Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-24 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE •COURT.-YESTERDAY

women

'filed lOs

and costs for r erraittini d

'lBefore Mr. MANSFIELD.] , Richard Lumb, publican, Tithebarn-street, summoned
_ 'VIOLENT ASSAULT' UFON., A WOMAN.—Jessie Smith, for Selling liquor within: the prohibited .hours.: Mr,
powerfUl-looking• fello*, and a Woman named Ann Rymer, solicitor, defended. The officers stated that
Hughes, who hive been' repeatedly before the court on they visited the house on Sunday last, at seven minutes
to one, and found fourmen with ale before them. ' The
remand, charged with eomtnitting a violent assault on a
bend' w
feale named Janetaken in the time, and dismissed the case.
Fall, on the 13th instant,' were were of opinion that Mr. Lumb had been mis-
Magain placed in the dock. :Jr. Cobb appeared for the .
'
Joseph Buckley, -publican, Highfield-street, sum-
prosocntrix,• and' Mr. pluck for the prisoners. Fr •
the evidence, it appeared that on the 13th instant, thine stoned for permitting drunkenriess.—DiSmissed.
BEER-HOUSES. ,
complainant and a-siSter of the-female prisoner had some' ,
John Madrill, Peach-street, Sunday trading, ac
drink togethe7,;and they began to ,quarrel about a shawl.
They then commenced striking each other, and the, quitted.-1-tobert Forshaw, 'Whittle-street, Kirdab
Sunday trading, -10 s. and costs.—John Barnes Maguir
prisoners interfered,-struck and knocked down the pro-
street, selling during • illegal hours, 30s. and costs
'seontrix,,and when down kicked her. The prosecntrix is
t, and the doctor who is attending her stated to
.peter Taylor, Kew-street, Sunday trading, ss. and
.1. n
—EdwardMitchell; Hornloy-street, Sunday trading, ells
results migh
;ro
that
from at preSe
-thent
abase she he couldreceived . no
Fort tell what th
the • e
missed.—Joseph Rourke, Webster-street, Sunday tract
Moysey, Sparling-street be
defence Mr: Blifck.ealled several, aitnesses, who swore ing, 20s. and costs.—Thomas
Everton, Sunday trading, dismissed.—Thomas Jones.
that the prisoners did not act as described; but this was
'Atkinson-street,. Sunday trading, 10s.- and costs—Mary
contradicted by a police-officer, who saw them strike the
*Ortian.---11r:' Witisfleld said, after the' evidence of the Jones, Fairelough-lane, Sunday trading, ss. and costs.—
dOetor, there was nothing' left but to remand the prisoners Peter M`Stay, New Bird-street, Sunday trading ss. and
costs.—John Howe, Combertnere-street, Su day trad-
for another week: - : - •
~... -
Evans and.ing, • costs,—Alfred Bolton, Peter-street, Sunday
5s and
' OUTRAGE IN DUBLIN7STREET.—nenq
Bartel. Cook, all Williams, were charged with corm: trading, acanitted,—Letitia Scullion, Norhury-street,
Mating 'the following- outrage in Dtiblin-street, on Sunday trading acquitted.—John Ferguson, V,tuxhall-
Thursday -afternoon. James Hammel, a tailor, regd.: , road, Sunday trading, acquitted. -,--- Isaac Singleton,
ing in a cellar in Dublin-street, said that he }vas stand.- Clement-street, Sunday trading, ss. and costs.—Joseph
ing. at the corner. '-of the street :14e -previous afternoon, Hacket, Mason-street, Edgehill, - refusing to admit
when the prisoner Evans accosted him, and asked why' police, 20s. and costs.
,he had charged So much for mending a coat.. Hammel • • • 4
replie,3, that he, did the 'work as lbw as possible ; " then THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH NAVIES.
I'll snake it high for you," was the reply of Evans; and,
'with that; he pinned the poor tailor, who is an elderly -
The Sickle has an article, one of a series, headed "Les
man, up against the wall, and struck him several severe Travaux .de la Paix," in which it sketches, availing
blows. ,The old..man escaped, and running down the'
itself of , English official do-euments, the comparative
_ street reached his own dwelling. Evans followed, and
,strength of the English and French navies at different
rushed in after 'him, as did also the other prisoner Cook. epochs of the last seventy years, showing that up to
The'two prisoners immediately began smashing the fur- 1850, the navy of the former cbun:Ty was generally
niture,- demolishing the crockery ware. anti ripQtri,,-;.,...

his wors'

he hous

he clothing

I about douNe the strength of that of- the latter, but
Id man was attacked
that since the Conversion Of sailing vessels into steamers
hr oat by Cook myrnearly choked ; she the proportion has greatly changed. The comparative
equalisation of forces, which has since ensued, is atoned
N''.3.of her fingers broken, and one of her arms fo---, 'says the Sac.?, in EngliSh opinion,' by the superiority
' - A woman, who came to give assist- .
ic,!l:3:iani.,Trr,ctiti!;lpei,mwa.,,iiniiied apn.,!'hoifpthnecz ialirinibtherr, odf,,?,,ui.r
,s,fea:
was stabbed in the, forehead,

and inneked, down ; his wif

terfer44

by the

severely bruis

parties,

and; reeeited other inj'aries. The attention of th, protracted war; to find sailors for Our fleets when the
w& -,called -4o ~ the house, and. they forced their way in
,French store of seamen would be exhausted.' The Siecle
aiid..i..mst,ect the Prisoners. . The wife of the prosecutor, does not touch upon the necessity of our, devising means
'friniiVe'iti.furies she had sustained, not being in a fit to induce sail Ors to 'serve in men-of-wai, since we have
Liiatelo7ritrend, the'priSoners. were remanded, • -•
not the.-resources of the conscription; but proceeds to
THE FORGERY ON THE PROVIEkENT SOCIETY.--"-- .ROu„ t. make the following remarks and admissions :
141?kire.e11,, a .young.-man, was ,brought -up on remand, - „ From all this the English infer that, in the first
hargectivith. attempting to obtain. £l. 18s. 6d. from the moment of a struggle,-they might have the disadvan-
'leixerrel Districttape,rovident.Society, and also with hay- tae, but that in the long run the- advantage would be
'lngi raliied-18s. - from the . same society,' by. means of theirs ;- .since they have in sailors, and in people fami-
'lWgeditirelets. - The facts, Of the case have-already ap- liar with the sea, resources which we have not. They
peartil di: our ad Limns. They-are
~,pristagr,lla4 been in the employ of the• Provident Society with them is essentially Maritime, and that ours is much
.as ligh.t„porter, and on the
.30th of.49gnst he absconded,
less so. It is true that steam has notably modified the
taking with him a number-of the visitor's orders.. On conditions of the.manning of a military fleet. There is
the Ist of September, he sent ab 4 with-a visitor's order no longer need, as formerly, of sailors exercised in the
:-iris.-iiis. 6(roVliith sum-he obtained; and on the follow- thousand manoeuvres of a sailing ship ; good engineers,
,ingiaky-ire.s'ait a second lad, with - a secondorder, pur-
good gunners, theie are what are especially wanted.
vorOtig-to be signed ..‘ John ;Lawrence,: for, ..l‘nss Law,.• The cause of the superiority of the French does not the
Aqueft..., :This second order was for
_the sum, Of £1 18s.• less subsist ; they have a larger maritime population
dtr.-,lf was suspected that this' order was a forgery ; -and. than: have • the • more their natural domain.
we, sea is
iifganiinition, both and the One 'caslietl Onsthe.pre-,
They have, habits, wag e.--, q institutions, necessities, which

virus tlay'were fou'nd to .1

Inforrriation

to-the-Too:

and the prisoner was apprehended I
lay, evidence was gone into to show

than us. towards ,the ocean, towards
great exterior enterprises, and towards all that accOin-
parries ari immense colonial empire. All our govern-
ments have been struck by. this difference ; and,
by protecting maritime enterprises and distant fisheries,
have sought more or less to modify and attenuate it.
For our part, our idea on this subject has long • since
been flied '-
intimated to' his

sqlithe chard
ghat the pris,

vider.t Society t

to whom he promised to give

6dl- far the iob.".
were both examined

rind Mim I

awrence

and -proved that the orders wer(
Ur. Memsfield committed the

The idea of the Si7ell iS, that it is essential, above-all
things,' to popularise the navy in Franee by suitable
institutions. Notwithstanding railways, facilitating
communication between, the inland provinces and the
seaboard; it believes that at least two-
French nation are entixely alien to every mariti
The efforts' of literature have been unable to
.mpart maritime tastes to the present generation, and

thirds of ti

notion

the,navy has not had opportunities to fix upon it, by
victories, that atteirion which the 'world has
given tothO army. The. Sieck then insists; as most
important for the developramt of the unveil spirit, and
for the future of Franca, upon an idea which It has on
former occasions put f9rs.risl, fma which amounts to
nothing leSs than_ the formation of .a great ship canal
from Paris to the sea—an idea which it admits-must at
lacticable, but which has, never-
of several men of ability,

rat appear not very

br its realisa

;ion. '1

work on this subjet

and it predicts t

which may at present appeal. encentrie, and even
ridiculous, will soon become practicable in the eyes of•all.