Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-18 00:00:00

THE NOR-TURN TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 18 1869

ATTACK ON THE MASTER

OF THE

WATERFORD STEAMER MARS,

ON THE HIGH SEAS.

On Saturday morning, at the Police-court, before Mr. Pres-
ton, five men, named John Hutchinson, John Sheehan, David
Heron, John Murphy, and NAHA O'Grady, were brought
up by officer 294, for baying violently assaulted Captain
Byrnes, of the steamer Mars, plying between this port and
Waterford. Mr. Cobb appeared for the prisoners. The
ease caused some interest. The Captain said : We left
Waterford. en Friday, and about five o'clock we were

passing oetween the mainland and Tuskar, a very critical
place to navigate, and the ship was in a critical and
important position, and I was very anxious about her
position and the safety of the ship. The prisoners were in
the galley, where they had no right to be, and the boy was
eAllinc, them to go out, but they refused, and then the boy

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called me to put them out. r went forward and told them
go out. All went except Heron, who would not go out,
aid, after some altercation, I took him by the coat to pull
him out; the coat tore, when Hutchinson took off

his coat to fight me. The five men then attacked me, and
I was obliged to call my hands to my assistance. The
prisoners struck me on the back of the head, and attacked
me right and left on all sides ; they kicked me on the legs,
cut my nose, and otherwise ill-used me. Only for my crew,
and some Italian passengers, the affair would have been
worse, as the ship was in a dangerous position, and
if
been prevented from attending to my duty, she might
en lost, and all alon.; with her. Cross-examined by
bb : The stewardess sells drink on board, and there

license

to do so, but iris not sold in the galley; she
was not in the galley at the time. I took the man by the
coat, and pulled him out, and tore his coat. Mr. Cobb :
Then don't you think that you deserve what you
got, for treating the man that way? Let the
Magistrate decide that point. Mr. Cobb said his clients

were sailors, but were passengers by the ship,
and they denied having struck the captain. He asked the
captain if the men were not put down amongst the beasts
on board. The captain said they were steerage passengers,
but were not put amongst cattle, as_ there was a house, for

going
struck

assenT,_,,ers, in the ship

le Board of Trade

The ship was, of coli

John Power, a

TS rushed into the zalley

I complained t
red them out. All but Heron went out; and, afte
me, the captain, as he would not go out. c
coat and pulled him out. The captain then was
ft, when the five rushed after him, and Hutchinson

vlght him

A'l the rest rushed round him, and then I
rent into the galley, as the sailors came to the captain's
assistance. Mr. Cobb cross-examined the lad, who is a
►ery intelligent little fellow, and he said the men
wanted to warm themselves. Heron had had some drink, but
he knew what he was doing. He was the only one who
would not leave the galley. The captain tore his coat, but
it was in consequence of the weakness of the cloth.
(Laughter.) The carpenter of the ship proved that he went
to the assistance of the captain, who was being attacked by

. .
the prisoners, when he was knocked down by 'O'Grady. He
Saw Hutchinson strike the captain at the cabin door. To
Mr. Cobb : He said there were five-and-twenty or thirty of
them altogether. The prisoners were the ringleaders. The
quartermaster of the .hip was examined. lie said he was
called up and informed that a lot of fellows were beating
the captain, and going to .take charge of the vessel. Tie
saw the whole of the five prisoners striking at the captain,
and he was afraid they would use their knives. Mr. Cobb :
Did you see any knife ? No. Did you see them all strike
the captain ? I did, every one of them ; but he defended
timsglf, and had it not been for some Italian passengers the

case -wo.ald have been very bad. The eapthin w;is again
called, and he said he got a poker to defen I himself, for had
he been prevented from attending to the ship, she would

one ashore in two minutes -after, so it was ne
safety of life and the ship that he should at

pro tec

who was a pa

lger corroborated th

statement of the assault, and said he saw all the prisoners
strike the captain. One of the crew of the ship proved the
attack on the captain by the prisoners, and said he saw
Sheehan strike at the captain. They had him between the rail-
kw and themselves. Mr. Cobb then addressed the Bench, and
said that in law the captain had commenced the assault by his
own account. He called Charles Cavanagh for the defence,
who said : The captain called them a d----- lot, -and struck
Hutchinson in the eye first. The captain used more force

to Heron than was necessary. Mr. Preston said, the
captains of coasting vessels had a very difficult, duty to
perform ; and here was a case that, if proper order and
acipline were not observed, the vessel might have gone
ashore in two minutes. He went through the evidence,
and said the captain had acted most properly, and he was

resolved to protect captains from violence, as they had an
important duty to perform. He thought Hutchinson the
worst of' the lot, and he would fine him £5 or two months,
and the others XI or one month each.

The Critic learns by the Ic;urnal du Far. that M
de Toequeville is not yet dead, but i 6 lingering at the Isle

d'Hyeres

net died in the

first wars of the

Consulate, and had fixed him-self in France,
hospital of Avesnes (Nord), aged 104.
CIRCASSIANS.—In consequence of the advantage
by General Wrangel over the Circassian forces,
3 .of 2,000 of the inhabitants have come in and

made their submission

The Bordeaux journals state that by the recent frosts all
shoots of the vines have been destroyed in the cantons of
Pezenas, in that of Florensac, in the plains, in most of the
vineyards on the mountain, at Frontignan, Poussan, Gigean,
and Meze, all in the Herault ; addin;3 that the same is the
ease in the Narbonnais and the Roussillon.

RIPPERS AND EXPORTERS.—A most profitable
f export, to warm climates especially, are the Self-
; Charcoal Filters, patented by Messrs. §aunderE

of 16, Parker-street, Liv
wherever there is

iad water

>count on export and w

)61—in fact they a

S. and Co. allow

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THE EXTRADITION TREATY WITH THE UNIT

Henry J. David, late of New York, was
forward. He had been charged with for

)n-appearance of the prosecutor.

said the statement, so far, went to
was charged with forging kis own r
character rnizht bo seriously affeetec

STATES

The magi

A gentleman

Artiditionact used to inflict gi'eat hat

in the magistrates power to afford him redress.
'mut, PACHA.-Ismail Paella, who has been appoin
to the chief command of the Turkish force now being e
- at Sophia and Schurnla, has left Constantin(
ume his command

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petitions for dissolution of marriage
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don't
-think-Counsel: Oh,:my lord, we will not trouble
this casuistic avitne,,:s: • His Lordship -(to witness) Were
you ever examined before ? 'Witness : Upon the-nature of
an oath ? (Laughter.) Counsel: Oh. let him ge down,
my lord. Tl,e Witness then retired, amidst considerable
laughter. -- Worlhern

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TIDE-IyAITER'S CLOTHING COMMITTEE
_?, GROSS YOBBEItir:
TO THE EDITOR OP-THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,—Allow me, thrcnigh the medium of your
widely-circulated journal, to expose an act of in-
justice, on the part of the above committee, towards
myself, leaving it with public opinion to decide
whether I am not_ right in characterising it gross
jobbery. The above committee advertised, in several
papers, to thiee 'classes of tradesmen, namely,
tailors, drapers, and outfitters, for tenders to supply
two hundred and fifty suits of uniform clothes, stating
that particulars were to be obtained by applying by
letter. In answer to which, I wrote for particulars and
obtained by return of post a printed form, setting.
forth the terms of contract, to which I assented, and
forwarded my samples together with my contract.
To my surprise, on Saturday, they were returned
unopened, with a Jesuitical apology for having put
me to the trouble. I enquired the reason, and the
one stated to me was, because I was not a tailor, the
truth of which I admit, nevertheless, I am a woollen
draper, and, from my position in the trade, I flatter
myself that I am able to supply them better than
any tailor in Liverpool. But the advertisement
distinctly states drapers, and if it was intended they
should not be accepted as contractors why did they
not inform me when I applied by letter for the parti-
culars relating to the contract ? And now let me
ask a discerning public, does this look like the act of
men desirous of obtaining for their fellow officers the
best value for their money P Such conduct is not
only unjust towards myself, but likewise towards
the majority of their comrades, and deserves to be
denounced as gross jobbery. Any man with ordinary
common sense will at once see that it is only an un-
derhanded. . trick to get rid of my samples, and
to make way for those of interested parties,
and feeling strongly, as I do, upon the subject, I deem
it a duty to drag such conduct to light, knowing
the dissatisfaction that exists among the officers
generally at the manner they are treated respecting
their clothes, which they themselves pay for. lam
sure of their support in thus exposing that which
they know full well exists, but from their position
they are unable to grapple with ; and as a matter of
justice to myself, and them, I call upon the author-
ities in this• matter to institute a searching
investigation into such conduct. So sure am
I of its necessity, that I challenge the
committee to compare the samples selected
with my samples, and to submit them to the
judgment of any competent and independent man.
Phis I proposed to the person who brought back my
samples, but• who very Jesuitically said, that if I
waited until the clothes were completed, I should
see to the contrary. Let me ask the question, how
he came to know this ? for, according to his own
statement, my samples had never been, opened. Of
course I do not accept his advice, to wait ; but
before any further action is taken, 'I call upon them,
if they value public good. opinion, to accept my
challenge. If not, it will then be seen whether their
conduct is not that of men guilty of violating
one of the fundamental laws of justice
and as gross an act of jobbery as could well be per-
petrated, calling at once for the interference of the
authorities, either to let the men go where they, in
the exercise of their individual judgment think they
will obtain the best value for their money, or else to
establish a system that will procure the same advan-
tage to their officers, and not allow them to be
exposed to the tender mercies of such a discreditable
committee as the one whose actions I have ventured
to bring to light, and anly ask the public for their
verdict.—l am, sir, your s, &c.
WILLIAM EVANS,
Brittannia Cloth Hall, 8, Pitt-street.

THE "MUSICAL" WORLD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,---In your issue of Saturday last appeared a
letter from Mr. William Ryalls, music-seller, Hamil-
ton-street, Birkenhead, in reply to which a word or
two may suffice.

The gentleman referred to in said letter, and
through whose penchant for tell-taleing the wrath of
Mr. R. has been risen, is a publican at New-Ferry, of
the credibility of whose fabrication your readers will
best estimate, when I mention that the tale he carried
to - Mr. Ryalls is altogether a make-up. In fact, I
refused him a personal favour at the time in question.
When asked professionally to give my opinion as to
the value of the piano sold by Mr. Ryalls, I did so,
and should not refuse to do sdin any other case when

professionally asked.
In his letter, Mr. R. modestly says, " I called
upon Mr. H. next day, who was behind his counter,
and, as I thought, disengaged." I was behind
my counter, serving, as quickly as I could, several
customers.

Mr. Ryalls denies using any threat after leaving
the shop. I am ready to name parties who can prove
that he ctid not only use threats, but continued the
disturbance, reiterating the words, " I'll shut up his
shop for him," while in the hands of the police.
The unsigned portion of Mr. Rvalls's manifesto
says :—" As regards Mr. John Howard's opinion
about pianos, I should fancy it is not worth much,
knowing, as I do, that the said Mr. John Howard has
bought pianos that wore discarded from my ware-
house, as unfit for sale in any respectable establish-
ment, and sent by me to the auction room."

The opinion I gave as to
- -

the piano, has been very fully confirmed by no fewer
than three first-class professionals in Liverpool.
In a word, Mr. Ryalls has been convicted publicly,
at the Police-court, of a most morally serious offence,
and has been bound over to keep the peace towards
me. He should now take care, lest in the concocting
of, and giving publicity to, such. productions as has
formed the subject of this letter, he may be guilty
not only of " breaking the peace," but also of running
his neck into the halter of a most expensive libel
—I am, yours, &c., J. HOWARD.

0
INO SHIP SHOULD GO TO SEA without one of Saunders
find Co 's Patent Self-cleansing Charcoal Filters, cased and
atted-up expressly for use on board ship. Note the addres
SAUNDERS & CO., 16, Parker-street, Liverpool

ENVFOUNDLAND SEAL FISHERY. --Very &ratifying Ac-
counts of the prospects of this fishery have been received in
It is stated that one vessel had arrived at St.
9,000 seals, an unusually large number, and it
s expected that the season would prove a very productive
Greenock Advertiser.

—A number of the smaller farms
en lately re-let at a considerable

, ranging at a rise of 10 to 25
I. No sooner is a small hold-
Are a dozen in pursuit of it.—

RAILWAY ACCOIYtMODATION FOR

in their report to tii€

assembled general sessions at Afaidstone, on
Irew attention to the facilities afforded by the
rn Railway Company, to large bodies of persons
d on their line, with the avowed object of taking
ze fights,.and thus committing a breach of the
tioning that on the occasion of the recent.fight

declin(

ecial train of 34 carriages, con-

A for a long time mid-

tho safety of thus,

thereby greatly

M ANU

present bore. porsonal

acyof the practice complained of,

lv on the North Bent line. The committee
lat the attention of the government be called
ut Mr. Beattie, one of the directors, happen-

Is exereisin

Australia

On T
i Consul for
near the Home Farm
lame is Don Antonio
found three letters,
of the Bear Hotel,
he has been staying since Tuesday last,
•essed to tho Duke of Marlborough. The
kiddressed.,to him. .The address on'this
Don Antonio :from Ayata, Spanish Consul
ia, Taristock Hotel, Covent-garden." In his

to the landlad

letter to the ,Dake of Marlborongh he begs that his grace
will pardon him for selecting his park for a place in which
to end his life, and he observes that he has a feeling which
may be a childish one, that objects that he should die in
cultivated fields, where cottages are, and railroads cross, and.

signs of life exist, therefore he has selected Blenheim Park
for this purpose, and prays that the Duke will cause him to
be buried at the spot where he has died, and cause a cross to
be put up to note the place, ncc9rding to the Spanish
custom,

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

LIVERPOOL, Saturday Evening.

The Liverpool Cotton Market continues quiet, and
the business done to-day amounts only to 5,000 bales,
the whole of which with the exception of 500 bales
have been taken by the trade. Prices remain with-
out change. _ _ _ _

The Liverpool Share Market has been very
quiet to-day, and prices have been rather, lower.
The transactions were :—London and North
Western, 93Z,. 931, 931 ; Manchester Sheffield and
Lincolnshire, 381, 384 ; Midland, 1019 ; South
Eastern, 20.9-16, 202; Dutch Rhenish, 5d ; Grand
Trunk of Canada, 8 9-16 ; Lombardo Venetian,
15-16 p

The -London Stock Market has not been so buoyant
to-day, and in the early part of the day
,transactions
took place in Consols at a decline of, from a sixteenth
to an eighth per cent. from the closing quotations of
Friday night, but they subsequently improved, and
were quoted at 951 to 951, for Money, at which there
were buyers. The closing prices for Public Secu-
rities were :—Consols Money, 951; Ditto Account,
951 ; Exchequer Bills, 33, 36; Bank Stock, 223,
225 ; Three per Cents., 939, 94.

The London Share-Marliet was very inactive all
day. Prices in most instances are fairly supported ;
but Caledonian and North British stocks. have
declined 4 per cent., and Lancashire and Yorkshire
and Great Western about -1-s per cent., compared with
the four o'clock prices of yesterday. London and
North-Western stock is now quoted 934 to 934;
Great Western, 571 to 571 ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 921 to 93 ; Midland, 1004 to 101 i; Berwick,
89t to 89%; York and North Midland, 74i to 741 ;
Caledonian, 791 to 80 ; South Eastern, 204 to 201
per share; North British, 551 to 56 ; and London
and South-Western, 901- to 91. The final closing
prices were :—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Eastern
Junction, 54, 63 ; Caledonians, 79k, 80; Eastern
Counties, 574, 58 ; East Lancashire, 91, 92 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 72, 73 ; Great Northern,
1004, 101 ; Ditto A, 85, 87; Great Westerns,
57%, 57Z • Great Western of Canada. 151, 16 ; Grand
Trunk Of Canada, 89, 8 ; Great Southern and
Western, 105, 106; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 924,
93.; London and North-Western, 931., 93Z ; London
and South-Western, 901,91 ; Leeds Northern, 454,
46 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 381 ;
Midland Stock, 1001, 101; North British, 551. 564;
South Eastern and Dover, 681, 681 i • York, New-
castle, and Berwick, 899, 90; York and North
Midland, 744, 75-

The failure of a broker has been announced on the
Stock Exchange this morning, through the default of
his client, who is reported to have committed suicide.
The demand for money continues good, but there is
no advance in the terms. At the bank the business
is of a steady character, but moderate in amount.
Yesterday was the day fixed for payment of 12 per
cent. on the Chilian Loan, and a quarter of a million
on the Madras Railway capital. An instalment of
125,000/. falls due on Tuesday on the capital of the
Bombay and Baroda Railway.

The movements of the Precious Metals during
the past week have again been important. The
imports have amounted to about 581,3141, including
60,0001 from the United States, by the Asia, and
14,7501 by the Arago ; 117.164/ from Australia, by
the Royal Bride ; 104,4001 from Mexico and the
West Indies, by the. La Plata; 5,0001 from Alexan-
dria, by the Pera ; and about 280,0001 in silverr
from the Continent. The exports have been 791,923/
to Bombay, by the Ripon, chiefly in silver ; and
shipments to the Continent, through the London
Custom House, estimated at 11,1061; making a
total of 803,0291.

A parcel of 4,000/. in gold was yesterday with-
drawn from the Bank for exportation.

The official opening of the Paris Bourse is hence-
forth to take place one h )ur earlier than hitherto,
viz., at twelve o'clock instead of one. The official
closing. hour remains as before, namely, three o'clock.
Business on the Bourse has increased so rapidly
during the last year or two, that the two hours
hitherto assigned for the official transactions are
found quite inadequate. _ _

The annual meeting of the Agra and United Ser-

vice Bank was held to-day, Mr. Macgregor in the
chair. The report was very brief; and stated that
the result of operations for the past year enabled the
directors to declare two dividends at the rate of ten
der cent. per annum each, and to add to the last a
bonus of 1/. per share, the whole free of income cax.
There would remain, after these appropriations, a
surplus of 22,8911. 4s Bd, of which sum they have
placed 10,4641.7 s to credit of reserve, increasing that
fund to 175,0001., and have carried the remainder,
viz., 12,4261. 17s 8d to credit of the present year.
A branch at Shanghai has been opened. The nett
profit for the year was 131,056/. 5s 3d. The report
was adopted, and a vote of thanks was passed to the
directors of the company.

In the American fidvices it is announced that the
convention entered into by the several railways to
arrest competition has been broken, and that rivalry
will again be created among the whole of the under-
takings. Some fluctuation in prices had taken place
in consequence, but New York Central- had suffered
most severely from the effect of the change. The
accounts of tjie harvest received from the West were
satisfactory ; and ifan abundant return at the end of
the season were secured, the effect, it is contended,
would be most encouraging upon business.

Under the influence of the —considerable fall which took
place yesterday in the French Rentes, transactions took
place in Consols at a fall of fully per cent. This depres-
sion, however, proved entirely temporary. Buyers came
forward, and the hope is still clung to that the pending
negotiations will not prove fruitless. The quotations of
Consols were-, the best part of the day, H per cent.
above those of yesterday. The. demand for money continues
good, but no advance in the terms. A parcel of £4,000 in
gold was withdrawn from the. Bank to-day for exportation.
At Vienna yesterday a recovery of about per cent. took
place in the Five per Cent. Metalliques.—Daily News City
Article, Friday Evening.

The English Funds opened heavily at a further reaction
of -41, per cent., but the impression then seemed to gain
ground that the Emperor Napoleon desires further delay,
and that consequently the interval required by the English
Cabinet before making their promised statement may suffice
to enable some new promises of an adjustment to be pre-
pared and agreed to; hence, before the close, the market
assumed a steadier tone. In the Discount Market money
continues in good demand at the Bank minimum. In the
Foreign Exchanges, this afternoon, there was a slight
reaction from the recent unfavourable movement in
Austrian rates. Other places were about the same as last
post. The accounts from t•t. Petersburgh, to-day, indicate'
that the success of the new loan is deemed very problem-
atical, the quotation of Exchange having experienced a

ial Produce Alaikets'durin

week have not experienced any important alteration. -The
Tea Market has been firmer, a considerable business having
been done in the recent arrivals. Common Congon cannot
be obtained under is nd per lb.--Times City Article, Friday
TAR PURPOSE OF PRIZE I Evening.

The Railway Traffic Returns of the United Kingdom for
the week ceding April 9, show an increase of £34,150 as
compared with the same period last year.