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arch 27, 1849, SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES. tt,_ CRO WN COURT.—T UESDAY . 3 5), 178LAI IG HTER AT MANCHESTER.—SoIomon Mellor . fr e z,t )A'7_43 ind chesteicted for the manslaughter of Ann Massey, ' ,t r, o n the 1 7th December last. It appeared inerl the vidence for the prosecution, that on the eyen was d ri day named, the prisoner, who is a cab driver, w hi a p ,, id ra te ' his vehicle, as it was alleged, at an improperly wards the Manchester and Birmingham Rail ,,,,aY9 knit,c,rl. The deceased, who was crossing the street, WereseveKed down and run over, and her head and hand Were a er elY injured. She was conveyed to the Infirmary, titter , mPutation of the hand was performed, and shortly th e ~,L.,ue operation the patient died.—Mr. PoLL9cx, for e,mitarisaner, contended that the casualty was entirely n o e _ !At. s h. I3 L Y the act of the deceased herself, who retur show that at ' ti a 4 Partly crossed the street. He could . th at I ,the time of the accident the prisoner was doing all Tiv e ".° ol lld to control a very spirited young horse.- whichw,,t.t.ness,ts were then called for the prisoner,. after Ship eivir• Atink replied for the prosecution, and his lort %esti en S itilftled up, telling the jury that the who the e :„ ° for them Was, Whether the occurrence had been Ptisee:secleace of gross neglizence on the part of the eem ed ` r, ,r had been occasioned by the act of the gen :4,.etdiet--i' h e jury, after a short consultation, returne d. - - ' 4ll t Cl o i n()t guilty —His LORDSHIP : He may be . is 11 0411 ,Hllttlediatel;,. If he had been found guilty, I pe have discharged him ell,i2goL4"(2l°SLY •I` g ABBING: AND . WOl7 . INZDlNG.—Richarcl l elq4i. ' `,, wls hac;oed for Inving at Mid lie Hult?il, ktelulti'lY stilii.?cl and wounded T 113111.15 11,?,yes,_witn keti r ,," l " 1 0 him some grievous bodily harm. The offence IN ti,"' in O n of a quarrel between the prison a t q 4 ' e Pr°9ecutor, as to which should go down the shaft niehectikallit first.' Blows passed between them, after *lc ~" Prisoner struck the prosecutor violentl a Ittilh.'ween the shoulders.—The jury found theprisoner lir-Sentence deferred. tlettith e rZtlainder of the cases tried during the day were -""' °f Public interest. fi llith e NI SI PRIUS COURT.—TUESDAY. emo'e-Case of Great rex v . P ee l an d a nother, in which r elict w. e f li the plaintiff , on Monday, the ttt4tocl-te, da alacr g e l s v b n ein n :left to the court, his lordship ho had taked'the case into consideration, and li titl t ‘d . "mat t 225 was the sum to which the plaintiff was lee T 41' hat sum was awarded accord i ngly. 1 , 1 1 , v • CASS EACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. t ft - ' Wtritiff was at i : n old man, aged 67, and the defend ' a , ed 60. The peculiar circumstances of the epo - '" oj - 4s pe rllatiye position of the parties, gave to the eemblo interest, and the court was much leiag the trial. 1, 1 4 i Q.O , and Mr. Robinson, appeared for 4 r. and M r . Sergeant Wilkins for the defendant. co a ti t rt wh4l B °:, it t he case, said he perceived called provoked a laugh in the bit, 13 ( e x e , r 4 Itse tt s tiff ? in the case was an old, man : b bee4 b \V) e as P su a r l e n d the jury that it would never have ,--PerBireltht before them at all had it not been for the .„'efekin.s which had been cast upon the plaintiff by . the h `heDi;i 4 .,', , , w hereby he had suffered considerable injury. ,:"‘A eon) lained that the defendant had broken a pit i s fr - oriestrarriaPge which she had made to him. The hi rabl e tned at Rochdale, where he had formerly con wav P r operty, but in consequence of speculations in de - f end c onsider . able portion of it had been wasted. i. 9e hdal ant resided at Carr, about four miles from 1 ,7 4 a e ' and both•the plaintiff and defendant were per -"enti,,4;"l advanced period of life. Last year an agree d fi.;;llrevarriage was entered . into between the parties, 2 413 of nr. ti° age of the parties, the plaintiff being up- f it ' O , and the defendant little short of 60 years o Z a rria °lll d be scarcely necessary to tell the jury that the "Qlet, was one of convenience, and the property Road ft ?h had was considered to be sufficient to support 'er for the short time that they had to live in the that th e It ke , in the month of September of last year (Nl r l) .,.,' a iatiff first made advances . to the defendant. 17° 1 c vv.) could not tell the jury particularly . what reai se ac e between the arties at . their first interview, *l d t' " one waspresent at the time with the plaintiff Placee defend a t Several interviews, however, took defe4irtween the n p . , ann the first step taken by the Petoa nt , was a lett n e r r ie w s hich she wrote on the 12th of last year, in answer to a proposal made her 44, 6,Plaintiff. This letter, he believed, was inthe I ttiv - "ting of the defendant's brother-in-law. The let as follows " Waterhead Mill, October 12,1848. • yon to say that I shall not be at home until I.lon ti '4).2 have considered the question you have mentioned si e "v e rings, and have come to the conclusion, at least for -1 4 1.4 e).; nt, not to enter into the solemn and important state ttter'' ol , ho e ou will direct your attention to another • think 'o P you find one that will suit you better i rsilY .m l ig u ht w . I wish you every enjoyment in the tags life, but above all the meetness to enjoy the 'aher or eternal state.—l subscribe myself your well- Fro ' "MARIA CASS." maim that letter the plaintiff followed his suit, and ulti !howl ~ao arrangement was come to that the parties lesp ried uc married in January of the present year.. The etch c ounsel then detailed the variou! prehminar . i t „ had been entered into for the marriage, including 11 . 11 ; 1 1 4,rella se of the ring, and an inventory which was to 'ariii,„.." e an taken by thplaintiff's son of the defendant's ttle t ,Cl., for the purpose of effecting a marriage settle °rer I . It Was arranged that the plaintiff's son should go 4 . t aketi o t . ndat's house on the 15th December to to llventory. He did so, and on that occasion the de -44'1 - „,'ld him that she would not not allow him to take - e ntorY, that there was something between his real, had herself which prevented it, and the particular %lb' s he assigned was, that she had heard the plaintiff th e zad to Wives, to whom he had behaved ill, and that °dam,lo"llld have nothing to do with him. le S e p Ph Andrew Kershaw a young man of about 30 years e ° ll of the plaintiff, .examined.—He lives at Roch liolif,;ll'4 is a fruit dealer. His father had some house- Pad prod Is a widower and his mother had been ;are 11 ;" v en Tears. The defendant is a widow living at At 0, 41 Baton, near Bury, four miles from Rochdale. Ca rt ;41 of last year his father used to visit at Mrs. hi e f:; Witness on thel7th of November went over with te a siti, " to Bury, and saw the defendant. They took Sethallieu her. Witness told defendant hat he was very reved at his father's choice, but t should like to re • w",ing comfortably. She thanked him, and told him b at w . ,, c) ;11d be an affectionate mother-in-law. He replied hli'utd endeavour to be a dutiful son. (Loud laughter.) er .P'retnber last he drove Mrs. Cass, the defendant, and ca, lB ,,, te r (Mrs. Rose), from Bury to Rochdale in a gig. she.."'ersation then took place respecting the marriage. tletimade an inquiry about b ing married by banns of the te tle (If t he Parish church at Rochdale; and on being in prlo4sl that the banns must be published in the parishes remL e4 both resided, she objected to it, and his father the• that they should be married by license, to which and the marriage was fixed to take place on • t blre h Market Rochdale, in 1849. On driving him to them home Wdt illiamson th e Mrs. Rose desired stop W jeweller's shop, to obtain a wed -14 He was also requested to take ttfe4eilt for Coryo Cass. goodser to be placed in her marriage , te tal l: t t e at• On th e Friday following he went accordingly , )s o ;Lne inventory, when Mrs. Cass told him she was b 7.tive,,LY to disappoint him, but something had happened -4 6. 1 4 :,,her and his father, and she had changed her q t e aen - b ,',Wished to see his father. He was afterwards ho t h : 'Len his father saw Mrs. Cass. His father said, h l ar changed your mind, Mrs. Cass ; ' not." His father then pulled a 1i e4. 441 4ci t his ' pock a e v t e and tendered . it to her, and hoped Lil , h.l_Perform her promise. She said, " No, she had doh," had two wives, and had b . eena cruel man to He said, it was false. She said, she had heard it tjAyettl..tarties. He then said, " Then why, Mrs. Cass, tst,! , ~,?1 1; .1 ? !, me . marriage and induce me to buy the her to 'fulfil your promise ?" His . Cass, I have conducted myself Se t t , ak e ntle a m i • nce rs l first proposed to you. I have "t 1 hr ece ived a y ll o s u l ." She said—" You did, Sir." He %, 0 8 father then left. 88 1/I_ l aPlined.—His father was not in tears when he r• as father was 66 years of age—now . in his 67th Oth,`,'allehter.) Did not know that in the first place te;e totherg to visit the defendant, took l great iv) Dull hairs out of his nose. (Roars of au6ll - p r ,,, e .had been a witness for his father on two or dp o aa f il i mts occasions. The house he drove the defen k,e• f t u er sister-in-law to had witness's name on the tu e was not his father's house. Was not aware of ba 4ti °/ 1 8 against his father. His father 11_0 _ke rn e! As s ltless at all for the last twelve months. He hi 6... 1 !: 1 the fruit business. He dealt in vegetablesr ,100, ht They had mutton for dinner the day_ t Q, herd" and h er sister dined with his father. Mrs. lki t cat we a washerwoman, was there to meet them. a hat e „tit to the White Bear at Manchester,. kep by thZere (11 8 hi ~guised in a smock-frock, and asked in a coarse his feather war theare," to induce the belief helloa,ilather Was a poor man in order to break off his a ti a l vith the widow. His father speculated in rail %h-r w i ns in consequence sold up—turned out a stag. lep;alif,; 'lid not go and look over the defendant's gar sjiD a cs to want to buy some fat pigs in order to 40p h°Y.---'lllaintance with her. A surgeon's assistant— , k s had recommended the lady to him. (Laugh he-ek q4e r l.(l oer - ", tn ed•—llis father had accumulated considera- T''9e u Y befo re h e specu l a t e d i n railways. He now end e I,c t - " r Year. 're v "ead hy the learned counsel in his opening was 1 14;48, 4 0d to have been written at the request of the X t tld was put in. The purchase of the wedding i 'ali d l vait,r proved. Mrs. Shepherd, the washerwoman 1,.'4, 1 r . ti1,° 11 the plaintiff and the defendant when she b ee t!- , 4l :t' i , - "In, was called to prove the visit. On cross hi• 'or r l f ; tl she said, chairs, glasses, and spoons, had 'l`l," ( MotZed by the plaintiff for the occasion, and that def r ' ' was known as " old Flocky." as the case for the plaintiff. 1,111/414,,40t4ea11t WILKINS then addressed the jury for the illthrve r ' L a nd at the outset of his observations, said he ears of such a meagre case in his life, and on ois client, he (Mr. W.) was like the cat in the teet fc :r„he did not kow where to begin. (Loud r t, o i ,"` th e After contending at some length that the ob viNy, Plaintiff was to get possession of defendant's ticl4.eß lost r that of any other lady who would have him, Ow n b s eculations, the learned Pro 4 e, ql e i ci d , S roar's of t l ' a s u a ghte p . r from all parts of the 1 0 1 11, t ao of t , , it to analyse the evidence, referring . t? the i h e r, Ita son of the plaintiff, he said it reminded th, Y of old Weller and his son Sam, in Pickwick. f or °pid ern, Y all th knew, old Weller was in the habit of say lit ever he w a s married it must not be to t 'IY itt l'ear e a t nd so it seemed to b . e with the plaintiff 4 t t , l .hat lie had been paying his addresses to 44 4N a tI r t esatwin'od"" in the neighbourhood. The learned ted %Ai s ,_ .ed his address for some time in a very Ip e tiliiip,tstr4lll, being frequently interrupted by ri 14 4:,,join e r lau4hter, in which both the bench an( ' 4 to th He concluded by calling upon the jut:) , 'e Plaintiff the smallest coin known in this h 27, IS4/' ff r the compep s perso ns, de ? they mat eel übliciled eta , nesting to bea d ion wa„nte scary expenses, HION• 'led to Buck;t4 esented He. r9 t, ure Thibetilis Calcutta. an d Miss u'v o ar l y in the left town f di Cleveland $u for the g ~........0 - ' ANDS. ihed) entitled f the nati,'°, the aolnA or t Ross for iv Charles Pi° about to P with the.th, IY redeems ter rnisbing ions, and A n for a CO iein miles saal ely as 1 8 1 0 0 , ut h or S f,at o lt latter i f of,, m in beb a, of Intl oeP, amber. • d e ,/ nailer islaY le. It 11 85 „," irbours, esl'o' csc."whiO 4 p Zn, •• L; e whale Wl'. n? ed with rP la i verg e bret . l _ ij limate !sf, n"cl,eontaiosors . t o gethe' P Lnd animal i lk, and Pdl th er e is 2 II full of n s to t) s a lludes :„01 grante e position a mos t lm cid m oribund: rt , whale fich e Ound more A , our natiom".o itee of the. incorpora t o o °° .nd the di -,I A npany to c' o i The por ts c eo isits of al l to t m to then? ill comprise'; of formal 75.. The in o f the a ° fishery , r supplies. la ig at the 15 : i ply pry% 'hich is 3: - Inorafi ll h c ; native 1 1 3. 1,0 f these I s d ealthine ss o, Atants, irctunstiTal -----. there Is Tie START -4 GAO.' at the co°ro. nd P atote e ; o mach of of rounding o g., involvigiV the ban ' s a . 03 in du hose Pr r ° ,., o or? ober tiOg Id that frell, iventi° ll °lfilL roer; a n fo r t all 0117,04 t!i )u r t; flat 0. t .volves dec, !nd to t 1 ris l lent 10.! ,y 0011 ' er g" 1r the °P ft/ 1 „d . 11 machin e. sides or r fiat; the6eo jell a lie s re t ,J planes, 13 ,d, rapidly mot ess of st 3 itsc ats frolo eadth, I I the lot ° or 0, frame r? , nd the of ;till. o n, the r:po r equal thl. ; that t b 'yo the twis t fe cti ial iroPer machine, ,:e bench , t' r t stave _7; the stayej requi.r7, ac t) plo d fyo pper, e te d i ntly joie" 6 me berf u !,;t perfect,' When tP'il rfOrMe d uia nl o° ous , r b I—. m able, le g ? firtnlY o p! d by °I pl ° , is the il o L)), meaeolf, then, r i l l es ,e o if t i r Pc cel 'o my , o ! e i 4 i s We, ip red or t;', scroset ct fef4 a true e? 0 01 anY ° li r idaor deP. voble:p) omer 00./3 lan Or dery are re s,, pressuoily house, b O O J line of so P et J. ;asset, ) ►t in DP • e or Eeg9A g. e by beio paravoid, t ip. /ne, pr io,;. haoften nift, v it g - - - of rally arettioi ers a°lp y reaci l „ - net d 0 , 7(10 1 [ 4 space .019 0 nst all 1 1 6 hat antorieg A stes°,,plo" A e rs CC)" opkil hands!Ajoi;ti 10rW S , " ;r1 r7° ly ext el2- 10 h nio r n o o , l l " Pc' a' yet r A will o pe i t of ° be" es wi ll 0 , " *he h e 0 0 44, those the, vent s c ite ll it r bis s o oe f orde r teeti, - 10 . Opirj!°'' oare e 'fl her Oell6 „ N q 11(0 co tintry, as it was clear that his object both in seeking the marriage and in bringing the present action was altogether of a mercenary character. His Lordship having summed up, the jury, after a few minutes' consideration, found a verdict for the plaintiff.— D amages, one farthing. Mr. Sergeant WILKINS applied to his lordship to cer tify. Mr. WATSON opposed the application on the ground that the defendant had circulated rumours injurious to the plaintiff's character. His LORDSHIP said it did not appear that the defend ant had circulated the rumours she had heard respecting the plaintiff, but had merely told him of them. He would consider before giving his decision on the applica tion. CROWN COURT .-W EDNESDAY EDNESDAY James Parker, 52. who pleaded guilty to marrying Betty Howarth, at Manchester, his former wife being then alive, was brought up, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. _ _ _ Joseph 111' Carey, 20, pleaded guilty to a charge of hav ing set fire wilfully to a stack of hay belonging to John Marshall, of Heaton Norris. Sentence deferred, James Smith, 31, pleaded guilty to an indictment in which he was charged with stealing a quantity of brass and lead, at Great Lever, the property of the Earl of of Bradford. Sentence deferred. Thomas Quin, 24, pleaded guilty to having, at Great Bolton, on the 19th of February last, broken into the dwelling-house of James Spedding, and stolen Nib weight of bread ; an,l, on he 4th March, stealing two loaves of bread from James Fairclough, of the same place. Sen tence deferred. John Brown and Patrick Farrel were sentenced to ten years' transportation for a burglary at Manchester. James Hogg was convicted of the manslaughter of George Galloway, at Manchester, on the Ist. January. The prisoner and other persons quarrelled, in a public house, with deceased, who was struck by the prisoner, and falling against the fender was killed. He was sen tenced to one week's imprisonment. Peter Twist was convicted of having, at St. Helens, stabbed Thomas Houghton. The prisoner, in conse quence of the great provocation he had received, was sentenced to only 14 days' imprisonment. John Kelly and Wm. Ockleshaw were convicted of a burglary in the dwelling-house of Margaret Makin, at Newton. James Rodgers was convicted of having, with other per sons, assaulted Mr. Keith Kniloch, at Manchester, and stolen his watch. He had been previously convicted of felony, and was sentenced to ten years' transportation. NISI PRIUS COURT.-WEDNESDAY OGDEN v. HESKETH, BART.—Mr. Martin and Mr. Monk appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Atherton were for the defendant. This was an action in tort, to recover the value of certain goods which, it was alleged, had been illegally seized. The plaintiff, James O. den, was a pork butcher, residing in Oldham road, Manchester; and the nominal defendant was the late high sheriff for the county. John Ogden, the father of the plaintiff, borrowed a sum of £BO from Mr. Grier son, who got judgment in an action against him for that amount. In order tl defeat the action, the father sold, by auction, the whole of his stock in trade and effects, which were purchased by the friends of the Ogdens for the young man who continued to carry on the business. The writ in the action against the father issued, and the goods in the shop were seized. The plaintiff's case was, that this seizure was illegal, the property having passed, in a legal manner, from the father to the son, and the sum sought to be recovered was £ll3 13s. ld., the value of the goods, and £ll 4s. 2d., the price of some pork subse quently purchased by the plaintiff to carry on and also sold at the sale. The defence, as submitted by Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, was, that the sale was a juggle, and that it was an ingenious attempt, on the part of old Ogden, to defeat Mr. Grierson in his endeavour to recover his debt. The case possessed no public importance. Wit nesses on both sides contradicted each other. There were four speeches from counsel, and the case occupied the at tention of the court upwards of seven hours. The jury immediately found for the defendant. BLAIR v. BENBOW.—Mr. Martin and Mr. Atherton were for the plaintiff. Mr. Crompton was for the defen dant. The plaintiff, Mr. Harrison Blair, was an attorney in Manchester, the defendant, Thomas Benbow, a gentle man residing at Llanidloes, and the action was brought to recover the balance of an account due for professional services, in superseding a fiat of bankruptcy which was issued against him. Verdict for the plaintiff. .a. CROWN COURT.—THIRSDAY Antonio Leso, 21, a Spaniard, pleaded guilty to having, in January last, at West Derby, killed, with intent to steal, a ewe, the property of Matthew Rawlinson. Sen tenced to seven years' transportation. John Boyle, 21, was indicted for having, together with two others unknown, violently beat and assaulted George Lonsdale, and robbed him of a purse containing fifteen sovereigns and 19s. in silver. The complainant is a power-loom weaver, residing in Blackburn. On the 24th of January last he was in Manchester, when he met the prisoner ; they adjourned to a public-house, and after taking something to drink, prosecutor left to go to the Bank-top Railway Station. The prisoner volunteered to show him the way. They had not, however, gone far before the prosecutor was knocked down by the prisoner and several other men who came up, and robbed him of his purse containing the money. Guilty. Ten years' transportation. James Gledhill, a respectably-dressed men, (who sur rendered to take his trial,) was indicted for having, on the 10th of March, burglariously entered the dwelling-house of James Harrison. The prosecutor is a farmer, residing at Mosley, near Ashton-under-Lyne. On the morning of the 10th of the present month, he was awoke by hearing a noise in his house, and on getting up he found the prisoner in his bed-room. Oa being asked his name and what he wanted, the prisoner replied that his name was James Gledhill, and that he wanted James Harrison. The pri soner had effected an entrance into the house through the kitchen window. It was shown that the prisoner had not broken into the house with a felonious intent, but merely in a drunken frolic, and under these circumstances he was discharged. Joseph Ellis, 23, William Carroll,l9, Richard Carroll, 29, Robert Riley, 20, and William Bramhall, 24, were indicted for having, at Manchester, burglariously entered the dwelling-house of John Martindale, and stolen £2O in silver and copper, one silver teapot, and various other articles. Carroll pleaded guilty. The prosecutor is a butcher, and resides at Ordsall-hall, near Manchester. He has a shop in John-street, in that town. On the 17th of December last, an entrance was effected into his shop, and a large amount of money and other articles stolen. On the night previous to the robbery, the prosecutor left about twelve o'clock, to go to Ordsall-hall, to sleep, leav ing his house and shop in the charge of his brother and servants. After he had left, the servant man made all the doors fast, and then went to bed. The next morning it was discovered that the house had been entered by breaking open the grid of a cellar at the back of the house, in Longworth-street. The prisoners were apprehended in a cellar occupied by the prisoner Bramall, when a great quantity of money, and the silver teapot, &c., were found in their possession. The prisoner William Carroll, who pleaded guilty, was placed in the witness-box. He reca pitulated the manner in which the robbery had been planned and effected, and said thr.t all the prisoners, with the exception of his brother, Robert Carroll, were impli cated in the robbery. Mr. MONK and Mr. OVENS ad dressed the jury at great length, and strongly commented on the statement of the accomplice Carroll, contending that there was not sufficient evidence to show that their respective clients at all participated in the robbery, but that William Carroll had been induced to confess his guilt and implicate the other prisoners in the hope that he might free his brother, and mitigate his own punishment. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against all the pri soners, except Richard Carroll and the approver, William Carroll. Sentence deferred. The trial of this case lasted upwards of seven hours. NISI PRIUS COURT.-THURSDAY. BROWNRIGG AND OTHERS V. RAE, P.O Mr. Watson and Mr. J. Henderson were counsel for the plaintiffs : Mr. Martin and Mr. Crompton appeared for the defendant. Mr. WATSON stated the case. The plaintiffs in this case were the partners in the late firm of Brownrigg, Miller, and Co., who carried on business in Liverpool, Glasgow, and Bombay, and who were obliged to stop pay ment in the crisis of 1847, and make an arrangement for the benefit of their creditors. The defendant, Mr. J. E. Rae, was the public registered officer of the North and South Wales Bank. Although the action was brought in the name of Brownrigg, Miller, and White, (the latter gentleman being a trustee for one of the firm,) the action was, in fact, brought by the creditors of the co-partner ship, to recover from the bank the balance of an account which, at the stoppage of the house, amounted to £4876 12s. Bd. with interest. There was a bill of ex change amounting to upwards of £2OOO to be taken for the balance, but the remainder was the sum to which the plaintiffs would be entitled. The case had before been tried at the assizes, but Mr. Baron Rolfe considered that the partnership had not been sufficiently proved. In this instance, however, they had got the partnership deed, and by it they would prove that Messrs. Brownrigg, Mil ler, and Macgregor were to carry on business at three places. At Liverpool, under the firm of "Brownrigg, Miller, and Co., ;" at Glasgow, as " Macgregor, Brown rigg, and Co ;" and at Bombay, as "Brownrigg and Co." Messrs. Brownrigg and Miller resided in Liverpool. In the year 1847 Mr. Macgregor became a bankrupt, accord ing to the laws of Scotland, and, therefore, Mr. Mac gregor was not a party to this action, but Mr. White, who was the trustee under the Scotch bankruptcy, was joined with the other partners to recover this sum of money, the cause of action having arisen before the bankruptcy of Mr. Macgregor. Under the act of the 2nd and 3d Vic., sec. 49, he should be enabled to prove that all the in terest of Mr. Macgregor passed to the trustee, Mr. White, who was one of the plaintiffs. The defence to be set up by Mr. Martin was, that Mr. Brownrigg, one of the part ners in the firm at Liverpool, was also chairman of the Commissioners of Birkenhead improvement. This body was in the habit of obtaining advances from the North and South Wales Bank for the improvements at Birken head, and Mr. Brownrigg entered into an agreement, without the sanction of his co-partners, that, on condi tion of these advances, he would keep his balance in the bank as high as £3OOO. It was clear that one partner could not bind another to a guarantee of this kind, and he (the learned counsel) believed, when the proper time arrived he should be able to prove that the balance due by the Birkenhead Commissioners had been paid off some time ago. Several witnesses were called, who proved the partner ship between Brownrigg, Macgregor, and Miller, Joseph R. Beck, manager of the North and South Wales Bank, produced the banking book, showing that there was a sum of £4876 123. Bd., in the bank on ac count of the firm of Brow: _rig; and Co. In cross exami- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. nation by Mr. Martin i with... ns said hand tßrownrigg was ' Aims was c man concerned in Birkenhead WM., nu. :ned ic an account with of the Finance Committee. the bank in August, 1846. He (ticket , ra sa_c a7tlte Millertn was at that time a partner; he was tot known lb. tion. Subsequently had an interview with 311, 1 er, , ,,„wh0 wished to draw on the account to the extent of £.5,:u or £lOO, but the directors declined to allosii him to do so, because they held the £4OOO against certain advances made to the Commissioners. Miller made no objection to the right of the bank to act on the agreement, Mr. MARTIN contended that Brownrigg had a right over his own estate, and it was against an express agr,N- .. ment, made in his own handwriting, that the sum of £5OOO was now attempted to be got out of the bank. Brownrigg was the manager of the firm in Liverpool, and no other person had a right to interfere as regarded any agreement he chose to enter into, no other person being known. The account was duly entered in the bank book, in the name of the firm. In January, 1816, there was a large sun of money to be paid by the Commissioners, for interest on bonds falling due, and, at that time, the bank was in advance to them to the extent of £56,000. An application was made to the bank to advance the sum of £5090, to enable them to pay their interest on bonds, and Mr. Brownrigg agreed to pledge his own balance to the extent of £5OOO to cover such advance. An agree ment was, accordingly, drawn up to that effect, and signed. The only question would be whether the Direc tors of the bank had a right to act on that agreement, and he (Mr. Martin) contended that, in point of law, they had. Some evidence was then produced as to the general affairs of the bank and the mode in which the money had been advanced. It was also proved that a bill for £2157 4s. 4d. was in the hands of the bank, which had been endorsed by the plaintiffs, but dishonoured. Pay ment had also been demanded without effect. It was ultimately agreed to take a special verdict for the plaintiffs for £2982, 7s. 7d.,—the amount of the bill being allowed as a set off,—subject to a case in the Court of Exchequer. OWEN V. GARNER.—The plaintiff, Edward Owen, is a corn merchant in Liverpool, and the defendant, a car proprietor at the same place. The action was brought to recover the sum of £47 14s. Bd., for corn and beans sup plied to the defendant, during the years 1847 and 1848. The defence was, that the debt had been contracted by the defendant's father, who was the person liable for the amount claimed. Verdict for the defendant. CROWN COURT.-FRIDAY THE CHARGE OF MURDER AT WIGAN.—The greater part of the day was occupied with the trial of Bernard Kaye (33), charged with having, on the Ist of January last, murdered his wife, by strangling her with a rope.— The case was one wholly of circumstantial evidence, and the principal witness against the prisoner was a fellow prisoner, named Monsell, who stated that the prisoner told him that he had pushed his wife down the cellar steps, and had then strangled her.—But it appeared, on cross-examination, that Monsell was a man of very bad character, being in prison for throwing vitriol on a girl.— The prisoner had called up a lodger in the night, and told him that he had found his wife hanging in the cellar, and had cut her down. Mr. J. T. Wynnard, surgeon, being called in, found the body still warm ; but quite dead.— There was, he said, the mark of a rope round the neck, which, in front, had crossed the cartilage called Adam's apple; but on each side the indention extended upwards, as if the body had been suspended. If the deceased had been strangled by another, the mark round the neck would have been more circular, and the skin would have been abraded.—The JUDGE said he thought this put an end to the case, if the jury were of the same opinion as himself.—Mr. Pou.ocx, for the prosecution, said that, under all the circumstances, he thought he ought not to press the charge any further.—The JUDGE : Oh, no ; I think tia case has come to an end.-- Under his Lordship's direction. the jury immediately acquitted the prisoner, who was discharged. RETURVING FROM TRANSPORTATION.—Edward Iliron Finney (35), was convicted of this offence, being found at large in Manchester, in February last, before his sen tence of 14 years' transportation had expired.—Mr. PoL LOCK took the objection that the sentence was for a longer period than was legal for his offence (larceny). The JUDGE said it appeared to be a wrong sentence, but still it was in force, till voided by a writ of error. The prisoner was found guilty, and the point was reserved for the consideration of the judges. The prisoner said he had served eleven years, and understood he was at liberty. The judge said if that were so, he thought the case a proper one for pardon. Sentence deferred. NISI PRIUS COURT.-FRIDAY KELLOCK v. PHILLIPS.—This action was brought by Mr. Henry Gray Kellock, a lieutenant in the navy, who is an agent for Lloyd's, and the receiver of droits of the admiralty, and resides at Waterloo, near this town.—lt appeared from the statement of the case by Mr. Sergeant WILKINS, that the defendant, who is a butcher residing at Crosby, had for some time been in the habit of making use of the most vindictive and malicious observations towards the plaintiff for some unknown reason, and the present action was brought in consequence of the defen dant having stated, at the Bath Hotel at Waterloo, that the plaintiff was a d—d thief, and that the shoes which the plaintiff's son then had on (the plaintiff's son was at the Bath Hotel on that occasion) had been stolen by his father and given to him to wear. Defendant also stated that he knew that the plaintiff had stolen a boat off the shore. After stating that the plaintiff did not seek damages, but was only desirous of vindicating his charac ter, the learned sergeant called several witnesses to prove the case.—Mr. Sergeant MURPHY then replied, and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 40s. CLARKE V. Mulß.—The plaintiff in this case was Mr. Muir, land agent to Mr. Naylor, residing at Walton. The action was brought to recover the sum of £45 3s. 6d., for commission due to the plaintiff by virtue of an agreement the defendant made with him to negociate the sale of a hundred head of cattle. After the plaintiff had found a purchaser, the defendant refused to follow up the contract. The plaintiff was to have received 21 per cent. on the transaction, and the sum now claimed was calculated upon that per tentage.—After the case had proceeded for some time, the plaintiff was nonsuited ; and on the crier of the court calling out, " John Clarke, come forth, or you will lose your nisi prius," the plaintiff excited much laughter in the court, by saying to Mr. Grocott, his attorney, in an audible tone, " Does he want me ?" HYDE V. DAVIES.—This was an action brought by Mr. James Hyde, a horse-dealer in this town, to recover from the defendant, a horse-dealer, residing at Stanton-on- Harrow, in Hertfordshire, the sum of £62, which plaintiff had paid to the defendant, on purchasing a horse from him, and which defendant warranted sound at the time.— From the statement of the case by Mr. Sergeant WILKINS, it appeared that the purchase was made on the 23rd of August last, and soon after the horse was taken ill, and died on the 22nd of September. Several witnesses having been called in support of the plaintiff's case, Mr. MARTIN addressed the jury for the defendant, and contended that the horse was well at the time the defendant sold him to the plaintiff, and that the disease of which the horse died had been brought on by its taking cold during the time it was being conveyed from Ludlow to Liverpool, and that the disease which proved fatal to it could not be of more than ten or twelve days' standing.—Witnesses having been called for the defence, one of whom was Professor Dick, Mr. Sergeant WILKINS replied, and his Lordship having carefully summed up the evidence, the jury re turned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed. CROWN COURT. ,-SATURDAY SENTENCES Robert Riley, William Bramall, Joseph Ellis, and William Carroll, for burglary—the three first to fifteen years' transportation, and the latter (who had turned ap prover) to eighteen months' imprisonment. John Keller and William Ockleshaw, for burglary, to fifteen years' transportation ; Samuel Clarke, for the same offence, to fifteen years' transportation; Thomas Quin, to the same punishment, for a like offence; Robert Blackburn, for a burglary, without violence, to two years' imprisonment and hard labour ; Patrick Cavannah,:for a similar offence, received a like sentence ; John Twist and George Mea dows, for an assault and highway robbery, were sentenced —Twist to two years imprisonment, and Meadows (who had been previously convicted) to ten years' transporta tion ; Joseph Ratcliffe, for stealing a watch from a canal boat, was ordered to be imprisoned and kept to hard la bour for six months ; Joseph 31 . ` Carey, for arson, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour; Edward Chapman, a boy 16 years of age, for forgery, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour ; John Hanley and Richard Hickson, for maliciously wounding, were sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, and John Gaffney, for bigamy, was sen tenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour. NISI PRIUS COURT.-SATURDAY GREENHOUGH V. OLus.—ln this case Joseph Green hough, a colliery proprietor at St. Helens, was the plaintiff, and Thomas 011 is, formerly of the Limeworks, at Tran mere, the defendant, and the action was brought to reco ver possession of some account books belonging to the plaintiff, and which the defendant, who was manager for the plaintiff, had taken possession of under the impression, as he alleged, of a partnership existing between them. After several witnesses had been examined, his Lordship said that there was not one tittle of evidence to prove the partnership ; there was evidence only that the defendant had very strongly desired the agreement to be so drawn as ';o constitute him a partner. A verdict of £5 was re. turned for the plaintiff, and it was stated that the verdict would not be enforced if the books were given up. Several other unimportant cases were then taken. FLETCHER V. THOMPSON. In this case the defendant is son-in-law of the plaintiff, who resides at Wavertree, the defendant living on the Cheshire shore of the Mersey. The circumstances were made public in the columns of a contemporary a month or two ago. They will be sufficiently gleaned from what follows. On the case being called, Sergeant WILKINS said. again the parties concerned had come to an arrangement, which he thought creditable to both gentlemen. It was an action brought by Mr. Fletcher against Mr. Thompson, for a malicious prosecu tion. It seemed that Mr. Thompson had been labouring under a very wrong impression indeed, as far as regarded the conduct of Mr. Fletcher. There had been for some time some unpleasantness between Mr. Thompson and his wife, Mrs. Thompson being the daughter of Mr. Fletcher. In consequence of an invitation from his daughter, Mr. Fletcher visited her, in the absence of the defendant, when the daughter earnestly wished the father to take her home again to his house. Mrs. Thompson, on his consenting to her return, went up stairs and packed up such articles as she considered her own ; they were deposited in a car, and her father took her home. Six weeks after this, her hus band, the defendant, got a search-warrant to search the plaintiff's house; had Mr. Fletcher arrested for having stolen articles taken from his house, and brought before a magistrate. The magistrate, of course, saw that no felony had been, committed, andAismissed. the case. Now Mr. Thompson, it appeared, had acted under a wrong im , pression, had acted as his feelings more than his reason dictated ; and he (Sergeant Wilkins) believed that he had repented it. _ _ _ Mr. MARTIN thought the case had taken a proper course. His client, Mr. Thompson, exasperated from waititl and expecting his wife home daily, bad done that for which he was sorry ; he had made a charge of felony against his father-in-law, which it is clear there was no pretence whatever for; although Mr. Fletcher had acted from hearing a one-sided story from his daughter. He thought that after a man had done a wrong, the proper thing to do was to make an ample apology ; and he (Mr. Martin) was there on the part of the defendant to state that he was sorry that, prompted by heat, natural heat, he had acted as he had done. _ HIS ,LORDSHIP said he thought we must all agree that when a man had done wrong, there were two things which he should do ; first, he should not support the wrong ; se condly, he should do himself credit by the most ample apology. Whenever a family quarrel occurred, especially when there was a female in the matter, the less the cir cumstances were before the public the better, and the more likely were the parties to come together after such a con fusion as that which had existed in this instance. A juror was by consent withdrawn, on the terms of the defendant paying the plaintiff's costs. total P.EMS. The Mail says that the Corporation are interesting themselves about erecting barracks in Liverpool. - The Lydia, of Liverpool, James Douglas, commander, was wrecked on the island of Barra, on the 7th instant. The Venerable Archdeacon Jones, and the Rev. William Hughes, of St. David's, in this town, are to preach at the opening of a new church in Anglesey, this week. Mr. Elbeck has been appointed registrar of births and deaths for the Walton district, in the place of Mr. Musker resigned. _ Eleanor Jones, aged 37, fell from an upper room window of a house in Shaw-street, on the 2d instant, and frac tured her leg. She was taken to the Infirmary, where the limb was amputated, and on Monday last she died. On Thursday, a large float, descending Upper Duke street, overpowered the horse, and was dashed against the premises of Mr. Abbott, breaking the plate glass in the window, and doing other damage. We are glad to find that though Mr. W. H. Buck has resigned his appointment as organist at St. Paul's Church, Prince's-park, he is not about to relinquish the high posi tion he enjoys in this town as a teacher of music. ST. MARY'S CHURCH, KIRKDALE.—On Sunday last. the sum of £22 10s. was collected at Kirkdale Church, in aid of the fund for erecting St. Peter's Church, Sackville street, Everton. ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH, WINDSOR.—On Sunday last, the sum of £ 2O ss. was collected in this church, after sermons by the Rev. W. Pollock and the Rev. D. James, in aid of the excellent schools attached to the church. Mr. Daniel Bell was on Saturday elected a councillor for St. Peter's ward, by a majority of 221 to 157 over Mr. Arthur Henderson. The vacancy was occasioned by the late member, Mr. R. S. Henderson, having been elected an alderman. AFRICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN NEW YORK.—On Sunday morning last, at St. John's Church, after a ser mon by the Rev. A. Crummell, the sum of £l6 17s. Sd. was collected without any previous notice for the above noble object. In the evening the sum of £lB 103. was collected at St. James's Church in aid of the same fund. MASTERS AND MATES.—At a meeting ofthe Board of Examiners, held on Friday, the 21st instant, Captain James Young, master of the Negociator, of Sunderland, was found fully qualified for a first-class certificate, and Mr. William Mc Pherson, late mate of the John Brom ham, of Liverpool, for a second-class certificate as master. THE MONSTER EXCURSION TO PARIS.—AII the pre parations are made for this trip. The contractor has re turned from Paris, where he has met with the cordial co operation of the authorities. The passports will be free of charge, and upon a very simple plan. The entree will be accorded to all public places, spectacles, &c. A Carnarvon paper mentions, that a few days since, two lads, the sons of an inhabitant of Brynygemach, who were walking on the seashore, found a mahogany box, contain ing a chronometer much injured by the salt water, and bearing the name of a Liverpool watchmaker, while a brass plate on the box was scratched with the words " Captain Crosby." A few days since, a horse, harnessed to a lorry, in Li verpool. struck to the ground with his forefoot the carter, who was altering the bearing rein, seized the man with his teeth, and lifted him into the air, but luckily the waggoner's clothes gave way, and he was rescued from the infuriated animal without sustaining any other injury than some severe bruises. MISS EMILY GRANT.—The Sunderland Herald, in noticing the appearance of this lady at a concert given there last week, says, " The chief and crowning attraction of the night was Miss Emily Grant, whose delicious sing ing had left but one feeling upon the largest and gayest concert audience we have yet seen in our good town—a feeling of delighted admiration. Her voice is full, clear, rich, powerful, and flexible, and she has taste and science in abundance to make the most of it. On Wednesday evening, the Mayor, J. Bramley Moore, Esq., entertained to dinner at the Town-hall, the Judges, the High Sheriff, Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart., Hon. Col. Stanley, Attorney-General for the county palatine, and other members of the bar, present at the assizes, the Mayor of Manchester, Daniel Grant, Esq., T. B. Hors fall, Esq., William Entwisle, foreman of the grand jury, with other members of the grand jury, Major Maxwell, Captain Albany, Captain Evans, R.N., Mr. Rushton, &c. M. ADELSBERG'S CONCERT.—The above gentleman gave a grand concert on Tuesday evening last, in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, which was respectably though not numerously attended. The principal vocal performers were Miss Stott, Miss Parsons, Mr. Bishop, and Mr. Armstrong. The band, which consisted of fifty performers, played several very appropriate airs. Mr. Bishop, in that beautiful song " The Lass of Gowrie," was loudly applauded. Altogether the evening's enter tainment went off with great eclat. MR. HY. RussELL.I-This popular vocalist and com poser gave an entertainment last evening at the Concert hall, Lord Nelson-street, when he sang to advantage some of the songs which have gained him a just pre-eminence both as a composer and a performer. The Liverpool pub lic, who have ever appreciated his talents, will have another opportunity of enjoying the rich musical treat to-morrow evening, when Mr. Russell will make a second appearance at the same house. Several new compositions will be sung, and the evening's entertainments will be varied by original anecdotes of negro life and character, so happily pourtrayed by Mr. Russell. ... QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS, FOR THE GUIDANCE OF STUDENTS OF CHYMISTRY, BY DR. SHERIDAN MUS PRArr.—This little volume, by our talented townsman, will be a boon to all connected with analyses. The pro cess of decomposition is so clearly shown that it may be readily understood by the youngest student. The book is raplete with tables, guiding the pupil to the order in which he may find each substance in conducting an analy sis. These tables will be found most useful in assisting experimentors. The author acknowledges the assistance he has received from several distinguished chemists in drawing up the work, to which is appended a table of che mical equivalents, useful in every laboratory. The work is beautifully got up. IN RE JONATHAN HIGGINSON.—In the Bankruptcy Court, on Saturday, Mr. Commissioner Stevenson rejected the proof claimed on Mr. Higginson's private estate, and tendered by the assignees to the joint estate for £105,000, said to have been abstracted by Mr. Higginson from the partnership concern, and invested on his own private account in the purchase of railway shares. His honour, after quoting a number of cases, said that all of them went to show that where the copartner had been invested by his partner with the sole management and controul of the joint estate, as in this case, any improper application of the moneys of the firm could not be considered as a fraud, if the ordinary opportunities were allowed the partner of making himself acquainted with the circumstances of such application. He thought Mr. Deane's negligence in this respect amounted clearly to an implied or tacit acquies cence in the course pursued by his partner, Mr. Higginson• THE SAPPHO GLEE CLUB.—On Thursday last, the an niversary dinner of this club took place in the large room, Great George Tavern, Upper Pitt-street, by whom a sumptuous repast and wines of the best quality were pro vided. The chair was ably filled by Ms. T. Evans, and Mr. Reeves and Mr. Mc Kenzie officiated with equal tact and talent as vice-chairmen. On the toast of the evening being announced, " The Sappho Glee Club," the chair man urged the guests of the evening to become members, assuring them that. he knew of no means of spending an evening more delightfully than by attending their meet ings, the entertainments being both rational and instruc tive. The club had, he said, been most prosperous. They had a library worth £5O, and a surplus fund. Mr. M•Kenzie observed that they had expended considerable sums of money in relieving the widows and orphans of deceased members of the musical profession. A number of glees were sung with great taste, and drew forth much applause, and occasionally encores. The performers were Miss Williams and Miss Ledgwick, G. Holden, jun., R. Evans, Nisbet, Roberts, and Mann. Mr. C. Wilberforce accompanied on the piano with his usual brilliancy and effect. The entertainment was kept up with great spirit until a late hour. THE LATE REV. THOMAS STRINGER.—The demise of the pastor of St. Anne's is recorded in our obituary of this day. Mr. Stringer, who was the patron of the church in which he ministered, succeeded the Rev. W. Blundell, who held the incumbency for a great number of years. Mr. Stringer's naturally amiable and kind disposition en deared him to a large circle of friends, as well as to those with whom by his professional labours he was more inti mately connected. A funeral sermon was preached in commemoration of the melancholy event, in St. Anne's Church, on Sunday evening, by the Rev. C. H. Burton, incumbent of St. Philip's. The rev. gentleman took for his text the following passage—" Hope maketh not ashamed."—Rom. v chap., verse v. The discourse, which was appropriate to the occasion, was rendered im pressive to the minds of the hearers from its direct bearing to their own circumstances as sojourners in a probationary world. In opening . his discourse, the minister alluded directly, though briefly, to the bereavement they had suffered, observing that their deceased pastor was unable to labour amongst them with that energy he so much desired through extreme delicacy of health. THE DRESS OR TRAVELLING CUSHION is suspended to the trouser or coat buttons behind by elastic straps. hangs within the coat, and is invisible ; so that persons of sedentary habits may by the use of it have the indulgence of a luxurious and easy seat at all times ; and travellers may indulge in like manner, so as to convert the wooden rigours of a second class into the cushioned ease of the first. Judges and jurymen condemned to long sittings, persons having infirmities requiring it, artists betaking themselves in sketching to damp and uncomfortable seats, alfresco, and all and every degree attending public meet ings, will find the dress cushion particularly acceptable and health giving. Manufactured by CHARLES MACIN TOSH and Co., and sold by C. WALKER, 42, South Cas tle-street, Liverpool. NEW COLONIAL BISHOP.—We are very glad to hear that the Rev. D. Anderson has been appointed the first bishop of the newly-formed colonial diocese of Prince Rupert's Land in the Hudson's Bay territory, in North ! West America. The locality may probably be better known as the Red River Settlement, which is one of the most interesting stations of the Church Missionary Society. The reverend gentleman was formerly curate at Everton, during the incumbency of Rev. R. P. Buddicom, and ac companied that gentleman to St. Bees College. where he held the responsible post of theological tutor during the whole period of Mr. Buddicom's residence there. The appointment to the bishoprick is in the gift of his grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, who we doubt not has selected the reverend gentleman on account of his great theological attainments and his fervent piety. He will depart to his distant see with the prayerful blessings of his numerous friends and relatives in this town. FATAL ACCIDENTS.---A few days ago, James Haylev expired in the hospital from injuries received whilst dis discharging ballast on board a vessel in dock. He was standing on a barrel in the act of lifting a large stone, when the barrel slipped from under his feet, and he fell on his 1 head.—At a late hour on Saturday night, the body of Mrs. Wilkie. of Bedford-street, Toxteth-park, was found by her husband lying on the steps leading to the parlour, in her own house, head downwards. It is supposed that she I must have fallen in the act of ascending the steps. When found she was insensible, and died soon after the arrival of a surgeon. ST. THOMAS'S TOXTETH BAZAAR.—Tt will be seen by our advertising columns that preparations are making in earnest for the approaching sale in Easter week ; and, from the interest excited, and the numerous promises of support, it is ►ikely to prove the Bazaar of the year. In addition to the handsome donation of William Brown, Esq., M.P., the Earl of Harrowby, and Sir T. B. Birch, Bart., M.P., Sir John Gladstone, Bart, and many others, have sent in contributions. Lord John Manners, also, has given an original poem, which, with several others from well-known authors, will be formed into a tasteful volume for sale at the Bazaar. The Band of the 46th Regiment is expected to attend, and altogether the Bazaar seems likely to form the principal attraction of the Easter holidays. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—We regret exceedingly to state, that John Priestley, Esq., Parkfield Cottage, Ullet-lane, and of the highly-respectable firm of Priest ley, Griffith, and Cox, brokers, dropped down dead on Tuesday, about one o'clock, on the floor of the Exchange Newsroom. The deceased gentleman was sitting on a chair, reading a newspaper, when he was observed to fall, and in a few moments he was a lifeless corpse. His body was immediately removed into the private office, and there remained until removed by the friends of the deceased in a shell. The deceased was upwards of 60, and was for many years deacon of the church presided over by Dr. Raffles, and had that morning attended a meeting of the Bible Society. Mr. Priestley for several years represented St. Peter's Ward in the Town Council. What makes the occurrence still more melancholy is the fact that the lady of the deceased gentleman was at the time in London, at ten'ling the funeral of her father. __ _ PRIVATE THEATRICALS AT SEAFORTH HALL. —On Wednesday evening last, a numerous and fashionable party met at the mansion of James Muspratt, Esq., to assist at some private theatricals, got up by the members of the family and some visitors. The play selected was " Married Life," and Mr. S. Lover officiated as stage manager, and acted in the piece, as did Mr. R. and Mr. F. Muspratt, Mr. Wansostrocht, and Mr. Blake. Mr. Lover's Coddle was admirable, and Mrs. Coddle was per sonated by a young lady who exhibited great histrionic powers. The Messrs. Mnspratt, and the other dramatis personce, acquitted themselves to admiration. On the whole the impression made on all present was, that the amateurs of Seaforth Hall, accomplished their respective agreeable tasks in a manner rarely attained by persons not initiated by long practice on the boards. The play was followed by a series of " Tableaux Vivans," most artis tically arranged. COMPLETION OF THE GREAT CEILING OF ST. GEORGE'S HALL.—The arch ceiling of St. George's Hall has just been completed, and when the centres were removed the subsidence in the middle was only three-eighths of an inch, though the span of the arch is 75 feet, and the length of the roof 169 feet. The height from the floor is 83 feet. The arch is turned with hollow tile 12 inches in length and 4 inches square. The sofit of the arch is pannelled with two breaks or separate sinkings of 4 inches each. All the tiles are set as headers" to secure ventilation ; and the ribs, two tiles in depth, are similarly set. About 140,000 tiles have been used to construct the arch, and their weight is about 600 tons. It would have required 230,000 bricks to form an arch of the same dimensions, and these would have weighed about 1000 tons ; so that 400 tons in weight are saved, and equal security attained. The arch was set in terrace mortar from the Halkin mountain lime rock, which has of late years been success fully employed in the building of our new sea and dock walls. The hollow tiles were invented by R. Rawlinson, Esq., C.E. They combine strength with lightness, and are suitable also for ventilation and for partition walls, &c. The whole of the work of the stupendcus interval arch noticed is perfectly sound and firm. THE NEGRO RACE IN AMERICA.—On Thursday eve ning, a very interesting meeting was held in the school room under St. Silas' Church, for the purpose of hearing from the Rev. Alexander Crummell a report of the pre sent condition of the negro race in the United States of America. The Rev. J. Cordeaux opened the proceedings of the evening with prayer and a very feeling address, in troductory of the Rev. Mr. Crummell, who spoke elo quently for nearly an hour and a half and detailed a great number of facts, illustrative of the present lamentably de graded and oppressed condition of his unfortunate coun trymen. There was no feeling of bitterness or resentment manifested in the reverend gentleman's statements of the wrongs and cruelties endured by his race—on the contrary he made every charitable allowance which Christian for giveness could suggest for the conduct of the American people, the result, as he firmly believed, of deep-rooted prejudice and misdirected education. The Rev. Robert Davies then expressed a warm hope that St. George's Church might be obtained for Mr. Crummell, and declared his conviction that the attendance of the Mayor and Cor poration there on that occasion in their official capacity would have a wide-spread moral effect in breaking down the abominable spirit of caste, so deplorably prevalent in the United States. The room was crowded during the whole of the proceedings, and hundreds who could not obtain admittance were compelled to leave. THE APPROACHING SOIREE OFTHELIVERPOOL ARCHI TECTURAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—One of the most delightful and intellectual entertainments ever enjoyed in Liverpool is expected to-morrow evening, which is fixed for the grand soiree'of this society, to be held at the Exhibition-rooms, Old Postoffice-place. A programme has been published, from which we learn that the room will be enriched with choice and valuable paint ings and drawings, statuary, models, and innumerable works of art and vertu. Mr. J. A. Picton, a gentleman deservedly eminent for his talents and eloquence, and a sincere patron of science, literature, and the arts in our town, will deliver an address on the origin, progress, and objects of the society. Mr. Cockerell, professor of archi tecture of the Royal Academy, London, will be introduced to the company, and in the course of the evening, pro nounce an address on the peculiar science to which he has successfully devoted many years of his life. The treasurer will also address the assembly. The promenade will pro ceed, and a fine musical band will be in attendance. At intervals the electric light will be exhibited, also the chromatrope, stained glass, &c., with remarks by several gentlemen. In the refreshmet, tea and coffee will be succeded in the latter part of the evening by more sub stantial refreshments, confectionary, fruit, negus and light bevarages. It is not improbable, as a contemporary remarks, but that, if the ladies desire it, the finale will be the sprightly dance. The promoters of the society merit the thanks of the town, for, while it addresses itself to the most noble of sciences, and the most sublime of concep tions, it admits also, on such occasions as these, of that delightful intercourse and converse which are the real charm of cultivated society—thus blending the dulce cum utile. We believe that the Rev. David James, who is one of the vice-presidents, will preside on the occasion. THE DROGHEDA STEAM-PACKET Co.—This Company, in addition to their splendid fleet of first-class steam ships, trading between this port and.Drogheda, and so long celebrated for quick passages, have added to their line, another new and powerful steam-ship " Leinster Lass," of 700 tons, and 400 horse-power. This noble vessel, for symmetry of hull and perfection of machinery, is not surpassed by any other channel steamer afloat. She was built by Robert Napier, of Glasgow, and when her speed is considered, it must add to the long-acquired celebrity of that eminent builder and engineer. The vessel made the run, from Greenock to Drogheda, in 13 hours, and having taken on board a large cargo there, made her first appearance in the Mersey last Sunday morning, having made the run in 9 hours and 35 minutes. The Drogheda Argus, in noticing this vessel says, " She is really a splendid vessel, framed with double ribs, strongly plated, and strengthened with three tiers of stringers, peculiarly fastened to each rib—is divided into five water-tight compartments, the bulk-heads forming the divisions, being of strong iron, running right across the vessel, and securely fastened to her sides, give her additional strength, at the same time that they add to her safety. Her holds and decks are most capacious, laid out in the most secure manner for the safe transit of goods and live stock ; the holds are particularly well ven tilated. • Tonnage of vessel 967 tons, with two side lever engines of the collective power of 400 horses, regarding which we have the authority of Sir John Mac Neill, who inspected them, to state that for correct construction, exquisite workmanship, and beauty of finish, he never saw engines to exceed them. Her cabin accommodation is very superior, having a highly-finished saloon, ele gantly furnished, and decorated with several well-executed and appropriate views taken for the purpose in our locality. There are four sleeping-rooms most comfortably fitted up ; the sleeping-room for ladies is really elegant. The Leinster Lass reflects great credit on Robert Napier of Glasgow, the eminent engineer who built her, as well as on the enterprising company who have place d on the station, to aid in carrying on the trade between this port and Liverpool, in conjunction with their present fleet of first-class steam-ships." LOCAL MEETINGS. At the Council Meeting on Tuesday. Mr. R. Henderson was proposed as Alderman (in the place of Sir Thomas Brancker) by Mr. Parker, and seconded by Mr. Harbord. Mr. Francis Shand was proposed by Mr. Tinne, and seconded by Mr. David Hodgson. On a division M r . Henderson was elected by a majority of 26 to 21. SELECT VESTRY.—The fortnightly meeting was held on Tuesday, the Rev. Rector Campbell in the chair. Mr. M`Lellan, on the motion of Mr. Cafferata, was appointed vaccinator, and Mr. Munn, warrant officer. Mr. Earle complained of the non-attendance of the overseers with the magistrates in hearing complaints against the payment of rates: and some conversation took place as to the means adopted by persons to evade the payment of rates. In one case a woman applied to be excused, although she was living in her own house. FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION. - The usual monthly meeting of this association was held on Wednes day evening, in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street. Mr. Edward Brodribb was called to the chair, and in opening the business of the meeting, alluded to an attack made by Mr. Fox Maule, in his seat in the House of Commons, on Monday evening last, upon the association, on the subject of clothing the army. He expressed his opinion that Mr. Fox Maule had not read No. 7 Tract of the association, and he contended that, although the pre sent system of clothing the soldier might have existed for 140 years, now that it was found out to be a bad one, the sooner it was changed the better. The association now determined to turn their attention to the principle of direct over indirect taxation. The meeting was addressed by Mr. F. Boult, Mr. John Smith. and others. Docx COMMITTEE. - It was decided to raise the river wall at Coburg Dock four feet, the estimated cost being £lo2o.—lt was recommended that the crew of the new landing stage should consist of nine men, in addition to the master and mate; that the mate should have 275. a week, and the men 225. The subject was referred back, it being considered by some of the members desirable to let the crew have a uniform, with less salary.—The sub ject of the Albert Dock accounts was again broached. Mr. Holme objected that only 8648 yards of land had been charged to the warehouses, whereas an additional amount of £51,000 ought to have been added to the cost of the warehouses on account of the land. He proposed that the statement of accounts should not pass, but, meet ing with no seconder, the proposition fell to I,u gro and the statement was adapted after some discussion.— The sub-committee refused to recommend berths in the Prince's Dock for screw steamers, or to remit the graving dock dues on the barque Crown. ST. ANNh'S DISPENSARY.—A meeting was held on Tuesday for the purpose of establishing a new dispensary at the premises lately occupied by the Eastern Dispensary, which had a few days since been closed, owing to a want of funds to carry it on. The following gentlemen were present, namely, the Rev. F. Ould, Dr. Ashcroft, Messrs. Barton, Kitchen, Gilbert, Watts, Croft and Bydc. It was shown that during the last year the late institution had administered relief to twelve or thirteen thousand poor people, and that it was absolutely necessary to pro vide a similar institution without delay. A committee was appointed, with power to add to their number, to carry out this object, with every prospect of success ; and a deputation, consisting of Messrs. Gilbert a appointed to see ministers of the different chi chapels, in order to urge congregational collect Ball, the house surgeon, was authorised to d to such poor as may apply to him ; and Mr. N rously proposed, for the . p - resent, to compou such prescriptions as may be sent to him. POLICE INTELLIGENCE On Wednesday another batch of lodging-housekeepers were summoned for having more than the complement of lodgers allowed by law. Convictions were obtained' in each cage. On Saturday, a servant girl in Colquitt-street, where Mr. T. C. Foster, barrister, is sojourning during the assizes, was committed for trial charged with stealing a purse containing £2. 10s. which that gentleman had left in his bedroom. Robert Tierney, butcher, was fined, on Wednesday, 40s. and costs for being drunk, and furiously driving a spring cart along Church-street, thereby seriously injuring a boy named Jame Michael. Mr. Rushton advised the parents of the boy to proceed against the defendant for personal injury. ASSAULTING A WITNESS.—On Tuesday a man named James Carney was fined £5 and costs, or two months' imprisonment, and to find bail himself in £3O, and two sureties in £l5 each, or four months' further imprison ment, for assaulting a witness in the case of a w oman committed for trial at the assizes, for manslaughter, in Spitalfields. _ FORGERY.—Thomas Williams was committed to trial, on Tuesday, for forging a soldier's billet. The prisoner went to the house of Henry Bennett, publican, in Park street, on the 25th of February, in company with another man. He was dressed in soldier's clothes at the time, and produced a paper, purportir.g to be a billet signed by a magistrate, through which he succeeded in obtaining 6d. and several glasses of ale. It was afterwards discovered that Williams was not a soldier. THE TABLES TURNED.—On Thursday, Captain Faulk ner, of the ship Josephine, charged a coloured seaman with attempting to stab the second mate. In the course of the inquiry it came out that the prisoner had been grossly maltreated by the captain and some of the crew; that he had been put in irons, handcuffed, a chain placed round his neck, and fastened between decks with nothing to lie upon, and fed upon bread and water for the last three months. Under these circumstances, the case was remanded. Distrtrt pea)s. A guard, named Ireland, was killed at Newton on Monday, whilst crossing the line as a train was coming up. DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—Within the last few days, the inhabitants have been shocked by the occur rence of a case of hydrophobia in Runcorn. About three weeks ago, a man named James Sothern, a driver OD the canal, was bitten by a dog as he was pulling it out of the canal. He was soon after in a confirmed state of rabies, and paroxysms were so violent, that it was found neces sary to fasten him to his bed. His sufferings terminated about two o'clock on Wednesday. The cylinder printing machines in Messrs. Hoyle's print works, Mayfield, ganchester, print a mile of calico in an hour ! If fifteen of these machines work uninter ruptedly for only ten hours each day, and for six days in the week, they would be able to print cotton dresses in one such week for one hundred and sixty-two thousand ladies ! The actual number of miles of calico printed by this eminent firm alone in a single year exceeds ten thou sand, more than sufficient to measure the diameter of our planet with ! _ _ UNION OF MECHANICS' INSTITUTIONS.—A general meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Mechanics', and other Literary and Scientific Institu tions, was held at Manchester on Saturday week, Dr. Hodgson in the chair. The attendance was numerous, and amongst those present were the Mayor of Manchester and Mr. E. Baines, of Leeds. A report was read, which contained some valuable suggestions,—amongst others, that in order to prosper, these institutions must all be self supporting, and it was suggested that the payments should be made for brief periods and not quarters of a year or a year. A resolution was passed declaring the institution to have worked well. The following institu tions were admitted :—Northern Mechanics' Institution, Liverpool ; Educational Institution, Bootle ; the Mecha nic's Institutes of Nantwich, Crewe. Middleton, Rhodes, Heywood, Woolton, Farnworth, Chorlton New Mills; the People's Institute, Rochdale; and the Roscoe Club, Liverpool. THE SEASON.—The beautiful weather we have enjoyed for some weeks has been very favourable for farming operations. The farmers at Tarleton are busy planting early potatoes, and never have the sets sprouted more beautifully than they have done this season. One person on Holmeswood has already planted upwards of an acre of "early white" and "pink eye kemps." The covered or screened potatoes are coming into " broad leaf." Great quantities of moss lands are in course of prepara tion for a crop of potatoes. This is especially to be ob served on the moss between Croston and Mawdsley ; while on the stiff soils of the latter place and Bispham, a great breadth of beans has been sown, the land having been previously manured. Indeed, great quantities of beans have been sown everywhere in the neighbourhood of Rufford, Tarleton, Croston, &c. The sowing of oats appears to be very nearly finished. A great breadth of land at Bispham and Mawdsley has, during the winter, been drained with tiles, Sir T. G. Hesketh having a tile kiln at Mawdsley in full operation. The Earl of Derby has also furnished his tenants with tiles, and in some instances put them in the ground, charging a per centage upon the outlay. ELECTORS IN THE LANCASHIRE BOROUGHS.—A par liamentary return, showing the number of electors on the register of all cities and boroughs in Great Britain, has just been published. The following is the return of the Lancashire boroughs : I£lo Free- Total No. of Popula. House- men, Elec- Mem- Houses tion. hol d'rs &c. tors. bers. rented. 1841. 497 497 1 2170 11324 600 14 614 2 5406 25167 15 *735 1 4814 21116 763 1 5267 22514 903 1 5707 24750 1019 1 6030 24091 1116 2 6200 36186 988 1377 2 3431 14389 1531 2 10185 50163 Clitheroe Wigan .. Warrington Ashton .... 720 763 903 1049 1116 389 1531 Bury Rochdale Blackburn Lancaster Bolton ... Oldham .. Salford .... Preston.... Manchester Liverpool.. 2 1 13873 1 60109 2602 .. 2602 1469 1577 3046 12836 .. 12836 14072 3248 17320 1 14867 66624 2 11371 50332 2 48261 240367 2 56494 282656 40065 I 5028 146093 196076 1929797 * Fifteen persons are registered in more than one township, but there are only 720 entitled to . vote _ _ NORRIS V. SEED.—The action by Mr. Ellis, of Chor ley, against Mr. Joseph Seed, the proprietor of Burgh . Hall Asylum, for the alleged seizure and detention of his wife, (formerly Miss Dune, daughter of the late Captain Durie,) will not come on for trial at the present Liverpool Assizes, as was fully expected. Particulars of the elopement from the asylum, of Miss Durie with Nor ris, will be fresh in the recollection of our readers. The plaintiff laid his damages at £5OO. The defendant, Mr. Seed, in his defence, as shown by the pleadings, justified his conduct, as being the proprietor and superintendent of a lunatic asylum, under the Bth and 9th Victoria, c. 100, and of having acted upon the certificates and orders given in conformity with that statute. As the defendant did not allege that the plaintiff's wife was a lunatic, or of unsound mind, the plaintiff demurred to this plea as bad, which left for trial at the assizes the other defences set up by Mr. Seed, including the plea that the plaintiff and Miss Durk were not married. Upon this the competency of Mrs. Norris to contract marriage with the plaintiff,and, therefore, her lunacy, would have been fairly tried ; and we understand the plaintiff was prepared to examine the clergyman who married them, and the witnesses to the ceremony, who would all have spoken as to the proper manner in which Mrs. Norris conducted herself. At this stage of the proceedings, and on the eve of the assizes, the defendant obtained a judge's order to be allowed to withdraw his pleas, except the one left for demurrer, on payment of all the plaintiff's costs ; thus avoiding a pre sent trial, and trusting to the chance of success on the demurrer. So far, therefore, as the present action is con cerned, the marriage of Mr. Norris to Miss Durk is ad mitted, as well as the trespass complained of. Mrs. Norris still remains a prisoner in the asylum. The argument on the demurrer i s expected to come on some time next term.