The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-21 00:00:00

iety's rooms

broker appeared, and said the pro-
d been pawned by prisoner's wife. The magistrates
ed that it was a strange thing that any broker would
tako into his house property of this description. The
broker said he had objected to take the property, though it
had been with him before, without a written authority,
boa bin, nv"

The pawn-

handed to the Court. The magistrates said this was an
authority from the husband to the wife to pledge the articles,
and was no propcm authority from the society, and the
broke' might easily know that they would not wish to have
their things pledged. The case against the prisoner having
been fully proved, he was ordered to pay £3, value of the
articles, 20 shillings for illegally pawning, or one month's
imprisonment. The magistrates also ordered that the cost
of releasing the goods should be divided between the society
and the pawn-broker, if they should not be redeemed by the
prisoner.

UNPROVOKED ASSAULT.—CLAIM FOR DAMAGES.—Mar-
ry Sutton was charged by' Sarah Lee, a wash-woman,
th dangerously assaulting her, and claiming £3 for da-
Lges. It appears prosecutor and defendant were having

ass of alp Together in a public house in Vauxhall-road,

when the defendant, withouethe least provocation, assaulted
prosecutor, broke her arm, and gave her a black eye. The
defendant is known as a very violent woman in the neigh-
bourhood. The case was clearly proved against her, and
she was ordered to pay £3 damages, and 4s

Fuscous DitrviNa.-:- Thomas Denton, for furious driving,
was fined 20s. and costs, in default of payment to be im-
prisoned for one month, and to be reported to the Watch
Committee and be prevented from being a car driver in

BIRKENHEAD

Court was occupied a considerable part of the day ;
ses heard were of no great public importance.
t to the House of Correc-

:hree juvenile offenders were sen
ion for 21 days each, for petty lar(

enies in the market

MANCHESTER

(NABOB OF TITTERING BASE COIN.-At the City Police
t, yesterday, a little boy named _David McLean, who
ted that he was by trade a shoemaker, and lived with his
father, No. 1, Peter-street, was brought up before the ma-
gistrates on a charge of having, on the previous night, at-
tempted to pass a base shilling, at a shop where he called for
a pennyworth of bread. The boy admitted that he ten-
dered the shilling, and in explanation stated that he had
received it from a boy to whom he had sold a cap. A police
constable stated that the boy's father gave the same account
of the transaction. Discharged.

SUSPICION OP STEALING A HORSE CLOTH.-At the City
Police Court, yesterday, two women, of repulsive appear-
ance, were brought before the magistrates on a charge of
being suspected of having stolen a horse-cloth, which was
found in their possession on the previous day, in Shudehill
Myrket, by a police constable, who took them into custody.
The women stated they found the cloth at Shudehill, at two

the morniri

In order

police making inquiries-on the subject, the prisoners were
remanded to Saturday.

ASSAULT.—John Morgan was fined ss. and costs, or in
default of payment ordered to be imprisoned six days, for
assaulting a female in Spear-street. _

ASSAULT

—A boy named Thomas Hughes, who

said he was a tailor, was charged with having shortly
before five o'clock on the previous evening, in Garden-street,
assaulted a young man named George Williamson, who is
in the habit of selling purses. It appeared that the prosecutor
was following his usual avocation in Garden-street, on
Wednesday, when the prisoner tried to snatch some purses
from him. He resisted and prevented him, upon which the
prisoner took up a stone and threw it at him, from the
effects of which his head was severely injured.—Committed
to hard labour for one month.

icioN OF FELONY.—An elderly female was placed
'lck under the following circumstances. A police
`ated that about ten o'clock that morning, the
der was given into his "custody, on a charge of having
onered for sale, a silver cream -jug, which it was suspected
she had stolen. It appeared that the prisoner offered the
jug, the sides of which were pressed together, for sale at the

constable st
pris

shop of Mr. Louis Beaver, who, sus]
had been stolen, caused her to be
to the police office. She said that t
mother's possession for twenty-thre

pecting that the article
apprehended and taken
he jug had been in her
.e years, but she could

give no satisfactory account of herself. A person who
stated that he was her husband, said she had had the jug
in question, ever since they were married, and that one
night when the worse for liquor, he jumped upon it, which
led to its present mis-shapen appearance. The prisoner
was discharged, but the article was m the meantime retained
by the police, to allow time for inquiries being made

respecting it

THE NATIONAL GALLERY. - Lord Onslow has
revoked the munificent bequest which he had made to the
nation of his fine collection of pictures by the old masters.
We are informed that he has taken this step in consequence
of the very unsatisfactory nature of the report from the
Select Committee on the National Gallery.

WORDS OF PEACE—" That miserable miscreant."
These were the dulcet breathings of the " oaten stop" of
the memher for Edinburgh at the peace gathering. " That
miserable miscreant," said pacifie Mr. Cowan, " the Duke of
Tuscany." Well, we thought peace proffered olives ; but
here are offerings very like bad eggs.—Punch.
Could "Table Movers" have any effect on the "Board
of Control i"—Diogenes.
HOW TO MULL PORTE.—AaIi Laid A Lci'deen•—
Punch.