Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-08 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

A PROFLIGATE WOMAN.--Oa Saturday; at the Borough
SessiOns; a woman named Elizabeth Davis, aged 46, was
placed before the Recorder to take her trial on, a.chircie of
stealing a bag and the som,of £7 19s. The prosecution,
from some cause or other, 'iv*. w:thdrawn,.and the wolnan
discharged. It was stated to the Recorder that the present
was her sixtieth appearance before the court !. .
LIVERPOOL. ROYAL INFIRMARY : Return for week ending
August 6, 1859 :—Admitted : 'ln-patients, 43'; out-patients,.
40 ; surgical. 'casualfies, 44... Discharged : Cured, 'l7 ;
relieved, and at own Teeptet, 6 ; :made tint.-patientS, 12 ;.

dead, 2 ; remain in the house; :!775: Tor the
ensuing 'week : Visitors, J. Cr. LiyingSton and W,
Esqs.
_Physician, Dr. Dickinson; Surgeon, Mr: Long.
House Surgeon, Mr: T. S. WWlker ; JUnior House Surgeon,
Mr. J. Allen., Chaplain,
.Rov. , J.' Garrtod A.B. Robert
Rutehinson; Trea:Stitor.

irregular

.ST. PAUL'S 5C.13001., Pittnes-rAnk
children connected with these 'Schools were. provided with
-'-,llent tea on Friday last. The 'Reel tor.. 7.11-Noile,
iv. Dyson 14-croft,' arul A . number of ladies, were
?resent. Although it rained very much &tiring the play the
children were able to walk in procession through the district.
It was intended that they should go to a, field near to the
Dingle, and Play at fd6t-ball, and Various other games; the
lib- weather, however, prevented this being Car-
kftei tea some pieceswereisung very nicely by

Six hundred

an exe
the R,

wetness of t

nod out

. .
the children, and several games plaVed in the school-
room.- About nine o'clock the returned to their homes,
greatly delighted with the day's enjoyment:

COITIiTY Ikti:GISTitATES
Sandbach and J,_ Myer

ioulttj SATuRDAT

Before Messr.

Trespasse,rs prosecuted

aid, John Gleaves,'and Henry
Hitch-
_ it up, eliarged by Mr. Latlibury,: of
for trespassing.on his land, and for destrOying a
wheat. : The prosecutor dated that there
were a umber of lads whO were •in 'the habit of breaking
through his fences, and destroying. a large amount, plucking
some of it up by, the roots, and carrying it off. •He had
tried several ways to put a stop to this, but fOund them
ineffectual, and he therefore had fhe'prisoners apprehended,
that their worships might deal with them as they thought
proper, in order to deter others. The lads were sent to gaol
for, a week, in default of paying the -amount, of damage.
Disputed 'Assissment : Mr. AvisBll appeared on behalf of
the Toxteth-park Board of Health, to enforce upon Mr.
Bolton; of St. Michael's Hamlet, the payment of £9 15s:,
assessed as sewerage rate for, a new public.sewer which had
lately been laid down in the neighbourhood. Mr. Bolton
.aymmtion on the grounds that he derivedno benefit

lads named W. Pi
tnouth, were him
Aigburth,

quantity of

from the sewer in question, as his own house and lands
Were well drained previous to the. sewer being made ; and
he quoted a clause from the Local Board of -Health• Act of
1848, by which the board were empowered to take such
circumstances as were in his case into Consideration; and to
make such allowance as they thought just and fain-. .Under
this clause he considered he was entitled to an exemption in
some measure. • Mr. Avison said the board had taken this
case into consideration, and had, on the strength of the re-
port of their surveyor, come Into court to enforce this
claim. It was not' necessary to prove indirect benefit, of
w.. 110 doubt'Mr. Bolton's house and land re-

WIIICII buere 11,10 aay...‘" -
ceived. A large portion of the land would soon be' built
upon, and would then receive direct benefit. As to the
clause quoted by Mr. Bolton, Mr. Avison showed that it
was an optional one with the board. The magistrates
stated that they would not interfere, and that Mr. Bolton
must pay, so far as they were concerned.

(ADVERTISEMENT.)

STEAMER SEA KING, LIVERPOOL TO .RIIYL, JULY 21,
1859.—We, the undersigned passengers by the Sea King to
Rhyl, do hereby certify that we were much alarmed by the
shameful conduct of those in charge of the steamer Lion, in.
attempting to cross our bows when in a narrow part: of the
channel, by which a collision was caused, notwithstanding
the engines of the Sea King having been stopped and
,turned
astern. The Lion tried to cross the Sea King's bows a
second time; but Captain Leach, bykeeping away and pass-
ing her on the other side, avoided a second contact. Should
such conduct as this be, continued by those in charge. of the
Lion, it will deter all persons from going by either boat. as
it must eventually result in some serious accident:—Rev.
Hugh Stowell Brown ; B. Sproule, .oxton ; Henry Ren-
shaw, Liverpool ; Thomas do. ; John .Parr; do. ;
Robert Dimma, do. • J. J. Glover, do. ; George \Malden,
Wolverhampton • H., S. Thomas: Carroll Milkrist, -Liver-
pool ; Bower Tristram; -do. ; P. W., Phythian, do.: Jona-
than Roberts, do. ;H. K Kidson, ; Walter Grimshaw,
Whitby ; David Ogston, Glasgow ; F. P. ,Kidson,'.Leeds ;
Timothy. Thomas, Newport ' • J. A. Forrest,
,Liverpoel ;.
Caleb Smith, do. ; Joseph Cooper, Aigburth ; W. Salt,
Wallcott ; Henry Bolton, Egremont ; •J. B. Schroeder,
Liverpool ; Henry Ward, do. ; Thomas Pearkes, do. ; Wm.
Deakin, Birmingham ; W. B. Westhead, Manchester ;
Edward Westhead, do. ; Edward Whittaker, Liverpool ;
Thomas Kay, do. ; Samuel Maddocks, do. ; R. B. Walker,
do. ; Rathbone; Cowdroy,. Oxton ; Charles Roebnck, Man-
chester ; William Earle, Liverpool ; Thomas Spencer,
Prescott ; Mrs, A. F.. Sproule, Oxton ; Mrs. E,. dowdroy,
do. ; Mrs. S. K.. Smith, do. ; Miss M. G. Spencer,. Prescott ;
Miss M. B.• Spencer, do. ; Miss E. Spencer, do.; -Miss.C..
J. Richardson, Egremont ; Miss E. Bolton, do. ; Miss H.
M. :Bolton, do. ; E. Spencer, Prescott ; R. Spencer, do.—
Northern Times, July 27.

THE RHYL STEAMER LION. -
TO THE EbITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.
SIR,---Odr attention has this day been•called to a para-
graph in the •Northern Daily Tinies, of the 27th instant,
charging the officers of the steamer Lion, tiadilig between
Liverpool and Rhyl, with " shameful conduct in attempt-
ing •to cross the bows of the 'Sea King, while both-Vessels,
were in a narrow channel on the .21st instant."
Had the ladies and gentlemen who appended 'their
names to the statement we refer to been better ac-
„

quainted with the rule laid down for one steamer
pass-
ing another in a narrow channel, they would have
censured the officers of the Sea King for the collision that
took place, rather tha.n those who were in charge of the
Lion. That the latter vessel crossed the bows of the Sea
King, the master of, the Lion emphatically denies, and his
statement is supported by, the testimony of several seafaring
men who were passengers on board at the time. The Lion
was pursuing her way to Rhyl, with a heavy cargo on board,
which retarded her progress, and was holding her course
steadily through the Rock Channel, when the Sea King over-
taking her, passed so close as to strike the Lion on the star-
board-quarter, and damage a portion of the rail. ,From
having the advantage in Speed, the Sea King could
readily have kept
•sufficiently clear to • avoid a colli-
sion ; but if the Lion had attempted to steer to the other
side of the channel, the movement would certainly have
appeared to indicate a wish to cross the bows of the Sea
King. We may add that in order to avoid the possibility of
such collisions, the owners of the Lion have endeavoured
to .make the time of sailing of their steamer different
from that of the, Sea King, but without success, as
the hours of sailing are published by them, and always
adopted by the owners of the latter vessel.—We are, sir,
your obedient servants, •
NAPIER, SAVIN, VAVIEs, & Co.

Rhyl, July 29, 1859.
NOTE.—`With a view of, putting an end to:these dis-
graceful collisions, we have applied to the Board of Trade
to grant an Inquiry. N. S. D. & Co.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY, TIMES.
SIR,—The above report' offfiirty-seven highly respectable
passengers on board the Sea King, (at the time of the -col- ,
lision on the 21st of July,) having appeared in the Noithern
_Daily 71mes, the above ' reply was' made to it •by Messrs.
Napier, Savin and Davies.
I should not have condescended to reply to this contra:.
dictory (and to those conversant with nautical matters) most
ridiculous attempt at justifying the conduct of those in
charge of the Lion ; but it has been urged npon me liy the
unwarrantable conduct of the owners of the Lion, in having
printed and circulated slips headed "Falsehood and Truth,"
by which he lays the grave charge of falsehood to those
gentlemen and ladies who have signed the 'above report.
That the owner of the Lion was not present at the time of
the collision, is not a nautical man, has not even common-
place nautical ideas, as his letter most plainly shows, and
Capt. Sproules plain straightforward explanation of the real
fact of the case clearly proves, should have the presumption
to apply the term falsehood to such a document, I am sure,
must be considered as deserving the censure of all right-
minded persons.
I have, therefore, thought it only due to those ladies and
gentlemen, who came forward :to attest the undeniable truth,
that 1 have taken this method of bringing the matter before
the public, feeling confident that they will have no difficulty
in deciding to whom the term falsehood best applies.
H. J. WARD,
Managing Owner of the Sea King.
Napier, Savin, and Davies, adroitly propose to ask for a
Board of Trade inquiry into the circumstances of this collision,
which I hope may be acceded to, feeling confident that it
would meet with an equally satisfactory result to a previous
inquiry, when the character of the engineer surveyor was
unjustly assailed for having, in the discharge of his duties,
.detected and reported that the safety -valves of the Lion had
been tampered with thereby endangering the life's of the
passengers and Cr