The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-31 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

- LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. J. S. MANSFIELD.
STEALING FROM SHIPBOARD.—A woman named
Catherine Dargan was placed in the dock, charged on
suspicion of stealing a quantity of wearing apparel from
the ship, Flora M'Donald, now lying in the Bramley
Moore Dock. The only remarkable feature about the
case, was, the culpable facility with which, as it showed,
people living in the same court, were induced to pledge
clothes and other articles for each other, not knowing
how the possession was obtained. In this case, the
prisoner was walking along the street, when she met
another woman of irreproachable character from the same
court. She asked her to pledge the clothes, and the
woman, without for a moment. reflecting on the conse-
quences to which she expo Fed herself, went and pawned
them in her own name. Mr. Mansfield pointed out to
her the danger which she had foolishly ran in pledging
clothes under such circumstances, and cautioned her to
be more careful in future. The prisoner, who, it was
stated, keeps a low brothel in a court off Great Howard
Street, stated first that the clothes were given to her by
a seaman named Peter, who was one of the crew of the
ship, but she afterwards varied her statement, declaring
that they were given her by two others of the crew.
Peter since absconded. She was ordered to be fined
£5 and costs, or to be imprisoned for two mouths for not
saisfactorily accounting for the possession of the goods.
A NEW MODE OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF MILK.--
A milkman named Richard Finlay was charged under
the following circumstances : He was passing through
one of the north end docks, and in answer to the con-
stable on duty said that there was nothing in his can but
milk. The constable not being satisfied, searched the
can, containing about three quarts of milk, and found in
it about three pounds of American beef. The prisoner
then said that he had got the beef from the captain of
the Albert Gallatin, in exchange for a little milk. Mr.
Mansfield said that' perhaps the beef would be improved
by the immersion, but he feared it was placed in the can
not for that purpose, but for the purpose of concealing
it with a fraudulent intention. He should therefore be
committed for fourteen days with hard labour.

DANGER OF " SAUCING" SERVANTS.—A pretty bet
shrewish-looking girl, named Catherine Davies, was
charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel from
her mistress, Mrs. Campbell, of Cleveland-street. The
prisoner pleaded that she had had too many mistresses
over her in the house, and that she had been " too much
sauced." She was remanded for a week.
THE CORN ROBBERY. —Thomas Taylor' John Jones,
Robert Harrison, and Daniel Philips, were brought up on
remand, charged with stealing seven bags of corn from the
Teresa Bird. The facts of the case have already, on more
than one occasion, been reported in these columns. Har-
rison was now discharged ; but, as Mr. Mansfield expressed
at the outset, that there was a sufficient case to send the
other prisoners for trial, Mr. Bluck, who appeared for
Philips, and Mr. Goodere, who appeared for Taylor and
Jones, reserved their defence. The prisoners were then
formally committed for trial.

" YORKSHIRE" TAKEN IN.—A WOnian of the town was
charged with robbing a young man, who gave his name as
John Dawson, of £9. The prosecutor, who seemed
a good-humoured, honest-hearted fellow, convulsed
the court with laughter, by the novel manner in
which he stated his complaint, rendered the more amus-
ing when given in the broad Yorkshire dialect. Mr.
Mansfield : What do you complain of ? Prosecutor : Well,
I lost nine pound this morning; and I just complain of
that. (Laughter.) Mr. Bluck appeared for the prisoner,
and cross examined the prosecutor at great length, to show
that he could not say but, that the money was stolen by a
red haired woman, in whose company he previously
,was.
The prosecutor bare it all very well, until the
learned gentleman asked, " And did yon not part
with the prisoner on very friendly terms ?" The
Prosecutor (in great indignation) : Friendly terms, indeed !
Ecod, very friendly terms when she had my £9. (Laughter,)
His account of the robbery being none of the clearest, Mr.
Mansfield asked him to repeat it. Prosecutor : Well, I
just tell my story; if you can understand it, you can—if
you can't, you can't. (Laughter.) The prisoner wait
committed for trial.
BEFORE MR. Z. R. JEFFERY.
There was a great number of publicans hnd henhouse
keepers cases before the bench, but most of them were
dismissed. Sidney Smith, publican. Waterloo road, was
fined 20s and costs for Sunday trading : and Andrew
Hussey, beerhouse keeper, P,---3"`ce's street, Park, was fined
2s 6d and costs for a like oftnea.

• tIOUNTY COURT—Yesterday.

BEFORE JOSEPH POLLOCK, ESQ , JUDGE.
CLAIM OF A THEATRICAL AGENT.-EDGAR V. HONEY.
—ln this case Mr. Robert Fdgar, of Greenland street,
Liverpool, was the plaintiff. and Mr. George Honey, the
popular and talented comedian of Drury Lane theatre,
London, defendant. The amount for which the action
was brought was £6, which Mr. Edgar claimed as com-
mission on an engagement alleged to have been procured
by him for Mr. Honey. Mr. Husband appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Statham for the defendant. The case
for the plaintiff was, that in last July he wrote to the
defendant, who was then playing in Limerick on a pro-
vincial tour, asking him whether he would accept an
engagement at Drury Lane theatre, and stating that
he'represented Mr. E. T. Smith, the lessee of that theatre.
In consequence of- that letter an engagement was entered
into, by which the defendant accepted £6 a week. This
the plaintiff represented as a transaction in which,
according to the usual custom of the profession, he was
entitled to recover commission, as a theatrical agent, and
he stated that the words " theatrical agency" were on the
envelope enclosing the letter he wrote to defendant. On
applying to the defendant subsequently for the amount
of commission, the latter, he stated, objected .to pay,
and added that if he had known that Mr. and Mrs.
Keeley were engaged at the theatre, he should not
have accepted the engagement at all. Mr.,
Illney was examined, and stated, that he never
had any idea that the plaintiff wrote to him in the
capacity of an agent requiring commission, and that no
reference whatever to the subject of commission passed
between them until October, when defendant made the
demand of him. This was in the portico of Drury
Lane theatre. He (Mr. Honey) said, in the if place,.
he did not acknowledge the claim at all ' • and, in the
second place, if he had known that Mt, ondMrs. Keeley
were engaged, he should not have V'ccepted the engage-
ment, inasmuch, as that circurastance prevented his
name from being kept prorn'.nent before the public.
He stated that he was welt known to Mr. Smith, pre-
viously, having played fe:r three years and a half at the
Adelphi Theatre, and, he did not need any agent to
introduce Win. Mr. Edgar told him that he was merely
acting as a friend on behalf of Mr. Smith. On the
occasion that that remark was made, Mr. Edgar invited
defendant to have some cigars, and brandy, and
sodawa.ter ; which, however, he left defendant to
pay for. (Laughter.) Mr. Honey stated, that he had
engaged by means of a theatrical agent before, and paid a
commission, bnt there was a distinct arrangement made
beforehand. He stated that in all other engagements
made by him, such as his engagement with Mr. Benjamin
Webster and with Mr. Maddox, of the Princess's Theatre,
he engaged directly with the principal. To his Honour
DH not know that Mr. Edgar was a general theatrical
agent, or anything about him, except that he was
manager of the Park Theatre, Liverpool. Did not know'
either by the envelope of his letter, by advertisement
or otherwise, that he was a theatrical agent until this
demand was made upon him. His Honour said theta'
was no evidence of a, ,y contract to pay commission tie
all. On the face of the document there was nothing to
show that Mr. Edgar was a commission agent. l
simply states that on behalf of Mr. Smith he applied to
Mr. Honey to know if he would accept an engay,ement.
There was nothing to show that by was acting otherwise
than as an agent for Mr. Smith, or that Mr . Honey ever
knew that he was acting generally as a theatrical commis'
sion agent. His Honour accordingly gave a verdict for
the defendant, with costs. On tiv. application of Air'
Husband, his Honour gave lea to move for a new trio.'
in the event of additional ev3.dence being procured bY
the plaintiff, the costs iu
meantime to be paid into
court.

T"
and FiI"4IICH
@37EYIPIRE AND ITS RIVALS.—The Imperialist
Fusionist
_cies of Paris are occupied just now
) with
very different
ments. )*Jut to each of them very interesting state
t•he former it is confidently asserted that
Holiness t'ne Pope has at last consented to crown tit
Emperor at Rheims in the month of May, and has gio.:
the sitr.etion of the church to the new order of things
Frawce. In the latter a contract of marriage
anx ounced between the Comte de Paris and the daugliter
the Duchess Regent of Parma, who is the only 815:e0
of the Duo de Bordeaux. By this alliance the fusi°o
will, it is hoped, be complete, and the conflioting pretensiollt
of the houses of Bourbon and Orleans be reconciled.
present, however, the youthful princess and future bride
ie
only in her eighth year.
THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN AUSTRIA. —A .e-
-ftit
from Vienna, in the Independence, mentioning . the Pr
of the seizure of the Charivari, adds : —" It must, howe‘vco'
be confessed that the Austrian Government is not 111111,4
squeamish as some other Governments with regard to sv'io
is said in the foreign journals. While we see cert3rj,
circles in France excited and bewildered by a single Nyc
more or less discordant, which may escape the pen °f 0,
foreign journalist, we can read here, in extenso and uno3io
Tested, many articles in the French and other papers'
which Austria is well abused,"