The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

Dec. 16, 1846. Eon! aiib probincial Ram - The new decorations now in progress in the Town-hall are estimated at £5OOO. _ _ The Electric Telegraph from Fleetwood to Preston will be in operation in a few days. On Friday a little girl, in Manchester, while cutting an apple, fell on the knife, the point of which entered her body and killed her. The authorities of Toxteth-park have offered a reward of twenty pounds for the apprehension of their late col lector, Lawson. SMUGGLING.—Two sailors named Thomas Godfrey and William Leatham were each fined £lOO on Friday by Mr. Rushton for smuggling tobacco. The Rev. W. M. Falloon will preach three sermons in different churches in Preston on Sunday next, on behalf of the Church Pastoral Aid Society. James Bryans, Esq., of Belfield, Bowness, has been placed on the commission of the peace for the county palatine of Lancaster. Woodchester Park estate has been disposed of. The purchaser is a Mr. Lea, merchant, of Liverpool. The price is stated to be near 160,000 guineas.—Bath paper. It is again rumoured that Lord Francis Egerton will shortly be elevated to the peerage by the title of the Earl of Bridgewater. It will be perceived that the Lord Bishop of Chester will deliver the prizes at the Collegiate Institution, on Friday next, at twelve o'clock. The Exchange Committee met on Tuesday last, and agreed to allow the Ladies' Charity Ball to take place in the Newsroom. The rooms in the Town-hall cannot be bad in consequence of the repairs going on. A fire broke out on board the ship Bowditch, of Bos ton, in the King's Dock, on Friday night. It was extin guished without scuttling the vessel, which at first it was apprehended would be necessary. On Thursday se'nnight, as Mrs. Anne Knowles, of Croft Cottage, Wavertree, was stepping into a gig, appa rently in perfect health, she fell back and instantly ex- pired. CAUTION TO SAILORS.—A sailor named Richard In cledon was, on Friday, committed by Mr. Rushton to hard labour for thirty days, for deserting his ship, after he had received a month's pay in advance. On Monday last, a schooner, called the Cheering, of Dover, from Patras and Zante, for this port, was wrecked on West Hoyle. She was totally dismasted. Crew saved, and on board the North West Light-ship. ROBBERY OF PLATE.—On Tuesday evening, between five and eight o'clock, the house of a clergyman, in Chat ham-street, was entered by thieves, and a quantity of silver plate carried off, valued at about £2OO. It conssisted of dessert spoons, soup ladles, table forks, teapot, &c. In an affiliation case, heard at the Manchester Borough Court on Wednesday, one of the applicants admitted, with the utmost effrontery, that she was seeking to father her second child, and that the father of her first-born was her own step-father! Johnston, the captain of the ship Tory, who stands charged with three murders on the high seas, has been further remanded until this day, being incapable of under going examination, in consequence of excessive weakness and indisposition. On Sunday last, the annual sermon in aid of Moorfields School was preached, in St. Nicholas's Church, by the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, when the sum of £33 16s. Bd. was collected. The Mayor, the Recorder, and Corpora tion officers attended. _ ..... . On Tuesday, a young woman, named Catharine Logan, met her death by being run over by a lorry at the bottom of Manchester-street. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against the driver, who was going at too great a speed for such a crowded thoroughfare. REFUSING A BILLET —On Saturday, Mr. Randell, publican, of Redcross-street, was fined 40s. for refusing to billet two soldiers. The defendant said he had only a few months since returned from abroad, and was ignorant of the law. . . The public are warned against a person who has been soliciting money about the town on pretence of a letter purporting to come from the vicar and churchwardens of Walton, and recommending him as a special object of charity. No such recommendation has been given to any one up to this date. The woman who gave evidence against Captain Jot stone, of the Tory, it appears, had formed an intimacy with Dunn, one of the ciew, and also a witness; and while she was in court, he went to her lodgings, opened her trunk, and decamped for Liverpool with £37 of her money. She is a married woman. Oa Wednesday, Mr. Samuel Harvey, a horse-dealer, was brought up before the magistrates under a warrant, on a charge of threatening to horsewhip Mr. John Ashton Case. A disputed commission about the purchase of a pair of horses led to the misunderstanding. lie was ordered to find bail to keep the peace, himself in £2OO, and two sureties in £lOO each. Oh Thursday evening a fire broke out in a four-story warehouse occupied by Mr. Oldham, silk-manufacturer, Manchester. Considerable damage was done to the pre mises ; and Mr. Oldham's stock, valued at £3,000; was destroyed. The fire originated through a piece of binn ing paper, which had been thrown carelessly down after lightine the gas, com•nunicating the flame to the goods. No lese than fifteen persons, shopkeepers of Birken head, appeared on Monday to answer charges preferred by Mr. Reed, Inspector of Weights and measures, for . . weights and scales were declared forfeited ; and William Hayes, who had been previously convicted of a similar offence, was ordered to pay a penalty of 10s., and Bs. 6d. costs. _ _ SUB-LETTING CELLARS.—On Tuesday, no fewer than forty individuals appeared to answer summonses before Mr. Rushton, for having sub-let cellars for separate resi hich were not of the required dimensions, &c., ')57 the late Improvement Act. In all cases a penalty of 55., and 4a. 6d. costs, was imposed, and Mr. Rushton said that that penalty would be incurred for each day that a cellar was so occupied. STREET ROBBERS E,.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a girl, Margaret Kelly, was committed for trial for rob bing a man on Sunday morning of his purse, containing XI 3s. in money.—Catherine Sharp was committed for robbing Benjamin Bryan, on Sunday night, of six half crowns, which she passed to another person before she was taken into custody, in Thomas's-buildings.--Jane Lloyd, was committed for stealing from a youth a gold breast-pin and two half-crowns, in the neighbourhood of Duke -street, yesterday morning.—John Stan, a foreign seaman, for robbing a young man in Frederick-street of four half-crowns, on Saturday, was summarily committed to gaol for• one month. dences yesterday THEFTS FROM THE QUAYS.—At the police court, _„ a man named John Sullivan was charged on suspicion of having stolen six boxes of tin plates from the quay, east side of George's dock, Where they had been placed in order to be put on board of the ship Scotia on Friday. The prisoner and another man engaged a boy to cart the boxes, and the man (not yet apprehen!ed) drove the cart to a house in a yard in Freemason-row, where three of the boxes were afterwards found. They were the property of Messrs. Phelps, James and Co. The steve dove employed to load the vessel saw fifteen boxes of the material - on the quay for shipment, and afterwards found only nine of them. • They were worth 30s. each. The prisoner was in the employ of the stevedove, and ought to have assisted in loading the ship. He was committed for trial to the present sessions.—John Handley, a carter, was charged with stealing an iron plate, weighing 741 b., from the quay of the Duke's Duke. He was also sent to the sessions. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS.—CORMUniCations from the Poor-law Commissioners, dated the 4th instant. First, announcing that, in compliance with a request made by the Board, the Assistant-CoMmissioner, Mr. Austin, would attend the board at its sitting of the 16th instant, and confer on some arrangement with respect to Relieving OffiCers of the Union. Second, in reference to a propo sal made by the boatd a month ago, with regard to the burial of poor persons dying within the union, the Com missioners say that they cannot permit Overseers to take order. for such burials, when payable out of poor ra t es , but that the same shall be done thretvzh the Relieving Of ficers. Mr. Harbord sent a letter requesting a con'er- enee with the board, in preference to the deputation Which had been appointed at the previous meeting ; his greed to. Mr. Smith moved for en ilary of the Clerk rd. He went at some length into the matter, iew of showing the responsible and laborious du g upon the Clerk to the Board, and then sub- requPs addit of th, with of £BO pe mum to the mitred his motion, which was seconded by Mr. Jeffreys. Mr. Lloyd objected to the proposed advance, as did also Mr. Sanders. An amendment was then• submitted by Mr. Roskell, seconded by Mr. J. Birch, that the adiance ahculd be £5O. On the votes being taken, the original 'notion of Mr. Smith was carried. Mr. Gregson gave notice that he would move for the appointment of Mr. J. Howland, as relieving officer for Toxteth-park. It was agreed that the Poor-law Commissioners be written to for a renewal of their order to enable the board to take mea sores for selling the old West Derby , Workhouse. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—The readings of Professor Greenbmk are,. as usual, drawing crowded audiences at thisinstitution. On Friday, when be was assisted by the Hutchinson Family, the audience was actually greater than - on Sir-Henry Bishop's last night. The professor introduced the family to the audience as follows :—.‘• shonld not be doing justice to my young friends from the Other side of the Atlantic, did I not express to them the great pleasure I, feel in being the medium of introducing, them to the members and friends of the Liverpool Colle giate Institution. Ha‘ing known this family for some years I have much satisfaction in stating, that they are highly resoected in their own country, and have - always maintained irreproachable characters. Unlike many iti nerant singers, they inculcate in their varied productions the finest principles of benevolence, virtue, and morality ; and their Interesting compositions, if generally known, are really calculated todo much good. It the same sound and excellent sentiments which they profess were only upheld and maintained by their fellow-countrymen in ge neral, and by those in power in Washington, the barbarian, brutal, and cruel cry of war against the father-land, war between two nations speaking the same language, enjoying nearly the same rights and privileges, and bound together by - po many fratertal ties, would at once and for ever be scouted through the length and breadth of that mighty country. I will not say a word about their vocal abilities. as this highly intelligent and respectable audience is well able and willing to appreciate their unique and peculiar excellencies. I may say, however, that, although they bare beeri in the country but a vety short time, and had not a single acquaintance in England, except myself, when they came here, they have already won for themselves golden opinions from thousands of intelligent and influ ential individuals in. Manchester, Dublin, and several other places."' The 'performances of the Hut&inson Family elicited the fondest applause from the audience that was Perhaps ever heard in the Collegiate-ball. We perceive that that they are to re-appear tomorrow evening, during Mf. : Greenbank's" , reading. 'This will be an appropriate termination of the exceedingly presperous, and bnlliant lecture season of this establishment. • • - STEALING A £lOO I OTE.—A. respectable youth, about 18 years of age, named Richard Loundes, was, on Friday, brought up at bur Police-court, on 'a — charge of having stolen a £lOO note, the property of his employers, Messrs. Fletcher and Sharp, of Northlohn-street. It appeared that on Saturday last the prisoner was 'sent to the post office with two letters, and instractedlo get one of them registered. In each letter. •there was a. £lOO note, in halves, the halves being reversed. The prisoner opened the letters, took from each of them a half-note, so as to form a perfect one, and put the letter containing the other halves into the post-office. This letter he registered, and it reached its destination : but the other did not, and, inquiries having been made, it was found that the prisoner had stolen, and got a person to change, the missing note. The young man admitted his guilt, and was committed to take his trial. HIGHWAY BOARD, THURSDAY. The Chairman (Mr. J. Holme) read a resolution from the Commissioners of Toxteth Park, forwarded to the Board, requesting to know the reasons why the Board intended to apply for an act to rescind the act of sth and 6th Victoria, chap. 65, under which the Board was now acting. Mr. Horn ap peared before the Board, to request permission to place three ornamental lamps opposite his shop door in Lord street; it appeared that he bad given orders for the lamps, under an impression that liberty had been given him by one of the Commissioners; this, however, was denied ; or, at all events, that such permission was not intended. Mr. Procter considered that Mr. Hyam had been put to an expense by an act of the Board ; it was ultimately decided that the lamps would interfere with the foot-walk, and could not be allowed, but that some compensation should be made to the applicant. Mr. Denton brought forward his motion as to the expediency of proceeding with the paving of streets, &c., except where actually necessary, pending the application to Par liament in connexion with the supply of water to the town. It was seconded by Mr. Cooper; and, on being put to the vote, lost by a majority of 6to 5. Mr. Coo per intimated that he would postpone his motion as to the £lO,OOO being applied to the sewerage rate, as the Law Clerk had not been able to look into the Acts of Parliament. So far as could be gathered from the pro ceedings, no day was fixed. Mr. Walthew considered it desirable that some engineering evidence should be taken, to show where the best supply of water could be obtained for the inhabitants of the town. It was agreed that the matter should be submitted to the Parliamentary Com mittee. MR. HADDOCK'S GRAND CONCERT ON TUESDAY.— According to promise, we now proceed to notice this truly brilliant event. The programme comprised a most judi cious selection of first-class music, both vocal and instru mental—shewing a nice admixture of each, without a monotonous preponderance of either. The mere naming the Lablachea was a sufficient guarantee that the vocal de partment would be well sustained. In the first trio with Miss Messent the audience (a crowded and very fashion able one) evinced their high admiration.—and nothing but an eager desire to hear the instrumentalists, prevented an encore. Happily all were in good voice—which is saying much at this inclement season—and gave ample proofs of their eitraordinary abilities. In the concerto (in C major) Mrs. Beale outshone all her former efforts—her first touch on the piano seemed to impart to it a talismanic power. We sincerely wish that many of the clap-trap players of the present day, would read a lesson out of this fair lady's book, and try to understand the value of genuine classic harmony, as exhibited in her feeling, chaste, yet withal powerful and distinct intonations. Mrs. Beales per formances on Tuesday must assist in elevating the musical taste of this town. To select anything pro minently may appear invidious, but we must refer particularly to Messrs. Haddock and Willy's duo. The latter sheaved himself truly au fait—no passage, however difficult, came wrong—and though we have not forgot the far-famed Paganini, Mr. W. would lose nothing by a comparison with him. Of Mr. Haddock's opera tions on the violoncello, we are at a loss for words to con vey an adequate idea—all the other instrumentals, together with the audience seemed astonished. He is a perfect Leviathan in his art. It was quite a stretch of imagina tion to suppose that one instrument only was being played, when he gave the solo by Kumener. We noticed many of the leading artistes of the musical profession who expressed themselves in most enthusiastic terms, and hoped, with ourselves, that a new era is dawning upon Li verpool, when true harmony of the " rich old school " will meet with universal encouragement. THE DOCK COMMITTEE.—At the we Thursday, there were present Messrs. Bramley-Moore, (chairman), Aikin, Nicol, Bold, Mann, Houghton, Chil ton, Henderson, Ripley, Middleton, Sandbach, Wood, Kendal, Smith, Tobin, Rankin, Molyneux, and Moon. The committee of works reported that they hcd been led into an inquiry as to the manner in which the books were kept at the deck-yards, in consequence of a remark made, .ly tneetng on police cas bee❑ brou reported in the newspapers, the books had t before him ; and the conclusion come to by the committee was, that, so far from there being any just reason for the opinion expressed by Mr. Rushton that the books were in a disgraceful and incomprehensible state, the management of this department was most exemplary. The Chairman said that the truth was beat proved by the fact of the superintendents of the Royal Dock Yards hav ing sent persons down, to remain in the Liverpool yards, and to study and perfectthemselves in the system pursued here.—The further consideration of the half-deck floor for the Albert Dock warehouses was postponed.—Several applications relative to berths for particular sea-going steamers and ships, were referred to the harbour-master's committee.—The chairman stated, with great pleasure, to the committee, that Mr. Hartley, at present in London, had had an interview with Mr. Cubitt, and now reported that the operations connected with the new landing stages were proceeding rapidly and satisfactorily.—Mr. - Aikin asked the Chairman whether the information given last week (originaily) in the STANDARD and copied into other newspapers, as to the Dock Committee having given no tice for the formation of new docks, was correct. Not having heard anything of such an intention, he had been astonished by the announcement.—The Chairman said it was perfectly correct. The plans were on the table, and might be examined by any member.—(Beautiful typo graphical copies of these plans—three in number—are supplied gratis to our readers with our publication of this day.)—Mr. Aikin said be had had no intimation of such a resolution having been come to.—The Chairman said that all had been done in due course. The plans had been .referred to the parliamentary committee, who had deposited them in compliance with the standing orders. A rough sketch only had, however, been got ready before that day week.—Mr. Aikin complained that there had been no discussion on the subject, and that it had been decided without the knowledge of the general committee. Had it ever been decided to make docks on the site stated ? —The Chairman said it had been understood that powers were to be applied for to purchase the site, uneer the sanction of the committee, and that if anything should arise to render the construction of the docks unadvise able, they should be stopped before the bill was obtained. The matter would, therefore, have to come before the mature consideration of the committee. A committee hsd been appointed to conduct the parliamentary proceed. ings on the subject.—Mr. Bold asked if there was a reso lution on the books to go to parliament for the making of any such docks.—The Chairman said power had been given to include the property in the bill, and as to the plans and making of the docks, that question would here after come on for discussion. The plans bad been on the table the previous week.—Mr. Aikin reiterated that ap plication had been made to parliament to do certain things without any resolution by or authority from the commit tee.—lt was the expressed opinion of several members that no harm was done by seeking for the powers, which did not hind them to anything; and after some further conversation the subject dropped.—There was no other business of importance previously to the discussion of fi nancial matters, during which reporters are not admitted. MR. LEWIS'S CONC RRT. - Next Tuesday Mr. H. Vincent Lewis's concert took place at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, when the attractive nature of the performances, and the merits of the party principally con cerned, will, we trust, secure a full and respectable at tendance. The warblings of Mrs. Sunderland and Miss Whitnrill, the tenor of Mr. Reeves, and the buffo singing of Sic nor de Braunhelder, added to Mr. Leonard's per formance on the clarionet, and Mr. Lewis's on the piano forte, the latter introducing beautiful Scotch airs in a brilliant fantasia, will present a treat of no ordinary kind. —See adv. with his entertainrnexts at the Royal Assembly Rooms during the evenings of the past week. Each change of performance has been received in the most favourable manner, and his extraordinary versatility is the theme of general remark, while the great diversity of character em bodied to the life, the extremely good taste which charac terizes his manifold assumptions, and the Protean-like rapidity with which be glides, as it were, from one cha racter to another, brings down general applatise. His imitations of almost every sound in nature, and of every variety of inanimate objects, is,also exceedingly clever and interesting, and constitute a curious and surprising display of " the acute powers of the human voice, and its contri butory organs." PRESERVED PorAToes.—We have seen, at the ware house of Mr. John Hamilton, No. 13, Henry-street, a lerge stock of potatoes effectually preserved from the rot, and suitable either for home use or exportatiOn. The plan adopted is that recommended by Mr. James Dean, the celebrated agriculturist of Tottenham, amt . promul gated by him in the early part of last Month, together with other valuable " experiences" in farming:, through the co lumns of the ?Nark-Lane Express: —namely, paeking them in powder prepa'red par ly from gypsum, which not only preserves those roots apparently sound from being af fected, but, by absorbing 'the ammonia in the parts of such as are diseased, completely arrests the further progress of, decay, and lgaves the remainder as fit for food as if no dis ease had been developed. The proportion of preparation recommended - to be used, as ensuring safety, is half a peck to a sack of tolerably good potatoei, which should be housed as dry as possible, and placed in layers. In those of which the disease has taken bold, the decayed parts should be taken out, though the powder will arrest it even if this operation be omitted. When they are un packed, after lying for a long time, the preparation is found to have assumed a pinkish hue, probably from the ab sorption of the ammonia and viciated juices. Such are the properties of this simple appliance that the potatoes are harder and firmer after being taken out than when they were put in, and there, appears to be no doubt but they will keep quite as long, or probably longer, than if the disease had never been manifested. Mr. Dean also re commends that gypsum be strewed over the sets before planting next year, which he has found materially to aid in prodooing a more abundant crop. Captains of vessels, desirOus of obtaining potatoes for ships' use, or for sale abroad, would do well to examine the stock in Henry stfeet, already cured and prepared for removal, and judge fot themselves. The valuable commuuication of Mr. Dean, on the subject, has been laid before the Council of the - Royal Agricultural Society of England, who highly appreciate the mode of preservation recomme ed. SOUTH LANCASHIRE WINTER ASSIZES LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY , DECEMBER 9. <Before Mr. Baron Parke.) Wm. Booth was convicted of a burglary at Bolton, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. William Sunman, 52, and John Watson, 33, were in dicted for having, at Ormsl,irk, feloniously uttered a forged bill of exchange for £l9 7s. 6d., with intent to defraud John Moulding. Sunman was further charged with uttering, at Liverpool, a forged bill of exchange for £35 15s , with intent to defraud William Earle and ano ther.—After a good deal of testimony had been adduced, his Lordship said the evidence of uttering the bills with guilty knowledge was incomplete, and the prisoners were acquitted. Henry Orritt, 28, W,n. Smith, 27, Peter Smith, 21, and John Orritt, were charged with maliciously wound ing John Baldwin, at Bickerstaff. The prosecutor is gamekeeper to Lord Derby, and, on the 28th August, was watching near Loylake-lane, at Bickerstaff, when a party of eight or nine men came up, and violently attack ed him ; several of his ribs and one of his arms were frac tured, and his body was much bruised. Henry Orritt and Peter Smith were active in the affray, the former being armed with a pitchfork. The jury found the two latter guilty, and Orritt was sentenced to 18 months' im prisonment, and Smith to 12 months. William Charnock, 52, was charged with having killed John Radcliffe, on the 21st of September, at Upholland. We recently gave the particulars of this case. The pri soner was acquitted. Thomas Barnes was convicted of burglary at the house of John Wild, Ashton-under-Lyne. Twelve months' imprisonment. (Before Mr. Justice Williams.) James Wilson was acquitted of a charge of perjury. John Carrington was convicted of stabbing at Man chester. Wm. Yates was convicted of forgery, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. Thomas Davies was acquitted of manslaughter at Kirk dale-road. The circumstances of this ease will be fresh in the recollection of our readers. The prisoner co habited with the deceased (Elizabeth Johnson) in Kirk dale-road. It appeared that, on the night when deceased died, a quarrel had taken place between her and the pri. soner, but the doctor gave it as his opinion that the cause of death was bilious fever, with congestion of brain. John Stewart was found guilty of forging a request for the delivery of goods with intent to defraud Edmund Howarth, of Bold-street. The prisoner had been in the employ of Mr. Hunt, merchant, of this town, and toot an order, purporting to be signed by Mrs. Hunt, to Mr. Howarth, for a shawl; but, whilst the prisoner was in the shop, it was discovered that Mrs. Hunt knew nothing of the order. WEDNESDAY. (Before Mr. Baron Parke.) The grand jury ignored the bill charging Michael Molyneux with having thrown Alice Hampson into the canal with intent to kill her. The grand jury also ignored the bill charging Thomas Francis Russell with shooting at policeman Christopher Walls, in Hotham-street Bridewell, with intent to murder him. The bill was also thrown out by the grand jury charg ing Mary Oaks and Eliza Powell with sending a child in a basket, per railway..to Nantwich, with intent to murder it. The infant was alive when it reached its destination, and was addressed—" Mr. Bolt, appraiser, Nantwich— speed—fi'sh." The prisoner, Mary Oaks, said, the child, which was illegitimate, was sent to its father because she could no longer maintain it. John Rushton was acquitted of having, at \Vorsley, ravished Elizabeth Smith. Thomas Winstonley was convicted of having, at Pen dlebury, ravished Mary Anne Marsh, a child ten years of age. He was sentenced to transportation for life. David Kay was acquitted on a charge of having, at Bury, committed a highway robbery with violence upon the person of William Davies. George Astall was acquitted of having, at Barton upon.lrwell, broken and entered the dwelling-house of Joseph Nall, with intent to steal his goods. Andrew Spence and Martin .31` Dermot were acquitted of ha%ing, at Ashton-under-Lyne, assaulted Saml. Shaw, and stolen from him a shilling and a knife. (Before Mr. Justice Williams.) - - - John Rutsedge was convicted of a common assault upon a boy named Tyason, at Liverpool. Twelve months' impriscinment and hard labour. John Wyatt and James Mulloy were convicted of a highway robbery at Manchester. The former was sen tenced to 10 years' transportation, and the latter to 15 Bridget Ballinger was found guilty of having commit :l an assault upon her husband, at Liverpool, and was THURSDAY (Before Mr. Baron Parke.) William Greenkalgh pleaded guilty to two indictments charging him with having embezzled various sums of mo ney at Warrington, the property of his master, Wm. Gill. He was sentenced to seven years' transportation. Patrick Oater was found guilty of assaulting Mary Ann Morris, at Ashton, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner and prosecutor were quarrel- The prisoner vas sentenced to four months' im- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. tenced to ten years' transportation. Rodgers and Parker were acquitted. Catherine Ball, 30, pleaded guilty to the charge of having, at Liverpool, feloniously stabbed Jane Jones.— The prisoner was sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour for six calendar months. Jahn Myall, who had been sentenced to ten years' transportation for robbing and assaulting Wm. Reynolds, of Manchester, was called up again to-day, when the Learned Judge observed that he had re-considered his sentence. and had come to the conclusion of sentencing him to fifteen years' transportation. James Kelly, convicted of bigamy, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Richard Bent was indicted for having fraudulently personated a person of the name of John Holden, in No vember last, at the municipal election at Bolton. The prisoner was found guilty, but Mr. Pollock objected to the indictment, and the prisoner was not sentenced, but liberated on bail. This case was the last to be tried. MEETING OF THE LIVERPOOL AND HAR RINGTON WATER COMPANY. On Wednesday, a special general meeting of the pro prietors was held at the Clarendon-rooms, to consider the proposed application to Parliament in the ensuing session,—Harmood Banner, Esq., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said that former acts of Parliament prescribed that extension of the company should be provided for out of its income, and from time to time this had been acted up to, the por tion of income so expended being added to the capital. The income had hitherto been equal to meet this expen diture, but the increase of the town had rendered this re sort no longer adequate. From the year 1800, when this company was first established, up to the year 1820, the population had doubled. From 1820 to 1810 it had doubled again, so that the population of 1800 was then quadrupled. From that time to the present, and with the prospect of its proceeding in the same ratio in which it was going on, there was a far greater proportion, so that the directors felt it necessary to apply to Parliament for further powers to enable them to raise capital sufficient to keep pace with the increased demand for water. A reso lution was, after mature consideration, come to, to the effect that " in consequence of the great increase of po pulation, and the increased demand for water in Liver pool and Toxteth-park, and requisitions to supply water in other townships, and the consequent necessity for raising further capital, the income of the company being insufficient to extend the works as required, application to Parliament be made in the ensuing session to raise the capital, and for further powers, and that notice of the same be given." At the last general meeting in July, the necessity of borrowing money for extensions was made apparent, and an amount was raised upon bond, witbin the provisions of the act, but that amount had been expended, as well as their income, as far as they could. Tire directors had, in fact, only anticipated a pub lic want, and had properly put the proprietors in a posi tion to go to Parliament without delay. They had taken the preliminary steps, and it was for the meeting to con sider how far they felt disposed to enable the directors to carry into effect the object they had commenced. The Parliamentary notices were given on the lith of Novem ber, and the intention of the directors was communi cated by letter and read to the Mayor of the town, in which a hope was expressed that the intention of the di rectors would meet with the concordance of the Town Council and the public. The letter also noticed that the ant of water for the poorer classes, so frequently corn rlained of, had principally arisen from a want of cisterns for small houses and courts ; that the erection of such reservoirs would efi,Ttually remedy the evil, and that it was to be regretted that the company was not empowered to make it compulsory on the public to supply them, es pecially as the expense would be comparatively trifling. T , !is letter had been politely acknowledged by the Mayor, and referred to the committees of the Council, but had not, as yet, been taken into consideration. He might state that the solicitor of the company would be shortly in communication with the Town Clerk ; and he hoped the result might be, not an opposition on the part of public bodies in the town with respect to the supply of water, but a cordial co-operation. (Hear, hear.) He was quite sure that such a co-operation was desired by the directors : and that they were very anxious to meet the wishes of the public, and to supply water in the most efficient manner possible. He had great hopes that when they came fairly into communication with the Corpora tion, or any other of the public bodies, they would strike out a mode of clrdially co-operating, instead of expen ding large capital in the establishment of an object which would, after all, be a great expense to the public without a corresponding benefit being derived. The proceedings, as stat d, awaited the sanction of the proprietors, and the dir'ecto rs were ready to reply to any questions that might be put to them. Mr. SANDBACII, sen., inquired if the corporation had given the company any notice of their intention to go to Parliament? The CHAIRMAN said he knew nothing of their inten tions beyond what he saw in the newspapers. A notice had been given by the Highway Board to go to Parliament for certain powers, which included a power to supply wa ter for domestic use. The corporation had given notice of a bill, which included a right to take from the Highway Board their powers altogether, and to centre the whole in the corporation. In fact, the desire of the Corporation appeared to be, to carry out the spirit of Lord Lincoln's Mr. SANDBACH said that if the three bodies went to Parliament for similar purposes they would be in opposi tion to each other. The CHAIRMAN admitted this, but if others went for powers to supply houses, the company must in duty to themselves be brought into collision. In reply to a ques tion, he added, that if the company did not go to Parlia ment they would be in no worse position as regarded the interest of the money than they now were. But there were two reasons for going to Parliament. First, they had had the supply of the town for upwards of forty years and it was their duty to extend that blessing to the people whether the doing so was additionally profitable to the company or not. (Hear, hear.) Then, as a matter of private interest, they might fairly hope that if their powers were extended, and they advanced capital out of their own pockets for that purpose. Parliament would allow them a fair remuneration. Their duty was not to stand still, but to go forward. Mr. SANDBACH concurred in the latter remark, provi ded there were no opposition. He inquired whether any overtures had passed between the company and the corpo ration, relative to the purchase of the water works ? The CHAIRMAN replied iu the negative, and said that such an overture could not proceed from the company. No offer had been made to them ; but he believed that the proprietors generally—if it were the wish of the public to have the water-works in their own hands, and the corpo ration expressed that wish—would have no objection to dispose of their works on fair and equitable terms. (Ap plause.) Mr. SANDBACH considered that it would be for the in terest of the public to have the supply of water in the hands of one body instead of two, and that the best thing the corporation could do would be to purchase the existing works, and to extend them, instead of erecting new ones —to give the full value of the works, and to take them into their own hands. The CHAIRMAN concurred that one body was better than two, for the sake of economy. Mr. SANDBACH thought the town was under great ob ligations to the Harrington Company for what had already been done, and that the company ought to be paid libe rally if the works were purchased. On the suggestion of Mr. GRE GSON, a clause was agreed•to be inserted in the application enabling the corn ; patty to dispose of the works; and another enabling the e company to look for water in places outside the parochial 3 boundary. The CHAIRMAN assured the meeting that before any bargain for the sale of the works should be concluded the proprietors would be called together and consulted A motion was then uut and carried ap pro v ing and cob- firming the proceedings, and giving the directors full power to proceed with their bill, and to modify or alter it as they deemed meet. The CHAIRMAN suggested a resolution to the effect,— " That the directors be authorised to oppose any other bill or bills introduced into parliament next session which might be considered .by them to affect the rights and in terests of the Harrington Company." This was neceay sary for the preservation of the company's springs.—The motion was carried ; and thanks being voted to the chair man. the meeting separated. SELECT VESTRY At the fortnightly meeting on Tuesday there were pre. sent twenty-two members. Mr. Schofield in the chair. A report was read from the medical officers, stating that the increased cost of drugs was owing to the much greater number of patients prescribed for than formerly. Letters were read from Mr. Eckersley, superintendent registrar, to the Select Vestry, and others, all relating to Mr. Ecker , ley having been charged double rent for one year (X 100) for the premises occupied by him as tempo rary offices in Islington, and for which he was threatened with an action. It appeared that Mr. Eckersley had done his part to relieve himself from responsibility, but that through some neglect on the part of others (in the vestry) he Was considered by the proprietors of the premises as liable. Al r. Eckersley was called in and examined as to the facts, and the matter was ordered to stand over for a fortnight, it being understood that Mr. Lowndes would then give his opinion on the facts as to whether the parish was or was not liable. Mr. BREMNER gave notice of a motion on the subject, " Thht the rent claimed by Messrs. Medley from Mr. Eckersley, for the occupation of the premises in Islington Terrace, occupied by him as Superintendent Registrar for Liverpool, he paid by the Select Veitry." A letter was read from Mr. Alfred Austin, dated Man chester, stating that he had been appointed to succeed Mr. Twistleton as assistant Poor-Law Commissioner for this district, and that he should be glad to be favoured with the usual returns, &c. ' Mr. EARLE then submitted a motion, to the effect that it was desirable that more appropriate offices be procured for conducting the business of the parish than those in which the Vestry were then assembled ; that such offices were erected on the vacant ground adjoining the work house ; and that a committee be appointed to take the matter into consideration, and to report to the Vestry. He pointed out the inadequate size and state of the pre sent premises. The annual expense of them was consi derable,—so much so that he believed a saving to the pariah of £2OO a year would be effected by removal else where. _ - _ _ _ _ . Mr. FERGUSON seconded the motion ; in doing which, he pointed out in detail the confined and crowded state of ne present offices. Mr. HENDERSON thought the poor and the public would experience great Inconvenience if the offices were fixed on Brownlow-hill, and thought that as the pre vent courthouse would be vacated when the new Assize Courts were opened, that a building ought to be enquired about, as it might probably be got at a more econ3mical rate than a new building. He moved, as an amendment, that a committee be appointed to select a site. The original resolution was, however, carried, and the following gentlemen were appointed as the committee : Messrs. Ferguson, Thornley, Urquhart, Blackburn, Earle, Houghton, Bennett, and the Churchwardens. THE NEW PRESCRIPTION FOR TIE PEOPLE In the estimation of a certain class of people, the liberals, par excellence, the working poor, whether agri cultural or engaged in manufacture, appear to be regarded more as machines than as human beings. Not long ago we directed the attention of our readers to the nonchalance with which a worthy Quaker Leaguer, Mr. Ashworth, of Bolton, expressed his belief that his workpeople might '• be brought" to relish the salted pork of America, in the same way as they had been brought to put up with salted herrings to their potatoes. The cheap pork and the salt fish for the human machine were, in a gentle man's mind, regarded in about the same light as he would look upon cheap oil for his spinning jenny and his power loom. A much more striking discovery, however, as which the poor can be " brought to relish" has just been made by a "liberal" agriculturist, the Duke of Norfolk. In his eagerness to devise the means by which his agricul tural labourers can be reduced to a cheaper kind of diet, and less of it, the Duke has found that the use of " curry powder" would greatly facilitate the first process neces sary—viz., the getting rid of their appetites. He argues thus : " Gentlemen, a thing was suggested, in a letter by a lady the other day, which certainly is very warm and comfortable to the stomach, if it can be got cheap. I have endeavoured. The other day when I was in London I went to several places to inquire, and I bought a pound or two of it, because there is more difficulty attached to it than what we at first imagined. They have not been accustomed to it, and, perhaps may not like the taste. I like it very much myself. In India a vast number of the population use it : in fact, it is there to them what potatoes are in Ireland—l mean curry powder.' (Laughter.) People may smile at it at first, but it is a very warm thing, made of peppers and a variety of things of that description. If any gentleman will try and take a pinch and put it into hot, water—l don't mean to say it will make a good soup, but this I say, that if a man comes home, and has nothing better, it will make him warm and go to bed comfortable. (Laughter.) It may create amusement, but if any gentleman will try it, he will find out what I say. I don't say it may be given in quantities ; but with potatoes, or a little bit of bacon, or anything of that kind, it is like a pickle. People whose appetites are fastidious take pickle; and with this article, a pinch of it will make a meal extremely palatable and comfortable. (( - lear, hear.) I mean to try it among my labourers; and by doing that I am sure that if the winter comes on severe, we may add very much to the comforts of the poor, (` hear, hear,' and suppressed laughter.) I may be ridiculed hereafter for what I Fay ; but as I said before, 1 don't care what is said, so long as I can make the poor comfortable." (Cheers) We shall not attempt to comment upon this absurd and heartless proposition—this attempt to substitute pepper for the solid food which the agricultukzl labourer ought to be enabled to eat. But we may ask bow can thelandlords of England wonder that demagogues are successful in raising popular odium against their order, when they thus shamelessly expose their own self-interest. REMINISCENCES OF AN EX PARISH DOCTOR [The following is part of an unpublished series, from the pen of an intelligent and highly cultivated gentleman, who has laudably devoted much of is time to the welfare of the labouring classes, and who hopes that painful facts, thus illustrated, may induce some to read, and so become acquainted with the subject, who would be in vain ap pealed to through the medium of bare facts and mere sta tistical statements.—E. L. S.] "I was a boisterous evening in the latter end of Novem ber—the wind whistled resolutely, and the pattering of the rain was brought in fitful dashes against the window— as I sat smoking a cigar in my library. My wife was sewinz—my youngster playing on the hearth-rug before us—the kettle was singing cheerily on the hob—and I had just lapsed into a reverie after reading several pages of that most excellent and truthful record of painful facts, " Chadwick's Report on the Sanitary Condition.of the Labouring Classes," when a knock at the door aroused me. " Come in," said I. My assistant entered. " A woman has just come, sir and wants you to go to Mrs. Edwards, in -- street. immediately." Knowing that this street was one inhabited by the most destitute of the locality, I said,—" There must be some mistake. The messenger supposes that I am still the parish surgeon. You had better correct her mistake, and direct her to Mr. —, who now has the management of such cases." The young man went out, but soon returned to say that the woman would wish to speak to me. I went to her ; she said that Mrs. Edwards had formerly been a servant with me ; that her name had been Ruth -- ; and that she had taken the liberty to request me to come and see her before she died, as she could not afford to pay for a surgeon, and she was anxious to avoid the necessity of applying for parochial relief, if possible. Remembering that about a year and a half previously a servant of that name had left us, who had been in our srvice upwards of three years, and to whom we were much attached, I told the woman I would call within half an hour, and returned to the library. what I have ju On telling my wife the substance o written, she urged me to go immediately; she, " I well remember when I was so - ill. poor Ruth was very kind to me—she never seemed tired of attending to me; and she was always so tidy, neat, and obliging." I put on my boots and greatcoat, and, muffling myself up. followed the woman who had brought the message. Whilst I walked towards -- street, as I remembered the smart, healthy girl, who, hardly two years before. had lived in a good house, slept on a good bed, and lived on the same food as the other members of the family, I could not avoid comparing her condition then with the state in which I expected to find her; how many silly servant girls thought I, are giving themselves airs, and quarrelling with their good places for some trifling matters,—an angry word, or even look from:their mistress,—a few shillings of extra wages,—an unwillingness to rise in the morning, —a want of economy in the management of their master's goods, —or twenty other silly causes of " giving notice," and how ends all this ?—place after place is left ; at length Betty gets married and in exchange for the cross looks or words of ber mistres, she gets too often the angry curses and heavy blows of a brutalized and drunken hus band, for whom she must sit up late at night and rise early in the morning ; instead'of her quarterly wages to expend upon herdress and other comforts, she has doled out to her weekly the few shillings which have not been spent huckster's shop, for goods which have been obtained on credit the week before, and which must be paid away before another week's credit at exorbitant prices can be thoughtless persons who when surrounded by plenty, have been wasteful of their master's goods—the habits then indulged in follow them through life, and in this as in many instances proves that a bad servant cannot be either a good wife or a good mother,—but reader you will say every servant does not marry such as you des cribe—true, I answer—Ruth did not;—John Edwards was when he married her as smart and sober a young fellow as ever worked at a joiner's bench—and yet he— but I am anticipating. " This is the court, sir, said my conductress as she stopped opposite a narrow archway, about 5i feet high and less than a yard wide, in street ; but you must stoop, sir,—there now, sir,"she said as we emerged into a narrow court, about seven feet wide, with three or four dirty houses on each side, and closed at the end by the back of another house. " Please mind where you set your feet, as the yard is full of holes filled with dirty water she had scarcely uttered her warning, before she herself slipped her foot and was thrown with some violence on the ground, her fall disturbed the pestilential filthy puddles, which gave out such a disgusting smell, that although used in bygone times to such localities, I felt fairly sickened by the stench. " Surely," said I, as I assisted the poor creature to se, " Ruth Edwards does not live in this horrid placer' " 0 yes, sir, the last house there." slid she, pointing forward as she got up; " but it is indeed a sorry place to live in; it is next the privy,—saving your presence, sir,— and the stuff drains through the walls into the cellar of the house, and makes such a dreadful smell right through it, that nobody would live in it ; and it was shut up till Mrs. Edwards took it, as the landlord offered to let her live in it for a shilling a week, and, God help her! she could afford no more. All this passed as the woman was poking the piece of a key she held in her hand into the key-hole of the rusty lock which fastened the door. At length it was opened, and we entered an empty dark room. " She is up stairs, sir," said the woman ; " if you will wait I will get a light." In a few moments a gleam of light in the room above enabled me to grope my way up stairs,- and, on. entering the room, stretched on a wretched pailliasse, covered with a clean but ragged old counterpane, I saw laid the poor object of my visit, pale, haggard, and cold. A momentary smile of satisfaction gleamed on her wasted features as she said, with difficulty, in feeble, half.whis pered voice, " God—bless you. sir ;—I knew you 'd— come ;—excuse me for troubling you." Her lips qui vered, and a large tear rolled down either cheek, as she faintly added, " God bless you, sir; but,"—l involuntarily followed the direction of her eyes into the far corner of the room, where lay a little white heap. I lifted the cloth • beneath it lay the body of abeautifully but slightly formed infant. lat once saw the nature of her case, and told her that she must calm herself—that I would attend to her until she was well—(B6e mournfully shook her head)--that in her present exhausted state she must not excite herself—that 1 would, after examining the state of her pulse, get what further information I required about her from her neighbour, who must accompany me back , for what was needed,—having previously sent her over to the little shop at the corner of the street for materials to make a fire in the grate, with a request that the huckster would get a girl to.light apd attend to the fire until the woman's return. _ _ _ On my way , home I learnt that poor Ruth had been prematurely confined of a stillborn child, and, from want of proper attendance in her reduced condition, had nearly sunk from haemorrhage and consequent exhaustion ; that her husband was in the Infirmary. where be had been for more than two months suffering from a painful affection of the joints, which had been left by a very severe attack of rheumatic fever. On my arrival at home I hastily told my tale of woe to my dear wife, who lost no time in filling a basket with such little . necessaries and comforts as were required by the invalid, and in making up a large bundle of bed and other clothing, when a servant was despatched to help in carrying and arranging them ; my assistant having mean while supplied the needful medicines. _ (To be concluded next week.) CHURCH EXTENSION To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sts,—You are, no doubt, aware that the friends of church extension are making vigorous efforts to raise funds for the erection of two, if not three churches, in Toxteth-park. This being the case, you would a priori expect that every clergyman of the Established Church would aid in the good work, or at least would refrain from inducing members of their congregation to refuse their aid. I regret, however, to be obliged to state, that a friend of mine heard from a Church of England pulpit in Toxteth-park, a clergyman inveigh against church exten sion, whilst his own was badly filled, and wanted repair. This is not as it should be. I am, Sir, yours, &c., A FRIEND TO CHURCH EXTENSION. MEMORANDA OF THE LATE & NEW CABINET. On Friday, December 5, 1845, after various previous discussions, which had led to no result, the final meeting of the Conservative Cabinet took place. at whi'th the re solution was taken, that, on the ground of the disagree ment in opinion which had sprung up, it would be their duty not to attempt to go on after a division or seces,ion, but rather at once to place their resignations in her Ma jesty's hands, and thus to enable her to form a united government. _ To place this communication before the Queen, Sir Robert Peel left London on Saturday, December 6. Lord Jahn Russell arrived at Osborne House at half past three o'clock on Thursday afternoon. His lordship remained on a visit to the Queen until Friday morning, taking his departure in one of the royal carriages. The Marquis of Normanby may be expected home from Italy at the earliest possible time, information having been forwarded to Florence apprising the noble marquis that Lord John Russell had been summoned to form a new adsainistration, and urging his lordship's speedy return to this country. We have reason to believe that Viscount Me'bourne does not contemplate joining his former colleagues in the administration, if Lord John Russell should succeed in forming one, as his health will not admit of the fatigue naturally attendant on official occupation. The far-seeing merchants do not at all relish the idea of Lord Palmerston's having to deal with Mr. President Polk, and every one and all agree in the Oregonterritory question being very much darkened by the prospect of its arrangement being handed over to Lord Patine , stop. Leiters are in existence from the Duke of 'Wellington in reply to inquiries especially directed to this point, in which letters his grace distinctly says that it is utterly untrue that he had ever given way on the cora law question, or that heeven entertained an ideaof so doing. The Herald declares that Sir Robert Peel never pro posed any change in the corn laws at all to the extent reported. It says t—Whatever Sir Robert Peel's opinion upon the subject of the corn laws, the country may be well assured that he never did propose, and in office or out of office never will either propose or support any charge in the corn laws, unaccompanied by what he be lieves to be full compensation to the landed interest through all its gradations. Whence that full compensa tion is to he obtained we are utterly at a loss to conjec ture; but it is no more than an act of justice to the late premier, as we suppose we may call him now, to repeat it, that lie never did propose, as the infamous fabrication of the Times asserted, an unqualified and total repeal of the corn laws. Nor, as we firmly believe, will he ever pro pose or support any such measure. This is most impor tant, because whatever difference has existed in the Ca binet has been merely a difference in degree and not in species, and, therefore, cannot extend to the Conservative party in either House of Parliament. The Herald of Saturday says, " We can state that it is totally untrue.that Lord 'John Russell had an interview with Sir Robert Peel, in his lordship's passage through London to obey the Queen's summons. We believe we can affirm with perfect certainty that Sir Robert Peel has not lately had any communication with Lord John, either personally or otherwise. Equally untrue as this fable of the personal interview—which was, indeed, under the cir cumstances, impossible—is the statement that Sir Robert Peel advised the Queen to send for Lord John Russell. To offer such advice, in Sir Robert Peel's position, would be officious and unconstitutional." aisso nt ruction to an i rnmedi- The Sun says, the opinibn gains ground that n lution will take Place Until Lord John find which c ate dissolu A prisonment John Grindrod and John Eastwood were acquitted of assaulting and robbing Edward Sheppard on the highway near Rochdale, on the 4th instant. James Stone, aged 22, pleaded guilty to a cha larceny. The facts were rather singular. The prisoner went to a woman in Liverpool, named Moon, who had a son in Jamaica, and told'her that he had brought a parcel from bin,, whichl was detained at Plymouth by the Cus toms, and that if she would give him 16s. 2d., the amount of duty for which it was detained, he would forward the parcel. He received the money, and never forwarded it. Other cases of a similar character were proved.—Eighteen months' imprisonment. Thomas Hayei was found guilty, and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, for breaking into the dwelling house of Mr. Griffin, at Leigh, and stealing a box con taining twelve sovereigns. The prisoner, who was a tai lor; availed himself of the knowledge obtained while working at the prosecutor's house to get in during the night at an unfastened window. John Muddiman, 26, and James Fielding, 27, were charged with assaulting and robbing George Shawcross, at Salford, on Saturday night week. It appeared that the prosecutor was rather tipsy, and 'gave the money to his daughter, who was with him, to take care of, leaving in his own pocket 20. In going down Liverpool-street, they saw the prisoners, and Muddiman knocked the old man down, kicked him, and emptied his pocket , of the 20. He said, " He's not worth robbing, he's only two pence-halfpenny in copper," and kicked the old man in the ribs. The girl screamed out murder, upon which the ruffian hit her a blow which knocked her down. Fielding stood close by all the time, but did nothing. The jury acquitted Fielding but found Muddiman guilty, who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. BOTTLING A VOTER.—John Lyon, John Radeitife, John Halliwell, James Badder, James Greenwood, and Edward Briggs Bradshaw, were charged with the' false imprisonment and assault of John Holden, at Bolton. The prosecutor, it appears, had been with the prisoners on the 29th October until midnight on the 31st, and was plied with liquor and carried about from place to place, as was elleged by the counsel for the prosecution, to pre vent him frog► exercising according to his conscience his elective franchise at the municipal election at Bolton, on the Ist November last.—His lordship directed an acquit tal for Greenwood, Badder, and Bradshaw, there being no.case against them. He then summed up the evidence as regarded the other prisoners. His lordship remark& that if it was the opinion of the jury that the prosecutor was kidnapped for the purpose of preventing his exercis ing the elective franchise, the offence was a most serious one; but if they only went out for a trip, although they might during their excursion interfere with his liberty, or even assault him, the case was more trivial. It was a strong point for the defence that the prosecutor was brought back early on Friday evening, and that he was tion was, then, was he taken with his own consent, and on that point the evidence was very contradictory. On that point there was the fact, that at the time he was being taken into the Hand and Banner, at the beginning of the transaction, he told the woman who laid hold of him and wanted him to go home, that he was coming di • rectly, which implied that he went willingly. His lord.. ship thought there was a case of assault against Lyon, and a ease of false imprisonment against the others, but not of kidnapping. Atter a few minutes' consultation, the jury found the prisoners guilty of the minor offence; and not of kidnapping. His lordship then fined the prisoners Is. each, and ordered them to be discharged. (Before Mr. Justice Williams.) Patrick O'Connor, 16, pleaded guilty to the charge of having, at Liverpool, feloniously stolen one mare, the property of William Scotson, and also one gelding, the property of William Lyon. The prisoner was sentenced to ten years' transportation. Mary Pkythian, 32, pleaded guilty to the charge of having, at Liverpool, feloniously killed. Robert Ltiten. In sentencing the prisoner, the Learned Judge observed that it was possible, and that was the reason, he did not sentence her to transportation, that she was not aware that 'death would result from the pouring of the boiling coffee upon the deceased, and, therefore, the sentence of the court was that she be imprisoned two years. Thomas Sheazel, 21, John Copplestone. 21, Herman Hinka, 23. Thomas Boyle, 28, Joe 111`Cann, 25, and Henri/ Matthews, 39, were charged with having, on the high seas, on board a vessel called the Champlain; felo niously made, and endeavoured to make, a revolt, and, in another count, with having feloniously damaged the barque Champlain, with intent to destroy the said vessel. We gave the particulars of the case on this day fortnight. Matthews, the carpenter, said in his defence, that he had b een 23 years a carpenter, and he never saw such a ves sel. During calm weather she was perfectly free from water, but when the sea became a little rough, she made water to a considerable extent, and, as the captain ad mitted in evidence, made 23 inches in an hour and a half. Their only object was to save their lives.—The Learned Judge summed up at great length, and, after a verdict of guilty had been found by the jury, said that they had re volted was perfectly clear, and it was his impression that Boyle was ringleader in the affair, and Matth e ws had associated to a great extent. Boyle was sentenced to im prisonment and hard labour for 12 calendar months, Matthews nine months, and the remainder six months. Samuel Thicker., 19, William Kelly, 18, Edward Rodgers, 18, and Thomas Parker, 19, were charged with having, at Manchester, bm:glariously entered the dwel ling.:house of Edward Thomas Birch, and stolen one writing desk, one carving knife, one bundregl gold rings, one hundred brooches, and venous !:other articles, . valued at £l2O. The prisoner Kelly was an apprentice with Mr. Birch. Kelly and Thickers were found guilty, and sen- 'measures in the Comm spondent of the Morning Herald, who hints that he is in a position to know something of Cabinet secrets, insinuates that only three members of t ported Sir Robert T lion of the Corn- 'eel in his propsition for a ws, namely, " The Duke of Buccleuch , and the air James Graham, Lord John Russell had h nd gentlemen at his mansion in Chesham-p._ on Sa ,rday. Among those present were the Dnke of Bed of Lansdowne, the Earl of Clarendon, '-oham, and F. T. hancel meeting of Whig la ford, the Marq Viscount Palmerston, Lord Cc Despatches were on Saturday forwarded to Earl Grey, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, late President of the Board of Trade, and the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, re questing their immediate attendance in town. Viscount Morpeth was expected in town on Saturday night, but his lordship did not 2 On Saturday evening, Lord Marquis of I John Russell, together ►e, the Earl of Auckland, he Whig party, dined with with th and other leading members Viscount Palmerston at hip Sir Robert Peel had interviews on Sunday with the Earl or Lincoln, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. The Right Hon. Baro net is in frequent communication with the Home Secre tary. Lord Stanley left town yesterday (Monday) morning for - h on a visit to the Marquis of Exeter. THE MONEY MARKET-MINISTI ERIAL CRISIS (From Saturday's Herald.) The ministerial crisis is already exercising influence on business of every d an important scription in the City. since Tably a the question of the corn laws was first mooted, but other branches of business may, in many cases, be said to be almost literally at a stand still, and in none is there any thing doing beyond the supply of immediate wants. This applies to all the articles of colonial produce, as well as Mark-lane. The main difficulty, however, lies with the bankers and dealers in money. We have repeatedly had occasion to state that the distrust that followed the re action in the price of railway shares, had induced the bankers to increase their reserves, or, in other words, to restrict discounts and other modes of employing their funds, as a matter of precaution. This fabtidiousness. wP ..,.., we caring off, and the_ Barkk of count houses, had early this had also stated, was fast England, as well as the d week relaxed their proceedings, and were taking paper at ever, thrown matters not only bs :k to the former situation, as we hay above stated, has in a ,ure to- tally suspended all prosy-ctiv'e business. All these things tend to show that the state of society in which we are placed totally unfits the country for an unsettled Govern ment, and that we should soon be b roug ht t o th e verge o f ruin by a renewal of popular agitation and commotion, in whatever cause it originates. Consols were done for money at 931, and the price for the opening, ex dividend, ranged from 911 to 921, leaving off at 921. Considerable business was done for the open ing, but mostly for comparatively small amounts. The City was teeming all day with a great variety of rumours about the Ministry. • Foreign Bonds were rather better supported than could have been expected, Cuban Bonds were done at 97 and 951; Chilian Deferred, 52? Grenadian, 201 ; Deferred, 44; Mexican, 29/ ; Peruvian, 35 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 58; Spanish Five per Cents., 271; the Three per Cents., 37;; Passive. 64; Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents , 95; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 594; and the Four per Cent. Certificates, 934. (From yPsterdop's herald.) The transactions in public securities were limited in amount, and otherwise unimportant. Consols for the opening commenced at 9li, but they immediately rallied, and left off at 92k ; lieduc d Three per Cents, at 92 • the Three-and-a-Quarter New, 94 ; and Exchequer Bil ls 21 22 pm. Bank Stock was done at 2005. Brazil Bonds were sold at 80. small ditto 79 ; Danish 86; Mexican, 29; Peruvian, 355; Portuguese Three per Cents., 595 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 27a ; the Three per Cents., 38; and Dutch Two per Cents 59. Nothing occurred worthy of notice, the Stock Exchange having been nearly empty ac soon as it was learned that there was no news respecting the formation of a Cabinet. The railway shares were heavy, and, prices rather a shade lower, even of the registered lines. The truth is, there are only two descriptions of persons operating; namely, people that feel compelled to sell at what they can get, and those who have money to spare, who are lying continually in wait to take advantage of their necessities. We refer to the detailed list for the actual prices. At the Kirkdale Petty Sessions, on Friday, the dis gracefulcourt. The want of repair has been occa,i,}ried by a dis pute state of Prescot street was brought before the whether, the West _Derby or the Warrington and Prescot turnpike trustees are bound to repair it. It ap.. peered that the trustees had offered to give West Derby £2OO to take the road, but the latter wanted £250. It was agreed, after a long discussion, to split the difference, and the repairs are forthwith to be commenced by West Derby township. , One of the greatest impositions praegsed at the present o the r. e so p o , n day by shbpkeepers, not only in London, but in every city a nd town throughout the kingdbm, is that of forging the property of another, and imposing on the publi c th e forged article with all the, assurance of innocence. We a ll u d e i n the present instance to:those admirabl e requ i s i tes f or t h e toilet, the Macassar Od, Kalydor, and Odonto, as pre mPaerreidtismbaYint a d t t h i r on the Messrs. reputation, parties are., Rwa . N g andctoa counterfeiting ROWLANDS' articles, and, b y a d o pting the very same nt which, toebrifeeietti 8. from o r o f mc fraudu lentontchoeci their some trashy compounds resem bli ng i n appearan ce Messrs. names, and copying the labels and bills, endeavour to pass off their trash as the " GENUINE " articles, reckless of the injury which they will inevitably inflict on those who are deceived by using them. We should have imagined that English tradesmen, whose reputation for honour and in tegrity is proverbial, would not have stooped to the mean ness of so base and paltry . an action. Nevertheless we know feir certain, that such is the case, and we would ad vise all patrons of Messrs. ROWLANDS' articles to pug chase ,only of respectable vendors—and particularly to observe the Caution in their advertisement, which fre quently appears in our paper. NEWS P _ • r tl l ,L •_.%- ;13%. 1