Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-30 00:00:00

Sratirr.

STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
PICI/4
Barns u LQI,JVEE:I4I'OOL AND HAVRE.
Captain Martyn
:404-ift.%„...-. BA LB E C ..... Captain Little.
Or other suitable steamers, arei etonded to saW with or win.
out pilots) from the Huskisson (or other) Dock,asfollow:—

FROM I.IVER.POOL 9.0 HAVRF. DIRECT.
BRITISH QUEEN.. Monday, Nov. 2, at g, men:ling
Shippers are req•dred to rend a silippia,7,ll3:o along .vith each cart
load of goods, and must describe oa the coatenti of the packages.
For particulars apply, in Havre ..r Paris, to Donald ..;urrit
in London, to J. B. Feord,s2, Old Broad-street ;in Glasgow, to 3,
and J. Burna,o, Buchanan-street, in Manchester, toloha Walks,,
77a , Market-street ; or hereto
BURNS & MAC IVER. 1, Rumford-street.

CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM PACKET COMPANY.
The Vessels ot the Company convey Her Majesty's Mails betweeu
Holyhead and Kingstown, twice every day. Hours of ;:ailing.—
From Holyhead, 1 30 A.M. and 5.0 A.M., London Time; from
Kingstown. 2.0 P.M. and 7.:•V p. 11., Dublin Time, or as soon after
as the Mails are on board.

FOR DUBLIN,
Ltik,.. The Company will sail the IRON DUKE, TRA•
FALGAR, or other of their tirst-class Steamers,
~,, from the Prince's Pied:cid, LIVERPOOL, for
KINGsTOWN HARBOUR. EVERY EvimisTo,
Sunday excepted,) at 7 o'clock, with Possengersonly. returning from
KINGSTOWN HARBOUR, for LIVERPOOL, EVERY EVENING,
'Sunday excepted,) also, at Seven o'Clock.
They also Sail their Cargo Ve-eels (as be.ow) from the Clarence
Dock to Dublln quay, (with or sothont Pilots). of w hictt Shippers
are desiretito take notice:—
Oct

Frid y .......... 29, 8. p.m.
Saturday ........ 3,. 9, p,,n

Nov
'at 14, 9, p.m
,101 1 ay
ruesday ........•• 17. 10, p.m.
Vedneaday
'3ursday .
,riday
;aturflay
4opeay
ruesdsy
W&dne.lay
hu'sday
Friday...
iatanlay
Monday

10, p m
Tuesday.
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday ... 6,1, p.m
Saturday ••• •• ••• 7,2, pn'
Monday 9. 4, p.in
Tue day
i.Nednieday
'lhursday
Friday l3, 5, p in.

From DUBLIN for FIELF.ST, every Mo!may and WRONTRS-
DAY ; Returning every Tuv.snAY and ri,ugsDAT.
FOR BANGOR, PiF.AUMARIS, A I) CARNAR VON.
The PRINCE OF WALES, or oche, Vessel, is intended to sail
from the PRINCE'S PIERHEAD every WEI,NeSDAY and SATUR-
DAY, and trom MENAI BRIOG!, every McNDAY and FRIDAY,
caging at Llandudno ;weather permitting) to land and receive 1..R.5-senireil.
senireil.
AU Goods for the Prince cif Wale* mutt be sent to the Clarence
Dock. Goods for Carnaivon may be iaiided at the Menai Bridge,
and in that case forwarded by tip' FAittv steamer.
For further particulars apply to Mr. Timothy. Menai Bridge
Charley and Malcolm, Donegal quay, !Telfast ; tityof Dublit, Corn
pally's Office, 15 fII,CI if), Eden Quay, Dublin; or to
JOIIN K. ROUNTIIWAITE. Meat, 20 Water-stre.t.

/IELLEWELALT'S
IE4 L,PtsETel,c
P:42llTiilti STOCKINGS,

HELLEWELL'S ELAsTic SILK LEGGINGS,
AT 12s PER PAIR.
lIELLEWELL'S ELASTIC SILK KNEE
CAPS.

AT 105 PER PAIR.]
ETELLEWELL'S ELAsTic SILK ANKLETS.
11 AT 8a PER PAIR.
HELLEWELL'S ELASTIC COTTON
S'T'OCKING 4.

AT 10s PER PAIR.

HELLEWELL'S ELASTIC COTI ON
LEGGINGS,

AT 9s PER PAIR.
HELLENVELL'S ELASTIC COTTON
KNEE CAPS,

AT 8s PER PAIR.
TTELLEWELL'S ELASTIC COTTON
ANK LETS,
AT fts PER PAIR,
FOR VARICOSE VEINS OR WEAK JOINTS.?

2 & 3, QUADRANT, LIM E.sTREE l', AND 53, CASTLE- I
STREET.

BEING THE LARGEST ESTABLISHMENTS IN ENGLAND.

POLICE Ili TEL LI GEN CE -YIBTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL.
BEF3RIC MR. MANSFIELD,

A PICXPOCKT T GUT. —ln3peetor Read, brought up
a ftmale pickpocket eery 'net! known to the police as one
of the most expert bards at her " trade" in Liverpool, on
a cha'ge of having picked a lady's pocket of a parse con-
taining £l3. The prisoner gave her name as Fl z iheth
Moore. The facts of the case were these. A lady, whose
name in not at present known, was standing at the shop
wirthw of Messrs. Cook and Townsend, Byrom-street,
when the prisoner went up to her and drew a purse from
her pocket, v hen she was seized by a woman named Mary
Connor, vho called to the lady to know if she had lost
anything ? The lady cried oat that she had lost ber purse
and £l3 Connor then said the p-isoner had it, and held
her fast. SI e managed to drop the purse, and then got
away, Sol/owed by the woman, tend the inspector joirF d the
,hase. and after a smart ru hr captured htr in a plssage
in Duckworh-street. Meantime the lady got her parse
and money, and was taut too glad to get away with it, so
that when the prisoner was bought to Byrom street, the
lady was not forthcoming. Ttp case la Aug proved so far,
and as the prisner was so well known, she was sent to
jail for three mon!hs.
nuroßv MESSRS S. HOLM! AND MEM.

IXI.3I{TI,NT TO SHOPRIMPZRi AND TUE PUBLIC,--2iL'f,srs.
Jones end Johnston, the inspector of weigh'e and measures,
summoned a number of -hepkeepers and othsrs, for having
false weigh'-, so. lea, and measures, and, as will be ob,erved,
from the followie g bservatious of Mr. Alderman Ilolmr,
the subj et will be fount very important both to s l!er sad
buyer. The first case esThel on was that of Robert Ather-
ton, provi,ion dealer, P. e co'-street, who was chagA with
hew g the ssllit g scale against the purchaser. Alderman
Holm t said he wished to make a few obsei vatiors on the
subject, ro v before the court, on a system that was exten-
sively carried out in this town, a system amongst shop-
keepers the most heartless and dishonest that coald be well
imagined. Shopkeepers who sold by weigh' and m, astute
were in the habit—ar dhe was sorry to say it—of plunder-
ing the public by false weights and measures to an extent
that was fearful. He did not see the difference between
such persons and the man who stopped him on the highway,
-with "stand and deliver." He did n)t see the difference,
be would again say, b tween the shopkeeper who plundered
him by false eeiehts and met sores, and the men who stoo-
ped him on the highway and robbed him of his purse
by fr e; th,re was no differerce, no moral differ-
nee between the twa crimes, excep', peth ps, that
the shopkeeper was the more gu'l y of the
two, because he rcbt-ed persons who were nt,t able to aff atd
the less. and robtted them, too, in a systematic manner.
B con, flew, and butt r were sold—teas and sugars, and a
vat iety of other articles n ssa y for the poor—for which
they had to pay high, with their hard earned mon- y, and
instead of getting full aeight and measure (Cr their merry,
the shopkeeper cheated end r bbed them systematicelly.
It appeared also that shopkeepers used a plurali'y of
weights, a hich was most scandalous. He was sorry also
*1 at these obse' vations applied to people keeping respectable
shops, and folding what was termed high character in the
'owe, as well as to smaller shops and traders, and he did
not see exactly how sech could be dealt with, unless
• xpesed end then p rni hed when caught. In case of tea,
sugar and oth r articles, it was of the utmost imp rtar.ce
that the poor pecale al mild be honestly dealt with, by
getting their due an honest weigh*. He could net cc nceive
arytbing more dishonest—and he now expressed the sen-
timents of the tithe r mag'stretes, as well as his own—he
could not conceive aerhirg more dishonest than for
shopkeepers to rob—c-nelly rob—the poor,in the systematic
manner 'bat they did, who purchased from them. It was
most disgraceful as well as dishonest, and the magi,trates
bad come to a resoluta to put an end to this system of
pn'ire tobbery, and he now set out by telling the st.o.:-
epers of Liverpool, that in all cases brought before the
c net, whae light weights, false scales atal measures, were
proved to have been used, a smart penalty, so as to make
them remember it, would be. inflicted; and that, if convicted
sr' a second offenc,, a penalty of £5 would, in every case be
rigidly enfa ced. False weights and mersr es were an
abomination to the town, and it was truly lamentable for
magistrates to be often comp-lied to send a poor hungry
lad to jail for taking a lc al to satisfy his huger, whilst the I
shopkeeper was allowed to plunder the public wholesale,
and get off fur a floe. He wished the legislatute empowered
the magistrates to send the ehlikeepPr to jail, ins'eal of
Ening him. He would again repeat, the mig'strates were
resolved to put down the system of public plunr!er that
prevailed amonget shopk, epers in this town, and be feared
it prevailed in other large t was also. No competition in
trade should induce any shopkeer to resort to dishenests ;
and he was again so try to say that his observations applied
equally to large and what was called respectable establish-
similes, as well as to small, He trusted that the public
would take warning; and if a sense of honesty on the part
art Ebopkeerrs did not make them honest, he trusted that
punishment could have an influeree on them, es the poor
must be protected from such gross dishoeesty. He
tined the deeedent in the case £1 and casts.—
The following cases were then disposed of :-111a. garet
Deans, a c eke dealer, for having a sheet quart, fined
sa. and costs.--rienry 'rate, Fox-seteeat for having a tea
and coffee scales (Ile drachm again t the purchasee
by a pi-e 3 of wire attached to one of them, feed
40s. and cos's. The defendant did not appear.—
Ants Harrigen, a fruit dealer, Queen's-square, for
hari-g a small Tula measure, fined ss. and cost .
Nicholas Leary, provision laler,Serer-st!eet,Hyge;:-stret,
for having bacon aid butter scales against the purchaser by
a farthing placed npon the rim, with which the gal s were
corectly balaeced. Fined 20'. and costs.—Carist,pher
IliGninness, fruit dealer, Great Charlotte street, tor having
a vial measure a gill and a half short. Fired ss.
Margaret Pocket., green grocer, Great Charlotte-street, for
having a slight scale. Fined ss. an] c-sts.—John Trettall,
green grocer, light weight in St. Martin's Market. Fined
10a. and 7s. cost ibeth M Guinness, bacon shop,
Great Howard-street, false scale. Fined 2s. 6d., and 23. 6d.
eost.„—Richard Robinson, butcher, Piince Edwir-st eet,
settle against the buyer, and lead alto listened to it. Fined
£1 and costs.—Beery Col i.e., coal dealer, 153 Great
Oxford-ltae A, scale against the purchaser Fined Ll and

,3 _John grater, 45 Cbiistiar.-street, sU;le.
against the buys?. Fined £2 and costs.--Robert Webster,
butcher, 64 Fur-street, seale against the purchaser. Fined
£2 std c >sts.—Hanra's Brock,, p-ovision
dealer, Plurnb-
streer,'cale against the buyer. Fined 10s. and colts.—
Jam s I-I,z'cdun, grocer, 97 Kirkdalr-rt ad, 1-ad placed
under seling Fined £1 and co ,t9.—David
Benner, provision dealer, 9,5 Ellison-street, false
weight, fi el 103. and cos`s.—Thomas Ger rl, green-
rrocer, Qieen's square, false scale, fined ss. and cost,,.—
Elizabeth Hughes, Heath-a net, Park, a piece of lead
under the selling scale, fired £1 and costs.—George
linqsay, prevision shc,p, Cornbermerc-street, false soale
against the buyer, fined 10. i. and c s's.—George F.
Jackman, provision dealer, Northumberland-street, false
scale against the buyer, fined £1 End costa. Robert Ball,
provision dealer, 9, Anne-street, false scale on flour side,
fined £2 and costs.—Thmitiick Boland, marine store
dealer, Llanroes'-street, false scale, fined 10s. and cost..—
Laura Owen,, provision dealer, Key-s'ree', Park, scale
agairstbuyar, fined ss. and costs.--Ellen Thurtle, fruit dealer,
Great Charlotte-street, false measure, fine] ss.—Ann Smith,
fruit dealer, Queen's square, a quart a gill and h If short,
This woman was fined several times in diffment name;,
fined £2 and c s's. The alderman said, in this case he
regretted he could not send her to gaol instead of fining
her. Th€re were, no doubt, mar y itsnester perso-us in
Walton Geol than she was --Wlttiarn Robinson Foster,
Clarence stiee, Edg—hill, flour and provision dealer,
putty under scale to make it false against buyer, tined £2
and costs. The alderman said there was ne cLubt that
there was design in this cas,.—Hugh Hughes, coal denier,
Beilly•eVee t, scale against purchaser, fined 5s and costs.—
Smith, Paddington, 1 rovision dealer, false scale,
Sited £2 and casts.

B[RBr \IIEAD.

18PORIC MEiSRS. FrEIDIEN, SAAW, CJXON, BARTON, AND

OLZGO

BRUTAL ASSAULT.-Captainßenjamin Sproule' tesidi.iir
at Grange Mount, Oron, was summoned for assaulting
Austin Quinn. Mr. Brethertoo appeared for complain..
ant, and Mr. Dutton (of the firm of Wahl and Dutton) for
the defendant. The case origin.dly stood fur hearitli on
the till ins'ant, but had been postponed on account of the
illness of the defendant, end who was still absent on
that rctount. Mr. Bretherton, in opening the case,
said he appeared for the eorni lairant, and if his in-
stri:clons were correct, be should be able to pr.ive
to the bench that a most undrovok,A and unmanly
assault hid been committed by the defendant, and
hoped that the Bench would visit the °tram: with
such a fine that persons in the posiii,a the defen-
dant was would kturiv that they n ,t to take the law
into their own hands, and behave in such a ruffianly
manner as the defendant had. lie then called Austin
Quinn, who stated that he was conductor to one of Mr.
Evans's Oxton omnibuses, and on the 29ii September
last the 'bus left the Woofisiae Ferry at half-past five
The defendant was an outside passenger, ani when they
had got as far as Dr. Blakenel's Church, one of the
defendant's sons got on the step of the 'bus. He told him
to git off, whicl he di*but when the 'bus had arrived at
the end of the journey on Oxton Hill, and the passengers
bad alighted, he got on again to ride while the 'bus was
taming round, upon which he again told him to get off,
and, with the view of frighte• ing him, he gave him a
g ntle slap on the side of the head, and knocked his
cap off. He had, however, no sooner done so 'than
defendant came and seir d him by the collar of
his coat, shook him very violect:y, and kicked him
twice in the lower part of his b.ek, and then, while
balding him with one hand, stuck him two violent