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OLD B__VGLAND. TRIMS she sits in her Ist:And-home, Peerless among her peers( And Liberty oft to her arms doth come To ease her poor heart of tears : Old England still throbs With the muffled fire Of a Past she can never forget ; And still shall she banner the world up higher, For there's life in the Old Land yet. Hurrah There's life in the Old Land yet. The great Hero-Mother's not hoary yet, There is sap in the Saxon tree, And she lifLeth a bosom of glory yet, Through her mists to the sun and the sea, Fair as the Queen of Love fresh from the foam, Or a Star in a dark cloud set ; Ye may blazon her shame, ye may leap at her fame, But there's life in the Old Land vet. Hurrah! There's life in the Old Land yet. They would :scoff at her now, who of old look'd forth In their fear, when they heard her afar; Oh, but loud will your wail be, poor Kings of the Earth, When the Old Land goes down to the war! The avalanche tremb'es, half launch'd, and half riven, Her voice shall in motion set : Then ring out the tidings, ye winds of heaven, There's life in the Oki Land yet. Hurrah I There's life in the Old Land yet. Let the Storm burst, it will find the Old Land Ready .ripe for a rough, red fray ! She will fight as she fought when she took her stand For the Right in the olden day. Ay, rouse the old royal soul! Europe's best hope Is her sword-edge by Victory set ! She shall dash Freedom's foes adnwn Death's bloody slope For there's life in the Old Land yet. Hurrah ! There's life in the Old Land yet. REVIEWS OF BOOKS. The Carafas of .31addaloni : Naples under Spanish dominion. Translated from the Ger man of Alfred de Renmont. London : Henry G. Bohn. In this volume we have presented t , us a lively picture of public life and morals, as these were affected and participated in by the noble family whose history, during more than two centuries, was intimately mixed up with public affairs in Naples ; leading, as it not unfrequently did, to acts of oppres sion against the populace, which oftener than once were avenged amid scenes of disorder, rapine, and bloodshed, such as have few parallels in national or family annals. The history opens in 1494,and is con tinued to the year 1799, duringwhich period many re markable events have to pass in review before the compiler of this chronicle. The special object of the author is to show the effect and peculiarities of Spanish dominion in Naples, as these were illus trated in the course of events which have long since passed away, and in the present circumstances and social position of the people, arising in no small degree out of those bygone events. In the course of the narrative it is clearly shown how dangerous and detrimental is the unchecked sway of power, exercised in a spirit of harsh and overbearing sternness, where commiseration, kindness, and love find no place in the bosom of the ruler, and where poverty in the ruled, unrelieved by pity, unsoothed by sympathy, generates only reckless passion —finds relief or enjoyment only in brutalising appetites. The dangers to be apprehended from such a system of the social relations, found frequent and cruel illustration in the history of Naples ; one of which, the extraordinary and sanguinary, though brief revolution, effected by Masaniello, and terminated by his treacherous murder, all within the short space of ten days, forms an episode in human affairs which cannot be viewed by an intelligent eye with out awakening feelings of a painfully conflicting nature, and inculcating lessons of deep political and moral import. Of this singular outbreak and its chief actor our author gives a graphic account, from which we take the annexed extracts :-- IRASANIELLO AND THE OUTBREAK OP HIS REBELLION. In May, 1647, a rebellion broke out in Palermo, amongst the lower class of people, which the Viceroy, Don Pedro Fajardo Marquis de Los Veles, was not in a condition to resist * * * The news of the disturbances in Sicily reached Naples, when everything there was ripe for an insurrection, which had for a long time been fermenting and agitating men's minds. On all sides the threatening indications increased. On the Market-place at Naples, the scene of so many tragedies and so many disturbances, stood a miserable cottage, with nothing to distinguish it from the others, but the name and arms of Charles V., which were placed on the front wall. Here a poor fisherman lived.Tonamaso Aniello, generally called by the abbreviated name of Masa niello. His father, Francesco or Ciceo, came from the coast of Amalfi, and had married, in 1620, Antonia Gar gano, a Neapolitan woman. In the Vico Rotto by the great market, which is only inhabited by the poorest peo ple, and where the pestilence began in the year 1656, the son was born who was destined to act so remarkable a part. Tommaso Aniello was baptised in the parish church of Santa Catherina in Foro, on the 20th June, 1620. On the 25th of April, 1641, he married Berardina Pisa, a maiden from the neighbourhood of that town. Their poverty was so great that often Masaniello could not even follow up his trade of a fisherman, but earned a scanty livelihood by selling paper for the fish to be carried in. He was of the middle height, well made and active ; his brilliant dark eyes and his sunburnt face contrasted singularly with his long, early, fair hair , hanging down his back. Thus his cheerful, lively conversation agreed but little with his grave countenance. His dress was that of a fisherman, but as he is generally considered a remarkable person, whatever may be thought of the part he performed, so he understood, in spite of the meanness of his attire, by his arrangement and choice of colours, to give it a peculiarity that stamped it in the memory of his contemporaries. The life of this remarkable man—a nine days' history— clearly shows that he possessed wonderful presence of mind, and a spirit that knew not fear. It happened once, in the midst of the discontent which was everywhere excited by the exorbitant increase of taxation, that Masaniello's wife was detained by the keepers of the gate whilst she was endeavouring to creep into the town with a bundle of flour, done up in cloths to look like a child in swaddling clothes. She was impri soned, and her husband, who loved her much, only suc ceeded in obtaining her liberation after eight days. Almost the whole of his miserable goods went to pay the fine which had been imposed upon her. Thus hatred was smothering in the mind of Masaniello, and the flame was still red when he, it is not known how, quarrelled with the Duke of Maddaloni's people, and was ill-used by them in an unusual manner. Then the idea seemed to have occurred to him to avenge himself by the hand of the people. Many have related that instigators were not wanting : Giulio Genuino is named, formerly the favourite of the Duke of Ossuna, who, after he had encountered the strangest fate, and after wearing the chain of a galley slave at Oran, on the coast of Barbary, had returned an aged man, in the habit of an ecclesiastic, to his native country, meditating upon new intrigues, as the old ones had failed ; also a captain of banditti and a lay brother of the Carmine, who gave Masaniello money, were amongst the conspirators. Perhaps all this was only an attempt to explain the extraordinary fact. Thus much only is known with certainty—that "Masaniello sought to collect a troop of boys and young people, who, amongst the nu merous vagrant population, thronged the market and its neighbourhood from the adjacent districts, as whose leader he intended to appear, as had often been done before, at the feast of the Madonna of Cannel, which takes place in the middle of July. At that festival it was the custom to build a castle of wood and canvass in the middle of the market-place, close to which was the church and convent of the Carmelites, and this castle was besieged and de fended by troops of the people. The great mass of the assailants was formed out of a band of lads of the lowest class, about four hundred in number, who painted the greatest part of their bodies and their faces black and. red. ; their tattered clothes gave them an Oriental appear ance ; they were armed with sticks, and called the com pany of the Alarbes, perhaps an Arabian name. They were drilled by Masaniello, and considered him their chief. Thus the morning of July 7th, 1647, approached. It was Sunday, and a number of fruitsellers, with carts and donkeys, and full baskets, came into the town very early from Pozzuoli, and went as usual to the great maret. Scarcely had they reached it, when the dispute began. The question was not so much whether the tax was to be paid, as who was to pay it. A serious tumult is here described as ensuing, but as it bears no particular relation to the after course of events, beyond the fact that it served as the starting point of the rebellion, and differs little in its details from other popular outbreaks, we for bear from giving it in extenso, although it is written with much spirit. The scenes of outrage, pillage, and murder which followed the riot in the market -place, crowded on each other in a ceaseless s t re am of unmitigated horrors. Respect for age, sex, or station was at once uprooted and destroyed, violence reigned triumphant, nobles and their de pendants were swept before the sanguinary torrent, and everything gave place to the insen sa t e f ury o f a lawless mob. Meantime, Masaniello, strong in the attachment of his ready followers, elated with success, and relying on the resources of his natu rally ardent temperament, added to his general dexterity in the management of circumstances, found himself in a condition to dictate terms to those by whom he was formerly treated with con tumely, and regarded with contempt. Under the excitement produced by so sudden an elevation, his reason reeled, and speedily gave way. Intriee and treachery were enlisted against him, and in the midst of his sudden and unexpected splendour he was as suddenly engnlphed in ruin ; his suc cesses being disfigured by the wild extravagances of insanity, and his end accelerated by the barbarous cruelty of hired assassins a sad picture of the vanity of human ambition, a miserable instance of the mockery of popular dictation. MASANIELLO'S ABUSE Or POWER. The power of the fisherman of Amalfi was at its height; but already he was near his ruin. The unusual way of life, the always increasing excitement, the constant speak ing and watching, the small quantity of nourishment which he took; from dread of poison—all this, in the most fearful heat of summer, affected him bodily, and completely turned his head. His actions can only be explained by their being the beginning of insanity. If a crowd of people did not please him, he attacked and wounded them right and left. All the persons, amounting to a thousand, that lived near his cottage on the market-place, he ex pelled from their dwellings, that these might be destroyed, and he might build a large palace for himself. He lavished gold and silver with prodigality, and gave a number of prostitutes large dowries ; he distributed the titles of princes and dukes, gave great banquets at Poo.gio Reale and at Posilipo, to which he invited the Viceroy, and sent his wife and mother, in magnificent dresses, to visit the Duchess of Arcos. "If your excellency is the vicequeen of the ladies," said the fisherman's wife, " I am the vice queen of the women of the people." But fear of the Duke of Maddaloni haunted him like a spectre. He ordered his beautiful villa at Posilipo to be destroyed, and made his people ransack once more his pillaged palace at Santa Maria della Stella. The barber of the duke and a Moorish slave bought their lives, the first giving him various jewels that had been concealed, and the other told him that he was Diomed Carafe, who had caused the admiral's ship to be set on fire, which had been blown into the air last May. The Moor, for this lie, obtained the command of four companies of the people ; but Masaniello's fall was brought about by his own people. The fisherman put to death many poor musicians merely because they had been in the service of Maddaloni. The new master of Naples repaired himself to the desolate palace of Carafe, and wanted to dine there ; but he changed his mind, and had dinner served up, with great pomp, at a neighbouring convent. Whilst he was eating there, some of his people dragged thither two portraits of the duke and his father, Don Marzio. Upon them he vented his childish rage ; smashed the frames, cut out the heads, which he put on pikes, which he commanded to be placed upon the table before him. On his return from the market, he put on a snit of Carafe's clothes, of blue silk embroidered with silver ; he hung on his neck a gold chain, and fastened in his hat a diamond clasp, all the property of his enemy, who had escaped. Then he flung himself on a horse, drew forth his pistols with both hands, and threatened to shoot any one who approached him, or who showed himself at the windows, galloped to the sea, where was the gondola of the viceroy, undressed himself in it, was dried with fine Dutch linen, and put on a shirt of Maddaloni's trimmed with lace ; and hearing that Maddaloni had gone towards Piedimonte d'Alife, he ordered a troop of two thousand men to march thither to seize him. It is needless further to pursue the career of imbecility and maddened vanity of this unhappy child of fortune, who, borne on the waves of popular commotion, was tossed upon the seat of power. A few brief hours sufficed to raise him from obscurity and indigence to the pinnacle of wealth and great ness—his progress in elevation was too rapid to be safe, he stumbled even in the assent—on reaching the summit, he found the prospect too expansive, the platform too narrow, to ensure stability—a few days of anxious misery was his sum of earthly glory—stained with crime— defiled with blood and bereft of reason, he perished miserably beneath the blow of assassination, a sad example of the punish ment which follows the lust and the abuse of power. From the story of that tide of popular frenzy we learn, also, the further and fearful lesson of the danger to be apprehended from deeply-rooted ill feeling left rankling in the bosoms of the populace, the frequent, though not invariable concomitant of misrule and oppression ; and, above all, the off spring of estrangement between the different classes of society, a condition at once seized on in cases of emergency as a pretext for insurrection, robbery, and murder. The History of Xerxes _the C-real. By Jacob Abbott. London : Nathaniel Cooke. In those biographical treatises which have ema nated from the pen of Mr. Abbott, due attention has been paid to the chronological sequence of events by which the narrative has to be marked and illustrated ; and in general the selection of subjects has been judicious. That which now lies before us is of questionable merit in the last-named respect. Xerxes is a name which, from very early associations, we have been led to look on as nearly synonymous with a rapacious lust of power, vain glory, intellectual weakness and personal pusilla nimity. In the narrative of Mr. Abbott we have been unable to discover much reason for changing the early formed impression alluded to, and con sequently we are left still in amazement at the literary concatenation by which we find the affix " Great" appended to his name. Like its predecessors in the series, the life of Xerxes is a volume in which youthful students will find much to interest and inform them, and we therefore can not but regret to see so palpable a misapplication of the sonorous and glorious title " Great." Hogg's Instructor. Edinburgh : James Hogg. The number of this periodical for March is rather better than an average one. It opens with an excellent article descriptive of " Constantinople and the Bosphorus," a theme which, at the present moment, is fraught with peculiar charms ; not that the lovely natural scenery and gorgeous artificial incidents of those localities have received any sud den or extensive acquisition of beauty, or been of late invested with new attributes of glory ; but chiefly because the inhabitants of that region have become objects of solicitude to the ever wakeful generosity of Britons in protecting the oppressed. So long as Turkish indolence and sloth made the nation the home of despotism and the chosen abode of ignorance, superstition, and prejudice, so long the history of its people, the charms of the country, and the value of its productions, remained compa ratively matters of indifference to the British pub lic ; but the instant a cry of wailing, and a call for help to ward off from her impending danger, has reached our shores, every object connected with her history and resources has become instinct with vital interest to every class of Britons. Men who before scarce heeded the warmest eulogia on the natural beauties of the " golden horn," and who listened with the most immovable apathy to descrip tions of its wonderful mercantile and naval capabi lities, are now eager in their inquiries on such topics, and gladly avail themselves of such informa tion as design or accident places within their reach. Such inquirers will find rational as well as interest ing information in the paper to which we allude, which, we learn, is from the note-book of a traveller who spent portions of 1852 and 1853 on the spot which he describes. It has freshness as well as picturesque beauty to recommend it. We had marked several portions for quotation, but find the space devoted to such matter already filled ; we must consequently content ourselves with a general commendation. " The Eating and Drink ing Capabilities of the Metropolis" contains much curious and well-selected matter ; and, in general, the descriptive and statistical portions of the num ber deserve high praise. To some of its m ore aspir ing articles we cannot accord a similar judgment. Several of them are beset by that bane of modern literature, a love of fine writing ; and no one is open to more deserved reprobation on this score than the reputed editor of the periodical, the Rev. George Gilfillan. Inflated and bombastical anti theses form no necessary part of English compo sition, yet in an article entitled "Modern British Orators," by that gentleman, we find such turgid trash as the following : We do not mean to compare him to Burke, whose enthusiasm was as slow as it was sanguine, as lasting in its results as it was sudden in its rise. It would be as cruel as it would be fruitless to ask any one to picture to himself an enthusiasm at once slow and sudden; but in addition to this puzzle, he tells us in the same sentence that Burke's wrath was at once generous and fierce ; so that, accord ing to Mr. Gallan, the wrath and the enthusiasm of the great Edmund Burke must have been equally enigmatical and contradictory. In another po r ti on of the same paper we are told of Brougham, that on some wonderful occasion "the orator is sub limated into the man." Such escapades in most instances would be only laughable but, as we have reason to believe, this prolific writer is looked on as a sort of literary deity among a certain knot of small worshippers, it becomes a matter of duty to expose such solecisms in composition, such outrages upon common sense. The periodical to which our observations apply is good in plan, and generally respectable in execution. Can it continue to deserve such a character, if its pages are befouled by stuff like that which we have quoted P On Shipping. Showing the Evils of the Broking System. By Ralph. Darling. Newcastle-on- Tyne : John Christie. A pamphlet under the above title has been pub lished, in which its author undertakes to show that numerous and heavy grievances are inflicted on the shipping interests of this country by the system of brokerage. He also proposes practical remedies for the evils which he points out. He addresses himself to the shipping and mercantile communi ties of Great Britain and Ireland, and by them the suggestions he makes will no doubt be entertained at their full worth. The subject is one of impor tance, and both merits and will repay attention. The Newspaper Press Directory. London : C. Mitchell. In this case, which cannot be said in all in stances, the title is happily significant of the pur pose of the work ; which is to furnish a complete list of all the newspapers, daily, weekly, or monthly, which are published throughout the kingdom, It also furnishes information relative to their political, religious, and commercial views, generally furnished by parties so connected with the respective publi cations as to give authenticity to the various state ments. To professional men of most denominations, and to the commercial public it presents a mass of useful information, and in its pages the general public will meet with much to interest and amuse them. Chambers' Journal. London : Chambers. The prominent feature in the part for this month is Mr. W. Chambers's description of his journey to America, which he commences by detailing the incidents of the voyage, in the Cunard steamer the America. His account of the accommodation on board these magnificent steam-boats is highly interesting, but his comment on the method of putting the passengers on board is neither just nor reasonable. The tenders are commodious and extremely well adapted for the purpose, and the Mersey is not a foggy river, except at rare inter vals, while an accident, such as he describes, per haps never occurred at any other time than the one to which he alludes. The past is, on the whole, as good as any of the preceding ones of this ably-conducted periodical. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. Jl 7 :yld'e Theatre of War. London : Wyld. A very excellent map has just been published by Her Majesty's geographer, which, for value and cheapness, outrivals all competitors. For sixpence here is a large well-engraved map, folded in a pamphlet, containing the whole of the seat of war, including all Europe, the greater part of Asia, and part of Northern Africa. It is coloured so as to distinguish the Russian and Turkish dominions, and the acquisitions of the former power from Turkey, Tartary, Poland, and Sweden are distinctly marked. It is the best and cheapest map which has yet appeared. VARIETIES. Ax ORLEANS paper says that it requires three persons to start a business firm there ; one to die with. yellow fever, one to get killed in a duel, and a third to wind up the partnership business. A PROMISE,—A promise should be given with caution and kept with care. A promise should be made by the heart and remembered by the head. A promise is the offspring of the intention, and should be nurtured by the recollection. A promise and its performance should, like the scales of a true balance, always present a mutual adjustment. A promise delayed is justice deferred. A promise neglected is an untruth told. A promise attended to is a debt settled. _ LADIES „AT CHURCIL—AIphODEO ICa/T Says :—" I am often struck with the powerof memory exhibited by ladies who go to church regularly on Sundays and week days. Is it not, indeed, something superhuman which enables a woman, after she has passed an hour and a half in church, without even lifting her eyes from her prayer-book, or letting them wander from the preacher, to describe to you the toilette of every lady in church, without omitting the smallest details ? She will not forget either their gloves or their collars ; she will never give to one lady the lace or ornaments of another. Not onry- does this require great perfection in the powers of memory, but a singular and phenomenal development of the fight, for ladies who sit at her right or her left hand, or behind her, will not be omitted any more than those who sit before her. She will have seen them all, she will' have remarked all the details of the attire, even those which are the most insig nificant in appearance, without having been once caught turning her bead, and without having exhibited a sign of being engaged with anything but—her prayers." THE FIRST TIME IN Lovs.—A youth who is in love for the first time is wonderfully romantic:- The beloved object is far above ordinary mortality, and he could do more than humanity ever did before for her - sake. He half wishes that somebody would run away with her, that he might ride upon a black horse, draw a pistol, and shoot the villains, and carry her back all in tears; fainting and languishing upon his shoulder ; and that her father would then take his hand in both of his, and make-some elegant remarks. He cannot think anything more joyous than to live with her in some old castle, very far away from steam boats and post-offices ; and pick geranium& for her hair, and read poetry with her under the shade- of very dark ivy or vines. And he would have a charming boudoir in some corner of the old ruin, with a harp in it, and books bound in gilt, with cupids on the cover, and a fairy couch, with the curtains hung upon carved doves.- These first kindlings of love are very pleasant, but are they lasting? —Home Journal. SINGULARITIES OF TUE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.---"YORT language," said a learned foreign philologist in speaking of English, "is the most unphilosophical, and yet the most practical in the world." We become familiar with contradictory modes of expression, and do nut notice them as do children and foreigners. hen we sand the floor, we cast sand upon it, but when dust the-furniture, we remove dust from it. When we paint the house, we lay something on, but when we skin the ox, we take something off. We dress a child by overlaying it, and scale a shad by removing that by which it is overlaid. If it be proper to say, "skin the ox," why is it not proper to speak of 'mooning the sheep instead of shearing it ? What would we think of a farmer who should talk of corning or greuteing his Heide, or tippling his orchard. ; or of hie wife who should speak of feathering her geese, or blacking her knives, or dirting the clothes ? But we db that which is equally ridiculous when we speak of dusting the furniture, skinning the ox, and scaling the foh, although custom has sanctioned those modes of expression, and Noah Webster recorded them in his dictionary.—New York Illustrated News. ITALY WITHOUT A NATIONA.L AIR.--ttlaa, Italy ! thou and of song ! thou outcast of the nations of Europe ! Ten thousand operas, and not three notes of a national hymn ! Out of so many fathers of melody, not one who can find the motive that will sink to thy children's heart and dwell there ! France has her fa ira, the Alpine people their cow-gathering, England her loyal anthem, Germany her fatherland toasts. In Italy alone nationality is mute. The sorry ditty that popular outbreak calls forth to-day dies to-morrow amidst the yawns of thy listless populace. Proscriptions itself cannot secure a patriotic air against the ficklenes of fastidious fashion. Strange to say, our composers have, in several instances, supplied less gifted people with the music that never fails to send a thrill through their hearts, that leads them to battle, that serves them as a rallying-point against all chances of future dispersion; and not a miserable chorus, not a paltry march for home consumption !—Castellamonta : Italian Life during the Insurrection of 1831. A TAX ON BeorrELous.—lt has been suggested, as one of the best means of raising a fund for carrying on the war, to put a tax upon bachelors. Few but the parties themselves will object to this arrangement, though it pro ceeds on the ungallant supposition that married men find a wife a sufficient tax without any additional burden. We hope that if the bachelor tax should be imposed, it will be in the shape of an ad valorem duty, and that every bachelor will be allowed to fill up his own form of assess ment of his worth, according to his own estimate. There need be no fear that any surcharges will have to be made by the commissioners, for it is reasonable to expect that the valuation, if made by the parties themselves, will touch the maximum. We know several bachelors who put such price on their perfection of form, that they are sure to set themselves at a very considerable figure. There are many also who have expended vast sums in a species of self-culture that has, in their own opinion, added greatly to the sum at which they ought to be rated. We heard of a case in which a moustache has been raised by a large outlay on a somewhat barren and unpro mising field, and this process, which may be called the " high farming" of the upper lip, is supposed to increase the "permanent value" of the spot where it has been adopted. Personal appearance is frequently a chief part of the fortune of a bachelor, who regards a handsome face as equivalent to an estate ; and if he preserves his hairs on that estate, he believes that he adds materially to its worth should he have to go with it into the matrimonial market. We have a bachelor acquaintance who has devoted half a life to his eyebrow, which he estimates at five thousand pounds, and he is seriously thinking of giving up the remainder of his days to a beard, which is at present in a most unpromising state of stubble. If an ad valorem duty were to be levied on this enthusiast's estimate of himself, the proceeds would be nearly enough to support a whole regiment, for he places a very high valuation on the "growing crops" which cover the "face of Nature"—as he complacently terms the face with which Nature has—either well or ill—favoured him. By all means let us have a bachelor tax, but let every bachelor be at liberty to assess himself; so that however much he may be rated above his real worth, he will never suspect that he could have over-rated himself, and will therefore be quite satisfied with the self-inflicted burden.—Punch. BUCHAREST. —Seen at a little distance, Bucharest ap pears a very handsome city. It contains some three hundred churches, and each of these has two or more tall spires. Most of the public buildings are also crowned by • turrets or domes. Every spire, turret, and dome is covered with tin. A thin gauze-like vapour hung upon the lower buildings, softening their outline, and above this waving cloud rose the thousand domes, spires, and turrets spark ling with aim* dazzling brightness in the sun. They crowned the city like a silver diadem. Bucharest covers nearly as great an extent of ground as Paris, but a third of the space is taken up with gardens, so that one saw the bright green foilage of the trees, appearing here and there above the shadowy vapour, and this served to increase the charming effect of the whole scene. I was not so much disappointed as I expected to be on entering the city. After passing the gate, where, as I need not say, I had to show my passport, and answer the three hundred ques tions in the Russian police catechism, we drove through a long faubourg of alternate gardens and one-storied houses, till we reached a broad well-built street, containing some fine buildings. This is the part of the city inhabited by the wealthier Spanish Jews. We then rolled on through three or four streets, with handsome shops on either side, and full of bustle, till we reached the coach-office. Except in the principal streets, few of the houses in Bucharest exceed two stories in height. The place was formerly subject to shocks of earthquake, which was the reason for making the dwellings so low. There is a great deal of ornament about most of the newly-built houses, stuccoed friezes, pilasters, and brightly-painted or gilded balconies. This taste may be considered tawdry in France or Eng land, but after the shaky konacs of Turkey, the effect was very pleasing. Some of the small private houses, situated in the less-frequented streets, with their projecting roofs, formed of small squares of wood, and their quaint porticos, the whole embowered in trees, are very picturesque. The palace of the Hospodar is an unpretending building of two stories high, situated in the principal street, with a large court in front. Bucharest has an opera-house, elegantly built, and capable of holding seven or eight hundred persons. We found an English prima donna . succeeding with an audience chiefly Russian. The city is surrounded by a promenade, which, on a fine afternoon , ' is crowded with vehicles. At one eud is a triumphal arch, lately raised in honour of Nicholas.—O'Brien's Re eidence in Me Danubian Principalities. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. BIRKENHEAD HOSPITAL. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LivEurooL STA.NDA.RD. Sru,—Appended to the report of the proceedings of the late meeting of the governors of the Birkenhead Hospital, in the Birkenhead Advertiser of the 11th instant, appears a copy of a letter, addressed by the Rev. Dr. Baylee to Mr. Dixon and others, assigning eight distinct grounds why, in his opinion, the recent appointment of Messrs. Ha milton and Jennette, as consulting surgeons, should not be rescinded. It is much to be regretted that, as such a letter was not read at the meeting, where many of its statements might have been disproved, it was afterwards allowed to appear in print. Containing reasons founded on erroneous data, and bearing so justly-influential a signature, I fear it is cal culated materially to damage the interests of the valuable institution to which . it refers. I therefore venture to request the favour of your inserting a few remarks upon the subject, as the Birkenhead Advertiser, in which I had intended them to appear, has been since discontinued. The rev. doctor first objecte that the subscribers had not received notice of the intended proposal. Such a course would have been without precedent in the history of the charity, and unwarranted by any of its laws. The several appointments of Messrs. Stevenson, Smith, and Dixon, are equally open to the same objection. No such proposal ever yet emanated from the committee, but has invariably been, as on the late occasion, a spontaneous vote at the general meeting of governors ; and I submit that, had the secretary given notice of any particular motion, he would have thereby departed from the invariable practice of the calling of stated public meetings. The second objection sets forth that the annual meeting was not a representation of the body of subscribers. The rev. writer belieres only 13 subscribers Were present, of which only four voted for the appointment, and then dwells upon the absence of the president, treasurer, and secretary. We have since had the public assurance of the secretary, that the - usual notices convening the meeting were issued by post ; therefore, if it did not represent the body of subscribers, I am at a loss to know what body it did represent. As to the numbers in attendance, I can, if needful, furnish the names of a greater number than the rev. doctor " believes" to have been present, besides those who were strangers to me- Having, I think, attended every annual meeting for the last eight or nine years—though I have no recollection- of once meeting the rev. gentleman—and having had on theoe casion in question; and on rnanyothers, the duty of selecting movers and seconders for the . vraious resolutions, I do not hesitate to state that there wasa full average attendance: I know not how mait voted in favour of the motion, but there - were no adverse votes. The president was certainly absent, and his chair was occupied by Mt. Watson, a cir cumstance which favors the validity of the appointments made. The treasurer and secretary found substitutes. The-third ground assigned is, that " the medical officers justly conceive themselves to be• slighted in appointing superior medical officers without reference to them." Surely Dr. Baylee cannot be awarelhat the appointment of Mr. Jennette was made on the motion of Mr. Dixon, consulting surgeon, seconded by MI- - ; Vale, honorary sur geon. Therefore, on these two gentibmen must rest en tirely the - charge of slighting each other and their medical brethren,as the appointment of Mr. Hhtnilton was merely a promotion of a late senior officer to a still higher position. This objection also will equally militate against the ap pointment of Messrs. Stevenson, Smith,and Dixon. The fourth reason states that "the present senior hono rary surgeon will not be entitled to the distinction of consulting surgeon until he shall have served ten years ;" and implies: that Mr. Hamilton had retired after less than six years' service, and was only then made senior to him. Sir, what shall we be told next ? Let your readers only refer to the often-quoted 14th law, and they will find that " EVERT honorary medical officer may be appointed on his resignation, " &c., &c. ; there is no exception with reference to the present senior surgeon c —why should there be ? Again, had the writer referred to the books of the hospital, he-would have found himself in error as to the period of Mr. Hamilton's service ; and I have already mentioned that he was previously senior to 'Mr. Vale. The late Mr. Smith was appointed consulting surgeon after a service of only fire years. Dr. Baylee next states his belief that the reason the appointment was not proposed last year was, that it was ascertained " that the opposition would be- too strong." He "can see no- other grounds for the delay." It is well known to many members of the committee that I was myself the principal objector to the proposal being then made. My reasons were—first, that I feared that an honour so immediately conferred might act as a premium on resignation ; and secondly, that I believedtwo consult ing surgeons were sufficient. My object was "delay"— I borrow the appropriate term of the rev. gentleman,which conveys the very reverse of final disqualification. The limited interpretation of law 14 had nen:a-at that time been heard of ; had it been so, I would have; at once with drawn all objection, rather than jeopardise the services of two gentlemen of unimpeachable character and professional reputation. As- the case now stands, the lapse of a year has removed one obstacle, and the lamentedalecease of the late senior consulting surgeon the other. The rev. doctor next objects to the distance of Dr. Ha milton's residence from the hospital,—a difficulty which may be overcome by half an hour's walk, in addition to which, I believe, Mr. Hamilton's private practice brings him to Birkenhead daily ; yet this is urged as a reason for rescinding, not only his appointment but, strange to say,that also of Mr. Jtnnette, whose residence is in the same street as the hospital! It may be reasonably asked, at what distance would all the honorary medical officers have re sidpd, had the-plan, onl,o-ecently abandoned, been carried into effect—of building the hospital at thafoot of Bidston hill ? The seventh ground is, that election tome]) offices ought not to be a matter of personal influence or favour ' but that candidates should be elected solely on theirpersonal merits. This objection does not apply in the present case, as the appointments in question were made .with the strictest adherence to that principle. The rev. writer, referring to law 14,.states, lastly, that he " thinks the recent election a viblktion of the plain letter of the rule." I respectfully differ from him in this, but I rejoice to observe that he does not mention it as being a violation of the plain meanitag and intention of the rule;: and, as the only surviving -member of the sub committee who revised the laws and rules, I may state it as my conviction that the election was in perfect accordance with the intentions of the sub-committee. Deeply regretting that Dr. Baylee should have lent his name and influence unwittingly to. promote the ends of a professional jealousy, without having- first informed himself of the• facts and bearings of the case,. I have felt it my duty to.enter into the above explanation, in the earnest hope that it may stay the evil which threatens a most valuable institution. . _ With every sentiment of esteem and respect for the rev. gentleman upon whose letter Ihave presumed to comment, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS FRY, A Member of the Committee and late Hon. Sec. Birkenhead, 18th March, 185-1. "RECEPTION OF THRRUDGET IN LIVERPOOL!' TO THE EDITOR OW MIN LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sir,—A paragraph as. above headed has been going the round of the local papers during the past week. I have waited till now to see who were the influe n ti a l citizens who composed the highly respectable meeting which ven turedthough to sp fourteen exponent for the town of Liverpool ; and teen the exponent have elapsed since the reception of the Budget in town, the only names published are• those of Mr. Carmichael, and a Mr. Morri s , secre t ary t o same . We are not favoured with the names of the, remaining portion of this influential meeting, but no doubt they are of the hoc genus, and though their number within the Bar-parlour of the "Union" could not be very numerous, yet "we are informed it afforded the company the greatest pleasure to have duly reported to them the , speech of the Rt. Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whilst he still spoke before the house, whilst the speech itself was hailed with the greatest satisfaction." This, Sir, is really amusing in the extreme, " The joy (!) of the company was however only completed when the important measure (doubling, the income-tax, to wit ! how very joyous?) of the Chancellor was announced !" This is thrillingly interesting and agreeably gratifying " so much so, that it was immediately suggested, in flowing bumpers,that a telegraphic message should be immediately forwarded to the right hon. gentleman, conveying the thanks of the meeting and expressing the delight which doubling-the income-tax had given his fellow-citizens in general," but those of the Bar-parlour in particular!! Any commentary on the above would be unnecessary. It may be added, however, that there is but one opinion generally expressed, which is, that the public of Liverpool repudiate the idea that a few private gentlemen within the bar-parlour of any hotel, sad under such circumstances, should publicly put themselves forward as the exponents of public opinion on such a national question. It appears, however, that the above suggestion was drunk super naculum when the Hebe of the establishment made her appearance to replenish ; and the secretary, Mr. Morris, gave the following to the company : (TENDERLY.) I give thee all, I can no more, Though poor the offering be; I give thee leave to extend the tax Across the Irish sea. (JAUNTILY.) And if they ask thee why it is I give this leave to thee, It is because "we all ha'e got A drappie in our ee." Yours, OMEGA. A CURIOSITY IN NEWSPAPER LITERATURE. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sin,—l have been highly amused to-day, by reading one of the most extraordinary leading articles ever penned— one even unworthy of a Grub-street scribe in former times, and which, for richness, raciness, and originality, deserves to have public attention directed to it, albeit that therein criticism has found a subject for infinite merriment. Th e leaders of a daily paper especially ought to be written with that degree of judgment and common sense which demands attention and begets confidence. Leading articles gene rally contain so much good sense in well-expressed lan guage, that it is no wonder they should exercise a most important influence over public opinion. Judge then, Sir, my astonishment upon reading an article in one of your local contemporaries of Saturday, to find it characterised by inflated nonsense, grandiloquent phraseology, insipid bathos, and grammatical inaccuracy —a kind of Bombastes Furioso style of writing ! Take as specimens the following gems. First, Corporations are compared to "fixed planets," which are said to display " the sublimity of wisdom and beauties of Providence ! Again, we are told that— " The twinkling star would fail to guide the benighted traveller, if its face were veiled by the gorgeous light of more majestic bodies even in the world of celestial bright ness. In the scheme of creation, there was much laid down for man to follow in the construction of his own humble fabric of existence. Purity of purpose, the use of atoms in working out the perfection of the philosophic end of all things, and that ceaseless watch fulness which alone preserves the exquisite harmony of nature, and guards and supplies the material wants RP man. When cities and boroughs were first infested, and inflicted by the creation of Corporations and Town Councils, it was not the custom to consult such authorities as NEWTON as to the latitudes in which the greatest luminary bodies were likely to appear in subsequent ages, therefore, society was left without that data which would have enabled them to have .copied the great laws of nature, in selecting those localities, which were in the nineteenth century, to become the foci of human refulgence." I have pored over these brilliant sentences, Mr. Editor, with the hope of eliminating therefrom their meaning, and " working out the perfection of the philosophic end " intended, until I became fearful of the effects on my brain—for some physiologists contend that insanity is con tagious. So transported from earth to heaven, and anon from heaven to earth—so bedizzen"d and bedazzled with " twinkling stars, " " great luminaries, " " gorgeous lights,"' " celestial brightness," and " human reful gences,".it cannot be wondered at, that a poor mortal like myself, so accustomed to the ordinary language of this working-day world, should find my understandine , com pletely nonplused, being deluged with "excessive bright," which, like an ocean, rushed in upon it ! I hardly dared to read further; but, after a little, I resumed courage, and proceeded : " Such being the case, we are left to infer that corporations were originally forked out upon the land to fertilise it, and preserve the productiveness of the political strata of those regions where the shepherd suffered most from the ravages of wolves. A kind and considerate feeling here shows itself on the part of the early originators of corporate bodies. Nor has this kindly feeling been suffered to diminish in the slightest degree through the many centuries that have passed since corpo rations were first invented. We we will here instance, par excellence, the Town Council of Liverpool. Mark the spirit of brotherly esteem and inextinguishable friendship that dwell there! Once a councillor, for ever a brother. The outside world may reject thee twice brother Shand, but we will receive thee thrice. Thy qualification is re gistered on many a deed, and in this representative coun cil chamber shalt thou be enshrined without that vulgar appendage,—a constituency.' " Splendid scribbler! Magniloquent declaimer ! What were the nature and quantity of that inspiration by which thy pen was guided ? At what Pierian spring didst thou,- ()scribe ! imbibe immortal' draughts ? And art thou the protégé of Bacchus or Apollo? Per haps, after all, the darkness of the writer's mental vision is not more sublimely visible throughout the weary article, than in the introductory sentence, descriptive of provincial corporations-: "The provincial corporations of this country occupy the same position in the social and political world, that the fixed planets do in the firmament. They are the centres of reflection from which sufficient lig ht F is thrown upon the earth to render `darkness visible. " After perusing this specimen of what MOORE would . call " blatherum-skiteum" composition, I determined "to fork out" no more for your contemporary.—l remain, &c., &c:, COMMON SENSE. Liverpool, March 20, 1854. LIVERPOOL SPRING ASSIZES. ME Spring Assizes for the southern division of this county commenced yesterday, before Mr. Baron Platt and Mr. .Justice Cresswell, at St. George's Hall. The calendar contains the names of 100 prisoners. Mr:-Baron Platt arrived at the:Lime-street Station of the London and Northwestern Railway soon after four o'clock , . on Saturday afternoon. The High-sheriff, Mr. Richard-Fort, of Read-hall, in this , county, attended by his chaplain, the Rev. Samuel King; .were in waiting with an elegant equipage, drawn by four handsome bays, and attended by the usual complement of .javelin men, in sub stantial livery. The Mayor (Mr. J. B: Lloyd,) in his state carriage; was awaiting the arrival of the learned baron. His lordehip proceeded in the first instance to the Judges' lodgings, in St. Anne-street, and thence to St. George's Hall, where the commission was opened in the Nisi Prins Court. Notice was then given that business would be commenced. on Monday morning in the Criminal Court at eleven, and in the Nisi Prins Court at twelve o'clock. Mr. Justice-Cresswell, who had been detained by the two concluding-cases in the Civil Court at York, did not arrive until ten o'clock on Saturday night. On Sunday. their lordships and the high , sheriff attended divine service at St. George's Church, prayers being read by the Rey. J. B. Monk, M.A., incumbent.and the sermon being delivered by the sheriffs chaplain, froze Isaiah xxxiii. v. 6:—" Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of the times, and the strength of salvation the fear of the Lord is his treasure." The Mayor and a number of ma gistrates, witlithe officials bearing the Corporationinsignia, walked in procession to and from the church: CROWN COURT. v . -_ESTERDA.Y. (BEPORE ME. JUSTICE CRESSIVEL.L.) HIS LORDSUIP took his seat at eleven &clock ; and the Court having been opened with the usual formalities, and the proclamation against vice and immorality read, the following gentlemen were sworn on THE GRAND JURY: William Earle, Esq., Spekelands, Foreman; Samuel Ashton, Esq., Prestwich ; James Bourne, Esq., Heathfield-house Wm. Hill Brancker, Esq., Greenfield;. Joseph Ewart, Esq., Liv,rpool ; Thomas Fairbairn, Esq., Northwood ; Robertson Gladstone, Esq., Higlifield ;. Alex. Pow en Haliburton, Esq., Whitley; Thomas ninon, Esq., .Manchester; Robert Horsfall, Esq., Mere Bank; James-Kay, jun., Esq., Turton Tower; , John Rohi9son Kay, Esq., 13ass-lane House; John Buck Lloyd, Esq., Mayor of Liverpool; Duncan McVicear, Esq., Liverpool; Thomas C. C. Marsh, Esq., Ashy Hall;. John Myers, Esq.; Crosby House ; Peter Ormerod, Esq., Chamber Hall; Robert Needham' Philips, Esq., The Park; William Rotheram, Esq., Sandheys ; William Rathbone, Liverpool; William Edwards Royds, Esq., Greenhill ; Edward Toots!, Esq., The Weaste; Charles Turner, Esq., Dingle Heed. Mr. Justice CRESWELL then deliveredlis charge to the Grand Jery. He was sorry, he said, that he could not congratulate them upon the state of the calendar which they had to deal with that morning. They would not be surprised that he said so, when he told; them that there were 10-charges of robbery by several persons together, with considerable violence; 18 cases. of burglary, 13 of stabbing, seven of manslaughter, and., two of murder—not to mention other cases of fraud and violence. It might be matter of surprise to some that they should have crimes.of that description, and to such an extent, when the 'material condition of the people has been so prosper ous.. He said this especially in reference to the charges of robbery and burglary,—but to those who had had much experience of courts of justice, that would not be matter of surprise, because he believed that those who perpetrate robberies of that description, andcommit burglaries, were a.class of people who would not avail themselves of the opportunity of working, even for considerable wages ; they preferred a dissolute and reckless. life. With regard to stabbing, the same observationwould hardly apply, as they would find that that and charges of manslaughter arose principally out of that fatal habit of drunkenness which prevails in this as in other countries. That was ascribable, in a great degree, to the ignorance of the people, and the want of religious and moral, training in the early part of their lives ; for, looking at that calendar they could not but be struck with the dense. ignorance in which most of those people seemed to be involved, He said that not in. reproach to this part of the country, for he had reasorsto. think that a great part of those crimes were committed' by those who were not born here, and, probably, did not come into this part of the country till they had arrived at an age when,they could not avail themselves of that education of which. they had been deprived in past life. There were one or two cases to which he' would refer, rather in extenuation of the charges in the calendar than in aggravation, of them. There was, however, one in which he advised that a more serious charge should be made than that stated, iu the calendar. It was. No. 50, a case in which, a. person was charged with wounding a woman named, Boon, with intent, it was said, to do her grievous bodily harm. But they could not suppose that such injuries could be inflicted with any other object than killing; awl, as there was nothing to reduce it below murder if the woman had died, he thought the charge should be" intent to murder." There were, then, two or three cases of manslaughter, where death had occurred from parties fighting in a public-house; when drink had aroused their passions and obscured their reason, they had fought, and the result had been the death of one or other of the. parties. There was a charge against four men, Nos.. 80 to 83 in the calendar, of manslaughter ; and he could not help thinking that, at the inquisition held by the coroner, the verdict of manslaughter must have been given under some misapprehension of the law. Those parties appeared to have been out poaching by night, no doubt an unlawful proceeding. During that sport of theirs they had to cross a broad ditch. One got in. Another was helping him out, when his gun went off, by accident, and killed this man. No doubt it was as pure an accident as ever could happen, but the coroner's jury bad returned a verdict of manslaughter against the whole of the party. Now he held that that arose from a misapprehension of the law. The law was : " If a person, doing an unlawful act, though not intending bodily harm to any one, as throwing a stone at another's horse, and it hit a person and kill him, that is manslaughter." And so here the coroner's jury might imagine that as they were out poaching, if that man was killed, it was neces sarily manslaughter. If one had been firing at a pheasant and killed his comrade, perhaps it would have been so; but there the act was wilfully done ; here it was pure acci dent, and in that case he should certainly, unless there was very different evidence from that which came before the coroner's jury, reject the bill. There was another charge of manslaughter, No. 93, against a man for driving a cart over a child; and if a man doing a lawful act, such as driving a cart, did it in a reckless manner, he was cri minally responsible for the death of any one, Perhaps they would be able to judge from the evidence whether there was that degree of negligence which would be cri minal, for he collected from the depositions that the man saw the child and endeavoured to avoid it, but he was not soon enough in doing that, or doing it effectually, and the child was killed. That might be an error of judgment, but they could hardly call that criminal negligence which would justify a charge of manslaughter. There was then a charge, No. 77, against a person named Flower, for mur der. Now this appeared one of those unhappy cases, not unknown in this town, of sailors using knives. He col lected from the depositions that there was some fight or quarrel in the street. They were then separated, and the two parties were taken in different directions ; but the de ceased man afterwards, with one or two comrades, passed the door of the house where the prisoner was taken, when he rushed out, renewed the fight, and in the course of it gave him a mortal wound. Now, if two persons fought, and one of them in the course of it used a knife, that was manslaughter; but if a man armed himself and then entered into a fight, and they were of opinion that he had a preconceived intention to use it, then it would be murder, though blows were interchanged between them Now, here there was reason to, believe that the man brought the knife out with the intention of using it, but there had been a previous fight ; and if they (the grand jury) thought that it was so recent that there had not been time to cool, then they could suppose that he had obtained the knife during that struggle, and it would be manslaughter, not murder, as the coroner's jury had returned. There was a charge of murder against a person named Jordan, a ship's steward ; and he could not help feeling surprised that such A YgrciiCt should have been returned by a coroner's jury upon the evidence that was before them. For, from the depositions, the evidence before them simply came to this. A noise was heard at night at one of the docks,—a policeman heard a sound like a door falling—another policeman like a body falling; they went on board a ship, and found a boy all but dead. He had received a slight wound at the front of the head, and on a post mortem examination his skull was found to be fractured. On searching about the deck, they found nobody there, but they found two men in the forecastle asleep. They asked if there was any one else on board. They said yes, the steward must be about the ship ; and they found the steward lying on the cabin floor, very drank. There was no other circumstance to arouse sus picion against him, but they found him guilty of murder. It seemed very range ; but whether any depositions were omitted, would turn out before them (the grand jury.) If the facts were aceording to that statement, of course it would be preposterous• to make a charge of murder against a man on such evi dence as that. There were two cases to which he must shortly draw their attention. One from 73 to 75 in the calendar, was an outrageous outrage indeed by several persons upon a female. Probably they might find that her life was not a reputable one, but that was not an excuse for an offence of that description. No. 85 was one of the same class of cases, but he begged their attention to the evidence which would be detailed before them, to see if there was sufficient ground for a public investigation in such a case before they found a bill. The only other case he would mention was against two persons, Nos. 97 and 98, for beirr , concerned in a riot at Preston, and he could not help deeply' regretting that any of the persons in Preston should at last have forfeited that singularly good character they had preserved during the long and unhappy differ ences between the masters and labourers. He had cer tainly been struck with the remarkably orderly demeanour exhibited during the whole of that unhappy contest. But it appeared at last that some persons from a foreign district were introduced to supply the places of those who refined to work for the wages offered; a riot took place, and those two prisoners were charged with the riot. Now the operatives should know and remember that while they arrogated to- themselves the right to work for certain wages, at least they should grant the same privilege to others, and others should be permitted to work for such wages as they chose to accept. There was a sort of . one sided liberality about the contrary course which was - not to be enchired. They should remember that they were fel low-subjeets; were free as themselves, and that if by acts• of violence they endeavoured to deter others from working: that would work, they must expect the law to interpose: These were the only cases which he should trouble them with remarlokupon, and he . felt sure it was unnecessary to: go further, from- therespectable assemblage that he had' the honour of seeing before Wm The grand jury then retired, and shortly afterwards returned into court with, several true bills. The trials then proceeded. STREET ROBEERV AT MANCHESTER. —Richard Preto, aged 21, described - as a labourer, was indicted for having, at Manchester, assaulted and robbed John Buckley of 245. Mr. Milne prosecuted, and the prisoner was undefended. ' It appeared that the prosecutor, who is an engineer, went :to the George and! Dragon Inn, in Hulme, Manchester, about twelve o'cloel on the night of the 17th December. He there met the prisoner, whom, he had known before, and they had something to drink-together. When they came out they went together to another public-house, where they had more , drink. There were several people there who left before the prosecutor.- On his coming out, after he had gone a little way, he was seized from behind amthis chin chuckat up" by three or four men, when one-of them, whom he positively identified as the prisoner, came before him and ripped up his trowsers, getting the money stated out of his rale pocket. Before going to the latter house, the prisoner had become aware that the pro secutor had his money in. that pocket; as he had advised him to put it where it would be safe?' When arrested next morning the prisoner admitted to the policeman that he was e witness of the robbery, but denied any participa tion in it. His lordship having summed up the evidence, the jury, after a moment's consultation, returned a ver dict of Guilty. Sentence deferred. GAROTTE ROBBERY IN LIVERPOOL--JOhH Joyce, aged 21, described as a labourer, was indicted for having assaulted Robert Spencer, and robbed- him of 9s. 6d., a knife, and a tobacco-box. Mr. Raffles- prosecuted. The prosecutor is a plumber, living at the- Old Swan. On the night: of the 24th December,-a: Saturday night, he was in Liverpool with a friend. They had something to drink together in Dale-street. They were passing the Queen's Hotel, Lime-street, about one- o'clock in the morning, when he lost sight of his friend.. He thought that he saw him going up Gloucester , street. He met two women • and, in consequence of what they said, he went up gmstreet. They followed, and; whilst he was talking t 3 -them, the prisoner came up, and asked him what he was doing ? He said that he was looking for his friend, and asked the prisoner to • go up an entry, which the- women had pointed out, an look for him. The prisoner told him to do so himself. He then felt something twined about his neck, and. turned round, when he saw the prisoner, who was almost strangling him. He was rendered almost insensible, and while the prisoner held him, the two women rifled his pockets: The prisoner asked, " have you got all ?" when they said, " yes," and the parties all ran away. He recovered, soon after, and missed from- his pocket the money stated.—Verdict, Guilty. A previous conviction against the- prisoner, who had then gone under the name of Pierrepont, was proved. Sentence deferred. ANOTHER ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER.— Geo. Stowe, aged 22, _Dennis Bennett, 18, and TVln..Redden, 22, all factory operatives, were charged with having, at Man chester, assaulted John Henry Ertkamp,. and robbed him of 95., a handkerchief, and his hat. The prosecutor is a warehouseman at Manchester, and on the night of the 4th of February went to the theatre. After that, he went to two or three public houses, and was going home about two o'clock in the morning. He had 9s. in his waistcoat pocket, a handkerchief • n in his coat pocket, and a hat on. When he was in:Albion-street, Your men tame up to him. The prisoner Stowe, who was one of them, seized him by the throat and. pushed him against the wall, whilst the others surrounded him and rifled his pockets. When all was over, he-found that his money, hat,und handkerchief were gone: He called loudly for the police, when the pri soner Bennett• hit him a severe blow upon the mouth. There was further evidence to show that Stowe, Bennett, Redden, and,another man unknown, and not in custody, were together immediately prior to the robbery, and a policeman la' observed them following the prosecutor. The whole of•the prisoners were found. guilty. Sentence deferred. _ _ _ _ _ _ ----____ BURGLARY AT BEDFORD. — Rose Clark, aged 20, a domestic-servant, pleaded guilty to a charge of having, at Bedford, on the 19th of January, stolen from the dwelling house of James Kearsley, an apron, a:chemise, and a loaf of bread and further with having_ after the robbery " burglarzonsly broken out" of the • premises. Sentence deferred. ANOTHER ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE AT MANCHESTER. —Thomas. Maleroy, aged 20, a French-polisher, was in dicted.for having, at Manchester, on the 14th of January, assaulted John Owen, and feloniously robbed him of 15s. and:a purse. Mr. Saunders prosecuted. The prosecutor is a cask dealer, and on the day stated, after having previ ously,•been in two or three public houses, he went about eleven o'clock at night into Green's vaults, in Spring gardens,, where he had a glass of rum and water. The prisoner was also in the vaults. The prosecutor left, and went into Clarence-street, and while walking along he was knocked down by a person, who.put his hand in his pocket, and, took out a half-sovereign, 55., and a purse. He looked up, and saw that it was thee prisoner. The prosecutor immediately got up, and shouted " stop thief," when the prisoner was pursued by a man named Robinson, and never lost sight of till arrested by a constable. The prisoner, with much ingenuity, endeavoured to show in defence that the prosecutor: had brought a woman of had. character into the house with him (which was admitted), and that he had called for-oysters which he could not pay fbr, but that was denied. He also stated that he had had an altercation on religious subjects with the prosecutor, but that statement was totally contradicted by the barman. —Verdict, guilty. Sentence deferred. HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER.—Ann Vernon, aged 46; Ann Leneghan, aged 23, hawker; and John Leneghan, aged 26, labourer, were charged with having, at Warrington, assaulted James Harding, and stolen, from. him 255. Mr. M'Oahrey prosecuted, and Mr. Simon de fended the male prisoner. It appeared from the state ment of the prosecutor, that he is a forge hammerman, residing in this town, but, on the 21st of February, he left Liverpool for the purpose of going to Crewe. Having walked all the. way from Liverpool to Warrington, he arrived there about half-past ten o'clock at night, It was then too late to go further, and intending to lodge that night in Warrington, he accosted a female, and asked her to recommend him to a place. She said she could if he would give her a glass of ale. He did so, and they after wards went to another public-house, kept by a man named Prescot. Anthony Leneghan and the female prisoners were in the house, and shortly afterwards John Leneghan came in. The prosecutor treated them to two or three glasses of ale, and at two o'clock he left to go as far as Acton station, intending to take the railway to Crewe.• He got some more drink in a bottle, when he inquired from Anthony Leneghan the way to Acton. He was told to go down the street, and then turn to the right hand, which would have led him a wrong direction. On getting to the Horse Market in Warrington, he saw the three prisoners standing at the end of a narrow street. When he got a few hutdred yards more on his way, his attention was attracted by hearing footsteps behind him. They were those of the female prisoners and John Leneghan. John Leneghan struck him on the head with his fist a blow which knocked him down. The female prisoners then knelt on his body, and rifled his pockets. He struck the woman a blow on the face, when John Leneghan gave him a severe blow on the head, which deprived him of all sensibility ; but on coming to himself, he found the woman still leaning upon him. She crossed the street, and handed something to Johu Leneghan, when they separated; and went in different directions. He watched the female pri soner to her lodgings, and acquainted the police with the robbery. Vernon's nose was bleeding when arrested. Upon Anthony Leneghan a marked shilling was found, which the prosecutor positively spoke to as having been in his possession when he left Prescot's house. Mr. Simon addressed the jury in defence of the two Leneghans, and his Lordship having summed up, the jury returned a ver dict of guilty against all the prisoners. Sentence deferred. GAROTTE ROBBERY, AT MANCHESTER.—Sarah MOSS, aged 21, dress-maker, was indicted for having, at Man chester, on the 21st of January, in company with two men, assaulted Joseph Davies, and robbed hi m o f 15s. 6d. , a watchguard, and a hat, his property.' M r . R ay prose cuted. The prosecutor had been to Huntsbank station, in Manchester, to meet his brother. When returning he lost his way, and inquired from the prisoner how he could get down Shude-hill. She pointed out , a street, and fol lowed him. She made a noise like coughing, and imme diately afterwards some persons seized him from behind, throttled him, and rendered him almost insensible. When he recovered, he found th e prisoner pullin g at his pockets, and articlesmentioned.He and missed the mon e y fol lowed hertoa sh b e ee a r t h t o em us p e t , e a d n te d gave the er policeman,i n t into When arrested slipping ally into enst°d by y his hand 4s. 6d. Guilty. Sentence deferred. The Court then adjourned till nine o'clock this morning. NISI PRIUS COURT. (Bnponn UR. BA.HON Pi A.TT.) Donsow v. HIGGINBOTTON.—Mr. Monk, who appeared for the plaiatitl; stated that it WM an action for the reco- TUESDAY, MARCH .‘2l, 1854. et, 0 60 ' very of £23 125., being the balance of an aceencirce nally amounting to £26 14s. 6d., for tea and 13.'!,roeet nished by the plaintiff to the defendant , who wssd34,'lldee, at Newmills, in Derbyshire. The case was un • foot and the jury, under direction, returned of the plaintiff for the sum claimed, and 40s- costs. L)3E AND ANOTHER V. SMITIL—In this case the # tiffs are assignees under the bankruptcy of Janle. _dot packer in Mulberry-street, Manchester, and the defreee_,,, is J. B. Smith, Esq., M.P., the proprietor of theupi.,,t;ii occupied by Pollet. These premises were held whatever agreement, by which Pollet covenanted to expend 1: 1 . '7w was under the agreement to pay was necessary for alterations and internal repal7._sd a verdict favour vance, the first quarter's rent to be £l6, the see: na v el, and the annual rent to be £lBO for the first th ee b e lti and £2OO yearly for the subsequent years of 3 I° lo ll ' by another party. In August last Pallet beani e p et his rent COln, rupt, and on the 11th of that month a distress ""' into the premises for the quarter's rent, which T en t able° due at Midsummer previous, and also for the ref! . bu t would be due on the 29th of the following Septembe!"o ad which the defendant contended was in reality de,e, i to der vane, in terms of the agreement. Goods were so.'" f b o th the distraint more than sufficient to cover the rent of quarter!) !psis, quarters, the difference being paid over by the defendant for the benefit of the estate. By the present act sought to recover the E 4 5, which had been aePr ° P r l„ c eded payment of the second quarter ' s cent, it being' ee" e,rce that the agreement referred to was illegal and of 1 1, 0 ee In point of fact, the rent never had been pa id in 3 cog' c - There was no dispute as to the facts, and there was gig quently no case for the consideration of the iurY: o el ig lordship said that the agreement, th oug h no dou bt ‘ v aele i its character as a lease, was not to be looked 0 11 t e e tl lO less in explaining the terms of agreement on w o ject, premises were held. He must enter a nonsuit, s pro' however, to the raising of a new action for the a ;ded vided the judgment was found to be wrong as re ' the facts. Execution stayed till next term. Mich the LEE V. NOTTAL.—This was an action in w 4. : 0 pre' plaintiff sought to recover two sums due upon ". missory notes, one for £4O, dated the 19th Janns r Y„' a the the other for ielOCe dated the 16th of November saal; security of which. the plaintiff' a d vance d the to bed b Th ee e n tirtothceorur. wtitalindinttbereesptroamndisac:yter;fe:sn'eftot,bs:e4 amount withdrawn from the suit. The P l3 ' -- er" sa le fa been a farmer, and had, a good man eamag° , 1830, lent the defendant the £l4o,yiYn consideratilsh which one of the promissory notes was gr . -Orli/oge, parties resided in the immediate neighbouriao o °....„,' , s e': Towards the latter end of 1850, James Nuttal, J. _ 4 r:fe r ia of the defendant, made application to the pla ll34l l,,diee loan of £lOO, which plaintiff refused to lend. 4 1) 4 .P, f ie , f eC was subsequently made to the plaintiff severs' . the £lOO, to which request he ultimately did it„isso l 2, condition that the defendant should give hire a Pr" - t hen note for the £4O, and also forthe £lOO which vist l io tb e beadvanced. For the defence it was co ntended gee £lOO was not advanced to the defendant but t°_, l -T; an° the•note being signed by the son, by the son' s by Thomas Knowles as a witness to the signateritaies Monleappeared for the plaintiff; and Sergeant and Mii...Millward for the defendt. M ° • Thomas Knowles, landlord of the Bank Inn, defer said ozethe 16th November, 1850, the plaintiff, h 00 dant, the son o4' the defendant, his daughter, and ho, g re wife, came to his house, and two promissory notes 0, also the witness, as a witness to the written.by the defendant, who signed both notes, el these notes-was for £4O, the other for £100; th e was signed:by the son and daughter-in-law of 1.,61 dant. Witness was quite positive the elder Nuttal the tbe the note for the £lOO. lee 4 Samuel lam, the plaintiff, stated that in 1830 he mte te2 . , defendant £4O, but got no obligation for it. Th e ear, was paid. In. October, 1850, James Nuttal, .i llll '; is ed ef and wanted the loan of £lOO, which witness 1 ' „, to gef lend. Young:Nuttal came to witness several timf;tef SiglaatHreS. Vi;tta fo the loan, and the elder Nuttal ap plied also/to Pi 3l o . a eo' the money for his. son, stating that the son was dojo,' rcoog business, and that his wife was entitled to om e i f left her by an uncle, and further that he hiEssLfeaclas,' see the money. repaid. Plaintiff remar ked t° £ 4 " that he had not got any acknowledgment for jbis and requested that he might then have a note for a nt Aw ay proposal gave offence to the defendant, and he i‘o tee e , 901 dissatisfied. In .a. day or two old Nuttal cani n e 7 0 „,till' he would not lend the money urging that his eon might have the £lOO. the u" fendant, who agreed to give a promissory note fooroo, the sums. On thisunderstanding they all went t. l) _. es and at the Bank. Inn of that town the transactlen completed as described by the preceding witness ; 11:iciftine £lOO was given over to young Nuttal, he an d After t signing the £lOO note as well as the defendant. rof. this young NuttaL became bankrupt, and t P ent action was brought, against. the elder Nuttal for Pa en both sums. Sergeant Wilkins, for the defence, M. t ether: that the £loowas lent toyoungNuttal, and not t0h 1 ,•!,, t 00 4 and he said the signature attached to the note for 1 1 1 "for purporting to be that of old Nuttal, was not his gery. James Nuttal, the defendant, wa s the 7 0 10_,.: tl"' his son, but to each of ness called for the defence, he denied that h i e A e ire eeW; rowed the £lOO sued for. He swore with eetw."es4.l• in that he had not signed the £lOO note, and neve r o aees:,, - „, asked to do so. He detailed with much inion„.,oo„9„`", a " - ; the course of a long examination and cross-e1 . .„,, e- seei',„a many of the circumstances connected with the t - or 14 ' 4 7,, but he persisted in denying that he ever sig fl chug asked to sign, the note for £loo.—Alice Nuttae dart of the defendant, James Nuttal, jun., his son, 0,1,1- - v res t _, Nuttal, the son's wife, were severally examined at ;;o o4 ' length, all of them, in the main features of their. r ev^ r odY corroborating the 'testimony of the defendant. 1 11 details, however, they differed from him and from' 0 i ether.—Mr. Monleaddressed the jury at great leniet„ R r e --; commented in severe terms on the nature of the Je fe- bilei His lordship summed up, and the jury, after v° e ftze r ri o th e consultation, returned a verdict for £ ll7 iii fa plaintiff, with 40s. casts. This N :" - GIWTHORPE B.ARTON AND BUBC 110 " -- , bea'e , an action brought to recover the sum of £217- ,Ln''#er Ole the amount of money received by the defendant,s,r. the sale of railway. shares belonging to the plain ui :, 1847 the defendants were partners, and carried u_ at oo t business of sharebrokers, in Manchester. In the ne; of that year the plaintiff empowered them to s ell!Yi s ea. a certain number of railway shares, which they l it o intimated to him that they had received n ,th e „aotol however, e i r °s , th no e t been net pric p e aid ve du o et r o , in con which the present action was brought. Bur oer; c l 11 - judgment to go by default, and Barton did few . the action.. The jury, therefore, under directio W l3 l O esY' a verdict for. £217. 10s., in favour of plaintiff' costs. br olfro SIDEROZTOXV.CLEMENT.—This was an act ies '_...ne a b e, to recover £43. 3s. 4d, being the balance due 14,;73.1L-: of exchange, which had originally amounted iffary'' No defence was. offered, and a verdict for the P*l- es' returned,accordingly. The Court then adjourned till nine o'clock tI day) morning. . POLICE COURT.—YESTB I3O ' • fi c sgyn REFUSAL. TO PROCEED TO SEA.—Frano. - j . to pro , ,,eS Spanish sailor, was brought up for refusing ~' bo w sea, a ft er being shipped on board the Lady 10 L" o s to Carthagena. The Spanish Consul being • p ee d -40 .1 111 ** - gentleman explained that the prisoner 0 The board an El ish instead of a Spanish vase , - en d was- consequently discharged. air°- v . " ft'' STEA.LING ROPE.—PatrickMoore, a lumPer, w to be imprisoned seven days, for stealing rope f •ttl sel on which he was engaged. P cbA rgeCi _;tig ' T STREET ROBBERY.—Ann Clusky was robbing John Marsden, a sailor, of a purse cont3Loer,e, The girl met the sailor in Tempest-hey on Satullp pii and asked him to treat her, when he pu ll ed ties' which she instantly ran away with.. Remandlittle JuvuitiLE ilbank, 3 ,..„tes I ,olr whose head barely reached above the. magist'' .-As 5 " p was charged with robbing the till of Francis' o :Tim' s V il t keeper, on Saturday. The little fellow eaten' , oft ,At barefooted, stole some money from the till and O ro . 0 ,- was pursued and taken. He was remanded, i u ° „tt , g eti his parents might be sent for. 1 , as e t iv iil,. STEALING A GOLD WATCIL.---Ellen W- O. with stealing a gold watch and half a soverei° 0 hose carpenter belonging to the ship Lightning, at 5 1 3 0 ill fame. She was committed to the sessions. , w ho . 0 , A BAD CRARACTER.— John Mangan, a petty already been three times imprisoned for Peui he sb ° ' o ,o was charged with stealing 10 lb. of ham from A lio 00 Mary Phillips, Prince Edwin-street. Mrs. P,°;: wiL i e this was the third time her shop had been rou i wy o r 11P a short period. The prisoner was sent to gti ° ' 0 01-, months. 1404, - 03 ( Docx ROBBERY.—David Davis and Georg of tlto carters, were charged with stealing 11 euc t ' ta king U• springs from the Clarence dock quay, and stolen property away in a cart loaded with ot e The evidence being only of a suspicious Ilat ur ,itte ct Norcross, he was. discharged. Davis was eon'''. 0. two months. 0 J rob s A CRUEL HUSBAND.—James Carroll, dam fed he t i Jo low, who had repeatedly beaten his wife, ri:,„ 1 , 1 se left her chargeable to the parish, was fine d '" default committed for three months. ,05 101 11 STEALING GLASSES PROS! PUBLIC 00.-- a t 't ge species of theft is of frequent occurrence, bil- + ell „ilree happens that the publicans do not prose cute . 11 1 - foi . This morning Ann Campbell was sent to g 3° blic;, ll° ,o 4 months, for stealing three tumblers from the OP 11P c.arsb of of Mary Green, in Sawney Pope-street. lts Oe. charged with a similar offence in the liquor ,_' -u osir i S n yk h es er , en in ra G p r a e n a y t wChhaernlotthtee-restrheheetr,ybuteet kaspteor Plate' ofe w o discharged. „„ 11 0 96 . PASSING BAD MONEY.— Frederick Patterso n ' o'l been remanded from this day week, on a c)1, 1 , 1 4 7; ing a bad half-crown at the public-house of "'""' 0 1 ' was committed for trial. Cr)CIO. 0 f tP_A DISPUTE IN A SICK AND BURIAL John Yates, jun., on the part of the luen w 7celer Knights of. St. Patrick Sick and Burial Society, s Oro e, la against Mr. Robert Ward, at whose public licisutoig sey-street, the society was held, for illegally ue, in g society's box, containing £l2, and other art icles g to the society. Mr. Yates said that a dispute itsilrefa•los between Mr. Ward and the members, the lat' ee ting to pay an increased charge for the room, a n i „„,ioa 1 ;1 1 held ou the 16th of January, on which oertheiloet Ward, who was inebriated, threatened t o le ft 0. 1 '„,i 0 out of the room. The members, howe ver, b m e r in . g lv id ard ck , ed w o h u e t ;retfoonskedanthothgierrreoonmp, t a h n e d p tb re ei die T tef . vieot he Chilton, on the part of the defendant, reP nto 1) 0 _,.)1t. charge, and explained that there was a disi t ' n isce„,. the members, and a regular division had take. rib r o ry Yates then called the following evidence : elve t h e utli n e secretary to the society, had held office t,fk. a d sc rbi a. 9 til e Thomas Mitchell was president ; Robert money• th e treasurer in January last, and kept the _ r ent, o re , 9th January Mr. Ward proposed that tn! .n s sk ijek l i fsro room should be increased, and the meeting. w,710,. to the 16th of that month. On that occasell. then was intoxicated, and insulted all the metaoe''',,ibole_.„oo; the ti er 1 " - P in-law struck one of the members, acid „ n et left. The society is now carried on at soc ietl, "100 4 , the There were 37 members formerly in now remain in it, meeting at the new room_,eut ton so t field said the trustees ought to bring the y W afire`r..Chit tl>a This brought On a discussion between as Mr. Yates, at the conclusion of which it ‘ v •ratiQiu the Aatto; mould be ;submitted to arbi t