Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-02 00:00:00

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Given at St. Edward's College on the Feast of the Annun-
ciation, in the year of grace, one thousand eight hundredand fifty-nine.
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By command of my Lord Bishop,
JOIIN CANON WALKER, Secretary.
Any of our Reverend Brethren will receive the offerings
of the faithful for the good work, or they may be paid into
the Union Bank, Liverpool, to the credit of the Right Rev.
Dr. Goss, and of the Rev. William Corry,

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.
LIVERPOOL, Friday Evening.
The sales of Cotton to-day amount to 8,000 bales,
and include 2,000 taken for speculation and export.
Of the week's business Messrs. Wright, Jun. and
Co., say:
Since issuing our circular advices of 25th ult. per
Canada, we have experienced a steady demand for cotton;
but although the daily sales have been to a full average
extent, at firm prices, the market has ruled inanimate, and
holders have evinced a willingness to meet the inquiry with
very liberal offerings. The import is restricted, and onr
stock diminishes sensibly, but large supplies afloat and the
promise of 'additional incomings arriving to a paying mar-
ket, induces all classes to take advantage of the existing
opportunity to lessen their interest. The trade
must now be holding some excess beyond their con-
sumptive reqnirements, and are thus fortifying their
position against the influence likely to be produced by de-
creasing receipts at the American ports, and the consequent
tendency to lower crop estimates, which, in their turn,
bias the action of speculators and exporters, whose opera-
tions continue on a fair scale, and contribute to the main-
tenance of present rates. Both home and Continental po-
litical matters engross attention, and although less im-
portance is attached to their course in commercial circles,
they must not be regarded as undeserving of notice ; the
duties of the Congress are, however, likely to absorb some
time, and in the interim the probable issue is favourably
reviewed. Money matters continue easy, but a Russian
and French loan, together with an addition to the Indian
fund, and the large exportation of silver to the East,
implies a tightening influence to disconnt rates, and
li have the effect of depressing the funds and other public se-
curities. The Ministerial defeat on the Reform question,
and the adjournment of the house until Monday, has not
exercised any influence on to-day's markets, which closes
without animation, and very liberal offerings give the purchaser
the advantage of selection. Sales are estimated at 5.000
bales, 2,000 to speculators and exporters, at prices within
the range of quotations. The total sales of the•week, in-
cluding what has been forwarded from the ship's side,
amount to 63,260 bales, of which 49,850 are American.
Speculptors have taken 9,070, and exporters 10,070, leaving
44,120 bales of all kinds to the trade. The import for the
same time is 27,245 bales, of which 21,925 are American.
The quantity known to be at sea from American ports is
about 180,000 bales.

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.- YESTERDAY.
BEFORE MR.. MANSFIELD.
EYTRAORDINARY CASE. —A boy, named George Lewis,
a stranger in the town, was charged by Mrs. Hagarty, of
41, William Henry-street, for having attempted to obtain
£5 from her by a false order. It appeared that, some days
ago, a boy, not the prisoner, called at Mrs. Hagarty's shop,
and produced an order, signed, " J. Hill," requesting that
£lO might be sent to him. Mr. Mansfield : Who is Mr.
Hill ? Mrs. Hagerty : He is our landlord, and I thought
he wanted the money. I had only £9 at the time, and I
sent it by the lad. In some time after, the boy came back
with the money, saying Mr. Hill was not then -in, but he
would call in the evening for it. He did not call, and I
spoke to him about it, when he said he had not sent for any
money, and, perhaps, whoever .had sent him would do so
again, and in case any one did come, to give such into
custody. On Thursday, the prisoner came with an order
for £5, purporting to be signed by Mr. Hill, and when he
presented it, she went out for an officer and gave him into
custody. Mr. Hill was examined, and said he did not send
the prisoner with the order, nor was the order his ; he never
saw the prisoner before. Mr. Mansfield said, the most
extraordinary part of the story was the obtaining of the £9
and returning it again. Mrs. Hagerty said, there
was a bad half-crown returned in the money. Mr.
Mansfield : Perhaps it was a dodge to pass - a
base half-crown. In reply to the charge, the prisoner
said he was a stranger in town, and on Thursday he met a
person in .the street, who asked him to go with the order
and he. would give him something. Mrs. Hagarty said
she was of opinion that some designing blackguards in
Vauxhall-road, had made an instrnment of the prisoner.
His Worship said it was fortunate Mrs. Hagarty. had lost
only the half-crown. • He ordered the prisoner to be re-
manded for the present.
VIOLENT ASSAULT BY AN ACCOUNTANT.—A person named
T. G. Patton, described as an accountant, and collector of
debts, having an office in Lime-street, was brought up in cus-
tody of officer George, 297, on . a charge of having com-
mitted a desperate assault on German Brneste, a waiter at
Mr. Templeman's supper-rooms, Lime-street. The officer said
he saw the prisoner in the street, with a broken stick in his
hand, and the prosecutor bleeding. The prisoner was drunk at
the time. To Mr. Black (for the prisoner). : I did not see
the assault, but the prisoner was drunk. The complainant
then, in broken English, said the previous night, about
twelve o'clock, the prisoner entered the house, and com-
menced insulting every one. He was drunk, and witness
wanted him to go away, but he refused, and he went to
push him out, when he struck him a desperate blow on the
head with a heavy stick, and broke both head and stick
together with , the one blow. The officer said he had
the wounded man taken to the infirmary, where
his head was dressed, and .the doctor said it was a
serious wound. Mr. Mansfield : Why is the doctor
not here ? Officer : I told him to be here at ten this morn-
ing, but he does not appear. The complainant was cross-
examined by-Mr. Bluck, and said his master, Mr. Temple-
man, kept a coffee-house. He did not strike the prisoner.
The prisoner did not say he wanted money from Mr.
Templeman, nor that he heard he was going. to leave the
town, and not pay his debts. A boy, belonging to the
coffee-house of Mr. Templeman, corroborated the statement
of the complainant, and said he saw the prisoner strike the
blow with a heavy stick, and it broke above the iron or,
brass ferule on the end of it., from the violence of the blow
on the complainant's head. The prisoner came in drunk,
and inquired for Mr. Templeman, and witness told him to
come in the morning, as that was not a proper time to come.
about business, if he had any to do with the master. The
prisoner flourished the stick in a dangerous way, and nearly
broke a valuable chandelier, and insnited, and threatened to
strike several gentlemen in the place. Cross-examined by
Mr. Bluck : The prisoner said Templeman owed him money.
Mr. Bluck : Did he say Templeman was going to leave the
. town, and not pay. his debts —that he could not see him
during the day, and that that was the only time he could
see He did not, sir, Mr. .Templeman (who was
present) said : I do not owe the fellow any money at all.
Mr.ußluck to witness : Can Mr. Templeman be seen in the
day...about business, the same as any other man ? Witness :
Certainly he can; and he is not going to run out of the
town. Mr. Black then addressed the courtfor the prisoner,and
said he could not justify the assault, but he might say a
few words in mitigation. The prisoner, he said, wits some
•sort of an accountant and collector of debts, and lie went to
Mr. Templemans to collect a debt. (Here Mr. Templeman
again denied that he owed anything.) He could not see him
during the day, and as he (Mr. Bluck) was instructed to
say, the moment he entered the house the complainant
struck him, and unfortunately he struck him back with the
stick. Mr. Mansfield said it appeared to him to be a very
gross outrage, indeed. If there was money due
to the prisoner he could look for it at a
proper time, and, if not paid, he knew ho
had a remedy in another place. He (Mr. Mansfield) had a
notion to let the case be dealt with in another place, for-he
found that a heavy stick, with a heavy brass end on it, had
been broken over the complainant's head. However, he
thought, on the whole case, that it would answer the ends of
of justice to fine the prisoner £5, .or to be imprisoned for
two months. The prisoner, in a very impudent manner,
said, I was robbed of £5 then, and can't pay the fine. Mr,
Mansfield : Remove that man from the bar. The prisoner
was accordingly removed.
PUBLICAN'S AND BEER-HOUSE KEEPERS' CASES.
BEFORE MESSRS. rivrcnisox AND HOUGHTON.
A POINT OF LAW. —William Mellor, publican, Chaloner-
street, was charged for selling. rum on Sunday morning.
Mr. Cobb appeared for the defence. The officer said, he
got a woman leaving the house on Sunday morning, with
some rum in a bottle, and she said she paid for it. Mr.
Cobb produced the woman, whose name is Anne Taylor,
and she said she Was in the habit of going to the house on
Sunday mornings, to clean up the place, for which she got six-
pease, and an " allowance." of rum, which she used to drink
in the shop. On this occasion, however, she asked Mr.
Mellor's niece to allow her to take it home in a bottle, as
she wanted it to give to a person at home. The young lady
did so, and when she was going out: the officer met her and
frightened her so much that she did say she paid' for the
rum, but that was, as she imagined, to get the blame off the
young lady for allowing her to take it out. The young lady
was examined and made the same statement. • There was no
money paid. Mr. Cobb submitted, that the case should be
dismissed, as there was no sale proved. Mr. Wybergh
said, if the charwoman received six-pence and
a quantity of rum for her services in labour,
it was a sale in point of law. Mr. Cobb : But suppose that
he did so, and that Mr. Mellor committed an error, you
would not punish him for that ? Mr. Wybergh : That's a
different thing, Mr. Cobb said the defendant had laid out
over £7OO on the house, and it was not likely he would
jeopardise his license. The magistrates said they would
give the benefit of the doubt to the defendant, and dismiss
the complaint.
Stephen Wearing, publican. Circus-street, was charged
with selling on Sunday. Officer Ferguson, 82, said he saw
a woman come fr,;in the back-doer of defendant's house,
with ale in a jug. Mr. Black cross-examined the officer
at some length, and the witness varied very much in his
story, and then Mr. Bluck addressed the Cotirt, and said he
really shuddered at the swearing of the police in cases of
this sort, in order to get a conviction. If they did not
swear downright falsehoods, they grossly exaggerated the
facts. He designated this case as a gross falsehood on the
part of the offiber, and said his client declared most
solemnly that there was not a word of truth in the entire
statement. He challenged the policeman to produce the
woman, but he could not do so. The-case was dismissed.
John Jones, publican, Vauxhall-road, was, convicted for
selling ale on Sunday Morning ; fined ss. and costs.
Anne Houghton, beerhome-keeper, Maddsx-street, was
charged for selling ale on' Sunday ; dismissed..,
Margaret Pinking, .beerhouse-keeper; Edgar-street, was
charged for a like offence ; dismissed.
Edward Murphy, beerhouse-keeper, Eaton-street, was
summoned for &inlay trading. The case was proved, and
a fine of ss. and costs imposed.
Henry Hide, beerhouse-keeper, Christian-street, was'
charged for a like offence ; fined 10s. and costs.
Martha Miller, beer-house keepers, Paul:street, was
charged with doing business at illegal hours: The defence
was 'that the people in the house were travellers. Fined
10s. and costs.
• Wm. Davis, Park-street, was charged with doing business
at illegal hours. Fined £1 and costs.
Edward Williams, Mann-street, Park, was charged with
selling ale on Sunday morning. Fined 10s. and costs. :
Aun Platt, Mver-street, was charged with doing
business at illegal' hours. The case was disproved, and
dismissed.
James Taylor, ChurCh-street, Soho, was charged with
doing businesS on Sunday. The defence was that there was
a wedding party in the house. Dismissed.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETunNs.—The Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Traffic Returns shew this week an
increase of £2,460; the East Lancashire, an increase of
£845; Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, an increase
of £947 ; the Midland, an increase of £2,865 ; the Eastern
Counties, a decrease of £986.