The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-13 00:00:00

AN EMIGRATION CASE.

We copy the following from' the Cork Reporter, of
Monday:—" At our Police-court, on Saturday, a woman
fr -tn the neighbourhood of Dunmanway appeared before
the court, and stated that she had ene.,ticed, shalt six
weeks age, passages to New York for herself and three
small children, and had paid to the agent of Train & Co.,
in this City, a sum of .elq lls., for which she received a
ticket, and was forwe.;,,-;sed}bythe agent, per steamer, to
Liverpool, where die company
had her put on board a
vessel bound ''or New York, but after being some time on
board, the, captain sent her ashore, and refused to take her
to America; therefore she was compelled to return to
`cork, *her the agent paid her expenses back from
Vrfr"s.`;‘)-1, and gave her a few shillings to take
-home to Dunmanway. She handed to the bench
tier ticket, signed by a Mr. Wright, clerk in the
office of Train & Co , in Petrick street. The
Beach said they- thought it would be well to have the
agent present, and accordingly directed a policeman
to be sent for him. After a short time he entered the
curt. Mr. Berard thew addressed the' gentleman who
acts for the company here, and said that the poor woman
present had just complained to the court of a most serious
injury which she has sustained because of some neglect or
1)1,111.143ring on the part cf some person connected with the
office which he acts as agent fot. She had undergone all
the suffering and hardship of going over in a steamer to
Liverpool, and his worship felt !rued to say that the pigs
are better taken cars of on bard these steamers than the
emigrants who are sent in them. After arriving there
and being put on board a vessel, it appeared she was
turned ashore by the captain, on what grounds he had yet
to learn, and he hoped the gentleman present would be
able in some way to account for all this, and to show
some cause why this woman neither got her passage nor
her money returned to her. Mr. Pickerirg, the
agent, stated that •if his worship would look
to the back of the passenger ticket, he would
see by the emigration laws cf the United Status, quoted
on tie ticket, the whole grounds which the captain had
4e+. rejecting her. Mr. Besnardthen read over the sections
of the act of Congress referred to, and said he supposed
the captain would not take her inasmuch as her husband
was not with her, this being one of the sections, but he
said the poor woman could know nothing about this, and
his worship believed it to be the duty of the agent in Cork
to have rejected the woman before he took het money, and
Vat her to so much trouble and inconvenience. The agent
said the captain would not reject any woman whose hus-
band is already in America, and who will be waiting to
receive her and his children on landing in an American
port. This woman, he said, bad told him that her hus-
band was in New York, but it appeared that when she
went to Liverpool, it was found that her husband lived in
Orange County, State of New York, and at some
distance from the port; therefore the captain refused to
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take her or the children on board his vessel. Mr. Bernard

remarked that he considered Mr. Pickering had a right to
a make every enquiry before sending this woman and her
three children away from Cork. Mr. Pickering said he
considered he had done so, for he did not issue a ticket to
her until she brought him a note from a gentleman in Dun.
manway, assuring him that her husband was in America
He should also say that it was his clerk who gave, the
ticket; but he considered himself responsible for the aeta
of his clerk. Since the woman came back he had
given her money to support her, and he is taking
all the steps he can to get her sent away again ;
be believed he will be able now to send her, as
she had that day given him a letter which she lately
received from her husband, saying he will meet her in
New York; and if she had this for the captain, be would
have taken them out. Mr. Besnard then said, that he
felt it but right to say that from all he had heard, Mr.
Pickering treats the emigrants very well, and he hoped
this poor woman would be looked to at once. The bench,
he said, were determined to see that justice be done her;
therefore, they would order Mr. Pickering to pay her
is 6d per day for every day she had been hitherto
detained, and in proportion for ea.th of her children ; also
that he pay the same for every day she may still he
detained until she is sent on board a vessel br New York.
Mr. Pickerton stated, that he was quite willing to do what
the magistrates had ordered, and he believed, with her
hasband's letter in his possession now, he would be able
to send her on to Liverpool by Wednesday evening.

Ma. CARDWELL AND THE REEREAENTATION OF OXFORD
CITY.—We underst Ind that a petition has been prepared
at the initanee of Mr. Cardwell, for presentation to the
House of Commons, agiinst the election of Mr. Charles
Neate far Oxford city, on the ground of bribery, treating
acd bad votes.

PRINCE ALBERT Ow THE GFORGES.—Prince Albert said
at Marchester, " In the Duchess of Gloucester we have
lost the last of the children of that good king who occu-
pied the throne during sixty years, and carried thi4 coun-
try fearlessly through the most momentous struggles of its
history." We wish it were possible to place in coot ast
four lectures on the Georges by Prince Albert with the
famous four by Mr. Thackeray. When stan lag on the
Blanchester dais, with a canopy above him very like a
crown, the Consort felt all bat regal, and in the name of
the Q teen decreed :—Art. 1. That George 111. was a
good king, Art. 11. That for sixty years be was thp
btate. Art. 111.. That be fearlessly carried England
th ough the most momentous stiugg!es of her history.—
_Leader. _ _ _

CONSIDERABLE SIIRPRISE!—" We have learnt," says
the Union, " with considerable surprise, that the Bishop
of London has forbidden any cress being erected at St.
Batnabas, either on the altar or elsewhere; refuses to
permit the re'ention of the super altar, and clAms—in
direct contradiction of the late judgment—an absolute
eon roil over the kinds anti colours of the altar frontal?.
His lordship, who was invited by Mr. Westt rton to visit
the churches of St. Paul and St. Barnhart, is also said to
have stated in Mr. Westertot 's presence that • the serviee
was Popish from beginning to end,' and that, as bishop of
the diocese, be would aim at rooting cut such practices.
At the mission churches in Wellelose square and Calvert
stree', if report speaks truly, a still more arbitrary use of
epi-eopal authority is attempted to be made, in defiance
of the letter of the law. We understand, however, that
the rector of St. George's in the East is not likely to
submit to this unprovoked attack on his legal rights.'

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YESTERDAY.

LIVERPO 0 L.

BEFORE Ma MANSFIELD.
Wire Theeriere.—George Gregory, a lentcher, living in
Pellew-street, was charged with beating his wife. It ap-
peared that the prisoner had been in the habit of using
his wife for years past, and on Saturday night he beat her
severe:y, and struck her on the head with a jng, which
cut her bedly. The prisoner was ordered to find bail or to
be imprisoned for six'months.
Tut WAY mum MONEY Goas ! —Thomas Smith, Margaret
Carroll, and Elizabeth Crumble, were charged by an old
man, named:Robert Roberts, with having robbed him of
£45 in gold in a public house in Pall Mall. Mr. Black
defended the prisoners. The parties were drinking in the
house, and Roberts alleged that his pocket was picked by
the prisoners, The latter were searched, but only a small
sum of money was found on them. Me Bluck contended
that his clients should net have been given into custody at
all, as there was not a particle of evidence against them,
and he urged that they ought to be discharged. His
Worship said there was no evidence against them, and
ordered their dischaPge.
CrIARGE OF ASSAULT —Mr. Robert Roberts, a peNican,
living in Murra) =street, was brought up by officer 303, on
a chard of having assaulted a woman. Mr. Blink
defended. When tae woman was called she did not
appear. Mr. Bluck said this was a very hard case ; here a
respec able man h'td been taken to the station, and put to
great inconvenience to get bail, and now when he goes
through the degradation of being brought up, there is no
one to appear against him. In reply to Mr. Mansfield, the
officer said he did not see the assault, but the woman was
bleeding very much, and seemed to have a cut from the
eye down to the mouth. Mr. Black said the defendant
might have been summoned. The defendant was
discharged.
Tux " SPRIM Till SPREE! "—Bernard and Swab. Flani-
gan, denizens of Audley street, was charnel by officer 103,
who said, the prisoners were a wedded, charged
he could not
say they were a happy pair. They occupied a room, or
something of the sort, in the domes of ceie Anne O'Neill,
and on Monday night, the prisoners were in a state of
" beer," and were sitting on the door steps, making a great
noise ; the man was screeching out in the most frantic
manner, that he was areal "North Wigeon " and he would
lick the d— and the Danes, and all others who opposed
him. Mr. Mansfield : What is a North Wigeon? "
Officer : Some name they have for people who come
from the north of Ireland MI.. O'Neill, the owner of the
house where the prisoners resided, 'said, the female pri-
soner wanted money to "go out on the spree," bat she

refused. 'The prisoner then went and pledged some thin g 3,
and went on the aforesaid "spree," and when she go:
drunk, she came back to the house, "rolling and singieg
" The spree,. the spree,
The glorious spree,
It's on it I would ever be,
With bottles of gin,
And casks of ale,
And a purse of gold
That would not fail."
(Laughter.) After indulging her musical propensities. in
this way for some time, she began to develops her pugna-
cious feelings, and as Mrs. O'Neill did not wish to come in
for a " taste of her quality" in that respect, she got out of
the way of the prisoner, and then the lam er bstook herself
to revenge by smashing every "bit of furniture," and all
" other vegetables"—(loud laughter)—that lay in her way.
The destruction calved in this way amounted to 26s and
when she had nothing else to do (like the stars) she sat
down on the door-step, and, along with her husband, con-
tinuei to sing the remainder of the song " just out."—"?he
spree ;" and every now and then, the husband, by way of
chorus, swore there was'not such a " Northern wigeon" in
Lancashire as be was ; and then he would jump_
flourish a-large hammer, and in tha most benevolent
manner, threaten to " whop the roof of the skull off the
first man that came near him." The female prisoner said
it was alt her fault, and, as an open confession she thought
was a good thing, she would take the whole blame on
herself by admitting all to be true. The husband promised
to pay Mrs. O'Neill for the damages done to her furniture
and "other vegetables," and this heir g agreed to, his
Worship cautioned both prisoners and dischaTed them.
SHOP LIFTING.—Robert Wilson was charged with
stealing a waterproof coat feom the shop door of Mr.
Heliewelre, Lime-greet. Tne prisoner (along with
another person, not in custody) was observed in aback
ee strt, about the quadrant, by Marks, a detective officer,
and he arrested the prisoner whilst in the act of putting
the coat on his comrade. The owner of the coat proved
the property, and said it was stolen from his shop door.
The prisoner was sent for trial.
FINE OYSTERS.—John Heffernan, "an oysterman," wss
charged with having stolen a new coat out of the bar
parlour of Mr. Jones's public-house, Cases-street. The
prisoner was in the parlour supplying some persons with
the " fish," and on his departure he took the coat. He was
remanded.
ROBBERY IN A BROTHEL.—EIIen Lawley, a notorious old
hag, who has been repeatedly in custody on various
charges, Sarah Evans, Ann Jane Humble, and another
girl, named Connor, were charged with havirg robbed a
man, of the name of Rule, in a brothel in Albion-street.
From the evidence of the complainant, it appeared that
about three o'clock that morning, as he was going home
from an evening party, the worse for liquor, he called in
at the above place, and, after having some ale, the old
woman took from his person his purse, containing about
£9, and inninediatcly escaped. He swore that Evans and
Ramble herd him by the throat at the time. Those two,
with the old woman, were sent for trial, but there being
no evidence against Conner she was discharged.