The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-18 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

was desired by Mr. Snape to keep him in half an hour.
Mr. Snape said, " Pall the string, keep him in half an
hour, and then give him a good dose of the light-coloured
mixture, and look to him several times." After this, Mr.
Snape stood talking to me two or three minutes. He told
me that he had never been struck before by a patient
since he had been in the institution. He said this before
he directed me to keep Dolly in the bath half an hour,
and give hin as, rung dose. I asked him to tell Davies
when the time was up, as I had not got a watch. Mr. Snape
also said, " let him have a gruel diet. Some of the patients
are allowed tea sometimes, as au indulgence, to encourage
them to work and employ themselves. Dolley had been
allowed tea a month previously, before he became excited,
ant since then he had been kept on gruel night and
morning. I looked at him five times while he was in the
bath. He held his hands over the top of his head while
the water wag pouring down upon him. I saw Davies
coming towards the bath; I considered the half hour
must be up, so I opened the door and let him out. He
had been in 28 minutes. I took hold of him, and he walked
to the end of the hip-bath, which he leaned against while
I dried him and dressed him. I assisted in dressing him.
I put his shirt on, and helped him on with his trousers.
He walked with me into the next room—the day room—
where there was a fire, and there I gave him four table
spoonfuls of the medicine (tartar emetic), as I was desired
to do. He swallowed part of it, and spat part of it out.
He was shivering, I went to find his shoes, and not
seeing:any in the cupboard, I went to the shoemakers for
a pair of slippers. I left him stooping to put on his socks.
Pinnegar, another attendant, came to me while I was at
the shoemaker's, and in consequence of what he said to
me, 1 went direct to Mr. Snape. When I returned
Dolley was in No. 3- room, lying dead upon a bed. The
body was then taken to the dead-house. This was about
15 or 20 minutes after he had left the bath.
Cross-examined by Mr. Clarkson : It is a common
thing to give excited patients a cold shower bath. Dolley
had had one for a quarter of an hour or 20 minutes, a
month previously. He was a strong hale man for his age.
I saw no symptoms of distress either of the five times
that I opened the bath and looked in. It is a common
thing for the patients to hold their hands upon their
heads. I was examined on oath before the commissioners.
They asked me the question, " Don't you believe that
this bath was given as a punishment, rather than to allay
the excitement ? " and I replied, "I believe it was given
to allay excitement."

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(Some objection being here raised to this mode of
examination, Mr. Clarkson stated that his object was to
show that the commissioners had no right, under the
statute, to put such questions to the witnesses before
them—questions which invited to certain conclusions,
instead of eliciting facts.)

Witness : I stated then, and I state now, that I do not
believe the bath was ordered as a punishment.
Mr. Henrx : The witness should not be asked his
opinion. That is matter for observation.
Mr. Clarkson : Ido not wish to press the point. Mr.
Snape is as anxious as the commissioners can possibly be
that this enquiry should go elsewhere, therefore, I do not
propose to make many observations here upon a charge
which I solemnly believe has not the remotest shadow of
a foundation in fact.

Mr. Henry : Really, Mr. Clarkson, nothing, can be more
irregular than for a counsel to express his own belief as
to the guilt or innocence of his client. It is highly impro-
per, and wholly uncalled for.

Cross-examination continued: All persons shiver when
they come out of a cold bath, and I did not see that Dolley
shivered more than usual. Mr. Snape was not excited at
all when he gave the order for the half-hour's bath arid
extra dose. He is never an irritable man, but always
kind-hearted and attentive to the patients. He spoke
very calmly, when he said, "I was never struck by a
patient before," and a minute elapsed before he gave the
order afterwards. We might have heard Dolley in the
bath, if he called out very loud. The pressure of the
water is not so strong, after the first eight minutes. It
takes about that time to exhaust the cylinder, and then
the water pours in from the tap, with 'only the ordinary
pressure. I have often put excitable patients into the
bath, and once or twice for 20 minutes with great advan-
tage to them. The commissioners asked me if I did not
force the mixture down Dolley's throat, and I said I did
not.

Re-examined : Mr. Snape told me that he was nearly
stunned by the blow which Dolley gave him. I never
knew of an instance, before this, of a patient being
ordered in the bath for hall an hour. I have known cases
of fifteen and twenty minutes. I know one case of twenty
minutes. It was Gebrge Gale, and he was between 60 and
70, and is still in the institution. The emetic is part of
the system.

Mt. Henry : Do you mean to say that a patient benefits
by being kept in the bath twenty minutes ?
Witness : Yes ; judging from their appearance after-
wards. 1 have alsb heard them say so themselves.

Henry Pinnegar, another attendant in the Asylum, gave
some confirmatory evidence, and stated that when he
entered the room where Dolley was placed, after he came
out of the bath, he found the deceased conversing with
another patient. The patient offered Dolley a piece of
bread. He refused to take it, saying " am too cold," or
something to that effect. Observing him turn pale and
draw up his legs and arms, and that his mouth opened,
witness called to one of the attendants (Ibbetson) to look
to him. Witness went away to two other patients who
who were grumbling, and when he returned Dolley was
dead.

Cross-examined : Dolley had been several times in the
Asylum, and he escaped from it once. - . _

John Ibbetson

also an attendant

, stated that he first

went to assist Barnett, on hearing his signal whistle, in
putting Dolley into the bath. After Dolley was taken
out he heard the signal whistle again, and on going into
the room saw the deceased, who seemed to be struggling
in a fit. He lifted him to a bed white Pinnegar went for
the surgeon, but he died in four or five minutes—before
they returned,

;—examined : I have often given a bath of twenty
minutes, with an emetic afterwards, and consider the
patient benefited by the treatment.
Re-examined : I gave one of 20 minutes to a man named
Barnett, between 30 and 40, and once to an older patient,
s felt in I aged 65. _ _ •

At this period of the examination it was arranged that
an adjournment should take place for two or three weeks
for the convenience of counsel, it being impossible to
complete the case in time for the present sessions at the
Old Bailey.

The defendant, who had appeared to the summons, was
not required to give bail for his future attendance.

THE PALMER PAMPHLET

THE AUTHORSHIP

Early last week, when the pamphlet on Palmer's trial,
addressed to Lord Campbell, and purporting to have been
written by the Rev. Thomas Palmer, made its appearance,
the public generally were astonished at the violence of its
tone, more particularly as the alleged author was a clergy-
man. It has now transpired that the pamphlet in question
was not written by the Rev. Mr. Palmer, and it appears
that he knew nothing whatever abaut it until he saw it in
print, with his name attached as the author. We
are also informed that the reputed authorship was a
source of considerable annoyance to the rev, gentleman,
and that he was much pained at his name being paraded
before the world in connection with a publication contain-
ing such grave and sweeping charges against the Lord
Chief Justice, as well as against the witnesses and others
concerned for the prosecution in the late trial. It would
seem that the publication of the pamphlet was a bookseller's
speculation, and that advantage was taken of the unprece-
dented excitement existing in the public mind, to issue it,
under the impression that a publication appearing under such
peculiar circumstances would be rapidly bought up. The
authorship of the pamphlet is imputed to a gentleman
who some years ago, wrote a series of letters in a morning
paper against the corn laws during the height of that
agitation, but who has more recently published a work
impugning the motives and conduct of the anti-corn law
and financial reform leaders.
As regards the belief, or otherwise, in the prisoner's
guilt, we have it on authority, which admits of little or
no doubt, that Palmer contemplated addressing the public
on the scaffold respecting his innocence, and was only
induced to forego doing so at the earnest solicitation of his
brother, the clergyman, who implored him to save the
feelings of his family, by abstaining from such a declaration
at that awful moment.

THE RECRUITING QUESTION WITH THE

UNITEIS STATES.

Mr. Baillie's notice of a resolution to be moved to-
morrow evening, was altered again on Monday, after Lord
Palmerston's explanations, and now stands in these terms :
" That this house has heard with satisfaction that her
Majesty has not found it necessary to suspend di2lomatic
relations with the United States, but at the same time
feels bound to express its regret that the conduct of
her Majesty's late Env() at Washington, directed and
sanctioned by her Majesty's government, has led to
his dismissal by the President of the United States ;"
on which Mr. Baxter has given notice of an amendment,
to leave out all the words after " United States," to the end,
in order to insert the following words, "and approving of
the moderate and conciliatory spirit in which the cor-
respondence on the subject has been conducted by the
ministry of this country, but without feeling itself called
upon in the present posture of affairs to express any opin;on
as to the difficult and delicate questions which may have
been under discussion, begs to assure her Majesty of its
sincere desire to maintain a good understanding with the
United States of America, and of its earnest hope that her
Mej,:sty's government will be able, with due regard to the
right-, and dignity of the Crown, to bring the questions
pending between the two governments to a peaceful and
satisfactory issue."

ME EMPRESS OF TILE FRENCH.—We read in the Paris
correspondence of the Independence .Beige—" It is said
that the state of her Majesty (the Empress of France) is
such as to justify fresh hopes. I say no more, and readers
will understand the reserve inspired by such a subject."

(BEF3RE MR. ALDERMAN TURNER AND MR. LAWRENCE.)
A BAD CHARACTER.—WiIIiam Wilkstead, alias Wag-
staff, was charged by constable 764. who said he got
him " loitering" about Gloucester-street after one
o'clock in the morning. Mr. Bluck, for the prisoner,
asked the witness why he arrested the prisoner ? and he
replied because he knew him to be a suspicious perion,
and " a bad character." Mr. Block: flow do you know
that? Witness : Because he is only out of gaol a
short time. Mr. Wybergh : Why he is returned on the
books as'not known to the police, so there must be some
mistake about him. Policeman : That is because he
has given another name, and he is not known by the
name he now gives. Mr. Muck : I trust the policeman
will prove what he says, as the prisoner denies that he
was ever here before. Detective officer Carlyle said the
prisoner was a notorious thief, and well known to the
police ; he knew him to be imprisoned nine months for
felony. Smith, another officer, said he knew the pri-
soner to be a convicted thief. Mr. Bluck contended,
that even if the prisoner was as described by the police,
yet he was entitled to his discharge now, for he had not

done anything wrong. The prisoner was discharged,
with a strong caution as to his future conduct.
THE COTTON Ronneay.—John Feeney, John Barlow,
and William Bradbury, were brought up on remand,
the two first charged with stealing six bales of cotton
and the last named with receiving it, knowing it to be
siolen. Mr. Almond appeared for Bradbur
Block was for Barlow. In addition to ti
already published in this case, a boy, wine _
warehouse in Cooper's-row, from which the cotton w
stolen, stated that he saw Feeney and Barlow take the
cotton from the warehouse. The cotton bdonged to Mr.
A. E. Byrne, and Feeney was a porter in the place. It
was proved by a carter that Barlow employed him to
carry the cotton, which he did, to the stores of Brad-
bury, in Frederick-s`reet. A girl in the employment of
Mr. Bradbury proved that the cotton was delivered at
his stores. Carlyle, one of the detectives, said be asked
Bradbury if he had purchased any cotton from Barlow
and Feeney, and he utterly denied all knowledge of it.
The officer then took up a book from the counter, in
which he saw there was an entry of four bags, as
purchased from Barlow, and then Bradbury snatched it
away ; the prisoner then took down a file, and produced
a receipt for the cotton. This witness was examined at
some length by Mr. Almond, who attempted
to show that his client was deaf. He said the cotton
was not concealed in the warehouse of Mr. Bradbury ;
the receipt for the cotton was over £ll, and purported
to be—for some, 4d per lb., and for more, 2-Ad per lb.
Mr. Bluck asked the bench if they thought there was
sufficient identity of Barlow with the cotton bags, and
the reply was that they were finite satisfies. Mr Bluck
said in that case, using his own discretion, he would
not, in the present stage of the proceedings, offer any
observations for his client. Mr. Almond addressed the
court for Mr. Bradbury, and said his client must have
misunderstood the police when he denied the receipt of
the cotton at first. He argued that the conduct of his
client was Wiest, and he proved so by the entry in his
book and the production of the receipt for the , payment
of the cotton, for which he had given marketable value.
Mr. Alderman Turner said although the conduct of Mr.
Bradbury had been reprehensible and most incautious,
and such as to cause great suspicion, yet, from the price
he had given for the cotton, he did not think the
evidence sufficient to send him for trial, and he would
therefore discharge him. Mr. Bradbury was then
admitted as a witness, and stated that he purchased the
cotton from Barlow and paid him for it, and took the
receipt for it, which he signed. The prisoners were
then sent for trial.

INDUSTRY IN INDUSTRIOUS. TERRACE:—SataIi Spooner
was charged with entering the house of Mary Ormandale,
at Industrious-terrace, Park, and stealing therefrom
£2 15s and a quantity of linen. Mr. Pemberton and
Mr. Chilton appeared for the prisoner. The evidence
for the prosecution was to the effect that in the absence
of the prosecutrix, on Wednesday last, the prisoner
entered the house, and the allegation was that she took
the money out of a box, but it was not missed until
Saturday. The learned gentlemen for the prisoner
elicited the fact that there were three keys in the terrace
that opened the door of Mrs. Ormandale's house, and on
this they argued that some one else might have gone
into the house as well as the prisoner. The evidence
was not deemed sufficient, and the prisoner was
discharged.

(BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.)

A BLACKGUARD.—A young ruffian, named Joseph Ball,
who resides in Milton-street, and who drives a donkey
cart, was charged by Inspector Chew, under tilt follow-
ing circumstances said he saw the prisoner and
another donkey driver, in Mann-street, Park, they had
two donkeys and carts, and they locked the wheels
together and made a wager as to which ass was the
strongest, to pull away from the other ; this caused a
crowd, and the two fellows began lashing the beasts as
hard as they could, and in the most brutal manner ; the

prisoner having lost his wager, he transferred his whip
from the ass to some boys, whom he beat unmercifully,
and hurt one boy severely, but the lad could not come
forward to prosecute. Mr. Mansfield said the prisoner
was a gre it blackguard, and fined him 10s, or to be im-
prisoned for one month.

DANGEROUS ASSAULT BY A FEMALE.—JuIia 1114DeTTBOtt,
a well dressed young woman, was charged with having
stabbed Emma Jones in the eye. It appeared that the
parties resided in the same house in AI ason's-row, and
it appeared that the prisoner was the landlady of the
complainant ; the latter became indebted to the
prisoner, and on Monday, she went to pay, when a dis-
pute arose about the amount, and the prisoner stabbed
her in the eye with a small penknife. A surgeon stated
that the veins about the eye were cut, and that the
wound was a dangerous one, but he ultimately did not
think she would Jose the eye. The prisoner was com-
mitted for trial.

A CURIOUS FREAK.—Jarnes I'Vfardock, a youth, whose
personal appearance indicated both idleness and dissipa•
Lion, was placed in the dock on a charge of having wil-
fully destroyed the roofs of several houses, in Newsham-
street, off Scotland-road. From the evidence of the
police constables on duty, in Scotland-road, on the pre-
vious afternoon, it appeared that they received informa-
tion that a man was on the top of some houses in the
above street, and that he was taking the bricks
off the chimney, and the slates oil' the roofs
and throwing them into the street. much to the injury
of some of the many individuals assembled to witness
the sight. Before the police got to the spot, a shout
was raised by the people, " the polke are after you,"
upon which the man left off his strap amusement, and
made his escape, but, upon his going into his house,
from whence lie had got into the roof, he was met by
the police, when he shouted out, " Oh, give me my
knife." A fearful struggle ensued, in the course of
which the policeman's finger was birtten. The prisoner
was committed for two months' imprisonment.
A Lists-STREET SMASHER.-A ycrang lady, of rather

questionable reputation, who rejowes in several aliases,
but who, on the present occasion, gave her name as
Mary Berry, and who was dressed according to the
fashions of the present month, was charged with
wilfully breaking a pane of plate, glass in the Lime-
street supper rooms, occupied by a. person tinned Deary,
and doing damage to the amount of 50s. The com-
plainant stated that at about four o'clock on that morn-
ing, the young lady visited his establishment, being in a
state of intoxication. She insulted a gentleman who
was then partaking of his supper, and when she was
ejected from the premises, she deliberately took her little
foot, and after several unsuccessful attempts, succeeded
in breaking the plate glass window. A waiter fully cor-
roborated the above statement. The young lady, with
great volubility, addressed the bench, denying the charge
in toto, and stating that she had been at the establish-
ment all night with a gentleman, and got drunk on
brandy, when she was turned out, and, in the course of
the struggle, the window was broken. Besides that, lie
(the complainant) had forgiven her, and had taken her
over to Blezard's house, and treated. her, and would not
have given her in charge at all, had it not been for his
wife, who was jealous of her (the defendant), and had
slapped his face while they were Ln Blezard's, and made
him make the charge. These assertions the complainant
denied, and the boy said he saw the young lady kick at
the window three times before she broke it. Mr. Mans-
field ordered her to pay the damages, or go to prison for
two months.

A correspondence between the Danish, British, and
American governments on the subject of the Sound dues
was published yesterday with the parliamentary papers.

A supplementary army estimate of £1,500 was issued
yesterday for the gratuitous education of 20 Queen's
cadets, the sons of officers who have died on service, and
have left their families in reduced cticumitances.

Her Majesty the Queen has signified her gracious inten-
tion of honouring the Marquis and Marchioness of West-
minster with her presence at Grosvenor-house, on the
occasion of a fete to be given by the Marchioness on the
26th inst.

A copy of the convention between her Majesty and the
King of Sardinia (respecting the £1,000,000 loan) has been
presented to Parliament and printed with the votes. It
was signed at Turin on the 3rd instant by Sir James Hud-
son and Count Cavour.

Yesterday morning were issued returns of the number
of proprietors in each railway company in the United
Kingdom, incorporated by act of parliament on December
31,1855 ; of the number of general and special general
meetings of proprietors of each company held in the
three preceding years ; and of the number of stamped
proxy papers deposited with the secretary by the pro-
prietors for use at each of such meetings ; with the
exception of eighteen companies, which are specified at
the end of the document, all the companies have made
returns.