Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-23 00:00:00

COUNTY COURT.

Yest-rday M. Blair, the newly-chosen j.sege of Ibis
court. to k his seat on the hEn_h, F nd disp,sed s. f a number
of cases, none of which, however, presents d eny features of
public interest. In the course of the day, however, h,
slid he had received 1y p.,st an anonymous letter, referring
to the decision he had given in a case of salvage a few days
Eirce. lie said that no, person had a right to address him
p irately rr ano :ymonsl7. If they hul any fault to find
with his decisior s they should do it openly. But he would
tell the rarer, whoever be might he, that, as the letter was
anenymous,he should treat it with the c Attempt it deserved;
but if be could find out who wruteit he would endeavour
to have iim punished for such a contempt of court. Ile
hoped, hews ver,tbat such a course would never be repeated
again. The co n't then adjourned.

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MUTH Or A CARDINAL —k letter from Rome, rf the
12'h instant, z nnounc,s ;hat Curdinal FrlociseJ de Medici
W 413 struck with cp Tim the preceding everinz, and
died in a short time, hating previously received the last
sec emeut. The cardinal was limn at Nli'es the 28'h
November, 1808, and received the purple on the 16. h June,
1856.

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POLICE -114:lELLIGENCE-YXSTIRDIY.

LIVERPOOL.

ItEPaßli Mg. MANSFIELD.

A PSIAS.IIER -.—Mary Lennon, an unfortunate female, was
Charged with having' broken a square of glass, value-
£2 65., In the shop window of Mr. Lowe& public house,.
Argyle street. About five o'clock in the morning, the gill
went into the shop and asked for some drink, which stie
was refused, and then she went into the street and smashed
the glass. She was sent to gaol for two months, in default
of paying the amount of damage.
FtarsLs BURGIAR.B.—Two females, named Bridget
Devitt, and Catherine Costello, were charged with having
br ken into s cellar (a dwelling) in Duko-street, and stolen
a quantity of wearing apparel, belonging to the occupant,
a man named Patrick Brannan. It appeared that about
three in the morning a police officer got the prisoners
leaving the cellar with a bag containirg wearing apparel
belonging to the prosecutor. It appeared also that the
prisoners entered the place by breaking through the
window. It wask stated that the prisoners, although
rather young-looking, were old burglars, and were formerly
convicted cf such offences, They were sent for trial at the
ass;zes.

BIMODB Mrssrts 'CROSTRW4ITR AND SHIM.

Mr. Tyndall appeared on behal of the Beard of Trade,
to prosecute Lewis Jones, the master of a ship called the
Irena, for having employed an unlicersed person to ship
seamen for him. The case was brought under the 147th
section of the Shipping Act. Mr. Snowball was for the
defendant, and proved that his c ient was the person who
engaged the men, and that he was entitled to do so by the
act. In fact, the witne swh cams forward to support the
prosecution, clearly proved thie, and the case wasdismissed.
There were then five charges brought against James W.
Gordon, of 1, Duke-street, for having acted as a shipping
master, without a license. In these cases it was proved
that Mr. Gordan had not acted, and the charges were
di ,miste d

CORONER'S COURT-YESTERDAY.

The Coroner proceeded yesterday with the inquest on
the body of the chill named Fredari.'k Fendle, four weeks
old When th.e inquest was opened, Mr. Whittle, a surgeon,
said the child was brought to him on Friday evening last
in a comatose state, and evidently labouring under the
it fluence of some narcotic. The child was eelica.e and
died. On a post mortem examination of the b xly, he found
congestion of the brain to be the cause of death, and be
believed this had been caused by medicine that was given
to the child. Mr. Erwin Taylor, who gave the medicine
to the child, was examine', but, previously, he was,given
the usual caution. He said he w a a ehymist, and had a
shop in Richmond-row. The mother of the child brought
it to the shop on Friday last, and a'ked for something to
allay the griping pain in the child's bowels He gave her
an ounce of a mixture which he had already made up for
su.th ailment. He put a label on be bottle, with directions
that a teaspoonful should be given for a dcse. The mixture
was made of calcined magnesia, half an ounce ; of powdered
rhubarb, one drachm ; paregoric elixer, two cunces ; spirit
of nitre, one ounce ; trettee, four (sums ; spirit of sal vola-
tile, one ounce •, water, one pint. About from one eighty
to one hundred part of a grain of opium would be
contained in a teaspoonful of the mixture. The paregoric
wan, so far as he knew, prepared according to the London
Pharmacopeia. The child's mother said she measured
half a teaspoonful as well as she could. Mr Taybr, in
reply to the jury, said ha kept the mixture in a bottle
chiefly for his own family, and not for the purpose of sale,
and dii not retail it out generally. Dr. J. B. Eiwards.
lecturer on chemistry, said he received from the beadle of
the court a bottle containing five fluid drachms, and on
examination he found the presenc- of morphia and nar-
cotic acid, two cf the constituent parts of opium, but in
very small quantities If the mixture contained half a
drachm of paregoric, the quantity of opium under analysis
would not exceed one-ninth of a wain, corresponding to.
ope-ninety of a grain of morphia, and one hundred and
eighty of a grain of narcotic ac:d There were three fluid
drachms of the mixture missiug, which would contain in
like proportion one-fifteenth of a grain of opium, equal to
one one-five hundred and fifty of a grain of morphia,
and one-three hundred of a grain of narcotic
ad I. The smallest f teal dose on record was one-
twelfth of a grain of opium, which was given to a
child two days old ; bat the action of opium on young
infants was extremely uncertain. To the Court : He
considered the practice of chemists prescribing opium, in
any "quantity or shape, to young infants, injurious and
much to be condemned The coroner then charged the
jury, summing up, very carefully, the evidence, and pointed
out the difference between a verdict of " Chance medley,''
which was not punishable, and other ver het& The jury
returned a verdict of " Chance Medley.' ag sine the druggist
and the mother of the child and condemned the practice -
of druggists prescribing medicine at all.
THs BOILER EXP,LOSION IN REOCNT BTRI4T.—The next
inquest was held on the body 6f William Golding, an
engineer, 25 years of age, who was killed on Tuesday
evening, in Regent-street. by the explosien cf a boiler, at
the steam-mills of Mr. Hull, in tha• street. Ralph Boa.
thorne, a. miller, was examined, and the amount of his
evidence was that he saw the deceased, a short time before
the explosion, at the door of the boiler.honse. There was
an eng'neer for the night, the deceased being the day
engineer. The deceased had some drink at the time.
Heard the explosion, and se w bricks, smoke, and steam flying
about. Saw the foot of deceased protruding from a heap
of bricks, which were cleared away, and the body of the
deceased got out ; his face and body were scorched, and
he was quite dead. It was the duty of the engineer to
supply the boiler with water. The engines and boiler
were examined on Sunday last by Mr. Moore's men, who
made the boiler, and no fault was found with them He
had known the deceased to be in liver, but very seldom,
but could not say the employer knew it. John Tempest.,
a mill p.cker, was next examined : He said she deceased
was in liquor, but knew what he was doing. The evidence
of this witness was chiefly corroborative of the other
witness. Mr. William Hull was examined, and the sub-
stance of his evidence was, that the engine was 14 home •
power; but the boiler was for 30. The deceased was in his
employment for five years, and was a practical engineer,
and his only duty was to teed the engine. The water was
supplied to the boiler by force-pump, wi h conducting
pipes. If a man only took care of what be was about, he
m•ght set the water on so that he need not go near it
durirg the day. There was an index at the point of the
boiler to indicate the sties of the water. The boiler
was made by Mr. S. Abort), of Mdl-street, and
was examined by his men on Sunday last, who
reported it to be in first rate order. He was of
opinion that deceasel let she water run too low, and then
turned it on too suddenly. The deceased was five or six
years in his father's employment, and he considered him a
steady man ; he heard once that he was tipsy, but he never
allowed a drunken man on his premises. Thinks the
plates of the boiler would have borne a great deal more
pressure than was on it— it would. bear 801 be., but it was
never worked beyond 40,bs. Joseph Bradbury, a man in
Mr. Moore's emp'oyment, said the boiler was made about
five years ago. He examined it on Sunday last, and
found it in an excellent state. Thi.3 w tness gave it as
his opinion, that the explosion took place in consequence
of the rush of water let into the boiler, which would make
it go off like a gun Mr. Samuel Baker, an engineer and
boiler-maker, was examined as to his opinion of the explo-
sion, and he gave it as his decided opinion that it took
place in consequence of the water being let in so flush—
had the boiler burst from pressure, it would have been in
a different place from thetrwhere it did buret. He c Ju-
ddered the boiler a very goad one. David Hugginson, the
night engineer at the premises, was examined, and said
he left the engine well on Tuesday morning The Jury
said they had t ufficient avid: nee to found a verdict, and
they found that " the death of deceased was caused by the
explosion of the boiler, the said explosion being the rectal
of his own neglect."

LIVERPOOL BANK RUPTCY COUIIT.-YEITERD iL

BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER STEVENSON.
in re J °RN I LOYD.—The bankrupt, cattle salesman
of Prynselwn, in North Wales, came up this day on his
last examination. Mr. Evans, for the assignees, offered
no opposition, and he accordingly passed, and the certifi-
cate meeting wai flue I for the 19th November.
In re ThortEr. Dorrox.—The bankrupt's last exami-
nation was adjourned to the same day for amendment of
the balance sheet.

In re HUGE! MArit +v.—The bukrupt nine up on
Monday before Mr. Coramlssioner Perry, on application
for his certificate, and received a certificate of thJ first
class.

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Ages of Six o Twuty Years.

The Cortes of Spain convoked for the 301 instant will
not assemble till the 30th December.
ANOTHEI DIiPUTE AT I'ILIP.,LIL-*--The last accounts from
Tripoli state that the English consul had caused to be
posted up en order from C-nstantinople, allow ng the
export of cattle. The gover..ment of the Bey, however,
refuses to obey this order in ot,n4rcrience of the scarcity
occasioned by the epizootic disease anal the wants of th
country.

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