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

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Yesterday.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.
THE END OF A WEDDING.—Thom is Payne and John
Stewart were charged by officer 679 under the following
circumstances. It appeared that at. about two o'clock in the
morning there was a crowd of persons assembled about a docn
in Greek street; they were making a great noise and creating
a disturbance in the neighbourhood. The constable requested
them to desist, when Stewart used bad language, and asked
" what a blue skinned rascal like him had to do with it ?"
He tried to get them away, but -was ultimately obliged to
take Stewart into custody, when Payne tried to rescue him,
but was taken himself. The assistance of two officers was
required to take Stewart to the station, as he was very drunk
In reply to the bench, Payne said his sister had got married on
Thursday, and a party of friends met at the house of Mr
Stewart to celebrate the " joyous event." They spent a happy
evening, and after singing " We won't go home till morning,"
they were proceeding to give the lie to the song, and were only
laughing when the officer interfered. The prisoners were fined
ss. each, or, in default, three days' imprisonment.
DETAINING SEAMEN'S CLOTHES.—__Williattl Thomas, a
sailor's boarding house keeper, living in Greenland street, was
summoned for detaining the clothes and other property belong-
ing to a seaman named William Harwood. Mr. Tyndall
appeared for the prosecution, which was brought under the
236 section of the Merchant Shipping Act. The complainant
went to lodge at the 'house of the defendant at two shillings
a day, and as he alleged his bill came to £1 104., which he
tendered, but the wife of defendant claimed £2 18e. 93.,
which the sailor utterly denied owing. A trunk, containing
£lO worth of property, belonging to complainatit, was detained
by defendant, who attempted to show that the sum of £2 18s.
93. was due, but failing to prove that, his Worship ordered
the property to be restored on the payment of the bill of thirty
shillings, and inflicted a penalty of .4.5 on the defendant for
the offence.
AN OANITHOLOGIST.—Edward Malley was charged with
attempting to break into the bird shop of John M'Kay, in
Manchester street. The history of the case was as follows :
It appeared, from the evidence of a Mr. Jones, who keeps a
bird shop in Dale street, he was in the habit of buying pigeons
from the prisoner. On Thursday night he saw the prisoner
and another man trying to break into the shop of Mr M'Kay,
and this threw a light -on the affair of the pigeons, as he
suspected the birds that he bad purchased were stolen. The
prisoner was watched into a house in Peter street, where he
was arrested. The other man got away. The prisoner utterly
denied that he ever sold the witness any birds, and asked for
a remand, in order to have his character enquired into. The
witness said, "why, man, I bought scores of pigeons from you;
you said you were a watchman at George's Hall, and that you
used to get the birds with a long pole from the building."
The prisoner denied the statement, and again asked for a
remand, which was granted.
THE CHARGE or FORGERY.—Robert Adam Robertson,
who s`ood remanded on a charge of haring uttered a
forged bill for £4O 4s, was brought up. - Mr Snowball
appeared for the prisoner; Mr Reay, of the Guardian
Society, for the prosecution, and said he had received the
bill back from London dishonoured, with a statement of
no orders for it. He knew it would be sent back, of
course. Mr Snowball said he did not dispute the
bill, and that the writing on it was Robertson's;
but the explanation was, that his late partner
had robbed him. That man had gone to Scotland, and
brought back the bill to the prisoner, although he had
got cash for the gdods that he had taken there. He (Mr. S.)
understood from Mr. Reay, that he was going to bring a thief
from Chester Castle to swear that be wrote the bill for the
prisoner ; he did not, however, think the court would cred:t
that story. The prisoner's partner was dead, and therefore
Mr. Reay might bring a thief from Clic ster Castle,_ or any
where else, to swear anything against the prisoner. Mr. Reay
said, if I did not believe and know him to be a rogue—
Mr. Snowball : I really must object to this ; it is only
done to prejudice the prisoner. Mr. Reay : I know him for
many years as a rogue, and his conduct----- Mr. Snowball
protested against these observations. It was not evidence.
Mr. Reay : I will produce evidence to satisfy the court that
the prisoner knew the bill was forged, and that he uttered it
with that guilty knowledge. I bane written to Sir George
Grey for an order to get up a prisoner from Chester Castle,
who will prove that he forged the bill by direction of the
prisoner. Mr. Clough : We have two important witnesses—
one from Birmingham, and one from Chester Castle—to
bring up, and we want another remand for that purpose. The
prisoner was again remanded for seven days.
TRYING THE WINE !—Mrs. Annie Larina, a German, who
keeps a boarding house at 24, Regent street, charged a girl,
named El;z tbeth Neal, with having stolen three bottles of
wine out of her cellar. It appeared that tho g;rl was left in
charge of the place in the absence of complainant, and that a
Mrs. Kelly, who resides next door, came to the girl, and
expressed a very great desire for a " drink," as she " longed
very much for one." What would you like, Mrs. Kelly ?
asked the girl. Beer, ale, porter, wine, whiskey, or anything
that way, was the modest reply of this female Btcchus. The
girl protested her inability to .satisfy the " longings" of Mrs.
Kelly, and the latter declared that if she did not got "a big
drink" that she would either commit suicide or die of tile
drooth, like O'Shannahan Moore, the Irish King ! This
frightened the prisoner to such An extent, that she really
was at a terminus, called her " wits ends." Mrs. Kelly
at last came to her rescue, and suggested that she
could get into the cellar, where there was "lashings and
leavings" of the best "o' wine," and that by bringit;g up
at least three bottles, she (the prisoner) would be the
means of preventing both murder and suicide. The
reas-'ns given were so cogent, that the girl did so, and
"oh frailty thy name is woman ;" after she drank the
contents of the three bottles, she sent her husband to
"discover" on the girl, which he did, but the " identical
Mrs. Kelly" has not since been heard of, as she made
herself scarce, in consequence of an intimation, that if
she was cotched she would be:considered narticeps criminis
(a fine word which of course Mrs. Kelly thoroughly
understood.) The prisoner was sent to jail for one
month.
ONE OP THE CORPORAL WORKS OP MERCY.—One of
the corporal works of mercy is '' burying the dead ;" and a
strange case, in connection With a funeral, was brought up
yesterday. Mary Walsh, a singularly beautiful female appa-
rently about 22 years of age, and dressed after the fashion of
the Tudor era, but without any head covering, which would
have spoiled one of the most luxuriantly glossy and fruitful
crops of hair that could be well imagined, was put to the bar
on the following charge :—The prisoner, it appears, keeps a
boarding house, in Sperling street, and it so happened that a
person named O'Neill, who carries on the same sort
of buqiness in the same street, lost his wife. She
was, interred on Thursday ; and according to the
statement of the prisoner, he sent for her to
see the last of his wife and attend the funeral. She went
and as " sorrow is said to be dry" she took a good deal
of wine in order to kill grief. When the funeral moved
off, the prisoner packed up a vast quantity of clothes,
which belonged to the deceased and removed some of
them, and was in the act of removing more, when she was
stopped. She had also pledged a shawl belonging to O'Neill.
4he admitted the tact. but alleged as an excuse that she
did not know what the was doing in consequence of the
drink. She was sent to jail for one month.

PARISIAN GOIIRMANDISE.—A fortnight or more ago Dr
Veron, the author of the " Bourgeois de- Paris," and
known for gastronomic superiority, gave a dinner to M.
and Mad. de Girardin, to Dumas per e, and to Mad. Cabel,
the singer of the. Opera Comique. Dumas an:rued he
ceuld himself dress one better still; a wager was laid.
Dumas fixed the 16th of April, on account of the prepa-
rations required. The wager is this: If Dr Veron admits
the dinner to be batter than any he ever ate, he is to pay
whatever it costs; if rot, Dumas is to pay. One dish k
to be a roasted lobster, with a marvellous sauce ; another
is a dish of spinach, which lies for three days soaking in
goose grease, and is to be served with gravy extracted
solely from mutton kidneys. In a certain set who are
near upon the confines of the demi-monde, this dieuer is
talked of as an event, and Rossini (a vat authority on
the subject) has given his-opinion that Dumas is one of
the finest cooks in the world,
THE DIGNITY OF RIDING. —The Roman matrons, as
the reward of their pstrictism, demanded the privilege of
riding in a carriage up and down a steep short street
The Spanish hidalgo rolls along in a lumbering old coach,
.Irawn at a snail's pace by four long tailed black horses,
and conceives that he thtreby upholds the dignity of the
first noble of the earth. The Blue nose will run for two
flours to catch a horse, that he may ride the distance of
hree miles ' • and the peasant of any county will sit on the
tailboard ofhis cart, aed be shaken within an inch of dis-
location, or endure the creaking and jolting of a bullock
.saggon, or hang on as one of sixteen to a calisina; rather
than trust to his own legs. The world, by general consent,
not only rejects the destiny of walking the earth, but
contemns those who continue from choice or necessity to ,
fulfil it. We, ourselves, have drawn largely on the scorn
due to such a proceeding. We have bad it darted at us ip
glances, shot in taunts, or pourid down in condolence.
The cairn pity expressed ix the face of the Arab, when he
pranced by us on his steed of the. desert, we looked upon
as natural to the man and his circumstances, and bore it.
' We have been looked down upon by a fat prieat on a sore
backed;spavined mule, which could not limp as many miles
in two hours as we could stride in one ; and we have more
than once been offered a lift by a costermonger in a donkey
eart. Once, too, on entering a Spanish yenta, after having
done a journey afoot of which we were ra her proud, we
overheard our hostess explain, apolegeticallv, to a neigh.
hour, that the English did not walk because they could
not h ord, but that it was a Whine—a fancy
cup una fantasia,—Blackwood. of theirs—un
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