The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-01 00:00:00

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PRINCESS

Thursday —.Feb

ast be alongside the vessel one

N.H.—(roods for shipment
hour before appointed time of sa
Fares:—Cabin, including Steward's Fee, 155.; Steerage, 6s.
Servants "a Cabiu, Full Fare.
ROBERT LANION r, .17, Water street, Liverpool.

Coacii3&.;t.

RIIYL, DENBIGH, HOT YWELL, AND ALL
PARTS OF NORTH. WALES.
~,,,, The quickest and cheapest route is by
1111,...,
' ' W ~'THE SATELLITE. TO MOSTYN.
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SAILING FROM LIVERPOOL.
Saturday Feb 2, 6 0 a.m.
Tuesday Feb 5,83 g a.m.
1J-ply to Mr. John Waticins, 8, Stran,i-Ftreet; or to
DANIEL JAMES, 22, Union-streets

" TUTI QUI PRO VIDI."

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It is now some fifteen years since, we first had the
pleasure of calling public attention to the institution
whose motto stands at the head of this article—the
" Provident Clerks' Association." Since that time the
subject of our notice has gradually enlarged its opera-
tions, until it may now fairly claim to be ranked among
the most important and useful. societies in the country.
Its managers may justly pride themselves upon the fact,
that in the Life Assurance Department more than 5;000
Policies, assuring somewhere about a MILLI9N sterling,
have been issued, while the publicity given to every item,
both of receipt and expenditure, shows how full and bol
well justified is their confidence in the financialposition
of the association. The accounts, unlike those of many
offices, are open to the world, and as long as this is the
case there is. but little fear either of malversation or of
extravagance. an, attempt was indeed made at the
last ,meeting to _throw ,sespiclon upon' 'the' position
and conduct of the' office, but it waS• promptly, ahly, and
successfully refuted. Indeed, in the face of such figures,
a refutation is almost superfluous. It .is not as an
insurance office alone, however, that we Would. speak of
the Provident Clerks' Association. It's Benevolent Fund,
the only institution of the kind belonging exclusively to
the clerks, has been the means of relieving a large
amount of suffering and privation, and this, too, among
a class who are on many grounds peculiarly entitled to
sympathy. By the vicissitudes of.eommercial life num-
bers of clerks, are ruined or,seriously embarrased from
circumstances over which. they, can. have no control. Few
are so highly paid that they can, by mereszeOing, accu-
mulate a sufficient provision and yet maintain a
" respectable appearance," while, at the same time, from
education, habits, and social position, they constitute a
class on whom the pressure of actual poverty tells With
doubly painTuj effect. If this_he true of the clerk, even
while health and ability are spared, whewthe opportu-
nity of employment is denied him, how much more true
is it of those helpless beings who are too often left to
mourn the loss of him whose labour was their sole
dependance, and who by one stroke are not only plunged
into domestic affliction, but are reduced from cortapara-
• tive affluence to actual want. A few weeks since it was
our duty to record a painful case of this nature, and we
_have reason, to know that, on the matter being brought
before the directors of the Provident Clerks' AssOciailon,
the widow 'was promptly and liberally relieved. That
this is not-a single caslethe annual branlaf m them
ordoe-sheetsofoth:t,
association clearly show,
between, eight and nine hundred poundS are paid
annuities to distressed members and svidows--thiit-inoie
than £l,lOO have been given away to Imeet cases of
urgent necessity, and that £22,000 have been lent in
small sums for the relief of temporary difilcultiets. We
cannot doubt that these facts, widely known, as they
deserve to be, will gain for the association the cordial
support, not only of the clerks, of whom some 4:000' have
already joined its ranks, but of that wealthy and
important class to whom the weflarc of the clerks is, or
ought to be, an object of real and heart-felt interest.--
Sun,

It may be noticed- (s •ys the ,Reeistrar- General) th at in
the last two weeks the deaths of 28 shoemakers and only
3 tailors were registered. The cause of so great a
difference is not obvious, for the nitnibers who were living
in the two trades in 1851 were-not very . unequal..; The
shoemakers were 26,639; the tailors, •
A. SIGN or PEACE —Marshal Pelissier, the French
commander in the Crimea, is said to": have written the
• Foliovving. letter to a friend in Paris:- ''Look,out for, me
arnmediately a convenient apartment in the quarter of the
tigtl:lgiteanrdeapai;tfiotr imnteo.osnumchyaarsit•iivtielo! rel‘p_aeiratrheat
allit
g,thoaintglori very well, and for MySeiri am. doing so! ;well
pray you will not take any apartment too high, as
I am grown ver
yfat, and cannot ascend erealiers that are • very

COUNTY COURT.-YESTERDAY

(BEFORE JOSEPH POLLOCK, ESQ., JUDGE.)

FIELDING v. HOLMES.—In this case a young man,
named Fielding, claimed £2 from Mr. Bryan Holmes,
12, St. James's-street, publican, for five weeks' wages,
one week of which he was employed, and the remainder
in lieu of a month's notice. It appeared from the state-
ment of the plaintiff that he engaged with defendant as
a barman, with the agreement that he was to have a
month's notice in the event of dismissal. On 'Wednesday
night, the 22nd of November, the plaintiff went to bed
at the usual time, but about two or three in the morning
he was awoke .by the defendant, who, he stated, had
been on a ° spree" for some days, coming into his bed-
room, and saying " you rascal, why don't you get up."
The plaintiff asked what time it was, but, without
giving him an answer, defendant went into the servant's
room, where, he'maile some noise, and then eaine in and
nut of both bedrooms several times. About four ocloek
the plaintiff ant up, and asked defendant for the key of
the bar. Defendant said he had not got it. Plaintiff
went down stairs and found that defendant bad broken
up the bar door with a poker which was lying near.
His coat was lying near also, aryl on moving it, the key
fell out of h;s pocket. The plaintiff got through the
broken panel into the bar. Defendant came down and
abased him in rather strong language. About ten
o'crock defendant told him to leave the place and go
about his business, 'saying in addition—" shake hand
before you'go; you Came from the same .r

wife, go shake han
ter.) The plaintil

asked defen

to which defend

(Laughter.) Hi
Defendant: I w

ye a verdict fa- the amount claimed, and
cautioned the defendant to keep more sober for the
fiiture, as his want of. sobriety 11.3 d cost him a con-

tai her

Kiss her.

as my

(I,a,ligit

The judge

replied, " not that I am aware of

.9 far as I know

you sober that d

(Laughter

Honour

siderable amount i

above case offered to give the reporters a "
they would promise to suppress it

present," if

it renders it of cours

The publication of
leedless to add, that the offer was

rejected as it deserved.]
CHARGE AGAINST SOME OF THE BAILIFFS OF THE COURT.
—A charge was made yesterday against two of the
bailiffs connected with the court. The facts will appear
from the following statement made by his Honour to
Mr. &one, the high bailiff, who was sent for by the
judge. His Honour said, that on the Ist of May, 185.5, a
person named Martin M'Mahon, brought an action
against a person named Bromilaw, in that court for
17s. 6d. He got a verdict for that amount with 2s. 11d.
costs, making £1 Os. 6d. It appeared that three weeks
after Mr. M•Mahon was paid by the son of Bromilaw
2s. 6d. Mrs. Bromilaw, on the 30th of May, paid him
155., so that he had been paid the whole of the 17s. 6d.,
and there was left due 2s. Ild. for costs, and nothing
more. Nothing was heard of the matter-until the week
before Christmas, when he asked Mrs. Bromilaw for
that amount, which she was not able to pay him. On
the Ist of January he ordered an execution to issue for
the .whole original amount. The execution was issued
on the 2nd of January, and on the 7th
of January a man named Lloyd, one of the
bailiffs of that court, with a person, named David, a
carter, and a third party, whose name 'Mrs. Bromilaw
did not know, but whom she would know if she saw him,
came about twelve o'clock to her, and required £1 4s Id
of her. The cost of issuing the execution would be 2s 4d,
the original sum, supposing nothing had been paid, would
be £1 Os sd, so that execution might have issued pro-
perly for II 28,9 d ; a fee of 4d in addition was also
allowed, and then they charged Is 'for possession which
would make £1 4s Id. The high,bailiff would enquire
whether they had any right to charge possession money,
as at the time they had not taken possession. Mrs.
Bromilaw had not got the money, and she sent to a
neighbour to borrow it. She got it from the neighbour
and offered it to the bailiffs, who refused it unless they
were paid £1 Ss ld, being 4s additional for waiting an
hour or more in possession. She was obliged to send
out and borrow the additional 4s. and paid it over to the
bailiffs. They had told ker previous to this that unless
they got the additional 4s they would keep the worth If,
it from her goods on the cart. She gave them the 4s,
and asked for a receipt, saying that this trouble had
come on her because she had not got a receipt from Mr.
Mahon when she paid him the 15s and 2s 6d,
upon which the bailiffs told her they would give her the
trouble of coming down to the County. Court office next
day for a receipt. She came down the same evening and
got a receipt from Mr. Jackson for £1 4s Id, not 18s Id.
She had now brought an action against M'Mahon
for the amount. There could be no doubt that he had
authorised the execution to issue for the full amount. His
Honour then said the matter should not stop,there. He
would direct summonses to issue to the bailiff-, and the
carter, and to Mrs. Bromilaw. He had power given to
him by the act of parliarrwnt, under which he sat, to
enq4:ire into any case where officers of the court were
charg• d with extortion or misconduct ; and a.cceriling to

_ ....,.., “:.,Jountedly. She should never have
n asked for the additional 4s at all; he very much
doubted whether she ought to have been asked for any-
thing beyond .L 133 Id. Acc,,,rding to her evidence, there
did not seem•nny doubt that 4s at least. if .not .more, had
been extorted from, her.in a very improper manner, and
he would take care that an enquiry should b made in
the regular way. Meantime he should direct that Lloyd
and the other baili be suspended from all part whatever
in the discharge of the duties connected with that court.
Ho also directed that Mr. Jackson be in attendance at
the enquiry, but he should not direct him to 1,;-:.‘ suspended,
as he hnd hot suffirl,—A

were Bail

evid,nce

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matter should be enquired oas early as possible, and•
if he found that it was as had been represented to biro,
he should direct that every officer concerned in the
transaction, be immediately discharged. ,All the expenses
connected with it must necessarily fall upon the hizh
bailiff, who was the gentleman responsible to him. He
would take care that no such proceedings as that occurred
under the sanction of the court. At present he had only
'heard one side of the case, but it appeared so well sup-
ported that it was difficult tb im ntine it would not 'be
found that some misconduct had taken place. His Honour
then directed that the enquiry should take place at ten
o'clock on Saturday (to-morrow) morning. [ln reference
to another case, his Honour stated, during the course of
the day, that he had arranged with Major Greig that in
any case where a breach of the peace was feared, arising
out of executions issuing from that court, a timely notice
being given, the assistance of the police, by the permis-
sion of Major Greig, could be obtained to any extent
requisite.]

POLICE COURT-YESTERDAY,

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(BE FORE MR. ALDERMAN HOLME.)

EXTRAORDESTAET CASE OF " TIME" STEALING.—A
large rough-looking fellow, named William Leather, was
charged by Mrs. Anna l'azakarly, who keeps a public
house in Bevington-hill, under the following circumstances.
It appeared that the prisoner went- into the complainant's
house to have some dinner, and for upwards of an hour he
sat alone in the parlour., It would seem that the prisoner
was not exclusively engaged in the • pleasing operation
of. 'gratifying hia gastronomic organs, for, whilst- in the
apartment, he contrived to take put•the works of lin eight-
day clock, value £l, which he secreted and carried away
under his smock. ' The robbery was discovered immediately,
the materials he had abstracted so dexterously were not
discovered. The prisoner wauemanded, in order to have a
search made for the property.

BIRKENHEAD POLICE COURT

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Yesterday, the magistrates, the Rey. Mr. Fielden, and
Messrs. Case, Jackson, and Bryan, assembled in petty
sessions at the Town-hall, Birkenhead, for the purpose
of disposing of the general police business of the
district.

A beer-house keeper, named George:Stephenson, living
in Cathcart-street, was fined 19s 6d (penalty and costs),
for permitting four men to be drinking ale in his house
on the morning of Sunday last.

Five seamen-, belonging to the ship Independence,
named Hugh MtNeile, John Brown, William Reid,
Thomas Ashton, and William Keitch, were charged with
stealing a quantity of wearing apparel belonging to some
of the other sailors of the same vessel. On the 17th
Jan., the, vessel left the port of Liverpool for New
Orleans. OR the night before, all hands were mustered
when it was found that four were short, consequently,
four of the hands were shipped on the day that the vessel
sailed. After the vessel sailed she stranded in Drogheda
'Bay, and all hands returned to •Liverpool, bnt prior to
that period it was ascertained that some of the other
sailors trunks had been broken open.and' their wearing
apparel had been'taken away. Information was subse-
quently giVen to the police, who found most of the pro-
perty stolen upon the prisoners, who were consequently
apprehended. Mr. Atkinson appeared to watch the case
for the•prisoners, MeNeile and Keitch, and argued that
the property was taken by mistatie during the wreck of
the vessel, and at the time they did not know but the
jackets were their own property, as they, like all other
sailors'•jackets, so much resembled each other. The
mazistrates after a very lengthy consultation further
remanded the

pr,soners

diligence of General Vivian
to attack Kertch,
"T On the 9th instant the Russians advanced over the ice
disappointed the enemy's projects.
but the

(about two miles from town) by per_
DarADFUL Monnvn..— tine night last week as a man
named Owen Fergus and his son were returnitur, from the
hmoaurskee
otiolif
nlaSrpepst4ohit, they were overtaken at the school-
sons who immediatelyattacked the father, and maltreated
nthtrehwe litniin7iriettaonttshe trench by the him until he died. It appeared that alter Fergus had
abneednakbndooeml;:nd, daoz jumped on his chest
road-
side, lying with his face down, so that suffocation in the
water aided in completing their bloody work. Two bad
characters, named Lavelle, had been arrested, and .the
police had got a clue to„others. supposed to have been
concerned in it.