Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

has put a stop to all

active electioneering pro-

ceedings.

The Cobden soiree takes place to-morrow even-
ing at Rochdale. All the tickets are sold, about
2,000 in number. Her Majesty's Government
will be represented in the person of the President
of the Board of Trade, the Right Hon. T. M.
Gibson. John Bright, Esq., M.P., will be one of
the speakers, and will be accompanied by his
brother-in-law, E. A. Leatham, Esq., M.P. The
mammoth manufacturers, Titus Salt, Esq., M.P.,
Frank Crossley, Esq., M.P., Thomas Bazley, Esq.,
M.P., James Kershaw, Esq., M.P., and the Mayor
of Salford, will also be present.

The last phase but one connected with the

Dursley tragedy has been enacts

,d at the Glou-

cester Assizes. Ellen Rutter has been found guilty
of the murder of her husband, by cutting his
throat on the 6th of August. The jury found her
guilty of the murder, but added a recommenda-
tion for mercy on the ground of the brutal treat-
ment she had received from her husband. Mr.
Justice Byles passed sentence upon her, but no
expression of either body or mind appeared to in-
dicate a sense of the awful position in which the
prisoner was placed.

Crimes and offences against the law seem to be
greatly on the increase. A case of infanticide
has been brought to light in Dudley. Some chil-
dren discovered the body of a child in a cess-
pool in the back yard of a publican at the
place just named. In Flintshire, a police-
man, named Frazier, has been committed for
trial for a most brutal and cowardly assault.
The prosecutor was both beaten by the staff of
" this guardian of the peace," and bitten by his
dog, in a most shameful manner. A third pecu-
liar case is that of the horse lottery-ticket system
at Oldham. The wife of a tradesman summoned
one William Wild, a professional betting man, for
taking £5 10s. from her under the promise to
give her an ample return from the horse tickets.
She did not get anything, and, on enquiry into
the case, the bench dismissed it. The mate of
an American ship, who committed the frightful
outrage upon a seaman named Witham, at North
Shields, has been arrested. Witham is not ex-
pected to recover.

It will be remembered that, some week or two
ago, a woman named Leatham was arrested on a
charge of having murdered a child, by drowning
it in the canal ; but the evidence at the coroner's
inquest was not sufficient to bring the matter
home to her, and she was discharged. Yester-
day a new phase of this mysterious case came before
the police-court. The servant of the mother of
the child, a girl some fourteen years of age, was
charged with the murder. A great deal of
evidence was gone into to show that the child
had been seen in the girl's company within a
short time of the body being found in the canal ;
it was also alleged, as some reason for the
girl committing the deed, that her mistress
had told her she would have to leave, as she
aid not suit her. The investigation into this
mysterious affair was adjourned until this

morning.

The trials at the assizes yesterday will be
found fully reported in our sixth page to-day.

We regret to have to announce the death of
J. Ryley, Esq., a town councillor of the borough.
He died very suddenly on Saturday night.
Owing to the decease of this gentleman, the
meeting of the Water Committee did not take
•
place yesterday.

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