Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-11 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE-YESTERDAY. times worse than "all the rest of them." On this Mr.
ViEPOICE MR. MANSFIELD. Grimes, very much to his own astonishment, was turned out
Ammo AS AN AuerioarEEß WITHOUT A LICENSE.-A of the dock, and ordered to "go away."
tall, black-tooking person; named Robert Foster, was ASSAULTS. -Two American sailors, named Isaac Fenton
charged by au officer of the inland revenue with acting as and John Lynch, were charged with having assaulted and
an auctioneer without license. The complainant said : stolen some provisions from a Spanish sailor named Josi De
Yesterday, at half-past two o'clock, I went into a sale-shop Echevarria. Mr. Bluck defended. The prosecutor was
in Fox-street, where the prisoner was holding a sale by going along Whitechapel with some provisions from the
auction. Amongst other things he sold was a pair of market, when he was attacked by the prisoners, who beat
braces, which I purchased for two-pence, being the highest him severely, and stole some of the articles from him.
bidder. I asked him for his license, but he could not pro- They were fined each, or two months' imprisonment.
time any. He was then taken to the police-station, and Andrew M'Cartney, a "rough," was sent to gaol for six months
said he had no license. In reply to His Worship, lie said for having broken the jaw of a yoting woman, named
he had no defence to make. He was sent to gaol for one Catherine Houghton, with a blow of .his fist, in Plumb-
month. street, the previous night, without any provocation.
A FEMALE DISTILLER.-Catherine Dawby, a poor John Murray, Thomas Johnston, Anne M'Caul, and
looking female, with a child in her arms, was charged by Eliza Jones, four Manchester pickpockets, were brought up
Mr. John French, an officer of inland revenue, with having by officer Stockdale 301, on a charge of having picked the
a private distillery at 2, Mile-end. He said, from informa- pocket of an old lady named Chadwick, at the Lime-street
Lion he received, he went to the house of the prisoner, station, on Monday evening. Mr. Bluck defended, but the
where he found a still, at full work, and four gallons of case was too clearly proved, and the prisoners were sent for
spirits. There was no one in the house at the time, save trial.
the woman and some small children, aud of course he was The case of Mr. Murphy, who was charged for having
obliged to take her into custody. The penalty in this case assaulted Mr. Johnston, the details of wich appeared
is £3O or three months' imprisonment, and, the latter was I already in our paper, was decided yesterday. Mr. Bluck
imposed on the prisoner, as she had not money to pay the defended, and Mr. Roby was foethe complainant. After
line. going over the case again, his Worship dismissed the
THE BATTLE OF CHISENHALE-SRTEET.- John M'Nally, a 1 complaint.
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" buffer" of the Chisenhale-street legion, was put to the
bar charged with having "slaughtered and kilt" oneT?lnes
MR. MASON JONES, THE IRISH ORATOR.
Corrigan and his wife Katty, and there was an additional
count in the indictment for having delapidated, maltreated, To THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
bruised, and broken the door and windows of the said Sir,-I fear you will be heartily tired of Mr. Mason
Corrigan's domicile. Mr. Bluck defended the prisoner on Jones, and his late lecture, but I must trespass on you, for
these " mighty" charges. Officer Astic, 450, said, at eight a few words, in answer to " A Munster Irishman," in
o'clock the previous evening he was called to a battle that Friday's
-was raging in Chisenhale-street, between the tribe
inge-
M'Nally and the elan Corrigan, and on proceeding nious, but, lam forced to say, he is not over honest, else
to the seat of the war, he had a full view of the would he not have ignored, the real matters of complaint,
battle field, and thinking "one side as bad as the in the letters of "Ilibernicus" and myself, and fastened on
other, and worse," he became the balance of power, .„
of . , . .
small details style, in the one, and a matter of fact in
and separated some two dozen or more combatants, and
made them promise to sign a treaty of peace, which was the other, as the points in dispute.
binding on them for the remainder of the evening. Having I did not " complain that Mr. Jones did not walk down
settled this important point, he went away, consoling bim- the room," but I stated that he ended a lecture, the latter
self with the promise made to the peace-maker. He was
not allowed to indulge in these pleasing reflections, for his part of which had been nothing but vulgar abuse of
meditation •was cut short by the blast of the war-trumpet O'Connell, (for there was not even an attempt at argument,
again, and on going back he found the prisoner with a or proof, of his assertions), by an undignifiedretreat through
stick [here he produced a small beam of timber] demolish- a trap-door in the platform. This he certainly did, and
lag the door and windows of the brave Corrigan, to the extent
of £1 3s. Mr. Bluck : Let us estimate the value of the broken the "Munster Irishman's" statement to the contrary, is
headfirst. Officer: Oh, he had broken thelead already, as well simply untrue. I remained in the Hall some five
as breaking the contract, that he had agreed to keep all the minutes after the termination of the lecture, and at that time
evening. Mr. Bluck : Yen know them all pretty well, I sup-
Mr. Jones had not re-appeared. I will not, however, be as
pose? Officer : You may say that, sir-I know them all too
well, unfortunately for myselfand my head. Mr. Bluck : Clan rash as the Munster man, and say he did not afterwards
Corrigan, and all the rest of them ? • Officer : Aye, indeed, return to the Hall ; possibly he did, and, doubtless, as your
every one of them. Mr. Bluck : A bad lot, I believe, they correspondent states, received the felicitation of himself and
are? Officer: A bad lot!-such a lot is not on the earth,
other grateful Irishmen, who did not shame to congratulate
or under it, nor in the waters of the earth, nor under the
waters thereof. [The officer had evidently been reading him on the success with which he had nullified the memory
the Scriptures lately.] Corrigan was then put into the of the man who had unserfed them. Your correspondent
box.. His head was bound up with all manner of bandages, did not understand Mr. Jones to call O'Connell an impostor.
plasters, and "all the rest of it," as a learned friend
Allow me to show him how he did so. He characterised the
expresses it. He said, some time ago the prisoner had a
friend, who had stolen some barrels, and the prisoner was ; Repeal agitation as a " gross imposture and a gigantic
in some way mixed up in the affair, and he (the witness) I swindle," and then put the question, " Did O'Connell know
was blamed for being the " informer," and that was the litto be such ?" and answered, " I believe he did." Does
cause of the row. lie said he was coming from his work
the Munster Irishman understand that ? I never denied Mr.
when he found the tribe M'Nally, beating his wife and
child, and when he went to their assistance, he got a clout ; Jones's perfect right to enunciate any opinions he chooses on
of a stick, on the head, that kilt and murdered him, and I this or any other subject ; but I emphatically assert the
sent him into a trance. Mr. Bluck : But you appear alive
yet. Witness : Indeed, in troath I'm not, for I was,
equal right of the public at any time to question those
I
murdered as clane as a whistle. Mr. Bluck : Did you see 1 opinions, notwithstanding the Munster Irishman's dictum to
pokers and tongs, and mugs and pans, and stones and I the contrary. I would just wish to say one word on the
bricks flying about in the !fettle ? Not a bit of me, yer monstrous doctrine put forth by Mr. Jones, and repeated in
honour. Mr. Bluck : Did you flourish an adze like an
your correspondent's letter, which characterises as a crime
Indian wielding a Tomahawk to scalp an enemy ? Is it -
me, yer honour'? Musha the sorrow taste of an knads I I all attempts at great popular reforms, &c., by moral force
had no more than yerself. Mr. Bluck : Well as you are agitation. Anything so utterly subversive of law and order
" kilt" you may go down. Mrs. Corrigan was then called, I never heard. How would those gentlemen have such
and said the prisoner knocked her down and kicked her,
questions agitated and settled? By the "bright flashing
and, she added with great emphasis, "he broke every
p_enworth in the place, and did not leave a haporth in 'it." sword" that Mr. Jones so eloquently descanted on ? Daniel
This was the case for the complaint. Mr. Bluek produced O'Connell thought otherwise ; and that, most likely, is the
two or three witnesses who proved that the clan Corrigan secret of the vile attack made upon his memory in the
was about 200 per cent. worse than the tribe M Nally, and recent lecture of the ultra Young Inlander, T. Mason Jones,
his Worship said, on the state of the evidence, he would
discharge the prisoner from the assault, but asked, what Esq., and endorsed in your columns by my countryman from
about the broken door and windows ? Mr. Bluck said his the province of Munster.-I am, sir, your obedient servant,
client world pay the amount with pleasure. His Worship AN IRISHMAN,
ordered him to pay tl. 3s, which he did and was discharged. •
THE MISADVENTURES OF MICKEY GRIMES AND JOHNNY
.TIMBER FOR SHIP-BUILDING.
CorPINGBR.-Michael Grimes was put to the bar on a
Orutfut c,e,l4.cu 'au it)c& in Vue 'Limo in -Li.ogifttn, 'would hive Sir,-I have read Mr. Wray's lecture with great pleasure,
made a fortune for that celebrated sketcher. Most people's and consider it the best given on the subject of timber
heads are round, or approximating to it, but Mickey Grimes's
head disdained to take any such form-it was a perfect suitable for ship-building, and agree generally with his
resemblance of a sweeping brush, his neck resembling the remarks as to quality; but he omits the comparative
handle. His nose had a strong resemblance to a weather- strength of each description, and he does not. enumerate one
cock on a church steeple, and stood on the left cheek, species of timber of the most enduring and lasting quality
whilst his mouth was twisted over towards his right
-ear, as if to balance the nose. His chin formed of longer fibre than any other enumerated-one, the pro-
a portion of the throat about the threaehea, and his dnction of Cuba, of which the far greater proportion of the
forehead had stole a march from the usual position, and famous "Gibraltar" was built of, viz., Jatrice-he does not
stood in the place where the nose should have been. He name the cypress of Australia or New Zealand, so famous for
had long black hair, which hung down after the fashion of
masts-nor even the common blue gumwood of Australia,
a trooper's plume, and the whole face of this eminent
personage, was innocent of a soapy acquaintance for many Borneo, or the Feejee Islands. There is also the Hacmatack,
years. John Coppinger, the " gentleman," who complained, or Tamarac, of North America, a very lasting and superior
came into the box, but from the pieces of linen tied over wood ; also the United States pitch pine, and Quebec elm
his face, and upper part of his head, there was hardly any
chance of sketching his countenance. He told his story as and red pine.-Yours, &c. VINDICATOR.
follows :-Ye see, this Mr. Grines -that's Mr. Grines there •
sir -and I, sir, live in the same court, and that court is in KOORIA MOORIA GUANO.
Oriel-street. On Saturday night, I went into a public-
(From the Mark-lane Express.)
house to have a glass of ale. I only take two glasses of ale
every day in the week. I would not take more than that We have been requested to publish the following corres-
for the best man in creation, nor out of it, not even for yer pondence :-.
'onor. Mr. Grines came in, and says he, Mr. Liverpool, May 7, 1859.
Coppinger your a gentleman. No, Mick, says Sir,-in looking over the article on Kooria Mooria
I, I thank goodness I'm not, but I tell guano, in your pamphlet on natural guanos, we think that
you what, says I, I have plenty of money. Yer a lucky the analyses, under date 1858, scarcely give a sufficiently
fellow, says he, and I'd like yer acquaintance. Yer a dacent favourable view of the late importations. We have there-
man, John, says I, and so was yer mother. I knew Mr. fore requested Messrs. Laird and Adamson, brokers, Liver-
Grines, sir, for a long time, and was on the most infectionate pool, to send you samples from vessels recently arrived, and
terms wad him always for iver an' a day. Wont you have we shall be glad to have your report. -Yours faithfully,
a glass of ale, John ? says he. sot at present, I'm To J. C. Nesbitt, Esq. ORD, HINDSON, AND HAYES.
obliged to ye, says I. Then, wont you come home with me ?
says he. I have no objection, says I, when I kindle the College of Chemistry and Agriculture, 38 and 39,
pipe ; so I kindled the pipe, and away we went as corn- 1
Lower Kennington-lane, London, S.,
fortable and snug as a hare in a tuft of grass. We went to May 9, 1859. 1
the house, smoked. a pipe, and talked about the war and the Gentlemen,-I beg to enclose' analyses of the samples of
King of the Sardeens, and the Imperor of the France, and Kooria-Mooria guano received by me from Messrs. Laird
the Dog of Venes, and little things that way. Then, Mick, I. and Adamson. They prove to be of better quality than the
says I, come out, and we'll take a drop of comfort. No, , majority of those which I had occasion to analyse in 1858,
says his wife ; John, he shan't go. Very well, ma'am, says but they are not equal to some which came under my notice
I, I don't covet his company, and, says I, good night, in 1857.
Grines. You don't go that way, says his wife, aud Other samples analysed by me this year incline me to
she hit me a peg under the ear, and • knocked me believe that more care is now exercised in selecting the
down. Mick, says I, that's not fair play-some other guano. I hope this will be continued.
time it might do. Come here, John, says he, I just Herewith I send analyses of the crust phosphate from
want to talk to you. I went over to him quite cordial like, Kooria-Mooria. It will prove very valuable for making
and he pulled me over to him, as like he was going to tell superphosphate of lime.-I am, Gentlemen, yours truly,
me something very secret entirely, when he pulled out a I J. C. NESBIT.
hammer from under his coat, and gave me a lick of it To Messrs. Ord, Hindson, and Hayes,
in the back of the head, and tumbled me as dead as a red Merchants, Liverpool.
herrin. The wife then commenced to " malarogae" me on
the floor. " John," says I, " will you see me sassanated in KOORIA MOORIA GUANOS FROM LIVERPOOL, 1859.
this way ?" and then the jewel, sir, she was leathering me April 16. April 16.
as if I had no more raison in me than a mule, or feelin Ex Queenshill. Ex Maitland.
more than a pavin stone, and faith its me bead that was a
g '‘atc re
matter, &c reat deal harder than a brick bat, for if it was'nt its nI 6.60 8.20
, Organic
8.55 9.00
meself id be the dead man here to-day telling ye all about Selica
it. Well, savin yer reverence's pardon, John said he would
pOhxoidsephoaftleroonf
Ironand Alumina
Aluminaia - -
10.20 6.20
be my friend, and again he began slautering me on the
Phosphate of Lime • ••
38.37 53 96
head wad the hammer, that ye'd think it was a bullock. he Hydrated Sulphate of Lime 8.82 4.34
was batin, and that was the way he showed his infection Alkaline Salts, &c . 5.01 3.50
for me. It was an unnatural sort of thing to be used to,
so I tried to get up, but I might as well try to get j 10100 lOO.OO
out of the nocker of Newgate - the devil a taste Total Phosphoric Acid, equal to /
of me I'd ever got out of that, tilt the day after the day of „ Phosphate of Lime „ ) 49.42 60.68
„ Nitrogen 0.42
judgment, only for one thing. Mr. Bluck, for the prisoner, 0.14
Ammonia
(who, with the court, listened with great patience up to '' - -,.,. ____ 0.51 0.17
this time), inquired what that something was? The KOORIA MOORIA CRUST PHOSPHATES.
witness went on to say that while I was down, I happened -- Crust Light stratified
to catch hold of the woman's hair, and she being a very Phosphates. Guano.
strong woman, her hair is very strong also, and I held pn
Moisture
and she pulled up and dragged me along with her, and so' Organic matter, &c l.lB 1.28
got on my feet, and be hammering me all the time on Silica 11.92 9.12
1.80 0.50
the bare pole with the hammer ! So here's the
quite enough. On cross-h Lime
Oxide of Iron and Alumina
end of it all, and that's Phosphoric Acid
examination by Mr. Bluck, he said, we were on t e 25.43 25.84
eivilest terms possible all the time. Hydrated Sulphate of Lime 7.89 6.64
much hurt ? Faith I was, and if you 4-otu
hwere not Alkaline salts, &c
:_aimntilmbeorwed; 6.43 13.67
in that way, I don't think you'd smile at it 100.00 100.00
Were you in the habit of keeping company -w
Total Phosphoric Acid, equal to /
prisoner ? No, the only company I keep is my own tollia' 96.96 91.76
woman. Margaret McDonald swore that
s he
sa'.
„ Phosphate of Lime ~ i
„ Nitrogen 0.21 0.21
the prisoner and his wife sledging at the complainant's„ Ammonia , 0.26 0.26
were only niakin
head, like as if they were hammering a horse-shoe on a '---TriIICORN MARKET.-The Times city article reports an
blacksmith's anvil, and she thought they
peace all the time. (Loud laughter.) A surgeon states extraordinary reaction in the corn markets on Monday, the
quotationv being at least 6s below the Monday previous. The
tliansellerson the
submittedp reiro us ,
that the man's head was cut in several places. Mr. Muck
News says burs offered 6s to 8s per quarter less
produced several witnesses who proved that " one was as bad
spas the other, and worse," and that the complainant was ten Monday, whilst in the sales effected
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THE COUN MARKET.—The Times city article reports an
extraordinary reaction in the corn markets on Monday, the
quotation being at least 6s below the Monday previous. The
Daily News says buyers offered 6s to 8s per quarter less
than on the previous Monday, whilst in the sales effected
sellers submitted to a reduction of 3s to bs.