The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-02 00:00:00

TUE AUDIT,

Mr. T. K. Roberts, auditor of the Cheshire and Derby-
shire audit district, submitted his annual report of tile
accounts of the Wallasey Local Board of Health, from
wnich it appeared that the receipts of the year had been
£4,901 8s 114; and the expenditure £4,327 lOs Id,
leaving a balance in hand of £573 18s 10d. The total
collected on account of the general district rate had been
£2,736 18s 4d; and the expenditure £2,394 18s 611.
There had been received from the special district
rate for the Seacombe division £7 13s ; and £2,000 had
been borrowed on that account from the public works
loan commissioners, whilst there was a balance in hand

from last year of £156 17s 7d. There had been expended
on account of this rate, £1,62J 4d 7d, and in the forma-
tion of roads £3ll 7s.

The board then adjourned,

MAY-DAY.—May-day of 1856 opened with as chilly an
easterly blast as ever saluted humanity. We do not for
some years remember a more March-like day than that the
" merriest month within the year" presented to us yesterday.
The wind was piercingly cold, and the streets were literally
redolent of dust. The usual natural and artificial flowers

(the latter, we regret to say, were predominant,) adorned
the horses and omnibuses of the town and rural districts,
and flags, &c., were Whited in the thoroughfares to wel-
come the first of May. The carter's companies had their
fine animals dressed out in the gayest style. There were
processions of carts, lorries, spring vans, &c., through town,
but the exhibition of the extensive train of the waggons of
Messrs. M'Fie and Sons eclipsed anything of the kind we
have before seen. The number (for one owner) and q zality
of the horses could not be equalled, perhaps, in the world.
The best judges pronounced the animals to be the acme of
perfection. The decorations were tasteful and appropriate.
Scarcely inferior in extent was the procession of Mr.
Barton's splendid stud of horses and the useful vehicles
filled with coal. As the processions passed through the
principal streets and thoroughfares of the town, crowds of
persons had collected here and there to witness the pro-
ceedings, and we believe a larger or better display of work-
ing horses has not been seen in Liverpool far some years.

THE " TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN " TURNED DETECTIVE!
—A few days ago, we gave the details of an " artful
dodger," named Henry Bryant, who, by a stratagem—
which is allowable in love and war—thought to rescue
Mary Anne Leonard from the iron grasp of Mr. Parkinson,
the keeper of the main bridowell, Leonard escaped from
Horsemonger lane prison, London, and was arrested by
Inspector Murphy in the Park here, in a house with the
prisoner Bryant-, who is a "ticket of leave man." He is a
tellow of considerable intelligence, good looking, and well
dressed. He presented himself at the main bridewell, after
Inspector Murphy had locked up the woman Leonard, and
stated that he was a London detective, and had been sent
down for her. Mr. Parkinson, the governor, to whom the
application for the liberation of the prisoner Leonard was
made, was rather too " wide f.wake," and Mr. Bryant soon
found himself in the " stone jug," on a charge of having
attempted to rescue the prisoner Leonard. Yesterday, he
was brought before Mr. Mansfield, on remand. Mr. Bluck
appeared for him, and argued that there was no charge
against him. Mr. Mansfield said the arguments of. Mr.
Bluck were very ingenious, and such as an able advocate
would, of course, make for his client ; but, had it not been
for the extraordinary sagacity of Mr. Parkinson, in
discovering who the prisoner Bryant was, no doubt be
might have succeeded in getting the woman Leonard out of
the bridewell. Mr. Bluok oross examined Mr. Parkinson
and bridewell keeper Campbell, and they said the prisoner
was in liquor, but knew what he was doing, when he asked
for the woman Leonard. Mr. Mansfield fully committed
the prisoner for trial.

CORONER'S INQUESTS.—Yesterday, the deputy coroner,
Henry H. Statham, Esq., held the following inquests
On the bodies of two children that were overlain, and, in

each case, there was returned a verdict of accidentally

smothered. On the body of John Cochrane, a dock gate--
man, aged 47 years, who met his death under the following
circumstances 2—On Tuesday evening the deceased left off
duty as usual, and after that he went to the dock to look
for a ship for his nephew, and he was not seen afterwards
until his body was fount floating in the river, opposite the
Queen's pier-head. There was no evidence to show how
he got into the water, and the jury found an open verdict of
Fouad drowned." An the body of Jane Elliott, 51 years
of age, who resided at No. 11, Knowsley-street. It appeared
that for some time past she was subject to palpitation of the
heart, and that she had bad fits lately with great
rain in the head. She was found dead in bed yes-
terday morning, and on enquiry it seemed she died of
disease of the heart. Verdict to that effect. On the
body of John Whitlam, who was in the employment of
Messrs. Carver, & Co., carriers. It appeared that on
Wednesday the deceased was at the goods' station, at I,ove-
lane, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. There
were two waggons standing apart, and some men were
pushing more vehicles to meet them, when the deceased
attempted to pass between the two standing waggons instead
of going round them, but, before he could ems the line, he
was caught between the buffers and was fatally injured. He
was taken to the Northern Ho'spltal, where he died yestor.
du. it appeared that when the deceased was seen ua the
dangerous position, that everything possible was done to
avert the accident, but to no purposy. The unfortunate
affair was purely accidental, The jury found a verdict
accordingly.

THE PEACE.—The Lord Mayor of London has
appointed to bold a Court of Common Council on
Monday for taking into consideration an address to her
Majesty on the establishment of peace. His lordship
has summoned the members of the corporation to
assemble at the Mansion-house on Sunday, for the
purpose of proceeding to St, Paul's to return thanks for
the restoration of peace,