Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-05 00:00:00

CORONER'S COURT.

Yesterday, the Coroner held the following inquests :--
Tux END or A BAD Som.—A few days ago, we recorded
in our police reports the fact that a young man, namel
Robert Lovett, whose mother keeps an oyster shop in
Williamson-square, was fent to jail for six months, for
having violently assaulted her ; and to day we have to
record the death of the wretched young man by his own
hand. He was sent to Walton Jail, where, on Thursday
night, he hung himself with his suspenders. The jury,
on a full investigation of the case, found a verdict of
"Feld de se," The body of the wretched youth was con-
signed to the earth last night, without any ceremony, and
in accordance with the act in that ease made rand pro-
vided.
The second ing-tast was held on the body of James
Stewart, an engine-fitter, in the employment of Mr. Jack.
The deceased was found dead on the Clarence Graving
dock quay, and on a full investigation it was found that
death was the result of natural causes, as he had com•
plained for a long time of his throat. The jury fund
accordingly.
On the body of a child named Mar2aret Jamieson, fire
months old, that was accidentally suffuca:ed in bed.
•Verdict accordingly.

CONSTANTINOPLIE, August 26.—The ,Divan has ordered
the new elections far Moldavia. They are to take piece
within fif een days.

Ma. Tuouts COOPER.— We observe, in the Freeman,
an announcement that Th)mas Coerar, author of
" The Purgatory of Suicides," has renounced his former
scepticil view:3, and is engaged in lecturing in support of
'Christianity. Ile still occ•ipies his place as .a lecturer in
the Hall of Science, and be ,has announcal a series of
I,e!ures, in which he will crib trovert the views of the
German rationalist Strauss, and seek to show she credibility
of the evangelical narrative. The Freeman gives a
statement of his views on sever,' points of doctrine, as he
explained them in two or three of his recent lectures, and
adds: " There is in Mr. Cooper an intellectual and moral
power, with an obri:us integrity of purpose, which his
former friends can but respect ; to the shrewd, refitctive
and yet doubting few arnlng the people, he is what
=Spurgeon is to the im;:ulsive many. It should be
remembered that Thomas Cooper, though ones among the
doubters, was nerer among the scoffere. He was too,
Earnest a man for that."

Tag CHICORY QUESTIIN,—A Hann CASE.—At
Brighton an information has been laid at the instanca of
-the Commissioners of Inland Revenue against the de-
fendant Manion, a grocer, in Chaapside, for having in
his possession one quarter of a pound of chicory, prepared
and ma u4faeturt d to resemble coffee, by which
elefa:dant had rendered himself li4ble to a penalty of 1001.
Mrs. Munioa appeare.l, and stated that her husband was
too ill to attend, and, i i fact, he knew nothing about it,
as
th e she attended to that part of the business. After hearing
case, . Bigge said the bcncsi had no alternative but
to convict, and the defendant must be fired in the lowest
penalty of 25/. This was an extremaly hard ease,
inasmuch as the dttendant was not aware of the. adultera-
tion himself, that having been in the coffee before it
came into his possession. The poor man could not pay
the fin,,. The Mayor said 'a r.commendation would go
np from the Bench to the Board of Inland Revenue, on a
memorial being presented to the magistrates. It was an
extremely hard case, and he felt satisfied the law never
contemplated that they should keep up a large and
expensive -establishment for the purpose only of going
to small dealers, when there were plenty of large dialers
whom they might Visit, and where they might make
their experiments. It was a very hard CAM (Applause
in Court.)