Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YLSTERDIT.

LIVERPOOL.
ESFORE MR MANSFIELD.
DESPERATE ASSAULT BY A WOMAN.—EIIen O'Brien.
who keeps a "whiskey cellar," at 5, Eimpson-street. was
brought up by officer 115, on a charge of having inflicted
a serious wound on the head of another woman, n need
Elissbeth Loftus. It appeared that the prisoner was
drunk, and that she had a quarrel with the complainant,
whom she struck with a canderick on the forehead. Sur-
geon Pepe, of the Southern Hospit 1, said the wound was
a serious one, three inches long end deep to the hene. She
Was in a state of concussion when token to the horeitat,
but he heped she would get over it. A bey, the son of
complainant, said he went to prevent the prisoner beating
his mother. when he MS struck on the nose will a poker.
The prisoner was remanded for seven days, in order to
Es-marlin the result of the wonnd on complainant's bead.
DARING OUIRAGE AT MR. HAUSBURO'S, CHULCH-LTREET.
—James Hendersen, a dull looking person, about fifty
years of age, and dressed as a Manchester ftctory man,
was charged with having committed the following outrage.
An assistant in the shop of Mr. Hansburp, in Church-
street, stated tint at half past six o'c'ock the previous
violins!, he was waning in the shop, when he beard
great neise and then a era-h of the window, and then he
ran out, where Fe sew the prisoner in hold of a person now
present. Two gold watches were missed, but were sclera
quently found—one was worth £2Q, and the oth. r £lB
10s. He identified the watches. The policeman who
bad charge of the prisoner said, whilst csrryirg him to
the station he toek one of the gold watches out of his
boot, the other was found usd, r the grid at Mr Grundy's
shop, where the prisoner dropped it, after taking bath
watches from the window, which he had br ken. J ,hn
Kearrey sale', be saw the prisoner break the window with
a stone (produced it) and pu 1 nut the watches from the
window, when he caught held rf him. Three was no one
present at the time. A boy, who found one of the watches
under the grid, produced it, and said the prisoner had
stood there. Bridewe'l•k, oder Slack said, the prigone.r told
him that he did it not of want, a-d hoprd he would he
dealt lighils with. In reply t.) Mr. Mansfield, one of Mr.
Have] g's journeymen said, the window was not insured.
The two wa ches produced were the only articles stolen
out of :he windore The nrisor:er wee sent for trial.
FATTIFIL AND S, ic.—Joha M Gone, a grocer in Greet
Crosshell-street, charged h'; rot, Jahn ',Vl•Gloce, ender the
fallowing circumstances:—Hr said at six o'clock the pre-
VieLB evening, the prise ner came with a float and attempted
to take aw .7 his goods. bat when he prevented him, be
attempted to take down his signbrard them the door, but
being prevented in that, he made en attack en him, and
threatened both witness and his m ether, and called them
most horrible names. The complainant said the totieoner
was mad, and it not properly restrained he feared he would
murder either himse for some one else. The prisoner
said he purchased tis father's strck for £2.0 and he went
to take it away. He had three stops in Liverpool. and
Complainant : Yes, I gale them to on and you
drank them all one and your wife lel you, and now you
are living with a servant girl. The prisoner was ordered
to find two sureties in £25 each to keep the peace.
010•AININO GeODs UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—A well-
dressed person, named Catherine M'Mahon, was charged
with havirg obtained goods urd,r false pretences. The
prisoner wee formerly a servant asith a gentleman named
Topping, and after she left the service she cot some goods
is his name, and she also got tea, sugar, end coffee, from
Mr. Cook, grocer, of Myrtle-street, in the".natne of Mrs.
Roche, wife of a doctor, residing in Canning-street. These
cases being fully proved, the prisoner was sent for trial.
Ax EMIGH‘NT CASE.—Messrs. Sahel and Curtis, of
Regent-road. were summoned by Captain Stewart, one of
the emigration officers, at the suit of a Scotch woman,
named Mary Wilson, for refusing to provide her a passage
to Mehl x. Mr. Aepinall, (with Mr. Harvey, as attorney)
appeared for the defendants. The question at issue, w-e
one of principle, as the history of the case will show. It
appeared that some time ago, the daughter (Alto lives in
America) of Mary Wilson, paid £7 7s. to a house in
Halifax, for her mother's passage from Liverpool to that
port. See sent the contract ticket to h r mother, and
Messrs. Sabel and Cortis, who are the Liverpool agents of
the Halifax house, were advised to send her out by one of
the steamers, next going out. On receipt of the advice,
the defendants wrote to her to Scot! and, saying the a earner
was under repair, but that they would send her oat when
the veer, resumed her place, and that they would give her,
at least ten days notice. This did not satisfy the woman,
and she wrote that she must have a ship at once. To this,
a reply similar to the above was given, and still, she not
being satisfied, came at once to Liverpool, and
because she did not get a passage at once,
she got out the summons. Mr. Aspinall pro-
duced the letter written to the w man, and also the
contract ticket, which did not specify any giv. n time fo: a
passage, n:r by any particular ship, anti although his
clients were not at all liah'e to the woman, they would, out
offaeour aod kiadaese. cise her a passage in their text
snip, nut 1a.,• he -did. %La a es a
Stewart, but h.s chews repudiated that there was such a
tight. Oa this polls he referred to the 48th section of the
Act, and showed that his clients were not liable, and yet
they most kindly effered her a passage in their first vessel
Captain Stewart c intended that they were liable under the
Act, and said they also refuted to pay her deteatior money.
Mr. Mansfield, cri looking at the Act and the ticket, add
be agreed with Mr. Aseinall. The ticket might hold some
Otte responsible in another c• art, but certailly the c tse in
that °rue could not held against the defendants, and he
was of opinion that the woman ought to avail herself of
the liberal offer made her by Messrs. Sabel and C. r' is. He
then dismissed the case on its merits, as the woman h td no
claim. Mr. Searle, from the office of Messrs. SAO and
Cortis, ssid, now that the Bench had decided the case in
favour of that firm, they would, out of kindly feeling to
the women, givr her a rungs., and also some money, out
Of charity. They were always ready to do that, but were
not tr be forced into it, when they knew they were not
li%ble His Worship said, it was very creditable to the
firm to act so handsomely.
THE Dana DEEDS.—J. B. Florence, the blackman who
stood remaue!ed on a cha-ge of hiving inflicted a serious
wound on the arm of a man named Daniel Devlin, was
brought up. Mr. Goodere appeared as tis advoeate.
f lets of ttiis strange case were fully published in our pap •r
of Monday. Several witnesses were examined, but Mr.
Goodere elicited, partly, the story told by the prisoner
about Tom Kennedy and the C yen 'ish tobacco. Detec-
tive officer Eaton also proved that he mode enquiry about
the tobacco affair, and Tom Kernedy did admit he bousht
about 460-lbs. of tobacco from the prisoner, and gave him
a £2O bill for it, but that fiadine the tobacc) to be no use
be threw it in'o the sea, and this was the reason be refused
to pay the bill. Mr. Goodere also shewed, by witnesses,
that the complainant, along with about 20 ruffians, were
sent by Keened, after the prisoner, to "sloe" him, and
that they had hire down, and would probably have killed
him, had he not drawn his knife to save his life. Kennedy
wanted to get the prisoner and the bill out of of the way,
so that he would not be troubled about payment. The
prisoner was discha ged.

LIVERPOOL BAN KRUPIC Y COURT.—YEsTzRoar,

BEFoitE HR. O,IIIIIISSIONER PERRY.
In re G. I'. 4 xLpy.—This backrupr, ship broker of
Liverpool, applied ibis day for his certificate. Mr. Henry
Forshaw, who appeared for the assignees, said he had no
opposition to offer. his Hirour stated, that the bankrupt
haviug offered a comcoaitisn which he afterwards found
Hmself unable to pay, the Court odd only grant him a
certificate of the second class. Second class certificate
accordingly gran'rd.

In re OWEN Eurs.—The balicrup', marble-rnasln, of
ths town, also appliA through his silicitoi Mr. Evat,s,
for his certificate. his HonJur said that could only
grant him a certificate of tha third class. Third class
certificate accordingly granted.

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IDIOTS arr CLOTHED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Year

Taa LATE Ma. Barntax.—At the first meeting of the
Royal Institute of British Architec.s, held on Monday last,
a rubbing of 1113 brass, which has been prepared as a
memorial t,) the late Mr. Jilin Brittee, to b 3 erected in
Salisbury Cathedral, was exhibited. Two angels under 2
canopy bold a vied!, inscribed—" In memory of. John
Brittu t, hiiterian of this eeifice, and awhor of the noble
perie3 of works on the Cathedral and Ntecliceval Antiquities
Of England, this memorial is erected [with the concurrence
of ill, Dean and Chapter] by mcnabr-; of the Royal Insti-
tute of British Architects, to record their sense of the
eminent services by whit:it he revived the admiration of
Englishmen for the venerable monuments of the taste and
piety of th-ir forefather 4, and gained for th se mjastic
structures the respect of foreign nations. Born July 7,
1770, at Ktngton St. Michael, Wilt 4. Died January 1,
1857, in London. Buried at Norwood Cemetery, Surrey."
Around the whole is an ornamental border, containing in
it a vers- from the 48th Psalm— "We have thought of Thy
loving kindness, 0 Lord God, in the midst of Thy temple F'
The brass has been executed by Hardma,n and Co., and
will be inserted in a slab of marble. Mr. 'l'. IL Wyatt, in
presenting the rubbing, said the committee had deputed to
him its erection in Salisbury Clthedral ; there was some
lint + difference of opinion as to the site between the Dean
and the rommitt•-e, and this also had been left to him to
settle. —7 he Builder.

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BOYS are CLOTHED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years.