The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-04 00:00:00

REPORTING FOR THE PRESS.

DUNT v. RAWsON.—This case came on for adjudiction before Mr.
Bailey, at the Westminster County Court, on Tuesday. The case was
originally brought before Mr. Justice Coleridge in the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, and was ordered by him to be tried in the Westminster
Court of Middlesex. the action wax to recover from the defendant,
the proprietor of the Morningand Evening]Star, the sum of 211. 7s. 7d.,
alleged to be due to the plaintiff, for reporting the trial of William
Dow at the York Summer Assizes In 1856, and other matters set forth
in his account. The defendant pleaded " never indebted." It ap-
peared from the evidence that Mr. Dent, the plaintiff, was in the
employ of the proprietors of the Manchester Daily Examiner and
Times at a weekly salary, and that there were plans for the mutual
accommodation of the Morning Star and the Manchester Daily Times
existing, under which early news was expressed from either. Mr.
Dust sought to claim three halfpence per line for the reports sent by
him to the Star ; but it was proved that a large proportion of such
reports were sen; in the shape of printed proofs from the Manchester
Times, and it w..s also proved that it was customary for the reporters
of the Manchester Times to make special efforts to supply the Star as
a part of their regular duties. His Honour, after a lengthy hearing,
decided that the work had been done by Mr. Dant as a part of his
duties as a reporter on the Manchester Daily Times, and that, having
received monies as gratuities for the extra trouble incurred in dupli-
cating reports, he had no cla'm whatever on the proprietors of the
Star. The plaintiff was theref..re nonsuited, the question of costs
being referred to the superior court, by whom the judgement would
be, as a matter of form, confirmed.

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Cam AND DEED BOXER.—The next important thing to th, posses-
sion of cash is, how ,
- counting-house or ..t. home. The same remarks apply to deeds
other valuable documents. We have seen a large and varied
of both these desirable articles, manufactured expressly for Mr.
Hall, of South John-street, that challenge attention. These
are made on new and admired principles, and possess patent
locks, which defy the ingenuity of any " pick-lock" in the world to
open,
except with the legitimate key. To merchants, solicitors, and
others, these new sate:, on a small scale, must prove va!nable inched.
—Northern Daily Times, 21st May, 1857.
A NOVELTY IN AGRICULTURF.—A nee' kind of manure
has been invented by M. Biclies, a gentleman of some note
in the agrrculitrol world, It is a chemical composition,
the nature of which is still kept secret by the inventor ;
but its mode of application is rather cutious, the grain
intended to be sown being mechanically coated with the
compound previously to its being consigned to the earth.
The rich
principle being thus in immediate contact with
the seed to be developed, the soil needs no other kind of
manure.
Four pounds of the compound are sufficient for
an acre of laud. According to :K. niches experiments, the
application of his manure would raise the present yield of
Prance from 82,000,000 of heetolitres of wheat to
410,000,000. Dr. Stockhard, Professor at the
Academy in-Theraud, in Saxony, has lately pronounced
in favour of this system.

A writer in a new publication, " Our Club," says :—My
.window
does not look oat upon a park, or a lawn, or a potato garden even ;
if it-did, more sunbeams :night find their way in at it. But it is In a
back street of a large town. My occapation is of no consequence ;
suffice it that it keeps me on the constant watch to see what passes.
This, as may be surmised from the situation, is poverty in its varied
shapis. Moralists tell us th4t poverty and misery are nut necessarily
Companions ; the view from my window toils me that they are seldom
apart. Pov,.rty, as she steals along under my window, wears none of
the stage trappings which elsewhere cheat foolish minds into envy of
the "lowly cot" and " humble fare." Dirt end rags, pallor and
feverish anxiety—these are the pervading features of the never-ceasing
throng whieh, from early morning far into the gaslit night, strugg'e
and harry, and elbo.v one another as they go past. Childhool is not
Innocent nor age venerable, for the shifts and strati: ems for bare
existence have to be learnt gith the first exercise of the senses, and
abandoned only with their last feeble flicker. Honesty—the easy
virtue of the rich —is heroism with the very poor. Aud do we marvel
that heroes do not abound in any class ?