Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-08 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.-FRIDAY.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.—E. Rowley and G. Harrison,
Birmingham, coach-axletree makers. G. C. Walker and
G. Routlidge, Doncaster, Yorkshire, chemists. A. Middle-
miss and J. Hutchinson, Bradford, Yorkshire, joiners. J.
Livesey and W. Ashton, Bury, Lancashire, cotton manu-
facturers. J. G. Sutton, and J. Sutton, Liverpool,
stationers.

Ex:lusively for CLOTHING BOYS from 6 to 20 Years,
LEWIS & COMPANY iiane:agh street.

RIGHTS of RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.--A decision of great
interest to the travelling community has been given at the
Bloomsbury County Court, in Great Portland-street. Mr.
William Finlayson Hunter, a commercial traveller, sum-
moned the London and North Western Railway Company
to the above court for 18s, being the excess of fare he had
to pay to travel between Londonand Auchinlec, having been
refused a third-class ticket by the booking clerk, although
the time tables of the company expressly state " that third-
class passengers will be booked to all stations south of
Glasgow on the Caledonian and Glasgow and South Wes-
tern lines, by the train leaving Euston-square station at
8 p.m." The facts having been proved by the plaintiff,
the defence set up by defendants was that they had mislaid
a letter written by plaintiff to them, and therefore applied
for an adjournment, as the cause of action was not suffi-
ciently declared by notice. The court, having heard a
witness for the defendants, who stated that the reason, no
doubt, of plaintiff's having been refused a ticket was that
the train did not stop at that particular station, thought
this was no defence, as they had repeatedly advertised to
carry third-class passengers by that train to all stations
south of Glasgow. The court having declined to grant an
adjournment, unless defendants would pay plaintiffs day's
cost, which was declined, judgment was given to plaintiff
for the amount claimed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-...SATURDAT.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

A RIVAL of WILLIAM RUSSELL'S.—A very shaky old
man, named Thomas Airey, was charged by police-officer
734, who said he found him begging in John's-lane, and he
was drunk at the time. Mr. Mansfield : What have you
to say ? Prisoner (with a " gentlemanly" smile) : Why,
sir, I came to Liverpool to see a son of mine, but I fell ill,
and was twenty-one weeks in the hospital, and when I came
out I had no money, so I was obliged to turn lecturer.
(Laughter.) Mr. Mansfield : What were you lecturing
on ? Prisoner (with another smile) :On the " War," sir.
(Great laughter, when some one said, he is a rival of
William Russell's, and this caused renewed laughter.) Mr
Mansfield : Did you try a lecture on " Temperance." Pri-
soner : Yes, that was the subject. I was, on yesterday, in a
public-house in John's-lane, and the people were so pleased
. with it that they made me drunk. (Great laughter.) I'm
famous in my lectures on the " War"—indeed, I can treat
on any subject, but the "War" is my forte. Mr. Mansfield
Well, go now, and don't come here again.
" ICH a FINNEGANS !"—A SMALL "BIT" OF A LOVE
MATCH.—Anne Finnegan, a coarse looking woman, about
forty years of age, who was described as the keeper of a
public house in Westmoreland street, charged a fellow
named John Breen with having broken her windows,
demolished divers chairs, and cracked a quantity of
crockery ware, promising to do the same for her head, and
otherwise committed sundry misdemeanours', contrary to
the statutes in such case made and provided, and against
the crown and dignity of Queen Victoria, her heirs and
sueeessors, and so forth. The history of the hostilities
between the powers of Finnegans and Breens, as collected
from an elaborate quantity of swearing on both sides,
seemed to bs as follows. Mr. Finnegan, according to Mrs.
Finnegan's narration, " happened to be sent to gaol for
six months, for nearly beating the roof of the skull off
her, and that remarkable circumstance took place about
three months ago." "From that day to this" (added Mrs.
Finnegan) "I never had pace or ase —asleep and awake it
was all the same, as Mr. Breen got into the fashion of beat-
ing her, the same as her husband used. When he could
not kech her on Friday night, he hocked a proker, and
beat the windows, tableq, and chairs, in a manner
that left nothing morn to be performed in
the peculiar line of his operations." [Here Mrs.
Finnegan exhibited pieces of wood, bits of glass,
some old ropes, and a quantity of other articles, including
portions of torn straw bonnets, mutilated night caps,
tattered old stockings and some human hair,] She de-
clared that the " babe unborn," was not not a taste more
innocent than she was of any provocation give to Mr.
Breen for having acted as described. A young '' lady,"
named Mulligan, gave rather a different version of the
affair. She said, a daughter of Mrs. Finnegan's had
fallen in love with a brother of Mr. Breen's, but somehow,
or other, the " gintleman" didn't like the lady by no
means. (Cruel Mr. Breen) Mrs. Finnegan was quite
dela?. inined to have a match at any rate, and she ever-
lastingly followed Mr. Breen trying to perswiid him to
make his brother marry her daughter. She tormented him
" =rain, noon and nice," and the only way he had to get
rid of her was to break the windows. After hearing the
witnesses pro et con, at great length, his Worship ordered
Mr. Breen to find two sureties in £lO each to keep the
peace.

ATTEMPT TO PLUNDER RAILWAY PASSENGERS.—AII
Italian, named Giorani Philippe, was charged with having
attempted :o steal a portmanteau and a box from the Lime-
street station of the London and North Western Railway.
Mr. Berry, from the office of the railway, solicitor, at-
tended to prosecute. The facts were these :—A lady came
from London on Friday evening by the express train, on
her way to America. She had nine packages of luggage,
and she gave directions to the guard in London to look after
them. On arriving in Lime-street, the guard asked her
if she had her packages all right. On looking over them,
seven packages only were found. The guard then went in
search of them, and he saw a porter carrying one of them,
and a badge porter the other, and he stopped them. The
badge porter said the prisoner employed him to carry the
boxes. The lady got her things, and went away by the
boat on Saturday morning. The prisoner was sent to jail
for three months .

John Rezom,late chief steward of the M.trco Polo, sum-
moned Captain Clarke, of that vessel, for a balance of
wages. The matter was a disputed account, arising out of
the fact that the captain disrated the steward on the
grouud of having acted wrongly. The case was adjourned
to Tuesday.

THE FRENCH LA.DY, MR. GOODERE, AND
SIGNOR TOMASSO.

On Saturday morning, Mr. Goodere came before Mr.
• Mansfield, and said he wished to address a few obssrva-
tions to his worship in reference to an application that
had been made to his worship in his (Mr. G.'s) absence
the previous day, by Signor Tomasso, a report of which
appeared in the NORTIIZRN TIMES of that morning. Ho
much regretted that such an application had been made in
his absence, as he would have properly and promptly re-
pudiated the insinuation. He was an attorney of that
court for over twelve months, and he trusted that during
that period his demeanour to the curt, and in the court,
had been of such a character as became an officer of the
court. He had not, by look or action, ever annoyed or
insulted any one, and how Signor Tomasso had come
before his worship and made such an application he was
quite at a loss to know. He would read the report of the
application. [He then read the report from our
paper.] He continued to say that he felt this
matter very deeply, but he utterly denied that
he had offered any insult or annoyance to the
lady alluded to. He saw the lady in the court on
Friday, and fortunately for him the reporters of the press
were present at the time, and he could appeal to them with
confidence, and to all in court, if he either looked at or
laughed at the lady. He did not speak to the lady, for he
did not speak French, and he might appeal to his Wor-
ship from his knowledge of his conduct in court, if he
imagined him capable of insulting any one, much loss a
lady. He did not even know the lady, and he really could
not tell why Signor Tomasso should make such an un-
founded and slanderous assertion so far as he (Mr. G.) was
concerned, and he trusted his Worship would express his
opinion on the subject. Here Mr. Tomasso addressed the
court, and said, Signor Tomasso is ready to prove every
word he said, and to sustain the correctness of that
report. I have d currents to prove all, and more
than I said. Mr. Goodere : So far as I am con-
cerned, your application was quite untrue, and utterly
unfounded. Mr. Mansfield said, so far as he
could understand the nature of the application made to
him, it was that you had laughed at the lady. This, no
doubt, was a mistake, as she was labouring under con-
siderable excitement, and you might be laughing at some-
thing, which she might take as laughing at her. The
application altogether, so far as you and the others were
concerned, was so very vague that he hardly more than
heard it, as he did not consider there was any foundation
for it. He told Signor Tomasso if the lady made any com-
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cation. The matter then ended.
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CASH AND DEUD Boxxa —The next important thing to the poss,s-
sion of cash is, how (when you have got itj to keep it safely, either in
the counting-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. T. Hall, 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" in the world to
ootpheen except
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—Northern Daily Times, 21st May, 1857. eanedd.
HEALTH or BOULOGNE.—The following is extracted from a letter,
tothe sanitary
anylfacvoo nadri.-
dated Boulogne, May 28 :—" At the approach of the bathing season it
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obfethiasswfaevlloutorirteeasplacsureeoif resort,ntendin
able impressions, which may still remain from last year. The alarm
that was caused by the appearance at Boulogne of that severe form
ganvidsiW tors contradictas
of sore throat which had previously shown itself at Paris, and many
other points in the north of France, and has since appeared in several
other places, is too well known for any injury to be done to the
locality by referring to it. But statistics now show, What, of course,
could not be known at the time, that it was very far from prevaiing
to the extent that was at one moment inferred from a few unfortunate
instances to which general attention became directed. On the other
hand, since last summer the exertions of the municipality have been
strenuously and Unremittingly engaged on the improvement of the
sanitary condition of the locality ; and the favourable result of these
%xertions is proved by the present low rate of mortality, which is con-
siderably under the average. lam assured that for several months
past there have been no cases of infantine febrile disorders at Boulogne.
beyond those isolated instances which occur from time to time in every
centre of population, and arise, not from any local cause, but from the
very nature of things, and that in this respect the health of Boulogne
during the past winter can be advantageously compared with that of
several of the neighbouring towns. The mortality during the present
year, 1857, has amounted to 315 from the Ist of January to the 26th
of May, being at the rate of 755 deaths a year : while in 1856 there
were 986 deaths, 384 of which occured between the lot of Jarman',
and the 26th of May. The mortality of 1855 exceeded that of 1856.
It is clear, then, that the mortality has been diminishing for some
years past, while a still more satisfactory assurance is found from
comparing it to the population, which, although estimated at x ,7
by the last census, is believed to amount to 40 000. The medical m,39
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lthink it Is
of Bonlogne are unanimous in stating that at this moment thweithimbthhec
health is in a satisfactory condition, and one in accordance
reputation the locality has always enjoyed for salubrity.
only a matter of justice at the opening of the
bathing season
truth to give
those interested in Boulogne an opportunitythus of stating the
regarding its sanitary condition, and us removing
Which, if not corrected, might exerC
the number of yiSitOra." ise an anfa impressions
abie inflames on