The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-06 00:00:00

Trig .50311 MEN TIAL7I.-LIVBRPO9L, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1856.

whilst, for this brand £lO 108 can easily be got, other brands
are selling for L 9 10s.
Bottled ale and porter keep moving off at about 12s Bd.
For galvanised iron of light guages and bar iron of proper
assortment, the demand remains active.

Sweedish bar steel is wanted.
Blasting powder has improved, and is now held firmly at
14s. Pig iron rerua'ns a d:ng and unsaleable at £5 10s.
English coals are about ds a ton better and must be quoted

at 459.
Soda ash is very scarce, and a good quality would readily
command £3O.
o,xing to the competition among the Banks gold has
become so scarce, that high prices have been obliged to be
paid, and the Banks consequently haVe raised the rate of
exchange to 1 per cent. premium, but as gold has further
advanced to £3 16s 91, exchange is likely to go still

higher.

THE MURDER IN GREAT RICHMOND

STREET

Yesterday James Hudson Jones, the person charged with
the murder of Isabella Brew, was brought up before Mr. Mans-
field, having been remanded from the previous week by that
gentleman, the woman, at that time, not being dead. The
prisoner, who 13 a strong robust-looking man, appeared p sin-
fully to feel the situation in which he was placed, and during
the investigation wept bitterly. Mr. Superintendent Ride,
upon the case being called on, addressing Mr. Mansfield said,
sir, you will recollect that this day week, the prisoner who
now appears before yen was remanded for seven days,
for having violently assaulted Isabella Brew. At that time
I told you that the woman was in a very dangerous state,
indeed her life was despaired of. She died at a quarter to
two on Monday last. He then stated the evidence lie intended
to adduce, for the purpose of proving Isis charge against the
prisoner, which was precisely to the same effect as that adduced
before the Coroner when the inquest was held. The deposi
tion having been taken, Mr. Mansfield, after administering
the usual caution, committed the prisoner to take his trial
for the offence.

THE IRISH COURT or CHANCERY.—The revenue derived
from stamps or proceedings in this court during the year
18.55, amounted to £13,220.

The fine picture of Mademoiselle Rosa Bonheur,
" The Horse fair," which created so much sensation in
the artistic world, is on view at the Auction Mart.
M. Ducornet, a French Artist, who, being ssithout
hands, painted with his feet, and whose pictures were
often eihibited at the Louvre, has just died at Paris,
COUNT DE MoRNY.—II is said that before his depar-
ture for Russia, to attend the coronation of the Emperor
Alexander, the Count de Morny will be raised to the
dignity of Prince of the Empire.
MR. GAVAN DUFFY.—The Nation announces that Mr.
Charles Gavan Duffy, the late proprietor of that paper is to
receive a present of £lO,OOO in Australia, for the purpose
of giving him a qualification to enter the legislative.
NEW ENLISTMENT REGULATIONS.—The new. regula-
tions have been issued by the Horse Guards; the cavalry
regiments not to be less than 5 feet 7 inches ; in the
line not to be under 5 feet 6 inches, between 17 and 25
years of age. The cavalry recruits are not to be under
18 years of age.
PROTEST ANT WORSHIP IN FRANCE.—Sir Culling
Eardley sends to a cotemporary the following extract of
a letter from Paris, dated April 29, 1856 :—" I must
give you, on my side, an important and joyful piece of
news. Yesterday, M. Fortoul, the Minister of Public
Worship, has called Mr. Lutteroth to his cabinet, and
has told him that religious matters in the Haute Vienne
are restored on the same footing as before the decree of
March 25, 1852. It is hoped that the measure will
extend to other localities, and prove a general one. May
it be so."
THE MIXED COMMISnON COURTS.—The mixed com-
missions established under treaties with foreign powers
for suppressing the traffic in slaves now cost £11,051 per
annum. In Sierra Leone we have an arbitrator with a
salary of £1,500, and a registrar with £750. At the
Havannah, we have a judge with £5OO, and an arbitrator
with £5OO. At the Cape, we have a commissioner with
£1,200, an arbitrator with £B.O, and a registrar with
£5OO. At Loanda, we have a commissioner with £1,500.
and an arbitrator with £l,OOO. The contingent expenses,
including salaries of clerks and minor officers of these
courts amount to £2,500 —Cyil'Serviee Gazette.
Cool. SIRINGING.—On Wednesday last, at Aberdare,
a resident of Mountain Ash underwent the severe process
of " coul stringing." The process involves the being
tied to a ladder, which is placed on men's shoulders, and
thus the victim is carried along the streets, derided by
the assembled crowd, and saluted by every kind of filth—
rotten eggs, of course, included. The unfortunate
victim in this case, a collier, residing at Mountain Ash,
had incurred the displeasure of the women, in seducing
a fair demoiselle of Aberdare, concealing the fact that
he was a married man with three childien. The sinner
was seized at Mountain Ash, and brought to Aberdare,
the scene of his delinquencies ; and it was not until the
police interfered that lie was relieved from his painful
position —Swansea Herald.
The Monitenr of Sunday contains a letter addressed
to the Prefect of the Police by the Minister of the Inte-
rior in obedience to an order of the Emperor. It is there
sail, that since the powerful impulse given to national
industry by the Emperor, a class of men has arisen, who
mingle in affairs and undertakings for which concessions
are necessary, and pretend their great influ, nee in high
places, their secret intelligence, their power of raising
difficulties or causing them to disappear. Of these pre-
tended personal influences it is said a coin plete trade is
made, The Emperor desires the public to understand,
that in matters which concern the nation personal influ-
ence is proscribed ; and lie desires the police will use all
diligence to bring under the operation of the penal code
persons offending as described.
THE OLD COACHING INTEREST.—Thnrsday being May-
day, an occasion of general rejoicing in the old coaching
days, a deputation from the English coach proprietors
waited on General Wyndham, M.P., at his residence,
Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and presented him with
a characteristic " token'' in commemoration of the
success of the gallant general's labour in the House of
Commons on the last reduction of stage-carriage duty.
The " token " was a superb holly four-horse whip, with
carved ivory handle and gold mounts; the upper mount
also of fine chased gold, having the general's crest and
this inscription:—" General Wyndham M.P., from the
whips of England, in commemoration of june 27,1855,"
that being the day on which the gallant general carried
a motion in the house to reduce the duty.
DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A correspondent of the
Boston (United States) Journal, writing from Nashua on
April 15, says :—A dreadful accident happened here this
afternoon. The Rev. George B. Jewett, late professor at
Amherst College, but now pastor of a church in this city,
was passing the Concord track at Nashua, when his horse
became frightened, and backed upon a coming freight train.
Mr. Jewett was accompanied by his wife and only child, a
lad of some fourteen years of age. Their chaise was struck
by the trair, and they were crushed and terribly mangled
by the collision. Mr. Jewett was found beneath the cars,
aith one limb nearly severed from the body and otherwise
injured. Mrs. Jewett has had one hand amputated; the
child lost an arm and leg, and died at seven o'clock this
evening. The horse was instantly killed, and the chaise
crushed into fine bits.
THE ROYAL ACADEMY or ARTS.—The Royal Academy
of Arts gave a sumptuous banquet on Saturday to inau-
gurate their 88th annual exhibition. These festivals are at
all times peculiarly attractive. When ministers of state,
dignitaries of the church, the highest occupants of the
judicial bench, the chiefs of our army and navy, the leading
members of both brapches of the legislature, the most
eminent representatives of science, literature, and com-
merce, and celebrated men of every shade of political
opinion, all meet together on the neutral ground of a love
of art, and join in paying a common homage to the triumph
of its votaries, the spectacle presented cannot fail to prove
eminently instructive and gratifying. But following so
closely upon the proclamation of peace, under who,e
benign influence the liberal arts best flourish, the brilliant
gathering of Saturday last possessed features of more than
wonted interest and fascination.
COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.--A meeting of the renters
of the late theatre at Covent-garden was held on Saturday
at Mr. Robins's rooms, in the Piazza, for the purpose
of considering their present position. Mr. Surman (the
representative of the proprietors) stated that since the
last meeting of the renters and proprietors, about two
months since, the Duke of Bedford bad brought an action
of ejectment to recover possession of the site of Covent-
garden Theatre, and early in this present week his grace
would, no doubt, re-enter upon the ground, and, consequent
upon that event, the proprietors and renters will become
divested of all interest in the theatre and the ground. The
proprietors had no means of rebuilding the theatre, and
had stated their intention of surrendering their leases.
Of course they could not expect the duke to remain quiet
under these circumstances. Mr. Surman thought the duke
had acted liberally in giving up the five quarters' rent due
to him.

BOARD OF TRADE, Whitehall, Anril 30.—The board
of trade notify the reception of a French imperial decree
fixing the import duty upon cocoa nut cordage and fibre
at the same rate as that levied upon cordage and stripped
plaits of Spanish broom ; and a second French imperial
.decree authorising the admission into France, free of
import duty, of iron ribs for strengthening and con-
necting beams in ship buildings. The privy council for
trade have received, through the Secretary of State for
foreign affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's
consul general at Venice, reporting the cessation sinoe
the 25th April last, of the restrictions imposed within
the Austrian customs league upon the exportation of
grain and flour, and of articles manufactured of them
The privy council for trade have received, through the
Secretary of State for foreign affairs, a copy of a despatch
frona her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople,
reporting the entire removal of the restrictions upon
the export of grain from the Turkish dominions.—
I Gazotte

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY,

(BEFORE MR. BOLTON.)
BASE MouEY.—Ann M'Cormick was charged with
attempting to pass base money in Queen's-square.
Officer Rosborough, 175, saw the prisoner in the square,
and observing her movements, he arrested her, and on
search being made at the bridewell, fifteen base shillings
were found On her person. She was sent for trial.
MOST IMPORTANT 10 MARINE-AV-IRE DEALERS.—
James Barlow, an unlicensed marine-store dealer, resid-
ing in • Bailey-street, and Price Jones, a ginger-beer
maker, residing in the same street, were brought up on
remand. Mr. Bluck was for Barlow, and Mr. Chilton
for Jones. The case involved a question of great im-
portance to marine-store dealers, so far as Mr. Block's
client was coneerned. The history of the case, as it was
collected from the evidence of Thompson and Scaife,
(two of the detective police) was as follows. For some
months past, the officers had suspected the prisoners to
be engaged in evil practices, and they had a constant
look out on theit movements. The prisoner used to
drive about in the ginger-beet cat of Jones, and the con-
stables strongly suspected that something heavier than
" pop" occupied the cart. They were not able, how•
ever, until Saturday week last, to come to any conclu-
sion, and at a very early hour that morning. the police-
man saw the prisoners drive up the ginger-beer cart to
the foundry of Mr. Sarsfield, in Salthouse-lane, and after
a short time the officers entered the premises, and found
that the prisoners had deposited a quantity of brass,
copper, and lead there, and which they intended for sale.
The prisoners were arrested, as they could not give any
account of how they came by the property. The police
suspected that the property formed portion of a quantity
that had been stolen from a warehouse in Great Howard-
street, that had been broken into and plundered on the
previous Saturday night. Yesterday week. the prisoners
were brought up before the magistrates, when a witness
named Robert Lewis, who is in the employment of Mr.
Sarsfield, appeared against them, and stated 'that they
had brought in the propert‘ , but it had not been paid
for at the time when the policeman came in and arrested
the prisoners. The witness Lewis, on that occasion,
begged hard of the reporters not to mention the name of
Mr. S atsfield ; but of course the request was disregarded,
mid the case was reported (as it then appeared) in our
paper of this day week. The prisoners were yesterday
put forward, when the witness Lewis made a long and
rather excited statement, in half Welsh and half English.
and winding up, begged the reporters would note his
speech. This caused a roar of laughter, and one of the
magistratel clerks, turning to one of the gentlemen of
the press, said, " gentlemen, you will have something to
do, to comply with that modest request." The only
thing that could be collected from the statement ofd the
witness, was that they (meaning at the foundry) i
not buy nothing from nobody for three days' stuff," and
that "they did'nt bought that (meaning the property in
question) at all from no one I" This information caused
considerable laughter, and our reporter went through
some exertion in order to get a translation or explanation
of it, and as well as he could obtain it, the following
appears to he the meaning. The people at the foundry,
when purchasing old metal, brass, copper, or lead, let
it lie bye for several days before paying for it, lest
there should be anything wrong on the part of the per-
son selling it, whose name and address were always
taken down. It was also elicited that the ol I copper
was purchased at 100 per pound, btlt if taken in ex-
change for other articles, a shilling was allowed for it.
Mr. Bluck raised a point in favour of his client, Barlow,
and argued that the prisoner had been near a week in
jail, and the police had done all they could to prove a
case against him, yet they failed. Under the act of
parliament the magistrates, he said, had the power of
punishing a marine store dealer for not being able to
account for the possession of property. provided it was
shown to the satisfaction of the magistrates, that a rob-
bery of similar property (though not identified) had
taken place, previous to the property coming into the
possession of the marine store dealer. Here was the
case of his client, who was in the habit of purchasing
smell quantities of metal, and when his stock amounted
to a large portion, lie was in the habit of selling it. The
police had a week to enquire, and they had totally and
signally failed to show that there was any property of
the description stolen previous to his client having
received it. He would rely on a case (which he cited)
decided a few days ago on this point, by Mr.
Mansfield, before whom the point was raised and argued,
and that learned gaitleman decided that the onus did not
lie on the dealer to show where be got the property, but
that it must be shown' that property of the de-
scription had been stolen before it came into the
possession of the dealer, and not till then could he he
called on to account how he got it. Mr. Chilton, on the
part of Jones, his client, showed that he had been em-
ployed by Barlow to carry the metal in the ginger beer
cart ; and the magistrates discharged him. Mr. Black
again urged the point he had raised, and, at last, Mr.
Bolton consulted with Mr. Mansfield, and his return
to the court, he said he would remand Mr. Block's client
for another week in order to give him an opportunity
still further of showing where he got, or accounting for the
metal. Mr. Bluck asked his worship if he was to under-
stand that Mr. Mansfield had decided that Barton should
account for the possession of the metal ? and, therefore,
upset a decision which he (Mr. Mansfield) had made a
few days ago. Mr. Bolton said if the magistrate had
sufficient evidence to satisfy himself, he could remand
the prisoner, and in this case he was of opinion that
sufficient evidence was before him to remand Barlow for
another weep, in order to give him time to account for
the possession of the metal. Mr. Bluck said he would
refuse, on the part of his client, to give any further
account of it, as he relied on the act of Parliament and
on Mr. Mansfield's decision on the point, and he would
demand the prisoner's discharge that day week. The
prisoner was then again remanded for seven days.
Tile SWELL MOBSMAN.—John ill'Donnell, the London
"mobsinan," who had been remanded, was brought up
yesterday by detective Carlyle. The details of this case
have been published on two former occasions, and must
be quite fresh in the recollection of our readers. He
was remanded on the last occasion on suspicion of being
concerned in the robbery of 8(.)0 from Mr. Powell in
the Manchester Corn Exchange. Mr. Campbell appeared
for the prisoner, and contended that there was no
eviddence to convict him, and urged his discharge. Mr.
Clough said he had received a letter from Manchester
in reference to the robbery of Mr. Powell, and there
was no further evidence in that case. Mr. Wybergh
said it was now for the prisoner to show he was an
honest man. The prisoner replied that he was about
going to America, and did not wish his family to be
plunged into grief in consequence of his arrest. The
only thing (he said) against him was, being found in
company of a suspicious person (the man Smith, who
has been committed for trial.) Mr. Clough said the
prisoner was quite well known in London as " Padding-
ton Jack." Mr. Campbell argued that his client had
not committed any offence so as to justify the bench in
dealing with him under the vagrant act as a suspicious
person. Mr. Bolton, after reviewing the case, said he
had sufficient evidence to deal with the case under the
vagrant act, and he would therefore send him to prison
for three months. The prisoner looked at his worship
and said, " Well, if this be justice may I he d—, and
G-- d— the whole of you." He was then removed.
ALLEGED FELONY IN A CuarEL.—Patrick Collins, who
said he was engaged about the Stanley dock, was charged
with having picked the pocket of a young female, the
wife of a baker, who gave her name as Ellen M•Orrorie.
The complainant said she was attending worship in
Blackstock street chapel, and the prisoner was quite
close to her, and she felt a hand in her pocket, and on
examining, she found her pocket picked of 4s 6d, upon
winch she gave the prisoner into custody. On search-
ing the prisoner, 6s and some coppers were found on
him, but it did not correspond with the money missed.
The prisoner received a good character, and as he was
not known to the police, he was discharged.
(BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.)

SHIP DESERTION.-A youth, named George Roberts,
an apprentice on board the ship Anaquipa, belonging '
to Messrs. Tanton and Davidson, was brought up on a
charge of having deserted the ship. Mr. Bluck was for
the prisoner, and contended that the boy had been beaten
by the mate in a very severe manner, and lie was
afraid for his life to return to the vessel. Mr. Thomas
Ireland, the master of the ship, said he was not aware
that the boy had been beaten, nor did the lad ever com-
plain to him of ill-usage ; he would not allow such a
thing to be done. In reply to Mr. Mansfitld, the boy
said he would prefer going to gaol for three months
rather than go back to the ship. The lad wac remanded
to this day in order to give him time to consider on the
point.
Barmsn.—Hugh Gallagher, who resides in a court
off Peter-street, with a female named Bridget Washing-
ton, was charged with having committed the following
outrage on that woman. From the evidence it appeared
that on Saturday evening the prisoner entered the house,
and without any cause, seized her by the head and bit
her in a furious manner on the forehead, inflicting con-
siderable wounds on her. In answer to the charge, the
prisoner said the woman had fallen down stairs, whilst
in a s'ate of intoxication, and that was lion she got hurt,
but this was disproved, and the prisoner was sent to gaol
for three months.

MILITIA SURGEONS.—It has been decided, says the
United Service Gazette, that the medical officers of the
militia regiments are to receive twelve months' pay as a
doucear on disembodiment, subalterns three months' pay,
and that quarter-masters are to be confined on the staff.
CAVALRY AND INFANTRY BARRACKS.—A return moved
for by Sir J. Paxton gives a list of 17 or It; barracks
erected at London, Londonderry, Ashton, Bury, Preston.
Brecon, Newport, Bristol, Pembroke, Sheffield, Sheer-
ness, Portsea, and in the Channel Islands during the
last 25 years. They are for the most part infantry
barracks, and are capable of accommoilating 318 officers,
and 9,831 privates. The outlay per man incurred in
the building of these barracks varied from 361 to 2081.