The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-31 00:00:00

was alleged that the whale amount had been paid to 01:
person named Naggs, who was secretary of the sec'eiti
and who had been triel and convicted for embezzling 0,
funds. Naggs, who is undergoing his term of impris°
ment Wakefield gaol, was now brought cite'
and swore that no more than £22 163 of 4r,
loan had been paid. On cross-examination by Mr. S)lfft'nf
he said the society charged him with embezzling £1,5040
its funds, but that he was improperly debited with 4'hif
or £9OO. Richard 11l ivi4 was celled, and on the ot:,
hand as positively swore that he bad paid the full 41°`11:d
instalments. The jury after a brief consultation retail
a verdict fur the defendants. • Roo
RADCLIFFS v. WHICToRTII. This was an 8,,,c-rt4
brought by the plaintiff, Sir Joseph Radcliffe, L'ishit
against the defendants, Adam and Robert V.,w;
worth, for the diversion of a water-course. It the
brought not t) recover compensation in damages I°' tilt
alleged Ejury, but to assert the plaintiffs title t° rei
water. Mr. Hugh Hill, Q. 0., and Mr. Maneity aPPeagr,
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Atherton, Q.C., with of
Millward, for the thfendants. The plaintiff is the olio
of the W.:3,ton woollen mill, near Oldham. It is tilt
occupied by a Mr. Livesey, but was for many years
occupation, as tenants, of the defendants' grandfather to
Lather, and also of the defendants themselves. They s
it up many years ago, and some years afterwards ereersol
mill near the old mill, known ,to the " Royton Mill,
supplied themselves with water the Royton stre'd
and out of this diversion arose the present action. After the
for the plaintiff had been opened, an arrangement was c°°3l°•ert
by which it was agreed to take a verdict for the plaintiff, 01,404,
to reference. The court rose at twenty minutes past six
It is expected that the criminal business will be die ribs
early this day, when Mr. Baron Martin will proceed svit'"W
common jury cases remaining still on the list, The olio
jury cases will be entered on at half past nine o'clock
tnerning„ before Mr. Justice Crompton.

CHESTER SPR-ING ASSIZES'

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

OFIES TER, Melo°
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I These assizes commenced to-day, before Mt. 'lO
Bramwell and Mr. Baron Watson, the latter presiding.o
the Crown Court, and the former in the Nisi
Court. begi
There are 72 cases in the calendar, several of t„0
being of a serious nature, and include the charge
Thomas Smith, for the wilful mnrder of ","fol
Vaughan, police officer, at Birkenhead, on the a',
Db
December. Also, under the head of robbery with vi°l7oll
there is a charge against Francis Jones and hate; '; st
of assaulting and stealing from Robert Singlebersl,4
Birkenhead, on the B.h of December, his watch.
money. Thos. Begley is charged with assaulting and %DI
ing from Henry Saxby, at Birkenhead, a purse •;att
money ; Samuel Bridge, with stealing a quantity of,grel-od.
from the house of Mrs. Berry, the Canning Hotel, Ir 2
aide ; Peter. Campbell, for shooting James Christititt
Birkenhead, on the 9th of January ; John Bradle°',„ilo
wounding William Ricks, at Birkenhead, on the ~/.0
March ; and Heyes Pyke with wounding Richard
leton, at Upton, on the 6th of December. There is also
important charge of conspiracy, promoted by the 14ivtietif
Gu trdian Society, Mr. Reay, the secretary of the 0;10
appearing as prosecutor. The prisoners, Peter 411,80
Goulding, Ellen Goulding, his wife; Wm. Goulding, wo
son, and Wm. James Reynolds, alias James Ridgfilitt
are charged in two indictments with conspiring to ob.o,
goods by false pretences,from Messrs. Musgrove and Itlot
kins, Messrs. Thomal Roger% and Son, and others/so
Middlewich, on the Ist of December. The prisonersle
accused of having written and posted letters at Video,
with to tradesmen in Bristol and other parts of E1431.,10
ordering goods to be sent to them at Liverpool, and d 0
having received such goods in large quantities ellto
false pretences. Mr. Baron Watson, in charging of
grand jury, said he regretted to find that the ealell
was not onlj heavy in point of numbers, but serioild
regarded the nature of the crimes into which t'sfrj
were about to enquire. He regretted 030 'el
more as he found that they were surnn":,4
there early in the month of December last, for the Pe'ilt
posas of a gaol delivery. The prisoners, in the ftessio
calendar, seventy two-in number, were the acculie": of
of four months. After alluding to several of the eis`", 10
burglary, wounding, and robbing with violenee'hica
said, there was a case of murder at Birkenhead: sv-
th,y would have before them. The evidence, PLllnirf
them, that
apgoaiinntstoftilaleviri—wie
tellhu t he them,
mustw aasl tellsilo°t very
tl3 thtne
was no cause assigned by a person for inflicting a ,„°,lll/0.
upon a fellow crEature, and death followed, that eir,d-er,
stance alone would make it prima facie a case of Titl7bel
If after they had heard the evidence of the witnesses:l,o
could find no extenuation of the crime, it would in. "he
dwy to find a bill against the prisoner for murder. 1° It it
case, number 51 in the calendar, (an unnatural criOeinl
would be for them carefully to enquire whether the arinjea
did really commit the crime imputed to him or not. 'aA
opinion it was excessively infamous that such cases should
to come into court, and then find their way into the Preg.oe
not, perhaps, the respectable press—for it did much .OOl
mischief than otherwise would be done if such cases were to
published. After some allusions to the other cases ili;no,
calendar, his Lordship dwelt upon the necessity of educatfto
moral and religious, and then dismissed the grand Pr'
their duties.
The (=rand Jury having brought several bills ;rod
cow t, the trials were proceeded with, but the cases ,`ol'
luring the day were unimportant, and had no loci'

crest.
THE MURDER OF THE BIRKENHEAD POLICK- ,01.

About four o'clock in the afternoon the Grand JalGlot
into court with a true bill against Thomas Smith si
the murder of William Vaughan, a police offic,elor
BirkeLhead. Als.) wish a true bill against Peter '„stio
bell, the second mate of the J. L. Bogart, for 511°.:10
James Christie. Both cases were fixed for Tb„,1":„00
The prisoner Smith will be defended by Mr.
Lloyd.

NISI PRIUS coußr.
BEFORE MR. BARON BRAMWELL. tled
ma,
LTBEL.—GOUON v. Nicaons.—The plaintiff in t..- °„tat
is Mr. Gough, the proprietor of the Woodside 11;0110,
Birkenhead, and the defendant was Air. James Nieverl
his brother in law, proprietor of the Eastham
Hotel. Mr. Grove, Q C., and Mr. Horatio Lloyd aPPeopoP,
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Welsh for the defes lot
The action was brought to recover compensation for
under the following ciicumetances : —lt appeared tbaii, tbi
year Mr. Giugh, the plaintiff, was in negociation wit
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defendant for the tenancy of that property, and that
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the negotiations were going forward, the deftnel'l
lished an advertisment in the Liverpool Daily 419,"i;rate
which he stated that the plaintiff had told a delibiod'
falsehood, in saying that he was to be thea 110
kid of the Eastham Ferry and Hotel ; and ,-,3gbt:
for that libel that the present action was or; bot°
Evidence was given, at some length, sou 00
plaintiff and defendant Were examined. In the course!" 0
enquiry, several strong and opposite statements were uneti.
reference to the plaintiff's connection with a loan l'°'"geo
Ultimately, a verdict was obtained for the plaintiff. Psll3s
45.
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Bustrunr, V. MORTON.—This action, which arise -

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some proceedings taken by the late Wirral Hundred f
take Court, and in which Mr. Christopher Bushell,
town, is the plaintiff, is fixed for to morrow.