Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-29 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—YESTERDAY
BEFORE MR. PRESTON,
" WORDS, WORDS, WORDS."—A tall, fine-looking
female, named Margaret Halliday, the wife of a cook-shop
keeper, at 15, Cases-street, was charged by officer Russell,
158, whol said —Between 10 and 11 the previons night he saw
her in Skilborn-street making a great noise; she was drunk
at the time. He wanted her to go away, btit she refused,
and created a great disturbance, so that he was obliged to
take her to the station, and when there she spat in his face.
It appeared that her husband had charged her at the station
previously, bat on her promise to he " good" he withdrew
the charge. In reply to the Magistrate, the prisoner said it
all arose about some " words, words, words," that she had
with her husband, and then she got so excited that she took
a drop to quiet herself, but it only made her worse. His
Worship said it was a shame to see a respectable female in
such a position, and trusted this would be a caution to her
in future. He then discharged her.
FRESH \PATER-CRESS. —A young woman, named Catherine
Meehan, was charge by Esther Denison, who keeps a
green-grocery stall- in James's-market, for having broken
a-plate on her forehead, and breaking her forehead at the
same time. It all arose about a ha'porth of water-
grass, and this was how it happened. The girl lives as
servant with Mr. Greig, an inspector of police, and Mr.
Greig, has a brother-in-law who lives in the same house.
This gentleman, it seems, is very partial to greens, and par-
ticularly to watercress. Having an inclination to indulge
in a ha'porth of his favourite " vegetable" he intrusted the
young lady at. the bar with a piece of copper withl an
image of Queen Victoria on one side, and some hyroglipaics
on the other, and this piece of metal was to be invested in
the water-grass. The agent (that is the prisoner) of the
gentleman, according to the trust reposed in her,
proceeded to the stall of Mrs. Denison, and
exchanged the piece of money for the spontaneous produc-
tion of nature, to wit, the watercress. Having carted
it home, the gentleman, who is an excellent Judge of water-
cress, found that the article was. certainly " green," but it
was no more like water-cress than a piece of white chalk
is to a lump of real double Gloucester, or mild Cheshire
cheese. He sent hack the young messenger, who re-
monstrated with the vendor of the " property," but the
latter, as was alleged, insinuated that the junvenile
serving woman had been guilty of burglary, by eating
her paragoric, and then substituting some verdant
vegetable in its stead, and she was not very selett
in-the Classification of the epithets that she laid on the head
and shoulders, body and bones of Miss Medians, Now
Miss Meeliaoi happening to be like most other young
lathes, told Mrs. Denison what she thought about her-
self and her water-grass, and that was, neither one nor
the other, she concindeol, was a taste better than they
ought to be. The purveyor of the "grass" there-
upon hinted that her opponent bore a strong resem-
blance to the female of a certain quadruped of the canine
species, whereupon the contents of the plate went, by a
peculiar movement of the muscles of the right arm of Miss
Meeham, slap into the beautiful countenance of Mrs.
Denison. A small Austrian-Sardinian quarrel followed,
and, somehow or other, the girl began to try experimental
philosophy by hammering the head of the green-groceress
with the plate, to ascertain which was the hardest, and
could stand the most "pounding." She did not
gain much knowledge however, but she acquired
a good deal of practical experience, for she
found herself in the clutches of a " bobby," after having
demolished both the
,plate and the frontal bone of Mrs.
Denison's organ of veneration. It was stated that " one
was just as bad as the other," and very likely "worse,"
but certainly the girl got, a very good character, and there-
fore she was allowed to depart, after paying the small
charge of ss, which it seems was the price laid on the head
of Mrs. Denison.
POCKET PlCKlNCL—Catherine Tyrrel, charged with hav-
ing picked the pocket of Mrs. Richmond, of Church-street,
was brought up on remand, and James Brown and John
Donnelly, charged with aiding her, and for having received
the money, were also brought up. Mr. Black defended. In
addition to the evidence already given, and which has been
published in our paper, it was proved that the three
prisoners were seen together immediately after the robbery
was committed, and it was supposed the female passed the
purse and money to the men. Mr. Bluck made a searching
cross-examination of all the witnesses, and then spoke to
evidence, concluding by saying that if the prisoners were
sent for trial, and that if they were convicted, he
would lay some blame on himself for their
conviction, Mr. Preston : For what should you ?
Mr. Black • For not having made out a brief for counsel
that would acquit them, fur I never saw a clearer case for
an acquittal in my life. Mr. Preston : You could not
blame yourself certainly, for you very ably defended them.
You have conducted the case with great legal ability and
-talent. You have done all that any man could do in such
a ease. No one could possibly do more for the benefit of
clients than you have done, but I must send the case before
a jury. The prisoners were then committed.
DILUGGEItY AND Horn-roam—Ellen Johnston, Mary
Johnston, and Anne Woods, were charged with having
robbed David Humphries, of 39, Provost-street, of
£46 4s. 61 on the night of Tuesday, in a cellar in Trow-
bridge-street. Mr. Black appeared for the prosecution, the
prisoners were, undefended. It appeared that on
'Tuesday night the prosecutor met the prisoner
Woods, and went with her to a cellar in Trowbridge-
street, where they had some ale, and, as he alleged,
the liquor was drugged. After a couple of
glasses, he lost all recollection, and at six o'clock on Wed-
nesday morning, he awoke in the cellar, when he found his
money all gone, and the prisoners all gone too. Subse-
quently, officers Henderson, 530, and M'Ketrick, 260,
arrested the prisoners, and got £3B 8s 9d of the money
with them, and over £lO worth of new clothes that they
had purchased. The prisoners were sent for trial at the
sessions.

BEFORE MESSRS. HOITORTON AND G. HOLT,

CLAIM FOIL DAMAGE BY CouastoN.---Captain • Hubert,
of the schooner Rhine, 99 tons, was summoned ander the
Dock Act, 21 and 22 Vic., cap. 92, sec. 95,- on a claim of
£l5, for damage caused the schooner Countess of Fife, 113
tons. Mr. Cobb appeared for the complainant, and Mr.
Forshaw was for the defence. Mr. Cobb said the case was
very short. The Countess of Fife was anchored off the
King's Pier-head on the 6th inst., and about 12 o'clock at
noon the Rhine was coming out, and she ran into the
Countess of Fife on the starboard bow, causing damage
to the extent of SAO, though they now only sought £l5.
lie did not know what defence could be made, but he
understood Mr. Forshaw was intending to question the
operation of the local act, under which, the claim was
brought. But he thought the words of the statute were
express. The section on which he relied provided that any
damage, to the extent of £5O, done through negligence, to
any ship, was recoverable, before the justices, against the
master or owner. Mr. Cobb then proposed to prove the
damage, but Mr. Forshaw said he admitted the damage, and
did not dispute the amount. lie objected to the law as laid
down by Mr. Cobb. The defendant was summoned in that
action for damage—" For that a licensed pilot, to wit,
James Williams, had negligently caused the damage."
That was the damage they were called upon to pay. Mr.
Forshaw said the damage had been caused by the neglect of
the pilot, and he hoped he would be called upon in the
proper place to account for what had been done, and the
cause of it. But he argued that the ha ring a pilot on
board a vessel was compulsory—that, being on board, he
was master of the sailing, and that, therefore, the master or
owner was not responsible for what occurred under the
guidance of the pilot. Ile urged that that was the old
principle of law, and that the Dock Act could not he supposed
to contemplate reversing so reasonable a position. The
principle of law was that, if the master, or crew, or every
party over whom either had controul should cause
the damage, then the owners should be liable, but he
repudiated- any other responsibility. In the case before
the court the pilot was liable, and had acknowledged his
responsibility. Mr. Wybergh, as the law-adviser, thought
that the ease was properly brought, and that the master
was liable. The Magistrates so decided, and a verdict was
given for £l5 with costs.

BEFORE MR. HOUGHTON,

- Tat POLICE. —Patrick Quinn - was simmoned for
assault and interference with a police-officer in the
discharge of his duty. The defendant, a man of res-
pectable appearance, was defended by Mr. Cobb. The
officer, Obdaiah lielm (829), stated that on the 18th
instant, about seven o'clock in the. evening, he was on
his heat in iL;•,vart-strect, when he saw several persons
dancing. on the footway to the music of a bagpipe. He
requested them to go away, but they refused, and in his
efforts to get them oil' the footway, he was resisted by defen-
dant, who struck him on the face and blooded his nose. A
man named Partington, a porter of the Lancashire and
North-Western Railway, corroborated the officer's statement
to some extent. • On the other side Mr. Cobb produced evi-
dence-Which went to show that the dances were not eauing
any nhAruction ; that the officer was violent ; that he hail
seized a person named J. O'Loughlin, by the throat (one of
the dancers), and that defendant had interfered to moderate
his violence, when he seized him also and tore his shirt
away. The ina:,ristrate, notwithstanding was of opinion
that the case was proved, and fined defendant 20s and
costs.
In the next eve, -
John O'Loughlin was charged with an
assault on the same c :astable, at the same time and place.
Mr. Cobb also appeared, was
This defendant, for whom
fined 103 and costs.

QUICK. " Now, girls," said sirs. Partington, the other
day, to her nieces, "you' must get husbands as soon as possi-
ble, or the'll be murdered !" " Why so, aunt ?" " Why, I
bee by.the paper that we have got nearly fifteen trousand
post-otNcei,Autd neatly all on 'em despatches a mad every
day the Lord have mercy upon us, poor widows !" and the
old lftly stepped quickly to the looking-glass to put her new
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THEATRE ROYAL, WILLUMSON-SQUARE.
The public i 3 re3p,ctfally inflrined tint an engagement has been
efirctA with the celebrated Prima Donna
MADAME ANNA BISHOP,
and her talented
OPER A TIC COMPANY,

comprising—

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MR. HENRY HAIGH,
the principal Tenor of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane;
HERR MEYGIS,

the celebrated Baritone;
MISS SUSAN PYNE,
lately with the Tyne and Harrison Opera Company;

MR. GEORGE LODER,
the talented Composer and Musical Director,
in a series of Novel and Highly Attractive Lyric Entertainments,
consisting of a variety of the most l'opular Gems of Melody, with
complete Acts, Scenes, and Selections from all the most celebrated
English and Italian Operas ; in athtition to
A VOCAL CONCERT

each Evening, in which will be hitmduced many favourite Songs,
Ballads, Duets, Trios, &e., forming altogether an Entertainment at
once novel and interesting, which, although new to this country, has.
been triumphantly successful throughout the whole of MADAME
B:suoE'sextond, d tour through the United States, Canada, California,
Australia, and Mexico.
The performance will commence with Mr. Buckstone's comedy of
UNCLE JOHN.

Uncle John, Mr. William Cooper (front St. James's Theatre,
London, his first appearance in Liverpool) ; Frederick Easy, Mr.
Neville; Friend Thamas, Mr. Angel ; Mr. Hawk, Mr. Appleby ;
Andrew, Mr. Power; Mrs. Hawk, Mrs. Power; Eliza, Miss
Edwards • Mrs. Comfort, Mrs. Walton.
After which, Madame ANNA BISHOP will appear in the gor-
geous costume of a Warrior of the Crusades, and sing the celebrated
recitative and air, "Oh, I'atria," and "Di Tanti Palpiti," from
the opera of Tancrcdi.
Pas Hongrois de Deux Minßraliam and Miss M'Ginty.
To be followed by a MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT.
. .

Overtu;e7.. tiißarbieiv di Seviglia "—Rossiva The Orchestra.
Trio—" Turn on, old Time " —from the opera " Maritana—Vincent
Wallace.... Miss Susan Pyne, Mr. Henry Haigh, and Herr Mengis.
Banad—,,The last rose of sununer"—Moore .. Madame Anna Bishop.
Chanson Militaire. ...."Il Bevaeco"—Battista ...... Herr Mengis.
English Ballad.." Cherry ripe"—C. E. Horn .. Miss Susan Pync.
English 8a11ad..." Home, sweet home"... —Madame Anna Bishop.
Ballad ... ..."The Flower of Ellerslic "........ Mr. H. Haigh.
A favourite Overture by the Orchestra.
After which, a grand selection from Doniett's grand Opera,