The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-23 00:00:00

KIRKDALE QUARTER SESSIONS.

These sessions were resumed yesterday morning, at th e
Court house, Kirkdale. Tae Ri4ht Hqn. Lord Stanley,
M.P., the Chairman, presided, and on the bench were the
following. magistrates :- J B. .Pollock, Esq , J. W.
Harden, Esq., Captain Aspinall, and Messrs. Tneakstone,
Hall, Tinne, and Campbell.
The usual formalities having been disposed of, the
followinglentlemen were selected to serve on

THE GRAND JURY.
Mr. Thomas Barton, Creel!, Foreman.
James Edwards __gentleman Ever ton-
Robert C. Hall . wine merchant, do.
Samuel Holt ........gentleman do.
Henry Kirby..
William Liversidge spirit dealer, do.
Wm.Molyneux . tirnbermerchant,do.
Peter M.Kinley -
Peter Cato Mughall,
Thomas Harrison gentleman, do.
Benj onin Pimbley . do.
James Meadows
James Aikers brewer , . Orrell;
Thomas Aikers ..gentleman do.
Edward B. Barton do. do.
Robert Blackie .. do. ..... do.
Jeremiah Bower broker . do.
James Burgess Harrison do. .. do.
It I:rert Mawdsley ....farmer ...Great Crosby.
William Knowles ... do. .. . do.
Phillip Lace.
Thomas Clarke
Hugh Gray • ......Everton.

The usual oaths having been administered,
The Right Hon. Lord Stanley sdd I —Gentlemen of the
Jury,—The calendar before me contains thirty-three
cades, which, in paint of Lumbar, is something below
the usual average of,tbese sessipus, but I regret to have
to tell you that some of the offences are of a much more
serious nature than usual. ion are all aware or the
nature of the duties you will have to perform If in
any of the cases, there i 3 a printx facie evidence of the
guilt of the prisoner—that is to say, if the evidence is un-
contradicted or unexplained by other evidence, and you
feel that it is such that it will justify a conAtion, your
duty will be to find a true bill; but it you think the charge
is not sufficiently proved, it will likew'sp be your duty to
ignore the bill. Ido not think that there are any cases
that will present any dif6.calty to you ; but if there should
be any difficulty arise, the Court will be most.happyto afford
you every assistartee. I will n)w recpest you to proceed
With the finding of the bills, and hope you will send some
in as soon as possible, in order that the time of the Court
may not be, wasted.

The Grand Jury then retired, and soon after returned
into Court with smite bills, and the trial of prisoners was
proceeded with. The .calendar contained the names of
forty-two priso:ers, of whom fourteen could neither read
or write, eleven could read and write imp'>rfeedy, ' eight
could read, and three could read and write. OF the
remainder, it was not stated what amount or education
they had received.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—YEsT ERDAY.

LIVERPOOL.

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

A. FEMALE " MAN CATcasit."—A nice looking young
woman,_named Julia Whitfi.thi, was charge-I with having
broken Is worth of glasq, in the house of Elisabeth Hart-
well, Bevington Hill: The prosecutrix, who is also a
young tidy to eking woman, stated that the prisoner came
up to her windows and made " smash" of them. Tile
prisoner said in her defence that Miss Har•-wel had not
acted very well to her, for she had '•catch«3ll away"
her husband from her. She went to .look for him the
night before, and found him there, and she got a bit
outraged at the complainant harbouring him, and she did
break the glass. The complainant said it was not her
fault, if the "gentleman" preferred her house to his own,
she could not help it--it *as all a matter of taste.
The prisoner was fined seven shillings, the value of the
glass.

RVVLTS OP A FACTION FIGHT.-03 Saturday night
there was a great facrion fight in N)rth street, when
pokers, sticks, stones, and all sorts of m,ssiles wore used,
and with great effect ,alSo, for towards the eonclusion
mens' heads, legs, arms, and other parts of their bodies
were battered and braised to a great extent. Amongst the
wounded were Philip Riley, Bridget Falkner, and Michael.
Burnt, who were taken to the Northern Dispensaryf
*here their wounds were dressel, an.l they were disetarged.
Since then it appeared that the man. Burns got much
worse, and on close medical examination it was ascertained
that the m n had had two of hit ribs broken; and a portion
had penetrated the long% an], in censer] lerice, he was
in danger, From these facts it was deemed necoesary to
arrest two persons, named Philip Reilly and Thomas Nolan,
who stand charged with being c.)ncernei in the affray and
aszault on the injured min. and they ware brought up yester-
day. A witness for the defence said that the street was most
disorderly, and that one was just as bad as the other.
Mr. Mansfield said, if the injured man died, and the
prisoners were hanged for his murder, perhaps it would
produce some quietness there. .The prisoners were re-
manded

-SERIOUS CUARGE.—A person named Patrick M'Lennon
is in custody, on a charge of being concerned in the death
of a man named Patrick Mulcahey, and will probably be
brought up this day. We do not give the details until the
cave is fairly before the court.
A CHEAP PA.SSAGE.—A young man of very respectable
appearance, and dresswil in the first style of fashion, with
an ample appendage of hair on his upper lip, who gave
his name as Richard Jenard, and describ:d himself as
the traveller for a Manchester honse in America, was
brought up by detective officer Grissenthvraite, and
charged with having stowed himself away in the royal
mail steamer Europa, he not havir g paid his passage from
New York to this port. Mr. Conway, solicitor, appeared
on behalf of the accused, and requested that. the hearing
of the case might be postponed until this day, in the
expectation that in the curse of that time, arrangements
would be come 'to between the parties, and the prosecution
withdrawn. Mr. Mansfield granted the application, and
the case was postponed.

Tan :TEL
.TRADE.—ApriI 20.—The deliveries in London
estimated for the week were 1,156,4091 b , which, com-
pared with those of the previous we sk, when the operation
of the new duty caused an important increase, exhibit a
falling off 3,441,091 b.
THE CURATE AND THE COQ NTRTIVOMA.N.—In one of the
pari,hes of this diocese lives and labours a curate whose
walk is blameless, but who, having but a se Int pasture and
a small flock, would keep the whole to himself; and when,
at Easter time, he heard that a few of his lambs had strayed
among the Primitives, and partaken of tea and " singin'
hinny" at sixpence ahead, he was moved to displeasure,
and issued an intimation that canfirmati in should be with-
held, at the Lord Bishop's coming, from all families that
came in contact with convent'oles. "Gacks, me," cried a
sons:e housewife, "if thinks maw bairns is a' g'yeoping
for confirmation, he's far wring, curie man !"—Gateshead
Observer.
THE SUSPECTED POISONING AT GLASOOW.—It is stated
that the unfortunate deceased kept a diary, in which is
recorded, with much minuteness, the transac ions of each
day, and all the incidents in his somewhat discreditable
life. The remarkable contents or that diary will like:y be
disclosed at the trial. L'Angellier was well ',known in
certain Edinburgh circles, and in these the trit'hfulness
of. the paragraph in the Dundee paper is thoroughly
believed. The quantity of arsenic found in the stomach
was very cowiderable=lar more than sufficient to account
for death. We have heard that the trial will take place
before the Lords of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on Monday
the 18th or. Monday the 25th of May. The case for the •
prosecution will be conducted by the Lord Advocate, while
the defence has been entrusted to the Dean of Faculty
(Alr. Inglis) Probably in no place out of Glasgow
has this unfortunate case occasioned more painful
anxiety than in Alloa, where the young lady, on whom
unheopily, suspicion temporarily rests, ,was well known.
—Alloa A duertiser.

How MERCHANT SHIPS ARE MANNED IN AMERICA.—
' The New York Times desceibes the method adopted by the
" land sharks" of New York to get sailors cm board the
American packet ships. The following is a sample of the
manner in whiCh.persons ignorant of navigation are furced
on board some of her ships :—A man is. walking along
South street with a box of carpenter's tools on his shoulder,
or
ro a
willk
glass at his back. The land shark, who is
a crew, and wants one more man, hails the
pancg f
o orf
stranger with an "liolioa, my good fellow, do you want a
job ?' and, engaging him to make some repairs on board a
ship lying in the stream, takes him off ia his shift. On
lue way, the unsuspecting mechanic is rendered insensib e
by drugged liquor or tobacco, furnished by his guide. His
tools are thrown into the river, be is hoisted on board the
ship, and awakes from his delirium the next morning far
away from land. It has been reported that men who'have
been drugged and tlecoyed on board ship in this manner
were found deal when the officer went to rouse them out of
their bunks to work. Of course, these victims of the kid-
napper got very little of the " advemie" wages which the
owner furnishes for the crew. That is the plunder of the
land shark, who generally shares it with his coadjutor, the
mate of the etip. It is to be expected that a crew com
posed mainly of cooks, coopers, carpenters, clerks, tailors,
shoemakers, and street loafers, kidnapped from the shore,
will show " insolence and insabordination." The officers of
the ship might expect it, for they know that these men are
not sailors, and that, however debased their characters, it
is but natural for them to rebel against the despotism to
which they are enslaved.

THE SUPPLY OF WATER AT BIRKENIIE°

TO THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN 11)1511" fro
Sir,—The recent alarming and destructive 03,
in Birkenhead reminds me forcibly ef- 131..„,01
similar conflagrations which occurred in L. err
some few years ago, under somewhat simino tj-ot
cumstances, often resulting in great 113° se,
merely of property, but, as was too often the "-be
of life itself, mainly, if not entirely, owing to
ve
want of an adequate supply of water until 1° is
after the discovery of the fire. At the tiln,..ne
question the water was supplied to the, inhainTh
of Liverpool by the two companies, 'OO
the Liverpool and Harrington and the 13r) by
Company. These companies were bounubing
'their act to supply water for extinettiswere
fires without charge; but unfortunately theY,:ntly
not compelled either to have their mains 00081",ty
charged, or to furnish the necessary Vane;
hence, it invariably happened, that when "thisg
broke out, a long period elapsed ere anY'r.oo
like an adequate supply could be procured I:vial
the mains, to enable the firemen to, cel3e, thee
it. It mattered not how prompt and efficient icseci
latter were, as their exertions were para.' in
for 'the want of water. Thus, alines" the
every case of a fire breaking out, eresiod
opposing element could be procured it had
such an ascendancy as to defy every eff,°roaf,
subjugation until it had fairly burned itsen day.
as was the case at Birkenhead the other uore
Complaints were repeatedly made by the atlit"tter,
ties to the water companies, but these 16d to
secure in their monopoly, gave very little bee of
them; or, if compelled to explain, they invol'a;„iit
urged the great scarcity of water as a sutDcete
answer to all complaints Thus things went 001„0
after year, witnessing conflagrations greater tears
these which preceded them. Within a few S,id
the destruction of property by fire alone excee'
a million sterling, to say nothing of human lift'ato
have myself often seen the supply of :roe
deliberately shut off from a fire 'by a
turncoce, coly
pleaded his orders, when property was beingeptif;
Burned_ at the estimated value of .220,000 an 0 ja
Such was the state of water supply for fireyes
Liverpool ; when in the summer of 1845 ,vd•
appointed manager of the Liverpool and liariloce
ton Company's works, by far the 'neat 'eXteti.uro
of the two. I found to my agreeable 0
prise, that the plea of scarcity of water has
mere preterit on the part of the Conlnstielt
servants, who, to screen themselves from c,e'ttiti
and save extra trouble or labour, had thus uettoelf
the habit of withholding the water, and ", bole
misleading the directors and the public B:rottel
as to the true cause. The distributing. alnisted
had been permitted to get fuel; a most Aiitleetill
condition through culpable neglect, ti;Z:'
necessary to make important itnprovetnen"rable
alterations, involving of course consineod
'expense. 'Most of the directors were„,7tion
old Tories, who hated the bare use
of change. The works had answered their Pu.roa
so far;' they got their dividends regular`Y,:tietli
they shrunk from the contemplation of exPed'beliii
"- money on what was looked upon as oete;
advantages. Stich was the view takenbYll3,oses;
the board as to the plans I suggested for iMP,;teed
the works; and had it not been for the enlir ger
support I received .from the chairman, 1%.1r. eate,
mood Banner, Liverpool would eVell n"t„,arelq
made little or no progress on the old eY° re
'extinguishing fires by means of fire engines Who
by hand; for it is a notorious fact that valtug#
first intimated my intention of dispensing, vote!
they with engines, by projecting jets °.`loorA
direet from the mains, . my' plans Were
as 107
upon as visionary, and I was set down %gen
better than a lunatic. The present water g314400ri,
Mr. Duncan, then a servant to Mr. James ,i„1/
of the Chelsea Water Works,, did not set.' oe'li
ridicule the scheme, characterising it as.„„,sell
Ittl.•
fit to amuse children, while Mr. SirnPsen.doo'
lectured pub!iely against it, as did Mr. Brn/fice.c°l'
the Superintendent of the London Fire 13,5a1, for
These lectures were published, and will sP,sue tog
themselves. Within twelve months from
I commenced•ope.rations I was enabled 010,70 e
whole of the Company's mains constantly couf
fir
day and night, and whenever an alarm 1000
was given, the supply was prompt and anifPo. eati.4°'
I proved to demonstiation that my pia° sesioes,i'dl
guishing fires were neither empirical nerotio,
—having been adopted by the veil rtile outse(i,
were loudest in their condemnation ,31,t eePY.se •
Since this has been done, LiVei.Pool P".O
almost entire exemption from destructt.olisbe
gratious. Now, what was so easily itet'.° Dir 1012,,:
in Liverpool may be still easier done in se;.)11'"
head ; in the one case the mains and ottleVitedt ,
were very old and necessarily much dilsP;iL4oo
and as they had been laid piecemeal, " 001 i
regard to any general system. they were can
bCiOS
plicated; not so in Birkenheail; the works4erP,
comparatively new and laid down on a 1400
and 'comprehensive plan, on the most aPP,sibla
modern principle, there could be no
difficulty in maintaining a constant 50'0
of water is the various -leading °trot°
throughout the township. With the preesnrtaeiellt:
Claughton, which would be quite stio greP
the cost would be trivial compared tO tbe oter
'advantages gained. The consumption ,),`,,t.risg:
would not be increased. In the case of the eqCompany,ton Company, it was clearly proved that tll4ter, _,
a large saving of money, labour, fuel, and Iv Dee
the improvements which I introduced, in Pejieteu
a waste of either, as ignorant critics had Pr
—I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Re.poSAl'°'
...Tames JX.
Chester street, Birkenhead, 20th April, 1

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A French traveller of some note, .named gaec3,,,gte i
about to set out forliinbuetoe. M. Ve'l,di.tiritstiortir:s6tieritjtif
was put to death as an English agent" by the ro.atieees°o
Wadai, out of revenge for the seizure (at the fo'tljai, 6
teled opto
some English consul) of a caravan belonging
pretextEagl
English
osfa
hjseizureeet
s a being et ihnegi thattheir
the Sultan
. since'
THE WOLF IN THE FOT.D. property.A short time rothlel
decently dressed pedlar, in the course of biscio t,
called at a house in the West end of London, an. C.IIP
et oP fle
of perseverance, succeeded in gaining the
where the young la lies 'of the house were
presented his wares—laces and fashionable hebebies, „tifs
of varion eki ode. Having duly extolled 11i3 Sale,ahe cou'el,
ahaving disposed of some of them, lie directeo ' etisatitbe
f conversation very adroitly into quire an't:hetrt ideen's
and ultimately proposed to be permitted to in,„otitne -irbi's
young ladies to " Father Faber," of the Brit",r'ieg
.i,"iti
tory. Some surprise was. expressed 00 l'y-,0 dee-111
proposition,h and on being askel what he hauA" shia:,te
the e " Otatorian'Fa'hets," lie admitted that be "Insfe"-to
himself
priest, whose occupation it is tkolld sef'oo
~
emreseeplfiaintatohosuocseiest,ya,nodr,leaads
captive
.aposlyi:ouleent; 100/
it appears wa have in our miciPsttivea 93e3oithil'eatise f'
'suonrdieprtgarr,enintdractu,rreanatd, trtyaingsahtsoerrseubytheerteatuue f 11:01
Christian error. —.Record. 50 o
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ABtaTII AT SEA.—A pleasing little enieou-o°o4, 0,
. board the screw steamer Express, Captain he pisgheip
her las., trip from this to London. Arnongstt",pt .7 g
gers was a female on her avay to join an -01- Wirrll
lying in the Thames, bound for New Z-alanu. gave blr'trei
the passage this female became a mother, ancirae wage
to a healthy boy. Such em,rgeecies, we prestl,, esoY"'ilr'
enter into the calculations of outfit for so sher',.; be
matters therefore may be supposed not to „h„a• the ,;iti
.'‘ apple pie" order for such an .event.botag,;4et
intimation,
a however, Captain Craig, with tha.7 ail°6 sisd
..-
hrillci nseelnfet ergoydwevhisicehmperaonvs f e hoirniparoev‘itdriang for theotber. ~a
eßritish
gllsPts'ebil
ministering to the comfort of the expentaot,ln; eleelos- il
mate's berth was placed at her service, beitle'"eostrigair
quiet. Happily there was a Dr. Nisbet otiwbele•thae
passenger ; so that in a very short time theee-etablY,titelf
was got over, perhaps more neietly and cols'ini- otee-idb•
seat matters are often managed on shore. headed aLar,
safter the event, Captain Craig opened and stram'ocl
criptien list for the benefit of the sea hero oaf
This was promptly responded to by the P5..3,,a1t, °,:eoo
crew, and the handsome sum of a wait thet,D t° begs
more by a good deal than many a one has --,..,,edee'e'
the world with. On the steamer's arrival at ',:i 02' el.
Craigenit valtjia
child was baptised, and named George
monition of the event, and as the mother's in" 0 0"P iber
token of gratitude for the kindness received fr°,4 itle;atit
pleasure
oCrabig. The captain saw his little natnesake 9", Ell; a
land
_oard the vessel which was to bear them
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