Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

AN EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION

At, the Worsi..,ip-street P.,liee-coart on ikl,nday, Mt.
Tindal Atkinson, accompanied by Mr. Hughes, fom the
office of Mears. Crowder and Mayn•!rd, salici'ors to the
Ease rn Counties Railway Company. attende I before Mr.
II i mill, to r, quest his jud'eial interference under the
foll-wing pf culiar circumstances :---M-. Atkinson stid he
was instruc'ed on behalf of the Direct ,rs of the Eastern
Conntd-s R Iway t i opal), to the tna,ii'rat-, their
act of Iccorporation, for summary process against Mr.
[leery Hunt, of W. ltham Cross, Et cx, f r hariaz unlaw-
fully used and worked ;Ton a parti n of heir line, a cer-
tain locomotive engine, without leaving previously ob-
tained the sire ion and approval of the engine( rs or
age is of the Gimp inv. whereby he hal tender •d himself
liable to a penalty f 211. It was icarely neeeiisa'y to offer
any o‘asery:ition9 wi7h reg.ril to, tl-e s.runulous pr,cision
and c nrtanf vigilance which 'sere !,Tiired in regulating
the time a d condec ing the whole of the delicate
machinery connected with rail way travelling ; 'et was
(pita m inif-st that all the 0' the officials to
iiez,,lnap'ida that ohject v nl I be u t rly nentral•sed if a
private ildividual was cuff red to place an engine
ap,n the lire on his own account, wi'hout
the know edge or sanc'ion of the compat y, and in total
di4regir of their establi-hed arrangement frr the pubic
s felt. In reference to the particular ff Tee which formed
the subj.'et of complaint, be sb uld cor fine himself at
presi-n- to the mere mention of the fact that on the night
of Thursday, the I t instant, a locomotive belonging to
Mr. Hunt was sullenly discovered progre,sinz along the
rail, in el.,e proximity to one of ,hi regular tr tins on the
North Woolwich line, vrhich necessitates the instant
storoagc of the later, to the great terror of !he pass tigers;
and it was n'y by the merciful interference of Pi ovidenee
tt at a ciasi n was avoit!el, which i i all probability
must hare I.:sillte I in fatal eiv,sequences. Ile &lout&
rabsta;n from entering further into tee particulars of the
'ransaetion at this sage of the proceAings, as he con-
e ived that he had mi,le out a sufficient prima facie case

to justify ihe magistrate in granting summonses against
the owner of the intrusive engine, ald sla) azlinst the
driver arid stoker, both of whim must have been well
aware of the perilous and unlawful service in which they
mtie engaged at the time in que,stimi Mr. Hammill
said that it was certainly a m set extraordinary p,ooeeding,
aol ;Mier the statement of the learned counsel, he had no
h. sitalion in orle ing snmmonve to be at once issued
against :he incult a'cd

A sale of c)nsiderAle inter, st to p_blishers is a-no lived
by Mess s Southgat-t and Barrett for the end of the month,
c nsis'ing of several Important coayr'ghti and remain !era,
the property of the late Mr. B'gue.
Och, sire this - must bP the D ad Ltter Office," said
an Irishman, addressing one of the
posts re ently erec'ed for
tl e recentiun oc letters, '•f r nivor a livid s lvil is there in
it to tell rte the postage of a let her."
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" A Gaz "TR TO HIM-ELF."—This was the amhitioa of
the you latul .1\ elson. G_neral H .yelock has at any rate
obtained ; f.,r hat of Taes,lay ni;ht coitaine 1, in a
supplement of f or pages w:th a vamp, only the one an-
r.ouncement of his promotion from colonel to ninjor-
general.
VERY LIKIC A Wftauc!—The Perthshire Advertiser
'oat, a the, oae day last week, an old man, of the mote of
Bcll, who acted as gate-ket-p r at a c os ing oo the Dundee
and Perth line, percoive la h, on the line, gave chase to it,
and was s, absorbed in the p irs :it as no* to hear a goods
tr ia which came up behind him, and threw him CoNiti
I,i ling him on the spot.