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. '1)1;P„ wille Y L s , l ----- ERDAY'S ASSIZES. CROWN COURT. - . N T omens",(efore Mr Justi Wie N • ce •HT A. Judge eutered the Court a few minutes Ilr , B A ._ CASE OF ANDERSON. • Es s pelled to his lordship to allow Jennings beio fi ct r . e the grand jury, which was granted. %N at ".g prisoners, who were convicted upon in ',41(1,• at uttering couuterfeit coin, and also having Possession, were brought up to receive ''' e s arid Anthony D - iran , 7 years transportation. i,t,d it t te ... n s , 8 months imprisonment ; Jas. og -1410,r,iti''''l Ennis, 12 months imprisonment. iitt.lt2,,it4uyohn Holden Peter Fay, Joo. Jackson, ‘4lB, and Juo. ' Lynch, 6 mouths imprison , "tin Si s m • BIGAMY. 4 ',, e ne 4 - T t e , 3 7, was indicted for feloniously mar , yet hei n za ", ' ll l Kershaw, his former wife, Mary Sim , liiittifelloieteotatektoivnedu.cted the prosecution and Mr. ca„ ue prisoner. slated by Mr. HULTON. He said the 1 , 1 ale, a sst triarried in New York, in 1828, to Mary t h ' e qtr e "me over with her afterwards to this coun lotor, atia ti , e e r esided for some time at Ashton-under tilt 01 80 lived together as man and wife. The pri 04,‘rt, b r "„Ilted that he was married at Brooklyn, by skcal tirti,l:inclair. In 1839 he left her, and went to mil to he married Elizabeth Kershaw. 'ot! th a t , s 'es were then called, %Ito had heard the 'at! th lie was married to Mlrry Carlisle, his first litint,t_thThere was performed by a Presby ' Ill'iduc`` gister of the marriage at Oldham M r. Newton, police constable, at Ashton. ° hi r age h a - d s: .. on behalf of the prisoner. contended 0 t i:b e e . e h ad 6 " e eeti made out against the prisoner, a e s . j _ pr r o e dueed t d o pr . o t ve th t e it fi admission tna g de inp r y marke tha %tri,' %%our marriage by a Presbyterian minister u t t:ot he a good marriage under the new l *ti t ° , ba t 'le (the prisoner) believed it to be a good ,14,1?• according to the law of England it might 01 kl 'ONI vv a ' 4l tl B of opinion the marriage was valid, 0 0 4 . 0 1 2 4 )4^ N . ,le ceremony was pet formed by a Plesby ' ". er g and cited several cases in support of his e ra N t Ptt rie ,, titteq,ll,ol:4;lvel?Gz, after consulting with Mr. Justice a , iby a b en that as the prisoner had admitted his aA t, oqreshyteri an minister, the point for the s ( , — .the jury would he, whether the prisoner, 'NO° , tut,-"s'inn, could satisfy then. that the tear 11,trr4,k Place in America was a legal marriage ~,t4 , 7tik im! f the l aw of that country. '44,`.e(i t o 't In addressing the jury, said they had I t : 44l4eir : 44iiaizt4 cso,ta7dto ye a l conclusion as to what a marriage there was not a tittle of evidence tit a :,okixht*, Sotne parties skilled in the laws of the j a ° f. tth er have been called. There was no proof 5' 411 41; 41 , pyi rt *54 solemnized in a pigsty.- or a chapel, ti ad h p 'ether it was ever solemnized at all. ri *°ttaZithdetrliereated by those who conducted the pro• I.'a oa t tY, t, l e Prisoner ought , according to the laws of tail, kilt,. (er e the benefit of it. He relit don their „1411', Comtnon sense and law were not at l a "N a e d tip ; 1 1 some parties were di-posed to say so. ki ‘lt t Plar i ‘ i tv ,theni not to it, flirt a set ions injury on a 11 4 44, 1 rn 4 ,,,,,,u0 had been proved to have beet. married far t r it ,;" , arid in accordance with the laws of the t,44 1 1 e l p r b e was no evidence to show that the pri- L ' kersbeet, Mar ried at all until his marriage with ta ri , t ,aw ldham. ,' 11 (11, 1 °re „ "LoGe then summed up the evidence. al ot!1 I!ltte tererticUlarly to those points which the jury al ter ty 4 i_ sitter ming to a decision. ` e r a short consultation, acquitted the ti e4l. ll t 4 I to( S TENG A MARE. " 23 • 24 , • I , t,o, ,an d Franca Downey, were in -1...1,0;i11.0tare, the property of BAAL Almond. Xl4 . '! , ti the case. Ile prosecutor was a „„ Netherton near the Liverpool race 41 th a t "I'!s the 14th July 'la-t he placed a mare in a i t , 4 ti c ; Aboot nine s o'clock in the even 1104'.fitt fy'er Hunter was seen riding the horse in a Hunter tile firlo, and soon afterwards be put it (11<re.header Hu was then s e n t for, who cane Litinter, and D owne y w h o was stan d ing tl ie , but wa s secured. The prisoners said +4 'eh, °rse with the vi ew o f getting the cart out Pit t , trc~ale._ . swer e acquitted. kre„ 10,goee „`' , IING A GELDING. Pr 0p 4 ,7" 8 ) . 29, was indicted for stealing a of Ot ..,loeph Smith. It appeared from yaWath lr' s 1 11A FFORD, that the prosecutor, the lives at Rainford, placed the horse in :ia t ' it ~,,,,‘!th April last, but on he.following morn 1441k.lirion tone. About 12 o'clock on the sante k it 'fore " was seen with the horse about 40 miles tn at ‘s cattle fa ir , where he offered the hors e tis er-g "° a named Bradbury, but ultimately sold was soon afterwards apprehend e d. b 4r j ' 'e'erqia 46 - 0h,,-aec a -TeataN G A MARE. 1 , t, 0rnp,," , O. stood charged w ith s te a li ng a , s rito,,Ltip„_"Y cf Mr. Gorst. prqsecuted. He stated that on the 23d tiqt th e taare,Prosecutor, who lives at Warrington, lb are 'r .d orn the prisoner, forwhich he paid Xl 2. t the Swan üblie•house, and during 1 Nag,,,7 . 1• 43 „„er went and took her away. Nq at , 8 7 1 l'eased the Jury -for the pr i soner, ett;, the, Aradtar from his having:been guilty of an ltLtoe t f i s actually been a conspiracy to swiedle ktq. tie ho,. 6 ° PertY• The r e was no proo f o f hi s hay e thenet artd consequ en tly t h ere cou ld b e n o tpy called witnesses to the prisoner's char ttith troubling hislordship_to go over the ed the prisoner. w,ssit.e oktliziezier.aitlss,seuo er AND RoltErßY' It ~.tdti 2 5, and l'homas Rirjby, 25, were indict "g cge Dyer, and robbing him of his ed 'lackertield ;Ito:touter', I,tat k°M.the statement of Mr. HIILTON. that " IIVeS Hindley, was returning from I,!l e ,` 4 4: l l 4ith B Z , on Saturday, the 10th of June last, ktit t it ea ' 4 1)0, 1 , 4 ' A ire, and had to, pass over Ambles )Netthe sled b a mile and a half on the road, where 1 / 4 , l )„'tt A P ° , aao. saki , 5 the prisoners, who, after asking him (!rink, knocked him down and rifled Nis threw him into a ditch on the road side, he saw them going on the road to t 4 ;` °n again seein 4 the prosecutor they ()tne persons coming up the prisoners ottizt .when one of them said. , 'e Ster • I will shoot the w as so on a f terwar d s taken i nto cus- INs ti. t.La eas _ Pri soner in the cour s e of the day. Nig, bywere% called, who underwent a cross thatds ad dr r • Witactivs, the prisoners' counsel. 1 1 , 0, t ,4r e w e ssed the jury on their behalf, con ,, as no evidence. to support the charge \tij i N e t r hth e ' s ,,e king merely one of common assault, itt,Oin4.l,osoners were intoxicated at the time. Oar, eta mtertne prisoners guilty of an assault, and tut c ommending them to keep clear of I t "? , • and 1 . 41. c, sentenced them to six mouths' ttr t 'ar d labour. 11„ -rt G r. L ,1 4 ;1. 41 '1 pi at i'llY AT SALFORD. K 1 4 1.7 41) tit s ean application to his Lordship to ts i lt a N ith' l ,he. p e ,, Burgess and others,.charged with Iti'l l itiCeoo t i e rnises of G. C. Pauling, at Salford, 4, 4 v,,' it ori el l'i4t Ralph Fletcher. His Lordship tegeol e ivv ednesdav next. It will probably ' 4. e to the daY. Mr. Sergeant Murphy and t efeild some of the prisoners. \ili‘,;ll,l;4hripd,l'lttG.l.Attv AT. BURY. e f ijA was indicted for entering the ' e ),„ Greenhalgh, at Bury, and steal th;o;reigns, some silver and copper, - and .7!A deOtri e ° Perty of the said Ellen Greenhalgh. ilitS 4. , ll l . q 4 ° , dea (I b el v dLeted the . prosecution. The pri io4litt srA, r. Winans. t 4 4 i t to, Whros te " ti t, briefly over the circumstances •of t s t,l 4 ot 15 e "'lx - keeps public-house at Bully, :11. 1 Ou t ," 11. , and on the 18-h of July last she 1 1 1,1 ‘t ti t : 1 4 a k it isa;%.,!ive o'clock, leaving all safe, but t l‘ so t li ti ,uag e _ulaeuvered that the house had been y, 1 J, 1 with thre e l it i i Watches was taken away. On itt r oe pri so n r bbery was discoverEd in a very tr t bli ee 4l 3 ,,er being his own accuser. He be tty yi a ,ed oft, Manchester and Bury, and Vtiniit` nerve e t; be went up to him and t; t dnformation of a robbery which Yal. 4 1 1 1 aa el "be Police - officer said " You are e 4,0 time cautioning him as to what 3 (h il ki t he o g ` l 4 he did not care, he must tell t 'c t ', Ott! Q r een e r r : detail of the manner in which t. hill id frruomatet d h;n w ce hle to h the was house. b y g a n He 1 :i ' ,:t 1 1 / 4 o 11 01 ; 9 { il gol°cif mon e y, w . h i ic h , when h c w o a u s n t t e h d e , :ett l e d b e efo 4 id he to: l k e three 'ver watches one of i t ris‘O titl tt th e T i e l.eaving the premises. The pri liNeik b ee of going to the house before e t o ,'" employed in the room from neY to set up a bedstead, and that ttl „ Ile also stated that he waited IlhoZit-titehliii•tdeettople went to bed, and then h s' p r i s •tty Premises. The watches had i 'lo Cle o °lgl it - "er said he did not know the Nt tl i t % , I t t o o k h. th em. The police-officer whom 1 4 1 ai t iNt erns w ir ° to the police station, where s tt, oofe ode. , , and was detained in custody.. . labc)uu.the prisoner. He said the pia ,Nl lli rti N, t4 te rrit , r r i l ng under some delusion at the otto,,h,q f pe !,.' as it appeared, from the httin a Per sober, and he had also N te ,• ' v ery singular manner after his (11e fUntid on one occasion with his ~i,l,is t t(l,l 4 l , !et' e d° l i ", , ,'d great apprehension of evil . V y,, t i p iltt h e ;tia i t ": a _lo o r i tner . statement respectll ht )ti t', thtkrieri earne sly t. joke, andthat he d \ e s, le e itt y lti a ab o lk tit ett ,over't he evidence to the jury, klt,Y Nry st " 3 , 1 f an hour returned, bringing ,ee oa , t ne Prisoner , with a recommen '‘el ° rlt a .„ of the manner in which the N y i l4 °fl Eir Le `'' The prisoner had been pre eny, V 4 ,4. 4 1 , 4 eeti e te Pr ahurglary at R oc hd a l e . " The p r i soner was nude ' it t4 t 4l .: tijeererniah ar I v, Barra c l oug h , k ept a sma ll gleprel4n barracks, and on the 25th of 188 in th e us u way, but in the e 301 littv .1 ,S',ll, t morning discovered t!tat some articles had been taken from the shop window by the removal ot a pane of glass; they consisted of 1 lb. of butter, 8 lbs. bread, &c. Suspicion having been excited an inquiry took place at the barracks. the 65th regiment of foot being stationed there at the time. The prisoner had been on duty in the sentry box twilis night in question ; his hand was cut and bloody, and it was also discovered that be had not been on duty, as was the usual practice, the whole of the night, having been seen at a public house in the neighbourhood. Some of the property was found in the barracks, and marks of blood were traceable from the shop window to the sentry box. The prisoner called several witnesses to prove that he 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 years' transportation. The Court ro s e at a quarter to seven. CASE OF JOHN ANDERSON. True hills were found against Anderson for being in posSession of notes stolen in London from• Mr. Black more, and also at the Preston Guild. NISI PRIUS COUItT.-MONDAY. Mr. Justice CRESSWRLL took his seat at nine o'clock, shortly after which A Juryman said, he wished to apply to his lordship to alloy. 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 ►o say the attorney for the defendant knew that he was a shareholder ; and he only made - these rema► ks in order to set himself right will; the court. He (the juryman) would have oljected after he had been sworn bad 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 richt ; if a solicitor meant to object to any of the jury he must look out beforehand. The Jurytnan said, he would on no account have, re mained on the jury it he had been aware. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.-1 have no doubt, for I 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 panics when the case is called on ; but it is frequently impossible to know who are the parties interested. RIGHT TO A WATER POND.-SCHOLES V. CHADWICK. In this case Thomas 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 def-ndant 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 it 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 difficult, and a mane of tLe plaintiffs was drowned in consequence. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and denied all the allegations. Mr. Martin and Mr. Pickering appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Murphy for the defendant. Mr. M ART'S said the plaintiff was a farmer residing at Chatterton, near Oldham, and the detendant was a ramie' adj. ' ' g. and the action was brought for the put pose of determining first, the right of the plaintiff to use the pond a hick wds 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 in 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 be referred to a Mr. Reyne, a farmer. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.—And what is to become of the present cause? Mn. Sergeant MURPHY.—Enter a verdict for the de fendant. Mr. MARTIN objected. M r. 3 us' ice CREsswELL.—Withdraw a juror. Mr. MARTIN assented. Mr. Sergeant MURPHY objected; but preferred to leave it to a gentleman of the bar to say for whom the verdict should he entered. To this Mr. MARTIN objected, and said the case must be proceeded with. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL said he hoped the gentlemen had considered cell the course they were adopting; tat 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 CVESSWELL, 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 hot 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 courbe. The jury returned a vtrdict for the defendant. DISPUTED A - UT:DI/Pi T. PL A NT AND ANornEtt, ASSIGNEES V. JONES.—The declaration in this case was for goods sold and delivered, and ti defendant pleaded a payment and set-off. t' r. srtin and Mr. Lawrie were for the plaintiff; Mr. Whighan r the defendant. Mr. 141ARTIN stated the case. The:plaintiffs were Jas. Plant and Charles Hill, assignees of the estate of Samuel, James, and JOhn Chadwick., lather and • and the de fendant was John Rives. The bankrupts formerly car ried on business e enear 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 Mauchesier ; Ire also bought goods to a great extent on his own accootti, and for a great !umbel of years had done business with the bankrupts, and for some time back his business with them was exclusively confined to bu)in4 goods from them. The Chadwicks were very illiterate men; they were originally workmen, Lot commenced business on their own account, and ultimately became bankrupts. Their books were kept in a very disorderly manner, and when they came to beexamined, 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 af which Mr. Jones had no vouchers, that he was 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 entitl , d to recover. Mr. WHIGHAM, for the defendant, contended that there had been a mistake made in the accounts of £37 4s. 93., in-consequence of a similarity of names, and that, in stead of the defendant owing the estate of the bankrupt anything. there was a balance owing to him of £24 3s. 3d. In substantiation of his case he called a witness, named Allwood, who had been in the employ of the defendant. Mr. MARTIN, in reply, contended that the whole case of the defendant had been got up to deceive the jury; that it was a clumsy and stupid attempt at fraud ; that the documents produced were not honest documents ; and that the books submitted as evidence had been altered for the pnrposes of the case. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL, in referring to the cash-book of the defendant, found that the sums mentioned in the memoranda were all entered in their prover 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. DARDSLEY. This was an undefended action. The plaintiff was Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., Lord of the Manor of Manchester, and the defendant was James Bardslev. The action arose in consequence of the defendf nt 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 ANOTiI ER. The declaration in this case was for goods sold and de livered, for work and materials done and supplied, and for money due on an account stated. Mr. Knowles and Mr. Atherton were for the plaintiff: Mr. Wortley and Mr. Cowling for the defendant. Mr. KNOWLES stated the case. The plaintiff, George Bent Olivant, was an engineer, living in Manchester, and he was also the owner, uf 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 lie (the counsel) now alluded, defendant was in the habit ofusing 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, i n the presence of Hodges, plaintiff's foreman, and on that occasion something was said about a machine being or dered, but before 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 princip le— 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 be 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., refused to pay, indeed denied his liability to pay for the machine at all. Mr. 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 called to prove that the workmanship of the machine was good. Mr. WORTLEY, in his address fur 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 questiou, and, after co rtnenting on the evidence, the learned counsel said lie undertook to show that the machine was not made am rding to the cow rac entered into; and, further, that it was ti tally and tins°. lutely ruinous, and had been twist mischievous to the de fendant. At the conclusion of Mr. Wortley's address, the Court aajourned till the following morning. MEETING OF THE PRESBYTERY OF LANCASHIRE.— On Friday a meeting of this body was held in the Com mittee-room of the Scotch Church, Rodney -street. Tice Rev. John Ferries filled the office of moderator. The subject of Mr Park's removal to the parish of Glenc aim 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 Presbytety 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 he required, Dr. Sinclair entered into an explanation of the reasons which had induced the memorialists to con.e be. fore the Presbytery. After some discussion a motion was submitted by Mr. Welsh, for the appointment of a corn mittee to confer with the proposers of the scheme, and report upon it. The motion gas seconded by Mr. Rum son, and carried. WESLEYAN METHODISTS.—The Billowing are the stations of the preachers of this district as fired at the late annual Conference :—Liverpoot District.— L. ye, pool North, (Brunswick Chapel, &c.)—Abraham E. Farrar, Joseph Beaumont, John tl. James : Calverley I. iley, su pernumerary, Liverpool South, ( Pitt.street. &c.) Wm. Athertorr, Joseph Hargreaves, Henry Chettle. (Bean's Gardens, &c.)—Richard Bonner. Rowland Hushes. Chester—T. Stead. William 1-1. Clarkson : Isaac Lill . supernumerary. Mold and Buckley Mount—William Parkinson, who shall change with the Ministers of the Chester circuit once in six weeks. Carnarvon (English)— James Houghton. Holyhead—Joseph Sykes. N.B. Brother Flaushron and Brother , Sykes are to change one Sabbath in every six weeks. I.Vrexhani—Francis Barker, Joseph Whitehead. Whitehurch. (Salop)—Adam Flet cher, William Shearman. Warrin on—Benjamin Pearce, John Haigh. Richard Rymer. . Helen's and Prescot—' James Sr - tholes. Thomas Sha . Wigan—William Con stable, Frederick P. yne. SOuthport and Ormskirk— John Haigh, Uriah utters. Preston and Ch or l ey — W lliarn Horton, Pe ter C. Horton, Thomas Rodham, \ii Thompson Desk. N 13. Brother P. C. Horton and Brother Desk shall reside at Chorley. Garstang—Jona than Barrowclough, George Dickenson. Lancaster— John Talbot, James S. Thomas. Douglas and Castle town—Edward Sumner. William Hothilestone, Samuel Atkinson. Ramsey and Peel—Peter Prescott, Samuel Taylor, John S. Jones. Ist. WM. Ann - 411.°N. Chairman of the District. JOSEPH H ARGREAVES, Financial Secretary. DOCK COMMITTEE. THIIRSDAY.—PreQent, Messrs. San .s, (cli irman,) Rovden, Bolley, Holmes, Evans, Chilton, Holt, Smith, W. R. Sandhach, Tobin. Bold. Ripley,'l4loore. and Middleton. After some preliminary busine-s had been disposed of, of little interest, the fol lowing was read from the Marine Surveyor ;—"Angost 14, 1843. The Marine Surveyor reports that, in cortjunc rion with his assistant, Mr. Jones, of the Royal 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 Tattle. The examination indicated a depth of thirteen feet in the rooming 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 obtained 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 he sent to Captain Bevis, agent to the Mail packets, for the information of the officer conducting her Majesty's mail packet service here. Tire 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 intervi e w w ith t h e 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 borne consumption ; whilst in Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow, and elsewhere, the merchants have been cam pelled to pay duty upon the quantity originally bonded. The effect of this has frequently been that the Liverpool Morebant.hos, from evaporation 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 their 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 arid 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 s a y s that with a view of affording relief in cases of excessive deficiency. the hoard 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 ar , sen from natural causes. and that no abstraction or improper interference had taken place. AN INTERESTING HOLIDAY.—OR 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 1 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 ovettast, now burst forth into beauty and loveliness. At Chester the company was anxiously waited for by a large concourse of people, and the children be- lonv.ing 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 a s th e c o ur t was t h en sitting, the rildren 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 -1 nied by a dense throng of admirers. On reaching Birken head, the Blue Coat boys, with the band, walked r oun d Hamilton-square, and the principal streets of Birken head, and thence arrived in Liverpool without the slight ! eat accident. . BRIDGE OVER THE ANCIENT " POOL."—Tbe work. men now employed in laying down the new sewer, or col 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 spring and 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. Gilham, hatter, corner of Lord street and Wbitechapel, 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: Seould 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 all about 400 tons, with about 70 mariners. Judging from the abutment found as Mated, 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 preservation, were dug out, which they considered the remains of a wooden bridge. These materials, however, were as likely to have been 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 thelown) would have no conception of the great changes which time, and the rapid increase of commerce, have effeSted. THE LIVERPOOL STAN D,ARD SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. On Thnrsday, the Rev. Henry Melville, Minister of Cattitlen Chapel and Chaplain to thl Tower, delivered a 1 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 tieing the concluding por 'ion of the sermon, will be read with interest, not on mingled with regret that so noble an institution should meet with such trifling 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 E i ig. 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 no 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 Christi ais 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 thin ty tour 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 inhauitatits 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 without 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, arid yet to expect them to be loyal to their sovereign ' which they never can be, unless faithful to their G o d. It is time we wiped off the national disgrace. If the legislature cannot proved-, 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 is employ ..re already existing on a mere pittance, and are threatened with penury. What is to be dons: What is to be done do I say? Is the question asked in this vast commercial town, ibis metropolis of trade. What is to be done for the colo ,ies? Is that the question, and is it raised in a place which sends ships to every colony, whit.: , brings home the produce of every colony. Oh! let hut Liver pool 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 on: answer. The clergy. And what a responsibility rests upon the clergy. Far be it from me, a stranger among you, to suppose that that responsibility is riot 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, hut by the unanimous recommendation of our bishops, to bestir ourselves in so righteous a work. And one thing shoiod be particularly urged Ly us all. In the undertaking there ought to be union. Tire Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts is utterly averse to anything of a party character. 1 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. arid 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 tine Church Missionary So ciety. The Church Missionary Society well deserves support • but the two societies are not rivals, althou g h 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 from the helpless exile. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts now makes its earne-t au 'peal. Surrounded with difficulties, almost forced from ancient fields of labour, with new openings before it, the society implores the clergy to unite, in the endeavour to render Liverpool an example to the kingdom. A luke warm clergyman makes. tukewarin congregation ; a luke 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 be 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 he 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 hu-iness in Lon don. His brothers, however, thinking that he possesz‘ed 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 t I.e church. For a short time after his ordination, he held a caracy at Cheshunt, and from thence he was appointed minister of Camden Chapel, Camberwell, in which be 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 tart 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) he pre sides, has his especial attention. The Rev. H. Melvin is brother-in-law to H. Kemple, 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, Mes,..rs. 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 GOO tons, which sailed hence for Bom bay on Thursday week, has taken out one of the largest cargoes of manufactured 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. Eckersley, publican, Thurlow-street, broke open a box. and stule £5l 85. in cash, a silver watch and guard, with gold key. CHARGE OF RAPE.—On Thursday the evidence against John Reynolds, a journeyman printer at the Liverpool Mail office, on a charge of rape, was heard before Messrs. Rushton and Hornhy, magistrates, in a private room. The complainant was Anne Palmer who reached her fifteenth year on the 27th of last month. Mr. Rush ton committed the prisoner for trial for the assault with intent. THEATRE ROYAL.—We understani that the negocia 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 the 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. He went into Copperas-bill to inquire for lodgings, and in a publc-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 balf-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 AT MANCHESTER. On Wednesday a respectable looking man, named Charles Knight, brother of Mr. James Knight, accountant, Pall Mall, Manchester, was brought up at the Burough Court, in that town, charged with forging his brother's name to two checks, amounting together to the sum of £285 ; and also with having, on Tuesday last, married a woman named Mary Ann Wardle, lately a servant at the Globe Medloch-street, Chorlton, he having at the time another wi'e living. Mr. Richard Beswick, chief superintendent •of police. stated that on Monday morning, about ten o'clock, the prisoner went to the bank of Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co. King-street, and presented a check signed "James Knight," I r £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 M'Mullen was sent to Liverpool in 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. M'Mullen immediately arrested him, when a scuffle en sued, and the prisoner threatened to throw M Mullen overboard. M'Mullen, however, succeeded in getting him into a small boat..and while in that, on their way to the shore, the prisoner was vi lent, and said that M'Mul len must either swim for his life or be drowned. With some difficulty he was got ashore and brought to Man.. cheater. On searching hint £5l ls.'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 Alin Wardle, and on her was ound upwards of £4O. 17s. 6d. of which was part of the money paid in discounting a forged cheque presented at the same batik on the previous Thursday. for: the sum of £l5O. This woman had been taken into custody as an accomplice, but he (Mr. Beswick) 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 tit. Mary's Church, Manchester, arid that he h a d a wife and child living at the time. A gold watch and guard, value about £2O, were found on the prisoner, and altoge , her he accounted for about £260, of which some of the items were for bride's cakes, dresses, &c. £5O for furnishing a house. The whole sum he had expended and for which he accounted was £l6B Bs., and the money found on him and the female amounted to £9l I9s. 4d. When taken to the Town Hall lockups he said after the usual caution, that he forged the two cheques, and gave an account of the manner in which he had spent •he money. Mr. Markland was then sworn, arid deposed to having, on Monday last. discounted the cheque produced for £135. He also stated that he had discounted a cheque on the previous Thursday fir the sum 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 deposit ions were then ordered to he taken Mr. Beswick then stated that there was R further charge of higatoy against the prisoner. and Mr. Knight, the pri soner's brother, was questioned as to his tit st marriage. He believed that he had been married about nine years ago, but be was not present himself at the marriage, nor did he know where or when it had taken place.—Prisoner (to his beadle') : Do you know how old I was when I was metaled ? Mr. Knight : I do not.—Prisoner : Do you know th , tt I was under age when I was married, and that the license was obtained without consent of parents 1 — Mr. Mande (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 brought up on Thursday, at the Manchester Borough Court, when his mar , iage with a female of the name of Easton (still living), snout nine years ago, at St. John's Church, Manchester, was clearly proved. _ Maria Wardle said she was married to the prisoner on Tuesday morning, at St. Mary's Church, Manchester. She did not know that his wife was living ; he represented himself to her as a single man. He was committed for trial at the assizes. The Birkenhead Commissioners met on Tuesday last, but 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. Mai-finis have been paced to his possession. We understand the trial is fixed for to-day. IMPORTANT TO SOLICITORS.—It may be of some in terest to the legal proiession to he informed that an amended scale of costs, approved by the lord 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 EIOUSEKEEPERS.—A man and woman are at present going round the town and off,r ing prices higher than can generally be 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 hand.. Both then leave the house u n der 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 nor woman is ever heard of again. PETITIONTNO.—In the House of Lords on Thursday. Lord Brougham stated that lie 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, tint he could state as a feet, that there was a petition to the other houve against the Factory Bill, the lop of which was cut off and replaced by a petition against the corn laws; and this way done by the contrivance of the .Anti-Corn-Lazo League. SHIPS' WINDLASSE.—Before his Honour the Vice- Chancellor of England, 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 mannfacturing and fitting ships' windlasses on the Tyzack,prine principle D of ob a in pa so tzt a p n is c es , s ). e , d w br io tl a ie re pl e a x in te t n iff s s iv , e M m e a ss n r u s . . lecturers at North Shields. His Honour minutely ex amined the models produced. and having heard the allegations of Mr. Chandless, expressed himself satisfied of the pit acy, and made an order for the injunction as prayed.—Newcastle Journal. COURAGEOUS ACT.—On Saturday a young boy, seven or OVA years of age, 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 elapsed before the life-buoys could he brought to the spot, when the youth was too far spent to avail himself of them. Immedidtely this generous sailor per ceived the exhausted state of the hoy 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 IIEADERS.—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 readers 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 mon's, All Saints, and Christ Church. There will he 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. TESTIMONTAL.—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-live inch oblong silver waiter, and two le,•ser ones to suit, a pair of massive and elegant candelabras, 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. CAUT/ON TO PAVVNIMUKERS." — On 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.-011 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 io 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 captain and crew, with the ex ception of one man, were saved. Friday, Willi am B arr y f rom B o l ton, was charged b y A FAMILY OF BloAailsrs.—At th e P o li ce - cour t , on Sarah Taylor, a good looking young woman, with having torn her cap and crushed her bonnet. The prisoner, in d his defence, sa id th a t th e comp l a i nant had h. .1- d:hil. dren by him, an d was constantly annoying hi m . She had come to this town as a witness on a bigamy case Oc'w pending at the assizes, and her brotherap dsister bad b ot h mr. been guilty of th e same offence. Rushton asked what was known of the prisoner, and w had not long ago l e f t K irk dale gaol, where told that he ed impri sonment for bigamy, a n d that the prisoner's wife was to b e t r i e d at the present as-,* a7. .ie had suffer offence. The p r i soner had married wife two h us b ands. Mr. Rushte two wives, and hit marriages a n d intermarriages • tzes for the same .an through the whole to beia3Pri sQue d . family. He or d ered the prison ' ,n said it seemed the, .er to pay 9s. and costs, or HEALTH OF THE TOWN.—Dr. Lyon Playfa:r fo..ived in Liverpool last week, for the purpose corotneocw ! unit inquiries into the causes of the high ra,,e of nom , ~iy in Liverpool. He has already st nt to numen•us parties lists of questions which he wishes to have answeretf. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.--tlannali Watson, who had been placed in Bridewell on the preceding evehihg, in a state of intoxication, appeared before the magistrates on Friday. A scream was beard to issue frciss the place where she vas, and on entering, the prisoner was, disco vered attempting to strangle her-ell wi! , • garter., She was ordered to be discharged. INQUEST.--An inquest was held ye-t 'tefore Mr Curry, on view of the body of Hem y Nloo aged 26 years. It appeared that the r d was at work, on Friday week last, on a vessel in the Canning Graving Dock, on a stage with same othei . tie sad oc casion to go from one part of the stage ts, .aother, 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 .)eel of it slipped in the dock and fell, and he fell along with it against the side of the dock. Deceased tell untie , the pole, which struck him on the head ; and lie after.vards fell down to the bottom of the dock, where he was taken up insensi ble, and bleeding from both ears. Flt, was conveyed to the Southern Hospital, where he died on the Friths), fol lowing, from the injuries he had received in the head and elsewhere.—Verdict, " Accidental death." CASE OF STABBING.—A.I adjourned Ease, in .tit a well•dressed young man named" Williams. was charged with cutting and stabbing a roan of the same name, was Yesterday disposed in the l'uliee Court. It appeared (as stated in our last), that the prisoner had on Sunday night, the 13th instant, stabbed with a el sr, knife, and sevt.rely injured his namesake, without. it is s dd any pr,ivneation. Some further evidence was yesterday limught forwaru, to the effect that he had knocked off Williams's hat, and afterwards stabbed him. The sur:.eun who had attended the wounded man, said that be had t .end four incised wounds ; and that the patient had suffered much hum effusion of blood, but was not in a dangerous state. The prisoner declined to say anything in hi , detente. and was committed for trial at the present, assizes—the winesses being bound over in £lOO each. The prisi , m-r hail before stated, in his defence, that the man had that attacked him. STEALING CORN FROM A WAREHOUSE..—An Old man. named Peter Duffy. was: ve•terdaJ etoirged at the Police court with breaking into a warehouse, and stealing a quantity of wheat. John Wain% right, a cooper. stated that he was in the service of his father, who let off 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 repldced. He gave information, and the police-otlicer Eaton re mained on the look out, and about one o'clock saw the prisoner leave the wareh,use with a small hag, and stopped him. The bag contained wheat, and s ome of th e sauce kind of grain was also t, Mr' in hi; hat and pockets —in all about 15th. It was lon 'l,lt the lock had been in the interim a second time 1, d, and a chisel utts found whiCh Corresponded s ith the marks on the wood work. The wheat belonged to Mr. Wm. Lowe, corn merchant, and 'about dime bushels, of a quantity similar to `that found on the prisoner, were missing. tle was committed for trial. Goon FonTutae.—Many of our readers will, probably, recollect the following paragraph which ap t . turd in toe local papers a short time back :--- -. GOOD NEWS FOR SUMS BODY.—It may be important to some worthy faniiiy in Ireland, to learn that Mr. Michaei Rice, an Irishman, aged fifty or sixty, lately died in his city, worth BJ,OOO &liars. He 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 vor."—(Pi ladelphia Co. i espoodent of the Morning Chroaiele.)—Vte hi.v • since ascertained that Mr. Forsyth, one of the biidewell keepers at the south dock station, in this town, happened to take home one of the papers in which this paragraph appeared ; arid that his wife, on reading the news, saw the iodination, and felt no doubt that the gen'leman named was tar brother. As soon as the disco, ery was elide, torsos were at once adopted for obtaining posession of the property. A mer chant in this town has taken the matter in hand, and no doubt the heir-at-law will soon be in possession of the effects of her deceast d brother. LECTURES AT THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.-011 Tuest.ary last Dr. Brett detivered his third lecture "on Heat and Combustion," commencing with some observa tions (in c.intinuation) on latent heat,—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 spirits of wine, became solid. Ether passed rapidly into vapour, and was, therefore, me dically applied to produce a sensation of cold. 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 vaporization in reducing the temperature. When a vapour became liquid considerable heat was evolved. Thus, 1 lb. of steam, atv temperature of 212 degrees, would pass into 8 lb. of water of a heat of 87 degrees. lie then explained the principles of ebulition in vacuo, the 'toiling 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, and the latent heat of steam increased at low, and decreased at hig:i, trinpera tures. He next al uded to tho analogy between gasses and vapours; the luau faction of tae former; their law of diffu sion, which was in proportion to their relative lightness, &c., illustrating this branch of the subject by some expe ri-nents. Professiond men differed in opinion as to the laws of heat; some assuming that it had material pro perties; others that it had not, but depended.on the mo tion of matter, and others that, like light, it was produced by the undulation of a suhtile ether,—to whi c h l as t v i ew . . . . of the subject he was himself favou'ratde.With - Thishe concluded the subject of heat, ar.d should, in his next lec ture, proceed to consider the laws of combustion.—On Friday evening Dr. Brett ably commenced the second lee- tore Of hes subject—" Combustion." some of the early opinions civet-tamed on which were remarkable, not to say ridiculous theories. S, me chemists in former times thought that combustion was pro laced by particles being thrown into a state of vibrat on or agitation, and that in conse quence light and heat iv , re developed. It was sup posed by others, tl,at v. hen a substance—such, for instaner, as metal—Lec ane in .a state of combustion, it parted with some principle or element constituting, in its new l orm, light and heat'. But it was found, on the contrary, that such substances, in place of losing weight by the action of conabastiol, actually gained an aceebbi.in of it. Others, therefore, su p , ose d t h at t h e metal imbibed a certain p r i nc i p l e o f the atmosphere; and this was in reality a shadoowin g forth of the fact, as had been proved by the experiments of Boyle, who found that as the atmosphere decreased from a vessel in whirl. com bustion was going on, the burning or combustion propor tionately decreased and finally ceased. A remarkable theory was entertained by a foreign chemistO(Stabl), who supposed that combustible matter consisted of a cubstauce of a phosphoric nature, called phlogiston. TL.is, when phosphorus was burnt, it left a body supposed to be de-- prived of its phlogiston. It might have been supposed, from what had been discovered by Hook, that this theory wou.d not have held its ground, which, however, it did fur a long time. It was found tnat substances burnt brighter in oxygen than Mother mediums; anti this prin ciple existed not only in the avnosphere, 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, o light 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, oxygen was its chief supporter, but it did not follow that in all cases a development of heat arid light should be dependent on the presence of oxygen. Ile showed by experiment that a taper put into a jar of oxygen gas burned much brighter, and that when immersed in nitrogen it was extinguished. Combustion might be very slow, in flammable substances such as phosphorus, when exposed to the atmospheric air. whilst the chemical change of spirits 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, us regarded combustion when exposed to oxxygen, was to be found in phosphorus. This be showed by heating a piece of charcoal to a dull red heat at a lamp. When put into a jar of oxygen it burned much more brightly but a small piece of phosphorus plunged into the same jar produced combustion so perfect that it filled the jar with light so intense that on its being extia guisliedrthe theatre appeared fora 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, int'o 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 haying so much energy in this gas as to cause combustion. If a portion of sulphur and copper, in a luminated 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 extremity, which 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, but merely underwent a chemical change. On the subject of flame he stated that all substances that emitted it combined in them more or less of hydrogen. Common coal contained carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and generally a small quantity of sulphur. He explained its combustion in a common 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 qualities of burning. The le9- S e p x i p r l i a ts in o e f d w a i s n r e e a p n r d d e s t t h h e e r ir, Naptha and eamphor were also of flame" t c u o r n e c r i , u in his nest lecture. wsihono7thaas t f h tais b e o n u t i l d y r l e o s u u d ni ly e a t p h p e la s u u d b obs erved, j e e t t. in So alarmed have the Durham supporters and the Anti- Corn-Law League become at the petition recently pre sented against Mr. Bright's return, that by way of fright ening the petitioners out of its prosecution, they have caused Lord Dungannon's agents at the election prece ding the last to be served with writs to recover penalties for the bribery then practised. They will, however, be disappointed, as the petitioners nave not the smallest connection with those agents.