Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-27 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COURT OF PASSAGE.

RIC/PORTE MR EDWARD JAME 4, Q C., THE ASSESSOR.
This court was opened yesterday morning at nine
o'clock. The list contained one case i'Jr special argument,
five demurrers, three remands, and ninety eight issues,
which had to be tried, with one writ of enquiry before the
Registrar.

COOPER v ROGERS —ln this case James R. Cooper,
ironmonger, of Lordon-road, was the p!aintiff, and sought
to recover of the defendant, Alexander Rogers, boarding
house keeper, cf Wolstenhol.-ne-sqnare, the sum of .eB, being
the balance of an account of £l6, the price of a range.
The defendant had admitted the debt and had promised
payment, but he claimed £lO 101 fcr commission for
taking customers to the plaintiff's eh p It was denied
that any inch a claim was due, and the jury returned a
verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed.
GALLACIIRR V. MDONNELL —ln this case John Gal-
lecher, a joiner, was the plaintiff; and the defendant was
Michael M'Donnell, a passenger broker. The amount
claimed was al 1 ls., as a balance of account due to him
for work done on board the ship Istria. Verdict for the
plaintiff—damages .Ell 84. 6d.
Tha above cages stood over from the last court.
GRAILVit V. CAPStICK.—This was a claim for damages
done to a horse through negligence. Mr. Brett appeared
for tte plaintiff, and Mr. Aspinall for the defendant. In
this case the plaintiff, George Graham, a car proprietor,
was the plaintiff, end William Cip,tick, a farrier, was the
defendant. In the month of May last, the plaintiff had
three hones and three cars, which he plied daily for hire
in the streets of Liverpool. On the evening of the sth of
M y last, a grey horse was taken to the defendant's house
to be shod in its two hind feet. The foreman, after ex-
amining the shoes, told the man to pat them on, and
while he was putting on the off hind shoe, the horse
" yielded" to the nails when the carman said to him.
" Are you not afraid of these nails ?" The shoer said
" No," but drew the nails and put them in again. The
horse was taken home, and on the following day fe:l dead
lame of the off-hind foot. The horse was afterwards taken to
Mr. Chessenhall'a forge, and examined, when it was found
that the off hand foot had been "pr;ckecl." The horse
continued lame for eigieteen weeks, during which time it
had never earned a single shilling, and it was for such loss
of services that the present claim was male. Several
witnesses were called to prove the above facts ; after
which, Mr. Aspinal addressed the court for the defendant,
arguing that the horse in question was properly shoed at his
chen:'s estab'ishment, and hut if it had been injured, itmu3t
have been dome at some other place, and by some other
parties. It was stated that the horse was lame from sand
crack Mr. Aspinal and Mr. Brett having spoken on the
whole case, the assessor summed up, and the jary returned
a verdict for the defendant.

BOGGIR v ADAMSON, on Demurrer,-7n this case the
declaration containad a count in debt upon a judgment and
common counts. The defendant pleaded Nal Tiel Record,"
and no other plea. The plaintiff replied " Tiel Record,"
and demurred to the defendant's plea, on the ground that
the plea professed to answer the whole declaration. whereas
on its face it answered part only. Mr. R G. Williams,
for the plaintiff, in support of the demurrer, prayed for
judgment. The learned Assessor, after examining the
pleadings, observed to Mr. Williams—You have cases to
show that if a plea p-ofesses to answer the whole declara-
tion, and answers only part, the plaintiff muse demur, and
cannot sign judgment for the part unanswered Mr.
Williams : That is so. Wood v. Farr, 5 Bing. N. C. 247,
is an authority, that if the plaintiff in such a case sign
judgment for the part unanswered, the judgment will be
set aside. The same case (Mr. Williams for the plaintiff)
came on afterwa-ds on the issue in fact The plaintiff had
judgment, on production of the record of the judgment
declared upon.

Exelcsively tn- CLOTHING BOYS ft m Six to Twenty Year:
LE WL3 & COIIPANY, Ilan& lgh-street.

riItIRDER. or AN ENGLIsa OFFICER TN INDIA.—John
Clouzh, Esq., bAnker, York has reetiv.ld tie melancholy
intelli4,nee that his son, Mr. Edmund Cough, an officer
in the .57th Native Infantry, has been murdered in India,
VI9 understand, u,der the most appall g circumstances.
Mr. Clough was only in the 18-h year of Gis age, and we
believe had only a tew months ty.;fore left England. I-1.2
was on his way from Bewares to jo'n his regimekt when the
murder took place.

A GANG OF SMASHZEIS" IN IVA ICIEFIZI.D.—Ia conse-
quence of complaints of the receipt of base coin baring
bean made by shopkeepers and others in the town, the
ponce Lave been on the watch to discover the parties
guilty of the nefa,ious transaction. Trey succeeckd on
Thursisy last in tracing a younz woman, named Ahi,ail
Turner (tram Worcestershire), first into a shop in Kirk.
gate, and thence itro the Croan and Anchor public-hous.•.
In both pl,ces she had passed bad shillinp, and a number
were reind on her pe!rou. From the ihformation received
from the girl, the police succeeded in apprehending a man
and woman named Elw ird an ; Ann Jackson (from
Preston), in a iow lorigirg-house, ih Now-strretr where
they a!so found a quantity o' Fpuriou s coin, °LI metal,- and
coining implements. On Fridey the three prisoners were
brought up at the Conit-hoasP, anti, at the request of the
chief corstalfe, reraieded, t,ll fie c numaniclted with the
Mint autherities.

TER LATE FATAL Frear.—At the Marylebone Po'ic3
court, on Saturday, George Groandwell, a laboerer,, was
brought up on remand, chcrged with beving, is a field by
the flartow Road, cense,: the (loath of a naan named W.
Hodgkins. The p erticelers of what previously transpired
have alreely appeared. ?An -th, r :man, named Henry
Rubridge, was now plead at the lner,_ on the charge of hav-
ing acted es "second" in the pugilistic encountee. Sorel,
a lditional evidence was gone into by the constables previ_
outly examined in the cos-, and they Weed that Rubridge
had seconded Gr undwelt, although he hal at the station
denied most positively that he hal done so. Three medical
gentlemen connected with St. Mary's 11, spital, at which
the poor men Ifidgkit s-died scion after his admission, gave
eviderce which went to show that death was the result of
one or more blows on the head, which occasioned a com-
pression of blood upon the brain. A.porsion of landanum
was found in liquid extracted by means of the purrp from
the stomach, but not sech a quanity as was sufficient to
cause death. The prisoners were committed for trial fcr
manslaughter at the Central Criminal Cour%
READING FOR I.aniEe.—We take the financing from the
Westntinseer Review : —The Bonnet.—Glancing at the
fashions for 1857, what do we see? On the heed is a
something, the purpose of which it would be difEcalt to
di,nover by reason—a e,truc•urc of silk or straw, adorned
with flerwer., ribbon, and lace, crowded on the angle of the
jaws and the nape of the neck, and with its fore part jest
reaching the crown of the head. We have Mr. Sptirgeen's
~.uthority for the effect to the eye of the spectator in front-.
Being advised to wade against th 3 prevailing to,ly ie '
head-gear, he paused as he stoed on the platform, looked
round him, and said, " I have been reqersted to rebuke
the bonnets of the day ; hut, upon my word. I don't sees
any " This is the bonnet of the slimmer of 1857--I,inned
to the head in some troublesome way—leaving the face
exposed in a manner which o, e need not be a Turkish
payout to disapproveeand causing the hair to,be powdered
with dust, and the bead and (ace to be alternate'y heated
and chillel by the sun and wind, so that the physicians
are easily believed wt lei they eeclere that oases of eye
disease, of tooth-ache, aid neuralgic pains of the head and
face, beyond all prec, derce in their practice. For many
menthe past, English women and the ladies of America,
where the extreints of beet and cold are grsater then
with us, have been /subjecting themes Ives to the inc in-
veuiences of going out bareheaded, with the added
aonjance of an apparatus whit) heats arid worries the
back of the neck. The broad brimmed hats are a piece
of good sense in the midst of a mass of folly. Punch,
and other satirists, may quiz the hat as a device for
looking young ; but the ridicule touches only the elderly
wearers, red leaves the hat unimpeached. Some quiz-
zical specimens, plumed en] be-ribboned, and so turned
ue and twisted abeut as to serve no more useful pur-
pose than the prevailing bonnet, may ba seen here and
there; but the simple original h4t, with a brim which
shades the eyes, and a crown which prot.c's the head, is
wet t'ey of all enpiobatien, while it is exceediegly becoming
to young. wearers. As to older pteple—it they sensibly
decline wearing the bonnet which exposes their giey hair
to the very crow,,, and feel that the hat is tno j unty—why
do they not recur to4the indigenous, serviceable, bee 'mini,
unobjectionable English straw bonnet of all times? Not
the fancy chip. or de open shell work of straw, filled up
with silk, but the veritable straw fabric (Tuscan or D in-
stable at pleasure), which will outlast all changes of
faslaian in a climate like ours. Then) is no occ Minn, to
wear it in coil scuttle fashion, like holy District Visitors,
so that a pious woman is always to be 'wired for at the
end of a long bonnet; nor do be milliners insist on alt
ladies goinf, bareheaded. 'rt., straw bonnet admits of
all reasonable modifications; and that of five years ago
enclosing the face modestly, and covering the head com-
fortably, gratified good tact© then, white it satisfies sound
reason now. Instead of it, we see old ladies—in ens or
two extremes—either their lank Jews aro exposed by
the (bilk strings of a slouching hat, or the wrinkled
faces and grey hair are encompassed with blond and
artificial flowers, as the trimming of the little exn-escence
called a bonnet in our day. Gee would think that no
woman could fail to perceive that wreaths and garlands are
a youthful adornment, and that no one shoald wear artifi-
cial flowers who could net fittingly dress her hair with
natural ones; yet we sec dowasecs with roses and foliage
clustering round their cheeks at every turns

BOYS' cLoTtur4o m &DE WITH GREAT TASTE AT LEWIS aid
COMPANY'S, Ran9l4ll-street,