The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-15 00:00:00

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.

The Admiralty give notice to all persons interested therein
that the distribution of proceeds arising from the Greek bri-
gantine Chrissys, captured on the 22d May, 1855, by her
Majesty's ship Niger, will commence on Thursday, the 29th
January, 1857, in the Prize Branch of the Department of the
Accountant General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset house.
The following are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :—Flag share, £l4 is Id ; commander,
£33 7s 8 : third class, £7 Sc 10d ; fourth class, £4 13s 8d ;
fifth class, £2 12e Id ; sixth class, £2 6s Ild ; seventh class,
lls 3d ; eighth class, 15s 7d ; ninth class, 108 5d ; tenth
class, 5s 2d. The distribution of proceeds arising from the
Greek vessel Hariklia, captured on the 30th May, 1855, by
her Majesty's ship Niger, will commence on Thursday, the
29th January, 1857. The following are the shares due to an
individual in the several classes :—Flag share, £2B 2s 6d ;
commander, £66 153 10d; third class, £l4 11s 6d; fourth
class, £9 7s 5d ; fifth class, 4s ; sixth class, 13s 9,1;
seventh class, £3 2s 5d ; eighth class, LI lls 3d ; ninth
class, £1 Os 10d ; tenth class, 10s 4L The distribution of
proceeds arising from the Greek vessel Panagia Drapaniotisa,
captured on the 30th May, 1855, by her Majesty's ship Niger,
will commence on Thursday, the 29th of January, 1857. The
following are the shares due to an individual in the several
classes :—Flag share, £8 9s 8d ; commander, £2O 3s 2d ;
third class, £4 8s ; fourth class, £2 16s 7d ; fifth class,
£1 lls 4d ; sixth class, £1 8s 4d : seventh class, 18s 10d ;
eighth class, 9s 5d ; ninth class, 63 4d ; tenth class, 3s ld.
Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney, prize
orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue of which
they may be legally entitled to claim the share of any captor,
serving in the above named ship, are requested to present the
same at this office. Any officer, seaman, marine, or other
person, who may desire to receive his share from the Collector
of Customs or of Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom,
is required to intimate the same by letter, to be addressed,
" On Prize Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
London," in which letter his own peace of residence is to be
precisely stated, as well as the place of the nearest Collector
of Customs, or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would be
convenient to receive such share of prize money.

THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.—The diplomatic service in
the year ended March was £366,443.
INSURANCE NEws.—An adjourned extraordinary general
meeting of the Times Fire Insurance Company was held
on Tuesday, to confirm the resolutions of the previous
meeting, held December 24th, for the purchase of the
Athenaeum business, and empowering the directors to
borrow money upon the credit of the company to the extent
of £30,000, and to create 150,000 additional shares to
enable the company to transact business in foreign
countries. The precEedings were unanimous, and the
meeting, being of a formal character, very brief.
DE,FERATE AFFRAY WITH POA OUR R 3.-011 Monday
morning a most desperate encounter took place between
seven of the keepers employed by Sir John Harpur Crewe,
But., of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, and a gang of from six-
teen to twenty poachers, at a place called Pistern hills, in
the parish of Smisby, and near to Sir John's residence.
The following is a brief statement of the facts —Between
twelve and one o'clock on Sunday night, seven of Sir John's
keepers went out to watch as usual. When they arrived at
Pistern hills they saw two poachers in the act of setting
snares. The keepers went up to them to take them into
custody, when they were instantly attacked by fifteen other
poachers, who had been concealed close by. The keepers
were only armed with sticks, cocscquently they were able
to make but a feeble resistance against the overpowering
numbers arrayed against them. A desperate fight ensued,
which ended in favour of the poachers, who succeeded in
overpowering the keepers, and inflicting on them injuries of
a most serious character. Three of the keepers were dan-
gerously wounded ; their names are William Pegg, John
Hudson, and Thomas Swann. They ell lie in a most preca-
rious state. Swann appeared to have received the most
injury ; he was carried to the cottage of a keeper, named
Peter Brown, close by. Mr. Palmer, steward to Sir Jahn
Crewe, was called up at one o'clock on Monday morning,
and he immediately sent for Mr. Tasker, surgeon, of Mel-
bourne, who promptly attended, aiad dressed the woun,ls of
the injured keepers. The poachers used bludgeons, and
were accompanied by dogs. They had no firearms. In the
afternoon handbills wore issued offering £lOO reward for
the apprehension of tho perpetrators of the outrage. and we
have no ditibt, from the activity that is being displayed by
the local police, that they will be speedily brought to jus-
tice. The affair has caused the greatest excitement iu the
neighbourhood.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

FRIGHTFUL CRIME ! —Two young fellows, named
Williams and Jones, were charged by a constable with
the frightful crime of being found sleeping in a hall in
Pitt-street. In reply to the charge, Williams said, in a
bold, determined tone, " I don't think you have any
right to punish me. I have not done anything ; and it's
too bad to arrest a poor fellow for lying down in a hall,
when he Ins no money to pay for a bed. They were
discharged.

SAD CASE.—Charles Best, aged 21, was charged with
attempting to poison himself. An officer said he was
called into Mr. Biggs' public house in Dale street, where
the prisoner was given in charge for having taken some
poison out of a couple of small bottles which were found
on him. He was taken to a surgery, where an emetic
was administered, and thus his life was saved. There
were several letters found on the prisoner, and amongst
these, one to his uncle in Sheffield, and another to his
mother in Australia, stating that he was about to end his
life. The prisoner, in reply to Mr. Mansfield, said he
had been about 18 months in England ; he came from
Australia by way of India, and on coming here he was
destitute, and he jnined the militia for some time.
After that he went to his uncle in Sheffield, and he sent
him down to Liverpool to look for a ship, but as he could
not get one be made the attempt to poison himself. Mr.
Mansfield : Hive you a father and mother ? Yes, sir.
Where arc they ? Iu Australia. Would you not like to
go back to them ? No, Ido not wish to ever see them
again, as it was their conduct that drove me to do what
I did yesterday. He was retnamied for seven days to see
what could be done for him.

VIOLRNT ASSAULT BY A BLACK MAN.—John H. Rich,
a powerful looking black man, was charged with having
violently assaulted a person named William Niell. On
Tuesday evening the parties met in a public house in
Westmoreland street, but had no conversation ; when
the complainant went out he was followed by the prisoner,
who knocked him down and kicked him in the eye.
Surgeon Brown said the man was seriously injured in
the eye. The prisoner was sent to jail for two months.
Soon. ROBBERY. —Mary Clarke was charged with
having stolen three shawls, value £2, from the shop of
Mr. John Roberts, of Whitechapel. It appeared, that
during last week Mr. Roberts lost shawls to the value of
£25, and every day he noticed the prisoner in the shop
several times, but did not suspect her. A watch was
kept, and on Tuesday the prisoner was discovered taking
the three shawls. She would not tell where she resided,
nor give any account of herself. She was committed for
trial.

A " MIGHTY" CASE.—A young man, named John
Morgan, was charged with stealing two fifty-six pound
weights, the property of Owen Jones, of Edmund place.
Mr. Bluck was for the prisoner. It appeared, that the
prisoner had been arrested about a week since with the
weights in his possession, when he said he purchased
them with old iron in Cheshire. He was then dis-
charged, but subsequently it was discovered that the
weights belonged to Mr. Jones, and had been stolen out
of his yard. The complainant is a Welchman, and the
cross-examination of Mr. Bluck caused immense laughter
in the court. Mr. Block then addressed the bench for
the prisoner, and contended that there was no proof of
stealing, and the only thing that could be said was, that
the prisoner could not properly account for the possession
of the weights. Mr. Mansfield sent the prisoner to jail
for one month, for not properly accounting for the
possession of the weights.

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