The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-09 00:00:00

HISTORIC SOCIETY,

The last meeting of the literary section of this society
for this season was held, last night, in St. George's-
hall, Mr. J. T. Dawson in the chair. William Henderson,
Esq., of Church-street, was elected a member of the
society. John Chapman, Esq., late High-sheriff of
Cheshire, was enrolled a member, without election or
entrance fee.

Among the donations acknowledged as having been
received were—Notes and Queries, vols. xi. and xii.;
from David Lamb, Esq ~the completion in continuation of
former donations of the Athenceum, from 1843 ; Journal
of the Statistical Society, to March, 1856, and a publica-
tion on National Paper as a Legal Tender.
The Secretary stated that Mr. Blathers' donation in
February, 1855, consisted of ten volumes of Notes and
Queries.

Mr. J. W. Crosse exhibited an oak snuff-box made from
the keel of the Golden Cross, frigate, sunk in Chatham
dockyard, in 1666, and found in excavating in 1824, and
also, a number of Roman coins of the times of the early
Emperors.
Mr. H. A. Bright exhibited, in illustration of Macauley's
History of England, an autograph proclamation of Gene-
ral Schomberg, dated Lisburn, 1690, and directed to the
Sheriff and Justices of the county of Down; also, a
Treasury Warrant of William 111., granting to Lord
Lucas, then Governor of the Tower, certain revenues.
among other things, as a compensation for his expenses
into Lancashire and Cheshire, the following notabilities,
then late prisoners in the Tower—Carvl Lord Molyneux,
Sir Thomas Clifton, Sir William Gerard, Sir Roland
Stanley, Sir Thomas Stanley, and Peter Lee, of Lyme,
Bartholomew Walrusley, and William Diccinson, Esqrs.
The• Honorary Secretary (the Rev. Dr. Hume), stated
that on that night week the sub-committee would report
upon the place to which their annual excursion would be
directed.

The paper for the evening was upon " The Growth of
Manchester and the Towns of Lancashire and Cheshire
grouped around it," by Mr.„Buxtona, _

POLICE COURT

.--,-YESTERDAY

(BEFORE MR. T. BOLTON
A Witorta MOVEMFDir.—Edward M•Culloch, a watch-
moiement maker, formerly in the employment of Mr.
John Bold, of St. AnnOtreet, was brought up by
detective officer Patrick on a charge of having stolen
three watch moVemehtS, valtte .t. 5, the property of
Mr. Bold. Mr. Bluck defended the prisoner. It
appeared about two years ago the property was given to
the prisoner to finish, in Mr. Bold's premises, but it was
not returned. Mr. Bold did not miss it for a year or
eighteen months after, when he examined his books and
then discovered the loss. On the 24th April last a
*Oman, who represented herself as a Mrs. Jones, the
wife of a watch-maker, residing iri Bunter-street, called
on Mr. C. Bold, a watch movement maker, residing in
Roscommon-street, and who is brother to Mr. John
Bald, of Anne-street, and offered to sell him a watch
movement, which he agreed to purchase for 15s. He
gave her I.os on account, and said he would pay her the
balance when she brought the dial, which was then
wanting; On taking the movement to his workshop lie
discovered that the number had been scraped off; lie
took it to his brother, and it *as found that it was one
of the three so long missing. Mr. C. BIM then went
with the detective officer to the place of the prisoner,
and it was discovered that the wonian who represented
herself as Jones was the wife of the prisoner. On
further enquiry it was found that the prisoner had
pledged another movement at the pawnshop of Mr.
Hampson, Scotland-road, for 5s 41. Mr. Black cross-

examined the witnesses, and then contend
not a case of felony, but one of illegil

urged that it be tre
in ;his View of the c
£2 in addition for the Illegal pidgin, or in default of
payment, one month'S imprisonment. The fine was
paid.
ASSAULT.—Patrick Kelaghan, of 11, Great Nelson-
street, Scotland-road, and a bailiff, named Simpson, who
is in his employment, were summoned by Mr. Michael
Keating for having assaulted him. Mr. Block defended
From a mass of evidence given, it appeared ihat the
complainant was tenant to Mr. Kelaghan, and that some
rent was due. On Friday, the Ist inst., Mr. and Mrs.
Keating were at their breakfast when Simpson, the
bailiff, rushed in, and said he had a warrant to distrain
the goods of ccirnplairiant if he did WA at once pay. Mr.
keatink Said he bad ndt the money at the moment,and
stood up from the table, haying a knife in his hand, with
which he had been cutting bread he stood by the
chimney piece while Simpson was at the end of the
room (a long one), and the latter snatching up a stool,
rushed at Keating, swearing he would dash his brains
out if he did not lay down the knife; he did lay it
down, and, as he added, he wys not aware that he held
it In His hand, as he had it involuntarily until Simpson
rushed at him. The other defendant then rushed into
the room, and both assaulted him, flung him clown stairs'
and into the Street, the landlord being worst of the two.
Mr. Bltick made an ingeniouS cross examination of the
WitrieAsei and defence of the parties, and contended that
they had not been guilty of any offence in law. The
magistrates,. after hearing both sides of the gnestion,
fined Mr. Kelaghan £2, and Simpson the bailiff £l, for
the assault on Mr. Keating. The fines were paid.

the prison

• *WORE MESSRS. J. S. MANSFIELD AND 8. HOLME.)
EXCISE INFORMATION.—Mr John Burnett, an export
agent, was summoned before the above magistrates, at
the instigation of the excise authorities of this town, on
a charge of hatring claimed a greater amount of draw-
babk on a quantity Of beer exported by him, than he
was entitled, to. Mr. Black appeared for the excise, and
Mr. Aspinall for the defendant. The summons charged
thedet-ndant with having claimed 2s per barrel draw-
back more than he should have done, by which he had
rendered himself liable to a penalty of X5O. Mr. Brooke
in opening the case to the bench, explained the clause
of the statute under which the penalty was claimed, from
which it appeared that all exporters of beer are required
to give notice to the eicise of the specific gravity of the
beer, prior to fermentation. In this Instance it was
proved that such notice was given, in which it was
stated that the specific gravity was 1.081, whereas, ac-
Cording to the statement of Mr. William Harris JOhn-
stone, analytical ehenilst eannected With the excise, it
was stated that the specific gravity was only 1,075, and
that by that wrong statement, the defendant bad claimed
a greater , amount of drawback than he was, entitled to.
Several witnesses were called to prove the identity of
the beer, and Mr. Johnson was cross-examined at con-
siderable length, with a view of shaking his evidence, as
to the aettidl weight of the beer, in the course of which
the witness stated, thathe had had considerable experi-
ence in such testings, and that the Method addpted by
the excise was most accurate, and could be most
implicably relied upon. Mr. Aspinall addressed the
bench for the defendant, contending that he had no
guilty knowledge of the actual strength of the beer, as it
had been bought of Mr. John Gould, the eminent and
extensile bre*ct, of Stdne, by Mr. Dolish, who had em-
ployed the present defendant to ship it from the
Princes' Dock in the ship Alarg•aret Dean for Rio. He
complained that the excise should have brought the
case into court on the unsupported testimony of Mr.
Johnstone, who from the amount of business he had to
perform, might, in this instance, have made an error
in the chemical tests he had employed. He called Mr.
-Gould and other witnesses, to support his statement as
to the actual specific gravity of the beer, before it left
the brewery, from which it would appear that it was
much more heavier then stated in the notice to the
encase. The bench consulted for some time, when Mr.
Mansfield said it appeared clear, by the wording of the
act, the defendant had rendered himself liable to a fine,
but at the same time, he did not believe that there was
any fraud intended. That there had been an error made
could not be disputed, but he thought it arose more
from the defective instruments used in the brewery for
, ascertaining the gravity of the beer than from any
fradulent intention on the part of any persons. The
instruments were not so scientific as thdse used by the,
board of excise officers. A fine must, therefore, be
inflicted, although he does not believe there was any
intention to perpetrate a fraud. Mr. Aspinall : What is
the amount of the fine ? Mr. Holme : The smallest
possible amount we can inflict. Mr. Mansfield said : In
any memorial you may hand to --the board, you are at
liberty to state, in order to have a further investigation,
that the magistrates do not believe that any fraud was
contemplated, but that the error arose from the imper-
fect instruments used. The fine was guaranteed, and the
parties left the court.

WEDNESDAY.

(EEFORE UR. MANSFIELD.)

SOMEIMING NEW.—It is said that there is " Nothing
new under the sun," but whether this be correct dr not,
the following, no doubt, will be considered the most
recent dodge out :—Two persons, named Elizabeth
White, apparently about 13 years of age, and Margaret
Williams, about 35, were brought up by detectives
Povey and M'Culloch on the following charge :—Povey
said, before he stated the ease, he wished to inform his
worship that the older was the mother of the younger
prisoner. The oldest prisoner, in a sharp Cockney
accent, " You lie, you—, lam not her mother." Mr.
Mansfield : Why any one who looks at you both must
at once see you are her mother—there's no mistaking
the fact from the likeness. Prisoner : No ; I never saw
the girl before last night. Povey : Don't believe her,
your worship ; she is the girl's mother. Mr. Mansfield
'['here is no doubt about it ; lam sure she is her mother.
Povey then went on to state that after dusk the previous
evening he was going up Renshaw. street, when lie
observed a poor blind man known as "Tom the blacking
man," whom his worship might have observed walking
in the evenings in Mountpleasant. Islington, and other
localities. His worship said lie had observed the man
spoken of. Povey said the poor fellow made out a living
by chaunting songs along the streets in the evenings,
and the charitably disposed were in the habit of drop-
ping halfpence into a box which the poor fellow carried
in his hand. On this occasion he (Povey) stopped
opposite where the blind man was singing, being attracted
by something he saw. The eldest prisoner was standing on
the footway near where the man was. He observed the girl
with a box, collecting money, as it was for" poor Tom,"
and she was getting in contributions tolerably fast. He
suspected all was not right, and after some time he
asked Tom if he had employed the girl to collect money
for him ? The poor fellow stated, and exclaimed that
he had not, and that he wondered why the subscriptions
came in so slow that evening. Posey then informed
him of the movements of the girl, and he begged the
officer to take her into custody. This the officer did, and
at that moment the mother came up, and attempted to
rescue her, at the same time using the mast abominable
language. She was told to go away several times, but
she followed to the station, where she behaved so
outrageously, that she was locked up. The mother said
she never saw the girl before, but when she saw the
police dragging her, she did interfere. Povey said he
had received information that the prisoners were well-
known " cadgers" in Manchester and London, and that
they had just come from the metropolis on a professional
tour in the provinces. Air. Mansfield said, let the
mother go to jail for a month, (the woman in a fierce
and most sarcastic tone, cried out " I am not her mother,
fellow ! ") and let the girl be sent to the workhouse.
ASSAULTS ON Womm—Laurence Taylor, described as
a sailor, residing in Henderson-street, Park, was brought
up on a charge of having committed a violent assault on
his wife, Mary Taylor, by striking her a terrible blow on
the head. Surgeon Garland, from the Southern Hospital,
said that the woman was at present in that establish-
ment suffering severely from exhaustion and loss of
blood, and this was increased in consequence of her
being nursing a chill. The prisoner was remanded for
seven days, in order to ascertain how the injured woman
would go on in the interim.

Mary Anne M‘Shea, who resides in Copperas-hill,

Icharged a lodger of hers, named James M'Kenzie, a
tailor, for having assaulted her, and also for having

Ibroken , ,_
a quantity of furniture in her house. The
prisoner came home on Tuesday night in a state of
intoxication, and without any apparent cause, he com-

menced " wallopping " the complainant, and when he
got tired at " that sort of work," lie broke all the " little
things" he could lay hands on, consisting of tables,
chairs, and " other crockeryware." (Laughter.) The
prisoner said he bad met with an old friend of his,
named John Barleycorn, and it was all the fault of that
" respectable gentleman." (Laughter.) He was re-
manded, in order to give 7him time to make good
the damage done to the " crockery ware and other
timbers.''

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