Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-06 00:00:00

rale prisoner being un

as witness could se

stood at the entrance Of tlie passa,

out,and
'thp prosecutor followed,. crying. he- had
'The men kept him in the passage for a sl
and then ran away, followed by the prisoner.Sc
witness- picked up two small lockets and a portion c
found .s.m the spot where
,the watch. was taken
prosecutor. These articles were_ identified by th

man,as J‘:his property, and he said they were
_O/this✓chain
when it,,was taken. from him. Ile swore be never loSt sight
of the prisoner until he caught "him.. Mr. Cobb said the
reason the, prisoner ran off was as follows :—About° an hour
before htelad. a row with some gentlemen in Chtirch-street,
and seeing . the young gentleman approach, he thought he
Was one of the „party golly,- to give him into custody, and
then he ran away to avoid him. (Laughter.) Stich were
his instructions,. and he could say no more. Mr. ManSfield :
If the prisoner, be not a " prostitutes bully," his looks belie
and libel him. He is committed for trial at the assizes.
CAUTION TO COTTON STFAI.ERS.—SamueI Robinson, a
carter, was char,ed by police-officers Nos. 750 and 610, for
having assau±ed them, and for stealing cotton. The officers
,saw the prisoner :stealing cotton in Brook-street, and they
tooklaina, into eust6ely,. when he assaulted and kicked them
very severely in flie legs. A crowd collected, and 'flung
bricks at the officers, ,aad. one of them got a severe cut in
the...head with a brink. Mr. Mansfidd said, stealing cotton
waelregarded by some.a a. vested right, and, when an officer
took up any one for such an offence, it
,frequently happened
that crowds collected to rescue the prisoner. - He asked the
prisoner what he had to 1y? and he replied, "I, don't
remember anything about it" (very carelessly). Mr.
Mansfield : I.will make you remember it all the days of your
life. I lute you £5 for each assault, or, in default of pay-
ment, three months imprisonment in.each case.
ASAULT ON AN OFFlCER.—Policefficer 277
brought up a man named James Regan, a labourer, living
iu Kew-street, on the following charge :He said,: about
two o'clock .0)1 Monday morning, ho was separating two
Ten who were ,fghting in Scotland-road, when the prisoner
ran at him with .a poker, and gave him a blow on the
forehead with it that half killed hint. Mr. Jones,_ surgeon,said the wound was a dangerous contused Wound .and he
could not at present ,say how it would terminate. The
priso.uer was sent for trial at the assizes.

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I Moniz, has laiely issued a letter
,to his clergy condemning
The Times says that Lird Palmerston has appointed Mr. "
the pagan practices and profane excesses" which have
Fl3ming, for ninny years Assistant Secretary to the Poor bcen "introduced and preserved in the functions of divine
,Law Board, to the office of permanent Secretary, in .the i worship." Among other things he observes upon the.
:room of Lord Devon, resigned, '
4‘ theatrical and sacrilegious representations" wherein men
' SCOTCH VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS.—Lord Rich° was of crime and women o bad lives assume the characters of
present at a meeting hold on Monday ' for the purpose of St. John the Baptist, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Joseph, and
deciding on the measures to be adopted for the formation ' the Holy Virgin, and even the 'divine person of Jesus
of a Scotch Volunteer
.ltifie Corps in London, He strongly Christ. He calls them " living -pictures:" In . order to
advocated the objeots of the meeting, remarking that remedy she evil, he commands that in future these "living
notwithstanding our pgiey to work out a strict n,ntrality, pictures" shall be confined to the personification of angels,
we knew not how: soon out. national honour, our national and that °illy by ;thildren under ten years of age. Priests
safety, aye, our very existence v,-ould compel us to draw fife shall be suspended, and laymen excommunicated, who
sword. Sir Heron Maxwell moved, and Sir Charles permit, or perform in, those religious dramas wherein the
Forbes seconded, a resolution for forming 4 rifle Corps to be I e:,`,G,YS-Anu.ned Sacred personages shall be bought upoh the
of:. • tile Scotch 1,Q144:19p Volunteers, itage
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