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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCI SOUTH LANCASHIRE SP CROWN COURT rued Baron to, A RON T James Smith, aged to, mew Sheeran, 14, who had ti were charg►•d with having, at Mancliest b►►r giariously entered the dwelling-ho►,,c mill stolen therein thirty shillings in env the property of the said James 1 - la►opson !'l►e jury found all the prisoners guilty Joshua Smitl► - • ' a nith,l G ASSIZES hut Known the police, bad a ood character, and Was m recomended to to mercy by the prosecugtor. Neither of the other prisoners were known to have committed anY otle nce previously, th ough they were stated to be bad cht t r acters. James Mille, aged 21. was charged with having, at Man chester, on the 14th of December last, burglariously entered the d welling.house of G eorge H olland, and stolen a pair of hoots, a pair of eandlesticks, several pairs of stockings, &c the p r yperty of G eorge Holland. The ten Jury found t h e prisoner Years transportation. John Davi s , aged 13, and John Kingston, 14, were charged with having, on the 15th November last, burglariously en tered the house of John Boddy, and stolen a knife-tray and a pair of gloves. Davis pleaded guilty. _ali. v in gston was s entenced to ten years' transportation, and iS to seven months' imprisonment and hard labour. uilty. He was sentenced to ROBBERY WITR ASSAULT. 44 n Whyatt, aged 22, was charged with having, on the 6th November, at Manchester, with two other persons, as aa!lted and robbed John M`Donaltl. Til Jury found the prisoner guilty. It was not known "at he had committed any previous offence. Sentence de ferred. wit:7' n Neild, a mean-looking man, aged 27, was charged • ' as ing, ou the 2 Au ust last,' attacked John Tonge with a club, knocked him do g wn, and robbed him of seven so vereigns. Tile J 7 , 40 ury acquitted the prisoner. at Marna/ -Adam s Was charged with having, in August last, and bhestr, felo n i ous l y b eat and assaulted James Buxton, 1 1 ,.: !), -el hint of seven shillings and sixpence. had bodri''erY f ound the p r i soner guilty. It appeared, that he_ i vcted eo n a ba d character, th oug h h e h a d not b een previously The prisoner was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. GMT P , lI.P.TURN PROM TRANSPORTATION. tran s ' 9 4°bilison, - alias Saxon, aged 42, who was formerly pleardrted for life is New South Wales, by the latter Willie, Withit e h e giii il l :Y to the charge of having been found at large Th - -.t. -4a-iest 'sominions without lawful . cause.. . s pnsoner craned ••• and On his permission to tnakeii few observation , long state lordship signifying his assent, he entered upon a Period, t uent of his adventures and snirerings from . . the he w , B 7 i ll ea he was sentenced. He set out by stating. ware that his lordship could pass l that he had no discretion, and that he . (ih . e . i itiria,asikPorted for life. He asked what me iti a . not love his native land, and also s to ok, to n r g e t t l 'g h e had during the whole period of his Lancasterurn to the country of his birth. He tahhei,! Assizes. in the year 1820, ("'' "*/137 robbery at Pendl t n near Manchester. of death Was Passed e o but . Muted to upon him , it was .1 sentence lie • fterwards corn aek_ ,transportation for life, and of that _ _ iwas".ewledged tha justice. On his arrival at the colony he . little more than eighteen years' old. yet he could say that ;.2,,.011.e never been guilty of the least dishonesty during theit _I . of his stay. He had been frequentiy punished, but return as oecause of the uncontrollable desire which he had to diti to his native country. According to his account, lie someafaiShed himself by his good behaviour, adulge nces and was granted to es ; but having made an unsuccessful attempt w as ea Pe bY swinimina to a vessel, called the Peruvian, he U,.. tn. s.entenced to recei b ve one hundred lashes, and to pass the l admsder of his time in another part of the colony where Yetl eipline was niora severe. He was sent to Hunter's .nre ,where the hardships which he was compelled to en them.t were so great, lie should fail if he attempted to depict he was • After being there some time, with irons on his legs, 10;wer %removed to another settlement, where. not being 0- ahy vriting materials, or the means of communicating with shut P:rsons, save his companions, he felt himself, as it were, l ength ' . o rs for ever from society, and utterly wretched. brave endure his misery, lieeverythin„i . the ph • s n order to put an end to it. anto d make use of tray e ii i Meal means within his power to effect his escape,. by for to g t hrough the woods. In order to offer a sufficient force preve nati ve s ;l e associated him self wit! ; nt attacks from the i • set out 1 six others •and in December, 1832, they o and g ot b , tacked , be on the settlement. They were, however, at few - "Y a Party of the natives, who robbed them of the theirprovisions which they had contrived to secrete upon Wou n Pets ans, stripped them of their apparel, and left them Woun ded and •zaked as they They had were or to return to the settlement, where I hes have been im prisoned ve received one hundred as ,_ in the t twelve days and nights in irons, and set to work b , ,_. to laborious gang. They decided to proceed ; but - , astn g a h of ti__ a, prong turn, they wandered about for a lengt w r t ' h e i almost perishing with hunger, till they fortunately met the shore,tribe of well-disposed natives, who guided them to H ere tl • condition was in no de gree m ended, , however, their and were forced of escape, for they still saw no direct means subsistin to travel from one desolate scene to another At length th e „ re , g on such garbage as they could pick up. i n t i le ' Il into the hands of a company of natives who were str a „ ,PaY of government, and were employed to apprehend -bg'lng convicts. These delivered them to the custody al the • • 11,,,,i military. They were entirely naked, and were covered j.'_u_.acabs trona t h e n toe, having endured great hardships. f" this condition y were heavily honed and placed in gaol c'?_areililtaurteen days. They were then put on board a govern- f o,,l.ncutter, where some of them received a few articles o th r t i l g from the sailors. After being buffeted about for ee days, they were landed at Sydney, where they were °gain ironed and •- - • At endof fourteen days th e ,. ___ . put in prison. the :were taken before a magistrate, ordered to receive one hundred lashes each, and to be sent to a penal settlement. ~7 n after their return to prison the doctor seeing their de- PH)rable condition, h l interfered ' in their behalf, and rep rese . . umane y „ Float ..nting that the flogging, if carried Into effect, would p litd n kelY prove fatal to most of them, that part ot the v shment was remitted. At length they were shipped for Pen s I)je taan's Land, where they were clothed at the ex wh_ ear government. Here they lay thirteen weeks in gaol, the they were ahippetl for the the_ penal settlement. Arrived fermi he found his condition so insupportable that he was de 14"red again to attempt his escape. With this view he aetetl lY took possession of a whale boat, in which he left the in. "'eat, and after encountering many dangers, and ender 7g_ h a tn ti uch misery, lie arrived at Hobart Town, where he was ii!. taken. He was tried for stealing the whale boat, found h e i 1) ; ,.. an fo rent back to the same penal settlement to which a_ Bain r, It been sent from Hunter's river. Here he upons i attempted to escape, and was, in consequence, placed 1, 0 ,, 8 Part of the settlement called Big Island. It was im seft.lale to giv idea of the hardships and misery which lie k ot lecl at this place. Many, rather than endure it committed on to et• There was one convict who bore the name of the ens -eater to the day of his depth, in consequence of a cir ut htaace which occurred.. This man escaped with another, asiee,!'ag famished in the wilderness, he caught his comrade a ubsr4: 4 ' i nk his hatchet into his head and killed him. He cau g h t. on his flesh for many days, hot at length he was w as a Ile was tried for murder, but the jury found that it again cast le of necessity and acquitted him. Afterwards he killed .ahsconded with another young man, whom he also Procee,for this lie was tried and executed. The prisoner .p lia bar u t ed t „. to Say that, after a time, he was returned to -hon, to where be was assigned to Mr. Alexander argi l JTon• He was still determined to make his escape, "` length he found•of • ' 10 , an opportunity swimming to the sett le ' 4 barque, bound for London, on board of which ves t4o,o iecreted himself. He remained suffering severe agonies aptsi,Ntg.er during 21 days, before he was discovered. The he sa't'i.aeltlg assured that he was a convict, gave him up to nipleyeTltles.at St. Helena, where he was for some time re thr oe ,,‘ l 88 a f elon, in breaking stones. At length be was Atisno_t t Cape of Good Hope, and having been itn the toevue , to rtewi, he was taken to' Robin Island, where ti gu r, urg er rearing he might escae treated him with great 'ad Ic e •(!ered his head to be shaved, ironed him heavily, the ero Pt user at incessant labour. He as again returned to a tic, fon t' Where after the lapse of time,he was granted to r ' et er leav ~ some _ yearning etur n t `. e. Having still an uncontrollable .. Retti o 0 his nativecountry,l found an opportunity of da go n b o.u. _, • . he l4 t o Y 8 COr le , i ' " an American whaler, where he remained . . 'awed i • a 'ed• At the end of - that time, he voluntarily *as b innself to the captain,for I knew that the ... I °Una for he ie ab se _ _ the South Seas, and that she - N a a . 11 ' lour months• The captain said lie wa t I°aict, which * . resole' theet..aBpin, saidhoweverhe(the pwriss:td-ice.rt)er v es t t ve ssel I '• • lie a m s ined to J .,„ )„,sel ; h„.. le fell in with. They did not fall in with any ~eln? , ,„,•,‘" at last the ship called at New Zealand, where, 4 1), ii„-"lurrned th t ' ‘1 , 4 ,. ' 51i,,.._ , a the captain was determined to give him He made his t rea t y p the overboard and swam ashore. i ,icd wi,,aalrY and joined the natives, by whom he was ‘ ,., l rs,, rii _Lll the utmost kindness and hospitality. Some time ' ' 'llh ' he enteied regularly on board an American whaler, 1° qa h e aceft 1 he made his way ar te e_s e. 1 „ . Paned to Aoston, whence _. t r his Quebec he sailed to Greenocic, and shortly 0 ~.. arrival tl • h„..alanehe_ there lie came to Liverpool, whence he went f o gi'd a nd l"er, where lie had been living ever since, working *L e a:U ( 1 , pest!), for his living. lie knew, as he had be higslelt h e ttiliat his lordship had no power to alter the sentence lei. ea se int o list Pass, but lie hoped his lordship would take sa , S lid if consideration. and represent it in a higher quer hi:hat h e ii'3.,a).e mitigation of punishment might take place, .4porlittaiv.,►eTigulinttsrp.en.d, some portion of his remaining merit c lli s I t .u alli. ). las conduct should be such as to elibad ~olviii)4llP said, the prisoner was right in saying that Th e Y diseredscretion the punishment was fixed hy law. The ht 4, Previ o ,. °° lie (the learned judge) had was in respect to effe L e k-tu eet 0 1 terr n h of imprisonment in _this country. 'fh 1 111,, t ( 41 1.1 t -e nr;,-........ , t one sentence nvicted at having committed Sentence Would probably lutely denied --- F. , soner, however, would not be without its !it,T. tr;iii:l'ers• There was an idea prevalent in this country ii i e l . (l tile sPrtation was a light punishment. Those who k.;. hettuth thr.4.trnent of, the prisoner would be convinced of i o. Pri son 4t transporation was a very severe punishment. tr4,Vale ( - l an , as sentenced to he imprisoned six months in Port ea ' and kept to hard labour, and afterwards to be for life, 14 tf)ll,':4 FORGERY. ,i, . ' vaiine4 Barn4dey aged 18, was charged with having Zder orl:(hvin feloniously Uttered a forged and counterfe it (4,7! kiti/li)7 P4Yrnent of two hundred and forty four d P Edgar l iavi h i e arld f o l :, ( " 0 1 five pence, with intent to defraud cirde., feion;,,,ers. The prisoner was further d indicted for kii.,for tb'nualY uttered another forged an counterfeit s i ,i,ca ! t i :i ,:i?i I?aytnent of eight hundr . ed and forty-seven 11, 1 "• I e ih ngs and ten pence, with intent to defraud the s e ori_ norrie and others. q Mr t s ° er pleaded gu. v htll44t, yilio aPPeared * for the prisoner, hamndleed them lit !ch i ne his lordship, who said he would exa 1 1 ure• The prisoner was put down• 4 '44 0 having, at 44 irtilehem:rnirod pleaded guilty to a charge o 71kii:telat to',,f°;d an order for the delivery "erratic' John Devonport. Sentence I:iitia,„ tiNT CASES —convlNG. Thornier/, o If goods deferred. with tOthtri„ - ` 'lO, "reehltvoed •d . 23 and William f this ere Char '. atsgil • ' ' i early Par" • a A•, At qte. get vitt.. 'laving, in tae . \l i tee eB (r , at Bolton feloniously made and counterfeite 111;ir, Arpnt the cu rrent coin of the realm, called shillings. a,for as coun el I•l:N,heelit'rnn.g and Mr• Po llock appeared te ll ,: ti iiiii-ery flo%nrildo atlili..therim.oii caseusi.ty court the sea' La to seve('yePar:' tlrearnssgporltatioann.d 1? l 'av e eilil, IVO coININD AND in-mama. e lit) et hu t 11, aged 1- .... • git,,,t.can::. at w. 1 • . ivi - , -..., enargen v%itn nav"""y, ..-. - 0 , Zis:'" half ancliester, counterfeited eleven pieces ! ), t , , ild w . - cro wn . 4,,, ki s ti h a . St with having ' tr 4 43 rier , v i! , 7, uttered a counterfeit shillim,• seven had po:iscss,ion of 431)ort,tiaosli.tound guilty, and sentenced to °N %.g! `i r, , ke, aged ....,OtNING, 416 40e... 1r ijowslietshsiloiralytiwn.go, in %h e ' Illtd • c harge' 30, and Marl Rourke, aged 26, his I lee s 14 th e • iterfeiting ti t ', tr ia l l :il l t dent ' moulds, for cout yJanuary last, in this t thttis o s r And a:l:Donald and Constable Lynch found 10 1 1 1) 4 4 4. , in A4dl_enunterfeit sixpences in the cellar o t f tp:o t , t e w ili Addison-strect. 'rhe husband was absen 1, 4 . 1 • t. sti,t.. ll ; ) easp . that' tw o a gast Thomas ke. The m en fern•al:s had left ßour the materials bet" j4rP equitt e(l b oth prisoners The femnie prisoner Iras indicted for the misdemennour, in I having possession of the counterfeit sixpences. to mere try found the prisoner guilty, and recommended he :eti to ouc month's imprisonment Jour in Kirkdale Gaol HAVING rossxssic tJ 17 IJohn barer OF A MOULD FOlt, .COININ( id Charli.4iiraxon, aged were in this ►own, in August lust, .hud heir possession a mOuld, on which was iotptessed the revers by lag companion I the ;prisoners guilty, recommending Jai it appeared likely that he had been led av Darc..ey «il3 sentenced to seven years mnsportation, and JacksOn to six months' hoprisoMnent and h:u•d labour.: John hiallhews, aged 30, Mamthestel, in January laNt, was charged with hark bad possession of a mould for Tile Jury found the prisoner guilty. Ile was sentenced to seven years' transportation. Jane Walton, aged 34, was charged with havinz counter feited 23 sixpences, with having uttered a counterfeit six pence to Mary Nelson, at West Derby, and with having bad a mould for counterfeiting sixpences in her possession. In her basket was found 23 counterfeit sixpences, and a mould for counterfeiting sixpences. The prisoner was found guilty of having the mould in her possession. She was sentenced to twelve months' imprison ment and hard labour at Kirkdale Gaol. John Taylor, aged 30, was charged with having, on the 19th instant at \Vest Derby, had in his possession rive coun terfeit sixpences. He was found guilty, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour at Kirkdale Gaol. Mary Price was charged with having unlawfully possessed seven counterfeit half-crowns with intent to utter the same. She was found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned one John Hill, Joseph Bolton, John Clarke, and Peler Rey nolds, were charged with offences against the Mint, and pleaded guilty. Hill, whose real name is Lynch, was charged with coining. He had been previously convicted. He was sentenced to seven years' transportation. Bolton, who was charged with uttering, had also been previously convicted. He was sentenced to sentenced to seven years transporta tion. John Clarke, charged with possessing base coin, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment and hard labour. Reynolds was also sentenced to eight months' imprisonment and hard labour. The Court adjourned at six o'clock. NISI PRIUS COURT.-TUESDAY The court was opened at nine o'clock. PLATT AND ANOTIIEIt, EXECUTORS, V. STANLEY AND ANOTHER.—The action was undefended, and the jury re turned a verdiet for the amount sought. BAMFORD V. HlLL.—This was an undefended action to recover the sum of £33 upon a promissory note, with interest thel•eon, from the 31st December, 1836.—Verdict for the plaintiff; damages, LI4 13s. The parties reside at Rochdale. HUNT V.. WiIITEIIAD.—The ju r ry returned a verdict for the plaintijj; dam:lges .±:ls 3s. 10d. DEFLINNi': AND plaiotill for the amp ANOTHER v. PlrEtt.—Verdict for the ant of the hill, together with zel 3s. 3d. CRIPPIN fl. WALAISLRT —Mr. Dundas (with whom were Mr. Brandt and Mr. Cqwling), appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. Win. Crippin, a butter factor, in Manchester, and the endorsee of two bills of exchange, one for £3OO and the other for £250; and he had brought this action against the defen dant, Mr. George Walmsley, a gentleman who resided at Naburu, near York, as the acceptor of those two bills of exchange. The bill for £3OO. was dated August Ist, 1838; and the bill for £250 was dated February Bth, 1840. John Brettargh, who was the drawer of the bill, was the father in-law of the plaintiff, and held a colliery, nes r.Roclidale, as tenant to Mr. Walmsley.—The defendant pleaded that Brettargh did not draw the bills, that he himself did not receipt them, and that Brettargh did not endorse them. These were the issues which it rested with the plaintiff to prove.—Witnesses having been called in support of the plaintiff's case, Mr. Baines (with whom was 31r. Crompton) addressed the jury for the, defendant. The etse, on the part of the plaintiff, he said, -was -simply this,—that two hills of exchange, one for £3OO, and the other for £250, had been drawn by John Brettargh upon Mr.\Valmsley, the defendant; and had been endorsed by Brettargh to his son-in-law, Crippin, the plaintiff; and the action was founded as en dorsee against Mr. George Walmsley, as the acceptor. The substance of the matter was this,—that those bills were, in, the first instance. purely accommodation bills, no value having been given for them to Mr. Wishurley, the acceptor; that those bills were entirely for the accommodation of Brettargh, the drawer ; that they were endorsed by Bret targh to his son-in-law, the plaintiff, when they had become due; and that, consequently, the son-in-law would be affected by all the equities with which Brettargh himself was affected. The question for the jury to consider would be, whether or not this father-in-law and son-in-law had, since those bills were retired by Brettargh, actually put on those endorse ments which now appeared upon them. On the part of the defendant, he contended that a gross fraud was attempted to be practi4ed by those parties, who were in collusion together to bring this action ; because it was perfectly well known, that those bills were endorsed after they became due, not withstanding the statement made in the Court of Chancery, that they were previously endorsed. The jury would find, that, when the two bills became due, they were retired by- Brettargh, and not one single syllable of notice was given to. Mr. Walmsley until three years after the first bill had be come due and was paid •, and not until a year and eight months after the second bill had become due and was paid,. was the slightest claim made upon his client. This showecl that they were originally accommodation bills. He now came to the motives for this collusive attempt to charge Mr. Walmsley with the payment of bills for which he never was liable. Mr. Walmslcy had made considerable advances to Brettargh down to 1841, when the balance in his favour had increased to such an amount that he found it necessary to take most prompt and decisive measures. In 1840, he had. instructed Mr. Pratt, his solicitor, to press for some reduc tion of the debt. The result was, that Brettargh, Crippin. and another person, gave two joint promissory notes for £5OO each, to Mr. Walmsley, in liquidation of the claim ; and they were deposited by him in the hands of his banker at York. In November, 1841, when those bankers made application to Crippin for the payment of one of those promissory notes, Crippin used a threat that lie would make Mr. Walmsley suffer for what he had done; and when Mr. Walmsley issued' a distress warrant against Brettargh, then it was that he first heard of those two bills of exchange lying in the hands of Brettargh's eon-in-law. He (Mr. Baines) submitted that those bills were accommodation bills in their origin ; that they were handed over, after .being retired by Brettargh to his son-in-law ; that those endorsements were put upon them • then, and that this was done entirely to gratify a spirit of revenge. The defendant, therefore, was entitled to a ver dict.—Mr. Dundas replied. lie admitted that the case for the plaintiff had failed with regard to the bill for 4:300, but contended that there was no proof that the bill for £250 had been endorsed after it became due; and it would be unfair to assume, that, because the first bill had been so endorsed, the second must necessarily be in the same situation.—His lord ship in addressing the jury said, as it was admitted by the counsel for the plaintiff that the case had failed with regard to the bill of £3OO, they would be relieved from any conside ration of the circumstances with respect to that bill, excepting so far as they tended to throw light upon the second bill, viz. that for £250; because, if the conduct of the plaintiff was marked with fraud with regard to the first bill, they would be warranted in entertaining that degree of suspicion which the circumstances would allow with regard to the second bill. As to the bill for £250, the most material part of the evidence was the memorandum book, which the jury would probably think it right to look at; and if they were of opinion that the bill was endorsed to Crippin.before it became due, then the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict for the amount of that £250, and the interest upon it. lf, on the other hand, they could see any ground to satisfy them that it was not endorsed until after it was payable, then the defendant would be entitled to •a verdict; or if they found that the bill was an accommoda tion bill between Brettargh and Walmsley, and if they found also that Brettargh endorsed without consideration to Crip pin, in that case also the defendant would be entitled to their verdict ; but if they were of opinion, that before it was en ! . dorsed the value was received by Brettargh, then it would be a genuine document.—The jury retired for about three-quar ters of an hour, and on their return into court gave a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that there was no conside ration for the endorsement. BIRLEY. AND ANOTHER V. THE INHABITANTS OF THE HUNDRED OF "SALFORD.—MT. Knowles and Mr. Cardwell were for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Wortley and Mr. Holton for the defendants. The declaration stated that, in the month of August last, a mob of rioters assembled and began to demolish two mills and two houses in the hundred of Salford. Mr. Knowles, in stating the case, said the plaintiffs were Messrs. 13irley, • the extensive cotton- .pinners at Choriton-upon-Mkock, in the borough of Manchester; and the object of this action was to recover 'row the hundred of Salford. in .which the borough was Si- tuated, n compensation for damage to which their property was subjected during the disturbances in Manchester, in the month of August last. The act of 'parliament upon which the plaintiffs were proceeding was passed in the reign of George the 4th ; but that act did not introduce any new prin ciple into the law, as it had previously existed, but only con solidated other acts, and extended their provisions to cases to which they were not applicable before. The act provided that if any church or chapel, or any house, warehouse, shop, mill, and so on, or any erection used for the purpc se of car rying on any trade or manufacture, or any machinery, fixed or moveable, should be damaged, pulled down, or destroyed in the whole or in part, by:any persons riotously and tumul tuously assembled, in any such case the inhabitants of the hundred, or part of the hundred, in which such property was situated, wouitl be liable to yield full compensation to the persons damnified by the offence. After detailing the riotous occurrences which took place in Manchester in August last, narticulaily in reference to the attack upon the property of the plaintiffs, the learned counsel said, the question for the jury to consider would be whether the mob did attack the mill, and•did begin to demolish it, according to the meaning of the act of parliament ; because, if they did begin to demo lish it, then it would be within the act; and then the hun- tired, or sonic other body, would have to make good the damage. If it could be proved that the mob did demolish, and that they threatened to pull down or burn down the mill, if the hands did not turn out, then he apprehended that there could be no . doubt that this was a beginning to demolish with u felonious intent ; and, .when the jury heard the expressions of the mob, they could not have any doubt that, had not the military arrived at the time, the mob would have pulled down the mi" or would have done other serious damage, if they had not succeeded in inducing the hands to turn out. The defendants had put a plea upon the record, which gave rise to this question, whether, as the mill was within the borough of Manchester, the borough of Manchester was not the party to apply to, and not the hundred ; but upon this point his lordship would give his opinion, when his attention was cal led to it.• There would be certain facts in the case which would be undisputed, and one of them wont(' be, that the borough of Manchester was legally situated within the hun dred of Salford, and that, before it became incorporated, it paid contributions to the county rate. It was alleged in the plea, that it had not d one so s i nce ; and the question raised upon a special traverse was, whether the borough was still liable to contribute to the county rate, as part of the ' , undre , ' of ,alford, The learned counsel then ieferred to the 12th section of the 7th and BthGeorge IV. and to the 112th, 113th, 111th, and 117th sections of the Municipal Corporations Act ; and contended that, for all purposes, except for the prosecution of felons, municipal boroughs were liable to con tribute to the county rate, in the same way us before. There was nothing, in his opinion, which prevented the borough of Manchester from being rated to the general purposes of the county rate. Then, if that was so, Manchester was not lia ble to pay for this damage, but the hundred. If Manchester was still liable to pay for injuries to property sustained with out the borough, why was Manchester alone to pay compen sation for injuries to property within the property ?—The edge: I don't think we can make a case of it after all.— Wortley • -tire 'be The issue of the plea depends en. „iv upon construction of the statute.—The Judge : It appears to me, that the statute is expressly against Mr. Knowles. I think municipal boroughs are exempted from all county rates, ex cept that they are to pay the expenses of prosecutions.— Mr. Knowles : If that is his lordship's opinion, of course I Mr. NV , -I um willing have nothing more to say here.—• to put it in any ort., way, in order to have it decided, because we are anxious to get a dec i s i on u pon it.—The Judge : — The best way would be to take the opinion of the jufs as to whe ther there was a beginning to demolish, and after that to make a case of it f or t h e C our t of Exchequer. Witnesses were then called t o prove .t h e p i a i n tiffs case, and, after an address from Mr Wortley, his Lordship said, in any case it appeared to him that the defendants would be entitled ulti mately to the judgment of the court ; but, at the same time, it was desirable to prevent the necessity in case the court above should think differently from him on the point of law, LARCENY Joshua Brooks, a youth, was charged with having, in Aug. last, feloniously assaulted Joseph Ashhead, and having then and there stolen a hat, valUe 155., the property of the prose cutor. Mr. Ashhead, a commercial traveller, was assaulted by several men, who intended to rob him. They did not succeed, but knocked him down and kicked hini. His hat fell off, and was afterwards found in the prisoner's possession. who, while in custody, took out the lining of the hat and secreted it. The prisoner said that he lost his hat in the scuffle, and found that produced, which be kept in lieu of it, thinking the owner had got his. The jury found the prisoner guilty of larceny only. Sen tence deferred. The prisoner was not known as a previous offender. MINT CASIM Thomas Monaghan, aged 33, and Mary Monaghan, his wile, was charged with having in their possession, at Salford, in September last, a mould impressed with the stamp in re semblance of a shilling. The prosecution was withdrawn as respected the wife. It was found that the mould, and also some plaster of pads, were found in the prisoner's house. The prisoner was found guilty; but as there was another indictment against both him and his wile, sentence was deferred. John Hannah. 2G. was charged with having. at Salford, in December last, feloniously sold and put off twelve pieces of counterfeit coin, resembling shillings, for less'than the value of that coin, supposing it to be good. The case depended almost solely upon the testimony of James Weaver, a man employed at the time by the police in the detective service, and he stated that the prisoner offered to sell him some base shillings at three shillings a dozen, and that he purchased twelve of them, giving him two shillings for them, and leaving one shilling owing. He was severely cross-examined by Mr. W/LICINTS, who appeared for the prisoner, and admitted that he bad been imprisoned for sheep-stealing. The learned counsel addressed the jury at considerable length, and with great ability, repre hending the system of espionage pursued in this and other cases, which he considered pregnant with evils that were not counterbalanced by its alleged expediency,— dwelling in strong language on the abandoned character of the witness, and throwing out the inference that the prisoner was the purchaser, and not the seller, and the least guilty of the two. The jury. after intimating that they did not consider the evidence sufficient to prove the charge of " selling" the coin, returned a verdict of not guilty. The prisoner was put down, there being another indictment against him. Thomas M'Clarenee, a boy, was indicted for uttering a number of base shillings to various parties at M anchester; and the offence charged being a second one, was aggravated, by the statute, from a misdemeanour into a felony. . n 'The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be transported for seven years. John Hannah, (before acquitted on another charge,) Ellen Dean, and John Williams were indicted for having in their possession. at Manchester, a mould for counterfeiting the current coin. Mr. Wilkins again defended Hannah. The jury found all the prisoners guilty. In reply to the judge, it was stated that P all of the had before been con victed of felony. His Lordship sentenced them to be trans ported for the term of seven years. James Hargreaves, 19, and William Wilson, 27, were charged with having, at Little Bolton, in September last, uttered a counterfeit half-Brown, well knowing the same to be base. The jury found both the prisoners guilty. Wilson had previously been imprisoned several times, and bore a bad character. The other was not known. Wilson was scntenced to be imprisoned 15 months, and kept to hard la bour, and Hargreaves for six monthe. Three true bills were found by the Graud Jury against Betty Eccles, for the murder of three children at Bolton. The trial is fixed for Tuesday next. The court rose at a quarter past six. NISI PRIUS COURT. -VVEDNESDAY GARNETT V. MALLALIEU.—An undefended action to re cover the value of some machinery supplied by the plaintiff, -who is a manufacturer at Oldham, to the defendant, a spin 3ner and manufacturer in Yorkshire. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, LOS. FALSE IMPRISONMENT "BEST V. TURNER.—The parties in this case carry on busi ness as cheesefactors, in Smithfield-market, Manchester. The plaintiff was represented by Mr. Wortley, Mr. Cowling. and Mr. Atherton ; and the defendant by Mr. Baines, and 31r. Martin. The declaration stated that the defendant had assaulted the plaintiff, and caused him to be taken into custody by the po 3ice on a charee of felony, which was false. Special damage was also alleged by the plaintiff on the ground that some of his customers had declined to deal with him, in consequence •of this affair. The defendant put in two pleas, upon which issue was joined, first, that he had not assaulted the plaintiff; and secondly, that some cheeses belonging to the defendant had been stolen from him, and were found in the plaintiff's :possession: The following were the circumstances of the case. The Atalls both of the 'plaintiff and defendant adjoined each other in the Smithfield-market, and their cheese were placed in -piles, with the space of about a yard between the two heaps. 'Many of the persons were engaged in the same trade, and their cheese were ranged in like manner; and it appeared that the usual course of business was to buy from farmers, :and sell to, retail dealers. Considerable rivalry was alleged 'to exist between the plaintiff and the defendant; and it ap peared that early on Thursday the 22d of November last, - when the plaintiff went to his business, the defendant was - there with a policeman named Knox, to whom he gave the •plaintiff in custody on a charge of felony, in having stolen a -cheese which was his property. The plaintiff said he would ,;..ro with the officer quietly, and he walked along with him - through the streets : on the way he was recognised by one <if his friends, who was astonished to see him in custody as a criminal. He was brought before Mr. Bannerman, a ma gistrate of the borough of Manchester, who having heard the .deitndant's story unanimously discharged the plaintiff. - Many witnesses were examined on both sides, the general effect of whose testimony was that the cheese alleged to be stolen was misplaced ; and, the learned judge was about to read the evidence, when the jury said they would not give his lordship the trouble. They then, after a few minutes deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff with 40s. da- mates that the jury should ex pres there was or was not a begi was a demolishi opinion whether, in this case, r ite act of pal liament " it Gls in the whole or in part any building;'' and, in order to tied for the plaintiffs in such at ca.-r, they must be satisfied that die intention of the mob was to demolish the building. The jury would direct their atten tion to that point,, and their verdict would' be taken, subject turned a verb The court at!juurned a little I The jury ilumedintelv_tt )re six O'clock C 0W N COURT --•WEDNESDAY MGAMt Ann Cricket!, who bad pleaded guilty on Monday to a chat ge of bigamy. waA brought up and sentenced to be im prisoned for three months. Hannah Braidley, wife of Daniel Braidley, was charged with having, during the life-time of her husband, married Thomas Yarwood. She was found guilty. and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. FORGERY Thomas Horrorks•, aged 40, was indicted for having forged' an order for the delivery of goods, which he-obtained and sold under their value. The order purported to be - signed by William Cannon. It was dated the 30th December last, and was sent to Messrs. Joseph Ainsworth and Co., cotton spinners, Little Bolton. It was to the effect, " Please let the bearer have 361bs. of 140's weft." To meet this request as nearly as they could, Messrs. Ainsworth, who believed the order to he genuine, sent 361bs. of 135's weft. and it was proved that the• prisoner sold it for 2s. 10d. a pound, while its real value was 3s. Mr. Willikem Cannon, a cotton master, of Bolton, proved that the order was not written or signed by him., The prisoner was found guilty, and was.sentenced to be transported fair 7 years. ILLEGAL SEIZURE 11AltKEIL v. NUTTALL and OTHERS.—The plaintiff in this case was John Barker, and the defendants, James Nuttall, Henry Itamsbottom, and Abraham Stansfried ; and the ac tion was brought to recover compensation in damages for an alleged illegal distraint upon the property of the plaintiff. Mr. Wortley and Mr. Hugh Hill conducted the case for the plaintiff; Mr. Dundas and Mr. Watson appeared for the defendants. Mr. HILL opened the case. The plaintiff complained that the defendants had broken and entered into a certain dwel ling house, taken away certain goods and chattels therefrom ,• and also into a certain workshop, when they forcibly expelled the plaintiff's workmen, and had broke down and detached certain patterns and machinery, and converted the same to their own use. The defendants pleaded first, that with re spect to the workshop, except to the extent of £l5, they were not liable ; and secondly, with respect to the house, the plaintiff was not possessed of the goods and chat tels therein. Upon these pleas issue was joined. Mr. WORTLEY said the plaintiff sought compensation at the hands of the jury for very bad and inconsiderate conduct upon the part of the defendants; he trusted it might prove to be nothing else. The action was brought by Mr. John Barker, an, engineer and millwright, at Todmorden, on the borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire, against JamesNuttall, a tradesman, residing in the srme place, and two other per sons, Henry Ramsbottotn, and Abraham Stansfried, a bai liff, and bailiffs' follower, for entering upon the plaintiff's premises without legal rights, seizing all his goods, furniture, and stock in trade, turning out the plaintiff and his work men, and afterwards selling the goods under circumstances which led to their going off much under their value. The plaintiff was but a young Irian ; he had only lately set up business, and bad a fair stock ;'he had taken a new work shop with every convenience, and had several persons in his employment. He had dealt with Mr. Nuttall, the defendant, who was an iron and brass fonnder, and from time to time he had paid him large sums of money. At the time that this occurred he owed Nuttall some little Money, but there was no suggestion whatever that Nuttall was likely to lose this debt so as to explain or justify the proceedings which he afterwards took. On Monday the 19th of December, the defendant, with the bailiff and his followers, went upon the premises of the plaintiff, wholly unexpected, and without any previous notice, he said, " I want tny money." It appeared that there was a debt due to Nuttall by the plaintiff's father, which, whether the Present plaintiff was originally liable for or not, he (Mr. Wortley) did not know; but lie had subse quently made himself liable for £2O. It was then for that debt, he believed, that the defendant went in and seized the plaintiff's goods. Nuttall, when they were in, gave orders to the bailiffs to take an inventory of all the property ; the plaintiff told him be had no right to do so, but, nevertheless, they did take an inventory of every thing, after which Nut tall left the other two to keep possession of the house. Be sides this they actually turned the plaintiff's workmen out of the shop altogether. It would be proved that the plaintiff had, at this time, orders in hand, the execution of which would have occupied him eight or nine months to come. Wheter they had gone in with the intention of selling, he (Mr. Wortley) did not know; but it would be proved that on the night of the very day they entered bills were issued announcing the sale: the sale took place on the following Friday, but the bailiffs, even after that remained on the pre mises, and kept possession of them till Wednesday in the following week. It would further be sliewn, that at the sale some patterns, which were extremely valuable to the plain tiff, had been bo ug ht by th e d e f en d ant N ut t a ll hi mse lf a t ruinouslyptthis nptriffo e business his c the e s. es ad p ee e t c fue t anld t l o t actually broken blt le rstok hadtm e l n a duo a p F eh w et o • c and l e t i p ,a a W' r d t: i o t of the been ' never been able to get over it ; and in point of fact it had been the utter ruin of the young man. The defendants, to some extent admitted they had done wrong, inasmuch, as they had paid £l5 into court, but it w as absur d to sup pose, under the circumstance, that that p a lt ry sum couldrose, e thing like a compensation injury which for the great any plaintiff had sustained. the Hiram Barker, and Thomas Platt, two workmen, proved the entry of the bailiffs, the stoppage of the works, the sale of the goods, and that the orders which had previously been in course of execution, were, in consequence of the seizure, necessarily withdrawn. There had been transactions between the parties, the defendant supplying the plaintiff with cast _ ings. Mr. Eastwood, the plaintiff's attorney, proved that he had asked the defendant Nuttall, and the auctioneer, under what authority they were selling. A bill of sale was produced by Nuttall to the extent of £2O; and he (witness) protested against the legality of it, and threatened that actions would be commenced against them if they sold for more than £2O, and the expenses. This was the plaintiff's case. M r. D s then opened t} bill of sale which was the Nuttall for entering and selling. .en brought? Was not Mr. Nut- nut Lien fully informed upon t wt►s, lie had nitogetlier kept list title of the defendant .1.1 Vi'ltv. thei), 1 case for the defendants, ob- UT he had never rolrsal cr;or,ril Boot ecause the fact , ntiatit. al ite to pay any C always protest against. It appeared : that in May, 1842, the old Mail, father of the plaintiff, died ; his widow was the ad ministratrix of his effects and she sold the goods and tools to the plaintiff. lie, in May, WbS indebted to Mr. Nuttall in the sum of £2O ; and on the 11th of that month and May the plaintiff and defenthint made an agreement by which the plaintiff gave the defendant a bill of sale to secure that £2O upon the goods, household effects, and working implements mentioned in the schedule annexed thereto. The learned counsel then read the bill sa le , of w hich Was in the usual form of such documents. Under this authority the plaintiff was entitled, one minute after its execution, to go in and sell all the articles mentioned in the schedule. Mr. Eastwood, In his evidence, stated he had told Mr. Nuttall and the auc tioneer that if they sold for more than £2O and the expenses it would be at their peril but Mr. Eastwood could not have read the document, otherwise he would have found that it was an authority to sell the whole to discharge the expenses, and then the £2O, and the rest he, Mr. Nuttall, was to hold for the party entitled to it, natnely„the plaintiff himself. The jury had heard that there had been transactions between the parties; that was so, and on a settlement it Was proved that £57 were due to the defendant Mr. Nuttall; and he (Mr. Nuttall) promised that if a portion was paid to him a day 'or two afterwards, he would not put the bill of sale in force. At last, upon the 19th of December, when he was not paid the money, Mr. Nuttall entered, and sold, as he had a perfect right to do, and he, at the request of the plaintiff himself, put off the sale from the 22d to the 23d. They (the jury) would hear from the learned judge that the defendant could not enter the house ; and it was for that entering that the £l5 had been paid into court, which was a sufficient compensa tion for it. At no time had the plaintiff urged the slightest objection to the bill of sale ; and he (Mr. Dundas) understood that the amount realized at the sale was really and truly £3O, so that there would be only £2 or £3 due to the plaintiff after the expenses had been paid. The only question then for the consideration of the jury was whether they would give the plaintiff more than the £l5 paid into court, which he (the learned counsel) contended was ample and sufficient. The bill of sale was put in and read, and a number of wit nesses were examined in support of the case on the part of the defendants. The sale produced £46 Is. 2d. The plain tiff himself was at the sale, but he did not interfere to stop it. Mr. Wonmgy, in reply to the defendants case, contended that the defendant was entitled to more than the £l5 paid into court, for entering the house, to the value of more goods which had been placed in the establishment after the date of the bill of sale, and to the damages for the ruin of his busi lICSS. • The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after being absent for an hour, they returned with a verdict for the plain tiff upon all the issues, damages £5. SSAULT AND BATTICRY PATCHETT V. AswroN.—The declaration in this case charged the defendant with having committed an assault and battery upon the plaintiff. The defendant merely pleaded the general issue. Mr. Atherton appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Brandt for the defendant. Mr. ATHERTON said the plaintiff was a young gentleman, 21 years of age, and son of Mr. George Patchett, a very re spectable gentleman, who had carried on the business of a distiller in Manchester, but who was now retired from busi ness, and was living upon his property at Chat Moss. The defendant was also a person in a respectable station in Man chester, being a collector of taxes. Prior to this assault the plaintiff's fattier had occupied, on lease, some premises as tenant to defendant. The lease expired on the 29th Septem ber. During the occupation of this house by Mr. George Patchett, that gentleman had erected a water-closet upon the premises, and at the end of the lease some discussion took place between the pal ties as to whether any allowance should be made for this ereotion or not. The plaintiff and a witness, who would be called, waited, on the 29th of September, upon the defendant, to make an offer of £5 ; but before they had time even to make the offer, the assault was committed. Mr. Thomas Sugden, a party who went with the witness, described the assault. Mr. BRANDT, for the defendant, coniended that the whole affair was of the most trumpery description, and that the ac tion was brought for the sake of costs. The judge summed up thus—Gentlemen, you have heard the case, you will consider what damages you should give. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages one farthing. SHERBURNE v. QUARME.—There are two cases in the second list under this name, which it may be recollected were made remanets by Mr. Baron Maule at the last assizes. In the cause of to-day, Mr. DUNDAS, on the part of the plain tiff, applied to the Judge to fix a day for the trials, on the ground that there were numerous witnesses to come from a distance in them, and on their being remands. Mr. BAINES said, he appeared on the other side, he had not yet received his instructions, therefore he was not in a situation to say anything on the application. The JUDGE thought that Saturday week would he a con venient day ; and if that would suit all parties he would appoint it. Mr. BAINES again stated that he had not received his in structions; and ultimately the conversation dropped without any day being specifically appointed for the trial. TAYLOR v: ASHTON AND OTHERS.—This is a special jury case in which the plaintiff seeks to recover damages from the defendants, who were directors of the Commercial Bank of Manchester, for an alleged libel. The attorney for the plain tiff is Mr. John Lowe, of Harrington-street, in this town, and Messrs. Atkinson and Sanders, and Messrs. Slater and Heelis's are for the defendants. Sir Wm. Follett, the Soli citor-General has been specially retained by the defendants, with a fee of 300 guineas. In the course of to-day, Mr. KNOWLES, who with Messrs. Crompton and Martin will conduct the case for the plaintiff, requested the learned Judge to appoint a day for the trial. Mr. WORTLEY said he appeared with Sir Wm. Follett for the defendants, and he was not at liberty to take any part in the appointment of the day until he had communicated with his leader. _ _ _ Eventually the trial was fixed to commence on Monday week, the 10th April, in case that day should prove conve nient to Sir W. Follett, with whom Mr. Wortley undertook to communicate on the subject; after which, the subject will be again mentioned. At a subsequent period of the day the trial was fixed to commence on Thursday, the 13th. The court adjourned at half-past six o'clock. CROWN COURT.—TitunspliY. Mr. Baron PARK E e n t ere d the court a few minutes after nine o'clock. MINT CASI3S. James Mullany, 22, was indicted for uttering counterfeit shillings, at Warrington, in January last. Guilty. Six months' imprisonment. John Kearns, 45, was charged with uttering five pieces of counterfeit coin, at Warrington, in January last. Guilty, but recommended to mercy. Six weeks imprisonment. 'Sarah Wilson stood charged with uttering.counterfeit coin at Liverpool, on the 21st of the present month. Acquitted. Mary Howley was charged with uttering counterfeit coin at Liverpool, on the 27th of the present month. Acquitted: Messrs. Armstrong and Pollock conducted the cases against the prisoners for coining, and Mr. Powell was in attendance on behalf of the Mint. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. • David Dickenson, 24, Andrew Thorpe, 23, and Robert Booth, 17, were indicted for robbing Samuel'Orrell at Bol ton. On the 10th of October last the prosecutor, in com pany-with his wifeovas on his way to Turton (where be re. sides) to little Bolton, having with him two £5 and one £lO Bank of England notes. On arriving at Little Bolton they called at the Dog and Partridge. and staid there till about nine o'clock in the evening, when they set out to return to Turton. While staying at the Doc and Patridge, they ob served several men sitting in the house drinking, who, it ap. pearcd, immediately followed them after they had left the house. The prosecutor had not proceeded far on the road when he was attacked by some men, and knocked down, and on recovering himself. two persons were beating him violently, one of whom was the prisoner Dickenson, and who, together with other man, then ran away, The prosecutor, on search inglis pockets, found that his money had been taken, and immediately proceeded to Bolton, and from the description he gave the prisoner Dickenson was apprehended. When taken he had some marks of blood on his person, but he ac counted ifor it by saying that his nose had been bleeding, though he admitted being at the Dog and Partridge in com pany with Booth on the night the robbery was committed. Booth and Thorpe were also apprehended, the same evening, and there were marks of blood on Booth's hands. The pri soners were undefended. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after being absent about ten minutes, found all the prisoners guilty. Sentence deferred. BURGLARY Richard Fairhurst, alias Nall, 23, was indicted for steal ing fowls, at lace-in•lllackerfield, the property of Peter Green, in October last. He was also charged with stealing a shirt, the property of Richard Lowe, of the same place. The jury found the prisoner guilty on the first charge, and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. RUBBERY' Thomas Fielding, 21, and Cornelius Eckersley, 18, were indicted for robbing of Thomas Crook, at Little Bolton. On the 12th of January last, the prosecutor was on his way home from Bolton, about nine o'clock in the evening, when he saw three men, who followed him till he was near his own house. One of them then passed him, and, turning round, said, " Come, turn up your money." All three then attacked him. and rifled his pockets, taking from him £2 in silver, and Is. 4d.• in copper. They then ran away. Information being given to the police, two of the parties (the prisoners at the bar) were apprehended, and some of the money found upon them. The jury touml both prisoners guilty, and his lord ship sentenced them to 10 years' transportation. BURGLARY Henry Flikroft, 17; was charged with a burglary at Man chester. On the night of the 28th September last the house of John Gouddie was entered, by some person getting through the room window, and an alarm being given, it was found that several articles had been removed, but nothing taken away. A police-officer, who was passing near the house at the time, saw the prisoner jump out at the window, and im mediately pursued him, and, atter some difficulty, succeeded in apprehending him. The jury found the p r i soner gu ilt y , an d he was sentenc e d to 10 years transportation. BUAGLAILY John Nixon, 23, was charged with .committing a burglary at Manchester. 'the prosecutor, John Reyner, who resides in Oldham-road, stated that he retired to bed on the evening of the l9th of March, leaving his premises perfecty secure. About five in the morning he was called up by one of the police, when it was discovered that some one had effected an entrance through the window, and carried away £l2 in copper, some tea spoons, and other articles. About three o'clock in the morning, one of the police officers of Man scohesete s r o o s b o s e e i tov n ed i prisonerimmediately y o a carrying a . box, and having m him into cus t o dy. Th e box was found to contain the articles stolen f rom th e pro secutor. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. telt ok BURGLARY,. Thomas How ar d, 3G, and Jane . _ Howard, 34, B we ib r b e Y'2B, charged with a burglary at the house of John Thompson, at North Meole. in August last. The two former pleaded guilty, and the latter was acquitted, there being no evidence to connect her with the charge contained in the indictment. Sentence deferred. BURGLARY oti the ni g ht o f th e 19 t h o i Peter Gee, 29, was ch ar g ed wit h entering the dwelling and other articles, the prope rt y of the said John Lever. It y. was stated that he had effect ed his purpose by lo c u to se be o r f l J a o s l t i , n a Le nd ve u r, ;iantgKae away ball a pound of bees' wax cutting several panes of glass out of the window of the shop kept by the prosecutor. Information having been given to the police, the prisoner was apprehended at Salford soon after the rob bery. Acquitted BURGLARY Peter 11PLaughlin, 42, and William Butterworth, 24, were charged with committing; a burglary at Manchester. On the 12th September last, the house of Samuel Renn, of George-street, Manchester, was broken into ; and an alarm being given, thu two prisoners, who were seen near the house, immediately ran away, but wera pursued and taken. One of the prisoners had a poker, with 'which it was supposed an entrance had been effected tbroughi the coal-vault by forcing open the grating. A skeleton key also was dropped by But terworth on his way to the station. and he had about him some Lucifer inatclws and a candle ....i►i.• The prisoners were The following prisoners were then brought up to receive Brooks, convicted of larceny-3 months' imprison- Ormerod, for forging an order for goods-2 years • John Dcvoynes Barnsley, Who pleaded guilty to n charge of forgery, was then placed at the bar, and his Lordship ob served that he had received representations from his friends, stating his condition in life, as also his age, and tecotnmen- ding him to the considei ation of the Court; but he had n duty to perform to the public, and the crime of the prisoner was one of so serious a character, that he conceived it his duty to punish it with severity whenever it was brought before him. It was not long ago punishable with death, but it had been mitigated ; and whatever discretion he might exercise, be was bound to exercise it consistently with his duty to the public. He (the prisoner) had had a good education, and so far from dealing with him leniently, he thought it right that he should punish him with severity. There were many persons brought up in that court whose crimes might be attributed to igno rance, but he had no such excuse, and his education ought to have guarded him against the commission of such a crime us that of which he had been convicted. The sentence of the Court was, that he be transported for ten years. John Whyatt, convicted of an assault and robbery, twelve months imprisonment. A true bill was found by the Grand Jury against Wilmet Buckley, for murder, at St. Helen's, also against Thomas Hendry, for arson, at Liverpool, no day has yet been named for trial. His Lordship signified his intention of proceeding to-day with cases of manslaughter, stabbing, &c., in which the attendance of medical men would be required, except those connected with this town. The Court rose at half-past six NISI PRIUS COURT.—THURSDAY. Mr. Justice COLTMAN took his seat a few minutes past nine o'clock. ALLEGED TRESPASS HOLFORD V. HANKINSON AND ANOTHER.—This case, which does not possess the slightest public interest, its im portance being confined to parties interested, was partially Opened yesterday. Mr. Knowles and Mr. Monk appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Wortley and Mr. Watson for the de fendant. The declaration alleged that the defendants had broke and entered into a certain close of land belonging to the plaintiff, situate in Pendleton, in the parish of Ecc;les, and on the highway between Mar chester and Bolton. rive pleas were put in by the dcfeneants, the principal of ,which was that there was a road over the close, used as a public highway, which justified the i'ef udants in trespassing upon it. Mr. KNOWLES, in thtailing the case, said that though the subject of inquiry wra not very important either in extent or value, it was oecessai y that the rights of the parties should be settled, and the position defined in which they stood to wards each other. Ihe learned counsel then detailed the circumstances : after vk Well. Mr. 'WORTLEY offered to refer the whole case to some genthmau at the bar, but the plain tiff refusing, the case proceeded. In the course of the trial, several other propositions to refer were made by Mr. Wort ley, and, like the first, declined. The trial lasted till half past one, from five o'clock last night, when it terminated in a verdict for the defendants, thus establishing their right of road over the land belonging to the plaiintiff. EJECTMENT Dos: DEM. TRAVIS V. HILES' AND arttEgs.—This WM; an action of ejectment, as uninteresting as the last case. Mr. WATSON appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. HOGGINB for the defendants. The action was brought on the demise of Joseph Eliley, against Hugh Hiley, Charles Stott, and Wm. Rigg, to recover some coal mines in a place called Hunders field, i❑ the parish of Rochdale. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. WORK AND LABOUR DONE. TAYLOR V. HARGREAVISS ANA OTHERS.—The declaration in this case alleged that the sum claimed by the plaintiff was due to him for work arid labour done by him for the de fendants. Mr. WATSON conducted the ease for the plain tiff. and Mr. KNOWLES that of the defendants, who pleaded that as to £4 4s. which the plaintiff claimed they were not indebted. It appeared, on the part of the plaintiff, that be is a black sinil,ll residing at Tottington Lower End, near Roehdale, in this county, and be sought to recover the saw of 4s. per diem for 21 days, or £4 45., and £2 Ils. for other work done for the defendants, amounting altogether to .1:6 15s. The de fendants John Hargreaves, James Scholefield, John Barlow, Andrew Taylor, and Benjamin Taylor, were owners of, and co-partners, in a coal mine near Pottington ' • the last named defendant had su ff ered judgment to go by default. The plaintiff worked there, at his trade, for 21 days, at 4s. a day, for which the four guineas were claimed; after which, some time in 1842, he set up a blacksmith's shop on his own ac count, to which the defendants sent the pickaxes, &c. of their workpeople to be sharpened and repaired, for which the amount of £2 Ils. was claimed. Mr. Watson strongly com plained that the defendants had removed the case out of the County Court, and brought it to be tried at the assizes, at great expense and trouble to the plaintiff, who was a poor man. On the part of the defendants it was attempted to be shown that the plaintiff had been discharged by all the de fendants except his father, Benjamin Taylor, who, being a partner, re-engaged him in the face of the express notice to the plaintiff himself f.om the other partners that he was not in their service. The ground of defence, therefore, was, that after notice had been given under those circumstances, the act of Benjaniin Taylor in re-engaging the plaintiff was not the act of the other partners who defended this action. Several witnesses were called in support of the defendant's case, after which the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £6 3s. The court adjourned at half-past six till nine o'clock this morning. . TILE CAUSE PAPER. The state of the Cause List. at the rising of the Court last :light, was as follows : FIRST LIST. Plaintiff—Nos. 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17,18, 24. 25, 27, 31, 39. Defendant—Nos, 12, 16, 26. Juror withdrawn—No. 8. ithdrawu—Nos. 32, 19. SECOND LIST. Withdrawn—Nos. 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 54, 75, 86 SPECIAL JURY CASES The following special jury cases, in the first list, have been fixed :—No. 44, Hoyle v. Howard, will be taken on Wed nesday next ; N 0.21, Ferrand and another v. Moore, is fixed for Thursday ; and No. 9, Farrar v. Deflinne, is fixed for Friday. In the second list, case No. 10, Taylor v. Ashton and others, in which Sir William Follett will appear for the defendants, is fixed for Thursday week. Saturday week was mentioned as a day likely to suit for the trial of the two causes, Shorbourne a. Quarme, which were made remanets at the last assizes; but no day was definitely fixed. TRIAL OF A. CHARTIST.—At the Leicester assizes on Fri day last, Wm. Jones, aged 21, was tried for having used se ditious language, and endeavoured to excite the people against the police and the army. He was found guilty, and sentenced to six months imprisonment. STAFFORDSHIRE RIOTERS.—The trial of Cooper and others, at Stafford, for the part they took in the late riots. still drags its slow length along, and it is impossible to say when it will terminate. Shoals of witnesses are daily ar riving, whom Cooper examines with tiresome detail, and many are called to prove what has been already given in evi dence many times. CAMBRIDGE ASSIZES.—BELLAMY tf. TorroN.--This was an action in which the plaintiff sought to obtain compen sation from the hands of the jury for certain libellous ex pressions made use of by the defendant concerning him, un der the following somewhat novel circumstances :—The de fendant is the rector of Meldreth, in this county, but resides on another living in Essex, in consequence of which it has always been necessary for him to appoint a curate for the former piece of preferment. In this capacity the plaintiff dwelt at Meldreth for two or three years, at the end of which period his connection with that parish ceased, the defendant having, as he imagined, reason to object to the inculcation and introduction by him of those doctrines, forms, and ob servances which are commonly known to the world under the term " Puseyism." Whatever the merits or demerits of the course adopted by the plaintiff might be in the conscientious discharge of his parochial duty, and with whatever propriety he might have conducted himself therein, it certainly did ap pear that strife and bickeriugs arose about that period in the once happy parish, there being two sides to this as well as to all other questions, whether of fact or faith ; and matters went so far as that the interference of the diocesan was loudly called for. Though the plaintiff, us appeared in evidence, did not take any part in those proceedings, simply contenting him self with the establishment of weekly sacraments, and a strict observance of the saints' days and festivals of the Church, which many deemed " novelties and papistical practices." The defendant, in the exercise of his discretion, replaced the plaintiff by another gentleman of directly opposite views, whose conduct gave as much offence to the one party in the parish as had that of the plaintiff to the other. The con sequence, therefore, of the change, wss anything but sa tisfactory to (the rector, or agreeable to the parish as a body, and the favourers of Mr. Belany took active steps to procure his restoration to the post of minister, and unfortu nately, though the plaintiff took no share or concern whatever in the promotion of that object. some kind friend made a communication to that effect to the rector, who, annoyed at what he termed " his uncalled for and unclerical interference with his parish, addressed a letter to a friend of the plaintiff, wherein occurred the passages out of which this action arose. having lamented in this letter the distressing discord which was rending his parish, and his inability to sooth the agitated minds of his parishioners, the writer proceeded to express his regret that that difficulty and discord arose from the un warrantable interference of the late curate, Mr. Belany, whom he accused of revisiting the parish under a " Nile spirit of rancorous revenge," while he further avowed his firm belief that he was nothing more or less than " a Papist in disguise." This production was handed about from man to mini among the plaitiff's friends, and thus by their misjudging zeal the present truly lamentable appeal to a jury was called into ex istence. The defendant having only pleaded the general issue, and the letter being clearly proved to have emanated from him, Mr. Serjeant Storks, in a speech of great power, addressed the jury for the defendant, deeply deprecating such an exhibition between two clergymen, and submitting to them that tile letter was no libel at all, but a communication which the rector was privileged and bound to make to a parishioner touching the spiritual condition of his preferment •, and se condly, that, at all events, if libellous, it was a letter for which the smallest coin in the realm would be ample compensation. His Lordship having laid it down to the jury that the letter was not of that class to which the learned sergeant had sought to attach it, inasmuch as it reflected upon the conduct and motives of one who was no longer concerned in the parish, left it to them to say what damages they would award to the plaintiff. Verdict for the plaintiff-40s. damages. ATIILONE ELECTION. — The Dublin Evening Mail says, that Mr. Ashton Yates is the radical candidate for the bo rough of Athlone. This is the gentleman who' some time since was the priests' representative for county Carlow. M ULMER, OF AN INFANT.—On the lsth instant, a woman of the name of Bridget Bullock, at Celbridge,, near Lein ster, strangled her new born child and threw it into the river Liffey. She was found guilty of murder at the coroner's inquest ANOTIIHR MADWAN.--A person of the name of M'Cole man. whose insane vagaries appear to have fixed upon the Premier of England, made his appearance on Tuesday in the Sheriff Clerk's office, at Glasgow. His business, he said, was to have two clerks to go up with him to Sir Robert Peel on important business. The poor man talked incoherently on different subjects with the persons in the office, but always ended in something about going up to London to Sir Robert. He insistsd, also, that he was the father of M'Naghten, and threatened, if his wishes were not complied with, to make skeletons of all and sundry. He is detained in custody. ROBBERY IN TIIE BANK OF IRELAND.—A rebberY to rather a considerable amount was, on Saturday, committed in the Bank of Ireland—the su ff erer, we regr et to observe, being Mr. Jeff: , , of Ilollybrook-park. Mr. Jetrs had been transacting some business in the cash - of fice of the hank, and hadjust deposited his pocket-book, eontaininz a sum of six illlnd red pounds, in his pocket, when his attention, with tha t t of other persons present. was attracted by the appeat once one of those extr aor dinary looking beings, the White Quakers, who happened to enter at the time. After a few moments Mr. Jetl's ascertained that his pocket-hook bad been abstracted by some adroit and successful thief, who contrived to escape before the loss was discovered. CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY (Abridged frnm the Leeds Lztelligeneer.) le anniversary s been celebrated during the present week. Preparatory ere preached on Sunday last, in the morning at sod in the evening at St. George's, by St. Paul's Chun v. T. Nolan, M.A., of Liverpool; Vol-ley Church, and in the evening at Christ Churc M.A., Secretar ad Deputation from the Parent Societ THE ANNUAL MEETINC of the Association was held in the Music Hall, Albion Street, on Tuesday evening. There was a highly respectable nudi- Inn', and amongst those present on the platform were the following :—The Rev. Dr. Holmes, Rev. NV or. Sinclair, Rev. T. Nolan, Rev. A. Irwin, Rev. W. Madden, of Wood house, near Huddersfield, Rev. E. Cookson, Rev. T. Stur geon, Rev. A. Hill, Rev. J. Holroyd, Rev. J. Wolf, Rev. Pycock, of Morley, Rev. S. Readhead, of Calverley, Rev. A. Brown, ditto,, Rev. J. Hargrave, liev. T. Davis, of Round hay, Rev. J. Ware, of Kirkstall, D. Jenkins, of Pudsey, J. Holden, A. G. Kinsman, of Gildersome, G. Digby, of liar rogete, Wm. Hey, Esq., Montague Baker Bere, Esq., C. E. Macarthy, John Atkinson, Esq., and several others. The Rev. Dr. 11 oestes was called to the chair; and at his request the Rev. E. CooEsos opened the proceedings with prayer. The report was read by the Rev. W. Sinclair, the Secre tary. The first resolution, that the report be adopted, pro posed by the ltev. W. Madden, of Huddersfield, and se conded by W. Hey, Esq., was carried unanimously. The Rey. T. Noreeer, of St. Barnabas, Liverpool, was next called upon, and spoke nearly as follows :—lt is owing to my official connexion with this Society, being one of the secretaries of the Liverpool Association, that I am privi leged to form part of the deputation to Leeds, and have the honour to propose the following resolution :—" That this meeting desires thankfully to acknowledge the measure of success with which it has pleased God to bless the labours of the Society during the past year; and trusts that through the continuance of the Divine blessing upon its operations, it may be made instrumental to relieve still further the spiritual destitution which yet so lamentably prevails in various parts of the country."—When one considers, Sir, the paramount claims of this Society upon the support of the pious and the affluent, who love their mother church, and father land, and compare them with the comparatively limi ted means. hitherto placed at its disposal, there is much to occasion surprise. The spiritual destitution .of the country, however, is confessedly such as to demand some immediate, extraordinary effort, conducted also on a very comprehen sive scale, for our population has long since outgrown the provision for spiritual instruction by the ordinary parochial superintendence, pnd is rapidly increasing still, and becom ing every day more and more unmanageable. The object of the Pastoral Aid Society, is to meet this destitution, and the manner of its operations (as its name iudicates) is such as to command itself at once to the feelings and convictions, to the hearts and the heads of reflecting Christians; and yet the measure of support extended to it is but scant and insig nificant, compared with the vastness of the field it seeks to embrace and reclaim, and the magnitude of the mass it seeks to animate with the pulses of spiritual life (Cheers.) I would tipt be understood, however, to speak disparagingly or ungratefully of the amount of countenance and support ac tually vouchsafed to it; for, considering the recent origin of the society, and the pressure of the times since its commence ment, the amount is both liberal in itself and freely and cheer fully rendered. It is only when viewed beside the amount of work to be accomplished with it, that it appears to disadvan tage. This, too, is the rather surprising, when it is remem bered the munificent amount of cheerful contribution an nually bestowed upon the Church Missionary, the Jewish, and other kindred Societies, (not that I would for a moment wish it were otherwise with them ;) but certainly the claims of our own countrymen—our own flesh and blood—perishing for lack of knowledge, like the beasts of the field, are not in ferior. " These things ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone." I once thought the cause of the slow Progress in the funds of this society was to be found in the characteristic caution that marks the growth of a sound pub lic opinion in this noble country; that wise caution that waits until full proof is made of the principles, and operations, and practical working of every new institution, before reposing in it that confidence which must always be the forerunner of a generous support. But even this is insufficient, for the prudent, scrupulous care with which the society con ducts its operations and dispenses its grants, has been such throughout, as must needs have long ago disarmed suspicion, and won for itself universal confidence and ap proval. Every care and inquiry is made use of, compa tible with the free selection of an assistant by the Incum bent, and regarding always the supreme authority of the Bishop of the Diocese—points, let me observe, that it has never been attempted to interfere with—(cheers)—to secure the services of men of piety and truth. The veto, as it has been called, against which such exception has been taken in certain quarters, has been expressly commended by the Bishops of Lichfield and Llandaff, as quoted by Mr. Sinclair, and tacitly approved of by the remainder of the Right Rev. Prelates, who lend the weight and sanction of their honoured names, as vice Patrons of the Institution. The wotshipful and worthy Chancellor Raikes, of Chester, bears his high and competent testimony to the single mindedness of the Clerical Committee in London. So we may safely leave the veto question to be discussed first, by our enemies, with those venerable champions, before we are called upon to take any netice of this (forsooth) heinous charge, which after all consti tutes ostensibly the very head and front of our offending ; but which we glory in, as constituting the very excellence of the Society, and entitling us to that degree of public favour and support, for which we are thankful, and which we are desi roes to retain, to deserve, and to augment. The Word of God is the great instrument for the accomplishment of his will, namely, the sanctification of his people. " Sanctify them through Thy truth—Thy Word is truth." This is the weapon employed by the Church of England, and consequent - - ly by the Pastoral Aid Society, which is her humble hand maiden, to secure her permanency by increasing her efficiency. The Word of God, I say, as embodied in the Creed, fenced round within the Articles, and reflected from the fair page of our beautiful Prayer .Bodk. (Hear.) This Prayer Book, Sir, is the voice of the Church speaking to us in accents familiar to our childhood, associated with the holiest and tenderest reminiscences of our lives, and interwoven with the best symptoms of our nature. The Prayer Book, stamped with the broad seal of the Church of England, not the expo sitions of individual teachers, not as interpreted by the sciolists of the No. 00 School, but as it has been all along re ceived, subscribed, and sworn to, by all that have gone before us, " holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience." (Cheers.) We mourn deeply over this sad controversy that is now weakening the strength and gnawing the vitals of our beloved Church ; bat it is not chargeable upon us—we cannot help it. We hoped against hope that the cause of it might pass away ; we forbore, and kept silent even from good words, but it was pain and grief to us, until further forbearance would have beets a base treason to our trust, as watchmen upon Zion's walls. We are for peace, only not at the expense of truth. We are prepared to peril all else sooner than suf. for one fragment of God's truth to be obscured. Be the re rult what it may, our duty is plain. Here we take our stand, like Luther before the Diet of Worms, and let God be our trust. " Let him that hath a dream, declare a dream, and what is the chaff to the wheat saith the Lord of Hosts."— (Cheers.) The Reverend Speaker then proceeded at consi derable length, to dilate upon the necesity for an increase in the number of Churches:and faithful ministers, and concluded by moving the resolution. The Rev. W. SINCLAIR rose to second the resolution, and spoke as follows :—I have always much pleasure; my Chris tian friends, in appearing before you to advocate the cause of this admirable Society ; and never more than on the present occasion. There is no one here present, I believe, who is at all acquainted with the state of things in this town but must entertain a feeling of disquiet and apyrehensioti. If we look to the temporal condition of our population it cannot but wring the heart. (Hear, hear.) I scarcely know which is more to be pitied, the wealthier or the poorer classes. (Hear, hear.) It must be grievous, indeed for the manufactu'rer to see his capital melting away, his returns growing less and less, to find his hopes of a comfortable provision for his old age disappearing, and to fear lest his children, whom he ex pected to leave in comparative affluence and comfort appa rently destined, unless seme considerable change take place, to fall in the scale of society. And in regard to the poorer classes, I am grieved to say, that they are still suffering under the pressure of severe distress. (Hear.) I went a few days ago to visit the soup kitchen, and was at first sight greatly pleased with the cleanliness, the good order, the admirable arrangement of that excellent institution, and too much praise cannot be given to those Christian philanthropists who attend there daily to superintend it. (Cheers.) But it was with a melancholy feeling I went away. When I saw the long line of persons arrayed in file, waiting to be served, and knew that each of them represented a whole family scantily provided with work, and expecting only a dole sufficient for the bare support of life, I could not but feel a sentiment of discomfort and despondency. But when I read, soon after, that speech of Lord Ashley, to which my reverend friend has alluded, I could not but perceive that we had still deeper cause for fear—a cause, moreover, which showed, at least in part, why these national judgments have been visited upon us. But before I proceed to the inference which I would draw from this, I wish to say a little with respect to the manner in which that speech seems to have been misunderstood. That dark and terrible picture, which is but too true no doubt of a part, has been pretty generally taken for a faithful portraiture of the whole, or nearly the whole, of our working population. Thus for a sample of many that I might have quoted, let me read to you a summary of that speech given by one of the ablest of the public journalists. "On examining," saye he, " Lord Ashley's data, this will be found, without exaggera tion, the state of the matter. Thousands of children are born yearly amid poverty and vice : the bulk are never taught ; and with those who have some kind of tuition, or what is in tended for such, it is so utterly worthless that in very many cases it must go for nothing : the circumstances of parents are such—with theit own ignorance, their necessities, bad dwellings, unavoidable frequenting of public-houses for con venience or for actual business, (as payment of wages,) and the untaught obedience to their own instincts—that instead of being examples to their children, they become their tutors in vice ; and so the circle goes round. Children are preco cious in depravity ; squalid indulgence is the be-all and end all of maturity ; the vigour of manhood is sapped, the deli cacy of woman is violated ; and the population of great part of our large towns, and it is to be feared of the country dis tricts, consists of hordes whose only distinction from the savage is a more recondite knowledge of depravity arid the more abject filth of in-door life." Now, my friends, I wish to take the first public opportunity of stating that if this be taken as a description of the general state at least of this town, it is an exaggeration. (Applause.) Great as are the evils which oppress us—and no man laments them more than I—this dark picture is true only of parts. There is igno rance, there is vice, there is drunkenness, there is irreligion enough to call forth the most anxious and energetic efforts of all who feel their accountability for their brethren's welfare to their country, their Church and their God. But to de scribe our working classes in a body as hordes whose only distinction front the savage is a more recondite knowledge of depravity—and I speak in the presence of many who know them well, I speak in the presence of some who spent a large portion of yesterday in visiting their dwellings—is a manifest error, and I fearlessly affirm that that view of Lord Ashley's statements which would represent them as a picture of the major part of the working classes is not warranted by facts or our own experience. There is among them I scruple not to say much humble piety, much modest virtue, and at present even 811 exemplary degree of Christian patience under suffering. (Cheers.) But having thus cleared the ground of those ex aggerations which only encumber us in our practical efforts to mitigate the evil, there is still, as you are all but too well aware, a piteous and even appalling amo unt of educational and spiritual destitution. Something is going to be donelsy the Government for the education of the p eo p le, but asthis is beside my present purpose, I shall only say that I heartily a hope a measure may be carried throug hl may be satisfactory to the great body of the nat which, without infringing on liberty of con science, may se io, parliament n which cure a sound religious training for the young. For the other, the spiritual instruction of those who have grown up to maturer years, we ought to look to the vigorous, prudent and united exertions of the whole church. Arid here we are re minded of those unhappy divisions in the church which no doubt much impair her powers of useful and combined ex ertion. I know that there are many excellent and respect able persons, who not only deplore—for we all deplore, the want of united efforts on the part of churchmen, and who think that sinking all minor differences it would be very possible for them to carry on in concert the work of such societies as this. Now, I ventnre in the first place to affirm before you all that there is no unkind feeling in the sup porters of the Church Missionary Society or the Pastoral Aid Society tdwards their fellow churchmen who oppose those institutions. A gainst them as individuals tin harsh or injurious word shall ever pass my lips, and wherever it is possible without compromise of principle we are prepared to But on religious questions co-operate with them. (Cheers. ) unhappily the differences which separate us are not mina, differences. (Hear.) We difilr from the new school of theology as to the great fundanicrital point of the rule of faith, or what is the authority on which we are to receive 811 , ' truth as Divine. We differ in the answer which .we should return to the greatest of all the questions which can the human mind. How shall man be just b e t: — differ as to the practical working Cu: •.r -- ' -- , ltogether as to V of the principles o church and h, Ire of the powers ferred by the ministerial office, or as they would term i► priesthood. And on this point I wish to gk- friends, by one plain example,_ thatrio--f Lew you, r • _ • ---- mulplC 11l • religion can be conceded for the sake of peace without i nv olving practical consequences which the unthinking little suspect. 1 bold in my hand a reprint of a Leeds► tract on matrimony, which 1 find is exciting some warns feelings of indignation both here and in Scotland_ A principle is there laid down as a fundamental truth, "That the priesthood have a general commission to represent Almighty God, and to act in His name in his several transactions with mankind." Cries of Hear, hear.) I see that I need not in your name repuliate such a principle as this, neither shall I attempt to characterise it as I think it deserves. But as there are some who will no doubt sa '6 Well, it is only a somewhat exaggerated claim for 113:e. clergy of the church ; after all it is of no great conseqtuheen: I wish to show you what are the practical results which ne cessarily follow. The writer affirms that " the rite of mar riage administered by a preacher of schism in a conventicle, or by any teacher whatever, unless ordained by a bishop, is a most blasphemous invasion of a holy office;" th a t venticle rites do not bind the parties; that marriage by the statute law without the benediction of a priest of the catho lic church is no marriage at all : it is but legalised adultery." (Loud cries of " Hear." Yes, I see you shrink from such dreadful inferences as these; but remember, if you grant the principle, which unthinking men would say is harmless, th e y all necessarily follow. And when such principles as this are boldly propounded and zealously inculcated, is it not incum bent on us, however much we may dislike publicity and con troversy, manfully to stand forth and in the name of the vast majority of churchmen disavow such intolerable claims, which would deny the honours of marriage to all beyond the pale of the Anglican and the Rotnish church, and would thereby rouse such a just storm of indignation against our mild and tolerant Communion? Now I know —there is ample proof that the great body of sober.. minded churchmen in Leeds, who peacefully pursue their even course of humble piety and self-denying charity, h ave no relish for any violent extremes, and certainly fe e l no sympathy with those high-flown dogmas which pass under the much abused name of church principles. Thus in the last report of the Leeds Association of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, its claim is urged on the ground of its being much more than any other Society profess ing the same object constituted upon the principles of the Church, and therefore it is declared to be the safest de pository of the contributions of the faithful. Now whet is the answer of the supporters of the Church Missionary so ciety ? Not, I thank God, any angry retort, but si mp l y a referenca to the cash accounts to show which society really does commend itself to churchmen in this neighbourhood as the safest depository of their bounty. The amount rasic d ri raised in I into be i invidiousirt the year ending Ist July, 1842, for the Propagation S oc i ety is stated to be £lBO 16s. 4d., the amount raised b y t h e Church Missionary Society, as stated in the Parent S oc i e t y ' s mention re p ort o f thesect p same l date, vi thNioes one another, bringss . 2kfdoi kindred Now,dlreadm societiess whyub to both, but as a plain intelligible proof, which none can mis take, that the great and influential majority of sober, quiet, self-denying laymen of the church in Leeds, notwithstanding loud assertions to the contrary, are still steadily disinclined to the new and exaggerated principles of churchmanship, for the continued advocacy even of a moat venerable institution on those principles is sufficient to chill the warm flow of affection and confidence in its favour. tCheers.) The rev. gentleman then went on to thank many who were now before him for that extreme liberality which had raised the sum of £3OOO for the erection of a new church in this over-populous district. He reminded them that this new church, at least in the first iustauce, must derive a stipend for its minister from the Pastoral Aid Society, and he therefore earnestly called auks of this upon them, in spite of the great prevailing distress, to strengthen his hands, when he should have to prefer his claim, by continuing Undiminished the liberality Which they had hitherto shown to this invaluable institution. The third resolution was propssed by the Rev. d "That Montague e er ß ic a a k l e s r e ß cr u e Er t es a g r , Esq.ptoropthoese society a ; t t a h n e d th M lrw on in t; Ripon, Patron of P an o d f after the ten n ox o ll e o lo g e y k was sun g , meeting C E . M b be given t h Y t ' h t e o leT:lgshas t ume lt ina e dt Rev . the tihhteeo meetingLor Lord iesrnacii to the distant clergy who have John Atkinson, Esq., seconded the resolution , and it was and the meeting separated a little _ The collections were—St. Georg? s, X3O , St. Paul's, £l5 ; Christ Church, £7 ; Annual Meeting, £l6. Total, £6B passed unanimously ; after which A. P. seconded by a tvie e l i s a e r v i- ' nta i k n e t n h ;o n : COURTS OF .Clu is c E nv.—We have been informed that for the last week not a s in g le cause has been set down f or hearing in any of the five c ourts of equity ; and we are al stso • o fo f fircocees, d ,inthmatatnhyeroef a w re hi 2oo ch ticoatnassetsepsomewhere months. We are not surprised at the public dislike t o • stitute fresh suits, but as s o much has been written and sa id about delays, and as Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce has nothing before him, we sho uld like to bear it explained wh y so many suits are allowed to remain dormant in the masters' offices. Th e masters we know are not to blame —or e the suitors, or the solicitors, or the town agents ? THE PRIESTS' TARIFF.—A copy, of this document has reached the parish of Ballymartle, in this county, and w e have heard the result is the closing of the chapel doors, until its terms be complied with. The parish priest is not inclined to yield, and having failed in inducing the parishioners to forego the reduction of his " dues," he sought the aid of the Rev. J. M'lslanaara, of Kinsale, to mediate. ' t The true source of political power," the people, however, hought as little of Father Mac as of their own sogyarth, and refused to hear him, so that the affair still continues sub judiee. It is said some very uncourteous language has been used to both priests.—Cork Constitution. EAST INDIA PENSIONS AND A P POINTMENTS.- - A return of the pensions granted by the East India Company to per sons in their services, for the eight years ending the 30th of June, 1812, has just been presented to the House of Com mons, and which shows the following results : —The amounts paid at the three Presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bom bay, during the aforesaid period, was, in the civil service, £700; in the military, £96,269 17s. sd. ; in the medical, £26,212 12s. 6d.; eccl esiastical, £5,274 ss. ; Lord Clive's fund, £1,316; Bengal pilot service, £1,878 10s.; Indian navy, £11,805; and to steam engineers. £3OO. D uring -the same period the app ointments made by the Court Dire ctors have been as follow :—Volunteers for the Indian navy, 99 ; volunteers for the pilot service, 96; steam engineer., 141; cadets, 2,255 ; assistant -surgeons, 115; civil service ,' 182. conscience About three weeks ago, Mr. Wm. Brandrey, of Bredbury, missed a £lOO Bank of England note from a drawer in his dressing room; and from certain appearances which mani fested themselves, be suspected two of the female servants, whom he gave into custody ; but not having any direct evi dence against them they were discharged. The other day, however, he received a letter, bearing the Manchester post mark,PaPer, and A special Birmingham eoptaniinucglotshinegsethweolrodsst tirneabsuadre,wlraipttiougp:in.ameuyrl_ tells me I roust send this back to the right owner." The number of the note had been forwarded to the different banks, and therefore there was no probability of the aie occurred toxi ns duce Mr. Vaudrey to fix the theft upon any • Particular indi getting it cashed. Is.othing, however, has vidual. of AID . thisGcx,ooninpcanETwitasßhaetratY. on Tuesday last, to consider the bi l l now before parliament general ßißu I m s e G e n til A ig id the object of which is to make sure and satisfactory the se ' rarities for £226,0-10, which sum the directors had alread raised, and which provides fur t hero669 fora general tneeting to y raise, by means of s hares, 1 , 2. A resolution was r posed that the bill should not be proceeded with, but this w as by an amendment th te bill be sanctioned and on with. On a scrutiny, th e r e sult was found to be— gone Present. Proxies. Total . 130 .... 1,595 .. 244 .... 1,864 For the amendment Against it ...... Majority in favour of the amendment .... 217 expended which w .£438 - ,503, and HOUSES OF PARLIAENT.—A return made to the House for of building Commons t states he new that H the oose s o t o f t i t a amount liaeot alread y js x3B 0,483 l o s. ; . ivsotiendh a h n a d s o b r e m e x n pee de d , will £thseB,aocalgulOsat for works now in progress of completion. It 1 . be-required that a further stun of £578 , 424 12s. 9d. will b ut estimated, complete the buildings. The total amount of e required to estimate will therefore be £1,016,924 12s. 9d Mr. Barry's will be required for completing the landin • i besides what good the pavings, furniture, and fittings, an g d P a ces , making by works of art. for decorations Tug THAUES TUNNEL—The ceremony this " great bore" to the public was perfo rmed of throwing open A procession was formed. which proceeded on Saturday. accompanied by bands of music. The E through i tae tunnel Dudley Stuart, Sir R. Inglis Sir E. _ arl of Lincoln, Lord gentlemen, were present. ' The cost of and other amounts to nearly £60,000, and theof the undertaking witted on payment of a penny. The public will now beadthe approaches to it are not yet ma de. e is a carriage way, but directors entertained their friends a upwards of 100 guests sat down to t the London Tavern, and up in a style that did credit to the dinner which was served H a wes, senior (chairman of the boardthe establishment. Mr. ded. After several other toasts ' of directors), Presi - Tunnel" was given and drunk • ' Prosperity to the Thames Times of Monday says .. The wall much enthusiasm. Tim give effect to the front of the area of the shaft is to small to viewed from the top of the cire unnel, whilein depth, when passengers descend. looks fri g htful. .ular staircase by which pas by a first g lance was h ~,y no means The sensation excited the staircase was attempted to be soothed on observing that poles, not very skilfully nor e Propped up by sundry long or rather notches intended effectively applied, the mortises severaland'ng places to receive the projections of the slightly tied to the railing being for the most part misfits, and observed and commented by small ends of rope. This was were admitted into the eupon by many of the visiters who letriPs very minutel shaft early, and who pour passer Ie so cor.fined a pl ace Y inspected all that was to be inspected in comfortable, in co' which they soon discovered to be un ventilator whateve cons equence of their being no opening or walls by which they r, from the bottom to the very top of the door from the ey were encircled, except the small entrance public street. This unpleasant feeling in creased w ith increasing numbers until the accumulation of 'breaths, the dampness of the ground, which wasp erceptible notwithstanding the loads of sa wdust thrown about, and of the walls, which the whitewas h could n mbot in concal, crea te an and the flaring of upwards of 1:30 gas-lights, coed to atmosphere at once disgustingly heated and fetid ! STREET SWEEPING BY Alacursians.—On Weriespy, the first exhibition, in the metropolis, of the sel -10 a ing which has for some time cart, or street-sweeping m ach in e, d pavement been in use in Manchester, took place on the woo g the day large crowds in Regent-street, and attracted darn), • of persons to view its very novel apparatus. le mac-lune, Tl " • der an •ir which has been taken up from Manche,ster, un , , _ • h the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, rangement with and under whose auspices the isperiment was made, cow and erations at abou six o'clock in the morning, menced its op and continued them without intermission during the greater • f day. The cart was drawn by two horses and portion o attended by s e ra iver, and, as it proceeded, caused the rotary motion of the w heels to raise the loose soil from the surface of the wood, and deposit it in a vehicle attached to the cart. Proceeding at a moderate rate through Regent-street, the cart left behind it a well -swept tract, which formed a striking contrast with the adjacent ground. It filled itself in the space of six minutes, its P ower being equal to that of forty men, and its operation being of a three-fold nature—that of sweeping, loading, and carrying at the same time, which, under the old process, formed three distinct operations. Th,, Apparatus is exceedingly simple. It consists of a series of brooms, suspended from a light frame of iron, hung behind a common cart, the body of which is placed near the ground for greater facility in loading. As the cart-wheels revolve, the brooms successively sweep the surface of the ground, a 'i carry the so il up AII inclined plane, at the top of which 1.1 * ( it falls into the cart. It is c alculated to pass throurii crowded thoroughfares at the rate of two mile „ the most without causing obstruction, and doing its works per hour, as if the streets were empty. The streets of M as perfectly now regularly swept by the machine, the - anchester are: that the sanatory condition of thepopu l ationresult of which is,. and the tow „ has now almost lost its iS improved,. filth. character for mud an&