that after the transaction took place, be went to the
house of the defendant, who said to the witness, it was a bad
job and would rain him. Mr. Block said he did not know
the defendant, but a brother attorney had sent a brief and
instructions to him in the case, with a request that he would
attend to it. The defendant, he understood, was a foreigner,
and was under a great error when he did what was described
by the officer, whose evidence he could not for a moment
dispute. Had he (Mr. Block) been instructed in the case
before, he would have advised the defendant to plead guilty
some days ago, and memorialise the board in London for a
mitigation of penalty, as he acted in ignorance of the law.
Tho fact was, the defendant had been sold up since, and if
the case against him was now pressed by the Excise, it would
come to this: the Crown would get nothing, whilst the
unfortunate man would bo obliged to suffer imprisonment.
He thought the better plan would be to let a warrant issue,
but let it hang over the defendant's head until a
communication could be made with the Board in
London. Mr. Brook said it had ,been remarked
in the defence, that the defendant had been sold np. Now,
the fact was he had sold up himself, and put the money in his
pocket. Mr. Block said that was not exactly the fact. The
landlord had comp in for £9O rent, and other creditors for
£220, and all that was left to the defendant was £2O. He
(Ur. Bluck) was, however, directed to say that, if the Crown
consented to a mitigated penalty of £25, it would be paid. After
some conversation between the learned gentlemen at both
sides, it was agreed to take a penalty of £l2 lOs in each case,
making, in the whole, £37 103, and Mr. Bluck said the
amount would be paid.

For some days past there has been a rumour prevalent at
the naval and military clubs that Sir Edmund Lyons is to be
raised to the peerage.
THE MURDER OF Miss HINDS.-4t is stated that a special
commission for the trial of the persons charged with the
murder of Miss Hinds will be issued in the early part of!he
month of April—the second week, perhaps. The presiding
Fleas
(Monahan) will be the Lord Chief Justice of the Common
(Monahan) and Mr. Justice Moore.
A LOVER KILLED BY A AIISBAND.—The occupiers of
which forms the angle of the Place des Trois
11fleari.lieosus aend the Rue des Pretres, Saint German-l'Auxer-
rois were alarmed at about two o'clock on Saturday by
hearing the noise of a scuffle and cries for help on the
third story ; and on going to ascertain the cause, they saw
a woman rush from the apartment to an upper story in
the greatest terror, and a man standing with a large
knife, stained with blood, over another man, who was
lying on the landing. When the people approached the
man who held the knife, he cried out, " I have killed a
man and as he said so he planted his foot on the other's
breast; the latter, who was recognised as a journeyman
tailor, living the neighbourhood, had his hands cut and
hacked, and had afterwards received a stab in the throat,
which had completely cut the carotid artery, caus'ng
instant death. Whilst the persons present were examin-
ing the dead man, his murderer walked deliberately to
the commissioner of police of the quarter of the Louvre,
and gave himself into custody for the crime. He then
explained that his reason for committing it was that he
had found the man in the arms of his wife, and that at the
sight of his dishonour. he had been unable to command his
passion. He added that it was lucky for his wife that she
had taken to flight, as it was probable that he would
have served her as he had done her paramour. The
homicide was sent to the Prefecture of Police. The crime
created great sensation in the neighbourhood, and a large
crowd remained to a late hour in the evening in front of
- the house in which it had been committed.—GaZignatei.