The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-17 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. On the Nights of the Races, the Doors will not be opened uttil Half•past Seven. The Performances to commence at Eight o'clock. UNPRECEDENTED MUSICAL ATTRACTION ! The highly celebrated Vocalist, Madame CINTI DAMO REAU, who created such a great sensation in London this season, for whom the chef d'muvres of Rossini, Meyerbeer, and Auber, were specially composed, and who is acknow ledged to be the most finished French and Italian Vocalist of the day ; and the extraordinary Pianist, Mons. DOEH LER, of her Majesty's Theatre, and the Nobility's Concerts, London, whose astonishing and almost miracu lous performances were hailed in London with a degree of enthusiasm never before experienced, are engaged for FOUR NIGHTS, and will make their first appearance here THIS EVENING. Their other Nights of Performance will he WEnNEsnAy, Tuunst , A e, and FRIDAY, in the present week. Signor CURIONI, the eminent Tenor, Signor GIUBILEI, Primo Basso Cantante, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, and of her Majesty's Theatre, London, and Mr. BOC EI SA, wh o wiltdi,ect the Operatic Entertainments, and perform on the Harp some of his most favourite Pieces, are also Pngaged for FOUR NIGHTS, and will appear Tilts EVENING, in a GRAND MISCELLANEOUS CON CERT. rrIHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 17th instant, JL the Entertainments will commence with the petite Comedy of HIDE AND SEEK. After which, PA HT I. of a GRAND MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT, Consisting of a variety of Vocal and Instrumental Music. By Madame Cinti Damoreau, Mons. Doehler, Sig. Curion! Signor Guibilei, and Mr. Bochsa. After which, the Farce of MR. AN!) MRS. PRINGLE. To be followed by the SECOND PAut of the CONCERT. To conclude with the National Anthem, " GOD SAVE THE QUEEN," BY *dune Cinti Damoreau, Signor Curioni, and Signor Giuhilei, accompanied by Mr. Bochsa and Mons. Dochler. Mademoiselle FORGEOT, The Leading Actrers of the Gvmnasse, Paris, is engaged for Three Nights, and will make her first appearance To motßolT EV4;SING, in the first act of Auber's celebrated French Opera of L'AMBASSADRICE, Composed expressly fur Madame C. Damoreau. H euriett ... (a Prima Donna),...Madame C. Darnoreau Charbitte..(also a Theatrical Performer, friend to 'llenriette)..Mademoiselle Forgeot, First 'Actress of the Gymnasse, Paris. Furtunatus (Manager of the Munich Theatre) Sig. Guibile' After which, . A CONCERT AND OTHER ENTERTAIN,MENTS. ...,otwithstanding the very heavy expense attending the ab "" Engagements, no advance wilt be made in the regula r 3 ice. "f admis„,ion to the Theatre, which will remain as nal, Lower Boxes, 4s. • Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d. ; Pit, 25.6 d.; Gallery, ls. The Box-office will be opened Daily, when Places may be taken from Ten until Three o'clock. No Places can be secured unless a orrespondin" n•ntiniber of Tickets are taken. NEW iNs:rnarrioN OR THE FINE ARTS, • Von THE EXIIIBMON OP PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE, IN THR MOD ERN ART ISTS, GALLERY AND /100NIS, oVER TUE UNION NEWS• Rooms, DUKE STREET, WILL CLOSE upon the 31st inst. PAINTINGS, for the Receptio n of &c. J. PLMR Secre The Exhibiti on WIL L OPENA earl E y in , gusttary. Au. Liverpool, 16th July, 1838. TO THE ADMIRERS OF THE FINE ARTS. rrevt Open at No. 8, BOLD -STREET, two doors above the Palatine Club, A SPLENDID EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. Among BY THE OLD MAST ERS, which will be fottiad one from the Peimil of the in comparable GUIDO, Value 2,000 Guineas, representing DIANA ON HER RETURN FROM THE CHASE. [Life Size.] THE PROPRIETOR feels an i n d escr ib a bl e p l easure in being the hUmble instrument of introducing to the no tice of a liberal and diScriminating public, the inestimable production of departed genius, whose talents, like a meteor of transcendent light, hare reflected glory on the country of his birtb,.aind shed lustre on civilized Europe, giving impetus to, and ' promoting that refinement of taste, veneration for and deviation of soul which true greatness dime inspires; it is, therefore, with conscious pride that he invites the at tention, piore partiCidarly of those who take an interest in improving the Moral condition of mankind, by upholding science, tool giving encouragement to the Arts, the true ad wirers iir which will experience a delicious treat in contem platinithe beauties of this specimen, in which the Artist has displayed those appropriate and gigantic powers of concep tions upon.which he has established the immortality of his fame; Janguage, however impassioned, furnishes but a po verty of words to describe, and which can only be properly tinderstoo4 through the medium of its own silent eloquence. Admission, ONE SHILLING each.—Catalogues 6d. each. Open from Ten till Dusk. A NEW AND INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. On ➢IO)NDAY, the 6111 of AUGUST, WILL BE PUBLISHED IN MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL, And from thence forwarded by Express anti rapid Convey ances to all parts of the Country, ruins. First Number of a New County Journal, entitled 1 THE LANCASHIRE HERALD. Price Fivepence. It has long been a matter of surprise that Lancashire alone ; netwithstanding its immense importance, wealth, and pitpulatiOn,. should hitherto have been without a County Paper; - thus leaving the great body of agriculturists, and Many of the manufacturing districts scattered throughout the county, without an organ to watch over and represent their interests. It is. therefore, presumed that a fair oppor • • tunity 'presents itself for the successful establishment of such - a Paper, especially as the projectors have been -encouraged by many promises of favour and support. The l'imscietits of the Larscssnine HER 41,0 willbe is/- dependent and decicredits tone that of argumentative and temperate diScussion. We shall appeal to the reason, not to the passions of our readers; and, while prepared to defend to .thcutinost every thing that appears precious in our political and religious institutions, and consequently worthy of preser vation, we shall be found equally determined to root out all that we conceiver to be obnoxious or injurious. Those who, with the sante feelings, pursue a course different from ours, and, therefore, in our opinion, erroneous, shall meet from us the respect due to honourable antagonists. Against all that is mischierous and designedly destructive we shall raise our Ir”ice,.but not mere loudly than against that which is corrupt, servile,` And -oppressive. OierieWS•on. general Politics, and the tone in which we advocate them, will be better appreciated after a few num bers, 144d-dal experience, than by promises and professions. Iw Ltical and Provincial matters we shall do our best to pro 'cure that species of infolmation which, in commercial dis tricti,it iriost desirable. Our arrangements to present 6ur reader, With accurate and late reports of Markets, Funds, Manufactures, Shipping, Mining, Sporting, and in short, all branches of Trade, Agriculture, Commerce, or Speculation, are elready equal to those of any other establishment, and we shall spare neither pains nor expense to render them still More perfeet; • TO the toeitione more peculiarly connected with our ma nufaCtbring districts we come with minds altogether unbi assed- Warped neither by the suggestions of sordid selfish- Hess, nor unreflecting prejudice, it shall be our business to advocate whit are at once the true interests of the employer and'the'eMployed—interests which, if properly understood, are-iWtetality the sall,. • In the important body-of LICENSED VICTUALLERs we have induential friends, and we shall endeavour to supply them with'ijoutnal such as they can conscientiously patronise, and which Veill - Nedrocate their special interests, and strongly oppose artyrundue interference with their vested rights. In short, - there' is no class of the community in this hive of bustling and ever-moving trade, which may not command our services for the promotion of honourable and English pe rposteir And dentands.• Though we shall not be insensible to the fascination of graceful wit;. nor the piquancy of delicate satire, yet all per sonality'ilhall be excluded from ou r columns. In a word: we promise to give a journal conducted in a plain,"itrightforwa r d, honest manner,—" Fearing," —a s the best book in the world says, with a slight variation for which we have no reason to offer anything like an apology— ' "Fearing ti o d an d H onour i ng the Queen !';— contending fairly with fair antagonkts — maintaining crpe rally the cause of E ng l an d , to the - hest of our abilities, at'hoeme and abroad; and,' Locally, all, those interests 'which, in a space of time not very much exceeding the age,.so long ago naerked to that of man, has raised - Liverpool,: Manchester. and their sister towns, from poor' hamlets in rude and path less districts, to the rank of merchant-cities,' cOmbinin i the lintalivfl space the most d e n se popu l at i on and thernnsnt productive -wealth. In the-minor departments —we mean minor as regards the "anitrlne*a of a newspaper—Literature. Drama, Music, w e have engaged more talent ali than, we believe, vas ever heft" ell iage k tt i t d n n a ee l s :r n o t r t i e ri n c t i 'aper ; and we can . promise iatparlialitv, ton and generosity in the exer Cm of the powers committed to the hands of out: critics. The LANCASHIRE [HERALD will be published at an early Li ar every. Monday Li verpool; Morning, at No. 36, North John-st ree t, At the Exchange Rooms, Ducie-pl a ce, Manches ter ; and will be despatched by special conveyances to all parr s of Live county. O rders, Advertisements, and Communications will b e re ceived at the Offices in Liverpool' and Manchester, and by carious__. Agents and N e w s p a p e r V en d ers th roug h ou t t h e ',`Y" TO CORRESPONDENTS. w e , "re obl igedobl to postpone the valuable favour of "Irenmus" wutuil next publication. * t i t , h itili that th e c hild ren o f f reemen "b orn a ft er th e pass tit t4e reform bill" can establish their claims; but siArt certain whether parties " apprenticed to freemen" fre4Pently to the passing of the said act can claim their to b r ',„ l4 2 At all events there has not been sufficient time ri Alt '9l th e question to an issue. 44 1( ; )c ., / ,* B. ltrET —We have received a communication from itivlt4nabita‘nt 4 Parker-street respecting the dangerous b. :7 of the crossing at the Church-street end, rendered so ," multitude of vehicles continually passing to and aotn the Railway, &c. We believe that the Improvement • COMMittee are empowered, by the act of parliament, mate rially to improve that t+ tree', and they will, doubtless, avail themselves of the opportunity. itibctpool TUESDAY MORNING, JUI,Y 17, 1838. Thet Publication of the STANDARD commenced this morning at 5 o'clock. JAMAICA.—We have received our files of the Ja rneqCa-Despatch and Kingston Chronicle up to the ultimo. The contents of these papers are ex tremely important. They are, of course, chiefly oc cupied with the discussions in the House of Assembly ortite subject of the abolition of negro apprentice ship. The house met on the 7th ult. We have al "ady gives the opening address of Sir Lionel Smith, the Governor, with which we were favoured by the last arrivals front New York. The address in reply to the Governor was moved by Air. Hvslop. It con tained a paragraph asserting the principle that the ap_ Prenticeship was awarded as part of the compen• sAtroa. To thin passage several members demurred and amongst others a Mr. Hill, one or the special magistrates, who was, however, appealed to by Messrs Guy and Manton, and asked whether he I:ad not in his official capacity been frequently called upon to value the services of apprentices, and to award to theirmas ters a compensation for the remaining term of their apprenticeship. This, of course, annihilated the fu tile objections taken by Mr. Hill. We subjoin the address as amended:— " May it please your Excellency, " We, her Majesty's dutiful and loyalsubjects, the Assem bly of Jamaica, thank your Excellency for your speech at the opening of the session, and we duly appreciate the con sideration evinced by your Excellency in convening this general Assembly on the earliest day consistent with the public welfare, to meet the present emergency. " On receiving the despatches alluded to by your Excel- lency, we shall proceed in the critical posture in which the Island is placed, to give to the momentous matters submitted to us our most serious consideration. "Jamaica does indeed require repose, and we anxiously hope that, should we determine to remove an immaterial ser vitude, we shall be left in the exercise of S our constitutional privileges to legislate for the.benefit of ail classes without any further Parliamentary interference. " The apprenticeship was forced on the acceptance of the House as one of the precautionary measures to be adopted in the transition from slavery to freedom, and was a portion of our compensation. While, therefore, we discuss the pro priety of its abolition, we neither assume the responsibility, nor exonerate the public faith." To which his Excellency was pleased to reply. " Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly, " I receive this your address with great satisfaction, feel- • ing confident that you will give a calm and dispassionate consideration to the important question upon which you have been specially convened." Respecting the injustice of terminating the appren ticeship in August next, instead of in 1840, Rs fixed by the abolition act, the Despatch, of the Bth ult. has the following remarks:— "As the Governor has unwittingly acknowledged that it is physically impossible to carry on the agriculture of the Coun try under the arbitrary act imposed by the Ministry (at Sir Lionel's desire,) upon the apprentice masters of this Colony, his Excellency is in honour bound to call upon his employers: for the means of meeting the exigencies of the Country, which is likely to be thrown into a state of anarchy and con fusion from this breach of contract, and unnecessary and co ercive act of interference with the equitable working out or the system. "If it were the Mammoth proprietors alone, such as Lords: Sligo and Seaford, who have pocketed all the compensation , and who now dwell in luxurious ease in Great Britain, regard- less of the vexation and distress entailed upon the poor small settlers, who will be reduced by their heartless agitation to certain loss and ruin, we should say that they (the Mam moths) could very well afford to give up the two years' term, and pay the negroes' hire; especially as they maks money by their Parliamentary interference and intrigue! "But what is become of the poor, industrious, and honest free settlers, who, by confiding in the faith of the British Government, have entered into engagements they cannot. fulfil ? What is to become of those who have no means of hiring a sufficiency of labourers to cultivate their fields, hav ing already expended ALL they were worth upon buying up the term of a certain number of apprentices, whom they can no longer retain at work? Many respectable widows and mothers of families—many elderly and hardworking men, who have speculated with a few hundred, or a thousand or wo pounds, the savings of a laborious life of industry, honing ; _ . that by the sale of a few crops, they would be enabled to aug ment their resources, and plaee themselves in a condition to engage free labour by the year 1810, will be in the situation described. The abrupt termination and violation of the term will deprive such persons of tbe means of obtaining a living. Lords Brougham, Sligo, and Co., have put their hands into the pockets of these persons, and have, literally robbed them of their all! They have forgotten the maxim. "to be just before they are generous"—and they are inhaling the praise, and accepting the gifts of a set of plundering hypocrites, whilst they are inflicting want and suffering on a most de serving class of their fellow-subjects, and sending miflions miserable Africans to a premature grave, through the am 7 -•••- inented horrors of a foreign slave trade, stimulated by their ruthless and withering agitation. "If this be philanthropy, it, is the philanthropy of fiends and demons, who delight in the misery, starvation, and de struction of mankind! !!" On the 7th and Sth ult., we learn from the Jamaica Gazelle, the - House of Assembly sat in committee on the bill for the abolition of apprenticeship, which is entitled "an act to abolish the apprenticeship of prce dial labourers within this island on the Ist of August next." The report which is furnished of the proceed ings is but meagre. We lay before our readers all that we can infer from the summary before us. The bill was passed in all its stages through the House of Assembly, and was expected to be ready for transmis sion by the packet which sailed on the 9th. Several protective clauses had been added in committee, which are considered highly favourable to the negroes. Not only have the Assembly provided against the sudden ejectment of those who ate capable of labour, but they have also.made provision for the aged and indigent, in a way which, as is well remarked by tile Gazette, will "put England to the blush for her own institutions," where the poor and helpless have dealt out to them, under the niggardly poor-law system, a subsistence which is barely sufficient to keep body and soul to gether. But will England have to pay nothing for this further step towards the liberation of the negro ? Let the following extract from the paper which we have last quoted afford an answer : " We are glad to observe our House of Assembly is not likely to pass over, without notice, a most important comli lion, which certainly ought to attach to the great sacrifice they are making of their constituents' interests, by abroga ting the remaining term of the apprenticeship, in compliance with the voice—the all-powerful voice of the British nation. " This subject was brought to the notice of the House by the honourable senior member for the pal jab of Manchester (Mr. Berry), who is always alive to the several interests of the country, and his application of the words of Lord Howick, one of the Ministers of the Crown, was happy indeed. The words of Lord l - lowiek are as follow :—` If justice to the negrces requires that we should put an end to the appren ticeship, we are bound to do so; and if, by taking this course, any pecuniary injury is done to the colonial proprietors, this will give them a claim upon as for e UttTrlEls compensation.' " We therefore recommend, previous to the next meeting of the Assembly, which will probably take place in October, that all persons suffering injury under this act, will be pre pared with authenticated statements of the same to be laid before it. It would be difficult for us at the present moment to describe the various claims that could probably be pre ferred-; but we do not think ourselves far wrong in classing them as follows: " Ist. All persons having a right in the remaining two years' services of their apprentices. "2nd. All persons who purchased property on the faith of the British nation fulfilling the compact ; but which, for their interference, would not have terminated until 1810. " 3rd. Of all annuitants whose claims are secured upon real property here. " 4th. Of those apprentices who have purchased an exemp tion from the provisions of the act fur the abolition of slavery. " This statement, going from our Representatives in res pectful terms cannot fail to awaken the sympathy of those who have, from professed feelings of philanthropy, urged the parliament and government to the measures they have adopt ed, and which have led to such injurious results to a numer ous and loyal portion of their fellow-subjects, and the govern ment to a due sense of retributive.justice !" Glorious results of Whiggery ! We had written thus far when we received our file of the Royal Gazette and Jamaica Times—a journal of more moderate views than the Despatvh. We so licit the attention of our readers to the following very sensible remarks, which we extract from the Royal Gazette of June 9th.:— " It is with sincere pleasure that we congratulate the island on the successful issue of the deliberations of the Hun. House of Assembly. Freedom will ere long be proclaimed—full, complete, and unrestricted freedom will be conferred on those who, according to law, would have had to continue in servitude for two years more. No dissentient voice was heard within the walls of the Assembly, all joined in the wish so often expressed, that the remaining term of appren ticeship should be cancelled, that the excitement pro duced by a law which has done inconceivable harm in Jamaica, in alienating the affections of her people, and creating discord and disaffection, should at once cease. Thank God ! it is now nearly at an end, and we trust that Jamaica will enjoy that repose so eagerly and anxiously sought after, by all who wish the island well. " Yet while we congratulate the island in its almost certain road to happiness, it ‘vould ill become us to forget the many, very many, which by this measure will be reduced to beggary. There are those in Eng. land, as well as in this country, who, depending en tirely upon the return received from Jamaica property - - annuitants and others, we feat, will be thrown into utter destitution. It may be said, that the unhappy day has only come a little sooner; but two years is an age to those who may not have bread to eat in conse quence. There are others also, who have been in duced to lease and purchase properties, in the faith that the apprenticeship would have been continued ; they, too, will suffer n-Ji--their expenses will be doubled, if not trebled, and in fact in many ifttances, where they have expended their little all, in anticipa tion of the next yeaWa crop, and have not wherewith to meet the expenses which the future culture will require, the loss will be very great. It is the poor man and the helpless annuitant that we look upon as being truly objects of pity, and require the sympathy of the British government to be extended t.Qwards them. The rich landholder we do not consider will be a loser; it may, in the first place, require an advance of capital, and partially reduce his income, but it may also be the means of increasing his resources; what appears at present a sacrifice- may be the means of affording,a very great return. We trust that those who can show a loss, and that they have sustained an injury by the measure, may receive that further compensation they are so justly entitled to, and although government has decidedly stated they will not entertain the question of further compensation generally, we have no doubt that individual cases of suffering brought to their no tice, will be readily attended to. " The die is now, however, cast. In less than two short months, the great experiment of emancipation will be complete. f t only remains, then, for us, indi vidually and collectively, to sooth down angry conten tions and lurking asperities—to forget the past. We say, let all heartburnings be buried in oblivion, and let us one and all join in advancing the true interests of the country. We shall continue, on our part, to do our duty; and it affbrds us a pleasing retrospect in having advocated and recommended that course upon which the safety and salvation of the country depends." Let us now hope that our West Indian colonies may speedily experience the benefit of a firm and prudent administration at home. We say speedily, because if Lord Glenelg and his associates in office are allowed much longer to mismanage our colonial affairs, we shall have the Canadian tragedy re-enacted in th e West Indies, accompanied by aggravated horrors. If the antislavery agitators are sincere in their profes sions of sympathy for the welfare of the negroes, they will now and henceforth direct their most strenuous exertions to accomplish the overthrow of the present inefficient ministry, and seek to replace them by men who are qualified, by their wisdom and experience, to reconcile tire conflicting interests, and to remove the perplexing difficulties, which may yet continue to afflict our West Indian colonies. We therefore call upon the abolitionists to prove the honesty and purity of their intentions, by labouring with their accustomed zeal and assiduity for the expulsion of the Whig Radi cals from (Alice. Unless this is soon brought to pass, their blundering policy will most certainly involve the \Vest Indies in all the miseries which have attended their administration of the affairs of Canada. The elements of mischief are already at work, especially in the larger of the \Vest Indian Colonies, and it will re quire the greatest vigilance and determination, on the part of the executive at home, to prevent the seeds of republican disaffection from spreading over the most valuable and 'productive of these appendages to the British Crown. Not cne of our colonies can be con sidered safe while the ministry of the day depend upon the breath of Hume and his clique, who will only yield their support to the party in power as lung as the lat ter connive at their treasonable designs. FREEMEN OF LIVERPOOL!—An act has just passed the legislature, and obtained the royal sanction, which repeals the Stamp duty heretofore paid on admission to the freedom of corporations in England. The ra dical press of the town has taken good care to conceal this matter from your notice. The liberal authorities at the Town-hall have been equally silent, trusting that you may not be able, this year at least, to avail yourselves of the advantage which the act confers upon you. It is scarcely necessary for us to do more than -call your attention to the act itself, which is as follows Whereas the right and privilege of the freemen of the cities and boroughs in England, who have acquired their freedom by birth or servitude, to vote for members to serve in Parliament, have been confirmed by divers statutes; it is expedient that all impediments to the admission of persons entitled to the freedom of corporations should be removed, and that the stamp duly payable on such admissions should be abolished; be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent. Majesty, by and with the adi'ice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Con]• mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that after the passing of this act no Stamp duty shall be chargeable on the admis sion of any person entitled to take up his freedom by birth or servitude, in any city or borough in England returning a member or members to serve in Parlia ment." LOCAL NL'IVS. PAINTINGS.—There are at present exhibiting in Bold street some very exquisite paintings by the old masters—one by Guido is a very splendid production, and is deserving especial notice. The connoiseur should n o t f a il t o ava il himself of the opportunity of visiting this exhibition. THE GI:AND STAND.—Worthy Lawton, "mine host" of the Rainbow, Basnett-street, has taken upon himself the victualling of the Grand Stand refreshment rooms during the races. We feel assured that the "starving system" will not be indulged in ; and the visitors to Aintree will have to con gratulate themselves that they will find every thim , conducted upon the same liberal scale as practised by the previous respected caterer. Passengers by the packet-ship United States, Holdred g e from .Nes-York, in 20 day s: —M rs . D av id , Mrs. Admits, Mrs. Jones, Miss Smith, Mrs. Holdredge, Miss Meanev, Mr. Ware, Rev. Mr. Smith, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Jones, Mi.. Roberts, Dr. Donegani, Mr. David, Mr. Martinez, Mr. For rentz, Mr. E. Martinez, Mr. V. Martinez, Mr. R. Padilla, Mr. Puente, Mr. Walker. THEATRE ROYAL—Last evening the. Misses Smith took their benefit with the musical play of the "Slave." After the play was a Concert, in which several songs were sung by the Misses Smith, Mr. G. llorncastle, and Mrs. W. li. Bland. There was a very good house. THE ZOOLOGICAL GAIIDENS.—Last evening there was a Grand Gala and Illumination at these Gardens; they were again crowded. Ten Conservatives have been elected by the township of Salford to form the quota for that township of the Salford Boaid of Guardians. We regret to find that the Earl of Yarborough is confined on board his yacht Ke.itral, in Cowes Roads, from illness.— Boston Herald. WEsT DERBY RuaAr, WATCII.—The following appoint ments have been made by the Inspectors of the West Derby Rural Watch :—Mr. Thomas Crosby, Treasurer; Mr. T. A. G. Dolling, Secretary; Mr. Thomas Abraham, Superintend ent of Police. Assistant Constables—Peter Peters, Knotty Ash & Broad Green District ; George Robinson ' Old Swan and Cattle Market ditto; James Swift, Dog and Gun ditto. THE ASSIZES.—Mr. Alderson, and Mr. Justice Williams, will open the commission for the summer assizes, at Lancas ter, the 4th of August, and at Liverpool on Thursday, Ang.9. OPENING OF RA CHURCH.—We understand that this church will be opened for divine service on Thursday next, the 12th instant. A l'AwsanoicEE CONVICTED OF FELONY.-Mr. Gadd, the pawnbroker, whose trial for felony at the sessions was given i❑ our last Friday's paper, was on Friday sentenced by the Recorder to transportation for seven years. The trial ex cited considerable interest, and the Una was crowded to excess during its continuance. CAUTION TO SERVANTS.—WC understand that all persons found shaking carpets or bears in the streets after eight o'clock in the morning, will be lined under the by-law The police have received instructions on the subject, and servants will do well, either by getting up a little earlier, or 9therwise to perform this part of their duties within the limited time. GRAND JUNCTION IZAILWA annual meeting of the Grand Junction Railway Company will be held in the Cotton- Sales Boom, on Wednesday the let of August, for the purpose of declaring the half-Nearly dividend, and the election of di rectors in the room of those who retire. THE BAR OF THE NORTHEEN CH:CCM—Among the new barristers who have come to the Northern Circuit at the pre sent Summer Assizes, are John Arthur Roebuck, Esq., late M.P. for Bath, and - Warren, Esq., author of the cele brated work, " Passages from the Diary of a late Physician," and so❑ of the well-known Samuel Warren, the Wesleyan Associationist. DEATH BY STABBING.—On Sunday morning, about half past twelve o'clock. a man named Thomas Halligham, who had just left a public-house in Nailor•street, was suddenly stabbed in the abdomen by some person who immediately ran away. The unfortunate man was taken up by some of his comrades, and carried into the North Dispensary. The surgeons of that hospital examined him, but it was found that he was already dead. The Police were immediately on the spot, and various rumours were afloat as to the person who had done the deed. At length it was discovered, that two females, who had stood near the spot, at the time, had seen the whole transaction, and knew the person who struck the blow. These females were immediately sought out. It appeared, that two men, James Higham and Moses Gott, were seen to come out of the Cross Keys, in Vauxhall-road. They went across the street to where the deceased and his companions were : a single question was asked by one of them, Imo raised a weapon and stabbed Halligham immediately. The officers were sent in pursuit of Highans and Gott, and they were taken into custody. One of the Police-officers recognised Iligham as having formerly stabbed him. The body was viewed previous to the inquest, yesterday. SODA WATER AND AERATED LEMONADE.—The superi• ority of Schweppe's manufacture, which is on a principle peculiar to themselves, is now universally admitted, and the increasing demand for their manufacture, notwithstanding the low prices at which the inferior waters are sold, is the best criterion that it sustains the character established for it half a century ago. Their aerated lemonade, combining, as it does, the fragrant ;mud delightful flavour of the lemon, forms a most delicious cooling draught. 'l'nc medicinal and highly salutary effects of their soda, magnesia, and patass waters are daily becoming more and snore celebrated by most of the medical faculty, and considered by them to be of the utmost utility in cases of dyspepsia, &r., and particularly when the tone of the stomach is deficient in the due performance of its functions 'They are worthy of a trial by the invalid in most cases of extreme debility, and form a most delightful and re frigerating beverage for the healthy. Schweppe's is the only house who possess the special appointment of the royal pa tronage, although others have the assurance, in order to im pose upon the public, to assume the royal arms, and to pro claim for themselves the royal patronage, who never had it either in the preceding or present reigns, THE LATE REV. JOHN WESTON.—A very neat marble monument has just been erected in Low House Chapel, St. Helens, to the memory( of the late Rev. J. Weston. It does great credit to the taste and workmanship of Messrs. Moflit, at the Renshaw -street marble works, atiwhose establishment it was executed. THE CHEMICAL NUISANCES.—These nuisances wholly ceased on Tuesday last. Mr. Muspratt and several other proprietors of chemical works are, we understand, trying experiments whether it is possible to carry on the manufacture without causing a nuisance, injurious alike to health and to property. We wish their experiments every success. TEMPERA NCR SOCIETIES.—The total-abstinence societies are to hold their festival during the present week. We un derstand that the Bishop of Norwich has been invited to pre side on Thursday, in the Royal Amphitheatre, on which and the following evenings they ate to hold concentrated meet ings. For a detailed account of the festivities we refer to the advertisement. Several district meetings were held last evening, in the Music-hall, Bold-street, Roe-street, Moor fields, and' St. Patrick's School Room. FORESTERS' DINNER AT ST. LIELENS.—The members of Court Daniel, No. 223, met to celebrate their anniversary, on Tuesday last, when nearly 100 of the order sat down to an excellent dinner, prepared by the worthy host and inistess or the Eagle and Child, and it is almost useless to state that ample justice was done, for all praised and extolled the ex cellence of the dinner. The evening was delightfully inter spersed with songs, toasts, and sentiments, and the company separated at a late hour, well pleased with the proceedings. IVAL PosTuoYs.--At Warrington Petty Sessions on Monday, James Lawless, a postbuy at the Nag's Head, was charged with committing an assault upon the "bouts"-at the Lion Hotel. According to the complainant's statement, the defendant had committed a rather unjustifiable assault; it was however stated that the former had given some consi derable provocation, by inducing two of the Nag's Head customers to order their horses from the " Lion." The dif ference between the parties was finally settled by the de fendant paying costs, and promising not to molest the com plainant fur the future.—Minichester Courier. FATA L AccinF.NT.—On Friday, an inquest was held before the deputy-coroner, Mr. Statham, on the body of a labourer named Jones, who died under the following circumstances : The deceased, it appeared, had been formerly employed as a carter, but more recently in the capacity of a porter. He was working at the warehouse of Mr. M‘Andrew, Wapping, on Tuesday week, and while putting his foot to the purchase wheel to stop it, (the wheel was then going round at a rapid rate,) the foot of the deceased was injured, the great toe of the right foot having. received a contused nound which pro duced a locked-jaw, of which he died in the course of a day or two.—The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." PUBLIC DINNER.—It will lie seen, from our report of the Sessions of Friday, that a respectable publican, named Spicks, was charged with an outrageous assault on a drunken individual named Brindle; but on the case being heard, h' was immediately acquitted. I 1 is friends, to signify their Opinion of his conduct, and to testify their satisfaction at his acquittal from so unfounded a charge, have determined t( invite him to a public dinner, on Tuesday next. A subscrip lion was immediately entered into to defray the legal ex penses of his defence. BEACON'S GUTTER.—Our obituary of this day mentions the death of a fine young man, bearin ,, a most excellent charac ter, and generally b e l ove d b y a ll who knew him, the son of Mr. B. Glover, Limekiln-lane, who was drow ne d i n B eacon ' s Gutter, whilst bathi ng on the korth Shore on Monday last ; and a correspondent states, that he had been the means of saving two boys from the same fate on the 4th instant. From personal observation, we know that the gutter is a most dan gerous place for persons bathing in the neighbourhood who cannot swim, and some measure ought to be adopted imme diately, this being the height of the bathing season, to prevent the recurrence of such deplorable accidents.— Mercury. PROTESTANT CONFEntinATiON.—The members of the Warrington Lodge of this loyal and constitutional associa tion, went in procession on Thursday morning to Latchford Church, where an excellent discourse was delivered by the Rev. J. Wright, the minister. Each member wore a blue collar, to which was suspended a beautiful medal, designed expressly for the occasion. In the afternoon about ninety of the members dined together at the Little Horse Shoe, in Horse Market-street. No doubt, Mr. Laude, the worthy landlord, maintained his usual reputation in culinary matters; but, not having the " entree," our informant can only say, that after the dinner some of the company expressed them selves highly delighted with the entertainment, and declared that the evening was spent " right royally."—Manchester Courier. MARSHAL SOULT.—This distinguished foreigner, and truly great man, has been invited by the authorities of the town to partake of a public dinner in Liverpool. The mayor is expected from London on Thursday night. Marshal Sou It, accompanied by his son, his son in law, and twelve of his suite, will arrive on Friday; and arrangements have been made with the directors of the Grand Junction Railway Company to bring the illustrious visitor in two and a half hours from Birmingham, in order to enable him to meet his other numerous engagements, and, at the same time, afford him an idea of the astonishing rapidity of our internal intercourse, and the perfecton to which travelling by railway is carried in thi s country. Th e Marshal, his sons, and suite. wi:l dine with the mayor at the Town-hall on Saturday. Soto tnli.—On Wednesday, the , Ith instant, a young female, about 18 years of are, was observed sitting on the margin of a pit in the brickfields, near the railway chimneys, by a brick maker named Richards. On asking- her what she was doing there, she replied, she would thank him to let her alone, as her troubles were so great she wished tospeak to nobody. On Thursday, the sth, a boy belonging to the brickfields found a bonnet with a shawl thrust into it at the edge of the water. On the Sunday following some young persons walking near the edge of the pit observed the body of a female floating on the water, and the circumstance being made known, the body was taken out; and found to be that of the female before seen near the pit. The unfortunate deceased was respectably dressed; she had on a muslin gown, ornamented with lilac sprigs; and in her pocket were found an ivory needle case, a silver thimble, and some sma ll k eys. Sh e was found to be enceinte. An inquest was held on the body, but no clue as to her connexions has been obtained. BODY FOUND IN ST. ANNE'S CHURCH-YARD.—On Friday an inquest was held on the body of a male child, which was found on the preceding morning in St. Anne's church-yard. It appeared from the testimony of William Cheetham, a stone mason, that on arriving, at six o'clock in the morning, at the churchyard in question, where he was eng a ge d i n execut i ng some work, he perceived a wooden box lying on the ground under the wall. He immediately proceeded to the Police station in Rosehill, to give information of the circumstance. 'A police officer accompanied hint to the churchyard, anti took possession of the box. Mr. Black, surgeon, was sent for, who examined .the body, then in a rapid state of decomposi tion. Mr. B..was of opinion that the child had been alive. There were . exterualmarks upon the body, but whether caused .by violence, he could not offer an opinion. No clue was given by which the brutal mother of the infant could he traced. FATAL. Acototarr.---On Thursday, an inquest was taken before Mr. Statham, deputy-coroner, to inquire into the cir cumstances.of the death of .John Newland, a ship-keeper, lately living in Spading-street, who died in consequence of injuries received - ou Monday last, under the following cir enmstances :—A .widow.named A nn R ooney, a ne i g hb our to the deceased, stated that on the Monday in question, about eleven in the forenoon, she was standing along with deceased close to a lamp-post on the pier head, on the north side of the gut going • into the King's Dock Basin. The tide was up, and there was an American ship coming into the King's Dock. It was blowing fresh, and the ship ran foul of the pier, near to where they were standing. Thejitaboorn of the vessel caught the lamp, and broke the post its Iwo, the top part of which fell on the head of the deceased, and felled him to the ground, and the lamp-post then fell ott his right aria and left leg, and broke theta. The poor man was imme diately conveyed home, but died on his way there.—The juiy returned a verdict of " Accidental death."' SHORT-HAND FOR THE BLIND.--A very ingenious me thod of teaching the blind to read, has been invented by Mr. 'l' 11. Frere, formerly in one of the government offices in London, by means of embossed short-hand characters. In teaching the blind to read by means of embossed printing, from the size of the letters required to be sufficiently large for touch, many words spread out to a great length, over which the fingers have to travel, spelling the word by touch, syllable by sytlable. Reading by this method is, necessarily, slow and tedious. By the valuable invention of I\i r. Frere. of adopting short-hand embossed characters, by means of which a single touch conveys to time mind time idea of the word the fingers' ends read, almost with the rapidity of a glance, and the advantage of being able to read with facility is thus bestowed on ttie blind. The system of short-hand used is a very ingenious one, though rather diffuse; but ad apted for reading. Mr. Frere, the inventor. who has got several of the Gospels embossed in short-hand, has kindly preferred to instruct some of the blind at the Institution iu this town We, yesterday, heard several of the boys read a chapter from St. Paul, with great facility, after only seven lessons. We doubt not but when this mode of reading be comes known, it will be generally adopted for the blind. MA RSHA I SO ULT.—This illustrious individamal has consent ed to attend a dinner in Liverpool on the 20th insfhnt. We find the following announcement in the Morning Post:.--- " On Saturday, the Mayor and two of the corporation of the second town in this kingdom, accotnpanied by the Directors of the Northern Railroads, waited upon his Excellency, to invite him, in the name of the inhabitants of Liverpool, to choose a day to do them the honour of dining with them, the railroad directors engaging to convey his Excellency down in ten hours and a halt'. We hear that the Marshal, bein g ea _ gaged up to the 18th or 19th, has accepted - for the 20th inst " We are confident that the Marshal will be received by all parties with every demonstration of respect, due not merely to the great nation to which he belongs, but to the veteran soldier who, in the heat of a sanguina r y contest, pn op paused opponent, Sir dt i t r m erect a monument over his equally generous John Moore. We understand that- this will not be the first time that Marshal Soult has Visited Liverpool. - Shortly after the conclusion of the war, when the allied Sovereigns were in London, we are informed that he paid a visit to the Earl of Sefton, and was present, in Clayton-square, at a political meeting over which the noble earl presided. attention N to theV a a M casel-lt o o sir Hirst,ha have formerlyl)e en requestedn e x t ensi v e ; t t e n;; s e i t e cloth manufacturer and m erc hant in Leeds, and much cele l brated for the fineness and finish, superior quality and getat ral beauty of his manufacture; but who, in 1825, became involved in difficulties from the sudden depression in time price of wool, and other causes, and was made bankrupt in 1830; since which time, from the infirmities of age, (being now in his sixty-second year,) 'being totally incompetent to further exertion, he is in a state of poverty, with a large family, as he states, entirely dependent on him. In May last, the most influential merchants and manufacturers of Leeds, of all parties, memorialized Lord Melbourne, as first lord of the treasury, praying his lordship to recommend Mr. Hirst for the enjoyment of a pension, on the grounds of time great improvements effected by him in the tnanufacture and finishing of blue and black superfine cloth, causing a con siderable increase of employment, in the Yorkshire woollen trade, and the .readiness with which he communicated his improvements to the public. In answer to this memorial, Lord M. ordered a grant of I:200 from the royal bounty, being the only means of relief at his lordship's disposal availa ble for this object. To this Lord Holland has added a dona tion of £2O, the Archbishop of York, £5, and several other noblemen, as well as manufacturing houses in Leeds, have contributed to the subscription. Mr. Hirst is now per sonally visiting Liverpool to receive subscriptions ; and we hope, even this imperfect sketch or his utility in au import ant branch of the manufactures of this country, and of his present distress in his old age, will interest in his favour many benevolent individuals in this town. MELANCHOL Y RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday after noon, a melancholy accident befel Miss Eskrigge, the eldest daughter of T. Eskrigge, Esq., of Hope House, Warrington, on the branch of the Grand Junction Railway, leading to the Coal Depot. Mr. Eskrigge's house is situated in a street running, parallel with the old railway, now exclusively used for coal and heavy goods. On 'Thursday afternoon, Mrs. Eskrigge sent her daughter, an interesting girl of ten years of age, across the line. to call Thomas Whittle, a sea. vont man, at work in a field there, into the house. - Miss Eskrige, on deli ver i ng h er errand, turne d roun d to go h ome, and, sipping across the railway, fell down. At this moment the Haddock coal-engine, under the charge of Greenobgh, a steady engineer, was seen approaching float the station; Miss Eskrigge became, as it were, panic-struck, and unable to move off the line. The wheels of the engine passed over tier right foot, fractured both bones of the leg in two places, and actually split up the tibia main bone of the leg. That leg had to be amputated. The operation was performed by • Mr. Sharp, in the presence of Dr. James Kendrick, Mr. Hardy, and Mr. Joi) Kendrick. The leg was taken off above the knee joint. The left foot is considerably lacerated, but hopes are entertained that it will be saved Yesterday morning Mr. Sharp found that his patient had passed a mo derately good night, and, although she is at present in a very precarious state, he is not without hope of her ultimate re coYery.-a-Mancheater Courier. POLICE INTELLIGENC'E. ACCOMMODATING Ttl [EVES.-4 youth named Isaac Dixon, whose visits to the police -court are much more numerous than to church or chapel, was, uu Friday, placed in the dock, charged with having robbed a sailor . on Thursday night. Thesailor stated that he was going home, ate rather late hour, when he met a gentleman in - a frock coat, and another person. He was very groggy at. the. time. The " gentle man" asked him, in a very gentlemanly. manner, if he would be so kipd as to inform hiin in what direction Bispbam-street lay.• •Complainaut replied that he was going in that direc tion himself, end would point out the street to htm. As they went along, they came opposite to a public-house, and the " gentleman," as a slight. repayment for the civility of the sailor, beggerithat he might haie the pleasure of treating him to a glass of ale.. Jack assented, as a matter of course, and began to lo o k u p on hi s S trang e companion as a" devilish good fellow." When they lett the public-house, they pro ceeded, arm in arm, towards their destination, and by the time of their arrival in Bisphana-street, the " gentleman" had be come so excessively. fond of the "tar," that he declared he would not then go home, hut. would go and take a walk with him. " He said 1 was a reg'ler rum fish, but he was a rum on and no rnistake. inc in a reg'lar line, your honour, and then fiSbed my pocketS, leaving me only one poor six pence to look at, lik e a mon k e y at 'a rotten nut." Magis trate—" Well, look about you, and tell inc whether you can see the voting gentleman." Sailor—" I think he (the pri soner) .be one of 'em, but I can't swear, as I was very groggy." Magistrate—" flow much did you lose?" Sailor —" I can't say that: I was very groggy—as full as a fish, else I shouldn't have been such a flat." The prisoner, who endeavoured to look like a very ill-used young man du ring the time of his examination, was remanded. JEALOUSY.—A decent-looking, matronly Scotswoman, who had a child in her arms, having, on Friday, been placed at the bar, a young and rather showily-dressed female, named Davis, neither killingly handsome nor disgustingly ugly, entered the witness-box, and, having first smiled very amiably, began in a low tone to complain as follows : "This woman's (the prisoner's) husband came to one, sir, a few evenings ago, as be had cone before, and pressed me very hard--" Prisoner—"An' mair's the shame that ve should let him do sae." Complainant (without noticing the interruption)—"Pressed toe very hard, I assure you, sir, to go and take a walk with him. I replied, 0 no, that will never do, because' you are another woman's husband; it would be quite improper in me to do so." Magistrate—" Yes, I dare say vou exhibited uncommon prudence." Com plainant—'° l' es, sir, I acted as a prudent woman ought to do in such cases; he bad a wife of his own, and therefore Prisoner . —"Couldna ve us weel has tent him that ye had a husband o' ver aim? Ye 'svouldna gang wi Jock, ye say, 'because he had a wife, not because ye bad a hysband yersel, Out o n ye!" Magistrate—'' Are you a Married woman ?" compiainailtLi" Yes, sir: Lot My husband is in 'Africa; he is a coopetWell, sir. as 1 was telling you, I positively refused to walk or talk to him"; but I just hap.- pened accidentally to mention the name of the place,where I wes going to " Magistrate-'Not intending, of course, that he should follow you?" Complainant—" 0 dear, no, sirl—and he ca me there after mc, and how could I help it? Well, sir,in consequence of that, this woman came - into nay house and called me' most ridieulous names, posi tively infamous, sir; she abused in a manner I can't mention, sir, and struck me, sir, and all because her huSband had had the audacity to speak to me when I toll him not." Magis trate—" A case of jealousy. Why did you (prisoner) go into her house?" Prisoner—" I didn't go intil the loose at a', sir; this was in the yard. I jest shook her for walking out with him, and ca'd her a bit Missy, or such like, and she lifted up her foot and kickit me on the left breast. They made an appointment, and a' the neighbours kenn'd o't weel eneugh. But it's nae uncornmon thing this wi' her. There's always married women conini' till her !loose, to ask for their husbands."' Mr. Hall seemed willing to act leniently, and visit the offence with only a slight pecuniary punishment. Prisoner—" But I'm vera puir the noo, and I hope yer ho nour 'lt no be hard wi' me." Mr. Hall—" But You can pay the costs at least, my good woman; you had better do so." Prisoner—" I dinna ken. He (her husband) took a good deal of money, and never put a halfpenny in the house." With some difficulty she was prevailed to come to this ar rangement; but, not having the money with her, a friend proffered to fetch it. " Na," said the jealous wife, in a tone of asperity that was ominous of any thing but peace towards her guidman, tell the loon to come hisself—directly." SHIPBUILDER'S BENEFIT SOCIETY—THE RIVAL SURE TA RiEs.—A case of assault, originating iu a dispute between the members of the Liverpool Shipwright's Benefit Society, came before Mr. Hall on Friday, which occupied a consider able time in the adjustment, although excessively trifling in itself. The parties were Mr. Isaac Thompson add Mr. John Foy, each calling himself secretary of the aforenamed society. Mr. Snowball appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Daven port for the defendant. From the evidence of the different witnesses, it appeared that the Shipwrights' Society is divided into two parties, one of which, about - 100 in number, have elected Mr. Isaac Thompson as their secretary, while the other, numbering from 400 to 500, have elected Mr. John Foy to till that office. The two parties had been in the habit of meeting simultaneously at a building in Bold-street be longing to them, and the two secretaries were in the habit of sitting side by side, for the transaction of business; but latterly, it appears, one party has laid claim to a right of ex clusive possession, and has endeavoured to deprive the other of the opportunity of meeting therein. The Foy party, it would appear, had then, to prevent ill-feeling, agreed to meet upon such nights as the building would not be required by the Thompsonites; but their moderation led to their tempo rary ejection : they found, on presenting themselves at the usual place of meeting, that the doors were locked, and in gress unattainable. To prevent the recurrence of such a disagreeable circumstance, they reverted to their ori g inal meetioe• nights. On Monday night last the two parties met: Mr. Thompson had taken his seat in the usual place, when, much to his surprise, Mr. Foy entered, ceremoniously seated himself at the elbow of his rival, and requested him to make a little more room for his book. The request would seem to have led to a somewhat uncourteous reply, and the upshot was that secretary Foy struck or pushed secretary Thompson in the side with his elbow. __me,• ttall. thought that the con duct of the two parties was.:extremely absurd. Why did n o t they meet in a spirit of 'good wilk arid let the majority come to a decision which s t ilutibi be bindiug on all? If they could not do so, surely they,might.ceme to an agreement to permit Foy and his party tameet cm one. night, and Thompson and his party on another night. By E 0 doing, neither would pre judice any right in the building which they might possess. There could he no doubt that the two secretaries were very important men in theirowpminion; .but he thought the in terests of the' body at large would be better consulted by an amicable settlement of their differences. If the two planets must not appear on the same night, let the shipwrights do as he had advised, and not go to law about the matter; if they did, he hoped that bet!) parties would sufl'r for their stupidity. The magistrate at last bi'ought the secretaries to consent that, pending the settleMent of right, the two parties...ghoul(' use the building, each to meet: upon different nights. He also advised them, through the means of their respective j attorneys, to 'come to some final compromise in the :natter, so as to do away with their foolish. disputes. With this ad vice, The tao parties were dismissed.- THE LAST STAGE OF HUMAN DEGRADATION.—On Satur day, at the Police-office, John Bold, publican, of King-street, Kirkdale,.tkas,summoned before-the magistrates on a charge of harbouring drunken and disorderly characters in his house. Inspector Thompson stated t hat in consequence of his atten tion hawing been called to.the.house from hearing singing and noise at ten minutes before five o'clock on Sun day morning'lust, he entered it and there found.lB men and 4 vc ** ' outen most of them drunk. Mr. C rewe , S o li c i tor,. Who appeared on behalf of the defendant, enquired if the Inspec tor was, sure any .of them AVON drunk. Inspector.—" Yes I am; there was one-man so drunk that. : lte was reclining in a corner, and another was holding a glass to his mouth to drink ; he.was,too drunk to drink!"_ Mr. Hall said it would appear they had been drinking there all night, for at five o'clock hi the morning they were-found in-this helpless state. The de fendant was fined 40s, and costs. UTTERING BASE COPPER COIN. -011 Friday. at the Police office, two Irishmen, named M'lvoy and M'Kenna, were brought before Mr. Hall, charged with uttering a quantity of base copper coin. Their transactions,' from the statements made in court, appeared to be very extensive. The first named prisoner gave £9 of the spurious copper to a trades man in exchange for silver, allowing a discount of sixpence in the pound, and he offered large quantities to others, who 'declined receiving them. The tradesman passed the copper, without being at all conscious of its being spurious. On the apprehension of M'lvoy, a quantity of the same metal was found at his lodgings, and a letter, from which it appeared that the spurious coin was forwarded to him from Belfast by the other prisoner.. The letter also intimated the writers in tention of - leaving Belfast by the steamer on a given day, so that, on •landing from the packet, he was immediately appre hended by an - officer . waiting to receive him. Two large bags were found on b oar d th e s t eamer Victoria, belonging to voy, and it appeared from the statement of the mate of the Corsair steamer, that he had been frequently in the h a bi t of bringin g bags of copp er f rom Belfast atthe consisted request of M'Kenna for the pri soner Wi wi - J . The copper on e si p sted t of pennies--harps,as th e y are generally called ; th e portion bor e th e i mpress of George IV., and was da'te‘arM2eSr. It appeared to be compounded ail very course alloy, pennies we re thi n an d light. Mr. [Tall remanded the and the soners until the Mint was made acquainted with the case, d - daring at th e same t i me his belief that the Mint would deeme it advisable to prosecute for the offence. CituELTy To A HORSE. —Nicholas Sloane, a carter, was summoned to appear before Mr. Hall, on Saturdev, on in formation front Mr. Joyce, an. officer from the Customs.— Mr. joyce stated, that, on Thursday last, lie saw the defend ant beating, a draught horse very brutally, with his whip. The animal planged and endeavoured to get free, but was held fast -by another man. The punishment was so severe that several deep marks were inflicted in the breast. He (witness) remonstrated with the defendant, and was told, by the man who held.. the horse's .bead, that it was exceedingly un manageable. - Wit - ieSsi replied that sOch treatment was enoughto driee the creature mad. The horse had, in his pain, nearly jumped into One of the bonded vaults. Mr. Hall asked to whom the horse belonged. Mr. Joyce said it was the property of Mr. Briscoe. He (witness) went to the last-named individual, and told him what had happened. Mr. Briscoe said the man h a d . done perfectly right, as the horse was very refr ac t ory. M r. Joyce asked him if he allowed his horses to. be used in su c h a manner . Mr. Briscoe made very light of the matter. out said,' the horse deserved lick inyArAlr. " It is a pity he did not feel a little of it himself." The defend an t' s wife, who appeared for him, said, My husband was not the driver of the cart. sir. He was passmg at the time, sir, with his own cart, and the driver of the Colter cart axed him if he'd be so c nod as to give th e b oss a cut or two with his whip, sir„'Corditilee, being a good natured man, he turned too, an' gave the boss a whippue. It was not his boss, .w his sir, or he onldn't. a done it, of coorse , for be' s ver y ki n d t o o wn haSSes—he hes th a t c h ar i c k-t er, sir. Not being his own boss, he didn't care so much, sir, of coorse, but just (lid as the Cother man tould him, sir." Mr. Soyce pointed to. where, .the real driver of M r . B r i scoe ' s horses stood, and said, " 1 hat man held the horse fast by the bead while the other man heat it, and the chief cruelty was, that the lash . was made to cut. ail about one spot, (the breast)." SYilliam.Nevitt, Briscoe's driver, was called up, and he attempted to palliate his own fault by throwing the blame on Sloane. ,Mr. Hall said tire conduct or both patties had been exceedingly brutal. Sloane was ordered to payss. and costs, and Mr. Hall directed information should be laid against Nevitt. A MODERN DON JUAN.—Yesterday , at the Poli ce - o ffi ce , an interesting-looking young woman, who gave her name as Marian Hastirgs, and who appeared to be in the family way, was charged by a dirty. ill-favourel individual, about forty years of age, named O'Dogherty, with having pawned his clothes. The complainant stated that the prisoner lived in his service, and had pawned a variety of the furniture of his wardrobe. On being asked what she had to say in defence the prisoner burst into tears. A respectable middle-aged woman, who represented herself as the step-mother of the prisoner, here stood up, and stated that the prisoner lived in the service of the complainant, who had seduced her, and she was now in the. family way by him, and that the charge was only a trick to get rid of tier. The witness had no sooner done speaking than a middle-aged Irishwoman, decently dressed; but whose .mother had evidently not s t u di e d th e graces, when engaged in the important office of bringing her into the world, stood up, and with much heat addressed the magistrate as she unceremoniously elbowed the complainant out of the way. " Dhis is my hushbant yer warship, an' I'm his wife." O'Doghertv.--" No such a thing." Mr. Hal!. —Are you the wife that wrote me 17 letters; and each letter as long as three ordinary ones?" Wife.—" Yes, sure. I am ; an' you must jist excuse me as I'm no scholard." (A laugh.) Mr. Hull.—" Where ,is Ann Fielding, the other wife of the complainant, whom vou mention in your letter?" Wife.—" I don't know, sir; dhey've made id up among themselves." O'Dogherty (with much apparent indigos. tiara.)-r" I never was married to her in my life ? Mr. Hall (to the wife.)—" What is your name?" Wile.—" Bridget O'Dogherty." Mr. Hall (to complainant.)—"Well, here are Bridget O'Dogherty's marriage lines stating that she is your wife." O'Dogherty.--"Nothing ov the kind." Bridget.—" Indeed, an' 1 was marri'd to 'im lawfully in March last, at dhe Parish Church in Doblin." Mr. Hail.— "And this poor unfortunate creature has been seduced by him, (addressing th e c omplainant.) I believe your character is very bad. This girl is now in the family way by you." O'Dogherty.—" Not by me." Prisoner.—" Fes, I can take • my oath of it; yOu know it well." lllr. Hall (to Complain ant.)—" You deserted your other wife.', O'Doghertv.— " No sick a thing; she deserted me, an' tun of wid a pedlar, and robOed me." Bridget.—" What he says, yer honour, is not to be believed." The mother-in-law'ef the prisouer en quired if the prisoner was not to have her wageS; that she could not get paid ? O'Dogherty.—"Och, she is IA in my debt." Mr. Hall ordered the prisoner to be discharged, an d , said be should institute an i nqu i r y as . t o bet her orntkp E t, the complainant bad . two wives; and if so he shouldpve him prosecuted. SAILORS' FOLLY.—Yesterday, at the Police-Uffie, a thief and two prostitutes named John Smith, Ann Words Worth, and Margaret Blair, were charged by a sailor with .having robbed him of all his wages, which he had just draWn.. The complainant, who appeared to have been so long at sea hardly to have intelligence enough to conduct himself on land, and certainly not enough to keep himself out of mis chief; stated, that he " fell in with" the male prisoner, and offered to treat him to a glass of grog, to which the prisoner agreed, provided his two female companions were treated. The parties, together with a shipmate of the complainant's, then all adjourned to a public-house, 'where they contrived to get themselves fuddled into a happy state of obliviotisness, when, according to the testi mo ny . of th e complainant's ship mate, whilst the women were engaging the attention of the. complainant with no very tender or delicate dalliance, the male prisoner, finding he could not pick hik pocket. pulled out his knife, and whipped off the pocket with all it contain ed, about £2 10s., the want of which had not only taken from the'complainant the capability of enjoying the happiness of being drunk, but had also deprived him of food and lodging. The prisoners were remanded for further inquiry. SIAIPLICITY.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a simple looking labourer, named James Andrews. who stated that he was a plasterer, charged a common prostitute named Eliza Jones, with having robbed him of 12s. " This woman," said he, " asked me if I would give her a glass of ale, and I said, if she was in necessity I would give her twopennyworth, —(laughtel.,)—and while I was talking to her she robbed me— of 125.; she did, indeed, sir." (Continued laughter.) Mr. Hall—" Were you drunk ?" Complainant —" No, was quite sober." Mr. Hall—" Did you feel her take it from your pocket ?" " No, but she was in my society when she took it—(a laugh). The woman was sent for one month to the Borough House of Correction. INQUEST ON THOMAS HALLIGAN. Yesterday an inquest was held on the body of Thomas lalligan, labourer, who was stabbed on. Sunday morning, at one o'clock, (an account of which is briefly given eisewhere.) before W, H. Statham, Esq., Deputy Coroner. James Higham, labourer, (the prisoner) who is in cus tody on a charge of stabbing the deceased, is an ill-looking man, with lowering looks, dressed in a .pnaching snrt of. velveteen coat. He appeared wholly unconcerned- during the examination of the witnesses. Ho has, we understaisd, been tried before for a similar offence. John Colburn being examined, deposed that he was a labourer, and worked at the brickfields at Egremout, where he lived. He came over to Liverpool on Saturday evening for a pair of boots, and staid in Liverpool, as it was too late to go back again. He was at Mr. Keevans, the pawnbrokers, at about ten minutes past ten o'clock, at the top of Coiling wood-street, in Scotland-road. In about three quarters of an hour he went from there to Lane's public-house, corner of Naylor-street, in Vauxhall-road. He and some of his ac quaintances found three men down stairs. Two of the men with him knew them, and they drank amongst them six quarts of ale. The deceased was one of the men whom he met in Vauxhall-road, and helped to drink the ale. They stopped there till five minutes to 12 o'clock, when the land lord told them it was time to go out. The deceased, and a man named Patrick Moore, came out with him, and they stood talking in Vauxhall-road. He was not tipsy, and the other two men were pretty steady. He saw the prisoner, Higham, cross over from the opposite side of Vauxhall-road towards where they were standing, and said to them, "Are you the same men that you have been before?" lie did not know which of them he spoke to. One of the other men gave answer that he was. About half a m in u t e afterwards he heard the deceased say, " Oh, Lord God, I am stabbed!" He saw no scuffling before this. The prisoner then ran away, and he (witness) followed him. The deceased called out, " He've a knife," meaning that the prisoner bad a knife. He (witness) went up to the prisoner, and said, " Dont stab me?" He replied, " serve you the sante as I've served the other." He tried his best to trip the prisoner, and be fell down. He thought lie could hold him till he got a police man. They had a struggle, and he (witness) fell, and the prisoner got away from him, and he saw him ruts into the first coult in Naylor-street. He (witness) got up and saw Mary Ann Sweeney standing in the street. lie seized hold of her, and went down the street in search of a policeman, when three or four young men folloWed her and got the young woman away from him, and slipped another in her stead. He then found that blood was running doa n his arm and down his clothes, anti that he was wounded in his right arm above the elbow, and he went to the Dispensary. ' He saw the prisoner afterwards in liridewell, and did not see Halligan after he cried out he was 'stabbed, untithe saw hhn dead in the Dispensary. The deceased worked in a soapery. There was no quarrel between the prisoner and the de ceased, to his knowledge He could not tell uhy the 'pri soner crossed the street to their party. He would swear the prisoner was the man who crossed the street, and that at that' time he wore a whire jacket. Policeman 155 stated t hat he went to the prisoner's !edgings, and found a young man there wearing a white jacket, when, on being questioned, he said belonged to the prisoner, and he bad lent the prisoner his velveteen coat. The prisoner was made to try the jacket, and it was found to fit him, 'and was ,. also stained with blood. Patrick Mande deposed that he worked in MeSsrs.• Bari:Pr and Morris' soapery, in Paul-street, and lived in Margaret- . place, Canning-street. The deceased worked in the , same place, and lived next door but two to mine. , , The deceased and he left the so a p e ry togeth er a little'afteirtWelock on Saturday, together with James Curry and (*t other then, who worked at the same place. They all went to a pnblic; , house at the corner of Canning-street and Nauxhali;rOad. They had there some whiskey and ale. :sThei , did not stop - there above ten minutes, before they alt went tt; John Hamil ton's beer-shop in Canning-street, where they had some more ale. Th e e l e f t t h ereat a li t tl e after tearo'clOck:Und Thernas' Halligan, the deceased, he and another man, whose naine.he did not know, went to Lane's puhlic-hdose atthe corner 'of Naylor-street, and had been there abburquarter of an hour when Colburn and a man named Patric!: Conner:caine in. They there had some ale and staid till the mistreis•said it was time to go. They then went into Naylor-street, and he wanted Thomas Halligan to go Itemise with him. He was capable of minding himself, but was not sober. The deceased was more sober than he was. Thomas Halligan, John Colhurn; and be stood talking together in Vauxhall road, at the corner of Nay lor-street. lie (witness) went 'down Tithebarn•street about ten yards, and stopped to see if the deceased was coming; when he turned round, he saw him setiflT•with than in a white jacket. He ( w it ness ) went bliek t) and by the' time he had got up t o hi m h e h a d left off' s i Gfiling with the man, and was coming towards him, when he saw the man in the white jacket run away, and JohnColburn run after him. The man with the white jacket fell at the corner of Naylor street; he (witness) went up to him and gave him two kicks,' and then left him, and went back to the deceased, and as he was going he heard a female voice say loud enough to be heard by the man in the white lacket,—" It was James • Higham" er "Himes that stabbed the man." The deceased • was just falling when he (witness) went up to him, and sup ported him to the Dispensary. He never spoke a word ex cept saying he was stabbed. He asked him if he knew the man that stabbed him, and he - attempted to speak but could not. When they g ot to the Dispen sar y, the S urgeon sa id h e could do nothing for him, that he was aying, and he died in a few minutes while he staid. The prisoner was exactly the height of the man that had the white jacket on. He did not see any one come to scuffle with the deceased. He did 'not know that the prisoner was in Lane's public-house. Mary Ann Sweeney, a workwoman at Mr. Fletcher's, colour 'manufacturer, Vauxhall-road. She was parting with some friends at the top of Naylor-street about 12 o'clock on Saturday night, when she saw the prisoner, whom she knew very well, having lived neighbour to him, dressed in a white jacket, and on his hands and knees, and his hat at a short distance from him. There were three men stood over him ; John Colburn wasnne; the prisoner got up with his •hat - in his hand, and said," chaps, that is nut fair," on which one of the three men went and gave him a blow, or a kick, and knocked hini into the middle of the street. One of the three men then went back to a butcher's shop, near where she first saw the prisoner, and she saw blood pouring from his left side, and he said "I'm stabbed; I'm dead." On that she turned round to Ann Donegan and said, "Oh, James ams; James Highams," meaning the prisonet. After the man that was stabbed had walked three or four yards,'he fell on his knees, and he was carried to the Dispensary John. Colburn then got hold of her, and was bringing her up • the steps, but the surgeon would not let them in. She was stand ing in Vauxhall-road with Colburn, end his arm was bleeding very badly, and covered her with blood, and a croWd collected round her; but her brother rushed amongst the crowd, and asked what was to do, and got her away. The prisoner H ig hams had worked in a warehouse about two months back, and she did not know where he had Worked before. She could not say whether Highams had been in the habit of wearing a white jacket, but she saw him in one on Saturday night. :She thought Ilaude was the third man that was over High ams when she first saw him. There was no one near enough to stab the man that was stabbed except Maude, andColburn, and the prisoner. Thomas Clayton, - hammermaa, in• the employment of Messrs. Forrester, and Co'S. foundry, Vauxhall-road. He and some of his companions were standing talking at the corner of Naylor-street, about going to the race course next morning. It was about twelve o'clock. He heard a scuffle, and turned round, and saw a man with a white jacket lying on the flags. Men werestanding Over him, but nobody touched hint, so long as he lay on the flags, which was about a minute. He then got up, and was walking away, when a - man followed him. In the course of two minutes a scuffle . took place betw een t h e two _ Men. I n a few minutes after, deceased ran over to a butcher's shop, where there was a gas light, and he (witness) heard someone say, " - I am stabbed." He went over to the deceased, and 'assisted - to carry hint to the North Dispensary. He was bleeding so, that he thought he would die in the street. He stayed with' him at the Dis pensary till he di e d . Thomas Pimblet examined, stated, that lie was a porter living in Heaton -street. and knew the prisoner. They had been working together for the last three weeks amongst cot. ton, for Mr. Hyde. He was with him on Saturday night last, they went home together when they left off work. After get ting their tea, they went out to St. John's Market, with Moses Gott. It might be close unon 10 o'clock when they came out of the market. They went towards home, and called at the Cross Keys, in Vauxhall- roa d, an d h a d two glasses of of ale each, and left there about eleven o'clock, and went towards home. He was sober. They were opposite Naylor street, and the prisoner went across the street to speak to a girl he saw there. He turned round for a minute, and on looking towards him again, saw the prisoner on the flags, and one or two men kicking him. The prisoner got up and went down Naylor-street, and he (witness) - went down after him, and in a short time he found him up in an entry there, and he (the prisoner) asked him. to change jackets. Before, he had on a white moleskin jacket. He ( witness) had on the fustian coat now worn by the r ner, which the prisoner put on. The prisoner asked him it he would put on his jacket, and he (witness) said he was not afraid to put it On as he had done nothing amiss. They then went to the prisoner's house at the bottom of Regent-street, and_ the prisoner then sadly wanted him to change jackets for good ; hut he (witness) said he did .not like to do so till he had asked his wife, and bid him good night, and moot home with the prisoner's jacket on. He delivered the jacket to a policeman named John Bell, about half-past three o'clock on Sunday morning. The reason he lent the prisoner his coat was, that he said he was afraid he should get leathered I , tain The prisoner was ra ther intoxicated when he left the Cross Keys. The .prisoner had told him he was a spinner. Ne had seen hirn working with cotton with a knife with a blade about two inches long, and half an inch broad. 4 had rather a sharp point. John Bell, policeman, deposed• to the jacket the prisoner now had °Owes the same he received from the last witness on - Sunday morning, at his house in Heaton-street. He showed it to the prisoner in Bridewell, where he denied all knowledge of it. Mr. John Grant, one of the visiting surgeons of the North Dispensary deposed, that he was on duty on Saturday night and Sunday morning last, at the Dispensary. At a little after twelve o'clock, on Sunday morning, be heard a loud knocking at the side door, in Freemason's•row, which he im mediately opened, and a man, covered with blood, carried by several persons, who said he was stabbed, was brought in. The man could not speak. He had him taken into the shop, and on removing his clothes, he found a %vaund on the lower part of the abdomen, on the left side, froth which he was bleeding rather II eely. He immediately placed finger on the wound, to arrest the further flow of blood, but he died in about one minute after his clothes had been removed. • No thing could be done to save him. He had, that day, examined . the body of the deeerised, and found two wounds; one on'the trout of the chest, the o!her on the lower part of theieft side of the abdomen, about one inch long. The skin and musc:es were divided, and the external illiac artery halt' cut ;across. The intestines were uninjured. This wound was the cause of. death. It appeared 'to have'been inflicted with a knife, such as is usually carried by sailors The wound on the front of the chest was of little consequence. He also, about a quarter of an hour afterwards, dressed The arm of John•Coleburn, who had received a punctured wound, and be was of opinion it was inflicted by the same instrument. The Coroner thought they were now in a situation to close the case, on the part of the crown, and it was open for the prisoner to call witnesses, but unless he could call such as would quite.contradict the evidence against him, it was only a waste of time. The prisoner said, at first * he haci,no, witnesses, but after wards wished Moses Gott to be examined on his behalf. The witness stated, that was a hammerman, in Mr. Vernon's yard, at the New North Wall. He lodged in the prisoner's house, They went together from home on Saturday night to the f Sross Keys, and they had two glasses of ale a-piece. They then went to St. John's Market; from there they -went Lo a pub lic house in Ho o d -st re et, where they had a glass of ale; from there they went to the cross Keys again. The prisoner had three glas s e s o f a l e , a nd be had three gla . sSes, of cider. They went out or the Cross Keys at shutting up time, and then came down Vauxhall-road. and there were some girls, and a young man standing at the top of Naylor-street, and then the prisoner was knOcked down, and he got up, and was knocked down again. .Then there were four, men round g him, and he held his h a nd s ' up to keep them from ki c ki ng h i s face. The prisoner then shouted out pick my hat up, and he (witness) was lo o kin g f or his hat, he (the prisoner) got away from hint, and he. did not see him for halt an hour. He got his hat, and he and 'Tomas Pimblet went down Naylor street to look for him. He (witness) left Thomas Pimblet, and ran through Glad s ton e -street into Freemason's- row.: 1 -t e afterwards met the prisoner, and he and Thomas Pirriblet ,had changed their jackets, and he did not ictroW them till they called him, The ,witness then corroborated, the, .state met of Pimblet, abbrit the prisoner wanting'` ' u swap " jackets. . The deputy coroner carefully summed up the evidence: They hail the surgeon's evidence that the' wound was th e ,cause of death, and the evidence of Colbu rn. ItVg'very condo sive, that the prisoner was the party who had stabbed the de ceased. They. had also Ann SWeeney calling out the pri soner's name, arid there could be no doubt of the reason or it. And they had the evidence of the surgeon, that the wouns on Colburn's armwas by a similar instrument. If the jun , thought that COlburu was sufficiently sober to remark what Was going on, he Was of, opinion theirgverdict must be wil ful murder, for there was malice aforethought in his emir, across the street, andafterwards thieatening to serve Colburn. the same. • The evidence of Maude went to show, that there was a scuf fle, and if the jury should be of opinion that the stab was inflicted during a fight, it (mold be Manslaughter only. On the whole of the evidence, he thought their verdict ought to be manslaughter. • The Jury expressed a wish to, retire at a quarter to nine o'clock, the inquiry having occupied five hour's and a.balf, After an absence of a quarter of au hour, they returned and found the prisoner guilty or " Wilful Murder." , The prisoner being cautioned that what he might say might be brought against him, was asked if be wished to say anything. Ile said, "they knOcked the down, and I don't know who it was, but it is false that I used any instrument. I was knocked down two or three times and kicked. I have the marks on me now where I was kicked." The prisoner was then committed to take his trial at the assizes. The several witnesses were then bound over to give evi dence. A crowd of 600 or 700 people surrounded the office door of he Coroner, waiting to hear the verdict. QUARTER SESSIONS. The business of these Sessions closed on Friday. The only case of any interest which occupied the court on that day was the following:— CHARGE OF ASSAULT. kel‘t,fru.-jasoniantdhiteracnSpinks, 1 forassaulting throwing a - tea-kettle full of boiling water upon hint, and if tlte Blacka man Bull nan Hotel, teßlrindlßßYlTlar e, by thereby scalding him and doing him great bodily injury. The prosecutor, James'Britutle; said that, on the 26th of January last. he went into the house of the defendant and called tor a glass of whiskey, and when he was served w i th it he said to the defendant, "How do you do? can you play at dice to-day?" The defendant asked, " Did vou ever see me play at dice?" and Brindle said he had,. on which Spi n k s called 'him a liar, atsd on the assertion being repeated, he added that Brindle was a " G—d d—d liar." The defen_ dant then Went out, and the prosecutor seated himself in the bar. During the time he was sit;ing• there, the defendant went backwards and forwards, and at length he took a poker and knocked off the lid of a kettle, and then taking the kettle in his hand, he poured its contents upon the prosecutor's leg. The prosecutor became frantic with pain, but he was never thelesiforeibly thrust out of the house by the defendant, who jumped upon his hat, which fell ofi in the struggle. In cririSsexamination, the prosecutot said it was about ; half-past one o'clock in the day when the assault was com mitted; that he was perfectly sober. having only drank one glass of ale before the glass of whiskey which he called for -at the house of the defendant. The \ale he drank at the house of a person named Thornton, whom he hod not asked to accompany him to Spinks's, nor had Thornton refused to accompany him, refusing to be seen in the streets with drunken man. A surgeon was called to prove that the prosecutor came to his surges yon the day mentioned with scalded legs, and t h ee • he was tinder medn!aiticatinent several weeks. In cross-:examination, he said he apprehended that.snOrti ficalion would supervene, owing to the state of the prose Cu- - haY, liehtivinit been much addicted to his glass. In contradiction to the prosecutor, and never was case so unequivocally contradicted, Mr. and'Mrs: Thornton were called, and proved that the prosecutor was at their house, as he had stated, ab out twelve, o'clock on the day its question, but instead of being; r.ts lie had sworn, they said he was very drunk and•noisy,l--,4 • Mrs. Thornton' stated that the prosecutor -had v ery _ nearly fallen into the fire at their house, and, but for her savirsi him, he would have done so. It was not true, as he:.hail• stated, that tie lied only a glass of ale there, for he drank ONO'. glasses of whiskey, and 1111 ale at all; and Mr. Thornton stated that the prosecutor did ask him to accompanylim.,4,„ w o a r s the time of the Spinks's, but /re refused, -- not wishiug‘to be 'seell'Avith.l in such a state of drunkenness: re from. one mini: and Mr. Hilt, a coach-pruprietor, and anotherivittNls; ed Roberts, who were in Mr. Spinks's house at the t w l ' i a a s t' c i r h e e s si l t7g d s i e n c" f i r t ol accide nt,noisy, a u d p t r h o a ve t he seat to another and fell in the attempt with his arm as he it falling, and knoei:csrtlr . iking the - kettle Mr. Spinks at the time being its another it upon himslf; They also stated that it was not true that t ar t t h of the- hotase - ,y was immediately thrust out of the house without e. VrcksCe34°l' or assistance, for that Miss and Mr., silinks sympathi' prosecutor's shoes and stockings to examine took oft' th y parts, which did not then appear much injured; and thesealde r pro secutor, too, was allowed to remain, disturbing, the comp, until they complained of his c on d uct , an d then he wraTanY' desired to go . away, and ulti ma t e l y put out, b ut -with no moi force or violence th an was necessary. T he prosecutor wae's.. flatly contradicted on many other points by the witness Ro berts; other witness es wou ld h ave been cal;ect but the cocourt did not deem it necessary; and it is scarcely necessary to add that the jury acquitted the defendant. Mr. Venables, the barrister, conducted the case, and Mr. Murphy and Mr. Preston defended it. As the case proceeded, so disgusted was the prosecutor's counsel wills the false , charges made against the defendant, that he would frequently have thrown up his brief, but was prevented by the attorney for the prosecution, Mr. Jones. ST. SWITIIIN'S DAY.—The watery saint sustained his character on Sunday, a smart shower having fallen between twelve and one o'clock. The remainder of the day was beautifully fine. The satirical Churchill mentions the for... lowing superstitious notions concerning rain on this day " " July, to whom, the dog star i n h er train, - St. James gives oysters, and St. Swithin rain." Brand, in his " Popular Antiquities," says, I have h ear d these lines unon St. Swithin's day : . " Si. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair." • • MOST WANTON OUTRAGE NEAR' ST. HELEN'S. —Oh Mbh day last, a young man, named Reece Rigby, went to tlre-eit , " gine-house at. one of the collieries of Thomas Caldwell, called Burton-head Colliery, between one and two o'clock, • and in the most wanton manner.produced the death of two . persons, and injured third It appears that the engineer, a person named Hilton, bad left the 'spot to fetch a wisket of coals to feed the furnace, when Rigby, in reply tattle BankT man, who told him not to touch the engine, said be could work it as well as the engineer. The banksman lighted his • pipe and went away; Rigby remained behind, and immedi ately turned on the steam in its full power. The engine, of course, began at a rapid rate, and drew up a bas - ket - in which four persons had placed themselves, for the purpose of being brought to the surface. The engineer was called on to stop' the engine, but, before he could do so, the basket was carried " at a fearful speed over the head-geering, and three of the four were precipitated with violence to the ground. One, a mar ried man, named Robert Ruflley, who has left a pregnant wife, was killed on the spot; another had his arm broken ; and the third fortunately escaped unhurt. A boy, about ten years of age, name Peery Addamson, however, met with a dreadful death. On perceiving the danger, be attempted to leap from the basket, - and fell down the pit, a depth of neatly one hundred yards, and was dashed to pieces. The poor boy's .. head Was severed in two, and his brains scattered utiont, and every bone was broken. The body was brought up in a sheet, dreadfully mangled, and his brains in a basin. - Rigby, against whom - a warrant wa s out f ur a ro bb e r y, i mmediately ab m On Tue s day- minded, and has not yet be en appr eh en d e d : - last, an inquest was held by John Ileves, Esq:','lrnd a respee tabie jury, on the bodies, and a verdict of 'Manslaughtet" was returned against both the engineer (Hilton) and Rigby, The former was committed for trial at the nekt Liverpool Assizes, and the coroner issued his warrant far the *prehen sion of the latter:— IVigansCa.iette. RIOT AT ST% HELENS.—ATTACK ON TyE PaorestAN't's. Thursday being the anniversary of the battle of the'Boyne, - the Protestant 'Association assembled to 'connemerrate it. About noon they marched in procession, preeded by a hand and flags, consisting of the Union Tad:, &c., the pat h• 'wear-‘ ing blue and white sashes. On reaching a part of the torso inhabited by a great body Of the lower class of Irish, as4rnift . Was given by a gang at a corner of one untie 's(reets Greenbank, and immediately the attack eotnineneedliv• , * volley or, stones being thrown at the Protestants.. The-hi:VW made no resistance, but were proceedin , wheiVolie4f their body, an old man, named . Peter Finney, a tyiffin.rrdz testant, residing at Whiston, near Pre:scot. waVkiids'4ed down with a brickbat. This so exasperated the Pt it that they turned On their opponents, ankaltbdifith fetV•l7y number compared with the latter, proved fire stroriger pottyl A general row was the (S , onseq'uence; the Daniel trt'3eirirelli and another beet-shop kept by a wonian Mimed o , l3 s riefil; were completely gutted, as well as about half a dezetiet4C tages near, occupied by the Irish who had • coirnion'evit , the attack. Two females were i n j ure di n and Mrs - . Jennings. - These belonged trittie trsailiintk , " A young female, aopearently in delicate health, went to her door to witness t he rowovhenshe. was .assailetbbytle, , Itr+bfein blood-thirsty. villains, who culled out "that's an grargeman ; d—n her, kill her;" and certainly were very.o4tt;p4ting their threats lulu .executhin, for ore of Ahem. thrcitV'a which laid open her forehead. The coustable '‘VIP' Soon actively engaged in endeavo u ri ng to put'down't e and after capturing ten men, the most - active in females, they succeeded fora time at least. It Was . OtPetttitl that the attack on the Protestants. would be rtneweAgast night, but we trope it. was not. A considerable amonvite{f damage was done, the cottages inhabited by tbe assatlaiits having scarcely a whole pane of glass left, an .entire , w4le ow frame or any furniture t hat. was not damaged.— WALKING M ATCH ON BROMLEY COMMON or 12 —On Monday afternoon, Molloy, the pedestrian, comp ed walking n5O mil es i n s i x wee k s , a t•th e rote cf ri'and a quarter for every successive hour. lie appear r ed - 'l,g'?"eliffir fatigued, and seemed much s;voln, oarticularly atqOncthAP6 and feet, for wart of proper rest. The match car 4101401 on Bromley C , inuaon, and Molloy was prob rs4i taking any be verage stronger than or cc froe; 1 1 1 3 strictly adhered t o , 'L arge sums o f money were K on the result. . ensi