The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-10 00:00:00

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Tie' who calumniated my character.

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ding the name of

an individual.
Mr. Smith : Ido not chose to give up the name. I had
been inform-d of certain acts which very much affected my
confidence, and because I refused to give up the name of
my informant I received this letter.
Mr. Logan : I have a reputation and character to main-
tain and support, and these have been attackeil. I asked
him to give me up the name of the person who had vilified
my character, an I do not think it a threat to ask the
name of the party who has injured my reputation. That is
all I stated in that note, and that is all I demand,
Mr. 13enn : I fancy all that is required in this case is to
have Mr. Logan bound to keep the peace to Mr. Smith and
other persons.
Mr. Smith : I demand no more, sir.
Mr. Wybergh : Are you willing, Mr. Logan, to enter into
recognizance to keep the peace ?
Mr. Logan : Yes, I am.

Mr. Benn : We are willing to accept of your own
recognizance in the sum of £5OO, t] keep the peace for
twelve months. Are you so willing to be bound ?,
Mr. Ligon : I am.
Mr. Wybergh : Then yon are satisfied to enter into
your own recognizance in a sum of £5OO, to keep the peace
to all her Majesty's subjects, but mare particularly to Mr.
J. P. G. Smith, for the space of twelve months
Mr. Logan : I am.
The usual bond was then entered into, and Mr. Logan
was discharged.
The letter in question was detained by his worship, but
the reporters could not procure a copy, nor would they be
allowed to look at it.

THE RECENT FRACAS

-'4.--

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—I request you will be good enough to permit me to
offer, through the columns of your paper, the following

explanation—plain and truthful—of the facts of the unp:ea-
sant dispute between Mr. Rawle and myself, which has

given rise to the numerous paragraphs in the papers during
the last few days. On Friday, the 29th ult. myself, Mr.
Rawle, and two other friends, spent the evening together ;
we were returning home in a spirit of the most cordial
friendship, Mr. Rawle and Mr. - walking in front, and
Mr. - and myself in the rear ; in the most perfect
good humour I gently pushed the point of a small cane
against Mr. Rawle's back; he certainly did object to my

(Lion. so, yet I again, to teaze him, repeated it. Without
further notice, or uttering a syllable, he turned about and
struck me on the head, knocked off my hat, causing my
asses to fall to the ground. I was quite taken aback—
t,ltished—l uttered an exclamation of surprise, and begged
oid being exposed, as I felt the dis-

move on to

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street row.

Well, sir,

we walked on a short space, side by side, during which time
I denounced his conduct, in thus attacking me, as cowardly
and unjustifiable, and expresed my determination to resent
it. In a moment afterwards I saw him get into a car, and I
then, for the first time, marked my displeasure of his eon-
hut by striking him with my cane; he got out of the oar,
seized me, and in our wrestle, broke it, again re-entered the
car and drove off. Thus the affair terminated. When I got
home, I certainly did write a very intemperate note to him,
but it was under strong feelings of resentment. I felt I
had been grossly, shameful!y, and unju.tly outraged,
and I found it difficult to find language to designate suitably
the aggressor. I believed his conduct to be cowardly and
ruffianly, but I know it would have been wiser :if had I
abstained from writing him so.

The above are the simple facts. It remains now sir, only
for me to say, that I was at your office the morning follow-
ing, and had an interview with your reporter in reference to
a letter I had that morning received from the Poor-law
Board. I was also at the office of the Mercury and the
NORTHERN TIMES on the same subject, had conversations
with the sub-editor of the former, and the proprietor of the
latter. I have been daily engaged in town since then, on
my ordinary public and private duties, and all who know
me know that there is not a word of truth in the statement,
that I had " abstained from being seen in town," that I had
"blackened eyes," or that I had occasion for " plaster" to
" cover ugly disfigurations," none of which existed, except
in the fertile imagination of tho anonymout; writer. Gene•
rally, sir, I may say that it has seldom been my lot to read
anything so one-sided or unfair, not to add untruthful, as
the dressed-up paragraphs which have been published on
this subject ; nor was there any " presentation" of a valuable
stick, with " suitable inscription," for " services" connected
with the parish; nor did Mr. Rawle go to London at the
time stated ; nor did the letter fall into the hands of Mrs.
R. by mistake.
Again, let me ask any just and honourable man whether
it is fair to placard my name in every part of the town, whilst
that of Arr. Boyle' s is entirely suppressed ? Am I not justified
in saying that these publications are more than one-sided
and unjust, and am I not warranted in believing that the
correspondent of another journal and Mr. Itawfe are con-
nected ? How is it that my private note to him finds its way
to the press without his address appended ? Does not this
studied suppression of Mr. .Rawle's name evidence a desire
to depart from what is right? If my conduct deserves pub-
licity, so does his ; and I ask any honourable man to consi-
der what kind of mind a man can have who would act as
Mr. Rawle has acted, simply because his friend, with whom
he had been spending an entire evening, gently pushed his
back with a stick. We find him, first, rushing to violent
resistance ; secondly, in violation of every feeling which
should govern man and man, publishes a private note on the
subject ,• and, again, taking care that while the man with
whom he has constantly associated, was being injured in
every imaginary way by the: most extensive publiclty, that
he was sheltered ? Can any person of right mind approve
of this? I know, sir, for some time back I have been
obnoxious to a part of the Liverpool press; but it should
and ought to be far beneath the dignity of that mighty
vehicle of public instruction, to stoop to the degradation of
writing or hunting any man down, by the publication of
exaggeration, misrepresentation, or garbled and one-sided
statements.

I feel confident that, in the columns of your paper,
justice will not be denied, and, in the present instance, it
will be seen how very unjustly I have been made to occupy
a most unpleasant position before my fellow townsmen.—
Yours, &c., E. BV.ADLEV.
p.5.-I have abstained from naming the two gentlemen
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who accompanied us when this unpleasantness occurred ;
but they can testify that the particular act on which Mr.
Rawle relies, as a justification of his attack upon me, was
done f 2 a spirit of the moat perfect good humour, and in the
precise manner tiotP4 itbovo.

The 3foniteur, of Friday, contains an Imperial decree,
calling out for active service 140,000 young soldiers for
the class of 1855.

The passage in the speech of the Emperor Napoleon,
which relates to the Eastern question, has not produced a
favourable impression at Vienna.
Admiral Watson has sailed from Kiel. He has ordered
the fleet to assemble off 11loor Island, and announced the
renewal of the blockade of the Russian ports.
BERLIN, FRIDAY.—Count Schonbaloff and Count Levas-
choff passed through this city en route for Paris. They are
the bearers of fresh instructions for the Ruesian Plenipo-

tentiarics.
The interval batween the opening of the navigation in
the Baltic and the commencement of the blockade is being
dil'gently turned to account by vessels laden chiefly with
salt and wine.
BERLIN, MARCH 6.—The Upper Chamber have adopted,
in yesterday's sitting. the proposition of dividing the budget
into an ordinary and extraordinary budget although govern-
ment opposed the proposition.
The Paris correspondent of the Times learns, from a good
source, that the negociations are making satisfactory pro,.
and this was officially the case at the two
sof the conference held last week. Peace is looked
uponnow as all hut certain. Russia, it is said, is gradually
yielding, while France and England are as firm as ever.

LAUNCHES AT WOODSIDE, TRANMERE-;
AND LIVERPOOL.

Three vessels intended for home purposes, two of them
steamers, were launched on to the Mersey on Saturday,
about noon, and almost simultaneously. Messrs. James
Brisbane, jun., whose yard is near Woodside-ferry. launched
a pretty little schooner, 75 feet in length, 16 feet beam, 12
feet depth of hold, and about 100 tons measurement, which
was christened the Sarah. She is constructed of oak, is
copper-fastened, and will class A 1 at Lloyd's for seven years.
She is owned by the builders and will be employei in the
coasting trade. The chief feature about the launch was its
difficulty, for the ways down which the ship ran extended
from the yard a distance of over forty feet across the quay
of the Woodside basin. The launch, however, was quite
successful, and the vessel was afterwards taken
into the Great Float, to be riggel and
fitted. The launch at Tranmere Fool was a
great novelty, for no event of the kind has taken place

there for seventeen years past, when Mr. Lomax gave
up his tenancy of the building-slip and graving-dock
attached to Tranmere Ferry. About six months ago,
Messrs. Redhead, Harland, and Brown became tenants of
the building premises, and at once laid two vessels down,
the first of which was launched on Saturday. She is a
finely modelled wooden vessel, 100 feet in length, 18 feet
beam, 94 feet depth of hold, and measuring about 140 tons.
she is clincher built to the wales, and, above that, carved ;
the frame of British oak. She is intended for a tug steamer,
and will be fitted with two steeple engines, of 60-horse
power, with disconnecting gear. Her owners are Messrs.
Cruise and Downham. A large number of persons collected
in the yard to witness the launch, and there were also
many persons stationed en the bridge which connects
Birkenhead and Tranmere ferries, from which an excellent
view could be obtained. The vessel presented a smart
appearance, being painted light blue and white, and gaily
decorated with flags. A little after twelve, the vessel
was sent off the stocks, after being. christened the Con-
queror, by Miss Cruise, amidst the cheers of the spectators,
and a salute of fifteen guns fired from Messrs. Scott's
foundry, immediately adjoining. Two more paddle steamers
are in course of construction in the same yard, one a tug-
boat of 70-horse power, the other a handsome steam yacht
of 100 tons, and 40-horse power, which will be launched
next spring, and has been built for some English merchants
at Constantinople, to carry them about on the Golden Horn
and Bosphorus. The launch on tl,is side was from the yard
of the old Liverpool Steam Tug Company, Qaeen's-basin
and the vessel was a fine iron paddle boat 130 feet long,
204 feet beam, 11 feet depth of hold, and 234 tons mea-
surement, to be fitted with side lever engines of 100-horse
power, made by Messrs. Fewcett, Preston and Co, of this
town ; the vessel went down the ways in capital style,
and was christened the Fury, by Miss Gordon,
a daughter of one of the directors. The company are
gradually getting rid of their old and inferior wooden
vessels, and are substituting iron ones of improved model
and increased power. Messrs. Vernon and Sou are building
them one nearly similar to the Fury, to be supplied with
engines by Messrs. Boulton and Watt, of Birmingham.
Another very large boat, something like the Rattler, but of
lighter draft of water, is also being constructed for them by
Messrs. Stephens and Son, of Glasgow. These improved
vessels are necessary to carry on the business of the company
efficiently, in consequence of the great increase in the size
of the vessels entering the port.