The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-29 00:00:00

LINFORD

This was an action for an assault committed by the
defendant upon the plaintiff's wife, in which, with great
force, she was pulled, knocked about, struck, and her
clothes torn. Mr. Walmsley was a wheelwright, and the
defendant was his nephew. On the 14th of May, Mrs.
Walmsley went to the house of the defendant, in Gilbert-
street, for the purpose of inquiring about a dog she had
lost, and which she understood was in the possession of
the defendant. She first saw the defendant's mother,
who, after some angry words had passed between them,
shut the door in her face. The defendant then opened the
door and made a violent attack upon her ; he knocked her
down, and, although she was far gone in a state of preg-
nancy, he threw himself upon her and held her down.
His mother and wife afterwards lifted her up and thrust
her out at the gate of the yard, where they left her to get
home as well as she could. The result of this usage was
that she was confined to her bed for more than a week,
and attended by a medical man for a fortnight, whose bill
was upwards of £9.

Mr: James addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant,
and called several witnesses who were in the house at the
time of the alleged assault, who described the circum-
stance, of the affair i❑ a very different manner.

The jury returned a verdict for the plaiutiff—damages,
40e.

ACTION FOR SLANDER.-SWINDEN V. MULLENS.
The plaintiff had formerly been shopman to the
defendant, a provision-dealer, of this town. He left 11:s
service in May last, and applied to a Mr. Boyd, who carries
on the same description of business, for a situation. A
reference was required, and the plaintiff referred him to
his late master. Mr. Boyd called upon the defendant,
and it was at that time the imputed slander was uttered.
The Assessor stated that without the jury were of
opinion that there was something like malice in this
statement, it was certainly nothing more than a " privi-
leged.comtnunication."

The jury did not think there was any malice, and the
plaintiff was non-suited.

The other cases were devoid of public interest

CHESHIRE
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NE WS.

Mr. Rawlinson, inspector under the general board of
health, will hold a court of inquiry, at Seacombe, on the
31st instant.

John Williams, Esq., M. P. for Macclesfield, has offered
a prize of £lO for the best essay on the subject, " WaleS
as she is, and as she ought to be."
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday evening last, at
eight o'clock, a man, named John Kellett, in the employ
of Mr. Johnson, coach builders, Market-street, Birken-
head, was proceeding through Hamilton-square, when he
suddenly staggered and fell to the ground. A quantity of
blood issued from his mouth, and on being raised from the
'ground he was found to be quite dead.
A policeman ;n Grange-lane, Birkenhead, was invited
the other evening by a man who was in liquor, to take a
glass of ale. On looking at his would-be entertainer, he
recognised him as a convict, named Fulton, who had
escaped from Knntsford gaol, dressed in the turnkey's
clothes. He was safely lodged in bridewell for the night,
and next day conveyed back to his old quarters at Knuts-
ford House of Correction.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—The arbitrators
appointed to decide the remuneration to be paid to this
company for the conveyance of the mails during the period
antecedent to the completion of the Britannia-bridge have
recently made their award. It is stated that Captain Wil-
liams, Royal Engineers, the arbitrator on the part of the
Post-office, fixed the amount at £ll,OOO ; but the umpire,
Mr. J. A. Roebuck, M.P., decided the award at £28,000.

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A DISORDERLY,—A flashy-looking female, named
Louisa Shaw, appeared before the magistrates at Birken-
head, last week. It was said that the prisoner was respect-
ably connected, and some time ago caused no little sensa-
tion by her proceedings befor,the police-court. Since
then, it appears, she has been keeping a house of ill-fame
in Tranmere, and has become a complete nuisance to the
neighbourhood. The magistrate committed her to the
House of Correction for one month, to be kept to hard
labour.

A DISHONEST SERVANT.—Elizabeth Dunn, a servant
to Miss Hodgson, of Liscard, has been committed to
trial by the magistrates of Birkenhead for robbing her
mistress. It appears that on Friday afternoon, during
Miss Hodgson's absence, the prisoner broke open all the
drawers in the house, which she ransacked, and then
dressed herself in Miss Hodgson's clothes, with which she
went to Liverpool, and returned late in the evening in a
state of intoxication. Next morning part of the property
was found concealed under her bed, part in her pocket,
and several articles are not yet recovered.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION IN NORTH WALES.—
The communication between Liverpool and Holyhead, by
means of the electric telegraph, is now complete, and in
full operation, yid Chester. There requires now but the
laying down of the long-projected sub-marine telegraph
between the island of Anglesey and tho sister country,
fully to complete the chain of telegraphic communication
between Dublin, London, and the great towns of England.
It is proposed, on the completion of the South Wales
Railway, to adopt the system on that line, and finally to
extend it to the Pembrokeshire coast. By these means
both the north and south of the principality would be
brought into immediate intercourse with England.—North
Wales Chronicle.

MANSLAUGHTER NEARFRODSHAM.—Adisastrons affair
has occurred at Alvanley, near Frodsham, in which a Mr.
Nixon, a respectable farmer of that place, received a mor-
tal stab with a knife from the hand of John Littlemore, a
man who had formerly been in his employment. Little-
more had become attached to a girl in the service of Mr.
Nixon, but the latter was averse to his visits, and threatened
him with personal chastisement if be persisted in them.
On Wednesday week Mr. Nixon met the suitor in a lane
near his own house ; angry words ensued ; and the farmer
held a horsewhip in a threatening manner over Little-
more's head. A struggle took place, when Littlemore
stabbed Nixon in the belly, and then ran away. Nixon
followed, and a second struggle ensued, in which he
knocked Littlemore down, and dashed his head against
the ground. The farmer then went home, and, on the
wound being inspected, it was found that the intestines
had protruded, and that mortification had already com-
menced. He died on Saturday. Littlemore has been
committed to the assizes on a verdict of manslaughter.

THE CHESHIRE BURGLARS.—About a fortnight since,
a violent attack by an armed banditti was made on the
house of Mr. Hine, near Macclesfield. Information of the
outrage was given as early as possible at the county police-
office, and Mr. Williamson, the special high constable,
lost no time in taking steps to discover the party. Hand-
bills, containing a description of the watch, and offering a
reward for its recovery, and the apprehension of the bur-
glars, were at once printed and circulated. On Thursday
last, Mr. Williamson received information of a gold watch
having been offered for sale at Mr. Drakeford's, of Congle-
ton, and on arriving there he found that the watch an-
swered the description of the one stolen. Mr. Drakeford
having just received one of the handbills when the watch
was offered, had caused the man to be detained in custody.
Mr. Williamson at once took him over to Macclesfield,
and by Friday morning the constables had taken the whole
of the gang into custody. Their names are Jonathan
Bradley, by whom the watch was offered, Jacob Dean,
James Middleton, Joseph Middleton, and Thomas Ridge-
way. They are well known to the police, Dean having
kept a house which has been the resort of thieves. Mr.
Hine also identified the watch, and the burglars have also
been recognised as the persons who made the attack.

INTERESTING FACT.—The following singular and au-
thentic case of restoration of the human hair is worthy of
observation, more particularly as it relates to an article of
high and universal repute during/the last half century.
Mr. A. Herrmann, of Queen-stteet, Soho, had been quite
bald for some time past, a had tried various prepara-
tions for the recovery of is
.hair, but without any bene-
ficial result. Be wa en induced to try the effects of
" Rowlands' Ma r Oil," and after daily applying it
for about two ui ths, he, welt to his gratification, had
his hair quite stored, an ow possesses a beautful head
of hair. s fact speaks too strongly for itself to require
comaleat—Bell's Weekly Menenyer.