Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-10 00:00:00

BEFO2tE.SIR. J. B. LLOYD AND 3IU. L. PELI

. . . . .
FURIOUS DRIVING.-Thomas Roark, the owner and
driver of a spring c irt, was summoned by P. F. Curry,
Eq., the Coroner of Liverpool, for' furious driving, and
eadangering his life and the live 3 'of the' public. The
Coroner stated he was crossing from the bridge :at the
bottom of JaMeS-street, when the defendant came dOva
James-street at a furious rate, and turned- quite shbrt
to the left, and at the same rate. 'The complainant, ;lot •
thinking the man was about to turn at such an angle
and at such .a rate, had a very narrow escape. He
explained the. law of such cases. A mile an hour
might be furious -drivin, where there was much human
traffic, where life might be' in danger, and ten miles an
hoar, in a place where there was no danger, might not be
furious driving. Mr. Blake, the beadle .of the coroner's
court; proved that he went to get the defendant's name
and: address, when. the latter acted very insolently, and
said the coroner should have sent his valet to let him
know he was coming, His Worship censured the conduct
of the 'defendant, 'and agreed with Mr. Carry in the law,
as interpreted by him. He said the drivers of spring,
butchers carts, and others, went through the streets in a
most .reckless manner. lie would .fine all such when
hronght before hint., He fined the defendant 10s. and
•
costs. .

• A.Mr. Giatsworth was summoned for furious driving,
is Lord-street, on the 4th,'aild endangering the lives of
the people.. The of per said he saw the defendant and
his servant drivd furiously through. the street, and at
the eroSsing at Wiiitechapel a luau was knoekel
and hurt so that he was laid up since. The servant of the
defendant endeavoured to convince the bench' that the
driving was quite milel,..and that it was the man's stupidity
to be knockal down, as he ran up against the wheel of
the vehicle. The magistrates, however, fined the

defendant

2 and costs

LIVERPOOL couNrY COURT.

-SATURD.IY

FORE J. K. BLAIR, ESQ.

COLLISION IN THE :MERSEY.—TROMPSON v. TYftER
AND ANYIIIER.—This case, which was adjourned yester-
day, was resumed this inorniag, Mr. Aspinall, barrister,
appearing for the plaintiff, and Mr. Lushington, barrister,
for the defendant. The point which the defence was
endeavouring to establish at the time of the adjournment
was, that the pilot,. who had charge. of the tug Albert,
when it ran down the flat Rock; was a licensed pilot.
The first witness called this morning was the Secretary
Of the Pilotage Committee, who prolluced his book to show
that 'Richard Williams was the pilot who brought in tha
ship Zetland, and who had charge of the tug at the time
of the collision. The books did not, however, prove that
Williams was at the time licensed. The card was then
adjourned to a later hour of the day, to give, the defendants
au opportunity of bringing further evidence to prove that
Williams-was a licensed pilot. When the hearing of the

R. • full
.on 7th .. July, 18

e Committee, iu which was'recorded a r'eso -

lution

authorising

Richard

and wanes:

Aspinall said that was no proof that the pilot was licensed
in 1858. Ilis Honour said he believed that ,Williams
was on board the tug at the time of' the collision, ,and
that he was a licensed pilot at the time. .• This concluded
isoinall then addressed the-court

the evid,

Jushington replied, .arguing that the. responsibility
>t lie upon the tug hut upon the vessel towed ; uo
m appeared to have been given in a case of this
kind,- but -he relied, . with. confidence, upon
' '`--a His Honour said • the ease

having

s lie had cited,

been -cited, he should postpone giving ju'dgment

HE STEAM

WARRENER AND W,

PELLOW V. SAMUEL WILSON

This., was an adOurned case. Mr. DJighton, barrister,
instructed- by Mr. dfrey, appeared for the plaintiffs,
and Mr. Aspinall, barrister, instructed by Mr. Roberts, of
Manchester, appeared for the defendant. The Steam
Engine Maker's Society is of a friendly character, and
the Liverpool Branch has a sum of £296 in Messrs. Moss's
bank, in the mune of the plaintiffs and defendant,
qtly the trustees in whose names
posited. It was now desired

r(

to transfer
the money £2O, in the first instance, to new trustees, but
this could not be done without the defendant signing, as

the money was d,

co-trust,

ue in favour of the new

rn .
trustees for the amount. This the defendant refused to
do and hence the action. .Mr Deightou contended that
the rules of the society authorised 2-3rds of the society to
remove.a trustee and appoint a new one, or to elect, new
trustees. Mr. Aspinail said, the Liverpool branch was
only part ce one society which had many branches, but
only one Set of rules, and one certificate ; he argued,
therefore, that without the action of the whole society,
there could be no demand made upon the defendant. But
his first contention. was that the court had no jurisdiction.
Mr. Deighton replied, and argued that the court had
jurisdiction. His Honour said, as the rules did not
appear to be certified as required by the act of parliament,
the court could net act iu the matter.

THE LATE (GLASGOW) AUSTRALIAN MAIL CO
Sydney Herold says of the steam-ship Australasian

This ;team-ship Is the property of the ith'iolveut estate
of the European. and Australasian Co., and was lately
employed by the Royal Mail Company, No funds having
been provided by the official liquidators for disbursements
,of ship or payment of crew, she has been detained for
mariner& wages, and is now in the Vice-Admiralty
Court. It is understood that this magnificent steam-
ship is mortgaged far beyond her value to a Glasgow
bank.

The list of forthcoming books for the month of

January, as far as the announcements are yet made,
comprises chiefly works of fiction. Among the most
notable of these are a new novel, in' two volumes, by
Charles Reade, to be entitled " Maiden, Wife, and
Widow ;" one from Mrs. Gaskell, in two volumes, to be
called " Around the Sofa ;" one other (tideless as yet)
from Miss hinlock, in three volumes ; one from an old
friend, long silent, Miss Jewsbury, whom we are glad
to meet again, with the somewhat didactic name of
" Right and Wrong," and one, finally, from Captain
Mayne Reid, in three volumes, to be entitled " Oceola."
—The Book -World.

--1111-REWINMATES- OF- A NEIVGATE-
Ex-Under-Sheriff Rose; 'urging, through the coluans
of__a. contemporary, the _reconstruction of the.. part! of
Newgate „appropriated to women,..pbserves In one
room I have keen confined in Newgate a woman - Mary
Anne a3ice Seago by name—who had beaten' het step-
child. to death under circumstances. -of unparalleled
barbarity. The process ,of Murder . occupied some
considerable time.; but I cannot write .the details, and it
would be sickening to read„them. She was a clever,
cunning woman,. well educated, and, with a very
competent knowledge of the law' relating to 'prisons, with
which she often .favoured the officials, and full of
.grievances. Sir. George Grey, the then Secretary of
State -for the HOMO- Department,
.would not -remove her
froth Newgate on account of a. supposed delicacy of
health, and the most effectual stop to the outrages
committed by this woman in prison was- a -threat to' get
her removed from Newgate. Confined with her was one
Celestina Sonn.er, also, well ~ educated ; -convicted of
cutting the throat of her.ehild, ten years old, in a -coal-
cellar, with a carving knife, and whose conviction. was
'secured :-by the 'evidence of a servant .girl, Rachel; who
slept 'usually in or- on -a bed -.in, the kitchen, through
which the 'mother and daughter passed in their way; to
the shambles in the coal-cellar, and who, awakened that
'night; heard the butcher in the act' of murder informing
her. victim 'that she teach the to Willies.'
That servant girl— her nervous system strung in au agony
of fear became many. years older, that night ; for her
.
mistress, carving-knife in band, eaina,to Rachel's bed to
'turn her over and see whether she was asleep, which silo
pretended to be. I did not go to sleep,' said this Wit-
ness at the trial, lay, awake all night.' The softeni'pg
influence of prison associations on the heart of Celestma
Somner may be imagined when she informed -her convict
companions that' she was sorry sli:e had not finished the
Servant as well as her. own child. The last of the three
companions was a woman. who, by three different men,
had had three childred,:who, wishing to visit a paramour
in the country (Whether the father of any-of her offspring
I forget, but I think not), and finding the expense of
moving them all more than she could afford, delibe-
rately took two of her children down to a canal, and held
them under water until they were dead. This woman
before her trial trumped up a deliberate lie, with elabo-
rate circumstances, against the policeman who. took her
into custody, which she adhered to after trial and convic-
tion, hut, in the imminent prospect of the gallows, she
admitted the whole to be' 'false. These three were
associated* together in one room—vain of the
_attention
they excited and received—as such criminals usually are,
the more so, the worse the crime and the more notorious
the criminal. They were attended by the. doctor, the
clergyman, the governor, the matron, the -visiting magis-
trates; the sheriffs, the under-sheriffs '(to 'say nothing; of
visitors), who are privileged, some (laity and some
weekly, to wait upon criminals to' hear a statement !of
their, complaints and grievances. More, much more,
might bb added; but this is enough to prove that New-
gate wantsfurther improvements."

PAUPERISM IN ENGLAND AND WALES

A second return, ordered by the House of Commons;.
has been. issued by the poor-law board, setting forth a,
comparative statement-of the number of paupers. in Eng-
land and Wales, chargeable up to the last'week in'Novem-,
ber, 1857 and, 1858. The return does not include private
paupers and vagrants, it being computed.that the number
contained in those two classes is less than .2.0 per cent,
on the total pauperism. There are at the pressiit time
14,658 parishes in England and ,Wales, maintaining, or li-
able to maintain their Own poor, and of the5e.14,370 make,
weekly returns to the poor-lawboard ; 233 parishes incorpo-
rated Under Gilbert's Act, or still under the provisions of
the 43rd Elizabeth, not making any return whatever.
The returns are arranged in eleven divisions, viz.,
the metropolis, including part of Middlesex, part
of Surrey, and part of Kent ; the south-eastern
including part of Surrey, part of Kent, Sussex, Southamp-
ton, and Berks ; the south midland, including part of
Middlesex, Hertford, Buckingham, Oxford, Northamp-
ton, Huntingdon, Bedford, and Cambridge ; the eastern,
including Essex, Suffolk; and Norfolk ; the south-western,
including Wilts, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset,
tlie west midland, including Gloucester, Hereford, Salop,
Stafford, ,Worcester, and Warwick ; the north midland,
including Leicester, Rutland, Lincoln;. Nottingham, and
Derby ; -the'north-western, including Chester and Lan-
caster ; the York, including the west riding, the east rid
big, and thi3 north riding ; the northern, including Dur-
ham, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland
the Welsh, including Monmouth, South Wales, and North
Wales. Taking the last week of the return, the three
preceding weeks, showing throughout a decrease on: the
whole to the extent of 2.12, 2.74, and 3:37 per cent as
compared with the same period (November), of 1857, the
following striking decrease is obtained:—ln the metro-
polis, 4,888, or 4.87 per cent; the south eastern district,
3,382, or 3.58 per cent ; the south midland, 3,502 or
4.63 per cent ; the eastern, 1,809, or 4.91 per cent ; the
south western, 3,358, or 3.13 per cent; the north mid-
laud, 3,816. er.7.17 per cent ; the north western, 17,553,
or 16.27 per cent ; the York, 3,848, or 6.21 per cent ; the
Welsh, 472, or 0.64 per cent. .The only increase had
been, in the west midland district, 2.58, or 0.29 per cent;
and in the northern, 1,004, or 2.67 per cent, the total

decrease being 43,196., or 4.91 per cent. There is added
to the return a very interesting
,table, drawn up with
much care and labour, in which the population, area in
statute acres, the miiiiber of anions. -anc

parishes, are set

forth ; together with a table of inthistrial statistics, which
gives the important information as to the number of persons
'timed 20 and upwards, together with their trades or
Front these tables the whole population of England
Find Wales is stated, according to -the census of 1851,
at ,17
acres

the number of

lersons

GU years of ag

upwards emp.

in na,echani,..,al art

trade

Dmestic

purposes, agriculture, manufactures, . and mining and
mineral works, is put down at 9,816,597; of whom 31.0
-per cent. are engaged in mechanical arts,- trade and
domestic service, 16.1 per cent. i:1 agriculture, 8:4. per

cent.

mineral worics

It'ant .1$

ratvn up ,with great

care and attention, and does much credit to the officers
connected with the statistical department of the Poor

Law .Boaid,

Emperor o

Itusaa

las just given his sanction to

. .. ..
a.proposal from the Governor of Siberia for baildinea
town, to be called Sophiisk, at Djai, on the right bank of
the Amur. - . •
A few days ago a dairyman of Wedmore lost several
cow-spans. After many ifiquitibs, and a diligent search,
they were ultimately found sewn in the milking-maid's

" church-going

SLYGU

ACCIDENT T 5 THE CARRIAI

OP THE

M A RCHION ESS OF WusTnL•Tsrun...Ou Monday afternoon,
as the Marchioness of Westminster and her daughter,
the. Lady Theodora Grosvenor, were proceeding, in their
carriage, up
,Fore,r'ate-street, Chester, the fore part of the
vehicle, on which the coachman and footman were sitting,
broke from. the carriage, leaving Lady -Westminster and

Lady Theodora in. the body part. - The horse proceeded
with the box or "dickey" on which the servants were
seated; but they soon released themselves from their
dangerous position, and the horse' which was not a very
spirited animal, was soon stopped. The Marchioness of
Westminster and Lady Theodora- Grosvenor were not
iniu_red.— Chester Courant.
: Ma. EnwArto MtALL, AT BANBURY. 0:1 Friday
evening, Mr. Edward Miall addressed a crowded meeting
of the electors and non-electors of Banbury, in the Town

Mr. -Allan addressed the meeting A great length

On the subject of

said, what-he slrould prefer

reform h.

was manhood saffrage, vote:by ballot, and a redistribu-
tion of seats, which
,would give such an approximation to
equality of constituencies as would secure for the majority
of electors a majority of members • but it was of more
importance to consider what, if the offer were made, it
was worth while to accept. He should prefer to have a
moderate measure, thoroughly sincere and sound, to a
larger measure that was deceptive and rotten. At the
conclusion of his address Mr. Miall was loudly cheered.
DivxuEsus.--The Brighton, will pay, it is calculated,
at the rate of seven per cent per annum for the past half-
year, which will make up for the year, with the preceding
dividend, six per cent. 51 per cent is talked of for the
Midland, 61 for the Great *Northern, and 41 for the
Lancashire and Yorkshire. The next half-yearly dividend
of the Great Western may be at the rate of 4 per cent per
annum, at least so a " Great Western Proprietor " calcu-
lates. No one more than he, unconnected with the
management, is better able to form such an estimate. If
the Great Western declare at the forthcoming half-yearly
meeting, a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent per annum,
it will only be, in fact, 2 per cent for the year 1858, for
it is well known that on the last occasion the Great
Western suspended their dividend. Herapath.
THROWING A POLICEMAN INTO A QUA RIM —On
Thursday night, a police constable, named Wardell, while
on the old Hohnfirth-road, heard some voices in a wood.
Suspecting something wrong, he stepped off the road, at
a point near a quarry, and entered a wood, which stands
on a steep declivity. Descending cautiously, he saw a
man among the trees, and was making towards him, when
another man started up in his path, and, driving his head
violently into his stomach, seized him by the legs. and
threw him into the quarry —a depth of about twenty-four
feet. The cries of the officer brought to his assistance
two men who were going along the new Holmfirth-road.
They procured lights, and took him to the nearest inn.
He was afterwards conveyed to the Huddersfield Infir-
mary, where he was found to have sustained compound
fractures of the right thigh and elbow joint.---lianchester
Guardian.

AN IRISH THREATENING LETTER.
Frdm the Cork Ilep. ioter's police intellio•ente
we extract the following . -
Mr. Fitzgerald, on behalf of Mr. R. Gregg, solicitor,
preferred a.charge of writing a threatening letter against
a man named. Edward O'Connor, Paul-street, a fiAing-
tackle maker. About two years ago, the wife of O'Conner
was.servant to Mr. Gregg, and married out of his house.
Mrs. Gregg lately wanted a seryant, and hearing that
O'Connor's wife was" desirous to -go into service again,
sent a. messenger to her husband asking his" permission to
let her re-enter her service for some time, until she could
provide herself with another servant. To this, as Mrs.
Gregg understood, O'Connor did not object„ and
entered the service of Mrs. Gregg. again. Greatly to Mr.
and Mrs. -Gregg's surprise, he came to the door and
demanded his wife, and followed, up -that. outrage 1
Writing a letter to Mr. Gregg to the following effect :
Six

After this notice, if-you detain my *He: against
my wish, Y will show you that know the law, and I
wilt take it into nly own hands, for if she does not be
with me- before two o'clock, I will shoot you.before the

public. . , • . EDWAItA O'CONNOR.
The reading of this epistle
.cauqe.d.a titter through the
court, and all eyes were turned to the writer of it, who
stood.at the bar. He is .a short thin man, and"appeirs
to be . of weak . intellect. Mr. Fitzgerald (in
continuation) now applied to his worship to put this
man. under a heavy rule of bail, or send him to gaol.
Mr. Gregg was thensworn, and deposed to the facts stated
by Mr.. :Fitrgerald, and:to the receipt of the threatening
letter., OTennor : Because you kept my wife against
my will and.consent. Call Ellen o'.Counor, and ask her
if she.was not kept forcibly, and then.l am satisfied to be
punished: , Magistrate : Did you write
,that letter ?
O'Connor i I did,:when they refused to let her home to
ine. Mr. ShaW :.If your wife was detained against your
Will, you had yoar remedy"; but I have only:to deal here
as a magistrate, with that threatening letter. O'Connor :
I'll: take proceedings against Mr. Gregg for detaining my
wife. (Great laughter.) The seriousness and vehe-
nience ivitb:which the defendant announced his intention
of going to .law only heightened the ridicule of his
position, and the Crowded court was highly amused with
the poor man's "much ado about nothing," The wife,
!who stood beside him; is a mild and respectable-looking
young woman, and apparently felt for her misguided and
giddy husband, who is, perhaps, only the victim of some
practical joking, by . his fellow workmen—Cork being
famous for " humbugging," through all grades of its
inhabitants. Magistrate : You must find two good and
solvent securities,, to keep the pace for twelve months,
or go to gaol in default of bail, where you will be

THE . COLLIERS' STRIKE IN THE LEEDS DISTRICT.
We leara that Messrs. Lock and Co.) of Kippax, have

come•to terms with their men, who resumed work on the

4th instant.—La
CRUELTY. TO, HORSES.--The Examiner states that the
average duration of a horse's life in Glasgow is onlytlire(
years, and that about a thousand of these useful animals
are killed by overwork every year in this city.
DEATH FROM THE BITE OF A CAT. —A workman in the
Dewlais Works died on Sunday last from the eitects of
being bitten' by a cat in a rabid state. Six other
persons were bitten 'by the furious animal, which has been
destroyed.--Bristo/ .Mireto.y.
THE REv. DR. CUNNINGHAM. The Edinburgh
correspondent of the Ayrshire Express says : —" Before
the Express is •in the hands of your readers, Principal
Cunningham will have received from a few friends of
the Free Church the princely sum of about £7,000, as an
acknowledgment of his great services to that com-

is Mercurit