The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-29 00:00:00

STRIKE OF THE BELFAST TAILORS.

IA consequence of the strike which has prevailed among the tailors
of this townfor some time past, a great' deal of inconvenience and
annoyance haVe been experienced by the employe s, who are obliged
to resort to England and ScOtland for men to do their business. On
Sunday afternoon four tailors landed here per steamer from Liver-
Pool, having been previously engaged for a respectable house in
town, butts soon as they got out of the steamer'they were surrounded
by the'Otlier tailors who are on strike, and taken partly by persuasion
and partly by force to the club room of the society in Pottinger's
entry, - A geutlrinatt belonging to the house for which the strangers
Were cn;:aged came over in the boat with the men; but, on their
arrival at the quay, he had to relinquish his charge, in consequence
Of tha angry feeling eviticed by the tailors. He camp to the Police-
(Anne and requested protection, which was readily afforded to him:
Chief Constable Lindsay despatched constables to Pettinor's-entry,
With the view of ascertaining whether there were any men in the
Club-room detained against their will; but, when they reached the
Place, they found no person there at all, the strangers having bean
taken to some other place. Subsequenty, however, the strange
tailors turned up ; and yesterday they were at work in the establish-
nlent cf Messrs. John G. M'Gee a Co. In returning from work in the
evening, they were followed by a crowd ,of tailors and their friends,
who hooted them through the streets until the police interfered for
their proteetion, and saved them from violence. One ',tenon In the
crowd—a tailor—named M'Calloagh, was arrested, and he will ha
brought np at the Police-court for examination,—Belfast Mercury.

IN PRISON sucru,N YEARS FOR NOT PAYING

A POOR-RATE.

At the Westminster Police.court, on .Teesday, a professional gentle..
man,qttcornpanied by an old countryman in a smock frock, made the
following extraordinary applLation to Mr. Arnold :—He stated that
he attended therp to ob a summons against a person for perjury
etnntnittel-16 years ago, and the consequence was that the old man
by whom he was accompanied had been incarcerated in the Qaeui's
Bench prison during the whole of that lengthened period, and now,
having obtained his release, sought reparation for the great injury that
had been done him, at the Lands of the law. Tho advocate farther
said that his client had been summoned in Warwickshire for a poor
tate, which he resisted, on the ground that he had no right to be
assessed, and a distress WAS subsequently levied upon his goods. An
action was brought for the trespass, when the person against whom
be now applied for the summons swore that the plaintiff in the suit
(the old man) had neglected to obey the proceecs issued by the magis-
trates, calling upon him to show cause why ho neglected to pay the
rate, When, in fact, he attended thereto appeal against it, and was
refused admittance by the parson now complained of. Mr. Arnold did
net sea that In the denial of the man's having attended to the sum-
Mons there was that materiality to the issue necessary to constitute a
charge of perjury. The solicitor thought his client had been mate-
-4113, damaged by it, He had lost the action, and had been incarcerated
as described through it. arr. Arnold gomidered it altogether a strange
affair that so many years should be suffered to pass over without
recourse to legal redress, if it were to be obtained. He inquired how
the old mad obtained his release. The solicitor said his release had
been sent to the prison a short time ago by those who placed him
there for the costs of the action. Mr. Arnold repeated that it was
extraordinary that an application was not subsequently made to the
judge, or some other steps taken, if the old man was wagering
imprisonment unjustly. If the circumstance of his having presented
himself to appear before the magistrates was material to the issue It
would be rattier nas Ile to trust to the memory of particular words 16
years ago. - Th.? solicitor had though there was sufficient to grant a
summons upon, whin the notes of the evidence taken by Mr.
Justice Coleridge could ba obtained from his clerk. Mr. Arnold said
that he never granted a summons for perjury unless a prima facie
case was fairly made out by the required competent witnesses, and
he Invariably had an information in writing laid before him in such
cases. This was his general course, and he thought it incumbent
Upon him to be more than usually careful and particular in a case of
16 years' standing. The solicitor said he was not provided at that
moment with the witn,,sses, but would procare them and appear
again.

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DESPERATE HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

At the Southwark police court, London, on Tueedsy, Ellen Turner,
alias Sheen, a well known thief, whose husband has been recently
transported, and Mary Ann Driscoll, a ter, powerful looking female,
Were charged with violently assaulting Mr. John I:aueer Thane, and
robbing- him •of a valuable pin and a gold watch. The prosecutor
stated that on Friday morning, the 15th hest., between the hours of
One and two o'clock, he was returning horns with a friend in his dog
cart, when they stopped at a public-house near Newington Causeway
to partake of refreshment; Witness left his friend in the cart, while he
Went into the publichouse to order some brandy aryl water. In front
of the barhe saw Turner, who asked him to treat her, which he re-
fused, and se ho was handing the brandy and water to his friend in the
cart, Turner seized him round the neck, and he felt the pin go. At
the same time he was strack violently on the head by another female,
Whom he believed to be D;iseoll. A mob then surrounded him, and
he was knockeddown several times; as moon as he got up he was
knocked down again. When he got up the last time ho missed his
watch as well as his pin, but the prisoner, Turner, and her
companions had escaped: • On Monday last, he went into Horsemonger,
lane gaol, and identified Turner as the one who' seized him by the
neck, and fell with him ev:- en he was knocked down the first time-
Samuel James Simmons, an officer in charge of the fire eseaee in the
London road, said he saw the prosecutor drive up with another gen-
tleman in a 'dog cart to the public house. The prosecutor got down
and fetch° i a glass of brandy and water for his friend, The prisoner
Turner followed him out, and seized him round the neck from behind,
, Driscoll, the. other prisoner, then came up and struck him twic3 on
the head, and he fell down. Several other females and men came up,
and he sea= knocked down two or three times. His friend got out of
the cart to assist him, but he fell down directly and called out for the
police. A man who was attending Mr. Thane's horse, and a female
standing by with trotters, both identified Driscoll as having struck
Iline two or three times,. and then he was surrounded by a mob. Mr.
Comte saki it was a, very desperate robbery, and he should remand the
prisoners for a week, to enable the officers to make farther inquiries.