The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-16 00:00:00

COUNTY COURT-YESTERDAY.

The court sat at the usual hour yesterday.
LEWIS v. WILLIAMS—This was an action brought by
John Lewis, a glazier, against William Williams, a house
agent, to recover 1/. ss. 10d., the price of 62 feet of glass.
The evidence of the plaintiff was to the effect that a tenant
of a house for which defendant was agent, came to him, and
asked him to put in the glass, upon which the plaintiff called
upon defendant, and got an order from him to put in the
glass, at sd. a foot. The defendant denied that he had
given any such order, and deposed that when plaintiff made
the claim upon him, he told him to go to the person who
had ordered the work, upon which plaintiff said " If you
don't pay.me I will swear you gave the order." His honor
finally gave a verdict for the defence.
APMEE v. HARRIS—A woman named M'Mee sought to
recover ius. 11 UM a young Mall naurca. lint .F
a pair of boots. The plaintiff deposed that defendant came
into her shop to purchase a pair of boots ; ho tried on a pair
which did not fit, and then another pair, the price of which
was 10s. In taking off the second pair of boots, he pulled
ono of thorn so violently that the leather tore across. He
then refused either to take the boots or to pay for them.
The defendant alleged that the leather in the boots was
quite rotten, and no stronger than brown paper, and said he
took them off as easily as he could. Plaintiff : I would not
tell a lie for a pair of boots. We are here to-day and there
to-morrow. (Laughter.) I would not tell a lie for a hun-
dred pairs of boots. His Honor : It seems that you were
rather rough in this matter,•and that you did some mischief
which you might have avoided; but I cannot say that you
must pay 10s. for it. You must pay half a crown, and the
costs to be paid in court.
SLOANE V. YULE—Peter Sloane, linendraper, summoned
George Yule, Dryden-street, carrier, for if. 135., the value
of goods furnished to his wife. The defendant alleged that
he never knew that his wife had got the goods, and never
saw them. Re stated that he.told his wife some time since,
never to take any goods from travelling Scotchmen, who
persuaded people to give them orders. He also desired her
never to go on credit, and he never knew that she did so,
except upon one occasion, when he went with her
to a shop in town. In answer to the court, the de-
fendant stated that he had 265. a-week wages, of
which he allowed his wife 1/. for the support of the family,
and kept the remainder for clothes for them. His
Honor said that appeared to be one of the cases in which by
the recent decision of the judges a husband was not liable.
It appeared that the defendant had given positive orders to
his wife not to deal with those people, and that he never
knew that she had got credit, except . upon one occasion,
when he was himself with her. He should, therefore, hold
that the defendant was not liable, and that his wife had no
authority to pledge his credit. The case was accordingly
dismissed.

GEORGE JOHNSON, TREASURER OF THE LIVERPOOL BENE-
VOLENT LOAN SOCIETY, V. MOORE.—ThIS was an action
brought upon behalf of the above-named society to recover
£3 ss. from the defendant, the balance remaining due of a
loan for which the defendant had been a surety. The prin-
cipal in the case and the co-surety we're some years dead.
Mr. Chilton appeared for the defendant. It appeared from
the evidence of the officer of the society, that the last pay-
ment was made in July, 1846, Mr. Chilton remarked upon
the hardship caused to the defendant, who was a poor man,
in being now called upon to pay this amount, after a lapse of
seven years, and after the principal and the co-surety had
died. His Honor : lam prepared to say that it is a case in
which I may grant indulgence, if that is what you want. I
shall order it to be paid in a very small way, because I
think it is a case in which this man is entitled to considera-
tion. The officer of the society stated that they were will-
ing to take the amount in any payments, however small,
which the defendant could afford to give. Tho defendant
coicl ho nc-rci icxeived any notice of the debt during. the time
mentioned. His Honor: I will take that into consideration,
and make an order such as I never made before in any case
connected with such societies. I will order that it be paid
at 4s. a month.

The greater number of the cases heard during the day
were trifling claims of debt, which possessed no public in-
terest.

We understand that Mr. Bright, M.P., will be unable to
be present at the Peace Meeting about to be held in Glasgow,
in consequence of a sudden and severe domestic bereave-
ment.

Her Majesty the Queen, hearing of the very heavy drain
upon the funds of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners'
Royal Benevolent Society, consequent upon the late disas-
trous gales, has, with her accustomed liberality, presented
this valuable institution, of which she is patron, with the
sum of 100 guineas.
THE TEA TRADE, Nov. 14.--The deliveries of tea in
London for the week are 584,2101 b., a trifling decrease only
as compared with the previous week.
DEATH OF LADY PANMURE. —We regret to announce
that Lady Panmure died on Friday, at Pitfour Castle,
Perthshire. Lady Panmure, who was born in 1807, was
the eldest daughter of the second Lord Abercrombv, and
was married to Lord Panmure, then the Hon. Fox Maule,
in 1831. She leaves no issue.

DEATH FROM EATING YEW BERRIES.—A few days since
Mr. Whitmarsh held an inquest at Sevenhampton, on the
body. of a child, who had been poisoned by eating some yew
berries which it had picked up in the churchyard while
playing there with some other children. The jury found
that the deceased had been "accidently poisoned."—Salis-
bury Journal.
GOOD COUNSEL.—The most superficial glance at the
present condition of European states shows that those
nations which linger in the race cannot hope to escape the
partial diminution, and, perhaps, final annihilation of their
resources. It is with nations as with nature, which knows
no pause in ever increasing movement, development, and
production—a curse ever cleaving to standing still.—Hion-
bold&

LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST, of Dowlais, has promised to
supply the whole of Dowlais with water at her own expense,
involving an. outlay of 3,000/. The supply is to Le drawn
from the Dowlais lands, and will prove a most invaluable
boon to Dowlais, which at present is scarcely supplied with
this necessary element, and the sanitary condition in conse-
quence is extremely wretched.