Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-24 00:00:00

BEFORE MR. E. CROPPER.

CAUTION TO DoG OWNERS —Several owners of cur and
every other sort of wandering dog., including mongrels,
pupplee, nr,a of low degree,
were summoned by the police for allowing the " natunbiais
to rove about the streets without " month covering."
Fines of 2s were imposed. [We would strong'y urge on
the police the mode of proceeding adopted in London, and
other well-regulated cities, in regard to dogs found at
large in the streets, particularly at this dangerous season
of the year, and that is, knock their brains out at once.
This is the only true way to cure the nuisance. If a dog
is worth taking care of by its owner, care ought to be
taken of it ; but it dogs are for no other use than running
about the streets, endangering the lives of the public, they
ought to be killed instantly. • Besides, there are hundreds
of dogs infesting our streets, who have no acknowledged
owners, and surely these animals should be knocked on
the head at once. We give this warning to the police
anthorities,who oueht to be held responsible, as "prevention
is better than cure." The time to lock the stable door is
before the horse is stolen. When some fatal accident from
the canine tribe takes place, we shall hear a great fuss
kicked up by the police. We warn them that this is the
time to "kick up the fuss," by adopting some stringent
measure to keep dogs out of the streets—the best measure
we have pointed out.]
BAD MEAT.—G. Hough, of St. John's market, was
charged with having 60 lbs. of unwholesome meat at his
stall, for sale to the public, and the case being proved, he
was fined -El and costs. Joseph M'Donnell, of St. Martin's
market, was convicted of a similar offence, and fined 101.
and costs.

" BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY."—Mr. James Napier,
Blackpeel, Fyvie, had, the other day, the rite of b tptism
administered to his twenty-second child by the Rev Mr.
Chapman, Milbrex. Mr. Napier has been twice married.
—Caledoni In Mercury.
THE PHANTOM KING AT DELHI.—Mr. C. Wood, of
Pontefract, writes to the Daily News : " You will find in
page 272 of 'lndian Misgovernment,' that the great
Napier recommended the phantom king should be removed
from Delhi to Futtypoor, ' as within its palace ho forms a
moral rallying point, round which gather the dreams of
discontented princes feeding twon prophecies,' and finished
his memorandum with these remarkable words : I can
have no other motive t> influence me than that which has
all along guided me—the interest of the East India Corn-
pany, and early preparation for that storm which may
some day burst noon its possessions.' "
MR, CHARLES DICKENS AS AN ACTOR.— In notieine; the
performance of Mr. Wilkie Collins's play of the " Frozen
Deep," for the benefit of the fund in remembrance of the late
Douglas Jerrold, the Times says of Mr. Dickens's acting :
Never was there a feeling cf deeper and mole genuine
admiration than was left by Mr. Charles Dickens in the
minds of his auditors at the conclusion of Mr. Wilkie
Collins's drama, the" Fr: zen Deep." There was literally a
gasp of applause when the curtain descended, and the
conversation that ensued during the interval that preceded
the farce was composed of a laudatory criticism of details.
. . . The performance of Mr. TYckens as the vindic-
tive and (afterwards) penitent Richard Wardour is, in the
truest sense of the wer 1, a creation. Nay, we may go
further and say that it is the creation of a literary man—
that it is doublet whether any mere actor, unless under
the influence of some extraordinary sympathy with the
part assumed, would attempt to fill up an outline with
that elaborate detail that is introduced by Mr. Dickens
into Mr. Collins's sketch. We feel that if Mr. Dickens
had had to describe in narrative form the situations of the.
" Frozen Deep," instead of acting them, he would have
covered whole pages in recording these manifestations of
of emotion, which, not having his pea in his hand, he now
makes by the minutest variations of voice and gesture.
Where an ordinary artist would look for " points" of effect
he looks for " points" of truth. A specimen of humanity
in which every twitch of every muscle can be accounted
for is to be presented with all the elaboration of actual
nature, no matter whether it be admired or not. When
Richard Wardour tells the story of his disappointment in
love, there is ample opportunity for much noisy grief and
many a stride to the f totlights, but Mr. Dickens dares to
keep down his voice through the whole of the narrative
The; effect may be monotous—but what of that ? He who
talks not for the sake of display, but simply that he may
relieve his mind from an opprt ssive and almost humiliating
burden, will necessarily be monotonous. A man louder
under the sense of wrong would have excited less uneasi-
ness in his conduct. Bat such a man as Mr. Dickens
presents—a man strong in the command of his voice, but
weak in the art of suppressing the ianguago of his eyes and
facial muscles—a ma❑ whose constant attempts to hide the
internal storm by slight simulations of good fellowship
only renders more conspicuous the vastness of that which
he would cocceal—a man who has the habit of losing his
temper in a manner that mere external circumstances do
not wavrant—sueh a man is a just object of terror,
_Richard Wardour, as depicted by Mr. Dickens in the
second part of the " Frozen Deep," is the most perfect
representation of dogged viudictitreacps that the imagina-
tion could conceive;

THE JEWELLERY ROBBERIES IN
BDINBURGH.

At the ugh Court of Justiniary„on Monday, Thomas
Kerr and Thomas Gilbertson, artisans, were charged with
five acts of h eisebreaking and theft committed within the
city of Edinburgh. The first count in the indictment
charged them with breaking into the stop of William
Davidson, ironmonger, which they entered through a
hole made in the floor in a collar underneath, and to
which they had obtained access by a false key, and from
which shop they stole a great variety of keys and imple-
ments. They were next charged with having entered the
shop of Mr. J. F. Cal ler, watchmaker and Jeweller,
Lawnmarket, by .a hole cut in the roof, from vacant pre-
mises above, also opened by a false key, and from which
shop they stole about £6OO worth of jewellery. The third
and fourth counts charged them with having first obtained
access by false keys to the cless.room of Mr. Roland,
fencing-master, South Bridge, and thence breaking
through to the shop of Messrs. Mason and Co., tea
dealers from which they stole both tea and money, and
from these psernise3 to the shop of Mr W. Darling,
jeweller, from which a great quantity of gold, silver, and
plated goods was stolen. Finally, they were charged
with having broken into the shop in Prince's-slreet, oc-
cupied by Mrs. Lennie, oprcien and jeweller, by making
an opening through the roof of a projecting portion of the-
shop, and, having thus obtained entrance, stolen about
540 geld rings, about 168 gold chaiee, 21 silver chains,
five gold-plated chains, 80 gold lockets, 108 gold studs,
70 gold pencil-cases, 100 gold keys and seals, from 150 to
200 gold brooches, a great variety of bracelets, and other
artic'es of jewellery, the value of the whole being esti-
mated at £1,500. These robberies extended from Nov.,
1856, to Feb. 1857, and about that period a considerable
alarm was felt in the town for the safety of shop property
in Edinburgh. The numerous burglaries were then uni-
versally ascribed to the operation of the, ticket-of-leave
system, and no clue to the thieves was obtained till April,
when it became a matter of considerable surprise to the
public to learn that the police traced the depreda-
tions, not to returned convicts, but to artisans before
believed to be respectable men, and who had never been
suspected by the police. The accident which led to the
discovery of the thieves was a somewhat curious one. In
the Queen's Park some earth had been scraped up by a
dog, and something was disclosed beneath which happened
to meet the eye of one of the park rangers. On the earth
being removed a square tin box was discovered with a
funnel mouth corked up, but wide enough to admit the
arm, so that if the box were buried it would be sufficient
to open the aperture of the funnel to get at its con-
tents. The box was filled with jewellery, which was
identified partly by Mrs. Lennie and partly by the
other sufferers from these berglariee The maker of the
box was then inquired for by the police, and was in a
short time found, and from his statement the police wero
enabled to apprehend the prisoners. Jo their possession
was found a large quantity of stolen property, besides
large bunches of rifle ! and skeleton keys, crowbars, and
rope ladders. From various pawnbrokers in Edinburgh
and Glasgow an additional quantity of the property was
recovered. After a trial on Monday, extending from
11 a.m. to 11 p.m., the jury found the charges proved in
so far as applied to the housebreakinge at Calder's
Darling's, and Lennie's, no evidence on the other charges
having been called. The Lord Justice General, who
expressed concurrence in the verdict, sentenced the
prisoners to twenty-one years' penal servitude each.

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN THE
QUEEN'S PRISON.

At the Southwark Police Court, on Wednesday, Arthur
Salvi and Jabez Gower, the two persons who stand charged
with the above crime, were again brought up on remand,
before Mr. Combe, the sitting magistrate, for re-examina-
tion. The court, as on previous incisions, was densely
crowded, and the proceedings created the grea'est interest.
The Rev. Mr. Goddard, Salvi's former master, was pro-
sent. Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Messrs. Emslie, appeared
for the prosecution ; Mr. Robinson, instructed by M-ssrs.
Smith and Son, of B irnard's-inn, for Gower; and Mr.
Murrongh for Salvi. Mr. Sleigh sail, since the last
examination application had been made to a judge at
chambers, who had sanctioned the admission of Mr. Gower
to bail. Mr. Combe said, properly speiking, the bail
would expire that day. Mr. Sleigh said his wish was that
lie should stand in the same bail from time to time. As
far as one of his bail was concerned (Mr. Macnatnara), he
5,, ha !Olin en anv this he was in a n.osiion to h.
able to give bail for a score of persons to a similar extent.
The irjured gentleman was not worse. His wish was that
the case should stand over till Monday next. Mr. Corn he
said it would be to the advantage of all parties that the
trial should take place at the Old Bailey. Mr. Sleigh said,
until the injured person either got better or died, be could
not consent to a committal. Mr. Combe said, by the trial
taking p'ace at the 0 d Bailey. they would have a good
deal more time, and therefore he would remand them from
time to time. Mr. Sleigh said a witness named Bell, an
inmate of the prison, was not present, so he proposed to
adjourn all farther proceedings till Monday next. Mr.
Murrongh said be was instructed to offer bail for Salvi to
the amount of £lO,OOO. He had no doubt whatever that
Drs. Lawrence and Ferguson were quite right when they
said that the injured gentleman was out of danger; and
he thought, when all the circumstances of the case were
considered, and as one of the parties had already been
allowed to put in bail, and that when he offered baii
to so serious an amount as £lO,OOO, that there would be
no difficulty or objection to allow his client the same
indulgence. Mr. Sleigh said, in the performance of his
duty as the prosecutor for the Crown, he must emphati-
cally object to bail being taken. If the charge against
Mr. Gower had been anything of so serious a nature, he
should at once have objected to bail in his case. Salvi
had been guilty of a most cruel and diabolical attempt at
murder, and he therefore felt he was only doing his duty
in objecting to it. Mr. Combo decided that Mr. Gower
should enter into the same bail as before, and that Salvi
should be remanded. Mr. Gower then left the court in
company with several friends ; and Salvi was removed
from the bar by Downes, the gaoler.