The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDA RD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER

THE EMIGRANT SHIP ANNIE JANE

LAST week we gave publicity to a communication con-
cerning some allegations, advanced in a highly-respectable
Scottish newspaper, relative to a seeming carelessness, if
not culpability, on the part of our local authorities in con-
nexion with the Annie Jane, whose unfortunate loss
recently caused so heavy a sacrifice of human life. We are
glad to find that the allegations are unfounded; that, in
point of fact, so soon as the complaint was made inquiry took
place ; and furthermore, that the complaint did not in any
form impet:ch the seeming safety of the vessel.
In the communication referred to the writer glanced at
the probability of the calamitous event being converted
into charges against the character of Liverpool as a port
of emigration, and pointed out the expediency, or rather
the necessity of having the cirunistances investigated and
the allegations confuted. His conjecture seems in course
of being realized. Some of the less scrupulous of the Glas-
gow newspapers have been doing their best to convert the
allegation referred to into trading capital for their own
city as a port of emigration. One of these journals, the
Glasgow Examiner—whose influence, happily, is so truly
estimated, that the character of any community is likely to
sustain but small injury from its attacks—has been making
considerable stir about the unfortunate event. In its
columns we find the charge alluded to by our correspondent
reiterated with bitter pertinacity. Fortunately, however,
for the ends of justice, it furnishes not only the allegation,
but the grounds on which that allegation rests. From
these we learn that the complaints made by the passengers
of the Annie Jane, on her return to port after the first
of her disasters, were in reality investigated, and a report
(from memory) of that investigation is given in the journal
referred to, signed by William Hendrie and James Turner,
Lwo of the passengers who left the ship. The Glasgow
Examiner, more virulent, or less cautious than the Herald,
gives also the petition presented to the Mayor of Liverpool;
it is signed by not less than eighty-one of the returned
passengers. Neither of those documents, in even the most
distant hint, convey a suspicion that the vessel was unsea-
worthy; while both are pointed and loud in complaints as
to short supplies of the provisions served out to the passen-
gers, in breach, as they say, of a contract between them
and the owner.

Scant provender, if endured, is a form of suffering no
doubt exceedingly hard to bear, and one which, on a pro-
tracted voyage, would prove dangerous as well as disagree-
able ; but it is one over which the municipal authorities of
Liverpool, like those of other ports, have no controul.
The duty of ascertaining adequacy in such furnishings, as
well as otherwise securing the comfort and safety of emi-
grants, devolves upon an officer of Government, with
whose appointment or functions the authorities of neither
Liverpool nor Glasgow are entitled or permitted to inter-
fere. So far, then, as the lamentable event can be com-
prehended, under present circumstances, the catastrophe,
sorrowful and fatal though it was, cannot be charged
against the authorities or the community of Liverpool, but
was one of those inscrutable, though deplorable, dispensa-
ons of Providence from which no seafaring population
can be held exempt, and any effort to fix extraneous cul-
pability in connexion with which is not' more ungenerous
than it is flagitious.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

PAPAL AGGRESSION.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—The tenacity of purpose with which the priest-
hood of Rome, from the Pope downwards, has ever sought,
and continues now to seek, in a most marked manner, to
subject the population of every country in which they
can get a footing to mental thraldom to themselves, can
hardly fail to be noticed by every observant mind ; but an
unaccountable apathy to their doings seems to have seized
the bulk of Protestants in this Protestant country. Some
half century ago it was almost a rarity to meet a Catholic
priest ; but now they literally swarm in our streets, and
every effort seems to be made to familiarise the public
with them and their dogmas.

We all recollect the recent visit of Cardinal Wiseman
and his lectures. We have also had Dr. Newman lec-
turing about the Turks ; and we have now that firebrand,
Dr. Cahill, advertising to give lectures ; but the proceeds,
partly accruing from Protestants, are always exclusively
to aid Romish institutions : never, as far as I recollect, in
aid of such institutions as the Dispensaries, Infirmaries,
&c., &c. I would respectfully caution Protestants not to
be carried away by the mere novelty of hearing a Romish
priest lecture to aid them in their endeavours to become
dominant in this free country, and to give any sanction to
them, which an attendance of their lectures would fairly
imply ; for their acting in this way, I make no doubt, is
only part of an organised system of ultimately establishing
an ascendancy in this country. I see the walls placarded
every now and then with announcements of the perform-
ance of High Mass and other superstitious and idolatrous
acts, which used not to be the case • surely they could
circulate the information of these performances in a more
private and less offensive manner among their own com-
munity. .

Political parties are so evenly balanced in Parliament,
that a small knot of priest-made Irish members, acting
under orders from the priests, and firmly banded together,
have most likely inflicted a Puseyite Ministry on the
country; for we have one (as witness the abject and mean
truckling of the Premier to the two or three Romish
members of the Cabinet), and the almost open encourage-
ment of the priests to bluster and become rampant in the
land. The priests are endeavouring to get a footing in
our Town Council. The candidate for Vauxhall Ward (in
his private capacity a worthy man, I believe) is a nominee
ofthe priests. In his address he states that he admires the
present ministry, and is a firm friend of civil and religious
liberty. How can a Roman Catholic with truth say this ?
In countries where the Popish religion is dominant, do
they grant civil and religious liberty ? Is there religious
liberty in Rome, in Tuscany, in Spain, in Aust►ia ? In this
Protestant country there is at present both civil and reli-
gious liberty, and long may these blessings be preserved to
us ; but, except Protestants become more watchful and
vigilant, I fear these blessings may be endangered.
In Protestant countries the priests cry out for civil
and religious liberty, and they get it ; but, in coun-
tries where they are dominant, they do not allow it.
Protestants of all denominations, think seriously of this
state of things. Open your eyes, and endeavour to with-
stand and counteract the secret but determined and ever
active efforts of the Romish priesthood to subject this free
country to subserviency to Rome and its institutions, such
as confession, the inquisition, the abeyance of all religious
freedom of thought and action, and mental subjection to
the priests in things the most sacred and important.
A PROTESTANT DISSENTER.
Liverpool, Oct. 22, 1853.

TOXTETH WARDS.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—In your Friday contemporary, "A Liberal Elector"
is very indignant at there being no opposition to Messrs.
Gregson and Holme. Allow me to enlighten him on the
subject, by telling him that the "Liberals" "know the
reason why ;" and that if he looks backwards into the
annals of elections in Toxteth wards, he will see that in
North Toxteth last year, Mr. Hilton Halhead (Conserva-
tive) defeated Mr. Thomas Lloyd (Radical) ; and that
South ToActh, though there was no contest last year,
there was the year before, when Mr. John Stewart
(Conservative) defeated Mr. E. C. Hindley (Radical) ; in
both cases by overwhelming majorities. The " Liberal
Elector" will thus see that experience of the past prevents
the " Liberals" from contesting these wards.—l am, Sir,
yours, truly,

PITT•STREET WARD.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sra,—A letter, signed " An Elector," appears in Fri-
day's Mercury, insinuating that a number of Reformers
signed Mr. Jeffreys' Requisition, being led to believe it was
Mr. J. R. Jeffery, of Compton-house, who was the candi-
date. As I obtained nearly all the names that were
attached to that Requisition, I demand to know who are
the parties that I deceived, or who were so deceived. Ido
not believe "An Elector's" statement. You will, perhaps,
allow me to say a little with respect to our candidate, Mr.
W. P. Jeffreys, and then I shall leave your readers to
judge whether those Reformers are, or ought to be, as
ignorant as " An Elector" would make them appear.
Mr. W. P. Jeffreys has been a ratepayer in the ward up-
wards of twenty-three years. _

About five years ago, at the general Easter vestry, on
the motion of Mr. John Smith, he was elected an over-
seer of this extensive parish.
He discharged his duties so satisfactorily, that when a
vacancy occurred in the representation of the ward, he
was requested by a number of gentlemen to offer himself
as a candidate. A requisition was got up, and received
the signatures of a large number of electors of all shades
of politics ; and a deputation waited upon Mr. Jeffreys at
his house in Washington-street, accompanied by Mr. John
Smith, who was specially invited, not being an elector of
the ward, but who was connected with the Mercury, and
was a warm admirer of our proceedings. Mr. Jeffreys
accepted the requisition, and was elected unanimously.
His period of office being about expiring, he has been
presented with another requisition, numerously signed by
men of all parties, and by far the most respectable that
ever emanated from Pitt-street Ward.
A tradesman in the ward twenty-three years ; overseer
two years ; councillor three years ; and yet, according to
"An Elector," mistaken by his neighbours for a man
who has no connection with the ward,—and who was
never either councillor or overseer !
David, it won't do !
Mr. John Smith, to whom I have twice alluded, has
come forward as a candidate in opposition to Mr. Jeffreys.
Mr. Smith has lent the use of his name to the men of
enlarged minds—comprehensive views, &c., many of
whom, like Mr. Smith, were supporters of Mr. Jeffreys
three years ago.
In conclusion, Mr. Editor, you need not fear the issue
of the contest. I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
CHARLES CALLIS.
Liverpool, Oct. 24, 1853.

ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMER DISPATCH.—The mail
steamer Dispatch, Capt. Babot, from St. Helier, Jersey, to
Southampton, on Monday, last week, encountered a severe
storm. When off the Corbiere, her main shaft broke, and
two eccentric rods snapped, rendering her machinery un-
available. In setting the main-sail, the peak halyard
block broke ; and when it was replaced the halyard
broke. Captain Babot then let go the anchors. She
was soon taken in tow, and after great hazard was
safely harboured. The passengers were in a state of in-
tense terror, many of them kneeling and praying.

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH SESSIONS.

THE Liverpool October Sessions opened yesterday, at
St. George's Hall, before GILDERT HENDERSON, Esq.,
Recorder. There were, according to the calendar, 70
prisoners for trial, 63 of these being charged with felony,
and 7 with misdemeanor. Not one of the prisoners was
put down as having received a superior education ; 3 could
read and write well ; 31 could read and write imperfectly ;
11 could read, but not write; and 35 could neither read
nor write.

The court having been opened with the usual formali-
ties, the following gentlemen were sworn on

THE GRAND JURY

Walter Fergus Macgregor, ironfounder, • Vauxhall-road,
foreman.
W. Bowman, merchant, Fenwick-street.
Adam Fairrie, sugar refiner, North John-street.
John Golding, Jun., sharebroker, Exchange-street East.
John Thos. Leyland, merchant, Exchange-street East.
Charles Moore, merchant, Rumford-street.
Wm. John Marrow, merchant, Brunswick-street.

Jacques Myers, broker, Exchange-street West.
Wm. Macfie, sugar refiner, Temple-street.
Samuel M`Gill, merchant, Brunswick-street.
Robert Procter, broker, Brunswick-street.
Alfred W. Powles, merchant, Water-street.
Jabez R.aynes, broker, Exchange-alley North.
Alexander Shand, merchant, Old Churchyard.
Archibald Sinclair, merchant, Chapel-street.
George Scholfield, merchant, Exchange-alley North.
Wm. John Tomlinson, merchant, Rumford-street.
John James Scott, merchant, Brunswick-street.
William Wilson, commission agent, Pembroke-place.
John Worrell, merchant, Salthouse Dock.
The Learned RECORDER, in his charge to the Grand
Jury, said :—As from day to day we looked at the weather
glass, so, from sessions to sessions, one was apt to look at
the calendar as some index of the state of crime. Now,
without asserting that it was at all an infallible criterion,
he thought the state of the present calendar presented
some room for gratification, rather than for alarm. After
the lapse of now eight weeks, the number of seventy
prisoners was not very great, and the general character
of the offences, he thought they would find not very seri-
ous. The number would clearly have been less, if some
parties had not contributed by their negligence, and
others by their own loose and disorderly conduct, to the
thefts and mischief of which they complained. Nothing
was more satisfactory in the administration of justice, now-
a-days, than the change that had taken place in respect to
thieving, which was much less seldom accompanied with
violence than it used to be; and he thought it justified,
and, indeed, required a more lenient view than he could
formerly take; but he should always think it right to
mark with corresponding severity cases in which violence
was used. In the present calendar there was a case in
which, at the dead of night, a person, who had secured
the window and door of his bed-room, was alarmed by his
wife telling him that there was some person in the room.
On hearing this, he did find on the floor a man who had
been concealed in the room when they went to bed. The
man was taken without, as far as it appeared, any serious
resistance. Now, if he had had in his possession any deadly
weapon, or if he had used great violence upon that occasion,
he (the learned Recorder) should have considered himself
called upon to inflict a much more severe castigation, than
under the circumstances, upon proof, it would probably
require. He mentioned this for one reason. The man
when taken said he had taken nothing, and it was true
nothing was found upon him ; but the gentleman had
left his purse in his pocket. His trousers were removed
from the chair where they had been put, and the purse
was found on the floor a few yards off. If they should be
satisfied that the purse was taken by that man with intent
to steal it, then, although it was so recovered, and the
man did not get away, he need hardly tell them that in
point of law that was a stealing of the goods, which would
be complete. At the same time, when he observed that'
in general theft was not so frequently accompanied with
violence as used to be the case, one did see a clasS of
offences rising up of late in which persons had been seized
in the street, almost strangled, and treated with very
great violence ; and on the same principle that he vould
deal leniently with such cases as those he had mentioned,
he thought in these cases great severity should be exer-
cised towards such persons, to put them down, by those
who were empowered to administer the law. In such
cases he had so dealt with them. He was not aware that
the present calendar presented any cases of that nature.
He did, however, regret to see that there were no less
than five of the misdemeanour cases of stabbing—cases in
which knives had been resorted to. He was not aware
that the court had been wanting in due severity, taut he
certainly found that offence upon the increase, and felt
himself called upon to act accordingly. It was nothing
in extenuation to say that in three of these cases the men
were under the influence of drink. Perhaps the other
two also might have been, but though that might account
for it, it did not at all excuse it, or render it the less
necessary to put down, if possible, by severe punishment
such offences. He had also witnessed frequently in that
court a very brutal and barbarous class of offences. He
had had one instance in which a man had attempted to
tear the eye of another man out of the socket. He was
punished both by fine and imprisonment ; and he (the
Recorder) was happy to say he had not had any others of
that particular offence. Several cases had occurred with-
in the last year or two of persons who had absolutely
bitten off part of the noses of others. Here again was
an abominable, barbarous, and inhuman proceeding which
must be effectually.discouraged. He had endeavoured to
do so in cases which came before him. There were none
such in the present calendar, but there was a case, as
stated in the deposition, in which a man had bit
off part of another's ear. This again was of that
class which, he said, required to be effectually dis-
couraged. The gentlemen of the Jury would be
aware of the difficulty which had arisen with regard to
transportation. They were aware that for a long time the
administration of the law on this subject had been in a
transition state. In the mode in which persons had been
dealt with under that law, the sentences were subject to
fluctuations. Many things had been tried, and at last a
very decided step had been taken to limit the number of
the sentences of transportation, and, in fact, it was pro-
bable that they might fall altogether into disuse. It so
happened that that court was for the first time, in this
sessions, to administer the altered law, and perhaps it
might not, therefore, be out of place in him to make some
remarks on the subject. For the future, no sentences of
seven or ten years' transportation would be passed. Sen-
tences of transportation for fourteen years or for life might
be passed, but even in those cases the judge would have a
discretion, and, in cases of transportation for life, might,
instead of transporting for life, sentence a person to be
kept in penal servitude for life,—so that, in regard to
shorter sentences of transportation, sentences of penal
servitude for a term of years would be substituted ;
and, as a matter of course, and probably eventually, the
vitude. Now the length of that course varied in pro-
sentences would always be for some time of penal
serportion to the sentence of transportation to which
a party would be 'Wile. In lieu of transporta-
tion for seven years, the term of penal servitude is
four years ; instead of transportation for ten years, the
term of penal servitude might be from four to six years ;
instead of transportation for fifteen years, the penal servi-
tude might be from six to eight years ; instead of a term
of transportation exceeding nfteen years, the penal servi-
tude might be awarded as from six to ten years ; and in-
stead of transportation for life, penal servitude for the
term of life. Now, it would be dangerous for persons to
flatter themselves that under those sentences the punish-
ment would be light. It would be a great mistake to
suppose that transportation was abolished. Transportation
was not abolished. Transportation, under any of these
circumstances, might take place to any of her Majesty's
colonies. It must be recollected that there were colonies
where there were no complaints, and settlements where
there would be objection, by the inhabitants, to the re-
ception of convict labour; as for instance, Gibraltar,
Bermuda, and even the western part of Australia. It
was probable, and likely, transportation would still go
on to some extent ; and therefore, under any of those
sentences of penal servitude, a person might find him-
self in one of those colonies. It seemed to him
a person might consider it a very alarming thing the very
uncertainty how a man would be dealt with under his
sentence. He did not know, and the judge who passed
the sentence could not tell him. A man sentenced to
penal servitude might find himself in the seclusion of
separate confinement at Pentonville—he might find him-
self labouring in the dock-yard at Woolwich, or at Ports-
mouth, carrying heavy burdens day by day—or lie might
find himself working at fortifications at Portsea, or he
might find himself quarrying in the Island of Portland, or
assisting in making the breakwater, there—or he might
find himself in the same way employed about the fortifi-
cations at Gibraltar—or he might find himself in that
unwholesome island, of which he (the learned Recorder)
had read so much, Bermuda,—or he might find himself at
the Antipodes. Now he said, though there was great
latitude taken in acts of parliament how government may
deal with those persons under sentences of penal servitude,
they had a deal to fear as to what they had to undergo in
such a sentence ; but without seeing how particularly that
might be carried out, this was certain, that in general
they would have to labour, undergo severe labour, deprived
of course of the society of their friends, removed from the
places which were dear to them, and kept for a long term
in some useful (it might be hoped) labour, but subject to
all the restraints.ofimprisimment. Now, when he described
this as the consequence of crime, and the consequence of
such sentences,—at the same time it was not intended that
the parties should be left without hope, nor would they be
left without hope if by their good conduct they merited
any indulgence ; and whatever the sentence, it might be
for life or for a shorter period,
it did not follow that
government would insist upon their being kept in prison
during the whole of that term, because the law expressed
that if her Majesty should please to grant a license and
permission to return to society they might do so even
before the end of the term to which they were sentenced.
Then of course it was to be expected that her Majesty in
her wisdom, and with the advice which she would receive,
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repented of their crime, and they were likely to return to
society without doing further mischief. No doubt it was
a very serious experiment to return persons under those
circumstances to society at all, because it would be seen
they were, while under the sentences, removed from
all those temptations, removed from the bad society
of all their own companions, and there was perforce
a temptation in degree when they returned to them.
Still, however, it was only fair that persons so sentenced
should, by their good conduct, have a fair chance given
them of amending their condition. In the experiment of
their restoration to society, it seemed to him that it
might be made more safely than it could some years ago.
He had great confidence in the police establishment, in the
control they gave, and the watchfulness they exercised
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the first sentences of that nature would be passed.
He stated this in explanation. It was a very great
experiment, and he hoped it would be successful.
At all events, everything had and would be done
to insure its success by properly awarding sentences.
And here he might say, he felt some degree of relief
from the change of this law. There was a better gra-
dation now of the scale of punishments. There was a
very wide gap between a sentence of two years' imprison-
ment, and one of seven years' transportation. Now it had
often been a very difficult thing for him to say whether
he should pass a sentence of seven years' transportation.
Two years' imprisonment was a long term, and he rarely
passed it, because two years in such prisons as ours was
apt to produce a great change in a man's constitution.
But be had often had occasion to say whether a case was
one for two years' imprisonment or seven years' transpor-
tation. Now, however, the term of penal servitude was
four years, so it would be seen the scale was better gradu-
ated, and it would relieve him from difficulty. He pro-
bably now frequently sentenced persons to imprisonment,
to be on the safe side, who he might have transported, but
as it was now, he might substitute for the two years' im-
prisonment the four years' penal servitude ; and he men-
tioned it to warn those who commit offences, because he
he did not hesitate to say, he should be more willing to
pass a sentence of four years' penal servitude than seven
years' transportation ; and therefore he mentioned this to
makethose disposed to commit offences think that, although
they formerly escaped transportation, they very likely would
fall under four years' penal servitude as the law of punish-
ment now stands ; and with these observations he should
not detain them longer.
The grand jury then retired, and shortly afterwards re-
turned into court with several true bills. The trials
during the day were devoid of interest.

LIVERPOOL COURT OF PASSAGE.

(Before EDWARD JAMES, Esq., Assessor.)

Tins court opened yesterday morning, in the Nisi Prius
Court of St. George's Hall. There were 64 issues for
trial, and one demurrer,—an entry above the average.
This is the first court held under the operation of the
Court of Passage Procedure Act, by which its functions
have been considerably extended and amended. There
are three special jury cases, which have been fixed for
hearing on Thursday next,
The court sat at nine o'clock, and after the disposal
of several undefended causes, of no public interest, pro-
ceeded with the following actions :
ALLEGED FRAUDULENT REPRESENTATION.—THE LI-
VERPOOL ADELPIII Loa ASSOCIATION v, FAIRHURST
AND WIFE.—Mr. Millward for the plaintiffs, and Mr.
Blair for the defendants. This was an action brought to
recover a balance of 19 guineas, for a loan, for the repay-
ment of which the defendant's wife had been security,
under, it was alleged, a fraudulent representation. It
appeared that there was an application made by a person
named Brassey, who had formerly obtained loans from the
plaintiffs, and for which the female defendant, Jane
Lloyd, who was at that time unmarried, had been one of
the sureties. It further appeared that, in January, 1848,
Brassey made another application to the same association
for £3O, and proposed as his sureties two persons, named
Brown and Costine, and Jane Lloyd. On the 26th of
July, 1847, Jane Lloyd was married to her husband, and
having signed the loan of 1848 in the name of Jane Lloyd,
the husband (who is a journeyman painter) denied his
liability. Her signature was alleged to have been a false
and fraudulent representation, and the action was brought
for the recovery of the balance of the debt remaining, and
costs to which the plaintiffs had been put by a hearing in
the County Court. The jury retired, and, after an ab-
sence of several hours, returned into court, stating that
they could not be unanimous. The Foreman said :—Please
your honour, it is very cold ; there is no fire. (Laughter.)
Mr. James : If you can prevail upon the officer to give you
a fire, I have no objection ; but he has sworn he won't.
The Foreman : We can't agree without a fire. (Renewed
laughter.) After asking some questions arising from the
action, the jury then again retired. They returned in
about half-an-hour, with a verdict for the plaintiffs, finding
that the signature was not only a false, but a fraudulent
representation, and awarding as damages £ll.
DEBT.—CARNEY V. BELL.—This was an undefended
action, and Mr. Aspinall appeared for the plaintiff. The
action was for goods sold and money lent, and the amount
of the debt £37 7s. INA. The plaintiff is a poulterer in
St. John's Market, and the defendant a dealer in live ani-
mals. Verdict for the plaintiff for the amount stated.
ACTION FOR FALSE IMPRISONMENT.—WHITE AND
WIFE V. HOOK AND WIFE.—Mr. McOubrey appeared
for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Aspinall for the defendants. The
real parties in this case were Mary "White, a dealer in.
confectionery, &c., residing in Prophet-street, Toxteth-
park, whose husband is a fireman on board the Arabia
steamer; and the real defendant, Margaret Hook, the
wife of a publican, in St. James'-road, and the action was
brought to recover damages for false imprisonment.
There were two separate counts, one charging forcible de-
tention in defendant's house, on the 17th of May, and
another for being given into custody by her two days
afterwards, and taken off to bridewell. The plaintiff
said that she was sent for, on the first occasion, to de-
fendant's house, and charged with having taken a sove-
reign from her son improperly. She denied the charge
indignantly, when a policeman was sent for, who threa-
tened he would " burst her boiler," and she was taken
as far as St. James's church, but then set a liberty. In
two days afterwards a policeman called at her house, be-
fore she was up, and took her off to the defendant's,
where Mrs. Hook gave her into charge for receiving a
sovereign from her son under false pretences. She was
lodged all night in bridewell, and next day taken before
the magistrates ; when the defendant, who was not pre-
pared with sufficient evidence, stated that she could after-
wards get substantial evidence, and the plaintiff was, on
this, remanded for a week, and conducted to the borough
gaol. When again brought up she was acquitted. There
was only one plea put on the record, "not guilty, "
and " justification" had not been pleaded, but the
grounds of suspicion against the plaintiff came out
on cross-examination and otherwise. She had had a
boy in the employment of Mr. Hook, who, besides
being a publican, is a joiner and builder; and the defen-
dant's children, in consequence, were in the habit of
coming about the plaintiff's house. One of these, a boy
about ten years of age, to whose evidence Mr. WOubrey
did not object, said, " She enticed me to get the money, to
keep her shop up, as she was frightened of the bailiffs
coming, and she said she would pay it at 2s. 6d. or Is. a
week, if it were twenty years after." The lad, on this,
took £1 from a drawer in his parent's house, 10s. in silver
and a half sovereign, and gave it, as he alleged, to the
plaintiff. Two witnesses were called, one a customer and
the other a servant in the defendant's house, who stated
that on the first occasion they overheard the plaintiff
promise Mrs. Hook that she would repay the money by
instalments ; but on her reproving her for encouraging
her boy to such acts as had led many a one to the gallows,
the plaintiff said, angrily, that she would never pay her
one farthing. It was also deposed that the police had only
been sent for to remove the plaintiff the first time owing
to her violent demeanour. The jury returned a verdict
for the plaintiff, damages 20s.
COMPENSATION FOR INTURY.—COSGROVE V. OWENS.—
This was an undefended action, in which Mr. Aspinall ap-
peared for the plaintiff. The action was for carelessly com-
mitting an injury to the plaintiff. The plaintiff, Patrick
Cosgrove, is a porter, and was employed on the Ist of July
in delivering some sacks of gum at one of the docks. The
defendant, who is a carter, in good circumstances, was em-
ployed to receive the gum, and take it away from the place
where the plaintiff and others were delivering it. The
defendant was late in arriving ; and when he came was in
a great hurry. The bags of gum were moved about with
iron hooks and wooden handles, but that which the de-
fendant had was all of iron, and he was using it so carelessly
that just before the accident the plaintiff had remonstrated
with him. At last he put his hook into the canvas of one
of the gum bags ; it slipped its hold, and struck the
plaintiff on one of his eyes, penetrating the ball, and de-
priving it of sight. He was seven weeks off work in con-
sequence of the accident, and was now not so efficient as
before.—The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, da-
mages £2O.
CAR ACCIDENT : WOMAN RUN OVER.—BRODRICK V.
FOWLER.—Mr. Aspinall for the plaintiff, and Mr. H. Tin-
dal Atkinson for the defendant. The plaintiff, Sarah
Brodrick, is a woman above 70 years of age, and
she sought to recover damages from Richard Fow-
ler, car-owner, of Walnut-street, for injuries received
by being run over by one of his cars, negligently
driven by William Roberts, one of his servants. On
the 28th of July last the plaintiff was crossing James'-
street, when defendant's car, containing a wedding party
proceeding to the pier-head, came up, as alleged, at a rapid
pace. She was knocked down and very much injured, her
leg being fractured, and since that time, it,was stated, she
had been almost deaf, although her hearing was quite good
before. Evidence was given that the plaintiff's son and
daughter had gone to the defendant afterwards on the
subject of her injuries, when he had offered some trifling
compensation, saying that he would rather give her a trifle
than put the matter into lawyers' hands, who were very
great rogues. (Laughter.) Several witnesses for the de-
fence stated that the car was going at a very moderate
pace; and one of these, himself a car-driver, said that the
horse was neither walking nor trotting, but between the
two. It was the speed at which they usually went when
they were engaged by the hour. (Laughter.) The jury
returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £5.
DISPUTED ACCOUNT.—CHESIIIRE V. EDDOWES.—MV.
Simon for the plaintiff, and Mr. Aspinall for the defendant.
Mr. Charles Roe Cheshire was the plaintiff; Mr. Thamas
Sutton Eddowes the defendant ; and the declaration was
for goods sold and delivered, for work done and materials
supplied, money paid to the defendant, and also money
due on an account stated. The defendant had paid into
court £25 ss. 9d.; the amount of plaintiff's claim being
£27 15s. 3d. Te plaintiff is a shipsmith, and anchor
and chain cable maker, in this town, and the defendant is
also in a similar line of business. On the Bth of Septem-
ber, 1852, the plaintiff called at the defendant's place of
business, and gave an order to his foreman for a quantity
of chain, &c. The goods were sent home, and later in the
month another order was given, and also executed. When
called upon, the defendant refused to pay, stating that the
charge was excessive in respect to the iron. This was the
dispute. The order had been given in the plaintiff's
absence, and 9s. 6d. a cwt. had been charged. At the
time in question, iron was on the rise. The defence was,
that, in a conversation between the plaintiff and defendant
shortly before, a less price, Bs. 6d., had been named.—
Verdict for the plaintiff, for the amount claimed.
At the sitting of the court the Assessor signed a set of
new rules of practice applicable to the court, founded upon
the recent act of Parliament respecting the court. The
Assessor, at the same time, intimated that the costs would
undergo revision ; and a new scale of fees payable to the
attorneys, as also of those to be taken by the registrar,
would be settled as soon as possible.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Saturday, at the Salford Town-
hall, Hickman, the traveller for Messrs. Joule, brewers, of
Salford, was committed for trial at the Salford quarter
sessions which commenced yesterday.
EntE.—About a quarter-past three o'clock on Sunday
morning, a young man who had been making some in-
quiries at the Bridewell, discovered a fire in the upper
portion of a warehouse in Exchange-buildings. He gave
the alarm at the detective police-station, and it was soon
discovered that the ceiling of the upper room was in a
blaze. The fire wax got under without any serious damage
being done. The building is occupied by Messrs. Stock
and Oen, Mr. Witham Mr. Parker, and others.