Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-12 00:00:00

POOR CLOTHING REPORT.

The sub-committee for the poor clothing have pleasure in
calling the attention of their subscribers and friends to the
statement of their accounts, which shows a decided improve-
ment upon that of last year.
The treasurer having above £2O in hand at the beginning of
November, the committee voted a donation of clothing, to the
amount of £5 each, to the Royal Infirmary, the Northern and
Southern Hospitals, and the Lying-in Hospital. 294 articles
have been sent and most thankfully received by their respec-
tive committees.

The committee beg again to call the attention of the subscrib-
ers, and also of the depositors of the District Provident Society,
to the resolution passed in 1858, that "A reduction of 2d. in
the shilling is allowed them in any purchase they make."
304 articles have been sold to the former, but only 21 to the
latter; these, with the grant of 294 to the Royal Infirmary and
to the three hospitals, have found employment to many desti-
tute women who cannot undertake the finer kinds c&wark.
_

From the treasurer's statement it appeared that the
receipts amounted to £965 16s. 20., and the expendi-
ture, including an investment of £3OO in a dock bond,
to £938 15s. 4d., leaving a balance of £27 Os. 10;0.
In the account of the Poor Clothing Fund the receipts
were set down at £5B 12s. 11d., and the balance in
hand after payment of expenses, &c., as .LlO 3s. ld.

The Bevy Rector CAMPBELL, in moving, the adoption
of the report, said the accounts could not fail to be
satisfactory to the friends of the institution which was
intended to do so much good, and which had done so
much good among the class of persons particularly
interested.

The motion having been seconded, was carried
unanimously.
The committee haying been re-appointed and thanked
for their past services, the thanks of the meeting were
tendered to the right rev. chairman for his attendance.
His LORDSUIP said he did not come there to court
thanks, nor under the supposition that, as had been said,
his presence would draw more attention than if the
chair was occupied by some other individual; he came
there entirely to show his own grateful sense of thekind-
ness of the ladies, who, from the first, had taken such
an interest in the institution. He thought they were
doing the greatest service to Liverpool they possibly
could do, and that that was one of the best kind of
charities, for it put it into the power of the poor to help
themselves and to maintain themselvei by their own
industry. The money, under those circumstances, was
of ten-fold more value than if it were a mere gift. He
concluded by again thanking them for their kind ex-
pressions towards himself.
The meeting shortly afterwards broke up.

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

(Before Mr. CASTELLAIN.)

STABBING ON BOARD A SIIIP.—A man named
Thomas Smith, a seaman on board the American ship
George Best, was charged with having stabbed John
Richardson, the chief mate of the above vessel, on the
voyage from New Orleans. The prisoner was remanded,
in consequence of the mate being unable to attend.
YOUTHFUL DELINQUENCY.—John Smith, a lad of
only nine years, was brought up on the charge of rob-
bing his mother, who resides in Ann-street, Toxteth-
park, of a dress, and pledging it at the shop of
Mr. Philips, a pawnbroker, in Mill-street. The
boy only came out of prison.= Friday last. His mother
said that he was utterly iucorrigible—nothing she could
do had an effect upon him ; he was continually taking
away any small articles she possessed. _ The prisoner
was remanded. Mr. Castellain administered a very
severe reproof to the pawnbroker's assistant for taking
articles in pledge from so young a lad. He thought the
police ought to lay an information against the pawn-
broker.

ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUlClDE.—Benjamin Callow, a
painter, was brought up on remand charged with attempt—
ing to commit suicide by taking a large dose of laudanum
in a public-house, in Brownlow-hill. He had been
remanded for the purpose of allowing time for a medical
examination as to his sanity.—A note was read from the
surmeon who examined the prisoner, stating that he
believed him to be perfectly sane.—The prisoner said he
was in the habit of using laudanum, and on the occasion
in question unintentionally took too much.—After a
caution from the magistrate as to the mode he used this
drug in future, he was discharged.
(Before Messrs. CASTELLATN and HOUGHTON.)
CHARGES OF SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—William Jamie-
son, a man of colour, cook on board the ship Endymion,
was brought up on the charge of smuggling a quantity
of tobacco.—Mr. Tyndal appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Bluck for the defence. The Endymion arrived from
New York on Saturday morning last. The custom-
house officers went on board, and on searching -the
cook's galley they found 48 lbs. of cavendish tobacco
concealed in a kettle and under the oven. The prisoner
was not on board when the officers found the tobacco, and
when subsequently charged with it, denied any know-
ledge of it. Mr. Bluck submitted that there was no
case against the prisoner, for to make a case it would
be necessary to show that he was in the ship at the time
the tobacco was found. The prisoner was discharged.
James Doyle was found by George Jones, revenue
officer, coming along the Huskisson Dock quay, with
14 lbs. of foreign manufactured tobacco concealed about
his person. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was
sentenced to pay a fine of £lOO and costs.

SEIZURE OF THE STELISSIIIP CUiIIiERLAND.—The
Cork and Milford CoMpany's steamship Cumberland,
which ran down and sank the Austrian brig Piero in
Cork harbour on Monday evening last, was seized on
Friday at Cork, under an Admiralty attachment, to
compel her proprietors to enter an appearance for trial
of the case. The vessel had her cargo, which consisted
principally of cattle, sheep, and pigs, on board at the
t►me, and she was in consequence allowed to go as far
as Queenstown on the condition, it is understood, that
she should transfer her cargo to the Leipsic, which
would be then due from Milford, and two of the water
bailiff's assistants were sent down in charge of her. At
Queenstown the Leipsic met and the cargo transferred
to her, ttat vessel; retraced her course to Milford, and
the' Cumberland returned to Cork.

LIFE IN VIRGINIA.—A private letter now before us
(New York Tribune), from a postmaster in Virginia,
whose locality we dare not indicate for fear of exposing
him to mob violence, says :—" We are in the midst
of a reign of terror here. There is no certainty
that letters duly mailed will not be opened on
their way. All men of northern birth now here
are under surveillance by the so-called Vigilance Com-
mittee, and any. one suspected of thinking slavery
less than Divine, is placed under care. Those who have
been- taking the New York Tribune are objects of espe-
cial ban. A company of ten came into our office last
Monday, and gave notice that I must not give out any
more Tribwnes to the subscribers here. The law of Vir-
ginia punishes by fine and imprisonment a postmaster
who gives out what are denounced as incendiary journals.
The law of the United States punishes by fine and im-
prisonment, and further incapacitates for ever holding
office again, who shall withhold or refuse to deliver any
paper sent to a regular subscriber at his office, $;) here
am in a pretty fix,"