The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-31 00:00:00

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Dundee .. .. .. Sr: J. ogiivy ... I .. 0
Edinburgh .. Mr. Cowan .. 1 .. 0
Mr. Biac;r .. 1 .. 0
Greenock .. .. Mr. A, Dun'op .. 1 .. 0
Kilmarnock ... .. Hon. E. Bouverle 1 .. 0
Leith .. .. .. Lord Advocate .. I .. 0
Perth .. .. _ Hon. A Kinnaird I .. 0

LAUNCH OF THE RENOWN.—Another war-ship has been
added to the British fleet by the launch of the Renown, 91
guns, screw stem ship of 800 horse power. She is of the
amazing length of 281 feet, being six feet longer than the
Duke rf Wellington, and eight feet longer than the Orion.
She went off the stocks exactly at twenty minutes past two
on Saturday afternoon. There could not have been less
than 15,000 persons present to witness the launch. Mrs.
Goldsmith, wife of the captain superintendent of Chatham
Dockyard, named the ship.
THE PREMIER'S GRASIMAR.—The language of the Prime
Minister's address is a ludicrous imitation of 'what Sir
Walter Scot called " the big bow-wow style." The senti-
ments are coarse; the diction is clumsy. In the first
s.ntence of the second paragraph, upon which the whole
composition turns, we count two whiches," four " thats,"
en I four "shells," iterated in close proximity, as if be
desired to torture the earn of the Tivertoniana. The docu-
ment, at least, has the significance it proclaiming that in
grammar, logic, and rhetoric, the noble viscount is not
"a rupil of Mr. Canning."—The Press.
IMPERSONATION AND FRAUD. —At the Mansion House,
on Saturday, Lewis EVans, a person of respectable
appearance, upwards of seventy years' of age, was charged
with having, upon fraudulent reptesentations, obtained a
pension for a considerable number of years from the Eas
India Company. A great deal of documentary evideuc
was brought forward, and it appeared that the defendant
I had been for many year.: in the habit of receiving the
pension of a person win) hal been dead during the whole
time. It alsa appeared that the defendant would, in all
probability, have continued to receive the quarterly
allowance to the day of his death if he bad not, in his
anxiety to grasp at every advantage that presented itself,
applied for the alms at Poplar, to render his independence
more comfortable. In consequence of the necessity which
existed for peculiar examination under the circumstances
of such an application, an ercptiry was instituted, and it
-
I was then found that there was reason to doubt the identi'y
of the party who had been-so long supposed to be entitled
to the pension. The Lord Mayor committed him for trial,
but offered to admit him to bailaand, in default of finding
securities, ordered him to b 3 sent' to the prison infirmary.
DEATH or J. M. Koalas);, E*Q.—We (Athenceu9a) have
to announce the sudden death of John M tchel Kemble,
the well known Anglo Saxon scholar, which occurred at
Dublin on Saturday morning, the result of inflammation
of the chest. Mr. Kemble was the son of the late Charles
K mble—of stage celebrity—and grcluatecl at Trinity
College Cambridge. While an tuidergradnate, we under-
stand that he gave offence to the au.horities by some
indiscreet remarks at an examination, which drew upon
him as a punishment that temporary suape :sin from the
University which is there technically called rustication.
During a part of his period of rasticatlon, he went io
Hanover, and studied under the c lebrated Professor Jacob
Grimm. It was from his acquaintance with Grimm that
Mr. Kemble imbibed his taste for the study of the Anglo
Saxon language, which he alerwards pursued with so much
success, We believe that during the period of rustication,
Mr. Kemble went to Gibraltar, and there joined a small
party of Spanish patriots in an attempt to land on the
Spanish coast and excite an insurrec'.ion. The conspirat rs
had been betrayed to the authorities, and were surrounded
by the government troops as soon as they reached the
shore, and wore all taken and condemned to death. Mr.
Kemble was saved by urgent intercession on the part of
the representatives of England. After his return he took
his degrees of 13,A. and M.A. at CambrPge, and resided
there for some time pursuing his favourite studies among
the numerous Anglo Saxon MSS. in the University and
college libraries. Mr. Kemble had been recently turning
his attention to the archaeology of the period which followed
the ruin of the Roman Empite; and had, during the last
few years, superintended extensive excavations in the early
cemeteries in Germany. Ho had communicated several
papers on this subject to the Society of Antiquaries and to
the Archaeological Institute, and had announced a more
general and extensive work on this branch of archaeology,
which was to have been published by subscription. Be
had been appointed to arrange the classes of British,
Roman, and Anglo Saxon Antiquities in the approaching
Art Exhibition at Manchester, and was engaged at Dublin
in collecting monuments of Celtic Art for Manchester at
at the time of his death.

Plaintiffs' Attorneys.
3 CP...Same
4 Ex ..Stead

6 QB...Atkinson and uo
9 Q8...F Andrew
10 Ex ...Sale and Co
11 Ex ...Same
13 Q8...J 11 Dearden
14 Q 8... Worthington & E
16 CP...W K Taylor
17 Ex ...Sale and Co

CROWN COURT.

BFFoItE MR. BARON MARTIN.

CAUSE-LIST

FIRST LIST.—SALFORD HUNDRED.
Plaintiffs. Defendants.
Bellhouse and ano (es) v The Mayor &cof Wchester Austin
Ca zenove and ano assees (ss) v Finnesey Rymer
Pott and ors assees (ss) v Lawe
Irving (.$) v South Eastern Railway Co
Wickham (Fs) v Anchor Assurance Co J Hall
Blane (Fa) v The Lane & York Rail Co Lewis, D and Co
Charles (ss) v National Guar Ass Society Sale and Co
Duncan v Hardin.. and ano North
Lawton (cs) v:Whitaker H Forshaw
Fanshaw (Fs) v Peet P 0 Milne and Son
SECOND LIST.—WEST DERBY HUNDRED,
1 QB...Bennett and ilki nson (CJ) v Teal! . .
2 Ex ...Rowe Waring Junr v Everth
3 Ex Lewis and Co Smith (~T) v Long
4 Ex ...Same Price (es) v Dillon and ors
5 Ex ...Avison and R Martin (es) v Fraugopulo and ano
6 Ex ...Hodgson Allen v Gibson _ ;..
7 CP...Barnett and M Stubbs (es) v Batter
11 CP...Yates Jun French and ors , v McHenry ---1 - ,
14 CP...Bolton Baker ' (es) v Stubbs .„.
15 QB...Lowndes and t.o Mavrogordato --. (es) v Hindson
_.. „.
16 Ex ...Pyc and Co Burgoyne . v Jackson ..
18 Ex ...J and H Gregory Stewart (es) v Wright and ano - Atkinsons and uo
21 Ex ...Same Same (FJ) v Smith and ano ---- Same
23 CP...Yates .lan Jones admor &c (es) v Provincial Insurance Co Eigworth and P
24 QB...Lowndes and Co Ely les) v Bell Harvey and Co
25 CP...Dadge Harrison and ant (eJ) v Lee Yates Jun
26 QB...Kirkbank Shillingford (es) v Cheater & Holyhead R. Co Swift and Co
27 CPL. Johnson Hignett . - v Wunciell H Forshaw
28 QB...Lowndes and Co Brcnnand (sa) v Ker and ors J 0 Watson '
30 Ex ...I.letcher and H Grainger and ore (sa) v Kirkpatrick "" ' Lowndes and Co
31 CP—Grirornar S winnerton (es) v Lon & Nor Western R. Co Swift and Co
32 CP...Roscoe Allan : , (ea) v Walters Mewburn and Co
35 Ex ...II Forshaw Barnes , ' (es) v Royal Ex Assurance Co Freshfield
39 Ex ...Neal and M ; Ford and anr ~ . v Hannay Via: , .•• :
40 Ex ...Lace and Co Neilson v Andersson - '
41 Ex ...Duncan and Co Miller and anr (ss) v Fletcher and anr
42 CPL.Roby Houghton and ux admix &c v Hignett and anr
46 C P...Ravvson and Co Bottomley (Fs) v Nuttall
47 Ex ...EI Forshaw Cotesworth and ors (sa) v Wood and ors '-' 4
48 CPL.Johnson Parkinson v Jackson
50 Ex ...Darlington .-; Harrison ',fa:4 v Worthington',
52 CP ...Johnson Hodgson ' v Hodgman
53 Ql3.allassal 7 Penny and ano exors 1 v Pollard and ors
54 QB...Wills and S a Fraser v Jordan
55 Q B...Shattock a.: Deane •- '
' v Littledale and ors'
.
56 CPL.Backhouse Edrnondsoa
._ . v Wade
58 CPL.Deane I Preston and ors : v Tamplin and ano
60 QB...Swan Warden 13 /
V Stone
61 QB...Swift &Co The March. of Londonderry (Fs) v The Sunderland Dock Co:
62 CPL. Backhouse Dean v Wright
63 CPL Same Dean and ors v Wright
:;a
.
64 Ex ...Haigh and T Bredin a a
(es) v Eatough
,
65 Ex ...R Birchall Wright v Bankes
.
66 CPL-T and R Radcliffe Aspden ' v Fielding and an a
67 Ex ..North and Co Whitley and ano (• s) v Parr and ano
68 QB ..Lowndes and Co Johnson and ano aaf, (ss) v Croft Russell
69 QB...Shattock Tapson a, . v Swift Blackhurst
70 Ex ...Pemberton Blundell , _ v Gossage J Ansdell
71 CPL.Backhouse T Hartley v Greenwood . Hall and Co
72 CPL.Same W Hartley ' ° v Same Same
73 Ex ...Kaye `. Goddefroy and ors , (sa) v Hegan J B Lloyd ;
76 CP ...El Forshaw Whitaker v Lawton W K Taylor ' '
77 QB...Lowndes and Co Parry and ano v Trustees Birkenhead Dock Bircham and Co
78 QB—Same Crosby and ors (ss) v Wilcox and ano H Forshaw
79 Ql3...Shat tuck Blane and ux v Willoughby and am Francis & Almond

SPRING ASSIZES.

Mordaunt
Walker and II
Thornley and

Holden and Son

GAROTTE ROBBERY IN THE STREETS OF LIVERPOOL.—
Two determined looking fellows, respectably dressed, of
the names of William Wickstead, aged 25, described as an
iron rat-elder, and James Hanley, a confectioner, were
indicted for having, at Liverpool, on the 3rd of March last,
feloniously assaulted Alexander Ml'arlane, and stealing
from his person a £lO note and other monies, a watch, arid
a pocket book. From the evidence of the prosecutor, who
resides in Belfast, it appeared that on the day named in the
indictment he met the two.piisoners at a booth at Aintree,
where he went for the purpose of seeing the steeple chase, and
he there drank with them. At the conclusion of the
races he returned with the prisoners to Liverpool in a
cart, and then accornraniad them to one of those dens of
iniquity, which abouad in the small streets about Wil-
liamson square. At one of those places he witnessed a
boxieg match. After this exhibition, about ten or eleven
o'c'ocis at night, the prosecutor and the prisoners were
proceeding to a beer house, and, in passing through
Charles street, Wickstead suddenly seized him by the
throat, and choked him until the blood fi, w from his
nose, while Hanley emptied his pockets of the money
named in the indictment. The prisoners then made their
escape, leaving the prosecutor senseless. Oa recovering he
went to the police office ; and, from the description given,
detective officer Smith apprehended Wickstead the same
evening, and the following morning he succeeded in catching
Hanley, whom the prosecutor clearly identified. Mr.
Bolton appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Simon and
Mr. Sowler for the prisoner. The defence endeavoured to
be set up was, that the prosecutor was drunk at the races,
was piayicg at " thimble rig," and other classical
race course games, by wkieh he had lost his ntweey.
Several witnesssts were called to show that the prosecutor
was very drunk on the race course, aed amongst them a
heerhouse keeper named Savage, who had a drinking booth
on the course, swore that so far as the watch was con-
cerned, the prosecutor gave it to him to take care oh
Other witnesses swore that Hanley was in another part of
the town at the time the robbery was committed, and that
therefore as to him, the prosecutor must have been mis-
taken, The jury believing the alibi, acquitted Han'ey,
and found Wickstead guilty. Two other convictions for
felony were proved against the prisoner. The Judge in
passing sentence said, that neither in Manchester or Liver-
pool did the people at night appear to be safe from these
garotte roebers. They were a perfect terror, and he had
determined that whenever a person was convicted of that
offence bsfere him, he should pass a sentence of six years'
penal servitude. The prisouer then received this sentence,
and left the dock laughing.
STABBING BY A FOREEIGNER.—Peter Lorbo, a Spaniard,
stood indicted, for having, on the Ist of December last,
cut, stabbed, and wounded one Andrew George, with
intent to do him grievous • bodily harm. The prisoner
and the prosecutor were both mariners, they were drink-
ing together on the night in question between eleven and
twelve o'clock, in a public house called the Blue Anchor,
near the docks, they were both in I.quor, when they began
to quarrel. A companion of the prosecutor's struck
the prisoner a blow upon the head with a stick.
The prisoner then drew his knife, suddenly turned
round and stabbed the prosecutor in the breast, indicting
a wound of three inches in depth. The prisoner was taken
into cus'ody by the police, and the prosecutor was conveyed
to the Northern Hospital, where he remained some time
before he recovered. The jury was composed of one half
Spaniards ; and a Spanish interpreter was employed to
explain the nature of the evidence to the prisoner. The
jury returned a verdict of Guilty of unlawfully wounding.
The judge said, if there bad been no provocation, he should
have passed a very severe sentence upon him ; but, taking into
consideration the provocation, ho would pass as lenient a
sentence as ho could He had been four months in prison, and
he must remain two months longer with hard labour.
ALLEGED ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE AT MANCHESTER.—
Thomas Wilk n on, Agnes Fo ,ter, and Patrick Finney, were
indicted with having at Manchester, on the I lth March,
feloniously and violently assaulted John Smith, and with great
personal violence, robbed him of 18s. in silver, and other
monies. Mr. IligOas prosecuted, and Mr. Wheeler defended.
From the evidence of the prosecutor, it appeared that on
the 11th of March inst., he was proceeding homewards,
about half-past twelve o'clock at night. when he was met
by• the prisoners, who knocked him down and jumped upon
him. When down, he allep-d that the female prisoner
stabbed him under the eye with a knife, and that from the
it juries he had received he had not been able to go to work
since: From the cross examination of the prosecutor, it
appeared that his character would not bear the test of en-
quiry, as he had been convicted of receiving stolen goods, and
a doubt existed on the min's of the jury as to whether
he had been robbed of the 18s. Mr. Wheeler
contended that it was a- mere street row, and the jury
acquitted the prisoners of the felony, but found them
guilty of the assault, and they were sentenced to four
menthe' imprisonment.

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NISI"PRIUS COURT.
BEFORE MR. JUSTICE CROMPTON.

FortgEßY. Joseph Taylor, George Brown, and
William Henderson, were indicted for having, at
Bury, war Manchester, forged a certain cheque for
£l7B, with intent to defraud the Bury Banking Company.
Taylor was one of the officers of a lodge of oddfellowa, held at
l3my, arid, in March last, the secretary of the lodge locked
up in a box the pass books of the bank. A few days after-
wards the box was broken open, and the pass hooks and blank
cheques lyric taken therefrom. It was suspected that Taylor
was the party who broke open the box, for, a few days after-
wards, he went to the bank, and, by cheque, drew out
the £l7B, being the whole of the society's funds
From the evidence, it appeared thlt he had met with the
other two rrisoners, whom he knew, but who had nothing
to do with the society, in an alehouse, and induced them
to, sign the names of the secretary at .d two other members
of tha lodge, in order to get the money, giving them 5s
each, saying that it was all right, as the parties who
should have signed it had gone to Australia. By this
forgery he succeded in :obtaining the money from the bank,
and when the fraud and forgery were discovered, the three
were apprehended. The prisoners were found guilty, but
his lordship considering that Henderson and Brown had
been innocently the scapegoats of Taylor, he ordered them ,

Derendagte Atiornwis.


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to be discharged at the rising of the court. He seuteeced
Tay'or to eight years' enal servitude,

Bis Lordship took his seat in this court at ten o'clock.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—JONES HUGHES.
—This was an action to recover compensation for a
breach of promise of marriage. Mr. Monk appeared for
the plaintiff, and Mr. Brett for the defendant. In this
case the plaintiff, Ellen Jones, alleged that the defendant
had promised to marry her, that he had not done so, and,
therefore, she was entitled to compensation. The defen-
dant, Robert Hughes, the master of a vessel iu the coast-
ing trade, pleaded that he had never made the promise.
This case was totaily devoid of any of those interesting
particulars which usually surround these cases, the parties
being in humble life. hhe plaintiff was the daughter of
a shipwright, and had been housekeeper at Awl-
wich, in Wales, and the defendant was the master
and owner of some coasting vessels. The facts of
this case were proved by the fo lowing evidence :
Margaret Hughes, the wife of Joseph Hughes, of Liverpool,
and sister to the plaintiff, was first called. Her father's
name was John Jones, he was a shipwright, and lived at
Ainlwich, in Wales. He also kept a public house. Her sister
was about 25 years of age. The defendant was a captain of
a coasting vessel. She recollected her father going to
Runcorn to follow his busieess, and left the public house
in charge of her mother, the plaintiff, and a younger
sister. Her mother soon at er followed. In November,
1856, the witness utts on a visit to her sister, when the
defendant called. He asked her (witness) if she
knew that he was going to he married to her sister,
aed she replied that she had heard something about it,
and asked him when it was to be. He rented, in about
s'x weeks. He then told her to tell the p!aintiff that she
was to prepare herself to be married iu s;sa weeks as he
would not wait any longer. She did tell her sister, and
left the following morning. In December her sister
came to her house, and on the Bth of that month gave
birth to a child. On the 12th, she went to the defendant,
and told him that her sister had been comfined,
and asked him what he intended to do, and he
replied, "Marry her, of coat se ; have net I promised
to do so. After some further conversation, he agreed to
marry her at Liverpool. Close examined : Her husband
was a dock gateman in Liverpool. It was a beerhouse
that her father kept. The defendant had been in the
habit of coining to her father's house for ten years. Her
sister had sworn the child to the defendant. Mary Jones,
another sister of the plaintiff, stated she reesilected her
father going to work at Runcorn, in 8.54, and her mother
soon after following. She left Liverpool and went to
assist her sister to carry on the public house. The
defendant used to call at the house, and "appeared to be
like Ellen's sweetheart." In May her sister went to
Runcorn to her father, when the defendant called
frequently, and asked when she was coming home. They
told him that she was coming home on the next day, and ho
waited to see her. When lie did see her he said he wanted to
know when rho would have him, and she replied that she would
wish her father and mother's consent. In the following year the
defendant did ask the father's consent, and told him that he had
plenty of means to support her sister and make her comfortable.
Cross ex,inined : Plaintiff had been head nurse and waitress to
Mr Clarke, of Seaforth. *Mr. Brett addressed the jury in
mitigation of damages in a humorous style. The jury, after a
few minutes' consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff_
£2O damages and costs.
MIiNIGIIT v. DUCKWORTH AND ANOTHER.--This was
an action to recover compensation for injury sustained by
the plaintiff through the neglect of the defendants. Mr.
James, Q C., with Mr. T. S. Raffles and Mr. Hutton,
appeared tor the plaintiff ; and Mr. Monk and Mr. Manesty
for the defendants. The plaintiff is a licensed virtu slier of
Liverpool, and on the 12th of February last, he with a Mr.
Jones, a friend of his, drove, in a gig, from Liverpool to
Prescot. They returned the same evening, and arrived near
the Old Swan Edson a (patter to seven o'clock. The
night was very dark, and they could see no light
but that of the Old Swan public house and of the
neighbouring toll bar. They intended to stop at the Old
Swan, and accordingly Mr. Jones, who was driving,
slackened the pace of the horse as they were approaching
the house. When close up to it, and whea they were about
to pull up, the horse gave a plunge, and in a moment they
were precipitated, horse and all, into a deep trench, which
had been dug for the laying of the new water pipes at tta-
point. The work was being executed by the defendants,
who were the contractors under the Corporation, and it was
their duty to have warned all parties of the cutting by
placing lights near it. On this occasion, no lights
were visible, and it was now contended that it was
owing to that neglect that the accident, from which
the plaintiff received his injuries, arose. The plaintiff,
Mr. M'Knight, deposed to the circumstances as above
stated. On cross-examination by Mr. Monk, he stated
that they left Liverpool at four o'clock in the afternoon,
and he had not drank more on that day than a glass and
a half of gin and a glass of ale. Mr. Jones, he believed,
die nk even less. He was taken up insensible, and
remained so for some time. He was confiaed to his bed
for three days, and was still under. medical treatment,
Mr. Balmer, keeper of the Old Swan public house,
deposed, that at the time of the accident, there was no
light at the cutting, except a fire at the toll bar. Where
the accident occurred was vary dark. Mr. Jones was
sober. Several of the witnessee4 were examined as to the
want of sufficient lights at the trench. On the close of
the plain iff's case, a consultation took place between
counsel on either side, when it was agreed to take a
verdict for the plaintiff for £95 with costs.
JONES V. DUCKWORTH AND ANOTHER —ln this action,
which was precisely similar to the -foregoing, Mr. Junes,
the driver of the gig, being the plaintiff, a verdict was
taken by consent for the plaintiff for £25, with coats.
GILL V. SPARKS AND ANOTHER,—'thin action was tried
at the last summer assizes, when a verdict for the defen-
dant was retu:ned. It was an action to recover £77 4s,
balance of a promissory note for £lOO. Mr. Attorney-
General Knowles and Mr. Aspinall appeared for the
the plaintiffs, and Mr. Sowler and Mr. Brett for the
defendants. From the statement of counsel it appeared that
the plaintiffs were the " Third Tradeeman's Loan Society,"
formerly in existence in Liverpool, and now suing through
its officer ; and the defendants, John Sparks and Peter
Scrimshaw, were the sureties to the society for a man
named Richard Davis, publican of St. Helen's, to whom
£lOO was lent. Of this sum it was contended that only
,C 22 16s was paid ; but, on the part of the defendants, it