Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-01 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT OF A DUMB
GIRL IN LIVERPOOL-REVELATIONS!

Yesterday, at the morning sitting at the Police Court, a
drunken looking, half clad, but rather good looking
female, named Ellen Reed, was brought up before Messrs.
Holt and Sheil, by effieers 634, and 648, charged under
the following strange circumstances. It appeared from the
evidence of sevcal persons, including the police, and a
respectable female named Ellen Fineday, who lives at 74,
Wolfe-street, Park, and in whose house the prisoner
lodged, that some short time ago the prisoner took a room
in the house named, saying she was a marrie woman,
and that her husband was engaged in seine factory.
She had three children—the eldest a dumb girl abort five
or six years old; the second, a girl ahout four years old,
and the third, a baby at the breast. The owner of the
house did not exactly like the movements of the prisoner,
but yet she said nothing to her. On Thursday evening,
the prisoner seeing a men pass, said, "Oh, there is my
husband," and she called him into the house. From what
transpired, the owner cf the house was induced to send for
the police. The officers on entering the room, found the
dumb girl quite naked and lashed to a table and
chair in the centre of the room, in the following
way. There was a rope tied round her waist, and
from this, at her b-Ick, there was another rope tied ; this
was brought down her back, and through her lower limbs,
and again made fast in the front of the child's person,
from the rope round her body. It was then secured to
the chain and table, so that the child could not stir.
There was a large and vicious-looking ulcer on the child's
back, produced by the frictien of the rope. The police
said when they asked the prisoner why she had treated
the child so, she replied it was mad. It appeared that
whilst the officers were releasing the child, two women
called to see the prisoner, and one of them rocagnised the
man (alluded to, who was called in by the prisoner) as her
husband. Up to this time, he lay concenled in a bed, and
had nearly smothered the youngest child, that happened
to be in bed, in order to hide himself. When he was dis-
covered, he charged the prisoner with having robbed him
of a sum of money. When he was called in court yester-
day, to sustain the ch arge, he did not answer, and the
whole case was remanded for further investigation.

THE MURDER OF Mg. Ltrrix —The trial of Spollen
will, we understand, be proceeded with at the ensuing
commission of Oyer and Terminer, which opens on the 4th
inst. The case for the Crown will be conducted by Mr.
Brewster, Q.C.—Dublin Evening Mail.
HOLY WA"' E 11.—Ererybody (s ,ys a correspondent) knows
that holy water is an article of faith to the spiritual sub-
jects of the Pnpe, and we hear occasionally of their imita-
tors baptising au infant supposed to be dying, afterwards
burning the water and breaking the basin, lest they should
be put to some unholy purpose; but it may surprise mlny
to learn that in a dissenting chapel in Landon the minister
baptising some infants announced that he had brought the
water from the Pool of Siloam on his way from Jerusalem.
Perhaps it will quite as much surprise the pnblic to be
informed that the attendant at a chapel near Huntingdon
most reli,iously preserves the water used for baptising for
making her tea.

Tux SADLEIR ESTATES.—On Wednesday. on the applica-
tion of Messrs. Murrough and Kennedy, solicitors for the
London and County Bank, the Commissioners of Irish
Encumbered Estates fixed Tuesday, the 17 h of November,
for the sale of a portion of the estates of the late John
Sadleir. The rental of this division of the property is
about £4,000 a year. Twenty years' purchase being the
average rate of the Irish land market, this slice of the
mysteriously acquired possessions of the suicide ought to
produce at least £BO,OOO out of the £250,000 or £300,000,
the estimated gross value of all the estates which from
time to time came into Sadleir's hands.
A "BLOODY MURDER" IN AUSTRALIA.—It was rR
moured that a cruel and mysterious murder had been
committed near the dry diggings of Daylisford. There
is a large deep waterhole, in a secluded spot, which one
might easily imaeine to be the scene of such a deed.
Blood was seen near the rim of the hole, and in several
places down the side. The police were on the alert—the
neighbourhood was in an uproar. Drags of all kinds
were procured, and the inspector and his men were all
the week indefatigably engaged in endeavouring to solve
the enigma. At length their labours were crowned with
success. Something heavy was felt on the drag ; it was
slowly and solemnly raised to the surface. It was the
mangled body of—a dog !—Melbourne Age.
TOTE STRONGEST FORCE IN NATURE —When a visitor at
the late Sir Robert Peel's, in the year preceding his
death, a scientific lady who was amongst the company
assembled a' Drayton Manor, while at dinner, determined
to make the most of her time, asked Mr. Stephenson the
question, "What do you consider the most powerful force
in nature i" Few men care for h owing science thrust
upon them at every hour of day or night, and perhaps Mr.
Stephenson felt that, or probably the answer came from a
deeper source, and was not only a clever compliment but
a very good reply—" I will soon answer that question;
It is the eye of a woman for the man that loves her .
for if the woman looks with affection on a young
man, and he should go to the uttermost ends of the
earth, the ree)lleetion of the look will bring him back.'
There is no other force in nature that could do that."
—Life of Sir George Stephenson.
ANTI-MORMON ItIOT IN BIRMINGHAM.—D-. Brindley,
of Leamington, formerly well known from his crusade
against socialist doctrines, has for some months past de-
voted himself to the exposure of Mormonism in Birming-
ham. The result has been that for several weeks the
chapels of the sect have been the scene of disturbances of
a very disgraceful character. On Sunday afternoon a man
named Horsley, on
,leaving Allison-street chapel, was
chased through the streets by mere than a thousand men
and women. His coat was torn to shreds, and having
taken refuge in a cab, he and the cabman were pelted with
stones. Later in the evening a more serious affair oc-
curred in Thorp-street, where the Mormons have another
chapel. Dr. Brindley had been preaching opposite the
place of meeting to a crowd of two thousand persons; the
crowd rushed into the chapel and began a running fire of
comment on the sermon, some of the language used being
of not a very edifying character. President Aubry, who
was preaching, was compelled to close his discourse abruptly
and dismiss his flock. A most disorderly scene then oc-
curred ; the women were hustled, insulted, and bespat-
tered with mad ; the men had their hats knocked off, and
were pushed about from side to side; and hootings, oaths,
tin-kettle harmonies, &c., lent completeness to a scene not
often witnessed in Birmingham on a Sunday evening.
Quiet was temporarily restored by the police. On Monday
morning the chapel doors were again broken open, lock
fast closets were ransacked, and a large number of music
and school books were torn and strewn about the yard.
The police are now in charge of the premises. Threats
of an intention to burn them were freely circulated
Amongst the crowd on Sunday evening.