Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-28 00:00:00

by Mr. Y. Tomlinson, jun., in the blanket-
Mr. Long : Do you know of any money missi

Yes, sir

There was a sum of £39 13s 4d in the c

Of this sum 3s 6d was found in a bag near where the
watches were. Mr. Low; : How do you connect the prisoner
with the robbery ? Witness : My servant saw him early
yesterday.morning.come out of the shop, not having been
there during the night. A youth, named Holmes, said that
he slept in the shop where the prisoner also slept. The
prisoner was not in the shop the previous night. Witness
saw him come out of the shop about six o'clock yesterday
morning while he `was in the closet, he having left the shop
to go there. The prisoner was remanded.

THE TRADE IN VICE AND IMMORALITY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—l believe it is a somewhat unusual, and de-
cidedly dangerous practice, to venture a tilt against
a legitimate newspaper article, when it is shielded
by the mighty power of the editorial plural, but
truth and common sense alike demand my protest
against an article which appeared in your paper of
Friday, under the above title. As the " Amateur
lecturer" in question, whose " unworthy and mis-
chievous" remarks have excited your contributors
inelegant expressions of assumed virtuous indigna-
tion, will you permit me to state•that the few words
introduced on the social evil question in my
recent lecture, have been entirely perverted and
misapplied. I did not utter a single word in
extenuation of what I truly termed the greatest
evil in the world, but I deprecated the injudi-
cious conduct of those " meddling gentlemen,"
who were driving the " unfortunates" from their
own vile haunts, where They had to be sought by
those who were depraved enough to associate with
them, unto the streets and outskirts of the town,
where they plied their infamous vocation in open
day, and before those whose virtue and goodness
should never be contaminated by such close neigh-
bourhood to immorality. I also said—earnestly
•enough God knows—that the evil these meddlers
would scourge was not of to-day alone but of ages
past, that it would stain the earth with its foul-
ness to the great day of judgment, and that the
puny opposition of vain and bigotted men would only
add fuel to the flames. I further declared that these
self-abrogated social evil reformers were not able to
sweep the world of its refuse, and that there were
thousands of " unfortunates" at this moment hover-
ing between the struggles of poor Hood's heroine
in the " Song of the Shirt" and his wretched suicide
in " Bridge of Sighs," who might he reclaimed, but
they could not be exterminated. The writer of the
article in your paper complains that I illustrated my
argument by quoting from scripture the case of the
women taken in adultery, quite keeping out of mind
the admonition, "Go and sin no more." Let my
words speak for themselves. After denouncing the
attempts of the self-constituted Society for the Sup-
pression of Vicious Practices to abolish social evil by
exterminating rather than reforming its wretched
followers, I said : " Of a different nature was poor,
sickly, large-hearted Tom Hood. He, too, had
studied the fearful history of vice, but he did not
cast its victims from him as loathsome and hideous
objects. He remembered that, with all their sin and
erium, (Amy outtl rrayaa, Utu,t, Ow

forgave the poor fallen adultress, and commanded
those amongst the howling throng who were sinless
themselves to be the first to cast the stone." If
I was wrong in using this scriptural illustra-
tion, my error did not arise from any
" profane ' or "blasphemous" use of holy writ, as I
will not yield, even to your writer, in my reverence
for the New Testament. Neither was the allusion
a palliation of prostitution, but it was a reproof to
those vain, stone-hearted, meddling bigots, who appear

to think that they, and only they, are destined, by
trickery and sham, to effect a revolution which their
intellectual and moral superiors are not able to
achieve. Sir, I would rather occupy my present
position, even as a victim of your wrath, than stand
in the shoes of those men who have so unwisely
attempted to usurp a power which they 'can only
maintain by underhand treachery, straight-laced
bigotry, and un-English assassination of character.
I am almost inclined to think (and pardon me, if I
am wrong), that the article in your paper of Friday,
redolent as it was with foul and disgusting language,
is the production of a member of th precious society
under whose ban I have evidently fallen, for it lacks
the manly and independent tone which usually
characterises your " leaders," and substituted
malicious invective for sound remonstrance.
I have sufficient faith in your love of fair play to
believe that you will give this hurried letter a
corner in your paper of Monday. I would have
supplied it yesterday, but, through my absence from
home, I did not receive your paper of Friday until
this morning --

—Yours, &c

CHARLES MILLWAR

Hull, 26th March, 1859,

GEORGE'S DOCK BASIN

NUISANCE-HOW

TO PROVIDI
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES

A. REMEDY.

Sir,—Very many complaints have, from June, been
made about this abominable nuisance, and persons
visiting the town are often loud in their complaints,
and remark that, in a town like Liverpool, where the
authorities ought to be making improvements con-
stantly, it is surprising that this should have
lasted so long, when the remedy was so easy and
apparent, to any person who would take the trouble
to think about the easiest way to accomplish this
great and highly important improvement for the
health of the inhabitants generally, of town folks,

and especially visitors, who are not in the habit of
inhaling such plague-like vapours.
I should recommend that the present filthy, and I
should say the worst in the town, should discharge
itself into the river, two or three yards below low
water mark at the highest spring tides; this is a
very easy matter, for the cutting of such a sewer
would cost very little as the stone got out would
form the top of the sewer.
Then, what a splendid dock this basin would make
by placing an iron casson at the entrance it would
admit the Great Eastern. The most important
object would thus be obtained, a continuous passage
to the ferry steamers, which desideratum has puzzled
our clever men, no need of filling up this useful basin
if this scheme was adopted, no police taking people
into custody and entering false charges against
them, which has often been the case, to the eternal
disgrace of the managers of the police force, and the
annoyance of her Majesty's subjects.
The vessels that were ready towgom. t.oss.esaLnAetrxEtittide
could be passed into the basin during the night, so
that the passage over the bridge need never be
interupted.—Yours truly,
Parkfield, 2nd March, 1859.

THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.—The Paris correspondent of
the Lady's Newspaper says :—The Empress followed in an
open caleche with the Prince Imperial, who was attired in
the uniform of a Grenadier de la Garde Imperiale. His
appearance for the first time in this dress excited great ad-
miration, and when raised in the arms of his august mother,
the lovely boy laughed with childish glee at the assembled
multitude. The enthusiasm and admiration of the crowd
knew no bounds ; and truly it was a pretty sight to see the
beauteous child in his mimic uniform -- a coat of dark blue,
with white breastplate, red epaulettes, and bearskin cap,
seemingly almost too heavy for his little head.