Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-12 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL B A.NE.RUP rcy o (MET —YzereavAir.

BEF3RE MR. COMML,SIONER TRAM%

Pr DALTON EROTII.Rs —Pis Honour delivers; jnagmvat
this day en the application fur the-certificate in this case.
Ilesaid : In this cave th-ee brothers, Samuel, Daniel, and
Alfred Dalton, carried on business in co-partnership under
the 'firm of the Leeswood Iron Company. They were each
indebted in the morth of June, 1854, the time when a
lease of the iron works was granted by a Mr. Oakley and
his mortgagees, Samuel and Daniel, in a sum rf £7OO or
thereabouts, End Alfred in a sum of £5OO lie. 6d. ;
and the firm ware also itidsbted to varicus parties iu
1:711 .131 9.1 Before they got the lease, -they had
borrowed £5OO, to carry on the works, of a M.r.•G.bbnne.
The lease was granted on the Ist June, 1854,
for a terra of ten years; and it was thereupon immedi
ately handed over to the solicitor of Mr. Gibbons, who
wag also their own solicitor, as a security fJr the loan of
£5OO. The mule of their tra ling has been shortly this :
They- commenced working in August or September, 1854,
and matte a profit, to 3 st December in that year, of
from £5OO to 1700 net. In the year 18:6, they woull
appear to have snstained a loss of more than £2,000 ;
and in the year 1850 their less appears to have been
about £2,009 From a general statement, p epered in
the course of the proceediege under the bankruptcy, it
appears that the wh de loss was £3,760 3s. 51. They
drew out of the concern, in the course of less than three
years, the follawing sum+ : —Samuel Dalton, £1,654;
Daniel Dalton, £1,461 tds 31; Alfred Dalton, £1,169 18 41
—total, £4,235 fer 7,1 ; and their debts to stecnrel credi-
tors wore a 1,788; to unsecured creditors, £1.75 656 153 3d.
Before jeining this concern, two of the brothers, Daniel
and Alfred Dalton, had carried on bu-iness as iron-
masters and engineers et West Themwich, where their
business vrss so conducted that even their books are not
to be produced, having been carried off by a person in
their employ—their cosh-keeper. They say, howev r,
that elthoneh they made no profits, they paid everybody.
The Terswoed Ire n Company hal en tre teptaace of theire,
for .f6OO, returned dishonoured in the Autumn of 1856.
and it remained s ) dish-no/red uu 11 the end of Februtre,
1857, when an execution having been pat into the pre •
miser, the subjest of the lessee it was discharged, together
with the £5OO originally borrowed, by means of a loan
from Mr. Cherton It is said, with respect to this sum
of £BOO, diet negotiations were going on with Mr.
Rushton, the holder of the bi 1, to supply him with
iron to the amount of it, the supply to extend over
a 1 period. There were also several bills of
Me. Oskley's upon the bankrupts dishononret
The bankrupts came en this court on th r 11th March last,
under a petition, not for adju ication, lett for re-arrange-
ment, and the prep 'sition they made to their creditors
was to pay them in full, beginning with a payment of two
shilling+ in the pound at the expirati m of six months,
and so on every surceedieg three, months, until ten
succes ive payments bed been made. It is obaervable
that no security for the due performance of these con-
ditions was (-flared ; and the proposal not being assented
to, the theets broth rs were declared bankrupts Mr
Dodge has objected to the cello canoe of their certificate
on three distinct grounds ; First, reckless treling ; sec md,
excessive private expsnditure ; third, bad b tokkeeping ;
and he contended that they ought earlier to have come
to this court, if not when their first bit to Mr. Oakley
was returned, at least in the year 1856 Now, as to the
Second and shied grounds: I do not think their private
expenditure excessive, in the ordinary sense of that
term, but was hardly warranted by the state of the con
cern. The books, though far from being well posted up
are said, by the official assignee, to have contained the
materials for making out correct and t,ue account+
of all the bankrup.'s dealings so that the book-
keeping has not bean such as to cell for any cen,ure from
this court, other than what is implied in a want of regular
posting of the account. Wi h regard to their trading, the
, bankrupt, Samuel Dalton, has been examined by Mr
Evans, the solicitor to the bankrupts, at some length,
and he attributes their fsilu-e in business altog ether to the
non performance by Mr. Oakley of a crrenent con-
tained in the lease, to supply them with clean and
pod ironstone, coals, end slack in suftialent quantities
to keep the furnace always in actinn. In place of
performing this engsg,ment, by which ha had stipu-
lated for a specified supply, he rodured the bankrupts
to the necessity of keepirg their furnaces alight
with coal and lime ; and, icsteaa of clean and good iron-
stone which is left lying for some months at the pit's
mouth to become weathered, the ironstone was loaded at
once into trucks, and conveyed to the furnaces. Mr. 8
Dalton makes the total dtfference in favour rf the fi m
to he the sum of £22 292, t h:ch they would have re-
ceived, if the supply of clean and good ironstone, coal,
and shark had been equal to what M-. Oakley stipulated
ftr But it is to be borne in mind that Me Oakley was
liOle uncial* Its covens, t, ann mgat nave been epzea.
and I cl i not thick the bankrupts sherd(' have been
satisfied, seeing the loss they were sustaining, with his
mere promise to make them a better .upply. Another
course was open to them, the obtaining ironstone else-
where. This, probably, would not lave been very feasible
for the bankrupts, working only with a borco ved capital of
£5OO ; but then the argument arises, that with a borrowed
capital of £5OO, if they ware unable to carry on the con-
cern except at the pleasure of Mr. Oakley, they aught to
have closed their workings earlier; and I think that the
time had arrived when, after sustaining losses amounting
to nearly £4,000, the bill held by M'. Rushton
was returned dishnnou-ed ; for it must be borne
in mind that Mr Oakley was not the only, though
the largest, creditor of the bankrupts. Mr.
Bull was a creditor for £4,619 ISt 61, and there
were other creditors ; and it was a duty they owed to
those other creditors to close their transactions with the
least amount of less to them. Lokirg, then, at all the
facts of the case, and giving every fair consideration to the
circumstances under which th -n bankrupts held the lease,
I think it will he my duty oily to g-ant them a second-
, clues certificate after a suspension of six calendar months.
Mr Evans, who t ppeered frr the bankrupts, said, 43 there
was no allegation of franc, he hoped his 110-cotta would
, grant protscion. His Honour: Certaicly. Mr Dodge,
who was for the assignees, said he had not the elightee
objection.

BOY.' CLOTHI D w ITH WOE tT T.kg rE AT 1.1/WIS and
C 'S, Rin2:,p;ll-sticet.

Fix MEN FILLED. —II the vale of Nsntille, Stbr.uf, nine
milts from- Cat-nit:von, a eeploro).e accident cecnrrs d last
ays,ek, by which six pers.ns lost. their hires,. In the quarry
of Cleddfa tt, Son, 14 men we e at work. TI ey tst ere in
cony rsa i,n 72.mtom of a deep I o'low. They had
nit been long there when they heard the welt-known and
dreaded cry of 4. Rewire!' upon which they instan ly ran
to the cabin constrne'cd for the sr:fe'y of those at work
when danger is sxoseto4. Unhappily, this provad the
worst spot they c>ulrt lysve chosen. A taiga rock, about
thirty tons in weight, felt in one lives from a 11,ight of
fif y yards, and. staking against the ledges of stone
in its descent, broke into a thousand pieces, which
bounded with tremendous f rce to the ground, killin;
three of the men on the spot, an 1 mortally i jarif,g
three others. One of the Ltier died aim st immediately.
another *file being carried borne, and the 'bird in about
eight hours a'ter the c taste pbe. The bodies presented a
frightful spectaele. One mar, named Robert;, who had a
diitinct impr..ssion of the danger that threa`ened, minify
lan toirards the poi t where the rick tryinz to
pall another man with him. The later escaped by leaving
part of his waisn •at in Robers's band,. The injared
men, though s rarely hurt, are progre,sings., favourahly
The aceid,nt is supposed to hive arisen fr ant the adhesive-
ness of the niel; bring affected by the 10,1gin>nt of water_
it a level j ti t, whic'i rant to an angular point at the
bottom, thus making the ma s

SoMMe SEC CTS OF TU RICCItUITINGI Sea' en-
chao...r and a-e at the present crisis, nottribu.ino
very large (pintas to the military service, and the results of
the recruitine tOrgeint,' lib sure are, of course, duly re-
parted to the War Office. Th se results assist in In kinc
up the I:-trite t :Ws of which his Royal llich,e,s the Duke
of Oambrike speaks so boasting y. Pali:toe the fii,ld
marshal's jubilant declarations of the wart ke pr psnsiles
of the Anglo-3 xte at Otis moment would be modifie, if
his subal erns were to transmit to head quirers ell the
circumstances in conrectio, with the recruiting service
which estate to their knowledge. One cause of the great
number of r,c nits in this 64ttiet is the txt that the mills
are working short time ; another is, that :he cturiard h :s
bean rednned to the bei4ht fixed on d !ring the Russian
war. The officers of the 6th Lareasbi e Militia have
instructions to enlist for 43 regim nts, an I they succeed in
procuring neatly 5) r c-uits every week, who are sent off
every Monday to Liverpon', for interireliate approval.
The recruiting officers in Deansg its obtain a sill larger
accession weekly to ow forces. But what becomesof
these raw ncreit-I Do they enlist fr .m patrioie feelings,
or is it to serve some uteri purp tse ? We hive reason
to believe that the majority t.f lounz men off dog them-
selves for service, studions!y avoid enlistment in the regi.
meats, rngioed in active service in India. The genet..
desire in this listriat is to enter the 39,h It"cielerit, now
stationed in ono a our :orth American col :pies; and the
military exolnatinn of this des;ra is, that the men whc so
enlist are anxious-I'o emigrate to Atnerica, and adopt this
method cd' ob aining ,c free pissege over. It is slid Ilut
large m :jori'y of then desert upon reaching their destina-
Um, and make for the back woody, efts r which they are
never henrd of by their cnmnsandiog ► ffieers. The system
of deser ion is said to be ouch more general in the colo-
nies than in any pin of Great Bellew—Manchester
Examiner.

BIRKENHEAD AND CLAUGHTON GAS AND

WATER COMPANY.

At the half yearly, meeting of this compfiny,
held OR -Monday, Mr. IL Mallaby, M P., in the
chair. The following report was submitted by
the Directors:— . • .

"The ,directors beg to submit to the shareholders the
aecounts of the company, made up to the 30th September
1857, from which it will he seen that the profit for the
half-year is £3 747 154. Bd., which added tie the profit of
the half ye r ending 31st March last gives a gross revenue
£10,816 4e 81, from which is to be deducted £1 485 for
interest on bonds, leaving the nett sum of £9,330 4s Bd.
as the profit earned during the last twelve months. There
is in sedition to the above £23 12s lld left undivided on
the 30th September, 1856, and £832 13s. 51. placed to
credit to dividend fund, in ace edance with the resolution
of the last helr-yearly meeting. Makirg a total of
1210,180 lls. 01. Of this a sum of £6,341 13s. 4d
has already been carried to the credit of the pro-
p ietors, and £6OO to directors' account, in conformity
with the resolutions passed at the meeting held
in May last, and it is now proposed to credit the pro-
prietors with an additional sum of £l5B 63 81 During
the past half-year the directors, in order to meet the
increasing consumption•of gay in the district. have, under
advice of the company's consulting engineer, erected an
additional retot t home, aed made such further extension
of works and mains as will more than meet any demand
that may arise for some time to c 'me The directors have
to state the bill, which, under the authority of the pro-
prietors, was intrdincecl in the last session, did not
receive the sanction of Parliament. The means which
that measure contemplated fir affording additional
water supply, have consequently not ben avail-
able. The directors have, however. assiduously
applied themselves to effecting that cbjeet, so far
as the existing district is csneernei, by means of the
company's powers un 'er the present act. And they have,
under Mr. Hawksley's recommendation. determined
to enlaega the original bores, to drive altitional ones of
large calibre, and supply further engine newer. These
works are now being actively prosecuted. By these means
th) supply of wa, er has already been much increased, and
the directors have ge)et hopes that, by the end of the
present, or early in the next year, the company will be
thereby enabled to effete' a constant supply."
A.ter the reading of the report, the Chairman said that,
looking a: the goner ii poeitioa of the Company, threatened
with litigation out of Parliament and in Perliamen', he
thought a strictly defensive course was the most desirable
one for them to take ; and to enable the direct() s to assume
that position, they proposed that nothing affecting the
subjects about which they were at difference thoul he dis-
cussed at that meeting It would be, then, for him briefly
to advert to the report of the directors, and in the first
place he would re'er to the revenue, which was in a most
sseiscactory state. The nett profit of the half year was
£3,747 153. 81 , out cf which sum it was proposed that
the ad .itional sum cf £l5B 6a 81. should be carried to
the prop, ieto:'s' credit account We reel hardly say that
the present stets) of the works, as well as the present con-
dition of the Money Msrket rendered it necessary bat the
company should be allowed some lat,tude with respect to
their funds. The shareholders were aware that the bill in-
troduced into Parliament last sea-ion was thrown out, and
in consequence the company Lad resorted to every
possible expedient to replace the advantages which they
anticipated would have been given to the public, had
that bill passed. The company had erected an additional
retort house, and they were now prepared to supply the
district with any amount of gas required, and of such
pn,ity as perhaps no oher company in the kingdom could
give. With reference to the water works, he might state
that, under the able mensgement of their meaning
director, they were rapidly proceeding, and the supply of
water was quite equal to the demand at present, and in a
short time they hoped they would have a considerable
addition to the quantity actually required He had
nothing more to bring under the notice of the meeting,
and he would therefore simply move that the reeort of the
directors be received and adopted.

Some
.opposition wAi 1311041;11 to the adopt'on of the
report, and Mc. Laid proposed the following amend-
ment :

"That this report be not received and adapted until
the accounts of the c mipany f•om the commencement
have been aulited by independent parties, and the
amount of capital actually paid up and expended is
ascerta;ned."

Mr. Gough. in seconding the motion, said he thought
the accounts of the company ought to be looked into and
exs-ninAd. They were eh rge t interest on a capital of
£133,000, and he was credibly informed that that sum was
not ptid up. He did not see why they should pay
dividends out of that amount before outside shareholders
should come in.

'trio resoltrion proposed ny mr. Lairs was then put and
11,t, on 'y the mover and sec-mder hclding up their hands
in its favour. The report of the directors was declared to
be received and adored.
Mr. Laird next referred to the supply of water, and
said he supposed there would be pleuty when the new
works were completed.
Mr J. S Jackson replied that there would be a con-
stant supply of water, and read a letter fr.= Mr. J
Hawksl,7 on the subject
Tae meeting then separated.

Exclas'yely for Cr.OTIIING 11'11-4 Sig to Twenty Years
LEWIS & COMPANY. itAielagn-stiec

GUNPOWD7R EIPLOSI N AT ANTWERP —On Monday,
the heave occupied by a gunmeker blew up with a tre-
mendoes crash, so that nit a h lc% or sac': remained stan 1
The wife of the gumnie r, the only persan of the
family at home, was blown to some distance, and picked up
in a Mutilated and eying state. The hence my. door was
b ill eleetroved, and several other babitettens considerably
shake% an 1 thousands of p +nes of glass destroyed. The
misf ‘rt+ ne is attributed to the xnlosien of a large steel: of
gunpowder kept on the prem+ses. The excavations are
coatinued with unebited zee'. The mite s hare rescued
one ma, who ae:s b riel banes ,th rha ruins, but ?VAS m•r +-
cu'oes'y p e e^red withoit the slightest injery, although he
eel from the third storey.
DEATH OF A GIRL FROM BRUTAL OUTRAGE AT HEY-
wooD.-0a tfe 22w1 ult. a young men, naiad Am s
Geeenwool, rrnerly a fa+ t try hand in Rochdale, bu•
who hes of live been travelling round the cmotry with a
men named Robert Hancock, selling Chine's peas, COT-
Tailtel a most brutal outrage upon a girl of nine yews,
named Miry J dinson, a nose at Hancock's, where
Greenwood lodged. The peer vietna, p-eviwely a fine
healthy girl, died on Thera lay from mortiaeati+ n, the
resul, of her injuries. Before she died her deposition was
taken by Mr. Kay, magistrate at Heywood. Greenwood
was apprehended at Hyde, and brought h:fore the magis•
trates at Bury, and commit.ed for trial at the winter
assizsa at Live-pool. An invest is to be held on the
deceased on Monday, and Mr. Pickford, surgeon, has been
directed to make a post mortem examination.
EXTRAORDIN'AItY FIGHT BETWIXT A LION AND A TIGER.—
Our readers doubtless notiend,a tew days buck, an account
of a tiger vihieh escaped from a cattle truck in Itatcliff
High ley, Lend n, and which, after runni g along the
centre of the road for some distance, was caught by his
keepers while in the riot of teatime a led, who uefor-
tunatt ly cro sed the anirnal'e path. The tiger, wbieh was
only eigh'eea months old, but, of large size, was the pro-
perty of Mr. Jamrac, an importer of wild bees:o, and he
sold it a day or two erre+ wards to Mr. Edmonds, the son-
in-law and successor of Wombwell in the management of
one of the well-known Unveiling menageries. Mr.
Edrnow7s his been in this district during th, last Fight or
ten days. His purchase reached Birmingham on Satnrdey
nigh', and on Monday it j)ined the menagerie at West
B omwioh. It was p 1 cod in one cf ‘he ordinary carriages.
one of two camoartenents, the adjoining den hien occupied
by a very fine lion, six or seven years old, for Wee Mr.
Edmonds gave £3OO. three years ago. The attendants
had ail left the menagerie to go to breakfast, when suddenly
those in the earrings whisk the proprietors occupy were
aletmed by an unusual outcry among the beast.. They
wee dieenered the cane). Ihe newly-bought tiger had
herglariously broken through the "slide" or pertiti tI
dividing his den from that of the lien, and hid the latter
in his terrible grasp. Tee cimbst which ensned was a
terrible one. The lion acted chiefly on the defer sire, and
having probably tree considerably tamed by his three
years' coefinement, the newly-imported tiger had the
advantage. His attacks wire of the most ferocious kind.
The lioa's mane saved h's head and neck from being much
injured, but his savage assailant at las: succeeded in
ripping open Lis belly, and then the poor animal was at
the tiger's mercy. The lion was dead in a few minutes.
The scene was a fearful one. The inmates of every den
seemel to be excited by the conflict, and their roiring and
howling might have been heard a quieter of a mile
distant. Of course Mr. Edmonds and his men could not
interfere aleile the conflict lasted, but when the tiger's
fury had partly subsided, they managsd to renme the
carcase. He must have used his paws as a sort of batter-
ing ram against the parti+ion, as it was pushed in rather
than torn down. For the future he wi 1 be confined In a
carriage of + xtra length, lined throughout with sheet iron.
We execct to hear that lie has been eir liteced •' Nina
Sahib," which wo'ald contently be an appropriate name
tor a Bengal tiger of so ferocious a character. He is
valuable, having coat Mr. Edmonds .£4oo.—Birminglain
Journal.

FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION AT INCE, NEAR

WIGAN.

On Saturday Welt last. about seven o'c'ock, a lad went into a
small shop, kept by James Moore. where grocery and drugs are
sold, about sixty yards from Ince toll-bar, on the right-hand side
lealing from Wigan to Wadley. The business of the shop was
get er-lly Tooke I aft-r by the wife, but Moore (who works in a
coalpit, but occ Mortally hnlps in the shop) was there when the boy
came in. The litt'e fellow asked for a gunpowder squib, and was
served by James Moore, who, at the boy's request, handed him a
lighted piece of paper. In a moment or two the squib was bouncing
about the shop. The boy ran on' and hos not since hem heard of.
A barrel cont,ining a qu, ntity ;if powder exploded and blew out the
shop window, killing two girls, who were on the pavement, and
injuring Moore so severely that h s life is in dancer. Oa Sunday
morning the crowd WAS Mame se round t'ie house, all ragerly in-
quiring the particula,s. The house and shop presented a mass of
wreck, everything in it being literally sma,hed. The damage in shop
goods is a'mut e5O Most 0, the furniture is destroyed. The ceiling
of the sho was lifted up, an-t fell aga n. but not through to the floor
o' the choo. The roof remai,s supp irted by props. Moore ran out of
the shop with his clothes on fire, his hands, arms, and face dreadfully
scot( he 4, and some bystanders helped him to Mr. Mtkforints, the
Squirrel Inn, adjacent, waere he now lies in a precarious state.
attended by Mr. Hussey, surgeon, Hindley, and Mr. Heaton, Wigan.
Ile is not yet out of danger. The lad who bought the s ,uib is not
known. Mrs. Moore was a w:clsw, turned Fe-te-, when the married
her present husband, tno months : ye. Her maiden name was
Sharratt, and her father keeps a (Ilia:gist and grocer's shop at'
Pendleton. She learnt somclhin shout drugs fram him, aid kept
the shop at lace with Foster, her :ate husband. ST,cs was in the
h use part, fronting the street, with a chill about 12 weeaa old in
her • ruas, and her other child, a girl of 10 years of age, whin the
bricks, ceiling, furalare, &c., all fell in shivers around them, but
none a f the three wore inj ared. Of course, her state of mind, as she
now rema'nq, can be beater co ce ved than described. She has lost
all, a d her husband can scarcely aaswer two questions without losing
h s memory.
Information has been sent to the coroner, at Prescot, and an in-
q test upon the two girls w,ll be held w:thoat delay. Their names
are Mary Taylor, ag( dl2 and hi try Jane Taylor, aged 12. Although
of thc same name, :hey were not related.

THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT

BROADBOITOM

CHARGE OF NEGLECT AGAINST PLATELAYERS.

At the the Hyde-park sessions on Monday, before Samuel Ashton,
Esq. (John Chapm in, Esq., having declined to act, as he was the
deputy- chairnium of the ra lw.y co n ;easy), six men, being a gang of
platel yers, were summoned under the 6th end 6th Vic., and caarged
with having disobeyed the 169th rule of the company, that " A man
must be stationed, with a caetien ya ds bark, whenever
the state of the line required that the train should proceed with
caution." The cherge arose out of the late ralway accident at the
B ca ib ittem Viaduct of the Man hater, S reffie d, ant Licco'nshire
railway. lv r. 'Feeley appearel for the company, and Me fir
the men. Mr. Tapley elected to take coca case separately, and the
first summons c lied was against Robert Sh3l-lermine. Mr. Tap'ey
having at nted the caie, end asnertel chat he could nail witnesses that
the sole blame was attrieatable to the defend ants, pre.ssel the berch
to inflict the fu'l penalty. Mr. Ellison h:ving refused Le admit a'y
thing, Mr. Tapley et led James Wright, who said he was an
inspector under the company, and that having a ked the defer' 'ant if
he had l reneht his rules and re;ula ions wit's him he .epliei that
he had, and had given them to his attorney that morning.
Mr. Ellison crossalcsmined the wit .ese as to whe her he
had told him what rates he m ant, when he ackeowle.lged
that he had not. Witness knew that the 1 ying of the plates was let
by contact, and that the de endant was a servant of Mr. Taylor, to
whom they were let. air. Tapley prodac id a declaration, tsiened by
he deasadant, that be woe the sesvinnt of the company in cnswer to
Mr. Ellison, that there was an nnd of the csse. and Mr. Ellison
rellequished this objection on the 17th section of the act being read,
which apt lies to " arrant or other person." Mr. Tapley then
proceeded w:th his else, bat without p -ovine the rules or the
declaration, and calla I Berj tern Weal- y, the engine-ex.:v. r of a
co .1 train between all. titeld aad Ardwick, and Thos. Green, the
engine-driver of the injured train The laltr stated that they
stopped at Guile Bridge, as usue', and let at proper time. Nothing
one .urrel until he had p ts.sted Mettraeu Station, when he observed a
g rug of men at wark on the up-lne at the west end near the viaduct.
They were reeetirfne toe line. and witness hat io whistle to the men
for them to go away. He d d not receive any signal to slacken his
speed. If he ha I teen a sig tat he sh told have stopped or
slackened l.ie speed, ancording b the sienal. They were not going so
fast as usual, and they wa-e shalt the right time. Witness then
described the accident, and sal I as he felt the jerk he shut off the
steam and reversed the engine, which happily prevented a most fear-
ful accident. re j :min Thornloy, a porter, proved that the ordinary
signals were all right, and said he cif n'a see that anything
was wren; before the acci lent. I his was the case. Mr. Elliston
contended at length there was no case, insisti that the rules and
regulations had not beers proved, asserting th the line was a den-
consequence of a curve, and the speed at wia h the special trains
travel ; and satin; that he could call witnesses to prove that the
line where the men wee working was n:t i i a dangerous
state. He then called Jehn Platt, Richard Kirk, John Smith, W.
Webb, and John Genlithorpe, al of wives' had bee-i summoned.
They contradicted the evid nee of the prosecution in several ponts.
Mr. Ashton, after some clelib,ret'oe and conversatioa wi:h the clerk,
said the evid nee cif tke engintadriver showed that there mast have
been something very wrong, or th • signal man would net have bees
tent, and he tined the defe Want Li a- d costs, or one neont'a's impri-
sonment. The other cases were Wthris awn. —Mr. Chapm ea then told
Green, the engine driver, to stand up, and Iddresaleg Lim, lie said as
he was chairman of the company, he bad taken no part iii the decision
of the cane; but he was glad now the case was over to compliment
him (Green) on the pros .nee of m nd an 1 boated j inlgment he hal
displayed at the time of the ac ndent, which, if alga, s shown on such
ones ions, wneld prevent very disesirons results. He had s'eown great
Presence of mind in the f tee of great danger, in sto, ping o-s his
engi. e and :eversine It; and he had groat pleasure in informing him
in that open cone, that the directors had deheemiliel to reward
him.

CONVICTION OF A GANG OF FEMALE

8110 FLI F

At the Scuthw.rk Pollee-court, s ondon, on Tnesdiy, Catherine
M•Nally, Emma Smith, and C 4therine Csven2y, ti,res young
woman, about 18 years f age, w.xe flaal'y ex tininad, e'iirged with
steaiing a piece o:' French 111,3,ii0, valle 4')3., fron the shop fMr
F.ast..vood, Haan- 'raper, 46 and 49, Nawington•ea I.3tt way.
Dennis se ,n 1 in, p.,lice•coaa ably 177 said thet oz Fri 'av
afternoon, the 3) ultimo. h 3 was on duty is private clothes in
No ,i11,.t)11-causeway, when he es-v the prisoners and another• fema'e
pass Mr. East.wsad's shop semral tines. Ile vicat,:.ths I the,n at a
shori: ellAanea, and as a lady was enter n; the shop, :11'N4Ily fol-
lowed, and snatch d a piece of m.erino °lra p le, aid he (witness)
watchad her oat wti it u ?der hu' arm. Fla 3 0 -hot" pri .o _eri sur-
rounded the d, or ani &idol her to got off. Idowover, he ran up at
the time, ani soh) I M'N4.ly aid took hsr bee 'he pros:eater's
shod with the merin, in her posses On, which was -dentifiad Ha ,-
ulg left her there he went in pursuit of the others, aid, with the
assistance of Bill 33 m, he s =cede 1 in ap,s ehendiug the other
prisoners, but the fou,t'i fs-realo enapei.
Sydney Cha:nber.ath, a:sistint to Mr. Faitwand, sell he saw the
piece of merino safe on a pi's inside the doorway about five minutes
previoas, and ha did not ra's3 it until NltNally was broaAht Tito the
shop by last wita,ss. 113 kn .w u ,thing whatever o" the prisoners.

aeknowled,ted h tying tto'en the ni ,rino, and declared that
the other girli were strangers to her, and kn3w nothing whatever
a')ou; It.

leanlan here into-m9d his Worship that the priioners were all
topther, aad ae,i ted M`N•t ly in • onimitting the rohbery.
Mr. Burnam acco-di •gly t.,1 i them that if they porsi,ted i the'r
inno:enea h 3 mast c mimi- them all for•trial.

Smith and Conway, %Iv h?Atation, plc ided gulty.

Mr. Burch= asked what wa; kn3WU of them ? Thomas Titehene-,
185 Z. said th. t M`Nelly was an old ,h9plifter, and had been com-
mitted f.:r a moith at LarnbAh Po Le-zottrt, with threo other', for
unlawful possession o' a piece of in rut. The others were companion■,
but he did not think they hal been convict:•d bef )re.

Mr. Burch sdd th the .e tr) doubt they were !mite-
mutie s icp ifters, and as M`Nally was an old off der he should
eau vic, her for six 'ninths, the hi;hest penalty ho could inflict. Each
of the other two prisoners he shou d se.itenc3 to bur mouths in
Wanlswirth House of Corre:ition.

Elizabeth Chap,,le and Elm Brlwu wore also finally examined
charge I with st!asing a pair of militsry heelei boats from:the shop of
Mrs. Frances Dawson, No. 11, Newing`oa-can,eway.
Scanlan sail that on Wednesday afternoon he saw the prisoners come
oat of Mrs. Daxson's shop, and knowing the n to be cmn eted with
a gang of shoplifEers, stopped them, and seeing so.nening under
Chap, le's shawl he asked her what she had there. She at fist s iid
"nothing," bat afterwards proluce 1 a pair of cloth boots which she
said she had just purchased. Wftess, however, seized hold of tier
and fo nil a pair of leather boots, when he took them back to the shop
of the pros ieu'r'7, who gave them Into castody. When at the station-
house Brown said she purchased both pairs of boots and gave them to
Chapple to carry.

Elizabeth Ladd, assistant to Mrs. Daws,n, said she recollectel the
prisoners came into their ship on Wednesday afternoon, and Brown
b sight a pair of common toots. She never soli either t.f them the
leather boots p:Todneed. One of th m mast hays taken them from
the counter, which Will in con'usion, owin to aPer..tions in the frnnt.
the prisoners p:eAded guilty, and rcuested his worship to deal
summarily with them.

Mr. Bureiam, believing it to be their first off:nee, commlted each
of them to three months' ha. d isbonr I.i the House of Correction.

THE SCANDINAVIAN IDEA.-A lot'er from Sockholtti, in
the New Prussian Ga:ette. sAys.: —The Sc.mdinavian idea
—:hat is to say, tha political union of the three pos,fu,s,
Denmark. Sweden, and Nnryviv—has spread FO far that a
Scandinavian j 121-nal (the Norden) made its first appear-
ance on July 23, at Melbourne, in Australia. It is printed
alternately in Swedish and Danish, andiegina vy an int:-
resting article on Scanditavianim

At LEWIS & OM?ANY'S , Raneogh-strest,
BOYS aro CLOTLIED from the Aga
.fits Treaty YeNri,

-THE ORTIIERN TIMES.unLI ERPOOL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1857