Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-05 00:00:00

plunged into the river, when he observed the body of the
prisoner, and also that of a child, bath their heads being-
under water. By some means the two bodies became
disconnected, but Fiber succeeded in getting the body of
the woman ashore, and then going for the child,
both being apparently in a dying state. They
were immediately conveyed to the " Wheatsheat "
public-house, where restoratives were administered, and
they subsequently recovered. The woman, who had
worked at the Sovereign Mills for sense years, and was
well known, said, when asked whether she had fallen
into the river by accident, that she had not done so, but
had intended to drown herself and the child, which was by
her first husband, through the brutal treatment of her
present husband, who had'etaken away her child, then
only fourteen days old, and had deserted her, and since
then he had been tried at Preston for an assault upon a
msn. Mr. Cobbett addressed the jury for the prisoner,
arguing that from the ill treatment she had received from
her husband, she was not in a sane state of mind at th
time she committed The .offence with which she stood
charged. The jury found the prisoner guilty. His
Lordship, after suitably addrvsing the prisoner as to the
enormity of the offence she had attempted to commit, and
the distressing circumstances under which she had laboured
at the time, ordered her to be imprisoned for one week,
which will expire this day (Saturday.)
James Johnson, aged 22, a collier, who was on yesterday
acquitted of the charge of having criminally assaulted a
little girl, named Miry Doran; in the village of Parr, in
the mon'h of July last, was again placed at the bar,
indicted fcr having committed an aggravated assault upon
the same child. Tae prisoner was found guilty, and. his
Lordship, after a suitab'e admonition, sentenced him to
15 calendar months' imprisonment.
STABBING AT SALFORD.—Thomas Millar, aged 25,, a
hairdresser, stood indicted for having, on the lath of
October last., feloniously wounded James Millar, with
intent to muriler him. in this case the pros=ecutor and the
prisoner were Le-others, and carried on business as hair.
dressers in Silford. Sniae time ago the prisOner gave up
business, and transferred it to the prosecutor, but returned
again in two months, and then some quarrelling ensued, the-
result of which was that the prisoner deliberately took a
razor from a shelf in the shop and inflicted a severe wound
on the prosecutor's head and neck, thereby endangering
his life. The jury found the prisoner guilty of unlawUlly
wounding, and he was sentenced to three mouths' impri-
sonment.

THE CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER IN TROWBRIDGE-STREET.
—Robert Jones, aged 38, a butcher, stood indicted for
having, on the 4th of October last, feloniously killed Wm.
Jones, his brother, a butcher in Trowbridge-street. The
full details of this melancholy case have been so recently
published, when the case was being beard at the,police
court, and subsequently before the coroner, that a repeti-
tion of the evidence would be superfluous. The short
facts, however, are as follows. On the night in question
the prisoner went to his mother's house, and being at the
time in a state of intoxication, began to kick up a row
with the poor old woman. She went for another son, the
deceased, and upon his going into the place a quarrel
ensued, in the course of which blows were excnanged
between the two brothers, the result of which was that
the prisoner, who had a knife in his hand at the time,
inflicted a wound, which was the immediate cause of his
death. When taken to the bridewell, he was told the
charge that was made against him, when he said, "Yes,
I know he is dead—he compelled me to do it, he struck
me first. ;" and at that time his mouth was bleeding, and
subsequently some of his teeth were found in the cell
which had dropped out of his mouth from the blows he
had received. Mr. Deighton addressed the jury on
behalf of the prisoner, contending that the knife had been
used by him in self defence, and was not therefore guilty
of the offence with whiclgeihe then stood charged. Guilty
of manslaughter. Thelarisoner was sentenced to 18
calendar months' imprisonment.
ABDUCTION IN LIVERPOOL.—Thomas Cummings,
aged 24, described as a blacksmith, stood indicted
for having, ou the 13. h Jannary last. unlawfully
taken out of possession and against the will of
Francis Bolan, her father,•one Mary Bolan, she being then
unmarried, and under the age of 16 years. Mr. Aspinall
called the father, who stated that he was a shoemaker,
living in the Park, and, after some difficulty, fixed the
age of his daughter. Be then went on to say that, on a
certain night, the prisoner called at his house, and, after
treating him with half a gallon of ale, took away his
daughter and £3 in money, neither of which he had ever
seen since. The case was not proved, and the prisoner.
was discharged.

GAROTTEitOBBERY IN LIVERPOOL.—ThOMaS Browne,
aged 22, a seaman, was charged with having, on the 9th
of October, assaulted and robbed Henry Harding, a
labourer, living in Bootle, and stealing from his person
15s. Guilty ; sentence deferred.
THE LIVEUPOOL DEPOSITIONS AGAIN AT FAULT.—III
the last case, his lordship having remarked that some-
thing which a witness now stated was not in the deposi-
tions, although the witness alleged that he said the same
thing before. the magistrates, the following conversation
ensued:—Mr. Preston said : It may, my lord, well happen
in Liverpool that matter may be stated before the magis-
trate and yet not appear in the deposition. Mr. Justice
Wightman : How can that be? Mr. Aspinall: In most
cases in Liverpool -the witnesses are examined and the
prisoner heard, and the magistrate then makes up his
mind whether to commit or not. Up to that time nothing
is taken down. If the magistrate then determines to
commit, the prisoner and the witnesses are sent into
another room, where a clerk takes the depositions: They
are then brought back again, and the depositions are read
over in the presence of the magistrate and prisoner, who
is again told that he may ask any questions he likes.
Mr. Justice Wieht man : That is an extremely reprehensi-
ble practice. The deposition so taken down may bo quite
different from the first statement of the witnesses ; and
there is another objection to it. The prisoner is not
likely t 4 ask his questions again when he has already
asked them in order to prevent his committal. He will
not see the advantage of having them down on the
deposition. j cannot understand bow Mr. Mansfield can
allow it. Mr. Aspinall : The practice dates from a
time previous to Mr. Mansfield coming to Liverpool.
He found it existing ; and with the quantity of
work which he he has to get through It is impossible
that he could do it in any other way. Mr. Justice
Wightman : I am quite convinced that Mr. Mansfield
will perform all his duties to perfection as far as in him
lies; but if more is placed upon one magistrate than he
can perform, more force ought to be provided. Mr.
Aspinall : There never was a magistrate, either here or
elsewhere, who did his work better than Mr. Mansfield,
but he has to get through an amount of work as great as
five or six London police magistrates, and your lordship
must see that, to take all the depositions in his presence,
which -no doubt is the right way, would enormously
increase hie work. He does so in all very heavy cases.
Mr. Justice Wight an : That is an admission that the
other practice is wrong. I know how admirably Mr.
Mani field performs his work ; but it is too great for
him, he ought to have assistance.

UTTERING A FORGRD BILL OF EXCHANGE.—At the Leeds
Court House, on Thursday. John Lamb, a waste dealer, of
Brarnisy, was charged with forging a bill of exchange,
for £27, and also with uttering it, knowing it to be a
forgery. The evidence was conclusive as to the uttering,
and as to the forgery, the names of the drawer and accep-
tor were in the same handwri ing. When the facts had
been given in Evidence, the prisoner acknowledged his
guilt, and was committed for trial at the pending York
as' ze'.

Tint SMOKE NUISANCE —Mr. A. Pellatt read a paper, on
Wednesday evenit g. to the members of the Society of Arts,
London, upon the relative heating powers of coal and coke,
in regard to economy and the prevention of the smoke
nuisance in Manchester and the North of England, and
the advantage in that respect which hsd resulted in the
metropolis irom the operation of Lord Paltnerston's
Smoke Aet. It was admitted that the evil continued in
Lambeth, of which great complaints were made by South
Western Railway travellers and others, and that the new
Fmoke Act, which will come into operation on the let of
January next, must be depended upen fora remedy. Ally-
eion was then made to the report of the commission
appointed in 1853, that manufac!orice of glass, and iron,
and Tetterieg, should be ex-mp'ed from the operation of
the Smoke Act, until discoveries of science would allow
of their being placed in the same category with all
other factories. He suggested that the time referred to
had now arrived, and proceeded to advert to the plan
alopt d by Messrs. Doulton, the potters of Lambeth,
for the consumption of smoke. It was stated that
experiments mace as to the relative heating powers of
coke and coal, had led to the result that one chaldron
of coke, weighing thirteen or fourteen cwt., performed
about the same heating duty as one ton of twenty cwt.
of Newcastle small coal, and, in consequence, a mixture of
coke and coal had been employed by Mr. F. Pellatt at the
Falcon Gas Works, Southwark, with a saving of about 2,1,
per cent., end
..an almost entire prevention of smoke. In
these works le tieweldeu's patent machinery was in use,
and this had been aporoved of and purchased by the,
municipal authorities of Paris. As the value of tar, ammo-
nia sulphur, naptha, and bituminous products of coal get
commercially mere valuable, it was suggested that a new
means of separating coke from coal might be devised,
by which the valuable bituminous products might be
preserved.
For private use gas coke was objected to, on
account of a disagreeable sulphurene smell ; but this
at the gas works at Liverpool had been obviate]
by putting fourteen pounds of common salt to every charge
of coals in the retorts, which, when distilled with the coke,
was said to purify the coke, and improve the quality of
the gas. A plan was suggested Per preventing the destruc-
tion- of steam boilers by the use of coke ; and, in
conclusion, the advantages in regard to cleanliness and
comfort, and the appearance of manufacturing towns from
the general adoption of smoke consuming apparatus, were
pointed out by the lecturer.

Exclusivoly for CLOTHING BOYS from Six to Twenty INC
& COMPANY Eartellgh-sUl.t.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—YEsusaDAy.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. M 4NSFIELD.

GALLANT CONDUCT.—Patrick M'Culloch was charged
by Mr. Page, the respectable auctioneer, who said he saw
the prisoner in Dickenson-street the previous night,
beating a woman in the most furious and savage manner.
He seized him, and and called a police officer, and gave
him into custody ; the officer said the woman was much
abused, and could not attend until next day. His Worship
said he might convict the prisoner on the evidence of Mr.
Page, but he would remand him until the woman was
able to attend ; at the same time, he must say that Mr.
Page had behaved with great courage and humanity, and
he wished any one who saw ruffianism practiced in the
streets, would act as 'courageously at Mr. Page, who had
exposed himself to danger in acting humanely. The
prisoner was remanded.
FORTUNE TELLING.—Thomas Carley, a dirty-looking
fellow, about 30 years of age, described as a shoemaker,
having no place of rPsidence, was brought up by officer
377, charged with having obtained 31 from one Miss Ann
Wilson, and 4d from a Miss Ellen Copeland, both of No.
50, Gill-street, under false pretences, to wit, for telling
fortunes, The history of the case was as follows :—Miss
Wilson, in her simplicity, was informed that the
prisoner

Could study the stars,
And talk like a rurn'un
'Bout Venus and Mars.

Only he never made a lapses linguid, because he could
not—at least he let on so, that he could not talk at all,
being deaf and dumb—although Inspector liehoe said if
he had leisure, he would try a miracle on him, and if he
did not speak anything else, he would make him talk
" Spanish "—every one knows the ability of the Inspector
in that line. The ladies, hearing of the powers of the
prisoner in the " black art," longed to meet him, and so
they did. They met him the previous day, and took
him into the domicile above quoted, and the first lady laid
down her cash, and asked how her mother was? (Laugh-
ter.) He .wrote something on paper, and then the other
lady asked him a question, putting down her money also;
but thinking he was a cheat and rogue and vagabond, with
a variety of etceteras, they called the officer, and handed
him over to his safe keeping. Mr. Mansfield (to Miss
Copeland) : What did you ask him about? I asked him
how was my brother. Mr. Mansfield c and the other lady
asked about her mother (laughter) ; and what did he tell
you about your brother ? Why, that he was doing very
well. (Laughter.) Mr. .Mansfield : That. was as much as
you could expect, even for fourpence. It being proved
that the prisoner came under the designation of rogue
and vagabond, he was sent to gaol for one month with
hard labour.

PLUNDER OF JOINERS' TOOLS.—Richard Turner,
joiner living in Ormond-street, was brought up by
detectives Scott and Jushkip, on a charge of being con-
cerned in au extensive plunder of joiners' tools, that has
been going on for some time past, in the suburbs, from
new buildings and other places, and Elizabeth Halsel,
who keeps a broker's shop, in Limekiln-lane, was charged
with having received a quantity of the property with a
guilty knowledge. Mr. Blnek appeared for the female
prisoner. It appeared that for some time past a large
quantity of carpenters' tools were stolen from new
buildings, and from information received by the police,
they weat to the male prhoner's house, where they get a
bass mat full of tools, and a quantity of skeleton keys,
with which they supposed he had opened the buildings
alluded to. The officers then went to the house of the
female prisoner, where they found a mat full of tools
which the man had sold her on Sunday night for Is.
They got altogether about £4 10s. worth of property, the
greater part of which was identified by a carpenter named
Parry, from whom the articles had been stolen. Officer
Scott said there were other persons engaged in the affair,
and the police were in full expectation of catching them.
Mr. Muck said the male prisoner had confessed his guilt,
and that the woman was quite innocent. Under these
circumstances, he trusted the court would deal leniently
with bis client, as she had acted innocently in the absence
of her husband. The prisoners were remanded, but his
Worship agreed, on the application of Mr. Bluck, to
take bail for the woman..

BEFORE MR GEORGE lIOLT,
AN EXTENSIVE GANG OF SWINDLERS.—SOI7IO days ago
we gave the particulars of the arrest of four persons, who
were connected with an extensive gang of swindlers, and
who had been arrested by the police, through the exer-
tions of Mr. James Reay, of the Guardian Society. It
appears that this gang has for a long time past,
carried ou most extensive operations throughout the
three kingdoms, by ordering goods of every description
from manufacturers and dealers, and in many instances
they we.-e successful in obtaining goods. A year or so
ago, Mr. Reay succeeded in convicting a lot of the black-
guards connected with this extensive swindle; yet some
of the members remained " outside" up to a late date.
Yesterday William M'Adam and William H. Chapman
were brought up on remand, charged as a couple of
members of the extensive swindling firm of " Henry
Smith & C 0.," of 43, Beresford-street, Liverpool. The
charge against them (as already published in our paper)
was for obtaining large quantities of goods from various
persons in the three kingdoms. Mr. Aspinall, attorney
instructed by Mr. Reay, of the Guardian Society, prose-
cuted. The prisoners, who were well dressed young
scoundrels, appeared to enjoy their position very much.
A blackguard named Reynolds, who was (with four of his
family) convieted at Chester, by the exertions of Mr-
Reay, and who is now under sentence of ponal servitude
in Chester Castle, as one of the gang, proved that the
prisoners were the parties who constituted the swindling
firm of " Henry Smith & Co." It was proved that these
fellows got the goads from Messrs. M'Alpine, of Glasgow,
and Mr. Wight, of Sunderland, and that the goods were
obtained by false pretences. The; prisoners were then
committed, and several other charges will be brought
against them at their trial, iR

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.-YES YESTERDAY.

BEFORE Mlt. COMMISSIONER STEVENSON.

in re Joserir GA4DNEIL—The bankrupt carried on the
business of an ironmonger, and plumber and painter, in
Scotland-road, and filled for some time the office of Select
Vestryman for the parish of Liverpool. He this day came
upon his adjourned last examination. Mr. Rowe appeared
for the assignees, and stated that the bankrupt had settled
all his property i;n his wife, for the purpose of defrauding
his creditors ; and that up to the time he was made a
bankrupt, in last Aeguat, he kept out of the way in ooler
the more effectually to accomplish his purpose. The set-
tlement was prepared in Liverpool, engrossed in Manches-
ter, an I was sigacd in Landon the day before the marriage
took place. It evJuld, therefore, be a question for the
assignees what steps they would take in regard to it. Mr.
Rowe then proceeded to examine the bankrupt, and, in
reply to the qaestions pat to him, the bankrupt said that
he was married to Mrs. Maddocks, of St. Martin's Marke',
in September, 1856. Tee creditors, whose debts as shown
by the balance sheet amoneted to .X11.,359, were all credi-
tors trt the time the marriage settlement was made. All
his property, valued at £lB,OOO, was made over to his wife,
and after that there was nothing to pay his creditors except
some debts which were owing to him. The bankrupt
then enumerated several places, including Chester, Goole,
Hull, Ratterdam, &c., at which he had been since his
marriage, but denied that he hail concealed himself from
his creditors. In reply to alr. John Yates, who appeared
on his behalf,' he said, that in the list of creditors above
abided to, there were inclu led creditors holding security
to the amount of £6 830, aed £l,OOO due to his wife's
trustees. Ex3lncling these two amounts, and the amount
owing on mnrgag.,, the amount due to his other
credit() s was £3,5;32. Before his marriage he received
£1,500 from his wife, the greater part of which was
applied in satisfying his creditors; and exclusive of that
amount, hie wife had other property, at the date of her
marriage, to the ex!ent of £2,000 or £3,000. Some of her
property was mar ga;ed, at the time for £1,700 or £1.800,,
nd all of his property was encumbered. The principal
end in,vest were beiag p out of the rents. The ex-
amination was further I'djaurned for amendment of balance
sheet.

A LITERARY GARDENER.—M. Alphonse Karr, says the
A venir, of Nice, is about to open, at the Jardin Public, a
shop for the sale of vegetables, fruit, and flowers grown in
his own garden. He has introduced some new mode of
culture, and some new varieties. He desires above all
things, to beknown as a gardener in the true acceptation of
the word, and, as he tills the ground himself, so he intends
being his own salesman.
A TRADESMAN'S SOLILOQUY —We extract the following
from a sermon preached on behalf of the Early Closing
Association, by the Rev. J. H. Gurney, M. k. :—Very often
a men is conscious, all the while, that there is something
better to b 3 had near at hind, and with less effort. He sits
in his quiet home, and filch, at some holiday season, or in
his scanty resting times, far more of eejoyment in listen-
ing to his chileran's prattle, or sharing his children's
sperte, than in the ceaseless labours whi&e fill up his work-
jag days. II! will say to himself sometimes, " Why
cannot 1 have more of this ? Why must I be a slave
alwa3s, a -id go the same round over again for the thousandth
time, wilt no larger pr-fit, and with vexation and weari-
ness, which seem to grow as my years run out ? I seem
like a stra-ger sometimes in my own family circle. Even
my heme friendships want the intimacy they might have.
Business makes me sullen many a time, when all the rest
are disposed for mirth. If I grew much faster in wealth,
Ido not know that the prize would be worth the cest. As
it is, my energies are all spent, and my mind is fevered,
and my patience is tax.d hour by hour to little purpose.
I want repose, I want congenial friends, I west some occu-
p.etion for my bin), thought, apart from this perpetual
bargain making and account keeping.; I want above all
seine pro-pect beyond this prison-house of toil, into a fairer
world, where men shall not be all scheming against each
other. Sian I find these some dai, or go on vainly wishing
for them all my d

At LE WIS Rc COMPANY'S, anelagh-street.
BOYS aro OLOTEIED from the Ages of Six to Twsub, Tears.