The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-02 00:00:00

POLICE CO*URT.-YESTERDAT

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(BEFOI tE MR. BENN.)

IA "BIG DRINK" PREVENTED.—John Gibney, a man
in the employment of the City of Dublin Steam Packet
Company, was charged •with stealing a large jar full of
porte7 from some casks at the Clarence dock. The
prisrme; hld the jar containing the porter hidden under
some oii_csloths, and whey he got an opportunity, he
was taking :t away. He was sent to gaol for fourteen
days

STREET RoßßECY;—Daniel Grady was charged with
having knocked dow -a and attempted to rob John Dalziel,
of his watoli, in Sh:tw's-alley. The prosecutor was
the street, when he was attacked
standing at the corner or'
by the prisoner and another person (not in custody),
and both endeavoured to rob him of his watch, but he
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held the prisoner until assistant. arrived. The prisoner
was remanded.

'fliere were a few public-house and beer-house cases
disposed of, but the details were totally devoid of
interest.

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(BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.
INTERESTING TO PAWNBROKERS.—Mr. Mason, pawn.
broker, of Grafton-street, appeared on summ, ons to answer
atn.ant
the complaint of a labourer named Wi Kennedy,
under the following circumstances. The co, napl
pledged a watch and chain at defendant's office so,.‘le time
ago, but when he went to release it, a few days sinct.'l he
learned that it had been given up to his wife, from w).'om
he is separated. Ile gave no authority to his wife to
Obtain it, and be accordingly now summoned Mr. Mason
for the value of it. Mr. Aspinall appeared for the defend-
ant, and stated that the woman had come to the office and
reprevnted that she had been sent by her husband, who
she said had unfortunately lost the ticket. In proof of the
latter statement she produced a magistrates' c,rtificote, upon
which the watch was given up to her. Mr. Mansfield under
these circumstances dismissed the summons, and rocom.
mended that the woman should be prosecuted for the false
representation.

A MODERN CHESTERFIELD AND A DOUBTFUL R.LICRIVAN.
—Capt. M'Lean of the Gilbert Munroe, lying in the Canning
dock, was summoned by Constable No. 110, for having a
light in the cabin beyond the prescribed hour. and also for
not having a watchman to guard cotton which was expoved
on deck. Captain M'Lean : It is my first visit to Liverpool,
and I regret to say, sir, that it will not he a pleasing
reminiscence of my debut here, to be thus subjected to these
pains and penalties. (Laughter.) Mr. Mansfield : But
the dock regulations must be preserved. Captain M'Lean :
The dock regulations ! They seem to me, sir, to be traps
to enable people to get their hands into my pockets.
(Laughter.) lam a stranger here, and the light was only
ten minutes burning. The Policeman : It was more than
an hour beyond the time, and when I told him of the rule,
he said—" I protest against all rules and regulations of
the dock authorities." (Laughter.) Capt. M'Lean : I have
now, sir, a most important question to put to the constable.
Have I the permission of the court to ask it ? Mr.
Mansfield : Certainly. Captain M'Lean : Now, constable.
do me the favour to attend to my question. (Laughter.)
Had you, seeing the light, came into my cabin in a
gentlemanly manner, and said—" Sir, you are a stranger
to our port; you are now, from ignorance no doubt, violating
its rules; the regulations are so and so, and if you continue
to violate them, it will be my unpleasant duty to lay
informations against you, and your unpleasant necessity to
pay the penalty—had you said that, do you know that as
a gentleman I would have received your admonition with
respect, and have thanked you for your kindness ?" Police-
man : I don't know it —indred I doubt it. (Great
laughter.) The captain was for the moment quite "taken
aback" by the scepticism of the constable, and in
silence submitted to the nominal find of ls. which
was imposed. Policeman : As to the other charge he was
asked by several watchmen to take them, but he answered
that he required " a sober and discreet person"— (lahter)
—and he feared they were not that. Captain M'Lean : But
I have a dog whose sobriev cannot be doubted, and his
discretion is equally great. (Laughter.) nr. Mansfield :
But his discretion would not have p:evented the cotton from'
taking fire. A fine of is was also imposed in this case.
Captain 111'Lean : I am afraid you will have to take my
person. 1 have got no money. Perhaps the witoess, as my
particular friend, would lend it. (Laughter.) The con-
stable's sceptrcism as to the wisdom of makinr, the advance
under sach circumstances, appearing to be
of the positive
character, Mrs. M`Lean, who sat by her husband, supplied
him with the requisite amount. The captain, whose flowery
e'oquence and Chesterfield manner, caused much amusement
in court, then withdrew.

COUNTY COURT-YESTERDAY

(BEFORE JOSEPH POLLoCK, ESQ., JUDGE.)
To WHOM D() A. SHIP'S SWERPINGS BELONG?—AUSTIN
V. STEVENS.—In this case, the plaintiff, Thomas Austin, of
51, Summer Street, purchased from the defendant Stevens,
the mate of the ship Clarissa Bird, the cotton pickings and
the corn sweepings of the cargo, for which he had paid
the sum of £B, the mate promising that they should be
delivered at the dock gate. On the faith of this promise
the sweepings were taken at an additional cost of £3 4s,
but were stopped at the dock gate by order of the merchant
to whom the cargo was consigned. As it was understood
that the plaintiff was about to go to sea, application was
made for immediate payment, which was granted. On the
other hand the defendant requested to have the case fully
gone into, but his Honour refused to accede to the request,
and after reprobating the conduct of the defendant for
taking the money, and not refunding it under the accusa-
tions, ordered immediate execution to issue for the amount
claimed, and for £2 8s 21 the expenses incurred, or fourteen
days' imprisonment. The amount was paid into court.
A CAPTAIN NOT ALWAYS LIABLE.—MONTGOMERY V.
TOBIN—This was an action to which some little importance
was attached, as the decision involved a question as to the
actual liability of the captain of a vessel. The plaintiff is
Mr. James Montgomery, who formerly carried on business
on his own account, bat is now trading under the firm of
Montgomery, Fox, & Co., ship-store dealers. The defendant
is Captain James Tobin, formerly of the Henry Gardner,
but now of the Ocean Chief, the Black 1331 i
liner, which is to sail on the sth instant. The
claim was for £2 14s 9d, for sherry, whiskey, &c., in
October and November, 1851. Mr. Rime conducted the
case for the plaintiff. A person in the employ stated that
the order was given, and the goods were delivered on board
the Henry Gardner. From the way the business of the
establishment was conducted, ho believed that the order
was given by the defendant verbally—or when orders were
given by the owners, they were invariably given on printed
forms. He had searched all the papers, and had been
unable to find any printed order, therefore he assumed that
the order was given by the defendant. The delivery of the
goods was admitted. Captain Tobin was then called, and
he said : All I have to say is that I know nothing
whatever about the matter. I never gave any order for the
articles for myself, for this reason, if I had, the plaintiff
would not have let me bad them, as I was a stranger to him,
I believe that the plaintiff had a written order, and that OA goods were supplied to the owners. His D:onour
Do you mean that you gave any order yourself Captain Tobin : I never gave the order for
myself. When
the order was given it was on behalf of the owners. Unfor-
tunately, I have lost a great dealhy the failure of the
owner
of the Henry Gardner, and I suppose that the plaintiff, fail.
ing to get the amount from that source, had applied to him.
His Honour said there was not the smallest tittle of a case
against Capt. Tobin, in fact, he bad no right to be brought
here, after a lapse of five years. His Honour then nonsuited
the plaintiff and awarded the costs of the day to the
defendant.

THE SLAVE TRADE.—In the Court of Admiralty at Sierra
Leone on the Ist of July, the case was heard of a brigantine,
name unknown, captured by her Majesty's ship Teazer, off
St. Paul's Loando, between which and Congo she was
observed standing in for the land. She is a remarkably fast
vessel, and is fitted with a slave deck, about 150 water casks,
a quantity of rice, Indian corn, calavances, &c. The space
between the slave-deck and the ceiling is 27 inches !it is
supposed she would have carried away from 500 to 600,
human beings. She was condemned.
l sortly fake place between Lord Raglan
MARRIAGES SN HIGH LIFE.—A matriniOnial alliance is
nrda the dL
wGie h lorgiana Lygon, (laughter of Licut -General
and
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La
ndd y
the Earl Beauchamp. A marriage is also on between the Hon. and Rev. George *Wellesley the lapin
Windsor, and the Hon. Miss Montagu, daughter' Dean of
of Major-
General Lord Rokeby.
TnE PATHER Or " THE COMMONS ."--The forthcoming
dinner to Sir C. M. Burrell, Bart., M.P. the Father of the
House of Commons, which is to he given in West Grinstead
Park, on the ] 4th August, to celebrate the fiftieth annives-
of the occupation by Sir Charles of a seat in
sary
Parliament
for Shoreham, will, we believe, be of a most substantial and
extensive character. There is no other instance on record
of a member of the House of Commons ocellny'ing the same
seat for half a century. Instances are tcoown of members, such as Mr. Byng, of Middlesex,
occupying seats for so long a period, but during that time they have not represented one
constituency, but have sat for three or four places.
THE WESLEYAN Co FEHErics. —At the Wesleyan
there were three candidates for the
Conference, which commenced its sittings at Bristol, on
Robert Young, the Rev. John
Wednesday morning
pßroewsiedresntesb.nidp
—thethßeevii.evi. B. West. The election fell upon
the first-named, gentleman. The Rev. Dr. Hannah was
appointed secretary.
STEAM COMMUNICATION *WITH AFRlQA.—Accounfs from
Lisbon state that a concession has lately been granted to a
M. Philoppon for three separate lines of steamers from
Lisbon to the Algarves, Azores, and Africa, and that the
project is about to be introduced on the London market.
MURDOCK, THE CONDEMNED CONVICT.—In the case of
Murdock (now under sentence of death) for the murder of
Weller], the Hastings gaoler, at Lewes gaol, Mr. Sanders,
theo gove
ff's
rnor, has received a communication from the sheriace, stating that there is no prospect whatever of a
rep;ieve, and that Tuesday, the sth of August, at twelve
o'clock at noon, is the time fixed for the execution of the
criminal.

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