The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-12-20 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

POLICRMAN.—At Middlesex  Sessims, on Wednesday, Mary Callaghan, charonion, and Catherine Hill, hawker. were charged widt stealing three pieces of shirtirk, value .£l, the property of G. Long. Callaghan pleaded W:tnessr,s were called, who swore that it WaS absolutely impossible for Hill to have been oneerned in the robbery, as she was more than a tiway at the time. The jury returned a verdict of -acquittal against Hill. Mrs. Wiltshire, warder at Westminster Prison, proved seven preViOUR convictions against Callaghan. The judge sentenced her to seven years'. servitude. Mr. Abram informed the court that the witnesses for the defence had been brought by Detective Lallystone. The Jndge highly commended the detective for his conduct, and said that it would be well if police officera would always bear in mind that they were as much bound to protect the innocent ns to detect the guilty. James Sinclair, lately seCond mate of the screwsteamer Osborne. which ran down a fishing boat off Great Yarmouth on the 18th October last, was on Monday tried before High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on a charge of culpable homicide, on the ground that he left his ship mithout a proper lookout while he was in charge of her, and that ten rwrso, consequently lost their lives. The jury acqnit cr Sinclair by a unanimous verdict. 'cll tAT orrnr.Mentrao.—An application was made to Sir It. Phillimore, sitting in chambers in the efiart of Admiralty, on Tuesday that the pro. I reed, of the sale of the Murillo; which had been  into Court, might be paid to satisfy the claims a-, far as applic:tble, male by the owners of the Northlicet Ind :he cargo on board when the terrible corision took pi it The Murillo had realised on sale by suction. tuuhr an ord-r of the court. might it • paid out to satisfy the claims, as far as applieable. simile by the .•wnera of the Northfleet and the eargo hoard Wisen the terrible collision took place The Murillo had realised on sale by auction. under an order of the Court, £7,050, which, less the expenses, had been paid into court. Two suits amounting to .4:24,000. had been instituted agaiust the Murillo. His Lordship directed the money to be paid oat, and thus ended this extraordinary case. Wm:Es IX Tits Itov Tasnr.—Following the meetings in the Midland districts, the standing committee of the North of F.nglond met on Monday st Darlington. The men favour a twelve months' arrangement, by which the price of iron should regulate wages by a "sibling scale," whilst the mast,rs in the north and Stqffordshire propose a limit of three years There is also some difference as to the mpximasm and minimum rates between which wagra should fluctuate. After the meeting, 011 llondsty hid discussed the questions at issue, it was ,decieded that the whole of the operative members of the Northern Bo all should be sum' -umned t laether oo Wednesday. so that their views he thoroughly undn-stoad bv the standing committee of operatives previously to sit masters mt d six men of the North meeting a ,imilsr num. her of masters and operatives of the Midland iron tn.,' • at the Quem's Hotel. Birmingham on day nest. When. front what has already tramspined, i is tlim,id that it satisfactory st•ttliiment will he Oeris 'I at, if the sliding seale lie adopted, the • apt :tad inconvenience of p. imijea arbitra. I Hlls to settle wages in the iron trade will be shedat 0.. On Mouthy, 400 ironworkers held, with cios.ll doors, a protracted meeting, at Bilston, in South staffordshire. to lix the terms to be proposed iu their helolf at the eineting meeting of North of Esigland and South Staffordshire iron mastLrs ann men. The operatives vociferously rejected the employers' offer, alike as to money and time. They demanded 18. as a maxi num, an l les a, mum ter ton for puddling, and It th • I,Tllls ef agreenniit to six niontlis it was announced that North Staffordshire and Shropshire would each be represented at the conjoint meeting.