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and gentry of Great Britain.
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.01i LIST is now Open— from thu Ist of January till the
' as usual—from One to Four Guineas per annum_
to consult Mr. S. on the above disease, an. early

r of the feet removed
Surgeon Chiropodist,
raised by the nobility

were thanks to the medical and ,other
'onage and recommendationsthey have
with durum his residence in, Liverpool, and therefore
sure them that he will do his, utmost to pive general
Ir.. S. begs to state that those who once have suffered
.eed to place themselves

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aid that the CI nr e is corn-
selves of his skill, as
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suiting Rooms.

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1; instead of ss, 2s 6d each corn will be charged.
mtlemen may have their own medical. advisers 'with
;he operation. No extra charge if attended at their
e. Letters addressed to Mr. S. veil' bo promptly

From His Grace the Duke of St. Alban' .
Mr. Siemms, the chiropodist, from Berlin, has this day extracted 0
nd removed several.callosities ; relieved the incur—
,s, without giving any pain. I bnNe great pleasure
ALBAWS.

vations of too n
ih giving this testimony

surgeon, lilddetsfield,

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things with' impunity

be taught that
Nor had
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desire to make him ji-ay the costs of that cas,

vas a " dear kiss

he would -consent to pay a small sum to-seme charity, and
make any apology, they would go no further with the case.
The learned Assessor-: What do .you say to that Mr..
Brett ? A;:r. Brett appealed to his client, Mr. Dswson, who
sat behinaim, but MT. :BaWSOII would not consent to pay any-
thing: Mr. Aspinall: 'Then, gentlemen, of the jury, we will
have to get your opinion on it, and say 'whether or not a
person is to behave 'in this improper way with impunity.
Mrs. -Loaka Cooper, a handsome woman, with curls, and
_...ssy morning, at .the Police Court, before Mr
respectably, dressed, 'twos then called into the witness box.
Mansfield, two youths, named Thomas Hayes (15), and Henry
She said : I am one of the plaintiffs • my husband and me
formerly kept a public-house in Earle-street, Liverpool ; Peel (16), the latter an office boy in the soap factory of Mr.
I was not always in the public-house, I was occasionally.; Tyson, Blackstock-street, were brought up by de-
on the 24th December last I happened to be there ; at that tective-officer Carlyle, on a charge of having put a large
time there was some legal proceedings pending, in which
q.quantity of chromate of potash, a deadly poison, into the
Mr. Dawson was attorney for my opposers ; I did not know
him before that day; on that day I remember him coming holy-water font at the Catholic church, in Blackstock-street.
to our jisuse along with Mr. Whitelock. Mr. As- The case excited a great deal of interest, and the court was
pinall pointing to Mr. Dawson—ls that Mr. Dawson ? crowded by persons from the loeality as it bad caused an
Witness • Ke is quite aware it is. He was introduced by ,
u
Mr. Whitelock. I sent my daughter into the snug, where unusual amount of excitement in the neighbourhood. Mr.
Mr. Dawson and the-other gentlemen were, to wait upon C: E. Russell, barrister, of London, appeared for the prose-
them. My daughter is 15 years and 4 months old. My cution, and stated that he was instructed to proceed against
daughter got sonic change, and came to me to hake a corn- the prisoners on a very serious charge, that of having put a
plaint, and said she would not serve any longer in the house,
as a gentleman had kissed her. I then went into the snug quantity of chrornateofpotash into the holy-water font, which
ani spoke to the defendant about it, and said I did not was placed at the door of the Catholic Church in Blackstoek-
allow any such liberties to be taken with my daughter. street. His Worship would understand that at Catholic
lie asked 'me where the misletoe was ? I said I did not
allow any there. He did not say any more, but turned my Church doors fonts were placed, which contained holy-
"head back and kissed me, and said it was the "sweetest water, with which thepeople as they entered were in the habit
kiss " he had ever had. (Laughter.) I don't know of crossing themselves on the forehead, and not unfrequently
whether he is • a married man. I said I would on the lips. He would prove that the prisoner Peel had
tell my husband, and he then went off immediately.
Mr. Brett : What is the name of the public-house ? Wit-
been seen about the church for some time past, and that a
ness : " Nonsuch." Mr. Brett : I hope you are quite few days ago he entered the chapel whilst the
well ? Witness : I have been in bad health for some time. priest was celebrating mass and created a disturbance..
The Assessor : You are not near euough or you would not Both prisoners were in the employment of Mr. Tyson,
ask that question. Mr. Brett : How did he kiss you ?
Witness :He took me quite by surprise. Mr. Brett : an extensive, soap manufacturer, in Blackstock-street, and
Did he g, et on a chair, or how did he manage to get up to it would be shewn that chromate of potash was used in the
you ? (Laughter.) Witness: There is no chair in the manufacture of soap, and that the prisoners had taken a
room. The Assessor : I suppose he stood upon his tip quantity of that poison and put it into the holy water font.
toes. (Laughter.) Witness:: There is a low stool. Mr.
Brett : Did he stand on that ? Witness : I am not When they were arrested on the charge, Hayes confessed
aware. Mr. Brett : Is there a table ? Witness : There that they had done it, Mr. Mansfield said he understood
is. Mr. Brett : Did he stand on the table ? (Laughter.) that holy water was merely used for making the sign of the
Witness : lam not aware that he 'stood on the table ; 1 cross on the forehead, in reference to the baptismal vows.
.rather think lie was on his feet. Mr. Brett : Was there
-any misletoe in the snug ? Witness : There was no misletoe. Mr. Russell said it was used for that purpose, but many also
Mr. Brett : Who dressed the snug for Christmas ? Witness t put it to their lips. lie would show that by mixing the
I think it was my husband, and little daughter, and the poison with the water, that it would burn the forehead and
bar-boy ; there was no misletoe; there were evergreens ;
lips, as it was a corrosive poison of a deadly nature. He
I would- not let any misletoe he put up, on account of my
daughter. Mr. Brett : Was there not something hanging then called Thomas Donnelly, an intelligent youth of about
up-? Witness : There was none where I was; • there was 15 years of age, who said: I observed 41-- s Peel

EXTRAORDINARY CASE

POISONING HOLY WATER

IN BLACKSTOCK-STREET ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHAPEL.

something up, but I took care that there was no. misletoe,
because my daughter waited there ; my daughter was
not in the room the same time as I was. Mr. Brett :
Did not you hear your daughter say to him
that she would slap him in the face as she did others ?
Witness : She did slap him in the face after he took the
liberty. Mr. Brett : Did you slap him ? Witness : I did
not slap him. He said it was the "sweetest kiss" he had ever
had, and I told him perhaps it would be the dearest.
(Laughter.) My little daughter described him to me by
his whiskers, which are somewhat bushy. lam not aware
that he boasts of being a handsome man, or a very clever
man. Mr. Brett: He beat you and my friend Mr. Aspinall.
Witness : was a roguish trick. .1 think Mr. Aspinall
beat him again. (Laughter.) Miss Louisa Slowman
Cooper, a pretty, and very smart little girl, the daughter of
the last witness, was then called. She said : I am
the daughter of, the last witness. I remember the
defendant corning to the bar on the 24th of December.
Ile kissed me (laughter), and I slapped him in
the face. (Renewed laughter.) I then went out and told my
mamma that a dirty old Jew had kissed me. (Great
laughter.) When my mother went in, she said she did not
allow gentlemen to take such liberties with her daughter,
and he kissed her ! Mr. Brett : Don't you like to be kissed
by Jews? (Laughter.) Witness : Not by any gentleman;
not particularly Jews. (Laughter.) I slapped his face,
and pushed him away violently ; I slapped him more than
once. This concluded the evidence on the part of the plain-
tiff. Mr. Aspinall said his friend was not going to call any
evidence. He had not,.the least doubt his friend would try
to ridicule this ease. No doubt it was exceedingly ridicu-
lous ; but still it was a matter for them to consider seriously
—whether people who were so much exposed to such things
as those who kept a public-house, were to be subjected to
such treatment without redress ? It often happened that
they had a daughter, whose purity and character they were
extremely anxious to protect, and Mrs. Cooper was extremely
anxious, no doubt, to protect her daughtef from any-
thing unseemly, and to take care that she should not be
insulted. This action was for insulting the mother, and
not the daughter; and he would ask them, whether
this was an offence, whether it was such conduct as should
be suffered. He confessed that there was some provocation
in it, from the position in which the defendant stood to the
plaintiffs at the time. He (the defendant) had treated them
as if they had not been respectable people. He would
make no apology, even at the last moment, as they saw,
when they offered not to put him to the costs of that action,
and if he would make an apology in public, and pay the
smallest sum to some charitable institution, they would have
Allowed him to go free ; but having refused that, he did
,think they should give such a verdict as would show that
.these things could not be tolerated in a town like this.
11t. Brett said his friend seemed to have had as
much experience in " kissing " as amongst other things.
But ;in all his (Mr. Brett's) experience, he never heard of
anybody kissing an attorney. (Laughter.) The learned
Assessor: We have heard of " hugging" an attorney.
(I4ailhter.) Mr. Aspinall : This is an attorney kissing
s°4l"lO4Y. Mr. Brett said this was the first time that they
beard of an attorney kissing. There were times and
ieasa4s,,which might lend a particular zest to a kiss, and if
any of tltem had tried, he would venture to say, that a kiss
at Christmas was worth all the kisses they got the whole year
rowl. (Laaghter.) There was something in the weather
that made it so agreeable—(renewed laughter)--and ac-
cording to:the °Pinion of his client, he had no doubt that
that was the Itimst kiss he had ever got in his life.
(Laughter.) Mr. Aspinall made that little paraphanalia
about paying a BUM to some charitable institution ;
whether he meant that he should pay it to the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (laughter), he did
not know, but if he had asked for an apology he
would
have had an apology, but he coupled his apology with a
sum to be paid to a Charity. If Mr. Dawson had mentioned
a small sum, Mr. Aspinall would have said—" No, no, you
vagabond; you kiss a woman at the 'Nonsuch' and you
now want to pay a small sum." Mr. Dawson never refused
to apologise ; but what he objected to was to pay a large
tam of money. If th"e jury were to make him pay for this
"little bit of pleasure which, he took at this place at Crist-
mas eve, then they
might bring another action for kissing
the daughter. He should not wonder if they did. His 1
friend seemed to think that the defendant went to lobs Mrs
Cooper premeditatively, because htist,vrases thetaken t
ando ry.
against her. On Christmas eve this
days on
for many
Christmas Day no action was taken,
afterwards But there was a great case of Cooperi v. Hartley,
and after that case had been lost, notwitAs anding.the skill of
learned friend, Mr. Aspinall, who was beaten -!th that
horrible objection of a 0 stamp," it might be That Mr. Saitli,
their attorney, after that, gave his client instrig-
that

Insoner

lurking about the chapel for the last four weeks, and, on a
recent occasion, I thought I saw him put something into
the holy water font, and I afterwards found the water to be
very slippery. Some days ago Peel came into the chapel,
whilst the priest was celebrating mass. He kept on his hat,
and when he came inside, he began to whistle, which
annoyed the congregation, and then he ran away. On
Thursday, the 7th inst., the people who were at the chapel,
and who put their fingers into the holy-water font, and
made a sign of the cross on their foreheads, complained
that their skin was burned. I then got a bowl and took
some of it out, and it looked red, like blood. [Here a
glass tumbler was produced, containing some of the liquid,
which had the appearance of a muddy blood-red.] This is what
I took out. I took it to a chemist in Vauxhall-road. Mr.
Russell : You do not say what he said [Here the holy-water
font was produced.] The witness said: This is in the same
condition now that it was at the time I took the water from
it, for I took it down at the time, and have kept it since.
There is a sediment in it. I do not know Hayes at all.
Cross-examined by the prisoner Peel : Did you see me put
anything into the water on Thursday ? No, I did not.
Mr. Mansfield 1 What are you my little man ? lam the
sacristan of the church. Mr. Mansfield : You are an in-
telligent, smart lad. Mary Byrne examined by Mr.
Russell, said : I was at the church on Thursday morning.
I dipped my fingers into the water. It burned my fingers
and my forehead. It fell upon my silk handkerchief
and ribbon, and stained both. It also burned my dress.
Mary Nowlan, a respectable-looking woman, said : I-was in
the chapel on Thursday morning ; I put my finger into the
holy water ; it burned me ; it fell upon my ribbon and
stained it. Richard Saunders said he was manager of Mr.
Tyson's soap manufactory in Blackstock-street ; knows both
the prisoners, who are employed in the factory. There is
a great deal of chromate of potash used for the purpose of
bleaching palm oil. Dr. M'Call said he examined the water
and found there was chromate of potash in it—that is a
corrosive, destructive, and deadly poison. Detective-
officer Carlyle stated that the Rev. Mr. Vandepitte
called at the Police Office and made an accusation to Mr.
Clough, and, in consequence of it, he (Detective Carlyle)
went to investigate the case. He watched the chapel all
Thursday, and, towards six o'clock in the evening, he saw
the two prisoners go near the chapel, but not into it. Peel
went away, but Hayes, on approaching the chapel, was
accosted by the witness, who asked what he was doing there.
Hayes said he was doing nothing. Witness said, " You
had better tell me what you have been putting into the holy
water ;" and then Hayes said it was Peel who did it.
Witness subsequently arrested Peel, when Peel said it was
Hayes who put it into the holy water, upon which
Hayes said, "Oh no, it was you ; and you put
soap and whiting in besides." The prisoners were
asked whether they had anything to say. Peel
said the thing was only done for a lark. Mr. Russell
said he underitood that the boys were respectable
in their sphere of life, and bore a good character. Neither
he nor those who instructed him had any wish to have them
punished severely, but only desired that others might be
warned against doing similar acts. Mr. Mansfield said it
appeared to him to be a confederacy for the purpose of
annoying and insulting the congregation who went to the
chapel. Peel said Hayes told him to do it. Hayes said he
only did it to daub the hands and foreheads of the people,
not knowing that it was poisonous. Mr. Mansfield said the
prisoners had done a very improper and wicked act. Their
conduct had been very gross indeed. In -order that it
might be a caution to others, as he hoped it would be, to
abstain from insulting and annoying congregations, he
ordered both the prisoners to find bail, in two sureties each
of £lO respectively, to keep the peace and be of good
behaviour, or else to be imprisoned each for six months.

The Earl of Derby had an audience of the Queen at
Buckingham Palace on Friday. Sir John Pakington had
also an audience of her Majesty.
THE PARIS CONFERENCE.—The Post has received a
despatch from Paris, announcing that the Conference did
not meet on Friday, and that the date for the second
meeting had not been fixed.
NEW BARONBTS.—The Times and Daily News give the
1
list of new baronets. They are—Mr. Miles, M.P., Mr.
John Neeld,
M.P., Mr. E. Grogan, M.P , Mr. John Henry
Greville Smyth, and Mfr. Philip Pauncefort Dancombe.