The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-22 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.-7:IVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

PO LICE INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

BEFO R E 34a. MANSFIELD.

ESCAPE or 4140!—A well known thief, named James
M'flonald, was charged. by a gentleman, named
Calton, under the following circumstances. It appeared
that about ten 'o'clock on Tuesday night; the prisoner;
along with a gentleman, who was very drunk, entered a
public house in Brunswick street; wliere the complainant'
happened to be. Knowing the character of the peigoner4
he suspected all was not right; 'and on asking the pri•
soner some questions, he said the gentleman was a par-
ticular friend of Ills, and had come from Manchester by.
train. The gentleman took out a five pound note, but
the landlady refused to change it. The prisoner acted
in such a .manner as induced complainant to see the
gentleman safe to the Crooked Billet The gentleman
put the note in his pocket book, and deposited it in an
inside coat pocket. The prisoner insisted on going with
his " friend" to the hotel, and on the way he-made a
desperate effort to take the pocket book from him. but
Mr. Calton caught him, and. called the police, and the
prisoner, after a struggle, was captured. Mr. Bush,' a
mercantile traveller from London, said he did not know
the prisoner, nor did he remember anything about it, as
he was too drunk. I-Ic had about £l5O in money, and on
looking over his cash that morning, he missed £lO and
some silver. Mr. Mansfield said Mr. CaltOn deserved
much credit for his conduct, and that Mr. Bush 'ought to
be very thankful to him. lie sent the prisoner to gaol
for three months, wit!' hard labour.

EMBEZZLEMENT.-A. fashionably attire) and respectable
looking young man, named Thomas ShuMebottom, about
20 years of age, late a clerk in the house of Messrs. Mus-
sabini, merchants, Fan wick Street, was brought up on a
charge of having embezzled various sums of money be-
longing to his employers, - Mr. Mussabini said, " The
prisoner was a Clerk in bur emplqment, and it was his
duty to attend to the Custom House business, and to en-
ter goods inward and outward. On the 151.11 December
he applied to me for £52 18s 10d, which I gave him, to
pay duty on two bales of Tobacco by the " Andes." On
the 29th December I gave him £33 17s 7d, and £8 odd
to pay duty. On the 3rd January I gave him £2l 13s
3d to pay duty on wheat. I understand these sums were
not paid. Mr. J. C. Benson, a Custom House officer,
stated that the amounts specified were • not paid. Mr.
Mansfield : How do you know the sums were not paid ?
Witness : There is no entry in the books of such sums. Mr.
Mansfield : Who keePs the books ? Witness : A junior
clerk, and the. amount if paid should come to mv-hands.
Mr. Mansfield : Can you swear he did not pay it ? Witness •
I•did not receive it, nor is it• entered id the cash book,
and of course it was not paid to me. Mr. Mansfield
(to Mr. Mussabini): Did you get the goods? No, sir,
they were stopped for non payment of duty. James
Moore, clerk in the Excise office, said : My duty is to
pay drawback on goods. I paid £6l Is 6d drawback on
goods. Mr. Mansfield .To whom did you pay it? To Mr.
Shufliebottom. Do you know him ? Yes, sir. Is he here ?
Yes, the prisoner is the person. Mr. Clough. (to prose—
cutor) : Did you receive that sum of money?' I did not,
nor has he accounted for it. Detective officer Carlyle said
I apprehended the person yesterday, and told him the
charge was for embezzling abbot £2OO belonging:to his
employers. He said, " I am very sorry for it ; but I
thought my brother would come and compromise it for'
me ;" and he added, "I have• paid some money for Mr.
Mussabini, which I have not charged to the firm." He
had £8 odd on his person, and he said it belonged to
the house and gave it up to me. Mr. Mansfield said,
from the evidence, I have only one course to adopt, and
that is to send the prisoner for trial. ' It will be for a
jury to say if he intended to defraud • the firm by not
properly accounting for the money. The prisoner was
fnlly committed.

THE VIOLENCE ON BOARD THE AMERICAN
SHIP IN THE RIVER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,—lt appears to me strange in reference to this
disgraceful affair on board the J. L. Bogart, that
the magistrates did not ask who was the shipping
master that provided the crew! By looking into
this matter it is probable the root of the mischief
may be reached, as it is evident a fraud was prac-
tised upon the poor coloured sailors, who never
ship for Mobile or other slave ports, as they cannot
land but to go to prison; and surely there is some
law that would enable the magistrate to inflict a
penalty on the person or purse of the " crimp " that
inveigled the crew. I believe there are certain
anomalous evils existent regarding' the- shipping of
sailors for foreign ships, which the Sailors' Home
reforms did not touch ; and it is well known there
are men in that branch of business who do not
stand at trifles. , That these _remarks may be
useful in this or future cases, is the reason I request
publicity —Yours, &e., SEA SOLICITJR.•
Liverpool, Jan. 21, 1857.

TEE lk.funicipality of Ostend is about to submit to the
Belgian Government a vast scheme for the construction of
an extensive entrepot to accommodate the merchandise
which is landed there in order to be conveyed inland by
railway. The inhabitants expect a great increase of the
trade of the port, when such accommodation shall be pro-
vided.

LORD CLIVE'S DesrArcEres,=—Lord Clive's oeginal des-
patches, containing his own account of the battle of Plassy,
and the other astonishing events which issued in the sub.
j ugation of India, have within the last few days been found
at the India House, bound together in a small volume.
These despatches, which have been long missing, are said
to be eminently characteristic of the author.
• MR W. BROUGH ON THE BURLESQUE DRAMA.—The
celebrity which Mr. William Brough has attained as a
successful dramatic writer in the travestie •and burlesque
line, as may be supposed, rendered this lecture, which was
delivered on Monday evening at the Lecture Hall, Carter
street, Walworth, very interesting and amusing ; Mr.
Brough almost exhausted his theme, commencing with the
comedy of the ancients, and terminating with the bur-
lesque productions of the present day. Our space precludes
an analysis of the lecture, which was alike comprehenSive
and learned, and was delivered with much humour'and effect,
though at fira Mr. Brunch exhibited some of the timidity
that usually attends " a first appearance on any stage."
THE VALUE OF Lon( REPORTS.-When the case of
Alicia Race was before the Court of Queen's Bench, a
few days ago, the Times gave four unreadable columns of
heavy type in the form of a report of the proceedings.
Yesterday, there was in the same journal a leading article
upon the subject, the necessity for which is thus naively
:explained :—" Our only object Is to spare the patience of
our readers, not many of whom will have been at the pains
of wading through four portentions columns of legal report
in order to ascertain the subject of Saturday's argument in
the Court of Queen's Bench. Here is the story." And
then the " story" is told in 20 or 30 lines, a singular corn-
thentary upon the lengthened and confessedly neglected
report.

TAM CITY BANK.—A general meeting of shareholders
was held on Tuesday in the London Tavern, Sir R. W.
Carden. in the chair. The accounts of liabilities and assets,
and profit and loss, showed that after deducting current
expenses, a proportion of building expenses, making ample
provision for bad and doubtful debts, and also after allowing
interest to the amount of £14,951 3s 31 on current and
deposit accounts, the directors were enabled to declare a
aividend, for the half year ending the 31st December last,
at the rate of .C 5 per cent. per annum, free of income tux, and
to carry forward the sum of £3,742 103 7d to the profit and
loss new acemint, to be dealt with on the 30th of June next,
that being the termination of their financial year, The
report was received and adopted, and a dividend at the
rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, was
declared for the half year on £225,000, the amount of
c ipital paid up. In reply to a shareholder, the chairman
stated, that it is intended in the course of this year to issue
new stock to the extent of 1,500 shares, but the directors
have not yet come to a decision when the new stock shall
be issued.

DEATH THROIJOH GRIEF AND TIGHT LICING.--ATI irl-
q test was held before Mr. Blackb►irn, it the Leeds Court
House, on Monday, on the body of Ann Eliza Durham,
aged 26; vvho resided with her uncle; William' Mint, drug-
gist and milkman, Upper Cavalier-street., Hannah Hunt
stated that the 'deceased was her niece, whose father had
not been heard 'of. for seven years.: A mechanic, named
Peter Collier, had courted the deeeased for some time, and
About thrie weeks since. owing to the absence of 'deceased
from home for a *hole day, it 'Was" believed by her friends
thatshe had got married. When toted with it she did not
deny it,' and afterwards she and Collier lived toge.her as
man and wife. Bat afterwards it was disc iv,red•fhat they
were not- married, and this fact becoming known to her
uncle and aunt, deceased felt' ebnsiderable.grief, and ex-
pre4red her great Shame to her: friends:. 'She 'was' treated
very kindly, but for a whole 'day and night She suffered
inconsolable grief, and became very ill in consequence. She
was perfectly sensible, and did not-appear to think she was
in 'any danger ; but on Friday morning she sank and ex-
pired. ' Mr. W. N. Price made a post mortetil examination
of the body; and found the waist exceedingly small. the
lungs much congested, the heart much larger•than natural,
and the cavities full: of blood. He considered death' to
have 'arisen from smallnessi of the chest, caused probably by
tight lacing, disease of the: valves of the heart, and depres-
sion of spirits. The verdict returned was, " Died kola'
disease of the heart,"