Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-26 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT—YESTSUDAY.
BEFORE J. K. BLAIR, ESQ., JUDGE.
LIABILITY OF A HUSBAND. —ln the cases Wright V.
Jackson, and Collinson v. Jackson —in which the plaintiffs
sought to recover the value of certain goods alleged to be
supplied to defendant's wife—at a former sitting of the
Court, when the cases were heard, His Honour reserved
,judgment till yesterday, which he delivered as follows :
Both these eases stand on the same footing, and the general
principles upon which they are to be decided may be con-
sidered together. Both are actions brought against the
husband for alleged necessaries supplied to his wife while
living apart from him, part of the goods supplied being for
the use of herself, part for a boy (the child of the defendant,)
living with his wife, and part for the daughter of the wife
by a former husband. There was nothing in the case to
show that the wife was living apart from her husband
under circumstances which would deprive her of
the right to be provided with necessaries by him.
Their final separation, in December, 1857, would seem, as
far as appeared from this 'evidence, to have been a separation
by mutual consent. At all events the desertion., if any, was
on the part of the husband, who left the house, where she
was residing, for reasons not assigned. It appears that,
since that separation, the defendant has paid his wife several
sums of money, but those do not seem to have been paid on
the footing of a spe3ific sum set apart for her since their
separation, on which either she or the creditors could
reckon as a fund out of which their debts could be paid,
but given to her from time to time at the will of the
husband. It seems to me that the amount so proved to
have been paid was not an adequate maintenance for the
defendant's wife and child, considering the amount of his
income, and that he is liable for the articles supplied by
both these plaintiffs for the use of the wife or of the child
of the defendant. Some suggestion—for it amounted to no
more—was made of. the wife having separate property, but
of this no evidence was laid More me. The boots and shoes
in the one case, and the caps and hats in the other, are, I
think, clearly necessary for a person in her position of life.
The articles supplied for the boy are on the same footing as
those supplied for the use of the wife, on the grounds laid
in Rawlins v. Vandyke, 3 Esp., 250. But the grounds of
the husband's liability, as there put, apply only to the goods
which are necessaries for his own child, and not to those
supplied to his wife's child by a former husband. Lord
Ellenborough says —" As a father has a right to the
custody of his children, and may obtain possession of their
persons by habeas corpus, when he does not assert that
right, but suffers them to remain with the mother, I think
he thereby constitutes her his agent, and authorises her to
contract those debts for clothing and other necessaries."
But that reason does not apply to the children of a wife of
a former husband ; and although, since the Poor-law
Amendment Act, the present husband may be made liable,
by order of justices, for the maintenance of such children, if
left destitute, in the same manner as if they were his own,
that is quite a different matter from rendering him liable in
this form of action, as upon the presumed agency of the
wife. The verdict, therefore, will be, in each of these cases,
for the value of the goods supplied to the wife and the
defendant's child,
SERGEANT V. HEATLEY.—In this case, which was tried
by jury, Richard Sergeant, flour dealer, 2, Vauxhall-road,
was the plaintiff, who sought to recover from the
defendant, William Heatley, jun., Fenwick-street, the sum
of £9 17s 9d, alleged to be due him under the following
circumstances, as appeared from the evidence. The plaintiff
had engaged the defendant in May, 1854, to act as traveller
and cashier, at a salary of £5 per calendar mouth, and that
engagement continued till the end of the year, during
which time the plaintiff had got involved in difficulties,
and his mind was so effected in consequence that he was
entirelj unfit for business. During this time the defendant
was managing the business, and paid himself his salary,
and on the 23rd October he had taken £l7 15s, and en-
tered it in the books, and on the sth of December, when
the defendant was leaving, he got £3, making the salary
overdrawn £8 18s. Bd., and the remainder of the sum sued
for was made up by several small items said to be travelling
expenses overcharged. The defendant said he had been
first engaged at a salary of £7O a-year, but on the sth of
July he got a note from the plaintiff, giving him
notice to leave. He afterwards saw the plaintiff
and he then agreed to take £6O • a-year till he could get
another situation. Soon after, when the plaintiff gotinto
difficulties, he offered to double the salary of the defendant
if he would stop with him till he got rid of those difficulties.
The defendant called his father, who proved that the plain-
tiff had told him that he would double his son's salary if he
would persuade him to remain. The jury found a verdict
for the defendant.
BirSINF-SS Or THE COURT.—The arrangements of the
business for the present sitting arc as follows : —Tuesday,
April 26th, insolvents' protection cases at half-past 10
o'clock, gaol cases at 12; Wednesday, April 27th, judgment
summonses and 130 original cases at half-past 10; Thurs-
day, April 28th, 30 cases of £lO and upwards, at half-past
10 ; Friday, April 29th, judgment summonses and 130
original cases, at half-past 10; Monday, May 2nd, judgment
summonses, and 130 original cases, at half-past 10 ; Tuesday,
May 3rd, judgment summonses and 130 original cases, at
half-past 10; Wednesday, May 4th, judgment summonses
and 130 original cases, at half-past 10 ; Thursday, May sth,
judgment summonses and 200 original cases, jury case at 2 ;
Friday, May 6th, adjourned cases at half-past 10. Total,
1,012 original cases.

RULES FOR ADVERTISING.-1. Character of circulation
is of more importance than number. A journal that circu-
lates a thousand among the upper or middle classes is a
better medium than would be one that circulated a hundred
thousand among the lower classes. 2. Consider what class
of persons you desire to address, and send to those papers
only that circulate among that class. 3. Class papers are
by far the best for general adiertisements addressed to the
upper and middle classes, because every advertisement in a
class paper is sure to be there inspected by almost every
reader. 4. By judicious and extensive advertising of any-
thing in its nature likely to be largely used, a large fortune
may certainly acquired; but remember that it is useless
to attempt it on a small scale. A few advertisements are
worthless for such a purpose. It is only by being before
the public eye at all times, and everywhere, that this
unfailing road to riches can be secured. 5. Unless you
resolve to adopt this indiscriminate advertising, your
success will depend upon the judgment with which you
make your selection.—Eiterary and Educational Year Book.
A CONJUROR'S EXERCISES. —Houdin in his " Confessions
of a Professor of Sleight of Hand," says—We used to pass,
my son and I, tolerably quickly before a child's toy-shop,
or one of various objects of merchandise, and look attentively
as we passed. A few paces further on we took pencil and
paper, and tried separately which of us could describe the
largest number of objects which we had been able to snatch
while passing. I must own that at this exercise my son
reached a prociency to which I could never attain. He
could often set down forty articles, while I could get hardly
as far as thirty This faculty, which we only
acquired with much pains and labour, was of the greatest
use to me in my exhibitions ; for, while I was going on
with my experiments, I could still see all that was passing
around me, and was thus able to prepare myself for my
extrication from all manner of difficulties

arrived at last at so much skill in the practice, that I have
often devised new tricks while I was carrying on my show.
One day even I laid a wager that I would solve a mechanical
problem while I was keeping up a conversation. We
talked of the pleasures of a country life, and I calculated,
during this time, the number of wheels and pinions,—of
teeth, too—necessary to obtain certain given revolutions
without failing for a single instant to give proper answers.
These explanations may suffice to render intelligible what is
the iseential base of the experience of second sight. I must add
that there also existed betwixt my son and myself a secret
correspondence, not to be detected, by means of which I
could indicate to him with the greatest facility the name,
the nature, and the bulk of the objects projected by the
spectators.
Cnovr.—The Abeille Medicare publishes a letter from
Dr. Zorgo, a retired Polish physician, in which.the use of
tartar emetic in large doses, as administered by Dr. Bouchat
and Dr. Constantin, is strongly recommended as a cure for
croup. Dr. Zorgo states that from 1532 to 1853 he saved
the lives of several hundred children labouring under that
dreadful affection by the use of that remedy at the very
outset, before the false membranes had had time to acquire a
fibrous consistency, and were therefore still in a condition
to he easily detached. Ile describes his method as follows :
Whenever called to visit a patient labouring under croup,
his first care was to provide himself with several packets of
25 Centigrammes (five grains) each of tartar emetic. One of
these was dissolved in ten table-spoonfuls of spring water ;
the patient's cradle or bed was brought close to a good fire,
and half a table-spoonful of the solution administered every
hour in the case of patients under three years of age ; above
that age the dose was doubled. After the fourth or fifth
spoonful, the results usually obtained were : the ejection of
quantities of viscous matter, mixed with fragments of
useudo-membranes, a strong perspiration, and the disap-
pearance of all alarming symptoms. The spoonfuls of
emetic were then administered at longer intervals, so as
only to produce nausea and expectoration • and at the end
.of twelve hours the emetic was entirely abandoned and
replaced by sudorific infusions, in order to keep up the
perspiration. In the course of three or four day
piece recovery was obtained. This method used to a m
beccoon--
con-
stantly practised with good effect at Wilna by Professor
Sniadecki both in croup and in acute articular rheumatism,
two disorders extremely prevalent in Poland. It is '
inap-
plicable, however, to croup when commenced too late.