Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-09 00:00:00

THR COST GP JUSTICE.

A statement was read from tho Leeds Mercury, showing
that at the late Kuaresborough Court of Quarter Sessions
there was only one prisoner for trial, charged with stealing a
shift, valued at 2s , and be pleaded guilty. For the transaction
of this momentous business there were in attendance eight
magistrates, who had travelled, on the average, twelve miles
each; forty jurymen, whl hatl travelled, on the average, twelve
miles ; ton barristers, of whom eight were from London ; and
twelve officials of the court, who had travelled an average of
20 miles each.

JJBBING IN CONTRACT 3 AND ETORES.
The following extract from the monthly circular of the
London, Norwich, and Northampton Boot and Shoe Company
was read :—" It should be publicly known that the treat-
ment of our maculae urers by the Government has been
most unfair, and such as must prevent respectable tradesmen
from tendering; cons►quently the Government, at the present
time, are rather beggats than buyers of goods. This state
of things is not conducive to the well-being of the
public service. Mu.:h of it arises front the e Trice
exercised in rejecting gools for :he most trivial and unavoid-
able deviation from samp:e, not in any w.y affecting their
value or durability. The parties employed to receive such
goods appear to overloook the fact, that boots and shoos are
►nado by hundreds of d fferent workpcople, and therefore the
impossibility of Uvsry pair being exac ly alike, as if moulded
or made by a machine. Ou th, other brill, it is well known
that the rejected goods of one person have been bouTht by
others, who have found means to get them passed by the
official Cerberus The ultimate result of this absurd system
will throw the Government %holly out of the market, and
their orders will be rej.cts.d while there is a sufficiency of any
oilier work. Will it be credited that, no`wi hstauding the
difficulty experienced by the Poard is ob aining from the
trade what they require, at one of the public sales of sores
about 15,000 pairs of fresh made and perfect goods
were d sposed of by auction at a ruinous sacrifice ?"
How can this be justified? There can be no justifi-
cation for su,h a system, or for the neglect of Ministers
and Members of Parliament i❑ not thoroughly sifting into the
rottenness of the departments, and effecting the necessary re-
form•. It was deemed cspec'aily desirable that the attention
of Members of Parliament, disposed to do their duty, should
be directed to the periodical scruffier) of Government stores by
auction for what they will fetch, and tha very common re-
purchase of those very same stores by Govercmeut—often in
the same packages and under the same marks, but of course at
current market prices. This is the process by which the nation
is plundered, and private fortunes are being constantly mode at
the public expense. An efficient Financa Committee was
again referred to, as likely to put a speedy stop to this, as well
as to many other evils.

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1857
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE-BATufwir.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.
A VOYAGE CUT SHORT.—Detective-officer Horn brought
up a well-dressed person, named Richard Meigh, charged
under the fallowing circumstances :—The officer said he
took the prisoner into custody on board a ship called the
Telegraph, in the river, bound for Australia, on a charge
of having forged an order in the name of George Fowler,
of Stoke-upon-Trent, and thereby obtained three crates of
earthenware, value Cl 6. The facts were these :—The
prisoner went to Stoke, and purchased a crate of ware from
Mr. Fowler for £5 103 , which he paid. There were three
other crates that the pris ,ner wanted, but Mr. Fowler
refused to let him have them without money. The prisoner
then asked him to tend the thr.:o crates to Liverpool, to
his own (Mr. Fowler's) order and not to be delivered
to any one else. He proposed to send a remittance
fer one of the crates as soon as he sold that for
which he paid This was agreed to, and a
freight note sent with the carriers. When the
messenger went to the prisoner, with the note for the crate
which he had purchased ; the prisoner asked for the note
relating to the other three. The prisoner described to the
messenger the marks and numbers of the crates, and to
whom they were consigned, and demanded the note, stating
that he was George Fowler. He got the note and signed
the name of " George Fowler," and obtained the property,
which he sold to an Irish dealer for £l4, and when
arrested, was on his way to the land of gold. The pri-
soner alleged that he had purchased the whole of the
crates, and paid 5 103. on account. This was positively
denied by the complainant, and the priso❑er was sent for
trial.

EXTZNSIVE PLUNDER BY A, SERVANT.—Mary Sherlock,
who was a servant in the employment of Mr. Hut
chins, biscuit baker, John's-lane, whose private house
lis in Stafford-street, was brought up by detective
officer Eaton, on a charge of having stolen
a quantity of wearing apparel belonging to Mr. and Mrs.
Hutchins, to the value of over £2O. It appeared that
Mrs. Hutchins hired the prisoner on written characters ;
she had been in the house about a month, and on the 26th
Ocrober, in the absence of the family, she absconded,
taking with her the property. and leaving five pawn tickets
on a table, and a note stating that she had gone to Ireland.
The tickets related to a quantity of the property she heal
pledged at some pawnbrokers Mr. Hatchins said the
Prisoner used the name of the Rev. Mr. Connor, and a
military gentleman and on this she was engaged. His
Worship said persons should be very cautious in taking
servants without making proper enquiry, as written
cisarac'ers could not be depended on. (The prisoner was
a convicted thief previously.) Officer Eaton said the pri-
soner was the wife of a soldier, and he followed her to
London, where he get her in Gunpewder-court, Shoe-lane.
She was identified by the pawnbrokers, as the person who
pledged a quantity of the property. The prisoner was sent
for trial.
MOHE PLUNDER BY A SERVANT.—Mary Currie was
charged with having stolen a quantity of silver fotirs,
knives, and other things, the property of Mr. Ormrod,
of. 63. Brunswick-road, and also of stealing a quantity of
wearing apparel belonging to the housekeeper and another
servant in the same establishment. The housekeeper
alowe 1 the prisoner int ) the home, as she was out of
situation, and on Thursley she abscon 'ed, taking the pro-
perty with her. She was etopp-.d offering the spoons for
pledge : the wearing apparel was -
recovered. The prisoner
was sent for trial.
ASSAULT BY A SERVANT.—Elizabeth Hugh s, a servant
in the employment of Mrs. Church publican, 140. Great
Howa-d street, was charged by her mistress with having
assaulted her. Tae complainant said, about 5 o'clock the
'previous evening she went up to the room where she found
t,e prisoner asleep in a easy chair. She ordered her out, but
she refused to go, and then she put her hand on her
shoulder, when the prisoner struck her several times on
the heed and face, and one blow on the eye cut her, and
she bled a great deal She could not tell what the prisoner
had in her hand, bat she must have had something to cut her
so. Dr. Stuart said he attended the c mplainant, and found
her in a very nervous state. There was a punctured wound
over the left eye, and it was impossible it could have been
inflicted with the naked hand. The hemeerrhage was very
considerable, but the would was not dangerous. The
prisoner was fined £lO, or in def cult of payment, six
month's imprisonment

DARK Den BRTNGINO SOMETRING TO LIGHT —A. very
powerful made black man, named John B. Florence, was
charged with nearly cutting the arm off a very powerful
white man, named Delia Devlin. The complainant said
he was in a public-house, at the corner of Athol-street,
with some friends, when the prisoner entered and enquired
for one Thomas Kennedy, swearing at the same time that
if he got the aforesaid Kennedy, he would cut his throat.
He held an open sharp knife in his hand, brandished it
about fearfully, and vowed vengeance on Tom Kennedy.
flireaf, is it woilla lie a wicked thing to do so, whereon,
he swore he would d 3 the same to him, and at the same
time made a dart of the k ife at his throat; he put up
his hand to save himself, when the knife went
into his arm, and made a desperate wound on
it. Surgeon Davie, of the Northern Hospital, deposed to
the serious na•ure of the wound. The prisoner told the
following story, which the police asserted to be true in a
great measure. He had 6 b zee of Cavendish tobacco on
board a ship c rning to Liverpool from America. When agood
way outside the N. W. light ship, Tom Kennedy and some
other " gentlemen" boa ded the ship and purchased the
tobacco from him, giving him a bill for £2.0 for the pay-
ment. They then took away the tobacco in a bmit. When
he came on shore he w:nt after Tom Kennedy for payment
of the bill, but is place of getting monses ha got kicked
and beaten by Tom Kennedy and his party (the complain-
ant being one of the crew-Kennedy) in the worst manner
On Friday he heard that Tom was in the public-house, he
went there, when he was attacked and nearly murdered by
about :20 fellows. He was down, and in self defence he
drew his knife, when the complainant, who was making a
desperate blew at hini hit his arm against the knife and
that was hew it happened His Worship ordered the pri-
noner to be remanded to Tuesday, and directed the police to
tn-ke enquiry about the affair, From what was subsequently
stated, it is not unlikely that the police and excise officers
may have Tom Kennedy and some of his garg, together
with the six boxes of Cavendish, before the court, along
the prisoner, when the next. appeers there.
FTIZEET ROBBERY BY A FEMALE. -A well-deessed young
woman, named Line Tobin, was cha gad with having stolen
a pocket-book containing a £lOO promisso y note, and three
scrip certificates of a 'building society, from Humphrey
Smith, who resides in Graftot-street, Park The com-
plainant was going home on Friday night, when he was
accosted by the female, and soon after he missed his book
and contents, as aleeva He ads) los' a key, a tooth pick, and
knife, which were euha,Tiently found on the prisoner ; but
the other things were not forthcoming. The p‘isone was
sent to gaol for th ee months.

CORONER' 3 COURT. s --ATIIRD IT.

The Coroner hnl .1 the fo'lowing inqnestA
On the body of a child caned William Kelly, that was
found dead in bN.I with its curler, in 19, Upper Atherton-
street, tied:tr circumatanc s that required an investigation.
Oa the examination of the b )dy by Surgeon Kemp, it
appeared that death was the result of natural causes, and
the jury found ace
Oa the body of Alice Miller, twelve years of ate, who
lied in the R tyal Infirm try. 011 Filay week the deceased
got resided in a house in a co-)rt off Giviton-stree,. The
affair was acc"den.al, and the jury found a verdict of
" Accidental death."

On the b)dy of a new.b irn male child, found in a privy,
in Bacon street. The e,Lience welt to show that the
child was born alive, hn I died 'from suffocation, and the
jury found a verdict of " Wilful murder against some
person unknown."

CAUTION TO BOYS.
It is truly frightful to see the danger boys go through
by standing orr their heads in the street, and it is wonderful
that we have not to recArd mare fatilesacciJents from this
dangerous practice. A few diys ago, a child named James
Brett, who lived with his parents, in Hornby-street, got a
fall, whilst ,tanding on his bead, and died from the effects
of the injuries. The jury in the case found a verdict of
" Accidental death " LThe police should iaterfere, and
put an end to this clang-dram practice in the streets.]

At LEWIS & UIti?ANY'S, Ranelagh-street,
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Ages of Six to Treaty Years.

EXETER IrALL gERVICSS.—TheEe services are suspended
until. the decision of the law is obtained, the Rev. A. G.
Edonart, incumbent of the parish, having forbidden the
services.

Tits SOVERUGXB OF EUROPE.—The Almanach de Gotha,
for 18.58, which has just appeared, contaiss the names of
47 emperors, kings, princes, grand dukes, and dukes
reigning in Europe, as well as the Emperor of the Brazils.
The oldest of the sovereigns is the Grand Duke of Meek-
lenbonrg S.reli'z, win was torn on the 12th August, 1779,
and next to him the King of Wurtemberg, born on the
27th September, 1784. The prince who has had the
longt.st reign is the Prince of Schaumboorg Lippe, the date
oft is accession, when quite a child, being the 13th of
February, 1781. The yonngett princi.4 ars the King of
Aortngal, born on the 16th September, 1837. and the Duke
of Parma (represented by b.is mother as regent) on the 9th
July, 1848.

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