The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-11 00:00:00

HEALTH COMMITTEE.

The first Meeting of this Committee, on its re-appoint-
ment, was held yesterday. The following members were
present : Messrs. Langsdale, Gladstone, Moss, Dover,
Beckwith, Fleming, Nicholson, Johnson, Holhead, Stew-
art, McNicol, Godfrey, Hodson ; Mr. Alderman LANGSDALE
was re-elected Chairman for the ensuing year, and Mr.
Alderman Dover, Vice-Chairman. The various Sub Com-
mittees of the body were then re-appointed, and the usual
routine of arrangements for conducting the business of the
Committee made. On the motion of Mr. Beckwith, se-
conded by Mr. Nicholson, the hour of meetmg was changed,
from the inconvenient one of half-past two o'clock, p.m., to
eleven o'clock, a.m. Mr. Newland, the borough engineer
reported that, the available balance to be spent between
this and March in paving was, in Liverpool, £16,919;
Kirkdale, £3,934 ; Everton, £2,050 ; West Derby, £7,829 ;
Toxteth Park, £8,419; for sewerage, Liverpool, £3,800;
Everton, £5,000 ; West Derby, £BO9 ; Toxteth Park,
£2,457 ; Kirkdale, £6 10s. 9d. This was exclusive of all
work ordered. Mr. Johnson directed attention to a nuisance
arising in London-road, opposite Audley-street, caused by
a very bad smell arising out of a sewer. It was supposed
this smell originated in a gut manufactory, in Troughbndge-
street ; and the attention of the officers of this Committee was
directed to the matter.

Mr Risirrox, the Building Surveyor, reported the inspec-
tion within the last three weeks of 505 delapidated privies
and ashpits, 399 of which were undergoing alterations and
repairs, and 106 of which required such, together with va-
rious other details in his department.
Mr. NEWLANDS, the Borough Engineer, reported nume-
rous particulars of etc work done and in hand in his de-
partment.
Mr. FRESH, the Inspector of Nuisances, reported the
emptying of 3,216 cesspools, the inspection of 408 nuisan-
ces complained of by inhabitants, and the reference of 179
others to the Borough Engineer for remedy by drainage, &c,
with a detail of the other operations of his staff, including
particulars of a sanitary examination of 2,532 court-houses,
302 lodging-houses, and 2,630 cellars, formerly cleared of
inmates in the lowest part of the town, and from which it
appeared that the sanitary officers had; made special exami-
nation during the last three weeks, of 7,716 different apart-
ments in street-houses, and 8,010 rooms in court-houses, in
the districts named, for the purpose of eradicating un-
healthiness therefrom, besides the cellar inspections above
named.
The proceedings then terminated.

POLICE COURTS.-YESTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL.

VrritioL THROWING.—Ann Webster, a small and delicate-
looking woman, was charged with having, between 8 and 9
o'clock on the evening of the 22nd ultimo, in Houghton-
street, thrown a quantity of vitriol over the face of her
reputed husband, Gabriel Webster, as he lay in bed. They
had been walking out together that evening, and had taken
a good deal of drink. Mist out, and after their return,
they had had sharp words.
Webster, the reputed husband, presented a shocking
figure on coming into Court. He has been in the Royal
Infirmary ever since he received the injuries, and could not
appear until yesterday, for which reason the prisoner had
been twice remanded by the Magistrates. His head and
neck, and nearly all his face, were bound up, holes
being cut in the bandage which was thrown across his
eyes.
The unhappy man could only say of the business, that
after having quarrelled with the prisoner, he lay on the
bed, and subsequently saw her come towards him and
throw some liquid from a bottle over his face, which pro-
duced a strange burning sensation.
A female in the house deposed that, she heard Webster
cry out in accents which betokened excruciatingagony,
" Murder," and, immediately succeeding this ararm, she
saw the prisoner rushing down the stairs.
Thomas Davis, druggist, of Copperas-hill stated that, the
prisoner had, on the 18th of October, purchased a penny-
worth of vitriol in his shop, which she stated she required
for the purpose of preparing a wash for the hands and
teeth.

Mr. H. Watters, house surgeon of the Royal Infirmary,
swore that the complainant was admitted to that institution
on the 23rd ultimo. His face was burned and blackened,
from the effects of some corrosive liquid. He had not since
been in a fit state to appear to give his evidence. He had
lost his eyebrows, the skin of his eyelids, and a great portion
of that of his face and neck, but his eyesight had almost mi-
raculously escaped.
In her defence, the prisoner said that she held a bottle of
vitriol, (which she used as a wash when qualified with other
ingredients), in her hand at the time ; that being excited by
the continual drunkenness of her husband, she might have
thrown it over him, but she has no recollection of doing so,
An officer deposed that, on her way to the Bridewell, the
prisoner exclaimed that " she did not care a d-, and that
he got what he deserved."
Webster said that the prisoner was not his wife, but that
they had lived together ten or twelve years.
The pillow and clothes upon which the injured man lay
at the moment of this diabolical outrage, were produced,
burned into holes and scorched.

The magistrates committed the prisoner for trial at the
assizes.

After being removed to the table where depositions are
taken, prisoner exclaimed " that she would take care to
give him a ' polishing' before she had done."

STEALING FRUIT : Christopher Reily, formerly a watch-
man over vegetables at the market, was charged with
stealing a dozen pears from a stall in Great Charlotte-street,
near St. John's market. This case, which occupied the bench
tne greater portion of yesterday, seemed to excite consider-
able interest.

Mr. Almond, solicitor, appeared to promote the prosecu-
tion against the prisoner. He said it was a case in which
the circumstances justified very strong steps, and went on
to detail the facts of frequent plunderings of fruit taking
place in the neighbourhood of the market, and the circum-
stances of the prisoner's arrest, almost in the actual fact of
purloining a quantity of pears belonging to Edwin Reaves,
fruit-dealer. He stated that the prisoner had for some
time been in the joint employment of Mr. Raves and other
parties as night watchman, but for months he had dis-
continued this connection.

Market Constable Lloyd was examined, and stated that on
Wednesday night he was on special duty at Gill-street
market, and by order of his superintendent, proceeded to
Great Charlotte-street, where he hid himself under the steps
of the Fish market, opposite the middle entrance to St.
John's market, at about a quarter past twelve o'clock. He
eould see the baskets of fruit covered with tarpaulin at the
opposite side of the street. He saw the prisoner come up
and approach the baskets. He had known him before. He
saw him go away and return, and then he stooped down
over one of the baskets, which was the property of Mr.
Reaves ; witness went up to him and asked him if he was
watchman. Prisoner answered that ho was not. He then
crossed the street, throwing some pears from him. An
officer came up, and was by when prisoner got rid of the
pears, and when witness made him prisoner. He said, when
accused, " Do you think no one has pears beside Reaves ?"
and at the same time witness had mentioned no name to
prisoner. This witness was cross-examined at great length
by Mr. Duke, of the firm of Robinson and Duke. He
elicited that witness had been, on that night, at three dif-
ferent periods, in the public house of Mr. Porter. He had
drank two glasses of whisky, and after the arrest of the pri-
soner, one half-glass of brandy there, and he did not know
who had paid for the last whisky or the brandy. He had
himself paid for the first whisky ; Mrs. Porter and Mrs.
Reaves were in the house, and after the arrest he saw Mr.
Luya' the superintendent of St. John's market, there He
said to him, Have you got any one ?" witness said "Yes,"
" Who?" said Mr. Luya, " Christopher Riley " was the
answer, upon which Mr. Luya said, " Ah! you have got
Riley, have you." In answer to other questions, witness
said that he had read in a newspaper the report of the case
of "Greenfield v. Sykes" in the County Court. He never
knew that Riley was a witness for Sykes in that matter, nor
was he ever told so by Lnya or Porter.
Mrs. Reaves deposed that she knew the prisoner. He
was formerly a watchman of hers. Last night she had
apples, pears, and walnuts under the shed, The pears were
of a very peculiar kind. They were French fruit called
glout rnorceau, and worth from 3s. to 4s. the dozen. The
pears produced she positivoly identified as her husband's
property.
Mr. Duke addressed the Court for the defence, princi-
pally relying on the little credibility that he asserted should
be placed on the market officer, Lloyd, (who contrary to the
regulations of the police, would accept of free drink in a pub-
lice house), against a man whose character had been hither-
to unblemished.

The M%gistrates said they thoui;ht that the defence was
going to be the animus, which might have actuated the
prosecution. They would remand the case until to-morrow,
in order to have the evidence of the police officer who was
by, as stated by Lloyd, when the arrest was made and the
pears snapped.
ILLEGALLY PAWNING.—Mary Bradshaw, convicted of
illegally pledging a shawl, at Mr. Woodriffe's pawn shop,
the property of Bridget M'Crivie, of Albert-place, Great
Homer-street, was sentenced to pay ls. 6d. value of shawl,
20s. fine, or to be imprisoned for 7 days.
COMMITMENTS.--Daniel Lees, for stealing rope from the
ship Philharmonic, one months' imprisonment. William
Johnson, for stealing a piece of gingham from 56, Mill-
street, two months' imprisonment. Thomas .Power at-
tempting. to steal mutton from the shop of Anne Barnes,
of Wood-street, and assaulting her, three months' impri-
sonment.

ASSAULT CASE.—Jane Bryton, was summoned by Fanny
Williams for an assault. Defendant is housekeeper in the
establishment of Mr. Harrison, of Spring Hill, and plaintiff
is a housemaid in the same service. On Saturday last de-
fendants in a very unprovoked manner, assaulted Williams,
and threw a jug and knife at her. It was said that Bryton
was a relation of Mr. Harrison, who is a very aged person.
Mr. Clough said that he had been informed that defend-
ant (who was a most respectable-looking elderly female) had
acquired drinking habits, which made her not only uncom-
fortable to her own household, but to the public generally.
It was, he believed, with great reluctance, that the present
eourse was takan.

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The magistrates ordered her to find two securities isioti4
and bind herself in £2O, to keep the peace towards P
or in default, be imprisoned for one month.
ABSCONDING FROM THE INDUSTRIAL SC
Lloyd, James Murphy, Samuel Foster, Charles Par' ,y'
Daniel .Devlin, boys connected with the Industxusitio7,lol,
were put forward, charged with absconding fr°lll 00,
with the clothes of that establishment, and a wolartio'
Ann M,lntyre was accused of having purchased 3P"
the clothing. oroPatl
The master tailor of the school swore to tins„.
produced, which had the brand of the house upoll,i'votd
From evidence given, it appeared that it was the to 01
of one of the boys, Lloyd, who had sold the aPrilial,.
if
prisoner, M'lntyre, and this woman is now sull
prisonment in jail for another crime. eh.* cl/1
The tailor said this crime of absconding wit
of the establishment was, unhappily, becoming a t. 7.1
practice, and the directors wished, if possible, to Pis
to it. os"
At the request of Mr. Clough, the case was - ~pettroul
until next Saturday, when the woman Lloyd, wh° 3Prour
the most guilty party in the transaction, could be
up.
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EXTENSIVE ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.--A,ra,lPat
was remanded charged with, on Tuesday nir"Bictr
o'clock, in Waterloo, stealing from the person °
Hilton. a flat man the sum of £2B in sovereigns. 4110
Complainant said that prisoner and another lot la" is#
come up to him and hustled him, robbing him, at he
time. • thisl6

The prisoner belongs to a family of well-known '
and had been seven times before committed. hod
A MELANCHOLY CASE.—Edward Ellis, a tall, halico
" old man, whose appearance evidenced better bis Jobl
charged with offering for sale, at the book-stand °, 000
Bentley, in Lime-street, onevolume of a work of sora.,ol
entitled "The Women of Israel" and which bore
title page the mark of the British and Foreign Lino loYi
Mr. Bentley stated that the prisoner had offerea,ol
book for eighteen pence, he getting nine pence ill ,0101,j
nine pence when he would produce the other,,
Witness said this would not do, but told him to yr
other volume and he would give him the money (t764/1;
for the purpose of detecting the prisoner, as he aLwdr,,
posed the book to belong to the Free Library).
.Mate asked prisoner what he was, when the unhapPf ,00,"
replied with tears that he had received the edtletfe,
gentleman, but through losses in business he and "'",,pes.``.
were reduced to a most miserable condition. Ile (II",
for the truth of what he said to a respectable gelluterr,l
Mr. Smith then present. Mr. Smith said that the o', v
of prisoner as to his respectability was correct, but joe,
poverty, he found out it was the result of drinkill.s,
and general improvidence. He had applied to 1,11-00k1
Smith) once, and on that occaion :he had raise(' bleb
subscription three pounds, ten shillings, most of °Lir
believed he had spent in drink. His wife and
were superior and industrious people, who lived by ow" e
A DEPRAVED DAUGHTER.—Grace Hughes, a ruligeo
man of about twenty-four, was charged by her nint,hhist
robbing her. The complainant said it was hard p,
a mother to say, but she begged of the magistrates,t?fig sr,
this unfortunate girl, as she had acquired drill'ot
depraved habits, and kept late hours, and vile ec;ittlr
She was drunk last night when booked. The latter.Ao
confirmed by. the police, who said the prosecuto
most industrious, hard working, and respectable
woman. The magistrates said there was little Was:,
girl. They would now treat her case as one of
and fine her 55., or three days imprisonment. Bar
CAUTION TO UN-LICENSED Lu GGAGE PORTERSI,
Fitzpatrick, _Hugh Riley, Michael Wilson, Henry ‘,41
Robert Shannon, for applying for luggage, without 7r
obtained licenses, were each fined 2s. 6d. and costs,
imprisoned for fourteen days in default of payment. 01
STEALING GLASS Doons.—A man named /alga 0!1.,
remanded from yesterday, was again brought fore
charge of stealing three glass doors, a large piece of14:0
framing, and several other articles, from the 04 ?4,i
Fergi, Roscoe-street, on the 21st of, September las!. fa
of the property has been found, and identified by Jstd 009
as his property. The prisoner was not apprehall"`"
last Monday. He was fully committed for trial.

MANCHESTER. n
THE LATE ROBBERY OF A SILK MANITFACTOIair•---4
prisoners, Walker, Butler, Bushell, Langley, riPPioc
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Thomas, were brought up, on remand from Monday' otoleA
the first two with receiving knowing it to have boerkt
and the last four with stealing, a quantity of L 141,0050
from the premises of Mr. Miles Simpson, to
The particulars of this case we have already giveo,2 $111)ef":
period of the remand. To-day, Mr. Beswici, cb 004)
intendent of police, was for the prosecution;
solicitor, was for the prisoners Bushell, Lanols;terea to
and Thomas • and Mr. Bent, solicitor, was for°l'aloess
Butler. It will be remembered that access was 1)„, 10"ot
the premises by crossing the river. The first l'totea
examined to-day was John Edward Hughes, who ''ot,b° vet
he was in the employ of Mr. Hughes, who letshe dooey
On Saturday evening, about nine o'elo/te
Thomas came to his master's and asked ..„i` Bade re
boat to go up the river for half an hour; -u-r•
John 1'
to lend him the boat as it was too ifiat isse
in the employment of ISEN, n any, irie--t it
who keeps a number of boats for hire, stated ne OLD
one of his master's boats on Sunday morning•
safe at half-past five o'clock on Saturday eve°l7Stal'al
he fastened all the boats up. On the afternoon °fteretlo
the boat was found at Throstle Nest. On Tuesday
i'bef
the same boat was inspected by Inspector Mg' csr`r,
found in it a small piece of paper. Joseph Wils°ll', bee
in the employment of William Bailey, who keerTipt;iii
shop in Salford, stated that on Sunday morning
at a
Bushell, and a man not in custody, called upon hl°l a to WY
ten minutes past six ; they told him to put the. .b°l"to
cart, which he did, and they directed him to dry" st hey
Top Station ; they met with him ; they started Abe ; tylo
past 6 or 20 minutes to seven o'clock, in the eveoilart
brought a bag with them, which was put into the virslloo
'could 0,1.4
drove the cart to the house of one of the prisoners/
at Collyhurst ; when they got to Walker's, the L'be bac
taken into the house, and the prisoners went in by ,
door • witness saw Walker, who was below stairs a be
dow, 'looking into the garden ' • Langley told witness ociio
better go, on which he turned his horse's head, and, t oleo'
home about half past 9 o'clock; shortly afterwards
Tipping, and Bushell, came to his master's and tle
again to put his horse to the cart, which he, did; Trseim
met him at Ordsall-lane, when the prisoner Thomas re
a bundle with him which contained silk ; he a,gail,llV,ferA,;
cart to Walker's house, where the bundle was
Thomas said he had got five sovereigns for the g°°,l•,,Pi
others said he must have got more, and went to see /0,
Thomas afterwards paid witness 2s. 6d. for the eartaefli,
that he had got £7 Hs. altogether for the goods-, al;
bag produced (which was found in Walker's -hoilse/;tio
like the one the other prisoner put on the cart the tirsieric,°,
they came to him. A person named Clarke, who is °to vij
an attorney, endeavoured to persuade him to g°
country until to-day's examination was over, but be
not.
Inspector Maybury, in addition to his former efla'
stated when he searched the boat belonging to 10
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STEALING A BREAKFAST.—Yesterday, at the
Borough Court, a young man named William .Roihnt)i
years of age, was found guilty of having, on the ii,
November, stolen a breakfast from a little boy Igri
taking it in a can to his father, and adjudged to g
imprisonment, with hard labour. 4110
CAUTION TO CARTERS.—At the Borough Court,
yesterday, William Young, of Halshaw Moor, was n,cre
with being drunk and incapable, about half-pest
o'clock on the previous evening, in Frederick-stree`,i, 010
was in charge of two horses and carts, laden with 07,t,i0
unable to take care of them, being laid in the etre"
helpless state of intoxication. Fined 10s. and costs.
ROBBERY OF WEARING APPAREL.—At the Otla
Court, yesterday, two boys named Joseph BooF,'"A
Henry Clifton ", and an elderly female named Sa,,,
Rigge, were charged, the former two with stcalieso,
the woman with receiving, knowing it to be st°o,o
qnautity of wearing apparel from a house in Ca 10.
After a short examination, all the three prifac j
committed to take their trials at the sessions,
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BIRTHS. Ai
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lady of Captain Pickering. of the ship Martha. of this port. „tale
On the sth instant, at Hay House, Park-lane, SIM )1 .. 0.
a son of '4'
On the 9th instant, at Abercromby-square, the Wife
Lemonius, Esq., of a daughter. 0
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MARRIAGES. s'
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At Weybridge, on Tuesday, the Bth instant, by the seconboOel
Gifford, M.A., Albert Vaillant, Captain Bombay Aroll, tiVooloo
viving son of the late Rev. Philip Valliant, rector of Stohtte C ,
Surrey, to Giulia Isabella, youngest daughter of the Stoke
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On the Bth instant, at St. Clement Danes Chure--.,d, O-
Henry James Owen. of Live Tool. Esq., to Francis ft, of
daughter of the late William Dickenson Nethersele, le
1,00,
street, Strand. Esq.
EATHS.
On the Bth instant, in the Ile of an, aged 49, the Se.
Dickson Blundell, Esq., of this town. 18041. 1
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On the Bth instant, at Bootle, aged 36, R. W. Flute for the_dor
On the Bth instant, at Conway, where he had gene,,,,iod 13°..- i
of his health, Charles Euston, second son of the late gu 11°
of Pofo
Esq., of Seacombe. . ~
At it. George's, Bermuda, on the 22nd of Septet Twice 0113
fever, aged 23, Georgina Maria Louisa Phillis, th!don the et
Lieutenant Montagu Whitmore, Royal Engineers; g' nil 1,0
September, their infant daughter.
At Berlin, on the 26th ultimo of cholera, after an,ibirbetsii%r"
days, Charlotte, the wife of dtho Baron d'EndTi.t of lloi
Majesty the King of Saxony, and eldest daue ?ix, rirerlii
General Sir John Forster Fitz Gerald, K.C.B. ati'l 1/,,utes„. 0
On the 601 instant. at Bagneres deli
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Lucy, the beloved wife of Alfred Binyon, Esq., of 11
52nd year.
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