Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-13 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

SAILING OF THE AMERICAN MAILS.—The Royal Mail
Steam Company's ship Europa, sailed for Halifax and
Boston on Saturday. Besides the usual mails she takes
out a full cargo and about fifty passengers.
ACCIDENT AT THE BIRKENHEAD THEATRE.—On
Saturday night, about eleven o'clock, during the per-
formances at the Birkenhead Theatre, a pistol was fired
from the stage by one of the actors,
,and the wadding
accidentally struck one of the audience in the gallery.
The sufferer was John Bartley, aged seventeen years,
residing at 10, Pool-street, and he received a severe
wound on the face, which was dressed for him at the
Birkenhead Hospital, and he then walked home.
LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Return for week
ending 11th February:—Admitted : In-patients, 39; out-
patients, 17 ; surgical casualties, 24. Discharged :
Cured, 16; relieved, and at own request, 9; made out-
patients, 7; irregular, 1; dead, 3. Remain in the house,
194. For the ensuing week—Visitors, Messrs. Charles
P. Melly and William Rathbone; Physician, Dr. Turn-
bull. Surgeon, Mr. Bickersteth. House Surgeon, Mr.
T. S. Walker; Junior House Surgeon, Mr. J. Allen ;
Chaplain, Rev. Edward Poole. Charles Wilson,
Treasurer.

ALARM OF FlRE.—Yesterday afternoon an alarm was
given at the Fire Police Station, Hatton-garden, that a
warehouse in Clegg.street, North-end, was on fire. Mr.
Superintendent Hewitt, a strong body of the fire brigade,
and two engines were speedily in Clegg-street, but it
turned out that there was no fire at all. The alarm had
been raised by some persons who saw dense volumes of
smoke issue from the windows, bat it was found on
examination that this smoke was emitted from chimneys
in the rear, and passed through the warehouse to the
street. _ _ _ _

INSOLVENTS.—InsoIvent debtors heard at Lancaster,
on Friday, the 10th day of February, 1860, before
Robert Segar, Esq., judge : James Gro nwood, coal
proprietor and farmer, Burnley ; John Wardle, cattle
dealer, Manchester ; John Bleackley, carter, Prestwich,
near Manchester; John Pilkington (sued with R. Wm.
Pilkington and G. Potter) stonemason, Habergham Eaves;
Robert Bowden, hatter, Liverpool; John Moore, dealer
in malt and hops, Manchester; James Motion, joiner
and builder, Liverpool ; Jonathan Cox, insurance agent,
Manchester : Charles Yates, counterpane manufacturer,
Bolton-le-Moors ; Charles James Hall, commission
agent, Carlisle ; Thomas Lloyd, artist, Manchester ;
Thomas Henry Carter (sued as , Thomas H. Carter),
commercial traveller, Liverpool; John Crowther, cotton
yarn dresser, Dukinfield; Lister Smith, farmer, Middle-
ton, near Manchester ; Robert Westley (sued as Robert
Charles Westley), assistant to a hatter, Liverpool ;
John Warburton, stone-mason, Rochdale; George Henry
Dean, commercial traveller, Manchester : discharged.
James Walmsley, general dealer, Manchester ; Samuel
Timperley, general agent, Ashtdh-under-Lyrae ; George
Salt, boot and shoemaker, Manchester : dismissed.

CHESHIRE VOLUNTRER RIFLES.-Our neighbours on
Cheshire side of the water are receiving numerous
recruits to their various volunteer corps, and drill is
regularly and perseveringly attended. The Birkenhead
company numbers 110 enrolled members, the Oxton and
Claughton company, 95 ; Rock Ferry and Bebington
company, 80 ; Wallasey company, 113 ; Traumere
company, 63 ; Elooton company, 90. The New Brigh-
ton Company of Volunteer Artillery numbers 60 mem-
bers.
HEAD BRIDEWELL.—The de tetiho contriveves are. on
to effect
THE LATE DARING ESCAPE FROM THtEh:3rltaigNo-f
escape from the Birkenhead bridewell by picking a
the ingenious James Brown, wd
feet
hole
s
through a wall of stone and bricks two eetthick.
Much praise has been bestowed by gossips on Thomas
Brown, who was confined in the same cell, for not
following the example of his brother, and making his
escape from justice. It turns 'out, however, that-the
unfortunate Wight was the victim of circumstances, and
was compelled to make a virtue of necessity. The hole
was not large enough to admit of his passing through it.
READINGS FROM SCHILLER.-Mr. Huber, professor
of German, gave some readings from Schiller on Satur-
day afternoon, in the Medical-hall, Hope-street. The
play chosen for the occasion was Mary Stuart, the most
beautiful and impressive passages from which were
rendered with great effectiveness by Mr. Huber. The
readings were in the German, and this considerably
increased their interest. The peculiar harmony and
beauty which characterise the works of the great Ger-
man poet were showed in their full proportion by
reading from a German text, while Mr. Huber's enun-
ciation is so remarkably distinct that it requires no very
intimate acquaintance with the language to understand
and enjoy the readings. On Saturday next the same
.gentleman will read from the Piccolonainis.

The Hudson's Bay Seal Skin Cloaks and Jackets,
One Guinea each, at the New Shawl and Mantle Ware-
house, 40, Bold-street.—Shellard and Hodgson, Pro-
prietors.

THE FANCY BALL TO-MORROW EVFNING. —We
have already given a description of some of the exten-
sive preparations in progress, and now nearly completed,
for the grand fancy ball in aid of the funds of the local
charities, to come off to-morrow evening. A very large
number of tickets have been disposed of, and the re-
main4er at the disposal of the committee will no doubt
be taken up immediately. Whether as respects the
charitable object in view or the ball itself as an assembly,
the great labours of the committee promise to be
crowne4 with the most deserved success.

BIRKENHEAD ARTILLERY COUPS. - Already two
artillery corps have been formed at Birkenhead ; one at
Mr. John Laird's extensive iron ship-building and en-
gineering works; and the other at the Canada Works,
where a third company is in course of formation. Wal-
lasey and Seacombe each boast an artillery corps, and it
is confidently expected that ere long between four and
five hundred volunteers will have joined the artillery
companies on the Cheshire side of the water. Colonel
M'Murdo, under direction by the Secretary at War,
placed himself in communicatien with Mr. John Laird, on
Saturday, in reference to the organisation of the several
companies above alluded to.
CORONER'S COURT.-At the coroner's court, on Satur-
day, an inquest was held on the body of Mary Ann
Smith, aged seven years, who was severely burned on
the 12th of last month and died on Friday last. Verdict,
" Accidental death."—An inquest was also held on the
body of Denis Kilgallan, aged five weeks, whose parents
lived at 40, Hodson-street. On Monday morning week,
the father of the deceased went to bed and stuck a candle
against tke wall over the bed in which he and deceased
child lay. The candle fell, set fire to the bed-clothes,
and the deceased was severely burned. He died on
Thursday last. Verdict, " Accidental death."
SNOWBALLING Rows.—The heavy fall of snow which
took place on Saturday morning presented a most oppor-
tune occasion to a number of young men employed as
clerks in offices about the Exchange, and others who,
apparently emulous of the notoriety lately acquired by
the Edinburgh students, commenced, about ten o'clock,
to assail passengers across the Exchange quadrangle
with snowballs. Every new corner who presumed he
would be allowed to pass was forced to beat a retreat,
after sustaining a most remorseless battery. No
organised attempt was made by the police to put an end
to this frolic till about half-past eleven, when the nwlde
was at its height. business being completely stopped, and
the crash of broken glass being heard on all sides.
t Superintendent Ryde appeared on the spot at the head
of a body of the police force. They made a rush into
the quadrangle, which was instantly cleared. Seven or
eight of those who showed greatest activity in the
" row" were lodged in bridewell, but liberated imme-
diately after things had resumed their usual quiet course
on 'Change. Upwards of eighty panes of glass were
broken in the course of the "row," in which, when at its
height, many hundreds of persons were actively engaged.
A circumstance rather more amusing than the above
took place in'Castle-street. A few young gentlemen, no
doubt fond of a " spree," mounted the Aigburth 'bus,
which left the. Exchange at half-past ten a.m., and the
top of the 'bus being covered with snow, they amused
themselves with pelting snowballs at such persons as,
having their backs towards them, were not likely to
discover whence the missiles came, the sufferers
generally being jarvies and newspaper boys. One of
the latter, hit by a snowball, had no difficulty in con-
cluding by whom it had been aimed. lie retaliated,
and, being joined by a number of his friends in the same
line of business, they followed the 'bus, pelted the un-
fortunate passengers most unmercifully, and, though
jarvey drove somewhat faster, they followed as quickly,
and did not give up the chase till they had given the
" gents " such a snowballing as will no doubt remind
them to exercise a little prudence on another day should
they mount a 'bus with snow on the top.

THE D :STURI3ANCES AT ST. GEORGE'S-
IN-THE-EAST.

On Saturday afternoon a large crowd assembled at
the Thames Police-court, including the Rev. Bryan
King, the rector, and several of the clergy of St.
George's-in-the-East, for the purpose of hearing the
summons taken out at the instance of Mr. King against
Martin Micheson, of 24, Star-street, Wapping, and
made returnable, in order that the law might be applied
before another Sunday intervened.—Mr. Wontner repre-
sented the rector and clergy of St. George's, and Mr.
Crouch, a solicitor, for defendant.—The summons was
taken out under the 10th Mary, cap. 3, sec. 2, charging
the defendant with maliciously disturbing and disquiet-
ing the Rev. Mr. Dove and' the Rev. Mr. Stuart, and
secondly the Rev. George Lee, while saying Divine
service in the church of St. George's-in-the-East.—Mr.
Crouch applied for an adjournment, on the ground that he
had several important witnesses, who would prove the in-
nocence of defendant, but could not attend that day.—Mr.
Yardley said they were on the eve of another Sabbath
Day, and the object of that meeting was to put a stop
to the scandalous desecration of the church and service
which had taken place. At the same time, he should
wish to hear the defence fully made out; and if there
there was evidence forthcoming, he would not decide the
case that day.—After some technical objections to the
summons, which were overruled, Mr. Wontner said he
should be able to prove that the offence had been com-
mitted, and, under the act of Queen Mary quoted, he
should ask the magistrate to commit the defendant to
prison for three months for this most malicious and
shameful offence. lie was not there to vindicate the
innovations in the service of the church of St. George,
if there were any ; the question was whether riots and
disturbances were to take place, and evil-disposed per-
sons to enter the church every Sunday, make hideous
noises, and interrupt the worship of God. The de-
fendant came from a distant parish, and he should prove
by witnesses, wholly unconnected with the church or the
clergy, that the defendant took an active part in the dis-
turbances, and if he did so he should call for a conviction.
Mr. Yardley asked what recent cases had been decided
under the act of Mary, to which Mr. Wontner replied that
there was the case of Paul Moon, decided by the judges in
the reign of Charles the Second.—Mr. Yardley said that it
was quite clear that the act of Mary was no: obsolete,
as many people supposed. There was a more recent
case, Williams v. Glenister, where Lord Chief Jus-
tice Abbott decided that brawling or creating a
disturbance,' and interrupting the service in a Pro-
testant church, could be punished under the act '
of Queen Mary.—W. Cain, a lighterman, and two other
witnesses, living in Blue Anchor-road, Bermondsey, were
then called, and said they were
i sitting behind the de-
fgndant on Sunday evening last, n the north gallery of St.
George's Church, and while the service was being
chanted, heard him call out several times "No Popery,"
and "Down with the Pope," and beat the front of the'
gallery with his hands and feet. Many of the persons
were making a noise at the same time ; some were
singin" We won't go Home Morning," others
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but as it was stated that there were witnesses
to be heard for the defence, he should adjourn
the case, and hold defendent to bail. A man
was here pointed out in court who had taken an active
part in the disturbances on Sunday fortnight, but had
refused his name and address, and Mr. Wontner de-
manded it of him amidst loud cries of "Don't give it
him; the Pusey.ites want to make a victim of you."-:—.
Mr. Yardley said he could not compel the man to give
his name, and the only course left open was to trace him
out.—After some diseussioT the magistrate agreed to
accept bail for Mitcheson, himself in £BO, and his em-
ployers in the sum of £2O each for his appearance on
Tuesday next. The man referred to was followed by a
number of the friends of the rector and the police to
trace him out, and also joined by his partisans, who led
him away to avoid pursuit, amidst considerable noise
and excitement.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE TWICKENI!AIki RAILWAY
STATION.—On Friday morning an accident, resulting
in the death of a pointsmr named Crawley, took place
at the Twickenham station, on the South-Western
Railway. An engine that had just arrived from the
Waterloo terminus was being. shunted, when the
deceased, in runningacross the line to alter the points,
missed his footing and fell, it is supposed from the
frosted state of the rails. Before he could recover his
position he was run over by the engine, and instant:y
killed. He was a very steady and attentive mar,, and
unfortunately leaves a wife and two children, the
youngest an infant only a fortnight old.

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