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Imperial Parliament. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. Lord BROUGHAM stated that it was not his intention to press the beer bill he had introduced to a second reading this • session, as there was no chance of it passing this session. He still remained of the same opinion as when he introduced the ninsure, and be ; .;:ave this Dui iCe of his intention to re new the bill next session, is order that persons might be prevented from embal . king more capital in such undertakings. CANADA G OVERNMLINT BILL. "'Lord BROCGIiAM said that it now became his duty, from what took ph.ce on •Friday, to move the third reading of the Canada indemnity bill.. lie hail some little doubt as to ex tending it to civil actions; but, nevertheless, he would move its thit4l reinn. The Duke of I.,VaLtANGTON satriorted the third reading of the bill. Lord Dartarata opfitUd.tle bill, considering that it would be against common justice if tt.e bill was allowed to .pass. At the same turn he trinat. confess, that the powers that had been exercised tie Lord Durham in issuing the o rdinances he had done. far exceeded the powers liven. lie entirely acquitted Lord Durham °lan improper intention; he thought he was doing that whie h would be fee the best, but he bad. exceed all law and justice. With respect to sending these persons to Bermuda, he would not say that the noble earl was justified or net until he had read all the acts upon the subject. lie thought a bill of indemnity a most unconstitu• tianal proceeding. If the government or parliament thought their office justifie&by his intentioos or results, let them in demnify him out of the public purse ; but let them nut pre vent the injured patty from seeking redress. (Hear, hear.) Lord BitonGliam felt the force of what had fallen from his noble and learned friend, coining,. as it did, from the first authority in the country. At the same time, his noble and learned friend. would forgive him (Lord Brougham) it he submitted one or two observations, which would blunt the edge of his remark on the course of proceeding. His noble and learned friend's first objection was, that he eould , not,tell but that the governor might have th e paweror;eidingconviets there. He bad not the ; pawer of sending those nine men who had not been tried, and were therefore not convicts. He was staggered by what had fallen front his uuble and learned friend respecting the indemnity, and by so doing declaring the acts and ordinances illy-cal in the absence of the parties; hut he did not care a I,out that declaration so long as at the time they granted and gave a full indemni.y from all penal ties, both civil and crinlinal. His noble and learned friend had said that so far as it was criminal there was no necessity, because the crown need not prosecute, or could at any time enter aml pros. But that would not cave the governor and council from an inipeacimieut. He agreed with his noble. and learned friend with regard to the taking away of the rifht of civil action ; but it was not the first instance of the kmd, unfortunately, he acknowledged, for the precedent had been set before. After a few observations from the Duke Of Wellington, Lord -Denman and Lord Brougham, the bill was read a thi rd time and passed. On the motion of the Earl of SIIAFTESBURY, a message was sent to the House of Commons, to request a conference on the subject of their amendments to the benefices plurali ties bill. OATHS VALIDITY BILL. On the motion of• Lord DIINMAN, the Commons' amend• meets to this bill were agreed to. t,everal bills upon the table having been forwarded a stage ; the lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. 1.000 BYEnN. Mr. LEADER presented a petition from Col. Leicester StanhOpe, complainine• that a statue of Lord Byron, which had been subscribed for by several persons of distinction, had not been erected in Westminster Abbey, in consequence of the refusal of the dean to allow it to be pieced these. The petitioner prayed the house to adopt some steps on the sub ject. Among those who had subscribed to the statue were Sir Francis Burdett, Lord Denman, the Marquis of Sligo, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Lord Ashburton. The prayer of the petition was, that the house would t ake such steps as would insure the reception of the statue into a public edifice as Westminster Abbey undoubtedly was. JUVENILE OFFENDERS. In answer to a question from Sir E. Wi!mot, Lord J Russr:r.t. said he should next session bring in a bill regardiial the treatment of juvenie offenders. (Hear.) TITHE. BILL. On the motion of Lord Jo Itt7.ssELL, the order of the day. for the consideration of the ainendments was read. The amendments were considered and severally agreed to or dissented from, without opposition or difference of opinion on' either side of the linuie. When the whole of them had been dispaSed of, Lord J. Russell said, that as an impression had very generally prevaikd that the ►ords had introduced atheudments to alter tha conditions on which the grant of money but been made by the commons for the extinction of the arrear of tithes, he felt bound to state that upon a care ful revision of the bill as it had .been•retuined from the upper he could discover no amendment writeh would have such au effi:ict: (Hear, hear.) •Lord STANIAY observed that an amendment had certainly been contemplated by the lords, the effect of which would in some - respects have been to alter the condition on which the grant •bbls mute; hat their lordships, thiuking that such an anleadrueut might interfere with the privileges of the house of commons, - and mi ht otherwise be objectionable, deter mined to withdraw it. (Hear, hear ) The Catiada Indemnity Dill having been brought up from the other house, Lord JonN Itussti.L, with a viers not to lengthen the session, already so teellously protracted, moved the suspension the, standing order, and the [rill eras read a first and second iiirilship explained- that he meant to propose the committal to-n,nrrow, as it would teen be printed, and the discussion might be taken upon the gnestion that the Speaker leave the chair. Mr. Lb:111)En was anxious to know whether the noble lord meant to propose - any amendments, to which it was very naturally, replied that this was not the stage for considering and deciding that point, Lord STANLE / goaltre4 himself against the Supposition. that he ap ? roved of the measure because he agreed to the second as well as to the lit st reading for the sake of public conveuVnce. Lord J j r RUSSEI.I. added, that he should to-morrnw ad diess hiniself to the various questions raised by the bilt . ;:and, after a few interro,m!ortes to the nature and amount of inforniation received by the colonial office, itud asl.o the fit ness of laying it upon the table, the whole subject was poet yned. ordi. llussEtt proposed that the consideration of the lord+ amendments to tae Registration of Electors Bill be postponed till to-morro , .v.—Agreed to. /10USE. O t. ROYAL ASSENT. At four o'clock the Lard CHANCELLOR, the Marquis of LAN spowNE, ana the Earl of SHA vrEsutty gave the royal assent, b) commission, to the Exchequer hilts bill, Exche quer (public works) bill, four-and-a-half per centuin bill, transfer of funds ( War-office) bill, Duchy of Cornwall and Lancaster bill, slave trade treaties bill, corporate pro perty (Ireland) bill, coal trade (N 0.2.) bill, the pension bill, the benefice pluralities bill, the militia pay bill, the militia ballot suspension hill. the judges' jurisdiction bill, the oaths' validity hill, the mails on railways bill, the Mediterranean mails bill, the joint "sfpck banks bill, the county of Clare treasurer bill, and tl . e patent sugar duties bill. The private bill deposits bill passed through a committee without amendments. The valuation elands (Ireland) bill was read a third time and passed. Upon the motion of Lord Biroccnam, the bill for omit ting the obligation upon newspapers for receiving advertise ments of whatever length at a fixed price, from the "schedules of debtors was read a second time. The standing orders No. 26 and 155 were suspended upon this occasion. Lord Brougtorn said he, should not have asked their lordships to' this hasty legislation if be had, not been persuaded that their lordships would a g ree to it on account of its necessity, to prevent hardship and injustice. The bill was eventually passed. Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from Glasgow complaining of " the stateof the foreign trade of this country," which led to long and interesting discussion. On toe "trading companies'" bill being moved, Lord BROUGHAM resisted it, and proposed that it be read a third time that day three months, a p ropos i t i on th a t, on a di vision, was carried ; thu bill is consequently lost. —Ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsnAv. On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, the lords' amendments . to the ecclesiastical appointments suspensi on bill were read, and, it was understood, agreed to, There were conferences with the lords on the subject of the sheriffs' court (Scotlan d ) bill and the imprisonment for debt bill. Lord J. ,RLI SS ELt„ in moving that the hause resolve into comm i t t e e on the Canada indemnity hill, entered let., a longill, argument to show th at the act under tobieti Lord Durhamwas appointed di d g ive severe and arbitrary Dowers and au thority, if there were a necessity for suspending the laws; and in proof there of he quoted the. langua ge use d b y h i mself, Lord Glenelg. &c., and • appealed to , the protesth of lords against the bill, on the gr ound of its arbitrary and unconstitu tional character. Lord STANLEY • and Sir V. FoLLETT decl are d t h at they neither contemplated the granting of such power, nor ad mitted that it was graiated-;• a nd contended that Lord Dur ham's uncoustitution.4l exercise of power exceeded any thi ng they had ever witnessed or beard of. The bill was further discussed, Mr. LEA DER, the ATTORNEY GENE:tA L, &e,, taking part in the discussion ; but there w as no opposition to the " indemnity" given by the bill.—Ad_ journed. . _.........--- HOUSE OF LORDS. —WEDNESDAY The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Earl of Albemarle, took their sea ts at tour o'cl ock, us Lords Commissioners. to c . ive the Riival Assent to the following ('huieh - Digriities A poiutinent Suspe.nsien B AO ill, the Tithes (Ireland) Bill, and the Church Bung Amendment Bill Mr Bennet, and other members of the House of Coms twins, brought up the Imprisonment for D ebts Bill, with an intimation that the House of Commons would not insist on their objections to the amendments made by their lordshiPs• The same hon. members also brought a message r e q uesting epriterence on the subject of the Court of Session (Scot-. land) Bill, :Ind the conference having been agreed to, the following noble lords left the house to attend it—the Earl of Shaftesbury, the . Earl of Abingdon, the Earl of Ili:nester, Viße , unt. Hawarden, the BisMip of Hereford, Lord Rayleigh. and' Lord ShlYord. On the return or the manaiyers of the conference, The Earl of StiAFTESnuirY reported that the Commons agreed to all their lordships' amenduienti except one. And the noble earl moved their l'ordships not to insist du that amendrnent,, which motion was carried. The'Attorney-General appeared at the•bar with a message from thet Cpmmons, praying a conference on the subject of the - Reottration of Electors Bill. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY the confer ence was agreed to, and the same noble lords who managed the former conference were appointed to conduct this con ference. On their return. • The E:rrl ot SHAFTESBUIZY reported that the Commons had left the bill with the reasons for disagreeing with the L.ords' amendments in the bill. Viscount MELBOURNE moved their lordships to agree to the C,rninowe reasons. Lord LtrN DHt•t,ST oppoied the motion, and insisted on the former amendments. [Left sitting.) HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WRDNESDAY. Th- Speaker entered the house shortly before four o'clock, when Sir it.iutustus .(itirTord, the Gentleman Usher of the B 141.4: stkiiiinrinfOrthe. - noti,e to art.n - TV tiqvcrat, of I.oTas, to :rear t h e 1; o . )11 Assent liven . I , y eitimis6;,,n to several (For ~ VlilCll See Lords' report.) On the motion•of Mr. E. J. SrANLEY, a new writ was or dered ff , r the borough of Great Yarmouth, in the room of W. Wilshere, Esq., who, since his election, has accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. • Mr. - Coopeß, of the Treasury, presented papers. Mr. Th om pson, of the India House, presented ret urns or dered of certain correiTionctenee on the subject of slavery. On the • motion of Captain ALSAGEII, the St. Saviour's (Southwark.) Gramutar School bill was read a third time and passed. Petitions for the abolition of tithes in Ireland were pre sented hy, Mr. AGLIONBY and Mr. J. Jaavis. On the motion of Mr. AGLIONBY, a return in detail was ordered of the expenses of the commissioners in Ireland on the. subject of railways. Mr. LABOCCHERE presented a petition from Taunton against any alteration of the Beer Act. colonel SIBTHORP said, that seeing the noble lord the Se.' cretary for the Home Department, he wished to ask him whe ther it was a fact that additional troops had been ordered to Lower Canada, and were now actually on their way from Halifax? He putthis question, because the noble lord at the head of the government, in another place, had stated, that no additional troops had been required. Lord Jottri RUssron said, that troops had been ordered from Nova Scotia to Lower Canada at the request of the Go vernor-General. On the motion of Colonel SinTitoer, a return was ordered of the expenses incurred by the Commisssouers of Woods and Forests in cutting through bills and other improvements on the Holyhead line of road. On the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, the Lords' amendments on the Personal Deligence (Scotland) Bill were agreed to. On the motion of Mr. LEFEVRE, the report on the Standing Orders Revision Committee was, after several verbal amend ments, agreed to. Oa the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, the Lords' amendments to the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill were agreed to. Lord J. RUSSELL moved the order of the day fur the third reading of the Canada Indeninit) Bill. Lord ASHLEY took that opportunity of asking the noble lord whether he proposed to make an additional remuneration to the of factories ?• Lord J. RUSSELL was not at present prepared to answer the question. Mr. LEA DER begged to offer a few explanations in conse quence of what had appeared in sonic of the morning papers, in reference to last night's debate. The hon. member for Lam beth had charged him (Mr. Leader) with breach of confidence towards Mr. C. Buller. Now the breach of confidence was committed by the person who sent Mr. Buller's letter for publication in the Morning Chronicle, and finding it there, he (Mr. Leader) considered himself pisrfectly at liberty to refer to it in the absence of any official information. He (Mr. Leader) also begged to deny that he had said (as reported) that Mr. Buller had been in constant communication with Mr. Thorn, the blood -thirsty editor, for such he must call him, of the Montreal Gazette. Neither had he called the acts of Lord Durham cruel and unjust; but he certainty hail applied those epithets to his illegal ordinances. Having said this, he begged to ask the intention of the noble lord with respect to the 2.3 prescribed men, the eight sent to Bermuda, and the 15 sentenced to death it' ever they returned to the province. It would he impossible to try them by a jury, and he there fore thouebt it would be better to leave them unmolested. Mr. ii A wEs, in explanation, said he lotted but one opinion entertaine4 by.the-Caesdian merchants in London, and that was in favour of Lord Durham's policy. Lord J. Russess said that the allusion made by the hon. member -for Westminster to the newspaper reports were whollY irregular, anti he should not answer those allusions. With respect to the que,dion put. by the hon. member as to the twenty-three men, he (Lord J. Russell) must 'terrain from giving any answer to it: • .The ATTORNEY-GENERAL expressed his conviction of the accuracy of the reports of last night's debate. The order of the day having been read, and on the question that the bill be now read a third time, Dr. LCSHINGTON said that if this bill depended en his vote it would never pass into law. Even after the able argu ments of the hon. and learned member for Exeter, (Sir W. Follett,) he doubted whether the ordinances of Lord-Durham were in violation off he law. But if be did doubt he must still object to this bill -of indemnity. On the whole, he strongly defended the course pursued by Lord Durham. especially when such doubts existed on the point even amongst lawyers, both in this and the other house of parlia ment. He was sure he would rise superior to the attack of 'his enemies, and that he would succeed in giving the colony over which he presided that peace and trauquilltty which all good subjects must desire. -. Mr. A. SANDFORD said, that as there was not likely to be a divisors to this bill, he felt called on in terms, to express his entire dissent to this bill, relying as he did upon the opi nionsstated to this house by the law officers of the crowd. He felt bound to give the' measure his firmest and strongest reprobation. - Lord EBRINGTON knowing as he had the honour to do the Earl of Durham, he felt great pain in giving, as be felt bound to do his support to this bill. He regretted this subject had everbeen brought forward, still, as it bad been subtuitted to the house, he shared with his noble friend below Lim (Lord J. Russell) the responsibility of the course he had taken. He thought it would add to the embarrassment of Lord Dur ham if a division took place, and showed a difference of opi nion amongst those who wished well to that noble lord. (Hear.) Sir E. CODRINGTON so strongly objected to the measure that if any hon. member would move its rejection he would second the motion. Lord J. Russr.t.t. begged the hon. and gallant admiral not to seek for a division, after the opinion declared by the Attorney-General that parts of the 'irdinance were contrary to law. , It would be worse, therefore, to Lord Durham to re ject the bill than if it were passed. At the same time, be (Lor a l .1. Russell) lamented the agitation of the question in the absence of information of the grounds on which Lord Durham had acted. He thought the introduction of the bill was a premature declaration of the legislature upon it; but, being here, he hoped the house would allow the bill to pass a silence. • ' Mr. AntioNay deprecated the bill. Sir G. GREY defended- the conduct of Lord Durham. [Left sitting.l THE AMERICAN MISTER & MR O'CONNELL, 29, Portland-place, Aug. 9. Sir,—My attention has been called to the publication in the last Spectator of a speech which purports to have been delivered by you at a public meeting in Birmingham, in which you are reported to have used the follosiing language in rela tion to myself " I believe their very ambassador here is a slave-breeder one of those beings who rear up Slaves - for the purpose of traffic. Is it possible that America would send here a man wit() trafficks in blood, and who is a disgrace to hiiman na ture ?" I desire to know•from you whether this is a correct report of what you said on that occasion, and with that view address to you this romitunication. I am, Sir, vt respectfully, your obedient servant, A. STEVENSON. To Daniel O'Connell, Esq., &c. 16, Pall-mall, Aug. 10. Sir,—ln consequence of your letter of yesterday's date, I examined•the" report of my speech at Birmingham in the Spectator of the-4th init., and iro.ve no hesittion In saying that the oaragraph you have selected is not a correct report of what I said on that occasion. The very next' 'sentence does, to my mind, show that the report could not be cortect, and having examined another report since, as welt as from distinct recollection, I repeat the report is not correct. I have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient servant, DANIEL O'CONNELL. A Stevenson, Esq., &c. 23, Portland-place, August 11, 1838. Sir,--I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of last evening in answer to the one from myself of the preceding day. Presuming that you intended your reply as a disavowal of the offensive expressions contained in that part of your re ported speech which had allusion to myself, and to which your attention was called, I am satisfied with the answer you have given. As an incorrect report of your speech has been made pub lic through the press, 1 beg to inform you that I deem it due to myself that the correspondence which has taken place should also he published. 1 am, Sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. STEVENSON. To D. O'Connell, Esq., &c. EXPLOSION - ON BOARD THE VICTORIA STEAM SHIP.—ADJOURNED INQUEST. On Tuesday the inquest on the unfortunate person who perished by the explosion on board the Victoria steamer was resumed for the llth time, and at length brought to a conclu sion. The principal witness examined was John Cardno , the only surviving engineer. We regret that we are unable, in consequence of the crowded state of our columns, to give his evidence. The investigation, which we believe to be of un paralleled length, having been concluded, the jury retired at twelve o'clock to consider their verdict, and at half-past one o'clock the Coroner was informed that they had agreed, and the court having been re-opened, the Coroner asked if the 'gentlemen were prepared to deliver their verdict ? Mr. P. Mellish,. the foreman, rose and said that he wa t never placed in a more difficult situation than he was tha n night. He had to contend with difficulties he never had t f contend with before. He had now to declare the opinions od the jury. He believed he spoke their feelings when he sat that they never saw a steamer ft: ted up with greater splendou" and taste than the Victoria, or with greater attention to th convenience of the passengers. He must however say, and h was delivering the unanimous opinion of' the jury, that. the never saw a vessel in the river fitted up with so l ittle re g ard to the comfort of the engineers and stokers who worked the engines, and in the place wherethey were employed : in facts it was a perfect pandemonium, at least such was his, opiniou• He never saw a place which_ realised his ideas of pandemo nium so much before._ The Jury--It is our opinion generally it is not a fit place for the engineers and stokers. The Foreman continued.-1 will now deliver the verdict of the jury. They consider that the death of Andrew Brown was accidently occasioned by the explosion of the boiler on board the Victoria steam-vessel, on the 14th of June last. The jury consider that the construction of the boilers was unsafe, the water spaces too small, and the plates too thin. The jury further consider,sthat the engineers having no immediate con trol over the safety-valve in the engine-room is highly repre hensible, and the jury levy a deodand of 1:1500 upon the huller and steam-engine of the Victoria. The Coroner said he should require the attendance of the witnesses and jury on the other eight cases on Thursday next. Ile wa s muc h o bl ige d t o them for the attention they had paid durin g the n o protractedexpress anyinciu l o r i y ,i , n b to u n t . w it h respect to the verdict, he should The court was adjourned. THE FIRE or THEGUEBRES.— I rode to the peninsula o Afsharon, to see the everlasting fire; about which I was the more curious, as Olearius—who, however, did not see it him self—asserts, th a t t h e worsh i p o f t h e G ue b r es n o longer ex• fisted, and the relation in Hallway is not taken front an eye witness. About five or six miles from the sources of naphtha (that is, from the principal sources for there is a well of white naphtha much nearer), there ' is a spot of ground, of pretty considerable extent, of such a nature that, if a hole i s dog in it, or the first coat of earth removed; and fire ap p!ied, the vapour which issues forth burns with great inten sity, and continues to do so till it is extinguished by some violent storm. The heat is sufficient to calcine limestone, and the peasants accordinuly horn their lime in no other manner About the centre of this spot is a large quadra.n gidar boilding'of stone, built round a court, in the centre of i s a perforated tumulus, from the top of w hi c h bl azes nwhiptchhe everlasting, fire, surrounded by fires of the same na ttre The building is divided into cells , each with a sepa rax entrance, designed fur the accommodation of the wor shippers; on each door was a tablet with an inscription, in characters of which I am ignorant ; one of them seemed to have a translation, of which the characters were Periian; but the language was neither Persian, Arabic, nor Turkish, and, therefore, ulost probably, modern Hindostanee. I vrent into one of the cells, which was inhabited ; a small platform of earth was raised on each side, perforated, and a tube in troduced; one of these is always kept burning, according to the direction of the wind. The first Zerdusht forbad to raise temples or enclose the sacred fire, asserting it to be impious to confine the image of the deity; but the second raised altars and temples. I asked the inhabitant of the cell what was his country? He said he was a 'Undo° (I presume a I , kkesea, Credal. til. frontiers of India), and that the I.itiii,ling._ Vl4, erected entirely at the ettreuse nt the. IA .rielocsa. '"lt'aekea fur what purpose he came thither. He replied, without hesi tation, " To worship that fire;" and said, that persons were sent from India to relieve each other in the employment of tending the. everlasting flame, and that he and his corn panicop were then waiting to b: relieved. I observed a'great pile or' fuel, for they esteem the other fire too pure for culi nary purposes. The quadrangle contains a well of fresh water. If the vapour which issues from the eath is collected in bladders and carried to a distance, it remains equally in flammable, and, from its burning with a red flame, I conclude it to be carbonated hvdtogen gas: now, though . carbon and hydrogen are contained in naptha, I know of no way in which naptha could be decomposed in such a manner as to set the gas free. The sources are at some distance ; the soil is not bituminous, but calcareous ; and the only smell is a faint odour of ilarro%vgate water, which shows the presence of a small quantity of suiphurated hydrogen, blended with the . carbonated. Ido not believe the naphtha to be an agent in - producing the phenomenon,—Remains of Viscount Royston. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MONEY MARKET. WEDNESDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.--'Sorne purchases of Con sols yesterday for the Court of Chancery had the effect to improve the market, which closed firm at 941- for Money, for Account the same. Consuls opened this morning. at 94i Money, 941 for Account. Exchequer Bills, 75 77 pm. ; India Bonds, 76 78; Bank Stock, 208 to ; India Stock, 265 4. In the Foreign market yesterday afternoon, rather more business was doing, and an improvement took place in some of the foreign securities. B r azilian, advanced from• 82 to I to 83-1-, opened at 824 n • Spanish 21i %; Portu guese, 461 ; Three per Cents. 2.31 24; Mexican, 24 4 25,1- ; Colombian 26% 271 ; Belgian 1014 1021; Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. 541 ; Five per Cents. 1021 103. HALF-PAST ONE.—There is not much confidence plated in the private letter received in Paris from Amsterdam of the 10th instant, respecting the altercation between the King of Holland and the Prince of Orange. • Consols, which were firm in the rriorning at 94% for the Account, have since receded to 911; Money 94. W eunder stand that the Hebrew party have been selling in the course of the morning. Exchequer Bills 77 75, lower; India Bonds 78, steady; blank Stock, 208, lower; India Stock, 265. Spirnish Active no alteration, 211 ; Portuguese lOwer. 361; Three per Cents., 231 4; Brazilian higher, 824 34 ; Dutch steady, 5-12; Five per Cents. 10 2 4.. A little business has been doing in the Share Market. Great Western better, pm. ; Brighton 22 dis.; Green wich 31 die.; British Asphalte 1 pro. Foure o'cLock.—Consols for Aug. 28, 941 41. Spanish Bonds, 21k. Portuguese New Bonds, 36% 6. (From the official list, containing the business actually transacted.) BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock, 208% 8 India Stock, 265 3 per Ct. Red., 95 41 India Bonds, 78 pm. 3 per Ct. Con., 94 4 4 4 South Sea Stock. 3l per Ct. Anne. 1818, 102 h Bank Stock (Or Acct., 3% per Ct. Red., 1021 consols- It:r Acct., 94 New 3i per Cents., 1012 £lOOO Ex. Bills, 77 x 5 4 6 pit Long A os. 1860, 159- 16 £5OO tk. 77 . 5 6 pin Ditto, 30 yri. 1859, 151- Small do. -77 5 6 pui Ditto, 30 yr . & 1860, 15% Ditto Commercial, SHARES. . _ (The quotations give the actual price, without reference to premium or discount.) Candonga, 81 9 'London Joint Stock Company Great Western, 78 91 80 12. London and Brighton, 8i ,Asphalte, Polonceau, Southampton, 'New, 351 Northern and Eastern, Asphalte, British, Asphalte (Claridge's Patent,) British and American Steam Navigation 21% ILondon Sr Southampton, Bahia Steam, 136 iMaochester wed Birmingham, North Midland, 1 71 WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. The reports of various committees, the stations of the preaches, and applications for additional preachers, have formed the chief topics of discussion before this important body. Forty 7 two young ministers have been examined and ordained .by the present Conference. Their names are— John ABM, /Nathaniel Alston, Thomas D. Baines, William Bond, William Burnett, James Carr , D_ M. R. Coghill, Robert Cooke, John Craw haw, Nehemiah Curnock, John Eggleston, T. M. Fitzgerald, Henry Groves, Saud. Healey, Thomas Heeley, W. Hill, jun., Geo. Hobill, John HOhkirt, F. J. Jobsou Hugh Jones, John Lambert, John Rees , John Richards, John ' Russell (2(1), Nathan Rouse, John Ryan (Ist), John Ryan (2d), Henry Smallwood, E. J. Sturges, Charles Taylor. Samuel Taylor, W. B. Thornloe, Benj. B. Waddv, John Walters, Francis Ward, Samuel 11. Wardley. E. B. Warters, G. F. White, Joseph 'l'. Wilkinson, H. W. Wil hams, Charles Westlake, and Thomas Wood. The following are the stations of the preachers in Lacca shire THE LIVERPOOL DISTRICT_ Liverpool, North (Brunswi':k Chapel, 4-c.), John Ander son, sem, Wm. Hurt, Thomas Thompson; Calverley Riley supernumerary. South (Pitt-street, 4c.), Thos. H. Squance, John Nelson, Robert Young, Samuel Loxton ; James An dersen, supernumerary. 11Wsh (Benn's Garden), David Evans, Robert Jones. Chester, Ralph Scurrah, Samuel Fiddlam, W. Lindsey; Isaac Lilly, supernumerary. Holy well (English), Joseph T. Wilkinson, Henry Dean; Wm. Renshaw, supernumerary. Bangor (English) ; Robe:t Mac brair, Walter Prescott. Wrexham, Thomas Hall, Joseph Sykes; James Fussell, supernumerary. Whitchurch (Salop), Thomas Slugg, Wm. Trewin. Warrington, Benj. Clayton, James Laycock ; Wm. Jones, supernumerary. St. Helen's and Prescot, Alexander Home, Samuel Healey. Wigan, John Fairburn, Walter Coates. Ormskirk and Southport, John Newton. Preston and Charley, Benjamin F rank land, Samtiel Dawson. John Bedford. Garstany, John Rabe, Geo. Hughes. Lancaster, Joseph Lowthiau, George Green wood.—JOHN ANDF.RSON, sen., Chairman of the District; Ttiorans H. SQUANCE, Financial Secretary. THE MANCH;ISTER AND BOLTON DISTRICT. First Manchester, (Oldham-street, ei.c. ) John Rigg, John Smith, 3d, William M. Bunting; Edward Gibbons, Richard Pattison, John Thompson, supernumeraries. Second Man chester, (Irwell-street, 4-c..) F. A West, William Clough, William Wilson, 4th; John Taylor, Josiah H. Walker, supernumeraries. Third Manchester, (Grosvenor-street, 4.c.) Joseph Taylor, Richard Felvus, George Steward, Joseph Lawton, Joseph Heaton; Jonathan Barker, supernumerary. Fourth Manchester, (Bridgwater-street, 4.e..) Barnard Slater. Samuel Thompson ; William Shelmerdine, supernumerary. Altrinchant, Amos Learoyd, who shall change on one Sab bath in every three weeks, •.vith the preachers of the Fourth Manchester Circuit. Manchester, (,Gash,) Samuel Davis, who shall change on two . Sabbaths in every three months with the Welsh preachers stationed in Liverpool. Stockport, William Horton, Joseph Hargreaves, Henry Chettle. Neu' Mills, Isaac Dennison, - William Exley. Glossop, Benjamin Barrat, who shall change one Sabbath in every three weeks with the preachers at New Mills. Ashton-under-Lane , Tho mas Dunn, John Sinithsen, JaMes 'Little. Oldham, Joseph Meek, James Wilson, Martin Burrows. N. B. Brother Wilson resides at Middleton. Delph, .( Sciddleworth, ) John Hague, who shall change on one Sabbath in every five weeks with the preachers of Oldham. Bolton, Thomas Stead, Isaac Woodcock, James Brownell; William Arnett, supernumet ary. Rochdale, Samuel Tindall, Daniel Chapman, Joseph Mortimer. N. B. Brother Mortimer resides at Hey wood. Burnley, James Heaton, William Pemberton ; John Phil lips. John W, Barret, supernumeraries. Bury, William M‘Kittrick, John E. Coulson. Blackburn, James Butnstead, Thos. S. Keysell, Haslingden, Richard Sinetham, Samuel Leigh, Thomas Rodham. Bacup, Benjamin Pearce, Wil liam 0. Booth. Comae, William Level l, Samuel .Morrill; John Barratt, supernumerary. Clitheroe, Thomas Skelton, Thomas Kent. Leigh, John Squarebridge, Who shall change on one Sunday in every month with the preachers at Bolton. —JOSEPH TAYLOR, Chairman of the District; JOHN RIGG, Financial Secretary. THOMAS JACKSON LONDON DISTRICT. President of the Conference First London, (City-road 4-c.) Edmund Grindrod, Thos. Martin. William Kilk, Henry Davies, John Farrar, Fred. J. Hobson, Benjamin B. Waddy; Henry Moore, supernum erary. N.B.:The Welsh Chapel in London shall be supplied according to a plan agreed upon at the last North Wales District Meeting. George Cubitt is our Editor; George Mason, jun., is our Book Steward. Jabez Bunting, D.D., John Becham, Robt. Alder, and Elijah Hoole, are the Resident Secretaries of our Missions; Walter 0. Croggen is the superintendent, under the direction of the Missionary Committee of the Irish Missions and Schools. Dr. Bunting is appointed the President of the Wesleyan Theological In stitution; Richard Treffry, Governor of the Institution house; John Hannah, sen., the- Theological Tutor; and Samuel Jones, A. M., The Classical and Mathematical Tutor. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING. Several of the leading speculators are now at the Wolver hampton races, consequently the market has been rather of a less spirited character than the general feature. The clos ing prices:— THE WOLVERHAMPTON CUP. to 4 on Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway ctaken freely) THE WOLVERHAMPTON Sr. LEGER. 5 and 6t04 on Gilbert (taken) THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER 7to 2 against Col. Peel':; lon (t 4to 1 freely) 9to 2 „ Lord Chesterfield's Don John (t) ,00 to 10 ~ Ld. G. Bentinck's Grey Momus (t to-day) 170 to 20 „ Mr. Parkin's Lanercost (t last night) 1% to 1 „ Mr. Coombe's Cobham (off freely) 16 to 1 „ Lord ‘ . i'estminster's Albemarle (off) 16 to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Alzira (t) 200 to 13 „ Mr. Bowes's Appleton Lad (t) 200 to 4 „ Mr. Thompson's Predictor c (t) 200 to 6 „ . Mr. Thompsou's Talleyrand (t to-day) 200 to 4 „ Wee Willie (off) 200 .to 3 ~ Lord G, Bentinck's D'Egville ;iu .some instances 100 to 1 bet. • 200 to 6 „ Major Y arburgh's Easter (off) 200 to 6 „ Mr. Faitlie's The Hydra (off) TATTERSALL'S, MONDAY. ST. LEGER—The betting to-day was confined to a few horses, but was not destitute of interest. lon and Don John were at the previous week's quotations, and not much sought after. Lanercost was backed by several parties, and was a point or two better than before; Grey Momus was alto in high force in influential quarters. The odds were likewise taken rather freely about Appleton Lad, who rose a point or two; the layers, however, were neither scarce nor shy. Cob ham, although backed for a trifle at 14 to 1, was obviously out of favour: it was hinted that be is not up to the mark. The other betting does not require observation. Closiug prices:- 7 to 2 against. Colonel Peel's lon (t 4 to 1 ) 9to 2 „ Ld. Chesterfield's Don John ..(t 5 to-1) 7to 1 „ Mr..Parkins's Lanercost (t Bto 1) 10 to 1 „ Ld. G. Bentinck's Grey Momus (t freely) 12 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Appleton Lad (t) 12 to 1 „ Mr. Mr. H. Coombes's Cobham (t) 18 to • 1 „ Ld. Westminster's Albemarle (.t 20 to 1) 25 to 1 „ Mr. Thompson's Talleyrand (t) 3.3 to 1 „ Major Yarburgh's Easter (t) 40 to 1 , „ Mr. Gascoigne's Watchman (t) DERBY. 2000 even betted on the field against twelve. THE LATE GOODWOOD STAKES.—The stakes are withheld from Mr. Theobald on the objection that Loutherhourg is five years old, one year more than stated in his nomination. The matter is not yet decided. Loan SuFFIELo's Sruo.—The following horses, part of the above nobleman's racing establishment, were sold by Messrs. 'fattersaltyesterday. afternoon :—Cowboy. 4 yrs.46o guineas; Bamboo, 3 v rs. 140 ; Sphynx, y rs. 85 ; Espagnotle wills a colt foal by Glaucus, 44; Lunacy . , 50; Specie, 40; Zafra, 30; Oalopade's dam, 50; Young Pipyline, 27; a Bay Yearling Filly, by Camel out of Zafra 21 ; a Bay Yearling Filly, by Mulatto out of Lunsey, 20 ; Alan, 2 vis. 1 . 60 : Alms, •2 vrs. 29; a Filly 4 yrs. by Gustavus out of Veggy. 45 • Cal listo, 120; Georgiaua, 25; Albania, 91 ; Juliana, 54 ; 'Price • 150. The racing stud of the late Duke of Leeds will he sold a$ Doncaster, on Wednesday in the race week, by Messrs. Tattersall. STEAM-SPEEn LEGTSLATION.—Lord Brougham, last even ing in the House of Lords, drew up an act of parliament, writing the same on his knee !—the house being in a state of "darkness visible"—endorsed it, presented it, moved its first reading, gave notice of its second reading to-morrow, and a further notice for the suspension of the standing orders so as to enable its, passing its remainder stages forthwith, in the short space of five minutes ! The object of the hill is to amend that clause in the imprisonment for debt bill, which enacts tha.t.ouly.a.s.shalLbe_uasable on advertising,ipsolvent.s' ooe. iti 4...eantry nevrot:wveric Morning Herold. GLOUCESTER MUSICAL Fasrim.—The stewards of the approaching musical festival are taking every pains to render. it the most attractive meeting ever witnessed in that eitv. The very first talent in England, both vocal and instrumental. has been engaged, with a power in the orchestra hitherto un precedented in that cathedral,—perhaps the best adapted to music in the kingdom. A new plan has been devised for in creasing and improving the accommodation for refreshment at the evening concerts, by flooring over the Crown Court to a level with the galleries, and using it as a refreshment room; thus avoiding the inconvenience experienced on former occa sions of going up and down stairs, and through cold passages to the county and city grand jury rooms, which will, on this occasion, be furnished with every convenience, as cloak and and shawl rooms. The performance are to be extended to four days, and the whole will conclude with a grand fancy and full dress ball and supper, for. which Weippert's celebrated band is expressly engaged. LIVERPOOL ASSIZES. CROWN COURT.-TUESDAY His Lonosnie took his seat at nine o'clock. CHARGE OF MURDER. James Macklin, aged 23, Patrick Canning, 18, Edward Com,lly, 21, James Miming, 18, Martin Murphy, 26, George 111‘Carty, 19, and Patrick Morland, 20, were placed at the bar, charged with having been concerned in causing the death. of William Horner Ross; late an inspector of police in this town. All the prisoners were dressed in cleanly and decent, and some of them in respectable attire. The indictment stated, that James Macklin did on the 2Sth May last, cast and throw against the ground one . William Horner Ross, and with a large stick, heat him about the head, sides, and back; and that Patrick Canning, Edward Conollv, James nursling, and Martin Murphy, did, while the said William Horner Ross was on the ground, feloniously beat, strike, and kick him, giving to him thereby divers mor tal strokes, wounds, and contusions, whereof he languished front the 28th- of May to the 6th of June, when he died. George M`Carty and Patrick Morland were charged with having beets present, and aided and abetted the above named prisoners. The prisoners pleaded not guilty. Mr. ARMSTRONG and MrSRLISUTON conducted the proseeared - cution. Dr. BRowNe, assisted by Mr. 'MURPHY,' app fur all the prisoners but al•Curty ; the latter was defended by Mr. WILKINS. Mr. ARMSTRONG stated the case- to the jury. This, he said, notwithstanding Isis long experience in criminal courts, was one of the most painful and important cases in which he had ever been engaged. The learned counsel then went on to de tail the leading facts of the case, after which he proceeded to call his witnesses. George Wharton, an inspector of police, deposed that, on 28th May last, he went to a field near the tanneries in Tox teth-park, to prevent a fight of Which he had received infor mation. The general effect of the testimony of this witness is embodied in the evidence of the officers afterwards It appeared that, in the course of the fray, he was knocked down and severely injury. This was not, however, until he had seen the deceased, Ross, knocked down and severely ill treated. James M'Quan, police-officer 70, stated, that he was on duty in the Park-road on the 28th of May. William Horner Ross and Cowan were there. He was called upon with them to quell a disturbance in a field near Parliament-street. Ile saw there the prisoners Canning, Connolly, Durning, and M`Carty. ltoss told them to ego away, and they replied that they were doing no harm. Ile said, if they did not go away, they would fetch a sufficient force to make them. The crowd then returned further into the field, and Cowan was sent for further assistance. A ring was funned its Cowan's absence, and two men stripped and couitneeced fighting. Ross walked up to them stud told ahem to .stuff fighting, and to go away. Wharton and several other officers ca-me up. They endea voured to disperse these. At first they seemed as if they were going to 'disperse. One of the men who had been fight ing was taken into custody. As soon as be was taken into custody, the men all turned .upon the officers. Ross was first attacked. The prisoner M'Carty said, "Come, go it." Patrick Ganniug had a stick about 13 - inches long. Hestruck Ross twice on the head, his hat being previously knocked off in the scuffle. Connolly - struck Ross about the head and shoulders with his fists. Canning struck him and knocked him down. When he was on the ground. Murphy, Canning, Connolly, and •Macklitecontinued to strike and kick him.- He did not get up at all during the whole time. Had seen Can ning before, but did not previously know the other men. He saw the other prisoners so well that he could say positively they were the parties. Ile and his comrades attempted to rescue Ross, but they were beaten off. Ross was then left surrounded by the crowd. Cross-examined by Dr. BROWNE.—Connolly, Dousing, and Murphy struck - Ross before he fell. He was knocked down about a minute from the commencementof the striking, and he (witness) conceited that it was the blow from Cans uing that knocked him down. By the JUDGE.—Did not see any blow struck by Canning with a stick after Ross was an the ground. By Mr. WitasiNs, on behalf of M'Uarly.—The prisoner M'Carty said, " Go it—come?" The crowd was quiet before that, and he conceived that that was what set them on. By the JuDOE.—The ring was broken when M`Carty made use of those words. It was not whets the ring was first formed that he made - the exclamation, but just after. From the time when the ring was first formed to the time when Ross was knocked down, about two or three minutes elapsed. Had seen fights of this kind before. It was customary •to have sticks to keep the ring. Thomas Tbrelfall, police officer 234, deposed that he was on duty on the 28th May last in Mill-street, in the Park. Charters, a constable, came to him, and in consequence of What lie said he and Charters proceeded to a field near the tanneries. There was a great crowd of people . , and they were forming a ring by beating round with their sticks. Two men were stripped, making ready to fight. Witness saw Mr. Ross there. Witness was just behind him as he walked into the ring. He 'several times told them to desist. The fighters then made away. Ross, and witness, and two other officers went after one of the fighters. They took him into custody. The crowd immediately came after them. He had the mats in his'charee. The crowd attacked Ross, and knocked him down. Witness saw Doming strike Ross with a square piece of wood. It was a new squared piece of timber, cut away at the handle, about fourteen inches long, and two inches square. Witness had seen the piece in his hand, and told him to throw it aside. Durning struck Ross about the shoulders. Connolly kicked Ross. He had a stick and ,a rough piece or brick in his hand. Saw Canning also in the crowd, and George M`Carty. APCarty did not do anything, but he cried out, "Go on !' Witness was tripped, mid when he got up he saw Ross upon the ground in a helpless condi tion. They retreated a few yards back, when some other officers, came to their assistance. The crowd then fell back. He saw some persons carry Ross away, but he did not know who they were. • Cross-examined by Dr. BnowNe.—About three rounds had been fought whets ltoss went. By Mr. WILKINS.—II was after Ross was knocked down that he heard M`Carty call out. Robert Ritchie was on duty on the 2Sth May, and went to the tanneries with Wharton and Fish. There was a crowd of people, and two men stripped and fighting. One of these two was taken into custody by Wharton, and the other ran away. When they pursued the fighter, abOut . fifty or sixty of the crowd came after them throwing bricks and stones. The prisoners Canning, Connolly, Durning, Murphy, and Morland were in front. When these five came to the front, they stopped two or three minutes, when Macklin stepped forward and got alongside of Ross. Some one in the crowd called out, " Now, lads, go it!" At that moineneldine of them, about 20 or 30, took staves out of their pockets. Mack lin? when he came forward to Ross, laid his right arm across the breast of the latter, - and (tipped him over his knee, and Ross fell to the ground. When he was on the "round they commenced beating hint. Witness was instantly pinioned behind and knocked doWn. He was also cut in the head by a blow. The crowd cried out, •'" Kill the --, murder them!" Witness drew himself up on his hands and knees, and saw Ross, who was lying on the ground, with his hands and knees drawn up as if to protect himself. There were about six or seven persons over him striking at him with short sticks. W itness was unable to identify any of the party who were striking. He did not recognise any person after he was knocked down. , Cowan, officer 126, stated, that he went with Ross -t the top of Hill-street, and he was sent by him into Parlia- Ment-street, to pass the word into the town for assistance. He then went back and found the crowd near the tanneries,, attacking the officers. He saw amongst the crowd Connolly. Macklin. Murphy, and Durning. Connolly had a stick 4out 18 incises long, and in his hand a stone or brick. Wit - Oss saw litre- strike Inspector Wharton. Murphy had a stick of the same kind. When he saw the assistance coming up he shouted, "stand boys!" Witness pursued Connolly. He ran towards the edge of the pit. • He either fell its, or was knocked in. Just before that he turned round and said —"D-- you, I'll give you - as much as I gave the captain," Witness pursued and took Murphy. Witness had no doubt but by "captain" he meant Wharton, whom he had just be fore struck. .;„ Margaret Barwood stated that she resided in Copperas hill. Oa the 28th of May she was going into Parliament lane. In the field there was a crowd which increased while she was there. Two men came into the field and stripped to fight, and the crowd increased very much. She saw the pri soners Macklin and Connolly there. She saw the officers come tip. •The fighters were parted for a time. She saw Macklin put his arm across Ross's lsreast and trip.him. She saw Connolly throw him down and kick him tuost severely. Macklin at first had no stick, but after he had knocked Ross down he produced a stick. He struck Ross several times on the head with a stick. Connolly had a stick, and with this be beat Russ on the•head. One man who was beside Ross when he was knocked down was thrown on his face. The officers were beaten off, and Ross was left upon the ground 'in a state of insensibility. He never got up after he was knocked down by Macklin. He was carried away in a yens contused state, and insensible. - By - the JunGE.---:She heard a man say that Inspector Wharton was knocked down. This was after Ross was knocked dun. Robert Bowerbank, officer 260, stated, that on the 2Sth of May last he was on duty, and was sent for to the Park with officer Cowan.. Saw Wharton, and saw the nien kick ar strike him. - Could not say who did it. Saw Charters knocked down. Rushed in to assist the police, and was im mediately knocked down. Felt his. head struck, and was after that insensible. Peter Baker stated, that he was a carter in the employ of Daniel Chadwick. On the 28th May he was at his master's stable, which joins the field near the tanneries. Witness . saw a crowd, and a man in the dress of-a police officer was knocked down. The officer was in a falling attitude when he first saw him, and lie received a blow on the forehead which felled him to the ground. He was kicked, and imme diately the crowd so closed about him that he could not see what was done. The man who struck the blow, to the best of his belief, was Macklin. When he again got sight of the policeman he was lying on his back with his knees drawn up. Witness went over to him when the crowd left him, and found him bloody and.insensible, fli,e-erowci,we.s in a riot ous state lower down the field. Wituess endeavoured to raise him up, but as the man was so helpless he was unable. • Witness called assistance, and be and another person drag ged him into a ropewalk, where he : slightly recovered. Wit ness asked if he should get hint a bucket of water to wash himself. He replied, "I would thank you to get me a car and get me into the lane." Wituess told the police and several other persons to come to the assistance of the man. Peter Carrington, officer 125, stated that he knew the de ceased, who was an acting inspector of the police; and he lodged with him. On the 29Th of May he-went to the Infir mary and saw him. Witness produeed the dress of the de ceased. The coat was much stained with blood. J. —Nottingham, house-surgeon at the Infirmary, stated that on the evening of the 28th of May, Ross was brought to the Infirmary. He was in a state of great ;Agita tion, and in his (witness's) opinion there was reasen for it. He was much bruised about the legs and arms. The chief injuries which he had received were contused wounds on the scalp, which witness conceived to he of a dangerous charac ter. It was Monday when he entered, and on - the Wednes day, dangerous symptoms came on. Erysipelas attacked the edges of the contused wounds; that was a very common con sequence of wounds of the scalp. The dangerous symptoms increased in intensity, and on Monday he was attacked with inflammation of the brain. Ile died on the following Wed nesday. In his opinion, death was caused by the injuries on the scalp. The proximate cause of death was inflammation of the brain. The blows must have, been violent, for the scalp was divided, but the skull was'nnt anywhere fractured. There were five wounds, four of them considerable. Two on the right side of the forehead, and three on the left. 'llls was the case for the prosecution. Dr. BROWNE addressed the jury in defence of those for whom he was retained. He called the attention of the jury. to the circumstance of Canning being the only person amongst , the prisoners who had ever heels known before by any of the witnesses. Ile was known by Mquan, who, he said, was coktradicte4 t Y_all other witnesses. 'l'be colifilsion of • I,••sr..‘ makitc4 very correct observations. Ile also pressed in con sideration the very slight nature of the evidence against Morland. ',. Mr. WILKINS addressed the jury on behalf of Weedy. Persons, he said, might be present at a scene of the descrip tion of which they had heard, with the best intentions. They might be there to leen a fight, or to prevent mischief. As to the expression which had been used by M`C art y which one witness said was "Go it, come!" and another said was "Go on!" he conjured the jury to put the more merciful construc tion upon it, and to believe tbat he was speaking either to the parties•who were sunning away or to the policemen. Several witnesses were called to speak to the characters of the prisoners. His LORDSHIP charged the jury very impressively, re minding them of the 'very awful duty which he and they had to perform.. His lordship proceeded at some length, and with great perspicuity, to point out the bearings of the law on the case, and the difference betwfon murder and putpalpghter. After some remarks as to the caution and deliberation with which evidence as to identity ought to be weighed, his lord ship proceeded, to read over the evidence, commenting very minutely thereupon as he went on. The jury requested permission to retire at a quarter-past two o'clock. They returned at half-past three o'clock, and found the prisoners Macklin, Canning, Connolly, Durning, Murphy, and M'Carty not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter. Morland they acquitted, The jury stated, that they considered it a very aggravated case of man slaughter, but, having some doubts on their minds respect ' ing the murder, they gave the prisoners the benefit of them. His LORDSHIP having commented on the enormity of the offence, said, it was necessary for him to pass a severe sentence. They had all been found guilty of manslaughter under circumstances of great disorder and cruelty. They had attacked a defenceless man, for when Ross was down he was defenceless. lie was not a voluntary servant, but was acting in the discharge of a public duty, under which he was compelled to interfere. His lordship distinctly said, that if the verdict had been for murder, he would have selected one for execution, and that one would have been Mircitlin. His lordship concluded by sentencing all the prisoners to trans portation for life. CHARGE OF EmnEzzLEmENT. John Corbett Peel, a fashionably-dressed and good-looking young man, was,placed at the har, charged with having enr bezzled certain monies, the property of the company o proprietors of the. Bank of Manchester. The indictment se forth that the prisoner being employed as a clerk in the Bank of Manchester, at which Mr. Burdekin was the chief officer, did, on the 31st of Mal last, receive £1,038 Os. Id., on ac• count of the said Edward Burdekin, and embezzle that and kept the same ; another count charged hint with stealin g and embezzling £300; another with stealing and embezzling £6O; and a fourth with having stolen and embezzled a Bank ol England note for £3OO, a Bank of England note for £lOO, 100 sovereigns, 100 half-sovereigns, 100 shillings, and 100 sixpences. There were various other counts in the indict meat, setting forth the offence in various ways. Mr. Starkie and Mr. Dundas conducted the prosecution, and Dr. Browne and Mr. Wilkins defended. Mr. STARKIE, at some length, stated the case to the jury. 'Mr. Thomas \Vhittenhurry Olivant stated that he was a director of the Bank of Manchester, In May last, the'pri goner was a cashier on a salary. There were two other cashiers, who were stationed at each end of the counter, the prisoner's situation being in the middle. Each had a sepa rate desk, and separate drawers and tills. 'l'he cashier kept a balance-book. The book produced was the money-book ol Mr. Peel. This contained the items of cash which be had On hand at the close of each day. It was his (witness's) duty every week to examine the prisoner's accounts. It was the cashier's duty, at the close of every day, to suns up his book and to count the money that he had in Band. When witness examined the accounts, it was his duty to see the gold, notes, silver, &e. all told, to convince hint that it was correct. The cashier then put it into the box assigned to it, and carried it into the safe. He was the accountant of the hank, and re sided on the premises. If money were paid into the bank the cashier ought to put it in the cash-book. If £l.OO were paid in £5O of which were gold and £5O paper, he would put the gold into the drawer. Lie would thou make a credit-ticket for the whole amount, fold it in the notes, and put it in a drawer for the purpose. The credit-tickets art' collected by the note copier, who also tickets the notes. He puts down the copies of both tickets, as notes in the Copying note-hook. The copier keeps the notes until past bank hours, when be returns them to the same cashier. On the 31st May, went and examined Mr. Peel's money and account, having ex• amined it on the 17th May. Witness Went on the 24th May last, did not seethe prisoner. Witness ' on the 31st, found him at his desk, with the note-book. He appeased to be adding it up. .He , did not do so. He appeared extremely unwell, and complained of being in great pain. Witness left him, saying, probably he would be hetter directly. Wit ness was away about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. On' his return the cash was still not made up, and the prisoner was gone. Witness proceeded to make up the cash, and he found it amount to £24,954 15s. Id.. The amount of silver receipts as found in the till as his receipts was £l4 16s. 9d.; gold, - 167 sovereigns; notes, £1,644 ss. That ought to have been, if correct, all that he had received in the course of the day. Soule entries were made by Mr. Burdekin, on the night of the 31st. When he made the examination, he found in a bag of 1,000 sovereigns a sovereign too 'many. That money which was found in the drawers was always carried to the safe. The balance, on the 30th of May, £27,99235. 10d. 1 Some of the balances in the book had been altered since he looked at them and found them right. There had been erasures both in the amounts and iu the columns. Mr. E. Burdekin, manager of the Bank of Manchester, having taken the money-book, said the items of the 30th ol May and the summing up were in the prisoner's hand writing, £27,992. 3s. 10d., this ought to have been the sum of money in his hand on the 30th. This agreed with the balance as shown by the general cash-book. The general cash-book had three columns of £. s. d.: one for earli cashier, and three separate balances were struck in the evening. On the 31st of May the balance was £25,994. 15s. 8(1. by the general cash-book: Mr. Olivant named the actual casts really in hand in the prisoner's department, and it was £2-1,954. 15s. 7d., which was afterwards augmented by £2. This left a deficiency of 1;1,038. Os. ld. There was no entry in their books or check note to denote money paid by Wrigley and Co. on the 31st, but there was the amount in their pass-book. Each cashier had a drawer, of which he kept the key. Mr. Burdekin here described the course of business in a similar manner to Mr. Olivant. Mr. Peel had been employed since 1834. John Dounnette, copying clerk at the bank, stated, that it was his duty to enter the prisoner's notes, of ail descriptions. He kept the note-book and the rough cash-book. This wit. ness gave further particulars as to the course of business, and proved that, on the 31st of May, there had been no note ol any amount for Wrigley and Co., and some other firm. Henry Worthington : CoTlier stated that he kept the genera' cash-book. He showed that he bad handed to the prisoner accounts of his balance from time to time. He had not re. ceived any account for Wrigley and Co., or for Bridge and Co. on theillst. Richard Greenough stated, that he was one of the cashiers of the bank. He proved that at the time spoken of by the complainant, when the prisoner complained ofillness, he went to the prisoner and offered to assist him. He said he was so ill that he could not make up the balance. He had taken out his money, and laid it on his desk. Witness advised him to go home, and he did so. After the examination of his money, witness went to his house at half-past seven, but he was not at home. Witness went again at ten o'clock, when he was in, and found him still complaining. Witness said he bad come from Mr. Olivant to ask for some explanation respecting his accounts, in which there was nearly a thousand pounds defi cient. He said it was devilish strange, it was right the night before ; but he hoped he should be better the next morning, and he would be at the bank. He did not ever return to the bank. • Cross-examined by Doctor BROWNE. - Sometimes the cashiers borrowed front each other where a particular deno mination of money was wanted. He remembered recently to have borrowed two £5OO notes from Mr. Peel's cash, while he was down stairs. He wanted large notes.. He told Mr. Peel, on his return, and the money was passed to Mr. Peel's credit at night. Remembers a mistake of £2,5(X) snore than the check having been paid out of the stamp-office account, which is kept by them, to Mr. Shuttleworth's check ; that was in the morning, and the money was brought back and the mistake discovered before the day was over. , Thomas Dance, a porter, proved .that the prisoner' money was in the same state when it was brought up on the morning of the 31st, that it had been when it was carried down on the preceding night. James Wrigley proved the payment of £3OO on the 30th of May, viz. a £2OO and £lOO Bank of England notes. Wit. ness produced his pass-book, with the entry in it. James Mott proved the payment of .£6O on the above date, and its entry in the pass-book. The prisoner's hand' writing to two letters was proved. The post mark of the first was Loughborough, June 2d, 1838. It was addressed to J. it. Fowles. Manchester. It appeared that the prisoner had ridden frbm Manchester to Loughborough, (79 amiles,) in eight hours, resting only one hour all the way. The letter stated that he had ridden through a heavy rain, without the possibility of getting a drop of comfort for the first 45 miles, as he started at two o'clock in the morning. He requested his friend to go to Plymouth-villa, his residence, and take away ,whatever he liked, as he would not wish those banking people to get a ' single stick. Sawley, a police-officer, of Manchester, stated, that he went in pursuit of the prisoner, and found him at Amster dam. He at first refused to yield to the warrant, as he said it did not extend to that country. Ile then said he hail not taken so much money, as was charged in the warrant. Ultimately. Sawley took him into custody, and brought him to England. Mr. Burdekin stated that he saw the prisoner in the Man chester prison. lie confessed'to him, that he had embezzled £2.2.50. Dr. BROWNE addressed the jury in defence of the prisoner. His lordship went minutely into a statement of the law re lating to larceny and embezzlement. applying it to the case as he proceeded. The jury found the prisoner guilty of embezzlement, under the second and third counts. The Judge, in a feeling address, passed . sentence of trans portation for seven years. The court adjourned at a quarter to eight o'clock d o'clock. NISI PRIUS COURT.—TIMSDAY. (Before Mr. Justice WlLLtatas.) STEWART V. SMITHET. Mr. Alexander and Mr. Wightman appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Cresswe!l and Mr. Watson for the de fendant. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who was a steward on board the Shearwater govenment steamer, plying between Liverpool and Kingstown, against the defendant Captain Smithet, for tin alleged balance of wages and fees due to him whilst acting as steward on board the Shearwater. It appeared for the plaintiff, that he hail been engaged as steward eight or nine years on board the Shearwater, and had been in the habit of receiving £4O a year wages, and was to find the captain in such eatables and drinkable , : as he might require on board, and also to supply the second steward, the stewardess, and the cabin boy with victuals, he being allowed to have the profit of the sole of such victuals and liquors as might be required by the passengers. Formerly it w s a the cus t o m, when the Shearwater was engaged by the Post-office and under its pay, for the captain to receive half-a-crown from each passenger in addition to the passoge money. But on the boats being taken from the Post-office by the Ad, miralty, this payment was ordered to be discontinued to the captain, and an order to that effect was posted in the cabins of the various government steamers, at the same time re commending that that a payment of 2s. fid should he given tothe ste ward for his care and attention to the passengers. The plaintiff eventually in October last left the employment of the captain, and took the Clarence Inn in Liverpool, and his nephew took his situation as steward on board the Shearwater. The nephew afterwards left the ship, and the plaintiff then claimed the settlement of a balance of his ac count from the captain, the defendant, and sent in his bill. It appeared, that after the order respecting, the half-crown fee from the Admiralty, the steward afterwards 'collected it and handed the money over to the captain, it being contrary to the general orders of the government that any of their officers should directly receive such fees. But it was con tended for the defence that it could never be the intention of government to take this emolument from its officer, the de fendant, and give it to his servant, the aggregate amount of fees being £3OO or £4OO per annum, more than their officer received as his pay as a lieutenant, a n d w hi c h wou ld in fact be paying the steward, his servant, a greater amount for servin g out porter and ale and brandy to passen g ers, than was paid to the defendant , a gentleman ofstatibn and educa tion, and from whom was required to fill his station great knowledge of navigation, and great courage to sail the vessel in all weathers, and on whom the heavy responsibility of the lives of the passengers and the value of the vessel rested. This the counsel for the defendant contended would be ab surd, and it was an impudent attempt to extort money on the part of the plaintiff. It appeared that on the strength of this order stuck up in the cabins, the plaintiff thought he was. entitled to the fees, and was .no longer bound by his eng,lE iir t t bl:l t e h "ki'Vi t :l'f a z i t't a ti ' t;t h l'o fi 's'r,i7 c = "t tii l ;fert " , " a k t l i ' d give the captain the lion's share, charging for him self one shilling for each passenger, and paving the wages of the second steward, stewardess and cabin boy, as a sort of set off for the captain. After charging for several items of provisions, geese, a quart of brandy, &c., furnished to the captain from on board, and giving the cap tain credit fbr £3O, received part of the head-money, he made the defendant debtor him for £lB 10s. The captain refused to pay this on the ground that the plaintiff had nothing what ever to do with the fees, and the plaintiff then made out an other account charging his wages and the wages of the second steward, stewardess, and cabin-boy paid by him in addition to the provisions, &c., giving credit to the captain for the whole amount of fees received, making the balance due from the captain £lB 17s. The captain refused to pay this on the ground that he had paid the under-steward, the stewardess, and the cabin-boy himself, and, therefore, the plaintiff had no right to charge him with the amount of their wagee. The plaintiff then sent to the defendant an attorney's letter through Messrs. Howard and Wiche, demanding immediate payment of his account, and charging Captain Smithet, in addition to the provisions before named, with the whole amount of the fees : received, snaking his claim £79. This Captain Smithet refused to pay, and the plaintiff brought his action against him, but claimed in the record, in addition to the whole of the fees, his wages, and the wages of the under steward, stewardess, and cabin-boy, for trlong period, making this his fourth claim £l3O 13s. Id., for which sum the action was brought. The learned counsel for the defence severely commented on the nature of the claim, and said, it was pre posterous to imagine that Captain Smithet could have enter ed into such an engagement with his steward as to pay hint after this rate, and there was no evidence that he:had dune so. The steward was no goYernment officer; he was merely the servant of the captain. The accounts were also put in settled by the plaintiff, showing that he had been regularly paid his wages, and the money had been given to hint to pay the other cabin servants, and that the plaintiff was £l4 in the captain's debt. His LORDSHIP proceeded to sum up, and spoke of the va riation in the plaintiff's demand, letting alone the absence of all proof that the captain had agreed to give him the fees, a variation which bespoke of itself a want of accuracy, when the jury.stopped him, and said, theyhod made their minds opt and would not further trouble his lordship, and found a ver dict for the defendant. BRYAN ANI) ANOTHER V. NIX. This was an action brought for the I ecovery of £656 10s., the value of a quantity of oats. It appeared that Messrs. Bryan, Herd and Ca., of Liverpool, were in the habit nf re ceiving consignments of oats from Messrs. Tenpeuny & Co., of Longford, in Ireland, and on the receipts of the bills of lading were in the habit of accepting bills drawn on them by "enpenny and Co. for the value of the consignments. It ap that Messrs. Tenpenny were in the debt of Messrs. otter and Nix, of London. who, in February, sent down heir chief clerk, a Mr. Walker, to Longford, to endeavour to obtain a settlement. Messrs. Tenpenny had a relative in Dublin, who saw after the transhipping of the oats front the canal boats, which came from Longford On board the vessels which were to convey them to Liverpool; and it had been customary, for greater expedition sake, to forward t hese canal boat receipts of the cargoes of oats to Messrs. Bryan, Herd, and Co., who had accepted for the consignme nt on teir re ceipt. In February, 18.36, a consignment of oats was made by Messrs. Tenpenny to Bryan, Herd, and Co.. in the usual course, and the canal boat receipts were forwarded, on which Bryan, Herd, and Co. accepted Tenpenny and Co's drafts on the consignment to the amount of £656 10s. On the ar rival of Messrs. Foster and Nix's clerk in Ireland, he seized on these consigned oats for the debts of his firm; and the plaintiffs having accepted bills on the receipt of the canal boat receipts of this consignment for the amount, brought the present action for the recovery of the amount from Foster and Nix, the oats being then theirs, and nut the property of Messrs. Tenpeuny. The defence was, that the canal boat 'receipts were not of the same nature as bills of lading, and 'tat, therefore, the consignment was not regular and cona- plete. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, establishing the canal boat receipts as of the same nature as bills of lading. DORSFALL AND °VIERS V. PIM AND ANOTHMI. Mr. Cresswell aud.Mr. Watson appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Alexander and Mr. • for the defendants. This was, an action brought by Mr. Horsfall, Sir John Tobin, and many. other individuals carrying on business under the firm of Forrester & Co., engine-makers, against Messrs. Pint and Hutchinson. two of the directors of the St. George's Steam-packet Company, for the balance of a debt of £8,700, for the manufacture of a marine steam-engine for the steam-packet Vulture belonging to that company.. It appeared that the plaintiffs originally contracted with the Cork Steam-packet Company, in December, 1835, to furnish t.hem with a marine engine of a certain description, for a vessel building for that company by Mr. Russell, ship builder. Soon after, the Cork Steam-packet Company was dissolved, and the St. George's Steam-packet Company en gaged with the Cnrk Steam-packet Company to take their contract with Messrs. Forrester & Co. on the terms agreed on with the latter firm. This was arranged between the two Steam-packet Companies, and Messrs. Forrester & Co. were notified of the arrangement, but still held the Cork Company responsible tinder their first contract. The terms of payment were one-half cash, to be paid in cash on the completion and trial of the engines, and the - other half to be paid in bills at six months. The engines Were completed and the first hall payment was made, and afterwards one bill was accepted for half the remainder, leaving the . £2.200 due to the plaintiffs i from the defendants. On the trial of the engines it was found that the paddle-shafts were placed too low, and iu conse quence, when the vessel wcs loaded the paddles were too deep, and the engines could not work properly. On this ground the defendants refused to pay the fourth quarter of the debt, and also on the ground that it had cost them £7OO to get the paddle-shaft raised to the proper water-line, and £l4OO to get Hall's patent adapted to the engines, which was ordered, but which the plaintiffs had refused to adapt to them in the process of the manufacture. It was acknowledged by the defendants' that the engines in themselves were as good as could be. In reply to this, the plaintiffs urged that the fault of the engine-shaft being placed too low was not to be attributed to them, but was the fault of the ship-builder. It was the duty of the ship-builder to furnish them with sections showing the water-lines of the vessel when light and when loaded, and to inform them of the 'draught of the vessel. 'Phis was not the engine-maker's business; and he knew no thing about the draught of the vessel other than he was in formed by the sections of •the ship furnished to him by the ship-builder. Messrs. Russell had furnished the plaintiffs with sections of two vessels, the Clonmel and the 'Vulture, building by them. In the section of the Clonmel,•the water lines were inserted showing the draught of the vessel when loaded and light, but not in the section of the Vulture; but Mr. Forrester *as informed by Mr. Russell, juu.; that the Vulture would draw afoot less than the Clonmel, which would give the Vulture a draught of water of 8 feet when light, and 10 ft. 3 in. when loaded ; whereas, when tried, the Vulture when loaded drew 15 feet—five feet more than the section directed the engine-makers. The plaintiffs made the engine according to the section, and of course the paddles were too deep by the half of 5 feet. Afterwards the paddles were raised 2 feet, at au expense of £7OO, which it was attempted to charge on the plaintiffs, as being owing to their fault. As to the second point, of refusing to adopt Hall's patent, when the plaintiffs were told to du so, in July, 1836, the engines were too far advanced to make any difference in the original contract plan. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs—damages, £2,274; the amount of the remaining bill due, with interest. 'he court adjourned at seven o'clock. CROWN COURT.—WEDNESDAY. Is Lordship took his seat at five minutes before nine CHARGE OF MURDER, William Hodge, aged 25, was charged with the wilful mur der of Mary Moore, at Withington, ou the 19th of June last. The indictment charged the prisoner with having, with a certain hedge-stake, beaten and wounded the deceased, and the second count charged him with having beaten her with a certain blunt instrument- The prisoner is a strong, well-built, and tolerably goo looking young man. He was dressed in a blue coat, bat agan vest, sniped fustian trowsers; blue shirt, and cotton handker chief. He presented himself at the bar with au appearance of great firmness. There was, however, an abruptness about his manner that gave indication of his firmness being assu med. lie pleaded not guilty. Mr. STA REM and Mr. BRANDT appeared for the prosecu tion. Mr. WILKINS and Mr. PoeLocx for the defence. Mr. STARK IE stated the case to the jury, to whom a plan of the road between Manchester and Houghsend was pro vided. Mr. S. pointed out to the jury the several places as indicated thereupon which he had occasion to mention. The learned gentleman entered into minute details of the circum stances which were to be brought forward in evidence. Joseph Moore staled that the deceased Mary Moore was his wife. She was 48 years of age, and was in the service of Mrs. Chorlton. She attended the Manchester market with the garden produce of Mrs. Chorlton. She set off to market on the 19th of June, at half-past six in the morning, and he never saw her again till she was brought home on the next n i g ht a corpse. She had on a market-pocket, in which she kept the money which she received for produce. She put the money in loose. She had also a private pocket of her own, in which she had money or her own, which was safe when her body was brought home. She usually went to Mrs. Chorlton to pay her money before she came home. She had on a black straw.-bounet. She was ih the habit of wearing flannel round her head. By Mr. WILKINS. —Witness knew the place where the occurrence took place. Any one, from the windows of his witness's house, could see the spot. The house of. Mr. Wood, a constable, was in that lane, and there was an end window to Mr. Wood's !lapse, from which the spot could be seen. It could also be see from a neighbouring farm-yard. Moss lane was a public road to Manchester. Thos. Hooky, a servant to Mrs. Chorlton, stated that he went with the cart to the market on the 19th of June, with Mrs. Moore. He saw her at market, and saw her receive copper and silver money there. She put the money in a pocket under her apron. She sold all the produce by eleven o'clock in the morning. Witness parted with her, and she told him she would go to the end of Tibb-street. He took the cart past the end of Tibb-street, but he could not see her. He got home betwixt twelve and one o'clock. Cross-examined by Mr. WILKINS.—She might receive one or two shillings in copper in the market. Lydia Hodgson stated that she lived at No. 6, Lower Brook-street, Chorlton. She saw Mrs. Moore about eight o'clock on the morning of the 19th June, at market. She saw her receive silver and copper money—half-crowns, shil lings, and sixpences, She called at her house before she went home, and remained about an hour. Witness paid her a half-crown—two shillings and one sixpence, and fourpeucc in copper. She put it in her pocket under her apron. This pocket she called her master's pocket. She set off in the direction of home. She had a reticule basket and two jugs, which site brought from her. Cross-examined by Mr. WteroNs.—Mrs. Moore had some copper, but not much. James Mee stated that: he lived in Moss-lane. He had known Mrs. Moore twenty•years. He saw her last on the 19th of June, in hieshippon, at two o'clock, by his watch, which was, however, twenty minutes too fast. .Witness walked out down the lane a little, and was soon overtaken by Mary Moore; he addressed her, and she replied. He asked how the market had been, and she said " very fair." • She told him that gooseberries hail been selling at 3d. per quart. They walked a little together, and then she bade him "good bye.' He saw her for a short distance, but not far. It was just before she would arrive at a pond that he lost sight of her. By Mr. W ILK INS.—If the deceased had not been murdered he thought she would have arrived at Mrs. Chorltim's about two o'clock in the day. Lydia Hodgson recalled and examined by the JUDGE.— She saw deceased a quarter before one, and site was perfectly sober. John Boundritts said the de . ceased was his sister-in-law. On Wednesday evening, the 20th June, he went to search for the deceased. He sought in Eason's field, where there is a pit. The grass was trampled down about the pit side, and on searching a ditch, which runs from the pit, he found the deceased. She was lying in the water, which was level with her top coat. Her knees were first taken hold of. She seemed to have been very much struck on the side of her head with some instrument. Her bonnet and cap were hang ing at the back side of her neck. There was a private foot path through the field, which was about 500 yards from Mrs. Chorlton's. By Mr. WILKINS.—He first began to search about seven o'clock in the evening. Searched first in Mr. Wood's field, adjoining. He was accompanied by Mr. Wood's son, a con stable. The body was found about nine o'clock. About the pit was much trampled in several places, and it " looked like enough" that several persons had been there. Could not ,perceive that they had got in anywhere but through the gate steads. It did not seem as if a heavy body had been dragged through the long grass. The path through the field was sometimes used on trespass as a footpath to Chorlton's, but it would not be the road to her house. Re-examined by Mr. STARK 01011 , 211 t something bad been put in the pit. because, at the nearest point to the footpath, the grass was trampled and disturbed. There bad been grappling in that and other pits during the day. The body could not have floated from the place where be thought something had been pushed in, to the place *here it was found in the ditch. William Lee stated that he was in the service of Mrs. Chorlton. He searched for -the body of Mrs. Moore, and whenround, she had her market pocket on, under the apron, but there was no money in it. She had her private pocket on. It appeared that in this pocket were all the money. and things which she had when . she left home. By Mr. WILKINS.—He was in that lane from ten o'clock to a quarter past twelve in the morning. He saw some strange men there. They were pitching-and tossing for above an limn-, and he left them there. They were close to the turning to Mrs. Chorlton's. By Mr. STARKIE.—Does not know the names of those men, but has seen them since. They were before the coroner. Mary Baynly stated that she saw the body axt the gate when it was brought out of the -field, she accompanied it home, and saw it again at eight"o'clock next thinning. She assisted to lay it out. There was under the cap the flannel which she • wore. lF.he washed, them and delivered them to the consta ble. There were 'on the bonnet and cap mire aud green • weeds. There were two holes in the cap, on the righrside opposite the wound on her head. There was a hole in the flannel opposite a wound on the top of the bead. Her clothes were all wet. Her left hand was straight down by her side, and it was grasped full of grass. Her right hand was raised up near her ear. The fist was clenched. Cross-examined by Mr. WlLKlNs.—There were four, men engaged in carrying the body. Samuel Dale stated, that on Wednesday, the 20th June, about one o'clock in the afternoon, he went to fish in.e pit in Withington. He found a reticule-basket at the bottom of a field near the hedge. That was the field where the licitly was found, and from that Spot, the place where he found the. reticule, was distant about twenty yards. In the basket was a can about half full of treacle, some tobacco, ginger, pieces of check, two small jugs, and some tape. The check Was wrap ped in blue thick paper. He took the basket to the office of Mr. Allcock, the deputy-constable, and left it there: By Mr. WILKINS.—There is a little footpath runs across the field to the pit side. The handle of one jug was broken off. The paper of the tobacco was a little wet when lying there. The check was made into a parcel ; some of the treacle was upset. The lid of the treacle can was on. By the JUDGE.—The reticule could not have been thrown there from the footpath. John Chorlton stated that he was the son of Mrs. Chorlton. Mrs. Moore took to the market produce which ought to, have realized from £3 to £3 10s. She usually came (tiled to their house. Witness knew the prisoner at. the bar He had worked for them, and left them about amonth befiere. lie had worked about two months in the garden. By Mr. WiLietNs.--LThere Were 'aboutlO servants on their farm. The prisoner called at their house on the day he was taken into custody, which was some time after the murder. The coroner's inquest was sitting on that day, and the circum stance was the talk of the neighbourhood. Belled been sent for by witness to go and work. By Mr. STA ItK E.—Witties sent for him at the instigation of Beswick, the constable.. By the Junde.—The prisoner knew that they mind''Mr. Wood employed many people near the spot. Ellinor Benion stated that Mrs. ;Moor who was cousin to her mother. She (witness) recollected when the hotly was found. Saw the prisoner on the day the murder was com mitted. It was beside Mr. Brooks'. new road. She bad a basket, and he requested her to let him carry it. • . The prisoner here exclaimed -e" I never saw you on that day at all." ' • Witness.—" You did—yen know you did." Prisoner.—" You are ;liar.' Witness went on to say that she bad known the prisonerbe fore. He pressed her repeatedly to let him carry her basket, but she refused, telling him that it was no weight. They parted at Mr Brooks' toll-gate, and tie went along Moss-side-lane. She first met him at one o'clock by Mr. Pouley's bell. She parted with him at the corner of Mosslane. It was about twenty minutes past one when site left hint. She had with • her a child about eighteen months old. She walked with him . about half a mile. Had known him 14• or 15 years. By Mr. WILKINS.— Her husband was scot king at that time at Mr. John Cookson's. She had come direct from Matches-' ter. She left hothe at nine o'clock for Manchestet:, Her house was at Chorlton. Witness knew a persou named John Baggerly. She did not see him that day. She was some time since the stewardess of a club, and was turned out for fraud. • She had since paid part of the money back again. She had not been intoxicated since she had been in Liver pool, a nd was not iu the habit of getting intoxicated. She gut back to Chorl ton about half-past . two o'clock. By the JUDGE.—She was about two guineas deficient, in her club accounts, and she had paid back 225. William Morgan stated that on Tuesday, the 19th June, he was in Moss-lane from one o'clock to half-past. Saw the pri soner in Moss-lane, between Mr. Wood's house and the road to Mrs. Chorlton's. Witness met him. He was going in that direction. Witness turned his head, and saw him going into the field. Ile was three or four yards in the field. It was the next field to where the corpse was found. Witness had se'ets him three or four times before. Cross examined by Mr. Wiwates.—Resided in Har greaves-street, Hulme e _near Manchester. Had resided there about four months. Works as a navigator cr farm-servant. Had been employed in various places. Had been before a magistrate as a wituess, but not in any ether- way. Was in Muss-lane about ten o'clock. Went round through Stretford and back, up Mrs. Chorhon's lane, about half-past I o'clock. When he was there in the morning, he met several people in the lane. When he came back lie met no one but the pri soner. I.le was twice before the coroner, and lie told him that he met four Irma in the morning. The four men told him that they were looking after a job of mowing, aud they were going towards Mrs. Chorlton's. Did nut say to anyone that he saw no person in the lane but the four men. • . Chas. Kenyon stated that he was a gardener in MiseChorl ton's service. He was there when the prisfiner. Hodge wosked for her. He left the service. Before he left, one day lie said to witness, "Charles, this garden of yours makes a deal of money in the summer time." Witness said, "It does." lie said, "Which way does Mary Moore come home —does she come over the fields, or down timeline ?" He (witness) said, "She chiefly comes day's the lane." He said, "Is she late or,soon when she comes—does she always bring the money with her home ?" Witness said she did, and she never was late since be knew her. Witness said, " What makes thee to ask that ?" He (the prisoner) said, " It's Dutch no one nil's her." Witness said, " Nips her!" He replied, "They can't do that. she comes home too soon." Cross-examined by Mr. Wi teis.—Knows a man named Renshaw. The prisoner never wade any mischief between witness and Renshaw, but he told Renshaw that he (witness) was the greatest liar upon earth Wituess never threatened to kick hint. Would not swear that he did not. The wit ness was then cross-examined as to the precise expressions which he had used, which were re-stated as above. He said he had stated the same .before the coroner. .The depositions were put in and read. He bad not stated, according to the deposition, that he exclaimed " Nips .her !" and that the pri soner explained that it meant taking her money. Edward Jacques stated that he worked at Mr. Cotterill's rope-walk in Hulme, or between Huline and the New road. On the other side was the Chester road. Remembered Toes day, the 19th June. On that day he saw the prisoner coming from the Huhne and Stretford road towards the rope-walk. He was coming (lawn by the bridge. Them was a pit in the field. Ile looked about him as if to see if any one were look ing. When he got to the bottom of the hedge, he took some , thing enrol' his poCket, and began to wrap it in something blue. He got over the gap of the hedge into Townsfield. He put his hand into the bottom of the hedge two or three times. He returned over the gap into the other field. He passed the rope-walk, and went into Mr. Shepherd's beer shop. at the corner of Chester-street. Witness was its a shed at the end of the rope-walk, where the prisoner could not see him. Withess saw the prisoner again at seven o'clock next Morning. Ile went to the gap that he had been in the day before. Witness called out, " What hrings.you there?' and he stepped back immediately. Ile -went towards the Stret ford new road, and witness followed him. Witness met hint again at the other side of the hedge in Townsfield. Witness said, " What brings you there—you are tresspassing ?" lie requested to be allowed to go to the bottom of the field, but Witness would not let him. He said, " go back." Wit ness went back the other way; and hearing something from two other men, he went into the field, and found the prisoner behind the hedge again. lie was creeping on his hands and knees, with his hat off, about a dozen yards from the gap. Witness said, " What! you're here again?" • Ile jumped up, and looked aft aid, saying ' " Well ; I'll come no more." On the Tuesday witness saw him put a piece of blue paper iu his mouth as he passed. It was about as big as a man's hand. When he returned over time field he had it not. A pieee of paper which he saw in the hands of Alcock, the constable, was like it. Cross-examined by Mr. WiLxlNS.—The field is,sotnetimes made use of as a cricket-field. - Saw the prisoner about five o'clock on Tuesday. . . Joshua Kitson, another workman at Cotterili's rope-walk, spoke to the fact of the last witness having pointed out Hodge (the prisoner) to him on the 19th of June last, when he (the prisoner) was standing is, time gap of the hedge. The state ments of this witness were generally corroborative of those I of the last „witness. Henry Ford, another workman at the roper}, gave similar testimony to the last witness. Edward Sweatiness stated that, on the 20th June last, he was at the hedge above alluded to. He found a pared con taining eight !self-crowns, a five-shilling piece ' and twenty shillings its siXpences and shillings. They were butte wrapped up in pieces of blue check. Wit uess went to -search in con sequence of what Kitson had told him. • . • - Cross•exashined by Mr. WILKINS.—He (witness) bad spent the money. Ile had given some drink to some of the men atthe ropery. Ile had spent the money principally its clothes. He could not remember exactly what he gave for them, but it was about £1 16s. lle showed the money to William Kitson, who was with him when be found the last parcel. He did not claim a share of the motley. The Joyce told the witness that the twat time Ise found money he was to remember that it was dishonest to appro priate it to his own use. Cyrus Allcock, deputy-constable of nuttier*, stated that the hedge was pointed out to him, and near the spot where the money was found an officer picked up a piece of blue paper. He compared it with paper taken from the basket. Witness produced a piece of check cloth. lie had compared that with a piece of check given to him by another officer. Wit ness produced several pieces of torn blue paper, which ap peared to be portions of a sheet of paper which had been used originally as the wrapper of a ream of paper. [His Lordship tried to fit time pieces together. Those pieces which had been used to wrap the parcel in the basket fitted; but the piece found in the field would not fit at -all.] Richard Beswick stated that he was one of the constables of Manchester. lie searched for the prisoner on the Friday following the murder, but did not meet with him till the 2901, when he took him at Chorlton's house. Witness. when he took hiin, told him what he was taking him .for, cautiotting • him. Witness showed hint the spot where Mary Mriore's betty was found, and he replied that he -wna not in that • neighbourhood at all on the -day its question, and if he (Beswick) thought he (the prisoner) had committed the murder he was devilishly mistaken. 'this was about a toile and a half from the place where the money was found. :Wit ness took hiin past the latter place, and be said he never was there in his life, and denied having secreted any money there. Richard Green, a police-o ffi cer, of Manchester, statedlhat prisoner having told hint where he lodged, he went • there, and found a handkerchief• or piece of check, lie had com pared it with the piece in which the money was folded, 1 ,/ corresponded exactly in pattern, and the witness was o fopt - ' nion that it corresponded - , as if torn off. [His LortisiliPt"l not so well satisfied of the latter fact , and all that - he wont,. allow was that it corresponded in pattern.] Bridget Allen stated that she lived. in• Tailor's-court. Ox' ford-road. The prisoner had lodged with her about thre e months. The prisoner went out on Tuesday, the 10th, ab out eight or nine o'clock, he returned between three aryl four o'clock. It seas past the usual dinner hour, and he said I, ' would go to the Cotton Tree and have a glass, He•ereut, and was back before four o'clock. He was in the house sit five o'clock, and he went out before seven. He did nut eon, home before two o'clock. He had paid regularly for his lodgings while he was employed, but he had not paid:fo r , mo nth, having been out of employment: The handkerehtei: which Greets found belonged to the prisoner. On the •W e '., nesday or Thursday she remarked that le had tad' hi whiskers taken off. • e ed Mr. W INS.—The prisoner owed her 10c &hi he she had not yet received it. He was generally very re " u Ut and well-behaved. His whiskers and hair were ti shorter. He had previously said that the barber had cut e l . hair so short, that he would have his ehiskers cut to me" te e When he returned on Tuesday,-he might be a little eleve__ with a glass or two • but he was no way told him that Mrs. two; had sent for bins to go to: s j. ae and had promised hint advanced wages. Ile rep thought he should tire them before he should lie tired at he .Thom.ls Wood, censtable of Withisigton, stated t h ,• ee , resitlett is, Mess-lane. Ou she Olst of June he found a _ disordered. c(birnic: of wood, a hedge-stake, in his field. Ile too-mid iu one of e 'fences a piece which corresponded with it. Cross-examined by Mr. W the brook's side a dirty shirt and were found. A pair of palters also were found in h were a about twelve yards from where the body la)% wi tness's) pair pair of clog pat tens, and were sent by one of his were u that they men to Joseph Morris, under the sup positio n pair of the property of the deceased. • t a N el cottont he r s cs e by :ears, Thomas Boothby, a little liee-office. proved that All c ock had brought. a basket to the pi `2 2 , ho Mr, Hollier, surgeon, stalcd that on Friday, Juue death to an extensive fracture of the . skull, on tg I Ilse fracture boy, aged about eleven Therel was were examined e sufficient o to o y p o r f od the u cedeath: deceased , io a t : irhute, ildseer. was at the back of the - head, on the.right si e.• ami d flannel two lacerated wounds of the scalp. The cap had weu correspondingld fa lI without beingho les . . • • - • •• - • abAle!lteorasstiankere:tetyiv crsyn.c'h 'ia."ribia°cvf-