The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

MINT CASES

Mary Mitchell, 37, was found guilty of uttering a base
shilling at the shop of Mr. Haslam, confectioner, Bolton,
on the 18th March last.—Sentence deferred.
Alice Rourke was found guilty of having in her pos-
session, at Scholes, a mould, for the purpose of casting
base coin. Sentence deferred.

Charles Boyle, 34. and Patrick M' Mannering , 28, were
tried for having in their possession, at Great Bolton, a
mould, for the purpose of making base shillings. The
evidence was not clear, and the prisoners were acquitted.
John Holden, 47, was found guilty of having in his
possession base coin ; and John Holden, 9, and Jane
Holden, 14, pleaded guilty to passing base coin at Ash-
ton-under-line. Sentence deferred.

Mary Collett, 28, was found guilty of having, at Sal-
ford. on the 7th instant, unlawfully uttered to Ann Wat-
kins, a licensed victualler, in payment for three glasses of
rum, u countcacit half-crown, knowing Lilo same to be
bad. Sentence deferred.

Jjseph Robinson, 46, and Thomas Campbell, 34, were
found guilty of having unlawfully in their possession ten
counterfeit shillings. Sentence deferred.

NISI PRIUS COURT.-THIIRSDAY

DOE DEM. SUGDEN V. WEAVER AND OTHERS.—Judith
Sugden, of Manchester, was the plaintiff, and the defen-
dants were a numerous class of persons living in small
houses in Hope-street, Manchester, alleged to belong to
the plaintiff. The action was one of ejectment, the
question to be tried being whether the plaintiff was in
legal possession of the property, a claim upon it having
been set up on the part of a person named Baxter.—His
Lordship considered the legal title of the plaintiff had
been made out, and the jury, under his direction, returned
a verdict accordingly.
COPE V. THE THAMES HAVEN DOCK COMPANY.—Mr.
Charles Cope, of Manchester, was the plaintiff, and the
Thames Haven Dock and Railway Company the defen-
dants. The action was for a sum of £145, for work and
labour performed by the plaintiff for the defendants, in
endeavouring to dispose of the undertaking to several
railway companies. For the defendants it was contended
that they had never given authority to the plaintiff to
proceed with the negotiations, and that if he were to be
paid he must look to a shareholder of the name of Smith,
who, it was alleged, had engaged the plaintiff, who, on
the other hand, contended that he received the authority
of the directors for acting as he did.

CROWN COURT.—FRIDAY.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)

SENTENCES.—The following prisoners, convicted on
Thursday of uttering counterfeit coin were sentenced
Mary Mitchell and Alice Rourke were transported for
seven years ; John Holden was sentenced to 18 months'
Imprisonment with hard labour ; and Joseph Mills, Mar-
garet Collett, Joseph Robinson, and Thomas Campbell,
were sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

BURGLARY NEAR ST. HELENS.—Richard Lyon, 37,
was charged with having at Parr, near St. Helens, bur-
glariously broken and entered the dwelling house of Eliza-
beth Glover, and stolen therein one basket, two aprons,
one handkerchief, and one key, her property. The offence
was committed on the night of Saturday the 25th of
March. Mr. Joseph Pollock was for the prosecution ;
the prisoner was not defended by Counsel.—The jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner, who had been
previously convicted, was adjudged to 7 years' transporta-

KILLING AND SLAYING.—James Stones, 19, was
charged with having, at Manchester, killed and slain
Charles Ellam. Mr. Pollock was for the prosecution.
Stones pleaded guilty, and was recommended to the
merciful consideration of the court by the prosecution.
His master gave him a good character, and stated that he
was willing to take him into his service again. Stones,
who had been in gaol three months, was then sentenced
to a nominal punishment of three days' imprisonment.

STABBING.—Anthony Carroll, 21, was charged with
having, at Aughton, maliciously stabbed and wounded
John Fitzpatrick, with intent to do him some grievous
bodily harm. Mr. Pollock was for the prosecution ; the
prisoner was undefended. Both Fitzpatrick and Carroll
were labourers on the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston
Railway ; and on the sth of May they quarrelled about a
heap of soil, from which both wished to fill their waggons.
The result was that the prisoner struck the prosecutor on
the back and on the eye with a pickaxe, but without se-
riously injuring him. The two men, though fellow-
countrymen, were at enmity ; and the prisoner, previous
to the assault, complained that Fitzpatrick would never
let him alone. He added, " I would cut him or any
other man to pieces that attempted to curb over me, even
though I should be transported for it next moment."—
The prisoner was found guilty of an assault.—Sentence
deferred.
Nicholas Carter, 17, and James Smith, 17, were
charged with having at Ince, in Mackerfield, feloniously
wounded James Orrell with intent to do him some griev-
ous bodily harm. The counsel for the prosecution was
engaged in the other court, but Mr. Justice Creswell said
he could not wait for the other court, and ordered the case
to proceed. It turned out, however. that the witnesses
were absent, and the learned judge complained that there
was in this and other counties a practise of employing po-
licemen as their clerks to manage prosecutions. It was,
he observed a very bad practice, and was likely to be most
mischievous in its results, as it gave the policemen an un-
due interest in procuring convictions. The witnesses
were ordered to be called on their recognizances, and at
that moment they appeared in court.—Mr. Pollock con-
ducted the case for the prosecution.—Jas. Correll was a
Watchman on a railway at Amberswood Common, on the
18th of June ; the prisoners trespassed upon it, and he was
driving them away, when they threw stones at him, struck
him with a wooden crow bar, cutting his head and brusing
him in several parts of the body. The prosecutor was a
man of weak intellect.—The prisoners were found guilty
of an assault.
MANSLAUGHTER IN MANCHESTER.—Francis Turley,
21, was charged with having, at Manchester, killed and
slain Thomas Shelmerdine, by the negligent and incau,
tious driving of a car. Mr. Pollock wasior the prisoner..
On the night of the Bth. of April, the prisoner was_drivin

a spring cart along Oldhamzroad at a pace so rapid that
he had lost nearly all control offer the horse. Deceased I

a state of insensibility. There were in the cart three or
four persons, who were coming from Oldham to Man-
chester. and they had urged the prisoner to drive rapidly.
—A verdict of not guilty was returned.

NISI PRIUS COURT.—FttIDAY.
(Before Mr. Justice Bate.)
COPE V. THE THAMES HAVEN DOCK- AND RAILWAY
COMPANY.—Evidence was called in favour of the case for
the defendants.—The evidence in this case. which nos-

racter.—His Lordship having summed up the evidence, the
jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £lOO.
In two cases verdicts were taken by consent, after
which several undefended actions were disposed of.

•SATURDAY

CROWN COURT
William White, 32, James Winterbottom, 27

Stephen Naylor. 23, apparently agricultrral labourers
pleaded guilty to having, at Pemberton, set fire to a barr
and sutbuildings, belonging to James Rothwell. M'

their offence, sentenced them to'tran

iportation for fifteen

- Abraham Rigg, pleaded guilty to a burglary at the house
of James Mather, at Bury.—Sentence deferred.
Thomas Cain, 19; railway labourer, was found guilty of
the manslaughter of Peter Meadows, at Wigan, on the
20th of June. The parties quarrelled, when the prisoner
threw deceased down, and kicked him about the head.
The jury looked on the case as the result of a drunken
row, and recommended the prisoner to mercy. Sentence
deferred.

Stephen Marsden, 28; was sentenced to seven years'
transportation for having stolen £5O in bank notes, eleven
sovereigns, a gold and silver wa►ch, &e., from the house of
Mrs. Greenhalgh, the Pineapple Inn, at Darcy Lever,
near Bolton. The prisoner was implicated in the robbery
with four other persons, three of whom were transported
for the offence at the last assizes. The chief witness in
the case was an accomplice of the name of Fog.
John Smith, 40, and William Dixon, 19, were sen-
tenced to eighteen months imprisonment, with hard la-
bour for an assault on Robert Breeze, at Manchester.
The prosecutor was inspector of nuisances in that town,
and the prisoners were nightmen, who, on the 17th June
(not being employed by the corporation), were removing
night soil with a donkey cart, and thereby rendered them-
selves liable to a penalty of 40s. The prosecutor dis-
covered the prisoners at the work, and tried to turn the
donkey towards the Police-office, when Smith struck him
several severe blows with his spade, which confined him
under medical care for nearly five weeks. The prisoner
Smith said he wished he had killed him. In his defence
Smith made an incoherent speech, alleging that he only
wanted to gain an honest livelihood, and that since the
corporation had monopolised the exclusive right, number-
less ashpits were not half-cleansed. His Lordship lec-
tured the prisoners for uttering sentiments which implied
their belief that the authorities were bound to provide
them with work. If servants could choose their own
master, the latter were equally entitled to choose their
own servants.

John Hammond, 24, was sentenced to twelve months'
imprisonment, with hard labour, for a burglary at a beer-
house in Canal-street, Manchester, kept by Mr. Stanton,
and stolen four boxes of cigars, a violin, and six shillings
in copper. Henry Peace was indicted along with the pri-
soner, but was acquitted.
John Taylor, 23, pleaded guilty of a burglary at Pen-
dleton, and also to having stolen some wearing apparel
from James Heathcote, at Lancaster. Sentence deferred.
Nathan Lindley, 38, was sentenced to seven years
transportation fora burglary at the house of Robert
Tootle, at Kersley, on the 10th June last. The prisoner
had been convicted previously of felony.

John Taylor, 26, was sentenced to seven years trans-
portation for a burglary at the house of Edmund Pickup,
at Tottington High End, on the 19th June.
The Grand Jury found "no bill" against Mary Ann
Scott for stabbing Ellen Scott, with intent, &c., on the
ground of the prisoner being insane. _ _
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Patrick Crawley, 32, was sentenced to three months
imprisonment for having feloniously stabbed John Grogan
with intent, &c. The offence was committed during a
drunken quarrel.
Henry Ward, 20, was sentenced to six months impri-
sonment fora similar offence, at Salford, committed under
like influence.

SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL

and a deaf brother came out of the Vulcan Tavern, and On Wednesday a special meeting was held.
were'crossing the road, arm in arm; whor they were both Upon the motion of Mr. SAMUEL HOLME, seconded by
knocked down by the cart, the wheel going over the head Mr. Plitimrrox, Mr. John Bent was elected alderman;
of Thomas Shelmerdine. and so injuring him that he died Mr. Naylor having failed to qualify.
on the following day. The other brother was thrown into _ THE RIVINGTON PIKE SCHEME.

The TOWN-CLERK read the report of the Water Com-
mittee, which was to the effect that the Rivington Pike
scheme could be carried out and executed for the sum
mentioned in the parliamentary estimates (X 480,000),
that there ought to be no further delay in proceeding with
the works, and that the Committee ought to be authorized
to take immediate steps for the purpose of proceeding
with them.

The TOWN-CLERK read a memorial from the National
Confederation, in which they protested in the name of

e ratepayers

.osecution of th,

'ike scheme.

Mr. LACE, in proposing the adoption of the report,
said it was satisfactory to the Water Committee that they
were able to make the report which had just been read,
for they were perfectly satisfied that the works could be
carried out within the parliamentary estimate of £480,000,
if they were now proceeded with. In order to keep the
cost of the works within the estimate, it was necessary-
that they shotad be proceeded with without delay. The
Council would easily conceive that it would not be proper
to give details of the estimates, bat he (Mr. Lace) might
observe that with respect to the principal item of expense
—that was the nines—it had been ascertained that it

would be consider'a!bly under the estimate. With respect
to the other works, Mr. Stewart, one of the Water Com-
mittee, thought it advisable to ascertain the quantity of
work from actual survey. Mr. Weightman was sent for
that purpose; and it was satisfactory to state that his
estimate came to within 5,000 yards of Mr. Hawksley's
computation, Mr. Hawksley's being the larger one. He
might also add that Mr. Holm and Mr. James Holme—
both practical men—had been over to the Rivington dis-
trict, and they were both perfectly satisfied, from their
own knowledge of building, that the works would be
carried out within Mr. Hawksley's estimates, if they
were begun within a month. Liverpool was at present
entirely dependent for water on two engines, and if the
one at Green-lane and the other at Windsor were to
break down they would be thrown for weeks without any
sufficient supply. Would, therefore, he wished to know,
any gentleman take upon himself the responsibility of not
taking the means to obtain a sufficient supply ? They
had no tanks to put water into, and if they had tanks they
had no water to put into them, for the supply was be-
coming less and less every day. As to the assertion that
there was a sufficiency of water under the red sandstone,
the Council would no doubt think that that matter had
been discussed ad nauseam, and satisfactorily disposed of.
They had not had one scientific cpiaion in favour of there
being a sufficient supply under the sandstone, and not
the opinion of one practical man against the Pike scheme.
No practical man had pretended that they ought to go on
boring and sinking wells. They could not without an act
of parliament go out of the borough for water, and he
felt certain that they would be opposed by the whole sur-
rounding district of country in which.Prescot and nume-
rous smaller places were situated, and that the quantity
procured would become less and less every day, though
they would be robbing the wells in the district. Gentle-
men spoke of the expense of going on. with the Rivington
scheme, but the fact was that it would be a saving of
expense. They would save the expense of new wells.
They would save the expense of engines. They would
save the expense of working eleven engines, which would
cost £15,000 a-year. Supposing there were to be no
increase in the population of Liverpool, the deficiency to
be provided for would not cost the inhabitants 4d. in the
pound upon their assessments ; whereas if the population
doubled—and they confidently looked. for an increase in
the number of inhabitants—the charge would be nothing.
But they could not do that with water from the red sand-
stone • for the cost of that was five per cent., whilst the
cost of the Rivington water would be nothing. He con-
cluded with moving the adoption of the report.
Mr. Alderman Meat, seconded the motion.

Mr. BENNETT regretted thaTie—col;l-dQmsupixfrt the
report. He believed the quantity and quality of the
water at Soho-street station were as good as ever they
were. He also believed that the quantity and quality of
the water at Green-lane were excellent ; in fact, the
quantity there was inexhaustible. The engine was insuf-
ficient to raise the quantity without being overstrained,
and during the time M'Gregor and Kennedy were making
their experiments at Green-lane. about three-quarters of
a Million of gallons were daily running to waste down the
ditches. It would take two or three years to obtain water
from the Pike; and, therefore, if Dr. Duncan was correct
in saying that the cholera would probably be upon us in
three or four months, the Pike scheme could not be ren-
dered available in cleansing the town when the cholera
made its appearance. He discredited all statements about
the decline of the local supply. He was given to under-
stand that our present supply, was fed by rivers from a
distance, and that it was not circumscribed by the coal
fields surrounding the town. The fissures in rocks ex-
tended for enormous distances. Fissures in Scotland were
formed by eruptions in Italy. (A laugh.) This was an
historical and undeniahle fact. Now, the yield at the
Pike at the time he visited it in May—certainly a dry
season—was under three millions ; and if this were so, it
would take 124 millions of gallons in dry months in order
to compensate the mill-owners and proprietors of the
Douglas canal. This enormous abstraction from the
reservoirs would reduce the quantity for local supply very
considerably ; in fact, it would lay bare the bottoms of
the reservoirs and beds. Who then would be to blame ?
He would not blame either the water committee or the
Town-Clerk ; but would these gentlemen take upon
themselves the responsibility in case of failure ?
Mr. EARLE, Mr. LACE, and other members of the
committee. cried simultaneously—Yes. yes. yea.
BEN the
subject . , wished that more information on had been given.
Mr. LACE.—You have had every report before you.
Mr. BENNETT meant to say that the reports submitted
to the Council had not satisfied him of the propriety of
the Pike scheme. (A laugh.) He thought the chances
of failure at the Pike considerably overbalanced all chances
of success, and therefore he opposed the report, and
moved as an amendment that the whole subject be re-.
ferred to a committee, to ascertain whether the necessary
local supply can be obtained from this district, and whether
Mr. M'Donald's estimates are borne out by facts.
Mr. EARLE and Mr. RATHBONE alluded to what they
called the ignorant and malicious attacks made upon the
Water Committee by the Mercury and Journal, and said
that the conduct of that committee was far above any
aspersion or insinuation.

After a very long debate, during which most of the old
arguments were re-produced, the Council divided, when
there appeared—For the amendment, 15 ; against it, 24.
The amendment was consequently lost.

COMMITTAL OF JOSEPH CUDDY FOR TREA-
SONABLE CONSPIRACY.

On Tuesday Joseph Cuddy, who acted as salesman to
the notorious Dr. Reynolds, and who was stopped in
Byrom-street with a bag containing 31 pike heads, was
brought up at the police-court, for final examination.
Ji.mes O'Brien, in whose house in Hurst-street a variety
of pikes and other weapons were discovered, was brought
up at the same time ; and the evidence in the case, which
ran to very considerable length, was read over.

The Mayor, Wm. Earle, `ks4., and other magistrates,
occupied seats on the bench with Mr. Rushton.

Mr. Robinson, of the firm of Messrs. Lowndes, Robin-
son, and Bateson, solicitors, appeared on behalf of the go-
vernment. Mr. Yates, sen., defended the prisoners.
Walter Willick (officer 370) was the first witness called.
He deposed to the various meetings he had attended at
Circus-street and Great Howard-street, and to the lan-
guage made use of by the various speakers.
Richard Janet was next examined. He accompanied
the first witness to the meetings in Circus-street and Great
Howard-street,i and he heard Dr. Reynoldssay at the lat-
ter, " f you cannot buy muskets buy pitch forks." "any
man who does not join the clubs," said the chairman,
" shall be hanged to a lamp-post." The prisoner Cuddy
was present at the meeting in the Baptist chapel. He
was also present at several of the other meetings. He was
at a meeting held the 14th June, in Circus-street, when
the people were counselled to get pikes. Cuddy at that
meeting exhibited a pike-head, and said he could make
similar heads for 2s. 6d. a piece. Mr. M'Manus, the
merchant, was at the meeting in Circus-street, and he
called upon the people to form themselves into clubs. He
said he would receive no boon from England, and before
that day three months Ireland should have her rights or
he would have blood. Witness went over with Mr.
M`Manus in the same steamer to Ireland, and saw him
go into the Irish Felon office. Witness then went to the
Castle, and gave information, and by directions from the
Castle he seized M‘Manus's luggage at Kingstown. It
contained, amongst other things, a complete set of mili-
tary uniform, green and gold, and a pair of pistols. A
Mr. Somers made use of the following language at the
Music-hall : " I tell the merchants, that as I think. I see
Warsaw in flames, to take care lest a spark of ignition may
not reach this town ; and I tell them that before the news
is four hours in Liverpool of an intended massacre in my
country—l care not, mind you, gentlemen, it there were
200,000 British bayonets there and 100,000 special consta-
bles—l care not for them all (a voice : ` We'll maul them')
despite all these efforts, and despite as much more, the
martyrs dying on the scaffold and on the plain would have
the consolation in giving their last throe of looking up to
heaven and seeing the skies reddened with the blaze of the
Babylons of England."
The other depositions consisted of the evidence of about
20 witnesses. It was of a most voluminous character,
and occupied a considerable time in reading. The evi-
dence went to prove in a variety of ways the connexion of
Cuddy with the Irish clubs and the leaders of the rebel
party. It exposed an organized system of correspon-
dence between the Confederate clubs in Dublin and those
in Liverpool, connecting the prisoner Cuddy and the
notorious Dr. Reynolds (for whom Cuddy sold pikes)
with them in their several movements. The fact of
Cuddy being discovered with a bag full of pikes was fol-
lowed up by evidence proving him to have regularly at-
tended the Confederate and club meetings in this town.
and the public meetings generally where Dr. Reynolds
was in the habit of speaking sedition. Other evidence of
a corroboratory nature was added, which represented the
accused to be prominently mixed up in the entire pro-
ceedings connected with the intended outbreak.
Cuddy was fully committed for trial at the assizes; and
the other prisoner was remanded until Saturday.

THE FATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY.-At the Devizes assizes, on Wednesday,
George Pargeter was indicted for the manslaughter of
Arthur Augustus Lea, at Swindon, on the 10th of May
last. Mr. Lea was a gentlemen of Wadham College,
Oxford, and was killed on the Great Western Railway,
in consequence of the accident which happened to the
express train driven by the prisoner. He was found guilty,
and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The
stoker and another man were acquitted,