Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-02 00:00:00

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easy as lying, and ten times more creditable ; and as for
amusement, cockfighting is nothing to it. Mr. 'Plant did'nt
much mind the gambols of Paddy Carry in the juvenile pig-
way; so he lilted up a tunetabout one Peggy Shea, and hinted

that some of Mr darey's ancestors had, once upon a time,
obtained rather an elevated'position in the front of a certain

county prison, and so. important WAS that individual, that
even the sheriff of the county paid considerable attention to
him. The'" drop" having, got up in Mr. Carey's noddle,

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brook, in the' olden• time. The operation was apparentl:
very pleasant to Mr. Carey, but, wonderful, to state, Mr
Plant, did not seem•to relish it half as. much as he ought

being a comthOucry-in- the streets of Liverpool, but particu;
laily in Charles-street, of course a policeman never take's
any notice of it, and Mr. Plant might have bawled niurder•
till the' day of judgment without attracting the leitit notice
of any officer. Failing in this,• he shouted burglary, as loud
as the depressed state of breathing organs would admit, bet
this proved a blank also. He next tried what an alarm of
fire would do, and although he cried that all the houses in
the street were in a blaze, the police in Scam Schaohtz
!would have heard' Min as soon as those in Whitechapel.
Necessity being the•mother of invention, it occurred to Mr.
Plant that if he called for the police to come and take " two
pennorth" with him, that he might possibly be heard. He
tried—he called' "Officers, officers, here is plenty, of drink,
will none:of you,corrie and take a gill ?" The words were
not.well out of his mouth; when he was surrmindedsby a
quarter of a hundred' (egg count) of vigilant men,
batons in hand; ready to slay all before them, btit when,
they, found that they had. been hoaxed, duped, disappointed,
and " sold," they did' nearly slay both Mr. Plant and Mr.
Carey, who was dancing the Catch-eye catch-you.-on his
body ! In reply to Mr.. Mansfield, both gentlemen said
they were going home after their night's work, and knowing
each other very well, they thought they would amuse them,
selves a bit, but they. had no more animosity to cools other
than the, blessed, babe that's not born. Mr. '.llansflad

inquired of tho hridewell-keeper if the gentlemen were
drunk? and that functionary .said they were very Inca
infused (drunk) indeed, and his Worship ordered them to pay
ss. each. [The best thing both theSE, eminent " Professors"

can do, will be turn. the idven.turc to account, and letr each
bring out a bit of a thing at his respective place of enter-
tainment, to be called. " The Plant in Charles-street, or
Paddy Carey's
.fbotias," and they will realise-handsomely, by
piotnring,thei-owu acts and deed!)

BARE FACED, PLUNDER.—WiIIiam Prichard and John
lievingston, two coal cart drivers in the,employmont of a
Mrs. Walker, were charged for having stolen three.loads of
coal, over two tons each . load. Mt: Muck appeared to
watch. the 'case for a Mrs. Mulholland, who. had pur-
chased two, leads of the coals. The. facts were these.
On the twelfth, seventeenth, and eighteenth May, a man
named' Jiobri Gladstone, who is. the. keeper of Messrs.
Brombow and Haydock's coal-yard,. in Crown-street, sent
the prigoners with the coal, to Messrs. Horsfall's steel and
iron works, and the prisoners returned, producing a ticket
If 'tr. " -sr, and

of receipt as signed by time-keeper,
Wright, taker, at Messrs. llorsfall's. ITowever, in place of
delivoring the coal, the prisoners soli two loads to the
woman named Mulholland, ia„Hughe's-street, and one load
to a man in the same locality. This was proved by the
purchasers, and Mr. Bradley proved that he did not receive
the coal, ani that the tickets produeed by the prisoners. to
Mr. Gladstone were notß signed lay him. The case being
thus clear, the prisoners ware fully-committed for trial.

CRUELTY TO HORSTS.-Mr. JJohn Ryding, cothtactor,
Vauxhall-road, was summoned for baying worked a horse
with a raw shoulder an the 21st ult. A boy who w,as eallec