The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-18 00:00:00

• t -.• , . ,‘ i -\ • - 2 _ ...... _ _ .. . . . . . ... FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.. ' marine placed on guard at our cabin door. We were to t —4— have cocoa and dry biscuit for breakfast, and tea and I UNITED STATES. biscuit in the evening. We were also allowed 2 lbs. of salt 1 The Royal Mail steam-ship America reached Liverpool beef or pork for dinner, with biscuit. These allowances, i on Wednesday. She left New York on the 28th ultimo, with two gallons of wine each, for the entire voyage, form and Boston on the Ist instant. our bill of fare. We are looking forward , howe v er , for i Every one is looking forward to the meeting of Con- some better modifications, on our arrival at the Cape. I gress and the President's Message. We are all in excellent health, and just the same spirits as i The political news is not of greateonsequence. Another you used to see us at Richmond. For my part I never t steamer had exploded at New Orleans, and several per- was in better health. The sea voyage has much improved I sons killed. The hotel-keepers at New York import me." game in considerable quantities from this country. The CHEAP MARKETS—WHO ENJOYS THEM ?—While the 1 cholera has been frightful in some parts of the State of price of prime cattle in the Dublin markets is not more t Mexico. . than 2d. per lb. weight, or one-third that vs hich it was 1 A Dr. Coolidge, of' the State of Maine, was some time - some time ago, the retail price to the public is within 1 ago condemned for murder. To avoid an ignominious one-third of what it was at the dearest period alluded to. ; death, he committed suicide, and his body was buried. The following letter from a grazier to the editor of Saun- Private letters state that he has since been seen working ders's News-Letter, puts the case clearly. Speaking of , at the gold diggings in California. This, if true, has an the " extortion of the Dublin butchers," the writer goes I important bearing on the question now stirred in this on to say—" It has been alleged that the cause rests with i country for the substitution of private execution for a the salesmen and butchers. Now, I maintain the former 1 public one. The escape of Coolidge must have been con- have nothing to say to it ;it is all a conspiracy on the i /lived at by the authorities. part of the latter gentry, who, while they are realising Lieutenant Lynch, who commanded the late " Dead the profits at the rate of 300 per cent., are mulcting the Sea Exploring Expedition," has volunteered to head a graziers and the public in that exact ratio. A fortnight party, in the spring, in search of Sir John Franklin, if ago I sold ten cows to a Dublin butcher, the price for the United States' Government will sanction it. The which was, as near as could possibly be calculated, 2d. per cholera has again appeared at St. Louis and the rivers. lb., sinking offal. Wishing to test the quality of my own Eighteen death_ occurred in one steamer. feeding, I sent for a roasting and boiling piece, for which The news from Canada is unimportant. The manifesto I paid 64 per lb. for a shoulder of mutton. Some check against annexation with the United States, at Toronto, must be put to a system nothing short of actual robbery. had already received 4,000 signatures. The charges by rail are so high housekeepers cannot avail themselves of the prices which in Limerick and Tipperary Passports are to be discontiued in France. are about half." The bill (says the editor) is from one of Letters from Canada state that Sir Allan M`Nab was the most respectable victuallers in Dublin. Mark, when -lying very ill at Toronto. prime beef cost Gd. the pound as it stood in Smithfield The debuts of Madame Grisi and Signor Mario, at St. market, the retail price did not exceed Bd. and 9d. Now Petershurgh, have been triumphantly successful. ' that it is hut 2d., the retail price is 61d., while mutton is Mr. Robert Stephenson figures, amongst other engi- 7d. here, and but 4d. in the country towns. veering celebrities, in the Paris Moniteur as Chevalier of _______„, e ---- the Legion of Honour. Two suicides were committed in Paris on Wednesday— one by a law student, who shot himself through love ; the second by a broker, who hung himself. The Orangemen of England recently forwarded to Lor d Kossuth's furniture has been sold by an-tion at Pesth. Roden and to the Messrs. Beers, excellent addresses on The plainness of it was remarkable. His family have recent occurrences. The following is a copy of that been liberated, and they intend to join him in Turkey. The Committee of the Episcopal American Domestic " TO THE RIGHT HON THE EARL OF RODEN. Church Mission has published an appeal in which it is " Rig:it Worshipful Sir and Brother,—l have the stated that a sum of forty-two thousand dollars is required honour, on behalf of the Orangemen of England. to ex for the maintenance of the missionary bishops and the press to your lordship the feelings of deep and general clergy. indignation with which, in common with every loyal and MARIOLATROUS MIRACLE.—The Anti de la Religion honest man in this country, we have heard of the late contains an account of the alleged miraculous deliverance insult offered to your lordship and other magistrates whom from cholera of the town of Aniane, in the diocese of we have the privilege to call brethren. Montpellier, by the statue of the Virgin carried in proces- "We may be pardoned if we have been slow in noticing sion through the streets. this insult, as we cannot, in consideration of the quarter CorroN IN INDIA.—The improved cultivation by the from which it has proceeded, attach any importance to it. natives had greatly fallen off during the year 1848. During It has not surprised us, as it is perfectly consistent with the present year, however, there has been a very the whole conduct of an administration who has exhibited striking increase ; and the number of acres planted with all the violence of the most capricious despots, and all the New Orleans seed is, in round numbers, 15,400, against meanness of the vilest slaves ; which hangs the incendiary 3400 in 1848. priest in Cephalonia, where it is strong enough, and in The Times of Tuesday morning was shown on the Ireland receives weekly his address to the Sovereign, Bourse at Paris at one o'clock on that day. The distance fraught with the most insolent treason, because it fears from London to Paris is now performed in nine hours. him ; which attempts to ride roughshod over the loyal The paper was specially carried, to show still further men of Canada and the Cape, and at Madrid and Malta, dispatch attainable, by a deputation of the Boulogne and where it becomes involved by the misconduct of its agents, Amiens Railway Company. exhibits the meanest insensibility to insult, humbling the The private advices from New York continue to give a name of England at the feet of a few paltry Jesuits, and favourable report of the general state of business, and, displaying a baseness and cruelty to which Turks have notwithstanding therequirernent 0f15,000,000 t 020,000,000 scorned to stoop. dollars during the next eighteen months, to make up the "That such a government should prosecute rebels in the deficit left by the Mexican war, the stock market showed south of Ireland, for firing on the paid police, and in the considerable firmness. The general impression was that north of Ireland endeavour to punish the unpaid police a loan would not be resorted to, but simply a temporary for firing on rebels, in their own defence, is not, surprising. issue of treasury notes, and the prosperous condition of " The Orangemen of England, my lord, regret deeply the country seems to warrant this opinion. that their brethren in Ireland should have been placed THE PAPAL STATES.—Letters from Rome, of the 4th under the necessity of dispersing the poor dupes of the instant, state that as yet General Baraguay d'Hilliers has priests and the government; but those who occasioned not been successful in his endeavours to induce the Pope that necessity, by omitting to declare in time what they to return to Rome. His holiness is said to have pleaded now assert to be the law, are alone chargeable with the the inclemency of the weather and the state of the roads , con s e q uences ; and their p resent attempt to transfer the covered with snow. as an excuse for his remaining some blame of their misconduct to others is fully understood by time longer at Portoci. Other accounts state that the every sensible man in the country. Pope is unwilling to return to Rame until he shall have "In conclusion, my lord, we feel that every expression raised a loan, by means of which he may withdraw the of sympathy or condolence on our part would be utterly paper money in circulation. misplaced, as we cannot suppose your lordship to be either The sarcophagus containing the mortal remains of Gus- surprised or pained by the factious conduct of a party tavus Vasa, of Sweden, has been opened by royal autho- whose monstrous inconsistencies are the subject of ridi rits. Of the body of the great monarch, nothing remains cule or the cause of shame to foreigners and Englishmen but the skeleton ; but all the clothes (of the ancient Spa- in every part of the world : which has trifled with every nish costume) are intact, and preserve a certain freshness. interest in the empire, and which can neither issue a new These ornaments are of velvet and silk, with gold and silver coin or a post-office regulation, neither appoint a digni brocade. The crown, the sceptre, the globe, and the or- tart' in the church, nor supersede a civil magistrate, with naments of the scabbard, enclosing the royal sword, and out outraging the feelings and insulting the principles of the buckles of the girdle and shoes, are of fine and massive every respectable religious and loyal man in the nation. gold, and partly adorned with precious stones. "With feelings of the most affectionate respect for your A SCENE FOR A FARCE.—THE KING OF THE Mus- lordship, personally, and admiration of your public and Qulroes.—The following communication is from an Ame- private character, we are your lordship's humble and rican paper. It is dated Hull (U.S,), September 22, faithful brethren, 1849 :—" Skipper Mudge, who arrived at this port from " By order of the Grand Master, Honduras last week, in his smack Nancy, reports that he " NICHOLSON BRADLEY, Secretary. had an interview before sailing, with his majesty the " 119, Upper Canning-street, King of the Musquitoes. His majesty wore a splendid "Liverpool, Nov. 7, 1849." cocked had and a red sash, and had very large gilt spurs, To these spirited appeals suitable replies have been strapped about his ancles, but I regret to see that the re mainder of his person was, as the painters say, without received. drapery. We must make allowance, however, for differ- .....—e ...........—m ence of customs and climate. His majesty, who cannot RAILWAY AFFAIRS. be more than twenty years old, was slightly intoxicated. His suite consisted of a one-eyed dremmer-boy, and two MIDLAND RAILWAY .--It —lt has been decided by the gentlemen with fifes, one of whom acted as an interpreter. board ° ai c fd l irectors of the Midland Railway to make no The sing of the Musquitoes received Skipper Mudge , furtherat present on the £5O shares. seated on an empty whiskey cask. He motioned to the The Morning Herald says that the Great Westesn skipper to take a seat on the ground, or wherever he Railway Company, at their next meeting, will pay a divi chose." The writer then goes on to describe the further dend at the rate of 44 per cent. per annum, and carry for proceedings of the interview, in the course of which his ward £28,000. majesty's laughter having been excited, the cask rolled On Thursday at noon as the Emperor eneine, dragging from under him and he fell to the ground. a heavy train of coal waggons, was proceeding along the eiesseeeeeerneezeseesseaeeseeeeceseee....e. railway at Whiston-bank, between Rainhill and Huyton I R E L A N D. stations, it ran off the rails and drew the carriages across —4— the line, effectually stopping the traffic for nearly two On Tuesday a meeting of the inhabitants of Cork was hours. It is said that one of the rails was up for repairs, held to memorialise the Government to appoint a port in and that the engine driver did not see the signal in time Ireland as a packet station between Great Britain and to prevent the accident. T...1...,,1 'PL. .....,....;.,,.....2 rpry inflnentiallv attended. On Tuesday a meeting of the inhabitants of Cork was held to memorialise the Government to appoint a port in Ireland as a packet station between Great Britain and Ireland. The meeting was very influentially attended. The first sale under the " sale of encumbered estates act" has been announced. It relates to the extensive estates of John O'Connell and Morgan John O'Connell, Esqrs. of Grena, county of Kerry. On Saturday week, a farmer named Ward was found dead in his own cart on the road leading from Belfast to Saintfield. On the same road another man was also found dead, it is supposed from the inclemency of the weather. KiLnusff UNION.—The Limerick papers bring melan choly accounts of a " crisis" which has at length taken place hi the affairs of this unfortunot,e union. Money and credit are all gone, and starvation has lkerally set in among the paupers in the workhouse. A requisition is in course of signature in the county of Dublin for a meeting to petition parliament, praying it to take into immediate consideration the operation of free trade in agricultural produce, particularly in Ireland. Other counties are expected to join in that which pro mises to be a great national movement. THE NENAGII CHAPEL AFFAIR.—We find that the Roman Catholic parishioners of Nenagh memorialised Dr. Slattery, the Roman Catholic archbishop, to interfere in procuring the appointment of the Rev. Mr. Power to the parish. The reply of Dr. Slattery was, that he had no power to interfere. The petitioners are now resolved, it is stated, to appeal to the Pope.—Clare Journal. NIL DESPERANDUM.—The following paragraph from the Irish papers has an English interest cf no mean cha racter :—" The extensive coal field of Ballycastle has at length been opened, and a cargo of coals therefrom has / arrived at the quay of Belfast. It is fifty-five years since the Irish parliament discussed the national advantages oil , constructing a harbour at Ballycastle for the exportation , of its coals; but, like all other important improvements out of Dublin, they neglected this great work. The public is now indebted to an English company for opening this mine of wealth, which will afford so much employ ment." On Friday night last an awful accident occurred at Ballymartin, near Kilkeel. A poor man, his wife, and two children, lived in a miserable hut, beside the sea shore. The hut was old and dilapidated. Friday night was an exceedingly tempestuous one. The man and his family had gone to rest, all of them sleeping in the one bed, when the house fell on them, and the whole four were killed. The next day the bodies were dug out from the ruins. The poor fellow was found in a sitting pos ture, with one of the children in his arms, as if he had been rising to make his escape. His wife had the other child.—Newry Telegraph, ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATION.—On Sunday evening, at ten o'clock, a shot was fired into the drawing-room window of the residence of Henry Drury, Esq., at Sherwood, in the county of Carlow, within one mile of Kildavin. Miss Drury was at the time standing close to the window. The family were about to commence evening prayers, and, we regret to say, one bullet entered her cheek, breaking three teeth, and lacerating her tongue ; five bullets passed through the shutter, and some even through the door into the back drawing-room. The outrage has been occasioned by a dispute with some tenants about land, as a threaten ng notice found subsequently in the grounds testify. A document is circulating through Ireland, at the in stance of the Earl of Glengall and other Irish peers, in the shape of a petition to the Queen, praying for protec tion to the agricultural interests of Ireland. It is said this petition may be regarded as the groundwork for an amendment to the address in Parliament next session, in case some measure of relief is not indicated in the speech from the Throne. Amongst other topics touched upon is "The exercise of Her Majesty's royal authority in this kingdom cotemperaneously with the abolition of a regal representative, selected on the nomination of a political party, and at all times the patron of a section, in place of the representative of the Throne, which rules for the benefit of all." We dare say some of our readers will remember the notes of triumph which were sung by the free traders over the sale of the Blessington estates in Ireland. The thousand evidences of depreciation were as nothing, com pared with the one fact that the Blessington estates had sold at a good price. It turns out, however, that she whole thing is a grand mistake. Mr. Anderson, the pro feesional manager of the sale, has written a letter which very quietly and completely demolishes the whole case of the free traders. The property offered for sale was of two classes—land in the quiet county of Tyrone, and ground rents in the best part of Dublin. The ground-rents sold at 20 years' purchase ; but for the land there were no bidders, although it was intimated that 20 per cent. less would be taken than had actually been offered only three - years ago. One lot was put up at £24,000, for which £30,000 was refused in 1846, but not an offer was made. THE IRISH REBELS.—A letter from Mr. M`Manus, written on board the transport ship off the Cape of Good Hope, in September last, says,—" With regard 'to our • accommodation, the captain read for us his instructions on the day we lost sight of Ireland. They were briefly enumerated under the following heads :—We were allowed to be on deck two at 4 time, frem sunrise to sunset : to be in bed And All lights Ant pl 4 At nine o'clock ; and have .a LAW INT.ELLIGENCE. ACTION FOR DEFAMATION. — The Court of Exchequer in Dublin has been engaged, for nearly the whole week, in an action for defamation, brOught at the instance of a young woman named D. vine, against Captain M‘Manus, a gentleman bordering on 80 years of age, and who for merly filled the office of Under Secretary in the Military Secretary's office, Royal Hospital. The trial concluded on Friday, the jury finding for the plaintiff £350 damages and 6d. costs. It was alleged that a criminal intercourse had existed between the parties, and that the defendant had written letters blasting her character. For the de fence it was argued that the plaintiff had been imprisoned for felony, and that the defendant had never written the letters. Several gentlemen deposed that he never wrote them. In the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday, an action was brought in the name of a girl 13 years of age, against Mr. Wakley, son of Mr. Wakley, coroner, for having, in treating her for the fracture of a limb, in the Free Hos pital, London, caused her to be lame for life. The father of the girl told a most horrible story of dirt, neglect, &c., and stated that Mr. Wakley made him large offers not to make any complaint. He was so disgusted with the treatment in the •Free Hospital, that he removed his daughter to St. Bartholomew's, where she was cured, It appeared that the child had taken the scarlet fever from another patient, and this retarded her cure. Several surgeons declared that, under all the circumstances, the treatment was faultless, and the verdict was for the de fendant, Mr. Wakley. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—FRIDAY. isi Prius Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice WILDE and a Special Jury.) HILCOAT V. THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY AND This was an action on the case by the Rev. Dr. Hilcoat, who was the incumbent of St. Matthew's church, at Li verpool, and proprietor of the site of some buildings and premises attached thereto, against the Archbishop of Canterbury (as late Bishop of Chester) and the Archbishop of York, for not duly regarding the plaintiff's interest in a bargain and sale made by them of the church, buildings, and premises to the Bury and Lancaster (now the Lanca shire and Yorkshire) Railway Company, as they were re quired to do by the company's act of parliament. '['he archbishops, however, were only nominal defendants, the real defendants being the railway company. From the evidence adduced by the plaintiff it appeared that the chapel was originally used as a dissenting chapel, but in 1798 was converted into a chapel in connexion with the Established Church, and duly consecrated. In 1836 the plaintiff became the purchaser of the property for £l2OO, and when the railway company applied for their act be appeared before the committee by counsel, and ob tained the insertion in the act of the clauses set out in the declaration. Soon after the act was obtained a meeting took place at Liverpool, which was attended by the agents of the respective parties, when it was agreed that the com pany should pay £7,732. 17s, for the church and premises adjoining, but the plaintiff claimed £3,000 for his interest in the pew rents, and £1,700 for his interest in the land and buildings; and upon the refusal of the defendants to allot him more than £1,500 in respect of his whole interest he instituted the present action for the value of his in terest in the lands and buildin g s only, ind e p en d en tly o f the pew-rents, which the defendants defended, upon re ceiving an indemnity from the company. m r. Hobne, a builder at Liverpool, deposed that he estimated the plain tiff's interest in the land and buildings at £1,700; and Mr. Stewart, a surveyor from the same place, estimated it at £3. 10s. per square yard, which came to a somewhat smaller sum. Mr. Holme also stated that a chapel equal to St. Matthew's might be built for £5,000 ; and that the lowest sum at which a similar chapel could be erected, under the provisions of the Liverpool Building Act, would be £3,000, exclusive of the fittings. It further appeared that, instead of building a church, the railway company, with the consent of the defendants, purchased a Scotch Presbyterian chapel at Liverpool for £6,132, and converted it into a church capable of accommodating 1,200 persons. This being the plaintiff's case, Sir F. Thesiger, for the defendants, contended that as by the deed of consecration the land was dedicated for ever to church purposes, and could not therefore be used otherwise for profit by the plaintiff, and as the whole of the pew rents, save two, were charged with the payment of £95 a year, and there could not therefore be any sur plus from them, the plaintiff bad no claim whatever in respect of the property he now sought compensation for; and that in awarding the sum of £1,500, the defendants had done so rather as an act of grace than of strict justice, The learned gentleman also contended that the act did not apply to this land, but only to land not being the site of the church, and that the word site included not only the ground on which the fabric of the chapel stood, but surrounding land which was necessary to furnish air and light,:as appeared by the provision in the act for enclosing TOE LittkPOet StANDARD. the new church and surrounding it with iron railings. The learned gentleman also said that the archbishops were only nominally the defendants in this case, for that, in reality, he appeared for the railway company. The Lord Chief Justice told the jury that many of the issues had only been raised to put the plaintiff to the proof of them, and that as he had proved them, verdict upon these issues must be for him. The principal ques tions for their consideration therefore would be—first, as he should rule that the land for which he claimed com pensation did not form part of the site of the church within the meaning of the act of parliament, what compensation the plaintiff was entitled to for it ; and, secondly, whether the sum paid by the company was sufficient to build and fit up the new church, and also to pay the plaintiff sufficient compensation ? The jury, upon the first of these questions, found a verdict for the plaintiff, with £154 lOs damages ; and upon the second question, a verdict for the defendants. Of the technical issues some were found for both parties, and leave was reserved to both to move the court above upon the legal questions resulting from them. UNIVERSITY AND .CLERICAL NEWS. DIOCESE OF CHESTER CONSECRATION.—The Bishop of Chester consecrated, on Wednesday last, the new church of St. Peter, Leighton cum Minshull-Vernon, in the township of Minshull - Vernon , in the parish of Middlewich, and county of C - tester. The church is a neat and substantial structure, built of stone, and contains sittings for 216 persons, the whole, with the exception of two sittings, being entirely free and unappropriated. It was erected in lieu of the church of St. Peter, Leighton, in the township of Leigh ton, and parish of Nantwich, which having become ruin ous and dilapidated, although erected but a few years since, has been wholly taken down. The new church is within the district originally assigned to St. Peter's, Leighton, which comprises the townships of Leighton, in the parish of Nantwich, and Minshull-Vernon, in the parish of Middlewich, but on a site more convenient for the district, which has been given by Edward Lloyd, Esq., of Manchester, banker, for the purpose, he being also a liberal contributor to the erection of tEe church, the funds for which were raised by voluntary subscription, aided by grants from the Church Building Societies, including one from her Majesty's Commissioners. It has a cemetery, and a parsonage is in the course of erection, The bishop preached an eloquent sermon upon the occa sion in aid of the funds. ••• •••••.• PREFERMENT —The Rev. William Clarke, to the perpetual curacy of Firbank, Westmoreland, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Thos. Andrew, the last incum bent. Patron, vicar of Kirkby Lonsdale : value £B3. The Rev. Edward Waller has been appointed to succeed the Rev. J. P. O'Leary in the incumbency of St. Jude's Church, Manchester. The Rev. C Bridgeman, M.A.„ curate of Wigan, has been appointed by the Lord Chancellor to the rectory of Kinnerley, Salop. The Bishop of Hereford has called a diocesan meeting to form a society for the extension and improvement of the means of education in the diocese. ENGLISH CHURCH AT GENEVA.—At the last meeting of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, a me morial, signed by the Rev. B. O'M. Deane, chaplain at Geneva, and by the British Consul there, representing the want of an English church, at that place, and giving an account of the efforts which had been made to supply the want, was laid before the meeting. The case having been recommended by the :Lord Bishop of Winchester, and sanctioned by the Lord Bishop of London, the sum of £lOO was voted towards the building of a church. THE RUGBY Fox MEMORIAL.—We are glad to hear that the fund for establishing a mastership in a native school in India, as a memorial of the services in the mis sionary cause of the late lamented Rev. H. W. Fox, of Wadham College, Oxford, and a pupil of Dr. Arnold at Rugby, now amounts to nearly £740, and the annual contributions to £57 lfis. 6d., besides a collection in Rugby school of £45 16s. It is intended to raise in all £1,500 by (intuitions, so as to secure a permanent income of £6O; the remainder of the Rugby-Fox-master's salary to be made up by annual contributions, and a collection at Rugby chapel annually after a sermon in behalf of the object. A subscription bas been entered into at Rochester, to defray the expenses of the Rev. R. Whiston, the head master of the Cathedral Grammar School, in that town. It is stated that the statutes of Rochester Cathedral (A. D. 1541) assign to the dean £lOO, to each of the canons £2O, to each of the boys £2 13s. 4d. a year : they also require the students and boys to be maintained out of the funds of the church. The income of the dean is now at least £1,426, and that of a canon £6BO, while the other stipends are still £5 and £2 13s. 4d. only. Mr. Whiston commented in a pamphlet on these alleged facts. For this he was dismissed. He has appealed to Chancery. THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.—The proposed new form of the examination statute was submitted to convo cation on Friday, Almost all the heads of houses were present, the great body of professors and tutors, and about 300 members of convocation. The important result of the day's proceedings was the affirmation of the prin ciple of a school of modern history, which was carried by 153 votes to 139. The point has been very warmly con tested, but this decision is taken as final ; the details have, however, yet to be considered.—A vote, the object of which was to admit to the highest hondurs candidates eminent in philosophy . and history, provided they had attained laudable proficiency in Latin and Greek, and vice versa, was rejected by a majority of 80. GORHAM V. THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—The judicial committee of the privy council assembled on Tuesday morning to hear counsel in this important case. The fol lowing learned lords and right reverend prelates were pre sent during the day, namely :—The Archbishop of Can terbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, Lord Compbell, Lord Langdale, Lord Lansdowne, Mr. Baron Parke, Sir Stephen Lushington, Vice Chancellor Bruce, the Right Hon. Pemberton Leigh, and the Right Honourable Sir Edward Ryan. A great number of cler gymen were present, and within the bar were the Earl of Carlisle and the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth. Mr. G. Turner and Dr. Bayford appeared for the appellant ; Dr. Addams and Mr. Baddeley represented the respondent. The case was opened by Mr. Turner on behalf of the appellant, who had not concluded his argument when the court rose. On Wednesday the argument for the appellant was resumed by Mr. Taylor, who was followed by Dr. Bayford on the same side. Dr. Addams then addressed the court on be half of the respondent, but the court rose before he had concluded. The court intimated that on Thursday and Saturday it would not sit, and adjourned until Friday, which day Dr. Adams occupied with his resumed address, which he was to continue yesterday. The clergy of the deaneries of Dover and Elham have presented a protest to the Archbishop of Canterbury against a sermon preached on the occasion of the Primate's late visitation at the former town, in which statements were made that — "Unquestionably set up the direct contradictory of our scriptural belief in the efficacy of the sacraments of the Church of Christ. And, as ministers of that Church in England we are constrained to express to your Grace a conviction ulterior to this. While we recognise the justice which has decided against the `holding distinctive Roman doctrine in the Cnurch of England,' we feel that the same justice decides against the holding distinctive Dissenting doctrine in the same Church of England. And while we should protest (as many of us have done) against the one we desire to guard against any possible imputation that we do not feel equally bound to protest against the other. In his reply the Archbishop says : "The impression left on my mind was not different from that expressed by yourselves. But I should not choose to pro nounce a positive, still less an official opinion, without seeing the sermon as well hearing it; more especially as one sentence, which I aftewards mentioned to Mr. Gambier, as having al). appeared to me most objectionable, he explained as not having in his intention reference to the subject to which I had sup posed him to apply it. "I am not aware that the doctrine advanced concerning the Sacraments, and to which yon chiefly object, is distinctively the doctrine of Dissenters. But I fully acquiesce in the opinion that any doctrine propounded in our Church, contradictory to its articles and formularies, justly calls for a protest from its more consistent members ; and suc', a protest, if unhappily it should ever prove necessary, will always be received with the attention to which it is entitled, from your faithful servant and brother, ".l. B. CANTUAR." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ALTCAR COURSING MEETING This grand event came off on Thursday and Friday. The following is the result of the deciding course in each case : SEFTON CUP.—Mr. Webb's War Eagle beat Lord Sef ton's Syntax. MOLYNEUX PLATE.—Mr. Brocklebank's Border Boy beat Mr. Rogers's Little Pangy. ::CROXTETH PURSE.—Mr. Webb's Well I Never beat Mr. A. Graham's Anarchy. ALTCAR STAKES.—Mr. Jebb's Ringdove beat Mr. J. Worrall's Wardance. CONSOLATION STAKES.—Lord Sefton's Syncope beat Mr. George's Thornton. WEST DERBY STAKES.—Mr. Cruso's Merrylegs beat Mr. A. Graham's Denunciation. LANCASHIRE STAKES.—Mr. J. Worrall's Lady Mary beat Mr. King's Regent. Lord Zetland has purchased Voltigeur ; the price is stated to be 1,200 sovs. EXTRAORDINARY SPORT.—On Friday, Earl Grosvenor, M.P., killed sixty-five head of game, on the Eaton Estate. He commenced shooting at eleven o'clock, and closed at four. His lordship may be classed amongst the first marksmen in the kingdom, having, during his recent short sojourn at Eaton Hall, killed three deer in full run out of four he shot at. THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOATRACB.—On Saturday this race came off from Putney to Mortlake, between the two Universities. The Oxford gentlemen won the choice of station, and took the Middlesex side of the centre arch, there being a strong wind from S.S.W. Both crews appeared to go off well together, but almost immediately after it was evident that the antabs were going in advance, and were soon a boat's length clear of their opponents. After this the Cambridge gentlemen increased their lead an additional length ; but, when they arrived at the Crabtree, where both had to cross forwards to the Surrey side, the Oxford boat bumped that of the Cambridge, amidst a cry of " Foul, foul ! The Oxoni ans raised their oars on end, and then recommenced rowing. At Hammersmith the Cantabs went under the nearest arch on the Surrey side a length in advance of their opponents. In the Corner Reach both crews crossed the water again to the Middlesex shore, the Cantabs still leading. No material change took place, and the Cam bridge gentlemen reached the flag-boat moored off the ship at Mortlake in advance, but by scarcely more than a quarler of a length. Mr. T. H. Fellows, the umpire, decided, however, in favour of Oxford, in consequence of a foul on the part of the CsAbridge. The distance, about four-and-half miles, was 'rowed in twenty-four minutes and twenty-seven -second a. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. It is reported that a protectionist amendment will be moved upon the address. A well informed London paper says that government has decided on abandoning Canada as a British colony. Mr. Shelley has retired from the contest, and Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox, third son of the Duke of Richmond, is, therefore, likely to walk over unopposed for the borough of Shoreham. DEMONSTRATION AGAINST FREE TRADE.—The requi sition to the high sheriff for a county meeting to petition the Queen and both Houses of Parliament to restore pro tection to native industry, has received 7500 signatures. This will shew how universal is the feeling against free trade. The meeting has been fixed for the 21st of De cember.—Exeter Gazette. _ vv The • Times calls the Protectionist activity a "furor," or ".unaccountable phenomena." The counties are re presented as having lost their senses ; they ought to be considered, rather, as having come to their senses. Alison, the historian, is assailed, for his Philippic of " Free Trade at its Zenith,"—which put the Times out of breath. "THE STRAW IS MOVING."—It appears that Lord Portman, whose connection with the Cabinet is sufficiently notorious, met (some say by appointment) a number of the leading tenant-farmers, who have been drawn to Lon don by the agricultural exhibition of the past week—that his lordship intimated, in terms which could not be mis understood, that he was prepared to support in the House of Lords a proposition for a fixed duty of Bs. per quarter, or of Is. per bushel on foreign wheat. Nay, it ;s alleged that Lord Portman promised to urge upon Her Majesty's Government (we all know what this means) the adoption of such an impost upon foreign grain, if the agriculturists of the country would agree to, and agitate for, this amount of protection, as a final settlement of the question. Let us wind up with the following quotation from the Court Circular of Thursday :—" Lord Portman had an interview with Lord John Russell, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street! !" Verily " the straw is moving." _ _ POLICY OF THE PEACE PARTY.—In truth, the peace congresses which now amuse the world, and give an op portunity for clever but chimerical and ignorant men to declaim upon the speedy advent of a political millenium, are nothing more than an effort, on the part of the free trade party, to escape from the consequence of their own measures. Mr. Cobden and the free-traders of England now see as clearly as any body, that cheap prices and a large revenue, either to individuals or nations, cannot by possibility co-exist ; that the £100,000,000 promised us from the abolition of the corn-laws have vanished into thin air • and that the reduction of the income of the whole classes of society will be so considerable, that it is quite impossible the national expenditure can be main tained. As the touching of the dividends is not for a mo ment to be thought of—as that would be bringing the tempest back with a vengeance on the moneyed class who evoked it—his only resource, to make our expenditure square with our reduced income, is in disbanding the sol diers, instituting a national guard, and selling our stores and ships of war. He is quite serious in that ' • and, like all other fanatics, he is not in the slightest degree in fluenced by the decisive refutation of his principles, which the universal breaking out of hostilities, and arming of tha world, in consequence of the French Revolution of 1848, and the momentary triumph of liberal principles, has afforded. He is perfectly aware that if industry was protected, and we had a currency equal to the wants and necessities of the nation, we might, with our extended po pulation, raise £lOO 000,000 a-year, with more ease than we now do fifty millions, and thus secure the independence of the country, and bid defiance to all our enemies. But that would lower the value of money in the hands of the great capitalists, and would amount to an admission that he had been wrong ; and, rather than risk that, he is con tent to prostrate the national defences, and hand us over, unarmed, to the tender mercies of the Chartists and Re peelers at home, and the Red Republicans or Cossacks abroad.—Blackwood. THE ASSIZES CROWN COURT.-TUESDAY John Nelson, alias John Clough, 27, was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation for having been at large at Manchester before the expiration of a term of ten years for which he had been. transported. Robert Dawson, 29, James Burke, 18, Mary Ann Jones, 18, and Thomas Mason, 35, were charged with having entered the dwelling-house of Theophilus Prit chard, Vine-street, Manchester, and stolen seven yards of plaid, two shawls, a handkerchief, and other drapery articles. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against all the prisoners, except Mary Ann Jones whom they found guilty of receiving stolen goods. Previous convictions against Burke and Jones were proved. Dawson, also had been previously convicted of felony. Mr. Justice Wight man sentenced the whole of the prisoners to transporta tion for seven years. George Leigh, 26, pleaded guilty to having, by means of a forgery, at Manchester, obtained 18 yards of cloth. He was recommended by the prosecutor to mercy. Sen tence deferred. Benjamin Anderson, 33, also pleaded guilty to having at Manchester, forged an order for the delivery of two pairs of compasses. Sentence deferred. James Smith, 19, was sentenced to seven years' trans portation, for having, with two other persons, at Man chester, violently assaulted Elizabeth Motherill, and robbed her of an umbrella. A previous conviction was proved. John Gillman, 18, was sentenced to transportation for seven years, for having, at Liverpool, entered the dwell ing-house of Isaac Brunt, and stolen a dress piece, a vest, two handkerchiefs, a cloak, and other arti cles. The prisoner pleaded that he was very drunk at the time of the burglary, and that he had found the articles lying on the flags. A previous conviction of felony was also proved in this case. George Carr, 25, was sentenced to nine months' im prisonment, and hard labour, for having, at Liverpool, stabbed and wounded Robert Flynn, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty of an assault, but not guilty of felony. Ann M'Donald, an interesting-looking girl, seventeen years of age, for having, at Liverpool, feloniously cut and wounded Mary Ann Philips, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner called two witnesses, both prostitutes, to prove an alibi. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of assault. Sentence, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve months. Mary Leonard, 17, for having, at Liverpool, feloniously stabbed James Nolan, with intent to do him some griev ous bodily harm. Guilty of common assault. Sentence, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months. NISI PRIUS COURT.-TUESDAY. John Carney, 18, with having, at Bolton, entered the dwelling-house of William Thompson, and having stolen therein three pints of rum, one pint of whiskey, two pounds of bread, and one jug, the property of the said William Thompson. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and having been previously convicted of felony, his lord ship sentenced him to ten years' transportation. James Toole, 30, with having, at Burtonwood, near Newton-in-the-Willows, assaulted George Lawson, and having, with violence, stolen from his person two half crowns. The prisoner denied the charge, and said that the prosecutor was in liquor on the evening in question, and had accused several other persons of robbery before accusing him. Two other persons had been in custody on suspicion of the robbery, and his lordship told the jury that it would not be safe to convict the prisoner, on which they acquitted him. William Smith, was sentenced to twelve months' im prisonment and hard labour, having, on the 12th of Nov., forged and uttered an order upon R. Neilson, Esq., of Halewood, with intent to defraud Mr. William Houson. Charles Harrison, 15, pleaded guilty of having at Walton-on-the-Hill, feloniously and maliciously set fire to a stack of barley, the property of Richard Boyes, and was sentenced to seven years' transportation. Edward Armstrong, 36, pleaded guilty to having at Warrington, stolen, out of a registered post letter, a gold watch. The prisoner was sentenced to seven years' trans portation. Thomas Smith, 17, Susan Smith, 17, Mary Flinn, 17, and Bridget Williams, 17, with having, at Manchester, broken and entered the dwelling-house of Thomas Wor thington. Thomas and Susan Smith were acquitted, and Flinn and Williams were found guilty of receiving the stolen articles, knowing them to have been stolen, and were sentenced to four months' imprisonment each. William Murray, 17, sentenced to twelve months' im prisonment, for a burglary at the house of James Camp bell, an innkeeper, at Mantheoter. John Cowan, 19, with a burglary at the house of Martha Roberts, at Levenshulme, on the 13th of September. He was further charged with a burglary on the same evening, at the house of Samuel Gough, of the same place. The prisoner was found guilty on both indictments, and there being a previous conviction against him, he was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. CROWN COURT.-WEDNESDAY. Richard Fitzgerald, 55, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment and hard labour for bigamy at Manchester. William Bingham was found guilty of assaulting and robbing John Long in one of the streets at Manchester. John Taylor was sentenced to twelve months imprison ment for forging an order at Manchester for the delivery of two books. • _ _ _ _ John Scholes was acquitted of the charge of cutting his wife's throat, in Seacorobe-street, in this town. The pri soner was undefended, and said that he had found his wife drinking, and that she cut her own throat in a frenzy. There having been a bill found against the prisoner for a conspiracy to defraud, he was detained in custody. John Robinson was sentenced to twenty years trans portation for feloniously forging and uttering a cheque for the payment of £325 9s. on the bank of Sir B. Heywood, of Manchester. There were two other charges of like character against the prisoner. The prisoner had been in the habit of obtaining clerks by advertisements in the newspapers, whom he employed just as long as he could make use of them to carry the cheques in question to the bank, and get them cashed. James Carr, engineer, and James Brisbane, seaman, of the Birkenhead ferry steamer Fanny, were acquitted of the charge of manslaughter, which was alleged against them on account of having run down a fishing boat in the Mer sey, in which were two men named Wilson, both of whom were drowned. At the close of the case for the prosecu tion his lordship said there was no ground for the charge. Sarah Melvin was acquitted of the charge of attempting to drown her sister, a little girl aged ten years, by throw ing her off the landing stage. The prisoner was in a very desponding state of mind, and both she and her sister would have been in the water but for the parties present laying hold of them. Ann Woods, who was apprehended in September, was sentenced to three days further imprisonment for bigamy at Ashton-under-Lyne. The prisoner's first husband went to America, leaving her quite destitute, with two children. He was absent fifteen months, and she hears that he was dead.—Thomas Burns, of the same town, pleaded guilty to the same charge, and was sentenced to two months imprisonment. Maurice Whaling was sentenced to twelve months im prisonment for cutting and wounding a young woman, with whom he had been living, at Canning-place. The prosecutrix stated that she had insulted the prisoner and that she was intoxicated. William Peach was acquitted (without the slightest im putation on his character,) of having feloniously killed John Hamilton, at Wavertree. The prisoner was an om nibus driver, and in August last the deceased was knocked down in consequence of being in the way of the omnibus, and he died of the injuries received. NISI PRIUS COURT.-WEDNESDAY. A CEREMONY AT GRETNA. Thos, Hardman, of Bolton-le-Moors, was charged with marrying Jane Haswell, his former wife, Eliza, being then alive. The second was what is called a Gretna marriage, and it was held to be binding and good. A Mr. Murray, who had married the parties, was called as a witness. He said he married on an average four hundred couples a year, having been in practice seven years. (Laughter.) He was not the original blacksmith. His house was called " Alison's Toll-house," and was nearer to Carlisle than the house of Mr. Linton. another " blacksmith." The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was discharged. CROWN COURT- THURSDAY Ellen Scott, charged with having, at Liverpool, felo niously forged a warrant and order for the payment of £lO, and for having uttered the same with intent to de fraud George Taylor, was discharged, no evidence being offered. Mary Heavy, 24, was indicted for having, at Prescot, on the 25th October last, wilfully murdered her new-born male child. The grand jury having ignored the bill, the prisoner was discharged. MURDER IN LIVERPOOL Potrick Joseph Culkin, 34, (superior education,) was indicted for having, at Liverpool, on the Ist of August last, wilfully murdered James Culkin and Catherine Culkin, his children. The prisoner, wko is a school master, resided in a court in Oriel-street, in Liverpool, and previous to the committal of the murder his wife died of cholera. The question turned upon the fact whether the prisoner was in a sane state of mind at the time he committed the offence charged against him. After evidence had been heard, Mr. Pollock addressed the jury for the defence. The jury, after a few minutes' consultation, found a verdict of not guilty, on the ground that the prisoner was insane at the time. Of course, he will be confined during her Majesty's pleasure. CHARGE OF MURDER AT MANCHESTER, John Lee, 46, was indicted for having, at Manchester, on the 7th September last, wilfully murdered Thomas Richardson. The prisoner was a blacksmith, and the deceased worked for him. On the day in question, the prisoner ordered the deceased out, end, on his refusing to go, the prisoner thrust two red-hot irons through his thigh. He died in about fifty minutes. The prisoner was found guilty, and was sentenced to transportation for life. Bernard Sheridan was found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for life, for having killed John Heyes, at Manchester, on the 21st November last. The prisoner rushed out of his house in an excited state on that day. and dared any body to face him. On the deceased going to him to pacify him, the prisoner wounded him so se riously with a chisel that he died shortly after. NIST PRIUS COURT.-THURSDAY John Hunt was indicted for having, on the night of the 19th July, 1847, stolen a colt, the property of Messrs. Chadwick, manufacturers, at Eccles, near Manchester. From the evidence, it appeared that the prisoner was seen near Buxton, soon after the discovery of the robbery, en deavouring to sell the animal. Eventually he was, some time ago, apprehended in Liverpool. Mr. Monk, who defended the prisoner, hinted a suspicion to the jury that there might easily be a mistake as to identity, particularly as such a length of time had elapsed between the robbery and his apprehension. On this point the learned counsel dilated at some length. His lordship then summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. George Huyton was charged with having, on the Ist instant, at Eccicston. stabbed Daniel Holland, with intent to maim him. Mr. Monk prosecuted, and Mr. Aspinall defended. The evidence adduced in support of the charge went to show that, on the night in question, the prisoner was at the Ecclesto , Arms public-house, and whilst there behaved in a most riotous manner, going so far as even to stab the landlord in seven different parts of his body with a penknife. Mr. Aspinall, in his defence, submitted that the occurrence had most probably arisen from the priso ner having been in liquor, and said the evidence had not in any way shown that the prisoner had had an evil inten tion. As the landlord had shown equal belligerent powers it was also probable that he himself was drunk. In fact it was a regular row. After his lordship had summed up the jury returned a verdict of guilty without any malice prepensi6. He was sentenced to nine months' imprison ment with hard labour. James Blackshaw, 52, was charged with having, at Reddish, in this county, broken into a warehouse, and stolen therefrom 36 hats, the property of James Ellor. Sentence deferred. CROWN COURT.-FRIDAY SENTENCES.—SamueI .111` Namara and George Patter son, convicted of au absault upon Anthony latuan., Liverpool, and wounding him with intent to do grievous bodily harm, were sentenced to six months hard labour in the House of Correction. George Leigh and Benjamin Anderson, who had pleaded guilty to forging orders for goods at Manchester, having been previously convicted of felony, were sentenced to be transported for seven years. Thomas Bedford, aged 35, was charged with unlawfully forging a petition, purporting to be the petition of Peter M'Farlane, with intent to defraud her majesty's customs ; also, with having forged a certain paper purporting to bear the signatures of E. Rushton and J. Duke, with in tent to defraud the said commissioners. The indictment also charged the prisoner with obtaining three shillings from one Patrick Kenny by false pretences. The jury found the prisoner guilty on the last count of the indict ment only, namely, that of forging the names of Mr. Rushton and Mr. Duke, and he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AT LIVERPOOL—John Campbell, 21, was arraigned on an indictment, and also on an inquisition, charging him with the manslaughter of Joseph Gibson, at Liverpool, on the 17th November last. The learned Judge summed up, and the jury acquitted the prisoner. Andrew Hunter, William Hardigan, and Thos. Ryder, were charged with burglariously entering the dwelling house of John Unsworth, and stealing thereout four silver teaspoons and sixteen shillings in silver. A verdict of guilty was returned against Hardigan and Hunter. Ryder was acquitted. In consequence of a former conviction, Hunter was sentenced to ten years' transportation, and Hardigan was sentenced to ten years' transportation. Francis Harrison and Joseph Harrison were charged with having, at Over Darwen, on the 12th of November last, feloniously killed and slain Michael Horrock. The prisoners, who are brothers, residing at Over Darwen, were at a public-house there on the evening in question, and after leaving it met in the road with the deceased, who was a sawyer, in Blackburn, after which a quarrel took place, which ultimately ended in the deceased having his leg broken, which resulted in his death. The pri soners were both found guilty and recommended to mercy. His lordship sentenced them to six mouths imprisonment, with hard labour. PRIZE FIGHT.—John Middleton was indicted for the manslaughter of Richard Lilley, at Stratford, near Man chester, and Hugh Jones, 26, Thomas Welsh, 19, and Joseph Ellis, 20, were charged, in the same indictment, with aiding and assisting. Mr. Monk and Mr. Barlow were for the prosecution ; Mr. Cross defended Jones. The others were not defended. The facts of the case were very brief :—The parties assembled at a prize-fight which took place at Throstle Nest, in Stretford, near Manches ter. A large crowd was present ; the combatants were Middleton and Lilley; the others, and a person not in custody, acted as seconds and bottleholders. The fight lasted two hours, when Lilley was knocked down and, began to bleed profusely from the nose and mouth. He' was removed in a car to a public-house, and a surgeon was procured, but he died in almost three-quarters of an hour of effusion of blood on the brain. It was stated that the fight was a fair stand-up one, and Middleton was also much punished. He bad engaged in the fight reluctantly, and, after his opponent died, gave himself up voluntarily. The jury found all guilty ; and his lordship, after express ing his hope that they would not again engage in such ' unlawful acts, said be thought the ends of justice would be satisfied by a lenient sentence. They were then sen tenced to be imprisoned ten days each. NISI PRIUS COURT.-FRIDAY MURDER. William Cheetham was indicted for having, at Over Darwen, wilfully murdered Isabella Cheetham, his wife. It appeared that on the sth ult., the prisoner had gone home from the colliery where he worked, and because his wife refused to prepare his dinner, unless he gave her some money, he got into a passion, knocked her down, and otherwise maltreated her. She escaped to her mother's house, but returned home next day. She afterwards was observed to be black over her limbs, and died on the 30th. There was no direct proof that the death of the deceased was caused by blows from the prisoner ; but he certainly had accelerated it, in some degree, by his brutality, and the jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter, recommend ing the prisoner to mercy. Mary Ann Page was charged with the wilful murder of her infant child at Manchester, on the sth of September last. The prisoner was also charged with concealing the birth of the said child. After the evidence of the sur geon, his lordship directed the jury to acquit the prisoner on the capital charge, and to find her guilty of conceal ment of the birth. Sentence—two months' imprison ment with hard labour. _ _ _ John Hughes and Richard Formby were charged with night-poaching, the indictment containing not less than eight several counts. On the 18th of August, about two o'clock in the morning, the watchers on the land of Mr. Scarisbrick, at Downholland, heard a bare cry, and on running up to the spot, some poachers jumped out of concealment, and with cudgels and long poles beat and kept them at bay. One of the assailants, the prisoner Hughes, was knocked down and secured—the rest then ran away. Two nets were found upon the spot, and a bag with five partridges in it. Formby was not caught at the time, and the evidence against him was but slight. Ver dict—Hughes, guilty; Formby, not guilty. Sentence deferred. SATURDAY cARARGE OF RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS Titus Brown, a respectable-looking man, (who was out .on wasludicied for having, at Stockport, received a Dee. 18, 184 ii _ %At quantity of hats and hat-bodies, knowing them been stolen. The premises of a hat manufactur:oe Stockport had been broken open and some has stolen. Two men, Blackshaw and Cheatham , wen.a. prehended, and were tried and convicted at the se s but not sentenced. It was sought to prove the ea ths ( the prosecution by the testimony of these men' last he ro of one of their servants, Mary Miller, but the last n called did not appear. It was suggested to the learep, judge that sentence should first be passed upon OP :rot that it might not be thought that they were p reP tion against the prisoner, under the impression of a witiga,oo, of their punishment. The counsel for the proseruP,o4 however, said that evidence coming from two con accomplices only could not be relied on, and he therellsl abandoned the prosecution. The prisoner was then charged. Cheatham, for stealing hats at SENTENCES Stockport, and fi le ; thaw, for the same and previous felonies, were se nt° to the first to 12 months' imprisonment, and the other 10 years' transportation. bel l William Cheetham, who on the previous day h ad o r tried for the murder of his wife and was convicted of la urf slaughter, was then brought up. In this case th ) 01 had recommended the prisoner to mercy, on the gro llo a that the circumstances were not of great apravation ; his lordship concurring sentenced him, with a feeli2g, v , monition, to 12 months' imprisonment and hard lea' POACHING.-THE GAME LAWS Robert Lloyd, John Taylor, William Roscoe. J„,,7 0 1 - llflntyre, William Walker, William Tether, an d ' t he Seddon, all young men, were indicted for having, at m ea township of Altcar, in the night time, been out ar 0 , with offensive weapons for the purpose of killing g a . sn il There were also counts charging them with assaults ar Oil' William Warner, the gamekeeper, and his assistants . the night in question the prisoners were encounter.ea the keepers and their men, in a close of land belongi n g of the Earl of Sefton. An affray ensued in which Wm the prisoners were dreadfully wounded, and were s t ;;e i , wards removed from the field in a cart.—Mr. ArC hi b the in opening the case, said the jury had not to deal K it h t he propriety or impropriety of the game laws, but with ~,e1 law of the land as they found it.—Warner, the I'oua keeper, was severely cross-examined by Mr. Jarn es ' the admitted that he and his associates had " belaboure prisoners handsomely," and had " nearly choked ' t he them in a ditch."—Mr. James, in the defence , sa t„ „ir game laws were relics of barbarous times, founded one norance, supported by oppression, and conducive tn,g ceo . mischief. He remarked further on these laws, anadeo tended that the long pole deposed to was not "a n • o ryi sive weapon," but rather a hindrance to assault. Thd er s at first brought in a verdict to the effect that the pri so , i l had been out poaching, but not with intent to do bea u , injury. His lordship explained that such a verdict c°, to ( not be received, upon which the jury returned a verc hc e re r . l9t . guilty . as regarded all the prisoners, and they ic discharged. John Hughes, who had been convicted of bei armed in pursuit of game, was sentenced to four re imprisonment, with hard labour. This closed the business of the assizes rose at three o'clock. and the cog LOCAL MEETINGS SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING.—At the special mee t on Wednesday, Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.?' unanimously appointed to consider the whale state water question. He is armed with the fullest dis.' to hear evidence, and to make such tests and experile;l l and adopt such other means as may be necessary f° l ',lls investigation of the whole question, rep or ti n g the Di o s to the Council as early as possible. Mr. Stephenso n t o consented to act, and declares that he will enter o _ l3 o pe enquiry without the slightest bias in favour of eithe r side or the other. Mr. Simpson has beer parliamentary agent to attend . to the bills to be br forward next session. irs g THE HEALTH COMMITTEE.—The weekly meetingats. held on Thursday, Mr. Parker in the chair. Od, ll , cussion on the nuisance department, it was stated liff, curious fact that of the 300 night-men employed bLve Rose not one had been attacked with cholera• em deaths registered in the borough during the week ", t ill 186, or 30 of an increase over the p r e v i ou s w eek, bu t ore below the average mortality of the season. There a to three deaths from cholera last week.—lt was agr ee Oh sewer Burlington-street, and to pave Temple-street t the ^ 4 -.--A motion was made and agreed to tha,..,ct, r sewers should hereafter be let by hic.• provid-d the contracts fell short of the amount for ir the work can be executed by the public staff. O a DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—A report wa s ~s r , from the superintendent of the Albe r t do c k warehdli , It stated that many facilities had been afforded by a u t bse rity of the Customs for the discharge of vessels , ot her effecting an economy of labour, and se c urity id 0 0 1 respects ; besides which a saving of £1,500 per 0 0 0 would be effected. The superintend en t offered some suggestions as to the lowering of the rates fcr b ovdd s h e rif ing that the owners of private war e ho u seshasla' ,rbe nade considerable reductions in their charges. .„ ( 1, mmittee considered that a revision o f the rates WS! square ;traction of sizable, and the matter was referred finThjpurP°sl:eto Berths at the south-east corner of Canning Dock ordered to be appropriated for the Ulverstone trad e ' 0 A notice was received from the authorities at Chest e :O6 the effect that application was to be made, in the en- o r session of parliament, for an act relating to the CO vancy and improvement of the River Dee, and thadved, Ilnek VCA ;flf.F.r.t+.,l in Certain property ' o f. for the undertaking. It was stated that the er ection t o station or works on Hilbre Island was involved in t / application. The matter was ref erre d to the solicit° , o f Mr. Bold gave notice that he should move for returr`-to the quantity of land, or strand given and sold bY Der Corporation to the Dock Trust, with the price, and ot information connected therewith. SELECT VESTRY.—The last meeting was held en 1 -ea• day, the Rev. Rector Campbell in the chain—Th e 0' Archdeacon Brooks brought forward his motion 1 1 03e storing the salary of the master and mistress o no Industrial School, to £220, its original amount. ` i 'bre division the motion was carried by 14 to 11.—Mr. Pi l ea ham moved that the house in St. Anne-street be.tfoov up, and that Mr. Lingley, the apothecary to the „"oial house, be paid at the rate of £BO per annum. neSl'l' to the original agreement, instead of £7s.—Thetb e tions were severally agreed to.—lt was stated tha itt ea cholera hospital was now closed.—Mr. Willmer subtfletioo a series of resolutions, having for their object a red ; 1 5 pet in the poor rate on houses assessed at and under X, l O t ye annum ; namely, that on houses at and under X' p 5, rate should be ls. in the pound ; £ll and not eve r t the is. 6d; and £l4 or £l5, 2s. in the pound,—also the Ijr, rates should be received in monthly instalment s. p 'tb e Willmer being yet deficient of some information .., ° . 0 %. / subject, did not press these resolutions at this Inee h " e or e ; It was announced that fifty-two applications had ceived for the situation of matron to the Worlowisror"; Cafferata moved that they be referred to the ec ti° el . ori house Committee, with instructions to make a Thr all, / , of not less than four, to be submitted to the conew.j e cn",, of the board.—Mr. Willmer proposed that the s` t ob e 'r should be made by the board out of the entire n 0 0 ° 5 as in the case of the appointment of the present gc.' oo o:j and his wife.—On a division, Mr. Cafferata's 1n1 0 0r,.°4 carried by a large majority.—The board then ". 1 folv , to Monday, the 24th inst., the usual day of meeting on THE ARCHITTECTURAL AND ARCHOLOGICAL s opit'Sor —The fortnightly meeting of this society tool' Wednesday evening, at the Royal Institution. J• ni ef o " % , ton, te architectural designs chair. f The ae ee , tt e e t nd d a e n h c t ew p a r s i X i i: ces re: tib tb The e hibited on the walls of the lecture-room. The P be the motto, " Dum Spiro spero," was announced t f) de sigf, best in the opinion of the council. I" cce s ;4 o " Thorough" carried the prize, and the most 511 , , ' 4 41 candidate in drawing was " Un homme tiodoeietoc" subject for the next student's design would be n o on?, house or small villa, consisting, on the grout: tu t oO t lie two parlours, a kitchen, and the necessary Ou t of of with five bedrooms above. The estimated c o a s e irl, od house was not to be more than £l,ooo.—Mr• d et fof secretary, exhibited a model, showing an impro'l e , 6 o. ti of T 1 eh pugging or deafening floors, adopted by 15 t o° and Barrett, London. In its application (whi, c ,,t costly,) the joists are of iron. Mr. Hay said g"," of fi° part of the country the difference in the exP en 'ils 0 0 07 new plan and the old one would not be much!sto. it b difficult to get workmen who understood iron ;19;0 t rY same speaker originated a discussion on butt g eo v ir granite, so as to avoid damp internally- 1.1 10 po l opinion expressed was that the stones should he so Doi zontally, and well bedded and flushed in mortat:i co l t y to touch each other, and the ashler stones Je ce compose more than two-thirds of the we' Howard. Esq., offered some interesting remarigl be I e ration and proportion, in the course of V trated his opinions by instances involving the e o f e P l o tle beauty" and other figures. He did not aPPr l ° O g" O4, of the designs of Felix Summerley, though t, a •ded. man was patronised by royalty. He then tie l p ro;„ l lo,' went into three styles—the Classic, whie' he Ir d r of entirely upon the principle of regularity ; dtb': o l€ J , which combined regularity and irregularity ; ri n besque, which was founded entirely upon the r c ja o- 0 404 , irregularity. He believed that to these threeecoote,, nament of every kind might be referred, and h that the ruling principle must be proportio n li ea to short discussion, a vote of thanks was Pe' s Howard, and the meeting separated. or soctlio? A RESPECTABLE MEMBER OF T letdfcfer EIS FRIENDS CURED OF COUGH AND ASTHMA .. WAY'S OINTMENT AND PlLLS.—Extract -doe- Mr. Benjamin Mackie to Professor Hollovoll. nagh, near Youghall, Sept. 11, 1848 Self 0( Friend,—l feel it only an act of justice to thoefitieteri.o that I have personally experienced the ,beo excellent pills and ointment in the cure 0 1 I t o; cough and asthma, which afflicted me for tiT i boo p d4 s uch an extent that I was obliged to wa l nt r oom at night, afraid of suffocation if I w, e s lSlO then tried thy invaluable medicines, which say have perfectly cured me.—(Signed) -,, °" ay inta e , CUNNING TRICK.—A few days ago a 15tur ool`l.e a who keeps a provision shop In one of the In o , 0. ; of Yorkshire, expecting a domiciliary visi t m ' r- of b• ky, tors of the ecclesiastical law, in conseque2 - :,,, o, e ° uvr, to comply with the demands of the c hurch ,r o l t e 3 Easter dues, shaved down into a conical fig c oo;; 0 0;• of salt, which he placed at the edge of t he ; e so l C 41 the shop door. 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