The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-03 00:00:00

GREAT GEORGE WARD

The polling place was at No. 70, Nelson-street—Mr. Alder-
tnaa Cooper presided. Mr. Alexander Shand, the outgoing
councillor, came forward for re-election. When the poll
opened an opposition was started in the name of Mr.
William Gibson, Lord-street, but it was evident that the
contest was not a bona fide one. At twenty minutes past
eleven, Mr. Shand had polled 67 votes, while but three were
tendered for Mr. Gibson. The poll closed at four o'clock,
when the numbers stood as follows

Shand
Gibson

Mai)rity for Shand

RODNEY STREET WARD.

The polling place w
man Turner, presidinz.

t No. 63, Rensh,

out-going. member, came forward for the election, but, at
the last moment, was opposed in the name of Mr. George
. It was evident, however, that this opposition was
only started to draw away attention from Lime street W:ird,
and to succeed in withdrawing some stray votes from`the
genuine contest in the loiter ward. At eleven o'clock, 135
had been registered for Mr. Tobin, and only Zl. for
Mr. Holt. The majority for Mr. Tobin hourly increased,
until half past two o'clock, when the numbers stood—For
Tobin, 220 ; for Holt, 43. The poll was kept open until
four o'clock, when Mr. Tobin was declared re-elected by a
very large majority.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

LIVERPOOL

BEFORt MR. STITT

THE THREE MARYS.—Mary Stokes, and Mary Thorn-
toni were charged by Mary Banner with having stolen a
bundle of wearing apparel from her. The prisoners met
the prosecutrix near the Custom House, the latter having
the bundle in her hand. The prisoners snapped the
bundle and ran off with it, and subsequently. a portion
of the articles stolen were found on them. Mr.
Goadere, for the prisoners, said the c ,se was so clear that
he would not offer any observations. The prisoners were
sent to gaol for one month.
POCKET Picilxo.—Mary Anne Kerney was charged
with picking the pocket of -a
Mrs. Irvine, who keeps a
shop in Upper Harrington-street. The complainant was
in a shop in Mill-street, when the prisoner entered and
picked her pocket. The case was very clearly proved by
three witnesses, when Mr. Goodere, for the prisoner,
said there never WdS a more trumped-up case, as there
Was no evidence to support it; and then he urged, in
mitigation, that the prisoner was near her down-lying.
His Worship said, he never heard a clearer case proved.
In consideration of the prisoner's position, he sentenced
her to only fourteen days' imprisonment.

PUBLICANS' AND BEERRODSE CASES

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David Harley, publican, of Gill-street, was summoned
by Inspector Hough for permitting drunkenness in his
house at four o'clock in the morning. In reply to Mr.
Bluck, the inspector said there was a ball in the house
that night, and that the persons found in the house had
attended the ball. Mr. Black said, nnder the circum,
stances, he truved the case would be dismissed. A line
of 5s was inflicted.

Mary Clarke, beerhouse keeper, Blackstone-street,
was charged on two informations, one for permitting
drunkenness, and another for selling ale at illegal hours.
The defence was, that the persons spoken of were
lodgers. A cons iction for selling was proved, and a fine
of ss. inflicted.

-street

Elizabeth Grayson, beerhouse keeper, Tithebarn
was charged for allowing drunkenness in her house.
defence in this case was that the parties were lodgers
Fined 105.

Harmood Bernard, beerhouse keeper, Wellington-street,
was charged with allowing drunkenness, and for selling at
hours. F ned 5s and costs. There was an ad-
ditional charge for Sunday trading. Fined £1 and costs.
Mary Anne Grady, B Alton street, beerhouse keeper, was
charged with allowing drunkenness, and for selling at illegal
hours. Fined £1 and costs.

Patrick Burns, Glover street, Park, was summoned for
selling beer at 12 on Sunday. Dismissed.
Charles Saunders, Blundell street, was charged with selling
ale at 12 at night. Fined ss. and costs.
Elizabeth Jones, Fairclough lane, was charged with selling
ale at a quarter to twelve at night. Dismissed.
James Walker, beerhouse keeper, Burlington street, was
charged with selling ale at illegal hours. Dismissed.
George Fazlkerly, beerhouse keeper, Norfolk street. was
charged with doing business at illegal hours. Mr. Block de-
fended, and showed that the defendant had a number of
lodgers, and that the house was respectable He produced
witnesses to prove the facts, and the case was dismissed.
Edward Murphy, Eaton street, was summoned for selling
ale on Sunday morning. Mr. Bluck defended, and, in reply
to him, the constable said he saw a girl leaving the house
with a bottle of ale, which she said was milk. (Laughter)
Dismissed.

BIRKENHEAD

BEFORE R. BRYANS, ESQ,

STEALING RoPE.—Michael Tyrrell, a labourer, was
placed in the dock charged with having stolen twenty-
live yards of rope, or line, used for letting casks of beer
into cellars, under the following circumstances :—The
prosecutor, Mr. Thomas Jones, of the Waterloo Hotel,
Grange-lane, is also a carrier of goods from the Woodside
Ferry, and on Friday evening, his son, who had charge
of a float, was engaged to take several sacks of flour to
Oxton, and having delivered them, was on his return
home, when lie overtook the prisoner, whom he knew,
and offered him a ride to Birkenhead, which he accepted,
but when they had arrived between Messrs. Cook's
brewery and the Park Hotel, in the Oxton road, the
prisoner suddenly left the float by dropping from behind,
and immediately afterwards the rope was missed, but the
prisoner was nowhere to be seen. Prosecutor's son then
made his way to Birkenhead, and gave information of
his loss to the police. Police—officer Gunning said, that
upon receiving the information he proceeded to make
enquiries, and on calling at the Grange Hotel, be there
found the prisoner with the rope in his possession.
Upon asking him how he became possessed of it, he
replied, " What the h---1 is that to you ; " upon which
the constable (very properly) s aid he must know before
he could part with him. The prisoner then said he got
it from a person named Flinn, in Field-street. The
constable, however, knew better, and lockod up his
man. The rope was fully identified, and the prisoner,
upon being asked what-he had to say in answer to the
charge, replied that he was heavy in drink, and in getting
out of the float the rope was hanging to him, so he put.
it on his shoulder, and took it with him. It was proved that the prisoner had been previously tried at the I
Knutsford Sessions, and- he was accordingly committed
to undergo the same ordeal once more

STEALING COPPER BY A SHIPKEEP;R.—John M'Kewon
was charged with stealing a quantity of old and
new copper sheathing, bolts and nails, from the ship
Baron Renfrew, lying in the Birlidebead docks, the
property of Mr. Duncan Gibbs, of Strand street, Liver-
pool. From the statement of a marine store dealer,
named Whellegan, residing in Egerton-street, Birken-
head, it appeared that the prisoner had, for several days
pas', been in the habit of bringing pieces of copper, metal
bolts and nails for sale, until his suspicions were excited,
and he asked the prisoner if they were honestly come by,
to which the prisoner replied—" Yes : I found them
among some rubbish, along with a lot more, and it's all
right," and gave his name and address, the same as it
appeared on the bridewell charge sheet. It, however,
appeared that it was all wrong, for police officer Fenna,
happening to see him this morning, thought he did not
appear in ship-shape, watched, and saw him go into the
marine store, and, upon searching him there, found con-
cealed underneath his slop 9 lbs of copper bolts, besides
several pieces of sheathing he had laid on the counter. He
then locked him up, and upon making enuiries found that
they had been stolen from the vessel above named, where the
prisoner had been employed as shipkeeper for tho last fort-
night, at 21s per week. Altogether, what the prisoner had
when taken into custody, and what he had sold, weighed
between forty and fifty pounds, and a portion of the sheath-
ing and nails were fully identified by a man named Hughes,
a foreman over the ship carpenters employed in repairing
the vessel. Prisoner said he found them about the deck of
the vessel. Committed for. trial.

\YPREHENSION OF AN AUDACIOUS
SWINDLER AND FORGER.

Some short time since, we noticed the fact that a young
Scotchtnan had been swindling several persons in
Liverpool, and had then absconded. From that time
detective officer Carlisle has been on the look-out
I for the offender, and on Thursday received such informa-
-1 tion as to induce him at once to proceed to Bristol,
where he found the person .he was in search of; in the
custody of the police, having been charged with
obtaining a gold watch in that city, but which case
he had succeeded in compromising, when he was handed
over to the custody of Carlisle, and brought to Liverpool.
On Saturday he was brought before Mr. Mansfield at the
Police Court, when he gave his name as Samuel Charles
Craig. He was respectably attired. Mr. Clough said the
prisoner is brought before your Worship on a charge of hav-
ing obtained of Mrs. Dickson, late of the Eldon Dining-
rooms, and now of Canning-place, the sum of £4 Ws by
false and fraudulent representations. In this case, 1 shall
bring before you evidence to show that, at the latter
end of September, the prisoner went to the house of
Mr. Buxton, in the Toxteth-park, and there entered into
some preliminary arrangements for taking a public house
in the Regent-road, kept by Mr. Horrocks. At that
interview, the outline of an agreement was drawn up on
paper, which paper the prisoner took away with him,
under the pretence that he wanted to show it to a person.
On that very night he went to Mr. Dickson's, in South
John-street, and showed Mrs. Dickson the papers, and
there stated to her that he had taken the public-
house, and was going to pay .eBOO for it, .t'soo
of which he was expecting to receive from his father.
whom he represented as a person of good fortune and
highly respectable. He also represented himself as a
cousin to Mr. J. Laird, of Birkenhead, and that he was a
partner in the firm of Todd and M‘Gregor, of Glasgow. I
have said that the prisoner took away the draft of an agree-
ment from Mr. Buxton. At that time there was no signature
attached to it, but when it was shown to Mrs. Dickson
it was signed, "J. Buxton and S. C. Craig." I shall be able
to show that that signature is a forgery. Having made some
further introductory observations, and stated that he
should ask for a remand, in order to procure the attend-
ance of a witness from Glasgow—he called the following
witnesses. airs. Dickson stated that on the 23rd of Sept.,
the prisoner came to her house, and represented that he
was one of the firm of Messrs. M'Gregor and Co., of
Glasgow, a cousin to Mr. Laird, of Birkenhead, and that
he was about to take Mr. Ilorrocks's public-house—and
that Mr. Charles M'lver had become guarantee
for his repectability. She had also received a bundle of
cards and circulars from the witnesses to the effect that
he had done so. Detective Carlisle was next called : He
said he apprehended the prisoner at Bristol. -When he
told him the charge on which he was taken, he said "I
shall plead guilty ; I was coming to Liverpool to give
myself up." When he was shown the draft of the agree-
ment, he said "the name of Buxton is a forgery • I got a
butcher to write the name, but I do not
know
' I know where to find him." Mr. J. Laird him,
nor
eddo
; is no relative He said :I do not know the prisoner
he was then cut
of
mine. It was then proved that he had got a gold
llwatch
and Albert chain, of 'the value of £ 11, of Mr.
Lumbie, and a suit of clothes from Mr. Rayner,
which he had directed to be sent to Mr. Dickson,for which
the assistant in Mr. Dickson's shop had paid Ai 5s out of
Mr. Dickson's money. Mrs. Buxton proved that the signa-
ture was not in her late husband's baud writing. The
prisoner was remanded for a week

Commtatai 3:nretlieritce.

LIVERPOOL COTTON DIARKET.—Nov. 1.

There has been rather a quiet market for cotton to-day,
and with a moderate demand, and fair supply, prices are
about maintained. The sales—including 70 Maranham,
74d; 150 Bahias, 63d to 7d; 200 Egyptians, bid to 72d ;
and 1,000 Surat, 41d to s#d—are reported 6,000 bales, of
which 1,000 are on speculation and for export.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE MARKET.—Nov. 1.
Per stone, 20Ibs

S. d. Per gOlbs. s. d. e. d-
a. d. Potatoe% pink eyes U 0: to 0 0 Hay, old .. : ... .• 0 7 to 0 Ditto, new.. 0 Ditto, Kemps .... 3 2 to 3 8
0 54 to 0f) Ditto. Whiterocks. 2 10 to 3 1
Green
Ditto, clover os'o 0 ; Ditto, seedlings .. 211 to 3 2
Clover
Vetches 0 0 to 0 011itto, cattle ..
Str iw, whet. 0 3} to 044 0 10 to 1 0
Ditto, oat .. ...... 0 3 to 044 Purnips .....
Ditto, barley .... 0 21 to 0 31 Carrots ......
Oats, in straw , ... 0 0 to 0 0 tlangle wurzel
11anure. -

20 0 to 22

0 0 to 0 0
20 0 to 22 o
5 0 tj 6 6

BRISTOL SUGAR IVIARBET.—OciosER 31

There has been rather less enquiry this week for all
descriptions, but, as the quantity offering is still small,
the few lots brought to market have found buyers at fully
former rates. Refiners' produce has been freely disposed
of, even for very distant delivery, and prices continue to
be well supported. Rum a steady sale, at about 2s 3d per
proof gallon for uncoloured Leewards.

LATER FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AND

ST. HELENA.

I Tho screw steam ship Iwperador, Captain Brown, arrived
here on Saturday morning from the Cape of Good Hope (to
which colony she had conveyed troops) with advices to the
21st of Sorcmber, and from St. Helena to October 1 ; St.
Vincent to the 18th; and Madeira to the 24th ult. The
Imperador spoke the following vessels on her homeward
passage : —Oct. 1, lat 24 S, lon 7 W, the barque Jane Morice,
bound northward ; s-h, Ist 4N, lon 19 W, the baigne Cri-
mea, 88 days from Calcutta ; 9,1,, lat 6 N, lon 20 W, the
Norwegian brig Skelleftea, and a French ship; 19th, lat 20 N,
lon 24 W, the ship Levant, bound south; 23rd, a clipper ship,
lat 30N, lon 18W, bound to the southwatd, signalled all well ;
27th, lot 40 N, lon 12 W, the brig James Freeman bound north-
ward. The John Wade, from Foo-chow-foo, had arrived at St.
Helena, having lost mainmast off Cape St. Francis, Aug. 13,
and sailed for London Sept. 28, The following vessels,
hound fur London, were at St. Helena : Emperor,
Young. from Penang ; Nathaniel Thompson, from Calcutta ;
Ann Walker, from Singapore ; La Sabrina, Allen, from Cal-
cutta ; Red Rose, Archibald, from Ceylon ; Alliance, Heddle,
from Calcutta; Annals, Locke, front Pondicherry; Bell
Rock, Gorham, from Calcutta ; Eliza Thompson, (tom
Batavia ; and Grand Treanon, Hayes, from Adelaide. For
Liverpool--Beneta, Reucon, from Maultnai❑ ; the Thomas
Brocklebank, Jongltan, from Calcutta ; and the Medina,
Jeffries, from Calcutta, after discharging a portion of her
cargo to effect repairs, and having got a new rudder on board ;
the City of Dublin, from Rangoon for Falmouth ; the Orien-
tal, for the Channel ; the Bessie, Searight, for Rio Janeiro;
and the American whalers Tropic, Bird ; Sarah and Caroline,
were also at St. Helena; and the Anne, M'Lean, from
Sourabaya for Amsterdam. The Oscar, Vidal, from Maul-
main for Falmouth, was discharging for repairs at St. Helena.
The Panolus, from Akyab, to Queenstown, had completed
her repairs, re-shipped the cargo, and was to leave St.
Helena in a few days, after the Irnperador left. The
Conflict, from Cardiff to Callao, would also be ready fur
sea in a few days, having completed her discharging.
The Forest Monarch, sailed from St. Helena September
9th, for Queenstown, after obtaining a new rudder.
The Imperador left at St. Vincent, October 17, the ship Bir-
mingham, from Liverpool to Bombay, awaiting instructions
from England; the Royal Mail Ship Prince, for the Brazils;
the brigs Schrozd and Queen, of Britain ; discharging, the
American brigantine Anna Maria, and the American whaler.
Caravan. The screw-steamer Governor Higginson, arrived at
St. Vincent, Cape de Verds, October 14, and sailed on the
16th, for the Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius. The screw-
steamships Imperatriz and Bahiana, hence at the Cape of Good
Hope, and left for Algoa Bay.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

LIVERPOOL. NovEmsEß

Ilion WATE a—Morn. 2 40—Even:2:191-H;ght, 13 ft. 5 in

ARRIVED,

Imperador (s.s.), Cape of G. HopelJohn Duncan.- ~
St. John, N.B.
South E 51;.... A lexandrial ~nna D xon . .. G'asgow
Earl P0wi5......
•.... Glasgow
City of Manclieste

St. Petersburg' Opal..
Philalelphia Saxon
Dye.-
Qu,beel Pearl

Ardroisan

Damascus (new cs.)
Ocean Bride .....

N lag ar (s.) .. Boston and Halifax

Mary Ann
Ann and Ellen

. Porthcawl Erin
..IZllsinere Relncleer
1 Ulverstone Vale
knn Mary
New John

SAILED.