The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-16 00:00:00

ASSAULT BY A CABMAN:

At the County Magistrates Court on Saturday, he"
Messrs G. W. Unswoi tit. W. Preston, and T. B. Barclay. °
cabman named William Blezedale, was summoned by t
William. Kershaw, cashicr of the Borough Bank, for '-
assault. Mr. Pemberton appeared fur the defendant;
The statement of the complainant was that on Sunday lag,
he engage/ the defendant to drive him from his house P"
Grassendale Park, Aigburth, to Wavertree, and to call far
hint at the latter place in the evening and drive him 60010
again. When he arrived at home Mr. Kershaw went ien
the parlour, leaving one of the servants to settle with Su;
defendant. The servant came in and told him defendant
wanted 83. Mr. Kershaw went out and told defendant 65:
was the fare: Defendant refused to take 63., upon whi°ll_
Mr. Kershaw told him to send in his bill, and returned t°
the parlour, the servant shut the door, but defendant
knocked again, and when she opened it he said he ell.
have Bs., and that he would not go away until he was 135,,
1.
Upon this Mr. Kershaw came out again and told the n
feudant he would not pay any more; at the same tini:
telling him to leave the house, and putting one hand UP!:
his shoulder while with the other he held the door. T"'
defendant seized him by the wrist, pulled him out on the
flagway, and gave him a thrust which sent him spinning
down the steps. When Mr. Kershaw came up to the dee!
again the defendant intercepted him, and said be should o°t
get in until he paid hint the money. The servant, howeVer:
came out and Mr. K-Tshaw got in, but the defendant We°
into the hall and waited there for a quarter of an hear
before he could be induced to leave. The servants, 531ab'
Anderson and Ellen Staunton, and Mr. Thomas Clare,
.tu ,r"
Kershaw's father-in law, were tsamined in support of the
case. The magistrates fined defendant 103. and costs.

A man has been fully committed for trial by the
Southampton magistrates, for personating an absent voter 81
the election in that town on Tuesday last.
GUANO CRISIS.—We learn from correspondents that Verl
consiierable excitement exists among farmers in connection
with this subject. Public meetings are in prospect with !
view of memorialising the government. The Royal isl°,r,
thorn Agricultural Society, and the Council of t"'
Royal Agricultural Society of England, have both take
the question, and are specially to bring the sublee
under the notice of the government. —North
.Brail4
Agriculturist.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—A parliamentary return of ele
railway accidents in the last ,ix mouths of 1856 has beer,
issued. The collisions and other accidents to passeugl,
and goods trains in the United Kingdom during the ba'
year were as follows :—Number of accidents, 43 ; number
of passengers killed, 7 ; injured, 224 ; servants of com Pill
kill, d, 16 ; injured, 33 ; making the total number
human beings killed by railway accidents in the half year'
238; ; injured, 257. No fatal accident occurred on
Scotch, end only 6 on the Irish lines.
THE BOMBARDMENT of CANTON.—Mr. Biss,
promising to present a petition adopted at a public weell7
in Derby, writes to a constituent : —"lt is a little premature'
I think, to pass unqualified censure on the attack on Can'
t
on. I entirely concur in the prayer of the netitiJn to
placing the control of our foreign policy in. the hods of
parliament." Mr. L. Ileywo:th, on the other hand,
7" The people of England do well to petition for incluir4
into the cause, and for a restraint to be put on the outburs'
of the brute instinct of murder, awfully gratified in such::
case of savage butchery. lam glad that Derby is atuovgst
the first to vindicate the claims of humanity, and protest
against such impetuous vindictiveness.''

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