The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

(FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, FRIDAY.
COMMISSION COURT. Yesterday the jury in the morning
kidnapping case were discharged without a verdict, having
been shut up 27 hours. Six men were then put on their trial
for riot, assault, and illegally carrying away crops and cattle.
The facts proved that the dispute was a family one about
land, and that a man named Ledwick who had been in pos-
session was publicly driven out, and treated as above stated.
by the prisoners with a mob of above a hundred persons
hired for the purpose. The occurrence took place at Lucan,
on the 20th of last month. The jury found the prisoners
guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. Sentence deferred,
Miss Cantwell's case comes an the first thing this morning.
ELECTION RELICS.—An investigation was to have taken
place the other day, before the Balbriggan magistrates, into
a charge preferred' by Sub-inspector Hayden against the
Hon. Mr. Preston, to the effect that he used language on the
bench calculated to bring the police into disrepute with the
people, The Peconan of to-day gives the language in question,
which was "that if the police demanded or forced admission
into a public-house without a warrant, they would be liable
to an action for trespass." It is difficult to discover how an
accusation could be made out of such an expression as this,
but the Freeman lets out the secret. It was nothing more
than a mere piece of spite, got up by a few orangcnten
against Mr. Preston, who was the proposer of one of tha
liberal candidates at the late county electiou, When the
case came on for inquiry: Mr. G. A. Hamilton, the tory
candidate for the University, who presided, wished to have
the proceedings conducted in a private room ; but th,
instructions were "an investigation in open court," Mr:
Hamilton Smythe, Q.C., who attended for Mr. Preston,
declined to have anything to do with hole-and-corner pro-
ceedings, The magistrates would do as they wished or
nothing ; and so the matter stands.
THE Exllthrrrog.—There were yesterday, over seventeen
thousand visitors, and £420 were received at the doors.
THE VICEREGAL COURT.—Their Excellencies the Lord
Lieutenant and Countess of St. Germans, accompanied by
Major Ponsonby, Captain Harvey, and Captain T. Williams,
proceeded from the King's-bridge Terminus to Monastereven,
by special train, on Tuesday evening last, on a visit to the
Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda. The Viecrepl
party will return to Dublin this day, by the Great Southern
and Western Railway.
SIGNS or THE MMES.—The Galway Packet, under this
head, says :--rlt is well worthy of notice, as illustrating a
decided improvement in the morals and character of the
people, that, at the late Quarter Sessions, there was not a
single case in the criminal business which came before the
court in which a Connemara person was connected—a cir-
cumstance which has not occurred for many years. This,
we think, speaks volumes for the good resulting from the
Reformation movement, at present being carried on in that
hitherto benighted and poverty-stricken district.
SHIPWRECK OF AN E3IIGRANT VESSEL.—The Connaught
_Ranger says :—An American ship, with a large number of
passengers from Sligo, has been forced to put into Broad-
haven or Blacksod Bay, having, we understand, her masts
broken, and -in other respects proving herself unseaworthy.
Report has it, that this rotten old ship was lying in the dock
of Sligo, a useless lumber for the last seven years. If this
be true, we congratulate the passengers on their narrow
escape from a watery grave ; but we cannot find words to
express our horror of those who sent her on such a voyage,
freighted with human beings. We understand, Mr. Miller,
the Government officer, at Westpost, has been to the
wreck.

PERILOUS Acciums-r.—The following is from 'Saunders :
On Monday evening an occurrence had nearly taken place
whereby the lives of hundreds might have been lost. As
the quarter to five train from Dublin and the half-past four
from Kingstown were closely approaching the crossing near
the mill on the Dodder, two ladies unaccompanied by a
driver, were driving in a gig to Sandymount, when the
animal took fright and ran away in a most furious manner,
making for the railway crossing, and would in all probability
have dashed in on the line were it not for the courage of a
gentleman who had observed the imminent danger all parties
were in ; he stood at the gate and succeeded in preventing
the horse from forcing an entrance. He was struck by the
vehicle with such violence as knocked him nearly insensible
on the railway, and had only half a minute to get away
when both trains passed where he was lying.. Had the gig
got on the line both trains would have closed on it, the
ladies' lives would have been sacrificed, and a great proba-
bility of one of the trains being overturned. The ladies in
question were—Mrs. Major Loftus and Miss Loftus, and the
gentleman who saved them, under Providence, Mr. Thomas
Doyle, proprietor of the Patent Marble Factory, who has
suffered by the fall some injuries in the shoulder.

LIMERICK QUARTER SESSIONS.
Wright v. Wallace.
It will be in the recollection of our readers that at the
last quarter sessions, Mr. Richard Wallace, of George's-
street, sued Mr. William Wright, of same street, as agent of
what proved to be a " Bubble" Insurance Company, desig-
nated " The Industrial Life Assurance, and Provident So-
ciety," to recover from him the sums of £32 and £25 125.,
amount paid as premiums upon policies of insurance
effected upon the life of a gentleman in thin neighbourhood.
The evidence given upon that occasion disclosed the fact
that no such company existed, and it was urged that Mr.
Wright was cognizant of the fact ; but this not having been
proved to the satisfaction of the court, the case was then
dismissed without prejudice. It again came on for hearing
yesterday, when the Assistant Barrister said it was unneces-
sary to examine any of the witnesses who had been produced
at June sessions.

Mr. Pateman, editor of the Post Magazine, was then ex-
amined, and proved there was no such company inexistence as
that which had been represented by Mr. Wright; that at the
end of December, or beginning of January last, he sent copies of
the Post Magazine, exposing the nature of the bubble com-
pany, to defendant, under an article headed " The Murder
Out," and stated with respect to a person of the name of
Deniston, who had been represented as principal of the
" Industrial Life Assurance and Provident Society,", he
(Deniston) was a man of no character, having been sen-
tenced to ten years transportation for forgery at the suit of Mr.
T. W. Greene. He did so for the purpose of guarding the
public against the schemes of such companies.
Letters of correspondence between 111 r. Wright and Mr.
Denison were put in to show that Mr. Wright was imposed
on by Deniston.
Mr. Wright swore he believed the company to have been
a bona fide one when he undertook the agency ; and that he
remitted the money he got from Mr. Wallace to London,
and got advices from Mr. Deniston, that the money so
remitted had been received and applied to the politics of
insurance which were forwarded to him for the parties to
whom they were executed.
Mr. Wright was cross-examined by Mr. John Gleeson.
He admitted that he endeavoured to negotiate a transfer
with these policies a short time:since to another company, the
Hope, in London ; that he had been in London since ho
heard of Deniston's character, but did not go near the street
where the office was. fearing that whilst this action was
pending, he might be prejudiced by so doing.
The Barrister said he was glad the case had again come
before him-for adjudication, fortified as it was with the addi-
tional evidence of Mr. Pateman, from which there could bo
no possible doubt but that the company was a bubble com-
pany ; he would add that great credit was due to Mr. Pate-
man for the pains he took in exposing its fraudulent charac-
ter, and in guarding the public against the schemes of its
concoctors. Though there was a good deal sufficiently sus-
picious in the conduct of Mr. Wright to justify the state-
ment that had been made—the evidence to-day was not cal-
culated to alter the decision he had before given in this case.
There was suspicion, not of fraud against the defendant, but
gross neglect on his part in not making himself thoroughly
acquainted with the company. Mr. Wright was wrong in
puffing such a company through the city, in inducing respect-
able citizens such as Mr. Wallace and ethc,s to embark their
money and lose 44. 116 worship condemned in strong terms
the conduct of Mr. Wright—adding that until it could be
shown he had a guilty knowledge of the nature of the trans-
action, he could not give a decree against him ; but there
was sufficient in the conduct of Wright to justify the annoy-
ance, trouble and expense he had been put to. And if it
were in his (the Barrister's) power to make him refund the
money that had been paid by Mr. Wallace he would 40 50 ;
but sitting there to administer the Itvw it was enacted by
the legislature, he could not, under all the circumstances,
but dismiss the case on the merits against Mr. Wright.—
Limerick Chronicle.