The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-04 00:00:00

THE BALTIC FLEET SEA3fAN'S SONG. AoAts the F ag of England waves on the Baltic Sea — Again we have before our guns a stately enemy— Oh, for an hour of Nelson to send the thunder home! To break their line of battle thro', and tell them Britain's come ! Yet, cheer ye up, my messmates—we doubt not there will be, Now that the foe's before us, a man as good as he ; The hour will make a Nelson and a Vari2;nard* still to lead — It is the hour that makes the man and makes the gallant deed. We sail not as oppressors—we combat with tl3e strong; And England is again at sea that she may right the wrong. War is not of our seeking, but when to war we must, To Him who rules the batrip we bow our heads in trust. Vain glory is a bubble; our glory is His cause— Our glory is our freedom, our happy homes, and laws. To share His boon with othel - a—to the rescue of the weak, For this we leave our ports behind and with our broadsides speak. Hurrah, then, for our noble Fleet ! once more we are at sea, Hurrah, for merry England and another victcry ! * Nelson's ship at the Nile. REVIEWS OF BOOKS. The Bible in the Counting-house : a Cou;•se of lectures to Merchants. By the Rev. H. A. Boardman, D.D. London : Thomas Bosworth, The object of this work is practical. It is di rected to the reformation of an evil, the existence of which, we fear, cannot be denied, and the fatal results of which, we are equally afraid, admit, likewise, of no contradiction. The lectures are intended to show the compatibility of true religion with ordinary affairs, and to bring Scripture truth to bear on the principles and pursuits of ordinary mercantile life. The discourses were compiled and delivered in America, and they of course have special reference to the state of mercantile and counting-house religion in that country ; neverthe less, they will be found to embrace much that is needed, and that is practicable in this country, as well as among our transatlantic brothers. In an introductory essay, by the Rev. R. Bickersteth, we find the following general truths, well ex pressed, that we make no apology for 'noting them : There can be no more dangerous delusi u than to allow of one sort of conscience in private, and .mother in public; to have one standard of morality by which to regulate the conduct at home, and a far lower standard of morality for the mart of commerce, the board-room, or the counting-house. Yet this Janus-faced morality unquestionably exists, and it is against it, and all its concomitants and phases, that these lectures are directed. It is not denied that among the merchants of this country many bright examples might be pointed out of the very course of life which it is the object of the lecturer to recommend ; but it is equally vain to disguise the sad truth that there are many —very many—who " allow of one standard of morality by which to regulate the'conduct at home, and a far lower standard of morality for the mart of commerce." To follow the reverend and able lecturer through all his course would be to unfold a complete system of social ethics, illustrated, in many instances, by antithetical example. This our space forbids us to attempt, and we can only make space for one or two extracts. The first is illustrative of how an over intensity of mercantile pursuits tends to deaden the social sympathies, and render man little better than a merely mercantile machine ; the illustration may be called HOME RESULTS OF sucussrrL MERCANTILE PURSUITS. Another of their visions was a quiet and elegant home, with ample leisure for the training of their children and the fruition of domestic comfort. During their few years of business, their houses have been to them rather like taverns, where they have taken their meals and lodgings, than their homes. When ostensibly there, it has been their physical presence merely, their thoughts have been on 'Change or at the Board of Brokers, with a cottage speculation at Liverpool, or a laud speculation in Illinois, or a flour speculation at San Francisco. As to educating their children, they have indeed transferred them to a larger house, and thrown around them the glare of luxury, but the whole responsibility of forming their principles has been left to other hands. This hard necessity has now passed away, and they will hasten back (so they think) to their firesides as a bird to its nest. But home, somehow, is not what they expected to find it. They dispensed with it so long, that it ceased to be essential to them. The master passion which consumed their early literary tastes, made sad inroads upon their domestic affections. They learn, to their surprise, that going abroad, which has ceased to be a necessity, has be come a matter of choice, and that the financiers and traf fickers of the town are better company than that around their own hearth. Their children they can instruct in the mysteries of trade and finance, in the most lucrative kinds of traffic, and the best investments ; but they would be at some loss how to imbue them with enlarged views of their relations and duties, and to inspire them with those pure principles and exalted aims which are alone worthy of an intelligent and accountable race of creatures. In one aspect, they may have done more to educate them than they were aware of. A family of children accustomed to hear money made the standing theme of conversation, the gauge and measure of all other values, will be likely either to inherit the father's covetousness, or to plunge into the vortex of fashionable frivolity. And in the latter case, he may find it as hopeless to bring them hack to the simple tastes and habits which preceded his first successful speculation, as he would to reduce a forest of giant oaks to a nursery. Another duty which has been all along assigned to this golden era, is, preparation for death and eternity. But the same incapacity or indisposit i on waits upon them in this office as in the others. They discover that there are other obstacles between their souls and heaven, than "the claims of business." They have "made haste to be rich" and they must bear the consequences. 'A career of specu lation has a peculiar tendency to make men both selfish and proud, not to speak of its searing the conscience and multiplying the cords which bind them to the world. And where covetousness and inordinate self-esteem join toge ther in taking possession of a man, he is about as well fortified against religion as any character to be met with in society. " With God all things are possible," and such men are sometimes changed into humble and liberal Christians. But it is, unhappily, no fancy sketch which the poet has drawn of gold and its worshippers, who —" on its altar sacrificed ease, peace Truth, faith, integrity ; good conscience, Love, charity, benevolence, and all The sweet and tender sympathies of life ; And, to complete the horrid, murderous rite, And signalize their folly, offered up Their souls and an eternity of bliss, To gain them—what ? an hour of dreaming joy, A feverish hour, that hastened to be done And ended in the bitterness of woe." The beat side of this picture is not very promising. If such are the common is.nes of a career of successful spe culation, what are its opposite issues ? It would be use less to portray in its details the collapse which usually follows one of these eras of commercial bewilderment. Our author deals hard blows at that " morality of the counting-house," or retail counter, which enables its owner to represent his wares as different and better than they really are, illustrating it by sudden and unexpected transference to the domestic hearth, where a scion of the family, to his father's horror, palms upon his friends a narrative of family matters, and a description of household arrange ments, framed upon the shop or counting-house model, in which everything is exaggerated and misrepresented, The illustration is telling, and cleverly worked out. He treats, also, with much practical good sense, on the various relations which exist between employers and employed, and clearly points out the duties of each to the other, to themselves, and to society. In inculcating the duties of charity, he is eloquent in its praises, yet he mixes his persuasions with injunctions to pru dence and judgment. This leads him to a con sideration of avarice and its stealthy and resistless encroachments on success. His remarks on this subject are forcible and just, and may be styled THE INCONSISTENCIES OP • AVARICE. It is a striking illustration of the insidious nature of avarice, that not one rich man in a hundred, perhaps not one in a thousand, is disposed to stop hoarding. The point of acquisition which constitutes "wealth" is pushed along as men approach it ; so that the amount of property which, at setting out in business, supplied their definition of " opulence," and at which they meant to forbear fur ther accumulation, comes, in time, to dwindle into a paltry A eompetence," with whi c h " no one oug ht to be satisfied." simple change4in the definition keeps conscience quiet, and allows the beguiling process to go on. The more they get, the more they want. And even when an estate has swelled to colossal proportions, the idea of arresting its growth, or of g i v i ng away a generous part of the revenue it yields, is almost as painful as that of losing a child. Singularly enough, this morbid t enac it y o f i ncome prevai ls where there is a distinct purpose of making a posthumous appropriation of large sums to charitable age s The will is already drawn up to this effect, and duly s i gne d and sealed ; but the testator, entranced by the mysterious power of gold, cannot summon the resolu tion to become his own eTecuto . r. He has seen many a will broken, and ma n y an inheritance alienated from its • and he knows this may happen in his proper destination ; . it may not happen ." and own case also. But, again: he will run the hazard. If it were . not • for the spell whic h . is upon him, the pleasure of applying l h is b ounty and wit nessing the benigt! effects of a ~would outweigh the sordid satisfaction he derives from seeing dust growing larger and larger. But the heapo f hallucinationgold dust be thrown off ; the glittering treasure will assert its mastery against any rival power, except . guil the ti universal conqueror. Or, he is, possibly, sole aim to of any prospective benefactions. His one who is "pro vide for his own ;" to go on turning revenue into capital as long as life lasts, that when his eyes are closed in deat h , his mammoth estate ma d e scend to his heirs unimpled Where are the estates of the leading Philadelphia, New York, and Boston merchants, who died half a century ago ? Gathir up the fragments, if you can find them, in the hands of their children and grandchildren ; and see what there is to show for all the planning, and toiling and saving, those fortunes cost ! You have but to look arow o Am- own city, to see even conternnoraneous patri monies melting away like a March snow, almost before the mansions once tenant"' by their frugal owners have put off their crape. Whether this•parental munificence is commonly requited with a corresponding gratitude, and men are held in filial honour in proportion to the ingots they leave, and the time and pains they have taken to fabricate them, each one must decide for himself. But if it entered at all into the aims of these parties to establish a reputation which their fellow-citizens, or even their own descendants, should cherish as a sacred legacy, a very brief return to the scenes of their former toils, would probably satisfy some of them, that they had sadly mistaken the means . for compassing their end. Th ere are men w h o have judged more wisely. The grave has lately closed upon one of this class in an Eastern city. A venerable and successful merchant, he h a d f or man y y ears b e f ore his death left off accumulating, and made it his inflexible rule to give away the whole of his large surplus income. Now he was endowing a college professorship ; now found ing an academy ; now bestowing a princely benefaction upon some judicious charity ; and now another upon some noble religious enterprise. One of his favourite methods of doing good was to purchase, and put in circulation, hundreds of copies, or perhaps whole editions, of any use ful book which happened to commend itself to his taste and judgment. And after his death, a memorandum among his papers was found to contain the names of a large number of village pastors, whose scanty stipends he had been in the habit of increasing from year to year. These are but hints and samples of his life : but they may suffice to show that he was not a man to be forgotten. It is something for a private citizen so to live that when he dies the whole community to which he belonged, and other distant communities vying with them, shall take up his name and breathe a blessing upon it. It is for yourselves, under Providence, to decide (I speak especially to the wealthy among you), whether your memories shall be thus embalmed, or handed over to a speedy oblivion. And in making this observation, I am far from commending it to you as a becoming object of your ambition, to purchase a posthumous fame by your charities, I have in view simply the ordinance of heaven, that "the righteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance." "The memory of the just" (and this epithet includes the idea of benevo lence) "is blessed." Whether you take the case of a se cluded female, who employs her leisure hours, like Dorcas, in making coats and garments for the poor, or the faithful missionary who wears himself out in distributing the bread of life along the lanes and alleys of a city, or the paternal landlord, who, like the "Man of Ross," puts the impress of his kindness upon all the homes of his neighbourhood, and associates his name with every measure which can augment the common comfort, or the generous capitalist whose benefactions are a sure reliance to the great reli gious charities of his age—it is alike the ordering of Pro vidence, that their memories shall be blessed. You may not aim at this result. Your humility may shrink from the thought of having your names repeated from one to another, even by friendly and grateful lips. But you can not well avoid this, if you are faithful to your trust, and employ your property, or a reasonable portion of it, in doing good. Sooner or later, many will " rise up and call you blessed." It is meet that it should be so. And the marvel is, that you do not all perceive how superior in dignity and worth, in honour and influence, is a scheme of life regulated by these principles, to one which looks only or mainly, to indefinite accumulation. The length to which our extracts have extended, although they have exhausted the space at our command, have not by any means exhibited the extent and value of the advice and information conveyed in the pages of the volume, which will be found an admirable family and counting-house manual. It deserves and will repay an attentive and frequent perusal. The London Quarterly Review, No. 111. London: Partridge, Oakey, and Co. The third number of this periodical sustains the character we recognised in its first and second publications. It contains well-written articles on a variety of stbjeCts, all of which are treated with an apparent candour and ingenuousness. Its lite rary status, as well as its literary standard, may not reach those so readily achieved and so nobly maintained by the polished literary and political giant whose patronymic it to some extent assumes ; but it is a valuable addition to the high-class periodicals of the day. In the present number we have an interesting paper onMadagascar,founded on the papers of the London Missionary Society, in which we have a succinct and spirited review of life and manners as they are to be met with in that island, to which a new interest has lately been added by the passing of it into the hands of a native sovereign who is an avowed Christian, thus affording ground of lively hope to those who rejoice in the spread of Scripture truth and Christian civi lization. The fourth paper is devoted to a brief but spirited sketch of the rise, progress, and pre sent condition of Mormonism, in which the immo ralities, blasphemies, and gross delusions of the Mormon imposture are delineated with skill, and exposed with effect. After narrating the singular and rapid increase in the number of adherents to this impious and demoralising iniquity—demon strating its disgusting polygamy—its disregard of moral obligations, and its fanatical delusions—the writer says :-- 161011110N1531 A.ND ITS R.P.SULTS. Such is Mormonism —" of the earth earthy," a religion of sensuality and blasphemy. Its steps "go down to death ; its feet take hold on hell." The rapid spread of such a plague among our agricultural and commercial population is a portentous occurrence. In this country there has been, there will be, no persecution ; but the surprising growth of the system shows that it is as unsafe to ignore, as it would be unwise to persecute it. Let us, depending upon God, use all the weapons that reason and religion allow, to effect its suppression. An able and interesting, although somewhat abstruse article on " Meteorology" follows, in which 1 many singular facts are adduced in illustration of the writer's views on various atmospheric phe nomena. " Recent Discoveries in Palestine affoxd ample scope for a paper in which topo graphical information is blended with ingenious speculation. The junction of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is another subject in which specu lation is aided by practical knowledge, and both are happily combined in elucidating the relative merits of the several schemes for effecting that object which, are now before the public. This is succeeded by an able essay on " Modern Poetry : its Genius and Tendencies," in which the writer, viewing the subject from an elevated position, examines and dispels many of the gross fallacies by which small men of the present day are made to look like giants, by men much smaller than themselves. The paper is ostensibly,founded on a review of the poems of Alexander Smith—a noto riety of recent and, we fear, of fungous growth. The question of the poetical mission is examined by the reviewer with candour and discrimination ; and he proves, what there was hardly room to doubt, that a mistake in estimating that mission may lead to consequences disastrous to the literature and civilization of our age. Imbued with this con viction, he proceeds with seriousness, more, we think, than the occasion called for, to show that Mr. Smith's eulogists—they can scarcely, we fear, be called his friends—have attempted to deify a very ordinary son of earth. Speaking of" Walter," the hero of Mr. Smith's Life Drama—in which there is great reason to believe the poet typifies himself—the reviewer says of Mr. Smith and his congeners— Their heroes have not the prestige of acknowledged genius; they have no grand associations to call up, nor any fadeless laurels to display upon their brows. Of course, then, they must approve their claims to the character in the work where they appear, which must at once establish the author and the hero. * * * But we almost despair of conveying to the reader any adequate idea of the great efforts, and greater sacrifices, they make in order to obtain the character and praise of genius. It is clear that they design to give us the quintessence of the genuine article. Nothing that for a moment can be taken, by those who hear it read, for simple prose, or recognised as the thought and language of daily life, is suffered upon their pages for a moment. It is one unmitigated stream of genius —we suppose—that scorns all rule, as any river of spirit will overflow its bounds. The painful truth of the above remarks is unde niable. In ancient days the fabulist told us of some miserable frogs who puffed and swelled themselves until they burst in ridiculous efforts to look as big as oxen. Such futile attempts at expansion in our day are not left to the exertion ' s of the ambitious reptile—his brother frogs assem ble round him, and with all their power of lungs assist in the inflation. Of the efficiency of this operation we had recent testimony in the case of the young gentleman whose effusions have been the theme of the reviewer's animadversions. Having recently been entertained at some convivial festivities, the encomiastic flow of his elated friends induced the poet to shadow forth a time when his health might be toasted not less fre quently than that of our beloved Sovereign ! Alas, alas ! how intoxicating are the fumes of adulation ! Our Friend. A Monthly Miscellany designed for all classes. London : J. F. Shaw. We have now before us the three first numbers of this periodical. It is obviously intended to aid the movement for the suppression of intemperance ; and furnishes to the reader a fund of miscellaneous matter. - Vital Statistics. By R. Thompson Joppling. London : King. This is the first part of a work devoted to the means of computing a rate of mortality among persons affected with various diseases. The author goes into his subject in a methodical manner, and displays no small amount of ingenuity in his research. PROVINCIAL "PUNK."—The Czar has "mustered" a hundred thousand men.—Preston Gazette. The Sultan will "pepper" them.—Berunek Guardian. And Eng land and France will " assault" them.—Worcester Times. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rer. A. T. Armstrong', M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Ashton-on-Ribble. _ _ Rev. H. Beckwith, M.A., to the Rectory of St. Mary, Bishop-hill, York. Rev. W. D. I'. Belcher, 31. A., Vicar of Denford and King stead, to be Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Leicestershire. Rev. W. H. Beevor, 8.A., Fellow of 'Jesus College, Oxford, and Head Master of Cowbridge School, to the Vicarage of St. Hilary. Rev. T. W. D. Brooks, to the Curacy of Marston St. Law rence. cum Warkworth, North Hants. Rev. F. Caudwell, to'tbe Curacy of St. Stephen's, Devonport. Rev. J. Colborne, ILA., to the Incumbency of Holy Trinity Church. Painswick, or Slad, near Stroud. Rev. J. Darnell, M.A. to be Second Master of Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School. St. Martin's in-the-Fields. Rev. G. W. De Lisle, 8.A., to an Under-Mastership in Marlborough College. Rev. H. W. Egan, 8.A., late Curate of St. Andrew's Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to be one of the Chaplains to her Ma jesty's forces in the East. Rev. F. Elmer, to the Curacy of Doncaster. Rev. J. B. Harrison, M.A., Incumbent of Walmer, to be Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Kent. Rev. W. Hey, M.A., Head Master of St. Peter's School, York, to a Prebendal Stall in York Cathedral. Rev. R. Hill, 8.A.; Vicar of Mansell Lacy, near Hereford, to the Incumbency of the adjoining parish of Wormsley. Rey. H. Deane Hilton. M.A., of St. John's College, Oxford, to the Rectory of Orlingbury, Northamptonshire. Rev. W. W. Johnston, M.A., to a Minor Canonry in Man chester Cathedral. Rev. Mr. Lowe, to a Minor Canonry in Durham Cathedral. Rev. J. S. Master, of Chorley, to an Honorary Canonry in Manchester Cathedral. Rev. H. Morgan, to the Rectory of St. Athan, Glamorgan shire. Rev. G. Mockler, M.A., to be Chaplain to the troops pro ceeding to Malta. Rev. F. D. Perkins, M.A., Vicar of Stoke, near Coventry, to be a Surrogate. Rev. J. Powell, BA., to the Curacy of St. Matthew's, Little London, Leeds. Rev. G. S. Robertson, to the Perpetual Curacy of Pitstone (or Pightlesthot De), Bucks. Rev. I'. Sikes, M.A., Vicar of Luton, to the Rural Deanery of Dunstable. _ _ Rev. B. Simpson, M.A., Minor Canon of Durham, to the Vicarage of Bossall, near York. Rev. F. Stonehouse, M.A., to the Rectory of Honily, near Warwick. . - Ret•. F. Tripp, 8.A., to the Rectory of Trinity Church, Wakefield. Rev. W. H. White, NI.A., to the Vicarage of Kenton, Suffolk. [We are requested to state that the Rev. A. Field's appoint ment to the Curacy of St. Saviour's, Leeds, announced in our last, is incorrect.] THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER LIVERPOOL SPRING ASSIZES. CROWN COURT .-TUESDAY, MARCH 28. (BEFORE MR. JUSTICE CRESWELL.) ARRAIGNMENT OF TILE PRESTON DELEGATES.—George Cowell, Michael Gallager, Mortimer Grimshaw, Luke Wood, James Waddington, John Brocklehurst, John Lang,JohnGardner,Wm.Parkinson,JosephDolphin,and Thos. Greyson, appeared to answer their recognizances, and pleadednotguiltytothechargeof conspiring togethertopre ven t persons being employed at certain mills at Preston. There were several other counts in the indictment, but this was the main one upon which the prosecution was founded ; the other counts being merely legal technicalities to support the case. Air. Watson applied for a postponement of the trial till next assizes, on the ground that the period which had elapsed since the committal of the prisoners was so short that there had not been sufficient time to prepare the materials for their defence. Mr. Spinks supported the application. Mr. Knowles, the Attorney-General of the circuit, opposed the application on the ground that the nature of the offence was such, that public justice demanded its investigation with as little delay as possible. His Lordship quite agreed that it was important that this case should be decided ; but at the same time it was of the ut most importance that no trial should be conducted under such circumstances that even the most ignorant person should imagine, or be able to say, that a full, fair, and im partial trial had not taken place. He bad looked at the affidavits, and certainly thought the time to prepare the case had been very short. On these grounds, however much he deplored--as every sensible person must deplore— the state of things in Preston, he thought it consistent with the ends of justice that the trial should be postponed. The traversers and their recognizances were then bound over to appear at the next assizes. CRIMINAL ASSAULTS.—John Duncan Campbell, wire drawer, Henry Dagnall, labourer, Thomas Moore, roper, Joseph Bibby, sawyer, and William Maguire, labourer, were charged with having criminally assaulted Margaret Gannon, at Warrington, on the 14th of January. The prosecutrix, it transpired, was a female of questionable cha racter. The jury acquitted all the prisoners.—James Watmough, labourer, was indicted for a similar offence on Ann Marsden, a girl of 13 years of age, at Standish, on the 28th of February. The jury experienced a good deal of difficulty in this case, and though they retired twice to consider their verdict, up to ten o'clock they could not agree. They were accordingly locked up all night, and in the morning, after attempting to return a verdict of guilty of a common assault, which could not be received, they ac quitted_the prisoner. —Michael M`Mullin, indicted for a similar offence upon a factory girl of 16, at Bolton, was acquitted. DIOCESE OF CHESTER. PREPEBMENT.—The Rev. James Cronshaw has been licensed by the Bishop to the perpetual curacy of St. Thomas's Church, Wigan, in the county of Lancaster, void by resignation of Rev. P. T. Simmons—patron, the Rector of Wigan. VACANCIES.—The perpetual curacy of Guilden Sutton, in the county of Chester, by death of Rev. Peploe Wm. Hamilton. The perpetual curacy of Great Crosby, in the parish of Sefton, Lancashire, by death of the Rev. R. Walker—patron, Rector of Sefton. CONSECRATION.—The ground surrounding the new church at Great Crosby, and forming the yard thereof, is to be consecrated for interments by the Bishop of Chester on Tuesday (this day), at eleven o'clock. ST. JOHN'S, KNOTTY Asll.—From the account of a presentation of plate to the Rev. G. F. Greene, late curate of this church, which appeared in our last number, it might be inferred that Mr. Greene, having been appointed to the curacy by the late Bishop, was removed from it without regard to the wishes of the congregation by the present Bishop. We take the earliest opportunity of stating that neither the removal of Mr. Greene, nor the nomination of the present incumbent of Knotty Ash, was the act of the Bishop—that Mr. Greene's curacy termi nated, as a matter of course, with the death of Mr. Tuer, the late incumbent, in consequence of whose non-residence he was appointed to it, and that the present incumbent was nominated to the benefice by the Patron of it, and not by the Bishop. TnE Manor OF CHESTER intends to hold his next ordination at Chester, on Trinity Sunday, June 11th. DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER.—Preferments : The Rev. Gage Freeman to the perpetual curacy of Emanual Church, Bolton. On Tuesday the Bishop of Manchester collated the Rev. Richard Durnford, M.A., rector of Middleton, to an honorary canonry in the Cathedral Church of Manchester, and issued his mandate for his induction and installation thereto. His lordship, also, on the nomination of the Rev. John Owen Parr, vicar of Preston, licensed the clergymen named last week to perpetual curacies in the parish of Preston ; and the Rev. William Benjamin Findley, 8.A., to the stipendiary curacy of Atherton, on the nomination of the Rev. Samuel Johnson, the incumbent. A NEW CHURCH NEAR BLACKBURN.—It is in contem plation to build another church in the township of Livesey, to be called the church of the " Atonement," for the rapidly increasing population of the neighbourhood of Mill Hill. The site will be near the hamlet of Waterloo. Mr. Joseph Eccles, of Mill Hill, with his usual liberality, has consented to endow the minister.—Manchester Courier. THE AMERICAN Caumen.—News has been received of Bishop Kip's safe arrival at San Francisco, after a long passage, the steamer having been nearly wrecked. He arrived on Sunday morning, and preached within three hours afterwards. Bishop Scott has sailed for Oregon, a cheerless and uninviting region at present, but which may become the nursery of active and daring men, like New England, which, in its natural features, it somewhat re sembles. CHESTER DIOCESAN CHURCH BITILDING SOCIETY.— The annual meeting was held on Wednesday, at the Savings' Bank, Bold-street ; the Ven. Archdeacon Brooks presiding. From the accounts of the honorary treasurer, Charles Groves, Esq., it appeared that the amount in hand on the Ist of January was £3,946 168. 9d., against which there were outstanding accounts amounting to £3,450, leaving an available surplus of £496 16s. 9d. The annual report stated that a sum of £1,150 had been distributed, during the year 1853, upon the following districts : Crosby, Rostherne, Woodchurch, Liverpool, Bebington, Bollington, and Nantwich. The first grant was an addi tion of £5O to a previous grant of £250, made during the year 1852, to Crosby, to enable the incumbent to prepare for the consecration of the new church. On the same day, Rostherne, a small parish, received £l5O, it being consi dered important to provide a separate chapel for a hamlet of 800 persons, in a large straggling district. The cha pelry of Orton, in the district of Woodchurch, received £5O for additional accommodation. The district of Vaux hall, in Liverpool, received a grant of £5OO towards pro viding a new place of worship. £lOO was granted for a new district church in Bebington. Bollington, near Mac clesfield, obtained a grant of £126. Towards providing 400 additional sittings in the parish church of Nantwich, £2OO was granted. The report mentioned that, in the sister dioceses of Manchester and Chester, twelve new churches had been consecrated during the past year,— namely, four in Manchester and eight in Chester diocese. The Rev. B. Greenall, in moving the adoption of the re port, observed that every one must feel that the mission of the church-building societies was.not yet accomplished. Large as was the nnmter of churches built during the past year, it could hardly be felt that they were sufficient to meet the increasing wants of the great towns. The provision made in the new churches was generally made for the middling classes, who felt the want of places of worship, and were able to pay money to supply them. What they wanted was more free accommodation for the poorer classes. Charles Inman, Esq., in seconding the motion, remarked that the efforts of their society were principally directed to the latter object, and instanced the church of St. Chrysostom's, Everton, to which they had granted money, and in which there were 600 free sittings, or nearly half of what the church would hold. The report was unanimously adopted. The Rev. F. Hordern, vicar of Rostherne, moved the appointment of officers, which was seconded by C. Jones, Esq. A resolution, acknow ledging the blessing which had attended their efforts, and urging the claim of the society to public support, was moved by the Rev. F. Fenton, of Wavertree, and seconded by W. M. Collet, Esq." The following important resolu tion, extending the operations of the society, was moved by the Rev. Rector Campbell :—" That it appears advisable to this meeting that a fund be provided in connexion with this society, and subject to this committee, for the purpose of assisting in the provision of endowment of churches, and the building of parsonage-houses ; and that such fund should be dispensed on the following conditions :—That the patronage of such churches shall be in the hands of ecclesiastical persons, or in trustees possessing no bene ficiary interest in the same. That, in a grant of aid, re spect shall be had to comparative destitution, the amount of local aid, the character of the population, and the num ber of free sittings in the church for which aid is sought." The motion was seconded by the Rev. W. Pollock, and carried unanimously, after which the meeting concluded. HORTICULTURE. IF the conservatory has been well kept, according to our instructions, it ought now to be in perfection. Most of the hard-wooded plants, especially those planted out, such as the various species of acacia, some of which are amongst the most beautiful of plants, the pultmeas, da viesias, gompholobinus, and other New Holland plants, and the Chinese camellias and weigelas, the pretty dent zias, gracilis and scabra, with their profusion of pure white blossoms, and many more shrubs, and the herba ceous and bulbous spring-flowering species, are all now in perfection, and should be disturbed as little as possible : the only operations required being regular watering and daily ventilation, the removal of faded flowers and dead leaves whenever they appear. In the flower garden plenty of work will be found re quiring attention : sowing annuals, trimming the walks and grass hedges, clipping ornamental hedge-rows, and cleaning and rolling the turf. In the kitchen gaFden sow carrots and successional crops of peas and spinach ; plant out cauliflower a nplats ; sow thyme, parsley, and other herbs, and keep up re gular successional sowing of salad herbs, as chervil, lambs lettuce, American cress, rampions, radishes lettuce &c. Sow salsafy and scorzonera in beds or drills ; they 'form excellent winter vegetables, being general favourites where grown ; they should have a deep, rich, and well-worked soil, not too dry, as they are rather apt to run to flowers. THE SEAMEN'S STRIICE.—AII the Tyne seamen belong ing to the union, and not bound by articles, left their ships on Saturday morning week, and by a resolution of a public meeting of the North and South Shields seamen, held in the boats near the sear shore, were ;nstructed to remain out on strike until the seamen of Sunderland and Hartle pool were communicated with. The strike is made against what the sailors term the " black le g " office, a society similar to th e M as t ers ' Association at reston, formed by the owners with the object of breaking up the combination of the men, and manning their vessels with seamen who do not belong to the union. It was carried at the mess meet ing that the S un d er l an d men should strike agai nst the wishes of several of the Sunderland men who spoke. WEDNESDAY, Rut= 29. SENTENCES.—WiIIiam Saunders, for stealing, six years' imprisonment —Lawrence Murphy, who had pleaded guilty to a burglary, and James Watson, convicted of robbery, each received a sentence of four years' penal servitude—Andrew Jackson, convicted of feloniously cut ting and wounding, and Charles Flower, of manslaughter, were severally sentenced, Jackson to penal servitude for four years, and Flower, who had been originally charged with murder, to transportation for fifteen years—Robert Sharpies, and John Blake, who pleaded guilty of burglary, were sentenced the former to fifteen, and the latter to twelve months' imprisonment —John Simpson, banker's clerk, was next brought up, and received a sentence of fifteen years' transportation, on a charge of uttering a forged check for £l5OO —Ann Livinia Gittins was sentenced to hard labour for three months, on a conviction for bigamy. E3IBEZZLEMENT.—James Fagg, inspector of weights and measures at Bolton, charged with embezzling the moneys of the corporation, was discharged under the di rection of the judge, on some fatal objections taken to the indictment by his counsel.—George Walker, sharebroker, of Spekeland-buildings, Liverpool, charged with forging an endorsment to a letter of credit, for £ll les. 10d., was found guilty. Sentence deferred. BANKRUPT REFUSING TO SURRENDER. —Francis Ro binson was prosecuted under the 251st section of the Bank ruptcy Act, for refusing to surrender to be examined from time to time after being made a bankrupt, which is felony under the act. The case was from Manchester. The prisoner was, under the direction of the judge, discharged on a point of law. BITIIGLABY.—DanieI Carr, charged with burglary at Langsdale, near Preston, was found guilty and sentenced to four years' imprisonment. ROBBERY.—George M` Hugh and Patrick Govin, charged with robbery at Manchester, were sentenced to four years' imprisonment. RIOT AT PRESTON.— Dennis Woodhead and Patrick Bennett, factory operatives,both of them youths from 19 to 20 years of age, were charged with having, at Preston, on the 2nd inst., assembled with divers other persons to the number of one thousand, and unlawfully disturbed the public peace. The riot, it appeared, arose out of the in troduction into the town, by Messrs. Leigh, of operatives from Cumberland and Westmoreland, and the prisoners were apprehended on a charge of throwing stones at the police. The jury, after twenty minutes' consultation, ac quitted Bennett, and found Woodhead guilty, who was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. The court adjourned at half-past six o'clock. THURSDAY, MAnen 30. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY LARCENY CASE.—William Caitchen was charged with having, on the 21th of January last, stolen £596 10s., the property of his employers, the London and North-western Railway Company, and in another count with having applied to his own uses a farther sum of £251 18s. 7d., also the property of the company. The facts of the case were very strong. The prisoner was in the responsible situation of cashier at the Lime-street station here; and in January last, from something that had occurred, Mr. Stewart, one of the secretaries of the company in London, con sidered that an inquiry into the prisoner's accounts should be made. He accordingly sent the inspector of station accounts to Liverpool : and on the 28th of January that official had an interview with the prisoner, and told him his errand. On an examination of the railway books, the income was stated at £17,947 7s. 94d. . Mr. Caitchen was then asked to show the credit account, and that account showed a total of £17,695 9s. 24d., showing a balance of £250 17s. Bd. due to the railway company. From some thing further that occurred in London, Mr. Stewart, not quite satisfied, desired the inspector of station accounts to go down again to Liverpool, and examine the accounts, with respect to one particular item. Mr. Chauncey, the inspector, accordingly went down, and drew Mr. Caitchen's attention to a sum in the credit account of £596105., the sum referred to in the first count in the indictment. The prisoner was asked how he explained that sum, and he stated that the sum had been paid to the East Lancashire Railway Company, and produced what was called a bank transmit in proof of payment, on which was a tick, and the word "Audit" Mr. Chauncey for the moment thought this explanation a reasonable one, and went and reported accordingly to the office in Londdn. The prisoner was again, from something that had transpired, asked to explain this entry of £596 10s., and he then stated that the statement made to Mr. Chauncey was false and untrue, and that, so far from paying the sum to the East Lancashire Company, he had paid £250 to a person of the name of Gowland, and that the balance of £346 10s. he had applied to his own use — for he acknowledged he had appropriated it to himself, and, with extraordinary coolness, said he had lent it to a friend, who would repay it in a short time. The above facts were borne out in evidence, and after a consultation of about twenty minutes' duration, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. TRIAL OF Gok.Lsw.—Thomas Goalen was then charged with stealing sums of £3OO, £250, and £2OO, and re ceiving £250 from Caitchen, knowing it to be stolen, the money of the London and North-Western Railway Com pany, his masters. Goalen pleaded guilty.—His lordship, in a feeling address, sentenced Goalen to transportation for 14 years, and Caitchen to penal servitude for 4 years. CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD.—WiIIiam Carlyle and William Brown were charged with conspiring to defraud Thomas Sibson. In December last the prosecutor, Sibson, sold for £39 a mare to Brown, who took her to Preston fair in January. On the 3rd of that month, the prosecutor received a letter from Brown, stating that the mare had been examined by a veterinary surgeon, and had been pronounced a roarer. The prosecutor then went to Preston and saw Brown, who informed him that the mare had been sold for £27, which the prosecutor accepted, and gave Brown also £l, in name of expenses. The prose cutor afterwards ascertained that he had been imposed upon, and that the mare had actually been sold for £32. The jury found the prisoners guilty. On the part of Carlyle, an arrest of judgment was moved, on the ground that the indictment set forth no means by which the offence could be committed.—Sentence was deferred, and his lordship reserved the point of law. CHARGE OP CHILD MURDER.—Mary Ann Laithwaite, 18 years of age, but looking considerably younger, was arraigned on a coroner's inquisition for the murder of her • new-born female infant. No evidence was offered, and the jury, by the direction of the court, acquitted the prisoner. SENTENCES.—George Walker, convicted of stealing a letter of credit, was ordered to be confined in a gaol in this county for nine months.—Michael M'Nally, for forgery, was sentenced to imprisonment, with hard labour, for four months.—Judgment in the case of William Walker, for an assault on a policeman, was postponed, for the settlement of a question of law. FRIDAY, MARCH 31. The Court opened at nine o'clock. As the criminal cases were finished on the previous evening, Mr. Justice Cresswell sat to hear civil cases. LAMB V. SEED.—This was a long and uninteresting action, founded upon the infringement of a patent for an improved spring for a roving flyer, for which damage was sought to the amount of £l,OOO. The plaintiff was Joseph Lamb, of Bengal-street, Manchester. The defendant was William Seed, spindle manufacturer, of Preston. To facilitate the comprehending of the case, several kinds of "flyers," and pieces of machinery, plans, and drawings, were produced. The whole case turned upon the point as to whether the plaintiff's specifications alluded to or con templated the use of a flyer without a sprin g to regu l a t e the weight. The acti on l as t e d un til fi ve o'clock, when nonsuit was declared. The locckom, court at half-past five o'clock. SATURDAY, APRIL 1. • CHARNELEY V. GRUNDY.—this was an action brought to recover three yearly instalments of £2OO, with interest thereon, part payment of a promissory note for £2,000. In or about the year 1845 a Mr. German, of Preston, lent £2,000 to the firm of Grundy and Co., machinists, of Manchester. Mr. German died in 1847, and the plaintiff was his executor. The defendants continued to pay the annual instalments until the year 1851, when they objected to pay any more, on the ground that the promissory note could not be produced. It had been admitted in the year 1850, after the decease of Mr. German, that the note could not be found. Verdict for the plaintiff, £790. G BUND Y a. GERMAN.—This appeared to be a cross action, and the real plaintiff i n th e l as t case th e defendant. It was brought to recover dam ages f o r an alleged breach of contract. The real defendant was Mr. German, a barrister, nephew to the deceased gentleman of now paintiffs, arising out of the last case. The defendants were that name, and having a life-interest in his will. It ap peared that the present Mr. German ' the defendant, was at one time a partner in the firm of Grundy and Co. During that period he exTressc4 his ipteuttou of erecting a cotton-mill of his own, and that the firm should supply the machinery for it. He subsequently left the firm, and became a barrister, and the intended mill was not built. On the promise alluded to the plaintiffs grounded their action. In support of the case an estimate of the expenses of the machinery, drawn up at the time, was put in by the plaintiffs ; but his lordship, observing that it was not signed by both parties, informed the jury that it was no proof of the existence of any contract. A verdict was accordingly returned for the defendant. _ _ HEYWORTH V. BARNES.—This was also an action for an alleged breach of contract. The plaintiffs were Messrs. H. and G. Heyworth, who carried on the business of chemical works at Church, near Blackburn. The de fendant, Mr. Joseph Barnes, was proprietor of a colliery close to, so close that a bridge over the canal connected the two works. November, 1851, the defendant sent in a note to plaintiffs, having the signature of Mr. Baillie, son-in-law to the defendant, offering to supply coal at 4s. 6d. per ton for three years, for the plaintiffs' works : payments to be made quarterly. On the same day a note was sent by the plaintiffs to defendant accepting the offer. For some time the supply went on as the contract pro vided, and the payments also went on, but perhaps not always made on the exact day. There were certain pre vious transactions between the parties about the payment for a patent, which remained unsettled. On May 1, 1853, a note came to plaintiffs from Mr. Baillie, saying that no more coal could be supplied unless for each night, and, in consequence of present high prices, at not less than ss. per ton. On the 10th of June, plaintiffs sent a note by their carter, requesting to be supplied with coal on the terms provided by the contract. Since the time, however, that Mr. Baillie sent his note, the plaintiffs had not been able to get coals at the price agreed upon in the contract, and had been put to considerable expense and loss in con sequence. After two witnesses had been examined for the plaintiff, and the various notes put in, a legal point was raised on the validity of the contract. On examina tion of the notes it appeared that the defendants had sent in an offer to supply coals for three years, at certain terms, commencing from the Ist of January ; and the plaintiffs, in their reply, accepted the terms, but stipulated that the supply should not commence until the Ist of October following. On this it was contended for the de fendant that the terms of the contract were not recipro cal.—His LORDSHIP said he must rule against the plain tiffs, on the ground that the contract had been voided by them. He was sorry for it, because it was on purely technical grounds. The plaintiffs were accordingly non suited. HALSALL V. AINSLEY. — The plaintiff in this case was Mr. John Middleton Halsall, stock and share broker, in this town, and the defendant, William Ainsley, a dealer in provender and horser of coaches, at Fort William, in Scotland. The claim was for commission on certain trans actions between the parties i t the share market, the plain tiff buying for the defendant,. On the 31st of December, 1851, the plaintiff rendered to defendant the first account of transactions between them, showing a balance due to the defendant of £2lO. Plaintiff paid him £2OO of this. The second account was made on the 15th of January fol lowing, when there was a balance due Mr. Halsall of £328 15s. They went through the items of the account, and some charges were withdrawn, previous to that sum being agreed upon. The defendant gave plaintiff a bill for £3OO, leaving an account against him of £2B 15s. The third account was rendered at the end of January, when there was a sum due from the defendant to the plaintiff of £59 4s. 10s., and for this sum, and 2s. 6d. additional charges, the present account had been brought. The de fence, on several pleas, was that the money was not due, that the transactions were merely wagers as to the prices of stocks and shares, and that the shares were never in tended to be taken up and paid for. John Middleton Halsall, the plaintiff, was examined at great length, and spoke of the several transactions alluded to, and gave fur ther details. He said that the business was effected about the time of Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat, when there were many rises and falls in the market. On the 15th December, 1851, he purchased for the defendant about £5,000 worth of Midland stock, and on the 17th another £5,000 worth of the same stock. The purchase-money of the two transactions amounted to £5,692 10s. He expected the defendant would take up the shares. They were resold on the 29th Dec., and again re-bought, and the profit on these transactions was £2OO in favour of the defendant. In the early part of January more Mid land stock was purchased to the amount of £5,000, the purchase-money of which was £2,932 6s. 3d. This made the whole purchase-money about £8,500 on the 13th Jan., 1852. Subsequently, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire stock was purchased to the extent of £1,600, and on one day the whole of the shares were re-sold. The total value of the stock sold on that day was about £10,32050, The de fendant had informed him that his previous brokers were Messrs. H. Davies and Co., and that he had an account with them. He had often asked the defendant for - the balance due, but had never seen him from the time of the last account until he had commenced proceedings against him in last September. Mr. Millward, in defence, said this case was one of those which were heard of every day, but which very few persons had the courage to bring into court. He regretted that such cases were not oftener brought into court, and there shown up in all their defor mity. There was no doubt that they were gambling transactions throughout. They were certainly not in cluded in the old law respecting stock-jobbing, but it would be for his lordship to say whether they were included in the present law or not. Mr. Millward called the defendant, but his evidence threw no fresh light on the case, except that he had told the plaintiff he would not pay him the balance claimed "till .he had won him his money back." His Lordship, in summing up, said, the "work" had no doubt been done by the plaintiff. There was nothing illegal in making a time bargain for shares. But you had no legal right to make a wager with a man, and say, " I will bet you so much that shares are at such a price at such a time." The question was whether these were real contracts for shares, or mere shams. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. GARDINER v. ROWETT : CLAM FOR DEBT.—Mr. Samuel. Gardiner, ship-storedealer, South Castle-street, plaintiff, and Mr. William Rowett, sailmaker, &c., de fendant. Mr. Cowling for plaintiff, and Mr. Mellish for defendant. A claim- for £270, balance of an account for stores supplied to two ships, fitted out for Icheboe, belonging to Messrs. Campbell, Tomkins, and Company, of this town. The stores had been ordered by.defendant, and the only question in the case was, whether he was merely an agent for the owners or a partner in the firm. The jury gave a verdict for the defendant. It is said that an application is to be made for a new trial. ASHWORTIE V. TRYMAN. — Frederick Ashworth, mar ble-mason, Manchester, plaintiff, and Andrew Tryman, architect, London, defendant. Mr. Knowles for the plaintiff ; Mr. Atherton for the defence. Plaintiff claimed £49 Is. for a number of marble chimney pieces supplied by him in October, 1851, to a mansion called Bardsea-hall, built near Ulverstone, under the direction of the defendant. The contract for the hall was let to a Mr. Waring, a builder, and the chimney-pieces were included in the specification. They were ordered, however, by the defendant, but at the latter end of October the plaintiff received a note, signed by the defendant's clerk-of-the-works, a person named Machland, informing him that the defendant was leaving for London, and that his account was to be made out to Mr. Waring. Upon this note the plaintiff was nonsuited, Mr. Knowles remark ing that he must now try an action against Mr. Waring. MONDAY, APRIL 3. BREACH OF CON TRACT.—RAFFERTY V. HAYES AND Co. —This was an action to recover the sum of £44 3s. 10d., being the amount of the alleged difference between 100 tons of coal contracted to be furnished by the defendants to the plaintiff, at the rate of 18s. 6d. per ton, and the value for which they would have sold in Dublin. From the evidence it appeared that, on the 20th of October last, the defendants, through an accredited party, contracted to furnish the plaintiff with 100 tons of coal, to be delivered on the following Tuesday, alongside a steamboat on the quay of the Trafalgar Dock. The money to be paid on delivery of the coal. The coals were not delivered ; and the action was brought to recover the above sum as the loss of profit which would have arisen through their sale in Dublin.—For the defence it was contended that no vessel had been provided for the carriage of the coals, as conditioned in the contract.—His Lordship concurred in this view, and directed the jury to find a verdict for the plaintiff, to the effect:that the coals had not been furnished in terms of the contract ; but for the defendants on the second and third issues, which were to the effect that no means of shipping the coal had been provided as contracted for by the plaintiff. ASSAULT.—IRwIN v. MILL—The plaintiff in this case was Thomas Hastings Irwin, and the defendant was Mr. Mill, deputy chairman of the Liverpool Stock Exchange Association. On the 11th of February last, whilst the plaintiff was hi the room of the Stock Exchange, he was, at the instance of the defendant, expelled from the room. No personal violence was offered to the plaintiff, and, in point of fact, the ejection was effected in the mildest manner possible. For this ejection the present action was brought. The question really at issue turned upon the construction of a rule (No. 27) of the Stock Exchange Association, which provides that, in the event of any mem ber failing to fulfil his pecuniary engagements, a com mittee of three members of the association, one chosen by the defaulter, one by his creditors, and one by the association, shall make an examination into his affairs, and report to the association ; the party in the mean time being suspended from transacting business on the Exchange. At the end of last year the plaintiff became unable to meet his engagements, and gave the usual intimation of that circumstance. On this, a committee was appointed to examine into his affairs and report. The report, it would appear, had not been favourable to the plaintiff, and a notice was posted in the room, inti mating that he had ceased to be a member of the Stock Exchange. Subsequent to the posting of this notice, the plaintiff entered the room of the association, and, on being requested by the defendant to withdraw, he refused to do so ; the defendant then called the por ter, and gave him instructions to have the plaintiff removed. This was done, as already stated, without any violence, and con stituted the assault complained of. For the plaintiff it was contended that the rule only provided for the suspen sion of a member from transacting business on the Ex change, but did not contemplate the expulsion of any member, and that, in point of fact, the plaintiff had never ceased to be a member of the association, and, as a member, he had a right to be present in the room, and that forcibly to eject him was an assault. The plaintiff was examined at some length, and it turned out that the report of the committee of inspection had not been communicated to the plaintiff's creditors, as provided for in the rule of the association. Under direction of his lordship, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with 40s. damages, reserving the question as to the legality of the expulsion of the plaintiff from being a member of the Stock Exchange for consideration of the higher court. SHAREBROSING CASE. -- . OIOELL V. CORBET.—The plaintiff in this case was a sharebroker in Liver pool ; and, in; August last year, he and the defend ant had been engaged in some share transactions, which continued up to the end of October, at which time there was an alleged balance due to the plaintiff, amounting to £143 Os. 4d. It appeared that the plaintiff and the de fendant had been on intimate and friendly terms. On rendering an account of the transactions, and claiming the amount of balance above stated, the plaintiff had it returned, with the words written across it, " Never ordered the Leeds shares," thus, as it were, repudiating the amount of commission charged upon the sale of op° wQrth Q f railway shares, but otiil tacitly ackliQw. • ledging a sum of £llB 45., contained in the account, and as part of which £2O was paid by him. For the defence, it was contended that the whole of the transactions were merely speculative and gambling transactions; that, in point of fact, no bona fide sales or purchases of stock ever took place as between the plaintiff and the defendant, the latter never, in reality, having had any shares. Evidence was given on both sides proving that the defendant was a clerk in a merchant's office, and was well known to be so by the plaintiff; it was also proved that little or no money had passed between the parties. His Lordship, in summing up, pointed out to the jnry the distinction existing between rash speculations and mere gambling, in the sense contemplated by the recent statute; and said, if the transactions which had been submitted to their consideration were in their estimation such as to bring them under the latter denomination, the plaintiff could not recover; if, on the other hand, they were satis fied the transactions were bond fide, they must find for the plaintiff, remarking that £llO 4s. seemedtobe admitted by the defendant. The Jury, after a brief consultation, returned a verdict for plaintiff, damage £9O 45., being the full sum claimed, minus the *C2O paid, and the commission on the £2,000 Leeds shares. DISPUTED PAYMENT.—MA.CGILDOWNY P. GREGORY. —ln this action, which was for the sum of £l5, being the interest for one year of the sum of £3OO of money lent by the plaintiff to the defendant, it appeared that the de fendant is married to a niece of the plaintiff, and that in December, 1848, he lent the defendant the sum of £3OO, and that some time after the latter granted a promissory note for its repayment, along with interest, by annual instalments. The first year's interest was paid, or offered to be paid, by the defendant's wife, for which purpose she tendered £l5, but at her own request was allowed to re tain £lO of it, to be repaid by her in a short time. The £lO, it appeared, had, in point of fact, been repaid, but, through some confusion in recollection as to dates and circumstances, she also considered she had paid the next year's interest. This latter fact was denied by the plain tiff, and hence the action. Evidence was given, and after having been addressed by his lordship, the jury consulted for a few minutes, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the sum claimed, at the same time expressing their conviction that no imputation as to the motives of the defendant was in any way attributable. The court adjourned at three o'clock, in consequence of Mr. Justice Cresswell having to return to London. NISI PRIUS COURT.—TUESDAY, Mecca 28. (Before Mr. Baron PLATT.) In Hodgson v. White and another, an action to recover compensation for personal injuries received by an up holsterer, by the falling of a gate belonging to the de fendants, a verdict for £2OO was agreed to by consent. ALLEGED BREACH OF A CONTRACT FOR IRON.—BULL v. ROBINSON.—The plaintiff is an iron -master, at the Ravendale-works, near Tunstall, Staffordshire, and about the end of last year he entered into a contract to make and supply to the defendant, who is a metal merchant in Liverpool, a quantity of iron, to be delivered at different times. Iron to the value of £1,325 was received by the defendant ; about this there was no dispute ; but two boat-loads, one sent on the 24th December and the other on the 2nd January, were rejected on their arrival at Li verpool, on the ground that the iron was wholly unmer chantable, and for this alleged breach the plaintiff claimed £555, or such damages as the jury thought him entitled to. The defendant submitted that, even if a verdict were given for the plaintiff, only is. damages could be given ; for all the compensation he could be entitled to was the difference, upon the quantity refused, of the price per ton at the time of contract and the refusal ; and in this case there was no loss. There was a great deal of evidence as to the iron-makers and merchants ; and it came out in the course of the case that the defendant had a cross action for non-delivery by the plaintiff. The jury retired about twenty minutes before four, the case having occupied about six hours. After half-an-hour's absence, they returned, and stated that they were of opinion that the iron was not merchantable at Liverpool or at Ellesmere Port. Verdict for the defendant. LIBELLING A SHIP-STORE DEALER. Meadows and Another v. Mottram was an action brought by Messrs. John Meadows and Thomas Sampson, ship-store-dealers, 17, Strand-street, in this town, against John Mottram, trading under the. firm of A. Robinson and Co., and a rival in the same line of business, a few doors from the plaintiff's shop. The libel complained of, which was cutting out or reprinting a report of a police case from a newspaper of November 4th, 1853, and exhibiting it in his shop window. The inquiry before the police authorities was as to the quantity and weight of various kinds of provisions sup plied by the plaintiffs to a family of the name of Brooks, passengers by the Marco Polo, on the 31st of October last. The consequence of this was, that the plaintiffs' business entirely left them. The defendant had been re monstrated with personally, and a letter from Mr. Rymer, solicitor, had been addressed to him without effect, as the report was printed in larger type, and again exhibited, headed " Caution to Emigrants." Mr. Hill, for the de fence, said that the defendant had done wrong to plaintiff in continuing to exhibit this placard in his window ; and informed the court that he now withdrew all imputation on the plaintiffs' character. With this explanation and ac knowledgment the plaintiffs' counsel expressed himself satisfied, and stated that,. as his clients only sought to set themselves right with their neighbours, they would con sent to a verdict of 40s. This the jury found. In Thompson v. Walsh, an action arising out of an alleged illegal restraint, a vote was returned for the plain tiff : damages, £l6 10s. WEDNESDAY, MiLBCR 29. LIBEL.-SITRIVAJ.L V. 2.I.`CLEiLLAN. This was an action to recover compensation for damage alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, through statements contained in a letter written by the de fendant, and published in the Liverpool Mercury in November last. The plaintiff, Mr. Frederick Shri vall, professor of music in Liverpool, and residing at Huyton, had been summoned at the instance of Jane. Wilcock, as the putative father of her illigitimate child. Wilcock had lived in the house of the plaintiff as servant of all work, at the time the alleged intimacy between her and the plaintiff was said to have taken place ; and. in one of the hearings, under the summons of affiliation, (for the case was adjourned oftener than once) a girl who had been a fellow servant of Wilcock's made a statement as to re marks uttered by Wilcock relative to alleged familiarities between her and a former master, named McClellan (the defendant in the present action). This, the plaintiff averred, was done merely to show the character of the girl, and not in any degree to impugn the moral character of the defendant, of whose person or habits he had not the slightest knowledge. In the letter complained of the de fendant described the circumstances of the hearing before the Magistrates, and commented upon them, as well as upon an'account given in the Northern Daily Times ; he charged the plaintiff with being guilty of improper inti macy with Wilcock; and he made imputations of conspi racy and perjury as connected with the (now) plaintiff's case.—The defendant pleaded not guilty, and a justifica tion; the justification comprising a recapitulation of the statements in the letter, and alleging that the letter itself was no more than a fair comment upon an examination before the magistrates.—ln his opening address, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, who was for the plaintiff, commented at great length upon the value of an unimpeachable moral character to one, who, like the plaintiff, was engaged in the tuition of young ladies, and who, if tainted in reputa tion, would not be permitted to enter, as a teacher, into any respectable seminaries or families. He also touched, in forcible language, upon the vindictiveness, which he maintained, could alone have actuated the defendant in publishing a letter of the nature alluded to, which con tained, among other assertions the following : " There was certainly no necessity to hear a word in support of the girl's claim, or in condemnation of the course pursued by Mr. Shrivall and his witnesses. The impression made upon the minds and consciences of all present will never be erased from the memory. The evidence on behalf of Mr. Shrivall appeared to be of the grossest character. • "It is impossible to convey to any one not present any idea of the character of the evidence given by the Shrivall conspirators. There was the semblance of falsehood in every expression of feature, every ticulation, and every intonation of voice. " Shrivall and his witnesses come there prepared to swear through thick and thin that the girl was scarcely ever sober ; but, in the hurry of their arrangements, they had forgotten to agree among themselves as to the details that each would have to swear to. Therefore, although they all made oath most unblushingly as to the constant drunkenness of the girl, they contradicted each other as to many important details?' He, the learned Sergeant did not find fault in the first instance with the Mercury's report of the proceedings ; but how any paper or journal, laying any claim to re spectability, assuming to be the censor of public morals, setting itself up in this town as the leading journal (as he supposed it did), and as the advocate of all that was enlightened and for the public good,—how any journal, laying claim to respectability, under any circumstances, could lend itself to publish such an infamous letter he could not understand. He supposed they were indemni fied. He supposed they were indemnified as far as money was concerned. But if the conductor of that paper would condescend to take a hint from him (and very probably he would deem it a condescension), he would tell him that there was something against which money could not indemnify him. If he wished his paper to take a high position and maintain a high reputation, he would take advice from him (Mr. Sergeant Wilkins), and content himself with giving a fair report, without ap pending to that report, either in his own name or that of any other person, such infamous comments as those to which he was about to call the attention of the jury.— The plaintiff, his wife, and several witnesses were called. The plaintiff totally denied the truth of the charges against him, contained in the libel ; and the other wit nesses stated, in substance, that instead of being likely to take liberties with a servant, the plaintiff was cold, and rather harsh and distant towards them—that the girl, Wilcock was charged for habitual drunkenness, although otherwise an honest and good servant—and that she had denied the truth of certain statements reflecting upon the plaintiff, which was sent to Mrs. Shrivall, and which had been written for her (Wilcock) and in her name.—Mrs. Shrivall admitted that after Wilcock left her service, in March, 1853, (having been engaged in June, 1852), she gave her a character for cleanliness, honesty, and being a good waiter at table. Wilcock was discharged three days after being found so drunk that her master had to be called to assist in getting her upstairs ; but she was paid a month's wages. In cross-examination, Mrs. Shrivall said that when the lady called about Wilcock's character, she (Mrs. Shrivall) sim ply replied to the questions ; nothing was asked or said about the girl being sober or otherwise. Witness only consented to give the character after Wilcock had called upon her several times. At the last ,interview Wilcock went on her knees, and begged for a character, as the only means of saving her mother and herself from starvation, Wilcock solemnly promising never to get intoxicated again. Mr. Atherton, in his address for the defendant, denied that his client was the volunteer in this matter he had been represented to be. In fact, the girl Wilcock had lived as a servant with his (Mr. McClellan's) mot her, and he was compelled to see so much of her general conduct as to be utterly incapable of believing that she could be so drunken or so dissolute as she was represented to have been. He believed that she was unprotected while de serving of protection ; and looking at all the surrounding circumstances, 49 l)clieved that he did right in penning TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1854. .......• 0 e thd letter and now coming into court to a job . ce e the 01 to learned counsel commented strongly- upon, boa ter for the plaintiff, as to the giving of a 000 u c d r ote n; Wilcock, although it was believed that she was , o f the and he argued that, except as regarded one or cr t,. t the! witnesses, there was good ground for concludine, u t ic le or I had been guilty of a sort of conspiracy eVintur to dr Wilcock, by representing her as drunken, in order of the mane her credit as a reliable witness in the inn - A , eoo , ; affiliation.—The case for the plaintiff occupied the m hi o s r a e d t a b r a e n ss ei f g o h r t t h h o e urs def ; e a n n d d ai t i r t hen Mr. Atherton c ° ,.-- ad' flutes to six o'clock), his lords f h‘ i i t p be s i a n id g a t bl,7ttateth O el rd rre could not be concluded that night, there coul d be ° Odel l; fitting point at which to adjourn. His lordsbit drorl caution to the jurors, not to allow themselves te,f:.....'11e into conversation on the matter during the evew u ' court then rose. THURSDAY, niscrt 30. Mr. Baron Platt took his seat at nine o'clock. LIBEL. — SHRIVALL V. SeCLEL- 05 ' W E eft This case was resumed this morning , tbst • deuce for the defendant. —lt was adinitteidth plaintiff might have appealed against tilft.jobl; trates' order, and that he had not done so:- re,'" Wybergh, clerk to the magistrates at LiverK e „ f h! notes taken by . himself of the evidence at tl e s . u 'ore s° :, before the magistrates when the order was grant r a efug al e examined by Mr. Sergeant Wilkins : He ha d p , for fur give a copy of his notes to Mr. Evans, atterll:l'rue plaintiff He had furnished a copy to the ata,bpoed the defendant, but only after he had bee n sutbst t tba produce them in court. He would not swear were reporters present at the first examination'that j aorK e j verbatim copy of the notes he had read 613 s apPl i tv which appeared in the Liverpool MercurY,,. w s li o no by him. This was in consequence of an aPPl'ir!„„iag; ue magistrates, by Mr. McClellan, at the second ".70ise d i complained of the improper introduction of pa' , 1 00, e the first hearing, and asked that in justice to.,iic.,-1.1,011 full report should be allowed to go to the Pn e but Judge : Then you refused a copy to one side; e opP4 lied 3 .11 5 gave a copy to the other, and you also suPP • is bet publication.—Jane Wilcock, in her examination. veitb declared that Mr. Shrivall began to take liberti es ol about a month after she went into his service, en he was always very free in speaking to her , e g v u ell Mrs. Shrivall was present. Her evidence wa s .. . i lia It given in affiliation cases. She never got drunk 1 • 115 She refused to go to a surgeon, or to take some Pl y bee s o e Mr. Shrivall offered her. She left her service ° for 5° s Mrs. Shrivall said she (witness) had been delicat e ta kiago time, and would be unfit for the extra work frl ie tli r io t lodger, as was intended; but Mrs. Shrivall dis t ' but her that they were not parting upon bad ter n ' s 'her Mr. Shriven thought change of air would do had lorte And she also said that if a young person wh ° , l was engaged for a fortnight did not suit, Mr. Sliri c :7 l ll.r,b; willing that witness should return. Mrs. S , ni i ' Aftet: i d mended her to go to Ireland to see her m other. to et ft she got a young man named Walter Nel s° r od rt v e re letter to Mrs. Shrivall—she could neither, it ire write. Nelson read the letter to her, and the words, "I am surprised to hear that you la p l take back Harriet [Kingsley, who was a witueroo, be plaintiff], after you calling her so much; 00a5. a great deal to say about the master. She sa l 4ohe of was keeping two or three fancy women, and Op afraid of coming down stairs when he was nu , iatO c sbe his taking hold of her. She afterwards bad 3 '1,0. 0 10 with Mrs. Shrivall, in the presence of Enit iette A r isa then told Mrs. Shrivall that all that was in tnics' true ; that she had also told Harriet that Mr. ay 5 0 to ff kissed her in the bedroom, and that she wonldl i s. face if he was fetched from the draw/TIP" - she'd I A the ll au Shrivall went out, but returned alone ; an d ~,, ps " You had better get a situation as soon as 3'..5.,`" - ---ss" for' will give you a character to any lady that ean bave t fat you deserve, and that will not be a bad one. garq s ot given you for sending the letter, and so has she dl what you've said." Witness never said that ' e know what was in the letter, and that if t he , r e °fit' 310' thing about "fancy women" she was not a'?" le iter•Ae acknowledged the truth of all that was in the or _„ 19 , 1 - t ier Shrivall never required her to take an o ath, it a pes promise not to get drunk again; she never we t, 0 61 yo, knees and begged for a character. She had ji b% WeO t ifilet e this, ever asked for a character ; and wh en 6 1041. Shrivall made an app o i n t men t t o meet the , y ) be" never was a syllable said a b ou t her (witne ss ob'. 01 4 charged for drunkenness, and drunkenness,.ffiew, g s , shis i on I s witness was examined as to an other in4li, 11. 0 11 circumstances upon which Mr. and. Mrs. ley, and other witnesses were examined forth a e ris P ti ee f i sr. Wednesday. The accounts were wholly .at 00 0 to each other.] She never told Harriet ICI9P, for ce 111 , i , tile marry her; she never said anything of M'Clellan was her " beau," and she cola" so rt, er'„ o roe th e silaa' s ;O r effect ; she never made mention or Mr. to Kingsley. She never said anything of th e - she wa ste to tioned M'Clellan's name to Mrs. Evers.°Asians,,,, ll- sit'S recollect that she ever mentioned M r. o bis hal o any one. On one oc cas i on , w h en she wen" a nitwkolln rooms, and saw the plaintiff, he r efused to, d o so ul , ' i s 01 her ; and she threate n ed, if h e did dot, sh e , v ot s t eches his young lady pupils and tell their maV s t atiu s ,,,:sad:' l , ll o man he was.—Cross-examined by Sergean"by she came into court on Wednesday nioriL'' ) ;, be t cl og , a white straw bonnet ; Mr• "`Thettet Si ~a d pvie. arm and led her out, saying that she R 41 ,1 1 .4 it; she did so, but did not change allY" - baa had found through life that she had had 5 m il, Or", she could not tell whether it was morniug , t OA* when Mr. Shrivall first kissed her. It wag abolifijigl. after she went into his service. She never had artied or love for Mr. Shrivall ; in fact, she rather It was against her will that the impropery in t es,"'d took place. She screamed with all her might at e with all her might. Mrs. Shrivall came horn e :;) 4l°l , s o o o'clock; but witness did not cry or tell 17110 d 5: Sl l4 ' what happened. She did her work as usn l i ta feel next morning she gave Mrs. Shrivall notic. e fac t, a P iv e soll' Shrivall persuaded her to stop. She had, in 00 te a ti le, , hatred for Mr. Shrivall ; but there. was 11 7,,, her s u ll e 11 0 she could make complaint. There was , 011 ,4,a if Po stir nurse, and it would have been rather awawe'aoor• oh gone out, as there was no one to answer th ; s h had asked, Mrs. Shrivall would have re tell s o u e a her have gone without asking, and could no t p'"" not.—Re-examined When Mr. M'Clellan !t oo ., et ioil• of court on the previous morning, she was f ag ! ii r g e . e° ll , Of{ thing she had said had been from her en d nea rb ej [The examination of this witness oecnPie„.sre hours and a quarter.] Several witnesses - a te" i‘s fe b e i examined. They contradicted, directly t° 111 that had been said on the other side, as.... d w ha ll ' tween Wilcock, her mother, Mr. and l' - ii a sing e cient i others ; and they represented Wilcock as hat 3."tser' years sober, modest, and truthful. — g r. ,,. l , m- his 1 0 beistg„t the defendant, said that Wilcock lived with e e se'i,, about three years, while he was residing tehe_cl,lt.„-a,iiipio widower. He never saw a nicer, handier s auto t b u e s, er saw or heard of anything as to her being au tO lierife ji He never saw or heard anything contrarY , s pet, every respect honest, truthful, and trustiv.orlfe.4 dio . r io r e conducted himself in any way with the shgn . " l so u: 0 1, towards Wilcock.—[Mr. Sergeant Wilk a i ns „*.a betl or e;s to insinuate anything of the sort.]- 11 e ' l ,, e e s he„ a (1? sth and 12th of November of the procee,Rc;iserViiiic magistrates ; that the girl had no legal s dog geu bt l,'''tz his own name had been most improperly d. he ``.`k to case. It was for these reasons he interfere,Absecosr a report in the Northern Daily Times, L'.` e a •o f his letter.—Cross-examined He never ad : vT er no ot . ;',,' - t ett change her bonnet; it was done by his s in at''' o ttl b " 11' gave the Mercury any indemnity for the_aco io ta o i his letter ; they had asked for none, and hya il oi t oe ; to the paper several times.—Mr. Sergeant a ste e t teo 3 ;o o in described described the defence as a shameless Waste stns ,0 insult to the understanding of the jury, a." ll _ - '. h eta'.atet, desecrate justice. As to the contradicts t he E h sl'Ls Leichman and Mrs. Shrivall, respecting'. Wilcock, there was no doubt that both Ile the the truth ; but Mrs. Shrivel], was the moridea trite lect what did occur, because she had )t a t itendej to r9ir ly portunity of Wilcock, and was from the delftr if the question should be put, yet she r ge ht.Yie for that it was not. He attributed the c' e ' spe cba for b es to a desire to father her guilt upon a r Ade to Ps; f liet as iit parently wealthy man, who might be to act of her paramour; and he appealed to _ t he _ s . e( before the libel complained of was writtetlloole'ast 'the j all jefe ll must not have been—while perfectly " t he dee t lif. Wilcock's position—at least actuated the plaieni.oryr, sonal malice and malevolence towards su sh ", of i , e o premium were given to the making v irtue.. prej man would be safe. Even the exalted , 0 1; ; Gladstone could not save him from a"," tie rer the attributing of motives which shoula °'" - t it de. entertained for an instant.—The learned i7 J ity , t a llet: ce , as the case had occupied, such was its g ri : ba t ficl e " er' impossible to regret a single moment ._ t he „ oth oft voted to it. There was so much contest !"." or tv b e so much dreadful wickedness on one s ' au ho' d - ji tlio t w that it was absolutely necessary theY, fip,cotet cautious how they trod, lest they shoo.: a ie ' c li s io: to rL t oe, he was sure was the object of both,— a'a,, e tef ; llo sistent with justice and truth. The actlo, , : c lor", (1 1), 0 ° bl i p compensation for a slander upon a n l l e 0 1313 / .0 1 :110' 11 libel was of a very strong kind ; but t ~cao Dyes', by written and published it, took the bull _ —he neither denied its publication„ .I.ll'zkaoo.e . e t character; he came forward and said,. li ber ate dhecalr o ! ./ whole of it ; but I justify its utterpublicatiot 0004,, is true." No man was permitted to i,045 he (OA 01 ; by written or spoken language, unless if i z t o _op prove the truth of what he uttered ; c oransu'Agi lib° the Ycr; the law would protect him• Theby • dulterY ne rd e eJ contained not only a charge of a • yO ll ' t o p eii s in his own house, and upon one of his you 0,0 whom, as the head of a family, he w a 6 he u be Voili in addition to this, it charged th at ot t Def upon to do that ordinary justice w h' fo ads done ;wrong in this way ought to pet for es* it ti himself resisted the miserabl e sunP,,tiou nary, b innocent child, but that when an app_via per) rt 11/,),0 3 " the magistrates he not only by h , is, s apP° ft ere; the perjury of others, that he brone, l l.v,s,', i tiee. all that he could to defeat the ends . ° e j clea dlY P,° Pf et a, possible to conceive a deeper or moil; w ith aui c oria t ho r ; that imparted by this libel; no Paa i n the sgs sis e e to to character, could ever show himself , t h be true,. ; !fie. atio if what were alleged were the _ idence sa","de_ 004 Notwithstanding this, if the ev the ir bot' otan, , f r o• that the plaintiff was guilty, it ba d n d, t i l e o p give a verdict for the defendant tnu-, - other be ' l tuoc il with consequences. But if, onthere was trust ° A i d not satisfied—if they thought uld not •t, cc - a nO bability in the evidence that they co uld vercbcoall 000 plaintiff would be entitled t°!!!",,es t i ‘ oa too, for such an amount of a rTie ° fille d e t e ° /11. 0 1/ their sense of the enormity o a o estti, ble tee' biol. be to any man of honourable used • the a c 4 which it must necessarily have , b e lief 0 0. 0. an 00 3 j , upon the jury / OA e'ir jos matter would depend the t, ef of the criminal connexion betwee n to th i s fac c u, cock ; if they believed Wilcock::lied ' ll)° , l : l ;tr' it i i etCe for the plaintiff could scarcely " that the ship said it was to be regretted _ str ict 4, o oja t ge should have abandoned a tours e r u en d e red tiO ot wil o o the parties; his having done s (7,4 a' tO4 have Is. suspicion that he might _ lid ayer lo_l , d ian t i li SV militated against one party , 4 * It was ver eal' iljg tGo had an opposite tendency. „ id vac what interest Harriet Kingsley „id but th.Q truth; and tier oideu" "