Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-09 00:00:00

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bandered, _as h

Satanic Majesty ?" Mr. Black
after him like a Tedshank

Well, did ,vou not
I ran- after him

caught him. Mr. Block : What else happened ? He
said ..he belonged to Birkenhead, and that the • police
there were respectable and gentlemen. Mr. Block :
So they are. Officer : But that we are all a parcel
of thieves and robbers at this side of the water. Mr. Bluck:
But you don't believe that, do you ? No. Mr. Bluck :
Nor I either; although I agree that the Birkenhead police
are - " highly respectable." Officer :He said we 'would rob
churches! Mr. Block : Aye, that's the rub ; some of the
force did that, once upon a time. He then addressed the
Bench on behalf of the prisoner, and said : The young man
was going home to Birkenhead, the difference between
which and Liverpool is more than the width of the Mersey.
(Laughter.) Some persons were making a noise iu the
street, and they ran away, so that when the officer came up,
he seized the first person he met, who happened
to be the prisoner, and, but for that, he would have been
safely at home in his bed at the " respectable 7 side of the
water instead of having been locked up in the filthy,
abominable, and disgusting dock, only fit fur pickpockets,
thieves, burglars, megsmen, and manslaughterers. His
Worship said Mr. Block need not proceed further, and he
fined the prisoner ss. for, being drunk. The fine was paid.
SriPerintendant Murphy, of the Local Marine' Board,
brought up a man named Andrew Swan, for neglecting. to
join his ship, after signing articles. It appeared that this
was an old trick of the prisoner's, and he was sent to jail for
ten weeks with hard labour.
Mary King, a servant to Mr. Owen Perry
in Richmond-street, was charged with stealing some foul
shillings belonging to her master. She confessed the
fact, and said her master was very kind to her. She
sent to jail for one month

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VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A WlFE.—Patrick Hammond, a
tailor, living at 96, Limekiln-lane, was charged with
having broken the skull of his wife, with a blow of an iron
bar. Mr. Cobb appeared for the prisoner. From
the evidence of Surgeon Campion it appeared

assault had been committed about it- week
since, and that the woman had had concussion of the brain,
and was at one time in great danger, but under his treat-
ment she is now out of danger, although she had suffered
much. The prisoner was sent to jail for six months in
default of paying a fine of £lO for the assault.

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BRIDESMAID'S CLAIMS ON A DISAPPOINTED

-On Saturday. in the second police court, before Messrs.
Hamilton and Houghton, a rather strange case was heard
and determined. Mary Jane Dromgoole, a blooming Irish
lass, on whose fine featares some twenty summers had cast
their sun, summoned Hannah Brown, of Regent-street, for
detaining, without even the semblance of " rhyme or reason" -
too potent auxiliaries—certain wearing garments and per-
sonal ornaments, belonging to the said Miss Dromgoole.
Mr. Black was for the complainant, and Mr. Cobb appeared
on the other side—not only of the court, but for the defence.
Mrs. Brown is a young "widely" ladie of about the age—
no age at all, in fact, for it would be a deadly piece of trea-
son towards Venus and King Cupid to utter a
word on that point under . present circumstances.
Mrs. Brown, it seems, like most other ladie4, .-has
a mother, named Mrs. Chambers, and that lady is a resident
in Regent-street. Mrs. Brown lived in Dublin, and Miss
Dromgoole, it seemed was a friend, and more than a friend,
sta_ was the " M ilner's safe" of all her love affairs. It did not
appear how long the lady had contented herself in a state
of singlehood, but it was plainly, enough asserted that she
came to the desperate resolution—or rather some one of an
opposite .sex came to a terrible conclnsion not to allow her to
remain so. • iler mother, careful and prudent old gentle-

Liverpool, in fact the marriage was contracted, or rather
the contract about the marriage, was arranged, as all other
Royal marriages arc, in the absence of the princioalg,
who, of course, don't care " three Jack

Straw's'

each other. Mrs. Brown's mother, like all othe
mothers, is a political diplomatist in the court of Princ
Cupid, and being the prime minister in the negotiations, sh

sent an ambassador in the shape of a gummed envelope, by
the electricity of a Queen's head, to her daughter in
Dublin, informing- ner that "it was all right." 'What the
" all right" meant, is thus interpreted " Come over here
at once; I have got you a husband." This joyful piece of
news was duly communicated to Miss Dromgoole,- and her
assistance was enrolled as bridesmaid for the " coming
event ;" by the way, the "event," as will be seen hereafter,
never came at all, and hence all the " bother." The young

delicate and interesting task, but a difficulty arose in this
way, She had plenty of Dude, but lacking tin, and as
Irish steam-packet people are very hard-hearted
just now, they don't carry people from Dublin to
_Liverpool, without some of the " although the

they were t

benevolent enough t

do that, and in-order to procure the favour and patronage of
the public, they not only carried for nought but paid and
gave the passengers
.plenty 'of good " atin and drinkinu
into the bargain for going in their beats ! However, those
Halcyon days are fled, and more is the pity. Well, Mrs.
Brown solved the difficulty, by paying the " fare" for her
"fair" friend, and promised to do-alt she could to help her

to a husband in recur

of course, went through

a storm (it would bi

them crone the channel without a puff or two) and sea-sickness
and all the other ills that flesh is heir to on the briny deep,
but at last they arrived duly and safely in Regent-street.

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