Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

DR. 800 NI ON COMPErIrIVE EXAMINATIONS.

At Manchester, Dr.. Booth, well known. in this town,
has delivered a lecture on this subject. The- Lard Bishop
of the Diocese in the chair. After some introluctorr
proceedings, the aev. Dr. Booth proceeded to read his
paper, which occupied mare than an, hour in delivery,.
and in the coarse of which he reviewed the whole systeca
of competitive examinations, in its educational, social,
administrative, and political aspsets,. observiae that in
itself there was actually nettling new. since it was a mere
extension to the masses of a system avaich had been tried
in the Universities with sigeal success. The great
cardinal principle of,this system of. examination, sail the
rev. doctor, considered as an instrument of education, is
to be found iu this—that it snpplies new eel powerful
principles of action. You holdout to hits who toils is
solitude and weeks in secret, a hope,. Una a certainty,
that he sha 1 be rewarded for ht.slabourse—that his attain -
ments shall be tested, certified, and proclaimed. It is in
every-day use for the sons of the nobleman or the squire
why should net the son of the jaiaer or-the weaver have a
like advantage?: Genius is. no. heirloam. and intellect
does not descend like a patent of nob:ally. The Almighty
retains in his own hands-, the • privilege of conferring
the dignity, of the understanding,. and he delegates
his power to ne mortal,. representative. What induce-
ments do we hold out tae wbe4has to fight the hard
up-hill battle of life, to pore over books, or to fiien from
sleep the few hours he, can sparefor the development of
those talents which have beta. given into his charge,
those faculties with which he hue. been as llherally en_
dewed as the prince or the peer.? He may become a
prof-owed mathematician. as.reany a Lancashire weaver
before him • has been, but who. ewes or knows anything
about it, or believes it to.be other than pretence ? He
may. become a great chemist,;: who is to test his know-
ledge 2.. The pure gold. passes for base metal because
there is no recognised authority to stamp it with the
image and superscription. that would make it current.
There are, I doubt not,, many bare to-night who sympa-
thise, aye, deeply sympathise, with those to whom I refer,
and one of the.healthest sigas of the moral reaction which
:!has set in, is that wide.spreading, consciousness of our
common humanity, our growing perception of the grea t
moral and eternal truth,that whether of iron or of gold,
we are all alike links. of that great chain which binds the
future to thelaresent, and the past. The reverend doctor
was freojiautly and. warnely applauded, in the course of
his interesting leettre. _ _ _

Sir James NVatts-zzioveil a vote of thanks to Dr. Booth,.
for his. able, interesting, and useful address, which was
seconded by J. A. Turner, Esq., M.P.
The Lord Bishop. of Mancnester, in supporting the
resolution, said he regretted to hear one rem irk of Dr.
Booth; for he (the Bishop) hoped t'.-ere was no prospect
that. the Rouse of ersconsons would ever show itself indif-
ferent on the subject of education. 113 would, through
the meeting, tell the people of Manchester that it was
their duty not to suffer it to 13-.•,,th,V, as the II ,use of
Commons was but the refl v of puhle opinion in this
country, so it was our duty to. deterrniae, with God's.
blessing, that those around and amongst us—lay, that
even the poorest in our furthest dependency shoald,not
pass away uneducated in the-knowledge of the I.tatics he_
owed to his Gil and to his fellovv-.nn. 11,ferrifi to,the
educational question, his lordship sail that it was with
deep gratitude he lea,nal that at the inee'Zing or> the:
National Association, in Biraninghttn, last writ,lc, evidence
was affirded that the system:of education w ',filch, eighteen,
yeas ago, he establisher there, was still 'foarishing with
complete success, tna% now, as then, 1,43 a children, or
twelve iretiolcinations.4.rellgicon, could tri,et together to,
gain useful knowiedg,e, without a sip ,le contest or con-,
troversy of any kind. The Tote of ,;bank; to De. B.ialh
was carried unani:APaslY, a).4 was, briefly acluitswidged..

THE LIVERPOOL 'CTE.R9AVICLE AND THE
ILY-Y-INGrON.

or error, or whatever it w Ives intended on the part
of the Editor, or any one cGnnec ed with that respectable
meaning. What we oovionsly meant was,
that some cor
respondent may have sent the paragraph with. a view to
mislead, because it was difficult to aectoutit !or a statement
for correcting the
which seems to )
Our Liverpool c Foy
o- nporaty is " unco writh" with us
announced that the f
the. Mersey. n ; ~uuken ship Lexin,ton had arrived in
s' lipid blunder in his pap !r, wilioh
--e, ..3 quite welcome to indulge his ire,
fact which he a,
.:knowle iges of one of his local cotem-
poraries havin lave been considerably raised by the
g copied the contradiction. But that shall
not hinder or.ir explaining a phrase in the paragraph.
which he seusas to have misunderstood. When we wrote,
" if it was a wilful hoax it was a c,ual and heartless one,'`
we did no', suppose, or mesa i.) convey, that the hoax
journal, anti ho or they snould nut have so as.suawd our
&really the reverse of the truth Galling its way into print
otherwise—Cork Reporter.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-YZSTERDIL

LIVERPOOL.
BEr IfANSFIELD,

A PAW RICRIIIT.— James Bamfiel4, a fellow, judging
from his appearance—his very wicked appearance—who
would, if before Delhi, demolish half.a-dozen &wpm was
charged with having asesulted officers No. 6'70 and 545.
It appeared that, at 4 o'clodk she previous evoniog, the
prisoner was at Tsliegt,n barracks, where he was creating
a disturbance. He was drunk at the time, and officer 670
wanted him to g 3 away, but instead of taking the advice,
be gave him a kick on the shin, that nearly broke it, and
ten struck him. He tuck him into custody, when he
kicked him severely; the other officer came up when the
prisoner 'Meg Itre,elf on his back and gave him a kick in
the eye. The prisoner seid i hat h e was a raw recruit, and
went to the b trrack to get his days' pay, hut instead of
that, the sergeant kicked him out Officer 670, said the
prisoner created such a row inside that he was put out,
and he would have alletv.:d him to go away, but he would
not The prisoner was sent to gaol for two months in
default of payi g £2 fine for the assault.
CAUTION TO PAR.S.)NI3 MK:I-URGING FIRS ARMS IN VIE
STREETS. —A man named Tnomes Boling, d'secibed as
workir g at the ges works, was charged by police officer,
765, who said he saw hire ran out of a public house in
Padding'rn. and di charge a pistol (p-educed it) in the
street. There was a genii-man passing with a gig, and the
horse took fight at the discharge and etartei off; fortun-
ately, however, there was no harm done, as the horse was
caught. The prisoner was drunk at the time. Mr
Alan,fiel I said, " there has been several complaints made
to me, by the inhabitants of the town, of the danger and
nuisance arising fermi the discharge of fire arms in the
streets, which prec ice it seems is much on the increase
I ale resolved to put a step to such a dangerous and repre
hensab e prac ice, and I now state, that in every case of
the so: t brought before me, I shall inflict s severe pettish-
merit,. I fine the prise-ter 203 and cysts, or in default of
payment, two months' imprisonment I trust the
Reporters of the Press will gave these observations
pablicits in their several piper!, so as to caution and warn
the public against the practice of discharging arms in the
streets."

" FOR LOVE KNOCK MD 11131 DIIVS."-C)C130?i!lg Shea,
was charge-I with kav ng broken the arm of Martin
Mit-chf-11 The parties are what the police call renovators;
that is, mend,.rs of old shoes, and reside in cella s in
Scotland Roa.l. Thev had, according to the sorry of
cotnp!ainant, some difference, and " one ward brougit on
another," and at lard the prisoner—out of pare affection, of
course— kn-)cked him down; and when he g)t up he found
his arm broken, He did not thlnk there was aay harm at
all on the part of the prisoner. The prisoner reiterated
this Fratement, and was discharged.

WONDCRPUL E,TECTI3 or SOIfffAMBULIPM.—A. decent
looking young man. named George Jones, was charged by
officers 277 and 673, under the Lelowing circumstances :
Officer 277 said he was on duty at half-past tee o'clock the
previous night, in Dalrymple-street, when he observed the
prisoner lying asleep on the flag., and two big dogs, one at
each side, as it were keeping guard over hint. Just as he
came up the wife of the prisoner also came up, and
attempted to get him hum. Witness assisted her for that
purpose, when the prisoner gave him a severe blow in the
chest, and at the same time c ne of the dogs canght him by
the leg and bit him severely. The otter officer then came
up and laid hands on the erisoner, when the secoed dog
seized him by the leg, teeing a good bite out of the limb
The prisoner assaulted both officers, and it tole several
men to remove him to the sta ion. The prisoner, in reply to
the charge, said he knew nothing whatever of what took
place, as he was aeleep all the time. When he beta' e
conscieus he found himself in a cell lint ea lof his bed. He
was tined £2, cr, in default of payment, two months' lat.
pri eorm er t.
A FREAK OF Two °Thetell'Cß Lessee"—Two far speci-
mens of the famous " Limerick lasses," named Catherine
Barry and Ellen Fitzgibbon, were brought up charged by
James Barry, with having stolen £4O from him at Drom
cologher, county Limerick The prosecutor said ho was
uncle to the trienner, Barry, the other prisoner being a
neighbour On Friday last, the two prisoners left the
Railway Sta,ion at Cherleville, having previous'y br-ken
open the hex of the prosecutor, and stolen .E4O out, of it
He followed and arrested them in town, and discovered
that they had paid £l4 each for their passage ta Australia,
in a ship esl!ed the Chancel, r, anal he also got £8 odd in
money. The prisoners had picked up with a couple of
4. stumps of b 055," who happened to be going in the same
sh'p, but the la ter knew nothi- g of the forty pounds affair.
The girls were sent back to Limerick
STZALIvG FOUND THE. "Hoerr." —Petrick M‘D•mald,
lnmper, was charged with having et len 6 cwt. of buffalo
hems, value shout O. from Caetain Sheridan of the ship
Hercyna M. Fn .wb dl defended the p-is nitre It
appeared that the ptieener agreed to take away the ballast,
he , from the sh,p, the remuneration to be the " stuff"
itself. The cargo consisted of h elle, and the Cap ain
gees strict riders that note should be taken out in the
rub',l,ll. It was, hewever, discovered, that 'he prisoner
c sweived to tar: out the quantity mentioned and sell it
to a marine stole dealer for 7-. 61 a hundred weight
The prisoner was sent for triel at the Sessions.

BIRKENHEAD.
DTFORE J. S. JACKSON, rsQ.

Edward Jones, a labourer, residing at Childer-Thornton,
was cha-ged with stealing £4 lOs in geld and a crucifix,
the property of Stephen Rice. It appeared from the
statement of the prosecutor, that the prisoner and himself
were fellow-ledgers at the house of Ann Prince, at
Childer-Thornton, that on the night of Thursday last
he went to bed, having firs hung his trousers on one of
the bed rails of his bedstead, in the pocke's of which was
the money and crucifix mentioned; the prisoner slept in
the same room, but he was asleep when he came to bed.
He (prosecutcr) got up in the morning and proceeded to
his work, but did net nue. his rooaev until he knocked off
that evening, and as the prisoner 'did not, return to his
lodgings he gave information to the police, and the
prisoner ty33 apprehended on Monday. When sea-ched,
he had but lie. Bd. in money upon him. A witness,
however, named Griffith., employed at the Sutton Station
tavern, gave evidence to the effect that on the morning
of the robbery the prisoner ceme to him and purchased
his watch for ss. Gi , and afterwards treated a great
number of perons in the tap-room. He was seen to
change a sovereign, and also to exhibit three others,
saying at the time, ht ass not short of money. From
there le 'me traced to Chester, having pile by the
railway, and back egain on the following Sunday evening,
when be wes apprehended. The pris rner denied having
taken the money, but could only account for 304., which
he said he had awed up He was, however, known to
have been very " hard up"
,lust previous to the committal
of the offence. Cornmi.ted f,r

ROBBING Lonotsos.—Ann Yates and Thomas Jacobs,
who have been c-habiting trgether s man and wife, were
charged wi h robbing their lodging .—Mrs. McMurray,
who lives at No 15, Chapel-str, et, and lets lodgings,
stated that about six weeks Aga the prisoners came to
lodge at her hcuse, and on Thursday last they went out,
locking the door and taking the key with them. Not re-
turning, her suspicions were aroused, and on Sunday she
looked th-ough the window of their room and saw that the
bed had been stripped of everythieg. Having got a
policeman she with him went in search of the prisoners
and found them beging in Watson-street, and there found
one of the missing pillows; and upon farther inquiry,
found all the other articles had teen pledged in the town
by the Pone° prisoner The pawnbrokers produced the
property, and identified the woman es the person who had
pledg.d them.— Col.niNed for trig! at the Sessions.
AN OLD OFF7NDICR rICKED" VT.—John Regan, who
had been in custody en several previous occasions, and who
was tried br felony at the Kutebford sessions, no later
than April last, was charged with stealing a "pick" from
the works of Messrs. Thompson, at the Great Float Dock.
Polize-officer Graham, of the BLlcenhead police, doing
duty at the wellv, stated th,t between four and five o'clock
yesterday af:ertioon, while on dory, he s icv the prisoner
and another man come from behind some ballast waggot s,
and suspecting that they wtre up to no good, he concealed
himself until they got near to where was, 'when he caught
the prig over, Who had the pick EO as to have the handle
perpendicular with his arm, and the iron part of it con-
cealel as well as he could by his hand and jacket
Upon asking the pisoner what business he had with the
pick, he said he was ving to d:g up some worms with it
to ti•h with in the doi-tks; but as there happened to be no
water in the docka to fiih in, he (Graham) took him into
custody. Upon examining the pick. he found it branded,
• G-. T. & C 0.," which he knew to be the brand of Messrs
Thompson. Wiliam Smith, in the em ploy of Messrs.
Thompson, fully identified the pit .k and added that a great
number of tools of tat dascrip7too were being con zinually
s olen from the wo ks. Committed for trial. _

A DRUNKCS Wire.—Cl;i7ti;naP;;;;s charged w:th
b,-irg chunk and d'Acrderly, breaking the windows of her
husband's house, and us;ng each vi lent threats as to put
him in fear cf his life. Joseth Pri:e, the unfortunate
partner, said that last evening, he Lund his wife drunk at
honie, and no sooner had he got into the house thin she
begat abusing h7m in a most violent manner, and struck
him several times; she then bcg4n to wreak her vengeance
non her children, when he sot tLf in away, and topic them
to his br ther's home for safety. While be was gone, the
pri,oner sm ,shei the v‘indowe. lie was never safe, and
he feared some day, when in a drunken state, there would
be murder in the house. He had done all he could t 3
reclaim her No longer ago than the Ist instant she had
to appear on a summons ha had taken out against her
for as anhing him, but upon fai,hfully promising
to abstain from intoxic.Aing drinks, he forgave her, and
she signed a paper which he held in his hand, to that

effect, in the presence of two witnesses. The promise,
however, was -soon broken, for she was as bad as ever in
two or three days after. The lives of himself and children
had been a perfect misery. If she was only to stay away,
he was quite willing to give her sufficient to keep her
comfortable. He had be_n compelled to Famtun her in
the month of February last, and she then went to Ches'er
Castle for three calendar months in default of finding
sureties for her good behaviour. Police-office Murray
confrtied his statement so far as to the dicurtance, and
said that when he gat to the house, there were 200 or 300
persons around it; her =duct was outrageous, and the
children screamed violently. Mr. Superintendent Birnie
having spoken as to the h.tvbaad being a hard-working,
sober, steady man, the worthy magistrate addressed the
prisoner, and said it was most abominable to see a woman
like her, who had every opportunity of being comfortable
with her husband and femily, conducting herself in the
manner she had. The husband and children must be
protected, and as the three months she h3l previously
undergone did not seem to have any effe6-, upon her, she
must now find sureties for double that period, or be com-
mitted to Chester Castle f)r six calendar months.