Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-28 00:00:00

BIRKENHEAD POLICE COURT.

SMOKING IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—Two young
men, named respectively Snape and Gibson, were
charged by Detective Hodson with smoking in a first-
class carriage of the Birkenhead Railway Company.
Mr. Hodson said that, in consequence of information he
received from the directors of the company, he took his
seat in one of the carriages at Chester, and was imme-
diately asked by the prisoners if smoking was offensive
to him, to which he replied that it was.not. They then
commenced a Most nauseating fumigation, which was
continued until they arrived at Monk's Ferry Station,
when , they extinguished their pipes, and alighted
so' qUickly, in fact, that the officer was with diffi-
culty able to overtake them and gain their names.
This, however, hel succeeded in doing on the following
morning, but -not without neat trouble.—The magis-
trates con: idered that as the offence was becoming so
general, an example should be made of the defendants ;
they therefore inflicted the ftill'penaltv 40s. and costs.
I' ASSALTING THE PoLicE.-,--Mr. French, a gentle-
manly-lOoking young man, was summoned by the pro-
secutor in the last case, for assaulting hiin while in the
'discharge of his duty. Numbers of witnesses were
called on both sides ; but the assault being 'clearly proven,
the defendant Was fined 40s. and costs.

DEATH OF A TOURIST ON SNOWDON.

•
One more has been added to the many tourists who_
'have of late lest their lives in attempting the ascent of
mountains. Mr. Cox, the son of a clergyman in Derby-
shire, arrived at Llanberris on Sunday morning,
having walked from Carnarton with the intention of
ascending Snoidon. He was at the Llanberris Falls
with two gentlemen, who had intended also making
the ascent, hilt who, the day being very cold, and the
higher portion of the mountain being covered deep
with show, considered it more prudent to postpone
the attempt. Mr. Cox, however, seemed quite bent
on the expedition, and called at the hotel for a guide.
He was there informed that the day was very unfavour-
able;-but the guide was found, and without entering the
house or asking for any refreshment, he proceeded at
once. On an ordinary day the ascent to Snowdon from
Llanbenis would be, to a strong man, but an easy morn-
ing's walk, and Mr. Cox was apparently young and
vigorous, but the path was encumbered with snow, and
the guide observed his companion to give way after the
first two miles, and suggested his returning. He was,
however, determined to proceed, and after a short rest
and a drink of whisky, the attempt was renewed.
The summit was reached with difficulty between one
and two o'clock, but here Mr. Cox became so unwell that
the guide broke open the door of the hospice,,tenantless,
as it would appear, when most needed to obtain shelter
from the piercing wind. The young man fainted from
the effects of exhaustion and cold. On recovering, he
expressed his regret that he had not provided himself
with sandwiches at Llanberris—a thoughtless and very
fatal omission, as the event proved.
After a rest of half an hour they prepared for th
descent to Beddgelert, the next step in the three days'
tour, which the unfortunate young man had stated it was
his intention to accomplish. From this the guide
attempted to dissuade him, representing the greater
difficulties to be overcome on that side of the mountain,
but in vain, and with fatal self-will he commenced the
descent, Over broken ground, through deep drifts of
snow, across the "saddle-back," fearful and perilous under
all circumstances, but now doubly so, in driving snow'
and mist, they struggldd on, until, in the guide's compu-
tation of time, five o'clock found them little more than
two miles on their way, and then Mr. Cox broke down,
again fainted, and lost so completely the use of his
limbs, that the guide, a small man and advanced in years,
feeling the impossbility of carrying him, and the danger
of the approaching night on the mountain, placed the
young man as comfortably as he could, and told him
to must go for help. " How far ?" "Two miles."
To this he made no reply, and the guide made all haste
to the nearest farm, a house which travellers will re-
member, where the guide-post points to • Snowdon, on
the road from Carnarvon to Beddgelert. It would be
nearly two hours before the guide returned with two
companions. Mr. Cox was found about a hundred
yards from the point at which he was left, having
apparently struggled and rolled there. He was insen-
sible, and expired before he reached the house. Such
was the sad and sudden end of a vigorous life. The best
bow may be overbent. It appears that, having visited
the Great Eastern on Saturday, he walked to Carnarvon—
that he had intended -sleeping at Beddgelert on Sunday,
and to have walked thence by Cap el Civing to Bangor again
on Monday. A prodigious undertaking certainly for the
strongest man. But in these railroad days, " doing "
certain things in the shortest possible time is the rage;
and a very fatal one.- Let this case of Mr. Fox be a
warning to enterprising young men, who take sudden
flight from our great towns, and attempt impossibilities.
The hotel proprietors in the vicinity of these mountains
would do well to put some restraint on their guides at ,
dangerous seasons and during bad weather. The hos-
pice, too, ought to be a reality. A little food there of
any kind would probably have saved a life in this
instance.

Manchester is about to contribute the steam engines
necessary for the proposed issue of the new copper or
bronze coinage. A pair of beautiful and highly finished
horizontal engines for this purpose have just been con-
structed by Messrs. R. Ormerod and Son, of the St.
George's Iron Works, near Chester-road, Hulme. The
copper coinage of this country, we are informed, has
for many years been struck at the works of Messrs. R.
Heaton and Sons, Birmingham, and to that establiskment
these engines will be transmitted in the course of next
week.

BOAT ACCIDENT AT PORTSMOUTH.-011 Tuesday, as
the captain's gig of her Majesty's ship Beagle, anchored
at Spithead, was entering Portsmouth Harbour, she
was caught by the tide and swept towards a steamer,
when the crew and four sitters in the stern sheets be-
came frightened, and jumped overboard to avoid the
collision. The steamboat picked up five people, the
surgeon was picked up by Mr. Pearson, belonging to the
Liverpool revenue cutter, and one was picked up by a
waterman named Martin. As there were four seamen
in the boat in addition to the four sitters in the stern
sheets, it is feared that one of the men was lost. As
the steamer was not on the move, had the men only sat
still in their boat there is every probability that no
accident would have occurred.

THE LANDED ESTATES COURT.—The first annual
report of the transactions of this court, which is a re-
construction of the Encumbered Estates Court, has been
issued. During the past year there were presented 241
petitions. There were 160 absolute orders for sale.
The number of statute acres comprised in those petitions
amounts to 92,000 acres, and the net annual rental
£148,000. However, the most remarkable facts are
found in the general summary of the proceedings of this
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was distributed to creditors and proprietors. The
transfer books show that the vast majority of the pur-
chasers were natives of Ireland. They contributed, in
fact, upwards of £20,000,000, and they have since pur-
chased largely from Englishmen and Scotchmen, who-
appeared at the early sales, obtained bargains, and
realised large profits on their re-sales.
EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT.—At the petty sessions
held at Ashburton last week, before Mr. C. H. Norm.,
Mr. J. H. Amory, Mr. H. B. Wrey, and Mr. Woodley,
county magistrates, Mr. Cockayne was charged by Mr.
John Stuart Littler, a young gentleman of twenty years
of age, and a son of the late General Sir John Littler,
with. assault. The defendant is the complainant's step-
father, and the evidence given by the latter was to the
effect that a short time ago he was in his room
dressing, and had on his trousers and flannel shirt,
when Mr. Cockayne entered with a cane accom-
panied by Mr. Emick, who had a walking-stick, and
Arscott, a labourer, and the coachman, eachhaving straps.
Mr. Cockayne said to complainant—" I have a duty
to perform," and then instructed Arscott to seize him,
but he evinced reluctance to do so. Mr. Cockayne then
ordered him to take down his trousers, which,
however, complainant refused to do, upon which Mr.
Cockayne did it himself, pushed the complainant
on the bed, and commenced caning him. He gave him
weuty lashes upon which the complainant asked him,
how many more he was to have, and defendant said " I
shall complete the number of 39." He then pushed
up complainant's shirt, and struck him over the back and
arms, leaving blue stripes there for some time after-
wards.--For the defence it was urged that the punish-
ment was only a reasonable one for some matter alleged
against the complainant.—The Chairman said, in giving
judgment, that the defendant was convicted of a
cowardly, brutal, and indecent assault. The bench had
at first considered that they could only do their duty by
sending the case to the eessiocs. They had, however,
resolved to inflict on him a penalty of £5, or, in default
of payment, to be sent to gaol for two months.

BANQUET TO LORD BROUGHAM.

The banquet by the citizens of. Edinburgh to Lord
Brougham took place on Wednesday evening. About
650 sat down to dinner, and about 400 ladies and gen-
tlemen were present as spectators. The Lord Provost
having, in appropriate language, proposed " the health"
of the noble lord,
Lord Brougham rose to reply, amid manifestations of
great enthusiasm and delight. He said he considered
this invitation and this reception as one of the, two greatest
honours that had crownad a not very short and a very
variegated life. His being chosen to represent the great
county of York was the other. He ref,. to the instances
of gross bribery and corruption lately disclosed in England,
and expressed his great satisfaction that in Scotland
electoral corruption did not exist at all. Until it was
extirpated with a steady, unflinching, and strong hand,
the constitution of this country would be upon its trial.
That it would survive he entertained no doubt, because
he entertained no doubt that that corruption would yet
be entirely extirpated. He adverted, in affecting terms,
,to. the many changes that had taken place since his last
appearance in. Edinburgh 25 years ago, and expressed his
pain to think that he was the survivor now of nearly all
kis private friends. One change, however, he found of a
more happy description—he had survived those rancours
and delusions of party which then to some extent prevailed
those delusions which allowed no merit in an adversary--
and admitted no fault in a friend. Referring to the
affairs of Italy, he said that whatever motive had
-originated the late war a certain amount of good had
come out of it—a very great step had been made towards
the independence of the Italian people ; and his hope
was to see them under the King of Sardinia, as the only
practical.mede of insuring their independence. Alluding
to France, he pictured the great tempter holding out
before that nation the lame% the emblem of warlike
glory, and expressed his hope that the French would
net be deceived by it ; and he described the tempter as
likewise' offering to this country the apple, the emblem
of the fruits of the earth, and trying to lull this country
into a false security, leading it to abandon its pre-
parations for defence. In this last he kneiv that the
tempter would fail. This country, he said, did not dis.
trust its neighbours, but it trusted to itself. Their duty
was to be prepared by sea and land in every way in
which an attack was possible, so as to render it impossi-
ble not only that the attack should succeed, but that it
Should he. attempted. ...IVe did .thc_best_both , for our
neighbour and ourselves by being completely and
absolutely prepared for whatever might happen. (His
lordship was received-throughout with great applause.)
Among the toasts of the evening were :—" The Educa-
tion of the people," proposed by the Lord-Advocate ;
" The College of Justice," proposed by Lord Brougham;
'The English Bar," by Professor Aytoun; and among
the other speakers were the Duke of Argyll, Professg
Pillans, Mr. Robert Chambers, and others,

DEATH OF THE EARL OF WALDEGRAVE

" regret to have to announce the -decease -6f -Vice-
Admiralkarl Waldezrave, C. 8., which melancholy event
took place on Monday the 24th inst., at Hastings. Vice-
Admiral the Right Hon. William, eighth Eariof Walde-
grave, and Viscount Chewton, Baron Waldegrave and
a baronet of the United Kingdom, was born at Nave-
'stock-hall, in Esget, on the- 27th- Of October,- 1788:-. He
was educated at Eton, and, at the, early age of 12 years;
chose the navy as his profesiimi. In 1846_ he accepted
the rank of Rear-Admiral on the . Retired List, in
accordance with his own long-expressed opinion,
that the good discipline and thorough vigour of the
British navy would be best maintained by,the elder
officers retiring, and .making way for their. younger bre-
thren in the service. In the same year he succeeded to the
family dignity as Bth Earl of Waldegrave on the decease of
his nephew, and, having been a widower for some years,
married Mrs. Milward, of Hastings. This place was after-
wards his principal residence. The loss of his eldest
Son, 'Viscount newton, captain in the Scots Fusilier
Guards, from wounds received at the glorious battle of
the Alma, was a blow to his happiness and health, from
which he never recovered. The late Viscount Chewton
left at his death two sons; the elder, William Frederick,
born March 2nd, 1851 ; the younger Henry Noel, on the
14th of October, 1854, just after the death of his noble
father. The' deceased earl is succeeded in:his title and
honours by his grandson, the above. William Frederick,
now ninth Earl Waldegrave, born on 2nd March, 18-51,

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DARING ROBBERY.

A robbery, says the Globe, has just been committed at
the Hotel Dessin, at Calais, with a degree of audacity
which- shows that "tliFyrelpetrifor was 'a master hand
at his business. On Sunday week last, a well-dressed
young man, of about from twenty to twenty-five years
of age, alighted at the hotel, gave his name as the
Vicornte de Nainie, son of an admiral of that name, and
stated that he was a midshipman in the French:navy.
He had, doubtless, heard that officers in the navy were
treated with particular attention in that house, in
consequence of M. Dessin having a son in the service.
He found such to be the case, as he moved about as
though he were at home, and without exciting any sus-
picion. The day after his arrival, on pretext that he ex-
pected his father from England, he requested that his
room might be changed for one with two beds, which
was done. During the day, the weather being wet,
he asked Madame Dessin whether Calais did not con-
tain an establishment where he might pass an hour or
two in good society, and a letter of introduction was
given him to the president of the Cercle. In the even-
ing he remained at home, and stated that he should
not go to bed, as the packet was expected in the
night, and he complained moreover of a toothache,
keeping his face tied up with a handkerchief. All
his measures had before this been taken. During his
stay in the house he had observed where the key of the
office where the cash-box was deposited was usually
placed, and he took possession of it. At night he
' entered the office, broke open the desk, and abstracted
1,500 f. or 1,600 f. in gold and English bank notes, with
which he got clear off, calling to the porter to open
the door, as he was going to meet his father at the
packet, and should soon return. He had the impudence
to leafe behind him a letter stating that he had been
four years at the prison of La Roquette, and having no
money, and not being able to find anyone to supply
him, had taken the sum belonging to the hotel. He
thanked the proprietor for the way in which he had been
treated, and said that he would very soon send him £2,000
from England, whither he was bound, if they would not
make a hue and cry after him. He recommended the
managing clerk at the hotel to keep a better look out
after such customers as he did not know, and concluded
by saying that the scheme of the robbery had been planned
at La Roquette, where he had an accomplice, and that
he had better look sharp, or his comrade would attempt
something against them when he got out.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SeKoors.—On Wednes-
day there was a simultaneous collection all over the
country in aid of the funds of the above excellent insti-
tution. A circular (to be read at the dinner table)
was sent to the chairman of the day at every com-
mercial-house in Great Britain ; it was stated that if
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held at the London Tavern, Mr. Stockdale in the chair,
when liberal- contributions were announced. Last year
the simultaneous collection realised £3lB 9s. ld. ; but it
is anticipated the present appeal will be more generally
resEonded to.
THE LONDON BUILDERS' STRIKE.—The building
operatives of the metropolis have this week adopted an
appeal to the public for further subscriptions enable
them to live without labour. At the St. Martin's-hall
public meeting of Monday night it came out that the
funds raised by charity for the support of the workmen
have begun to fall off, and thus a necessity arises, especially
as winter has set in, for vigorous efforts being made to get
money from those who are actively employed to aid those
who have refused that employment which the masters
have offered them. At the same meeting, one 3,fr.
Facey, a talented individual who has gone over the
country begging for funds, gave an account of his
experience in conducting this eleemosynary mission,
and it appears that he has been very successful in
the collection of alms. In many. of the provincial
towns, the workmen who labour with their own hands
had banded themselves together to get bread for
those who prefer not to labour at all, and even wives
and daughters had come forth to assist in the work of
obtaining support for those who do not work. Never-
theless, all those encouragements which Mr. Facey
experienced in the cause of requiting indolence do not
seem to have reconciled him to the occupation, for he
proposes such an organisation as would do away with
the need fOr the London societies to send himself and
other agents to the provinces on such undertakings.

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THIS DAT.

This Day (Friday,) the 28th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the
Broken: Office,
8000 Bags Neeranzie RICE,
now landing ex Sardinian, Prince's Dock.—Apply to Messrs.
lioldernesfs and Chilton, Merchants ' or to ,
T. and H. LITTLEDALE and CO., Brokers.

This Day (Friday,) the 28th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at,the
Brokers' Office,
500 Bales, JUTE,
T. and H. LITTLEDALE and CO., Brokers.
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