Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-18 00:00:00

HOW THE POOR Age ROBBED AND IMPOSED

UPON.

Yesterday, several complaints were laid by the inspec-
tors of provisions, against tradesmen calling themselves I
respectable—for, as Mr. S. Hohue, the presiding magis-
trate said, wilfully robbing the poor, and putting the
money into their own pockets, and beyond that, endan-
gering the lives of the inhabitants, by promulgating
disease, and causing death. The first case was against
Samuel Walker, of St. James's-street, fishmonger, for
exhibiting for ,ale a large quantity of putrid fish, perfectly
u:.fit for human food. The ease having been clearly
proved by Inspector Tyrrell, he was fined lOs and costs.
There was a second charge against the same def ndant,
for exhibiting for sale four rabbits, unfit for human food.
This was proved by Inspector Lloyd, and a fine of 103
and costs was imposed. The defence was, that Mr.
1 Walker was unwell, and that the offence was committed
by his servants. John Wilkinson, a butcher, of Bronte-
street, was also summoned far having sold a carcase of
slunk mqtton stuffed, to make it appear equal to good
meat, so as to increase its value about d. or ld. par lb.
Thera was another case of the same nature proved against
the defendant, in wuich he had exposed six carcases of
mutton for silo in Trowbridge-street, and stated that they
could have fount thirty similar cases, if they had sunt-
anned. The Bench expressed their regret, that men were
so ingenious in trying to get a dishonest living, when by
using the same skill in trying to gain an honest one, they
would not have BD much trouble, and would stand higher
in the estimation of the public. The defendant was fined
20s. and costs in each case, and cautioned as to the future;
for if he was again summoned, he would be most severely
punished, as they were determined to protect the poor
against such imposition.

COUNTY COURT-YESTERDAY.

BEFORE J. K. BLAIR, RSQ , JUDGE.

INTERESTING TO CAPTAINS AND STEWARDS.—ALEXA,NDRE
v. NICIIOLSON —This was an action to recover £5 wages
under the following circumstances :—The plaintiff; Johanna
Alexandre, is a Frenchman, and in October last he was
engaged by a shipping master of this p rt, named Nichols,
to sail as steward, in the ship Amos Lawrence, from
Liverpool to Calcutta and back ; the wages to be ,E 5 per
month, and the services to commence immediately, although
the ship had onlyjust arrived, and had not got into dock.
It was also agreed, however, that should the vessel not
suit, the plaintiff should be at liberty to leave her, and to
charge for the time he was employed on board. The
plaintiff accordingly went on board, and continued to dis-
charge the duties of steward while the vessel was discharg-
ing in the Queen's dock, which occupied twenty days. At
the eLd of that time he told the captain that he should
leave, as he thought the voyage to Calcutta too long a one,
at the same time demanding a months' wages.
For the defence it was alleged that the (sr gagement was at
the usual rate of the wags of the port, £4 pe: month, and
that the agreement was tor the whole voyage to Calcutta
and back. It was also urged that the services of a
steward were not of any value while the vessel was in
dock, and that as the plaintiff had not signed the articles
he had no claim. His Honour considered there was a
second argument in the case, and gave a verdict for the
plaintiff for £4. Mr. Goodere appeared for the plaintiff,
and 111 r. Rime for the defendant.

CHILD MURDER AT STAFFORD.

SUICIDE OF AN ACCOMPLICE.

On Friday, a young woman, named Benton, was
committed by the Stafford Coroner, for concealing the
birth of her new born child, at the house of a gentleman
named Webb. Benton implicated the groom, Benbow,
who, she alleged, was the father of the child. Benbow has
not been married more than two mouths, his wife being a
respectable young woman cf the neighboarhool. He was
asked to hold the horse of the surgeon examined at the
it.qaest ; bat it was ascertained that he had soon after
given the horse into the charge of another servant, saying
that he was going to his own house for his cat. Two or
three hours having elapsed without his making his
appearance, a tnesseager was sent to his house to make
ince:irks for him, when his wife stated that he came in for
his coat about two hours before, want upstairs, and then
left the house, saying a stir was being made at his master's
• about Ellen's child. Nothing further was seen or heard
of him until Eundu morning, about nine o'clock,
when a labouring man in the service of Mr. Sandy, had
occasion to go into a field cf his master's near a plantation
at Rowley, a'.out a qnarter of a mite from the town, nod
on getting on:scrne rails round a hay rick, he observed a man's
hat lying on the ground in the plantation. He immediately
crossed the fence, and withia a yard of the hat, he saw
the dead body of a min, partially covered with twig;
and faded leaves. An alarm was given, and the body
was shortly afterwards recognised as that o?' Benbo.v
He was lying on his back, the tight arm bent over the body,
and the left arm thrown straight out; both arms were
firmly clenched, and contained grass and leaves, as if he
had torn them from the earth in his death grasp. A seer
was on the left cheek, ant the face preieuted a fLrid
appearance. In his pekets ware his watch, some silver,
and a few other articles ; and, in a paper, something acid,
which leads to the supposition that his death was the
result of poison. It is concluded that he destroyed him-
self almost immediately after he left his master's house.
The body, which was removed to the police-station, awaits
the coroner's inquisition.

THE EARL OF CARLISLE ON REFORMATORY
SCHOOLS.

On Friday last, the Earl of Carlisle, the lord-lieutenant
of Ireland, presided at a meeting, held in York, of the
supporters of the Castle Howard Reformatory.
Eis Excellency, in the course of his address, said ; The
working of the institution, as far as our experience yet
reaches, has been as satisfactory, sufficient, and successful as
we could have ventured to hope. The material portion
of the uudertaking—the brick and mortar portion—and the
farming operations, have been got under wit! with very little
comparative delay, and with every symptom of working
efficiently. But there is one portion of any such experiment
to which I mast look with more interest than to the
material, or brick and mortar pertioa —I mean the
moral, the human, the flesh and blood portion.
(Applause.) The noble earl then complimented the
superintendent of the school (the Rev. J. Fish).
Among the boys who have already found an asylum
in the establishment, half-a-dozen of them have already
been convicted six or seven times. Now what does a
a matter of mere east —what does the expense of such con-
victions entail upon the country ? I know calculations
differ as to the strict average sum which can be set down
to each conviction ; but six or seven convictions cannot
well have cost the country and the public less than £200;
and after incurring this expense, when the lad comes out
of prison, after his seventh conviction, what sort of lad,
and what sort of character, do you think you have got ?
Why, in the reformatory, at. a very moderate expense to
the country, and a very trifling expense indeed to the
county, you have at least—l cannot say you have the cer-
tainty, but you have the chance of making that lad a
creditable and a u efal member of society. I say
even the direct pecuniary gain is a great deal,
bat the moral pin is above the price of pearls
or of rubies. (Applause.) This reformatory cause,
with its pecuniary effects upon the public purse, with
its social effects upon the security of our streets and
dwellings, with its metaphysical workings on the human
heart, there is hardly a class of sympathies, or a kind of
disposition, which it might not vastly interest and excite.
It might satisfy the wayward cravings of Rousseau, it
might allure the rigid philosophy of Jeremy Bentham ;
'better than either, it might guide the lowly path of the
humble disciple of the gospel. (Applause.) And as, at
the beginning of the brief remarks which I have made, I
alluded to the locality is which the Castle Howard Re-
formatory is placed, I will mention, in bringing my
observations to a conclusion, that its position there, in my
mind, has materially added to the attractions of a resi-
dence not deficient in them, either in point of nature or
of art; and that this reformatory, as it now iises there,
with its quiet white walls, and modest homestead islanded
in woods, seems to me to have imparted an ornament tomy
groves and glades with which even ihe graceful and fan-
ciful genius of Rembrandt has not previously invested them.
(Cheers.)

At LEWIS & C PANY'S, Ranola ghsireet.
BOYS are CLOTHED froOmlf the Ag es of Six to. Twenty Year

TILE INDIAN MAILS.--We have pleasure in stating, ou
belief that arrangements for the departure and arrival of
additimal mails to and from India, via Marseilles, are
completed, and that they will come into operation at the
nninencement of last year. We understand that the (a Ls
of the departures of the extra mails will ba from Loarlou
on the 2nd and 17th, and from Marseilles on the 4th and
19th of each month. The first extra mail from India is
expected to reach Marseilles on or about the 20th of Janu-
arc, 1858, and the next extra mail on or about the 4th of
February faowing. Our readers will observe, that,
under this arrangement, we shall receive news from Cal-
cutta four times during each month, and twice from Bom-
biy, instead of twice from each Pfesideueb as at: present.—
Homeward Mail.

At LEWIS & rOMPANY'S, Ranelagh.street.
BOYS are CLO J UID from the Ages of Six to Twenty yeam,