Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-30 00:00:00

7HE MUTINY ON BOARD THE CONSTITIITIOL

At the Pelfast Police Court, on Saturday, fifteen seamen he:es Ow
to the Packet Ship Constitution, were brought up an a charge eC
mutiny. Their names were Robert Humphries, Robert Read, Jereeta
Roche, Wm. Evans, Archibald M`Lean, Richard Jasper, Retert
Ilorness, George Abbott, George Pestle, Joseph Dunne, Joker
Malvany, Joseph Heroes, Joseph Martin, Jamas Stewart, and Gorge
Wilson. Mr. Walter Thompson, captain, was sworn and exateduee...—
Witness was masts • of the ship Constitution. She was resistedd
1,282 tons burden, and was value fir about '17,000, besides her
cargo. She was as Ens a vessel as ever left Livorno Ji. and inclose,
bees reteeered in Awn, 1857, after being built. The priserens
engag,-d with him in Liverpool as seamen, on board the vess 1. nee
agreement was that they Eo to New York, thence to any other pa t
iu America or elsewhere and back to Liverpool, the pedal ssf sack
voyage not to exceed twelve months. The vesoel sailed fssset
Liverpool on the 1911 c ins'ant. The following day Sunday, the ceetee
some of the m n refaced to work, when all hands were callei
on deck to shit the sails, in oreer to chance the elute
of the veseel. Witness was afraid sho was getting too near tleeet ma.
and he wished the sails shifted quickly. When George Deane get ge
deck he said he wou'd not work. Witness told h'm if he wowed net
work he should be put in Irons Tho prisoner called 0, t, " Comedown
here ti do it." so' itness remonstrated with the crew, and re:landed
them that th , consequence would be, that they would be all im-
prisoned for three moons each fur such conduct, if he put the ‘llllll
into eoreand owe them into custody. Deane rep'ied this; he bgA
Jed got three months in Bombay Jail, and could put in three mere es
another. One of the sails was call' ed away at that time becs.a a the
crew did not work. They went to their work after a little, and ate*
wind was contrary the vessel was detained in the Channel, antic
tacking, she got into collision with another vessel 11,4 lost bog
boom. Witness pet into Belfast Lough on the 22nd, and cast sachec.
The next day the men amen refusal to cork, and sai I they were Volt
at the anchor and would not leave that. Witness left the vele mit
came up to Belfast. when he got a spar which answered Mtn, and indx
it down and got ready for sea aga'n, but the men would not work the
vessel. When witness was leaving for Belfast, they consented to pargP
the vessel and oblee him, but he was to understand that they wens
not returning to their duty. It would take but ten miantes is
every twenty-four hours to pump the vesse'. She had tw.otersazvaa
hands on b ard, which were a RIVE ,ient crew, being three more tb
she made her last voyage with from New York. She was sees w of"J
found in everything, end the provisions was of the best dese
He knew of no rea.on why the men should act in such a Mine ec-
They had received advance notes before sailing, but he had ordered
payment o" them to be s opped since they refused to work. Wtestee
also produced the tog book, and raid from it the entries wthee.isd
had made. Several of the witnesses confirmed the captain's ueeste
meat. No witnesses were called for tle defence, and the attest
refused to enter any charge against the mote ; and it appears I tlist
it was the esrpenter who struck WI ean, and that toe in kiseeen
defence, ird under any circu ns'anns the bench could not Steers
charge preferred by men who were in custody for a serious of tem.
The beach then sentenced Ro he, Deane, Wilson, ens Stewed is kw
imprisoned for twelve months each, and the other ele 'ea to Issi
inspri oned for four months each at hard labour.

PAURIENT J JURNALISIA. —The law reports this week of
certain journals have been e.t.ised with a mss of unotioi—
gated filth, repugnant to every sense of propriety c,d.
purity of feeling.
rm
Nothirg is mere immodest, nNc othi
more unchaste than the cant which assus a sense
necessitate tsi
public duty to the publica inn Of such dAsits ce
criminal nastiness as the case of "The Qlcei v. a i'iti.n—
son " offered. Those journals, tor., which disgirciaztob.
the filth in its fall detail, are the first, we remark Ito
discourse in terms of virtuous horror upon the eto±iiig
depravity of the case, and to entreat judges and jeri•tw to
give us no• more of it. Way give us any of it. rac
publication of such filth is a discredit to the free prs 41
thus country.—Tress.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—YEsTRIDAY.

LIVERPOOL.

azrona MR. DIXON.

Vicious GIRLS.—Two girls, named Catherine Fleming
and M,ry Eliza Threlfall, both about 15 years years of
age, described as the daughters of respectable working
men, residing. one in Van:then-street, the other in Hender-
son-street, Park, were brought up by fetective officers
Fovey and McCullock, charged with having stolen six
daugareotype portraits frum the establishment of Mr.
Prestwitch, of 2, Pitt-street. From the evidence, it ap-
peared that the parents of the unfortunate children could
not get any good of them, although they tried every means
to reform them. On Saturday evening they went to the
establishment of Mr. Prestwitch for the purpose, as
they alleged, of ordering pertraite of themselves ; the
portraits (stolen) were on a table, and they contrived to
steal six of them. They sold two of them, worth Bs. to a
woman named Walsh, who keeps a broker's shop in
Henderson-street, for 4d, ; this woman was very much
censured for her conduct, and Povey said there would not
be half so many thieves, if brokers and others did not
receive stolen property. The parents of the children
came forward and begged that his Worship migkt send
them to a reformatory, as the only means of reclaiming
them One of them had been bound to a cigar maker, bat
she could not be got to attend her business. The officers,
when they arrested the girls, got four additional portraits
with them. They were remanded for a week.
" CHRISTMAS SPORTS "---A well dressed sharp-looking
fellow, named James Bailley, described as a mobsman,
was charged by a man, named Thomas Begley, who keeps
an oyster stall at the north-west corner of John's Market,
with having been concerned in assaulting and robbing him
of a ring. The complainant said he was in the " Old
Dive" pnblic-house, near the market, along with his wife
and a gi l ; the prisoner (who had a false imperial on him
at the time) was there, with two other men, and when
they saw witness, they said, "there is a pig here." It
was about half-past ten o'clock, and witness then went into
Market-street, by another door, from the public-house ;
the moment he got into the street, the prisoner and his
two companions caught him by the legs and turned him
completely over, and the prisoner attempted to scoop out
hie eje with hie fingers. Here the witness exhibited the
coat and vest he had on at the time, and such tatters
never were seen. He continued to say, the prisoner took
lie ring off' hie finger, crying out to his companions,
got `fattnaes,'"—a slang name for a ring, which he
took off his finger. The other two men got away. Mr.
Campbell, for the prisoner, cross examined the witness as
follows : Are you acquainted with such cbaraetera ? Yes,
I have known them for some years. Mr. Campbell: Were
you tried for a garrotte robbery ? Yes, but I was not
guilty. Mr Campbell : Oh, of course not : no one would
say so of himself; vel:ere were you tied ? At Ches'er.
In reply to His Worship, the policeman, who had charge
of the ease, said the prisoner's wife, and the girl alluded
to, were threatened with violence, if they came forward to
give evidence. His Worship sent the officer fur these
two females, and, after some time, they appeared, • and
were examined; but Mr. Campbell produced witnesses
who " upset " the testimony for the prosecution, and
then c. ntended that his client was entitled to his
discharge, and his Worship, agreeing with him, the
prisoner was discharged.
ALLEOZD PLUSHER BY SERVANTS, &e. —Jane Duffy,
formerly a servant with Mrs. Tweedle, of 9, Kent-street,
was charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel
and other things belonging to her mistress. The r leery
took place in November last, but the prisoner was not got
until Monday, when there were some of the missing things
got with her. She was remanded

A boy named Robert Dunne, Who was a porter in the
cloth shop cf Mr. Ric:larde, of Prices-street, was charged
with stealing cloth. Mr. Bluck defended. It appeared
that some cloth was foend concealed in the cellar, and it

was stroposed that the boy stole it out of the shop, and
exieetsled it there until he got an opportunity of removing
it. It was removed and pledged by a woman named Anne
Dunne, who was supposed to ba the boy's mother, but
there was no proof the fact. Ur. Bluck contended that
there was no evidence to convict the boy. The lad was
retaniee3,

" A Wirea" MAN.---:3lAry Clarke, a young woman,
who sad she was a ssrvant, living'iwith a farmer some
miles from towns charged a sailor named Anderson for an
attempt to steal her watch. The complainant said she
was ow for the day, and at one in the morning she met
the pris.ner in Old Hall street, and after some conver-
sation, she alleged, he took the watch from her. The
priEoner said some men were trying to take the watch
from tho girl, when he took it in order to take care of it
for her. He was remanded.

BREAKING INTO AN OFFTCC—James Duff, John M cGuir e,
Cornelius Buckley, and Edward Bell, were charged with
breakirg into the coal yard and office of Mr. Brewer,
Richmond-row It appeared that the prisoners broke into
the yard and then into the office, out of which they
carried the iron safe into the yard, and were breaking it
open with crow bars ; the noise attracted atten;ion, and
the police came and arrested the prisoners. They were
sent for trial.