The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-29 00:00:00

COUNTY COURT.

Mr. Conway presided in this court yesterday.
GORE v. WILSON —This was an action upon a promis-
sory note, the circumstances of which were somewhat
peculiar. The son of the defendant was employed in the
office of the plaintiff, being apprenticed to the latter by
indenture. In November last the young man received a
£2O note belonging to the plaintiff, for purposes connected
with the business. Ile came to the plaintiff shortly after
and told him he had lost the note. Plaintiff sent for the
young man's father, and asked him to make good the loss
and after some discussion the defendant agreed to give
plaintiff his promissory note for the amount lost,
by the son. It was agreed that plaintiff should hold the
note, and should receive the payment by quarterly instal-
ments, stopping the salary of the young man, £l4 a year,
as it came due, for the purpose. £3 lOs was paid in this
manner, but soon after a sum of £3O also disappeared.
The plaintiff, not believing that this second sum had been
lost, gave the young man in charge, and prosecuted him
before the magistrates. He was sent for trial before
the Recorder, and then pleaxled guilty of having
appropriated the money, and was sentenced to
a term of imprisonment. The plaintiff declined after this
to receive the payment of the note in quarterly instal-
ments, and called upon the defendant to make a nr,w ar-
rangement. It was agreed at first that 10s a week should
be paid by the defendant, but this arrangement not having
been carried out, the plaintiff now came into court to
recover the amount remaining due upon the promissory
note. Mr. Hime appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Pem-
berton for the defence. When the plaintiff's case had
been heard, Mr. Pemberton contended that the proceed-
ing was void ab initio —that the plaintiff could
not in the first instance haye compelled defendant to make
good money which had been lost by his son, and
that, therefore, no consideration could be shown for
the promissory note. Mr. Hime argued that there was a
valid consideration in the fact that in consequence of the
note having been given no proceedings were taken in refer-
ence to the £2O, and that the father would have been
liable for the amount lost by his son. His Honour having
heard the argument on both sides, stated that he should
consider the point, and would deliver his judgment on
Wednesday next.

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"PASSING SPRANGE."—OUT good town is, from day to
day, the scene of many a startling event. Sometimes we
have to record the folly of youth, and, anon, the dotage
and imbecility of age. To-day we learned a fact that pre-
sented a mixture of ho'h. A sawyer, of the venerable
age of 80 years, and who had been three times previously
united in bonds matrimonial, " With studied, sly, ensnar-
ing art," persuaded a blooming young woman of ninteen
to accompany him to the Hymeneal altar, where they were
unequally yoked," in the presence of a large number of
spectators. All we can say is, in the marrying line, he is
a top sawyer.”—Bclfast Paper.
SHOMING CASE OF DEATH FROM EXPOSURE TO COLD.
An inquest was held on Monday night at Edlington Wood
House, near Doncaster, touching the death of a man named
Geldert, who was found, in a dying state, on the road near
Edlington Wood, on Sunday at noon. On Saturday, the
deceased and a man named Atkins went to the rent audit
at Wentworth House, the seat of Earl Fitzwilliam, and on
his return he got diunk, and became so unmanageable that
his two companions left him to lie upon the road, he having
rolled out of the conveyance. He resisted all efforts to
life him in the cart again, and in the end he was left.
Twelve hours after, a farmer in the neighbourhood was
passing the place. and found him just expiring. At the
close of the inquiry, Mr. Marratt, the coroner, censured
the young men very much for leaving the deceased on the
road, and told them that they had had a very narrow
escape of being sent to York under a verdict of man-
slaughter. He trusted it would be a serious lesson to them
for the future.
DISCOVERY OF THE REMAINS OF A MAN MURDERED
THREE YEARS rood deal of excitement has been
caused in the Skyrack tliV:iioll of the We=t Riding by the
discovery of the skeletei ef a man who wes suppcsed to
have met his end by fail means some three years ago.
Last Tuesday weak, while the dredging machine of the
Aire and Calder Canal Company was at work clearing out
the canal near Allerton Byivater, the skeleton of a man,
with a large chain and stone attached to the remains, was
drawn up. The men in charge of the machine took the
skeleton to Dr. Kemp, of Cactieford, who purchased it.
Shortly afterwards eireuniganc-s transpired which led the
police to surmise that the skeleton is the remains of a
person who had disappeared from Allertan Bywater three
years and a half ago. When the skeleton was first drawn
out of the water there was a pair of boos on the feet.
Those boots have been identified by a shoemaker in
Allerton Bywater as a pair he had made for the misiing
man. Several other circumstances have since arisen
which at present the police do not consider it judicious
to make known, bat which, they think, may ultimately
lead to the discovery of the particulars of a deed at
present shrouded in mystery.
INFORMATION UNDER THE FACTORY ACT.—At the Ashton
county sessions, on Wednesday, Mr. James Fielding,
cotton spinner, Lees, was charged under the Factory Act,
by Mr. Coles, sub-inspector of factories, with allowing ten
young women to work ten minutes past six o'clock, by the
Mumps Station clock, by which the mill was regulated, on
the evening of the 15th April, contrary to the provisions of
the act. Mr. Coles was not sworn, as Mr. Fielding did not
plead not guilty, but he stated, that in consequence of
complaints made to Mr Horner, he had visited the mill at
the time stated, when he found all the machinery going,
and all the women in the card-room working. He offered
to take half a dozen cases only, and the costs in the
remainder, if the bench thought fit, alluding to an accident
which Mr. Fielding had had in his mill as an inducement
for leniency ; but complained strongly of the difficulty and
trouble he had with parties who worked their mills some
five or ten minutes after time, of which he had numerous
complaints, and stated that his duty was to put all on a foot-
ieg.--Ultimately, the bench asked Mr. Coles to take five
sees, and on his consenting, Mr. Fielding was fined £1
each in five cases, and directed to pay the costs in the
whole.

Info PARLIAMENTARY °Arne BILL.—The following is the
form of oath to be taken henceforth (in all cases) in lieu
of the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, viz.:
—" I, A. 8., do swear that I will be faithful and bear true
allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and will defend
her to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and
attempts whatever which shall be made against her person,
crown, or dignity, and I will do my utmost endeavour to
disclose and make known to her Majesty, her heirs and
successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which
may be formed against her or them ; and I do faithfully
promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of
my power, the succession of the crown, which succession,
by an act entitled 'Au act for the further Limitation of
the Crown, and better securing the rights and liberties
of the subject,' is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia,
Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being
Protestants, hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any
obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming or
pretending a right to the crown of this realm; and I do
declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or
potentate, hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power,
superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or
spiritual, directly or indirectly, within this realm. Se help
me God." The act, however, will not affect the form of
oath prescribed for Papists by the Roman Catholic Relief
Act (10th of George IV., cap. 7).
FISH AND FLESH IN PARIS —lt appe-tIS that the butchers
of Paris, in order to evade the tax upon meat, fled meens
to buy up cattle at a camp preo lit fore it
comes to market, and then at market they readily pay the
high rates asked, and in this way raise the averages which
regulate the retail price. It will be absolutely necessary
to throe; open tire trade unless meat is always to remain at
a latrine price, which it is now. The tax—which is absurd
in principle, because it hLs no account of the difference
in quality between one beast and another—has turned out
even a worse failure than was anticipated. In. all the
restaurants, except, perhaps, a few of the lirst-ciass, the
food offered to consumers gets worse and worse, and pri-
vate individuals find that for prime pieces they must pay
prices that were never heard of before the tax. The under
of the sirloin, called files d e &eV; the only part of a
French ox
s(7l,llicaht
can b restedt
upon
to
hFeantieinlideesr,arie
.s
frequently l iaV - a cr o l a pound
made to pay two francs the for joints not a whit better
than the meat delivered, at the hospitals by contract for less
than half the money. line extent to which the Parisians
suffer from regulations interfering with the laws of supply
and demand is almo
tincredible. You can scarcely ever
get fish realty fresh in Parrs; and yet titers is no reason in
the nature of thirrga why this metropolis should not be
just as well supplied as Loafer!. A company was projected
the other day for bringing up flab with rapidity from the
different ports, buts when all the arra.nc,erients were nearly
made, it was discovered that ttie oetrol regulations would
make the enternrise hopeless. I saw mackerel selling in
Parts a short time ago at two francs per head. A lean
fowl now costs six francs or seven francs.
CASII AND DER]) Boxts.—The next important thing to th, posses-
sion of cath is, how (when you have got id to keep it safely, either in
the c,,,nntfl7- house or at home. The same remarks apply to deeds
and other valuable documents. We have seen a large and varied
stock of both these desirable articles, manufactured expressly for Mr.
E. 'l'. of South John-street, that challenge attention. These
boxes are made on new and admired principles, and. possess patent
locks, which defy the ingenuity of any " pick-lock" the world to
open, except with the legitimate key. To merchants, solicitors, and
others, there new safer, on a small scale, must prove va!uable indeed.
—Northern Daily Times, 214 May, 1857.