The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-16 00:00:00

THE FOUL LITERATURE OF THE DAY.

We are gratified at the'discovery that ourdenuaelationi of the,ftni
literature of the day have not been without theft; results.— upolt
ference to our police-reports of this day. it will be seen th,t-two of the
prin.ipal offenders have been penis ed—though perhaps not with
suffleent rigour—for their‘eodea-ours to dissettdaate those &gusting
end abortive offsprings of filthy imaiination, which have new for
many months been openly vendel in the streeteof London. Happily
for his own personal conVenfonce, though unfortunately foi rthe, rake
of morality, the sentence of the (hie 'culprit w.is.mitigated from severe
libotertolinprisOnnient. Still, this last infliction; coupled with file
experiences of the pest, should be amply sufficient to deter the adven-
turou- publisher frounligain ex p hia tiine -14 perseverance upon
similar fu'sorne labotim If, however. the InVeatigatiOn Ia to stop at
its Present litt!e er Ito g.,di wirrhave. be-n effected. " Paul
P.:3",” the "Little tVerder," and wher low, diagr cq'ul, and cffensive
perielicals are still in existence; and must be tracked,' by the autho-
rities to their wretched s inrcag, and -Utterly exteimMatod. ',The Lead
oft° of the one-publication, in Fe,ter-lane,is a quarter. to-which the
officials should immediately direct twit* atteuton no• should they
leave a stone unturned while.tho printing-pre4 natuaily an agent 'of
good and mo:aly, is made to exo. else so b rnehil acid contaminating
an influence. We ones more apreal to the so iety which' his con-
ducted the pre,ent presed-ation, 10 parish:authorities, to the-0.011
and to all who may in the matter have any power whatever, to cm-
tinne a rigid contest rff&nst these emin'es to common dereu:,,y , and
the ordinary couveationalities of civllis,d existepco.—Loadon Paper.
The following are the cases alluded to. T'c,ey-,were iuded before
Lord Campbell in the Court of Queen's Bench.:— - -

Two Qr'aaer v. Duon.iin.—Th's was an indictment prferred et
the inatincaeof the Scciety,for .ths guppresi,.n of yie.b sieificat the
defendant, a printer. and ,pnblisher. in Holywell-rtreef, Streril, and
whose name has been frequent yebefore the peblic, in connection with
charge, similar to that for which. he has been ennvieV;l, that of Nell-
long 'descent prints and imninr. I book,. The case had been removed
into this 'Court > t the instance of the,defendanf by writ of Certiorari.
The defendant, wh.; throughout thelrial was in a most excited itate,
althougheleiended by Mr. Serjeant Pa-ey mai Mr. Lang ord, corn-'
plain fel that his p: °pert d oevu meat meiastly,and,iilegal seleed,
and taken from him, and that ha haa hoe, taken into cultody 'and
incerceeated foe fourteen weeks, and he did not knoit open what
chart& Lord Campbell said tha case must proceed. Mr.
efacaulay and ur. Bodkin appeared for the Fecietee an
Mr. Serjeant Parry and Mr. 'Longford for the, defendant.
Evidence of the purchase of the Prints and hooka; and 'hefr disgusting
and grossly immoral tendency, having been elven, MriSerjeant Parry
addressed the jary for the defendant, but coniin-d his remarks
Principally to the character of the witnesses who proved the purcha,e
of the prints and books. Lord Campbell said no one could doubt that
the tendency of such pabloatioos were most demoralising, and
horrifying to every well-r- gulated mind, and the Society had done a
vast good in patting the law in motion. He would, rot disettat the
Court or the jury by reading anv passages; the jury would judge f )r
themselves. Tho jary, after an inspection of the prints and books, et
once foetid the defendant guilty. Lo.d Csenebell ordered that .the
defendant should net leave the court, and directed the nutcase to be
val'od ou, that of
Tea Quasse T. --TRATIGE.— The defendant in this case was also
indleel fee" publishing and selling two immoral publications, called
the Paul Pry and the Worthen of London,' penny publications.
Evidence of purchase and the pablieation of the offensive works in
qnestien was given, but the articles complained of were not rea-l.
For, defence It was urged that the 'defendant had no. knowledge
at the time of the contents of the - works, bet had received
them in the ordinary way of other publications ()fel similar charactor,
and he had eipressed his regret at having nesd:lbe Work, in question:
had he known their contents ho would not have sold tkem. Lord
Campbell said no one toad dottht Ihr 'a moment the nature el the
articles complained of. He bad thought it 'his duty. to -look 'over
them, so that he might refer thein to the jury; and no one con'd
belivie but that the defnidahtleneW theft contents, The jury having
rooked at thehooar, retnree'd a 'gifilty; •
Lord Campbell then ordered Dilziale to, stand up for judgment.
The defendant, who.was in a state of net greatest . excitement, then
addressed the Court in a loud tone, repeating that he had been most
foully and sharneftillYnsed, and that his counsel did not 'understand
his case.. His property mad been seized by a persoWnstmed Stanton,
who had been ordered by Mr, Charles Pollock to.pay .e 54, and.he lead
himself been kept is prison 14 weeks, and even then didnot know
the chargd against bird. The defendant conthined in the'same strain
for sometime, and the officers had some difileultf toetestrain him from
dceng violence. Lord Campbell having addressed the defendant upon
the demoralising nature of his offence, said he would consider his
having been in prison, and sentenced himto one year's imprisonment,
from the present time, in the Hoare of Correct en, with hard labour.
The defendant was then removed, - .
The defendant Strange having been called, appeared on the floor of
the court for judgment. The defendant made an earnest appeal in
mitigation, and positively asserted he did not know the Contents of
the works when he sold them: Several witnesses gave the defendant
a good character. Lord Campbell said he looked with horror on such
publications. They exceeded anything he had ever seen even in Paris.
There could be no doubt the defendant well knew the contents, and
no rational man could come to any other eencltislOn. The defeadent
was a young man, and as he had received a good character, and in the
hope that he would do better in future, he should inflict a lighter
punishment, that he b 3 impri .oried in the House of Correction for
three maths, without hard labour. Defendant was removed in
custody.

. A MODEL Wollex.—" Did you not flay, Ellen, that B is
poor ?"—" Tea, he h s only his professipn."-7" Wi:ixpur uncle f • your
h;s ?'' —" No; and I can e,peet nothirg from hiin."—" Then,
Ellen, yon will have to resign fashionable rocicty."—.. No mater, I
shall see the more of Fred."—Yon mut give up expensiVe drew"—
Oh, Fred admires slinplicitv."—" Yon cannot keep a carriagn."—
" Bat we can have delghtfa. wilks "—" Yo .t must take a small
house and fnrn!sh it plainly."—" lea. for elegant furmture would be
out of pl .ce in a cottage." —" Yon will have to cover your fl 'ors with
cheap, thin earpets."—" 0, then I shall hear his step the sooner."

A CAPACIOUS STomscu.—A snake wait recently killed in this
vicinity, measuring onwards of forty rods. On bPing open( el, its
stomach contained a family bible. the unexpired lease of a three-storey
brick house in Royal street., three boxes of Peter's Pills (with direetions,)
an unfinished mils' of Nashville railroad, three stray horses, Ciolfi's
trombone, three packages of tickets In the Grand Gilt Enterprise, a
Datch music grinder with his barrel organ, a plan of tha city of uncle
sam, lost stone UM, and a pair of old pag- bottomed boots with "the
owner is renectfolly requested to prove and take away." Whon any
editor can tell a bigver snake story than that, we',l try aguln.—
Afississippi paper, U. S.

I iz_uoji LAW r s NEW YORK. —The New 'York State Legislature
has passed an act to regulate the sale of intoxicatin; liquors, of a
stringent charact,r. It contains the following clauses —No inn,
tavern, or heel keeper, w,:o shall trust any person other than th ,se
who may be lodgn's in his house he any sort of strong or spirituon I
!iq !lora or wines, shall be capable a recovering the same by any suit.
Licenses hat may be granted (excepting to inn, tavern, or hotel ki,ep-
ers) t, sell strong or anirituout liquors or wine s, to quantities less than
five callous, shall not be deemed to authori a the sale of any strorg or
.pirituous liquor, or wine, to b 3 drunk in the horse or shop, outhouse,
yard, or garden. [ fits sale of liquors "to be drunk on the premises"
is, therefore, entirely prohibited.] Anethe- section says :—lt shalt not
he lawful to sell intoxicating liquors to a,iy person guilty of habitu
drunkennesii, nor to any person against whom the wilier may have
been notified by parent. guardian, husband, or wife, from selling
intoxicating liquors. It shall be the duty of magistrates and overseers
of the po ir in any town or city, on complaint an-i satisfactory proof
by a wife that her husband is an hobbits' drinker of intoxicating
liquors, to issue written notices to al dealers in intoxicating liquors
forbidding the so e or giving of such l'quor to such husband far the
term of six months f om the data of the notizo, under a penalty of SO
dollars.

A MAD BIITCTIER.—The utmost precaution will not always insure
safety; for patients considered harmless will now and then commit
the most horrible acts. A black man, a butcher, who had been many
years in an American asylum, and had never shown rsay violence,one
I night 'berated a knife, and induced another patient to enter his cell.
When his companion had lain down he cut his throat, divided him
into joints, and arranged the pieces round his cell, as he had been
accustomed to arrange his meat in his shop He then ffered leis
horrible wares to his fellow lunatics, carrying such parts as they
desired to those who were chained. The keeper, hearing the uproar,
examined the cells, end found one man missing; upon enquiring of
the black hatcher if he had seen lam, he calm'y replied, " he had
sold the last joint." Even those who have apparently harmless delu-
sions will sometimes, if thwarted, commit unlooked-for atrocities.
Not many years since an inquisition was held before Mr. Commissioner
Winslow upon a young gentleman who Would travel considerable
distances to see a windmill, and sit watching it for days. His friends,
to pat an end to his absurd prOpensity, removed to a place where
there were ro mals. The youth, to counteract the &sign, murdered
a child in a wood, mangling its limbs in a a rriele manner, in the hope
that he should be transferred, as a puniehme, t, to a situation whence
a mill could be seen.—The Quarterly Rhino on Lunatics-Asylums.
Is CII4 08 COMING ?—No one can dou, t our sincere respeet for the
government and the ins ita ionaof this country; our heal ty gee-t-
-svishes for the
continuance of its material welfare in
-m whichbyouthte,
way our own is bud up; our approving observation of the vast
strides marie year by yeir towards all the elem. nts cf national
strength ar d prosperity. But when we bare towards the machinery
by which this fair state of things is said to have bean work,d
we must coufeoi our elves completely puzzled- We find Stase
Legislatures openly raising the standard of defiance Fgainet the Federel
Court's interpretation of general law. We find he, e a muncipality,
almost in the mass, resisting the enactments, of a alive Legislature.
The spetaele is a curl us one. A new Cnaiter is conferred, new
Police Commissioners are nominated, a new Liquor Law is passed.
a new enlarsntitie Ground is se eete,—men are to be removed from
()faces they now hold; there is to be et new regime; nested rights are
to be invaded. The trouble is that, with the uneArnoue cry that these
things, and sundry others, are the doings of a political clique at
Albany, no one seems disposed to submit. 'Some fly to thinnewspapere,
some to the Courts, and anme—the Prince's Bay oyster men, for
instance—matter threat, of flying to arms. Public affairs are confused,
to-say the least of it ; and quiet property-holders and tax-payers are
not unnaturally coming to the coeclueion, that the rule of a Vigilance
Committee would be for New York a veritable milleninm.—New York
Aid ion.
MPUBLIC REBORING ru CEIURCH. —Some mistinderstmding has arisen
in the parish of Lochrutton, owing to the revival of the old practice of
public rebuking in church. Two members having left the church on
the occasion when the rebuking was going on, wore refused church
privileges by the kirk seesion, and they appealed• to the presbytery of
Dttmfries. A long discussion took place on the practice, Mr. Hamilton
stating that Dr. Inglis, in the observance of public rebuking, had acted
according to scripture; and the same principle had Veen acted upon
by his predecessors for nearly a century. On the Sunday in question,
when public rebuking was wing on, upwards of forty of the congrega-
tion had lefttlie church, and,in doing to, had created a perfect finan.
Mr. Hope said that, for his pert, he would sooner eat his fingers off
' than sit and listen to any rebuking for fornication or adultery. There
was not one minister in a Hundred who observed public rebuking, and
I lie eonsalered the doing so an abuse of their privileges as clerg . men.
Mr Austin moved that the presbytery, seeing that thapractice of re-
leaking in public bail fallen-into general disuse, and that the appellants
eisl timed any intention of disrespect to.the discipline of the church,
or to Dr. Inglis personally, sustain the appeal; reverse the finding of
the kirk session, and enjoin them to be restored to the eserciees of
church privi safes. At the same time the presbytery, by thin find i a•r,
did not intend to interfere with the -practice, or question the right of.
Dr. Ingile to exercise public rebuking. The motion was agreed to—
Mr. Hamilton diissenting, tqlea aee secif flhding w euld tend to aloe urar,re
and destroy the exercise of diecioliee enjoined by the church, and
rested on Saipan* autherity.--Ndisibergle Courant.
New SOGGESVONS NOB MARRIAOS.--TllB Paris correspondent of
the li/holism% Tithes write; ea-M. Panl de Montsabin, another pham-
pnleteer, astonishes the: Partslarfsnytith a proposition of another
character, but eeill in the category of expropriation— the expropriation
of marriageable girls. M. de Montsabia (whose mental condition we -
are assured has been submitted to the inspection of three known
doctors) tries to establish the fact that the greater part of the social
evils of the day are to be attributed to the fortuitous manner in which
rnarriaees are osntractei. The objet of his book is to induce the
government to interfere and in a measure guarantee these high acts of
we'd life. He believes- that 'the deCeptions as to character, state of
fortune, msralitye the disproportion of ages, the intermediation of
match-metiers, will all disappear with his system. Extending the
duties of the concierge or porter of each house (and here he falls in
unison with the landl .rd-hater) the anther proposes that this person
shall be held. to keep a correct journal of the conduct of all his
ledgers, with a column for observations where shall be recorded with
fidelity all acts thaamay have a besering upon marriag ; the hoer at
which they enter at night, the persons they receive, whether there
are any constable's visits: the cards, journals, lettere, eatables, med-
icements, they receive. All these facts are to be deposed in a central
special depot at each mayory for the inspection of those concerned.
No one should marry-past the' age of thirty-five, neither should a
blonde complexion be nrirried. to a dark one; he anticipates great
results from an intelligent mingling of temperaments. Par instance,
a dark complexioned in.n peers his aidresees to a blonde, and they
agree to get married. They start to the altar with a firm and confident
step. = But their are stopped. The marriage is not possible; all the
disposible blondes are inscribed for a month past. A recruit has been
demanded from the Rhine,; ne sistest wait the next arrival. The author
also occupies hirneelf with the question of the fusion of ranks. The
girls must subscribe their names when they wish a marquis, and wait
their turns when they are rare, or else fall back on a count. But M.
de ldontsabin forgets an important consideration; he does not toll us
who ie to be charged with the grave responsibility of standing as
guarantee or the girls.