The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-06 00:00:00

tEFORE MR. AIRIN.

Moux KNIFING.— A young fellow, named Frank
Ganigan, charged a person n ailed Edward Yates, ►he
keeper of an eating house in Dryden street, with having
'stabbed him in the neck. It appeared that the com-
plainant and some other boys went into defendant's
house, and hal some supper. The conduct of the lads
'displeased the man, and some altercation took place,
when the defendant made a blow with a knife, which
he held in his hand, which struck the boy on the side of
the neck, and from the evidence of Dr. Wall, of the
Northern Honital, it appeared that the wound was over
an inch long, and two-thirds of an inch deep. It was
in a dangerous place, but he did not think there was
any fear of bad consequences. Mr. Aikin said, if the
boy had had a whipping, he could understand it, but he
could not think of having a blow struck by a knife. He
'would send the prisoner for trial, but would admit him
to hail in two sureties of £2O each.
CHARGE OF SMEGGLING.—Evan Thomas, the master of
a vessel, named the Cambria, was charged with attempt-
ing to smuggle some velvet. Mr. Tyndall appeared
for the prosecution, and a person represented
the captain, who is at present up the country.
It appeared that the captain was leaving his vessel, when
an ofteer met him and asked if he had anything liable to
duty ? and he replied not, but, On being examined, a
piece of velvet was found with him, the duty, &c., of
which amounted to £2 63..1id. An order for the
amount, and costs, was made against the defendant.
CHARGE OF DISOBEDIENCE AT SEA.—Henry Blundell,
late the carpenter of the barque Stranger, was brought
up on warrant, charged with having disobeyed the
orders of captain Cheeseman, the commander of the
vessel. Mr. Cobb was for the prosecution, and Mr.
Billet( for the prisoner. The case was up a day or two
before, when the charge against the prisoner was for
mutiny, but this failing, the present charge was
brought forward. The prisoner was convicted, and
sentenced to one months' imprisonment, under the Act.

ANOTHER RAILWAY FRAUH.—On Thursday, Edward
A utey, a clerk for some months in the office of the secretary
to the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Railway, was
taken into custody, charged with having forged the names
of the directors to three dividend warrants, by which he
netted about £4O. The prisoner is respectably connected.
We understand that Lerd Napier, now secretary of
embassy at St. Petersburg, and who was for some time
secretary of legation at Naples, will be the representative of
her Majesty at Washington on the occasion of the comple-
tion of diplomatic intercourse with England aad the United
States. Lord Napier will leave this country for America
on the 7th of February, and will be accompanied by the
new consuls to be appointed in the- place of those whose
exFquatnr bad been withdrawn last summer.
THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF FRANCE.—The writer of a
letter from Paris says—.." I lately witnessed the imperial
circle taking the morning air in the garden of the Tuile-
ries with a freedom they seemed greatly to enjoy. The
Emperor, in a stout pea jacket, was amusing himself with
and helping to amuse his infant heir, who sat smiling in a
superb coach drawn by a couple of goats magnificently
caparisoned, and whose possible caprices were duly
restrained by two- dapper little grooms with gold laced
hats, standing at the heads of the animals. The Empress
herself looked down from a window upon the group,
chatting and laughing with her imperial sposo. High
health, merriment, and perfect ease and security charac-
terised the happy looking party.
A DESPERATE CONVICT. —A convict in the county gaol at
C add has been guilty of three most atrocious acts. .A few
days since ho attempted to murder one of the warders by
striking him on the head with a large piece of firewood,
which by some means he had concealed in his cell, A day
or two afterwards he endeavoured to strangle himself by
tying one end of his neckerchief to the bar of the window,
and pulling the other cad tightly, and he was only rescued
by the arrival of timely assistance. This, it will be thought,
was quite sufficient, but shortly afterwards it was noticed
t .at the prisoner's eyes were suffering from something, as if
they had been seratched, wed the knowledge of Mr, Evans,
the surgeon of the goal, was baffled in an endeavour to dis-
c aver the real cause, until the eyes becoming worse, and the
sight almost gone, the prisoner was searched, and in one of
his pockets a very small piece of glass was found,with which
he had scratched the pupils of the eye to such an extent as
to make it donbtful whether the eight will ever be perfectly
r stored. On being questioned as to his reason for so atro-
c ous an act, the prisoner coolly replied that he did not wish
to be sent out of the country, and therefore he had endea-
voured to destroy his sight.