The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-03 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

IRELAND

[FROM OUR OWN conansroNnENr.]
DUBLIN, FRIDAY.
The annual dinner of the Licensed Victuallers'

Association was rendered more interesting than

ususal yesterday, by the attendance of several
notabilities. The lord mayor, himself a member
of the body, occupied the chair, and was supported
by a number of members of parliament, alder-
men, town councillors, and other citizens of respec-
tability. Mr. Dargan was also present. When

the health of this last-named gentleman was pro-

posed, he said—My lord mayor and gentlemen, I
am always delighted to be amongst my fellow-
citizens, but I certainly did not expect any such
reception as that with which I have been greeted
to-night, and the manner in which you have re-
sponded to the kind notice which the lord mayor
has taken of my name quite overpowers me, and
renders me incapable of responding adequately.
(Applause.) But, at the same time, while 1 deeply
and sincerely thank you, and while I am proud
and gratified to see such a manifestation of feeling
towards me, I also prize it, value it, and am still
more deeply impressed with simple gratitude and
sincere feeling. (Applause.) The lord mayor in
proposing my health which you have so kindly and
generously responded to, coupled it with the
sentiment of " industrial independence." That
is a sentiment which I greatly admire and value
—I think it is one that properly felt for, and feel-
ingly acted upon, will always be an advantage to
those who possess it. (Loud applause.) I believe
that perseverance, simple right, an intelligent mind,
and industrious labour will always obtain indus-
trial independence. (Applause.) I never hear the
name of independence mentioned but my own
country and my own fellow-townsmen at once
occur to my mind. I have heard a great deal
about the independence that we were to derive
from this, that, and the other place, and of the
great expectations we were to have from the people
of other countries coming amongst us. But while
I value and prize, as much as any man living, the
great advantages that can and must result from
that intercourse—much of which has happened
to us this year—l never was more deeply im-
pressed with any feeling than this, that our indus
trial independence must be dependent on our-
selves. (Continued applause.) Ido believe that
from simple industry and careful exactness in the
prosecution of our energies—of which our people
have so much—a fairer chance, nor a brighter

prospect has never arisen than we have at present.
I do sincerely trust that our bright prospect will
not reduce our energies or our labours. We have
made but one step, but that perseverance which I
have before alluded to as a great agent of success,
will cause us to prbsecute our endeavours, and
finally arrive, as we could, and I firmly believe we
will, within a short period, at a position of equal
comfort, equal happiness, and equal just pride
with any other people. I have been for a very
long time listening to the pity that was given to
us, but I hope I will never hear of that again.
(Deafening applause.) I am most sincerely and
deeply grateful to you, and I beg to return you my
best and most heartfelt thanks. (Mr. Dargan re-
sumed his seat amidst prolonged applause.)
KELLY V. BIRCH.—This .case, so much canvassed,
came on again yesterday in the chancery court.
You are aware that Mrs. Kelly, the party complain
ing, alleges that the defendant, who acted as her
solicitor and agent in money affairs, had appro
priated to his own use several thousand pounds
entrusted to him by her for the purpose of invest-
ment on her account. Mr. Sergeant Christian
was heard for the respondent, and contended that
the money alleged to have been embezzled was a
free gift, and made over to Birch when the case of
Thewles v. Kelly was pending, that it might not
be impounded in case, it was decided that Miss
Thewles was the rightful possessor of Mr. Edmund
Kelly's demised property. After hearing Mr.
Hughes, Q. C., for the petitioner, the Lord Chan-
cellor decided on granting a re-hearing of the peti-
tion, confining the respondent to the question of
gift, and not permitting auy allusion to the alleged
illegal assignment, The criminal proceedings
against Birch conies on to-day.
In the court of Queen's bench an action has been
tried, in which Mr. Edward Swords, a highly re-
spectable gentleman' was plaintiff, against Mr.
Dycer, the well-known livery stables proprietor
and horse dealer. It was for injuries caused to
the plaintiff by a carriage having been driven over
kiln by defendant's servants. Mr. Swords, an old
luau of seventy, had sustained very serious hurts.
He had been confined to his bed for three months,
and afterwards he was attacked by a cancer, which
was said to be developed by some bruises he had
received from the injuries inflicted. On this last
point there, was not sufficient evidence ; but for
the other injuries, the jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff for £5O, in addition to £5O already lodged
in court

INCUMBERED ESTATES COURT.—The estates of
Robert Otway, Esq., county Tipperary, were yester-
day sold by the Incumbered Estates Commis-
sioners, and realised £21,050, being twenty-four
years' purchase.
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—A respectable farmer,
named Webb, residing at Dunmanway, County of
Cork, whilst walking in the street of that town a
few hours after his marriage, suddenly fell on his.
face and was taken up dead.
Francis Spaight, Esq., the esteemed shipowner,
was declared elected Mayor of Limerick, yesterday.
The legality of the election has, however been chal-
lenged by his opponent, Alderman Watson, who
threatens to bring the matter before the Queen's
bench.
AN IRISH METHOD OF SUPPRESSING PUSEYISM----A
correspondent of theßanner of Ulster,who signs him-
self 1" A Puritan," writes thus :—" During the past
week, the usually quiet town of Killileagh has been
the scene of no little commotion, an event having
occurred there which has disturbed the compla-
.cency of many of its high church folks, and tickled
the humour of its Presbyterian population. A few
months since, the worthy rector of Killileagh im-
ported an English curate to assist him in his parish.
The new arrival, pitying the defective spirituality
of the souls of his cure, thought fit, after the Pu-
seyite fashion of his own country, to ornament his
back, during the services, with an addition to his
ordinary vestments of what is generally known
among the people as a goat-skin, but which is eccle-
siastically styled a hood. This innovation did not
excite much dissatisfaction, as the appendage and
the person seemed to suit each other; but when
the rector himself, at the instance of his theologi-
cal supplement, presented himself to his congre
gation dressed in a red hood, not a few felt highly
affsgriovoa at the oisht mU indignant at the
cause. They fancied they beheld mystic Baby-
lon in the scarlet of their pastor, and, resolving
to have no fellowship with the works of dark-
ness, they protested against what they considered
popish innovation, and left the church. Such
was the prevailing state of feeling in Killileagh
when, a short time ago, a powerful lecture was de-
vered there by Mr. Alexander Field, a native of
the place, on the Puritans of England, in which
the puritanic aversion to the episcopal vestments,
and among them the hood, was defended, and the
popish character of the garment fully exposed.
It seems that this had the effect of rousing into
action the protesting puritanism of the high church
congregation, for, on Sabbath week, one or more of
them entered the vestry, and left the ' mystic
Babylon' of the rector's hood a spectacle of shreds
and patches. A vestry has since been held to in-
vestigate the matter, but who the offending parties
are has not been discovered. A reward, it is said,
is about to be offered to find them out." -
MORALITY IN EMIGRANT SHIPS.—The Freeman of
to-day says :—An emigrant ship has, it appears,
been recently driven back by contrary winds to an
Irish port, after having almost reached its destina-
tion beyond the Atlantic ; and we may easily sup-
pose that the miseries endured by its living freight,
tossed upon the ocean for some ten or twelve
weeks, must have been painful in an extreme
degree. But to the ordinary miseries that were to
be expected on such an occasion, others, of a de-
scription we should hope less usual, were added.
Among the passengers it appears that some women
of an infamous character were admitted, and the
conduct of these wretched persons, and of others
equally wicked with themselves of the other sex,
was such as filled the moral portion of those on
board with the utmost horror. We are assured
that scenes of debauchery were witnessed on board
too abominable to be described.
Mr. J. N. Murphy (liberal) has been unani-
mously cleated Mayor of Cork for 1804.

THE HO I'. AND .REV. BAPTIST 2170 EL AND

PROTESTANT MISSIONS,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES
SIR,—During the short time I have subscribed
to your paper, I have welcomed its appearance on
my breakfast table with increasing pleasure. I
was glad to observe, as I thought, signs of life and
vigour about it, which led me to hope that a star
of no ordinary magnitude had appeared in these
northern latitudes, to throw a clear and steady
light over our commercial and political horizon.
But these anticipations were,destined to a sudden
and unexpected obscuration. On the morning 'of
the 27th instant, I found an article on the Hon.
and Rev. B. Noel's address on Protestant Missions
in France, which for flippant reasoning, intem-
perate language, I have rarely seen excelled in any
of our provincial papers. It is not my object to
defend Mr. Noel. His character, both as a writer
and divine, occupies too lofty a position to be
much affected either by censure or praise% while
his noble renunciation of place and emolument in
the Establishment at the call of duty, ought to
command for him the respect and esteem of every
right-minded individual. Neither is it my inten-
tion to defend the address he delivered on the
occasion of his recent visit. Of course, if any one
expected, as you appear to have done, a graphic
sketch " of men and manners," it is not surpris-
ing that you should be disappointed, as he only
professed to give information on the state of reli-
gion on the continent. Perhaps this may also
account for your styling it " a rhapsodical dis-
course," savouring too much "of conventicle
twaddle." What may be the precise meaning of
the latter phrase, perhaps you would kindly ex-
plain, for the benefit of you dissenting readers
who might readily retort that it is quite as easy
to " twaddle " in the pages of a newspaper as in a
conventicle. •
But you proceed to ridicule the idea of attempt-
ing to alienate the Catholics in France from their
allegiance to the Pope; and you add, that while
we formerly laughed at the Pope for seeking to
make us Catholics, we have now fairly turned the
laugh against ourselves by seeking to make them
Protestants. It is true, indeed, that the grandilo-
quent language of the Pope's bull, in which he
claimed the whole territory of England as his own
ecclesiastical province, excited a smile in those
who knew how little ground there was for such
pretensions. But it is quite a different affair with
the legitimate efforts of the Romish church to
extend its boundaries. Instead of exciting ridicule,
they ought to command respect, and induce those
who deem it a system fraught with fatal error, to
redoubled eflbrts on behalf of a purer creed.
My chief object, however, in writing, is to call
your attention to that portion of your article in
which you denounce all missionary efforts on the
plea that all our exertions are required to remove
the ignorance, vice, and misery of our home-popu-
lation. lam aware this is a very popular notion;
btit it is as hollow as any fallacy abroad in
society. It is founded on the assumption that if
the funds now devoted to missions abroad were
withdrawn, they would all flow into streams of
charity at home. But this is contrary both to
reason and experience. To reason, because the
principle of benevolence is strengthened, not weaken-
ed, by exercise, and the more we help our fellow-
creatures in distant lands, the more are we inclined
to alleviate the wants of our own countrymen. It is
also contrary to experience, for who are the parties who
arefound establishing day-schools--teaching the chil-
dren of the poor from sabbath to sabbath—sending
the town missionary and ,scripture reader into
every nook and alley of our large towns—diving
into the lowest haunts of poverty and vice, and
training the offspring of the drunkard and thief
to habits of honest industry ? Who, but the very
men who are seeking to reclaim the savage from the
cruel superstitions and degrading habits of heathen-
ism ! If this be true of individuals, it is equally
true of nations. The same country which supports
the largest army of missionaries, and which struck
the fetters from the slave, is the country where
more benevolent attention fis paid to the wants of
the humbler classes than any other in Europe.
For proof of this you have only to consult Samp-
son Low's book on the charities of London, where
you will see a collection of institutions and societies
for the benefit of the poor, such as never before
were collected in any city in the world. There is
not an ill that flesh is Their to," but you will here
find an institution specially adapted for its re-
moval or mitigation, and these institutions are sup-
ported by voluntary contributions; to the amount
of hundreds of thousands of pounds annually.
Indeed so much is this the case; as to strike every
foreigner with astonishment, one of whom was led
to remark that—" the English build their poor-
houses like palaces, and their palaces like hospitals."
So far from its being a ground of complaint, that
too little is done for the poor, it has become a
serious question with many whether we are not
overdone with charity in the present day. Bedford,
for example, is pauperised by its 69 • charities.
The true way to elevate the masses is not to teach
them to look to societies ;or institutions or parish
unions in the hour of want; but to inculcate the
virtues of temperance, economy, and self-reliance.
Let us by all means do what we can to banish
want and wretchedness from our midst, but let us
never suppose that the performance of this duty
releases us from, or is compatible with, the dis-
charge of our obligations to enlighten ignorance
and alleviate human suffering, under whatever
clime it may be found. The one we ought to do,
but not to leave the other undone.—l am, yours
.espectfully.

THE PRESTON STRIKE.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

PRESTON, FRIDAY EVENING.—Mr. Cowell having returned
from London to-day, a meeting was convened in the Orchard
this afternoon, to afford him an opportnnity of giving some
account of his metropolitan mission,
The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Waddington) having offered a few
introductory remarks,
Mr. COWELL presented himself and was greeted with
general acclamations. He gave an account of his interviews
with the representatives of the various trades, stating that
he found them unanimously determined to render assistance
to the operatives of Preston, and not to allow them to be
crushed. At one of their meetings in London, a friend rose
and urged that the Preston operatives should co-operate. A
succeeding speaker said it was of no use talking of them
about co-operation now ; they wanted " brass,' and brass
they must have. Let them talk about co-operation after
their dispute was settled. The Preston operatives were
struggling against a united power, but it was against the
accursed power of the " shoddyocracy." The masters asso-
ciation hadelli nn* uu im, tnat placard
tuey offere a notice, to the effect that all who choose to
resume work at the prices paid in March last coulddo so. This
was the great testing point of the whole agitation. Would
the men return to their work ? (No). The fate, not only
of themselves, but of their neighbours, depended upon their
action at this crisis. If they succumbed posterity would
curse them, and their children's children would never forgive
them. Let the masters but give the prices they were paying
when they locked up their mills, and they would find plenty
of hands ready to go to work. (Hear, hear).
Mr. J. BOWMAN exhorted his hearers not to resume labour
on the terms proposed by the masters. He was not one of
those who believed that trade was so bad as was represented
by the interested portion of the community. He would not
say that it was so good at present as it was in June or July;
but it was good enough at all times for masters in other dis-
tricts to pay their hands from five to seven per cent more
than was given in Preston. (Hear, hear).
The meeting concluded with three cheers for the ten per
cent.

STABBING.—At the police-court, yesterday, a man of
dissipated appearance, named Chapman, was charged with
stabbing a person named John M'Bride, on Saturday night
last. The prisoner stated, in reply to the bench, that the
complainant had struck him first. A witness was here pro-
duced, who stated that the prisoner first began the attack,
and that he (witness) had had his coat cut an attempt
which the prisoner had made to stab him also. Mr. Tracy
fined the prisoner in 61. and costs, or in default payment,
ordered him to be imprisoned for two months, remarking
that he must be an assassin, or he would not have made
such an attack as he had done.—N. B. Hail.
IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS.—A case of con-
siderable importance to railway contractors was decided by
sheriff Tonnent in the small debts court, Airdrie, on Tuesday,
the 29th ult. The pursuer, a railway navvie, raised an
action against his employer for repetition of a sum of wages
paid him in lines or orders for money, (the orders though
for cash, were discounted by the workmen for goods), and
which were alleged to be so paid in violation of the act 1 and 2
Wm. IV, c. 37, commonly designated the Truck Act. The
sheriff, after hearing parties' agents fully, and adjourning
the case for two consecutive days, dismissed the case upon
the ground that the act did not appear to extend to navvies
employed exclusively in the formation of a railway...6...z
.8.

COUNTY CO URT-YESTERDAY.

The court sat at the usual hour yesterday.
CURRAN V. SMITH.—This was an action brought by a
young man named John Curran, to receive 51. from Joseph
Smith, car-driver, residing in Scotland-road. The amount
was claimed for injury done, by the accidental discharge of a
pistol by defendant's son, to the plaintiff. It appeared that
both the young men were employed together, and that while
at work, the younger Smith was doinc, something with a
pistol, which he believed was not loaded, when, happening
to touch the trigger, it went off, and the contents were
lodged in plaintiff's side. Plaintiff stated that he had to go
to the hospital until the wound was cured. Smith stated
that he had offered to pay the plaintiff his wages, and tad.
a day and his expenses, but the offer was refused. His
Honor, after remarking that it was by singular good for-
tune the accident had not terminated fatally, asked the
plaintiff who had advised him to the wise course of sum-
moning the father of the young man. Plaintiff stated he
was advised to do so by a person whom he met in the street.
His Honour said the action could not be supported, and the
best thing, therefore, he could do for the plaintiff was to
strike it out, as the father could not be held to be liable.
The case was accordingly struck out, his Honor ordering
that the court fees should be returned to the plaintiff.
LAUER V. APKENNA.—This was an action brought by
John Lauer, bookseller, against Peter M'Kenna, tailor,
Park-lane, to recover the sum of 11., the price of binding a
copy of Fullerton's bible. John Savage, a person in the
employment of plaintiff, stated that the defendant
gave an order to have the bible bound according
to a specimen which was shown to him for 11.
When the book was delivered, the defendant objected
to it, on the ground that it was not bound in calf,
and opened it so roughly that the band was broken. He
then refused to pay for it, and sent for a policeman to put
witness:out of his shop. The witness stated that the band
was not broken when the book was delivered. The plaintiff
admitted that the boards were not so strong as those of the
specimen shown, but said that in every other respect the
binding was the same. Mr. Grocott appeared for the de-
fence. Evidence was given to show that when the book was
delivered it was in such a condition that it would soon fall
to pieces, and that the band was actually broken. The de-
fendant also denied having handled the book roughly. His
Honor was of opinion that the book was not bound as it
should, according to specimen. He gave a verdict for the
plaintiff for 12s. 6d., and costs out of pocket.
A SCENE.—KENNY V. GLYN.—III this case James
Kenny, a boarding-house keeper, living in Simpson-street,
summoned Messrs. Glynn and Co., Itedcross-street, mer-
chants, to recover the value of a seaman's note, issued by the
captain of a vessel named the Liffey. Mr. Pope appeared
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hime for the defendant.
Mr. POPE proceeded to state the case, in a manner which
attracted the attention of all in court.

The plaintiff was called, and was being examined, when
Mr. Pope rose and proceeded to make some observations to
the court in support of the case. When Mr. Pope had re-
sumed his seat,
His HONOR turned towards the plaintiff, and said :—I de-
cline to go on with this case, because I do not think your
attorney is in that condition in which he ought to appear
before me to-day. Let this case be struck out. If your
attorney comes into court in the state in which he now is,
unable to attend to his business, he ought to pay the ex-
penses of the client whom he has brought here unnecessarily.
Call the next case.
Mr. Pope in a few minutes withdrew from the court.

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
On Thursday a meeting of the general committee of the
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from
Shipwreck, was held at the offices, John-street, Adelphi.
The chairman of the society, Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P.,
presided on the occasion.
The SECRETARY, (Mr. R. Lewis) having read the minutes
of the previous meeting, the silver medal of the institution
was voted respectively- to George Bonner and Richard
Rioch, coast-guard men at Collieston, on the coast of Aber-
deen, for their gallant services in saving with a shore-boat
a portion of the crew of the Russian schooner Elise, which
was wrecked near that place on the 19th of October. It
appeared that the vessel was bound -from Liverpool to
Elsinore, with a valuable cargo of cotton yarn and salt, and
had sprung a leak on the 16th of °eV:l)er, when between
200 and 300 miles from the Scotch coast. She bore up for
that country, keeping the hands day and night at the pumps
till the 19th, when the pumps became choked up by the salt.
At ten o'clock on the evening of that day, the vessel had six
feet of water in her hold, and soon afterwards struck on some
rocks near the mouth of the river Ytham. The captain and
carpenter having succeeded in reaching the shore through a
heavy surf in the ship's boat, proceeded to the coast-guard
station. It was now about midnight, and Lieut. Lodder,
R.N., chief officer of the station, with his two men, imme-
diately attempted to get off to the wreck in the small boat
in which the master came on shore, but after two attempts
they were compelled tolgive it up, the boat having been
swamped on both occasions. Having been thus defeated in
their praiseworthy endeavours, the two men above named
launched a small private skiff, and in spite of the very heavy
sea that was then running succeeded in reaching the wreck,
a distance of two miles, and in taking off the remaining
portion of the crew (consisting of four persons), with the
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vessel parted amidships. Through the noble exertions of
Bonner and Rioch, under the instructions of their intelligent
chief officer, to whom the committee unanimously voted
their thanks, four of the wrecked crew were thus rescued
from inevitable destruction.

It appears that since the establishment of the society,
nearly 8,500 persons have been thus saved, and for rescuing
whom the institution has voted rewards amounting to nearly
£9,000. It was reported at the meeting, that the new life-
boat placed at Boulmer only a few months ago by the Duke
of Northumberland, and presented by him to the society as
its president, had a few days since been instrumental in
saving the crew of the Robert Nicol, of Perth, which was
wrecked near that place on Thursday last.
Captain Henderson, R.N., C. 8., Comptroller-General of
the Coast-guard, having been elected a member of the com-
mittee of management, the proceedings closed.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.
IN RE THE REV. THOMAS BAGNALL BAKER.
This insolvent, the former incumbent of Woburn chapel,
St. Pancras, was finally heard on his application to be dis-
charged under the act.
Mr. Sleigh appeared, on the present occasion, for Mr.
Benjamin Peach, an attorney; Mr. Cooke, with whom was
Mr. Sargood, supported the application for discharge.
Originally the case was before the court on the Ist ult.,
and again on the Bth of the same month. An opposition
was made on the part of a Mrs. Bussell, who was a creditor
for £6OO for money advanced. The money was obtained
through Mr. Peach, as attorney for the insolvent, and it
was alleged by Mr. Baker that he only received £430 of
the money. He further said that £lOO was deducted as
premium, and £7O as law costs. On the second hearing, Mrs.
Bussell denied that £lOO was deducted by her, and that she
had advanced the whole amount. It turned out that Mr.

Peach was trustee for Mrs. Bussell, and it was held that
Mr. Peach was the creditor and not Mrs. Bussell, and he
was ordered to be served with notice. The commissioner
intimated that Mr. Peach should attend.
Before the case on the present occasion was entered upon,
Mr. Commissioner Phillips said he had last night received
a letter in favour of the insolvent. It was a long letter,

but he had not read it, for when he saw its object he put
it aside. It was very reprehensible to write to a person
who had to decide upon a case in a court of justice. He
thought that by the position of the insolvent, he would
have known it.
'he insolvr

The insolvent declare
He had not heard of it.

:new not

Mr. Commissioner Phillips said he wag I _I• -
1,;„, __ 3-1 au. Ate couta make great allowance
for the feelings of the person who had written it, but he
must say it was very improper conduct. It had entirely
failed of its intention.

POLICE COURT.—YESTERDAY.
STEALING A GOOSE.—John Jones, a person of the most
unprepossessing appearance, being unshaven, and his gar-
ments all in tatters, was charged with stealing a goose from.
St. John's Market, the property of Mr. Bowes. The pri-
soner was seen to take the goose from the stall, and when
apprehended it was found upon him. In his defence he
stated, when he entered the market, having been commis-
sioned to purchase a goose for a lady, he was in a state of
intoxication, but he knew that he had upwards of I ls.
his person, but when searchei he had only a few coppers,
therefore he did not want to steal it. Havieg been pre-
viously convicted for a similar robbery, he was committed
to prison.
THE GLORIOUS 88TH.—Michael Tale, a military-looking
young man, in shabby-genteel attire, was charged with
robbing Patrick Farrell, a soldier belonging to the 88th
Regiment, of 11s. From the statement of the complainant,
it appeared that he had obtained a furlough to visit his
friends in Newry in Ireland, after an absence of many years,
for which purpose he had got his captain to advance 25s ,
21s. of which he had carefully deposited in his purse, and
the 4s. he kept loose in his pocket. Anxious to be with the
early friends of his youth, he repaired to the Dublin Steam
Packet Company to ascertain at what hour the packet de-
parted, and being informed that it did not start until eleven
o'clock at night, he left the quay, and in his perambulations
fell in with three soldiers belonging to the 34th regiment, with
whom he sat down to enjoy the parting glass, when they were
joined by the prisoner, who formerly, if he did not at present,
belonged to the same regiment as himself. Having regaled
themselves, until the complainant became Bacchus pleni, he
invited the prisoner to his lodgings to take tea, and then
they retired to bed together, but the prisoner placed the sol-
dier's clothes on a bed, and after a time, said they would
have some more ale. He went to get the ale, but the land-
lord refused to have the house disturbed at that hour of the
night. When the prisoner returned, and taking the com-
plainant's purse, counted the money in it, and persuaded
, him to leave the house, which he would not do. The money
in the purse was handed over to the landlady, but it ap-
peared that instead of being 215., the prisoner only handed
over 10s. He most positively swore that no money was
taken out of the purse from the time he had deposited the
21s. in it. The prisoner denied the taking of the money,
and stated that the soldier of the 88th was in a most dis-
graceful state of intoxication, which was confirmed by the
landlady and other witnesses. The magistrates admonished
the soldier for being in such a state, and discharged the
prisoner.
CHARGE OF ROBBERY.—Thomas Toss, a soldier belonging
to the 34th regiment, was charged with stealing 255. from
the purse of Peter Cornell, on board the Telegraph packet,
from Dublin to Liverpool. The complainant stated that he
was a passenger on board the packet, with the prisoner, last
night, and that during the voyage the prisoner put his hand
into his pocket, and took therefrom the above amount, all he
possessed in the world ; and upon accusing him of
the theft, he threatened to knock his brains out. As
the complainant could not give a very satisfactory
account of how the robbery was effected, and it being
proved that the soldier was very drunk when he went on
board, and bad only a few shillings upon his person when
searched. The prisoner was dismissed.
THE DALE STREET " DUFFERS."—Ambrose Flinn was
charged with assaulting John Reynolds.
The complainant alleged that he had met the defendant
in Dale-street, on the previous evening, when he had
knocked him down, and stole 1 ls. 9d. from his person.
The accuser and the accused are two men belonging to,a gang
of fellows, denominated the " Dale-street Duffers," who
obtain a livelihood by imposing upon the innocent strangers,
who arrive in this town, by pretending to sell them smuggled
tobacco, &c., and it is not unfrequently the case that the
parties falling a prey to these rascals, get robbed of all they
possess.
There being no evidence of the robbery, but a witness,
one of the gang, swearing to the assault, the case was
referred for adjudication to the other court, there being only
one magistrate present.
Susricious CHARACTERS.—Edward Barrel; Michael
Doreen, and Thomas Taggett, were charged by the police
with lurking about the Clarence graving-dock, for the pur-
pose of committing a felony. They were apprehended the
previous afternoon, but upon being searched no property
was found upon them. They had each been several times
before convicted, and the magistrates committed them to
prison with hard labour for three months.
ROBBERY ON BOARD AN AMERICAN SHIP.—John Wat-
kins, a sailor, was charged with breaking open a chest, and
stealing therefrom a watch and eight sovereigns, the
property of 'another sailor, belonging to the ship Ni-
agara It appeared that the robbery had been committed
two days after the vessel sailed from New York, conse-
quently the magistrates had no jurisdiction, but expressed a
regret that Englishmen should toil under the flag of another
nation, and thus subject themselves to such robberies.
TILE WORKHOUSE V. THE BRIDENVELL.—A little girl
named Bridget Taffy was charged with stealing some cotton
from the docks. There being no owner, and as she stated
she had no parents to provide for her, the magistrate asked
her if she would go into the workhouse. This she at first
refused to do, but being informed that she must either go to
the workhouse or the Bridewell, she consented to go to the
former, and the police officer who had apprehended her, was
instructed to place her with the overseers.
BEER HOUSES.

John Wright, the keeper of a beer-house, was fined 60s.
for keupia,. open his house after twelve o'clock. He had
been fined several times formerly.
John Bridson, a beerhouse-keeper, m Pri.ucez street,
appeared in reply to an information for selling drink en
Sunday morning last.
Mr. Aspinall, barrister, for the defendant.
Officer 165 stated that on Sunday morning last, at half-
past nine o'clock, he observed two men (one of whom he
knew to be a barber living at Moorfields) knocking at
Bridson's door, and were admitted, and he and 717 went
down two or three minutes after, and looked through the
window, and saw two men standing at the table with a
glass before them.
On the hairdresser being questioned by the officers, he
positively denied any one being with him.—£s and costs.
William Willmott, who keeps an eating-house in White-
chapel, appeared to an information laid against him by
inspector Skermer, for entertaining prostitutes. He was
fined 40s. and costs.
John Tilley, keeper of an eating-house in Whitechapel,
was fined 40s. and costs for a similar offence.
PUBLIC HOUSE CASES.
Frederick. Watson, the keeper of a public house at Low-
hill, was charged with selling ale after twelve o'clock on the
night of Saturday last.
Police-constable 703, was on duty at a quarter-past twelve
o'clock on Saturday night, when he saw a person leave with
a jug; he asked what was in it, and was told it was ale,
but to be positive he tasted, and found it really was ale.
Police officer 556, noticed the same.
A female assistant stated that the landlord and landlady
were both ill, and that she had been left to manage the
business, and at the time she drew the ale, the waiter was
engaged in turning a drunken person out of the house. She
did not know that her clock had struck twelve.
The Clerk : It was only a quarter-past twelve, was it !.

Police-officer 713 : Just a quarter-past.
The magistrate ordered the case to be dismissed.
Joseph S'milh, a publican, was summoned by officer 165,
(Wilson), with selling drink on Sunday. Mr. Snowball
appeared for the defendant. Officer Wilson stated that he
visited Joseph Smith's public house in Vernon-street, at a
quarter past twelve on Sunday morning last, and saw three

men inside.; but when he was admitted they were gone.
He found several measures containing ale, and two with
whiskey in them.
Mr. Snowball;then cross-examined the officer, as to whether
inspector Skermer or himself went in first.
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