The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

AN " OFFICBR AND A GENTLEMAN."

At Marlborough street Police Court, Lieutenant Ernest
Lloyd was brought up for Ii ial examination, charged with
obtaining goods from a number of tradesmen by fraudulent
pretences. Mr. Worsley attended for the prisoner. Mr.
Roberta, bootmaker, BOad street, from whom the prisoner
had obtained three pairs of boots, and given a cheque on
Cox and Co., which vets dishonoured, was cross examined,
but he did not alter his previous testimony. A gentleman
from Cox aid Co.'s said he refused payment of the
cheque, and had it been presented any time during the
last three months it woad not have been raid.
Cross examined : The prisoner, as an Artillery officer,
necessarily hid an ace •unt open with the firm. The prie
soner went with his regiment to Sebastopol. His father,
Colonel L'oyd died at Scutari. Bankers, under certain
cireumstancea, would pay cheques where an recount was
overdrawn ; but, under particular circumstances, such as
those in which the prisoner was placed, payment would be
refused. Never heard until Monday last, that the prisoner
was in expectation of selling a reversionary interest in
some property, and paying the amount into his house.
The prisoner's public account was overdrawn, bto; not his
nay account. The pay had been stopped since December.
Mr. Marsh, hair dresser, Piccadilly, said the prisoner
bo.rrowed a sovereign of his shopworn in, and shortly after.,
wards, in November, he called, and said to him, " If you
will give me four sovereigns I will give you a chore for
£5 and pay the sovereign I borrowed. 'He told the prisoner
he had nothing less than a'S5 note. The prisoner said he
would take the note and bring the change. He took the
prisoner's cheque, and the prisoner went away, and he saw
no more of him. Oa presenting the cheque at Messrs Cox
and Co's, the answer was, "No effects." Mr. Wilson,
boptmaker, Jermyn street, had worked for the prisoner
since 1854, bat had never received any money from him.
In February list the prisoner called on him for his
account-' at the same time ordering a pair of dress
boots. Witness drew for the amount, about £22, and 'the
prisoner then asked him to give him cash for a £5 cheqne.
He gave the prisoner the cash, and when the ehegae was
presented the reply was," Ne effects. Cross examined :
The bill, did-not include the £5 cheque :It included the
dress boots. The cheque was signed in the evening, and
the bill was accented in the morning Both were dis-
honoured: Mr. Bengough, Tichborne street, trunk maker,
said the prisoner called at his shop in March, and ordered
a portmantesu to be sent to the White Bear, Piccadilly
Afterwards the prisoner called and asked him to cash a
cheque for £5, which he did. The next evening prisoner
again called wild staked him to make the £5 eheveLlo. He
told the prisoner he had only three sovereigns about him.
The prisoner took the money, and gave him a cheque for
£B. The cheque was dishonoured. Mr. Worsley enquired
it there were any further cases to be brought forward, and
whether the magistrate considered that the evidence of
false pretences was sufficiently complete in all cases P Mr.
Beadon said there was this amount of evidence, that the
p isoner had given cheques after his pay had been stepped,
in D3c., and when he knew there was no money to meet
them. The prisoner wished to contradict a statement whibh
he said bad appeared in the public papers, that' he had
embezzled the public woney. Mr Beadon said no such
statement had been made before him. Several tradesmen
here intimated they had charges against the prisoner.
Mr. Beadon replied, there were at least thirty charges
against the prisoner. It would be useless to take them
all, as the cases'already beard were sufficiently complete.
The reporters stated that Lieutenant LI ,yd was mistaken
in saying that be was charged in the public papers wi h
emb,zzlieg public money.

A. despatch from Constantinople, received at Trieste,
says that, towards the end of March, the Circassians
attacked and repulsed two strong Russian columns, The
loss of the Circassians amounted to 300, and the Russians
700.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A melancholy accident took place
a few days ago on the Grand Central Railway, France.
A number of men were employed in a cutting near
Cransac (Aveyron), when a large mass of earth suddenly
fell on them. Seventeen were killed, and three others
sertously iekired.
The Daily News calls the attention of the new House of
Commons to this traffic. The evidence adduced to, that
coolies have been kidnapped, cheated of the little money
promised them, and carried off against their wills by
force of arms. That the coolie trade from Hong Kong to
Havannah, in some cases, rivals in horrors the middle
passage of the old negro slave trade, and that this new
slave trade is carried on under the sanction of; or at least
with the connivance of, English officials atHong Kong.
The Post points out the inconstant applications of
Foreign capital in the construction of railways, whose
chief object will be to increase the military: power of a
nation of soldiers. It is not the having any amount of
soldiers well trained and equipped that costs Russia as
effort, but the difficulty of bringing them to bear speedily
on a single point—hence the• effort of the Government to
create railways for the purpose of quickly moving armies
from Warsaw to Odessa, or from Sebastopol to Finland.
PARLIAMENTARY RVFORM MEETING Iv EDINBURGH.--
A public meeting was held on Monday night, in Bell street
hall, " to take into consideration the propfiety of farthing
an association for obtaining an extension of the suffrage,
vote by ballot, and other necessary reforms." Treasurer
Steel occupied the chair. The meeting was well attended,
chiefly by the working classes, The following tesllntions
were passed unanimously :—" That it is the opinion of
this meeting that'the advanced intelligence of the industrial
classes calla imperatively for a. large extension of the
suffrage; and this meeting, therefore, pledges itself to use
every legitimate means to obtain such an extension."
" That, in order to make an extension of tne suffrage
effective, this meeting is of opinion that vote by billot, and
an equalisation Of electoral districts aro absolutely neces-
sary."—Edinburgh Daily Express.
A YOUNG MAN BURNED TO DEATH.—On Thursday
afternoon Mr. Bedford, coroner, received information of the
death of Mr. K. Nekelbey, cigar maker, who expired in
Charing cross Hospital, from the effects of, severe burns,
under the following melancholy circumstances :—Tt. appears
that the deceased's wife was afflicted with fits, and at. times
she suffered more severely than ordinarily. On the afternoon
of the accident an attack came on, when the deceased, who
was partly dressed, went to his wife's assistance, and was
standing with his back to the fire, when the wind of the
door wafted his dress against the bars of the grate. It
became ignited, and he was soon enveloNd in one sheet of
fire. Ho rushed out into the street, and then into the house
again, when the police and neighbours extinguished the
flames, and conveyed him to the above named valuable
institution, where the house surgeon 'was unremitting in his
attention, till death put an end to his sufferings.
LORD PALMERSRON'S CHARACTER ON THE CONTINENT.
—An indefatigable labourer in public affairs, he gave
much time to the pleasures of the world. He was always
characterised by a levity of tone and of manner, and by
the audacious grace of a man spoiled by good fortune,
He passed for one of the holdeat and most amiable of
waltzers. '11)e fair sex made him the object of their
sighs and benevolence ; there is not a banquet at which
he is present that he does not toast them. In his youth,
he dressed with exquisite taste, bestowing upon every
portion of his person those cares which mark the character
of dandyism. When his youth had departed, he still
preserved his exterior appearance and his. habits. He
has much natural distinction ; his manners are easy and
aristocratic; his face, his mouth, his eyes, still preserve a
great purity of expression ; his smile is sweet, even in
irony. The habits of Lord Palmerston are of a moose
character, and his pleasantries appear to suit well the
English taste. Ile has the good discreion never to
appear annoyed. Lord Palmerston has for a long time
concealed, under an elegant form and a frinlons exterior
an excessive ambition, a character audacious and enter.
pzising.—Brussels Paper,

CAPTURE OF A WILD MAN IN MISSOURI.— A St. Joseph's
correspondent of the St. Louis .Republican tells the fol.
lowing story :—" A wild man was eanght.last week and
brought to, town. He was slrrounded in a sort of lair
beneath a dense cluster of nndergrowth, like the habi•
Cation of a wild beast, and filled with the hones and skins
of cats, which teemed to have constituted his principal
article of food. For this strange diet he has a peculiar
penchant, and eschewed almost every other. He hunted
cats with an avidity prompted by an extreme voraci y,
and it was in the pursuit and slaighter of these animals
that he was first discovered. Fr, quents attempts were
made to capture him, but his agility and speed were such
that he appeared to run upon the tops of the basks, and
fences offered no impelment to his headlong course. At
length a great number surrounded ,and secured him. He
attempted battle, but was overcome. When brought to
the Court house be presented the strangest
,appearance
conceivable. His height was about five and a half feet.
his hair long, reddish brown, and matted ; his eves large,
gray, and restless ; his fingern'ails as long as the blaws of
a tiger ; his deportment crouching, half timid, half
threatening; his garments consisted of a thousand tatters
of cloths, barks, catskins, &c., bound together by catguts.
Efe said he was from the State of New York, and had
been in the woods thirty six years. While he was being
examined, and was permitted to stand unbound, ho made
a sadden spring over the herds of these who surrounded
him, and darted away with the speed of the reindeer.
.The crowd pursued him, but in vain. Over the hills he
fairly flew, before both footmen aad horsemen, until he
was fairly lost to them. Nothing has since been
heard of him. He.is certainly a strange being, and
is literally a wild man. His age can hardly exceed
forty, and yet he has lived so much away from the society•
of man, that he has nearly forgotten his language, and
has the most vague recollection of things. He remembered
New York, but he did not know where ha was, nor the
form of government under which he lived."