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Z ee. he ..fr,;458 Abraham Ball (35) pleaded guilty to having, at committed wilful and corrupt perjury.—Sen d to transportation for seven years. ARSON AT LIVERPOOL. ai n Cornforth De:mine (33) was charged with haviand ..ws, at Live rpoo l , feloniously set fire to a certain shop and C,. eh Nilse, with i n t ent to d e f rau d t h e Y or k s h ire F ire openinue In surance Compa n y. It a pp ear ed, from the for th g statement of Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, who appeared littl e p ro secution, that on Monday, the 6th November, b oi re before nine o'clock in the evening, the top of a Wa s on the south side of Swift's-court, Castle-street, ratiooond to be on fire. This building was in the occu tillerl of the prisoner, who catried on business as a aer froon here. and who had taken it about three years before,. the pre Printer named M`Gowan. Shortly after taking Pir c rrnises, the prisoner insured them in the Yorkshire tw and Life Insurance Office for £5OO. Until about Wee4l°cths before the fire, the paper shavings which B ._ i e the refuse of the prisoner's work, were put into t i i `u e ics, and deposited in a loft; but from about that time, state, were allowed to lie about the loft in a loose 440_ a, and were allowed to accumulate much more than ~_l . Three or four weeks before the fire, a lad named of sg, who is in the prisoner's service, noticed a quantity Th e° PPer wire, rolled round a long stick, in the shop. : h l e al sr wire, down to pick it up, but foun f c t li h i e t fastened ri to it Th, , w n i; or. . He then called the attention .3, 13 ... 50 ; n f ei; o T A. -1 • 11 wire was a r""`• .9 Liel• IL 11.10Ile 7, 1 Mitlvv tin akuv fterwards fastened to a nail on t r inner i nt o of o the outer d oor, an d was t race d up th e staircas e fo re e loft where the shavings were. A short time be tted" Ila tk ;fi', (me of the lads employed by the prisoner, d si l"ea 's detained from dinner by the prisoner, he (.. e . re d litraWen dnwn stialre and null the wire, while taar e r eu 7 i ner) went - into the loft. He did so, and re be for there for about a quarter of an hour ; and it would Wo r l d a jury to say whether he was not then testing the Atiublotllitt n ita g of his contrivance for setting the place on fire. week before the fire, also, the prisoner took a and „Y of Paper shavings, strewed them on the floor, out t eb them on fire , and on one of the boys trying to put Will r o fi re, he said,'" Let it be ; I am just seeing whgt it Were 2' A- few nights before the fire, as the boys Stre e i, e ,a,ving the place, something like a piece of wire th e fi ; mein on the face on the stairs. On the night of t'eloelet, the Prisoner was at the shop until nearly seven 264‘veG:;e leaving, at night (although he afterwards stated to Bel o th a t h e h a d not b een th ere i n the ev e n i ng ). he went down stairs, and was down for Oft mi nutes . He afterwards took a candle, pulled his hat he - Zweig up into the loft, where he remained about and iefi. eu L tes. He then came down, put out the candle, bo ys 4 i , toe shop. In about 20 minutes afterwards, the th e' _ a lt. One of the apprentices named Webster was h e fo a i : t o Come down, and as he was pulling the door to, fort and there was some r esistance. He pulled it with afte r ' a nd then he ar d so mething snap. In about 20 minutes ti ara this the top part of the place was found to be in two :' The prisoner subsequently offered to set up his erd4P,P k re ntices Webster and Tomlinson in business, in said ii; 4lat they ' might say nothing about the fire; but he !ititil be thei r b us i ness was t o b e carr ied on in his name incur e had got settled with the insurance company. The be. an ace company, having entertained some suspicions, W. 8' s hertly after the fire, to make some inquiries, and Boit rn ithies, their agent. called upon Webster. to make tiot t e h i nquiries from him on the subject. Webster did pla ce e k n make any communication as to what had taken b ut subs equen tly, i n consequence of some Fommu lei, m with his parents, he did give Mr. Smithies some o f a - T 'c ati on.—The learned counsel t h en rea d t h e ev id ence th e Horner, to whom the prisoner had talked about 35 1billty o f the place having been set on fire by a and e r Pulled against a piece of sand-paper by the wire; Solitha.lso some statements of the prisoner's to Mr. Pri a „ l "; and he concluded by stating that although the Lot p ro Claimed £595 from the insurance office, he had tio, t " o Perty to above half that value in his place on the pro oftq the fi re .—A num b er o f w it n esses were then called Qu iz . e the case for the prosecution.—They were cross she 'Red by Air. James, at some length, with a view to a tid w o that the fire had been cawed by a flue from a stove; 44 1 ''so that the prisoner had more property than the fir e of the insurance in the shop, on the night of the ( r e w • The case occupied the court during the whole of the tIJ: At a late hour, the jury retired to consider m a l,r verdict, and after being absent for three-quarters of "rur, they returned into court with a verdict . of not rh Y.—The announcement was received with a loud mr et ti ts of applause.—His Lordship severely reprobated the li a , ea l,/lly expression of feeling, and one man named Wil effi- 'shley Wilson, who was seen by one of the police eers clapping his bands having been brought before co rn was committed by his lordship until the rising of the Lift next day. PRIUS COURT.—TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. thp, : le . Whole of these two days was consumed in finishing l e - trial A of Mangnall and another v. Benecke, for an al hPu .infringement of a patent for stretching, drying, and pr o l n sh , - muslin fabric. We reported the first day's t " ee dioga in our last. At the conclusion of the pro raeted case, the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiffs. „ CROWN COURT.—WEDNESDAY. sq. l;P : "liam Green and John Williams, convict , ed . of . bur- VrY, were sentenced, the former to two years imprison gnt and hard labour in the House of Correction at 11,.5t.0n, and the latter to transportation for ten years. " I , lll ams had been previously convicted. s„.„' ‘ .°ah Cleg onvicted of cutting and wounding, was - "‘ence a to si x c months' imprisonment. tn ,,"ne M'Grath, who had been sentenced to eighteen at'a t hs ' imprisonment for uttering base coin, was laced i n t he bar. His Lordship remarked that after consider the her case, he had come to the conclusion to mitigate rjaentence to twelve months' imprisonment. f o "" e rtrY Rodgers, 18, was convicted of having uttered a t 0 defraud shipping note for the payment of £2, with intent Zodefraud Martin Cross. He was sentenced to twelve ~ntbs' imprisonment. le, °TY Lovatt was indicted for having, on the 17th of & feu, thrown a quantity of sulphuric acid upon the per din of Margaret Pearson, at Liverpool, with intent to a ugare, and to do some grievous bodily harm.—Mr. pattes stated the case to the jury. The prisoner and the P s ecutrix are neighbours, and in consequence of some 41 3 ute, the prisoner went to a druggist's ship and pro th„ted a pennyworth of oil of vitriol, which she threw over guilty of the prosecutrix.—The jury found the prisoner 1-4...LitY of an assault, and she was sentenced to six months' '"Drisonrnent. co Three men, named Haslam, Smith, and Bullagh, were itt neted of having stolen a quantity of brass and other k,,."e i les attached to a steam-engine, at the colliery of the s t 't of Bradford, near Bolton. Bullagh requested the 41:erintendent of police from Bolton to give him a cha pii t ,,er• With this wish the superintendent readily corn of eu, informing the court that he had found the produce 1 ,0 13 0 less than fourteen robberies upon his premises. His th,„ t dsbip sentenced Bullagh to fourteen years'transporta in,,",. and the other two prisoners to eighteen months' psonmn.Ellenl, Ford, an old woman, indicted for having forged t e -4 rnber of shipping notes, was found guilty, and sen ced to two years' imprisonment in Lancaster Castle. v i r f a,rY RTnolds was indicted for having committed b efn ' u t and corrupt perjury, on the Ist of December last, ire the magistrates assembled in petty sessions at —l ,;" e bdale; but the proof failing, the Judge stopped the y e, and t h e jury acquitted the prisoner. CROWN COURT.—THIIRSDAY. )1 1I e Cro wn b us i ness h av i ng b een go t th roug h, M r —. ° 4 Alderson sat this morning for the trial of causes. BRECKELL V. PRINCE. f ro 4 this a c ti on th e p l a i n tiff soug ht t o recover damages i tt na the d e f en d an t f or th e l oss o f hi s d aug ht er ' s services, n sequence of her seduction by the defendant. ivree Serjeant Wilkins and Mr. Crompton appeared for 1 0 ;,P n ,aintiff, nd and Mr. Serjeant Murphy and Mr. Atherton Ve defeant. 411;1 -he Plaintiff, it appeared, kept a large public-house, 11 c La t iso was the owner of some bathing machines, at to "'le, near Liverpool; and the defendant was a railway 4er.itractor, engaged on some dock works going on in that or,lghbourhood 'rho plaintiff was the father of children,twenty .of whom the daughter whose seduction tr,„ th e -. ;.. the gronnd of the present action was one. W hilst er,„ lormation of the docks on winch the defendant was iti: a f i e d Was progressing, he was in the habit of f r eq u e n t- Alai,`,,„e Plaintiff's house, and there frequently saw the haai d ""s daughter Ellen acting in the capacity of bar -4116 After scraping an easy acquaintance with her ik. ) , - ,, r tlY bef ore Ch r i s t mas i n 1847, h e one d a y f oun d her tij,"'ng alone in the bar, and, seizing the opportu n ity, mad e her if s h e were engage d , as h e thoug h t she would e live, an industrious wife. Being answered in the nega the became her formal suitor, and was received as h o by her relatives. Their marriage was talked of, and ho was lo o k e d f or f or th e i r f u t ure resi d ence . I n ha t i` e arY, 1848, the plaintiff's daughter and her mother 4%0 quarrel, and the defendant soon after coming in, atile her what was th e ma tt er , an d on b e i ng i n f orme d , ti ed ' 0 her, " Well, lass, you had better have been mar tosta ti,, w k ilen I asked you; will you come t o m y l o d g i ngs r enal P' This she refused to do ; but the defendant, 11 1, iti n Tg two hours with her alone, accomplished he r tie was for some time afterw a rds kind to he r , till Ilap 4 °lied he was paying attention to another ady, ;430„e4 ,lolyneux, and finding herself - in thefamily-way , relle the same time, she upbraided him, and they quer ttsed here telling him that he was " a villain" for having 410 4 e so ; on which the defendant said, " The n I' ve golis„ . ;tta You." She was obliged to leave her father's lifer„- coasequence of her condition, and in December 'tBo tie child was born. The defendant then offered her k ike' be paid at intervals, if she would affiliate it or vtoilmother person which she refused to do unless he k b ind himself' to the payment, which he did not do. tk r. S ge 1 / 4 erjeant MURPHY having addressed the jury for e ndant, d iet fr, t csitnsuir summed up ; and the jury found a ver b ~,,the plaintiff—damages, £2OO. ff ' ll- ANCRESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE so tt -4 ,r Co. V. BLINICHORN.—In this case . the plain -444 gut to recover from the defendant, who'is a railway t he etor at Gloucester, a sum of £625, alleged to be : Q e e ( r L a cccunt of three 'railway calls. It appeared that fi 44- at e 'd Pa nY under which the plaintiffs sued was an amal .-hiltidertakin. which included several extensive the plaintiff" purchased the shares in one of the q tl etV which formed the amalgamated line, and the ,as in (which was merely one of law) was whether he tge for calls under the newly constituted pro defe'ria Verdict for the plai . ntiff Z 7 5 ., with leave for ant to move on certain legal points. ISi PRIUS COURT.—THIIRSDAY. • h' 14 T 4 1 13 Was URT INIER V. HEALD AND ANOTHER. th e c l ef ,. an action o f t respass f or f a l se i mpr i sonmen t 144i,itpdants haviner taken into custody and confined " 0 11 suspicion of fraud. fu►jQ''a Mr. Knowles, Q.C., and Mr. J. Pollock appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Martin, Q.C., and Mr. Cleasby for the defendant. The plaintiff, it appeared, was a young man of respect able connexions, his father having been a major in the army, who at the time of the trespass complained of was cashier and bookkeeper, at a salary of £250 a year, to Messrs. Glendinning and Co., manufacturers, of Man chester. It appeared that Mr. Glendinning resided in Kent, but carried on business in Manchester, coming over at stated times to conduct his business and check his ac counts. The most complete trust and reliance was placed in the plaintiff, who had authority to draw checks on the defendants' accounts, and large sums passed through his hands. He conducted the business for some time very much to the satisfaction of his employers, so much so that they had expressed their intention to take him into the concern as a partner. In October last year, however, they heard that he had become a little unsteady, and Mr. Glendinning appointed the 12th of that month to be at the office and examine the accounts with the plaintiff. On going there the plaintiff never appeared, and after waiting till the afternoon the defendant, Mr. Glendinn ing, became alarmed arid began to search for the books. The keys of the safe were not there, but a rough cash book was found, in which .it was the proper course to enter all sums received. In this book there was no entry of several sums which Mr. Glendinning knew to have been paid. 13;. , nming more alarmed, the police were sent for, the plaintiff's desk was broken open, and in it were found the books, not entered up, and irregularly kept, and also two T 0 U's and a bill, whic'i further excited the defendant's suspicions. Thereupon the manager and friend of the defendant Glendinning, Mr. Heald, advised and directed a police-officer to go to the plaintiff's resi dence and take him into custody. They went to his lodgings, and not finding him at home, an officer waited for him, when he came home late. at half-past nine o'eto thrt he k, rather intoxicated. The officer then told him mid not take him to the police-office that night, hut would take him in charge. The constable accordingly slept in his bed-room, and next day he was taken by the officer in plain clothes to the office of his employers, and requested to enter up the books, the officer remaining there, and in fact having him in custody for two days. On an undertaking being given by his brother-in-law that he would enter up the books and abstain from drink, the and he was never taken before a magistrate It was for this imprisonment the action was brought. The learned counsel for the defendant admitted that the verdict must be against his clients, but submitted that this was no case for more than nominal damages. The defendants had gold reason to have their suspicions excited by the plaintiff's conduct, and the course they had adopted was one least calculated to injure the plaintiff. There had been no exposure of the charge at a police office, and no publication of it in the newspapers ; and the course taken was devoid of malice, and what most merchants would have adopted. _ _ _ RDSHIP Navin; summed up, the jury found a MIS-LOADING OF GOODS PAPADACFII v. BIBBY.—The plaintiff in this case was John Pan lachi, merchant, Manchester ; and the were Mr. John Bibby and Mr. James Jenkin merchants, Liverpool. The declaration con counts: the first alleged that the defendants loading a vessel at Liverpool, by the negli eir servants, put on board their vessel, bound a bale of goods belonging to the plaintiff, lying on the quay, and was intended to go to and that the bale had thus been lost; there was count in trover. The defendants denied that it its whose negligence caused the mis-load and with reference to the count in trover, there had been no conversion. It ap lecember last the plaintiff sent down to agents, Messrs. Papaganni, two bales of m• Oporto as thai ley plea . . oods, marked F. , P. C., in order to be sent to Trieste. Messrs. Paplganni accordingly sent the goods down to he George's Dock, where they were deposited on the play, near to a vessel, the William Kerry, which was oading for Trieste, by which it was intended that these bales should go. Tn a day or two it was found that only one of the two bales was on board the William Kerry ; and it was subsequently discovered that the other had been taken on board a vessel called the Ann Powell, which was lying near, loading for Oporto. and which had sailed when the discovery was made. This ship was the )f a Mr. Powell, and was chartered in the lump The ship was loaded by the men em- y a stevadore.named Roberts, and the first ques- tioti ti was, whether this Roberts was the servant of the Bibbys or of Powell, the owner of the ship. Then, besides this question, another arose under the trover count or declaration, in this way :—lt was discovered before the sailing of the ship, that this bale was on board, for which there was no bill of lading ; but instead of hav ing the bale taken out, the captain and mate went before the Portuguese consul at Liverpool, and having had some entry made upon the manifest, the ship sailed with the hale on board to Oporto, where it was lAt. Was this, then, a conversion by the defendants ?—lt appeared from the evidence, that although Robert., the stevadore, was recommended by the defendants to Powell, he was really appointed and paid by the latter, and was therefore his servant; and with regard to the subsequent question, the evidence went to show that the conversion was entirely by the stevadore and the mate and captain of the ship, all servants, not of the defendants, but of Powell ; and under these circumstances, therefore, the Judge directed the plaintiff to be nonsuited. BREACH OF CONTRACT RIPLEY v. MACLURE.—This was another special-jury se. The plaintiff, Mr. Thomas . Ripley,is a merchant mg in China; anc merchant in Belfast. action was brought to recover damages for the non acceptance of the third of a cargo of tea, which he was alleged to have purchased by a contract alleged to have been entered into in March, 1847. The evidence con sisted chiefly in a correspondence of enormous length. When Mr. Martin had opened the case for the plaintiff, partner resit lure- i Mr. Knowles, who was on the other side, suggested that the case should be referred. Mr. Ripley, being consulted On the matter, said he had already done all that be could do. It was resolved to leave the matter for consideration till the morning. NISI PRIUS COURT.-FRIDAY RIPLEY V. M'CLURE.— This case was proceeded with by the reading of a lengthy correspondence, after which two witnesses were examined in support of the plaintiff's case, their evidence going to prove the circumstances in connexion with the contract. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then addressed the jury for the defendant, and read several letters from the plaintiff in which he expressed a wish to release the defendant from the contract, which he, in the first instance, refused ; but afterwards, on finding out that the cargo of the teas brought by the Mary Ann Webb had been purchased with goods sent out on the plaintiff's sole account, and which had been - 'd at a -- rate th- soh. tower rate than —le goods sent out as the joint adventure of the plaintiff and defendant, (with the produce of which the teas were to have been purchased,) the defendant declined to have anything fur ther to do with the contract, as it had bean broken in the first instance by the plaintiff himself. The Learned JUDGE summed up, after which the Jury retired, and were out of court. several hours. In the course of the afternoon, the jury returned into court, with a verdict for the plaintiff, in all the issues except the fifth, the amount of damage to be settled out of court. The jury found expressly that there was no fraudulent representation on the part of the plaintiff. CONTRACT FOR THE SALE OF INDIAN CORN WOLLHEIM v. PAULETT.—The plaintiff in this case was Salmon Wollbeim, and the defendant was Etrenne Paulett. The declaration set forth that in February, 1847, the plaintiff employed the defendant to make the contract for the sale of about 2,000 barrels of Indian corn from the Danube. That the defendant made no such contract, but that the buyer did not take and pay for the wheat, and the present action was brought to compel the defendant, as broker, to make good the default of his principal. The defendant pleaded a variety of pleas, some denying his liability, others alleging a variety of trenches on the part of the plaintiff, and one plea alleging a set off. A verdict was returned for plaintiff £3,576. The case occupied the attention of the court the re mainder of the day. NIST PRIUS COURT, .-SATURDAY, BURROWS V. PAPAYANNI AND ANOTHER.—This action was brought to recover the loss sustained on a charter party, which the plaintiffs had made with the defendants, who are Greek merchants in Liverpool, on the ship An glesea. After the case had proceeded some time, it ap peared that at the time of the contract the defendants had made it known that they ,were merely agents, Messrs. Steres and Co., who were mentioned at the time, being the principals. The plaintiffs were accordingly nonsuited. Mum): SIR JOHN GERARD.—In this ca;e Daniel Jo seph Rice, Roman Catholic schoolmaster at Great Eccles ton, about fifteen miles north of Preston, was the plaintiff. The defendant is well known as a branch of an old esta blished family, of the same persuasion, in this county. The action was brought to recover damages against the defendant, for having arrested the plaintiff on a charge of having published a libel upon him (the defendant.) The libel was contained in an anonymous letter, and contained gross calumnies on the plaintiff. The evidence was very voluminous, and at the close the Judge said that the defendant had reasonable and probable cause for institut ing the prosecution against the plaintiff, he (the defendant) having a deposition that the libel was in the plaintiff's handwriting, though afterwards other persons proved that it was not so. The plaintiff was nonsuited. UNDER-SHERIFF'S COURT.—SATURDAY. (Bgfore Mr. Watson, Q.C., Acting Assessor.) CRIM. EON. - HARTLEY V. THOMPSON. This day a jury was empanelled before the Under-She riff of Lancashire, to assess the damages in a case of crim. con. in which the defendant had allowed judgment to go by default. The plaintiff, Mr. J. B. Hartley, is a surveyor in Liver pool, and is in partnership with his fath er , w h o h o ld s th e office of surveyor to the Liverpool . Do c k E s t a t e . Th e de fendant, Mr. Thompson, is a civil en g i neer , an d f or t h e last year or two hp been residing in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, having been employed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company as their acting engineer during the construction of the Liverpool and Bury portion of their line. In constructing a part of the line of railway which comes near the Liverpool docks the d e f en d ant h a d frequent interviews with the plaintiff of a business nature, and these repeated interviews laid the foundation of a close intimacy which subsequently sprang up betw een th e parties. This led to the defendant being received as a frequent guest at the house of the plaintiff, to whose f am il y , and, the friendship bel ween the parties increasing, the de fendant was in the habit of paying complimentary visits to the plaintiff's house, and often there during the absence of the plaintiff from home. It was during the time the THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. defendant was so privileged to visit the house as the friend of the plaintiff that the unfortunate intimacy between Mrs. Hartley and the defendant was contracted, and in consequence of which the present action had been insti tuted. Mr. Martin, Q.C., and Mr. Crompton appeared for the plaintiff, and Sir Frederick Thesiger and Mr. James for the defendant. The damages were laid at £lO,OOO. The case only lasted about ten minutes, the parties hav ing consented to a verdict for £4,000. CORRESPONDENCE. A MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF MR. LE GONIDEE, THE TRANSLATOR OF THE BIBLE INTO THE BRETON LANGUAGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR, —A few weeks ago I saw in your paper a short notico on the late Mr. Le Gonidee, with verses taken from the New Testament, in Welsh and Breton, to shew the similarity still existing between these two ancient lan guages. As you inserted that article, whose author I have not the pleasure of knowing, I take the liberty of asking a corner in your valuable paper for the following lines, respecting a monument to the memory of this dis tinguished Breton, for which favour I shall feel much obliged. Mr. Le Gonidee waq horn at Conquet, near Brest, in 1775. He was brought up for the priesthood, and nar rowly escaped the awful fate of many of the Catholic clergy in the old revolution. It appears he never entered the priesthood, but obtained a situation under Govern ment. Though he had the duties of his office to attend to, and though he spent great part of his life out of his beloved Armorie, he devoted much time to the cultiva tion of his native language, and wrote and published an excellent Breton Grammar, and a Breton and French Dictionary, in which he introdw:ed a new system of orthography, and made the praiseworthy attempt of writing this language in its purity. This gained him pa triotic friends, and he took advantage of the opportunity to form what may be called the modern Breton school, in which Monsieur Le Comte de la Villemarque now appears foremost, and it is but just to state that this gentleman, and a few others, have laboured with zeal, and have already done great things. For many tears the attention of Wales had been at tracted to the state of Lower Brittany, and many felt a strong desire to ameliorate the moral and religious con dition of its inhabitants, who, though a million in num ber, did not possess a translation of the Old, nor of the New Testament in their language. Ministers and others in the Principality laid their case before the British and Foreign Bible Society, and obtained in their favour all they could wish from that excellent institution. By means of the praiseworthy efforts of the Rev. D. Jones, Swansea, and the Rev. T. Price, Cwmdu, Mr. Le Gonidee was found, and he undertook the translation of the New Testament, and afterwards that of the Old Testament, from the Vulgate into Breton, for the Bible Society. This great work he accomplished with much credit to him self. The Breton New Testament was printed in 1827 at Angoureme, where the translator was at the time. The Old Testament has not yet appeared through the press. Such are the principal literary labours of Le Gonidee. Besides these, he translated into Breton Fleury's Histori cal Catechism, and the book called Imitation of Jesus Christ. It is an interesting fact, that the Antiquarian Society of France made a present of Le Ganidee's Grammar and Dictionary to the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, by ‘chich means Elihu Burritt became acquainted with them, and thus acquired so much knowledge of Breton as to enable him to write a letter in this language to the An tiquarian Society of France, which is kept in its archives, with a French translation made by the present Bishop of Qui m per. Mr.'Le Gonidee died in Paris in 1838. His friends re solved to make a small monument to him. This monu ment was got up rather hastily. In October, 1845. the body of Le Gonidee was brought from Paris, and interred at L' lirist C ,emetery, anquet .ais native place, with much ceremony and honour. On the occasion the com mittee invited Sir A. Perrier, the highly-esteemed British a patriotic sr inhabitants. ech, which expressed well the feelings of its But the monument was found to he incom- Britons of Wales to contribute to make up what was defi cient, and to put a Wel , h inscription on the monument, as a lasting testimony of their respect for Le Gonidee. An appeal was accordingly made to the inhabitants of recommended the appeal to his countrymen, and the Abergavenny Cymreigysion Soceity, Lady flail, and T. Wakeman, Esq., offered a prize of ten guineas for the best Welsh stanza to be put on the monument. This prize was awarded to the successful compositor at the Abergavenny Eisteddfod in October last. lam happy to state that the improved plan of the monument is now ready, having received the approbation of the committee, and nothing more is necessary but the sum required to execute the work, which we trust will soon be brought together by the liberality of those who value the talent and great labours of Le Gonidee in favour of his country men. Sir Anthony Perrier haQ kindly consented to be trea surer, to receive the subscriptions from Wales, and to see to the proper application of the funds entrusted to his care, an account of which will be published when the whole shall be terminated. I have just received letters relative to this business, from Sir A. Perrier, and the President of the Monument Committee, M. A. Bouet, with a plan of the monument. Sir A. Perrier says in his letter " I inclose Mons. Poelien's diagram of the monument. The part in black ink is the monument now erected; the red-ink tracing represents the projected pediment. The whole to be of solid black granite (Kersanton). The inscription in Welsh verse, selected in Wales, to be placed on the part resembling a porh The expense of removing the present monument, erecting the pediment, and finishing off the whole, is estimated at 1650 francs, or 466. I think that 410 more should be calculated upon for unforeseen expenses. " If this will be complied with, I am certain that the monu ment will be terminated in the course of this summer. " Permit me to suggest, that under the verses approved of in Wales an inscription in Welsh should be placed, recording that this pediment has been erected as a token of respect to the memory of Le Gonidee, by his admirers in Wales. " I shall not enlarge on Mons. Bonet's letter farther than to request you will assure your friends that I shall pay every attention in my power to this affair, and shall see that their intentions he punctually followed." Mons. Bouet's letter is addressed to Sir A. Perrier. He writes thus : " According to the estimate of Mons. Poellen, it will require at least 1700 francs to terminate the monument, and to remove it to the part of the cemetery agreed upon by us, where it would be quite sheltered from storms, and in sight of those passing by. " I am sorry to tell you we must not expect any new sub scriptions here ; all are too much affected by the general stag nation of business, to respond to another appeal ; and if our Breton brethren beyond sea will not come to our aid, in a few years hence the Celtic traveller, desirous of rendering homage to the memory of the regenerator and preserver of our vene rable language, will look in vain for some mark to guide his steps to the spot where repose the remains of the virtuous Le Gonidee " Therefore it is to you, sir, the Bretons of Armorie address themselves through me, to have these facts laid before your countrymen of Wales by the intermediary of the worthy and respectable minister of Morlaix, Mr. Jenkins ;—to you, whose ancestors, originally from Brittany, did not leave this country until after the revocation of the edict of Nantes ;—to you, whose quarter of a century's residence in Ariaorie encourages us to ask your concurrence and support, by means of which I firmly hope the descendants of the Cymry will not abandon us in this case, and that their co-operation will enable us to com plete this testimony of respect and admiration to him who may be called the compatriot of the true Britons of both countries. " Kindly accept in advance my thanks, and the renewed as surance of the sentiments of your affectionate servant, " ALEXANDRE BOUET." I am confident this truly interesting appeal from Brit tany to Wales will be responded to in a manner worthy of the appreciation of real worth, of national and Chris tian sympathy, and of the esteem in which the name of Le Gonidee is held by all those in the Principality who know his labours. The Rev. T. Phillips, Hay, Brecknockshire, agent of the Bible Society for the Principality, will kindly receive subscriptions for the monument. I am, Sir, yours, very truly, J. JENKINS. Morlaix, Match 19, 1849 RAILWAY AFFAIRS, The directors of the Midland Railway Company have, in consequence of a requisition from Liverpool, signed by the requisite number of shareholders, called a general meeting, to be held at Derby, on Thursday, the 19th of April. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended 25th March :—Coaehing traffic, £874 2s. 2d.; parcels, £44 16s. 11d. ; goods and cattle, £199 12s. ; steam-boats, £9l 6s. ;—total, £1209 17s. Id., (exclusive of toll from the Shrewsbury and Chester Company, and payment for conveyance of mails.) On Tuesday, a special meeting of the holders of Cheshire Junction shares was held at tha office of Mr. Wills, in Castle-street. It was resolved to cooperate with the London shareholders in opposing the bill now before par liament for a revision of the capital ; and to propose to the directors that the £3l shares should be reduced to £6 13s. 4d., 135,000 in number, and that £3 6s. Bd. per share should be consideied as having been paid upon them. MR. HUDSON AND HIS RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.— The members of the Committee of Investigation ap pointed to inquire into the facts connected with the sale, by Mr. Hudson, of the Great North of England Railway shares to the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Company, have terminated their labours. The report is drawn up, but not yet signed by the whole of the members. Mr. Clayton, we believe, is the only dissentient. Of course, we have necessarily felt a delicacy in seeking information from any member of the Committee, notwithstanding the conclusion of the business ; but the truth is, we required none. The mere facts of the case, as they stood forth, were sufficiently condemnatory of Mr. Hudson, and proved to us that no Committee could, with honour to themselves, acquit him. We, therefore, at the eleventh hour, adhere to our original statement, that the report will, more or less, be damnatory to his ex-railway majesty. It will not, probably, draw inferences from facts, and speak in the language customary to a newspaper; but we believe it will contain a summary of facts so cogent and irresistible as to justify every syllable we have written on the subject. We can state thus much, however—and we have it upon the most undoubted authority—that the whole evidence given during this important investigation is on the eve of being passed through the press in the shape of a pamphlet. The committee, we think, act judi ciously in coming to this determination. The railway world already owe them much, but the publication of the evidence will to the obligations under which the share holders labour to them.—l.7orkshireman. DREADFUL MURDERS IN LIVERPOOL. One of the most frightful murders that have ever been perpetrated tcok place on Wednesday forenoon last, at the house, No. 20, Leveson-street, in this town. Two children were soon dead, and the mistress of the house was so dreadfully injured that she expired on Saturday even ing, without ever having been sensible, while a female servant of the lady bears on her person fearful marks of the assassin's ferocity. The unfortunate lady is the wife of Captain Henrich son, commander of the East India ship Duncan. belong ing to Messrs. Aikin and Son. She is stated to be highly accomplished, and respectably connected in Hull, from which she arrived a few months back. She was in the habit, in order to diminish the expenses of a rising family, of teaching music to a few private female pupils. At the time of the murderous attack, she was eight months ad vanced in pregnancy. The house is in a respectable street, a short distance from Great George-street. Mary Parr, the servant, states that a person came to the house on Tues day afternoon, who called himself Wilson, arid took apart ments, the back parlour and a bed-room. Next morning, the eldest boy, five years old, went into the new lodger's room, and ran out again, followed by the man, who had struck him. The servant girl remonstrated, when the man took up the tongs and struck her down, leaving her iad at this time gone out to make some purchases, and sent home some potatoes by a boy named Carney, who rang the door bell. The man opened the door, took in the basket, emptied its contents on the parlour floor, and returned the basket to the boy, who went away. The man when seen by the lad had a band- in sensi b. Mrs. I kerchief iied round the lower part of his face, and his hands were covered with blood. The boy saw Mrs. Hen rickson return and enter the house. Nothing more was seen of the inmates until a neighbour saw the man known as Wilson leave in a hurried manner by the front door. He passed up towards Great George-streeti, wiping the perspiration fiom his face with a handkerchief. One of the legs of his trowsers was pulled over his boot, to hide, it is supposed, stains of blood. He was afterwards seen to enter a car and was driven off. At half-past eleven o'cloc': Mrs. H. purchased a jug, at Mr. Roebuck's, St. James's-street, and shortly after sue left. a boy was sent with it to the house. Hs rang the bell and knocked, no one answering he looked through the key-hole, and saw the legs and - feet of a female lying across the lobby. Looking through the front parlour window, he saw the servant and a child lying on the floor, and immediately hastened for his master. A young lady, a pupil of Mrs. H., also came up at the time, and on looking in at the window burst into tears. Moans were heard to proceed from the parlour, and some workmen who came up, broke a pane of glass :and removing the catch, obtained an en trance. The appalling spectacle which presented itself to the men who entered was sufficient to overcome the stoutest heart. Three hum rally weltering in a pool of their own blood, their skulls and faces smashed and mutilated in the most frightful manner. Mrs. Henrichson lay with her head inside the parlour door and her feet across the lobby ; her hair was dishevelled, her features distorted, her face covered with gore, and blood was still streaming from her fractured head. In the middle of the floor lay the servant girl, and near the fire place the eldest boy. They w e r e a ll alive, but dreadfully injured. No time was lost in procuring medical aid, and Mr. Martin was soon in attendance. He was followed by Mr. Slater; and as the victims still breathed, they were ordered immediately to be conveyed to the Southern Hospital. Blood was traced down into the kitchens, and the walls and stairs were besmeared with it. A pool of blood be tween the two kitchens was covered with a mat for con- cealment. n a smal kitchen, was discovered the lifeless but still warm corpse of the Child of three years old, the head nearly severed from the body, and by its side, besmeared with blood, lay a large table knife, with which the fatal wound had been inflicted. The throat was completely cut to the backbone. he vertebrae )eing t 'y obstac to complete decapi7. the tongs were found. They were clotied with 'blood, and portions of hair adhered to them. Some idea may be formed of the force of the blows dealt unon his victims. when it is known that the poker is much bent, that the tongs are shattered, and the bottom part of the shovel broken. On examining the head of Mrs. Henrichson, twetve or tnirieen contuses wouras of toe scalp were ob served, with an extensive compound fracture of the skull, besides other bruises and contusions about the face and reac she was per For some time it was conjectured that the murderer was a maniac, for though some of the drawers had been opened, jewellery was found in them, and plate in the kitchen. Subsequent events showed that the murder had been perpetrated solely for the purpose of effectin the robbery. During the evening of Tuesday, Mr. Parsons, of Mill street, the family surgeon, and an intimate friend of Mrs. Henrichson, called at the house. Mrs. Henrichson told him all the circumstances as to the apartments being taken by Wilson. Upon this Mr. Parsons remarked upon the impropriety of taking any lodger into her house without some previous knowledge of him, or a recommendation with him. Mr. Parsons added, " Suppose he were to get up in t he nig' it and murder you all." Sadly has this suggestion bee The sup. from noon the preceding day. On the morning the mur ders were committed Wilson met a boy in Leveson-street, to whom he gave a note, with a request that after he (Wilson) had entered the house the boy should knock at the door and hand in the note. This the boy did, and he has since identified the prisoner as he man evening, about eight o'clOck, a Mr. Cane saw a man w inn his shoes and the front of his trowsers with a handke chief, at a pit in Windsor, who appeared to resemble Wil son. An officer was afterwards sent to the pit, and found the bloody handkerchief and the letter alluded to. It was addressed to Mr. John Wilson, No. 2, Leveson-street." The real number is 20. The letter contained nothing but some unintelligible scribbling, within an envelope, and the address appeared to be in a different handwriting from that inside. In the course of Wednesday afternoon, a person answer ing Wilson's appearance called at the house of Miss Har rison, 19, Upper Pitt-street, and asked for lodgings, and the same afternoon he offered the gold watch for sale at Tranmere. He is known also to have called, in the course of Wednesday, at the house of his father-in-,aw, at Tran • mere, a respectable man, possessed of considerable pro perty; but the latt3r, in consequence of his idle, dissolute habits, had forbidden him to come near the premises. There he saw his wife, to whom he showed money. On Thursday he was traced to a shop in Great Howard street, where he bought a pair of trowsers, and cave his others to a paviour who was at work in Shaw-street. On the same day he had called several times at the shop of Mr. Samuel, Great Howard-street, offering a gold watch for sale. Mr. Samuel suspected, from the urgency with which he pressed the sale, that the watch had not been honestly obtained, and asked the man to walk with him to the Police-office. This he consented to do, and when he reached the office his general appearance raised the suspi cion that he was the person for whom such anxious search _ . ___ had been made. Ills dress had undergone considerable change. Instead of a hat, with crape on it, which he had previously worn, he had on a cap. He had a wild and confused look, and appeared somewhat in liquor. The police have obtained a letter in his own handwri ting, addressed to his wife, and the writing corresponds with the direction of the letter found at the pit. On Wed nesday evening he lodged in a house in Porter-street, where he had given a shirt stained with blood to be washed. Officer Toole afterwards found at the same house a hat with crape on it, which, when placed on his head, consi derably changed his appearance. When he saw it he claimed it as his own. The mother of Mrs. Henrichson, who arrived in town from Hull, has identified the watch and chain found in the possession of the prisoner as those belonging to her daugh ter. A purse also found upon the prisoner has been iden tified by the charwoman who was in the habit of washing in the house as the property of Mrs. Henrichson. The pri soner stated he bought the purse at Bristol, and also one of the shirts of which he had three on his back, one of th- m having lately undergone partial washing about the sleeves. Mr. Superintendent Clough having cautioned the prisoner, told him he was charged with the wilful murder of two children. He replied, in a half careless, half im petuous manner, " I am satisfied to stand my trial for it." Mr. Dowling ordered the prisoner to strip, and stains of blood were found upon his black silk handkerchief. His trowsers, cap, and neckerchief were new. The prisoner, when asked his name, said it was John Gleeson Wilson, and that he was an engineer. He betrayed considerable levity. The house in Leveson-street is in charge of the police, and the valuable property is locked up. In Mrs. Henrich son's bed-room a box was found opened, from which it is supposed the watch and purse were taken; but a number of valuable articles of jewellery, &c., were left. In the front parlour almost every article is stained with blood, including a wooden hoop with which one of the children had been playing when the murderer struck him. During the whole day the house was surrounded by crowds, dis cussing the fearful details of the affair. The servant girl is recovering. ' EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER On Friday afternoon the prisoner, who was apprehended on Thursday evening, on a charge of offering a gold watch for sale, and which led to his being charged with the murders, was brought before Mr. Rushton and a full bench of magistrates. From an early hour in the morn ing the neighbourhood of the police-conrt was densely crowded. He was taken for examination into the Ses sions House, to which there was a simultaneous rush. There were about seventeen magistrates present. Mary Parr, the servant-girl, had previously recognized the prisoner at the Hospital, where she and her mistress were, and made a statementthere to Mr. Rushton, of which the following are the heads :—The prisoner, she said, took Mrs. Hinrichson's lodgings for a month, and came on Tuesday night. When her mistress went out on Wed nesday morning, witness was cleaning the front /par lour. Mrs. H. had two children—Henry George, and John Alfred Hinri chson,—the younger three years old, and the other nearly five. Witness and they were in the front parlour together, her mistress having shut them up there. After Mrs. H. went out, prisoner opened the door and drove them out with a newspaper. He asked the price of the set of fire-irons, and the fender, and the card tables. He hit the children on the head with the newspaper as if in fun, and sent them out, but the oldest opened the door again. The prisoner had the tongs in his hand, and was cleaning the shovel. She could not remember thdt be said anything more. He then struck her with the tongs on the head, and knocked her down, and she remembered nothing more except that she was lying there. The children were in the room when. he struck her, but where they went afterwards she did not know. She did not see her mistress after that. She had lived nearly five years with Mrs. H. The watch, chain, and seals produced were her mistress's. The prisoner had no luggage with him, but said ;:e expected it. A note came to him that morning. He said it was from his governor, and he need be in no hurry to go to work. The prisoner had no money. He borrowed sixiitence from Mrs. H. He had been one night in the house. The prisoner declined to ask the witness any questions. Mr. Yates watched the case on behalf of the prisoner. A Mr. Hughes, of Berry-street, said that on Wednes day, soon after noon, he saw a young lady at the house in Leveson-street, in great trouble. He looked through the window, and saw a woman and child lying on the floor, and blood about them. Witness broke the window and got into the parlour, when the woman rose up on her hands and stared at him wildly. The boy was lying close to her. Witness asked the boy who had done it. He attempted to speak but could not do so. Witness then looked towards the parlour door, and saw another female lying on the floor, with her feet partly in the lobby and her head by the parlour door. the head in the same way. Witn then went down stairs into the cell youngest child with its throat cu Where the female was lying, Mr. F. Slater, surgeon, as bleeding about and those with him Ind found the Ie was not sensi )rought in by a no: the blo ne saw the prisoner wa9hing The boy who too d the arti- gut two ler had gone, No : what is it Niter you have 'OU must e prisoner .ng to the ee you was in great confusion ;aid 1 sent for to the r house. Mr. Matin, surgeon, had Mrs. H. was bleeding profusely, an servant rl was also bleed with a fracture of the front cut off, with oth wounds thotih living. A younger child from below, with its thr Witness prisoner himself. own hand. Marks, po►. letter at the pit qt Windso handkerchief. C himself at the the house, saidthe prisoner was in a sw ceived them, and he took him to be a fig Thomas Finn, a pawnbroker, in ( said the prisoner called at hi bought a pair of trows He changed his trowseri ones he took off were d He gave 12s. for the trowst for Is. He gave two five and a sixpenc cies n one of the box :y about the legs, ugut a p Henry Worthington, a pavior, sai o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, whil Howard-street, the prisoner came up an On examining them after r hlnn 4 In rtrin +born trowsers as if rubbed with dirt. Mr. Samuel, of Great Howard-street, said the prisoner brought him a gold watch to sell for •i The w•i murder, he spoke to witness in Heb get the prisoner near the police stat they had another shop in another part a, by telling h tting the p! station, gave him - into custod Testimony was given as to with crape on it ; also to th which he had given out to be Toe pokers, tongs, shovel, &a 3 were produce so a white hail i much tion in court blade completely covered wii soner turned his head to avo Mr. Rushton remanded tt take the medical evidence. RESUMED EXAMINATIC o'clock. The court was again de dition to Mr. Rushton and th magistrates were on the bench. ,haved, asked him what blood that was on had cut his wrist at the railway the bloody h— is to do After washing, he asked wi s he wanted to ge bottom of Oil- down Oil- murder ? either two or thre been murd get me a passage to New York In ad- Great Howard you I - Man belonging to an emigration of the passage was. The man said £3 1 said he could not give more than £3, and looki other side of the street, he said, " I will and ran away. He had on a shooting kin with short crape. Witress ident Georre•Moore. assistant to M London-road, proved the prisoner had offered the watch in pledge at his employers. Mr. Philip Harrison, assistant surgeon at the Southern Hospital, described the wounds inflicted on th Mrs. Henrichson when brought to the I • insensibility and collapse She is still labouring under tbe eff and ie in an eyeeedinglv dangerous st pital wa: ad and face were of the wounds and the little finger wanting. He was insensible, but lived till twenty minutes after eight in the evening, and never was sensible. The servant had a compound frac ture of the skull and numerous contused scalp wounds She was conscious, but remained insensible for time. She afterwards became more coherent, and remains in that state. She is in a dangerous state, but there are some slight hopes of her recovery. The wcunds on the head of the little boy were some of them incised wounds, and must have been produced by the shovel. Saw the child with its throat cut almost from ear to ear. The evidence was then read over, and as the details Proceeded a shudder of horror broke occasionally from .nnoy the prisoner, who_said very snappishly, " Silenc _ I cannot pay attention if you do not hold your tongues." When the depositions were read over, Mr. Rushton cautioned the prisoner in the usual manner, when he said he had nothing to say, but that he had witnesses in court to prove where he was. At his request William Collapy was called but no answer was given. On the rpplication of the prisoner, Mr. Rushton said that his wife might see him in the presence of an officer if she wished it. The prisoner on leaving the bar was hissed and hooted. On Saturday night the prisoner appeared very lively, and sang and whistled at intervals. He said that no one but the servant girl could say that he struck any blows, of the want of proper food, and said that a man charged with such a serious crime should be allowed three or four On Sunday the prisoner said that he could prove an alibi, and referred to twc parties who, he stated, would prove that they saw him r during the period between ten .dnesday. These e o'clock on ,m declared parties were the prisoner at all on that day, and the other that he did not see him until half past nine in the evening. It is said that Mr. Superintendent Clough is object of the prisoner's dislike, he (the superintendent) having, in the first instance, had his suspicions excited and put those preliminary questions to the p to his detention at the Police-office, and his being ulti mately charged with the murder. The prisoner has expressed his wish to have satisfaction from Mr. Clough, and intimated that if he had him in a room for about five ler which led minutes, and that he (the prisoner) I poker, that would be quite suffici( rmed with a for his purpose. DEATH OF MRS HENRICIISON As was confidently expected, from the dangerous nature of the wounds which Mrs. Henrichson had received, her sensibility when taken to the hospital cn Wednesday, and continued so up to the time of her death, which took place on Saturday night, at ten o'clock. The lives of three indi viduals have thus been sacrificed by one of the foulest and most cold-blooded outrages that was perhaps ever known in the annals of crime. MARY PARR, THE SERVANT. The servant girl still remains in a very dangerous her wounds, are favourable. Hopes are entertained of Ler recovery, though it will only be by the greateet care. THE HISTORY OF THE PRISONER Towards the close of the last year the prisoner took lodgings at 84, Sparling : street, the house being kept by a respectable and prepossessing young widow, with whose marriage name we are unacquainted, but who is the daughter of Mr. Stewart, a worthy and respectable man, living at Tranmere. At that time, as he has ever done subsequently, so far as is known, he gave his name John Gleeson Wilson. Some time after becom ing a lodger of the house, he made advances to the young wi dow, expressed his attachment, proposed marriage, and was accepted, the nuptial ceremony taking place in Christmas week. The prisoner represented to his wife that his father was a fo- reigiier, and had resided fora length of time in London, where he (the prisoner) was brought up. By trade, he said, he was an engineer and fitter, and had been employed upon steam paekets. Soon after the marriage his conduct became most overbearing and tyrannical, rnd he was in the frequent habit of beating her. Upon one occasion he returned home, and stated that he had come in possession of a large sum of money, but gave no account how he obtained it. He took off a hard worn blue coat, which he had been in the habit of wearing, tore it up, and threw it upon the fire, saying that it had done its cervice, and his recently-acquired funds had enabled him to purchase a better one, and he then put on the coat which he wore at the time of his apprehension. His wife states that from the time of her first acquaintance with the prisoner she never knew him to follow any occupation or calling. His ill- Treatment towards her had been almost undescribable ; he had repeatedly threatened to murder her, and such was the terror he awakened within her, lest, knowing his savage propensities, he should carry his threats into execution, that some five or six weeks ago she informed her father of her position, cind he in sisted upon her giving up the house in Sparling-street, and taking protection beneath his roof at Tranmere. The daugh ter complied with the request of her parent, sad has been re siding with him since the time named. Mr. Stewart forbad the prisoner ever to approach his house, upon pain of being handed over to the police, and up to Wednesday evening last (the day of the murder) it is not known that ever he went there. Upon that night, however, he went over to Tranmere, sought means of communicating with his wifa, and had an in terview with her. He expressed deep contrition for his past misconduct,—promised to atone by amendment for the future, —and so far succeeded in awakening the affections of his wife, that she clandestinely admitted him to the house, and con sented that he should share her bed with her. He left his wife early in the morning, and quitted Tranmere towards noon ; and for three hours, evidently with the view of eluding detec tion, was sailing to and fro in the cabin of one of the Birken head ferry boats; and it was only when the cantain compelled him, that he went to the gate to pay. How long he remained in Birkenhead is not known, but in thecourse of the afternoon, as stated in the evidence before the magistrates, he took a cab from the George's-pier to his lodgings in Porter-street. When • the prisoner was brought to the Police-office, relative to the watch offered for pledge, so much did his wearing a csp 13- stead of a hat alter his appearance, that none or the clerks or other officers had the slightest idea that he was the supposed murderer of whom a description had been given. ELECTION OF OVERSEERS FOR TOXTETH PARK. The ratepayers of the township of Toxteth-park met on Thursday morning, at the public office, Park-place, to revise the accounts of the overseers and to elect their suc cessors far the ensuing year. A large number of persons were present, including Messrs. Fisher, Watson, Harbord, and Benn, members of the town council. After the usual preliminaries M AVISON was called to the chair, and the statement of accounts was read by Mr. Macauliffe. The result of was as follows:—Received out-poor rate ' 2111.; balance in hand, after meet "-,1- ben , - ' -- ►oss than this statement WC.. Aved out account, £17,179.163. 4, 2 in lug all demands, £132 4s. —g something half the balance of the preceding year; on watch rate, ' 1 ,291 15s 'l.; balance, £589 7s. ; museum rate, '-glance, £ll3 14s. sid. ; county rate, ' , led voluntary ; rate, £271 10s. 6d. : 1 expen, £6lB is. 61 balance, £259 is Mr. FISHER called the chairman cum sta to know why it w ffention to the cir- Isti- Gs. 11d. of the amount The gnestiln was answered sai CAULIFFE-It was an error. le found that 3r four or five e found anotl o check accou hat meeting. Mr. MAcAi had been no eutr ,ths : after taking go to inspect the accounts, ~.sh-book book in the off ULIFFE explained how the a Four moot' rvices of Mr. Sno ;e were not so c lat time, he had, by their instru .moval duties ; )t be able t^ ar and arge them, but v iota of the law ug this to satisf should was put into the bank every day; they had various checks against him, and he was required to pro duce vouchers for every sum that passe hands, having his character at stake he vv run any risk, he therefore called for a committ( through his not likely to 3 Make a detailed inquiry into his acconnts, this he considered due to himself and the public; that committee was selected, his friends, but from those who might ha not from amon, and also his own. They had gone through h and reported upon them. Mr. ALPASS observed that it would be suy Mr. Fisher's remarks that he was not acquain circumstances attending the examination of th Overseers, accounts, ed from with the hey had been thoroughly gone into, a n d reported onlatsei night. cfi it appeared, that at a 'ommit ie 19th Mr. Fisher among March, a sub-committee, ;fr ,st its numbers, was appointed the accounts. Mr. ALPASS remarked that they went thorou e aecoun . s, and found them satisfactory. Mr. FISHER acquainted the meeting- with his reason for refusing to act on the committee to which he bad been he consi acts, having met directly after bein g appointed. Ha would ask Mr. Alpass whether they had not recorded a vote of confidence in Mr. Macauliffe before their inquiry wis commenced, and then he would ask the opinion that ttee whose fi books. of the Ar. Macauliffe pas desired to read the matter from which it appeared that at a meeting held on the 28th February, in . 'conse quence of Mr. Lloyd having stated that the boo an unsatisfactory state, a committee was appointed to examine and report. On the 14th March they met, but 'id not present a written report, the chairman (Mr. hn+ +h. hn lro b" balanced Lloyd 3Ull tre, a daily, and that the accounts were corr if.r, reiterated the charges against proposed an amendment to the effect that as the sub-com mittee appointed to investigate the parish books had not presented a written report, the charzes could not be main - The minute of the 19th March. appointing the [sttee, was also read, upon which Mr. FISHER complained that rlr. Macauliffe an I other persons had taken upon themselves to call a meeting at so short a day as to render it impossible that any report could to presented. He was satisfied with the explanation Mr. Macauliffe had given relative to his extraordinary duties as regarded himself, but not with the conduct of other parties in ‘er. Mr. RonsoN explained that he was appointed on the first committee; they met on the Monday evening; their body consisted of six members, two of whom were over . - --nnnently honorary members; the gentle - ran 1113 011+.1•Art el l e f t v that men whom he four were o n 1 gentleman and himself. A violent a. between Mr. Fisher and Mr. Macauliffe. ((Jr amidst which Mr. fisher expressed his opinion tercation took place of chair, should be reserved at a public meeting.) He contended nothing that the report had emanated from an individual. It was strange, too, that Mr. Macauliffe should summon the committee when he did, because he was aware no report had been drawn up; no report could have been drawn up. it was impossible to examine the books in one hour, one day, or one week ; the reason no report had been presented was that there had not been time to prepare one. Mr. Robson regretted that he had consented to serve on the second committee—the final one, which reported that the accounts were correct. Mr. MACAULIFFE stated that he had summoned the meeting by the instruction of the overseers, and further observed that when Mr. Fisher and Mr. Robson left the room it was his clear conviction that their inquiry had terminated. Mr. ROBSON replied, that he (Mr. M.) had never com municated with him, and it was impossible, from what passed, that any report could be drawn up. Mr. HARBORD wished to know by whose authority the time had been limited, by the committee being sum- rnoned ? Mr. MACAULIFFE replied, by the overseers ; and upon being required to mention names, said the gentleman wag not present.—Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Short being present, name was again demanded, when he said Appleby. (Cries of " Oh, oh.") Mr. LLOYD observed, that it was due to the overseers, as well as the committee, that that committee should be informed ; it had been done, and the books had been gone into and reported upon ; he, therefore, thought the mat ter had better end. The CHAIRMAN thought Mr. Macauliffe had courted inquiry at the last meeting, by calling upon them to ap point a second committee. Mr. HARBORD would ask whether that were a meeting for the business of that important township, or to decide upon matters of etiquette ? (Hear.) He hoped there would be an end to party faction amongst them thence forward. There were some persons who, if they straws to appoint overseers, and also to elect poor law guardians, and it should be remembered that their elections had for merly cost £5O or £6O. He would ask why they could not agree there, and save this money, and thus disappoint ' 'dling fellows ? a parce of ,rnei Mr. DoNALDsorf moved that the accounts be passed This motion was seconded by Mr. W. B, JONES. On a division, it was decided strongly to'recommend to the magistrates the four following gentlemen as overseers of the poor for the ensuing year :—Messrs. Thos. Lloyd, William Fisher, Joseph Betteley, and H. S. Alpass. A division took place between Mr. Fisher and Mr. John Finch, but the former was carried. Mr. WATSON (councillor) proposed that the poor law committee should consist of the councillors and aldermen of the wards, and a number of ratepayers A long list of names was then proposed and carried Mr. WATSON consi lered tl►at this committee should meet once a week, with the object of devising means to procure an equalization of the taxes, and he thought if they went properly about the business, this committee would be allowed to manage that business, which, though at present controlled by the magistrates, came more imp mediately within the province of such a committee as he referred to. He was convinced that if they w, ~ e nt on ex cusing the small tenements, and saddling the whole of the taxation on the occupiers of the more valuable property, the latter class would soon desert the township ; and even then there was an apathy observed by such persons in the public business. People were determined to leave the place, and therefore they declined to attend such meetings as that, taking no interest in the proceedings. He was opposed to giving out-deor relief: he would advise the erection of sheds, in which to distribute relief in fond. At the present prices of provisions, he would undertake to feed the poor at a penny a day. By these means the poor rate would be reduced from three shillings to one slaing and sixpence or twenty pence. Mr. Watson also referred to the cost of the removal of night soil, (£lO,OOO per annum,) and suggested that this and the deposit of the sewers should be collected, and conveyed into the country, where it could be made to defray the cost of col lection and removal. A vote of thanks was afterwards passed to the late over seers, when the CHAIRMAN took occasion to remark on the valuable services of Mr. Appleby. Mr. HARBORD paid a tribute to Mr. Lloyd, not only as an overseer but as a councillor. He was ever ready, in his place in the Council, to stand up for the interests of the ward which he represented. Mr. LLOYD responded. He considered he had not done more than he was in duty bound, and that duty he was prepared to discharge in future. A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meeting separated. On Thursday last, Robert Quin, a prisoner in the Borough Gaol, hanged himself in his cell. SERIOUS MISTAKE IN IDENTITY.7OII Thursday morning a man named Darnley, about thirty years o f age , whose dress exactly corresponded with the description of the prisoner, Wilson, now in custody charged witu the murders in Leveson-street, as given in the bills, excited the suspicion of the superintendent of the Albert Docks, in which he was employed as a day . labourer. The super intendent communicated his suspicions to Mr Dowling, who immediately sent a policeman and bad him taken through the streets to the police-office. The poor fellow WAS so overwhelmed at the novelty and peril of his situa tion, that he could not at first give a clear account of him self, but it was at last discovered that he was not the man. After his liberation he was so unwell that he could scarcely attend to his work.