The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-29 00:00:00

THE ROBBERY OF MR. POWELL IN THE
MANCHESTER EXCHANGE.

This day week we published a report of the arrest
of two swell-mobsmen, named Smith and M'Donnell. Thy
details will be fresh in the recollection of our readers, and
it will be remembered that Smith was committed for trial.
The prisoner M'Donnell, a native of London, stood re-
manded to yesterday, as it was supposed he was connected
with the robbery of about £BOO belonging to Mr. Powell,
merchant, of this town, which took place some time ago
at the Corn Exchange, Manchester. When the prisoner
was brought up yesterday, Carlyle, the detective, who
had the prisoner in custody, stated that a youth from
Manchester had seen M'Donnell amongst several persons
in the dock, and he said he believed he was the person
who stood near the desk on Mr. Powell's stand in Man-
chester on the day of the robbery.
Mr. Campbell, for the prisoner, objected to this evi-
dence.

The officer said on Thursday last he took the prisoner
to Manchester, where he was identified by four gentle-
men as the person who was seen at Mr. Powell's stand,
and about the Corn Exchange the day the money was
stolen.

Mr. Campbell : Are they here ? Witness : No ; the
inspector of the detectives of Manchester is in London,
and I wish a remand, as we may be able to trace the notes.
Mr. Powell was examined, but could not tell anything
about the prisoner, except what he had heard from other
persons.

Mr. Campbell objected to this, as not being evidence
against the prisoner.
In reply to Mr. Alderman Holme, Mr. Clough said
there was more than a probability that he should obtain
further evidence, and he would, therefore, ask for a
rem and again.

Carlyle said the prisoner was described as wearing
bluish spectacles at Manchester ; and on searching his
trousers, at Clement's Hotel, Islington, he fount a pair of
glasses that answered the description.
The Alderman said the case was a serious one, and he
would again remand the prisoner for seven days.

RESIGNATION OF THE LOCAL MARINE.

BOARD

We reiret to find that the differences between the Board of
Trade and our Local Marine Board have not been adjusted.
His Worship, the Mayor, we perceive, has received a notice
for a new election in place of Messrs. J. Aikin, Thomas
Brocklebank, J. P. Palmer, James Beazley, Joseph Mendel,
W. J. Tomlinson, S. R. Graves, and William Mann, who
have resigned. The two first mentioned of these gentlemen
were absolutely nominated by the Board of Trade, the other
six being elected by the resident shipowners. The only mem-
bers who have not sent in their resignatiows are, Mr. Charles
MaclVler, who has not transacted business with his colleagues
for many months past, owing to his absence from England, and
Mr. John Lockett. Why this latter gentleman remains at his
post, ready to obey the behests of the Board of Trade officials, we
cannot divine. The primary cause of the resignation of the
above-mentioned gentlemen is to be found in the fact that, in
direct opposition to the spirit and text of the Mercantile
Marine Act, the Board of Trade assumed powers which, by
the act, are vested solely in the Local Boards, namely, the
right to fix the salaries of their servants. All that the act of
parliament gives the Board of Trade in this respect is " their
sanction" to the appointment and salaries, not the appoint-
ments and fixing of the salaries. We have here another
proof of the grasping desire shown by the Board of
Trade to monopolise all public appointments, and to carry
out to the utmost the principle of centralisation. How
can a board in London know anything of the merits or
demerits of the many officers connected with the Local
Marine Board here ? Indeed, we have heard it stated, that
by the scale of salaries sent down here for adoption by the
local board, they actually increased one clerk's salary, that
clerk being at the very moment under notice of dismissal for
inefficiency. Surely such men as James Aiken, one of our
most respected magistrates, and one of the most excellent and
philahthropic of men ; Thomas Brocklebank, the largest
shipowner in Liverpool, or perhaps iu the world, should
blow and could be better trusted to fix the salaries of tha
clerks acting under their own eye, than either Mr. Farrer,
or Captain Walker, of the Board of Trade, sitting in London.
k But no; the system of patronage, now so prevalent, must
flourish, and, as we stated in our last impression, in allusion
to the Liverpool and Birkenhead Dock Bill, " We have over
and over again called the attention of our readers to this
alarming and steadily progressing evil. But still our
townsmen slumber. Now is the time to discover whether
Liverpool possesses men equal to the emergency in which
she is placed ; whether she is going to reform her own abuses,
or to permit her revenues and her power to be passed over to
some paid officer whose presence will only tend to hasten
her decay." In conclusion, we may state that the local board
send up to London about £3,000 a year, entirely collected
here, over and above all their expenditure; and, seeing this,
and looking to the high position of the gentlemen above-
named who have resigned, we scarcely think any respectable
shipowner will be found willing to succeed those who have
refused to hold offices, in fulfilling the unpaid duties of which,
they were treated by government officials as if they were mere
clerks upon £7O or £3O a year.
[The above is quoted from the Albion of yesterday, and it
.is our intention, in a day or two, to notice the present differ-
ences between the Local Marine Board and the Board of Trade
more at length, when we hope to show the necessity which
exists for instant and unanimous action on the part of our
shipowners to maintain their right to manage their own affairs.
In the meantime, we feel assured that a vigorous effort will
be made to sustain the members of the local board in the digni-
fied position which they have assumed, and thus effectually
frustrate the restrictions attempted to be forced upon them by
the Board of Trade, and so preserve the vital principle of self-
government.—ED. N. T.]

COUNTY COURT.-YESTERDAY

(BEFORE JOSEPH POLLOCK, ESQ., FUDGE
SCOTCHER V. TURTON.—This was an action brought by
a servant girl named Sarah Scotcher, to recover damages
for injuries done to her by being thrown down and run over
by d fendant's horse. Mr. Grocott appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Hime for the defence. It appeared that
the plaintiff, who had been in the employme-A of a Mrs,
Dodson, was sent out by her mistress on the evening of
Saturday, the 16th March, to buy some stair-roils in
111i11-
street. When returning home, she had got ti the corner
of Northumberland-street, when she proceeded to cross to
the opposite side. She did not observe any horse coming
up, but when she had got about half way across, she was all
at once knocked down by the horse which defendant was
riding, and rendered insensible. Some parties came to her
assistance, and she was taken to the dispensary, and after-
wards was under the care of a surgeon. She was cut on
the head, on the legs, and different parts of the body. Her
mistress discharged her the next day, saying that she was
not capable of doing an) work. She, accordingly, brought an
action to recover damages for the expenses to which
she had been put, and the loss of her employment. A
wltness, named John Rimmer, was called, who deposed that
he lifted the girl up.after she had been thrown down. He
stated that he saw the defendant coming up pretty quickly,
when about twenty yards off. He could not say what pre-
vented the plaintiff from seeing defendant coming up. His
Honour did not think any case was made out to show that
the anuy such negligence as would
rendermust exercise caution, and take
some
carehim
d if a woman crossed a crowded
defendant
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a themselvesb wasle. guilty
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; an of
m
street, without looking to see whether a horse or vehicle
was coming, she could not recover damages if she was
injured by a horse which was only coming up at a reason-
ably quick rate. His Honour cited a recent decision in
support of this view, and directed a non-suit to be entered.

LITERA.RYAND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

The usual periodical meeting of this society was held last
evening, at the Royalanstitute, allquitt-street. In the
absen3e of the president, Mr. T. C. Archer took the chair.
The Secretary having read the minutes of the last meeting,
which were adopted,

The Chairman announced that the natural history section
of the society had held a meeting on that evening, when it
had been agreed that the annual excursion should take
place about the first week in June, and that they were
going
.to Oulton Park, the seat of Sir William Egerton,
and view his collections, and they had every reason to
anticipate a very delightful day. He concluded, by express-
ing a hope that those gentlemen who intended accompanying
them, would send their names to the secretary, or himself,
at as early a period as possible.
The Secretary stated that should it be decided to go by
Beeston, the castle there would be a very interesting and
attractive object, which gentlemen could stay and inspect
if not desirous of going further.
Sir J. Salisbury was unanimously elected a member of
the society.

some interesting literary and philosophical intelligence
having been communicated to the society, Mr. J. C. Redish
proceeded with the paper of the evening, on " Tennyson's
Maud."
A vote of thanks to the reader of the paper concluded
the business of the evening.

MISS E11131,k STANI.EY.—The debut of this lady, last
night, at Clayton-hall, in her lyric entertaniment, " The
Seven Ages of Woman," completely realised all our-antici-
pations. The demand upon our space to-day precludes
the possibility of a recapitulation of the varied characters
assumed in the course of the performance by Miss Stanley,
and to cull gems from so many inimicable portraitures
would almost be an unworthy task. The diversity cannot
fail to present individualities which will each in turn
find different admirers, and thus, in the language of the
vocal preface,
" Though they follow in haste,
Yet each one is suited to somebody's taste."
In short, the whole entertainment is unique. The
smart and pregnant style of the librates, (so to speak), the
effective rendering of the songs both characteristic and a
la John Parry, the wonderous celerity with which the
change of costume is accomplished, and the perfection
with which the many various personages introduced to
the audience are embodied, and, above:all, the lady-like
taste which, from first to, last, distinguishes the fair
artiste, con bane to rank the entertainment among those
of the highest class, and to develope the possession of
histrionic talent of the first order, and most complete
finish. Two hours cannot be more agreeably or satisfac-
torily spent, than in witnessing Miss Emma Stanley, in
the " Seven Ages of Woman.