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RDAY'S ASSIZES. CROWN COURT. (13pf 1 4 , 4 ...a re s ir le 4t. tked ▪ Justice WIOBTMAN•) s k r 4 ""ge entered the Court a few minutes "qt'rqe, r ,, eas g ~ ro ut C , S t.`"r ANDERSON. _ (tt t • bttOte the grand jury • which was granted. 4l4i.°lotinetesoners who were convicted upon 'eers'snegc,ouinterteit coin, and also havirig "ion, were brought up to recei ve 'IN A nthony D)ran, 7 years transportation. e4l e r,,, .8 months imprisonment ; Jas. Og j n o's 12 months imprisonment. 144414uti Holden Peter Fay Jtio. Jackson, aUd Jno. ' Lynch, 6 tu ' ouths imprison t rn ._ tit t k,`.ol)ite 37 BIGAMY. Was indicted for feloniously mar iir r . 1.1 bet ehfc e..ershaw, his former wife, Mary Sim heN 4(locteci N o 4,, ti, e the prosecution and Mr. r"oner. li e fibret ated by Mr. MILTON. He said the 4 41 i/ tarried i n New York, in 1828, to Mary lth'ltiejdtte i.4'ci'ever with her afterwards to this eoun- N: llo eil e Y.live c i d , f or some ti me at. A shton - under. salted ~t o gether as matt and wife. Tie pi I stl - Su,,l4at he was married at Brooklyn, by t '4,,• e 't r . • In 1839 he left her, and went to aties,...aitirried Elizabeth Kershaw. 1 ir 3 ,1 1 7 th at C . were then called, who had heard the w.,' or tiii 4 4t e e e was married to NI firy Carlisle, his first h ilttit et t 4: bp rern( thY was performed by a Presby -4; w o i t ,: l l,"„ r egister of the marriage at Oldham ton, police constable, at Ashton. ol h i 2 l behalf of the prisoner, contended vad b e en made out against the prisoner, as tahurhk pri."ed DoE Produced to prove his first marriage. :atr Of uot remarked that the admission made S ri 'te att)t44l o,:ttshlnairiage by a Presbyterian minister Il e t o ,` a good marriage under the new aceo`t.e Prisoner) believed it to be a g . riod tit % lit t " t ng lo the law uf England it might lt, i4 40, :O N ce: of °Pinion the marriage was valid, ar„i' e , n 'fty was pei formed by a Presby -44, oiled several cases in support of his kOhil li lt '014+4%411, after consulting with Mr. Justice Y pts that as the r - • r had admitted his 4 i,,t, 10 1, 4 43 :t0f triest!Ytelian i p ttirer n , e the point for the the would . be, whether the prisoner, I ,4 l "Wpf. ° ' could satisfy then, that the mar 1n A merica was a legal marr.age r iit i r to, , a , of .that coun try. . et., utile dress i ng the jury, said they had a 't? Jett' 44 d Yet 14.'58 to e conclusion as to what a marriage , p lo„o kht k )tti there was not a tittle of evidenLe lett to Parties skilled in the laws of the 'er i t 4 4e w as ri Failed. here was no proof :?t,ilicl‘i7hether `',letimized in a ! pigstye or a chapel, atid 4 Cr eat tt was ever solemtezed at ali. 9 'llty the • e d bY those who conducted the pro. ),!1,-'.ll Prt soner • h ave th e , ought, according to the laws of hour c olt .oenefit of it. He relit don their t tlon sense and law were not at 0 1 ' N il ' 4 th e c Parties were disposed to say so. 1, ( , 4 1 ti1 , 4 Wh o h i la not to inflict a serious injur on a V tll a tr, tinadd. been proved to have been m arried . ,t‘dr,„ the wa In accordance with the laws of tie 'h i 1 1( e ' r he er , s no evidence to show that the pri. bars at at all until his marriage with Nt E) 4 .or e t tlJ bo dt Oldh am. • h t t Pattie then summed up the evidence , al "4t4tl,).lty,Gati,insi.utile'rrlt, to those points w hich the jury ter corning to a decision. ir~ra short consultatioit, acquitted the Y 1 014 B TEA L ,,„ 1,,t. 4, 41 23 ,••G A MARE. oOtOi l l hg Francis Downey, 24, were in. 1 n,, rn ,are, the pi operty of Ruht. Almond. 'ej‘ ti t td, l ,„ at I\r,(‘'.,the case. The prosecutor was a , t tt t 14t.t,Oerion, near the Liverpool !ace kt r 4 qt f ,Pl4, l s r enli ges 'a July last he placed a mare in a ir fyler About nine o'clock in the even ot„, .mt er A th e fi as seen riding the horse in a ~ , V er4,Polie e" "°, and soon afterwards he put it I.l4..offiecr was then sent for, who canoe huu'ler,aand Downey who was stand b i a l i T t ki• k d le se v ? e u w. red o . f Tie prisoners the cart out getting t -11tre th Werec fr et Sp ac quitted. • • 1 ) , A GELDING. 29, was indicted for stealing a kf Joseoh Smith. It appeared from ll'et,`,lo.lltollo trivIRAFFORD, that the prosecutor, ,esth A es at ltainford, placed the horse in k ori Pr ii last, but on he following morn -44111,404er w as About About 12 o'clock on the same \',N i e pe 'kt seen with the horse about 40 miles tt llt t M i ( 4 , 4 0t 1 h e ' t tle fair, where he offered the horse Ali tier !rattled Bradbury, but ultimately sold tw„, e Was soon afterwards apprehended.. s o MARE. litetNeN4prut Ni r ' . 'o o d rst chareed with stealing a le t he t he 'seem 4,, t➢ it 4 k art Prosecuted. He stated that on the 23d 4 1 / 4 , Ytt t rot u „_ or, who lives at Warrington, 11i,,141.0,itre a t tr prisoner, for which he paid £l2. ilito' l llt ' 4, 4 r w e e Swan public-house, and during kt e„ at and took her away. the I r 4 '!"I tile t the prisoner, con !ti c e r t ro _ J ury . or pro d a et .,7 l , his having been guilty of an ko r ,'Pe r " 4 ' l Y been a conspiracy to swindle a „'' There was no proot of his hav e called co nsequently there could be no 4,. 4 Yi witnesses to the prisoner's char • e loi t ,' l %t t rn tl e -11 ?ling his lordship to go over the 04,44, Pilsorier. I t ), N I , . 4 , , 10 et 13 ROBBERY. 1V Ot,N t a l , e,l ‘ieh r " I homas Rigby, 25, were indiq ltitle4teemi I, 4 'Nla e l e ri Yer, and robbing him of his CrNb tq ll t i 4, 4 41 the erfic id. it (1 4 ily a t pia olio statement of Mr. lIIILTON, that With 'e, 0 , a t H indley, was returning from sb o his Saturday, the 10th of June last, 1j,. 1 44 1 4 4 1 1 1 1e5 i :t a 1 4 , and had to pass over Ambles tilOt Y th e e .u 4 d a half on the road, where e, thkihe driersoners, who, after asking him tp' l l Cril 4 t ",B frort, .knocked loins down and rifled hintere,, t q ot il tew 1;• 1114 1 Cs. 9d. in silver and copper. Oot ilt she into a ditch on the road side, 4 01 ) , tN,l 4l kl s a g them going on the road to• t o ,Wh e Ne a p ' e - r t ,t l setin; the prosecutor . they I, l t h ','t ' l ilt 'tea t ° Oli e nt 'cnis coming tip the prisoners 't 4 1. 4 : Wi them said,shoot the ,4 1, 1 04 1 4, 3 prb, soot, afterwards taken into cus ell,,4 hy s. , ; n er in the course of the day. xrve cal led, who underwent a cross 1‘ 'it i t her ' tr es s IL kiNts the prisoners' counsel. t t w, l cd th e „' 4, 1 1,0 , 4 .u „ ev . ry ontheir behalf. con s-til'eo i t ldenee to support the charge 146,. 0 i 0 a atr, l soi,,, g ,. 4le relY one of common assault, ' l / 4 ,'",ytft ee "le 4 , 4 Were intoxicated at the time. 'lt N t rO, o l :,, ° ?e t r s . guilty of an assault, and . hare, •,,e win g them to keep clear ot , t‘d k i ti , dl.,atootenced them to six months et tti 1 4 ,, , t ts 4 i'llou 111.. i tt:tp ' s ) t. ( l , l 4 4 14 8 'Lle ail: Al' SALFORD. O tj t it t , ‘ l , l le p e r of ~a..Pplication to his Lordship .to eini se "' gess and others, charged with tt 4 tt at 'e t C3' . C. Pauling, at Solford, ole on • alph Fletcher. His Lordship 4 \ ll c l he L i "n . e . 'dity next. It w ill p ro b a bly ef e v Mr. Sergeant Murphy and " . h It G tolte of the prisoners. i v ot. rrio of • was Al' aptly. . 44 e s GI. indicted for entering the 4,,4tl',,ltil,:el4thepttreigns ceuhalgh, at Bury, and steal %,ei'Llyft,l4) eo Pej ty ' .. !orne silver and copper, and 0. ,I,C u del Odue ted ur the said Ellen Greenhalgh. '0ti t h0,.14 41 4 Y Obe Prosecution. The pri- N . 41 . t lo Whko se ent ilki ns. • Leat t i, „ . e flY over the circumstances of 4; 4 4 al?tet ta„,:7ePs public-house at Bury, %.I,el:ltlt4lt Iva tw el ve the 18th of July last she 1,' 1 4 4 %,th e .ba t dis ee - _,O clock, leaving all safe, but lR 4liviheoutail:ered that the house had been tb e t bre e , 1 1 , 11 g 39 sovereigns and some l ad s oa Heed NI A) utohes was taken away. On Was discovered in a very td o f iWee n e v . i ng his own accuser. He 1141 t o Jeer clanchester and Bury, and Veit; h t thtteil!t'e r went up to him add et h e it 4 N'nlatiOn of a robbery which 11 , 4t t,tt, 1 1, e, t , tuT, tim,,P°lice•officer said " Yon are iNele n "4 he -_,.cautionine him as to what 1,0 1 I I e t h e g a ,, Led ;.01,,,kti 6 4 ett e a a e , not care, he must tell 4;11 -it e r, eoa lmi , : 1 1 of the manner in which 4,tq e .ta u k 1 1 . 0 ,L t ( 1 , which was by gaining of te '" thence to the house. He ri e ßol,i a which , c ounted, 11 s aid and sore w h en „ e silver which was the ,1:Vt,,hq,1444 tell,..took three th s, one of 4 1 4 '11, el t tl 11 4 ,, e bklu t ati ng the prem w i a es e e The pri llit4„ost4h_e'tols,,Cee (l e f rt g._",_ing t o . he house before kL l l,4l , t mke w e irey t o "°Yed in the room from s ''oculist • Se t up a bedstead. and that i th e p e also stated that he waited 1i\:11:,44,1 th e 4 io th: ° Ple went to bed, and then •LL ti - b, Premi se ° nor s a . d s• The watches had 1, 1 L'k,,, to w ,. th e , he did not know the h, ky a hi t Th e cer whom viqie sde •am Poltcest . ation, where tl, e at lab_ d th e r ' s detained in custody. ttattkairinuP__!soner. He said the pri- L t t,it 4 '44 l ,, 4 0 : b ent, some delusion at the Petf ", 11 . aPpeared, from the evi• ectlY sober d t• 1 1 \s, k ery si ,an ue uad als . o iN ‘Lo ex 1)R ar manner after his , Zit tl eei'qie teri Pr esset r oil one occasion with his ti th e f ormer t apprehension of evil lk'leir j „t k i tt e trig . wa s statement respecting "4 i ll joke, and that he did cyl l e e It y earneq eh le y bo ut el lt over stains t he evidence to the jury, ti t ;:t th; half 44. LO UT returned, bringing 'vt ti obiaeNtit ef I:inKoner, with a recom men- Of t a .lued. .1„),e manner in which the reetly. The Prisoner had been pre -0;40 Mein t,i41'1141.a ' 1 41 4_4 e . .4 04 _ r R y . NOt ol , lAted` . o a,,rhorglarY at Rochdale. I le Je 'he Prisoner was uncle ttltea' tl 4 44 'i h u -14 th e '4arra° , lo a ' n l ß d h, on ket e a i s mall o f 141, 11 4a a rr achs the RS la way, but in the morrr. discovered that some articles had been taken from the shop v.lntiow by the removal of a pane of glass; they consisted of of butter, 8 lbs. bread, &c. Suspicion having been eschew inquiry took place at the barracks, the 65th regiment of tos, t being stationed thete at the time. The 'limo er had bt.mi t on duty in the sentry box on the night in question ; his baud was cut and bloody, and it was also discovered that had not been on duty, as was the usual practice, the whet , 9f the night, having been seen at a public house in the nelgt.hourbood. Some of the property was found in the barrack,. and marks of blood were traceable from the shop window the sentry box. The nrisoner called several witnesses to prove thm. h e had injured his thumb while cutting some tobacco. His LORDSHIP then summed up the evidence, and the Jury, after a few minutes' consultation, found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to ten tears' transportation. The Court rose at a quarter to seven. CASE OF JOHN ANDERSON. Trne bills were found against Anderson for being in possession of notes stolen in London from Mr. Black more, and also at tbe.Preston Guild. NISI PRIUS COURT.-MONDAY. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL took his seat at nine o'clock, shortly after which ' A Juryman said, he wished to apply to his lordship to allow the names of the parties interested in each case to be called over before the jury were sworn, because in a case which was tried on Saturday, he understood that it was intended to apply for a new trial in consequence of his (the juryman) being one of the shareholders in the Bank of Manchester which was interested in the case. He begged to say the attorney for the defendant knew that he was a shareholder; and lie only made these remarks in order to set himself right with the court. Be (the juryman) would have °Ejected after he had been sworn had it not been for a decision of his lordship in a case previously, that after the jury had been sworn they must decide the case, Mr. Justice CRESSWELL said, it was quite right; if a solicitor meant to of jest to any of the jury he must look out beforehand. The Juryman said, he would on no account, have re mained on the j•fry if he had been aware. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.-1 have no doubt, for J dO not know any place where juries are more scrupulous than in this county, and I have had a great deal of ex perience in it. You shall hear the names of the parties when the case is called on ; but it is frequently impossible to know who are the parties interested. RIGHT TO A WATER POND.-SCHOLER V. CHADWICK In this case Th►imas Scholes was the plaintiff, and James Chadwick the defendant. The declaration stated that the plaintiff was possessed of a certain close of land, and the delidatit of another close adjoining to that of the plaintiff; that there was a pond in the close of the de fendant, and that the plaintiff had a right to water his cattle in that pond; that the defendant made a drain and drew off the water, so that the descent •of the water was dangerous and d►flicult, and a mare of tl_e plaintiffs was drowned in consequence. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and tlet.ied all ►he allegations. Mr. Martin and Mr. Pickering appeared for the plaint ff, and Mr. Sergeant Murphy for the defendant. Mr. M AItTIN said the plaintiff was a farmer residing at Chatterton, near Oldham, and the defendant was a farmer adjoining, and the action was brought for the purpose of determining first, the right of the plaintiff to use the pond which was on the land of the defendant, for the purpose of watering his cattle, and secondly, whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover from the defendant the value of a mare, which in consequence of the alterations made in the pond was destroyed by falling into it iu at tempting to drink. The case had proceeded about an hour, when Mr. Justice CRESSWELL asked if these neighbours could not make some arrangement about the use of the pond. . _ _ • Mr. Sergeant MURPHY said his client would be willing to do any thing of that kind. After some conversation, it was agreed that the matter should he referred to a Mr. Reyne, a farmer. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.—And what is to become of the present cause Mr. Sergeant MURPHY.—Enter a verdict for the de fendant. Mr. MARTIN objected. Mr. Justice CREssweLL.—Withdraw a juror. Mr. MARTIN assented. • Mr. Sergeant MURPHY objected; but preferred to leave it to a genileman of the bar to say for whom the verdict should be entered. To this Mr. MARTIN objected, and said the case must be proceeded with. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL said he hoped the gentlemen had considered well the course they were adupting ; t - at they were not doing it hastily ; because the interests of the parties were concerned in it. Several other witnesses were then called, and after a discussion on the legal points in the case, Mr. Sergeant MURPHY addressed the jury. He con tended there was no proof of an easement, by user, to water on the defendant's land ; but that the plaintiff had made out that the pond was as much, though not to the same extent, in the laud of the plaintiff as in the land of the defendant. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL, in summing up, regretted that the parties had agreed to conclude—not to conclude, but rather to carry on their litigation before him and the jury. However, they could not help that; they must de cide the case, and leave them to fight it out elsewhere, at great expense and inconvenience, when it could have been much better settled if they had adopted another course. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. DISPUTED ACCOUNT. PLANT AND ANOTHER, ASSIGNEES V. JONES.—The declaration in this case was for goods sold and delivered, and the defendant pleaded a payment and set-off. Mr. Martin and Mr. Lawrie were for the plaintiff; Mr. Whigham for the defendant. Mr. MARTIN stated the case. The plaintiffs were Jas. Plant and Charles H ill, assignees of the estate of Samuel, James, and John Chadwick, father and sons; and the de fendant was John Jot-es. The bankrupts formerly car ried on business, near Bury, as cotton spinners and wea vers. under the firm of " Chadwick and Sons," and the defendant carried on business as a commission agent, at Manchester; he also bought goods to a great extent on his own account, and fora great number of years had done business with the bankrupts, and for some time back his business with them was exclusively confined to buying goods from them. The Chadwicks were very illiterate men; they were originally workmen, but commenced business on their own account, and ultimately became bankrupts. Their books were kept in a very disorderly manner, and when they came to be examined, it was found that the defendant was stated to be indebted to them to the amount of £193. This Mr. Jones denied, and the commissioners instituted an examination before an ac countant. From this it appeared, after deducting certain sums of which Mr. Jones had no vouchers, that he wits still indebted, on his own showing, to the bankrupts in the sum of £57 35., for which sum, at least, he (Mr. Martin) contended he was entitled to recover. Mr. Wurawasi, for the defendant, contended that them had been a mistake made in the accounts of .Z 37 4s. .91., in consequence of a similarity of names, and that, in stead of the defendant owing the estate of the bankrupt anything, there was abalance owing to him of £24 3s. 3d. In substantiation of his case he called a witness, named Al'wood, who had been in the employ of the defendant. Mr. MARTIN. in reply, contended that the whole case of the defendant bad been got up to deceive the jury ; that it was a clumsy anti stupid attempt at fraud ; that the documents produced were not honest documents ; and that the books submitted as evidence had been altered for the purposes of the case. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL, in referring to the cult-book of the defendant, found' that the sums mentioned in the memoranda were all entered in their proper dates. The only question, therefore, was whether £57 3s. was still owing to the estate. The Jury immediately found for the plaintiff. Damages £57 3s. RIGHTS OF THE LORD OF THE MANOR. MOSLEY V. BARDSLEY. This was an undefended action. The plaintiff was Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., Lord of the Manor of Manchester, and the defendant was James Bardsley. The action arose in consequence of the defendant selling butcher's meat otherwise than in the markets provided by the Lord of the Manor, on market days. The Jury found for the plain tiff. Damages, 40s. HEAP AND ANOTHER, EXECUTORS, V. LIVINGSTON AND ANOTHER. The declaration in this case was for goods sold and de livered, fur work and materials done and supplied, and for money due on an account stated. Mr. Knowles and M r. Atherton were for the plaintiff: Mr. Wortley and Mr. Cowling fur the defendant. Mr. KNOWLES stated the case. The plaintiff, George Bent Olivant, was an engineer, living in Manchester, and he was also the owner of a patent for making machinery ; for printing calico on an improved principle. The defend ant, Edwin Bancroft Bayley, was a printer of calico, and lived at Pendleton, near Manchester. Up to the time when he (the counsel) now alluded, defendant was in the ' habit of using a block machine, but having heard of the invention belonging to the plaintiff, be was minded to alter his mode of printing, and became the purchaser of one of the new machines. On the 18th of February a meeting took place between the plaintiff and defendant, in the presence of Hodges, plaintiff's foreman, and on that occasion something was said about a machine being or dered, but befure giving an order defendant required an estimate of the cost. Accordingly plaintiff drew up an estimate for the machine, with all the appurtenances, offering to execute the work for £250. The estimate was sent to the defendant, who came over and had another in terview with the plaintiff, and, after some discussion, an order was given for the machine on the patent principle— the basis of which was to be found in the estimate, al though it differed, at the request of the defendant, in cer tain particulars. The machine was furnished in the middle of April, and on the 26th it was started to work. Some alterations were required, but the plaintiff never heard that the defendant found any fault with the machine until the Bth of May, when he received a letter, stating, that in consequence of the shameful delay he would not have it. and requested that some one might be sent to pull it down. After this plaintiff had an interview with defendant, and some other alterations were again suggested and made. Towards the end of May plaintiff sent the defendant a letter, requesting 'payment, the understanding being that ready money was to be paid for the machine. Defendant refused to pay, although up to this he had not even hinted that the machine would not answer his purpose. How ever he did refuse to pay. The plaintiff was necessarily, though reluctantly, compelled to commence this action. and the defendant now, after paying into court £2O 95., re fused to pay, indeed denied his liability t o pay f or the machine at all. M r . Hodges, the foreman, was called, and proved that the machine was made to order; that the material was good ; and that the work executed by it was satisfactory. A number of witnesses were c4lled to prove that the workmanship of the machine was good. Mr. WORTLEY, in his address for the defendant, said he was astonished that, in this case, the plaintiff had not called one independent machine maker to give his opinion of the machine in question, and, after cot meriting on the. evidence, the learned counsel said he undertook to show that the machine was not made according to the contract entered into; and, further, that it was totally and abso lutely ruinous, and bad been mast mischievous to the de fendant. At the conclusion of Mr. Wortley's address, the Court sojourned till the following morning. IVrF.ETw G OF THE PRESBYTERY OF LANCASHIRE. — On Friday a meetinz of this body was held in the Com mittee-room of the Scotch Church,'Rodney-street. The Rev. John Ferric., filled the office of moderator. The subject of Mr. Park's removal to the parish of Glencairn was brought before the meeting, and after remarks from several gentlemen on the efficient manner in which Mr. Park had discharged his pastoral duties during twelve years at the Scotch Church, Rodney-street, the Presby tery agreed to Mr. Park's removal. A memorial having been read from the district of Chorlton-on-Medlock, in Manchester, requesting the Presbytery to consider the Propriety of erecting a new church in that locality. Dr. Sinclair and Mr. Galt, on behalf of the memorialists, being in attendance to give any explanation that might be required, Dr. Sinclair entered into an explanation of the reasons which had induced the memorialists to come be fore the Presbytery. After some discussion a motion was submitted by Mr. Welsh, for the appointment of a com mittee to confer with the proposers of the scheme, and report upon it. The motion was seconded by Mr. Rum son, and carried. WESLEYAN METHODISTS.—The following are the stations ref the preachers of this district as fixed at the late annual Conference :—Liverpool District —Liverpool North, (Brunswick Chapel, &c.)—Ahraham E. Farrar, Joseph Beaumont, John H. James : Calverley ttiley, su pernumerary. Liverpool South, ( Pitt-street, &co —vt7 in . Atherton. Joseph Hargreaves, Henry Chettle. (Benn's Gardens, &c.)— Richard Bonner. Rowland Hughes. Chester—T. Stead. William H. Clarkson : Isaac Lilly, supernumerary. Mold and Buckley Mount—William Parkinson, who shall change with the Ministers of the Chester circuit once in six weeks. Carnarvon (English)— James Naughton. Holyhead—Joseph Sykes. N.B. Brother Naughton and Brother Sykes are to change one Sabbath in every six weeks. Wrexham—Francis Barker, Joseph Whitehead. Whitchurch, (Salop)—Adam Flet cher, William Shearman. Warrington—Benjamin Pearce, John Haigh. Richard Rymer. St. Helen's and Present— James Scholes. Thomas Shaw. Wigan—William Con stable, Frederick Payne. Southport and Ormskirk— John Haigh, Uriah Butters. Preston and Chorley— W dliarn Horton, Peter C. Horton, Thoma., Rodham, Thompson Hesk. NB. Brother P. C. Horton and Brother Hesk shall reside at Chorley. Garstang—Jona than Barrowclough, George Dickenson. Lancaster — John Talbot, James S. Thomas. Douglas and Castle town—Edward Sumner. William Huddlestone, Samuel Atkinson. Ramsey and Peel—Peter Prescott, Samuel Taylor, John S. Jones. Ist. WM. ATHF.RTON, Chairman of the District. JOSEFFI HARGREAVES, Financial Secretary. DOER COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—Present, Messrs. Sands, (clriirman,) Rovden,lley, Holmes, Evans, Chilton, Holt, Smith, W. R. Sandbach, Tobin, Bold, Ripley, Moore, and Middleton. Alter some preliminary busine-s had been dispobed of, of little interest, the fol lowing was read from the e Marine Surveyor.—" August 14, 1843. The Marine Surveyor reports that, in conjunc tion a NI his assistant, Mr. Jones, of the loyal navy, he sounded the bar of the Victoria Channel on the evening of the 11th and morning of the 12th instant, being tides of 17 feet two inches by Holden's Liverpool Tide Table. The examination indicated a depth of thirteen feet in the morning and twelve in the evening, increasing from six to twelve inches in depth towards the western side. The weather was calm, and the water perfectly smooth on both these experimental occasions. The Liver buoy tender was anchored on the shallowest part of the bar du ring the whole of the period. The City of Londonderry steamer, a vessel drawing twelve feet of water, also pas sed through the channel at dead low water on the 12th ; as also No. 1 pilot boat. and several other vessels at low wa ter on the evening of the 11th. The depth oLained at low water, from corresponding tides in 1839, was twelve feet, as deduced from a mean of many observations made at that period. From a tide register, kept at the Liver pool Docks, it appears the tide of the 11th instant was eight feet below the sill at the Old Dock, and that of the 12th seven feet four inches." A copy of the above was ordered to be sent to Captain Bevis, agent to the Mail packets, for the information of the officer conducting her Majesty's mail packet service here. The committee then proceeded to the consideration of financial matters, and soon afterwards adjourned. THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE.—A meeting of the parties engaged in the wine and spirit trade was held on Yridav, for the purpose of receiving a report from Mr. Mm. Dixon, jun., of the result of an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the object of which was to procure Liverpool, and the other outports, to be placed upon the same footing as London, with regard to the duties paid upon brandy. It appears that, in London, the trade have for many years paid duty only upon the actual quantity and strength of brandy taken out of bond for home consumption ; whilst in Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow, and elsewhere, the merchants have been corn pelled to pay duty upon the quantity originally bonded. The effect of this has frequently been that the Liverpool merchant 1.15, from cvainnatitni and waste, sustained a loss of 60 per cent ad valorem upon the spirit bonded in the first instance ; and this has pressed so heavily on the trade as to render it necessary for many parties to keep tlOlt brandy in France; whereby the profit of warehousing has been lost to the port. A great deal of difficulty was experienced in the first instance, the treasury having re. plied that they did not see sufficient grounds for acceding to the request, and at the beginning of the interview, Mr. Goulburn was of that opinion ; but, on the hardship and injustice of the system being urgently represented and proved by the introduction of the customs vouchers, he gave way. The following day a treasury minute was re ceived, which it will be satisfactory to know. It says that with a view of affording relief in cases of excessive deficiency, the board of customs have been authorised to grant such extra allowance, upon special application, as the merits of each case might appear to justify, when the officers of the customs were satisfied that the deficiency had arisen from natural causes, and that no abstraction or improper interference had taken place. AN INTERESTING HOLIDAY.--011 Wednesday last, the children of the Blue Coat Hospital had a most delightful excursion to Chester, provided for them through the kind ness of William Jackson, Esq.. of Birkenhead. The children, accompanied by several trustees and many friends of the institution, embarked in one of the railway steamers, and were landed at Monk's Ferry, and after en livening the inhabitants of that district with their spirited hand, they proceeded to Chester in a special train engaged for the occasion by Mr. Jackson. The day, which had hitherto been overcast, now burst forth into beauty and ' , wellness. At Chester the company was anxiously waited for by a large concourse of people, and the children be longing to the Chester Blue Coat School, with their ex cellent band, were drawn up to receive the visitants. A procession being formed they promenaded the principal streets of Chester. The procession moved forward to the castle;which it visited, and as the court was then sitting, the children were there introduced. After leaving the castle they proceeded to traverse the walls, and then they were shown the cathedral. They afterwards proceeded to the Grand Stand, in front of which dinner was provi ded on seven tables laid out for them, and they were re galed most bountifully with veal pies, ale, and fruit. The company afterwards retired within the Grand Stand, where a handsome dinner was provided, of which upwards of 150 ladies and gentlemen partook, among whom were the Dean of Chester, Chancellor Raikes, Prebendary Slade, and others of the clergy, J. D. Case Esq., A. Swainson, Esq., E. Gibbon, Esq., James Monk, Esq., Hugh Williams, Esq., &c., and, after a number of toasts had been given, the children and company then assembled, and, the procession having re-formed, they proceeded across the Dee Bridge to Eaton Lodge, the entrance to the beautiful and extensive park of the Marquis of West minster, which they entered, and, after proceeding a short distance that the children might form some idea of the extent and beauty of the grounds of the Noble Marquis, they returned through the city to the railway, accompa nied by a dense throng of admirers. On reaching Birken head, the Blue Coat boys, with the band, walked round Hamilton-square, and the principal streets of Birken head, and thence arrived in Liverpool without the slight est accident. BRIDGE OVER THE ANCIENT " POOL. " —The work men now employed in laying down the new sewer, or Cul vert, in Lord-street, and for which they had to excavate to a depth of ten or twelve feet, came a few days ago upon the remains of the swing arid abutment of one of the arches (for it is supposed there were several) of the bridge that crossed the " pool," between Lord-street and Church-street. The spot is directly opposite the south from the shop of Mr. Gilliam, hatter, corner of Lord street and Whitechapel, and about four yards from the bottom of the former street. These " ruins" were of a brightish yellow free-stone, still compact, but inclining to softness. The masonry and mortar were in a fair state of preservation. They also discovered what they took to be stepping stones, but which were probably portions of the foundation of the small arches of the bridge. Should we be wrong in our conjecture, some antiquarian will proba bly set us right. We find it recorded in the annals of the town that " in 1635 a bridge was ordered to be built at the south side of the town," (which this site then was,) " over the pool, where the sluices are, and a quay and harbour to be made there for the succour of the ship ping." The whole of the shipping of the port at that time was about 20 vessels, in ail about 400 tons, with about 70 mariners. Judging from the abutment found es stated. the bridge must have been about eight feet wide. A quantity of ribs, skulls, and other bones of horses were found a little higher up the street ; but these were proba bly a comparatively modern deposit from some tannery, when the ground was filled up to its present level. Some of the workmen remember that, about ten years ago, when similar operations for sewerage were going on at the bot tom and junction of Dale-street and Shaw's-brow, large pieces of black oak, in good pr e servation, were dug out, which they considered the remains of a wooden bridge.. These materials, however, were as likely to have heen por-' tions of the " flood-gates, ordered to be put up in 1636, at the bottom of Dale-street." At the time the bridge at the bottom of Lord-street was extant, there was a ferry house, with boats to cross the pool, at the bottom of Hatton-garden. The stranger who now visits the locality (on which stand some of the busiest streets in the town) would have no conception of the great changes which time, and the rapid increase of commerce; have effettcd. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. On Thursday, the Rev. Henry Melville, Minister of Camden Chapel and Chaplain to the Tower, delivered a sermon at St. Peter's Church, in this town, in behalf of .the funds of the above society. The text was selected from Isaiah 2, 18—" And the idols he shall utterly abo lish." The sermon was, as might have been expected. extremely argumentative and eloquent. Every part of the church was crowded, and the sum collected was £ll2 18s. Bd. The following being the concluding por tion of the sermon, will be read with interest, not on mingled with regret that so noble an institution should meet with such tr'fling support. We call upon you to do your part towards the mighty crusade, we call upon you to be liberal supporters of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts—a society which has been established upwards of 140 years, has been engaged in a most noble but arduous office, and which during a whole century was the only mis sionary society in connection with the Church of F a .g. land. Ido not hesitate to say that it has greater claims than any other society that may resemble it, for it la. bours for our immense colonial empire. For whom are we so much bound to provide the ministrations of Christianity as for those millions of our fellow-subjects who in foreign lands—whether natives of the soil, or emi grants from among ourselves—are destitute of the in struction which maketh wise unto salvation. The heathen is not excluded from the operations of the society whose cause I. now advocate. In India much has been done; but, alas ! what are 32 missionaries among millions of ac countable beings—subjects of the same earthly Sovereign as ourselves, ignorant of their heavenly King. Oh ! what might be done if Christians would but combine in the attack. Know you anything of the spiritual destitu tion afar off ? I should think not, judging from the comparatively little support which this Society everywhere receives. Look at British North America in its three divisions of the Canadians and Nova Scotia; here you have a population of nearly a million and a half while the number of clergy working is two hundred. Look at New foundland. Alas ! taere are not twenty clergymen to minister to the many thousands there. Look at Australia with its enormous continent from whence future nations are to spring, where we already see the foundations of a kingdom, which if it began in the felon and the slave may yet give laws to half the globe; here we have 150.000 of our fellow countrymen for whom this Society by a mighty strain supports thirty-four clergymen. I blush to proceed with such a recital. As a nation we have done little or nothing for the maintenance of Christianity in our Colo nies and to say the least it is not to be expected that the inhabitants of, such colonies can for a long time, from the very nature of their case, provide religious instruction themselves; hereafter, as opulence advances with them, they may rear a clergy, and give endowments for the church; but whilst thousands are emigrating, how can the ever growing demand for spiritual instruction he satis fied with Out an endeavour to meet the claims of a society such as this. We have encouraged emigration by every possible means that we might have ample room at home, but having cast our brethren on a foreign shore, is it just to leave them without churches, without ministers, and yet to expect them to be loyal to their sovereign, which they never can he, unless faithful to their God. It is time we wiped off the national disgrace. If the legislature cannot provide, let us pray that benovelence may step forward and undertake the work. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts is eager to employ 200 additional clergy. but it is almost bankrupt. Parliamentary grants have been withheld, the clergy in employ ere already existing on a mere pittance, and are threatened with penury. What is to be dune; What is to be done do I say? Is the question asked in this vast commercial town, this metropolis of trade. What is td be done for the colonies? Is that the question, and is it raised in a place which sends ships to every colony, whica brings home the produce of every colony. Oh ! let but Liverpool rouse itself, and the effect will be felt throughout the kingdom. Commerce has its responsibilities as well as its gains —be alert, and the example will tell well and powerfully. But if a town like this is to act on the empire, who is to act on the town ? There can be but me! 'answer. The clergy. And what a responsibility rests upon the clergy. Far he it from me, a stranger among you, to suppose that that responsibility is not felt; but I am sure, that however much it is felt, there must still be place for increased exertion. As cler gymen we are specially called upon, not only by the wants of society, but by the unanimous recommendation of our bishops, to bestir ourselves in so righteous a work. And one thing should be particularly urged Ly us all. In the undertaking there ought to be union. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts is utterly averse to anything of a party character. I am bold to affirm that it has but one object in. view in the selection of its missionaries, that of finding faithful, devoted, sin gle-hearted men who will zealously labour in diffusing Christianity, as embodied in the teachings of the Church, and in conformity with its instituted privileges. And if this society be unsupported, mind you there is none to take its place; for, be it observed, no other missionary society occupies the same ground, no other has our vast colonies under its care. :t is of no avail to say, Ido not support the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, but I support the Church Missionary So ciety. The Church Missionary Society well deserves support ' • but the two societies are not rivals, although it is only here and there that they can work in .the same field ; and it were strange to be satisfied with giving the bread of life to the native Hottentot, and withholding it l i from the helpless exile: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts now makes its earnest ap peal: Surrounded with difficulties, almost forced from ancient fields of labour, with new openings before it, the society implores: the cler g y to unite in the etitleavOur to render Liverpool an example to the kingdom. A luke warm clergyman makes a lukewarm congregation ; a luk& warm congregation may keep a colony in destitution and a country in idolatry. We will not disappoint though there is so much to be done, so little apparently with which to do it. Our dependence is on God : it is His cause which is at stake. The idols to be abolished are his adversaries; fall they shall, and fall they must. Let it he our own resolve to go to war against these idols. The cry for spiritual help, the cry from the east, the west, the north, the south, shall not long remain unanswered. The missionary ship waits your succour ; she shall be re. paired. The prayer from the righteous shall ascend as she departs, and as we read the inscription, " And the idols be shall utterly abolish." The following brief particulars connected with the reverend gentleman will be interesting:— The Rev. Henry Melvill is son of the late Captain Melvill, who was for many years Governor of Pendennis Castle in Cornwall. He was brought 'up to mercantile pursuits, and for some time attended to business in Lon don. His brothers, however, thinking that he possessed powers of a high order, enabled him to enter St. John's College, Cambridge, where he very shortly distinguished himself, and it soon became evident that he would be come a bright ornament to ti , e church. For a short time after his ordination, lie held a curacy at Cheshunt, and from thence he was appointed minister of Camden Chapel, Camberwell, in which he has faithfully laboured ever since—upwards of ten years. Although gifted with such extraordinary pulpit powers, the rev. gentleman does not confine himself to that Fart of a clergyman's duty only. He is always ready at the call of the poor; and the district over which (by mutual consent with the rector) lie pre sides, has his especial attention. The Rev. H. Melvill is brother-in-law to H. Kemble, Esq., M.P. for East Surrey, and brother to Melvill, Esq„ secretary to the East India Company. He has also a brother in the foreign service of the company. We cannot refrain from stating, in proof of the true liberality of the rev. gentleman, that out of his income from Camden Chapel he allowed his curate £250 per annum. Dock COMMITTEE ELECTION.—On Tuesday last, Messrs. William Smith, Thomas Tobin, Thomas Bold, and William Robertson Sandbach were elected members of the Dock Committee. VALUABLE CARGO.—The barque Ann, Captain John Salkeld, hurthen 600 tons, which sailed hence for Bom bay on Thursday week, has taken out one of the largest Cargoes of trAuftictured goods that has been shipped here for some time. It consisted principally of fine Manches ter piece goods, and was valued at about £40,000. PUBLIC-HOUSE ROBBERY.—On Monday last between the hours of five and ten in the evening, some person or persons effected an entrance into the bed-room of Mr. Lckersley, publican, 'fhurlow-street, broke open a box. and stole £5l Ss. iu cash, a silver watch and guard, with gold key. CHARGE OF RAPE.—On Thursday tbeevidenee against John Reynolds, a journeyman printer at the Liverpool Mail office, on a charge of rape, was beard before Messrs. Rushton and Hornby, magistrates, in a private room. The complainant was Anne Palmer who reached her fifteenth year on the 27‘11 of last month. Mr. Rush ton committed the prisoner for trial for the assault with i intent. THEATRE ROYAL.—We understand that the negotia tions between Mr. Murray, of the Edinburgh Theatre, and the proprietors of the Theatre Royal in this town, are at a stand still for the present. Mr. Murray wishing to learn the issue of the bill for the regulation of theatres now before Parliament. Mr. Hammond paid £lOOO for the house per annum, but the proprietors have offered it to Mr. Murray for £5OO. DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT.—At Mr. Newton's, Dick's Coffee-house, on Tuesday evening last, about half-past nine o'clock, an alarm was caused by its being discovered that some villain Lad, during the temporary absence of Mrs. Newton from the bar, left upon the table two small parcels, one addressed to Mr. Newton, and the other to a friend of his. On examination of one of the parcels it was found to be full of the finest gunpowder, and a lucifer match wrapped round with sand paper in the centre of 'he powder, one end being fastened to the lid of the box with wax, so as to ignite and explode when the lid was removed. The boxes were taken to Mr. Rushton, together with an anonymous letter, and the matter is undergoing an exa mination by the proper authorities. ROBBERY.—Three females, of loose character, were yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of robbing a " Johnny Raw," from the Isle of Man. Tho mas Kelly, the complainant, said that he had lodged in Drumgold-street, Douglas, and had come from the Isle on Saturday last. Ile went into Copperas-hill to inquire for lodgings, and in a public-house found the two younger prisoners, who took him to what they called "a most re spectable house" in Albion-street. He had scarcely, good simple man, retired to rest, expressing a wish not to be disturbed, when the two damsels came into the room and relieved him of sixteen half-crowns and other money, which they bad previously seen in his possession. His watch was also gone. He complained to the old woman, but she cut him by telling the other two to cut. He called a police officer, who found the watch concealed in the house, but not the money. The prisoners were all committed for trial. EXTRAORDINARY CASE Al' MANCHESTER. On Wednesday a respectable looking man, named Charles Kn'glit, brother of Mr. James Knight, accountant, Pall Mall, Manchester, was brought up at the Borough Court, in that town, charged with forging his brother's name to two checks, amounting together to the aunt of £285; and also with having, on Tuesday last, married a woman named Mary Ann Wardle, lately a servant at the Globe inn, Medloch-street, Chorlton, he having at the time another wi . e living. Mr. Richard Berwick, chief superintendent of police. stated that on Monday :horning, about ten o'clock, the prisoner went to the batik of Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co. King-street, and presented a check signed "James Knight," for £135. Mr. Markland, one of the clerks in the bank. knowing that the prisoner was brother to Mr. James Knight, paid him the amount of the check ; but the check having been examined by another clerk it was discovered to be a forgery. It being ascertained that he had a wife and child at Rock Ferry, Inspector WM ullen was sent to Liverpool iti the hope of finding the prisoner, and a watch was set on the Dubiin packets, as it was known he had friends in Dublin. 'Nothing, however, was seen of him till the following morning, when he was seen to go aboard a vessel about to sail for the Isle of Man. WM alien immediately arrested him, when a scuffle en s u over e d 1; c a . nd rd the . ri m s o u n i e le r n h h r n e a w t e e v n e e r d , s t iowcteherdoewd in M Mullen getting him into a small boat, and while in that, on their way to the shore, the prisoner was violent, and said that M'M uls len must either swim for his life or be drowned. With some difficulty he was got ashore and brought to Man chester. On searching him £5l Is. was found upon him, and of that sum £45 had been identified as a portion of the money which had been paid by Mr. Markland in dis counting the cheque. In company with the prisoner was a woman named Mary Ann Wardle, and on her was ound upwards of £4ll. 17s. Gd, of which was part of the money paid in discounting a forged cheque presented at the same bank on the previous Thursday. for the sum of £l5O. This woman had been taken into custody as an accomplice, but lie (Mr. Besa ick) applied for her dis charge, as he had reason to believe that she knew nothing of the transaction, and further, he had ascertained that she" had been married to him on the previous day, at St. Mary's Church, Manchester, and that he had a wife and child living at the time. A gold watch and guard, value about £2O, were found on the prisoner, and altogether he accounted for about £260, of which some of the items were for bride's cakes, dresses, &c. and £5O for furnishing a house. The whole sum he had expended and for which he accounted was £l6B Bs., and the mottey found on him and the female amounted to £9l 19s. 4d. When taken to the Town Hall lockups he said after the usual caution, that lie forged the two cheques, and gave an account of the manner in which be had spent - he 111911ry. Mr. Marklbnd was then sworn, and deposed to having, on Mowiay la-t, discounted the cheque produced for £135. He also stated that he had discounted a cheque on the previous Thursday for the sutn of £l5O, and he believed that the prisoner presented that cheque also, but he would not swear to that. He identified the notes. Mr. James Knight, brother to the prisoner, was then sworn, and deposed that the signatures to both cheques were forgeries, and that he had not authorised either the prisoner or any other person to attach his name to any cheques. The depositions were then ordered to he taken. . . Mr. Beswiek then stated that there was a further charge of bigamy against the prisoner, and Mr. Knight, the pri soner's brother. was questioned as to his first marriage. He believed that he had been married about nine years ago, but lie was nut present bitnselt at the marriage, nor did he know where or when it had taken place.—Prisoner (to his brother): Do you know how old I was when I was man ied ?—Mr. Knight : I do not.—Prisoner : Do you know that l was under age when I was married, and that the license was obtained without consent of parents?— Mr. Maude (to the prisoner); I may just tell you, that if that were the case, it would not at all invalidate the mar riage. Prisoner : Very well ; I have nothing more to say. He was then remanded till Thursday. The prisoner was again broualit up on Thurgday, at the Manchester Borough Court, when his marriage with a female of the name of Easton (still living), shout nine years ago, at St. John's Church, Manchester, was clearly proved. Maria Wardle said she was married to the prisoner on Tue,day morning, at St. Mary's Church, Manchester. She did not know that his wife was living ; he represented himself to her as a siiigle man. He was committed fir trial at the assizes. The Birkenhead Commissioners met on Tuesday last, hut in consequence of the subject for the consideration of which they had adjourned not being matured, no business was transacted. THE PRESTON GUILD ROBBERY.—The trial of John Anderson, at the present assizes, will be one of consider able interest, as we understand that, since his committal, four of the £lOO notes stolen from Mr. Marquis have been ti aced to his possesiion. We understand the trial is fixed for to-day. IMPORTANT TO SOLICITORS.—It may be of some in terest to the legal p►otession to he informed that an amended scale of Costs, approved by the lori chancellor, has been received by the commissioners of the several district bankruptcy courts, in which there is a very con siderable augmentation in the amounts of the items. , ANOTHER TRICK UPON HOUSEKEEPERS.—A man and woman are at present going round the town and offer ing prices higher than can generally tie obtained for old bottles. After a large number of them have been looked out, the woman fills her apron with the best of them, and the man takes a few in his hands. Both then leave the house under the pretext of going fora basket to carry away the remainder, and bring the money for the lot. We need Scarcely remark, that neither man uor woman is ever heard' of again. PETITIONING.—In the House of Lords on Thursday. Lord Brougham stated that he had received the signatures of 15,800 persons at Liverpool, without the petition to which they were intended to be attached. Earl Stanhope observed that here there were only the names without any heading, but he could state as a fact, that there was a petition to the other house against the Factory Bill. the lop of which was cut off and replaced by a petition against the corn laws; and this was done by She contrivance of the Anli-Corn-Law League. S HI PS' WINDLASSES.-Before his Honour the Vice- Chancellor of Engbilid, at Lincoln's-inn, on Tuesday last, Mr. Chandless rose to move for an injunction, ex parte, to restrain the defendant, a founder, in Liverpool, from manufacturing and fitting ships' windlasses on the principle of a patent possessed by the plaintiffs, Messrs. Tyzack, Dobinson, and Co., who are extensive manu facturers at North Shields. His Honour minutely ex amined the model: produced, and having heard the allegations of Mr. Chandless, expressed himself satisfied of the piracy, and made an order for the injunction as prayed.—Newcastle Journal. COURAGEOUS ACT.—On Saturday a young boy. seven or e:ght years of Jute, whilst observing another older than himself fishing from the steps at the Trafalgar Dock Pa rade, overbalanced himself and fell into the river. Some short time elapsrd before the life-buoys could be brought to the spot, when the youth was too far spent to avail himself of there. Immediately this generous sailor per ceived the exhausted state of the boy he leaped from the pierhead without hesitation, although risking his own life, for he was unable to swim, and providentially succeeded in sustaining the boy until a boat received them both. SCRIPTURE READERS As persons are now calling upon churchmen to subscribe for the maintenance of scripture readers in connexion with the Liverpool Town Mission, it should be generally known that there are scripture renders connected with the following churches under the superintendence, and supported by the minis ters of these churches :—St. Jude's, St. George's, (Ever ton.) St. Barnabas, St. Thomas's-in-the-Fields St. Si mons, All Saints, and Christ Church. There will be one at St. John's. and the Rev. Mr. Baylee supports a leader to visit the Irish Romanists in Liverpool,.and speak to them in their own language. TESTIMONIAL.—On Tuesday last, the congregation of the Scotch Church, Rodney-street, presented the Rev. John Park, their late minister, with several articles of plate, of the value of £250, for, as the inscription stated, " the zealous and faithful discharge of his ministerial duties during a pastoral care of twelve years." The plate consisted of a very richly-chased two-handled twenty-five inch oblong silver waiter, and two lesser ones to suit, a pair of massive and elegant candelabra, with two side candlesticks to match, besides a neatly engraved coffee pot, and other useful articles; also a very beautiful and most costly-finished gold watch, and handsome gold guard attached to it. CAUTION TO PAWNIIROKERS.-011 Saturday last, Messrs. Healing and Lyon, pawnbrokers, Atherton-street, were summoned before Mr. Rushton, by Thomas Burns, for the recovery of a bugle which he had pawned with them on the Ist of September, 1842. In reply, one of the defendants stated that it was their custom at the com mencement of the year to examine all the stocK. They did so this year, and at that time the bugle was there. He thought it must have been stolen. Mr. Rushton, having heard all the evidence, was of opinion that the pawnbrokers were liable, and they must pay £2 10s., the value of the bugle, less six shillings, the sum for which it was pawned and the interest. SHIPWRECK.—On the 25th May last, the Hero of Malown, belonging to Liverpool, was totally lost off Crelen. This ship, which was 480 tons burthen, was built at Calcutta in the year 1820. She was at anchor in the harbour, and was to have sailed on the next or suc ceeding day, when one of the most violent gales came on that bad been experienced in that quarter for many years. The ship was forced to sea soon after the gale burst forth, but the crew were unable subsequently to keep her off .the coast. At length she struck, within thirty yards of the shore and about twenty-five miles below Crelen, and in six hours afterwards went to pieces not a particle of her having been'found. - The ca pt a i n an d crew, with the ex ception of one man, were saved. A FAMILY OF BIGAMISTS.—At the Police -court, on Friday, William Barry from Bolton, was charged by Sarah Taylor, a good looking young woman, with having torn her cap and crushed her bonnet. The prisoner, in his defence, said that the complainant h a d h a d t h ree chil dren by him, and was constantly annoying him. She had come to this town as a witness on a bigamy case `now pending at the assizes, and her brother and sister had both been guilty of the same offence. Mr. Rushton asked what was known of the prisoner, and was told that he had not long ago left Kirkdale gaol, where he had suffer ed imprisonment for bigamy, and that the prisoner's wife was to be tried at the present assizes , for the i!a!fl and . t wife two husbands. Mr. Rushton aad ft _ e offence. The prisoner had married , two wives: avrwholemarriages and intermarriages ran t h r o u ghy9s. and costs , or e.int the family. He ordered the prisonsr to pa to bprisonad. i HEALTH OF THE TOWN.—Dr. Lyon Playfair arrived in Liverpool last week, for the purpose of commencing his inquiries into the causes of the high rate of mortality in Liverpool. He has already sent to numerous partie. lists of questions which he wishes to have answered. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Hannah Watson, who had been placed in Bridewell on the preceding evening, in a state of intoxication, appeared before the magistrates on Friday. A scream was heard to issue from the place where she was, and on entering, the prisoner was disco vered attempting to strang!e herself with a garter. She was ordered to be discharged. INQUEST.--An inquest was held yesterday tefore Mr Curry, on view of the body of Henry Moore, a shipwerht. aged 26 years. It appeared that the decea,ed w at work, on Friday week last, on a vessel in the Car.,:ng Graving Dock, on a stage with some others. He had oc casion to go from one part of the stage to another. and in doing so took hold of the top of a pole that rested on the stage, but did not form any support or part of it; and whilst in the act of striding over it, the heel of it slipped in the dock and fell, and he fell along with it against the side of the dock. Deceased fell under the pole, which struck him on the head ; and he after wards fell down to the bottom of the dock, where he was taken up insensi ble, and bleeding from both ears. He was conveyed to the Southern Hospital, where he died on the Friday fol lowing, from the injuries he had received in the head And elsewhere.—Verdict, " Accidental death." CASE OF STABBING.—Ad adjourned case, in whim — a well-dressed young man named Williams, was charged with cutting and stabbing a man of the same name, was yesterday disposed in the Police Court. It appeared (as stated in our last), that the prisoner had on Sunday night, the 13th instant, stabbed with a clasp knife, and ,severely injured his namesake; without, it is said, any provocation. Some further evidence was yesterday brought forward, to the effect that he had knocked off Williams's hat, and afterwards stabbed him. The surgeon who had attet:dera the wounded man, said that Iv , had found four incise wounds ; and that the patient had suffered much front effubion of blood, but was not in a dangerous state. The prisoner declined to say anything in his defence, and was committed for trial at the present assizes—the winPsses being bound over in £lOO each. The prisoner had before stated, in his defence, that the man had that attacked him. STEALING CORN FROM A WAREHOUSE..--ATI old man, named Peter Duffy, wa. - ternay charged at the Police court with breaking into warehouse, and stealing a quantity of wheat. John vi - ait,v.i'ight, a cooper, stated that he was in the service of his father, who let ofr ware houses in Charlotte-street. At nine o'clock on Satur day morning he found the lock of the warehouse, No. 4, broken, and got it immediately repaired and replaced. Ile gave information, and the pt •e -officer Eaton re mained on the look out, and about (,; c o'clork saw the prisoner leave the warehouse with a ,small bag, and stopped him. The bag contained wheat, and some of the same kind of grain was also found in his hat and pockets —in all about 151 b. It was found that the lock had been in the interim a second time forced, and a chisel was found which corresponded with the marks on the wood work. The wheat belonged to Mr. Wm. Lowe, lrn merchant, and about three bushels, of a quantity s• filar to that found on the prisoner, were missing. lie was committed for trial. GOOD FORTUNE.—Many of our readers will, probably, recollect the following paragraph which appeared in the local papers a short time back :—"GOOD NEWS FOR SOME BODY.—It may be important to some worthy family in Ireland, to learn that Mr. Michael Rice, an Irishman, aged fifty or sixty, lately died in this city, worth 80,000 (1r 11ars. lie has no relative in the United States, though he made his fortune here; it is said that he has a sister in Ireland, who is poor."—(Philadelphia Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.)—We 11.. v- since ascertained that Mr. Forsyth, one of the bridewell keepers at the south dock station, in this town, happened to take home one of the papers in which this paragraph appeared ; and that his wife, on reading the news, saw the intimation, and felt no • doubt that the gtn'letnan named was her brother. As soon as the disemery was made, turatis were at once adoptad for obtaining posession of the property. A mer chant in this town has taken the matter in band, and no doubt the heir-at-law will soon be in possession of the effects of her deceased brother. LECTURES AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—OrI Tuesday last Dr. Brett delivered his third lecture " on Heat and Combustion," commencing with some observa tions (in cantinuation) on latent beat,—showing that when liquids dissolve into vapours, more heat is absorbed that in the case of solids becoming liquified. He demonstrated, . by an experiment, that sulphate of magnesia in a liquid state, when mixed with spiris of wine, became solid. Ether passed rapidly into vapour, and was, therefore, me dically applied to produce a se ns ati on o f co ld. If the finger were plunged into boiling water, the immediate ap plication of spirits of wine would allay the pain. He made several experiments, showing the effect of ether in vaporizaiion in reducing the temperature. When a vapour became liquid considerable heat was evolved. Thus, 1 lb. of steam, at v temperature of 212 degrees, would pass into 8 lb. of water of a heat of 87 degrees. He then explained the principles of ebulition in vacuo, the boiling point in liquids, the condition of high and low pressure steam as regarded latent heat, &c. The elacticity of vapours in creased with their temperature, anti the latent heat of steam increased at low, and decreased at high, tempera tures. He next atuded to the analogy between gasses and vapours; the liqu faction of the former; their law of diffu sion, which was in proportion to their relative lightness, &c., illustrating this branch of the subject by some expe riq":ents. Professional men differed in opinion as to the laws of beat ; some assuming that it had material pro perties; others that it had not, but depended on the mo tion of matter, and others that, likt - light, it was produced by the undulation of a subtile eti.er,—to which last view of the subject he was himself fut , ourubita. With thin ho concluded the subj , ct of heat, and should, in his next lec ture, proceed to consider the laws of courbustion.—On... Friday evening Dr. Brett ably ct.:Dmeeced the second lec- •. tare of his subject—" Combustion," some of the early opinions entertained on which we:, remarkable, not to say ridiculous theories. Same chemists in former times thought that combustion was pro lueeil by particles being thrown i nto . a state of vibration or agitation, and that in conse quence light and beat were developed. It was sup posed by others, that when a substance—such, for • instance, as metal—l:eel= in a state of combustion, it parted with some principle or element constitutins, in its new form, light and heat. But it was found, on the contrary, that such substances, in place of losing weight by the action of comb,ustion, actually gained an accession of it. Others, therefore, supposed that the metal imbibed a certain principle of the atmosphere; and this was in reality a sbrd , towing forth of the fact, as had been proved by the exj,-.1. ,ents of Boyle, Who found that as the atmosphere decr: ased from a vessel in which com bustion was going on. the burning or combustion propor tionately decreased and finally - sed. A remarkable theory was entertained by a anistf(Stahl), who supposed that combustible matt. . steel of a substance of a phosphoric nature, called 3ton. Thus, when phosphorus was burnt, it left a bo,i, supposed to be de prived of its phlogiston. It might have been supposed, from what had been discovered by Hook, that this theory would not have held its ground, which, however, it did for a long time. It was found that substances burnt brighter in oxygen than in other mediums ; and this prin ciple existed not only in the atmosphere, but was con tained in nitre and some other bodies. Lavoisier went further, and found that certain substances in a state of combustion took up a part of the atmosphere, and when it ceased to be supplied the combustion ceased. Oxygen was necessary fur combustion; but when it was going on there were many grades of heat,—some, indeed, so lieht that we had not instruments sufficiently delicate to detect it, and others intense and accompanied by light. Some substances were supporters of combustion, others were non-conductors of it. In ordinary cases, oxygc vr is its chief supporter, but it did not follow that in all cases a development of heat and light should be dependent on the presence of oxygen. He showed by experiment _that a taper put into a jar of oxygen gas burned much bri ter, and that when immersed in nitrogen it was extingii ed. Combustion might be very slow, in flammable substaiic. : such as phosphorus, when exposed to tile atmospheric air. whilst the chemical change of spipts of wine in making it into vinegar was a simple process of com bustion. Every one was acquainted with the rust of iron, but few would conjecture that iron in its progress• to oxydation was actually in a slow state of combustion.. If the temperature of iron be greatly raised it burns; but metals, though really combustible, did not burn rapidly as wood. Charcoal was decidedly combustible, but a more energetic substance, as regarded conibustion axposed to oxxygen, was to be found in phosphorus. This lie more t hesam brightly e jar but produced by heating a piece of c h arcoa l t o a d u ll re d h ea t at a lamp. Wh en p u t i n t o a j ar o f oxygen i t b urne d muc h plunged it ed into filled the jar with light so intense that on its being extin guished the theatre appeared fore few moments compara tively dark. Chlorine gas, as well as oxygen, was a sup porter of combustion. This he showed by putting a bit of paper, dipped in spirits of turpentine, into that gas, when it caught fire and was instantly burned, filling the jar with a quantity of black smoke—the carbon and the hydrogen of the turpentine having so much energy in this gas as to cause combustion. If a portion of sulphur and copper, hi a laminated state, were placed, as he showed, in a glass vessel, and the glass were exposed to the heat of a lamp, the two substances would so act upon each other as to be come red hot. Potassium and iodine, mixed, and subjected to a slight heat, emitted flame as they combined. He then took a piece of iron wire, with a small piece of com bustible at its e x t rem ity, w hi c h he lighted, and put into a jar of oxygen. When the combustible was consumed, the wire also took fire. and blazed and burned to the top. This experiment excited much applause. Substances sub jected to combustion were not annihilated, 'nit merely underwent a chemical change. On the subje :t of flame he stated that all' substances that emitted it combined in them more or less'of hydrogen. Common coed contained carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and generally a s ma ll quantity of sulphur. He explained its combustion in a connuon grate, but when bound in a close chamber or retort, its products were different—it evolved a great number of gasses, &c. in distillation. He next noticed olefiant gas, and its properties,.and exhibited it in combustion, also spirits of wine and ether. Naptha and camphor were also explained as regards their qualities of burning. lec turer, who was frequently loudly applauded, ob_s n r fia e d. . e g conclusion, that he should resume . the subject f in his next lecture. , i4p , • Wl'. h or a fi le t l e r return, 1 ,1" petitioniov, a r e s u pp ort ers r . s iel and orveecre t eteltAa pre_ seated with those agents. by way of frig h t eningsell"' against t't'oners out of its prosecution, ti the Pe ' . 'el have caused Lord Dungannon s agents fur the bribery theu practised. at the election ding the last to be served with writs tc re prece a alarmed Y , however, be not the smallest • connection CoisnoaSponep janoa I' h~ ~~tll~ ~~d ri. er'r ' P C ,1 4e' ,r 8