Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-31 00:00:00

A BOISTEROUS FELLOW.

At the London Mansion House, on Tuesday, Maurice White, whose
bead was half covered with sticking plaister anal ha'f tv'th clotted
hair,was b.-ought heti:tie the Lord Mayor on a warrant, charged with the
following amen' t, to answer which he had refused to appear upon a
suram-us. Florence Leary, en elderly and decrepid man, raid—l live
at 6, Windsor-street, and am a tailor. On the 14th inst. the dean -
dant ran up stairs to my room, and after breaking-the look off my
door, smashed in the pane', rushed into the roam, struck me in the
face, and called me very bid names. I asked him not to hit the boy
if ha hit me, when he took up a lump of coke from the floor a•id
forced it right and tight into the boy's mouth, and swore he would
make him eat it. lie then struck me, and was at last taken out of the
home by the police, a ho, however, refused to 1 ck him up at
the time. He had also struck my daughter, a y nn= woman of
twenty-threeor twenty-four, and yat.heci into every one who went n .ar
hlm. Mary Ann Ba-rett deposed that on the day in question the
prisoner, after assaulting the corn,' tnaat and his children, also
assaulted her, and kad everynight since kicked up a disturbance and
threatened them at their door. Lard Mayor—Prisoner, what do you
say to this ? Prisoner—Why, my lord, I've as much to say as woul I
amaze you for two hours, at least. 1 Lou ate .Itl tacit
be too great an encroaelment on my time. Come to your defense at
Once, Prisoner—Well, then, t diia't like the father, bee lusts he his a
bad son, and wouldn't take my advice with respect to him. ( aughter.)
I wanted to have a eiv 1 talc to him about the boy's idleness, and as he
refused to listen to me, I did just give him a gentle tap on the eye
(I aughter.) Lord Mayor—You had no business there at all.
What do you say_ about pushing the lump of coke in the by's Faouth?
Prisoner—l did that to pacify him, because he was kicking up such ,a ,
row, and ale-ming the lodgers in the house. (Laughter.) Mt:
Goodman 'chief clerk)—All the parties in the case have been here
before on several occirions.some•imes as .emplainen's and sometimes
as defendants, and some of the ',tigers in prosecut it!a house have
also been in custody. Prisoner—The pro-semi:or ought to be kind to
me, my lord, for I helped to save his son from transpor ation, and he
would have been over the herring pond if it had not been
for me. turd Mayor—How did you manage that ? Did you pay
for counsel for him? Prisoner—Oh, nn, noy lord, I had a cleverer
dodge than that. Lord Mayor—What was it? Prisoner—Whl•, I
coleeted snme money, and gave it to theloriocipal witness to keep
out of tile way when the trial came 00. (Langhteal If I had given
it to a coursellor, most likely he won't' have stuck to it, and not
defended the boy at all. (Renewed 'laughter) Lord Mayor— I
think the best thing I can do is to bind you over to keep the peace
for six months. You must find one surety in £3, and must enter
I into your own recognizance in a similar sum.

SPIMCH OF VISCOUNT WAX/AT, 31. P., -ON TON INDIAN
QUNsTION —Lo d Gal way presided rt he seam ,1 meeting
of the Workshop I ahourers' Friend Society, on Tuesday
In prop sing the "Army and Navy," he congratulated
then re: the fall of Delhi, which' he trusted, would bs
followed up by fu. they successes. Ile would not condemn
Lord Canning fir the faults of other governments. He
entertained a strong reluctance to say a word ageiest a man
who was on a bed of sickness lice Lord Dalhousie; but
he.cauld not help seyiug that he thought the annexa-
tions which had bee) made by that nobleman, and especially
the annexation of Oude, were nee of the causes which led
to this outbreak. Tae goreming ho lies in India, without
b ing aware of it, hal not pregreiseed with civilization in
that country. He hoped that our army would never dis-
grace a victo y- in India by ex.. cuting indiscrin,i'rate
slaughter. He had just returned from F .ante, and he was
glad to assure them that the feelings of the French—like a
brave and generous people as they were—were txteemly
in our favour. There was only tete organ in Paris against
as, fled that was only against us lyclese we are Protestants ;
it was the organ of the ultramontane party, and only repre-
sents a smelt p eelon ev,n, of the Roman C Mu:lies—the
violent pettier). He could eatery them, from his pers-nal
ire reouese with gentlemen is Cie neighbobrhond of Paris,
that the feeling of the nation was decidedly in favour of the
English.
XrEVSIVE RuDDERY ON Tlld Noarir STAFFOtDSHIRE
RAILWAY.—Au imp rtant case has been tried at the
Quarter Sessions at Stafford, which has occupied nearly
thrte days in its iuvestigation. The camas of the prisoners
a e—Wiilianc Lane, a beerhouse keeper, of Crewe, formerly
an engine ("river in the employ of tho RJrth Staffordshire
RAlway Company; Thomas Bently, a fireman in the
compan)'s service; S .meet Parker; alias John Lee,
greengrocer, of artreles6eld ; Sam gel Moore' writing clerk,
Mace'rsfield ; and John Bent'ey, a boatman. The prisoners
were charted with stealing 600 lbs. of cotton thread, value
between £2OO and £3OO. The principal facts, as detailed in
evidence, were ss follows :—Oa the 4th of August last a
quant3ty of cotton lace thresed,elelost.d in five boxes was con-
signed by Mr. George Swiredells and Me'srs. Oliver and Sin,
at -Bollington, to the c are of the North Staffordshire Com-
pany, for conveyance to Bristol via Birmingham. The
boxes were placed in a luggage van, the door of which
fastened with a spring, en i could not be re-opened except
with a key usually kept in the goods office. The train 'of
which this van formed pert, left the station at Macclesfield
at sr y minutes after seven the same evening, and arrived
Stoke-upore rrent at half-past nine, where it was run
into the goods station, and subsequently broken no and
rc-formed, the carriages for Birmingham via Norton
Bridge being formed in o a separate train. Of
this reformed train, a man named Bell was the
driver, and the prisoner Thomas Beady, the
fireman ; and at the suggestion of the latter,
a conditional permesiint Vvaa given by the fore-
man to take the vain on to the main line ready to start
for Norton Bridge. S oke wakes and re eel were on, and
several excursion trains crowded the rail.. The luggage
train did not leave until half--pas' two o'clock iu the morn-
ing.' On its arrival at Bristol the van was examined, and
the boxes were missing. The connection of the prisoners
with the robbery was proved by two boatmen, James
Holland and a man named Gould, who have been in custody
as accomplices. and who have Weed approvers by several
d sinterested persons. The jery eouNed J ,hn Bentley
and Themes Rattly, but return a yudict of guilty
against the other three. Parker and Bloore .vere senteaced
to four years' penal servitude each, and Lane tt, two years'
imprisonment, Ilia bard labour.