The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-24 00:00:00

BIRKENHEAD.

BEFORE R/CIIIRD BRYANS, ESQ. eclo
THE Ex JUDGE OF THEWAPENTARE. iJ
COURT IN oTiv
th~
?t.the Birkenhead Police Court yesterday ise
were an unusual number of "drunk and disord.ero
persons, upon many of Whom the usual penalty of 0" to
inflicted. Five or six had been disposed we."
the ~ clerk called out '.' Put up Robert Grac..e
.1,
He was immediately plaCed in the dock, when
said, Robert Grace, yon-are charged with being drlir'ile
evading the ferry at W(Mdside, and disorderly
there. One of the Woodside police, named Gou,orrn
then:stepped lute the witness-box, and upon being s"ther
stited, ,that.at two o'.clock on Saturday night, or 0,1
Sunday morning, the prisoner, came over from Livefitee
by the'Woof.iside boat, and an presentiag himself
,a,"bes
ferry pay 'gate, he said he had no money. I tool t
that he could not go through without paying, and tut': the
.rnnat,go,back to Liverpool. He went back, and re'
.s.3o'boat,the same-morning, from Liverpool, he again; Id
sented himself, at the pay gate without money. 'cos
him that ho could not go through, upon that he be
ad
noisy, and put himself in a fighting attiftide',,..ace
threatened vengeance to all there. During the disturitii at
he twice forced himself throeigh. the pay gate. taiio
last he was so very violent, that I was compelled t° tool
him to the lockup. The magistrate asked the prisoner
answer he had to give" to the charge, when the Prides;
-des;
stepped to the front.eif the dock, and said, A great t
of what the officer says is perfectly true. °cite
too much to drink. I had, no money. I had 033' Pi,tes;
picked in Liverpool on Saturday eight.: I had no,. 00•
tion of evading the ferry. lam very sorry. lode-ed.,' ved
Magistrate : Sln doubt Yeti are. It certainly,
disgraceful to see a person of your position
situation. You mast, however, pay the usual !I, 1"7
imposed on persons who take too much, and di,' out °
will be discharged. The prisoner then stepped
the dock, and some friend in court paid the penaltY•pao;
BRUTAL aSsAULT.—Hugh 111‘Manus and James JO
chriss, two sailors belonging to the barque Sedger'de'viit!
arrived in the river from Singapore, were charrne
the el
being drunk, assaulting Abraham Rigby and John 'efote`i„.
and breaking the windows of the Birkenhead FerrY
h rot
From the statement made by ttigby and QaigleY,
exhibited serere black eyes, and marks, of other I' eciel:
it appeared that the two prisoner came to the tap Of tiled fl,„t4
in a state of intoxication, and applied to be serv'tecvhe
drink, which Wes refused them, upon which 01 et
quite furious, and Withent any provocation fell 11%e
two complainants, black;ng their eyes, and other tit
using them, as they now appeared; and not cent% 01
that, th'er deliberately, smashed the windows w 1,10" bd,
hands. 'Both prisoners attempted to "spin a YE;o,;(lae-;0
failed in anything like an explanation for their c ';
They were then floed 5s and costs. for being drank'sieos°
make compenSation to the camPlainants, and pay the a 0
of clantaan done to the windows, t 6
PUTTING HIS FOOT INTO IT.—Charles „„f 4et•
years of age. was charged with stealing a pair:eosfori
(rot the shop of Mr. Atkinson, in the 13.irkenhea-foug' Ao
The offence was clearly proved, the boots beio....titer ripe
his feet. From enquiries, it appeared that his 1';
away about five years ago, and his mother 0:310,(1 on
Clatterbridge Workhouse, where he himself tirelloto
been, but had run away, and that he lived' env boo
ol:ed fotr he
fim v
thieving. Prisoner said another boy knocked t • ortek
uype:arsT.o be irapris°n- the
days, with hard labour, e
and then to be sent to •
owfrellarißd-of. h
rem a ptioey

CH.ARGe OF. BIGAMY: flocit
Mons r
ter.
Yesterday, at the morning sittings, before gr•
inat the Police Court, John WArdle, a ship carrmhoiagt„vo
Cecil street, was brought up on a charge of "-aid 7,,g
the 131 March, the , present month and year, ola'n" better
do.
Isabella HeWitt, his former wife, Martha Wes°-'so
still-alive. Mr. Black appeared for the prisone%net ",bs
xnasatrhreioccsiJorlinat,rtihtaapwpeatarsetotiii
,thaatt iGnielBo4aB the po' but
woman was not perfectly satiified with that orecierr;ti3techflll'firilecf4
eubstVently, in 1854, they were,married aga,in.c.a looct-did
in Weymouth. It did not appear where or u" but P., to
had lived togeiher after the second ceremenitorrie7,.
appear that on the -13 ch inst., the prisoner wo skarl
:Isabella Hewitt in Liverpool.. Mr. Cleugh_.! folifvet
:remand., as he had material witnesses to b"tt priS°
in the case.. Mr. Bluck did not object, and
.Was remanded to Friday next.

`'A JOURNALIST'S lioNtsTr.—A corres
t saystle.4
P°ndentbe ilh° oil
I wish to call your attention to the fact that, Grab-31110
Times has omitted all that part of Sir J;aoe,seloo viro:4
speech to the electors or Carlisle, which PY-,,. vrit •I''
an account of Lord Derby's coromuoicatio—