Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-30 00:00:00

BEFORE MR. R. SHEIL.

" OVER THE LINE."—A young woman, named Mary
Ann Gray, was brought up by Constable Burns 94, charged
with having one gallon and five half pints of whiskey in her
possession without a permit. The officer said he saw her
in Old Hall-street, and observing something bulky about
her person, he imagined she had some stolen property, and
he followed her into Prussia-street, where she entered Mr.
Day's office, and he went in after her. He asked her what
she had ? and at first she said she was running away from
her husband, who was going to assault her. On pressing
her, she admitted that it was whiskey she had, and pro-
duced a " grey-beard" and a bottle containing the " stuff."
An excise officer proved the quantity, and said it appeared
to be home-manufactured ; more than a gallon without a
permit could not be so carried, under a penalty of £lO.
His worship inflicted a penalty of £lO, or one month's
imprisonment, but he would recommend her to the con-
sideration of the Board.

INDscaNr.—Thomas Ross, a labourer,- was charged by
two officers, who said about half-past seven on Saturday
evening, the prisoner was in Church-street ; he was
drunk and insulted several respectable females who were
passing. He was advised to go away quietly, when he
acted most improperly, and subsequently six men were
required to take him to the station. He was fined 10a.
or to be imprisoned for fourteen days.

THE " P," IN LIME-STREET.

APPLICATION FOR A WARRANT.

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Aspinall applied for a warrant against William Domville,
disorderly one. The application was made under the acts
25 George the 11, and 15 George the HI, under a notice
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served by Mr. Nathaniel A. Caine, merchant, and James
Radley, hotel keeper, said warrant having been served on
the head constable and the parish overseers, according to
the acts quoted. The notice having been read, and the
parties having entered into the necessary recognisance
required by the act, to produce evidence to support a
charge of the house being a disorderly one, Mr. Aspinall
applied for a warrant to arrest Mr. Doraville, under the
106 section of the first-named act. He said the pre-
liminaries having been proved, the act directel a warrant,
without the process of issuing a summons ; and when the
party was arrested, the act stated that the justices could
take bail for the appearance of the party at the quarter
sessions, to attend there until the grand jury should have
found true hills, or otherwise discharge him. Tte warrant
was then issued, and the parties left.

A MAN ACCIDENTALLY KILLED BY A HORSE.--OnFriday
evening a middle-aged man, named Peter Horner, waggoner
to Henry Ambler, Esq., of Ovenden, near Halifax, met
with his death whilst breaking in a horse for a shopkeeper
of the village. He bad got the animal yoked to a cart,
and was about to drive it on the road, when it suddenly
started, and one of the shafts pierced the unfortunate man
in the breast. Beture the horse had gone many yards,
Ambler fell down under the wheels, and when picked up
he had expired.
THE Fox, LADY Pe.ANKLIN'i DIWOVEBY SHIP.—Th e
Erpresen ly lying at the Sout'i Dack Gate,
anocl, whichwhich isisgoing out to the Arctic region% to complete
the search for the long-lost Franklin expedHon, has been
fitted for her peculiar work in the moat perfect and sub-
stantial manner, and is now almost ready for sea. It is
intended to sail from tlis port very shortly. The
Fox will carry a crew of twenty-seven picked men Lady
Franklin, who arrived here in the beginning of the week, to
witness the departure of the expedition, has taken the most
lively interest in everything connected with the fitting out
of the vessel, which, with her gallant crew, will set forth on
her arduous voyage amid the fervent good wishes of the
civilised world.—Aberdeen Free Press.

There has been some grumbling about the way in which
a distinguished person's evidence was taken in a recent
trim. con. case, viz., that in which Colonel Macdonald,
aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief, was a principal.
It' is well known that the distinguished person in question
was no other than the Duke of Cambridge. The complaint
is that he was not called in propria per Bona, instead of_ his
evidence being received in writing and anonymously. It
certainly looks like an attempt to defile the pure spring of
justice, and extend to the great privileges denied to the
small. The extreme popularity of the D Ilse, however,
subdues the public indignation to the gentlest murmur.
The precedent is bad, nevertheless.—London Correspondent
of the Carlisle Patriot.
AGRA. AND UNITED SERVICE BANK OF INDIA —The
rPport of the committee of inquiry, composed of Messrs.
Duncan Sym, J. Stopford, J. C. Palmer, G. H. Donaldson,
J. Thomson, and T. Q. Firuis, directors, and Messrs. W.
Newmarch, W. J. Fergusson, and J. ll3Pilliams, auditors,his
appointed to examine the affairs of this bank, states that
its liabilities, including paid-up capital, reserve, and depo-
sits (forty per cent of which deposits belonged to proprie-
tors), amounted on the 31st of December last to
£2,245,000, and the total assets amounted to £2,292,000,
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item, loans to the amount of £430,000, there was £1136,000
advanced on more or less mercantile securities, and about
£250,000 on personal loans, repayable by instalments, ex-
tending over a considerable period ; the total advance on
such long loans in all the India branches being probably
£500,000, or twenty per cent only of the total investments.
The committee have caused instructions to be sent out for
the fullest and most accurate publication of the accounts of
the bank.