Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-21 00:00:00

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BEFORB MR. MANSFIELD.
ATTEMPT TO KILL A CHILD.—Jane Anderson, late_a
servant, but recently an inmate of the workhouse, was
charged with attempting to kill her illegitimate child.
The prisoner is twenty-eight years of age, and Mr. Carr,
the, governor of the workhouse, stated that she cams
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she had no child, she could go back to her former place.
On Friday night, Ellen Humphries, a nurse, heard the
child screaming, and in the morning she noticed blood
coming from the child's abdomen, and it appeared the
child had been injured. On examination of the child by
Dr. Leather, it appeared that it had been nearly pressed
to death, and half starved. The mother, although
healthy, hardly gave the breast to the child, and he feared
that it must ultimately die from the ill-treatment. The
prisoner was remanded.
ROBBERY OF A CASH-BOX FROM A PUBLIC-HOUSE.—A.
sweep, named Roberts, who lives in Lambert-street,
London-road, was charged on suspicion of having stolen
a cash-box containing £25 10s., in notes, gold, and
silver, from the public-house of Mr. Isaac Caddy, at the
corner of Stafford-street and Islington, on Friday,- about
five o'clock. Inspector Thompson said that, having
heard of the box- being stolen, he ascertained that the
prisoner had changed a £5 note in Mr. Heatly's public-
house, London-road, and he arrested him on the charge.
Sergeant-Major M`Carraglier stated that he sent two £5
notes for change to Mr. Caddy's. He knew the notes,
and had 'marked them. This (one of the notes) is one,
and has my initials and marks on it. Mr. Caddy said
this was one of the notes in the box when it was stolen.
He had had the box shortly before five o'clock, but how
or by whom it was stolen he could not say. A young
man from the public-house of Mr. Heatly proved that, at
about half-past five o'clock on Friday evening, he
changed the note for the prisoner. Mr. Clough said that
was all the evidence he would offer, and asked for a
remand, which was granted for seven days.
STOLEN BRASS.--ames Isaacs, a marine store dealer,
in Hilliard-street, and James Carrigan, a resident of
Charters-street, were charged by detective officers Bibby
and McCullock, on suspicion of having stolen brass,
copper, &c. Mr. Roby appeared for Isaacs. The officers
saw the last named prisoner, go into a marine store, in
Duke-street, with a quantity of brass, copper, yellow
metal, and the like, and put it into the scale to weigh,
when they arrested him. He said he purchased it from
the other prisoner. They went to the place of the
latter, and found quantities of the same sort of
" stuff," and, as he could not properly account for
the possession, they took him into custody, as lie had no
book nor entry of the property. At first he 'denied having
sold anything to the other man, but admitted it after-
wards. Mr. Roby said, the property found had been
purchased in small quantities from time to time, and that
was the reason there was no entry of it. He sold the
portion to the other man, in order to clear ont his store.
His Worship fined him 55., and ordered his license to be
withdrawn. The other man was discharged.
SSEALING A BANK Boox. --Annie Stephens, a poor-
looking person, was charged under the following circum-
stances :—A Mrs. Jana Hatton, a cow-keeper, at
4, Washington-street, Park, said, on Saturday
last, her servant left the front door of the
house open for a short time, and some one came in and
took a small desk off the parlour table ; it contained a
bank note for .£64, a brooch, and ether articles. The
desk was subsequently pledged, and behind the door of
the pawn-shop the bank book was found. On Friday
the prisoner went to a pawn-shop in Mill-lane, and offered
the brooch for pledge, when she was stopped. She, in
her defence, produced a little girl, her niece, who said
she found the brooch in the street, and gave it to her
aunt. The prisoner was remanded, his Worship remark-
ing it was well for Mrs. Hatton that she had her money
in the bank, for had it been in notes or gold in the box,
she would never have seen it after.

THE CASE OF TIIEj REV. ALFRED POOLE AND
ST. BARNABAS.

APPEAL BEFORE THE ARCHBISHOP OF
CANTERBURY.
On Saturday morning, at eleven o'clock, the appeal
from the decision of the Bishop of London was resumed
before the Archbishop.
Mr. Montague Smith took up the argument which
was left in an incomplete state on Friday. He said
that he would, go over the admissions which
had been made on behalf of Mr. Poole. He
quoted the " Churchman's Diary," to show that the
form of confession there enjoined was totally dif-
ferent from that used by Mr. Poole. The form
of confession prescribed was altogether general in ita
character, while Mr. Poole, though he denied having
used any of the gross expressions attributed to him
in the interview with Mrs. Shears, admitted that he
had . asked questions directly bearing upon a par-
ticular sin. He quoted portions of the Bishop of
London's letter to Mr. Poole, in which he said
that the admissions that gentleman made were
alone sufficient grounds for the course he adopted, and
whether the collateral evidence was true or not
could not affect the matter. The evidence, Mr. Smith went
on to say was not of a contradictory character, in which
case it would have been absolutely necessary to hear the
whole, but was entirely on one side, and that if a portion
of it was considered sufficiently conclusive there could be
no motive for going into the remainder. The
learned gentleman read several other extracts from
the correspondence, already before the public, between
the Bishop of London and Mr. Poole, with a view of
showing how useless it would have been fOr the Bishop to
examine more minutely than he did into the charge
brought against Mr. Poole. This gentleman, he said,
complained that the Bishop grounded his sentence upon
circumstances unconnected with the charges brought
against hint. This was not so. Enough had been admitted
to the Bishop by Mr. Poole himself, to justify hint in
revoking the license, and neither the Church nor the
Christian world generally could gain anything by a more
elaborate inquiry into the gross and disgusting details
contained in the charge. If either side had not been
fully heard it was that of the accusers, since Mr. Poole
had had abundant opportunities of making every defence
in his power. The Bishop had given him the option of
coming in person to defend himself, or of showing
cause in writing why the revocation of the licence should
not be put in force, and the latter course had been taken.
It remained for his Grace to decide whether the acts of
Mr. Poole were consistent with those of a man fit to be
a minister of the Church of England.
Mr. Raymond followed on the same side.

Dr. Pliillimore, in reply, said that the sentence of
the Bishop had not been founded on definite charges, but
upon what were supposed to be admissions made by Mr.
Poole. The letters from Mr. Poole upon the imaginary
admissions on which the sentence had been founded were
written in considerable haste, and did not contain a tithe
of the statements which he would have made in his
defence, if he had had time given to him in which to
answer the charges at his leisure.
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to hear this appeal, his reasons had been that he
thought it would be entailing a useless expense
upon all parties. His Grace having now, however, had
the advantage of hearing the case so fully and ably
argued, would be enabled to give the matter the fullest
consideration, awl would give his decision in writing.
He (Dr. Lushington) said that, for his own part, the
advice he should give his Grace would be—firstly,
that if the charges, if proved, were not sufficient to
justify the sentence; or, secondly, if there was not suffi-
cient legal evidence to support them; or, thirdly, if Air.
Poole had not had full opportunities of defending him—
self, his grace should decide the matter in favour of Mr.
Poole. _ _ .

The Archbishop briefly expressed his acknowledge-
ments to the counsel for the assistance they had given
him.

NEW BRIGHTON HOTEL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—ln your edition of to-day's date, I find
serious imputations against the so-called landlord
of the." New Brighton Hotel." Now I beg to deny
this statement, as there is no landlord to the above
named hotel—my husband being dead. I think if
parties would use the name of their own hotel
(which is the Marine Hotel), it would be much
more honourable. As the character of my house
is . at stake, you will oblige me by inserting the
above. —Yours respectfully, MARY LONGDEN.
New Brighton, Feb. 19, 1859.

There is a vacancy in the representation of Midhurst,
Mr. Warren having accepted the appointment offered
him.

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, THE MINISTRY, AND THE
OPPOSITION.—The Times complains of apathy everywhere.
The House of Commons are waiting for Sir J.. Pakington's
estimates ; they are waiting for Mr. Disraeli's reform bill ;
they arc waiting for something to turn up. For want of a
vigorous wholesome invigorating opposition; Government
is is falling to pieces. The Chancellor is said to bd thinking
of leaving the Woolsack for the Bench. The Colonial
Secretary is suspected of a similar intention, without as
good a reason ; and the Secretary for War is plainly
spoken of as on the move. They really seem not to care
whether they stay or go—and the Opposition, if
one, does not care to inquire.