The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-22 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE N)RTHERN TIMES.

Sir,—Your columns, I am aware, are always open to
the correction of nuisances, especially when the authori-
ties of the town have power to remove them. Permit me,
then, to call their attention to a great nuisance which now
exists in Upper Parliament street (between Great
George's Place and St. James' Road). A number of
people, both old and young, of the worst class of society,
are in the habit of congregating there every evening, to
the great annoyance of the respectable inhabitants of the
neighbourhood. The immoral conduct and obscene lan-
guage which, on all sides, offends the ear, is really
disgraceful; and mere particularly is this evil complained
of on a Sunday, :after dusk. I am only surprised that
attention has not been drawn to this subject long ere
this. Surely such a state of things ought not to be
allowed to exist, especially when we know and feel, to our
cost, that the town is so well provided with a police force!
—Your t, M. H.

Upper Parliament street, October 20, 1856. ----

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COUNTY COURT.

BEFORE JOSEPH POLLOCK, ESQ., JUDGE.

The second October court opened yesterday, and the follow-
ing arrangement of business was made—Tuesday 21st, judg-
ment summonses and insolvencies ; Wednesday (this day), 70
cases at ten, 50 at twelve; Thursday, 71 cases at ten, and 49
at twelve; Friday 24th, 70 casts at ten, 63 at twelve. The
total number of cases to be disposed of is 373.
JUDGMENTS.—iIis Honour delivered judgments in the
following cases at the opening of the court :
CASRIDY v ASHTON.— This was a case in which the plaintiff,
a journeyman ship carpenter, sought to recover £5O as com-
pensation for injuries sustained by him through the breaking of
a rope, which sustained a stage used in the repairing of the
ship Paragon, on which he hrd been employed by the defendant,
a master ship carpenter. The plaintiff had not himself taken
any part in the preparation of the stage, which was suspended
in the ordinary manner by ropes furnished from the defendant's
yard. It was stated that a reasonable amount of care in exam-
ining the ropes would have shown that they were defective; and
it even appeared that the defendant had been warned that some
of his ropes were defective, although it did not appear
that his attention had been called to the ropes now
actually in question. While the plaintiff was on the stage
the rope gave way, he was flung to the ground, broke his arm,
dislocated his wrist, and received other injuries from which he
suffered for three months. His Honour having received the
various authorities bearing on the points involved, concluded
by saying :---The pecularity in this ease arises front the fact
that there was negligence, not merely in the master, but in at
least the foreman, and possibly in other fellow-workmen of the
plaintiff, and that the exercise of reasonable care and diligence
on the part of any of the latter, would have prevented the
accident. As at present advised, I hold that this does not
disentitle the plaintiff to recover. The master was negligent
in providing and permitting to be used for the slinging of his
stages with defective ropes. The foreman was negligent in
sending down on the occasion in question the rope which
broke, which was so defective, that a reasonably careful
examination of it before the stage was slung, would have
shown its insufficiency. The fellow-workers, with the plain-
tiff who slung the stage, were negligent either in using the
rope at all, or at least in using it without the protection of a
" preventer." The plaintiff himself, who hail not assisted in
slinging the stage, and, therefore, hid not an opportunity of
discovering the defect in the rope, was not guilty of negligence,
and I hold is entitled to recover from his master in this action.
I therefore give judgment for the plaintiff for the full amount
claimed—£3o.
ELLIS V. PERCIVAL AND ANOTHER.—This was a case in
which Messrs. Ellis and Foden claimed to recov, r damages
flora Messrs. Percival and Campbell, brokers to the under-
writer?,' association. The defendants advertised a sale of
wrecked goods belonging to the vess'l Racer. Tho goods
were open for inspection in the sheds at the Prince's Dock,
where purchasers had an opportunity of inspecting them. The
plaintiffs purchased a lot thus marked—" 343, W. D. and F.,
No. 4-1 case 34 double barrelled guns," and on this lot, with
others which they purchased, they paid the usual deposit.
When they came to take away the purchase, they found that
there were not 34 guns, but 34 double barrels without stocks
or locks. They, therefore, refused to take the lot, and claimed
hack their deposit. His Honour said he was disposed to hold,
that in the absence alike of fraud and concealment, and in the
presence of an invitation to inspect the goods for themselves,
the purchasers must be content to accept the lot knocked down
to them, however incorrect the designation of its contents. His
Honour, therefore, gave a verdict for the defendants.
P-RCIVAL V. ELLls.—This was a cross-case to the above,
in which Messrs. Percival and Campbell claimed from Messrs.
Ellis and Foden, the amount for which the lot was knocked
down. The verdict of course was for the plaintiffs.
INSOLVFNCIFS: The following orders were made in insolvency
cases:—William Whitehead was supported by Mr. Greatly, and
opposed by Mr. Jones, on behalf of the Liverpool Tradesmen's
Loan Society. He received his final order.—Joseph Griffiths
received his final order, a sum of £5 was being accepted.—John
Browne received a final order unopposed.—Joseph Hunt,
final order unopposed.—Edward Morris, final order unopposed.
—George Trowbridge wag supported by Mr. Conway. He was
I directed to come up for his final order at the first December
court, with protection in the meantime.—Matthew
Davidson was supported by Mr. Hime, and opposed by Mr.
Rimrner, a creditor. The first December court was appointed
for the final order.—James Smith was supported by Mr.
Him°, and opposed by Mr. Greatly, on behalf of Mr.
Browne, a Birmingham creditor. The final order was fixed
for the first December court, Mr. Browne's claim being
excepted,— William Cort was supported by Mr. Henry, and
opposed by Mr. Thule and Mr. Daggers. His case was ad-
journed to Monday Use 10th of November, to admit of the
schedule being amended, protection being granted in the
meantime.— Anne Stacker was supported by Mr. Daggers.
The final eider was fixed for the 18th of November. Several
judgment summonses, of no pubiic importance, were heard
and disposed of.

Conpis.—Of all the minor evils which beset humanity
and in one of its most tender parts, perhaps these small but
exquisitely painful callosities, from which the feet of but
few are free, are the worst. The daintiest foot, if encum-
bered with them, must, perforce, be thrust into an ugly
because loosely-fitting shoe or boot, thus incurring the risk
of easing one part, and causing a precisely similar incon-
venience in another, while the change from the neat shoe or
boot to its lax substitute is produotive of an awkward and
inelegant gait. We fancy that any one effectually relieving
the corn-encumbered foot at a moderate charge is deserving
of, and likely to obtain, both popularity and emolument.
nr. Sims, from Berlin, it will be seen by reference to our
uccess, we hope, he will meet with in our good borough
536, Slater-street) of Liverpool.—Adv.
FORTUNE TELLING.—At the New Bailey, Manchester,
on Saturday, Catherine Leonard was committed for three
months for fortune telling. Newton was the scene of her
impositions, and her dupes seem to have been pretty numer,
ous. A man named Connor, about whose brothers who are
abroad she pretended to know a great deal, said that what
she told him about them, about their coming home, and
what they would bring to him, quite " uplifted him ;"
" I was to be a gentleman from a beggar."
He said he frequently gave her what he should
have kept for himself and family, for " she quite up-
lifted me, and I thought if the Lord had deprived her of
hearing and speech (for she pretended to be deaf and dumb),
she was great in another gift." Other witnmes spoke of
having given, some Is. and others 61. to have their fortunes
told, and one, added that the prisoner, the better to impose on
those who waited upon her, said that " for £l,OOO she
would not tell after to-morrow, for she had to prepare to
meet the Almighty." It was a Manchester officer who took
herinto.custody. He found her in a house in Polard-street;
and she is known as one who leads about a blind fiddler.
THE L ITE EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF SHARES AT THE
NORTHERN RAILROAD OF FRANCE.---111 the account which
we lately copied from an American paper of the arrest of
certain persons at New York who were implicated in this
robbery, there is no mention of the fact that as soon as the
news of the robbery waz telegraphed to London, John and
Daniel Forrester, the Mansion House officers, were imme-
diately sent for by Messrs. Rothschild, and employed to
endeavour to apprehend the depredators and recover the
property. The Fotresters, with considerable difficulty,
traced Parron and the two Grelets to Liverpool, and aster_
tained beyond all doubt that they had sailed fot America,
which they at once despatched GoedaTci, an intelligent
officer, after them, and who succeeded in apprehending
them at New York. In the meantime the Forresters were
actively engaged in tracking Guirin, another of the depre-
dators, who they felt convinced was in London, and who
was apprehended by them in the neighbourhood of Tower
Hill, and conveyed forthwith to. Faris, where he now awaits
his trial.

DEATH FROM DESTITUTION.

On Monday, Mr. Wakley, coroner for the Western
Division of Middlesex, resumed an investigation, at the
board-room of the Strand Union Workhouse, Cleveland-
street, respecting the death of Louisa Regan, aged 25.
It appeared that the deceased was found in the streets
at nine o'clock in the morning, in a very feeble state.
It was raining hard, and a policeman, seeing that she
was very ill, took her to King's College Hospital. She
was taken into the surgery, and placed upon a table,
and about ten o'clock was seen by Mr. Way, the house
physician, and another medical gentleman, who decided
that she was suffering under consumptive disease, and
could not be admitted into the hospital, as there was no
accoaimodation for consumptive patients. The deceased
was removed from the hospital in a cab to the Strand
Union Workhouse, where she died the same afternoon.
The post mortern examination showed that the lungs
were much diseased, but there was no appearance suffi-
cient to account for death. The coroner, in summing
up, said it was a most painful case. Here was a poor
woman found at nine o'clock in the morning in
a dying state, drenched in rain, seeking in vain for
relief. After the unusual delay at King's College Etos..
pital, she at last reached the Strand Union Workhouse at
five minutes to twelve, in a state of complete exhaustion.
She was conveyed by two men to one of the upper wards,
then removed to the bath room and back again—and no
refreshment was offered her until the dinner hour, when
the ordinary soup of the house was proferred. She
refused it, and it was not until after four o'clock that
she received from a girl, who had known her elsewhere,
a cup of tea, and in a quarter of an hour she expired,
having received for so many hours nothing but
sympathy. Thus it was painfully demonstrated that
there was a want of that care and attention which ought
to be shown in our public institutions. Had that poor
creature received common attention on her arrival at the
workhouse, it was his conviction that she might havo
lived for months. At the conclusion of the summing up
the jury retired to consider their verdict. On their
return into court, the foreman said that their unanimous
verdict was that deceased died from disease and destitu•
tion, and that they were also unanimously of opinion
that there was a great deal of blame attached to the
authorities of the Strand Union Workhouse and King's
College Hospital for not showing that attention to
deceased which she stood in need of.

ENGLISH CAPITAL IN IRISH RAILWAYS

At the dejeuner given by the directors of the Belfast
and Ballymena Railway, on the occasion of the opening
of the extension of the line to Cookstown, and which
was attended by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Mr.
Dargan, the eminent contractor, made a somewhat
remarkable speech, pointing out the fact that the rail-
way capital of Ireland is about fifteen millions ; twelve
millions of it is making a good return, but the remaining
three millions is unproductive. These twelve millions.
continued Mr. D trgan, have been in the management of
our own individual people, our noblemen, our gentle-
men, our men of business of their own peculiar neigh- 1
bourhoods. The three millions not productive, but still
paying from one to three per cent, are under the manage-
ment of our countrymen, but not yet fully developed.
The three millions which produced nothing is purely
English capital and English management. (Cheers.)
I do not say this for any invidious purpose, nor do I say
it under any but the most generous and good feeling
towards our English neighbours, who so kindly came
forward and invested their money, which I am sorry to
say, is not productive. But Ido say it for this purpose,
that since I was ten years old, I have been hearing that
we are unable to take care of ourselves—that we are
unable to do anything for our own prosperity, and that
we must have English capital, English judgment, Eng-
lish enterprise, English management, English every-
thing. I am delighted and gratified that these
Englishmen have come and spent their money amongst
us. I would be greatly pleased if they had had a better
result ; but why I bring this subject particularly for-
ward is with the knowledge that there is one-great
interest in which that doctrine so long maintained
against us is totally and entirely disproved.