Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-07 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE- COURT.-YESTERDAY.

(Before Messrs. RANKIN and J. B. LLOYD.)
THE GARROTTE RORBERT.—John Carr, Henry Sul-
livan 'and John Griffin, who were brought up on Thurs-
day Charged with garrotting and robbing Joseph Coyle
the previous night in Bannister-street, were brought up
to-day on remand ; and the evidence of another witness
having been heard, the prisoners were committed for
trial.

CHARGE 07 MAKING A FALSE CLAIM OF NEXT OF
KlN.—TionoriaMeron, rather a decent-looking woman,
was brought up on the charge of obtaining £1 14s. Bd.
from the shipping-office at the Sailors' Home, by repre-
sentinm that her husband had been drowned when the
steam-ship Indian was wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia.
Mr. Tindal appeared for the Board of Trade. He said
there had been so many cases of imposition lately.
that the Board of Trade had determined to make an
example of the'first case in which'there was any prospect
of bringing it home to the culprit. They were not,
however, desirous to press this case, as there was little
doubt the prisoner had made the claim through ignorance:
The facts were as follows :—The prisoner was deserted
by her husband some years agog and she was entirely
ignorant of His whereabouts. There were two men
of the same name as her husband, John Heron. Seeing
one 'of their names published in the list of the drowned
by the wreck of the Indian, she concluded-this was her
husband, and accordingly claimed, and was' paid, the
balance of wages due to him. Shortly afterwards the
same claim was made by the deceased man's father, and
it was' in consequence of this that Mrs. Heron was taken
into custody..—The prisoner admitted that she had
claimed.:the money through ignorance, and expressed
her -willingness to refund it. She was accordingly dis-
charged. •
AS.I3AULT ON BOARD A SlllP.—Alfred Beid, John
Miners. and. Charles Massey were- brought - up charged
with assaulting Alexander M'Kenzie, a man of -colour,-
cook on board the ship Catherine, lying in the Stanley-
dock. Mr. Bluck, appeared fdr the complainant, and
Mr. Cobb for the defendants.' It appeared -that •on
Monday night the prisoners, .who had been on shore,
'came on -board the ship and denianded some potatoes
from the cook. There were none on board, and:he
consequently could not comply with the request. They
knocked him down and kicked him several -times in the
face." The • complainant's wife and. mate of the ship
deposed that he had been ill-used by the prisoners.
They- were accordingly fined ss. and costs. •
CHARGE OF PERJURY.—Mr. Pemberton made an ap-
plication to the magistrates-for the Committal of Thomas
Powell, on a warrant issued on Tuesday last, for wilfal
and-corrupt perjury. This person, it will be remembered,
was the principal witness in the case of Mr. John ,'Miller,
teemerchant, who was brought up before Mr.'Mans-
field on e" charge of arson, but acquitted, on Monday
last: Mr. Bluck appeared for Powell, but, having. been
only just retained, was unable to enter into the case.
Powell was accordingly taken into custody, and remanded
till Tuesday.

(Before Mr. SAMUEL RATHBONE.)
PUBLICANS' CASES. •

William Venables, Clevedon-street,- Park, was sum-
moned fel...having refused admission to the police. .Mr.
Cobb appeared- for the defence: Officer 153 said that.
at half-past one' o'clock on the morning of -the Ist inst., -
he saw some people standing at-the 000 r of the defen-
dant's, house; and knocked. at the door. A female asked
who was there, and was told it was the police, but she
went, away without opening the door. They repeated
the knocking, and waited fifteen minutes ; but no one .
came. Mr. Cobb, for the defence, said, this appeared
something like a trap... The officers said there were
people with jugs at the door when they were there, and -
if the door_had been opened, no doubt an idea-nation
would have bsen laid for illegal Selling. He called the
-servant, who stated that when 'the ()Ears knocked at. -
the door her master and .mistress were in bed, and
having received orders not to open the door _under any,
circumstances, she'did not admit the policemen. Mr.
R:,thbone said he did not think the defendant hid"
broken ,the law wilfully, tho Ugh it was quite clear he
had done so. Considering the respectability of -the
house, howevcr,-theY would_ dismiss the ease.
AN. A.I3SIir.NT MAGISTRATE.—Mr. .Clarke Aspinall
compt'ained that he was detained there.so low* waiting
for.the hearing of his case, which required two magi-
strates. He was summoned there for eleven o'clock, and
attended at that time exactly, .and was told to, come
-again in half an hour, which he had done, buthad Still
'to wait. If the hour was in the print .he would' not
have-thought so much about it; but the time had been-
originally half-past eleven o'clock, which had 'been
advisedly struck out, as much' as to say " be punctual."
Mr. Anclerton : Your case stands next, , if there was
another magistrate.—Mr. Rathbone. said he understood
the custom was to .take the cases for two magistrates
first, and sent an officer of the court to search for another
gentleman to sit with him. Shortly afterwards Mr.
Jeffery, whose week of duty it was, entered the room.
James Tomlinson, Great. Howard-street, was sum-
moned for permitting drunkenness. Mr. Rymer appeared
for the defendant. An officer said that at twenty
minutes to one o'clock he visited the defendant's house,
and found three men and three women at the bar, all
of them having drink. In reply to Mr. Rymer, the,
officer said this was a well-conducted house, and that
when they entered the house the defendant said he did
not know he was doing wrong, and immediately-sent
the,parties out. Mr. Rymer said that the defendant was
under the impression that he was allowed to lieep open
after New Year's Day, forgetting that on this' occasion
it was on a Sunday. He had kept the house for some
years without a complaint haling been laid against him.
The case was dismissed. -
Henry Bevan, Marybone, was summoned for per-
mitting drunkenness, and was defended by Mr. Clarke
Aspinall. An inspector said, that at twenty minutes to
five o'clock on the evening of Monday last, he visited
the defendant's house, and found about thirty men and
women standing round the counter; four men and four
women were drunk. In reply to Mr. Aspinall,.the intr.
spector said that it was usual for publicans in that neigh-
bourhoodto give drink away at this season el the year,
and the.defendant was doing so on this occasion. There
was so large number of people in the house that it
would be difficult to see who was drunk", and almostim--.
possible to "tell to whom the drink was shpplied. The
defendant turned out all the persons who were drunk,
and soon afteiwards cleared his house. Mr.:Aspinall
said he was instructed' by, Messrs. Robinson and Preston,
brewers, who were convinced that this was an exceptional
case ; and several policemen were 'there, through the
kindneiS of Major Greig, to speak to the character of
the house., Mr. Jeffery said it was a very had practice
of publiCans to give away'drink, for when people' got it
for nothing they abused it. The case was dismissed. •
John Percival, Lord-street; Edge-hill," was 'sum-
moned for Sunday trading; and was defended bv' Mr.
Rymei. That drink was supplied Was admitted; 'but it
'was' found that it' was given for a sick man, and the
case was, therefore, dismissed.
• mmitsELLius'

InforMations against the following beersellers for
illegal trading resulted as follows :—Ann Jones, Norfolk-
street, 10s. and costs. Edward Edwards, PrusSia-street,
dismissed. Richard Forrest, High-Street
2s. 6d. and-2s; 6d. costs. Denis Costigan, Athol-street;
lOs. and costs.• William Woodward, Denbigh-street; -
digmissed. Eliza Cafferata, Finch-street; "-dismissed.
David Armstrong, . Dronte-street, dismissed. Margaret
:Armitage, • Newstead-street, 6d. and 2s. 6d. costs.
Thomas Dockray, Scotland-road, dismissed.

THE NEW ENCLOSURE OF PARIS.—The officials of the
.Octroi have taken possession of the posts established in
the new enclosure of Paris, now, like ancient Thebes,
become the City of the Hundred Gates. Under Louis
XV.; Paris had already considerablyincreased,- and some
neighbouring villages were added to it, among others
that of the Roule, which was made a suburb of the city.
In 1784, under Louis XVI, the farmers-general re-r
ceived permission to surround the capital with a wall,
which is .nearly the same as that now existing, but
which will soon disappear. At that period, the barrier
gates were almost all of wood, and the. offices small
wooden. houses, placed on wheels for the convenience,
of locomotion. The barriers were .sixty in number,
classed in three divisons—north,,south, and east. The
new enclosure of Paris, with its 100 gates, its deep
ditches, and its green slopes, will better respond to the
grandeur of the city than the wall by which it has been
surrounded. An immense number of Parisians
did not lose the chance of profiting by the change in the
barriers. During the afternoon and evening of .the day
before the alteration was effected, they flocked outside
the old barriers and made purchases of every kind, and
for some hours. before midnight all the barriers were
crowded with vehicles and foot passengers waiting for
the moment when they. might pass through without
being stopped.
,When midnight struck, the barrier
gates were throivn open, the Octroi men retired, and the
whole body Entered Paris and proceeded to their respec-
tive destinations, happy at having thus effected some
saving, though at the cost of consiclerahle trouble.