Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-23 00:00:00

imprisonment forfeited the clothes. Mr. Murphy, of the
Sailors' Hoine, said, he did no; deny the clothes were at
the Home, awl if complainant paid the £2 he owed, he
could get thew.. The witness was cross-examined by
Mr Black, but nothing of interest Was elicited. Mr.
Cobb then called for the books at the Sailors' Home;
when an account was banded in, but it was. objected toe
by Mr. Cobb, who saa he must have the books. Mr.
Black said there was Do notice given to p'..4bdue.e the
books. The witness, irr reply to Mr. Cobb, said he
denied owing the Home any money at all. To the
Court : I got £1 8s 9d on account of the advance'nbte:
To Mr. Cobb : I left £6 at the Sailors' Home
Shen
discharged from the last ship. -Mr. Black then addressed
the court, and contended that Mr: Williams could not JO'
anything wrong, and that the clothes merely remainetti
for the L 2. He eulogised the Sailcts" Home, and abused-
the boarding-house keepers considerably. He argued.
that' the complainant had attempted to swindle the
Home, and trusted it would go to the world so, Mr.
Cobb challenged the other side to pltduce the books.
The Magistrates were of opinion that tl4-£2 was due to
the Home, aird on the payment of that the:'elothes would
be given up. The case was dismissed.

COUNTY COURT.—YESTERIAt:
BEFORE'', W. A. RULTON, ESQ., JUTAiii.
THE DOCK DYE-LAWS AND THE Cowl,' TIGA!E.--
CA:vary v. DIXON. - In this case, which was brought by
plaintiff to recover from defendant the sum of .;(-:,9 10s 9d,
for not having removed a quantity of grain. from' the
quay,, within the time- specified in the bye-laws. The' case
was heard on Monday and appeared in our "paPer of
yesterday. Judgment was, however, reserved till. Tue-
sday, when his Honour gave judgment fOr the plaintiff.-
At the same time he observed that he came to his detision
on the merits of the case; and would not at that'iiine•
express his reasons for dbirrg- so.
FRIENDLY AccommorKtrrox.— GUNNON v. THACE:ER!--.-
The•plaintiff, George Ginaron, brickmaker, in this ease-
sought to recover the sump f 8 lls 9d, alleged to be'
elite• him by the defendants,. Robert Pearson Thacker;-
and Leopard, oil manufacturers, John-street, and whose-
-works- are at Bootle. M-r. - John Yates appeared for
the- plaintiff,- and Mr. Hime•lbr the defendants. From,
the ev4dence-of the plainti/rit appeared that, last July:
he was applied to by the defendants to furnish them with-
a quantity of bricks to complete some alterations ow-
their works; He agreed to furnish the bricks, and did
so to a, large amount, at the rate-of 21s per thousand, as '-
agreed upon. No stipulation was- made as to when they'"
were to be paid for. In August- he applied for some -
money, havlng an account against the defendants to the
amount of .X 561 He then got £25 on account, but it was
charged as 12s 6d, that beinglor 10 per cent. discount
and 2s 6d'as bank commission. In September he again
applied for. money, and got £2O;. and was charged the •
same per centage.. On coming toa final settlement, one
shilling per thousand was deducted. off 73,000 bricks.
and a balance-of £B6 some odds was paid and charged at
fife per cent. discount. Mr. Thacker, on being called
for examination, said the defendants account was not due
till Christmas, and therefore the. discount had been
charged. The-deduction of is per7l,ooo was on account
of the bricks being inferior to what was contracted for.
In answer to 111 r: Yates, Mr. Thacker said that plaintiff
had made an that the account was not to be
due-till Christmas. When he cam to, ask the money,
the • plaintiff said he was pressed for- money, and the
defendants, being. desirous of
,befriendifq him, accommo-
dated him: Witness was not aware that double the usual
amount of bank commission had been charged, nor did
he know whether the money was paid by cheque, as it
was paid by his partner, Mr. Leopard. When the
plaintiff* got the £2O he stated he was in pecu-
niary- difficulties, and considered they were entitled to
charge- the discount, and he had agreed to it.
Mr. Yates made some serious comments on the friend-
ship that exacted ten per cent. on its-favours. He could
not say whether the plaintiff was in difficulties or not, but
he hoped•no,man in difficulties would have Mr. Thacker's
friendship: There might be other reasons which would
induce the-plaintiff to get his money. His Honour said
the defendant had been, in a considerable degree, uncon-
tradicte& by the plaintiff, still he thought he wn§ entitled •
to the difference between the discount on £99 and £B6.
Verdict for-tite plaintiff for 4s
The Court then adjourned till ten o'clock thia morning.

NURSES' INSTITUTE.
Yesterday, the annual Meeting of the friends of this.
institution Wag held at the rooms, '20,. Soho-street ; Mr.
°topper presided.

The. Secretary proceeded to read tbirfollowing
REPORT.

i` The Cimmittee of the Liverpool Institution for the
Training and Employment. of Nurses,.in presenting their
fourth annual report, can only repeat. what has been said
in the two•first reports of the society; They have had
' satisfactory evidence that the institution is a valuable
one, and that it is doing a useful work.,
" The end for which it was set on foot - that is, the
training and employment of really good and efficient
nurses for• the sick has been carried. out with fully as
great an amount of success as could have been anticipated.
The certificates of conduct and attention brought back
by the• nurses from the cases in which they have been
engaged oontinne almost uniformly: to be exceedingly
gratifying to the committee, as ; proving that the
favourable• opinion they had formediof the persons they
have-employed has not been exaggerated.

" The difficulty of finding suitable women to fill the
post of sick. nurse is (as was remarked in the two previous
reports) very great, and has prevente&the .committee from
making-as-large an addition to their:-staff as would have
been desirable in order to supply: the demands of an.
unusually- sickly season. The number of nurses fully
entered! in the service of the institution at the close of
the year- was 16 ; two more are. on probation. Five
have left airing the year (one of these having remained
the three years stipulated in her first en,ragement), two
were diinussed for unsatisfactory conchtet7and two left of
their own accord.

" The number of cases attended Was. 132. Thirty-five
weeks of entirely gratuitous service hare been rendered
by the nurses in cases where payment would have been
tooleavy a burden on the means of: the' patients or their
ftiendt..

" The- funds of the institution, re• in a fairly satisfac-
tory state, as will be seen from the treasurer's statement_
Though not entirely self-supporting, it is more nearly so
than4it has been since its foundation,;; and the committee
hopethat next year may find thein,in a position to corn-
mence what they have long -felt desirable and almost
essential to the prosperity of:the institution—namely, a
fiind for sick, disabled, or superannuated nurses.
"-The difficulty experieneed in training the nurses
has-been great. The practise they have in the Infirmary
is, indeed, exceedingly useful in f&miliarisinn- them with
various forms of illness, and in, a.etustomingpthem tc the
sight and treatment of surgical, operations; but it does
not supply all that is clesinalite.to, meet the requirements
of a sick room, or give an acquaintance with those allevia-
tions which do so much to .lessen suffering and to relieve
the• weariness attendant, cu longrcoutinued illness. If any
plan could be adopted for securing fully and more-com-
plete instruction to nurses on: prohatieci, it would; the
committee feel assured,,be productive of very great benefit
to those who employ the nrarsos, of the institution..
had
experience The following •- medical (reittlemen, who have had
experience of the services of tide nurses, have
their names to be mentioned: as. entiroly approving of the
objects of the institution,. and also of the conduct and
general efficienay of thosc.nursys connected it whom
they have met with in their practice: Drs. Dickenson,.
Ellison, Hibbert,- Taylor, Denton, and Hodgson.'
The Treasurer's, account owed a balance of
£lO9 2s 3d, and he hoped that the institutou would be
made entirely.self supporting by increasing *number of
nurses.
It was unanimously agreed that report and,
treasurer's. ,statement be printed and circuliited.
It wasn.question whether the nurses should be allowed-.
to remain longer than three months in attendance on One
case, mit was very often found necessary when a nurse
remained longer than that period, +-Q. send her to the
shore.for the restoration of her w"1". ,
was
p a rt. dabsy
agreedtlie
confinement.toreferit to the e committee.
w
This concluded the business.

DEATH FROX A PUNCTURED AVCpUND IN THE 141:41).—
An inquest was gone into on Saturday, at the London
flospital,respecting the death cf William Sirsith, The,
deceased was engaged at an anvil cutting a piece of steel
for a pair of compasses,
and when the hammerman struck
a heavy blow to mark the metal, the end entered ttlib de-
ceased's left hand, which received a punctured wound_
Re, was seized with severe. pain, and was conveyed to
the hospital, where he expired on Tuesday last, from
erysipelas of the limb. arising through the fractured
hand. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
Death"

SALE OF DED.RA3OS' RE DEMESNE. LANDS AND FLAX
AND COItN MILLS,—The equity of redemption of the
Smyth in the above valimile property, subject to,
encumbrances amounting to 0,771, was put Up, for
public competition at the Cc.urt of Bankruptcy, Four
Courts, Dublin, upon Tuesday last., when the following
sums were offered : —Mr. Robert Glenny, Z 220 ; Dr.
Connor, .230; Mr. Vogan, £240 ; Mr. Glenny, £250 1.
Mr. James Kennedy, £269 ; Dr. Connor, £270; Mr.
Kennedy, £2BO ; Dr,Connor, 290; and Mr. Glenny was
declared the purchaser at £3OO. The moveable machin-
ery contained in the mills was then offered for sale, and
knocked down to Mr. Abraham. Walker, at a sum of
£3BO. Mr. Edward Greer, solicitor, the agent to the
commission, had the oarriage of the Teie,
Mee.,