Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-21 00:00:00

BEFORE ME4SRg. J. C. EWART, M.P. AND HEATH.

CL4131 FOR SZAMAN'S WaGE4 —A seaman, named Don
Pedro, a native of Bombay, claimed 133 41 as wages,
from Captain Oldrieve mater of the ship Len. Bluck
appeared for the complainant, and Mr. C ibb for the
defendant. It appeared, from the evidence addnee, that
Pedro shipped as able seaman, at Monte Video, for
Liverpool, about three months ago. The rate of wages
agreed on wa £3 153 per month, Soon after the ve?:sel
put to sea, the captain found that the complainant was not
capable of performing the duties of an able seaman, as
shipped, in consequence of which the captain wonl only
allow him £1 153 per month He had been kept on
the regular duties, however, until within a few wecki of
landing. The magistrates gava a verdict in favour of the
complainant but reduced the claim to £2 23 11d, allowing
him at the rate of £2 lOs per month.

LIVERPOOL B A.NK RUPTCY COURT.-FATu ED Y.

11%FORR MR. COMMISSIONER STEVENSON.

Re DANIEL DUTTON.—This bankrupt, who lately carried
cn the business of grocer in this town, apJied on Thursday
last for his certifica,e, and afor h-aring what wee allegad
by the learned gentlemen engaged in the case, his Honour
said he would give his decision in a few days. To-day his
Honour delivered the following judgment :—ln this case,
although there does not appear to be any cause of corn
plaint against the baukrupt in respect to the carrying on
of his trals,: yet ihe circumstance of his having embarked
in the purchase of a ship, and the speculations
attending it so totally inconsistent with his ordinary
business, and which has resubed in a heavy loss
to the e.,:tent of £4OOO and upwards, is a grave
charge to be made against him. The liabilities
which he was constamqv incurring in relation to this ship,
appear to have compelled him to resort to heavy loans a,
large interests, and in fact this unfortunate speculation
seems to have been the sole cau-e of his insolvency. The
bankrupt being much I,ressed, he in July last sold off all
his stock without previously consulting his creditors; and
althminh the stock was bug small, yet his duty, un-
dotbteily, was to have previ3us'y consulted h's etv!,.:itors,
and at that tttLe, at all events, to have laid his aff4irs
before them. It appears, also, that the ship upon which
all his hßpes of retrieving himself by some secceAful
adventure was to 1-,ave dep,nded, wee sold by the mort•
gsgaes so long back as Apri', 1856, but which sale did
not suffice to pay off the mortgages, but left him a
debtor to them of about £2 5!0 ; now this would
seem to me to have been the proper time for submit-
ting his affairs to his creditors, as he must have
then hopelessly insolvent it not being at all probable
that the continuing of his business could enable him
to have made up all his heavy loT.ses. The res.:lt of all
this is, that to meet the debts of unsecured crelitors,
amounting to £5,500, he has only assets to the extent of
£l6O, according to his own balance sheet. The bankrupt
appears also to have omitted taking stock ever since 1853,
at other serious objection against a trader. It has been
remarked that the till and other cash accounts have
never been balanced, and that the profits have been
estimated,' but the bankrupt bas full entries in his books
of all his cash receipts and payments, which have been
tolerably vouched. I do not, therefore, consider
any objection can be made on this gound It
is satiefse ory to obtain from traders anythins,,
like a cash account that can be voucha.l. Tha bankrupt's
conduct, in all other respects than those to which
I have before referred apAars to be unobjsctionable ; his
trade debts are but small, amounting cniy to £250, and
had it not then been for the liabilities into which he was
unavoib ibly lel by the unfortunate speculation in the ship,
he would, no doubt, have been able to have main-
ttained his greund. Taking there extenuating circumstances
into consideration, I do not propose to suspend the
certificate for so long a period as I might otherw.ise have
done, but I feel bound to suspend it for some time, in
order to mark the censure of the Court on account of the
bankrupt's speculation in the ship, so totally inconsistent
with his ordinary business, I therefore direct it to be
saspandsd for eight calendar months, but there being no
fr.,ud shown and his conduct in other respects nnobjec•
ticnable, I give him pro'eution for ,he whole time. The
certificate must, however be of the second clasa.

FOOD EXPORTATIONS.—The declared value of the beer
and ale, bread and biscuit, butter, cheese, corn and flour,
hope, pickles and sauces and vinegar, in the year 1856,
was £3 705433. In 1846, it was £757,398; and in 1836,
£671,95-14

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF sir-,-ER PLATE.

APPREHENSION OF "lIIE THIEF.

At the Guildhall, York,
en Thursday, Henry Davis, a
glass hawker, was chary ed with having stolen six dessert
spocn4, 15 large silver
sterke, 13 small ditto, and three silver
teaspoons, from
Royal Station Hotel, York kept by
Mr. J Rohde-
tity of ~
e•er Ofi3 Wednesday the 2nd inst. a large quan-
si
stolen '
let?, including the articles alluded to, was
..eom the coneo room ef the Royal Station Hotel, the
rub' ,oery being conducted in a very quiet and apparently
exceedingly expert manner. The depredation being
disc vexed a short time afterwards, by one of the waiters
in the hotel, and the fact having been brought to the
knowledge of Mrs. Holi lay, information was given to the
police. Inquiries were instituted in different directions
but nothing of any moment transpired for some days.
Ultimately, however, a sutpicion transpired that part if
not the whole of the property bad been sold in Leeds ;
and Mr. Chalk, the superimendent of the police, went
over thither, for the pu-pose of makieg inquiries, the
result being the discovery that the prisoner had sold
the plate to a Mr. \Tassel'', a jeweller, &c , in Call-lane,
Leeds. Davis was apprehended atd brought up on
Monday, th 3 hearing being adjourned to Thursday. Pere-
grine Vsssalii, in the course of his evidence stated that
on Fci3ay the 4,h jest. the psis: ner went to him and offered
to sell him the plate in quo ttion. With one exception. the
several articles were perfect, and that which had been
broken appeared to have been done for the purpose of trying
whether or not it was oaf silver. Davis stated that he was
sailing the plate for a gentleman who did not wish it to be
leo own, and he wished it tobe broken up and sold as old silver;
the pri-e ultimately agreed upon being 4s Gd per on: ce. Th
weight of the whole was 110 ounces, according to his weigl-4- int
at the time, but witee3s afterwards found it to
ounces, and he paid Davis 1.21 odd, some few
yam, 112
being allowed for the leas of weight occasioned defacing
the initial letter. He subsequently sent i;he silver to
Messrs. Syrrell and Benham, the Barbie lendc,e, to be
I reflecd. Several witnesses ware called tat reeve that Devie
had besn at Vassallfe on the day nr Aad. 'And evidenee ras
then given to show that the L Judea; 'lunge referred to,
being suspicious that the the proceeds of some
robbery, gave information (':e the matter to the London
police. Inspector John FrAze,.., of that force, sub equently
made investigations, 'chick tame to the knowledge
of the p lice in tla.la city and led to the prisoner's
apprehension. 3.7trs. liolidey, of the hotel, proved
that the plate nand been stolen from that establishment,
recognisable, though broken into so many
it being dist;, scrag
pieces. Carling, the plate cleaner at the hotel, elect proved
that the, silver was hie master's property. Mr. Chalk said
he ar.preb.eneed the prisoner about one o'clock on Monday
mornsurr, at his hoese, and he then denied that he had either
sold the plate to Vassalli, or that he had seen him. For the
delence, it was urged that though the evilence showed
Davis to have had recent possession of the property, there
was no direct testimony showing that he had either com-
mitted or taken part in the robbery. The prisoner was
committed for trial at the next sessions. Mr. Meek,
without wishing to cast aty imputation upon Vassalii,
expressed his hope that this would operate as a caution to
him, read that person annoys,. ced his intention not to
purchase property under each circumstances again. Mr.
Meek also eomplimented'the London house on their con meet
in the matter, and instructions were given that the silver
be given up to the Yefic police, to save travelling expenses
of witnesses. The property recovered ine'udes the whole
of that stolen, except three teaspoons.

THE lIINDOSTANNE LANGUAGE.—Sir Colin Campbell
had isered a general order upon the sabjcct of the study of
the Hiadostini,e ianguage, the staff of the a:my being now
open to 12.1. r Majest,)'s service. He desires cronmaeding
officers of regiments to take measures for urging he ward
tine instructioa of their offic ?re, more particularly of the
younger captains and subalterns, in this reswc% "The
interpreter of the regiment, whose office has hitherto been
almost-, a rinecure, will i nstimtas a class under the orders of
the commanding officer, and will glee, when it is pos-aibl-,
one lecture a thy on the Hindostanee language. The
subalterns and the younger captains are to be ordered to
ettend these lectures. Cumin inclin; officers are directed
to support the interpreter by occasional attendance at the
lectures, as at an ins`ruetion parade. and they will assist
the officers whom it is proposed to instruct, in prom-Deg
Moonshees with the help of the interpreter. lo conclusion.
the Commas ter-in-Chief declares his intention of acting
up tollthe spirit of the instructions of Aris Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge. An officer is clearly not fitted for
the lowest staff appointment in India who has not, at lease,
a col:equial knowledge of the Ilinciostanee language. At
the expiration of six inontl2s after their arrival in the
country, divisional generals wid be required to report as to
the progress made by their aides-de-camp. Officers now in
India will not be taken on the personal staff of any general
until they are declared to have acquired such cAloquial
facilit). Until further orders, a return will be sent in oo
the Ist of January and Ist of July, to head quarters from
iesgiments, showiog the names of all the officers, and the
progress made by then according' to this order. This
ret.nrn will be sizned by the in•erpreter, and cone tersigutsd
by the commending officer of the regimen'. There is no
time 8) favourable for the colloquial study of the
Hindostanee langu.ge as when a regiment is encamped.
The Commander-in-Chief, therefore, will hear of no delay
in the execution of this order because the corps are not in
quarters."

A L4VER ST 4IMED BY THE FATHER OF HIS INTENDED
—At the Leeds Court House, yesterday, a respectable-
looking man, named Thomas F3alston, of Union 1135 V,
Leeds, was charged with the serious offence of stabbing. A
young man, named John Nicholson, of Bridge Court, had
bean courting the prisoner's daughter during the last
three years, but had, in consequence of his irregularities,
been repulsed by the young woman. On Wednesday
night, the girl, who was living in service. with Mr Reeler,
of Springfield Terrace, Barmetcfts, was sent out on an
errand by her miatrem. On her way, she met Nichol, or,
bat did not notice him until ha came up to her, and asked
her why she was so cool towards him She told him her
reasons for declining his atteu ions; upon which, he struck
her severely several times, a .d took the pail out of her hand
Feeling rather alarmed, the girl made the best of her way
ta her uncle's house, and stated to him the conduct of
Nicholson. Her uncle sent for her father, and mother ;
and in their company she was proceeding to her situation.
ca hen the party was overtaken by Nicholson, wh > still
persisted in his brutal conduct. Arrived at Mr. Riuder'e
house, Mrs Foulston pushed her daughter into the back
yard, and for this act of motherly consideration she was
brutally kicked by Nicholson on the small of her back.
High words then ensued between the father and the lover ;
and the former, exaspera.ed almost to madness by the
mocking and insulting taunts of Nicholson, took from his
p„;,ek.et a h.deklayer'a trowel. and stabbed the young man
in the thigh with the dangerous instrument,. Nicholson
fell against the wall, and here he WAS shortly afterwards
found by Berne person pacsic'g, and conveyed to the Leads
Infirmary. His wound, upon being examined, turned out
to be a dangerous cut on the right thigh, about three inches
in length and sufficiently deep to allow of three fingers
being intredueed into it. As he was unable to appear, on
account of The dangerous nature of his iujaries, a medical
certifi tare to that effect was handed in, and the prisoner
was Tcmended. In the meantime, the inegistrates pro-
ceededto the Leeds Infirmary, and took the deposi ion
of the wounded men. Much sympathy is expressed for
the prisenfr ated, his afflicted
/TARROW ESCAPE OF AN AMERIC.:N LAKE STE 131 R.—
The Chicago .Tournal gives the following narrative of the
dangerous storm which overtook the stcraner Olev: la-ad en
Lake : —The steamer left Green Bay en Tues-hey,
at 10 a.m., with 15 passengers and a full freight. On
her :ray down she t ue)ed diff.e•ent points, and took en
in :11 about 60 passengers. Everything went on sincea hly
until etyrat 11 o'clock on Wednes-'ay night, when the blow
struck her. St.e wan at that time a short distance above
Milwauk;e. The wind and snow raged with fearful vio-
lence, and every wave. as it washed into the noble craft,
geemed bent on destroying her. Her fires were pet out,
and it then seemed that destruction was in C .pt.
Flood, undaunted, boweve-, set about to bale her out, and
the passengers ant: crew, with one dastard exc'ption, trot:
hold, and worked for fear hours and a half. At the expi-
ration of this time the fires were rekindled, and steam
once more got up, but the fir• s were soon put out again.
'fbepassergre again went to work with a will, and baled
unti' 9 or 10 o'clock, when steam was once more got up.
ney horded for shore, and kept on baling in the ini,let of
this 'erriele storm. Avantep ht,
a chimney;g3p.intli
eye:hpiVii, much to
their gratification and d
proved to
he in Chicago. At half-past 6 o'clock the steatror reached
li,r docks. Onto or twice during the gale hap-s of
ever relebii g bh. re were given tp, and a list of the
passengers on board was prepared by the captain to throw
overboard. Happily so terrible a calamity was everted.
In the midst of the unflinching courage displayed on every
hand ehicee still brighter the co‘r ige of a woman who
was one of the pa's-ngers, the brighter, as it stands in
contrast with the sheer cowardice of a craven-souled man
who 771. s ab ard. That man was a Frenchman, en] not
an Englisemar, as we Stitt(' yesterday. Ile atsolut?,!y
refused to wo,k, when a woman, which should have
brought a homing blush of shame upon his checks if he
was posseesed of any manhood, stepped forward and velun-
teered to take his place. 'That woman's name was Miss L.
Wishard, of Milwaukie. '1 he passengers, however, would
not allow her to work, Her noble behaviour upon this
occasion won for her the admiration end esteem of every
one on board, while the cmduct of the Frenchman pre-
yoked just the opposite; and we should not have blam• d
the crew had they looked upon him as a steond Jonah
aboucl their noble craft—New York Times.