Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-31 00:00:00

BRUTAL ASSAULT BY A SOLDIER.

At the Mansion-house, on Saturday, :e'en Pinge, a soldier belonging
to the Grenadier Guards, quartered in the Tower, and who wore a
Crimean medal, was charged with assaulting a porter name I George
Gammer, a man of dimintal e a atu• e. The prosecutor deposed that
on Thursday night he was walking along Lower Thames-street, when
he met the prisoner, who, without a word of previous warning,
cletched him round the ,-houlders with one arm, while with the hand
of the other he struck him a violent blow on the head, and then let
him go. Complainant demanded t'-)e reason of such treatment, when
several people who had bean following the prloeer said. that was
nothing to the way in which the soldier had served several other
people, and that he ought to be locked up. Complainant said, as
that was the case, he would 'ock him up, upon hearing which the
prisoner ran off as well as he cored toward: the Tower, but as ha was
not very sober, complainant was able to keep pace with him, and
follow,d to the Tower ga o. lihe prisoner, however, instead of going
on, turned beck, and dodged his pursuer through some back street,
into Thames-street again, without complair ant being able to meat
with a policeman. The pri,oner c'osed upon him just before $74 officer
came up, and hit him a tremendous blow in his left eye, which. in
coirsequ, nee, was frightfully contused and bleolshot. Prisons:: He
first insulted me by calling me a lobster. Lord Mayor : l'hat is all
nonsense. It is not at all likely that a little man like that weuld d ro
to in nit such a powerful man as you are. Pri onor : Oh ! my lord ;
people often insult soldiers, and they think they have a right to do it.
Lord Mayo:: Oh, I don't believe th.t. No true Briton would insult
a British .o:die e Prisoner: Not if they had common sense, but I
assure you they °len do so. The prisoner's sergeant, who was in
court, said the p-ie mer had belonged to the battalion for tkree and a
half you-T, and hid always borne a goad character for sobriety.
Prisoner: Yes, I never get drunk, although I was a little in liquor
last right. Lore Mayor : Well, it is a most brutal a,sault, and I
shell tins you 40,4 If you pay it the prosecutor shall hive h,lf the
money, and if not you must go to prison for 21 chys.

TEE WA' ERLOO-BRID3E MURDER.

A PRETENDED CONFESSION.

Daring Sunday, at C,l,liester, soms sensation was carped i the
town by a rumour that a soldier at the camp had confasard to having
been concerned in mar,"ta ing the man whose mangled remains wow
recehly fout)d on one of the piers of Waterloo—bridge. It appears
that a deserter from the 66th Regiment, name t Ito ~as Pedlar, was
brought back to the camp on Saturday evening, and whilst in the
guard-room attempted to commit suicide by strangling himself with
his nec-rerchief. He afterwards dropped some hint , about having
committed some crime. which he cared more about than desertion ;
at last said ho, with two others, murdered a man in London, and
after he had been cut u ,'and pat into a carpet i.ag a woman took it
away and threw it over Waterloo bridge. Ia reply to the sergeant
who had charge of h.m ho aid Ihi man we.. not a foreigne-, but a
farmer, and had £6O abo.:r him. He added that he did not commit
the murder, but wan in the house at the tone, and hail part of the
money. The circtunvancewAsclunnunr.e.ated to the Buronsh police,
and tr,.nperintenclar t Dann had an interview with the prisoner, when
he said it was all humbeg, and knew no more about the murder than
he had read in the papers. The prisoner wag brought up to—day at
the Boronga Bench, when he made a similar retrrc atioo. He is a
poor idiotic-looki, g fellow, and by no means likely, Judging f om
physical characteristics, to have played a part in so nnblile and
sanguinary a transaction. He k t tint he comes from Brist,l, but
will not tell whether he has sing friends, or whom ho was employed
by in that town. The Mayor (wee is a physician) expressed his
belief that the men's mind was ) ermg,al. He also a pe,,scd to wish
to each nge military for civil cu-toly, ac by call he wonld rather go
to gaol than be sent back to the camp. Ni chance whatever was
place i on his statement as to the murder, and he was handed bark to
i the mil tary authorities:

EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF A
BIRMINGHAM LADY.

A Birmingham lady has recently bean the heroine of a very stranee
romance. A few weeks ago a very respectele clergyman of this
town visited the metropolis, and took with him his young deaLhter.
On their arrival at Euston-square, it is said, the young lady suddenly
lost her father, and was alone, unknown, and unknowing, in
Loud n streets without a sleeting. She wandered about till she
reac'-.ed Oxford-sheet, and among the thous nds that thronged aeeend
not one familiar face met her gaze. At last, losing all sdlf centre],
the r eor ciri buret into tears, and was weeping hitterly, whena young
clerical looking gentleman accosted her, and inquired the cause of
her die ress. Her touching tale was soon told ; she Ilse just arr,ved
from Birmingham, had lost her father, and was without protector,
money, or friends. The clerical gentleman prveued his inquiries, arm
eventually advised the :ady to return to Birmingham, and generously
giving her a couple of sovereigns and his card, he called a c ab, and
erdered the man to drive to Easton squire station. Therelieved and '
the reliever then ventured oe their different jour-lea, the yineg
gentleman protesting teat ha would have accem„anied the young
lady to Birmingham had not urgent business, demanded his epeedy
return to Bristol. The gentleman, on reacl.ing Bristol, made known
to his friends the adventure in which he had played so genrrous a
part, but became the victim of cruel sneer.; and sarcastic wit, as
having been juggled by a " crying girl." Only a few days since,
however, the young man was ousebled to laugh as hearty at his
friends as trey had laughed at him, foe he `eeraed teat the crying
girl's" story was tree, and that having found her father, the latter
WAS bountifully grateful to his generous unknown friend, who
had, he said, "done his daughter the most disinterested act of
kindness he hai ever met with in the course Of a long life "
therefore, the laugh was clearly in flavour of the young
e•ergyman of Bristol ; end if, as we are informed it h, this story be
true, the generous young man will Lug have cause to rejoice at the
I willing ear with which he listened to the forlorn glrra Story of "
her wher."—Birrningharn P tea,