Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-31 00:00:00

THE PLAINTIFF'S TELL THEIR STORY.

Philip Smith, head of the " Smith family," and brother-
in-law of Susannah, tells his story. He says that Francis
Keating was never formally introduced to Susannah at his
house ; that she was simply called Susannah, and nothing
else, and that Francis admitted to him on the day that he
was arrested, that ho knew that she was married at the
time that he eloped with her, and that he never permitted
the slightest intimacy between Francis and Susannah, in
his presence, and that the going out to concerts, &c., must
have been done secretly, and that as soon as he suspected
that criminal intimacy existed between them he discharged
Keating from his employ, and she says further that he
(Smith) was a witness of the marriage.

WPM WRITES A TOUCHING TATTER.
Another affidavit of Smith sets forth that the following
letter is in the handwriting of Keating• It was written
when he and Susannah were at Poughkeepsie enjoying the
romance of an elopement, and was written to Mrs• Smitb,
the sister of Susannah : _ _ .

MY DEAR SISTER,—I suppose you are surprised at the
idea of my calling you sister, but it is a name that I havo
languished to call you. My dear sister, you must not blame
either of us for what fVe have done, if it had not been for
one word I heard Cahill say to my dear (a name which I
had given up all hopes of ever calling her,) a word which
I knew would cause her many a tear through life, if she
lived with him that word is not fit to be written. You
shall know what it is when you see me, let that be as soon
as you wish ; when you write to us telling us that we may
return we will do so ; don't think it strange that I asked
my dear to marry me, after her being married to Cahill,
but a man that talked as he did, is more fit to marry a
wench; then my dear Cahill may as well give up all hopes
of ever enjoying my dear, for if she had not coma with me
on Friday, the first time I ever met him either him or I
should die. FRANCIS KEATING.

The judge rather sympathised with the defendant and
reduced the bail to 500 dollars.

NOVEL EX RIBITION —A SLOW Cc:tem.—On Saturday
last an elderly rustic entered a stationer's shop, and
asked fur a pennyworth of writing paper. This being
handed to him he paid for it, and then, with an air which
precluded all doubt of his sincerity, asked him for a
bawbee's worth of postage stamps. The shopman again
glanced at his customer, and seeing that ho was really in
earnest, inquired if he had never bought and really did
not know the price of a postage stamp The rustic
confessed he had never bought one. Then, said the
shopman, there is to be a fair here on Thursday, and
no scarcity of shows ; but if Sou will just come and get
yourself exhibited as the man who, bordering upon 40,
never had bought, nor did not know the price of a postage
stamp, you will get plenty of B animas eager to contract
with yea and make you famous as a living monument of
ignorance.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Friday afternoon, a young
woman, named Price, daughter of one of the vergers, who,
with a companion, had ascended the interior of the
cathedral spite, in coming down the second ladder, jumped
on to the floor. The floor, being in a very weak state,
immediately gave way, and ahe fell with it a distance
of twenty-seven feet, her companion vainly en-
deavouring to arrest her fall. Tier removal,
unfortunately, was a matter of some difficulty, for the
passage and stairs do not allow of two persons waning
abreast, and the young woman, though happily escaping
with sound hones, was of course unable to continue her
th-scent. She could not, consequently, be removed from
the steeple (where she was attended by Mr. Cooper,
surgeon), till the evening, when, chloroform having been
administered, she was lowered by means of scaffolding,
which had, as it happened, been erected outside the tower,
the north face being under repair, and was then removed
home. Alth..ugh much bruised and cut, no bones were
broken, but the shock she has received will naturally retard
her recovery.—Norfolk News.
DETERMINED ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—CARLOW,
JULY 23.—0 a ycsterd iy evening a young woman named
llaugliney, residing in Graigue, in the borough of Carlow,
attempted to destroy herself by strangulation, under very
extraordinary eireunastances. From the facts elicited it
appears that the girl in question and her mother, who is a
widow, lived together in the same house. The mother, who
is a buxom jolly person, conceived the idea of again entering
the matrimonial state, and having thrown her amorous eyes
on a sprightly swain named Price, the succeeded in securing
his affections. A day was named for celebrating the :auntie'
tie. Knowledge of the circumstance having boen conveyed
to the daughter, her indignation knew no bounds. She
taxed her mother for being carried away by such girlish
notions, and demanded that the suite should be abandoned,
and the lover discarded. The elder Llaughney was obdu-
rate to the appeals and threats of the daughter, and no
very complimentary epithets passed between them. For
several days matters continued in this condition, which
were brought to a climax last night by the younger
Haughney declaring that if her mother did not give up the
idea of getting " spliced " she would hang herself.
The mother laughed scornfully at the threat, and en-
c Araged the girl to carry it into execution, which she
immediately did, by retiring into the garden at the end of
the house, where, having procured a rope, and selecting
the strong arm of a tree, she adjus'ed the noose by placing
it round her neck, and was soon suspended mid earth
and heaven. The curiosity of the mother was excited
by the long absence of the girl, and having followed
her to ascertaih if she really intended to carry out what
she stated, she was horrified to find her daughter in the
awful position she was in. Assistance having been
procure,'( the unfortunate girl was cut down, when life was
found not to be quite extinct. After the application of
several rem %dies she slowly recovered, when she was
taken by the ,Viice before a magistrate, who ordered her
to find bail for har future good conduct. The mother, it
is stated, was so ejected by the melancholy catastrophe
Acl her intention of
that she has rennin entering the bonds
of Hymen for the presoo,—Sgunders,

HEALTH COMMITTEE.

The usual weekly mee'ing of this Committee wag held
at half-past two o'clock yesterday, in the Town Hall, Mr.
Alderman Dover in the chair.

Other members present Messrs. Shell, M‘Gaffie,
Beckwith, Crosthwaite, Tinne, Anthony, Haydock, and
Stitt.

The minutes of the List meeting were read and cam
firmed.

lIP.ALTH OF THE TOWN.

The Medical Officer of Health reported that the mews
temperature of the last fort- ight having been more than
two-and-a-half degrees below the average, bowel com-
plaints had become very prevalent, as they always do in
July and August under similar circumstances, but as yet
the mortality has been almost entirely confined to infants.
The deaths from all causes, which, in the previous week,
were 214 ro3e last week to 238, being 12 more than the
average of the same week of the preceding nine years, ex-
cluding 1819. In the paristi 169 deaths were registered,
and in the out-townships 71. Of 97 deaths caused by
zvmotic diseases, 45 were from di arrbce a, the average being
29. Of these only two were adul's. 21 deaths
arose from hooping-cough, more than in any
week of the previous eighteen months ; 13 from
scarletin,, 5 from typhus, 2 from cholera, 1 from smal'-pox
(unvaccinated), 1 from measles, 1 from syphilis, and 1
from glanders. Diseases of the lungs, with consumistion,
caused only 44 deaths. A married woman died from
intemperance. The mean temperature of the week was 65
4.10 degrees, nearly three degrees above the av,irage. The
rainfall on four days of the week amounted to upwards of
an inch.

The Through Engineer, Building Snrveyor, and Inspec-
tor of Nuisances reported various particulars of the opera-
tions in their several departments during the week ; from
which it appeared 118 nuisances c maplained of by inhabi-
tants had been inspected, and means taken to remedy
them ; 1,022 houses in the unhealthiest distlicts, contain-
ing 3,229 apartments, and 628 cellars, had been put under
examination, with the view of improving their sanitary
condition.

Mr. C. P. MELLY requested permission to place plain
benches, a foot wide, and six feet to nine feet in length,
against the wall of Mr. Cr:ssfield's rice mill, in Parliament-
street; Mr. Cropper's print works, in Bedford-street; and
by the flour mill at the top of Falkner-street ;
also in Park-lane, below St. Patrick's Church, on the
consent of the proprietors being obtained. If, on trial,
the seats give rise to inconvenience, Mr. Melly will have
them at once removed. In his communicltion requesting
this permission, Mr. Melly pointed out the advantage
which those seats would be to mothers, old men, and
invalids living in the neighbourhood, who might there
enjoy, in fine weather, a fresher atmosphere than their
own dwellings airarded.

Mr. Tirsie observed that the town owed a debt of
gratitude to Mr. Melly for all that he had done for it,
and now sought to accomplish, lie could see no objection
to granting the permission.
Mr. BECKWITH said that the corporation should have
provided those conveniences for the people ; but he feared
that with the loss of the town dues, they had allowed the
opportunity to pass by.
The permission was grant&.
Thanki were voted to Mr. Melly, and, after transacting
some routine business, the committee adjourned.

THOMAS FULLER BACON versus
MADELINE SMITH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,—Can any of your readers explain the
grounds of the distinction in the verdicts of these
two cases. Both were cases of arsenical poisoning,
and the evidence in each case circumstantial. In
that of the lady the motive was existent, and the
purchase of the poison clearly proved ; but the
verdict of " not proven" was, according to the rule
of the judge, incumbent, in the absence of proof of
the administration of the poison by the accused.
In the case of poor Bacon, there was again a
motive ; but the same connecting link in the chain
is not sufficient to save him front conviction. In the
latter, there is also the fact of suspicion being
directed against a second, or the insane wife. The
points in each are so analogous, and, in my mind,
the circumstantial evidence in the one outweighing
the other, that I have been induced to imagine the
variation may exist between the English and
Scottish courts, rather than to account for the
anomaly from other causes.—Yours, &e., F. X.

INFORMATION UNDER 'MR FACTORY ACV AT BRADFORD.
—At the Bradford Borough Court, on Tuesday, Mr. Robert
Baker, factory inspector, cited Messrs. G. L. Leather and
Co., Messrs William Rouse and Co , and Mr. Maunders,
all spinners a❑d manufacturers, with having employed a
number of females in their premises beyond tho hours
allowed by law. Mr. Terry, solicitor, appeared for the
defence in each case. The information against Mr.
Leather was first considered. The charge of Mr. Leather
having employed, beyond the regular legal hours, four
females, on the 24th of June, was not denied ; but Mr.
Terry urged, in defence, that the building in which they
were employed was not a part of the factory, but a ware-
house connected with it, and c )ntained no machinery.
Mr. Baker urged that so long as the building was con-
nected with the mill it was to all intents and purposes a
portion of the factory. The bench agreed with this view
of the case; but Mr. Haigh stated it as his belief that Mr.
Leather was not aware that he wa; infringing the Factory
Act, and hence the penalty imposed should only be small.
In the case of Ann Mitchell he was fined £1 145,, in-
cluding costs, and the simple costs in the three other
cases. Similar penalties were imposed upon the other
defendants.
EXTENSTVZ HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT BRADFORD.—At the
Bradford Borough Court, on Tuesday. a notorious char
ac'er, named Julia Brady, who has frequently been
committed was charged with having robbed Mr. Josepti
Webster, agent, of about £7O in bank-notes and cash.
Mr. Webster said that on Monday night, a little after ten
o'clock, he was proceeding up Little Horton Lane,
towards his residence, and when near the Independent
Chap:l the prisoner seized him by the waist. He instantly
shook her off, but she again seized him, when he threatened
to give her into custody, and she went away. He was
then accosted by a man, who asked what was the matter,
and finding at the moment that his pocket-book and purse
were gone, he answered, "You rascal, you know what's
the matter," and the man ran away. Mr. Webster pursued
him for about twenty or thirty yards, and lost sight of him ;
when he immediately gave information at the police office.
From the description given of the woman, the prisoner was
captured in Threadneedle-street, where she and others were
in a state of drunkenness. Mr. Webster's loss was four
£lO and four £5 notes, and most of the remainder in gold.
The prisoner was searched at the station, when £3 103. 4d.
in gold and silver was found under her stays. Active
search was also made for the man, whom Mr. Webster
could identify, and who had no doubt. receieed the money,
but no trace of hiss could be found. The female prisoner
was committed for to ial et the assizes.

THE LATE DIVISIOg ON THE BALLOT.—A document on
this subject, issued by the Ballot Society, slys : —The late
division on the Ballot shows the greatest numbes of votes
ever recorded in favour of the motion. The division in
which the next largest number voted for the motion was
on the 18th of June, 1839, when the total numbers were,
ayes, 216; noes, 393; majority against the motion, 117.
It will be observed that the late division shows a diminu-
tion in the number of our opponents, and of their majority
azainst the measure. There voted in the majority 77
Whigs, Peelites, and Liberals, and 210 Conservatives.
The ascertained friends of the Ballot in the present
Parliament are 232; therefore, even if it be assumed that
the 50 Liberal absentees are opposed to the Ballot, there
is a majority in the Liberal party of 105 in favour of
the meisure. Eleven members of the administration
and of the royal household voted or paired in the majority,
viz., Lord Palmerston, Lord E. Bruce. Mr. Hayter,
Mr. 11. A. Herbert, Mr. Labouchare, Sir G. C. Levis,
Mr. R. Lowe, Vi-count Sandon, Mr. R. Vernon Smith,
Sir Charles Wood, and Mr. R. W. Grey. Fourteen
members of the Administratiol and household voted in the
minority—viz., Sir R. Bethel', Mr, E. P. Bouverie,
Viscount Duncan, Mr. C. S. Fortescue, Sir Benjamin
Hall, Sir H. S. Keating, Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, Eon
Mulgrave, Mr. Massey, Mr. Mousell, Mr. Osborne,
Lord A. Paget, Sir John Ramsden. In the majority,
the following twelve members voted or paired, who
were neutral in the last Parliament—viz, Lord Robert
Grosvenor, Colonel llerbert, Mr. R. W. Grey, Mr.
R. Lowe, Mr. C. Fitzwilliarn, Viscount Milton, Lord
Haddo, Sir J. Matheson, Mr. I. Steel, Lord A. V.
Tempest, Mr. G. Tomline, and Mr. J. A. Wise. Mr.
Crawshaw Bailey, Mr. Monsell, and Earl Mulgrave, who,
in the last Parliament, votes against the motion, in the
last division voted for it. Mr, Ridley also voted for the
motion, having previouly been neutral. Sir Harry Verney,
who, when previously in Parliament voted for the motion,
in the last division voted against it. Lord Stanley
continues neutral, If all the absentees amongst the
Liberals and friends of the ballot had been present, and
voted for the motion, and all the absentees amongst the
Conservativa and apponents of the ballot had been present
and voted against the motion, the majority would have
been ninety.