Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

siNgt TLA.R CHARGE OF BIGAMY AT CARLISLE

At the Town-hall, on Saturday, a respectable looking
woman, who had been brought from Liverpool, by Mr.
Bent, was place din the dock en a charge of bigamy. Mr.
Moore appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Howe for the
prisoner. The se, )man's maiden name was Mary Simpson
Cowen. She formei ly live 1 with her parents at Rickergate,
and afterwards reale
ved with her reputed second husband,
Mr W. A. Wilson, to a-
iverpool, where he practises as a ve-
terinary surgeon in Lims -street. So farback as 11ay,3,1838,
the prisoner was sta ed to . have been married to a butclier,
named R Catrathers She Wk e then only 17 or 18 years old
The young couple were drive.' to Gro °lea, or Sark-bar, by
at the Black Swan, who had in
Henry Moore, then post bey
his time been at 999 weddinee a, d with whom the bench
condoled for the unlucky accident se:'ich had deprived him
of the satisfacti es of seeing the thonsaL dth ceremony at the
famed altar. Miss Jade Beattie was the fair priestess, Rn d
produced the entry of the marriage —the sntLeg bride having
received fe.7 m her hands ass certificate. She a2€o desc-ibed
the ceremony : •'The parties stood in the presfeice of the
witnesses, declare 1 themselves single persons, and eisreed to
take each other for man and wife, and she declared
them married." The experience 1 postboy, however,
added his opinion of the preliminaey agreement "it
was like buying an old cow, for the parties made as
cheap a bargain to get married as they could." Mrs.
Lydia Routledge, half sister of Richard Carruthers,
proved that the parties afterwards lived ftr a short
time together. Carruthers died in November, 1853. This
was the first marriage of the prissner. On the let
November, 1838, six months deer that alleged marriage,
the prisoner and her present husband were married at
Gretna hall, by the la‘e Jobo Linton. The marriage lines
were pr educed ; bat Mr. Howe declined to give up the
certificate which was found in the prisoner's possession.
Mr. Moore appealed to the bench, to order it to be given
up or impounded by the officer of the court ; bat the Mayor
said it was not a charge of felony; but of misdemeanour,
and they could not make an order. Mrs. Linton said the
parties had declared them. Ives single persons, and were
duly married. Mr W. A. Wlson, the husband also spoke
to the marriage. In viewer to Mr. Howe he admitted
that before he married the prisoner he had heard that
she had been previously married. He had lived with her
from that time ; bet about eighteen months ago he had
instructed a solicitor to inquire into the truth of the first
marriage, and the entry was discovered. He added that
they had not Fved together as man and wife, but that she
lived under his roof ; and he hat lately been summoned
before the Liverpool magistrates for refusing to maintain
her. Both marriages were proved by Mr. Downie, town
clerk, Annan, to have been valid according to the law of
Scotland. The bench resolved to send the case to the
assizes ; but on the application of Mr. Howe, and
sanctioned by Mr Moore, bail was accepted for the
prisoner's appearance in answer to the charge --Carlisle
Examiner.

At LEWIS R COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street,
BOYS aie BED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years.

SPECULATING e Btiffl'o Republic stVes
that tinkers, bn kers, ::al spenl,tors, in that, city, are in
the habit of ineliums, and t-b'e turning and spirit
rappinc, circles._ We have heard, it says, instances where

spirits hay.: teen cot:Fultel prior to engaging in large
speculative oper.tions, which since have proved clisutrons.
Lon fo large amounts have ban wale by bank.; and
brokers at the suggestioa and on the reemnineniwion of
spirits. Railroad socks ben purchasel and produce
in lure glan'itics Nought on the advica of tLb!e tipping
inAium .

A letter from Carlsru)e in the New Prussian Gazette
a ys that the accountant of the Cen,r-il Roman Cathllic
Institutions of that pkce had "co'," leaving a deficit of
62,000 florins. He was looked upon as a person of con-
siderahle wo,rlth, having always live,l in a splendid style.
He h obtained le ,ve of absence fur a molth, and being
fourt en das overdue without any tidißgs of him, hii cash
was overnmiled, arid the M.:it ab.,,n men jailed
d'saoverefl. lie left his wife behind him, and it is paid is
not-iike'y h • rake,,, h,viag had a long start before the
fraoi was ri.c.-•ve el.

SIEGE TILVNS r,)a Isntx.—The ct-mpnies of Royal
Arillery, nun the hoavy siege trains, are now folly
equipp ,d, cod aretcw. it,ng emba:titcs.im orders fo•
These compani, s h the Veil exercised in heavy gun drill
during the last fortnight, at th Rival Mili'ary Repository,
on Wo.,lwich Common. A portion of the Royal Artillery
bre', or 1,500. recently placed under iirct)rs fir India,viere
ordered tt., b.) in r, adi':ess to embirk at the R )yal Arsnal-
p'er yesterlay bat the embarkation has baen delayed in
consequence of the v •esel selected for their conveyance
having been rej-c ed after a c ,reru,inspectiou by competent
officers connected with the dockyard.
SILK SAILS.—The Ocean, of Brest, says : —" It was some
time atzo proposed to replace the clrivas sails heretofore
employed in vessels by others in silk, and an exile invent
whli these later Ls just been made in the Frankli-, of La
Rochdle. The captain, hI. Rodanet, has made a report
to the follo%ing efllct:--‘ Silk sales possess strength,
flexibility, and lightness; they absorb less water than other
sails, and dry quicker ; when we', they lose none of their
flexibility, and in the roughest weather are so easily
hand'el that sailors would rather ref one of thorn several

timse than any oth,T once.' " Not a word is said of the
difference of expense, particularly at present, whets the
prices of silt his risen so considerably.
STEALING A BILE oF COTTON—At the City Police Court,
Manchester, on Thursday, William Mitcl:ell, Charlesworh
Whitney,l and Naldaniei Gill, were charged with stealing
a bale of cotton, and John Lord w..ts charged with receiv-
ing the same, knowing it to have been sto!en. The three
first-earned prisoners were boatmen in the employ of Mr.
Veevers, carrier. Last S,tarday week they left Liverpool
for Manchester, will a bat load of c.,tton. After the
c. tton had beet delivered, it was discrverA that a bale was
missing, and Milch,dl, the captain of the host, was ques-
tioned resvcting it, but stated that he had delivered all
he had le.lei;e3. Mr. Veevers then give informati )o to
Insrector Mayhury. and from irqui i s which were made,
it wls found that the prisoners nail put the cotton Lto
eight flour bags, and s .11 it t ) Lord (Jr £6. Lord em-
pL)yel a c.Mr to fetch the c,):ten from Cornbrrok Bridge,
but as it was not convenient to lird it there, the cart hal
to go to Longford Bridge, S.retford, where it was carried
from the boat to the cart. Lord afterwArds sold OA
cotton to Mr. Se.llow, of Ti?,-street, for .ElO 16e, and gave
a ree ipt for that amlunt The whole of the prisoners
were c,mmitted for trial to the sessions

SI% JOHN BOWRING AND VIC LORCILA ARROW.—Yes-
terdly morning was iseu.d, in the form of a return to Par-
liament, a I, tier !rem tlir John Boerirg, ,dated
Kong, May 8, in winch he replies to the technical argu-
ments which were advanced ageiest Itt'e proceedings dining
the debates in parliament upen the Chinese question, be-
fore the dissolution. He concludes -his letrer in the follow-
ing terms--"I repeat, then, th st whether the Arrow was
enti led to protection or not, the Caieese had no jurisdic-
tion, and their proceedings were unwarranted, and to be
resented. The expiry , f the ILense did not make the
lorcha a Chinese ve,sel, and gt,s-e the Chinese no right to
ieterfere, except throngs the car sul. She cool I only be
a foreign vessel in their eves. The papers, whether in
order or no', were deposited at the coesulate, and if they
had acted in accenl:- nee with the con itions of treaty, ane
had put themselves ie cornmeeieeteen welethe consul,
there would have Leen no co lision. The pip, rs granted
were, I con'end, of neeloubted verdity steainst any hat
British au hority —the authority which alone granted, and
which alone was entitled to withdraw, prntec ion. lf,
then, the fact of the Expiry of the lioen,e, of the right of
the lorcha to its renewal, did in no respec co:.cern the
Chinese, but the Briti,h anene, my action was a neeessil
all events, as far as ;,!acing the q testion in the bands
of the naval authorities when I could eb ain no redress."
FABRICATING COC,)A. NUTS.—At one of the London
police courts, oa Thursday, Robert MeLean, an old fellow,
who was stated to ha rather in the "due ig" line, was
brought Wore the. Lord Mayor, upon the ehareesof having
hawked without a license. A policeman said: I saw the
defendant in conversation with a gentleman in the street,
and offering for sale some cocoa nuts, which I suspected
were not just the right thing. The moment he saw me he
was evidently confused, and he waked away, bu- I et °peed
him ; and finding that the gentleman bad purchased a
cotta-nut off him, I spoke to the gentleman oil the subj•ce
and asked what sort•of an article he had temeht, arid what
he had given for it. The gentleman said he had given GI.
for the out, believing that it. had substaetial contents, hut
upon turning it round, he fouud there was a hole in it
stuffed with a piece of cork, nod that some dirty water
issued from It. (Laughter.) The gentleman who bad
become the purchaser, said Lae defendant had off.red the
nut for sale.as a valuable fra;t, and that it proved to be
what the officer described. The defendant said, be really
had been taken in himself, by a man who was selling
Cocoa-nets, to whom he ha t paid fourpence a-piece fur
what he had bought, in the expectation of making a trifle
by the traffic. He wished very much that he could cares{
the fellow who had cheated him), and if ever he laid hands
upon so dishonest a reseal, he would make an example of •
him. (Laughter.) The Lord Mayor : The gentleman
'must hive his money,•and the police must watch the move-
ments of the defendant; but a license is not necessary for a
hawker of fruit. The nut-shells, which wereleund in the,
possession of the defendent, 'and which were filled with
the same sort of filthy. liquor, already exaibiterl, were
,ordered to be cracked, and the defendant was advised to
take up,a new :trade, •

Exclu'...fely for CT.OTHI'"G BOYS from Six 'to Twenty Yeas
LEWIS Is COMPANY, itanolagh-streo