The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-16 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.

man, of rough appearance, was charged with having
►iolently assaulted officers 68 and 117, in Mill street.
This Was an unprovoked assault. and most wantonly com-
mitted by the prisoner, who refused to say anything. He
was sent to jail for six months.

BEFdRE ➢LR. CROPPER.
TuErr BY A SEBNANT.—Elizabeth Harrison, servant at
Mr. O'Donnell's, Sussex street, was charged with having
stolen a quantity of wearing apparel belonging to her
mistress. The prisoner went out on Friday, and took
the property with her, but did not return. She was sent
for trial.

BIRK ENHEAD.

BEFORE I. S. JACKSON AND R. BRYANA, ESQRS.

NIGHT POACHING AT HO 9TON.-John Bell, dressed in
the garb of a poacher, was charged with night poaching in the
game preserves of Mr. Robert Morris, at Hooton. William
Robinson stated that he was game keeper to Mr. Morris, and
had charge of the game preserves, and about a quarter to eleven
o'clock on Saturday night last, he and two others went on duty,
and while out they heard the report of an air gun from the
direction of a cover called Brickley Gorse, and, upon getting
there, they heard four or five other shots ; that he and his corn■
pinion concealed themselves behind an old railway carriage,
from which they could s.e the cover, and in about half an hour
they saw two men came out of the rover to near to where they
were concealed, and that ono of the men stooped down as if
looking under the railway carriage, when he (Robinson)
immediately sprang up and called to his companions
Now, then, come on," to which one of the poachers
made answer, " Come on, blast you, come on," and
then both of them ran away, pursued by the keepers
The prisoner on the way fell into a ditch, and Robinson
on the top of him ; he, however, recovered himself, and
pulled the prisoner out, at the same time seizing hold of
a large stick he had in his hand, and afterwards searched
him and 'found a., pheasant quite warm in one of his
pockets which had been killed by an air gun, the ball
having entered the breast and gone out at the b3ck. The
stick and bird were produced. They afterwards took
the prisoner and gave him into the custody of one of the
county constables stationed at Sutton. The keepers said
that the poachers frequented the preserves so ♦ery
frequently that they (the keepers) had found it necessary.
to take assistance with them for the purpose of detecting
the parties who were in the habit of coming there. The
prisoner being asked what he had to say replied, " I
never had the stick." He was then committed for trial
at the next Cheshire quarter sessions, with liberty to
put in bail.

LIVERPOOL B kNKRUPTCY COURT.
YESTERDAY.

(BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER PERRY.)
IN RE LEICESTER AND CO.—The bankrupts Came up this
day on their adjourned last examination. Mr. Bernie,
of the Northern Circuit, appeared on behalf of the ass
signees, and Mr. Atherton for the bankrupts. Mr. Chatn-
ney Leicester, one of the bankrupts, was examined at
some length by Mr. Bernie. After referring to some not
very extensive transactions in railway shares which the banks
rupt had with Mr. Wagstaff, of West Derby, and other persons,
the examination was directed to transactions in iron, in which
he had alsr; engaged. He said—The original contracts in the
iron transactions commenced in October, 1855. The first
purchase was 1000 tons. We pai I £250 deposit. The tran.
sactmns were closed on the llth February, 1856 The whole
extent of the transactions was 7000 tons in all. Of these 2000
taus were on joint account with Mr. Wagstaff. The amount in
round numbers would be £28,000. The loss was £3176.
4000 tons were sold on the Bth February, and 3000 tons on
the 11th February. Mr. Daunt, our broker, found all the
funds, except £2900, which came out of the firm. On the
11th of February we determined to stop, and sent notices on
the 12th February. I do not consider that we were utterly
insolvent when we commenced the iron transactions, though
on the day we stopped we were not in a position to pay Is. in
the pouad on the whole of our liabilities. The loss on the
iron was £3OOO, and the loss on produce about £5OOO or
4;6000. A large amount of debts turned out bad which in
October 1855 we considered good. Wo had bills on Mr.
Wagstaff, of upwards of 44000, for which he had value in the
shape of Indian corn against a bill of £2340. The date of
the transaction was the 8:h November, and the bill was due
on the 10th February. We lost £7OOO odd by Mr. Cook, of
Shrewsbury. We owed Mr. Wagstaff £OOO when we stopped
if he had taken up his bills then running, but he did not do
so, and became our debtor to the extent of £575 4s. 7d. The
date of the invoice of the Indian coin was the Bth November,
18.55. It was handed to the Union Bank against a bill about
the middle of February, after we stopped payment. It came
to be delivered to the Union Bank as it was hypothecated
against Mr. Wagstalf's bill of £2918 17s. Bd. Of the whole
iron transactions £lO,OOO were my own. I paid deposit, cash !
£.2110, and two bills for £3OOO and £lOOO. Joseph Cook
accepted the bill for £3OOO, and the firm of P. Leicester and
00. the £lOOO bill. Peter Leicester and Co. drew on Joseph
Cook without the knowledge of my partner, and the acceptance
also was without his knowledge. I had some rice transactions.
The result, on the whole, was a loss to the extent of £l4OO
Two of the last transactions were open when we stopped. There
is an entry on the 19. h Dec., amounting to about £lOOO, with
Thomas Leicester. Ho is my uncle. The writing is dated
19th December, 1855, the invoice is dated the 12th February,
1856. It was so entered because the amounts were not ascer-
tained before the 12th of February. He came to our office
almost every day. On the 18th of December he gave us his
acceptance for £2,300, dated the 19th December, against which
we hypothecated 391 fucks of flour, and 500 barrels of flour,
at the assumed value of £2,330. The flour was at that time
in our possession. There were in hand 119 sacks (Spanish),
and 165 barrels of flour. Notwithstanding the hypothecation
of the flour we afterwards sold it, with Mr. Leicester's autho-
rity. Thomas Leicester did not know the state of our affairs.
He did not know that were insolvent in January. He was
not in the habit of allowing us to draw for our accommodation
on him. The amount of Thomas Leicester's accommodation
piper amounted during the last year to not more than £6,000
or £7,000, but with an equivalent. At the time we bought
the flour from Peter Brown and Co, on the 24th January, I
expected to pay for it when it became due. We sold it to
Thomas Leicester on the 31st January. He did not pay us
for it. • He afterwards took it on account of our debt to him.
The liabilities that were coming due within a month of the
24th January, and also the acceptances, were—on the 29th
I n tar), a bill of Nicho ,on and Whittle, of £1,674; on the
251, a bill for £440 11s, due to Michael Walsh ; on the 27th
January a bill for £925, due J. and M. Marton; on the 30th,
a bill for £1,179 Os sd, due Radford and Sons ; on the 3rd
February, a draft of £2OO of John Townley, of Dundalk, all
of which retired on the 9th February. Of Mr. Cook's for
£l,OOO, a draft—it was not retired. On the 12th February
another bill for £lOOO due Mr. Cook. These were all the bills due
within a month of the 24th of January. Mr. Cook was to
retire the two bills. He had received the produce himself
We accepted for his accommodation. The £12,384 9s were
all accommodation bills, of which he received the whole
proceeds. I had also my own liabilities on account for iron to
meet, one bill of £3,000. I expected Mr. Daunt to renew it.
I had no other bills on my own account coming due. The
amount of bills remaining at our stoppage would be something ,
over £30,000. I dare say we have had bill transactions with
Thomas Leicester since 1850, to the extent of £lBO,OOO.
The bankrupt was then briefly examined by Mr. Lowndes,
touching a mine and quarry in Cornwall, with the working of
which he was connected. Mr. John Ellis Littleboy, the other
bankrupt, was also examined very briefly by Mr. Bernie.
Touching a purchase of corn from Messrs. Maxwell and Co.,
he said that be did not think his firm was insolvent at that
time, and that though he attempted to cancel the transaction
with Messrs. Peter Brown and Co.; it was not because he
believed it would not be paid for, but because he did not want
the flour. He was concerned in some of the iron transactions,
but he was not aware that his partner was concerned in separate
transactions, and took the funds of the partnership to pay them.
The last examination was then further adjourned for a fort-
night.

MIN

BOAT ACCIDENT ON THE THAMES -THREE

LIVES LOST.

On Sunday evening, about seven o'clock, a very
distressing accident, by which three young persons
unfortunately lost their lives, took place on the Thames,
at Blackfriars-bridge. The particulars of the sad
occurrence detailed to our reporter by one of the sur-
vivors, are as follows :—A party of seven young people,
three females and four youths, yesterday afternoon hired
a boat belonging to Mr. Davis, at Blackfriars-bridge,
and proceeded up the river as far as Battersea. They
neared Blackfriars-bridge on their 'return about seven
o'clock, the tide running very fast at the time. The
evening was dark and misty and they were unable
clearly to see the abutments of the bridge ; but suddenly
the end of the boat struck against one of the arches,
and the whole of the seven were thrown from their seats
into the river, the boat floating from them bottom
upwards. The shrieks of the unfortunate individuals
attracted the attenti'o'n of some persons passing over the
bridge,gave an alarm, and, assistance promptly arriving, four
were s who, perceiving whatihad happened, immediately
vied, but a youth named Fitzpatrick, who resided
with
h
his parents in Shoe lane, and two females were
drowned. The names of the females could not be as-
certained, as they were strangers to the others, having
been invited by some of the men to join in the excursion
before the boat sailed. Drags were obtained and a search
made for the bodies, but up to a late hour last night
only one, that of a female, had been recovered,

A druggist, named Gbio-Truelle, of Romilly-snr-Seine,
near Paris, was some time ago condemned by the Tribunal
of Correctional Police to 75t. fine for having illegally prac-
tised medicine by administering pills to a female servant
who consulted him.