The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-11 00:00:00

BILISTOL

SUGAR MARKET, August B.—We have still to report a very quiet
market both for pan and scale de.criptions, and prices are barely
supported. Refined is only in limited demand. Rum sells to a fair
extent, at full prices.

LONDON,

TALLOW,—The market is firm to-day at the annexed quotations :
Town tallow, 51s nett ca h; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 531 to 53s
6,1; August and September. 52s 6d ; October and December, als to
51s 3d.RMarket Averages__Town tallow, 543 3d; fat by ditto, 2s
10d; yellow Russian, 54s fd ; melted stuff, 425; rough ditto, 26s ;
tallow graves, 16s; good dregs, 7s.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

TATTERSALL'S.-SATURDAY.
LATEST BETTING.

EBOR HANDICAP.
3 to 1 agst Warlock—take 4 to 1
7 .. 1 .. Coroner—offered
8 .. I .. Yellow Jack—taken and offered
10 .. 1 .. Lady Tattoo—taken

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 11.
Hum WATER—Morn., 6 21-Even,
7 I—Height, 10 ft. 5 in

POLICE COURT.-SATURDAY.

(BEFORE MR. MAXWELL).

COPPER STEALING.—John Collins, Michael M'Gratb, and
Patrick Keenan, were charged with stealing a piece of copper,
value 10s. 6d., from the steamer Margaret, belonging to the
Cunard company. A police officer saw the prisoners take the
copper from the top mast of the vessel, as it lay on the quay.
Collins, being an old offender, was sent to gaol for three months,
and the other two for fourteen days each. John Wilson was
charged for stealing 201bs. of copper nails from the shill
Atlantic in the Clarence graving dock. Tha officer stopped
the prisoner coming out of the dock with the nails concealed
about his body—the value was £l. Tho prisoner was sent
to gaol for fourteen days.
STREET ROBBERY.--A black man, named Alexander Vol-
dermere, charged a fellow, named Charles Marshall, as being
one of two persons who knocked him down in Regent-street
and robbed him of £1 in gold. The prisoner saw the eon:.
plainant get some money from the captain of his ship, and fol-
lowed him into Regent-street where they knocked him down
and robbad him. The other ruffian got away; t

ner was caught by a policeman, who,"along with a
Regent-street, fully identified him as one of the

committed the outrage.
three months.

The prisoner was committed for

Is " EXCHANGE" ROBBERY ?—Anne Ormsby, a person of
respectable appearance, was charged by a young man, named
William Towson, who is employed in Mr. Wrighi.'s public
house, Warerloo road, with stealing 2s. The young man said
the prisoner went to the shop for change of half a crown ; the
mistrt ss gave her two shillings, and sixpence in copper; the
prisoner pushed back the coppers, and asked for silver for it,

which was given, and then the prisoner sail she had given the
halt crown, but the witness caught her by the hand, and took
the coin out of it, as she had not given it to the mistress. Air.
Bluck, who appeared for the prisoner, asked the young trial'
what he had given her in charge for ? and he replied that the
prisoner w. ,s suspected of having done several tricks of that sort
before on the mistress. Mr. Bluck repudiated the conduct of
the person who charged the prisoner, and called for her dis°
charge. She was discharged.
" THE GREATEST FOOL ON EARTH."—In the course of!'
case where a man charged a female with stealing £3 lOs frost►
him, Mr. Gluck, for the prisoner, said, " according to the
complainant's own showing, lie was ono of the largest fools 00
the face of the earth." The complainant, in reply to the
observation, said, " Exactly so, you are quite right ; I am the
greatest fool on the face of the earth !" (Laughter,) Mr.
Maxwell told him he must take better care of himself and his
money, and discharged the prisoner.

(BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.)
" MUSIC BATH CHARMS."-Our friend William Shakspeare
wrote as above, and added that, the charms would sooth the sav-
age beast. If such be the case, no wonder that music had such
a " stunning" effect on one Miss Sally Williams, who, from
her external appearance, was not a" "savage," and if one were
to judge from the said externals, her breast did not partake Of
anything remarkably ferocious, although policeman 183
thought, perhaps, the contrary. He stated that about the
Witching hour of night, when decent people ought to be asleep,
Miss Sally Williams was gambolling about Grove Street like a
greenwood glade, and what was more, she was screeching some-
thing, which, he supposed, she intended for a song, very much
to the disgrace of Jenny Lind or Catherine Hayes, for she
fairly shamed them all to pieces. He advised her to betake
herself to domicile, 'if she had any, and she assured him she
had, but that it was too hot to hold her, whereon his organ of
benevolence became so excited that he gave her lodging for the
remainder of the night in Hotham Street Bridewell. The
prisoner said she was going home quiet and easy, when she
was attracted by the sounds of a piano, issuing from a house la
Grove Street, and she drew near to hear the music, as she was
very fond of music—very indeed. She heard the lady sing "My
light horseman, in the war he was slain," and having a lover in
a trooper regiment, it so affected her that she began to cry,
!Inch the dullness of the officer and his want of taste converted
into singing. She assured his worship that she was in any
mood, except the singing one, but she trusted, under the cit..-
cumstances, that his worship would discharge her, and he
would confer an additional obligation on her by admonishing
police officer 183, and telling him in future to distinguish
between singing and crying. The appeal was successful, so
far as the prayer of discharge went, but in reference to the
policeman's want of musical ability, his worship was quite
silent, it not forming one of the necessary qualifications of an
officer of the borough.

COUNTY COURT.-SATURDAY

(BEFORE JOSEPH POLLOCK, ESQ., :11:1DOE.)
TIMMIS Y. CRONE.—This was an action brought to recover
£lO 4s sd, for loss alleged to have been entertained by the
plaintiff, in consequence of the non-delivery of a puncheon of
treacle. Mr. Hime appeared for the pinintff, and Mr. Clare
for the defendant. The plaintiff was a grocer in Bilkenlicad,
and the defendant a sugar refiner and wholesale dealer, in
Liverpool. It appeared that the plaintiff had purchased three
puncheons of treacle from defendant, one of which, numb,red
three, was to be sent to the Woodside boat, for Birkenhead,
by the defendant. Plaintiff paid the defendant's clerk for the
treacle, and is for cartage to the ship, and 6d for putting it 03
board. The cask never reached its destination, and, 0n
enquiry, it was found that it had been delivered to a porter at
a hut belonging to the Birkenhead commissioners, on the
pierhead, after which it was stated that, by an accident, h
into the dock basin. The defendant refused to refund t,
amount paid. The plaintiff purchased the same quantity 0
treacle again, having to pay for it 101 d per cwt. more than
he paid for the previous lot, and accordingly brought i'l°
action to recover the amount of the difference, as well as the
original price. Evidence was called to show that at the time
the Birkenhead commissioners did not authorise any party to
receive goods on their behalf, until they were
placed on board one of the boats, and that
porter who received the treacle, was not a 0
authorised servant of the commissioners. The ground 01a
defence was, that the Birkenhead commissioners, and not the
defendant, were the parties liable. His Honour said he did
not intend to give a formal judgment that day, but his present
impression was that the defendant was liable, and that he svas
bound to deliver the treacle to the Woodside boat, Ho did
not go so far as to say, in accordance with the argument used
for the plaintiff, that this must necessarily mean that the
defendant was bound actually to put the cask on board one 0(
the boats, because delivery, in the case of a railway, viad
clearly fulfilled, by giving the goods into the custody of ao,
officer or servant of the company. The delivery at the ali?
belonging to the commissioners would bo clearly a delivery 2t
the boat. The only difficulty was in determining where 1116
responsibility commenced, and where it ended, At the tiro°
in question, it appeared that the company did not take charge
of any goods at the but ; although they did so at periods before
and since, they did not then take charge of goods until they
were actually placed on the deck of the boats. It was veil
unfortunate that the public did not know of these changes in
the regulations. The defendant might not have known the
exact time when these changes in the arrangements were made-
It was certainly unfortunate that the regulations should be
altered from day to day, without any clear explanation or
intimation to the consigners or consignees of the goods. Dia
impression at present was, that the defendant having elaarged
for forwarding was bound to forward, and having charged for
shipping was bound to ship, and was therefore liable in this
action. He would, however, consider all the points involved,
and deliver his judgment on Tuesday next,
CAMERON v STEWART.—This was an action brought to
recover £45 9s 9d. Mr. lime appeared for the plaintiffs
and Mr. Roby for the defendant. The action was brought far the value of clothes supplied to the defendant. The plaintiff was one of a class of drapers in Liverpool who employ persons
to make what were called rounds through the twain, supplying
persons with goods in this way, and giving a great deal of credit.
The defendant was engaged by plaintiff in that capacity in
June, 1852, and agreed to serve him for four years, according
to a common arrangement among persons in the trade, and et
the end of that time he was to be put into business on his own
account, in the same round,where be served previously, and to
aeceive, at a fair valuation, the book debts of plaintiff for that
round. During the four years he was to receive hoard and;
lodging, and clothes, the latter, however, according to the
Plaintiff's allegation, to be paid for at the expirat;an of the
term of service. This was the point in dispute. aintiff
positively deposed that the agreement
Was that the The plclothe°
should be paid for, and the defendant as positively asserted
that no such arrangement was made, and that he was to get the
clothes without payment, A book was produced
which all the clothes got by defendant were entered, with
th
the amount opposite each, and debited to defendant, The
entrieB were made partly by plaintiff and in many instances bar
the defendant himself. The book aline of
a sovereign advanced to the defendantso conta
by plaintid ff,an to enable
him to travel from Scotland, where he was engaged, to
Liverpool. The defendant contended that the entries were
only made to enable plaintiff to know exactly how his stock wag
disposed of, and how much his employee cost him. gig
Honour said that explanation could not possibly apply, inns.* much as the coat of board and lodging was not entered, which
would have been part of the cost, and the amounts of all the
clothes supplied from plaintiff's shop were distinctly specified'
which would not have been required if the object had been
merely to keep an account of the stock. It was quite clear
that the defendant's own writing overthrew his defence. Ile
had made entries himself, and debited himself with these sums,
from the moment of his entering the service downwards. There
could be no stronger evidence than the book, and it wag not
possible to suppose that a sharp young Scotchman in that line
of business did not understand that the keeping of such o
regular account, during a number of years, did not imply that
he was to be considered a debtor for the amount. Ho saw n°
possibility of getting over the evidence of the book, and there-
fore gave a verdict for the plaintiff, the amount to be paid in
twelve monthly instalments.

~ctuail~

THE LONDON DINNER TO THE GUARDS.-A nobleman of
high distinction has offered a large quantity of venison t 4
a contribution towards the promo'ion of the festivities .1
the great ball of the Surrey-gardens. This is an example
worthy of imitation.

ES WILT.%IIc;R. o+2l, Cxfd
ci Stktionery Establishment. 19?

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