Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-17 00:00:00

PUBLICANS' CASES.

Fenton Finn, publican, Temple-lane, was summoned
on one information for Sunday trading, and on a second
infonnation for having permitted drunkenness. Mr.
Muck appeared for "the defence.—An officer said that at
half-past three o'clock on Sunday morning.. he saw the
defendant's house open, and, on: entering found a man
and woman there. At first the defendant said they
were lodgers, but afterwards he-said that the woman had
quarrelled with a man, and had come' there for protec-
tion, and offered the, officer a shilling 'not to, say any-
thing about it. The officer further said that the land-
lord and the man were drunk.—Mr. Black, for the
defence, admitted that his client had done wrong -in
attempting to -bribe the; officer, but he was-instructed
that no liquor had been sold, and produced a witness
who gave evidence to this effect.—A fine of 10s. and
costs was inflicted for permitting drunkenness ; but the
evidence not being satisfactory as to the selling, that
summons was dismissed.'
John Gill, publican, Frederick-street, was summoned
for Sunday selling, and was' defended by Mr. Cobb.
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The officer's having given evidence in support of the
case, Mr. Cobb said his client kept a boarding-house,
and. a seaman who was going away on the Saturday
night had a friend or two to take a parting glass, and
they remained till half-past twelve, when the officers
entered. The case was dismissed.
Charles Smith, publican, Frederick-street, was sum-
moned for selling on Sunday morning. An officer said
that: on the previous Saturday night, after twelve
o'clock, he found the defendant's house open. In reply
to Mr. Cobb, he said he did not see anyone inside, and
the case was therefore dismissed.
A number' of
beerhouse-keeperswere summoned for
breaches of the regulations ; but as the cases were of the
ordinary class, none of them possessed the slightest
public interest except the 'following :
Jane Sheila, beerseller, ChiSenhale-street, was sum-
moned for having sold ale on Sunday.. An officer,
nained Steadman, said on Sunday last he stopped a woman
wfth'a jug 'dale, which she said she had Obtained from the
defendant's beerhouse.—Mr. Cobb—What right had you
to stop-her; do you know that you committed a trespass ?
—Mr. Virybergh said 'that was not so.—Mr..Cabb—l
have Mr. Mansfield's authority for saying that a police-
man has no right to stop a person whom he sees coming
out of a public-house. It is not Mr. Mansfield's law ; it
is the law of the land.-Mr. Wybergh----Do you mean to
say that if an officer whose duty it is to see that no pub-
lican violates the-law, has not a right—l do not say to
take into custody—but to detain any person whom he
may see with a jug of ale coining out of a public-house?
—Mr. Cobb—By touching her he committed a trespass,
and if she had knocked him down or-blackened his eye
wi!,k the jug, he would have. been the aggressor.—Mr.
-Wybergh—l don't think so : I think the officers go too
far sometimes; and if they take the jug from them and
-taste it, no doubt they would be guilty of 'a trespass.—
Mr. Earle—The officers saw her coming out of
the house. Mr. Cobb—That doei not prove
the "offence • the summons is • for unlawfully
permitting beer to be -sold. Will you swear, officer,
that she paid for the beer ?-officer : I will swear she
said she paid for it. —Mr. Cobb : That is not evidence.
What did the defendant say ?-officer He said she
had not paid for it. A fine of 20s. and' costs.
- DETAINING A WATCH.—Sidney Smith, publican,
'Waterloo-road, was summoned by Patrick Kelly,
passenger-agent, for having refused to give up possession
of a watch. Mr. Cobb appeared for the plaintiff, and
`Mr. Black for the defence. It appeared that a seaman,
`for whom the plaintiff had obtained a berth on board
the ship Ohio, had left a gold watch with the defendant,
Who gave him an undertaking to deliver up the watch
on his return from America, upon payment of thirty-five
shillings. -Before the seaman left the port, he gave the
Plaintiff a written authority to obtain the watch from
the defendant, on payment of thirty-five shillings, but
when the authority was produced, and the money was
tendered; the defendant refused to hind over the
watch. Mr. Muck contended that the magmas was
informal, as the Local Police-act, under which it
was issued, specified claims of detention from
the owner' only.—Mr. Wybergh, however, overruled
this 'objection, saying that some of the sections of the
Act authorised the granting olia- summons to any person
claiming to be entitled to detained progerty.—Mr. Black
then said thathe was willing to-hand over the watch on
payment of the 355., as the order of the Court would be
an indemnity, and that his client's only object was to
secure himself from being sued by other parties claiming
the watch.—The magistrates then made the order, which
on payment of 355. was complied with.

' DEATH OF THE AGED.—The _Ferree Gazette says :
Last week has been rather remarkable for the deaths of
aged people both at Forres and Elgin. The. disease
was in almost 'every case bronchitis.
,The 'united as
of six old people is 570 years.
LORD. SHAFTESBURY ON POPULAR PROGR,ESS.—
LoFd Shaftesbury, in, the course of a speech at Bethnal
Green, on Wednesday evening, bore testimony. to the
great improvement' that was, going on amongst the
people. He had recently travelled in the north of
England amongst the operatives with whom he had
long been so familiar, and he had s been perfectly
astonished at the advance they.,had made during the
last ten years. (Hear.), .He attributed the gratifyinct
results mainly to the great strides that had been made
in the' matter of education. .(Hear.) He did not mean
rnere.secular or departmental education, but to that moral
and religious training which was calculated sto fit
our young people for the ,great battle of life, and for the
„struggle to obtain the blessings. 'of the world to come.
(Cheers.) The importance of women in. the community
was becoming more and mere recognised every day.
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Many ingenious plans were being ventilated for find-
ing them employment, and he had no doubt but that
there were many from which they were now excluded,
in which they could successfully compete with man,
but, above all things, .he thought they were peen-
fitted for the training of children, and, invalu-
able in ragged and Sunday schools. (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) . Their assistance had been invaluable in bring-
ing the formerto their present state of efficiency. But all
could helP, and it was the duty of all to lend their hands
to this great cause. Eye►a those who had neither money
nor. time to give could assist the moral teaching ,of the
people by their example and bearing in their own walk
in life. The greater:A man and the brightest light either
in politics, rank war, or fiterature, could never do more
to
,distinguish himself than the humblest man who
acquitted hiraself honourably and creditably in the
sphere of l'.fe to which God had called him. He did.
not mean to depress the laudable ambition of the
young, 'out it was not given to everyone to be great, and
the services of the lowly would be as valuable as those
of tyre most distinguished.