Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-28 00:00:00

tional rental. - Seventh
Eight : Total charge

A.rrears from previous quarter.
—Next the amount due per week;
thirteen weeks in succession ; after which
amount of rent collected from each tenant,
mpty,_ reduction, and tlken total discharge, which

then -follow

must balance with the amount or charge against the super-
intendent or collector ; and in order that this might answer
for an arrear book also, two additional columns were added,
shewing arrears excused, and arrears carried forward to next
quarter. This would enable the committee to see every-
thing at a (-1 'e, if this book were kept posted up, and
.ist upon being done every week, so that
'lnt at traud would be detected in one week. A
left for general remarks. Mr. Shin: min then
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shall till up a printed form of pay-
)ll.P.ctor shun tAke, with his cash and the check
--14 the py,vieus week, direct to the trea-

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d check receipt-books be kept in the trea-
Et out t 3 each collector its required, such
lilt-books to be (xchan 1
ge(- evrs' Friday ; and the trea-
surer shall cause all the counterfoils in such booki left with him
to be posted in the rent-roll, which shall be laid upon the table
for the examination and. inspection of the committee on the Mon-

5. That all the p

office, and dea.

1 rent-roll be duly balanced within one week from
each and every quarter, and that a certificate be
Pigned by the superintendent and inspector, eertifying
have examined all arrears and empty property. and
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M. Mellor said he thought-they ought to entertain the
proposition, as it emanated from a gentleman of experience
in such maters. He for one would support Mr. Shimmin,
and, he did hope every means would be adopted to prevent
the possibility of a recurrence of what had recently taken
place. To rely upon the suggestions of the paid servants of
the corporation was a fallacious principle, and he thought
the plan ought to emanate from the committee.
Woodruff was surprised at Mr. Shimmin, because he

was one of a committee which agreed, to a book embracing
•nearly all-that was now proposed. • • -
Mr. Shimmindenied that he saw the book in qnestion till
last week.

Mr. Tweedie, treasurer, was called in, but, on being
asked his opinion, he said it would be necessary to give him
time to look into the matter, and he would then report on
the subject to the committee.
Mr. Shimmin objected to the committee delegating to
their officers a duty which they clearly ought themselves to
discharge.
After some further discussion, it , was decided, on the
motion of Mr. Woodruff, that the matter should stand
over for the present, until the new appointments had
been made, and the treasurer had reported further upon
the scheme proposed by Mr. Shimmin.
This concluded the business.

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Yesterday

Bt• FORE MR. MANSFIELD,

Tore MOORE'S MELODY!,—A tempestuous looking indivi-
dual, who gave his name as Tom Moor; was brought up by
officer 602, on the following charge. "Quills upon the
fretful porcupine" were nothing, compared to the red hair
on the skull of Tom Moore. His beard was also of the same
sanguinary hue, and stood out from his chin in a horizontal
position. His eyes rolled about like a pair of model oscil-
lating steam engines. The officer said, at half-past nine on
Saturday night, I heard a great noise in Great Crosshall-
street, and on going forward I saw the prisoner rushing from
one side of the street to the other like a demon. He had
only a pair of boots and an old shirt on him, and of all the
people I ever saw, he surpassed them in wildness. He
roared like a lion, and leaped like a tiger, and dashed about
worse than any madman. I advised him to be quiet, and
offered to let him go home, but this made him ten times
worse, and the assistance of six or seven officers had to be
obtained before he could be got to the station, where he tore
the old shirt off his body, and kicked the old boots, off his
feet. He kept the whole station in an uproar all night by
his yelling Mr. Mansfield : Well, Moore, what have ,you
to say to this ? Tom Moore : 1 have only to say that it's
all an invention. I was only singing a melody when I was
going home ; no harm in Ringing a melody that was made
by a namesake of mine, and hadn't I a right to be in my
shirt sleeves, if I liked ? Was he drunk, officer ? Officer :
He was wild, mad, screechingc, drunk. Mr. Mansfield
ordered the " melodist " to pay 5s and costs, or to be im-
prisoned for three days ; and, in case of the alternative,
Mr. Moore and his melodies may turn into maladies on the
merry go round.
DANGEROUS ASSAULT BY A FEMALE. --A Scotch girl,
named Mary Campbell, charged another girl, named Mary
Anne Lavett, for having cut and wounded her. The com-
plainant said, on Saturday, the prisoner came to where she
lodged, in Ford-street, and commenced a quarrel with
another girl in the house. The witness requested her to
desist, as the other girl was drunk, whereon the 'prisoner
seized a jug, and struck her a violent blow on the back of
the head, breaking both the jug and her head at the same
time. Not content with that, she seized a knife and struck
her on the forehead, inflicting a serious wound. A surgeon,
who dresssed the wounds, said they were serious, and the
woman was in great danger at the time, as she bled pro-
fusely. He did not think her life was now in danger. The
prisoner was sent to gaol for six months, with hard labour.
A LONG KNlFE.—David Roche, a shoemaker, was charged
by John M'Nulty and William Hart with having attempted
to cut their heads off with a most formidable-looking knife,
about 21 feet long. Mr. Cobb appeared for the prosecution,
and stated that on Saturday night about half-past twelve,
the prisoner went to the shop of M'Nulty, who is a shoe-
maker in Park-lane,' and pulling out the knife now produced,
cried out, " You ---, I have you, and will take your head
off," at the same time making at him with the knife. At
that time Hart came up, and attempted to prevent him
from carrying his threat into execution, when the prisoner
ran at him with the knife, and attempted to put it into his
body. The policeman (693) then came up and drew his
staff, and the prisoner then dropped the knife, and was
taken into custody. It appeared, said Mr. Cobb, that the
knife was stolen out of a cookshop in the locality a short
time before. M'Nulty was examined, and proved the above
facts, and Hart stated that he never saw either of the per-
sons before Saturday night, when he saw the prisoner
rnn at M'Nulty with the knife, and he ran at him, and
cried, " Oh, don't," when the prisoner turned on him, and
swore he would have his head off, and, added the witness,
only I happened to be very sharp on my legs, he would have
finished me ; for he chased me a good deal, until the officer
stopped him. The prisoner cross-examined M'Nulty, who
said : Yon worked for me for 16 months. 'Prisoner : Did
you not give me a character for three years, the time I was
up here for beating a policeman?—No ; for 16 months I
did, but I did not know your character at that time. Mr.
Cobb said the prisoner was only just out of jail, where he
had been for a month, for an assault on M'Nulty. The
prisonr was ordered to find bail in X5O to keep the peace.
or in default 12 months.

CHARGE OF ROBBERY.—Detective-officer Rigby brought
up an Italian sailor, named Antonio DeSilva, on a
charge of having stolen £lB 103. from another Italian,
named Emanuel Desent. Mr. Cobb was for the pro-
secution, and Mr.. Black for the prisoner. The parties
boarded in the house of Mr. John Howard, 57, Mill-
street,, and it appeared that the prisoner got paid off at
the Sailors' Home, with £54 10s., the proSecutor having
the other sum (hid own money) in his pocket. The charge
was preferred because the prosecutor lost his money in the
house, and the, prisoner was about to get married, and
because he had laid out more money for that event than he
had received at the Sailors' Home. This was the whole
case, and it occupied the court for a long time, between two
learned gentlemen engaged at either side. Mr. Bluck made
a forcible, speech, and dwelt with great energy and pathos
on the persectition of the prisoner, who had been snapped
froM the happiness of his marriage, by the machinations of
people who had robbed the prosecutor, but who now sought
to turn it over on the poor Italian. The prisoner was sent
for trial.

CHARGE OF FELONIOUS AssA.uvr.-:-:James Mawdsley, a
boatman-on the Wigan canal, was cliarged-for having com-
mitted, a felonious assault on Elizabeth Langton, the wife of
a flat-master, on the same canal. Mr. Black was for the
prisoner. The alleged transaction took place about three
months ago in some brick-fields "at the North-end of
the town, and although Mr. Bluck strongly repudiated the
charge, yet the prisoner was sent for trial, as his Worship
said the case was peculiarly one fora jury.

BEFORE MESSRS.-ATKIN AND ANDERSON

CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST THREE POLICEMEN.—John
Molloy Sum, shipwright, 11, Clarke-street, Park, summoned
three policemen, named Connolly, 777; Potts, 782; and
Ingham, 784, for havinf, assaulted him. Mr. Bluck appeared
for the prosecution, and'Mr. Cobb for the defendants. This
affair arose out of a case that was fully reported in our
paper of last Wednesday. The facts were these : -
On Saturday week, the complainant, along with
his brother-in-law (a man-of-war's-man), were going
home to the Park, when the latter had some altercation
with a third man ; the sailor took off his cap and handker-
chief, when the complainant took up these articles, and went
to put away the other man, when the officers, according to
the prosecutor's statement, rushed up at him. and charged
him with stealing the cap and handkerchief. He refused to
give them up, when the officers Mid on him, and beat him
furiously, Connolly and Potts being the worst. The com-
plainant got away, and on the Monday following he took
out summonses for the assault against the officers. In the
meantime the constables got a warrant for the arrest of
Molloy, who was brought before Mr. Mansfield on Tuesday,
when several persons were examined pro and eon, and Mr.
Mansfield, on hearing the whole case, discharged him, and
now came on the hearing of the summonses against the
police. The prosecutor was examined, and proved the
above- facts. On cross-examination by Mr. Cobb,
the witness said he was once fined lOs for having
assaulted the police. Catherine Jackson and Ellen Wood-
burn proved the assault; Mr. Bluck said, he had several
other witnesses to prove the same facts, but he did not think
it necessary to call them. Mr. Cobb then addressed the
court, and said, that Potts was severely hurt by Molloy,
that he was under the doctor's care ever since. He argued
that the fault, in the first instance, was on the part of
Molloy, and contended that the police were justified .in
acting as they did to suppress the row. He called 'Richard
Harris, who, it was said, was the man who originated the
quarrel with the .sailor, and the witness stated that he was
knucked down by the sailor first. Mrs. Simons swore she
saw Molloy knock down one of the officers first of all.
On cross-examination by Mr. Bluck, she said, 777 struck
Molloy after he was struck. The magistrates said, they
regretted that the police did not take out a summons in the
first instance for Molloy, instead of a warrant, for had the
police done so, the chances were that he would have been
punished. They dismissed the complaint.
CURIOUS APPRENTICE CASE. = John Burrows, a respect-
able looking youth, 19 years of age, summoned :Messrs.
Charles and Alfred Batten, pawnbrokers, Mill-street, for
refusing to teach him his business, as an apprentice to the
.art, trade, and industry of a pawnbroker. Mr. Bluck ap-
peared for the complainant. He said, the young man was
.;,T..1 apprentice to the defendants (the firm of Battens and
'lines). He was bontid.to thein for seven years under an
indenture. He had served faithfully and honestly for over
three and a half years, but, about the 9th of. May last, he
was at mice, and without any reason or cause, suddenly
driven away from the house of business. He (Mr. Bluck)