Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-14 00:00:00

CRUELTY TO A CHILD.

On Wednesday, at the Worship-street police office,
Mary Anne Stephenson, 23, a vixenish looking woman,
was charged with the following assault upon George T,
o'-
ter, a fine and inteligent child, nine years of age :—The
father of the little fellow said—'. I charge this female with
cruelly ill-using my boy." Magistrate— Is she any rela-
tion to you? Complainant—Well, she is my wife—my
second wife—but not his mother. I am a general dealer.
and we live in Jobe-street, Cambridge-road, Hackney.
Elizabeth Ludf ,rd, a neighbour, then deposed to having
seen the defendant yesterday poll the child into their
house, and then, while in the passage, kick him violently
in the hick, his screams were loud and frequent. Another
respectable married woman, residing in the same street,
deposed to having frequently heard screams, and seeing
severe indications of i!!-•reattnent on the child. Shortly
after the assault mentioned had been committed she met
him with a rag on his face : and, in reply to her questions,
he said his mother had beaten him with a strap. He was
then in a fainting state, and she carried him to a police
constable. An examination of the boy was ordered, and
the right jaw, from the ear to the under lip, exhibited a
broad excoriation, more like a burn than ought else. In
answer to the magistrate he said the pr satyr had done it
with a strap. The accused declared it was an accident, as
she had struck at his back, and observed that all mothere-
in-law were beTved to be cruel. His worship remarked
that it was the old story repeated, not being the prison-
er's ow the little fellow was more in her way than
otherwise, and directed that she should find bail for six
months.

LISBON, Bth.—The tobacco contract hal let for three
years, at :300,000 pounds per annum, beit,g an advance of
50,000 pounds.

GREAT FIRE AT DANTZIC.—The Honover Gct:ette pnb-
lishes the following, dated Dantzic, Aug. 8, 11 a.m. :
" With intense heat, and a strong wind from the sontb-
east, a violent conflagration is raging from the Thorn-gate
to the Bronaliers-ttreet. All human aid is in vain."
Accorling to further intelligence, the fire was mastered
late in the evening, and all danger had disappeared.
Some twenty houss and St. Peter's school were reduced
to ashes'.

THE CRY Or VENGE XN ENGLAND.—R:ment events
show that Great Britain in her dealings with foreign
nations pursues one line of policy towards the strong and
another towards the week. Towards the powerful and
those able to maintain their rights, her conduct is suffi-
ciently moderate and forbearing, but towards the feeble it
is for the most part blustering and exacting. Caine,
though extremely populous, is a weak and indficierg nation,
and we find accordingly, that. England is bravely attempt.
ing to overthrow its ancient usages, break down its laws,
and force upon it, at the cuinort's mouth, a destructive
trade in opium and other commodities by which the British
merchants and manufacturers expect to be enriched. The
feeble millions of India, too, after long years of tame sub-
mission to British rule, appear to be manifesting some
alarming symptoms of restiveness. This natural event has
filled.the Journals of England with great wrath, and they
call loudly for the iastaut extermination of the offenders,
without the slow Intervention of judges and jnries, and
without stopping too long to discriminate between the
innocent and the guilty. All this is more easy to recom-
mend than to carry into execution ; for when a spirit of
resistance and insubordination is onee thoroughly aroused
among a population almost as numberless as the sands on
the sea shore—a population moreover who, while they
hold their own lives cheap, have discovered that their
masters are not invulnerable—to cope with such a spirit
successfully and pat it down will be found no holiday
laboar tree for England,.-Hartford (United States)
Time.