The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-20 00:00:00

BEFORE MES3R3. BENN AND HEATH.

CHARGE OF ASSAULT BY A BRIDaWELL KEEPER.—
Edward Hutchins, one of the keepers attached to the
Main Bridewell, was summoned by a Mr. Grorge Coward,
for an assault. The facts were these. On Thursday
last, new regulations were introduced at the Exchange-
street entrance into the police court, and on that day the
defendant was placed at the door to prevent any but
reporters, magistrates, and attorneys entering by that
door. Mr. Coward wanted to enter the court by that
door, but was told he could not. An altercation took
plaee between them, and Mr. Coward becoming so
disorderly that Hutchins took him into custody and
brought him before Mr. Dixon, the then presiding
magistrate, who, on hearing the case, admonished Mr.
Coward, and in consideration of it being the first day of
the order coming into force, he discharged him, and
then the summons was brought against the officer for an
alleged assault. One of the ingredients in the complain.
ants case, was that he did not know Mr Hutchins to be
an officer, as he was in private clothes. In answer to
that part of the case, Mr. David Thomas, one of the
ushers of the court, was examined, and stated that he
told Mr. Coward he could not pass in by that door,
and there could be no doubt that Mr. Thomas was an
officer, as he had his uniform coat on at the time, and
this was before he was refused admission by Mr. Hutchins.
Inspector Kehoe said, in consequence of represen`a-
tions made by Mr. Mansfield and other magistrates, as to
the state of the hall, lobby, Etc., a written order was
issued to the officers to prevent persons (except the class
already stated) entering that way ; and if the defendant
disobeyed the orders he would be liable to punishment;
and he was only doing his duty in preventing any one
entering the door. The complaint was dismissed.

CommiTTALs.—There were several women and others
sent for trial for stealing clothes from drunken sailors in
houses of ill repute in the locality of Whitechapel and
other places in the town.

SATISFACTION.—A little excitement was caused in the
neighbourhood of Chelse Fields, on Tuesday morning, by
its having been reported that two gentlemen had met for
the purpose of settling a dispute, which they deemed could
not otherwise be arranged, than by having recourse to arms.
Twenty paces distance was measured, and shots exchanged ;
fortunately without further injury than that one was slightly
grazed on the arm. They afterwards retired, apparently
quite contented.
FEARFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE IN WILTSHIRE.—A
few days since, an oid man named Abraham Keeling, 60
years of age, was left in his daughter's house at Headley,
near Alton, with a young girl 12 years of age, who had
charge of the daughter's children, while the latter went
into the village on some errand. About three o'clock in
the afternoon a neighbour called at the house, which was
found secured; and, on procuring an entrance, it was
discovered that Keeling had first killed the little girl by
cutting her throat, and then cut his own throat with the
same instrument, though his life was not quite extinct
when the neighbours broke into the premises. He, however,
died in a few minutes afterwards. A coroner's jury have
found a verdict of murder against Keeling in the case of
the child, of felo-de-se in his own case, and an order was
issued by the coroner to bury the body of Keeling according
to the statute.

COLONEL TEILLOCH AND THE CHELSEA REPORT.—The
Times concludes a lengthy review of Colonel Tulloch's
review of the Chelsea report, in the following words :
Into this horrible scandal Sir John M'Neill and Colonel
Tulloch were commissioned to inquire, and they did
inquire without fear or favour. Nor did they hesitate to
expose the culprits whom they found red-handed, yet
complacent, supercilious, and even insolent. With a calm
indifference to such manifestations they gravely set down
the truth and earned the 'eternal gratitude of their
country, with the petty hostility of the delinquents
whom they marked out for disgrace. But no public
motion testified to their services ; no public honour or
recompense awaited them. Honours and rewards were
reserved exclusively for the men to whom they had traced
the destruction of a noble army. It may even be said that
they were the sufferers by their successful labours, and
that for their honest dealing they were marked men them
selves. The Premier has laid it down that it would not
have been fair to promote Colonel Tulloch over the heads
of senior officers.who had distinguished themselves: by
actual service in the field, but in the meantime junior
officers have been promoted over his head without such
service; or without any service which could at all compete
with his. Colonel Randall Burnley, 123 below him on the
list of Colonels, and who was never in the Crimea, but who
simply commanded a portion of the depots at Malta, has
been thus promoted to the rank of Major Ganeral. Col. H.
Storks, 124 below him on the same list, and who also did
not serve in the Crimea, but who for a few months had
charge of an hospital at Smyrna, and afterwards was
Commandant at Scutari, has been thus promoted to the
rank of K C.B. Both these officers have marched over
Colonel Tulloch's head, as if to mark the penalty of serv-
ing one's country too faithfully, and at the same time to
contradict the latest theory of promotion. In the meantime
the chief delinquents, now proved responsible for the
wholesale destruction of England's choicest troops, have
been more favoured and fortunate still. Not only have
they been rewarded, as men may hope to be rewarded
who succeed to the satisfaction of the Horse Guards
in sacrificing an army, but they have been furnished with
sponsors for their shame whom the public will now accept.
The Board, which was introduced to redistribute their
ignominy, in one sense at least has accomplished its pur—
pose, for it has taken the burden on its own shoulders,
where it is now fixed for ever by this reply of Col. Tulloch.
At the same time we must recur to the position of Colonel
Tulloch himself, who, with Sir John M'Neill, has
conduced to arrangements so satisfactory to all parties.
These gentlemen alone have received no reward, though,
in addition to the favours they have been the means of
conferring On everybody else, " they performed their duty
entirely to the satisfaction of her Majesty's Government,
and very much to their own credit—with great ability,
great perseverance, and great minuteness of
research ; ' and though they made a report which
" was very useful to her Majesty's Government in
preventing a recurrence of such unfortunate events as had
caused their being sent out." Though they have thus an
acknowledged claim on her Majesty's Government, on the
army, and on the nation, to whom as well as to the
Government the preservation of its army from unfortunate
events is important—though they have established a
further claim on the gratitude of their countrymen by the
simple tenacity which would not permit their faithful
service to be faithlessly set aside, it is now contended in
the face of the English Commons that their service does
not require any " extraordinary recognition." Extraor-
dinary recognitions, it appears, are reserved for the
authors of calamities of extraordinary dimensions.
Extraordinary bunglers or culprits obtain extraordinary
rewards. But some ordinary acknowledgment is at least
expected here, or, if it is withheld covertly but advisedly,
the public has a right to know why tad by whom. This
is not a question on which to mince words, for it is a
question of the miscarriage of justice; it is a question
identified with the credit of the Government, the honour
of the Crown, and the interests of the army ; and it is a
question now confided tojthe Commons of guelaw