Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-24 00:00:00

MURDEROUS AFFRAY Witt' THE POLICE.

Late on Monday night a number of `.roughs" had
assembled in Harrow-street, Mint-street, Southwark,
L-indon, for the purpose of gambling which, as usual,
ended in a fight. The interference o! several constables
compelled them to retreat, and they.proceeded to Kent-
street, where the fle.ht was renewed, and now became a
general one. The police on duty andeavaured to restore
quiet, but were attacked by the, belligerents, who made
common cause against the ofEcers, of whom [ here were only
two. These were beater, in so brutal a manner that one is
in a very precarious condition, and it is believed the other
will lose the sight of wee eye. The gamblers had all their Own
way, when a strong:teedy of police arrived from the station
at Stones End, 'and notwithstanding that the roughs"
were reinforce,d by many of their own stamp, and fought
with all V.,nds of weapons, bludgeons, bricks, stones, &c.,
' the tab%es were turned, and the police were victors. One
l` lad , who was struck on the head with a staff, was taken
'.eto the George public-house, and attended by two sur-
geons, who directed his removal to the hospital, where he
remains in a doubtful state, and five of the ringleaders were
with great difficulty, captured, and four were taken to the
hospital. The police also suffered severely. It WaS
mtcl
night befQrQ order was restored,

POLICE COUBT.—Ywn RDA Y.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR MANSFIELD.

Rue-a-Due, Rowoy-ns-Dow !—The celebrated Corporal
Casey sung so, and Messrs. James Burns, ''obert Dobey,
and Henry Worthington, did so, on a big drum, in Great
Howard-street, on Monday night. Police-officer 173, said
he was on duty in the street at twelve o'cl;;ck, when he
heard a great noise, and on going to ascertain what caused
it, he saw the prisoners with a large drum and fife—two
of them were "licking" the drum most furiously, and the
other screeching with the fife ; they were creating a noise,
and tha people flung up the windows to see what it was all
about. They refused to desist, and he at last took them
into custody. They begged hard to be let off, and they
were discharged with a caution.
STABBING —A black man, named W. H. G Wildon,
was charged with having stabbed a little girl, named
Alice Gibb, and also a woman, in Gascoyme-street.
The prisoner was drunk, and alleged that he was
robbed in a house. He. took out a knife and ran at
several persons, and wounded the girl in the hand.
and the woman slightly in the arm. He was sent to jail
for two months, in default of paying a fine of £5.
Peuensa or. A WAREHOUSE.—John Drain, who keeps a
rag-shop in Smithfield-street, was brought up by detective
officer Sullivan, on a charge of having received a quantity
of hemp that was stolen out of the warehouse of Messrs.
Dean, Brothers, Stone-sweet. Mr, Campbell defended the
prisoner. It appears l that some bags of hemp were
stolen from the store, and on Monde-, Sullivan received
information, and he proceeded to the shed of the prisoner
in Smithfield-street, where he found five bags of hemp, and
some empty sacks with the same marks on them. The
prisoner was not there at the time, but he subsequently
arrested him, when he said he knew nothing of it, as he
had just come from Manchester, and knew noth-
ing of the transaction. In reply to Mr. Camp-
bell, the officer said the prisoner came to the police office
for his keys, a=-:d said he was only come from Manchester,
and knew nothing of the transaction. A boy named
M‘Namera, proved that a man employed him to take the
bags from Stone-street to the house of the prisoner, but he
did not see him there. He only saw a woman. Two
warehousemen, in the employment of Mess: s. Dean, were
examined, but they proved nothing against the prisoner.
Mr. Campbell contended that his client had not received
the property with a guilty knowledge, nor did he know
anything about it. His client left Liverpool on Friday
for Manchester, and did not return till Monday, when he
was arrested. He left a woman iu charge f the place,
whilst he was away, and in his absence a man came and
left the hemp there. He coiled Alice MaJly, who proved
this statement. The prisoner was discharged.
YOUNG Tatzves.-IVlicbael Brenan, and John MtNeill,
two bays about eleven or twelve years' old, were charged
with stealing a small basket containing a considerable
quantity of silver plate, from the house of Mrs. Biffin, 10,
Catherine street The young urchins got over the yard
wall about ten o'clock in the morning, and thus got into
the pantry, and got off with the property. They were
observed and chased, and ultimately they were captured
by a policeman, who got the property with them. They
were remanded.

CnARe or BLGAIIY.—Ed ward Edwards, a big, ugly, dirty-
looking " Jumper," over fifty years of age, was brought up
by officer Lees on a charge of bigamy. The charge was
rather curiously connected, the following being the facts :
It appeared that in February 1851 the prisoner married
a woman named Ann Gregory, at St. David's Church, he
having another wife then alive. The first wife, however,
died since, and Ann Gregory is now living as servant at
the Lunatic Asylum. On the 15th April, be again mar-
ried Elizabeth Jones, who was a servant at the publichouse
of Me. Branch, James-street. This young lady said she
was induesd to marry him in consequence of his represent-
ing that he had " oceans of m-inev," and " lots of fine
furniture." Mr. Mansfi Id asked if the priEonf-r was a
Mormon? and Miss Jones replied that he was a Wesleyan
Methodist. The ma7riage being proved, the prisoner was
sent for trial.

BEFORE MESSRS. srar AND SANDS.

COLLISION ON THE RlVER.—Yesterday, there were two
cases in which persons were summone before the above
magistrates for causing wilful damage to ships and steamers
in the Channel. In the fiat case, the Messrs. Crlborne,
the owners of the steamer James Aller.on, plying between
the landing-stage and Egremont, were summoned for care-
lessness in running into the stea n-tug Pilot King, thereby
causing damage to the last-m.ntioned boat to the amount
of £l9 19s, on the 24th of May last, near the landing-
stage. In this case the magistrates decided, assisted by
evidence of the Harbour Taster, that each party should
pay their own expenses. In the case of the collision
between the Antonia Patronella and the Robert Camp-
bell, which took place in the George's Dock basin, on the
3rd instant, by which it was stated that damage to the
amount of £l6 had been incurred, the sam of 15 was
awarded.

BLOODY TRAGEDY-FATHER AND EON SHOT.

As the Lexington and Govington train was passing a
couple of Tiles on this side of Winchester, Kentucky, on
Saturday, says the Cincinnati Commercial of June 8, the
body of a man was discovered lying near the road, and
still a little farther on. another beely lying in a shellac
condition was seen• The parties were Col. James Price,
of Clark county, Ky., an old and esteemed citizen, and
his son, a fine and promising young man. Both were
found weltering in their bleed, the father having received
:the contents of a double-barrelled gun, loaded with buck-
shot, in the abdomen and lower part of his body ; while
,the soa had been shot through the body by a bullet from
a revolver, Both were breathing when found, and it is
yet hoped that the old gentleman may survive, although
no hope is entertained of the recovery of the son. The
'particulars of this sanguinary affair, as we have been able
,to learn them, are as follows :—" The lady of Col. Price,
'under the name of Molly Broom,' is a contributor to the
Ohio Farmer, and in a recent communication to that journal
she gave a description of a family residing in he rneighbour-
hood, from the mismanagement of whose head much domes-
• tic affliction and disastrous consequences had arisen. Ua-
fortunately, a neighbour named Gay took the matter as
, intended for himself. and a few days since, meeting Col.
Price, he demanded if he considered himself responsible
for what his wife wrote. The colonel, who was uncon-
: scions of what he alluded to, replied in a rather jo eller
, manner that he was not, and the parties separated upon
apparently friendly terms. On Saturday morning Col.
Price was riding on horseback at the spot above designated,
his son, similarly mounted, being some distance behind,
when he was intercepted by Gay, who carried a double-
barrelled gun, which he discharged full at the colonel, who
fell from his horse, to all appearance de d. The son, at
this moment, hastening to the spot, Gay drew a revolver
and again fired, with such fatal effect that the son also
fell. After thus disposing of his victimv, who were to all
appearances dead, Gay made off, and at the, present writ-
ing we are not advised whether he has yet been arrested
The foregoing was gleaned from the colonel himself, who
rallied sufficiently to relate the particulars of the
murderous attack, as well as its probable cause.

TIM ART TTEMURZS EXRIBITION.—The number of
persons who attended the Art Treasures Exhibition on
Friday is given in the following return :—By seesm
tickets, 1,036; on payment of a shilling, 6,116. Total,
7,152, Of these, 2,152 arrived by railway. There w::s
a larger attendance on St:nrday. The visirors included
his Serene Highness the Prince of Saxe Weimar and the
Marquis of Stafford.

Tux O'CONNELL MommENT.—This exquisite statue
was on Fri lay placed, under the directions of the famous
Irish sculptor, Mr. Hog n, on the Dede4al in the Crescent ;
and we venture to assert that a more perfect model of
artistic beauty could not be conceived. The resemblance
of the great Irishman, in grateful recollection of whom it
has been erected, is most striking. The committee met
upon yesterday, and paid Mr. Hogan the amount agreed
upou-1,000 guineas. Toe following extract from the
vote of thanks passed by "the committee to Mr. Hogan, at
their mee.tbg, upon Fciday, speaks volumes. The Right
Worshipful the Mayor was in the chair :—" Resolved
further, that in the judgment of this commit tee of manage-
ment, it is our opinion that if Mr. Hogan had never
executed another work, he might rest his fame as an
artist and sculptor on this his chef d'oeuvre."--Limerick
Observer.

A KNOWING FoxiaouNn.--We take the follawinc, from
the Glasgow Daily Mail. We are of opinion that 'it is a
Yankee story," to which a " local habitation and a name"
has been given by our Scotch friends :—On Wednesday
last a little girl waited on the wife of a fanner near Ban.
nckburn, and requested a pint of buttermilk, tendering a
shilling in payment. Whilst the farmer's wits turned
round to get the change fur the girl, a pound of batter,
which was at hand, by a certain legerdemain—which will
be apparent to our readers—was transferred from whereit
was lying to the can amongst the buttermilk at the girl's
back. A puppy foxhound, which was being brought up at
the farmer's, had noticed the transference, and, when .the
housewife came to give the girl the change, she missed the
pound of butter, and at the same moment saw the last of it
going clown the capacious maw of tha young hound, who
ha 1 fl I.:A it out of the cltt, and whose jaws and snout were
nopiers:i besmeared with the batter and buttermilk ! The
housewife contented herself with giving a look to the girl,
and then to the hound, saying, "It's no loss what a frien'
gets." The knowing hound licked his lips, and seemed
highly satisfied both with the clovernesa of his own feat
and the ezeellence of the commodity he had gorged ;
and the relation of the affair has created no small amuse-
*elite

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF MONEY, BY AN
OFFICIAL OF THE LONDON AND NORTH
WESTERN RAILWAY.

Notwithstanding the many warnings that have been
given, by serious punishments for dishonest practices, to
the officials of this railway company, there are still those
to whom all caution and warning appears to be perfectly
useless. Another extensive robbery has been committed
by one of the clerks, who may be described as " A
very fast Young Man," and property to the
amount of nearly £l,OOO has been stolen from
the treasurer's office. From what we have been able to
ascertain, it appears that one of the head clerks was, for
some few days, suffering from severe cold, and the delin-
quent was entrusted with the money to pay the men
employed at Edge-hill. Instead of doing so he absconded
with the money, and has not since been heard of. It is
supposed that, instead of going to Edge-hill on the Satur-
day morning with the money—having made previous
arrangements—he, at the last moment, went o,i board the
American steamer and thus escaped. The detective
officers are, w e understand, in pursuit of him. Somewhat
stran^e to say he left a large amount of silver in the office
which he could have taken, but it is supposed that it would
have obstructed his escape, therefore he left it behind
him.

CAPTURE OF A RUNAWAY NEWSPAPER

SPECULATOR.

During the present week, Mr. William Cavill, late of
Sheffield, a runaway newspaper speculator, has been cap_
tured in London under somewhat singular circumstances.
In March last, the Sheffield Free Press, the property of Mr.
Ironside, and the:provincial organ of the Urquhartiles,
was sold to Mr. William Cavill, who for some time
previously had been employed as a compositor in the
office. Cavill was to pay down the sure of .e 250, and the
remainder of the purchase money by four quarterly
instalments. In consequence of representations that his
money was invested in property which he could not sell
without a delay of a few weeks, Mr. Ironside was induced
to dispense with the actual payment of the deposit in
cash, and put Cavill in possession of the printing office,
&c., on his giving him an I 0 U for the £250, to be paid
the following month. In the issue of the following Satur-
day, the new proprietor announced that Mr. Ironside
having ceased " from this day to have any connection
with or control over" the paper, it " shall advocate those
liberal principles which were put forward when the
Sheffield Free Press was founded, but which for some time
past have been in part suspended under the late manage-
ment." In two or three days Cavill rued his bargain, and
left the office and paper to its former proprietor. In
order to avoid the bargain being enforced against him, he
sold off his property, absconded from Sheffield, leaving
his wife, but taking with him the wife of a brush maker
named Gathercole. Mr. Ironside started in pursuit, and
came np with Cavill near the docks, in Liverpool, where
he had taken berths fir himself and his paramour, by a
vessel sailing the following day for America. While a
warrant was being obtained for his apprehension as an
absconding debtor, Cavili represented to the ship broker
that he had just received a telegraphic message of the
death of his father, which rendered it necessary that
he should delay his departure from England. His story
being believed the broker returned him the passage money
(R5O), and he disappeared from Liverpool. Au action
had been commenced against him by Mr. Ironside, for the
recovery of .e 250 on the I 0 U, which came on for hear-
ing on the 23rd May, in the Court of Queen's Bench-
Cavill kept out of sight, but employed counsel to defend
the action. A verdict was, however, obtained against
him, with an order for immediate execution.. This
appeared likely to be of little avail, as Cavill had swept
away all his effects, and no trace could then be obtained
of him. In the latter part of last week, however, an
unexpected clue was obtained. Cavil' telegraphed to a
relative in Sheffield that he was then lodged in Pentonville
prison. From ibis it was concluded that he had been
apprehended on Mr. Ironside's warrant, and no secrecy
being observed, the news reached Mr. Ironside's solicitor.
The governor of the prison was written to, but a reply
was received that he had no prisoner of the name of
Cavil!. Tee mystery was, however, solved by Gathercole,
the husband of the woman who had taken flight with
Cavill. His disclosure that his wife had a sister who was
married to one of the warders of Pentonville prison,
induced the belief that Cavill had taken refuge there until
a:convenient opportunity of sailing from England should
arrive. This conjecture turned out correct, and Cavil'
was arrested in the warder's house on Friday by a
sheriff's officer, and lodged in Whiteeross-street prison.
The officer only arrived just in time, for Cavill had
completed his arrangements to sail from Southampton
the following day by a vessel for Australia.—Sheifield
independenee.