The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-26 00:00:00

woman, but that did not invalidate her evidence, and he
dwelt upon the evidence of Mrs. Middleton, about whose
respectability there was no question, and if her evidence was
true, the defendant could not be the father of the child.
The magistrates consulted for a few moments, when Mr.
Alderman Holme said; I will not make any remark on this
most painful case, as it might cause more pain to others
than those who are in court. We believe all the young
woman has said, and it is very amply corroborated, and we
disbelieve every word that Mrs. Price has
Mr. Cobb: I trust sir, in the discharge of my daty to
my chew-, you do not consider that I have gone too far.
Mr. Alderman F-I dine : certainly not, sir ; you have
done all you could for him, and performed your duty very
ably. (To the defendant) : We order you, sir, to pay
2e. 61 a week, and allow me to say, we are very sorry we
cannot make an order tor double that sum ;—and all costs in
this case. _ _

The decision seemed to zratify all in the crowded court,
after which it soon became empty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

BEF ME MR. M INSFIELD.

RUNNING A Mucx.—A fellow named William Williams,
was charged with having assaulted a person named Henry
Smith. From the evidence of officer, 303, it appeared
that at half pas. eleven on Friday night, he heard loud
cries of " police" in Lime street, and on going along
Roe street, he met the, prisoner running at full speed,
and a man running after him, shouting, " police" and
" murder." He caught hold of the prisoner, who at
once knocked him down, and hurt his knee. He subse-
quently found Smith lying at one of the gates of George's
Hall, insensible, and bleeding severely from wounds in
his head, which the man who followed the prisoner said
he inflicted on him, but that man was not present. He
(the officer) took the injured man to the hospital, as he
was exhausted from loss of blood. His wounds were
dressed, but it appeared that be was so drunk at the
time that he knew nothing of the hurt, nor vs ho hurt
him, until he got sober, The prisoner was sent to jail
for one month, fir the assaultton the policeman,
BURGLARY AND ROBBERY OF MONEY.—Peter Weaver,
Patrick Salmon, Mary Mackin, Martha Frazer, and
Thomas Nairn, were brought up by detectives Laycock,
Scaife, and Thompson, and officer 163, on a charge
of having been concerned in a burglary and robbery of
money from the warehouse and shdp of Mr. Nixon,
wholesale provision dealer and grocer, Byrorn street.
Lavcock said the warehouse of Mr. Nixon had been
broken into between eight o'clock on Thursday night, and
six o'clock on the morning of Friday ; a lock was
smashed off the inside door, and by this means the
parties got to the safe, which they also broke open. Sams
of £5 in silver, with about £l3 in copper money were
taken. He went in search of the thieves, and went to
the house of Frazer in Cavendish street, where he found
three packages of copper money, of 5s each. He asked
her where she got it, and she said her brother (one of
the prisoners, Weaver) an,) Salmon (another of the
prisoners) with a third boy, whom she did not know,
brought, it there. He then arrested Weaver, and he sa d
he found the money in Scotland road. He then went to
the house of the woman Mackin, who is Salmon's sister,
and in a box there he got 13s
.fid in copper money. Ho
asked her how much there was in the box, and she said
Bs, and that she had pledged a coat for it. He got 4s in
silver also in the box, and told her there was 17s 6d in it,
when she said she knew nothing of it, and that her
brother must have wit it there. Officer Scaife said he
found the woman Frazer in bed, and under her, in a
handkerchief, he g,t 31s in copper money, and the pri•
soner said the boy Salmon had brought it there. The
officer said a nephew of Mr. Nixon's could recognize
a brass penny and another of a peculiar make that were
amongst the copper money stolen, and these pieces were
found amongst the coppers got with the prisoners. The
prisoners had, on Friday, purchased a considerable quan-
tity of new wearing apparel and other articles. Officer
Thompson said in Mackin's house he got 7s 5d in copper
money, and in reply to him the woman said that sum
was her bunse (share), as all the money was bunced there
by her brother and the other boys. Officer 163 said, he got
305 in copper money at Frazer's house. A nephew of 4r.
Nixon's stated that the premises had been broken into by
a window from the rear. He identified the two coins
alluded to, and also some of the five shilling packages of
asst LIU wads use pt tsuners. lair. Amon also menti
fled a penny of a peculiar description, which had been
in his place for a long time. In reply to Mr. Mansfield,
Mr. iiix-na said the reason why there was so much copper
in the safe, was that be took it from retail customers,
with whom he had done a large trade. Officer Laycock
said there was upwards of A;2O in copper in the safe that
the burglars either did not see or could not carry away.
The prisoners were sent for trial at the assizes.

A COAT (NOT A CAT) OUT OP A BAG.—A young man
of respectable appearance, named James Braddy, was
charged with having stolen a top coat belonging to
a Swede, named Thomas Buckley. Mr. Block de-
fended. The parties came from New York in the
ship Norman, and when the prisoner was leaving the
vessel, the prosecutor missed his colt, and insisted on
the prisoner's bag (which he carried at, the time) being
searched. After some difficulty the bag was opened, and
the garment found therein. Mr. Black argued that it
was a mistake on the part of the prisoner to put the coat
in his bag, as he had plenty of good clothes and lots of
money. Mr. Mansfield had no alternative but to send
the prisoner for trial. Committed accordingly.
THE DODGE FAILED.—This day week we published
the details of a dodge tried by a fallow named Francis
Fuller, who described himself as a railway engineer, on
a Mr. Mason, a coal dealer, from whom he obtained up-
wards of £4O on seamen's notes. On Saturday the pri-
soner waa brought up for final examination on the
charge. Mr. Black defended. The prisoner had been
remanded in order to give the police an opportunity of
catching an accomplice, but the officers failed. It was
proved (as before) that there was no such ship, no such
men, or no such firm as the prisoner represented in the
notes which he got cashed by Mr. Mason, and although
ably defended by Mr. Black, he was sent for trial at the
asiizes. The prisoner, on being removed, cried out
a la. Verger—" I have not had a fair trial ; I have not
had a fair trial."

CARELBSS DRIVING. - Elizabeth Mercer, a market
gardener from Ormskirk, was summoned for having
driven over a little child in Great Homer Street, on the
2nd of August last. On that day the child, Martha
Jones, who was only one year and nine months old, was
crossing the street when it was run over by the defendant's
cart, and most severely injured. It wa3 proved that at
the time of the occurrence the defendant and her son,
who should have been driving, were both asleep.in the
cart, having, as they admitted, been up all the pre-
vious night getting ready for the market. Mr.
Dodd, for the defence, denied that the parties were
asle:p at th 3 time ; and argued that the accident
was occasioned throlTh the carelessness of the child's
parents, who had no right to let a child of such a tender
age be by itself in such a crowded thoroughfare. The
magistrates said they considered that the defendant had
been guilty of great negligence, and ordered her to pa:
a fine of £5 and costs.

EXTORTIONATE CHARGE BY A CA 3 DRlVER.—Richard
Harker, a cab driver, was summoned by Mr, Fairburt,
of 10, Upper Parliament street. for having demanded,
and taken, more than his proper fare. Mr. Fairburt
stated that the defendant had charged him 4a
6d, when the regular fare was only 3s 6d, and
that he had been induced to summons the
defendant, not on account of the money, but
on public grounds, as the demands made by the cab
drivers were frightfully extortionate. He stated that
only a few days since some ladies had taken a cab from
the landing stage to Everton, the fare for which was
4s 6d, but the driver had demanded 6s, and threeened to
turn them out of the cab, if they refused to pay him Gs ;
and it being a very wet and rainy day, they paid Ora
amount, The magistrates ordered the driver to pay a fine
of 10s, and refund the overcharge he had made.
THE ADBLPHI THEATRE,—Mr. Andrews, the lessee of
this theatre, applied for a renewal of the licence for that
establishment, which was immediately granted.

AFFAIRS OF THR ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—With the
view of nutting a stop to the ruinous litigation, both in
Chancery aryl Bankruptcy, which is now eating away the
assets of the Royal British Bank, and also to the stay of
executions against the individual shareholders, for the most
part at the instance- of persons who have bought up debts
at a low price, some of the principal shareholders are exert-
ing themselves to colhict a fund to settle with the creditors,
ant terminate proceedings which the judges have truly
described as a disgrace to the administration of the law.
It is urged that it will be the duty and policy of all who are
under liability as
_past or present shareholders to come
forward and aid the movement without an hour's delay; and
meanwhile it must be for the interest of the creditors to
show forbearance. Many shareholders have been obliged
to leave the country to avoid the vexatious proceedings of
some disreputable practitioners; and an instance is
tinned in which 14 writs of execution were issued against
s many shareholders for one debt, costs
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KIRKDALE QUARTER SESSIONS-SATURDA Y.

BEFORE LORD STANLEY (CHAIRMAN), J. POLLOCK, ESQ.,

J. A. TIN NE, ESQ , AND MAJOR BOI'RNE.

On the Bitting of the court at 10 o'clock, the case of the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, appellants, v.
the Nuisances Removal Committee of Hindley, respondents,
was resumed. After hearing the evidence and argument by
counsel on the part of the respondents, in support of the order
of the justices in petty sessions assembled, the court retired,
and after deliberating half an hour, returned, when Lord
Stanley said that the court were of opinion that no sufficient
case had been made out under the act, and accordingly directed
the order to be quashed, each party to pay their own costs.
Mr. Pollock observed that a great many of the proceedings in
the case might be amended, according to his view of
the act of Parliament ; but as presented to the court,
the order could not be sustained. Mr. Ovens urged
that it would be an advantage if the court expressed an
opinion on what constituted a nuisance within the meaning of
the act of parliament, and granted a special case in order that
a decision of the Queen's 13,nch might set the question at
rest. The Chairman, after a brief consultation with the other
members of the bench, said that the court should decline to
express an opinion as requested by the council for the respon-
dents, as a case of a similar nature might be brought before
them in a different form a•, another time. They should also,
under the circumstances, refuse to grant a special case. The
order of the justices was then quashed.

NAVAL OFFICERS' FULL-PAY BILLS.—We believe it is
contemplated to abolish the system of paying naval
officers on full pay by bills on the Accountant-general,
and that they will, as soon as the arrangements are
complete, be paid in sterling by the paymasters of their
several ships. It has long been a great loss to officers on
many foreign stations who have been compelled to discount
their bills. Even at home they are subjected to banker's
charges, which, though comparatively trifling, are felt to
be au additional tax upon a class not at all overpaid.—
Plymouth Mail.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT.—The office of Thputy Secretary
will, like that of Secretary at War, be abolished ; and Sir
Benjamin Hawes, who has most efficiently discharged the
duties of the office for nearly six years, will now become
permanent Under Secretary of State, Mr. Peel retaining the
Parliamentary Under Secretaryship, and Colonel Mundy
obtaining a military command. The office of Secretary to
the Ordnance will also be abolished, as the Ordnance
branch is now amalgamated with the army generally. We
understand !hat Mr. Godley, now Director General of Stores,
will he Assistant Under Secretary to the department under
the new organisat'on.— United Service Gazette.
MR. MIA LL, M.P, AT ROCHDALE.—OR Friday night,
Mr. Miall, MX, addressed a crowded meeting at the Public
Hall, Rochdale. The chair was occupied by Jac do Bright,
Esq, mayor, who in his opening remarks condemned the
foreign policy of our government. Mr. Mien, in a long
speech, gave a nsume of the business of the past session,
and especially condemned the continual interference of our
government with the affairs of other nations. He also eave
a statement of the measures to be brought forward in the
coming session. At the conclusion of his address, Mr. G.
Ashworth moved that the meeting, having heard Mr, Miall's
address, is satisfied with the course of policy he has pursued
and have satisfaction in him as their representative. This
was seconded by Ar. John Petrie, and carried unanieseusly.

SUPPLIES OF CHINESE SILK.-The arrivals of silk
from China during the past week have been 14,694 hales,
amounting to an aggregate value of about .C 1,500,000.
The country, therefore, is to that extent richer, but the
degree in which:the effect will he immediately manifested
must depend upon the proportion that may be purchased
of us at once fbr foreign markets. If the Lyons' houses
prove large buyers the French exchange will be influenced,
and the operations of the Bank of France to obtain gold
from this side wiil be proportionably obstructed; but for
the moment the home demand seems sufficiently active to
prevent any rapid exportation. In that case our manu-
facturers will ultimately be prepared to ship increased
quantities to the various markets of the world in the
costly form of finished g6ods, but the returns in the shape
of specie or produce will be less speedy. While these
arrivals however, add to our available wealth, it must be
borne in mind that by placing the various China houses
in London in funds they may lead to an increase in the
shipments of silver to that country, either in payment of
halances or for the purpose of obtaining fresh consign
ments.

A CANDIDArts IN TROUBLE.--On Wednesday last acharge
was preferred before the borough magistrates against Mr E.
Carden, ono of the candidates for the representati9n of
6outnampton, by lire lancliOnt, for creating a great distur-
bance in the house on the previous night. It appears that
the learned gentleman had carried off a bell handle from
some door, as an electioneering trophy, and after reaching
home, being under the impression that there were burglars
in the house, he made such an alarm as to arouse the whole
of the inmates, and otherwise conducted himself in such an
extraordinary manner as to omnel his landlord to seek the
advice of the magis!rates. Ha said he did riot wish to do
anything against him beyond endeavouring to induce him
to leave the house. The magistrates present, J. White,
Esq. (mayor), Capt. Breton, and J. F. Stabbing, Esq.,
recommended Mr. Carden's landlord to telegraph to that
gentleman's brother in London, Sir It. W. Carden, inform-
ing him of the facts, with a view to something being done
towards preventing him from getting into furiher trouble.
—.Hampshire Independent.

THE LATE RUSSIAN PRISONERS.—MT. 11. Reuterfield,
late secretary to her Majesty's war prison, writes to the
Sussex Express :—" Sir, a few days ago I had the honour
of rtceiving a letter from Mr. Okerman, dated Abo, Fin-
land, in which he wishes me to make known his hest, thanks
an I greetings, added to those of his eimrades in captivity
to all their friends in Lewes and its vicinity, in whose fami•
lies they continually met with the kindliest hospitality.
Mr. Okerman tells me that he has seen nearly all his
compatriots who hid been with him in Lewes, and that
each one speaks with the most grateful recollection of their
soieurn in England. As for himself. I may quote the
following passage from his letter :—' When in the dusk of
the evening I am sitting near my fireside, surrounded by
my family, to whom, thanks to Provi,lence, I am restored,
I often relate to them my life among my English friends,
and the exertions they made to alleviate the irksomeness of
my captivity and separation from them I trust they will
remember me as a honest man ; on my part, I feel happy in
speaking of 'AIM.'

THE STORES FROM KERTCH.—The stores which were
briught home from Kertch by the Turkish Engineer Corps
and landed at Chatham still remain on the Gun-wharf
where they were originally deposited, and unless measures
be spe?dily adopted to protect them from the ravages of
the weather there is little doubt that nearly the whole of
the stores--sufficient for the equipment of an army of
25,000 men—will be rendered entirely useless, if, indeed,
that is not alreNly the else. The whole of the artic'es,
some of which are of a very valuable desciption, are left
exposel.to the weather without any kind of protection,
exceptidg that afforded by the coverings of the wagg,ms and
the bogies in which they are deposited, and in that con-
dition they have remained during the whole of the winter ;
and, in fact, since they were brought home at the cloAe of
last summer. Among the articles deposited at Chatham
are telegraph apparatus with several mites of wires,•all
kinds of carpenters', builders', and miners' tools, harness
and saddlery sufficient for several thousand horses, inrlia-
rubber boats, tents, and every other requisite for an arm)
in the field.

REMARKABLE FATALITY.—A few days ago a poor man,
residing near Holyhead, left home in the morning for the
purpose of attending the funeral of his father, who had
died some dais previously. During his absence from horne
a letter arrived from a distant brother, reminding him of
the interment, lest he should not have had timely notice to
be present. The wife observing it was closed with a black
seal, opened it, and, imagining it contained an announce-
ment of the demise of her father, became so shocked that
she died in a few hours- The brother, who had written' '"On
his arrival at home, went to look after a cow which he had
recently bought, and, to his grief, found her quite dead in
the cow house. When he retnrned to the house, he had
again to witness the sad spectacle of his little girl being
enveloped in flames, her clothes having caught fire, whereby
the little thing was so frightfully burnt that she soon
expired from the effects. Her mother being in a delicate
state was taken ill the same evening, but is recovering.
The grief of the survivors of these calamitous vicissitudes
may be conceived.—Cornatvon Herald. _ _

Crtun Munnxn,—An inquest was held on Thursday at
the village of Hornbill, near Faversham, before Mr. T.
Delavaux, coroner, respecting the death of a child supposed
to have been murdered by its mother. From the evidence
it appeared that the mother of the child, a young woman,
named Amelia Crllyer, bad been married to a farm labourer
about ten weeks, and that she had lived with her husband
at her mother's house, at a small place called Waterham.
Here she gave birth to the child in question on the 9th inst.,
he mother only being cognisant of the circumstance, and on
the morning of the third day af-erwards she left the village
with her husband for the purpose of embarking on board the
Sabrina, as government emigrants to Australia. After her
departure it was rumoured that something had taken place,
and Mrs. Butcher, the mother, was questioned on the
subject by the parish authorities, when she admitted that
her daughter had been confined, and bad murdered her
child, which she threw down the water closet. Search was
raale, but no trace of the holy cont.; be discovered, and,
after being further pressed, Mrs. Butcher prodeced the dead
body of the child from a closet in the upper r 30M. It was
wrapped in an old apron, with two strings tied tight round
its neck. A surgeon gave his opinion that the child had
been born alive, and the jury returned a verdict of wilful
murder against Amelia Collyer, for whose apprehension a
warrant was made out, and given to the authorities for
execution, if possible, before the vessel leaves England.