The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-20 00:00:00

there ? No, sir. I got the £35 to go to America, but I did
not go. Got 7s and lOs a week after that. Got my
my passage paid to America besides the money. Mr.
Blair: But got out of the ship? Yes; I came back in
the tug boat. I wrote a letter to Mr. Brown, as if I had
been in New York. I was not there. Mr. Bair here put
in a receipt signed by the witness, and given to Mr.
Fitzgerald for the £35, and this, it appeared, was a receipt
in full of all demands. Mr. Cobb objected to the receipt
on two grounds—first, it was an illegal document; and
secondly, it was not properly stamped. So far, however, as
the receipt of the money was concerned, he admitted that
she got it. Afier a few moments consultation, Mr. Aikin said
on the complainants own showing, we must dismiss this
case. The girl then said she would not have signed the
document, but Mr. Fitzgerald told her he wanted to show
Mr. Brown that he (Fitzgerald) was an honest man, and
had given the money as Mr. Brown had directed him to do.
Mr. Blair said, now that the case has been disposed of, Mr.
Brown admitted his great error. but he had paid deeply for
it in every way. He had been persecuted in the most fright-
ful manner by that woman and her pack of mercenary
satellites, who exposed him and drove him into every
torture the mind was capable of feeling. They had
imposed on and swindled him out of large sums of money ;
they had persecuted him in every way, and at last the
imposition became intolerable, and it was resolved to
resist it. The rev. gentleman had suffered much, and he
(Mr. Blair) trusted that the Press (the reporters), in the
exercise of that sound discretion which they had ever
shown, would not add to his grief by publishing the case,
which would be so gratifying, no doubt, to the other side
to see the case in the papers. (By the way, the learned
and respected gentleman must know, that the reporters
had no discretion at all in such a ease, their duty to the
public, and the proprietors of their journals, being simply
to give the case as it occurred.) Mr. Cobb said: I now
give notice to the Rev. Mr. Brown that I shall appeal from
the decision of this bench. The girl is either one of the
most abominable perjurors on the face of the earth, or she
has told the truth. If she concocted this story. she
ought to be prosecuted to the utmost, for such atrocious
perjury. But Ido not believe she has got up this story.
I believe every word of it to be true. and the documents
prove the truth of her tale from beginning to end. Why
have they not nut the rev. gentleman into the box, and let
him contradict her if he could ? No, they dared not, for
on his oath, he would be obliged to admit every word
she had spoken, and— Mr. Aiken : The case is die-
charged, and we cannot have any more of it. Mr. Cobb :
Very well, sir, I give the Rev. Mr. Brown notice of
appeal in this case.

TRADE REPORT

ATURDAY

LIVERPO^I

COTTON : There has been a very good demand for cotton
to-day, and with a fair supply, prices are slightly in favour
of the seller. The sales—lncluding 110 Pernambuco lid
to 74d, 50 Bahia bid, 120 Maranham so to 72 i, 300
Egyptian 611 to 7id, 1,000 Surat 423 to 50—are estimated
15,000 bales, of which 8,000 are on speculation and for
export.