Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-15 00:00:00

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;count allege(

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to them by the defendant, in respect of a pure&
on a quantity of woollen cords, a peculiar cloth with facin
of wool, and backed with cotton.. The contrno4
supply of the cloth in question was entered into Oh ..
of June, 1858, and on that occasion the defendant gave
plaintiffs a memorandum detailing that he had purchased ho
200 pieces of woollen cord, at Is. 7d. per yard, 44 per cent. +,
discount for cash and commission, to be equal to sample,
and "to be perfect in all respects." The case main!)
rested on the meaning of the words "perfect in all respects,"
the learned counsel observing; that the case had already
been before a jury here, and had been fully aligned in the
Court of Queen's Bench.
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This was an action brought to recover damages for
alleged breach of contract by the defendant, with res

ten o'clock this Morning

COURT AND OFFICIAL INTELLIGENC

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in Pitt

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leading statesmen, who entertained high respect for his di
plomatic knowledge and experience. -Tie was also honollror

3efore Messrs. PE

2nd HOUGHTON.]
was summonpfi

4

THE PADIHAM STRIKI

.MEETING Of

MASTS

in removing. a nuisance existing in Market-Areet, Everton.
The nuisance arose from some stagnant witer which lay in
the pit, the smell of which had been most obnoxious. Mr.
M'Gowen appeared, on behalf of the Health Committee to
press for the infliction of a penalty, or the immediate
removal of the nuisance. Mr. Roby appeared on behalf of
the defendant, and contended, in defence, that the agree-
ment which the defendant had entered into when he was
first summoned, had been, as far as poasible, carried out, in
the way of filling up the pit, so far as he had stuff to do. so,
and to abate the noxious vapour, by putting lime into the
w.-14. at. •L

meeting on Wednesday evening, the master spinners and
manufacturers decided to appoint a committee to investigate

the claims and demands of the Padiham operatives. It to be the feeling of the majority present that the
Blackburn masters could not interfere unless the Padiham
people agreed to pay their weavers the "Blackburn standard

AN OLD TALE. REPEATED.-A lamentable affair has oO-
cuffed iu the Faubourg St. Martin. A little boy, six
. .

•••••••••••• .Vll bitumualier, iounu in a closet an old
musket, which had beenforgotten there for, years, and began
playing with it. Ms father told him to put it aside, but as
the child did not obey, he jumped up to take it from him.
The father. caught hold of the musket by the butt end, and
the child held it by the other. Unfortunately it was leaded
, and in pulling it from the child it went off. The
..;e, to the father's horror, struck the little fellow in the
and killed him on the spot.—Galignani.

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noxious; but became offensive from the percolationsy of some
middensteads in the neighbourhood. A fine of 40s. and
costs was imposed. A like fine was imposed on Mrs. Smith,
who resides in the same neighbourhood, for not removing
some stagnant water on her property.

with shot

A Scotch paper announces the proximate decease of an
Edinburgh daily paper, the Daily Express.
According to a report made to the Minister of public in-
struction, there are now in Turkey 10,897 schools for Mus-
sulsmans, which are frequented by 230,54.5 boys and 121,259
girls, and superintended by 11,226 teachers. There are also
2,249 schooLs for Christians, receiving 105,361 boys and
L 7,806 girls, with 2,259 teachers.
NEW MAGISTRATES FOR CIIESIIIRE.—At the 'Enutsford
adjourned sessions, held on Thursday, the 11th instant, the
following gentlemen took the oaths and qualified as magis-
trates ar the county of Cheshire :—William Bayley,. George
• Adshead, Thomas Hadfield Sidebottom, and Albert Hall,
Es q. ; all resident at Stalybridge.
DEVONPORT ELECTION:--Mr. Ferrand, wha was unsuc-
cessful against Sir Michael Seymour, on Tuesday, has de-
termined to contest with Sir Arthur Buller the seat vacated
by the promotion of Mr. Wilson. It is probable that the
nomination will take place on Tuesday, and the election on
Wednesday next. •
had the lamented Bayle St. John lived, his next' work
would have been a biography of Rabelais, which, we believe,
will be completed an edited by his younger brother, Mr.
Horace St. John. We hear that the labours of the author
have been with the view to show that the world-famed,
humourist has been misrepresented to English readers by
his translatl,rs, especially by the witty and learned T.Trguhart.
Lord Earnest Bruce has given notice that he intends
early next session to call the attention of the house to the
regulations now in force as to the admission of strangers
below the bar of the house, whereby not only all peers of
Parliament, all Scotch and Irish peers not peers of Parlia-
ment; but all their elder sons, are admitted as a matter of
course, if there is room for them, -in preference to the sons
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A MANCHESTER YOUNG GENTLEMAN DROWNED AT
WHITBY.—On Wednesday, Mr. Charles Salomons, son of
Mr. Salomon, of Plymouth Grove, Manchester, who was on
a visit to some of his relations, at present resident at Whitby,
was drowned while bathing on the sands. He was observed
to be in danger, and Mr. Thomas Turnbull, who was also
bathing, swam out to his assistance, but was unable to rescue
him. Mr. Turnbull was nearly drowned in his gallant
attempt, and it was only after repeated .restorative means
that he recovered. The body of the drowned youth was'
found about two hours after the Occurrence. The deceased
was in his seventeenth year, mrd was a young man of much
promise.

HORRIBLE MILL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday afternoon,
a most horrible accident occurred to a piecer, named Daniel
Riissell, employed in the cotton factory of Messrs. George
Emmott and Sons, Clegg street, Oldham. He had been
assisting the spinner to piece a strap, and seeing that it
hung loosely, he took hold of it to put it right, when he
became entangled in it, and was carried round the shaft, his
legs striking forcitly against the ceiling of the room. The
machinery was stopped as soon as possible, and he was
removed, when it was seen that both his legs were broken,
hiFi right arm was broken above and below .the elbow, and
his left arm was also broken. He was attended by Mr.
Platt, and was on Thursday morning removed to the Man-
chester Infirmary.
DEATH OP A WELL-KNOWN LONDON CHARACTER.—OR
Thursday evening, an inquest was held at the Wheatsheaf
Tavern, St. Pancras-road, London, before Mr. Wakley; on
the body of James Laight, aged 65-43 years of which he
had stood in Newgate-street. beside the prison wall, with an
assortment of walkinm-sticks for sale. It appeared from
the evidence that the deceased left his stand throughout the
year about seven o'clock in the evening, conveying the
walking-sticks home in a small truck, which he and his dog
dragged between them. On Monday evening, on arriving
at home in Span's-buildings, St. Pancras-road, he was
seized with severe pains in the bowels, accompanied by
vomiting, and in a short time was a corpse. On a post
,nortem examination, death was found to have resulted from
spasmodic affection, and stoppage of the action of the
bowels. Verdict, natural death.
Tua BEACH AT HASTINGS.—The swells,-who annually
visit St. Leonard's seldom migrate so far east as the old
town of Hastings ; and yet they might find it a pleasant
way of spending a morning to go and have a crack with the
fishermen there, for they are an intelligent, civil race, have
had many adventures worth hearing, and are not at all back-
ward in talking to strangers. The old men are rather fond of
dwelling upon the exploits of their youth ; and, if you treat
them to a jug of ale and furnish them with tobacco, you may
hear anecdotes of the old smuggling days which would fur-
nish materials for a novel. The fisherman's is an old craft
at Hastings, and has been for centuries the principal em-
ployment of the poor; and, from information gained upon
the spot, we_ have learned that in the main it is now carried
on by families whose names may be traced in the borough
records for many hundred years back. The number of
boats employed in the fishing business is about 100, vat -
ing in value from £2OO to £l,OOO. Some are employed in
trawling, which is carried on from the middle of July to
the end of September, and again from NoVember to April ;
others in mackerel-fishing from January to July; and
others
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fieshintsfortrehteerrinh out in inf r search September
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December.
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A:DISAPPOINTED BRlDE.—Martha Amos, domestic ser-
vant to Mr. John Talbot, of the Blue House Farm, Chet-
wynd, has been apprehended at Lockley Wood, near Hin-
stock, under the following circumstances :—lt wppears that
for some time past a young man, named John 'Williams,
living at the last-named place, has been paying his addresses
to her, and about a month since, she-gave Mrs. Talbott
notice of her intention to leave, as she was about to be
married. The notice Mrs. Talbot refused, as,she was hired
by the year. However, the banns of marriage were pub-
lished in Hinstock and Chetwynd churches, and the final
asking was on Sunday week. On Tuesday night her mother
and Williams came to Chetwynd to feteh the young woman,
when she asked her master to release her. This he would
not do, and accordingly she took French leave, and went away
in company with her mother. On the following morning
Mr. Talbott obtained a warrant for her apprehension, which
he placed in the hands of police-constable Griffiths, who at
once started off for Lockley Wood, where he arrived just
as the wedding party were on the point of leaving for
church to be married. The bride and bridegroom and other
friends were bedecked in bridal array, and all seemed to
be going on as smoothly as possible, when the policeman
made his appearance, and announced the object of his
unceremonious intrusion. The consternation thrown into
their midst can be better imagined than described. The
policeman was inexorable, and the bride, therefore, had to
walk in company with the police officer to Newport, where
she was incarcerated in the lock-ups. She was afterwards
toorldeerr
siivtasitatingnia,deth:—ere£o. aeobmatpereteonht
taken before J. C. B. Borough, Esq , at Chetwynd,-when
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to Kilshaw-street he would drop her

as she went that way home. The cab then
the complainant being seated inside, in corn-
) woman whom he supposed to be the driver's
driving for some time they stopped at a public-

rd Clarke asked the reason of their stopping
here. The cabman told him that he would go no further
till he would_ get some allowance, and Clarke

gave him .a

it of a purse, in which there was one sovereign
a sovereign, besides three half-crowns. Clarke
the house with the man, but the woman was not
They drove off a second time, when the cab
-street, and the driver ordered him to get out

and pay him, as he would drive no further. Carke -found,
on searching for his purse, that it was gone, and he gave
the woman into the custody of 799, on the charge of having
robbed him. She was taken td the Prescot-street Bridewell,
and afterwards was sent with her to thp main iirmpur.ii

w nen tney got near the door of the main bridewell the
plaintiff had-purchased from the defendant. The terms of
the contract were, that the goods were to be delivered in policeman said to Clarke that he knew he had been
quantities—namely, 600 on the. 25th December last, 700 on robbed, but the woman would return him the money if he
the 25th January, and 700 on the 25th February ; but only would not charge her. Clarke then said he would take the
72 had been delivered, and the action was brought to re- officer's advice, and give him five shillings for his trouble when
cover the loss which the plaintiff had sustained by reason of they got the money. They went towards Dale-street, and on
the non-delivery of the 1,928 pieces, the goodthaving 'in the way Clarke heard the woman say to the officer she had a
the interim risen in the market. The defence was that there sovereign, and she would give him half if he would let her
o. 'When th v
got into Dale-sireet, they all went andhad
had been no specific contract beyond that entered into for !•,' o.„_, A.. 1,. 4„ eb,„1.„9, ....11:- l• 1 . •
thA rinlivor, of 4-1,,, ..4 • . . . .

some UT= 11l luguy s puonc-nouse, and the woman got
v... Lne, iz pieces. There had been conversa-
tion, but nothing beyond it. The jury found a verdict for change of a sovereign. The officer counted it, and put it
the plaintiff—damages, £5l 3s. Bd. Mr. Monk, Q.O , and into his pocket. After leaving the house they were met
Mr. Pope, appeared for the plairit;ff,. and Mr. Jones for' the by another officer, and Clarke told him that 799 would
,fendant. not take the woman because he was half an hour late of the
shortly before hnlf-n..1-
sheshould have been at the station. This officer said

I
he would take her, and when she was taken to the central
office, the woman said she had given officer 799 ten shillings
to let her off.-:--Officer Carlisle said Ralph admitted having
-vereig,n from the woman when he asked him about
- ~ - •-.4:Brar and the

Mr. Goulburn has been appointed Deputy-Chairman of i woman were committed fol. trial.. The complainant said
the Board of Customs, in the room of Mr. Spring Rice, he had no charge against Wood, the driver.
resigned in consequence of ill health. The seat at the OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—George
board vacant by the promotion of Mr. Goulburn, will be Clarke, boarding-house keeper, Litherland-alley, who had
filled by Mr. Ralph William Grey, M.P. been remanded from Friday, was brought up on the charge.
It is said that Mr. Bernal Osborne has been requested by of having forged a sailor's allotment note, by which he
the united independent Liberals of Liskeard to succeed Mr. drew £lB from Messrs Arnold, Leete, & Roscoe, as the agents
Grey in the representation. of that borough. Ni. Osborne for the ship Clangregor. The note was said to be signed
has left town for Liskeard. by a Portuguese sailor named Da Silva, and left for pay-
Mr. Koch, English consul at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, went of debt till his return in that ship. Mr. Cobb was
died a few days ago, aged eighty-two. Mr. Koch was pro- ' for the prosecution, and Mr. Bluck for the defence. After
foundlyi versed in European
:.• politics,
I. and enjoyed the per- a considerably lengthened hearing of the case, it was ad-
crmal frandialvirs nf 4.11,1 ln+n Q

THE FORBES MACKENZIE (SCOTLAND)
ACT INQUIRY.

[This Scotch Act restricts the sale of drink in licensed
premises to between the "hours of 3 a.m. and 11 p.m. during
week dap—all such places being entirely closed on Sun-
days—except hotels for. bond
_fide travellers.]

The Royal Commission of Inquiry resumed its sitting at
Edinburgh--Sir George Clerk presiding.
Professor Miller was the first witness examined. He said
he believed the Forbes M'Kenzie Act had improved the
physical, moral, and religious condition of the people.
Duncan M‘Laren was next examined, undoubtedly
of the most influential and able of the witnesses.
I the office of Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1851 to

after the passing of the Forbes M''aekeriL

an evidence

burgh Prison Board had repeatedly urged the Gene-
ral Board of Prisons to erect art addition to the prison,
and it had been agreed to erect the addition. The decrease
of crime after the Forbes Mackenzie Act went on so
rapidly aad steadily; that even those who'were at one time
in favour of the erection of the proposed addition to
the prison agreed that it was not required, and the
permission was not given. The addition was never made,
and the. existing prison is not nearly full at present.
The prison return on the Ist August, 1854, showed that
the daily average number of prisoners for the previmis
seven years had been 579. When the Forbes. Mackenzie
Act came into operation, the daily average fell to 440, and
during the succeeding years, up to the first of this month,
the daily average had fallen to 359. During that period
the population has of course been greatly increasing, and
we might have rather looked for an increase of the crime.
I know of no cause for this diminution of crime except the
Forbes Mackenzie Act, and I never could get anybody to
allege any other reason. There has been a large diminution
in the consumption of spirits in Scotland .since the Forbes
Mackenzie Act passed. I estimate that the diminution during
the last five years amounts to 5,195,530 gallons. In making
that calculation, I have official information for all the years
but one, and the only assumption I make is that the same

number of gallons were sent duty paid from Scotland to
England in 1857 as in 1858. The diminution each year
during the last five years amounts to about ono and ,I_ll.lf

11.1/
millioil of gallons, being, equal to three bottles of whiskey to
every man, woman, and child in the country. I attribute
that decrease to the decreased facilities for drinking on
Sundays.

Mr. Thomas Linton, superintendent of :police, was next
examined. I have been in my present situation for eight
years. He said—l have had particular instructions from
the magistrates as to the enforcing of the Forbes Mackenzie
Act. I have prepared statistical tables of the number of
disorderly cases, copies of which I have given to the secre-
tary. These tables commence with 1852, and they relate
to three years before the act and five years since the Act
came into operation, each year ending on the 31st May. In
the first of those years the persons found drunk and kept till
sober were 6,556, and the number in the last year was 4,956;
in the first year the number of persons found drunk when
apprehended for offences was 3,114, and last year it was
3,612. The totals for the first year are 9,670. and f
1

,
ast year 8,568, being a diminution of upwards of I,ooo' on
the whole. An increase has taken place on the last two
years. The numbers were lowest in the year ending 31st
May, 1857, when they were 7,324, and they have increased
each year since that time. As regards the Sundays, the num-
ber found drunk and kept till sober on the first year of these
returns was 607, and in the last year 480 ; drunk when appre-
hended for offences in the first year, 779, and last year 670; the
totals on the Sundays being for:the first year, 1,386, and last
year 1,150. Taking the number of cases between eight
o'clock on Sunday morning and eight o'clock on Monday
morning, there were found drunk, and kept till sober, in the
first year, 407, and in the last year, 120 ; apprehended for
offences, first year, 294, and last year, 138 ; the totals being
for the first year, 701, and for the second year, 258. The
Lumber of unlicensed houses, including. suspected houses,
amounts to more than a half of those licensed. I believe it
is the Sunday restrictions thai are the main cause of the
shebeens.

•
William ' Smith, police constable, said—The shebeens
do most business on Sundays, and I attribute that to the
licensed houses being closed. I visit temperance hotels and
refreshment rooms. There are very few houses which hare
temperance refreshment rooms marked over them that do
not supply drink. They only sell to parties they know and
can depend upon, and it is difficult to detect them, I know
that spirits are sold to them, because I have seen parties
goinc, into them sober and coming out drunk. I think those
who frequent shebeens on the Sundays chiefly belong to the
working and middle class, and not to the lowest class.
These shebeenS could accommodate a great-number. In one
house in the High-street, about half-past one on a Sunday
morning, recently, I counted eighty people sitting drinking.
"----- -ler Sinclair, manager of Shott's Iron Works,
—We employ about 180 men. They are engaged
•
mion the men have greatly
im-
id A

examined

ues Act came
into operation. We have very little reason to complain
now. In a great measure, I attribute the improvement to
the act, and especially to the shutting of the public-houses
at eleven o'clock, and early in the morning. I think the
men were formerly inveigled to drink in the morning. I
think it is more injurious to drink in the morning. Ihave
not heard the men express any opinion on the subject. The
men are now very much more regular in their attendance on
the Monday morning.
Peter Robertson, manager of Peter Lawson and Co.'s
nurseries, said—We have about 100 men in our employ-
I have had superintendence of the gardens for six-
teen years. I have observed a very great improvement in
the habits of the workpeople during that time. There is less
intemperance. The improvement has taken place within the
last four or five years. I have thought that was caused by the
Forbes Mackenzie Act. I have heard some of the men who
have been addicted to intemperance say that they considered
it Ea boon as it removed them from temptation. They
applied that both to the closing. on Sundays and to closing
after eleven o'clock, but especially to the late hour of
opening in the morning. They were formerly in the habit
of getting a
.glass before going to work. I think the
improvement in their habits has been decided. I have
observed that there is not now one absent on the Monday
mornings for ten that were absent before the Forbes
Mackenzie Act.

Sir George Clerk said that they hal made arrangements
for taking evidence in Glasgow.

Count de Persigny, the Memorial de la Loire states, not-
-withstanding his great wish to preside at the council general
of that department, cannot leave London, in consequence of
the importance of his ambassadorial duties.
SHOALS OF MAcKEHEL.—The shores of the Bristol Chan-
nel, says the Hereford Journal, have been visited with won-
derful shoals of mackerel and numerous other kinds of fish.
At Porthcerry they were so numerous that the farmers were
obliged to use them for manure.
How TO AVOID SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.-111r. A. J. Ellis
has announced to the Scottish Curative Mesmeric Associa-
tion that persons wishing to avoid sleepless nights should
lie with their heads to the north, and not on'any account
with their heads to the west.—Timbs' Things Not Generally
Known.

BREACH OF PROMISE.—At the Lancaster assizes, on
Monday, a young woman, named Oddie, weaver at a mill at
Enfield, brought an action for breach of promise against a
man named Henderson, who was formerly a " cutlooker" in
the same mill. The intimacy commenced in 1847, and was
continued until 1849, when the plaintiff had a child to the
defendant. After the birth of this child the intimacy was
renewed, and continued till 1857. The sister of the plain-
tiff spoke to repeated promises of marriage having been
made to her during that time. At the end of 1857 an uncle
of the defendant died, and he came then into the possession
of property to the amount of £ll,OOO, and the promises
were then repeated, that he Would marry the plaintiff at the
end of twelve months after his uncle's death, which would
be in December, 1858. At that time the' defendant took
the plaintiff to look at a house which he said he intended to
take for her, and then acted as if he intended to make her
his wife, but on the 16th of that month he married an-
other woman. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff
—damages £2OO.
THE ENGLISH FLEW AT 'NApLits.---The fleet went over
to Castellainare for ball 'practice on Thursday morning
last, leaving here the Centurion and the Exmouth. The
Euryalus and the Lapwing left Naples on Tuesday morning,
and the Caradoc went out with Captain Yelverton on Mon-
day night to Malta. Captain Yelverton has been appointed
to the coastguard, and was therefore called upon to give up
his command of the Conqueror, to which Captain Clifford,
late of the Centaur, has been appointed. I never witnessed
a prettier scene in my life. 1 was sitting in one of the
cabins of the Centurion when the silence of the evening was
broken by a " Hip, hip, hip, hurrah." How such sounds
stir ont's blood in a foreign land ! Rushing to the window,
one could just discern in the dusk of the evening all the
yards of the Conqueror manned. Then the land breeze
brought down to us the sounds of " Should auld acquaintance
be forgot," &e., played by the band. A launch shot off from
the vessel, a profusion of blue lights were let off, and Cap-
tain Yelverton ceased to command the Conqueror. He was
a great and universal favourite, and deserved the unusual
honours he received. It would be well for our navy if
many
respondent. •
caPtaius would take a lesson from hhim.—Times'Cor-