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WHEN THE PURSE IS FULL. OH ! happy are the hours when the purse is full; Time passes over flowers when the purse is full ; Where'er our fancy wends, . . We are sure to meet with friends, And there's nothing that offends—when the purse is full ! But weary are the hours when the purse is low; And few and far the flowers when the purse is low ; Where'er our footsteps range, Comes the thrilling breath of change, And the best of friends look strange when the purse is low ! Morn cometh with a dance when the purse is full ; There is music in her glance when the purse is lull ; Life then is something worth, — There is pleasure upon earth, — There is beauty, song, and mirth—when the purse is full! Yet man, we're often told, th o ugh his purse be low, Is himself the truer gold, though his purse be low; But the saying is not true, For the blindest yet may view, Man's friends are of the few—when his purse is low. CHARLES SWAIN. REVIEWS OF BOOKS. in answer to any dubiety, however meekly insinu ated or strongly asserted, as to the intellectual status of our contemporaries. In the abundance of books which issue from the press, will be found a fair justification of the opinions of each. Regarded by mere number, the champion of existing talent, as evinced in these books, has abundant cause of joy ; estimated by their worth, too many of them, alas ! add deepening shadows to the gloomy picture painted by his antagonist. The little volume which stands at the head of this notice is calculated to rejoice the hearts of both the classes referred to. Its chief characteristic i s a s t ra i n i ng afte r the indi cations of exalted intellect ; and that straining is occasionally displayed in fellowship with glimpses of a nature sensitive and readily respondent to the beautiful and the true. The volume opens with some introductory lines to the ballad which bestows a title on the work. From it we give the following brief extracts : So bring I thee, sweet lady; my love, My gems, which I have ga r'd up, to find How poor they are beside t y peerless wealth. Th' Elysium where thy tender spirit dwells Is written o'er with thoughts of beauty, thick As starry mysteries written on the night. Thy realm is rich in memory's golden mtne3, And flashily , out with harvest-fields of hope. * The lights of being came out from their cloud, As the cliffs kindle when the morning comes, Swimming the utmost sea in ruddy haste, With foam of glory ; and the ruby light, Like mellow wine, runs down remotest hills. Thou com'at, my sparkling Bird of Paradise! Dante, translated into English Verse. By J. C. Wright, M.A. Illustrated with engravings on steel, after designs by Flaxman. London : Henry G. Bohn. The volume before us is one of " Bohn's Illus trated Library," and we are glad to learn that it has already reached a third edition. This know ledge is highly gratifying, as it clearly proves that the classes to whom really cheap literature is addressed can and do appreciate excellence, when excellence is placed within their reach. Of the poetry of Dante it is needless for us to speak—a popularity which has increased rather than diminished during the onward progress of five centuries and a half indicates a native vitality which we cannot hope to strengthen, gives token of a foundation the stability of which we can neither render more secure nor aid in widening. The fame and excellence of the great poet of mediaeval Italy have long been familiar to the literary circles of the wealthy ; and it is no trivial praise to the enlightenment of our day that a people's edition of his sublime works finds such favour as to call for its third repetition within com paratively a limited period. The translation by Mr. Wright is one which gives a fair idea of the great original. Transla tions there are which in some respects may be entitled to higher consideration, as there are others which are much inferior ; but in this one we have a good, readable, and suggestive rendering of the author. His vigorous and powerful imagery is presented in expressive form—his lofty and sonorous diction meets with a responsive echo—and the exalted, sublime simplicity of his wondrous tale is preserved with distinct fidelity. Besides trans lating the text, Mr. Wright gives copious explana tory foot-notes and an essay on the " Spirit of Dante," and he has also added such extracts from the prose works of the poet as tend to elucidate passages and explain circumstances occurring in the poem, which lapse of time and changes of manners have involved in obscurity. In short, he has left little or nothing undone which industry and intelligence, guided by no mean critical acumen, could accomplish in producing an edition of Dante deserving the confidence of the educated masses. Having gone thus far in regard to the transla tion, a word remains to be said in reference to the illustrations. Of these it may by many be consi dered unnecessary to say more than merely state they are from the pencil of Flaxman, and that in the engraving they have been faithfully trans cribed. To those in whose minds artistic culture and its refining influences have become a second nature, the bare announcement would be amply sufficient—to the votaries of high-class delineative invention further remark might be looked on as superfluous ; but in the instance before us we must remember the volume is intended as a people's book, and, notwithstanding the praiseworthy spread of " schools of design" among them, a knowledge of the principles of art, and familiarity with its best examples, are not so generally diffused as to render a word or two on Flaxman's illustrations of Dante unacceptable. Every English reader is familiar with the name of Flaxman, and brows that he is entitled to be called the great, if not indeed the greatest, British sculptor. By numerous and acknowledgedly excellent judges, however, high as they class the sculptured works of Flaxman, his fame as a creative artist is considered to rest more securely, and at a higher elevation, on those ema nations of his genius which were never elaborated farther than as outline drawings, of which he exe cuted many, including the famous series illustra tive of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, and the not less noble series which constitute the ornament of the volume now under consideration. The illus trations to Dante are 34 in number,and they are cha racterised by all the excellent qualities which so pre eminently distinguish the works of John Flaxman among modern artists. To the severe simplicity, grace of form, and grave dignity of composition,which constitute the charm and the excellence of Grecian sculpture of the Phidian era, Flaxman was sen sitively alive, and of their leading attributes he was a willing and devoted worshipper, although not a servile copyist ; of no man could it be said with more truth than of Flaxman, that, while following in the footsteps of the ancients, he dis dained to adopt their forsaken sandals. His journey towards his appointed niche in the Temple of Fame was parallel to theirs—along the same mountain side, but the path was of his own pre paration. The designs in illustration of Dante, of which it is our immediate cue to speak, are beauti fully characteristic of the artist's mind ; severe in beauty, full, but not redundant, in the leading features of their composition, and eminently sug gestive of the vast, the grand, the mysterious of superhuman agency ; they depict, in forcible pre sentment, the calm beauty of virtue, the agonised repulsiveness and misery of vice. Grace of form and delicacy of touch and of expression, lend charms to the allurements of the one ; the other is clothed in uncouth form, animated by wild and startling expression—quivering with pain, or writhing be neath loads of woe. Clearly to suggest all this, by the aid of merely a few simple outlines, is a high attribute of .ovnius—to bring these readily within the reach of even the humblest, is to render a public service, and such a service is efficiently rendered in the volume before us. The great poet and the great delineative artist, in it meet with an enduring and widely-diffusible representation, which brings them home to the hearts and the affections of the myriad masses of our intelligent though not affluent fellow-countrymen. Such sweet pictures give note of true inspiration, which sparkles in numerous pages of the tiny volume, exciting wonder as well as joy to meet with the indications of so true a sense of beauty, in one whose culture has, we are told, been stolen from laborious " factory toil." If the author has eman cipated himself from the thraldom of the spindles, it is sorrowful to find he has not weaned himself from the prejudices of the " operatives' club-room," in which the world is represented as consisting of only two classes—the oppressors and the oppressed —the virtuous and suffering poor, the tyrannical and mercenary rich. This false representation has biassed the judgment, and obscured as well as distorted the vision of the bard; and in his disor dered imagination he sees public virtue personified in Kossuth, political wisdom and social mercy con centrated in the Ledru Rollin revolutionists of Paris ; and he apostrophises the tribe of which these worthies are taken as the representatives, in strains as bombastical as their importance is over rated. Such a prostitution of even the commonest talent is matter of regret ; but where, as in this instance, the mistaken adulation is made to alloy sterling ore,the misfortune is doubly to beregretted. So it must remain, we fear : the mistake is a fatal one, and cannot be remedied. The -the- Trisp Quadrille—The Mail Coach. Polka. London : Jullien Notwithstanding the abundance of dance-music which is being almost daily submitted to popular favour, that which is really good is always welcome, and the pieces before us will, no doubt, receive their full share. We ventured to predict from some of the earlier productions of the composer, Mr. Charles H. Compton, that he would be a valuable accession to the musical world, and he has fully justified our opinion of his talent. In both pieces will be found the combination not always met with of pleasing melody and the time distinctly marked, and we feel confident that many a votary of Terpsichore will dance to the music of the quadrille with more than ordinary zest. MR. WARREN'S EXPOSITION OF "THE LILY AND THE BEE." AT the inauguration of a new public hall in Leamington, last week, Mr. Warren, Q.C., author of the "Diary of a Late Physician," " Ten Thousand a Year," and other highly popular works, delivered an exposition of the pur pose he had in view, in the composition of " The Lily and the Bee." The audience was numerous and highly in. telligent, and the chair was occupied by Sir J. E. Pa aidley- Wilmot, Bart. He commenced by paying a merited and eloquently expressed tribute to the memory of his lamented friend the late Mr. Justice Talfourd, whose merits, learn- ing, talent, and goodness of heart, fie tastefully, yet feel ingly eulogized. He next proceeded to justify the fur nishing of a key to his much misrepresented work " The Lily and the Bee," by reference to the explanatory letter which Spencer deemed it necessary to prefix to his im mortal poem " The Fairey Queene." He then assured the meeting that his object was neither to vindicate the favourable, nor to depreciate the unfavourable criticism which had been bestowed on his work, but to &plain, in simplicity and sincerity, the scope and object he had in view in the production of that poem. In proceeding with his exposition he prefaced, it by reading one or two very , conflicting criticisms on the work, and went on to remark that the " Lily and the Bee," though a little book, is one of wide scope and significance, formed on a plan exact, complete, and deeply considered, even in its fragmentary and apparently rhapsodical structure—the object being to preserve a sort of dim, yet brilliant and suggestive analogy to the overpowering structure which called it into exis tence—discarding apparent orderliness of method, and striving to excite in the reader's mind a sense of lustrous confusion, slowly subsiding into distinctness, and then developing grand and lovely proportion, harmony, and system. This result was to be gained, as with the physical prototype, not all at once—not at first sight, but after yielding, for a while, to a sense of charming bewilderment ; —after some effort to discover and adjust relations (at first lost in a dim vastness) between the myriad parts and the mighty whole. In pursuance of this plan, the poem, for such in reality it is, opened with a continuous blaze of vivid daylight within the Palace—the daylight of physical splendour and variety—of endless manifestations of in tellectual strength, the results of six thousand years of thought and toil; and when the reader's mind has risen into the highest regions of proud speculation—typified by the devout and mighty Sir Isaac Newton, in the act of discovering the principle of gravitation,—as if he saw the key of the physical universe placed in his hand—his atten tion is suddenly settled on a humble insect—a Bee, the twin geometer of Sir Isaac, working by such transcendent mathematical skill as it has taken proud man centuries to become acquainted with. The Bee, hOwever, is not only a great engineer and architect, but is seen to be a member of a perfectly organized political state !—with a visible system of government, closely and mystically analogous to our own ! Here the author represents Man as at first perplexed by the Bee, and then dogmatically denying it thought or moral sense ;—when he is over whelmed by the thought that he himself may at that moment be the subject of exactly similar speculation to some sublime Being, discharging grand functions in the economy of the Universe. He, at length, learns a lesson of humility and awe, from the little monitor before him— that each of them has its mission, and appropriate sphere of action. The second book is designated " Night in the Crystal Palace." The glare of day is gone, and the Palace is deserted by all living men but the poet, around whom is suddenly seen a ghostly thing of the former occupants of the earth : " It is an awful sight— Man from the grave, around one Man upon the Earth— Man in eternity, around one Man in Time— Immortality Niortality surrounding, Melting my soul away. They see me not, yet I their presence feel Fearfully—my ghostly kindreci The spirits of kings, conquerors, lawgivers, philosophers, and poets are beheld gazing on the objects about them, with wonder at the alterations which the people and the governments have undergone since their day ! At length, Lord Bacon, as the founder of the inductive system of philosophy, which has led to such grand results as are evidenced by the Palace, is seen sitting in shadowy majesty on his throne, with Aristotle and Roger Bacon on either hand. The ancient astronomers Chaldean, Egyptian, and Greek—are observed standing stupified before an orrery, subverting all their ancient systems! The Tele scope, the Microscope, Geology, Electricity, Steam,—all become gradually known to the amazed spirits. At length we seem making a sort of progress into past ages, sweep ing through the mist of mythology, till we reach patri archal times. Again we see the idolatrous gatherings on the plain of Dora, and then on the plain of Shinar, with which the poem opens :—We come to Cain, the first mur derer, " prince of his bloody race," surrounded by his fear ful descendants. Finally, we stand before Adam and Eve, ' dissolved in tenderness and awe—" a son come through six thousand years to look on" his first parents, who are movingly told of what has happened to their descendants. •Light suddenly appears in the eyes of Adam,•telling of a second Adam ; and we are wafted into the future, and seem for a moment to realise the Resurrection. At length, however, the spirits are disappearing, and the poet is left alone—" even ghost deserted !" The Palace and its physical objects again become visible, but the soli tary tenant is exhausted and disconsolate, oppressed with a sense of desertion, and he begins to repine at his lot— appearing to have no personal interest in the economy of nature—no personal relation with the Awful Author ; when, at that moment, Nature becomes unexpectedly visible in the very Palace of Art. A stray Lily is pointed out by the guardian spirit attending the Past, and whis pering to him the sublime and affecting lesson taught, through the Lily, by the Saviour of mankind—rebuking vain glory and presumption, raising the meek and lowly, and succouring the miserable and neglected of mankind in all ages, to the end of time : the author reminding his hearers that the Angel of the Annunciation is represented as bearing in his hand a lily, while telling his holy tidings to the Virgin. In the course of his remarks, the learned expositor, in speaking of some of the attacks made on his book, said, among other charges, it had been stated that the leading feature of the " Lily and th e B ee " was blasphemy ,• is charge he was most anxi ous t o be delivered from. Of the other he said, " These attacks I have borne in silence, and in a spirit befitting, I hope, the dignity of letters 1 " Mr. Warren, who had been loudly cheered at different po i n t s of his address, resumed hi s s e a t am id s t th e enthu siastic plaudits of the company. Johnson's Lives of the British Poets, completed by Willi vm Hazlitt. London : Nathaniel Cooke. A work which promises to combine the mascu line and stately grandeur of Johnson wedded to the winning graces and easy gaieties of Hazlitt, must needs have many claims on public patronage. Those claims are greatly increased in number, and augmented in power, when the united efforts are employed in rendering us familiar with the mighty men of yore, whose aspirations found expression in impassioned song. Johnson's Lives of the Poets - have long and justly been regarded as en titled to a distinguished place in English classical literature. The biographies, it has been admitted, are scant in minntiw of detail, but that defect is more than merely atoned for by the masterly and philosophically deduced generalisations with which the Lichfield giant filled in the subordinate por tions of his pictures. Inferior artists might elabo rate limb, and carefully depict habiliments ; he transferred the mental visage to his canvas, and esteemed it of small moment to perpetuate the cut or colour of the garment in which the body and its limbs were swathed. His generalisations of character, however, able as these undoubtedly are, are not the only claims on public attention these biographical essays are imbued with ; they embody, _likewise, canons of criticism, as lucidly expressed as they are vigorously conceived, and although it is undoubtedly true that since John son's day the functions of th e literary critic have greatly ex panded in variety of application, and magni fied its field of operation, it may be justly q uestioned w h e ther critical study h as muc h en larged its comprehensiveness of aim, since that moralist and scholar enunciated his aphoristic sen tences. That Johnson's Lives, as a book con taining a biographic view of British poetry, was s felt and admitted ; and incomplete, has been lon g shortcomings in this we rejoice to see that it respect are to be supplem.ented by one so fully competent as Haz li tt. It is proposed to complete this biographic cabinet of poets in four volumes, of which the first only has as yet appealed. It is a in all respects well got np, and pro . miscsto be creditable addition to our curren t litera ture. The Ballad of Babe Christabel : 1v ith other Lyrical Poems. By Gerald Masse), . London David Bogue. It has been the fashion of not a few who, in the present day, affect to settle the intellectual claims of the time, to si g h ou t that all is naught, and that we are rapidly degenerating from the giants of the elder day while others delight to tell us that this is pre-eminently the age of intellect, and trium phantly exclaim, " tha schoolmaster is abroad," 41 A DELIBERATE. OFFENDER.—A little boy, o n ly e i g ht years old, a short t i me since fell down a s haft of the N or th A mer ican Mine, in Pennsylvania, being a perpendicular distance of 63 feet, and struck upon the back and head of a Cornish man, who was at work in the bottom of the ury, gathered himself . up, wet as shaft. The little fellow having bounded off into a shallow pool of water, without in,l he was, and ran up the ladder , c lhe miner . fall chase behind, threatening to whipfor," said he, " any c aw might ace that he did it on purpcm". THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER LIVERPOOL SPRING ASSIZES. CROWN COURT.-TUESDAY, MARCH 21. (BEFORE MR. JUSTICE CRESWELL.) CHARGE OF BIIRGLA.RY.—Thomas Perry, William Drinkwater, and Abraham Thornely; all labourers, were charged with having, on the 18th of January last, burglari ously entered the house of Peter Roberts, at Orford, and stolen a quantity of wearing apparel and other articles. Drinkwater pleaded guilty. Terry and Thornely were found guilty ; the former had been previously convicted of felony. Drinkwater had also been previously convicted of larceny. Terry and Drinkwater were sentenced to 15 years' transportation. Thornley to be imprisoned for 12 months, with hard labour. John Lawler, alias Higson, pleaded guilty to a charge of having at Bolton, on the 10th of February last, broken into the dwelling house of John McGarry, and stolen two watches, a watch guard and other property. The prisoner had been previously convicted of felony. Sentence, four years' penal servitude. Joseph Johnson pleaded guilty to an indictment for hav • ing, at Manchester, on the 27th of January last, together with a person at present unknown, assaulted Joseph Clover, and robbed him of his watch. Sentence, six years' penal servitude. GAROTTE ROBBBRY AT LIVBRPOOL.—Thomas Brown, John Brady, Elizabeth Rafferty, and Mary Stanley, were charged with having, at Liverpool, assaulted Thomas Bibby, and stolen from him a £lO note, eight sovereigns and a half, and 6s. and 6d. in silver. All the prisoners were found guilty. A previous conviction was proved against Brown. Sentence twenty year s ' t r a ns po r tation. CHARGE or PERJURY.—Benjamin Revell, a man of re spectable appearance, was indicted for wilful perjury at Ash ton. The perjury alleged was comprised in certain evidence given by him in an action in the County-court at Ashton, in which he was called as a witness on his own behalf. he case for the prosecution was supported by the evidence of a shorthand writer, who had taken notes of the proceed ings as they occurred in the County-court at Ashton, and by Mr. Garside, Mr. Williamson, and several of the officers of the County-court at Ashton. The prisoner was committed for trial in 1852, but did not surrender at the assizes. He afterwards went to America, and was appre hended on his return to this country in January last. His lordship summed up the evidence, observing that the jury must be satisfied that the prisoner not only made false statements, but that he did so with the intention to com mit wilful and corrupt perjury, Prisoner was acquitted. BURGLARY AT CHADDEnTols.—Henry Houghton was charged with having entered the dwelling house of Timothy Smith, at Chadderton,. and stolen some wearing apparel, a ring, and other articles. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to 1.2 months' imprisonment, with hard labour. _ _ . . BURGLARY A 7 BOLTo3.T. — Joseph Smith was indicted for a burglary in the house of Edmund Seddon, at Bolton, on the night of the 3rd of January last. He was found guilty, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard labour. HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT MANCHENTEE.---PatriCk Pol lard, William Corrie, Margaret Brown, and Patrick Gilligan, were charged with having, at Manchester, on the 26th of February last, assaulted Jeremiah Carrick, and robbed him of a purse containing 16s. in silver, a bunch of keys, a pair of gloves, a pocket handkerchief, and other articles. All the prisoners were found guilty. Sentences : Pollard, 6 years' penal servitude; Corrie and: Brown, 4 years' ditto ; Gilligan, 15 years' transportation. The court rose at a quarter past six. VARIETIES. IT WAS observed of a celebrated physician that he never said in company, I drink your health,' but 'My service to you.' CONSTITUTIONALLY TILED' is now the polite way of expressing the fact that a man is naturally lazy. We live in wonderfully refined times. TASTE.—At a magnificent fancy ball, recently given at Florence, by Prince Demidoff, an American lady appeared in the complete costume of an Indian squaw. YOUNG LADIES now-a-days, when they are preparing for a walk, ought not to keep their lovers waiting as long as they used to do, for now they have only to put their bon nets half on. LITTLE PEOPLE.—The littler folks be, the bigger they talk. You never seed a small man that didn't wear high heeled boots and a high-crowned hat, and that warn't ready to fight most any one, to show that he was a man every inch of him.—Sam Slick. SAVE US PEON OUE. FRIENDS.—In his reply to the Peace Deputation the Emperor of Russia declared his sentiments to be in a perfect conformity with those of the Society of Friends. We cannot doubt the sincerity of this assertion, for when the Czar sees all Europe in arms against him it is natural that he should become 6 Quaker. —Punch. A CANDID WITNESS.—In the examination of an Irish case before the Court of Magistrates, in Providence, for assault and battery, counsel, on cross-examining one of the witnesses, asked him what they had at the first place they stopped ? He answered, " Four glasses of ale."— " What next ?"—" Two glasses of wine . " " What next ?" —"One glass of brandy." " What next ?"—" A fight, of course." vv EXTRAORDINARY ADVERTISEMENT. —" No FOL LOWERS."—The following appeared in the Weekly Times in Sydney :—" Wanted, a Female Servant One that is plain-looking and middle-aged will not be objected to. One that is ugly will have the preference, provided she does not take snuff, and, as a matter of course, has no followers." A NEW-MARRIED COUPLE went to Niagara on a visit, and the gentleman, in order to convince his dear that he was brave as well as gallant, resolved to go down into the " cave of the winds." She of course objected; but find ing that he was determined, affectionately requested him to leave his pocket-book and watch behind ! MATRIMONIAL WlT.—One of the best double puns we ever heard, says the Yankee Blade, was perpetrated by a clergyman. He had just united in marriage a couple whose Christian names were respectively Benjamin and Ann. "How did they appear during the ceremony ?" in quired a friend. " They appeared both annie-mated and bennie-fitted," was the ready reply. "QUESTION! QUESTION !"—Did you ever attend a mechanics' institution soiree where "knowledge is power" was not quoted ? Did you ever hear a lady talk three minutes, and not say "So nice ?" Did you ever know a woman who wasn't offended if you didn't praise her baby ? Did you ever hear a street band that didn't play " Love not ?" Did you ever meet with any baby that wasn't " the finest child ever seen ?" _ _ MARRY.—Jeremy Taylor says, if you are for pleasure, marry—if you prize rosy health, marry. A good wife is Heaven's last best gift to man—his angel and minister of graces innumerable—his gem of many virtues—his casket of jewels ; her voice is sweet music—her smiles, his brightest day —her kiss, the guardian of his innocence —her arms, the pale of his safety, the balm of his health, the balsam of his life—her industry, his surest wealth — her economy, his safest steward—her lips, his faithful counsellors—her bosom, the softest pillow of his cares— and her prayers, the ablest advocates of Heaven's blessings on his head. VAST SIZE OP LONDON ILLUSTRATED.—London ex tends over an area of 78,029 acres, or 122 square miles, and the number of its inhabitants, rapidly increasing, was two millions three hundred and sixty-two thousands two hundred and thirty-six on the day of the last census. A conception of this vast mass of people may be formed by the fact, that if the metropolis was surrounded by a wall, having a north gate, a south gate, an east gate, and a west gate, and each of the four gates was of sufficient width to allow a column of persons to pass oat freely four abreast, and a peremptory necessity required the immediate evacua tion of the city, it could not be accomplished under four and-twenty hours, at the expiration of which time, the head of each of the four columns would have advanced a no less distance than seventy five-miles from their re spective gates, all the people being in close filefour deep. —Cheshire's results of the Census.. NAPOLEON'S ElJLE.—Laffitte said that he had never been a worshipper of Napoleon's : but he then had oppor tunity of convincing himself that the Emperor possessed, in the highest degree, the art of popularity, "He was very confidential with me," said Laffitte, "spoke without re serve, and once made a striking remark concerning our nation. 'To govern the French,' he said, one must have arms of iron and gloves of velvet. " My readers may pro bably have heard this remark, but not the reply imme diately made by Madame Laffitte's right-hand neighbour. " Yes," he said, " that is very true, but, he often forgot to put on his gloves." The remark was so apt and true that all present laughed heartily. I asked my next neighbour who the witty foreigner was, and learned that it was the Marquis of Lansdowne.—Blackwood's Magazine. A FRIENDLY PORTRAIT OF MITCHELL.—" The fourth number," says the Nation," of Mr. Mitchell's Citizen has come to hand. It contains a defence of his pro-slavery opinion, and an elaborate justification of suicide ! Under many provocations we have never written a line against any of the men who once formed the Irish Confederation, however far some of them have strayed away from its original principles. But Mr. Mitchell is making silence impossible. He is systematically justifying the slanders which painted the Confederates banditti in politics, and infidels in religion. His first number denounced every social and political organisation in the country except the Ribbon Lodge and Ryan Puck. His second justified and applauded the buying, selling, and scourging of black slaves. The third insisted on connecting our ancient and pious struggle for Irish independence with the conspiracy of a handful of continental deists. The fourth defends and justifies the crime of self-murder." No GOOD DEED LOST, —Philosophers tell us that since the creation of the world not one single particle of matter has ever been lost. It may have passed into new shapes, it may have been combined with other elements, it may have floated away in smoke or vapour, but it is not lost. It will come back again in the dew-drop or the rain, it will spring up in the fibre of the plant, or paint itself on the rose leaf. Through all its transformations, Providence watches over and directs it still. Even so it is with every holy thought or heavenly desire, or humble aspiration, or generous and self-denying effort. It may escape our ob servation, we may be unable to follow it, but it is an element of the moral world, and it is not lost. AN AMERICAN EXCLUSIVE.—In one of the most splen did of the New York Hotels, lately, a distinguished Southern gentleman, formerly a member of the cabinet, preferring not to eat at the table d'hdte, had his meals served in his own parlour with all the elegance for which the establishment is noted. Being somewhat annoyed with the colour of the servant who waited on him, a negro of a very sooty complexion, he desired him one day, at dinner, to retire. The negro bowed, and took his stand directly behind the gentleman's chair. Supposing him gone, it was with some impatience that a few minutes after the gentleman saw him step forward to remove the soup. " Fellow," said he, " leave the room ; I wish to be alone !" "Excuse me, sar," said Cuffe, drawing himself up, " but I'm 'sponsible for the silver." MEN, WOMEN, AND DIAMONDS.—" What is the height of a woman's ambition ?—Diamonds."—Punch. Saga cious Punch ! Do you know the reason ? It is because the more " diamonds" a woman owns, the more precious she becomes in the eyes of your discriminating sex. What pair of male eyes saw a " crow's foot," grey hair, or wrinkle, in company with a ' genuine diamond." Don't you go down on your marrow bones, and swear that the owner is a Venus, a Hebe, a Juno, a sylph, a fairy, an angel ? Would you stoop to look " connubially" at the most bewitching woman on earth whose only diamonds were "in her eye ?" Well, it is no great marvel, Mr. punch. The race of men is about extinct. Now and then you will meet with a specimen ; but I am sorry to inform you that the most of them are nothing but coat tails, walking behind a moustache, destitute of sufficient energy to earn their own cigars and " Macassar," prefering to dangle at the heels of a diamond wife, and meekly receive their allowance, as her mama's prudence and her own in clination may suggest. It is out of my power to express to you the veneration I feel for such a dignified donkey. Mr. Punch. If I owned him, I imagine I should slip my bridal (bridle).—Fanny Fern. ENGLISH ARTISANS IN AMERICA..—There are very few English compared with what I expected to find, or are generally supposed, to be engaged in the industrial esta blishments of the United States. Though the rate of remuneration is relatively higher than In Europe, the number of hours constituting a day's work is much greater, and the period is too long for most of those who are induced to emigrate, since they usually seek for a less demand upon energies than they are subject to in England, as well as a higher rate of payment ; and it is no uncommon thing for the really skilled and steady artisan, who can earn a sufficient livelihood at home, to return after a brief trial in the United States. The sudden variations in the temperature, too, and the extremes of heat in summer, and cold in winter, are very trying to the majority of English workmen; and if, as is too often the case,they are at all given to intemperate habits, these a re a gg ravated by the climate, and disease and death cut the m off much more rapidly than is, I fear, generally acknowledged. It may not be unin teresting, however, to state that some of the best and most intelligent artisans, as also some of the most successful manufacturers in the United Sates, are the sons of English men, taken early in life to their adopted country, acclimatedby habit, and rendered intelligent b y the education received in public schools ; their ingenuity and industry stimulated and encouraged by the character of t he institutions around them, they often present remarkable instances of self-eleva tion; and while, in an earnest love of their adopted country, they maybe said to be more American than the . Americans, is their secondary pride, if I may use the term, that their fathers were Englishmen.—Mr. Wallis's Report. PLEASANT TRAVELLING. —The . moisture of the lower portions of the Nepalese Himalayas induces a number of insect troubles from which the drier and more northernly parts of the range are comparatively free. Here is an ex ample of a pleasant excursion. " The weather continued very hot for the elevation, (4000 to 6000 feet,) the rain brought no coolness, and for the greater part of the three marches between Singtam and Chaknong, we were either wading through deep mud, or climbing over rocks. Leeches swarmed in incredible profusion in the streams and damp grass, and among the bushes ; they got into my hair, hung on my eyelids, and crawled up my leg and down my back. I repeatedly took upwards of a hundred from my legs, where the small ones used to collect in clusters on the instep ; the sores which they produced were not healed for five months afterwards, and I retain the scars to the present day. Snuff and tobacco leaves are the best antidote, but when marchi n g in the rain, it is im possible to apply this simple remedy to any advantage. The best plan I found to be rolling the leaves over the feet, withinside the stockings, and powdering the legs snuff. Another pest is a small midge, or sand-fly, which causes intolerable itchin g an d subsequent irritation, and is in this respect, the most insufferable torment in Sikkem ; the minutest rent in one's clothes is detected by the acute senses of this instatiable blood-sucker, which is itself so small as to be b are ly v isible without a m i cr oscope. Nye daily arrive at our campaigning ground streamng with blood, and mottled with the bites of peepsas, gnats,_midges, andmosquitos,besides being infested withticks.--Hosker's Hymalayan Journal, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22: BURGLARIES AT MANCRES7BR.— William More; tailor, andfohn Dent, shoemaker, were charged with having, on the 10th of December last, burglariously entered , the dwelling house of William Todd,. of Manchester; and stolen two dresses, a parasol, a shawl, and other articles. Moore pleaded guilty. Dent was found guilty. Both prisoners had been previously convicted of felony. They were sentenced to 4 years' penal servitude. William France, factory operative, and fames Eagnall, tapper, were charged with having,. at Manchester, com mitted a burglary - in the house of Jane Moore, Charles street, and stolen three shirts, a child's jacket, an overcoat, a flannel jacket, and a pair of shoes. They were found guilty. Sentence, four years' penal servitude. William Milner, cabinetmaker, wair indicted for having burglariously entered the dwelling - house of Thomas Crompton, with intent to steal. As the prisoner's object in being in the house was not clearly shown, the jury gave him the benefit of the doubt, and returned a verdict of acquittal. Julia Cosgrove, stay - maker, was charged with a bur glary at the dwelling-house of Francis Smith, Longsight house, Stockport-road, Manchester, and stealing three pairs of boots, a shirt, a sheet, three tablecloths, and other articles. She was found guilty, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard labour. John White, slogger, was charged with having bur glariously entered the dwelling-house of John Parkinson, at Manchester, and stolen three bottles ot spirits.. The jury found the prisoner guilty. He- had been previously convicted of felony. The judge sentenced him to 15 years' transportation. George Little, Joseph I ewis alias Little, and Patrick Nearney, all shoemakers, were charged with a burglary in the house-of John Birtles, at Manchester. The money drawer inthe shop had been broken open, but nothing was taken, the only property which the thieves had an oppor tunity of securing being a glass of sweetmeats,.valued at 3s. The prisoners were found. guilty. Previous convic tions for felony were proved against them. His lordship, after a severe admonition to the prisoners, who, he thought, were bey and the reach of anything that could-be done to reform them in this country, sentenced them to 15 years' transportation each. 'Lewis, while leaving the dock, re plied, It's only a cheap trig," BURGLARY AT BOLTON.—JO/4n Taylor, carter, was in dicted for a burglary on the premises of John Hallspike, at Bolton, and stealing a box, containing £5l in. gold and silver, on the 25th of January last. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Sentence, four years' penal servitude. BURGLARY AT LIVERPOOL. — John. Cavanagh, labourer, was chargedwith a burglary at the house of Benjamin Elves, licensed - victualler, Liver street, on. the 24th De cember last. He was found guilty and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard labour. The court rose shortly after five o'clock. THURSDAY, Mknen 23. SENTENCES.—Richard Prew and. Thomas Malroy, con victed of robbery with violence at Manchester, were sen tenced to imprisonment, with hard labour, in the house of correction, for 15 months.—George. Stone, Dennis Bennett, and William Redden, for robbery with violence, at Man chester, to 15 years' transportation. Ann Vernon, Anthony Leneghan, and John Leneghan, robbery with violence,. at Warrington, four years' penal servitude. — Rose Clark, burglary, at Bedford, one year's imprisonment. —Samuel Lumb, burglary, at Manchester, four years' penal servitude. STARING.--William Boyd,, labourer, was charged with having stabbed James Halton, shopkeeper, Aspull at-Haigh, near Wigan, on the 15th December last. The jury, without retiring, returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence, fifteen months imprisonment,with hard labour. SulainpuL ASSAULT UPON A WIFE. — James Norris, carter, Salford, was charged with a violent assault upon his wife, on the 31st of December last. It appeared that, about two o'clock on the afternoon of the day in question, Norris brought home a woman whom his wife did not know, but whom he introduced to her as his cousin, both being in a state of intoxication, and desired her to make tea for them. This she refused to do, and turned the. woman out. The prisoner then went to bed. About 11 o'clock at night he rose and had supper, after partaking of which he said to his wife that as she had turned his woman out of the house, he would put her out, and proceeded to do so. She resisted, and upon this the prisoner took a knife off the table, and struck her twice over the, face, inflicting a serious wound. She gave an alarm, and the prisoner was taken into custody. The jury, without leaving the box, found the prisoner guilty of unlawfully wounding, and he was sentenced to 15 months imprison ment, with hard labour. STABBING AT SALFORD.—Sarah Wortley, described as a dressmaker, w as charged with unlawfully wounding John Smith, at , Salford, on the 31st December last, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner pleaded that she had struck Smith in self-defence. His lordship, in his charge, leant to that supposition. The jury immediately returned a verdict of not guilty. Smith's recognizances were escheated, and costs allowed. STABBING AT M AN CHEsTEB.--WilliamLawson,packer, Manchester, was indicted for having, on the sth Novem ber last, unlawfully wounded Edward Clarke, residing there. From the evidence it appeared the assault was a very ruffianly and unprovoked one, and that the injuries inflicted were of a dangerous character. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Sentence, eighteen months' impri sonment, with hard labour. ANOTHER STABBING CASE ferMA.lircuzsm.—Patrick Lealey, bricksetter, Manchester, was charged with stab bing Mary M'Ardle, the wife of a beerhouse-keeper there, on the let of January last. Mrs. M`...krdle stated in her evidence that she did not think the prisoner intended to stab her, and that he was much excited at the time. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. After a few remarks, his lordship sentenced Lealey to three months' imprison ment, with hard labour. STABBING AT SALFOILD.—James Curran, labourer, was charged with having, on the 11th of December, feloniously stabbed Hugh Lawler, nail-maker, Jackson-square, Sal ford. From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutor himself was the first to resort to the use of the knife ; and there was some doubt as to whether one of the wounds was inflicted by a knife or by a blow of the fist. The pri soner was acquitted. ASSA.ULT.—Williarn Wall, labourer, charged - with a felonious assault upon George Coleman, at Upholland, on the 22nd of January. The assault, which was an aggra vated one, appeared in some degree to have arisen out of party f ee li ng . The prisoner was found guilty, and sen tenced to eighteen months' imprison men t, w ith h ar d labour. BRUTAL ASSAULT UPON WIFE.— Thomas Ellis, baker, w as charged with an assault, with intent to Manchester, murder, upon his wife, Mary Ellis. The prosecutrix, it appeared, has been married to the prisoner for twenty-five years, and has borne him fifteen children, three only of whom survive. At the time of the assault the prisoner was out of work, and living on the earnings of his wife and three children. About half-past three o'clock on the morning of the 21st of Februrary last, the prisoner got out of bed for the purpose of smoking, and Mrs. Ellis, who was in the habit of rousing the children, got up also to ascertain what time it was. The prisoner approached her, threw her on the bed, and attempted to strangle her, and then inflicted a severe wound upon her neck. Her hand was also much cut in the struggle with a knife. She im mediately gave an alarm, and the prisoner made his escape, but was pursued and taken into custody. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Sentence of death was recorded. STABBING.—WiIIiam Walker was indicted for a fe lonious assault upon Thomas Clarkson, sergeant of police, Ashton-in-Mackerfield, on the 3rd January last. Walker, at the time of the assault, was a constable in the county force, and Clarkson was his sergeant. On the evening named, the prosecutor visited the prisoner at his station. He was asleep, and the prosecutor had him awaked, and asked him for his duty-book. From something prosecutor saw in the book, he asked an explanation. Some more words passed, when the prisoner rushed at the sergeant's dog. He next assaulted the sergeant himself, whom he struck twice With lug fat The jury returned a verdict of guilty of the assault, with the view of resisting lawful apprehension. His lordship reserved the point of law raised as to the legality of the apprehension, and sentence was deferred. FORGERY. John Timpson, bankers' clerk, Liverpool, pleaded guilty to the charge of uttering a forged cheque for £1,500, with intent to defraud. STABBING IN LIVERPOOL.—James Buckley, labourer, was charged with stabbing Elizabeth Born, with intent to murder her or do her some grievous bodily harm. The prosecutria, a single woman, residing with her mother in a court No. 10, Eldon-street, stated that she had known the prisoner about five years. About two years ago the prisoner charged her with having informed the police that he was concerned in a plate robbery. On that occasion he had threatened to stab witness. On the evening of the 2nd January last, while going a message for her mother, the prisoner met her in Maguire-street, struck her twice on the face, and then drew his knife and stabbed her twice under the chest. The weapon was stopped by a rib, otherwise the wound might have been fatal. The jury found him guilty of cutting and wounding with intent to murder. Judgment of death was recorded. His lord ship, however, intimated that the highest secondary punishment would be inflicted. The court then adjourned at half-past five o'clock. FRIDAY, Maicn 24, STABBING AT LIVERPOOL.—WiIIiam Alexander Copp, a seaman, charged with feloniously stabbing and wound ing James Kilroy, was convicted, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude. STABBING BY A COLOURED MAN IN LIVERPOOL. — Bernard Shepherd, a seaman, having the appearance of a Sandwich Islander, charged with stabbing Edward Edwards, a shipsmith, on the night of the 26th January, was convicted, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude. MANSLAUGHTER AT HORWICIT, NEAR BOLTON.—Chas. Gumbleton and George Chamberlain, both labourers, were charged with manslaughter in a pugilistic encounter on the 28th December. Verdict, guilty. Sentence Gumbleton, one month's imprisonment, and hard labour ; Chamberlain, fourteen days. RESISTING APPRETIENSION, AT LEIGH. - Edward Grady, Jas. Delaney, Timothy Higgins, Martin Walsh, James Cahill, James Mahon, James Costello, James Farrell, and ~john Mathews, were charged with having assaulted John Halton and George Holden, two police ' officers, at Pennington, on the evening of the 2nd January last, with intent to prevent the lawful apprehension of John Mathews. All the prisoners were found guilty, and were sentenced except Mathews to fifteen mouths' imprisonment, with hard labour, and Mathews to four years' penal servitude. MANSLAUGHTER.— Catherine Hughes was charged with having, at Ashton-under - Lyne, slain William Hines. It appeared that the prisoner and the deceased had been cohabiting together for some time, and jealousy was the cause of the fatal affray, in which the parties were much abused. Verdict, guilty, but strongly recommended to mercy on account of the brutal treatment she had re ceived. Sentenced to one month's imprisonment„ with hard labour. MiNSLAUGHTER AT Lvolr.— William Weare, moulder, was indicted for having slain James Lee, on the 2nd January, at the Millstone public-house, Bedford. Ver dict, not guilty. FORGING A REGISTER Or DEATH. —Joseph Roughley, labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of having, at Man chester, on the 27th January, wilfully forged a false state ment of the birth of Elizabeth Davies, and also of the death of the said Elizabeth Davies, and also a false statement of the death of Sarah Davies, in the district of St. George. Sentence, eighteen months' imprisonment. MANSLAUGPITER AT SALFORD.--John Kelly, a weaver, was indicted for feloniously killing William Chadwick. The melancholy occurrence took place on Sunday morning early, the sth March. It resulted from a drunken quarrel. Both parties were drunk. Verdict, guilty. Sentence : three months' imprisonment, with hard labour. BURGLARY AT LrvEßpooL.—Lawrenee Murphy, a labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of having, at Liver pool, on the Bth March, burglariously broken into the house of Mr. Edward Henry Buxton, and stolen a watch and other property. GAROTTE ROBBERM AT MANCHESTER:—.Tabez Lloyd, a labourer, was indicted for having, on the 20th February last, together with three other persons, with great per sonal violence, robbed Thomas LeathwOod . of £4 ls. 6d. Verdict, guilty. A previous conviction was proved. Sen t nice : transportation for 15 years. The grand jury were discharged about five-o'clock. True bills, on a charge of misdemeanor, were returned against the Preston delegates. A true bill, for murder, was returned against Jordan, forthe wilful murder of William Oaheir, on board the steamer Trafalgar. The bill against Flower, the sailor, for murder, was altered to a charge of stabbing and wounding, with intent to do some grievous bodily harm. No-bills were found against Ann Laithwaite and Miles Scan/an, from Manchester, on a charge of manslaughter. Ara application was made to his lordship to grant an order of habeas corpus, for the removal of Gowland, implicated with Caitcheon, in defrauding the Landon and North-western Railway Company, from London to these assizes,. so that both may be tried together. His lbrdship took occasion to comment upon.the care lessness manifested in some of the depositions brought before him. In reply to a complaint from Mr. Earle, the• foreman of the grand jury, respecting the loss •of time- and irre gularity occasioned by counsel not attending punctually with the witnesses and depositions, his lordship directed that cosN•should be stopped in such cases, as it was quite I inexcusable. SATURDAY, MAncrt 25. STABBING AT LivEnrooL.—Andrew Jackson, sailor, was indicted for having stabbed ,another sailbr, named George Hall, at 31Phillimore's-4ablic-house, in Bath street, on. the evening of the 14th,of February. A verdict was returned against the prisoner of " Guilty, with intent to do grievous bodily harm;" one-of the jury thought, after great provocation. Sentence deferred. CONCEALMENT or BlRTH.—.2kfargaret Connor was charged with concealing the birth. of two children. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced" to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour. • Susannah Kirby, a charwoman, was indicted for a like offence, at' Bickerstaffe, near Ormskirk. Verdict of guilty. Sentenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour.. FORGERY AT MANCIIESTER..—WiIIiatn SWeettnan, porter, was indicted for forging-a promissory note for £B, at Manchester, on the 16th of December. The jury re turned %verdict of guilty. Sentenced. to six months' im prisonment, with hard labour. FORGERY or A RAILWAY TICERT.—James Patterson, tailor, was charged on two indictments for attempting to defraud the London and North-Western Railway Com pany, by ingeniously altering one• of their tickets. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to six mouths" imprisonment. GAROTTE ROBBERY AT PRESSON.—Thomas Bailey, carpenter, was charged with robbing Thomas Jackson Halsall, a banker's clerk, at Preston, on the 18th of April, 1853, of one sovereign, half a soverign, and 4s. He was found guilty, and sentenced to six years' penal servitude. lIDGEWAY ROBBERY NEARPRESTON.—Jarnes Watson, labourer, was indicted for highway robbery, with violence, at Broughton, near Preston, on Saturday evening, the 11th inst. The prisoner was found guilty. SAVAGE ATTACK ON A BLIND MAN IN VAI73.IIALL ROAD.—Owen Griffiths, the ruffian who was committed at the Police-court, on Thursday week, for a savage and barbarous attack on a blind man in Vauxhall-road, was found guilty, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. The grand jury having ignored the bill against Miles Scanlan, charged with the manslaughter of a little boy, Michael Mullin, by running over him at Manchester lately, was acquitted, at his lordship's direction, and discharged. MONDAY, MARCH 27. At the opening of the Court, the following indvidual,s, who were called as jurymen, having failed to answer to. their names, were each fined in the sum of £5, viz. Mr. L. T. skill, West Derby ; Mr. Robert Lawn, West Derby ; Mr. J. Bothwell, Holme ; Mr. Adam Lowe, Everton. CHARGE OF MURDER‘ John Jordan, on being called on to plead to the charge of having wilfully murdered William Hair, stated that he was unprovided with counsel, and requested the Court to appoint him one. , His LORDSHIP said he had no power to appoint, but no doubt some gentleman would undertake the duty. Mr. Simons undertook the defence, and the case was postponed till a later period of the day. - - MURDER IN LIVERPOOL. Charles Flower was then charged with the wilful mur der of Michael. M`Dormott, in Dennison-street, on the afternoon of Tuesdar, the 31st February last, about a quaxter before five o'clock. Another count also charged the prisoner with the manslaughter of the deceased. The first witness called by Mr. BLAIR, who prose cuted, was John Allan, seaman, a shipmate of deceased, who was in Dennison-street, at the time stated in the indictment, and saw the deceased, who was standing in the middle of the street, with his cap lying on the ground, and he himself was in a fighting attitude, The prisoner was also there, and witness went up to the deceased and put his cap upon his head, and took him away. The deceased was standing up as if to fight with the prisoner. Deceased returned again up the street, and the prisoner was standing on the door-step of Parry's boarding house, where he lived. The prisoner jumped off the door-step and struck the deceased with his fist. Blows were given on both sides, and the parties closed and struggled. Witness en deavoured to separate them ; but did not then see that the prisoner had anything in his hand. The prisoner and the deceased then got entangled, and remained so till de ceased fell down. After that, witness saw a knife in the prisoner's hand, but did not observe where he had got it from. The prisoner made a heavy thrust at the left groin of the deceased, who almost immediately afterwards fell. The people, of whom there was a great crowd round, en deavoured to secure the prisoner, but could not. Witness, along with some others, picked the deceased up, and they took him to the hospital. Witness saw the deceased dead at the hospital, next day. [The knife was here produced : it was a regular dagger, about eight inches long in the blade, proportionably broad, and with a very sharp point, which, for about three inches up, was two-edged. It had a metallic ornamented handle, and a leather sheath.] The weapon was identified by the witness as the one with which he saw the prisoner strike at the deceased's left groin. —On cross-examination the witness said a crowd was round the prisoner and the deceased when they were fighting ; and the deceased might have been struck by ' others besides the prisoner, and the prisoner was struck by some of them. - George Hall (who is now blind) lived in Mrs. Parry's on the 31st January, and could then see well enough. He knew both the deceased and the prisoner. Some time after three o'clock, witness and the deceased went about half way up Dennison-street; witness went into Parry's, where he lived, and the deceased went on. Shortly afterwards, on coming out of the house, witness saw a crowd, and the prisoner was in it, standing in the street, and deceased was near him. They had been having a quarrel, and the deceased was in a fighting attitude, and the prisoner was standing on the path awl a few persons round him. Sen. ral persons were endeavouring to take the prisoner away, and witness assisted. The witness asked prisoner to go home to his boarding house, which he said he would do, and accompanied the witness. While the witness was getting the prisoner away, no one interfered with him. His face was swelled, and he appeared as if he had been fighting, but witness did not see any blood upon his face. Witness told the prisoner to go into the house and stay in. He said he had a knife in the house, and that he would go in and fetch it and cut the guts out of the first person (using an opprobrious epithet) who came near him. The prisoner went into his boarding house. Shortly after wards the witness again saw the prisoner in a great crowd with a knife in his hand. The prisoner, was going back wards from the crowd, and they were *rushing on him. Witness saw a man named Wallace trying to get the knife. Witness did not then see the deceased at all. Witness came behind the prisoner and caught him round over the arms. Witness endeavoured to throw the pri soner, and they both fell. Other witnesses corroborated the leading features of the previously given evidence. Mr. BRETT, for the defence, contended that the pri soner was ill-used to such an extent as to justify, in a great degree, the utmost efforts for his own defence, or to such an extent, at least, as to remove the charge of murder, if it not indeed to obviate even the minor charge of man slaughter. He called James Thomas, shipping-office clerk, who knew deceased by the name of Billy Jones. Saw a riot about mid-day on the 31st of January ; there was another in the afternoon, between three and four o'clock, at which there was con siderable noise. The deceased was in the crowd, standing in the street. Witness saw the deceased turn round to the prisoner, and addressing some foul language to him, said, " What are you looking at ?" at the same time seizing the prisoner by the hair with his left hand, and striking him in the face with his right. The description given of the subsequent riot and fight, in which deceased lost his life, by this witness, did not differ greatly from what had been previously given ; but he was positive the prisoner did not use the language attributed to him by the witness Hall. The witness was not certain the pri soner did not say something which he ,(the witness) did not recollect. Two other witnesses were called and examined for the defence. After wthich, Mr. Blair contended that the pallia tion intended to be set up had not been made out. His lordship summed up, prefacing his observations by pointing out the distinctions which separate charges of murder from those of manslaughter. He dwelt at consi derable length upon the peculiar features presented by the. evidence, and remarked on the expression of the prisoner sworn to by Hall. If the jury were of opinion that the prisoner had had time to cool down from the excitement caused by the ill-usage he had received, before he used the expression, or went into the house for the purpose of obtaining a weapon and inflicting a wound, which pro duced the fatal consequences with which he was charged, then that would be murder ; if, however, they were of opinion that he was still labouring under the excitement, and that the expression had been used with a general reference, the case would be manslaughter. He com mented at great length on the particulars of the evidence, and left it to the jury to say, whether the prisoner's use of the knife was such as to justify them in finding a verdict of murder or one of manslaughter. The jury having considered for a few minutes, returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. Sentence deferred. MURDER ON BOARD A STEAMER. John Jordan, steward of the steamer Trafalgar, was next placed in the dock, charged with having, on the night of the 14th March, on board the above-named ship, then lying in the Sandon Dock, murdered William Hare, a lad aged about 14, who acted as assistant steward. From the evidence, it appeared that on the night in question, about half-past eleven o'clock, the watchman on duty at, the Sau don Graving Dock heard a noise, which was differently described by the different witnesses, as being like the fall ing of a door ; like the sudden shutting of a door, with a rushing towards it, accompanied by footsteps ; and as the sound of some one falling into the hold. On the watch man and others going on board they discovered the body of the deceased lying on the deck, and quite dead, with his head between the fore and hind wheel of a gun, with a small pool of blOod under his head, and his legs stretched out straight from the body, one leg crossed, over the other. Deceased had a wound over his left eye, from which blood had flowed, but which had not flowed over his right eye brow. It further appeared that the deceased was the son of the cook of the Trafalgar, and had last been seen. alive about a quarter before ten o'clock. On raising an alarm the prisoner was with difficulty aroused, and he seeraed.in a state of stupefaction from the effects of drink. On being apprised that deceased had been found dead on the deck, he made some singular and. :incoherent remarks, and, taking the deceased's head between his hands,said in a wild sort of manner, " 0, Billy ! 0, Billy !" and went dawn stairs into the cabin. The body of the deceased was taken to the Northern Hospital. On. a post mortem examina tion, it was found that the deceased had an extensive frac ture of the skull, accompanied by laceration of the brain, at the back: of the head exactly opposite to the wound above the eye, which the medical gentleman who con ducted the post mortem examination stated to have been the immediate cause of death. He also said the fracture was covered by a contused wound, and that the injuries might have been produced by a blow, or by a fall. The injury to the brain was accompanied by effusion on the brain, which is frequently an accompaniment of apoplexy. H'e further stated, that if the injury had been caused by a fall, the deceased might have struggled in.an unconscious state for a yard or more from the spot where he had fallen. A great number of witnesses were exa mined for the prosecution, but they offered no evidence which showed in any direct way a connexion between the prisoner and any circumstances attending the death of the deceased. After a trial, which lasted between three and four hours, his lordship stated to the jury, that the evi dence laid before them was not of a sufficiently conclusive character to warrant them in convicting on so serious a charge. A verdict of acquittal was recorded. MANSLAUGHTER AT MANCHESTER. William White was charged with the manslaughter of CatherinellTarthy,with whom he lived, in Manchester, on Tuesday, the 28th February. From the evidence itap peared that the deceased, who was of very dissipated habits, had on the night in question been drinking in several public-houses, and got very tipsy. On. going home with.the prisoner, they commenced quarrelling, and he struck her, and shefell down. He took their child from her, and, pushed or kicked her while she was on,the ground. She became very ill, and was suddenly found to be drenched in blood : the prisoner had her conveyed home, and in the course of the same night she died. For the defence it was. contended that the deceased, having become weak and incapable of taking care of herself through drink, fell, upon a chair or some other article of furniture, and inflicted on herself such. injuries as caused her death. His lordship summed up,. and pointed out the nature of the. crime of manslaughter in its v,arious bearings, and showed how the law stood as applied to the present case. The jury having consulted for a few minutes, returned a verdict of not guilty. TUESDAY, MARCH . 4 28, 1854. d bourhood of Manchester. The defendants, Messrs• B ooth man and Babington, are extensive manufactturee f lu o f dealers in lime, and are owners of boats. On 1 1 -4 ' Of August, the boat of the plaintiff; with a cargo. pr e. under the charge of two servants of the PlaF l `,','",„t to ceeded towards Macclesfield. When the boat 11a 1 ;_ 16 ; y, the Beswick aqueduct, which goes over the ran" up O we horse that was drawing the defendants' boat was _ , stern of the other. In the short space between tu!,;ro wick aqueduct and the Beswick lock no boat is ..e.n T o ta , tp pass another by the rules of the canal. The " ting boat did, however, attempt to pass, but, do so, it went right over the plaintiffs boat anu t s o a i lli i n The plaintiff sustained considerable damage , done the expense of weighing his boat, and from the il l .l o.o , :_ohe to it, but also from the injury done to the car,, jury found for the plaintiff; damages £3 5 . ver dict Wel in atteug it. KERSHAW V. KERSHAW.—In this case a _, : , re ea taken for the plaintiff, by consent, subjec t to terms at, upon between the parties. TinApsil AW. A WIFE'S MAINTENANCE.—WORSWICK V. boar d, —This was an action to recover payment f e l i .iff had lodging, washing, and necessaries, which the Plai",. The provided for the wife of the defendant by his r e lea, defendant, William Ormerod Bradshaw, by his Ple a o The his liability, but did not appear to defend the acti ; from amount claimed was £37 10s., being a - w_ e c r far the June, 1852, to October, 1853.—The jury plaintiff for the amount sought, and his lordship immediate execution. the de ci ' v SLA.NDER.—OLIVO v. HA.MSON.—III this case i de d riot ration was for slander, and the defendant plea_nseyor guilty. Mr. Atherton and Mr. J. Russell were defew the plaintiff; Sergeant Wilkins appeared for La' the P ill j dant. Mr. Atherton, in stating the case, said carrk tiff, Mr. Marco Olivo, was by birth a Greek, auu ~hester• on the business of a commission agent in -e!-I tia joes The defendant, Mr. Joseph Harrison, was also 111 „- ams oh, found for at Manchester. He was the son of Mr. Joseph r ‘ i_ wboo t carrying on business at Constantinople, and ivit u nn d the the plaintiff some time ago was in partnership' : for the plaintiff had been compelled to bring this actioi.__t t h e purpose of vindicating his credit, which the defeluLniops, thought proper to impugn by slanderous esr6o ttil which he refused either to qualify or withdraw•d by 4th of January last the defendant, acconlPesThe P e r younger person, went to Mr. Lee's warehouse , f° ,Ai r (i r pose, apparently, of making a purchase of purchase was made on that occasion; but in the 1 . gorY the interview between the defendant and Mr. Will'i,ras , Lee, who acted as salesman for his brother, the s c. " &Or which the plaintiff complained were used. menced with a question put by the defendant tel Henry Lee—" Do you do business with Mr. Olive 000' answer was, "We do." " Does he pay cas h r and-a-half in a month. Why do you ask sue ortlY• tions ?" The defendant answered, " You will s ee sb f He was then asked, " H a ve you heard anything ° 0 yon or do you know anything of him ?" The answer 'L e e a t will see shortly." Th ese wor d s b e ing used, 3 , 1 ,.r . _d the, once looked into the- account between himself "" oce o f plaintiff, and in the coarse of the day the circures t e a c ut 0. 4 this imputation having been made upon his er communicated to the plaintiff himself by Mr. J° 11 ,,,, 11 ,, r ge0, 1 ' Lee. The plaintiff so ug ht repara ti on . Mr' Wilkins, for the defence, contended that there i.4.' l' t on slander contained in th e wor d s ma d e u se of.- 39 ',tth a Platt, in summing up, said that if the jury tho u g defendant meant to impute that the plaintiffs il l P "' vit h ratter as a trader,, was an unfit person to be traste`la, to goods upon credit, th en the pl a intiff was euti : alto' recover in this action.—The jury, after a short co:ont tion, found for the plaintiff ; damages 405.-31 r. ,shed to Wilkins asked that'execution might be stayed. - 4 ,°4 JOULE v. VARLEY.—The action was not defeata — ,;ahau . defendant, John Daniel Varley, is an estate age ilt, s " g oleti received the rents of the plaintiff's property. was returned for the plaintiff for £67 ss. 0 1. A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—TISON AND WIFE V , LANCASHIRE AND , YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COMEA_ In this case the declaration stated that the female plaiP ts : was a passenger by a locomotive carriage of the defend eli ,„o that by reason of the negligence of the company sliS a _;e knocked about and forced against the sides of the earMi, that she suffered very' much in her own person ; ` - .-!t• in consequence, her husband was deprived of her a,,Tto ante and domestic management. The plaintiffs sour,Wiey recover compensation in damages for the injury 43 respectively alleged they had suffered. The railwaY, C a er panyhad not denied that theinjuriesresultedfrom the° r m id ligence, but they had paid into court £3O, which the rf o r was sufficient compensation. The juryreturned a ver alc • (1 1-11 to * the defendants, thereby affirming that the money P w ee• court was sufficient compensation under the circuolotll..." AGREEMENT BETWEEN MASTER AND S.ol°'_,ysA TYSON V. DICKINSON.—TiIe plaintiff', Thomas Tysca!Ajog machinist, and was one of the plaintiffs in the p re c h i ne case; and the defendant, William Dickinson, is k r in e o rp maker, having an establishment at Blackburn. DI h the 1853, the defendant entered into an agreemenb 740, plaintiff, that he should serve him as general ruauag e f a i i ities establishment for three years, at £4 a week. Then strap' under the agreement, entered:into the defendants,oo and was willing to continue to the end of the three year by but when about half a year had gone.by he was di A scb3r ,, t the defendant, who alleged flub the plaintiff ha" -° cient ability to discharge the duties of the situatio v r- os c o; the plaintiff had been examined, an arrangemen t . ` 4 verd ic to, under which the defendant submitted - against him for £l5O. Icq o e• The court rose at twenty minutes past five o e WEDNESDAY;. MA Ecir 22, r tres 311 0551 MELLOR a. TAELOR.—This , was an action o f ~:„( the declaration charging the defendants with tires entering the plaintiff's house, shop, and premiseS, ll cheater, re and taking his goods, and keeping those A V, There were also counts for converting the goods 01) "0, posing of them. The defendants pleaded not goluife4' oat also that the goods were seized under a Avar 'll a i i iss iff is 6 of the Manchester Court of Record. Th er3- t I t t4 a x cet joiner, and Taylor, the defendant, is sert; f ea t n i : d baili bee l, l s ; and Cowell, the other defendant, is one The original debt was paid after judgment lead 11311 obtained, and an execution issued. After the A t o 1) 6 proceeded to a considerable, extent, it was agr e 7ort i ll referred. Shortly before the adjournment of the e_ o or the evening, Mr. Hill, one of the-counsel for the defe nce cas e informed his lordship, that the. attempt to refe r TO' had failed. DISPUTE BETWEEN, INSURANCE A CA 3 cigNTS. --- by v. RonsoN.--The detlaration was for money lent hy the plaintiff to the defendant, for money receiv e( i l ,, o od cl,,, tie defendant for the plaintiff's use, and for money 'i , 26 I ''' upon an account. The action was to recov er - the - 4 ,1 alleged to have been received by the defendant fo r T he re, of the plaintiff, and which he.had not paid over. & off 1 defence would be,,whether the defendant had 3 fined' et that amount. After the plaintiff had been e xa „d rili ced,_& r e; several letters and documents had been P' - ' 1 o ow - 110 James, on the part of the defendant, said he saw c f ed to t o of keeping up the case, and did not wish to Pr n t iff ferli, jury. A verdict was . then given for the Plai n , es eeabr" amount claimed. Mr. Hill applied for fee day s '' jsY• and his lordship granted execution after fourtelho pll: o buss FURNISHIN,G.-11IILME v. SICIIEL.--'-o(Ut• tiff in this case was Joseph Hilton litil nie rest' defendant was Augustus Sichel. The laintiffrisinotreet 9 able cabinet-maker and upholsterer, P Manchester;. and the- defendant - Is a g r aere a, Jewish • persuasion, carrying on business as 3 4 ss • the the same city. The a • °'.-6 t action was to recover '4Ol a 0. 4 a balance for work done and materials siiPrpoiat 4,.4 1 t request of the defendant. The whole aerhees,,P•eti: £1,308- 7s. 101 d. Of this, £1,061 19s. 4d. /lau " clisil at leaving a balance due amounting to the SUM 1,103",4113 0 , A good many clashing accounts, and no Slal3,,t t c, olio ineDtlll33s23 . a n t t-13 conflicting evidence was given. Mr. Baron r' fi 'orol old ming up, said the question was really a TerfAis did which the jury had to try. It was reerelY "- - " i o jobi th o believe the plaintiff or the defendant ? If thel et . I ji " c t. to, be believed, he was entitled to tbR the ce r tes , defendant was to be believed, he was entitled to o ioa t o, The jury retired, and after an absence of 1. 8 0 11 46 Ss• Lt io; returned a verdict for the plaintiff, daniage s ;;'A s° . ,, r 't a t x h n e E p ß iam .— . I t n iff. t , h c i o s consented DAwsom (ADMINISTRATOR) v. Mlast ll- 7, - n the r 1 05 i te l d lr to . Saerngoeantnsuir:ilkins, -- A5 O A o t BRADFORD AND ANOTHER V. WATERS 15. 4.4cifOr''et1' —The plaintiffs in this action were j o nie_ n a V ii i; g Se: joa Henry Rawson, trustees of the League Bu', a nd v' at Manchester, and the defendants were Josep, dents De,o Waters. The declaration stated that the defenual'ea Su' that call ed tenants of the plaintiffs of certain premises - n ditioa, t i l e/ Side Mills, at Manchester, and upon thee buttr, ; beel they should keep them in tenantable repair , „ ia , °, l ., had failed to do so. After the plaintiffs' case 57 0, , opened by Mr. Hugh Hill, it was agreed t° l. ' prdie" de' d a s r- fere ' matters in dispute between the parties; a° t here , taken' i for the plaintiffs for £2,000, subject to ~ocii' The court rose about ten minutes before, SiX " __ .----- Attu Maxon, v. JA RIT TLe R : DAY, .A.ND : 2 ; 1-t o i r l s cli r.u 23 . ttll a e l e r r eD teel : * of the court this morning, a verdict was- takea tr, o ."'ltt ` l l plaintiff, by consent, damages £5O, subject tcl I g" Ofs' ASTLEY V.. LAING.—This was an submit till fo , ,t . t on recover £55 Os. 9id., the balance of an aceSe 1 3 nfo rr ' and labour done and materials supplied. aear.,,,,: Mr. John Astley, is a plumber,,at Pend" ,et°_,,,l l ' is a., d ,'"'",' Chester ; and the defendant, Mr. Robert La''' '' 'l ' ear, A 0 lecturing chemist, having works at Inc..,, n ed w ~ After the case had been opened, it was ag - ,,,,,, - 0 5c. verdict for the plaintiff, subject to a refor it en lltt rsT :s l.- 0 I clf m n e t n t e s t e s late b eas .... CLAIM BY THE BRIDGEWATHR. CA: 7 Th 11 - 4 . 1 '1 1 e /‘,. THE EARL OP DEVON AND OTHERS r. c o der ..- 0 0,. The defendant, elope:......:hlopflaiEnritdiffgsewsuaetderas, muitruasstetresosooittleeds otlite,ebooti4, the owners and managers of several c.antu" - w ater rov B the act ioO fa colliery at S Nathan ..,,c ers s') this doe hackerley, near Tyldesley, and..nooeys ce pt .. brought against him for the recovery c'',,,t - go nte e n ,, tlY e .,,%' Mr. the very v k larg i e e 13 ri d g e oviD e qs ; tonnage and tolls. There would be no t",,"t in v"„a0,1 to whom credit was given. It appeared hindt" grs,"del,w 1851, the defendant, Mr. EckersleY, seu7 t be efv" tl/0 named Nathan Ramsdell, to ask if he „e % e s ent '' l tq might have monthly credit for the go°',, a l f ts.feo 4 cal, el' t canal. Mr. Fereday Smith, the Prini:r4. a id ,l/i;acill; proprietors of the canal, at once grantecv" the c le- co; went on regularly for months; but at lust„Teat s ow went to the office and said it would endinga very h r os e I I ! °., d Olt thence indeed to him if, instead of s his gill,lr DK( accounts to him, they would send them. t e o_, 4 , ,asel who was carrying on business at Mancla ,s'fa a tlt ,li ) pe",,' of lading which had been sent to ~waterdeleA,o l ; P.,,`,". thy before this time were headed " Bridg,_L: oo l vrVijtelt b Nhan Eckersley." Then at nth P I , p; words," To be charged to the account 01 f tio n t,c,s / ,‘ to i, ley, Shackerley Colliery." After this alnp a d 0 1 ,, 0 1 1, 0 the bills of lading were altered, and nir„ , P bewito l',, charged to the account of Nathan Eckoei,sele•Aiargepeg4 ten at the bottom, the words were mini"ue o f ti er the 1)1,1'15 account of Nathan Ramsdell." The ths OfteroatilWel ley was still at the top. For some mont hs reg a y ct*; r s, were sent in to the grandson h e 3150 11 1.1 r. 6rtill s rre s ll . l . at last he fell into arrear. Last MaY, 4 the ~,,,. s,„ upon Mr. Eckersley for the amona.. "felcerroli o'd; £93 2s. 9d. Upon that occasion . ot.L;s, kith _.s:;' he was very sorry; he believe,c,l,f,c, be ';', 0%10 going on the same as before erred,ort m o fo. oi,o for the future you must no ow notvhs defendant it was submitted that thO lit o f tolls t hoi - ae' The case for the plaintiffs having clo a gon Ic ° pa ysh„o le 's! , Upon a declaration to recover the Won cods ,tiolLso4. ti e the defendant for the carriage Of his g 00 04 ',10 till l la It was quite clear there novo* VfOr e l daollo fondant carried along the canal at au BIGAMY. William Wallace was charged with bigamy, he having, at the parish, church of All Saints, Newton Heath, on the 14th June, 1846, married Hannah Sparrow ; and at the Cathedral Church of Manchester, on the 2d December, 1853, married Hannah Newton.„ his, first wife•being still alive. Certificates of both marriage ceremonies were given in and proved ; and thee prisoner was identified as the man who was married in both instances. For the defence it was contended that the first wife was a woman of very immoral habits, and that the second wife, was aware a his previous marriage. Hannah Newton, the second wife, was examined, andstated that she knew of his being married, and living separate from his wife. Prisoner's family were all aware of his wife being alive. Verdict, guilty. Sentence, to be. imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months. The court then adjourned at a few minutes before six, till nine o'clock to-morrow (this morning), when it is understood that an application for postponing the trial of the parties indicted for conspiracy, at Preston, till next assizes, will be censidered, . NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLITT.) TUESDAY, MARCH 21. ALLEGED ILLEGAL is lti EXECUTION.—WINTE ST ING.—The plaintiff an accountant, at Greenfield, Saddleworth. The de i fendant s a brewer and dePler in spirits, at Huddersfield. Some time ago a person of the name of Thomas Morris was station-master at the green, field Station of the London and North-western Railway. Close to the station there stood at that time a beerhouse, which was in an unfinished state. The defendant induced Morris to take the house, complete it as a public-house, and become the tenant of it. He made Morris advances in money to the amount of £23 0 , which sum was ex pended upon the public-house, towards the completion of it. Morris entered the public-house, and the stipulation between him and the defendant was, that he was to obtain all his liquors from the defendant. In that way the £230 debt was increased to £3lO, and then Mr. Styring asked for some security, and obtained a warrant of attorney from Morris. The public-house did not answer ; the con sequence was that Morris got into difficulty. He called in December last upon Mr. Winter, the present plaintiff, to consult him about his affairs. Mr. Winter advised him to borrow money for the purpose of paying off his debts. He agreed to take that advice, and Mr. Winter endea voured to obtain him a loan of £4OO upon mortgage of the lease of the house, stock-in-trade, and furniture, but suffi cient money could not be raised upon this security, and in consequence of that Morris made an assignment to Mr. Winter of his property for the general benefit of his credi tors, the object being, as alleged on tho part of the plain.. tiff, that all the creditors should share and share alike. Under that assignment Mr. Winter entered into posses sion of the premises, and arranged with Morris that he should remain there and be paid weekly wages, but that all money should be paid over to him (Mr. Winter) and accounted for regularly, which was done. Information was given to the various creditor. Altogether there were nineteen creditors of Morris, and amongst the creditors there was another brewer, who was applied to to become trustee. He declined to do so, but approyed•of what was done, and out of the nineteen creditors thirteen were made aware of the assignment, and expressed their approval of it. The remaining six were creditors for a very small amount, the thirteen representing the whole substantial estate of Morris, save and except Mr. Styring, the de fendant. The assignment was executed on the Bth of January last, and on the 3rd of February, Mr. Styring having entered upon judgment, under his warrant of attorney, levied the property which was the subject of the assignment. That gave rise to the prese n t ac ti on, an d the question was whether in truth the ass i gnment ma d e by Morris to the plaintiff was m a d e i n good faith.—Mr. Hill, for the defendant, called his lordship's attention to the fact that not a sin g l e cre di tor had signed the deed of assignment, so that the d ocument was wholly inoperative as against the execution creditor.—His lordship said the question of fact which the jury had to decide was whether this deed was executed w ith the faithful intention of con veying the property in those goods, that the value of them might be realised and divided for the benefit of the credi tors, or whether it was executed for the purpose of being a cloak or protection for those goods for the debtor. The latter would be a fraud, and the execution would be void against the execution creditor coming in. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. RUNNING DOWN A CANAL ROAT.—OGDEN v. BOOTEE. MAN AND OruEns.—This was an action to recover damages for injury done to a canal boat and its cargo. The plain tiff, Paul Ogden, is a carrier by the canals in the neigh-