Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-12 00:00:00

DOCK COMMITTEE.

The weekly meeting of this committee was held at one
~'clock yesterday, Mr. Rankin in the chair. The other
members present were—Messrs. Robinson, Rounthwaite,
Barber, Mondell, Anderson, Chilton, and lia,lhead.
The Sub-Committee of Works produced a plan of an
office far the waterguard of customs, upon the north pier
of the George's basin, at a cost of about £245, in lieu of
the present offize at the south-west corner of the Prince's
dock wall, which is required to be removed for the com-
pletion of the new landing-stage. The sub-committee,
having again considered the subject with reference to shed
accommodation for emigrants, renewed their recommenda-
tion that the plan mentioned be carried out, in order to
obtain possession of the present office from the Customs at
an earlier date than it could be obtained by regular notice,
namely fifteen months.
The plan was agreed to.
The Harbour Master's Sub-Committee produced a report
of the work-irg of the permanent berths in the dock- for
the six months ending 31st May last, being 164 working
days.
Mr. Moen= said the working was very satisfactory.
The berths were nearly all occupied considerably under
the time which would have been allowed, with one or two
small exce:Jtior, s in the Canning Dock. He believed the
greater number of the berths were not occupied for
more than half the time which would have been allowed.
The Custamte : It would be strange indeed if they
ware, with the accommodation afforded.
Mr. MONDELL : Bum the time allowed had Coat in view,
and the facilities in view.

Mr. ROBINSON : Perhaps you include in your observa-
tion the ntearners.

Mr. MONDELL : Tha report has reference generally to
sailing ships.
Mr. -11outzgsox : It seems to me that steamers ought to
be excluded from the calculation of the time of occupying
berths.

The rep 'rt was laid upon the table.
A letter was read from Mr. Joh❑ 3, Gisboine, who ten-
dered last year for the construction of a line of communica-
tion by electric telegraph along the coast from Birkenhead
to Holyhead, making the following offers in addition
to - the contents of his former tender : —To
construct for £lOO a line of submarine cable from Birken-
head to Liverpool, to keep the whole line, indading the
cable, in working order for five or seven years, for £4OO
per annum ; for £l,OOO per annum to keep seven stations
on the line, for five or seven years, and to provide efficient
staffs of clerks, &c., the present buildings to be used as
offices.

The letter was referred to the special cub-committee ap-
pointed lat-ft Thursday.
Mr. MONDELL stated that the Messrs. Newell, who had
lately completed a por ion of the Atlantic cable, called upon
him on Wednesday, and, alluding to what transpired at
the Dock Committee last Thursday, stated that they were
prepared at present to tender for the construction of the
Holyhoad line at a much lower rate than t hey had done
last year.
The CIIAIIIMAN said the sub-committee would, no doubt,
receive the offer.
Thin closed the general business.

THE ULSTER OF A. VESSEL NOT A SEAMAN.

Messrs. Holderness and Chilton, shipowners, of Fen-
wick-strest, were yesterday summoned before Messrs.
R. Gladstone and Shiel, under the following circumstances.
Die Campbell, who appeared for the complaining party,
called Mrs Ann Sarah Core, who stated she was the wife
of Captain Care, of the ship Percena, belonging to the
defendants. She claimed £l9, under an allotment note,
which had been given to her by her husband before he
left this country in January, 1833, when he sailed. She
was to receive £6 per month, and did do so up to January
last, when the money was stopped. The last time she
head from her husband was on the 13th April last, when
he was wi, h his ship at Sr. Helena. She had since applied
for the money, arid was told by the owners that they could
not pay any more until they had heard from her husband.
They had, however, sent her £3 when she was ill, and could
not get out. Mr. Campbell said that was his ease, but he
would direct their Worships' attention to the 169th section
of the act of parliament under which the claim was made.
The gentleman who appeared for the parties summoned,
but whose name did not transpire, said they did not dispute
the facts as stated, but he thought he should be able to
prove that they had behaved with the greatest kindness
and attention to Mrs. Core, and that they were also per-
fectly justified in stopping Lather payments. He would
prove from their agent at Calcutta, that the captain was
always drunk—that he was drawing large sums of money
for improper purposes, and that he had sent in large sums
of money for articles for the ship, which had never been
sent to the ship, and that he was doing them an immense
amount of injury. He was proceeding to read the agent's
letter, when Mr. Campbell objected, as it was not an
"authenticated document," which the act required. The
ship had since been taken by him to St. Helena, where she
had been condemned, and yet he persisted in sailing her
to some port, against all orders from Lloyd's agent. He
appears to be acting like a madman, and we are entirely
at his mercy. Mr. Campbell: But the man is in the ship.
Mr. Gladstone : That may be true, but of course they
would not keep him if they could help it. The Gentleman :
He is robbing us of hundreds and we cannot help it. We
have sent out a man to supersede him, but it appears that
he had left St. Helena with the ship before the man
arrived. But it is not a legal allotment note (the note
was handed up to the bench), but we would not take that
objection if we did not feel compelled, to prevent our
being robbed any huger. We have already paid £750
for the ship's repairs. Mr. Campbell : But the wife must
not be left nnprovided for. Mr. Garnett : These proceed-
ings are ,aken under the 169th section of the act, "The wife,
or father or mother, or the grandfather or grandmother,
or any child or grandchild, or any brother or sister, of any
Erissieee, in whose favour an allotment note, etc." Now,
the interpretation clause of the act states the meaning of
the word seaman, ae "shall include every person (except
masters, pilots, and apprentices duly indentured and regie.
tered) employed or engaged in any capacity on board any
ship," so that the master is exemp4. Mr. Campbell:
can't get over these objections. Mr. Gladstone : The case
te

CASU AND USGD BOXES.—The next imP," 'l','.ll' thin,' to the posses-
sion of cash is, Low (when you. have got itj to keep it safely,
either fu
the coiriiing.ih,h, or at home. The same remarks apply to dead,
and other va'.r.,,ie documents. We 11,1V0 seen a large and vaned
stock of both these desirable articles, manufactured expressly fur Mr.
E. T. Hall, ut South John-street, :hat challenge attention. These
boxes are mado on new and admired principles, and posses+ patent
locks, which defy the ingenuity of any " pick-lock" in the world to
open except with the legitimate i,
—eY• To merchants, solicitors, and
others. these nvw safe`, on 8 small scale, frinst prove vfainable bathed.
—lforthern Dail, Times, ',1144 Nay, 1347,

POLICE COURT,--YrATTADAY. -

LIVBEPOOL.
BEFOUN ML MANIFIZLD.

A Po OSPECr OF DEC 4 PITATION.—A young woman,
named Mary Anne Smith, was charged with having stolen
a watch and chain, value 4:11, and £8 in money, from
James Burke, of Cleveland-street, Birkenhead. The cam-
plainant (who was accompanied by his wife) told a ludi-
ercus tale about how he had been employed for twenty-five
years at Mr. Laird's, at Birken-lead, and how the pri-
soner, and several other ladies, threatened to cut off' his
head in Charles-street, ant how he was a teetotaller for
the last three years, and how he got drunk on Tuesday
night, after such a long fast, and several other equally
interesting things ; but his better hall did not seem to
appreciate, the narrative, for, ever and anon, as he
related the tale, she either groaned in spirit, or ejaculated
something by no means complimentary either to her spouse
or the prisoner. Tee end of the "strange eventful history"
told by Mr. Burke, ended in the abstraction of his
watch and money. The prisoner was sent for trial.
LIZ COMET Is COMING— " SING ROWDY DOW, DOW."
William Gee!, an old man with a wooden leg, was brought
up by police-officer 303, on the charge of creating disorder
in Lime-street, at the big lamp post. He said the prisoner
was making.a loud harrangue about the comet, and selling
broad sheets, with the full, true and particular account of
the visit of the comet. He told when it would—or would
not strike the earth, and where it would not—what it would
do, and what it would not do, and a variety of other
astounding things, too numerous to mentiin, about the
capers of the illuminator. A crowd of over 200 persons
collected, and followed him about Roe-street, and John's-
market, and commenced singing "the Comets are coming
gag Rowdy, (low, dow," and as the prisoner refused to go
on, he was taken into custody. The prisoner said he was
merely selling his papers and did not think it was any
harm. He Ways discharged wile a caution not to create a
disturbance or obstruct the thoroughfares any more, not
even in consequence of the coming luminary.
STREET POCKET-PICKING --Mary Mackin and Ellen
Leonard, were brought up by detective officer ISUCulloch,
charged for picking pockets in Bola-street and Church-
street. He watched them for a long time and saw them
make sev-eel attempts at ladies' pekes, and at last they
got a sixpence out of one lady's pocket, and a purse con-
taining over 365. from another. The prisoners were
remanded until the ladies came forward.

A sseruriN a THE POLICE.—James Tooley, described as a
tanner or skinner, in Pump-fields, was brought up on
warrant, charged with having assaulted police-officer, 310.
Mr. Aspinall, barrister, instructed by Mr. Goodere,
appeared for the prisoner. The officer said he was on
duty in Pamp-fields, on Tuesday morning about two
o'clock, when he saw the prisoner, whom he alleged
struck him without any provocation, and a fight then
followeJ, when the prisoner tore his caat and ill-used him.
He got a warrant to arrest him next day, when he was
attacked with a poker. Mr. Aspinall produced two
witnesses, who laid all the bleme.on the officer, and the
prisoner was discharged. The wife of the prisoner was
then put forward, on a cha-ge of being drunk and dis-
orderly whilet the police were arresting her husband, the
preview' day. The evidence in this case was conclusive,
and his worship fined her ss. and costs for being drunk.
DANGZROUS ASSAULT.—John Lacy, who resides in
Tatlock-street, charged Peter Traynor with having com-
mitted a desperate assault on him on the sth May, in a
public-honse in Vauxhall-road. The parties met in a
public-house in the road, when the prisoner had a knife of
the complainant's cutting tobacco, and when he asked for
it, he struck him a violent blow on the forehead which
knocked him into a state of insensibility. Mr. Bluck
cross-examined the complainant at great length, but his
testimony was not shaken. Surgeon Davis, from the
Northern IL apital, said he examined the injured man, and
found a wound two inches long on the forehead, and a
fracture of the orbit which quite en:milted the bone, and he
removed six pieces of bone from it, and two small pieces of
leather also. The man was lying in a dangerous state for
five weeks, and at one time he imagined he would have
died. His sight would be impaired, but not lost ; but he
would be permanently injured for life. The prisoner was
sent for trial at the assizes. _ _ .

A Mai% SHOT BY ANOTHER.—Benjamin Burdett, the
first mate of the American ship Frank Peirce, was brought
np by officer 138, on a charge of having shot John Ward,
the second mate of the same ship. Mr. Snowball appeared
for the prisoner. The facts of the case appeared to be as
follows. The c:mplainant was formerly chief mate of the
ship, and, according to his statement, the prisoner was
jealous of him. He was ashore the previous evening,
and went on board about one o'clock. He slept in the
same room with the prisoner, and, on entering, he took off
hit coat, in order to go into bed, when ► e heard a shot,
and then he saw the blood run from his hand, and found
a ball had gore through it. The prisoner had threatened
several times to kill him. He gave him no provoca-
tion for having shot him. In reply to Mr. Snowball, he
said he did not threaten to kill the prisoner. The prisoner
used to have dreams. The statement of police-officer 138,
was, that after one o'clock in the morning, he heard a
man had been shot on board the vessel, and he went there,
when tin prisoner gave himself up to him, saying he had
shot the second mate. He gave him the pistol (a revolver),
and he found four barrels of it loaded and
capped. In reply to Mr. Snowball the officer
said the prisoner told him the reason why he
shot the mate was because he was asleep ; and the man
ewe in and stood over him in the bed, threatening to
kill him, and he jumped up and shot him. Mr. Snowball
addressed the court for the prisoner, at the conclusion of
which, Mr. Wall,. surgeon, of the Northern Hospital, was
examined, and he said the ball had gone obliquely through
the complainant's hand. His w.,-;rfhip said, in American
language, such transactions as this were called " diffi-
culties," but the English language called them grievious
bodily harm. He sent the prisoner for trial-

"BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD, AND lIIS ASSESSOR, CAPTAIN

SCHO3IBIRG.

CLAIM OF SALvAcE ON TUE PATRIOT QUEEN.— Newton
v. Brocklebank —This was a claim for salvage brought by
the United Steam Tag Company against the owners of the
Patriot Queen, Messrs. S. and T. Brocklebaok. Mr.
Aspinall, instructed by Messrs. Lowndes, Bateson and Co ,
appeared for the plaintiffs ; and Mr. Blair, instructed by
Messrs. Duncan, Squarey and Co., appeared for the de
tendants. From the statement of Mr. Aepinall, it appeared
that in the month of April last, the Patriot Queen was
being towed cut of the river, on a voyage to Calcutta, by
the Steam Tug Company's tug, Liver. The ship and cargo
taken together wore worth about £60,000. When down
the river some distance, it was discovered that all the crew
were not on board, and accordingly the ship was put about,
and towed up the river. When nearly abreast of Sea-
combe, it was attempted to cross the bows of the James
Foster, junr , a large American vessel, which lay
anchored off that point. At this moment the
Liver, from some cause or ether, stopped towing. and the
tide being about three quarters of an hour ebb, the Patriot
Queen rapidly drifted down right athwart the hawse of the
James Foster, the jib-boom of the latter vessel striking
the maintopmast of the Patriot Queen, which immediately
fell. The Patriot Queen then fell over on the James
Foster, and the jib-boom of the latter vessel getting between
the masts, their fall was. apprehended. The parties on
board the Liver, as the plaintiff alleged, seemed paralysed,
and rendered no assistance. The Queen then came up, and
being hailed lay some one on board the vessels, cams along-
side and got a hawser on board the Patriot Queen She
then attempted to tow free the Patriot Queen, but not
having sufficient power, she called to her assistance the
United States tug, which was passing at the time, and by
their joint eirerte, the Patriot Queen was got clear. The
river was full of ships at the time. For this service the
owners of the Queen and United States claimed £2OO as
salvage. The defendants alleged that there had been no
danger and that the plaintiff's vessels had forced their
services on the Patriot Queen. They accordingly offered
£lO 10s. as compensation for the services of the Queen,
but this offer the plaintiff refused and brought the
present claim for the adjudication of the court. Mr.
Blair then addressed the court, and repudiated the
charge on principle, and said it was an outrageous claim.
He then entered into a history of salvage. and contended
that the present was not a case of salvage, but one of mere
work and labour, and the question was, what was a fair
wage for the work and labour done ? He contended that
the vessel was not in danger, and that was one ingredient
(danger) in case of salvage He quoted some cases in
point to sustain hie case. Mr. Mansfield, after consulting
with Captain Schomberg, said they need not proceed
fury her, as the court was of opinion that the case did not
cone within the meaning of salvage, and they therefore
decided it was not a salvage case. No doubt, very great
services had been rendered, and £lO was quite inadequate
for that service—fifteen or twenty pounds at least should
have been offered—but that was not a decision, but an
opinion. The decision of the court was, that it
was not a case of salvage, and therefore the case must be
dismissed.

EMBSZZLEMENT.—John Linden, who stood remanded on
a charge of having embezzled £3 Os 4d, belon4ing ti Mr.
Fox, cotton broker, was brought up, in conjunction with
another youth, named George Kennedy, in the same em-
ployment, and the warehouseman of Mr. For, whose name
is Thomas Gibson, the latter charged with embezzlement,
and Kennedy fur having absconded with some money
belor ging to his employer The details of the case against
Linden having been proved (as appeared in yesterday's
paper), he was sent for trial, and the warehouseman was
remanded, in order to procure further evidence, as it was
stated that he induced the two youths to commit the
offence, and as Mr. Fox did not wish to press the charge
against Kennedy he was discharged.

COUNTY COURT.-YESTERDAY.

d 0 O!
BEFORE JOHN CONWAY, ESQ.

MARTIN v. ASIAN AND OTHNRS.—The plaintiff in this case
was J. Ville Martin, master mariner, and the defendants
were Messrs. Amen, Van Ewyek and Co.; ofßarned-build-.
ings Sweeting-street, merchants. Mr. Almond appeared
for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Hime for the defence. The amount-
claimed was £35 for damage' occasioned by the detention
of the ship Jumelles, chartered by the plaintiff to the de-
fendants for St. Louis. The amount of damage was esti-
mated at £5 each day for seven days. Is appeared that
the vessel in question was to bs loaded with coals for the
use of the French steam marine, and was to proceed to St.
Louis. A clause in the charter stated that the loading-was
to take place immediately. The vessel had been lying in
a quay berth in the Huskisson dock, but was ordered-away
by the harbour master as she was not then loading. She
was afterwards restored to the quay berth. Evidence,
however, was wanting on the part of the plaintiff, to show
that the vessel was restored to the berth as soon as the
coal was ready to be placed on board. - His Honour, there-
fore, nonanited the plaintiff

CORONER'S COURT.

Yesterday, inquests were held upon the bodies of the
under-mentioned parsons who had died under the follow-
ing circumatanes : :Ea ,I"•^,r-kir;CT:LI
_ _

Michael Mangay, who was killed •in Strand-street,, by
being run over by a curt. Au apprentice to a shipwright
said, as he stun going home on Monday last, he saw a man
driving a cart, and the deceased was sitting in front of the
cart. The deceased suddenly fell off the cart, and the
wheel passed over his body. The deceased Was taken to
the hospatal. where he has since died. Verdict, " Acci-
dental death."

Ellen Williams, who died suddenly. The deceased was
forty-five years of age. She was the widow of a labonver.
On Wednesday evening, the deceased went borne at about
half-past eleven o'clock, and commenced getting the supper
ready; at that time she was joking and laughing, but a
moment after she dropped down and died. Verdict,
" Die! from apoplexy."
On the body of Michael Conolly, aged 21, a labourer in
the employ of Mr. J. Hampson, a coctractor. The de-
ceased was employed in carting soil, on Wednesday, at
Broad Greea, when he jumped off the waggon into the
buffer, but in doing so he fell. and the wheels passed over
him, and he died from the injuries he had received. The
inquest in this case was opened, but adjourned until
Saturday next.

LONDON COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—JuNa 10.