The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-13 00:00:00

THE N ORTHEIN TIMES
14"
FRI DAY.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

• LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MIL MANSFIELD.
" RATTIER EXCITID."—A decent lo ,king person named
George Fitton, was charged with having broken about
30s'worth of glass in the house of a Mr. Dockery, 12,
Clarke street. It appeared that about 12 o'clock on
Wednesday night, the prisoner took a sword (a fine one,
produced by the officer), and with it broke the windows
to the amount stated.; alter which he threatened to take
the life of the complainant, in whose house he lodged for
the last seven weeks: The prisoner expressed great
sorrow for what had happened, and said he met a friend
and got over excited (drunk), and as for the weapon he
always had it to protect the property of Mr. Harrison,
his master. He agreed to pay the damage at once, and
his worship said, when the amount was paid, he would
discharge him.
A ROGUE AND VAGABOND.—A tall, aarafra scar=
looking fellow, with a head like a bewitched barley stack,
who gave the name of Charles Kelly, alias Henry Smith,
was brought up by officer 14:5, who said the prisoner
came to him in Shaw's Brow, and said, "If you stand a
pint, I will tell you lam a deserter." The " pint" was
refused, when the prisoner said be had deserted from
the 99th regiment at Belfast, and then he arrested
him. On searching hint at the police office,
-he found a 'discharge in his cap, front which
it appeared that he had been discharged from the Royal
Artillery as a disgrate to the service. The story told
about his deserting from the 99th was false. Mr.
Mansfield said, the discharge was a disgrace to the
prisoner, and his statement about desertion bAag
untrue, it brought hied under the operation of the act, as
a rogue and vagabond, which he (Mr. Mansfield) had no
doubt he was, and he would therefore send him to jail
for one month, with hard labour.
IN A PICKLE.—E ward Clarke, a well known character
to the police, was brought up on a charge of having
attempted to steal two dozen of pickles from Mr.
Alexander Whamond, of Tithebarn street. : The:
plai tient said, the prisoner called and ordered the pickles,
whieh he said he had sold to a Druggist in Old H 4
street. He refused to give the pickles without the money,
when he asked him to send a boy with hint, which he
did ; but n )t being satisfied with that he also sent a young
woman after the prisoner, who took them through several
back streets, and at last tried to get off with the pickles,
but was arrested. 4,,He was sent for trial.
" VERY GOOD MUTTON."—A tall hungry looking youth
named William Maguire, was charged with having stolen
a fine haunch of prime mutton from Mr. Ming's Bruns-
wick Hotel, Hanover street. From the evidence of John
Morris, the " boots" at the hotel, it appeared that the
mutton and other " good things" were hanging inside
the door on the lobby, and on the previous evening the
prisoner, with two other youths, entered. The prisoner
got up on the shoulders of one of the others, took down
the mutton, and " cut" with it. The " boots," although
not " seven leagued," ran after him, and after a smart
chase he captured him. not, however, before he had
dropped the " meat," as he found that carrying such
" weight for age," would leave him last in the race. In
reply to Mr. Mansfield, the witness said the weight of the
mutton was 26 lbs., value 7d per pound. Mr. Ming
begged his worship would dispose of the charge in a
summary manner, but as the prisoner refused to plead
guilty, his worship said he could not do so. The prisoner
was therefore sent for trial.
ROBBING A PILOT Boar.—Peter Milliken, was charged
with breaking into the cabin of the pilot boat, No. 11,
and plundering it of property to the value of £5, belong-
ing to the master, Mr. Williams. A portion of the
property was got on the prisoner, and this being iden-
tified by Mr. Williams, the prisoner was sent for trial.
STEALING COTTON.—Henry Butcher was sent to jail
for one month for stealing some sample cotton belonging
to Messrs. Parton & Holland, and Ireland & Co.

COUNTY COURT.—Yesterday.

BEFORE JOSEPH POLLOCK, ESQ., JUDGE,

HINCIICLIFFE V. JACKSON.---The plaintiffs in this case
were Messrs. J. and G. Hinchcliffc, of Huddersfield, manufac-
turers, who sought to recover £39 is from Mr. W.
Jackson, woollen draper, of Whitechapel, Liverpool. The
amount claimed was for goods sent to the defendant. Mr.
Clough, solicitor, Huddersfield, appeared for the plaintiffs, and
Mr: &spinal], ins!rucled by Mr. Jones, for the defendant. On
the part of the defendant £5 17s•had been paid into court. On
the part of the plaintiffs it was stated that in March last their
traveller called upon the defendant, and obtained from him an
(eider for seven pieces of woollen goods, besides which the
defendant also desired to obtain two short pieces, but for these
he declined to pay the price demanded. He made a lower
offer, and the travailer not helm: authorised to make any
rf rots. to his. principals stating defendant's offer, and at
the same time ordering' the seven pieces already mentioned,
which defendant had agreed to purchase. The goodkiwere sent
by the plaintiffs, including the two short lengths, which they
agreed to give on the terms offered by the defendant. The
invoice of the whole nine pieces was forwarded at the same

[me. The defendant, on receiving the parcel, took from it

the two short lengths and one other piece, and returned the
,remainder, saying that he had only ordered six pieces
altogether, and that the pieces he returned were not as
good iu quality as those which had been shown to him by the
traveller. The plaintiffs, however, who considered that they
had sent out the short length at a low rate, in fact at cost
price, in consequence of having obtained an order for the other
pieces, declined to receive the six pieces back, and they were
therefore allowed to remain in the carrier's hands. The ground
of defence was that three of the pieces of cloth had not been
ordered by the defendant, and that the three sent as those
ordered were greatly inferior An quality to what he had agreed
to purchase, as well as being greater in quantity than he
required and ordered. Evidence having been gone into at
great length on both sidei„ his honour held that the plaintiffs
were-entitled to recover.

TEA.—The arrival is announced of the Virginia, from
Foo-chow.foo, and the Southern Cross from Hong Kong.
The former vessel has 916,000 lb., and the latter 709,200
lb: of tea on freight.
RATS.—There are two objections to the common mode of
killing rats by laying poison for them ; first, the danger to
which it exposes other animals, and even human beings,
second, the possibility that the rats, having partaken of it,
• may retire to their holes, and dying there, cause an intoler-
able stench, and prodbce numerous crawling insects. Greer's
Patent Anti-Vermin Mixture for the immediate destruction
of rata and mice, is tree from these objections and has
effectually cleared dwelling houses, ships, and other places,
that were much infested with these destructive and
disagreeable inmates. The smell of the bait wilattract
the vermin from their holes, and it being such a special
delicacy to them; they will devour it with greediness,
and die on the spot. To be had at the Anti Vermin
Office, 49, Brownlow bill, Liverpool, at 61, Is, and 4s each.
Can be sent free by post to any part of the United Kingdom,
America, Australia, &c. —Advt.
CRINESU OATLIS. —The following amusing account of a
trial, for damaging the property of a Chinese, occurs in
the Bendigo Advertiser :—William White and Thomas
Sheffield were charged by Ghe Min, a Chinaman, with
maliciously damaging his property, and the damages were
laid at .€B. Considerable difficulty was found in obtaining
an interpreter, as the well known and almost universal
linguist A Chung positively declared that he did not know
the lingo spoken by the complainant. This, the Dr.
Lardner of the Chinese, acknowledged with regret ; but if
he could not speak the language himself, he knew a brother
who belonged to neither the " four " tribes nor the " five,"
but who was a pure specimen of the Amoy race ; and who
could, in his opinion, speak English as well. The bench
' accordingly sent for the learned gentleman, who on coming
forward, presented as a fair specimen of an Amoy portrait
as a painter could desire were he about to illustrate that
exceedingly industrious but sometimes dishonest race.
The bench not at all feeling inclined to believe in the good
faith . of the gentleman who was to •interpret,' asked
whether he would swear by the candle, by the saucer, or
by the cock's head? A Ham : " I know the Christian
religion. I will swear by the kiss of the book, will blow
out the candle, will burn the red paper, or I will cut off
the cock's head, I don't care which." The Bench : " Take-
your Choice, for I suppose they are ail alike to you."
Cups and saucers were then brought into court,' together
with the red paper, and it was understood that a real
live cock was outside awaiting the samifice ; but Mr.
A. Ham preferred taking a cup to any other form of
oath presented, ;but On attempting to smesh the cup.
to• his utter dismay the Chinaman found that it Would
not break, The Chinese have generally pretty impertur-
bable countenances, but to picture the dismay of A. Ham
when the cup would not break, would require the pencil
of Punch himself to depict. After another try and a
violent, effort he did succeed, and considered himself to
be duly sworn to act as a true and faithful interpreter.
But here another difficulty arose, inasmuch as A. Ham
was not possessed of so much English, notwithstanding
his acquaintance with the Christian religion, as would
make him intelligent to the bench, and A. Chung had to
be called into requisition, so that the presiding magistrate,
the accusing witness, and the two interpreters, formed a
sweet little viaduct of four arches through whom the
truth was to be elicited. The bench at ()ace saw that
there was no chance of arriving at the truth of the affair
under these circumstances, and as a test of the veracity
of the Chinaman, ordered the damaged property to bo
produced. Constable Thomas Ryan then laid upon
the table a handkerchief containing one pair of
scales, one ginger beer bottle, one delph basin, one top
of a lozenge glass, and five most vile looking cabbage leaf
cigars, all more or less damaged. The Bench : Is this the
' £8 worth? Constable Ryan, -Yes, it is all that has been
pointed out to me, your Worship. The Bench : Dismiss
the case, but don't let those men go. I know them ; take
them out and have their brands looked to—you White
especially. The prisoners were then removed.,