Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

THE 'NORTHERN TlMt.6.---LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1857,

OLICE I7.ITIfiLLIGENCE-YEk TERPAT.

LIVERPOOL.
tiItP,RE MR. IuNSFICI.D.
A'',Art,TYNG A WIFE.— John Thomas, a respectable
log Ring person, formerly a publican, was charged with
having assaul ed his wife. The drunken habits of the
prismier caused him io give op house, and he was in tlie
habit of beating his scale in the most horrible m inner.
He got some bad notion into his head about her conduct,
and this caused him to beat her when be got drunk, One
f her sons took a place for her in School-lane, and on the
'23rd August, the prisoner went there and committed a
violent assault on her. This was corrcbora.ed by her
son, and the prisoner was ordered to find two sureties in
£25 each, and himself in £5O to keep the peace, or in de-
fault to be imprisoned for six months.
ATTFOIPTID SUICIDE.—A young woman named Catherine
Williams, the wife of a galvadz3d iron worker, was
charged with having attempted to put an end to her lie, by
taking a quantity of la Idanum. It appeared that she had,
from time to time, purchased small quantities of
the above l'quid, until she got a good 'quantity together;
and then she swallowed it an I was faund in a
state of insensibility, with the empty bottle in her
hand. An alarm was raised by the neighbours, and she
was taken to the Northern Hospital, where the usual
reatedies were retorted to, with succese. It seemed she
took the drug under an impression that some one was
about to tell her husband something disparaging to her
character. She was sent to the workhouse for the present.
A SCOUNDREL.—A respectable young woman, named
Janet Teats, an assistant in the drapery house of Mr.
Edward Lewis, of Great George-street, was put to the bar.
She appeared very much affected. Mr. Clough said the case
was a most painful one, and the charge against the young
lady most unfounded. hhe was passing from Christian street
to Great George's-street, the previous night, where she
was followed by a man, who made some improper over-
tures to her. She told him he was a ruffian an I a
scoundrel, and told him she would call the police. When
passing the Adelphi Hotel, the fellow vaned police-officer
510, at d charged her wish stealing a si k pocket bandker-
ief from his pocket. She indignantly denied th3eharga,
but the man persisted in the charge, and she was taken to
bridewell, where she was searched, but nothing found.
She still alleged that the charge was an infamous one, and
made out of revenge. The prosecutor gave his name as
John Robinson, and said he lived at No. 5 Rose-place.
Some suspicion arose at the station about the story
told by the man, and the police made inquiry,
and found that the man did not reside
there, and, on further enquiry, it was found that be was a
journeyman tailor, working some place about Lord street,
and :hat he lives in a court off Grosvenor-street. It was
found that the charge was quite groundless, and, of course,
the fellow did not appear. Mr. James Thompson, the
manager of Mr. Lewis' house, gave the young lady a very
high character, and said every one felt indignant at the
charge, and if the fellow could be got, the house he re
presen ed would punish him as far as the law would go
Mr. Clough said he hoped the police would be ab!e to find
him. The young lady was discharged, and at once three
attornies rushed out after the representative of Mr. Lewis,
no doubt in order to get the Job," but, notwithstanding
the trio, Mr. Bluck was subsequently instaucted to bring
an action against the fellow.

ASSAtTLTii—Michael Farrell, a lab'urer was charged
with having assaulted a man named Daniel M'Lee The
prosecutor was goirg up Lime-kiln lane, when he was
accosted by the prisoner and another man, who spoke to
him in some langusge that he did not understand, and
asked him if he cou'a answer them ? He said he could
not, when the prisoner knocked him down and k'cked him
The prisoner was fined £2, or two months imprisonment.
—George Hume, who lives in No. .5 shirr, Dukenfield
street, charged wife with having broken his head with
a jug. Toe prisoner is one of th:)3 drunken women who
are totally incorrigablip • and, whilst in a fir. of drunken-
ness, she nearly smashed the poor fellow's head with a
blow of a jug. She wgs sent to gaol for two months,
with hard labour.

THE BANK BILL CASE.--Samuel Ackerly and William
Rafferty were brcught up on the above charge, the details
of which appeared in Monday and Tu,sclay's paper. Mr.
Godfrey was for Rafferty, and Mr. Almond for Ackerly.
Mr. Hunt was examined de nero, and cross-examined.
The only thing now elicited by Mr. Godfrey was, that on
the night Mr. Hunt lost his pocket book, be WAS accosted
by a female, who said, "I think you are an Irish gentle.
man." "I am," replied he. "Then give me the price of
a drink, she said, " for lam an Irish woman." He took
out a small purse and gave her a shelling, and immediately
after she wh:sked by him and snatched his book, that
conta;nel the bill, from h s pocket. The prisoners were
sent f r trial.

UNWHOLESOME FOOD —.Michael Collins was charged at
the suit of the Abairoir 'Slaughtering Company, of Trow-
bridge-street, under the Lllowing circumstances : —Mr.
Townsend appeared for the prosecution, and Me. Buck
for the prisoner. The point in issue was this: There was
a rule that no slink vest (as it is called) shoukl be taken
from the slaughter-house, least it should be used as food
for human beings. It seemed that two men tuck a slink
calf from the place and gave it to ihe prisoner, and the
allegation was that he would have used it, had nit the
police discovered it The question was argued at some
length by Mr. Bluck and Mr, Townsen as to V4e owner
of the property, and at length his Wrship said, that as
it was the first. case that came before him, he would dis-
charge the prisoner wi,h a strong caution, and trusted it
would be a warning to him and othfra, for if any one
came before him on a similar charge he would inflict a
he ivy fine.

TiIE POOR BOY.—HI 9 Worship aeltudwlcdged the sum
of £3 for the poor-lx,x, from the Rev. Dawson Tuner.

ALCOHOL;

OR, THE
MINOR CURSE OF ENGLAND

BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF ♦ Si RIZ3 OF ADDRESSES DELIVERED MI

CONNSCTION WITH ST. MARY'S TOTAL ♦BSTINENCE SOCIETY

KIS EDALE.

DEDICATED TO THE
REV. C E. TMERTON,

BY A
LIVERPOOL WORKING MAN

" Woe unto h'm that giveth his neighbour drink, that putiest thy
bottle to h m and nukes: him drunlen."—Babak. it 15.

may eat the increase of the field ; butter of kine, fat of lambs, with
the fat of kidneys of wheet."—Daut.xxxii. 13 14.
mesas:mow leads into labyrinths, intricate sounding,
wato.-s, dark forests, deafly jungles, pestiferous swamps, barren
deserts, or to some scanby beach, at the foot of which is a perpen-
dicular cliff, with the raging at.d focmin tide coming in. It is, in
fact, a michievous fallacy ; as there is no other name whereby we
e.aa be saved, than His whom the Bible proclaims amidst babel
vo'ces, crying lo Jere, ar.d to Care, so the benign, ennobling, an
e!evatin;.principles of total abstinence are the only safe footnold for
the present and the future; the only safe theiter from the avenging
power cf alcoholic drink. Medcration is like a landscape, contem-
plated nh.n the ca'm an I silver beauty of the boclonded moon cf
midnight rests upon the panorama you stay, indeed, comprehend
the general outline, but a must/ haze dims tho whole; retiring can
be di dingaished accurately; the whole scene is overhung with
murky darkness, and enveloped in the mist of eventide gloom.
Wi.ereas, the high and e'evatMg priacip'es of total abstinence unfad
the magnificence. grandeur, and beauty of the scenery, amid the sun-
skne of noon-day sp7en•lour ; the tint of every flower, .he Flatus,/ of
every ti ea may be discerned, •an I th 3 meandering of ea ,ry stream
trace I. In fact, total abstinence principles are replete with consum-
mate love, joy, peace, happiness, prosperity, and length of days.
Drunkarth, let me in all :If :etion sit eat of .you, f f ter weighing
the a-guments I have adduce I, and the evils of drunkenness which I
have feebly endsaveured to pour trey, to decide and net like men ; do
not palter with 3our best esrtlaiy interests; do not halt between two
opinions; do not put off decision till t,-morrow, or next week, or
next mumh ; it is life or death. Indecision and inrtensideration
are the very panders of vice.l Abandon at once all connection with
intoxicating drink, ehicir, according to the concurrent tentirnony of
the judges of our land, chaplains of gaol, gaokr9, magistrates, and
other law functionaries, is the cause of 75 per cent.:of all the crimes
committed in this ecuiitry.

Let your choice no v be made in Cod's name, and in His strength,
and your resolve will doub 1 SS be attendel with ills b:esslng. Then
will you b 'come happy me 3, h-ippy women, hap' y n all the chances and
changes of your future life ; ever looking back with comp's-eniy to the
moment when you protested by s'gning the pledge against atmilfi„: which
d. es not simply expo <e to enqu ry now and again, hut which in truth is
perpetually exploding in prostitution, murder, d bas,hery, adoitry,
fornication, treason, tumult, riot, famine, pes,ilence, disease, and
death—a traffic which blasts the boan`y and innocerw of you'h, co,
rupts the purity of women, prostrates manhood, paralyses Indus ry,
spreads confusion, disorder, and crime, over this otherwise Heaves,
b essed, fair, and happy country.

(To be continued )

EXTRAORD:NARY CHARGE OF BURGLARY
AGAIN6T. A BOY.

At the City of London Guildhall, on Monday, Charles
Goodwin, a lad about seventeen years of age, was brought
up, charged with having burOarionsly entered the premises
of Messrs. Leighton, Son, and Hodge, bookbinders, of 13,
Shoe-lane, and stolen therefrom a quantity of valuable
books, to the ex ent of about £5O. Mr. Wontner attended
for the prosecution, and stated that about a fertnight ag )
Messrs. Leighton's premises were entered during the night,
as was snppoeed by the prisoner, and property entrusted
to them for binding purposes removed. It appeared that
the prisoner's brother occupied a part of the house over an
oil chop two doors off, from which the prisoner, who was
a frequent visitor there, could, by crossing the leads, get
at the skylight cf Messrs. Leighton's workshop. The
robbery took place on Saturday, the 29th of August, and
on the discovery being made on the following Monday,
Gaylor, a detective officer•, was called in, and be examined
the premises, when he Lund that they had been entered by
the skylight. He then traced footmarks from the skylight
across the leads to the oil shop, and in doirg so he found
some of the foetmarks so exceedingly p'ain that he was
able to swear positively that they had been reads with
heavily nailed boots, and ?het come of the nails were
wanting in the boots was evident ft.= the males. On
pu 'suing his enquiries further, he ascertained that on the
night of the robbery, the prisoner went to see his brother;
that the oil shop keeper heard a noise of some one walking
on the leads, and called our, asking who was there, when
a voice, he b lieved was the prisoner's, answered, "It is
only me " Not being satisfies', however, he took a candle
to ascertain who i; Was, when he again heard the same
voice saying, "It's all right, it's only me," and shortly
afterwards the prisoner ran down stairs, and passed
through the shop, and hal not been seen since. The
prisoner's brother heard a crash of glass on' that night,
and sent out to inquire what was the cause of it, and on
the following morning he found a bag containing about
two thirds of the stolen property, which the prisoner,
having been disturbed, had been obliged to leave behind
him. When the prisoner eves apprehended on Saturday
last a pawnbroker's dup icate for a pair of boots was
found upon him, and upon redeeming those boots there
were some of the nails deficient, corresponding
to the marks which had in the first instance indi-
cated such deficiency. The fees of the case
were of a somewhat fragmentary character, but -when
the evidence should be completed, the worthy alderman
would then see a chain of extraordinary circumstances
which could leave no roam for the srghtest doubt as to
the prisoner's guilt. Richard Grose. was then called, and
said he was in Messrs. Le ghton's employ, and on Satur-
day, the 29th of August last, left the premises at five
o'clock. At that time seventeen copies of "Evangeline,"
End two copies of the Grammar of Ornament,'' were quite
We in the binding•room, but he missed them on Monday
morning. Gaylor said, on exemiteng the premises he founi
two panes of glass in the skylight had been broken, and
upon a dust bin which must have been crossed to get at
the warehouse he saw recent marks, which induced him to
believe they were made by the blots produced, and
hic'a he had redeemed since the prisoner was apprehend-
ed. Thomes Proctor, the keeper of the oil shop, gave
evidence to the effect stated by Mr. Wontner. Gaylor also
stated that when the prisoner was sbown the boots he said
they belonged to him, and that he pledged them at
Payne's, in Shoe-lane, from which place they hal been
redeemed with the duplicate found in the prisoner's pos-
session. The value of the books removed from the prose-
cutor's premises was estimatel at upwards of £OO. The
two copies of the " Grammar of Ornament" alone being
of the value of 120 each volume. The prisoner was
remanded.