Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-14 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

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THE PEOPLE'S CONOEEN.3.—By an: advertisement it
will be seen that the inauguration concert for the season,
of
.the- highly popular. People's Concerts, in St. George's-
halli is to take place on. Saturday evening next. • The
artistes engaged for .the . oc'asion are. Mrs. Sunderland,
Miss Hiles,bye Cooper, and Mr. E. Cuzner ;
Mr. Lewis:to be conductor. The programme is a
temptingone, and we make to doubt that these concerts
will meet with equal patronage -and encouragement to
what they experienced during last and the previous
year., . • , .

POLICE Counr CA.sE.—ln respect, to the case of Lan-
gan and Wilson, charged before the police, magistrate
on Monday with being concerned in the theft of a
quantity. of paper and books from the. Underwriters'
Rooms„ we have been requested to state that. Mr.
Hooke, of the firm of Messis. Pitts,& Co., did not offer
any demur to, allowing an inspection of the premises, or
of the books of .the firm. On the contrary, he offered
every facility for such an inspection. We are also
requested to sta.) that no books nor book-backs were

found,on their premises:. • •
PuoToon/untie Ponmars.-7Our attention has been
called to the very clever specimens of portrait photo-
graph, executed by our townsmen, Messrs. Goodwin
and beet. Among ,the notables whose portraits adorn
the galleries of the gentlemen named, we have been par-
ticularly :struck. with the excellent and truthful like-
nesses of Gen. Bell, of. Col. Turner, of the Rev. Dr.
Taylor, of St. J.flui's Church, of the Rev. W. Fenton,
of the Rev. Dr. M'Neile, and of Mr. Gray, optician to
the Great Eastern. All of these likenesses are admirable.
A MAN RUN OVER AND KILLED.—On Monday even-
ing, a man named Joseph Newbold, aged 42, foreman
carter, died at the Northern Hospital, from the effects
of an accident which befel him on Saturday. Whilst
the deceased was engaged at the New-quay, in Bath-
street, on Saturday afternoon, a spring cart came up
and ran , over him. The wheels passed over his body,
and he received severe internal injuries. We regret to
add that the unfortunate deceased :has left a widow and

.oung family of seven.4ildren..
THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN

steamer City of

New Yi'l

Queenstown

pis forenoon

the screw

The letter-

?ost-Office will close at 10.45 a.m., and finally

The, receiving

Louse on t

be open till 11.30 a.m. The Canadian steamerNortl
American will also sail for Quebec to-day. The letter•

box at the Post-office will clos
at 10.45, The receiving-hoi

will be open to 11.30 on the payment of a late fee of fs

PORTATI

OF BRITISH CATTLE T(

SOT:TH

English-

bred bulls and .heifers have jus
Belle Poule,•for Monte ,Video, by Mr, Thomas Spee(

shipped bir the

his toN

.n breed, it

They are of the pure Durham

neia,on the Rive

result. will be watched with much interes
:no•lish farmers. as being something novel.

o'clock, as a whitechapel containing anr men was
procgeding . down. Richmond-row,. when passing St.
Anne-street the horse, which was rather. spirited, hav-

ig come fro'

most fearful rate.

, ROBBERY OF MONEY AT RIRKENREAD.—Yesterdav,
at the Birkenhead Police-court, before .Richard PrvaCts
and J. B. Case, Psgrs., A. case was, disposed of . which
.had been remanded from Saturdayond which, from the
crowded state of the court, would appear to have excited
considerable' interest. Mary Grice, and forty-five, and
her daughter, Martha GriCe, aged sixteen, were charged
with stealing £4B 10i., the property of 'Thomas Young.
Young, the prosecutor, is a quarryman or stone-getter,
living at, the Pock Cottages at :Birkenhead, and the money
was stolen from his hciuse so far back as the I lth 'August.
The circumstances which appeared to connect the prisoners.
with the robberywere these. TheyliVed on the same stair-
case as • the 'prosecutor ; and although they were known
to be in
_very year circumstances at the time,

the hus-

band of the older and the father of the younger prisoner
having died, they gave him an expensive fimeral, bought
mourning for themselves, and Otherwise appeared to be
in possession of unwonted means. The daughter, in
gossip, said "it was Tommy Young's money." The
mother a ?counted for their altered circumstances by stating
that she had received a considerable sum from the brother
of the decease& who resides at FrOdsham. The circum-
stances haying been brought to
,the notice 0. the police,
the case was placed in the charge of Police-constable
Clarke. Mr. Grice at Frodsham was communicated with,
and at once denied having advanced any money to the
prisoners. The elder prisoner then stated that she had
got the money. from a half-cousin named Gamble, a
joiner residing in Liverpool. He was present in court
yesterday; and swore that he found the money to buy
the mourning &c., having lent the prisoners £5. at one,
time, and £3 at another. This statement was corrobo-
rated by. his wife and, the magistrates discharged the
prisoners ; but we believe that the police are pursuing
the enquiry further.

COURT AND OFFICIAL LNTELLIGENCE•

The royal dinner party at Balmoral,i on Sunday,
included the Princess Alice, the Prince of Wales, Sir
George Grey, Colonel the Hon. R. Bruce, Captain Grey,
and the ladies and-gentlemen of the household.'
His Royal. Highness- the Prince of Wales, attended
by Colonel. the Hon. R. Bruce and Capt
arrived. at Balmoral on Saturday even
Palac(

'rom Tiolyrolid

His Roy-al Highness the Count de Flandre arrived on
Monday at Grillion's Clarendon Hotel, London, on route
for Balmoral.

Her Highness the Princess Helene Kotschoubey, with
her son and daughters, left Grilliou's Clarendon Hotel
for Paris on Monday.

The Hon. John George Charles Fox Strangways,
youngest sox of Henry Thomas second Earl of Ilchester,
by his second wife Maria, third daughter of the Hon.
aid Rev. Wm. Dighy, Dean of Durham, died on Thurs-
day last, after a very short illness, at Brickworth-house,
Wilts.

BANKRUPTS. ---
Owen Evans, victualler, Liverpool
James Goggin and Richard Veale, mantle 'nanufac-

.
gneultural me

.cant, Much Had-

Wren, andon. Wall
Richard Nicholson, a:
dam, Hertfordshire.
Frederick Boshell, Beadsman, Southwari,
John Watson Hamilton, share broker, Birnunb
David Galer, grocer, Woolwich.
Nicholas Coressy and Paid Maximos, merchants, Tread-

needle-street, London.
Henry Grant, shipchandler Cardiff. • •
Hookaway, builder and victualler, Gliamorgan

pTorting

RACING FIXTURES FOR SEPTEMBEI
15 I Monmouth
15 r Manchester Autum:
Belford

16 Newmarket F.O
19 Brecon
19 Whitehaven
21 Walsall .......

TUESDAY

CHAMPAGNE STAKE

GREAT YORl6fifiih TIANDICAI

SELLING STAKI

Lady G

PROGRAMME. FOR TH

Tom Bowline:
Br c by the Flying

B f by L
Merrym

t Venus

The ST.. LEGER STAKES Of 25 sovs. cal
colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 21b. ;
horse to receive 100 sovs. out of the

POLICE COURT.

-YESTERDAY,

.e Mr. PRESTON

THE EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE

GREAT EASTERN.

, _ SERIOUS ASS.S.ULT_ON_TILE, PoucE.-,-John and. Charles ~....,
Campbell, brothers, were charged with a violent assault Thr-cirenurstances- connected with this --fatat- catas--
upon two police-officers. From the statement and trophe still occupy an important place in the public
evidence given, it appeared that on Friday evening last mind. The nature and causes of the accident, although
a man, named M'Kinley, was fighting in Vauxhall-road, pretty well understood from the c'apious description of
and police-officer 4.50 went up to him and advised him the occurrence which we gave yesterday; are still not
to go home. He, however, refused to do so, and became com
• .
pletely explained, and will not be till an official
very violent. There was a great row at the time examination and report have been made in connection
and while the officer was' endeavouring to pacify the
crowd, John Campbell interfered, seized the officer by with the sad affair. In the meantime, a -very con_
siderable amount of orationinfor has been collected and
the legs, and threw him down. Police-officer 30 came placed before the public, tst important portions of
up at the time, and-was treated in a similar manner bY which were elicitedat the inquest on the bodies of the five
Charles Campbell, the brother ,of .John Campbell. In-. unfortunate stokers who lost their lives on the melanchlly
the course of the struggle both the officers were knocked
down, dragged along the ground, kicked, and otherwise
maltreated. They sneceeded in retaining hold of M'liinlev,
'whom they secured and brought before the magistrate
on Saturday, when he was committed to prison in
default of paying a fine. The officers reported the
case to his worship, who granted a warrant for
the apprehension of the two Campbells, and they were
arrested on Monday afternoon. Mr. Bluck appeared for both
prisoners, and said the police in this instance were the
aggressors. The Campbells had only asked the officers
what they lvere taking M Ktnley-to brideVell for, when
they were set upon by the officers, and they only acted
in self-defence. Mr. Black also stated that they were
two very respectable men, and wholly incapable - .se

ing in the way described by the officers.—Mr. Preston
-entertained a different opinion. They had evidently, he
said, been guilty of a most outrageous and violent
assault. and they must eaea pay a fine of £5, or he im-
prisoned for three months. They were locked up in
default.
MORE STABBING.—Richard Owens, a respectable-
looking working-man, of about forty years of age, was
charged with having stabbe! police-officers 818 and 445.
About two o'clock on Tuesday morning officer 658, who
Was on dutyinVanihall-road, -ohserfed the prilMier act-
ing in a rather . extraordinary Manner; he was running
about backwards and forwards. Two other police-officers,
(818 and_44s) who were on duty in the neighbourhood

also saw him

man w

)ut instead
Officer

818 thought th

_ tipsey and went
The prisoner made a blow at his
Ind he immediately felt Something, Sharp pene-

occasion.
According to the general account, the explosion must
have been a terrific one—peculiarly so, as judged from
its effects ; yet so admirable in all respects has been the
construction of the mighty ship—so strong in all the
requisites of her framing and build, that the hull has
not suffered the slightest perceptible detriment. The
light woodwork of the berths and cabins'on the lower
deck, 'and the fragile decorations of the grand saloon,
haye of course been entirely demolished or very much
damaged, but the real solid structure of the ship has
resisted the explosion as completely as if it had been
but that of a pistol. The iron main-deck beams
in the immediate vicinity of the spot where the
explosion originated, and the massive iron work by
which they ar —,nnected d the funnel

.e ~ect rounc . are torn
and rent like paper, showing the violence of the con-
clssion ; but the longitudinal and transverse bulkheads
(i:a which the real strength of the vessel. consists) have
resisted the shock, and confined the explosion to the
compartment of the vessel in which it originated.
After the arrival of the ship at Portland, a committee
was formed, consisting of the chairman, the directors
on board, and Captain Harrison, by whom it was
immediately determined to proceed with the repair of
the damage at once. A survey was immediately made,
and estimates sent 14 for making good the damages,
which do not exceed £5,000, of which £l,OOO will be

•
but, as the blame will no doubt fall heavily on those
who are responsible for the melancholy occurrence, it
would be unadvisable to say more at present. Two
more of the unfortunate men have died, viz., Robert

tratinz his skin below the ear. lie felt blood trickling "`"'"" """: -'-'`' "'" ----
down, and he called out. that he Was stabbed. Officer ' THE .INQUEST ON THE BODIES: ,
445 came up, and tried to arrest the prisoner, but he On Monday morning :an inquest was held at Wey-
evaded the intended grasp, and also struck that officer mouth, to inquire into the cause of death of the fiv,-
about the neeh:, the result being. the I same as in the fortunate men (stokers) who. were killed by t'
former case. Owens- then moved off; but officer 658.

hearing the noise, f
him after a long ch,
examined, and it Art

,d in capturing
. the men were
[8 and 445 had

.eceived f

n theexylosion which occurred on Fr

The inquiry, which took plaCe in the
- Mr. H. Locke,
jury com-

the distri

Weymoilth

s posses

atet est which th

besides the jury and the off

rs of th(

ship, scarcely a_ dozen persons present

)laded penknife was found on
clotted with blood. A

le of the blades
1_ from the Nor

Dispensary, described the
,
wounds, and said they must have been indicted with a
small and very sharp instrument. The prisoner was

_
With the exception of half a dozen engineers, two or
three persons who witnessed and felt the effects of the
explosion, the medical officers of the vessel, and Mr.
Leverson, the solicitor of the company, and two or three
witnesses, to identify the bodies, the jury, and the legal

unusual in the funnel itself, but in other engines there
is not generally a water-jacket. We ascertained that the
funnel was double for about forty feet in length. I had
not seen the drawings for the engine. They did not
come from our office. There was six-inch space between
the funnel proper .and the, outer room, or jacket, all
round. The diameter of the inner cylinder was six
feet, and that of the outer seven feet. The explosion
took place half-way down. The inner casing was found
in a collapsed state, and the outer casing had burst out,
the same thing having been seen in the upper half on
deck. The object of this casing is to prevent cold water
being fed to the boiler direct. There was an apparatus
provided to prevent any excess of pressure taking place
in this -eater-jacket. This apparatus consists of a stand=
pipe, which stands up to nearly the level of the top of
the funnel, and is connected with' the water-jacket.
The stand-pipe, in fact, constitutes a safety-valve, by
opening at the top as soon as the steam reaches a
certain pressure. The water runs out of the top of the
stand-pipe, and thus governs the pressure ' that is
required inside the case. After we had seen the
wreck, and taken all the information we could .get, we
learnt that the feed water had been sent direct to the
boiler as being the most direct course, the donkey-engine
not working very well. The donkey-engine drove the
pump, and had some difficulty in doing its work. The
consequence was, that the donkey-engine sent the cold
water direct to the boiler. Two of the donkey-engines
were disabled, and it was all they could do to keep the
boiler supplied'with water. That accounts for the shut-
ting off the circuitous route through the jacket. An
explosion ought not to have ensued had the stand-pipe
been in operation. Our attention was then drawn to
what was in operation in the stand-pipe. There we
found what might be termed a tap or plug passing
through the bottom of it, capable of being turned; and
we found it had been shut off, leaving no vent whatever,
and the two vents being shut up was th€ immediate
cause of the accident. If either of them had been in
operation—that is, if the water had been supplied
through the casing, or the tap had been turned, the
explosion could not have happened. The steam must
have gone on generating, and no one seems to
know how or when that cock came to be shut. Two or

three days before the ship started, something was re-
quired to be doing to it ; the stand-pipe was too short,
and the water ran over too 60011, and it was lengthened.
Up to that time, therefore, the cock must-have been
opened. It is presumed that some workman must have
turned the cock for some purpose of his own—forgotten
to turn it back, or omitted to do so. It cannot be
turned by the hand, but requires an instrument called

.
the spann
By the

Jury : There were no means of discovering

By the Coroner : The tap ought always-to have re-
mained open; and the •cock, in point of fact, was only
there for the purpose of testing the strength of the

try: If the (
ght halt(

onkey-engine had Itited right
gone to Australia and•baek with-

st3el mi

out this being discovered. It, is impossible to say which
of the two causes"was really the occasion of the explosion.

a cork screwed into a bottle

Coroner : Who was the engineer in charge at the