The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-26 00:00:00

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n seasons such as the present, or when a victim is
dragged up to the 'bar of justice, that the folly of
the one and the danger of the other is discovered.
It behoves. us then, as an.organ of Trade, and as a
warm -and sincere advocate of Industry, to warn
both the working-man and the employer when we
see danger impending. A season is, in fact, ap-
proaching, when we believe it will be as difficult to
find remunerative employment for captital as it is
at present to decide the actual value of labour.
Meanwhile the two contending interests will lose
nothing by giving a little attention to the law, as it
is laid down in extenso in another column, under
the head •of " The Recorder of London on Strikes
and Combinations."

THE STEAM SHIP GREAT BRITAIN.—The steam
ship Great Britain, hence for Australia, was spoken
on the 7th ult., in lat. 4. 00. S., long. 27. 00. W., by
the lanthe, which arrived at Cork, from Buenos
Ayres on Monday. She had no steam up, but
was making way under canvass.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.—DAGNALL AND FAIRCLOUGH.
—ln this case the bankrupt Fairclough passed his examina-
tion before Mr. Commissionor Stevens, yesterday.
Last evening a meeting of shipwright's appren-
tices was held in the Assembly-rooms, Circus-street. The
meeting was held with closed doors. • •

THE WIGAN STRIKE.—At the New Bailey Ses-
sions, at Manchester on Monday, Capt. Woodford, the
head of the Lancashire constabulary, informed the magi-
strates that he had reason to believe that the striJe of colliers
at Wigan would soon end, by arrangement between the
masters and the men. •

ARRIVAL OF MRS. T. F. MEAGHER—Mrs. T. F.
Meagher, wife of the Irish rebel, accompanied by her father-
in-law,' Mr. Meagher, M.P. for Waterford, arrived in Liver-
pool on Saturday night, by the America. Mrs; Meagher, has
been ordered to Europe in consequence of the delicate state
of her health.

Messrs. R. Benn, G. H. Laurence, James.Mellor,
S. H; Thompson W. R. Sandbach, William Lowe, John
Mather, and Matthew Gregson, were appointed by the
magistrates to supply the vacancies under the income and
property tax.
MR. H. BOLENO'S BENEFIT.—This celebrated
Clown took his farewell benefit last night, in the Amphi-
theatre, previous to his departure for London. The house
was crowded to excess, and the performance, which were
admirably rendered, were enthusiastically received.
BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A Bov.—Yesterday morn-
ing, about two o'clock, a boy, named John Reilly, called at
the police office, and stated that he had been beaten in 'a
house where he was lodging, in Thomas-street. It appeared
that he was in bed, when a row having taken place in the
house, some of the other lodgers in the place violently as-
saulted him. The police had him taken to the Northern
Hospital,. where it was found that some of his ribs were
broken, and his lip dreadfully torn.
ATTEMPTND SUICIDE.—On Monday night, about
12 o'clock. a married woman named Amelia Titherington,
about 48 years of age, living at No. 4 Court, Brownlow
Hill, jumped into the canal, near Burlington Bridge, with
the attention of committing suicide. She was taken out by
a man passing by, who gave her in charge to the police, by
whom she was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, in a
very exhausted state.
DARING GAROTTE ROBBERY LAST NIGHT.—An old
than from Wales, named Peter Roberts, was-passing thiwn
Water street last night, about: quarter to eight o'clock,
when he was accosted by a woman, who asked him for a
glass of ale. Immediately afterwards, one man and two
women came up, when the man struck him in the ear and
knocked him down and half strangled him, whilst the party
robbed him of his watch and 2s. 4d. The poor old man
was lame and blind of one eye.
ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL MARINE
BOARD.—Yesterday, the following gentlemen were elected
members of the Local Marine Board, by the rate-payers :
Messrs. John Palmer Palmer, Wm. Mann, S. R. Graves,
W. J. Tomlinson, James Bazley, and Joseph Mandell.
Four additional members are to be nominated by govern-
ment but the names' of the gentlemen selected have
not yet transpired._
MEETING OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE LIVERPOOL
HIDE, SKIN, AND FAT MARKET COMPANY.—The fifth
general annual meeting of the above company was held
yesterday evening, -at 6 o'clock, Mr. James Hall, chairman.
The meeting proceeded to pass the accounts of the company
and to elect five directors and one auditor. The cash account
of the company was very satisfactory, and a dividend of 12
per cent. was announced, and paid by the secretary. The
„directors' report was unanimously passed and confirms 1, and
reference to the accounts was a very excellent proof of
the stability of their undertaking. _ _ _

ACCIDENTS YESTERDAY.—A man named John
Butcher, a labourer on' the Lancashire .and Yorkshire Rail-
way, got his leg severely crushed yesterday between two
waggons, near the station in Tithebarn-street.—A boy
named William Dirking, an apprentice on board the ship
Hibernia, fell off the galley on the deck, and broke his leg.
—A brass finisher' named Graham M'Cormack, whilst work-
ing, at Mr. Foster's foundry, in Paisley-street, fell through a
trap to the floor below,•therebyprodUcing a severe concussion
of the spike.—Yesterday afternoon, a labourer named
Edward Noble, was working in the hold of the ship Andrew
Foster, at present lying in the Bramley Moor dock, when a
bale of goods fell upon him from the main deck, by which
he was seriously injured.
THE PILGRIM FATHERS.—Last evening the Rev.
H. S. Brown delivered his lecture on the " Pilgrim Fathers,"
in illustration of the grand Historical Painting now exhibit-
ing in Church-street. Blackburn, Esq. presided, and opened
the proceedings in an eloquent speech. We noticed on the
platform, C. Robertson, Esq. ; James Stitt, Es 9. ; John
Houghton, Esq. ; J. It. Jeffery, Esq. ; John Harrison, Esq.
and others. We understand that Mr. Brown has kindly
consented to re-deliver his lecture on Thursday evening, in
connection with the Sunday School Institute, and from the
crowded state of the hall last evening, and the numbers who
went away, we anticipate, a full attendance.
THE LATE SCENE AT ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH.—
In our report of the scene which occurred' on Sunday last,
during divine service in St. Michael's Church, Pitt-street
there were, we regret to say, one or two mis-statements,
arising, not from any fault on our part, for we applied to
what we considered to be the proper quarter for our infor-
mation, and were refused it, and consequently had to get it
as best we could from parties who had witnessed the scene.
Mr. Alderman Laurence was not in the church, as we were
led to believe, when the occurrence referred to took place,
nor has he taken any part in the affairs of St. Michael's
Church one way' or the other for some years past. The
worthy Alderman's identity was mistaken ; confounded with
his brother who was present. The curate of St. .Mark's
should have been the curate of St. Martin's.
DEATH FROM THE INCAUTIOUS USE OF PAREGORIC.--
On Sunday morning a child of eight weeks old., I named
William Henry Holden' son of Joseph Holden, painter, of
Alcock's-buildings, Morley-street, Kirkdale, died, having
been during the night before in a state of apoplectic sleep.
It appeared that on the previous evening, the mother of the
child, Agnes Holden, sent a person named Harriet Woods
to the shop of Mr. Baskerville, druggist, of 55, Kirkdale-
road, for two pennyworth of tincture of rhubarb and pare-
goric, and the mother first remarked that she did not think
the messenger had brought back the right stuff, because it
was too bitter. The messenger- returned to the shop of Mr.
Baskerville, who would not look at the mixture—but told.
the woman it was all right; the mother then gave a table-
spoonful of the mixture to the child, mixed with some sugar
and water, and then, at a little after eight she went out to
market ; when she returned, 'she found the child ill, and
sent for Dr. Parker, who used every means that skill could
devise, but the child died on Sunday morning. At the
coroner's inquest yesterday, the druggist gave evidence to
the effect. that he had on Saturday night sold two penny.
worth of tincture of rhubarb and paregoric in equal quanti-
ties, to Harriet Woods, and that he had frequently sold her
the same quantity before ; she did not say whether it wes
for a grown person or child. He had sold large quantities
of this mixture, lately. for diarrhoea, and did not think it
necessary to ask Who it was for. There was a grain of
opium in half an ounce of paregoric, and he said further,
that there would be sufficient 'opium in a tea spoonful of de
mixture, to cause the death 'of so young 'a child. The jut),
in returning' the verdict, said that they thought there wis
negligence on the part of the druggist in not inquiring fr
whom the mixture was intended. The coroner said that the
only difference between "chance medley" and manslaughter
was that the negligence that sets up one, must be gross
negligence to set up the other. It would have been in
every way. better for tlie drugOst to have made this very
necessary inquiry. To make it in every case; could in to
way injure his business, but instead of that, might increase
it by increasing public confidence, The verdict was " chanso
medley."
THE GRAND ORCHESTRAL UNION OF LONDON 'gam
a grand Concert last evening, in the Philharmonic Hall.
FURTHER PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—At the
Privy Council held at Windsor Castle on Monday, Par-
liament was ordered to be further prorogued, from Thursday
next, the 27th instant, until the 29th of November.

Despatches were received at the Colonial Ofhe
yesterday morning from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands.

It is said that when the Emperor of Russia 70,-
fused the cushion offered to him at Olmutz to kneel on at
the religious service, he said : " I am dust like other man,
and I shall return to dust. Before God and the church ill
men are equal."
Captain Julius Roberts, of the Royal Marine
Artillery, is announced in opposition to General Buckley for
the vacant seat of Salisbury., Ceptain Roberts comes for-
ward on "independent" principles.
JUSTICE TO SCOTLAND.—The Earl of Eglinton has
consented to preside over a public meeting which is to be
held in the Music-hall, Edinburgh, on the evening of Wad-
nesday, Navember 2, for the vindication of Scottish rigits.
—Scotsman.