The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-16 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.

trials and indignities of that exile with such exalted and
dignified composure ; such composure, indeed, as it ,is
seldom the lot of humanity to witness. The heroic
vindi-
cation of your deeds, the e";.postfre of the misdeeds of the
people's enernio, of those who became your enemies,
because You championed the interests of those whom they
oppressed, are acts which still hold a prominent place
and we, the char-
-within the memory of your countrymen,

tists of London and its subur

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of continent

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and eventful day, to declare
to yeti for those acts, and to make known

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'aimed disposition to work
which fifteen

our joy at your pros;.
for the removal of those wrongs, years
since prompted you to the performance of such acts.
It is refreshing, sir, in this day of blasphemy and fc-
proach, in this day of political apostacy and comproinise,
to know that while we.have had men who publicly recog-
' cause, and who have since succumbed before the
-seention, or forfeited the future greatness
or the present advantage of being rich, that

fiery blast of per

ou amongst the number who have bravely en-
dured the cross, despised the shame, and still foster fealty
to that faith which our doctrines, the doctrines of the
poor, have engendered, and which, sir, the sufferings of all
have sanctified. Permit us, then, to hid you welcome.
We do so as strangers to you in person, although we are
by our common cause familiar to each other. By the
influence of the justice of that cause, arc
still hope to be united. Fi•om this clay we
We do so from the circumstance
red. Your name, associated
thiest of worldly obj cts, is, while it
f hn+l, and a right, so suggesti

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ke up new
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be mar.

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ASSAULT ON A FEMALE BY A POLICEMAN.
This day Police Constable 642 attended before Mr.
Mansfield for the purpose of answering a charge preferred
against him for assaulting a female. The facts of the case
were as follows : —Oa Saturday last an elderly female, with
Et child in her arms, and a young man, all belonging to the
gipsey tribe, .were charged by police constable 642, and
otb.ers of the force,, with being drunk and disorderly on the
the previous evening on the Lauding-stage. The pollee
officer stated the case, and the parties were fined for that
previous to which, however, the female stated that she had
not attempted to release the young naafi, but had only
followed him, and that on the way to the bridewell the
policelnan had strnek her a very violent blow which bad
knocked her down in the street. This statement *as then
uncorroborated, but shortly after a gentleman, by the name
of Beasley, intimated to Mr. Mansfield, that he had
witnessed the conduct of the policeman to the woman, and
was ready to come forward. At that time police Constable
642 had left, but orders were issued that he should appear
in the court this morning to answer the charge, Shortly
after Mr. Mansfield had taken his ;seat on the beiadh the
parties appeared in court, and the ease was galled on. Mr.
Mansfield; addressing police constable 642: You are charged
with committing a violent assault on a woman, named, I
think, Taylor, charged with being drunk and disorderly on
the Landing-Aage. Mr. Beasley : On Friday evening,
about five minutes to seven o'clock, I was

the Landing-stage, when I saw some policemen
handling a young man very roughly. The woman tried
s:et towards the young man ; as she was doing so, police
constable 642 turned round, and struck her a blow that
knocked her down in the street. She fell down quite flat
n. back. It was either a blow or a push, but if it was
nush it must have been a very violent ~no. There was a
nersons, all of whom cried ``shame" of the

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I went up to the man and took his number, and
told him that such conduct could not be tolerated. At
first I could not tell whether it was officer 642, or officer
587 who had etruck the blow, but when 642 turned round,
I saw that it was him, as he was dark, and the other con-
stable light complexioned. The defendant 642: I never
touched or shoved the woman ; and how is it that you first
said it was 587, then you said it was the acting inspector,
then you said it was me ? Mr. Beasley : Your backs were
to mP, but I afterwards saw that it was you. Defendant :
You ought to be certain before you make such a charge as
that. I never touched the woman. I had hold of the man
by his left arm, and she was on my left side, therefore I
could not strike her. She was drunk, and fell down. Mr.
Mansfield : Are you sure that it was a blow that caused the
woman to fall ? Mr. Beasley : I am certain that it was
either a blow or a push that he gave her, but I can't say
which. Acting-inspector 116 was called, and his version
of the affair was, that as they were taking the young man,
the female followed and took hold of his arm, when, being
very drunk, she fell down. Mr. Mansfield : Did you see the
acting-inspector there ? Mr. Beasley : I did not notice him.
Mr. Mansfield : He said he had hold of the woman's arm ;
if he had, could he have seen the blow that was struck ?
Mr. Beasley : I should say that he could not. Police-
constable 587 said : I saw the woman fall, but I cannot
say whether she was knocked down or fell down. Mr.
Mansfield : The woman, on Saturday, made precisely the
same statement as that now made by this gentleman, to
whom we are much obliged for coming forward as he has
done. When a person charged make these complaints
against the officers, of course we cannot take any notice of
them unless they are fully corroborated, and it is by that
means that the police often escape. lam much obliged
to you, sir, for coming forward as you have done in this
case. You have fully proved that a most shameful assault
has been committed by this policeman on the female, and
I do not know anything that is more likely to raise the
indignation of the public than to see a female brutally
knocked down by a policeman; it might have endangered
the peace of the town. By the punishment that lam
about to inflict on you, I shall show to the police force
that the power they have entrusted to them shall not be
abused. You must pay a penalty of £lO, or be imprisoned
for three months. Police constable 642 was then handed
over to the care the of jailer.

THE OVERLAND MAIL

We are in pdsaession or our ordinary oorres
pondence and journals from India and China by
the arrival of the Overland Mail. The dates are
Bombay, August 12; Calcutta, August 8; and
Hong Kong, July 21. The following is an epitome
of the leading events for the fortniht

There was little domestic news stirring either at
Calcutta or Bombay. The Government had publishe,d
an account of the sum of money actually expended In
1854-05 on public works. It is thus distributed :
Public improvements, 89,16.000 r. Judicial works,
2,91,000 r. Eicelesiastical, 80,000 r. Educational, 29,000 r.
Revenue, 2,16,000 r. Irrigatiori, 35,73,000 r. Marine,
1,88,000 r. Railway, 2,95,000 r. Militar±, 48,86,000 r.
Repairs, 41,19,000 r. Total, 2,25,93,000 rupees. The
immense expenditure for new military works is only
temporary, as the barracks once completed can be
maintained for a much more moderate sum. It will not,
however, cease at present, as Oude must be covered
with cantdnments. Of the remaining outlay, the largest
portion is on reproductiVe works, most of which will
pay a reasonable interest, and some a return knovrn in
Europe only to the projectors of the Credit Mobilier.
All these works have been suspended; partly from
financial pressure, partly from the new determination 'of
government either to carry them on with borrowed
capital or to keep the expenditure on them within the
limit of the revenue.
Of the motives or perpetrators of poor Mr. Horsley's
murder nothing appears to have been discovered. The
bill for permitting the remarriage of widows had
received the Governor-General's assent. So far as one
can judge, it is popular. The Legislative Council was
literally beset with petitions praying for the abolition of
polygamy

accounts from Peshawnr sneak of the cotieltisiun of
a settlement between the Chief Commissioner and
Saadut Khan of Lalpoora, which it is hoped will put a
final stop to the hostilities that have hitherto been
almost unceasing between the British and the Momund
tribes.

In Oude all is perfectly tranquil. The late Prime
Minister had passed through Cawnpore on his way to
join his dethroned master at Calcutta. At Lucknow the
mortality among the 52n,1 Light Infantry had happily
been checked by the removal of the men to another
spot, while the barracks were narrowly examined and
a quantity of foul and noxious mat'er discovered under
the flooring and removed. At Baraitch, another of the
principal stations, the climate is described as delightful
in the rainy season, and the station, contrary to what
was expected, healthy.
The news from Burmah relates chiefly to the murder
of the young prince. It now appears certain that the
victim was a member of the Royal family of Ava. He
had fled, it is asserted, from the neighbOurhood of the
Court some months before his murder, to avoid the
persecution of the King's brother, the heir apparent, by
whose orders his father had already fallen. To the
particulars of the assassination formerly given there is
nothing to add. But the confession of one of the par-
ties concerned, made before the English chief magistrate,
seems, though indirectly, only to implicate the heir
apparent.
The province of Pegue and Burman generally are to
be entirely given up to the Madras army, and all Bengal
troops now serving there are to be withdrawn at once.

BURIAL BOARD.-YESTERDAY.

The ordinary weekly meeting of the Burial Board was
held in the Board-room, Workhouse, at ten o'clock yes-
r. Robertson Gladstone presided, and the
other members in attendance were—Messrs. J. R. Jeffery,

terday.

Woodruff, Shaw, Thornley, Corbally, Bairstow, Jackson,

and Stitt

The following correspondence was read :
Home Office, 9Lh Sept., 1856:
Sir,--I am requested by the Burial Board, recently
appointed at Liverpool, to apply for a copy of Dr. Sutherland's
report upon the land purchased, &c., in the parish of Walton,
although for the purposes of interment it has been made part
of the parish of Liverpool ; and also for information to the
following queries, viz, : —Whether the land In question,
which has never yet received a single interment, can be
legally opened without the authority cf yourself being first
obtained ? I should state that it was purchased in 1848,
consecrated in 1851, and vested In the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners. Whether it will bo to any, and to what extent,
subject to regulations from yourself, as Secretary of State for
the Home Department.—l am, Sir George, your very obedient
JAMES R. JEFFERY',
Vice-Chairman of the Liverpool Burial Board.
To the Right Hon. Sir George Grey.

servant,

Whitehall, 13th September, iso.

Sir,—l am directed Gy Secretary Sir George Grey to
acknowledge the recelot of your letter of the 9th instant,
respecting the piece of land in the parish of Walton, pur-
chased by the parish of Liverpool in 1848, and consecrated in
1851, for the purposes of interment ; and I am to inform you in
reply to your enquiries, that as this ground was provided and
consecrated (though not used) prior to the passing of the
Burial Acts, it appears to Sir George Grey that it cannot b,
considered a new ground requiring the sane'

tart' of State before it can be or

of the Secre-

tary of State
trial

MASEY,