The Express. — London, England, 1862-12-25 00:00:00

LANCASHIRE AND THB COTTON FAMINE. (From All the Pear Round.) There are nu more important considerations con gested with the misfortune than those which are connected ' the employment question. The oompuleory inactivity, which lays "its heavy mace" on these once busy men and women, is not the saddest element in the whole of this sad Whir. Ws hardly know what want of employment is, to mesehmited permits. It is bad enough for the educated, seal sassy are the expedients which those who need not reek are driven to in order to get through their time ; what mart it be to those who have no money to spend in seeking ortractioss outside themselves, and no resources within , liannelves to fall back upon! In such oues the mind preys we itself, sad two or three ideas are dwelt upon Ulcer wetly. Of all the lad sights which meet one at every turn k these cotton towns, than is warmly anything much more dielresaing than to see en able-bodied man hanging about Dia rained home, listless, dispirited, and with nothing Me do. Then there is the danger of this inaction U some oases becoming habitual. When it is of no me to get np in the dark, and when no object is sittaivable by doing so, why should a man bestir himself at illie usual time l How easy to get oat of the habit of early shag under these circumstances, how hard to return to it. The importance, then, of providing work for the im mure numbers of factory hands who are out of employment - . am by oo passibility be over-estimated. Menu of employ ment are Dot wanted here by way of a labourteet, but u laag entirely emeential to the well-being of the people. mat is the nature of that employment to be For many bras of labour these men are unfitted by their bringing up aria previous way of life. Out-door labour, and indeed hard masa' work of all kinds, they are manifestly unfit for. Asything, again, that would imply their removal to distant paean would be liable to objection. We are creatures of eastom, and go best in our habitual grooves. The hands belonging to a particular mill will be, of all human beings, those most wanted on that mill when the day comes for the machinery to be set a-going again. Unless such changes fake piece in human affairs m it would be idle to contem plate, there is no doubt that those mills will be set a-going again, and then all these people will be wanted once more. This crisis once over, there will be a great revival of the MOOD trade, and grand times again for lAncashire. Men, therefore, have been set to work at different trades, for which they have in many eases displayed con eiterable aptitude ; they have bean employed—pertioularly the superior clam of them, such as book-keepers and over lookers in posts connected with the administration of Nisei ; and large numbers have been induced to take this opportunity of getting themselves educated, and spend their loan of compulsory leisure at school. As for the women sad girls, it is easier to find suitable occupation for them Man for the men ; most women's work being of the seden tary sort, and something akin to the ordinary employment of ille factory-girL Among the good things which will result tram this very disaster in Lancashire—and we may hops Mot many good things will result from it—not the least will be the advance of all them women and girls in a knowledge of the use of the needle—a kind of knowledge in which they were singularly deficient I went into one room at Blackburn in which not is than 400 girls and unmarried women were sitting working at soadlework. In the same boilding was a room where a group of girls were working at straw-plaiting, and bad picked up the art with wonderful quickness and dexterity. In other rooms were more than a hundred monied women, who were all provided with a comfortable warm whim, where they were kept employ( I, and wheel they earned 2s. a week. All there claws are under the superintendence of ladies; but I saw others at Manchester which were over biked by monitors chosen from among the girls themselves, which seemed also to be working admirably well. In one of these a girl seated on a table was reading aloud to the rest while they worked, or knitted. It was some simple tale of a religions tendency, but which was listened to with absolute eagerness. Some of them girls are rough and un mannered, and I heard that a marked improvement had leas effected in their conduct since, in attending these glares, they had mingled with, and observed, the ladies who superintend them. Acre ! must mention a want which those whohave or • gnaw' these sewing-classes feel 'my much, and which I hope only needs to be known to be supplied— the want of needles and pins. It is difficult to make the young girls careful of them, and great 'umbers are broken and lost ; a fact in sonic degree attributable, no doubt, to the inexpr risme of the embryo-needlewommi. It would save many . . pounds to the fund, if some benevolent individuals who may seed this, would make collections of pins and needles, and forward them to the Relief Committee, especially philan thropical manufacturers of such articles in the good town of Birmingham. It is easier to provide sedentary occupation for women than for men. Of all the experimente made with a view of meeting this difficulty, the most satisfactory appeared to be those of an educational kind. Everything that keeps men buy, that makes them bandy, and enables them hereafter to be mole uaefal to their familee, is good. I law boys at work at tailoring, mounted on a counter in professiosal style with their legs craned under them. I saw men at work as joiners, fitting up benches and doing other simple esrpantors' jobs uncommonly well ; indeed, the way in which they mortiosd in the joints, and calculated their distances, was astonishing to auy one acquainted with the difficulties of amateur carpentering. Others engaged in abos•mendiog had completely mastered all the difficulties of securing the sole to the " uppers," and who doubtless were even fully acquainted with all the mysteries of the " welt." OM, good as all this is, and in ever► way reassuring, it ap pears to me that these classes—educational, too, in a certain way —were lea important, and lees interesting, than than which were intellectually educational.. ' ' The echools, whose benches and desks are occupied by I rows of grown-up men and grey-headed students, are full of Interest. Late indeed have some of the hoary pupils wan dered for the first time into the groves of Academe. In see of the schools no less than three hundred and eighty nags of all ages are assembled. As you glanced down the line of faces the scene was not a little touching. Yon saw men clasping their bald beads, es if to keep them from splitting over sums in addition ; you saw some helping each other ; you saw others who, for their superinr attain ments probably, had beeu aelected as monitors. __ad some time, you saw men, young, strong, energetic, 6.%.5g their whole capacity to what they were about, aiming at higher things than their neighbours as they felt them selves stronger on the wing, and laying, perhaps, then and there—as they tasted the sweetness of the first sips of knowledge, and were taught to think and reason—the seeds =future greatness. I saw one young fellow of this sort who was working a problem of Euclid on his slate. These were not nieu for whom it was necessary that monitors should be provided, part of wham duty it was to keep them awake. Yet this was one of the duties of the monitors, sleep not being allowed in school-hours, and brain-culture baying a tendency to produce somnolency to some con stitutions.. These old boys are good boys, and the super intendent of this very school of which I am speaking told me there had been no insubordination during the whole six weeks that it had been in operation. Old boys, indeed ! There was a inau there efty-seven years old, and this was the first time he had ever been in a school ! That same superintendent told me that the ordinary theory that boyhood is the best time far learning by no means corresponds with the results of his experience, but that it appeared to him that men learned more quickly than boys. This is slimily to be comprehended. The boy approaches hie task, not of his own free-will and feeling, but rather in ► spirit of vicious •ntegonism and determina tion to profit by it as little as poseible. The man some, to his lemon willingly ; he wants to know a thing which it will tell him, to ask • ques tion which the book will answer, and so as the book answers be li Acne and lays up what he bears as so much pined towards the attainment of that object which his whole soul is in earnest to reach. Awit; the advantages which we may look for as likely to =erne, iu after time, from the great cotton failure of '62, will be the acquirement by the men of habits of studying together and helping each other, and those habits may be presen e I even when the distress which brought the thing about is a thing of the past. It is a very great thing fur all the women to get a knowledge of the use of their pestles. Such knowledge cannot fail to be useful to them hereafter. It is a good thing spin for the masters and the am to be brought into familiar seated, and for the employed to be able to see that the employer takes a real interest . b his well-being, end does not look upon him as simply part of the machinery of big trade. Perhaps in future difficul t= between masters and men, the memory of hied offices Illedered daring the "bad time," may come in to the react= sad help to make peace between them, It is • happy thing that the tendency which existed in the iodise days of the cotton tansies to throw doubt on the esemeity of a general land to which all England shwa subscribe, is lees heard of now. Theory " lake the poor• rate is less heard lately. Thb weight of that irresistible &clamant that just in proportion as you raise the poor-rate you reduce the number of those who can pay it, is beginning obe felt, and we ass that to impose a tax which that dam, the small trader, and shopkeepers, could by no *bility pay, would do very little towards supplying the Node so urgently required. It has been well mid that the peculiar industry which is carried on in Lancashire has tended to relieve the parishes in other p arts of England, . . by taking away large ioatelmileta of their poor pepulaaion - _ and settling them on its own townships. Such wholesale distress u that in Lancashire, so widely spread, so long motional, is beyond the reach of townships or boards of guardians, or any purely local machinery. And the demand upon our charity is likely to be a long-continued one. An attack of disease so sharp and serious as this which has fallen upon the cotton trade, is likely to be followed by a convalescence which will not be the affair of a day or two, but rather of many weeks and months. It le not improbable that, when the news shall reach us that the American diffi culty is near to its solution, some of as will rush to the oonclusion that the Lancashire difficulty is over too, and that our help is no longer needed there. Such a conclusion would bea very false one. After 'settlement with America shall have taken plane, an interval of three or four months must elapse before the mills can be got into thorough work ing order. The question—how far the millowners of Lancashire have done their duty in the present crisis, has been much diseased. There is too prevalent an impression abroad that all millowners and manufacturers are millionaires, that their works are on an enormous scale, that their profits are equally enormous, that they live in gorgeous palaces, and in • luxury of which Londoners can form no idea. It is doubtless true enough that • great many of these Lanca shire manufacturers have made very large fortunes, and that some of them live in wasiderable luxury. These are the men we hear of, and these have come to be looked upon as fair specimens of what the cotton trade does for those who follow it as • mesas of acquiring wealth and distinction. Absorbed in contemplation of the riches of the cotton lord; we have been apt to overlook another class, who are very largely represented in Lancashire. These are the manufac turers in a small way, the men of little or no capital, the men whom aoy mischance of the present kind knocks over almost as utterly as it does the mill-hands themselves. As I was wain down a certain street in one of the cotton towns, in company with a gentleman well acquainted with the place and its inhabitants, • young man with rather a careworn and abalone look pseud us. "Do you see that gentleman ?" asked my companion. "Two or three years ago he was pommel of • sum of 25,0001. ; the cotton trade was then in • very flourishing state, and he in vested the whole of it in the building of a mill and fitting it up with machinery. From the time that the factory was complete, there has been nothing but adversity in connexion with the trade, and now his 'mill is standing idle, his money brings him in no interest, he has hie ma chinery to keep in order, and his ground-rent to pay—what am • man in such a position do for the poor factory-hands? Take another use which is by no means an one. It will sometimes happen that a man who bee risen, by being a good workman, to the rank of overlooker, or to some superior post, will manage in time to save a good little sum of money—say, five hundred pounds, or six hundred pounds. A machipery-maker gets to hear of this, and, lending for the man, proposes to him to start a mill. He gives him credit for the machinery, and the cotton merch•nt gives him credit for the raw material ; the five hundred pounds or six hesdred poundsare wanted to set the thing going. It is evident that this is altogether • venture, • speculation which may or may not turn out well. If times be good, the man who is thus set up in business goes o• prospering, and by degrees, though no doubt very slowly, gets out of the original entanglement, pays for his machinery sad cotton, and at last makes money. Bat all this takes time, and if any thing happens while the proms is ping es, what becomes of oar millownen? In the season of extraordinary prosperity, • few years ago, the cotton trade was so good, and held out such strong al- I lurements to those who were Is a hurry to making a forty's, that all Norte of people rushed into it, bent on profit by the chance of the moment. It is probable that many of them got to work just es that wooderfe , tide began t 3 ebb. Where are those men now? Depend upon it we make • mistake when, as we steam through these districts, we note the mighty chimneys on each aide of the way, and assume that each one of them is • sort of alchemist's furnace in which the men of Lancashire are turning tufts of condo in to hers of gold. As to the real millionna , ree, the men who have pros pered, and whom the labour of the mallards has really profited, I believe they are in the main doing their duty, and that many of them are doing more than their duty, and making such sacrifices as one cannot hem of unmoved. There are exceptions, no doubt, and great is the contempt with which these are spoken of by the more open-banded. But the exceptional cases are found more rarely among the actual millownen and manufacturers, than among those who have made money in a lees hazardous manner by the sale of the finished article. Two other classes are Mud up with this particular industry, concerning whom it may be questioned whether they have come forward with such liberality as might be fairly expected of them ; namely, the men of Liverpool, who have made enormous fortunes by dealing in the raw material, and who have profited in no ordinary degree by the recent panic ; and theiground landlords, who own Lancashire pro- perty, and whose land has been increased incalculably in value by the chance which caused it to be the locality chosen as most convergent for the formation of a cotton colony. From these two claws the seferers in Lancashire have a right to expect liberality. The sum of 130,0304 raised recently in one sum among the Lancashire people alone is only an item in the long list of contributions which has been furnished by the people of this locality. Nor are the money contributions which can be distinctly set forth in subscription lists the only or the most valuable reinforcements which the men of Lancashire have brought to the great work of keeping starvation and misery at bay. No doubt it is a good thing to hand over • large sum of money to the relief fund, and no doubt the man who does so is helping the cause well ; but what shall we say to those who, at a continue! loss, are keeping mills going, and are buying cotton at the present high prices, knowing that it will one day be greatly deteriorated in value? I attended • meeting at Manchester at which some par. tinders of the private benevolence of many of the manufac tories firms came out. I all quote one of these instances. A certain mill gives employment to about eleven hundred hands, and during the last year and three-quarters his worked, on an average, forty-two hours per week. During that year and three-quarters, the actual loss sustained by that firm Ins been 12,9851., and in this account not one penny is charged for interest on capital or deterioration of machinery: the value of the plant being 80,0004 If the works had been entirely stopped during the period named, the expense woe'd have been, for rent, taxes, coals, and wages, 6,4301., thus showing a loss, through working, of 6,5551., or 721. per week. During this period there has been paid in wages to the workpeople the sum of 33,9661. Out of eleven hundred hands there have not been twenty applications to the parish for relief. Besides all this, the principal and inner partners have contributed to the distress fund 8001. between them. The same speaker who gave these particulars mentioned a dozen similar instances, the figures of which are reported in the Manchester newspapers of Thursday, the 20th of November. I think I cannot do better than extract them : A. feeds his hands, 900 in number, at a met of 801. per week, or 4,1601. per annum. B. has from 1,000 to 1,100 kande, and gives, in money sod provisions, 1101. per week, and 241. weekly to a sewing clam This equals 6,9681. per year. The schooling of 42 boys is also paid for, and money is given to the support of many old superan nuated hands. C. bas expended for his workpeople— cub, 1.3401.; bread. 2201.; coals, 481.; total, 1,6081. D. has 2,000 hands, and entirely employs his idle work people. E. has from 1,800 to 2,000 hands; gives • daily dinner to the whole ; has taken their clothes out of pawn ; has provided much fresh clothing ; and has given, in addition, 1,0001. to the general fund. (Cheers.) F. gives, in addition to his subscription to the central relief fund, 201. per week to the Provident and another society; furnishes coal and food to 700 hands. No cottage rents have been taken since the mill stopped ; 330 children an sent to school at the expense of the em ployer, who pays for them 3d. per head per week. G. gives 51)1. per month to the fund, and in addition pays wages equal to 2301. per week to his own bands. H. pays to his lands 130/. per week, in addition to large subscriptions to the general fund. I. (a small concern), with limited means, gives from 101. to 201. per week for clothing. J. has a/fanged to spend 10,0001. amongst the workpeople as required, besides !ongoing their rent. K. is speeding 11100 f. weekly in relieving the wants of their work. 1,. gives 5001. to the general fund, and has given in ilia, in small sunny to workers upwards of 1,6001., aid has ttnitNS; THUBWAY !VINING, DECANIIn - 25, 10.2. elm given clothing. (Cheers.) There were also two cased es strong as any of those he had named, of which no par ticulars could be given, one of the persons concerned having given 405 seeks of flour within the last two months. This gentleman refused to give any information as to what he lied given, and the fact just mentioned was only obtained through the dealer who supplied the flour. It was due to the great manes of the community that these facts should be known, and they were the best answers to the charges made against the Lancashire millowners. (Loud applause.) It is worth while considering, in support of the hypotheeis that a vast amount of good is being done among millownen and others which is never heard of, whether it is not likely that that same pride which we see existing among the " hands," and which renders them unwilling to make their wants known, may not also exist among some of the masters —who, be it remembered, are men of the same stamp--tad whether it may not make them unwilling that their good dm& should be trumpeted forth. If this be so—while I re 'meet the feeling which induces such retiosime—l cannot bat regret it, for though it is true that in performing acts cf mercy we shor'd not let our left hand know what our right hand doeth, it is yet not good or just that we should snow the section of society to which we belong to be reviled for neglecting duties which it really performs, and so fall into dieeredit unnecessarily and undeservedly. lay task is done. I have endeavoured familiarly, and with as few statistics as possible, to give a general sketch of the distress which 'data in a certain district, the inhabi tants of which have always been regarded—and deservedly regarded—by their fellow-countrymen with an especial re spect and affection ; and I have tried also to give some no tion of the actual working of the machinery of mercy which has been set in motion by means of publics benevolence only. I believe that that machinery will sasuredly be kept going just sa long as that other machinery which stands idle in the Inamehire factories remains inactive. I believe that it will want neither fuel to keep it in motion, nor oil to lubricate and brighten it. And I should not be surprised if one day or other, it should Ws out that the setting that machinery going was • good vandalism after all, and brought bark to those who invested in the benevolent undertaking • better profit than -.me of them ever thought of koldng THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE. The total amount received in aid of the distressed operatives' fend since Monday is about 7,001. Amongst the principal amounts which came to hand were From the city of Exeter, 2001. ; Croydon, seventh donation, ICY.; High Wycombe, par Mr. Mayer, 2C31. • inhabitants of Oporto, per Thos. C. Higblio, Fsq.. 1781 . 10h. ; eoutribu tions of the inhabitants of Liskeard, Cornwall, per his Wor ship the Mayor, 3001. ; British and foreign residents at Rotterdam, 2351. • the various congregations of the parish of Christchurch itreatham, 3001. ; St. Michael's, Cornltill, 2C ; Worshigi o n i l Company of Stationery, 521. 10s. ; John Harvey, Esq., . ; W . C., 1001. ; the reader. of Lloyd's Weekly Paper, per the proprietor, 2731. 2s. ; Messrs. T. Henry Shreeder and Co., 1001., third donation • proceeds of the sale of plants, per Messrs. Protheroe and Morris, 1141. Is. 3d. ; Bermondsey, sixth instalment, NIL ; C. Id'clarels Esq., seoond contribution, 50/. • General Bou rne), 501. ; 9th Brigade Royal A rtillery, Shorocliffe, 981. 9a. 2d.; collected in the parish of Ash, Kent. 951.84.2 d.; of a dramatic entertainment at Willis's Rooms, gr °. Jates'a. by the gentlemen of Mesas. Leaf, Bons, and Co., Old Change, 1031. lla. ; weekly collection at 13ridge water, 1031 . ; Mr. John Martin, M.P., 1001. ; Westray, Gibbet, and Hardcastle, New York, 501. ; Mks Elinor Francis Thornhill, a ward in Chancery, 801.; Mr. Hy. Wm. Eaton, sth donation, 1001. ; members of the German Glee Club, 11.21. ; at. Mathew's, Brixton , second contribution , 1091. ; Charles A. Wild, 1001. • British residents and other; at Bordeaux, 1311. 10s. ; British Consular Chapel at Naples, 1111. 19a. ; C. W. C., ICY. ; Messrs. Waterlow and Sons, TIM Cmcrza. Rana: Ft:IND.—A meeting of the collecting committee took place at Manchester yesterday ; Mr. Thomas Clegg presided. Mr. Madura, the hon. ere tary, reported that the total cash receipts of the past week five days), was 31,4E71., being less than the previous week ( six days) by 7,4261. The bon. secretary farther reported that they had Tooled that day 2,0001. from Edinburgh, for mewing schools (excluding Manchester); and several imam amounts. The committee adjourned for a week. Aawrox-rmumt-LYNE.—The borough relief com mittee, oflwhich the mayor, Mr. B. M. Kenworthy, is chair man, expended last week in the peounie•-y relief of 14,698 persona, 582/. 10a. sd. in aiding eleven sewing dames, com prising 1,930 young women, 3471. 15e. 4d. ; in the instruc tion of 3,724 poor children, 421. 19s. ; in the support of nine male adult day schools, comprising 1,601 poisons, 1981. ; and in the purchase of blankets, flannels, Linsey, calicoes, clogs, stockings. km, 3584; making a total expenditure for the week of 1,5271. la 9d. The sums received during the week by the treasurer, Mr. John Roes Coulthart, banker, amounted in the wh01et02,9971. 19a 10d. Paterort.—Mr. Aecroft, the chairman of the hood of goading, made his usual statement as to the d'e trees at, the meeting of the board on Tunas*, first observ ing that the return was not quite so =tido:story as the pre vious return, as last week there was an actual decrease in the number of cane relieved, whilst this week there was • ua/1 increase. As respected the whole 110i011, the cues relieved were 9,589[. and 22,565 persoas„and the total cost of relief amounted to 1,8991.5. 6d. ; an increase of two erne and 94 persona, end in cost of maintenance of 1951.14 a. 7d. In the borough of Preston the figures for the present week were :—Cases, 7,649 ; persons, 17,792; oost of relief, 1.5621. le. 4d. loans' : Oases, 16 ; persons, 181 ; relief, 1961.128.9 d. The per centage of pauperism in the 27 distressed unions was 13 6-10. In the Preston union it was 20i, anti in the borough it rose to 21i. The highest amount paid par bead in any of the olier unions, la. Md. ; the lowest, le. Old. ; nod the avenge, Is. Md. In the Preston union the con was le. 81.5 d per bead, and in the borough it amounted to L. 9d. per boa There are employed by the board the followiag able-bodied paupers, : Men—Oa the *env, 2,799 ;at Walton-le-Dale, 614 ; at the Stone-yard, 197 ; on the Marsh, 78 ; Coro Exchange, 270 ; New Hall-lane, 230. Women at sewing schools Knowsley-street school, 469 ; Mill Hill, 500; Walton village, 141 ; School-lane, 64 ; total, 5,262, or 251 more than were employed last week. ICITCHENS FOR THE PEOPLE IN LANCASHIRE. tab) intelltgenct. COURT OF QUEENS BENCH.—Dso. 24. After Term Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Goildball.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and • Special Jury.) HUDSON T. SLAM, BART., AND OTRISRL—ASSAULT. (doocloded from yesterday'a Express.) The Lord Chief Justice, in concluding his summing no, said—l am perfectly willing to believe Mr. Hudson's account of his share of the transmit", . but one cannot sufficiently deplore the course he punned on the investigation before the benches, as it pre vented the possibility of all further inquiry into the im. portent question as affecting Mr. Seymour's conduct. The moment he adopted that course his credibility with the benches as • witness was absolved. and his testimony in exculpating Mr. Seymour was valueless. I think too much has been made in the course of this trial of the suggeste d tenderness on the part of the hea th ers for Mr. •by Seymour, for I do not think that when they - Toured to get back the book they thought so much about its effect upon the investigation as the indignity and outrage t ha t bad been offered to themselves. Mr. Hudson before he took the course be did aught to have considered the effect his conduct would have on Mr. Seymour's cue, in whose behalf he had voluntarily come forward as a witness. It seems to me that, in whatever point of view we look at this matter, it was most deplorable that Mr. Hudson should have made up his mind to take the course be did ; and if Mr. Hudson, when the letters were first produced and handed to him, bad said, " You have no basness with them ; they are my private property, whoever has banded them to you boa been guilty of a breach of faith," mud that be declined to answer any q neetions puttohim upon them, and that he should not give them bath, that would have been an intelligible and consistent course, although not • proper one ; but un fortunately that was not all ; he not only had certain pas sages in the letters read, but the whole of them, and con sequently when the letters were read they became part of the evidence in the case, and by their withdrawal Mr. Seymour was prevented from the opportunity of rebutting any imputation they might have been supposed to have cast upon him. If, therefore, the subject of the thing was open Ito exception, the manner of doing it was still worse. Any one convenient with the understood rules of honour I which prevail amongst us in our daily transactions of life I must know thence an implied understanding that docu ments handed without hesitation for inspection will be re turned without its being necessary to ask for any security. Unfortunately the plaintiff thought proper to adopt • dif ferent mune on this OCOSaiOII, and pursued towards • body el highly respectable gentlemen a violent* of con. lost and an offensive tone of manner which were unmoor. miry, more especially towards Sir Frederick Slade, and dragged into the discussion the name of an shunt and un offsetting lady in a manner most disgraceful and unworthy and unbecom ing • gentleman. I cannot understand this course of proceeding. I can only hops the dinner at the club had something to do with it, and I own I had hoped before the termination of the case that we should have heard some expressmo of regret from the plaintiff for has unseemly and ungentlemanly manner in introducing Sir Frederick Slade's female relation into the case. I must do Mr. Hudson the justice to believe and hops that • great deal of what poised is • matter of sincere regret to himself, and to think that if the thing had to be gone over again he would not have so acted. He appear' to be • man of great intelligence, • man of the world, and accustomed to the society of gentlemen, and I feel he must regret haring so mismeducted himself. I own I think there is much to regret on the other aide, and that it would have been more consistent with the dignity of the benches of the Middle Temple if they had allowed him to depart with that dignified contempt which he deserved, and not have suffered the parliament chamber of the Middle Temple, where the interests of the profession have been watched for No many generations by some of the most distinguished lights and luminaries of the profession, to be converted into a theatre fora /011111 of this description, instead of allowing him to be overpowered by the porters and servants of the inn, have stood before you on their legal rights. I have pointed out to you the leading features of this cue u it etrikes me in its morel aspect, and if it becomes a question of damages with you, you must take ioto your consideration all the circumstances and the position et the partial. No doubt the bleachers felt irritated in the ex treme at seeing their investigation frustrated by the with. drawal of evidence so essential to the cue, end at the indignity and outrage they were subjected to, not only in the insulting manner and the defiance of the defendant in withdrawing the letters, but in the language he used. Bat at the same time, if the benches or any other body of men take upon themselves to exercise powers with which by the law of the land they are not armed, and they mistake those powers, and in the excitement of the moment step beyond the law, they must answer for it,and miler the benchers have made out • justiinstion for their conduct on thin co:anion the plaintiff is entitled to your verdict. The assault is ad mitted., and there is no attempt to screen any of the defendants from their joint and 'aural liability, and unless they were justified by the circumstances, and the facts which they had put upon their pleas, the verdict must pass against them. The proceedings in the Temple were no doubt exciting, and that they have been exaggerated to create • prejudice against the masters there can be no doubt, in endeavouring to make out that Sir Frederick Slade, Mr. Barishavre, and Mr. Rodwell, had, in addition to the porters, laid bands on the plaintiff. We have heard their indignant denial of their having done so, both from these gentlemen and from those who were calm lookers-on, and who were anxious for the honour of the beechen, and who were alarmed lest the exasperation and the insulting tone of the plaintiff might have drivers some of the members of the bench beyond the fair limits of endurance. They saw no- thing of the kind, and whatever may be the issue of this in. quiry, that is to my mind • matter of very great satisfaction. The plaintiff having appeared before them and submitted himself for examination, it must be taken that the beechen were entitled to have possession of the letters ; but it did not give them snob a property in them as that they could properly be called their. ftimi facie it would be so, because possession is always good as against a wrongdoer, and if the plain tiff took them away from the benches without any title or right, the letters would be their property as against him. but it would not be so if they belonged to the plaintiff, and be was entitled to their possession. It appears that all the document, connected with the company had vanished with the excep tion of these letters. They came into the possession of Mr. Brown, who was the solicitor to the company, and he having the legitimate possession of them, and having banded them over to the lumbers, they were bound to restore them to him 'Amon as they had done with them. They had, there fore, a special property in them, unless the plaintiff could prove his right to them ; and that brings us to the question whether they were or were not the plaintiff's property, and if they were not then for the purposes in question they were the property of the bombers. The plaintiff's evidence is positive and prune to the point, and it would appear from lethat they are his property ; but then the question arises whether be had not de dica ted it to the ores and purposes of the company so as to make it the company's book, and if it were the company's book the plaintiff was no more entitled to it than Mr. Digby Seymour or any other shareholder. To form an opinion that this is his book it is necessary to look at its contents. It contain. 17 letters, six only of them are copies of Mr. Hudaon's letters, the remainder being copies of letters written by the secretary, and one written by Mr. Digby Seymour. You must, therefore, exercise your judger after examining their contents, whether these letters acre not written by the plaintiff while exercising the irrportant function of a director, and in holding communication with the agent of the mine in the character of director. His lordship then referred the jury to the phraseology of the letters, onervieg that the plaintiff took an active share of the manage. ment of the company, and that the letters were written in the plural number " we," toc., and said—lf it is • pri vate letter book, strange liberties were taken with it, for although, as the plainiaff says, he kept it in his desk under lock and key, there was, amongst other letters written by the secretary to the collector,• reference to his income tax, and others in reference to railway transactions unoon aectd with the Waller Mining Company. If you think this is the plaintiff's private letter.book he was entitled to withdraw it from the benches ; if not, it is for you to say whether the Teachers have made out their plea. All other documents in connexion with the company had die. appeared. On Saturday afternoon , an institution projected by Mrs. Eason Wilkinson, for eaching simple cooking to fac tory girls, and supplying cheap meels to the unemployed, • was opened at No. 78, Oxford-road. Manchester. The building is a three-storey house, at the corner of Oxford road and Boundary-atreet. The cooking department is on the ground floor, and the front rooms on the grayed and first floors will be used as dining rooms. They will accom modate upwards of 120 individuals at one time. Over the kitchen is • room in which rations will be served for tickets which will be distributed by relief committees and others, sod which may be purchased in quantities at the kitchen. A small room on the first floor will be supplied with news papers and periodicals. The upper storey is occupied by the private apartment, of the staff. This will consist of a superintendent, a matron, and twelve girls who are taken from the sewing schools and Sunday schools in the neighbourhood, and who will be succeeded by others as soon as they become tolerably proficient. The education of these girls will also be promoted by Mrs. Wilkinson. The kitchen will be open from 9 o'clock in the morning to the same hour in the evening. The bill of fare is similar to those that have been previously published con nected with other instantiate, and will be enlarged to cor respond with the demand. The original outlay in this establishment has been defrayed by subscription , and it is hoped that the working expenses will be met by the re ceipts. At the opening, on Saturday, a number of ladies and gentlemen were present and tested the quality of the food, which they declared to be excellent. In the evening Mrs. Wilkinson gave a supper to the workmen who had been engaged in preparing the establishment. On Saturday evening Sir James Kay Shuttlewortli„ Bart., presided at a social meeting held in Mr. Rietwistle's loom shed, Padiluim, at which nearly 2.000 persons were present. The chairman explained in detail the "i moots connected with • trades' ball and cooking kitchen, which it is proposed to open for the benefit of the working population of the place. He stated that refreshments would be provided at all hours of the day, following, as regarded prices, the whole of the arrange ments so successfully carried out at Glasgow. There would be • newsroom, which during the present period of distress would be opened without payment. Afterwards some moderate charge would be made in order to secure a larger supply of papers than might otherwise be available. After 6 o'clock in the evening the newsroom would be open to smokers. The next room to that would be a refreshment room for men. Upstairs there would be a similar room solely for women, well lighted and comfortably warmed ; and as the room would be open to a certain hour in the even ing, he had no doubt they could obtain the services of a schoolmistress to reed to them. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge, learniog that thin project was conceived sent him through • friend a very gracious I message of interest, and asked in what way she could in any degree show her eympatby with the suffering people of ' his district. He replied that her Royal Highseds money , was not needed ; hut if she was disposed, as an act of gracious kindness towards those of her own sex in Padi ; ham, to send some small contribution, which could be used in the decoration or for the convenience of the room appropriated to women, he should take care that it ' was properly bestowed, and he further requested that she ' would allow him to call the room so appropriated the " Princess Mary's Room." Her Royal Highness at mice i allowed her name to be connected with the institution as patroness. Another portion of the first storey it was pro. tar F ot appropriate for the refreshment of the men work dthe Relief Oommittee, who would be provided with a inner worth Sel. The room would be snfilaiesely amebas I for 60 or 80 mem to sit doves at table at one time. la the highest storey they p epossd that in future the deems of , the Meshanica' lastitutios should assemble. There would be ' Bible classes. the atteadance at which was to be perfectly optional. The opswird se at present arranged would take in the drat week of the new year. Tb• annoosoeneent of the pro*, waerosaived wialegreat fowler by the easetand " All had dissolved, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Had left only this wrack behind it." The next point is that he fraudulently possessed himself of the book, and that rests upon the passage in the short hand writer's notes. I think you must not rely too much ou its accuracy ; but you must draw your opinion from the evidence that has been given in illustration of it, coupled with the state of the plaintiff's mind, who went to the Parliament chamber with the intention of be coming possessed of the book. Referring to the complaint made by the plaintiff relative to his crass-axami nation before the heathers, when it was assumed that the cross-examination was offensive, his lordship nid— Does it not occur every day in courts of justice ? It is one of the unhappy incidents in the administration of justice which cannot be avoided when it is necessary to test the credibility of witnesses by searching inquiries into their characters, sifting to the bottom the evidence of reluctant witnesses, who often state facts under the pressure of crosa-examinatton which otherwise would be ahrouded in darkness and secrecy. It is most painful to have to do so, but it is no more than is done even by the plaintiff's own counsel when they want to get from a witness something which he wants to conceal. Whatever has been said with reference to the robust and powerful appearance of the defendant% in comparison with that of the plaintiff, who might be said , Ito be one of the light infantry as sgainsttbe defendants, who are said to be the grenadiers of the law, be bad succeeded in keeping possession of the document in spite of them all, mid without hie receiving much bodily injury sod see leg that be came o ff the victor in the strife, it is for you to say whe th er MOM folio was used than was neceasary. Hie lordship next referred to the g ivin g him iu charge, about which there was a conflict of teetiniony, observing that Mr. Baphawe had cautiously abstained from giviag him in charge or charging him with felony or larceny at all. Mr. Collier took an exception to his lordship's ruling rela tive to the property in the book. The jury retired to consider their verdict at five minutes peat oat o'clock. At tau minutes to four o'clock they made a communication to his lordship, and they were called into court. The Lord Chief Justice—l understand you wish to ask nie this question—" Supposing the book not to have been the property of the plaintiff, were the didepdants justified .. . in using fore, to take it from him!' ?bat la • question of 11ARICKTS. law and not of feet. ' Its b sufficient for tts to day that year ...tea, ...-- e ZDNI . BOAT Enstte.—The market was •—•— question should be answered in the affirmative , and upon ~, ~. ~ ~s . ~ that point there would be a verdict for the dafendeste . Whether the plea is good or bad in law is for another 45,4 611 . li girtv ilard4 46 °. 45, 4 d• , ed. ' J•a to uag s. 5095. ;April to 4s•_. ti tribunal. JUDO. at - 455. to 45e. 3d. ; Oct . On to Dee., 46a. 6d. Do&Timy to Let A jtuvmaa—Tben is no chance of our allatial *a to .... „W m. us imn. Arrivals, 90 ai m . ownership in the book. The Lord Chief Justice—Yon have been three bons eon. sidering your verdict ; have you gives up all hopes of your COTTON.—Lrnanot, Dec. 24.—We have bad a good agreeing! extent of business daring the week. Friday and 13atur&y's A juryman—We are seven to HVO. I sales ware small, the market slow, and scarcely malotainMs The Lord Chief Justice—But is there no hope of your , the quotations of Friday last. On Monday there was an agreeing to a verdict' increased demand, more tone, and the market closed firmly A juryman—l feel the importance of the case, and I think at previous rates. Yesterday increased activity prevailed, we ought not hastily to give an answer in the affirmative. and the males were estimated to reach 20,000 balsa, Nunn; The Lord Chief Justios—l think it would be • pity for closing at td. per lb. advance for Sant, Brazil, :and you to give up the task so bug as there is a reasonable hope Egyptian on the quotations of this day week. Specalaters of your agreeing to • verdict. have taken 340 bales of Americas, 640 Nadi*, 500 Egyptian, A juryman—l can't say there is any reasonable hope of 164,000 Bursts, and 500 Bengal . Exporters, MO American, oar agreeing to • verdict. There is no probability of our ; 2,6 N Smite, and 80 Bowl ; and coosuniers, 13,120 bales agreeing. !of all kinds We lave had • good demand to-day. Wes Tbe Lord Chief Justice—l do not like to take upon myself 20.020 bales ; half for export and speculation. The folia te discharge you if than is a chance of your agreeing to a , iog are the official quotations : Fair Orleans, 2742. ; verdict, lam in the bands of the nuns& t middling, 2413. ; Mobile, 260. • middling, 2442. ; Uploads, The learned cannel on both sides thought it useless, I 250. ,• middling , 23td. The c o tton mean will be closed after what had been said by the jury, to keep them locked 1 until Monday next, We 28th inst. up any longer. The jury were then discharged without agreeing to • verdict. This closed the Guildhall sittings. WOOL. AND WORSTED.—Sit•DIORD, Deo. 24.—There is something of a holyday appearance in the market to-day. In consequence of Christmas-day to-monew, the market is held to-day. There is • smaller attendance than anal, but notwithstanding this • good Weiner has been done. There have been considerable transactions in wool during the wee.., and there is a good inquiry this morning. An advance is asked for all clears of wool. end a trifle more money is ob tained. The advance asked in some OMNI prevents males, but the stapler complains, as usual, that at the preseut country rates be has too little margin for profit'. On the whole, a feeling of confidence and satisfaction prevails, and it is generally supposed that on the turn of the year things will still further improve. There ie an improved tone in the yarn department. There has been more inquiry and a large number of orders placed for the home trade, sod for the Lancashire sod Glasgow marker. Foreign ilinta are also operating a little, chiefly in coloured Some counts of single yams have not with a = demand. Stocks are held by shippers, who are unable to find • sale for them at remunerative rates. There is a hardening tendency in prior generally, and the advance sought r at Mast partially obtained. There is a fair trade doing in pieces, the merchants attend ing in scanty number so near the close of the year. Still, manufacturers are generally well employed Jeweler. There has been a rather better business doing for China of late. Prier 'lave an upward tendency. LEATHER.—The demand for leather is now very limited, as is usual at this imam of the year. The stock of fresh goods still motion= small, and prices remain no. altered. There wu a laige 'apply of market hides at Lead. enhall both on Friday and Tuesday, which sold at a reduc tion of about 2.. per hide. 0011N.—Brawirwax, Diu. 24.—At this day's market a short supply of wheat. an is commonly the case when not held on the usual day. Though the trade railed dull, the ties were made at an advance of Is. per quarter. Barley, beans, and peal6d. per quarter lower. Oats firm, but ray a sale. BOOTON, Dec. 24.—Our market to-day Is. dearer than last week. Oats 6d. dearer. Beans, 30s. to 34a., 19s. nett. Peas, while, 325. to 36e. ; blues, 4th. to 42a, 19a nett. Oi.aaoow, Dan. 24.—This day's market ruled steady for wheat at an advance on last quotations of 6d. per boll on American red. Floor brought previous rates. Ora and oatmeal unchanged, and little alteration occurred in the value et barley, beans, or peas. Indian cora about 3d. per boll dearer. liarffurr, Dec. 24.—00 r market this morning, being held off the usual day, was not well attended, and the business p asu ng was limited. English wheat in were instances brought an advance of Is. per quarter, and Ace. roan must be quoted 2d. to 3d. per 1001ba. dearer. Mew was held firmly, bat we cannot alter our previous quer. boas. Oats and oatmeal were in retail demand at late rates. In bras there was no change of moment. India cora was the taws dearer. - - - • • - - NIIWBURT, Dec. 24.—Oar supply of wheat this day woe =all, • steady bade et rather more money. Less buiey on offer ; malting dessriptions, ls. per qr. dearer, other sods the same u led week, and very little doing. Oats, brans, and peas very dull. firocrrou-on-Ttne, Dec. 24.—The supply of wheat at oar market this morning was small ; there being a gwd &deaden°, of Wynn, it sold daddy at an edvanee of fully Is. per quarter on last week's prior. Oats said it fall rates. Barley dull. BMW and peas Is per qr. lower. Impede during the pad week r—Wbeat, ousetwies, 566 qrs. 00ALB.-Lowrlow, Dm 114.-BeWs Priam% 13s. 9d. ; Bowers Wed Hartley, 14s. ed. ; Bysish eds Wed Hartley, 14. 6d. ; Gowpan Hartley, 14. 6d. ; Davisods Wed Hartley 14s. 6d. ;Hd U Main, 16s. 6d. • lam. hart's West Hartley, 14a. 6A • North Felton (hi, 14s. • Tanfiskl Moor, 14s. ; Taallsld Moor Butes, 144. ; Walks; Primrose, 13s. 3d. ; West Hadley, 14a. 6d. ; Wad Wylsw, Lk. 9d. ; Wylem, 16a. 6d. • Walls End Godorth, 16s. ; Walls Bed Barton, 16s. • W a lls End Hadley, 16a. • Walls End Riddell, 16s. ; Elea Main, 16s. 9d. ; Walla End 13raddylls Hatton, 17s. 3d.; Walls End Haswell, 18s. 6d. ; Walls Bed Hatton, 18s. 6d. ; Walls End Swath Hettoe, 18s. 6d. ; Walls Fed Omsep, 17s. 6d. ; Walls End &viler pool, 18 s. ; Walla End Hugh Hall. 17s. ; Walk End Kellam, 17s. 6d. ; Walls Rod South Hartlepool, 17s. 3d. ; Walla End South Balks, 17s. 6d. : Camay and Duthie Anthracite, 21k. ; Camay and Duffryn Malting, 225.-Ships at market, 127 ; sold, 107. THE POLICE COURTS. GUILDHALL. William Jarvis, a dete ctive ciq o76aer, appeared upon an adjourned summons, to show cause why be detained & eatiof furs, value nuder 151., and a dishonoured cheque for 301., the property of the complainant. After some considerable discussioo, during which the ma gistrate deprecated the practice of detective officers enter ing private houses without a magistrate's warrant, the summons was dismissed, and the property oxiered to re main in the custody of the police for the present, both parties appearing satisfied with this arrangement. Richard Doubtfire, a labourer, in the employ of Mr. Wynn, the dust-contractor, was charged before Aldermen Htterphery, with having unlawfully in hie possemion a gold signet ring. value about 21., without being able to account sOlisfacitonly for the same. Baker, a detective officer, said he received information from Mr. Bryer, the refiner, of Barbican, which Judaea him to follow the prisoner. He asked him where the ring was that he had been offering for sale, and he replied that he had it, but he was not going to give it up. With the assistance of another officer the ring was taken from the prisoner, who DOW explained that he found the ring in the dust, and that all property so found, with the exception of bank notes and traceable articles of value, became the per quisites of the workpeople in the dostyard. Alderman Humplerry said the prisoner bad admitted to the officer that he knew Mr. Wood, a contractor, bad been recently committed to prison for two month, for a similar offence, and be must therefore have been aware that be was acting improperly in attempting to dispose of the ring. The prisoner said he had • large family of children dr peo reg tizi upon him, and the few shillinp the ring would have would have been a great mistimes to them. Mr. Thoroughgood, a printer in the City-road, said the ring produced belonged to him, but that he was quite unable to tell where he had lost it. Alderman Humphery said the ogee was very clear against the prisoner, but in consideration of bis family be would mitigate the sentence from twenty-one days to seven days' imprisonment. CLBRBENWELL. A welldremad young fellow who gave the name of William Welsh, but who is well-known to the police by several aliames,wascharged before Mr.D'Eynconrt with being mourned with others not m custody, in stealing a valuable watch from the puma of Mr. Thomas Philip Hugo, an oven builder, of the Gray's-inn-road. The prosecutor stated that about a quarter to knead night he was passing through the Oray's-inn-road with a friend, when they were both bustled by the prisoner and some of his companions. in a moment he felt a tug at his watch, and saw a man running away with it. When be attempted to follow, be was stopped by the primmer, who after a struggle also made his escape. The watch had not been found. Poliee-coustable Gratthunt, 309 G, said be had known the prisoner for the last eight years as a mostdesperate thief. Hs was the leader of a gang of the Portpool-lane thieves. He bad bees several times in custody, and had been several times convicted. The prisoner denied the statement, and said the constable was matsken. Mr. IYEynoourt said he should think not, as the prim ner's face was very well known to him. The prisoner —Well, I shall reserve my defence, as it will be of no user ying anything here. Committed for trial. James Garrott, aged 12, and Walk's Burden, aged 10, were placed at the ter charged with stealing a hall-quer tern loaf. Mrs. Eliza Biutmer, of 27, Radleystreet, Smith's-terreos, Chelan, stated that the previous evenimsbecew Garrett enter her shop and tak e the loaf, which he handed to the other primmer, who was on the door-step. Policw-coostable Charles Hoffer, 323 B, mid that when be took the prisoners their excuse for taking the bread was that they hod had nothing to eat all day. Mr. Arnold inquired whether the parents of the boys before him had been informed of their present position ? The police replied that they bad. Mr. Arnold asked whether they were now in attendance. The police said that the mother of Garrett was present, but the mother of Burden was not. Mr. Arnold inquired whether she said anything about her son The constable replied that she said she did net care much about him, as be was going OD against her will. Mr. Arnold asked Mrs. Garrett what she had to say? Mn. Garrett said that her husband was a painter; there was plenty of food for her sou at home, but there was no keeping him there ; he would run the streets, end was form ing bed associations, from which she should like to see him reamed. Mr. Arnold observed that the only way to restore these poor boys would be to seed them to a reformatory, but their pinata must contribute towards their support. Mrs. Garrett —Willingly. The prisoners were remanded. TRAFFIC RZTURNB. Mee Par H.T0621. to6ll. RAILWAYS open eeneoee enenente 1102 1161 Week ending Oct. 96. a a a 4 Great Indian Peninsula 496 2,671 2,708 6,879 '''" Week ending Dec. 18. Edinburgh and Glasgow l6O icottish North Eastern and Dundee and Arbroath 132 Week ending Dec. 18. 8. Anat. & Lombardo-V era (South Aust. Line) 1004 9,163 80,624 39,687 47,658 (Lombardo Line) Central Italy Branch Plaleance to Bologne Week ending Dec.l9. Limerick and Bennis Limertck and Foynes Waterford and Kilkenny. 31 132 223 79 356 321 Waterford and Limerick 77 496 637 1.033 1.434 Sambre and Meuse 6B 180 1,466 1,634 1,410 Week ending Dec. 20. Weal Slanders - 7,011 OM 4,611 4,0>1 Week widths Dee. 21. Great Northern 330 11,021 1%703 28.332 29,0% Loa .Chatham. toad Dover 728 1,273 748 3,016 1.731 Loudon it North WesternllUi 41,860 49,003 39,0 39 88,040 Manchester, South Juno rn 370 1,087 1,304 tion. & Altrincha Lancashire & Yorkshire NO 11,167 20.4e3 31.814 93.116 London & South Western 13.873 6.538 13,963 Blanchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire North Staffordshire l4B 7,986 7,876 MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON • POLICEMAN.— On Tuesday, at the Weet Hiding Court-house, Huddersfield, a man, named William Steadman, was charged with oom mittiog • murderous outrage upon • policeman, named George Long. On Sunday night Loog was attracted by • noise to a public-house known es the Shepherd's Arms, at Cowcliffe. He found Steadman this worse for liquor, and cautioned the landlady not to fill him any more. This en raged the partially drunken fellow, sod he followed the officer into the road, upon which the latter, after re peatedly advising him to go home, threatened to re port him. No sooner bad the officer rid so, than Steadman caught the officer by the Goat collar, and commenced kicking him. The officer endea voured to seize him, and • struggle of a desperate character ensued, which lasted for twenty minutes, during the whole of which time the prisoners wife and mother were looking on. There were • number of men • short distance off, but they refused to go to the officer's assistance. Long succeeded three times in getting Stead , man down, but the prisoner's mother seized the officer by the hair and dragged bim aside, so as to enable her ROO to I get uppermost. One of the eight or nine men staodiog a abort distance off also advanced and kicked the officer, and , then ran away. Long, exhausted, called out " Murder," and his cries brought to his assistance two men, who led I him home. He presented a shocking spectacle. His face was covered with blood and bruises, caused b the kicks • of the prisoner, who had mercilessly attacked him about the face and head. His coat was nearly torn off, and his legs were covered with bruises, so that he was hardly en abled to walk. The prisoner was committed for trial at the @Geelong. LONDON GENZIALOMNINUS Comrsiev(Lnrtrim).— ' Traffic receipts for the week ending Dee. 21, 10,20i1. lb. 9d. [Advertisement.] HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.— One Hope yet Itemains.—However long continued their I disease, however severs their sufferings, let no invalid deepeir of being cured till them potent remedies have bad a fair trial. Timone or other invariably succeeds. Both Ointment and Pills Waste by verifying and regulating every function. Tires Qualities advantageou ly display themselves la various diseases which differ in several particulars. The oistmest removes all outward blemishes. The Pills impams me and promote the formation of health, bey as to diges tion, it can and vigour. Is ate el no /lomat ire can be prescribed se mil SO = Me tt desired effect. They relax the beanillegias MOMS dm WNW aperient°, the gaMas. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Ardberg, from Liverpool for Calcutta. Repi ill, lat. II N., lon. St W. Alexander, for the Cape of Good Hope , Oct. 17, lat. =15., I. 42 W. -- Amelia ;barque), of Swansea, for Alexandria, Dee. 6, off Absorb. Browlwater, from London tor Shanglue, Oct 12, lat. 29 IC, 1012. 10 W. Coronet, for Liverpool for Bombay, Nov. 22, lat. 4N. lon. 23 W. Capiolan, from Sunderland for Shanalme, Sept. 11, laL 11 6., lon. 28 W. Caledonia, for Matanzas, Dee. la tat (ON., lea. 12 W. Cm:, from Liverpool for Bombay. Dee. 13 ILL of Naar. 'Evangeline (American,. for &Moe, Oct. 0. lat. MI IL, lea. IS Z. Bonet and CbriMine (brig), Beech. of Rostock, from OR days, lg. 42.9, lon. 11.60. In; from Liverpool for CaiceMily kt. 8., lon. 26. Jane, Bamberg, from ateeter tor Shanghae, Spt. 22, 111.1112. lon. 19 W. Jan Ziegler, from Plymouth for New Zealand, Sept. a, lat. 21 N., log: 22 W. Kenna, of Glasgow, for Trinidad, lot N N., 100. 22 W. from liven:gal for Aden, Oat 2, 122. 1 K., lon. 19 W. CRYSTAL Paaaca—Chra Sarum° MT.—Waa- I=DAT, 24. Admissions ea payment, 396 ; ditto by mum 816; total. 1.213. Da. DI JONOH'S LIGHT-BROWN COD LIVER OIL. — Mothers, and all who know the perils attending the early years of childhood, will be interested in the following observations by Thomas Hunt, Eau.. M.R.C.8., in the "Medical Times and Gazette " In badly nourished Infanta, Dr. de Jongh's 011 Is Invaluable. The rapidity with which two or three tesspoonfn'e daily will fatten a young chili is astonishing. Children generally like the taste of Dr. de longb's Oil, and when it Is gi ven thew often cry for more."— hold only la enpuiled bo b. 6 11 . 4a. 9d., and 9a., try Dr. de Jones's sante, Anwar, Barford, sal Co., IT, Strand. Landon. and oral" As.--ValnietlegosuL BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTH& BAKllL—Deeember 210, at the wife of E Baker, lag., of a CALTRORPL da =ber it, at Lowndeasquare, the Bon. Ws. Somerset Oomph Calthorpe, of • eon. CRATIPIELD.—December 21, M Sorhlton.creseent, ingurnon- Thames, the wife of C. H. Chatdeld, Lg., of • daughter. LESLlE—December 22, at Wartbill, Aberdeenshire, the ode of W. Leslie, log.. of a daughter. MAXIM December 22, at Bill-Meent, Berkekriqua re, U m F. Magee, of a son. ILlLLKlL—December 19, at Bloomfield Tills, Park-road, Stoke Newington, If es. S. If eller, of • ton. )(ORRlCE—December 20, the wife of J. W. Worrice, Esq., of Catthorps Sowers near Rugby, of a son. ItOZLNY.—December 22, at Al t iburth, near Liverpool, the wife of L. B. Mosley, bg., of a son. liusriterr.—Deosaiber 11, at worth Balt near Liverpool, the wife of R. H. Itunpratt. Req., of • daughter. TICHBORNE—December at %Vardar Cagle, Wiltshire, the floe. Lady Tlehborne, of a eon. MARRIAGES. ADAMS-1112BLY.—December 1" , . at Bradninch, Devon, by the Rev..Y. Beali ;, V.L., W. Adams, Eihi., of Barnes, Slimy. to Mary Ann, ter of the late W. Body, Esq. BURROWS—TA LOIL —December 20, at Christ Chun+, Forest hill, by the Rev. J. M. Clarke. M.A., H. Barrows, Tula, ayor of Pal/Ton Walden, Eases, to Mrs. Jasper g of Little Thurlow, Suffolk. COLLETT—THOMAS.—December 20, at Hanover Chapel, Peck ham, by the Rev. R. W. Betts, Mr. H. Collett, of London. to Miss Jane Johnson nomad, of Rye Lodge, Peckharanc. LIA/0111ALL—CUN DELL—December 18. at St. Paul's. E burgh, J. A. kihrshelL H.q., of St. Petersburg,to LUCY e. Ann daughter of J. Caudell, Esq., of Leith. BMITH—BARNETT.—December N. at St. Mark's, Myddelton square, Mr. O. Smith, of Stonedelitterrace, Cloudesleyaquare. to Sias Annie Barnett. WEBB—HUNT. - December 20, at St. Saviour's, Paddington, by' the Rev. H. IL Letchworth. T. E. Webb, of Milal.ree of to Marla, daughter of the hue W. Runt, req., J. 2. Stamford. ---- DEATHS. AITCHISON.—December 21, at Greenwich, J. Aitchieon, R 6,•• wed 76. BMNBRICIOR. —December 20. at St. Margaret's, 11611201 d. h as h Genera Sir P. Balobrigge, K.C.8., Colonel of the tth Camerontans. aged 76 - BEADELL—December Si, at Behlse.road, St. John's-wood Derot, wife of Mr. W. Sandell, aged es. DALY=.—Decernler it, at Gravesend, Comm ander 0. W. Dal* 11. R.N., aged In. YOORD.—Deceaver 12. Richard, eon of Mr. R. Foord, of Posiet's Farm Roads.. Kent. aged 46. HALL—Deceniber 20, at Sandwell-place, Lewisham, Kent , Dorothy Wllow wits of Commander J. Hall, It.H., aged db, Printed and P.OIWI bffMaui Lunt HALE , . Loinbitrd4treet, la the city of London, Printer, et I.' iwnre, In Lonnerdafroot, ta the Roane' of Wniteatsra .. Tunaso &T. Dzeicialla fi, U. 1