The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-05 00:00:00

THE PENNY THEATRE NUISANCE.

At the Bow Street pollee office, en Saturday,Thomas
Cotterell, the lessee of a penny theatre in Holborn, and
Selina Cotterell, his wife, Cleinentina Belasco, William
Pointer, William Gammon, George Riley, `Nall am
Mowell, and whers, all of them performers at the same
theatre, were charged with having taken part in an un-
licensed dramatic representation. It appeared from the
evidence of a constable, who atended the theatre in
plain cbehes, that the performance commenced with a
number of boys eating rol,s and treacle upon the stage,
with their hands tied, under the superintendence of
Belasco. This was followed by dancing, and then came
the pantomime of " B'ue Beard." In this piece
the Fairy Queen (Ntrs, Belaseo) made a speech in
rhyme, declaring this the best Pantomime for 1857.
The usual transformation into Harlequin, Clown, &c.,
had j ,st taken place when the superintendent and police
entered and took all the performers into custody. It
appeared that there were no bills of performance issued,
but a man was placed outside, who icvited the public to
walk in. The public usually consisted of boys and
common women, and the neighbours complained very
ranch of the annoyance caused by the performances.
The solicitor for the owner of the premises said he was
very anxious to put down the nuisance, but he had
let the place under an agreement to Leigh, the father-in-
law of Cotterell, upon an understanding that it was to
be used for scientific lectures. Leigh, however, was in-
dicted, and then transferred his lease to Cotterell. Leigh
admitted that he hal taken the house on the terms men.
tioned, and when he conducted it no complaint whatever
was made, but. he left, and his manager acted otherwise,
and was indicted. After this Cotterell took it, and he
had now nothing to do with the place. The prisoner,
Cotterell, who had been out on bail, was so drunk when

he was placed at the bar that it was necessary to adj )urn
the case for a couple of hours till he recovered. On the
re-hearing Mr. Henry said that penny theatres were a
ereat nuisance, and must be put down. He should fine
Cotterell £2O for keeping such a place, or two months'
imprisonment. Lee be would fine 405., awl the rest of
the prisoners must en'er into their recognisance in £lO
not to repeat the offence.

WOOLLP:NMANTTFACTUREs.—The value of woollen mann-
raetures imported in eleven months (fr. m January to Novem.
be ) not made up was £1,178,094.
REPORTED BREAK-DOWN OE THR ORINOCO.—From
official information receive], it appears there is not the
slightest ground for a report which has gone abroad that
the Orinoco had broken down She reached St. Thomas's
outward cn the 2nd ult., and is now on her voyage home.
She was only dne on the let inst.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION FROM SOUTRAMPTON.—Tho
following is a summary of the Government emigration from
this port during the year 1856 : —To Ncw Wale,
26 cabin and 3,508 steerage passengers; to Victoria, 17
cabin and 2.234 steerage ; to South Australia, 12 cabin and
1,288 steerage. Total, 55 cabin and 7,030 steerage. The
steerage passengers were classified as follows, viz :-1,211
married couples, 1,434 single men. 1,469 single women,
1,487 children between 1 and 12 years of age, and 218
etildren under 1 year. Of these, again, 5,651 were Engl's 1,
500 Sc itch, and 879 Irish.

A FORGER'S FORFEITS.—A, Crown Commission met in
D ►blin to enuire into the stature and amount of the
property of Mr. James Montgomery Knightly, lately con-
victed and sentenced to transportation for forgeries of
transfers of the Great Southern and Western Railway
cock. It appeared by their evidence, that he was the owner
of a considerable amount of land in the counties of Meath
and Longford, and house property in the ci,y of Dublin,
producing a rental of several hundreds of pounds per annum,
together with other property, consisting of bonds, bills, pro-
missory notes, &c., to the value of from £7,000 to £B,OOO,
all of which is claimed by the Crown as forfei•ed.

TRH FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE MAIDSTONE EXECUTION.—
James Anderson, the man 'killed by falling from the nee.
tole at Maidstone, immediately after the execution of
Radanies, had only lost his wife three weeks previously.
The cause of the accident was this :—The deceased and
another man had to pill out the cross beam of the scaffold,
and it appears that it fitted more loosely than was expected,
and while using consi ierable force, the beam suddenly left
its socket, and deceased, losing his footing, fell with the
beam to the ground, upwards of twenty feet. His injuries
were such that the death took place almost immediately.
An inquest has been• held, and a verdict of " accidental
death'' recorded,
SERIOUS GUN ACCIDENT.— On the 26th ult, as a
Party was out rabbit shootiug on Graftham hill, a young
lad of the name of Rapley, son of Mr. Ripley, of Amber.
sham, farmer, was accidentally shot in the head by Mr.
(.Osten, of Milhirst. At first fears were entertained that
it would prove fatal ; blood flowed from both ears and nose.
and mouth. He was conveyed to the nearest farmhouse,
and a surgeon sent for, who came immediately. He
examined the wounds, and gave hopes of his recovery, but
thought he would lose one eye. is still at the house
where he was first taken, and proereseng favourably. We
inderstand that the gun Mr. Gos'len was using belonged to
the father of the injured lad.—West Sussex Gazette,
NEWSPAPERS AND ARMS IN SWT DEN.—A grand public
banquet took place on the 18th at Stockholm, on the occa-
-ion of the unanimous rejection by the Diet of the bill for
striking out from the constitution the law on the liberty of
the press. In the Chamber of Peasants, M. Nils-Olsen
proposed that every Swede from 22 to 45 should be liable to
military service. "If this proposition be adopted," said
M. Olsen, " we might in a mement of danger immediately
have under arms an army of 500,000 men, who, with 200,000
others to he furnished by Norway, would form a total force
of 700,000 men." The motion of M. Olsen was adopted
unanimously by the Chamber of Peasants, which has
already, on more than one occasion during the present
session, strongly insisted on the necessity of the two
united kingdoms being always prepared to oppose any
aggression.
A M ()DEL TOWN.—EITRAORDIRARY IF TRUE.—An
extraordinary rumour has eeached us this week, which, if
true, will go far to confer on the town of Airdrie somewhat
of that unenviable notoriety which has been attained by the
English borough of Newark. In that borough the extra-
ordinary discovery hes just been made, that the provisions
and warm clothing whin were contributed for our soldiers
in the Crimea, during the late war, have never been for-
warded to their destination, but are lying rotting in one of
the rooms of the Town Hall. In Airdrie it is rumoured
that the large sum contributed to the Patriotic Fund has
never been applied to its intended use, but still lies in one
or other of the banks in town. Should this be true, the
local treasurers of that fund have an ugly account to settle
with the contributors, inasmuch as they have not only to
account for the non-application of the money to the purpose
ter which it was contributed, but they have also to account
for their own silence, and to explain why it is that the
public should have to receive its first information on the
subject, through the dubious channels of a floating rumour.
Coatbridge, and Bathgate Advertiser.