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Aur SOUTH LA? CASHIRE ASSIZES CROWN COURT.—TUESDAY (Before Mr. Baron Rolfe.) The first tasi on fo, " : 'laPham charged with b.."ing "; die, a prisoner in the New L:aaeT 2d of August instant. Is of iron. The priso, five of an almost total want of the . Jury found that the prisoner was insane, &Hu state to plead. The learned Judge directed the prisoner to be confined until her " r_ Tiai was that of Williav red Abraham Twee- Manchester, on the on the head with a striking L. er's appearann plainly indica- mental (acuii.; iesty's pleioure were known, William Grinashutv, 21, write,) were charged with 1. Nuttall, at Man and stolen , Joseph Nicho/Bon, 19, and (neithe r of whom could read 01 having broken into the house of R chaster, on the night of the 27th March last, t wo sliver watches. The prisoners were found guilty and were each sentenced to ten years' transportation. Andrew Forsyth. 28, (could neither read nor write,, was charged with killing and slaying Zillah Walker, late wife of Benjamin 'Walker, at Manchester, on the 30th of March last. The deceased and her husband kept a dis orderly house in Pickford-street, Manchester, and the evidence for the prosecution went to show that the pri tuner had gone to the house on the day in question, that quarrel took place in the house, and that he caused in juries to the deceased which produced her deat - Mr. WILKINS, who defended the prisoner complained - that a witness, “ t "our of the prisoner before the coroner, had been very tulfairly kept back by the prosecution, and he contended that the infamous character of the principal witnesses called rendered them unworthy of credit. , oatrnan, who had given evidence in , The learned JUDGIC, in sumining no, said he concurred to the remarks of Mr. 'Wilkins as to the practice of keep tag back evidence which might tend to throw light upon a C;845, whether for or against the prisoner. „ The jury, after retiring for a quarter of an hour, found `Qa prison e r g uilty ; and his lordship sentenced him to 41 ' , 1) years' imprisonment. One of the witness, was taken into custoay by t hat he might be indicted for perjury, in having contra dieted the evidence he gave on oath oefore the coroner. John Dawson, a respectably-attired elderly man, was charged with having uttered a forged receipt, for the pay ent of £8 25., knowing the same to be a forgery, with the intent to defraud Edward Bamford and others. Tnere Were several counts in the indictment.--A great number o f respectable witnesses were called, most of whom gave n it an unexceptionable character from his earliest youth. ed George Brannan ordrrof the judge, in order The learned Jtrnas, after recapitulating the evidence atd commenting upon it, expressed himself that he. indi vidually, was more inclined to the opinion that the Voucher which contained the alleged forgery bad been the result of mistake than of design.—The jury immedi ately returned a verdict of not guilty. Francis Gwen was indicted for having intermarried with Jane Hannon, his former wife being still living.— The second wife stated that when tie prisoner married her he told her be was a married man, hut had the sanc tion of his wife to intermarry. She (Hannon) had not been in-trumental in bringing the present prosecution, tor he had made her a good husband.—Guilty. His LORDSHIP said he thought it by no means an ag gravated case, but the crime in Lancashire had become very prevalent. Under the circumstances he should order him to be imprisoned for four months.—On the s entence being announced, the second wife clapped her hands in ecstacy. Before the rising of the court, William Brooks, con noted on the previous day of having maliciously cut and w ounded Mary Learning, with the intent to commit mur der, was placed at the bar to receive sentence. His 4 -.oansitip said he had found but two circumstances Which had enabled him conscientiously to prevent the " , Wt' from being carried into effect. The first was, that !trance as his conduct had been, he thought—he hoped— 'le saw some proof that his (the prisoner / s) motives were b s ot altogether so absolutely wicked as in some cases of tilt' like sort which had been brought before him ; for al though he might have had the deliberate intention of taking away life, yet, after he had perpetrated the first it °und, and had the means of carrying his original intro „ 'ion into effect, he refrained from doing so. which would seem to imply that he felt some remorse for what he had already done. Under these circumstances he (the Judge) felt that he might be warranted in sparing his life ; but t he remainder of his days would be spent in degradation Ind slavery in a foreign country, without friends and without sympathy. He must be transported for the Whole term of his life. John Murner, convicted of two ntterings of base four _PeritlY pieces, was sentenced to twelve months' imprison -IQent for each offe ce. -Robert 17r00k. , , n cot l on Learning. (to see artsine t l irs in -out,) was ordered t' " who had been convicted of an assault .; out of the Bury - nnrisoned for 12 months. NISI PRIUS Cot Tais was an action for an alleged trespascin which ilavid Nicol was the plaintiff, George Clarge Pauling end Charles Henfrey the defendants. The case had refer ence to a contract in connexion with the Manchester and Rossendale Railway. After the examination of ° ne or two witnesses far the defendant, it was agreed to Vi itbdraw a juror, on the understanding that an engi. !leer is to ,inspect the works; and. if anything is found to be due to the plaintiff, he is to receive it. -TUESDAY PETRIE AND This was an action to recover the value of an 4 ,,. 4 d boiler, alleged to have be en seized , _watann and Mr. Cowling were counsel for the plaintiff Mr. Knowles and Mr. Segar, appeal cd for the defendant The parties reside in Rochdale. The jury found for the damages THERS V. DAWSON AND ANOTHER engine Mr. - TAYLOR w. LAWRENCI. James Taylor was the plaintiff, and Thomas Lawrence the defendant. Mr. J k2d as said the plaintiff was a well-sinker, "It in Liverpool, and the defendant an innkeeper and Proprietor, residing at Aicburtb. Some time in the co urse of November the plaintiff was employ e d by the d efendant to sink a well on his oreeniees. After the well was sunk, the plaintiff was paid the amount due to him for the work done. After that, and before the plaintiff had removed his implements, the defendant found fault with the amount he had paid, and said be had overpaid 30 a for what had been done. It was in c!censequenee of that pretence that defendant refused to allow the plaintiff t° remove his tools. , Mr. M ARTIN , f or th e d e f en d ant , sa id t h e too t s h ad been left by the plaintiff as security for the sum of 30s. w hch had been overpaid. He c a ll e d w i tnesses to prove t his, but his Lordship was of opinion no case of lien, on co nsideration, had been made out, :sod directed a v erdict to be entered for the plaintiff. Damages £lO 'frith leave to the defendant to move for a nonsuit. CROWN COURT.—WEDNESDAY. „Peter Radcliffe was found guilty of a rape on Catheri n e zl owarth a child under ten years of age, at-Little Bolton, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and hard htb„„ - ; Francis Wright was charged with Vity of a common assault, at Manchester, arrington, a child under ten yea of age, and was sen 'encen to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. John Clayton was found guilty of a rape on ', Izaheth Nelson, at Manchester, and was sentenced to tr ansportation for life. „,„•fan. Kitchen was found guilty of concealing the birth child, and was sentenced to two months' imprison. "IA and hard labour. rape, and found on Sara h n Kilbryde was found }offguilt o a rape on Margaret nth, a child under ten years age, at Manchester, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment and hard la- BThomas Hennesey was found guilty of a rape on Ellen 4 UeY, at Liverpool, and was sentenced to transportation Z r life. The proseentrix was eleven years of age. and "at acting as servant to the prisoner, in Birkett-street, at the time the offence was committed. James Wm. Ferguson, 19, was sentenced to seven "are transportation for forging a warrant for the pay tent of money, with intent to defraud Mr. Joseph Ro ,ertn, of Manchest_.r. It will be seen from Thursday's r°ceedina,s that his lordship on that day altered this sen- Le n ce. ` r tames Smith, 19, Tho ma s B e ll, 20, an d P e t er Hutch ,„ai, were found guilty of a burglary at the public-house tn. Maltby, at Manchester. The prisoners had been I t ) ,':''viously convicted of felony, an d hi s l or d s hi p sen t ence d "En to ten years' tran Dr tation NISI PRIUS COURT BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE N II ARROTTLE Y. RYLANDS.—This cause, whi 5 in the first list, was fixed to come on this morning, RS it had excited considerable interest th e cour t was -WEDNESDAY ...ire than usua lly cro e taken th e i r seats in ti• tl the court. 'nester. Miss Harbottle is the 4Pectshle gentleman, now and a number of ladies had e gallery long before the opening of laintiff and defendant reside in Man ' .ighter of a highly re isc of business. Mr. Rylands ,Li an extensive manufacturer eneral ha bee n retained for the plaintiff, and Attorney-G the Solicitor-Generald ter the d e f endant, and as each of these gentlemen would e c ei , e a retaining f e e of a t l eas t 300 gu i neas , it i s ,'`uent the parties were in earnest about the matter. The Vanns who h a d a tt en ded to hea r the t r i a l, were, however, ta Trned to disappointment, and the only public notice i„`en of th e case was by Mr. Martin, who said to the r"ge• " I suppose your lordship is aware the great cause tlnbettled." His lordship intimated assent. It appears f e Attorney and eer Solicitor-Gnal had a consultation fete , on Tuesday night, when it was agreed that the de 4'4"A should pay the sum of £4,000, with taxed costs. 1. e r Coming to this arrange . !ment, the Attorney and So tikc_lt°,-General left by the nine o'clock London train, and ..7rvecord was withdrawn. The plaintiff's father was in '"o t for a short time during the morning. ACTION ON A CHARTER PARTY. ,tor 9B ELL AND ANOTHER Y. WATSON AND ANOTHER. n tilts case r. Watscn and Mr. Crompton appeared th_ c t h , t pla , utiffs, and Mr. Martin conducted the case for Tdfendans. Mr. Watson stated the case. This cars ,1 1 action brought to recover the Hun of £1304 IGs. 4d. as N r nattes hy reason of the defendants not having loaded a I , i ". on board the pl a i n tiff' s vesse l, accor di ng t o th e sti ,ciations of a-charter party. The plaintiffs, Messrs. Has 'od Good, were shipowners of Hull, and the owners 1 j ! veinpi called Wilson. of 181 tons register, which was vr er . " e lt " erPool in September of l as t ye a r. The d e f en da n t s of ea Yo,ung gentlemen —one of them was in the university sot kridee, and the other he (the learned counsel) did foi ln p vr whether he was in business or not. The jury ttoq T Tor the plaintiff, rn daagesl39l 4d.—Execu r half the sum in a fortnight. G Lt ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE. The " v• WHARTON.—In this case, David Glen was knotilitiotiff, and Heury Wharton the defendant.—Mr. hi, r ; l .les and Mr. James appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Th e i n, and Mr. Ramehay were counsel for the defendant. ti ttat rit!tiff is a porter in the employ of a gentleman Higgins, of Liverpool, and he brought the action to recover damages for an injury alleged to have been in flicted upon him by the carelessness of the servants of the defendant, who is a master porter. It appeared that, on the 6th of June last, the plaintiff was employed by a Mr. . . • Gilliat to remove cottons from one end of the warehouse, called Rigby's warehouse, in Sefton-street, to the other. He dragged the cottots in a truck along the gangway, upon each aide of which the cottons were piled up. The men of the defendant were also breaking up cottons, and one of the bales. which was being removed by them from the top of one of the piles, was rolled down upon the plaintiff, who was taken up much injured, and it was for this injury that compensation was now asked. For the defendant it was alleged that the man at the top of the pile, instead of rolling the cotton down into the gangway, should have let it down endways, not into the gangway, but into a vacant space at one end of the pile. The sur geon proved that the collar-bone of the plaintiff had been broken, and that he was otherwise seriously injured, so that he was unable to follow his employment, for which he usually received 21s. a week, from the 6th of June to the Bth of August. The case for the defendant was, that it was purely an accident, and that there was no negli gence on the part of any of the defendants servants. The jury found for the plaintiff, damages £l6. DOE DEM GRUNDY AND UX V BOYCE. In this case, which was tried on Friday week, and a . . verdict given for the plainti ff , Mr. Knowles now applied, upon an affidavit made by Mr. Child, the defendant's at torney, for a rule nisi, to move for a new trial, on the ground that the deponent had reason to believe the docu ments produced by David Gillmore were similar in ap- pearance to those produced at a trial on Saturday, which were ordered to be impounded. The affidavit also stated that deponent believed. in the event of a new trial, he could produce such evidence as would lead the jury to disbelieve the testimony of Mr. Gillmore, and to believe that the aforesaid documents were not genuine. The rule nisi was granted. CROWN COURT.—THURSDAY. Frederick Harris, 20. was charged with kering, at Bury, killed and slain John Sudgen. Art indictment, charging the prisoner with the capital offence, was dis missed by the Grand Jury, and a true bill was found against him for manslaughter. It appeared that for several weeks there bad been a tarn-out at Messrs. Walker, Smith, and Company's work's, in consequence of an attempt on the part of the employers to introduce longer hours for the same wages. An ill-feeling had arisen on the part of the turn-outs to wards the wen who had replaced them, and petty skir mishes had taken place between them at different periods. On the 26th of May last, the prisoner was along with some other men, at Mr. Charleston's beer-house in It3ch dale-road, about eight o'clock in the evening. Four men were fighting outside, and making a noise, and the pri- Boner, ;rho Ead a stick in his hand, went to the door and stood ; whilst there ha drew a dagger out of his stick, and closing it, exclaimed, " I would like to run the b through." Adding, also, that he would take some per son's life that night before he slept. He afterwards went down Rochdale-ward, waving his stick in the air, followed by a number of boys and girls shouting. At the corner of Chapel-street he turned down in the direction of his lodg ings, still heading the crowd, which had by this time in creased to upwards of a hundred- When he reached his lodgings at the corner of Butcher-lane and Chapel-street, the crowd hooted him, and cried out " Ba," and used other expressions of derision. Whilst ascending the steps of his lodgings, be was closely pressed by the crowd, and turning round drew the dagger from its sheath, and st.b bed the deceased several times in the pit of the stomach, after which he made several attempts to stab other per sons around. He afterwards went into the house, when he showed a part of the dagger, and said he had " stuck the other part into a b- 's guts. The deceased called out several times " I am stabb..d," and was afterwards conveyed to Dr. Wardleworth's, On the Wednesday following Sudgen died, and a post martens examination was made upon him by Dr. Wardleworth, who fuund up wards of five inches of the dagger an inch deep in the spine. The prisoner, on his way to brideweil, admitted that he had stabbed the dece.+sed. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and his Lordship postponed passing sentence. James William Ferguson, who had been convicted on the previous day on a charge of having forged a warrant for the payment of money, was placed at the bar. His Lardship stated that upon consideration of the case, he found it would be necessary to withdraw the sentence 1a.9 had already passed upon the prisoner. He was then tried on a charge of having feloniously stolen a watch from J. M'Kay, a soldier, on Monday, the sth May, from the barracks at Salford. It appeared from Mr. M'Kay's statement, that on the sth of May, he was in barracks at Salford, when the prisoner came in, and lie went to the Duke of York public-house and drank with him. While in the public-house, M'Kay told the prisoner that his watch wanted repairing, upon which the prisoner said his father was a watchmaker, and the only one in the country that could repair Geneva watches. The prisoner then went out for a few minutes, and returned again, and told M'Kay that be had made a wager with a man in an ad joining room, and if he would lend him his watch, he would return it in a :minute or two. It was given to him, and he left the room. About a quarter of an hour afterwards he was caught on his road to the Manchester and Li►erpool Railway. The Judge briefly summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. 1 NISI MUTTS COURT l- ALKOZO BREACH Or CONTRAC-. ROBB v. STARKEY.—This was an action arising out of an alleged breach of contract on the part of the defendant, in not having delivered a cargo of guano to the plaintiff. The damages were laid at £l,OOO. It appeared from the statement of the counsel and the witnesses, that the plaintiff, Mr. James Robb, was a merchant at Aberdeen, and the defendant, Mr. John Jackson Starkey, a merchant, carrying on business at Liverpool. In November last, plaintiff being anxious to purchase a cargo of guano, authorised Messrs. Corrie and - TII IJ RN nAT~ Co. to negotiate for that purpose. Messrs. Corrie and Co. then entered into a contract with Messrs. Bourne, brokers, who, it was said, acted on the part of the de fendant, for the purchase of 500 tons of guano, per the ship New Brunswick, from Ichaboe, to be delivered be tween the Ist February and the Ist April, of the present year. The plaintiff, it was alleged, was to name the port of delivery, and the price of the guano was to be £5 15s. per ton. The vessel arrived on the 16th January, and some communication touk Owe between the parties as to the delivery, it being stated by the defendant that the ship could only enter four ports, on account of her great draft of water, namely, London, Liverpool, Bristol, and the Clyde. The plaintiff wished the guano to be delivered at Dundee, and wrote a letter to that effect. Some dif ference then arose, and the vessel was eventually ordered off to London, and the cargo soli there. This was said to be in direct violation of the terms of the contract. The amount sought io be rec,vered was the difference in the price of the article, which had taken place between the time of the contract and the period at which it ought to have been delivered. A number of witnesses were examined for the piaintifrs he view of estantiAing the contract, but it was contended, on the part of the defendant, that no such contract bad been made, and that the matter had arisen out of a misunderstanding, the parties being all gentlemen of high standing in the commercial world, who had no other desire than that of acting with perfect fairness. his LortosniP observed that it was merely a difference which had arisen out of each of the parties standing strictly on their rights, and intimated that an arrange ment had better be made, if possible. After some conversation between the learned counsel on both sides, an agreement was entered into, and a ver dict taken by consent for the plaintiff, for the sum of £5OO. case, witt: DISPUTED ACCOUNT GORMAN v. BUDDY.-- Thomas Gorman, a provision dealer, of Liverpool, was the plaintiff, and John Boddy, grocer, of Halifax, the defendant. The action was to recover the sum of £3l, alleged to be due from the de fendant for ten firkins of butter supplied to him on the sth of April of the present year. The defence was, that the plaintiff had not complied with the order sent by the defendant, be having sent for ten firkins, while twelve were forwarded; in consequence of which, he refused to take them. It was also alleged that the butter was of inferior quality to a parcel formerly sent, which was one of the terms of the order. His LORDSHIP said the defendant 'vas sued for goods sold and delivered, whereas the goods had never been delivered. The plaintiff was nonsuited, but leave was given to his counsel to move IRIS CLAIM FOR WAGZ!, BRETHERTON v. ECKERSLEY.—The plaintiff, Mr. Peter Bretherton, was a working man at Wigan, and defendant, Mr. James Eckersley, carried on business as a cotton-spinner, at the same ►lace. The action was for the recovery of the sum of £4 165., alleged to be due to him by the defendant, who had discharged him from his service without a month's notice or a month's wages, contrary to the terms under which he had served In 1833 (as appeared from the statement of Mr. Addison, the plaintiff's counsel,) the plaintiff was hired to the de fendant as throstle tenter. at 245. per week ; and he was also, according to the ordinary practice of that part of the country, to receive a month's notice or a month's wages, on being discharged. He remained in the defen dant's employ till the 16th November last, when, without any complaint having been alleged against him, he was discharged, neither the usual notice - nor any allowance being made to him, in violation of the terms of the con- Defendant had also refused to give the plaintiff a aracter, and he had, in consequence, been opt of em ployment ever since. Plaintiff had three sons employed in the mill, who were discharged at the same time with himself. After several witnesses had been called, his Lonnsutr thought the custom of the country had not been proved, which sas fatal to the plaintiff's case. The plaintiff was, tLerefore, nousuited. ALLEGED BREACH OF CONTRACT RAYNER ♦. GROTE.— ..s Rayner, broker, of Liverpool, was the plaintiff, and Frederick R. Grote and Samuel Tomkinson, merchants, defendants. The action was to recover a sum of £3l, being, as it was alleged, a loss occasioned by the sale of twenty tons of soda ash, which the defendants ought to have taken in accordance with a contract he had entered into with the plaintiff. Mr. Watson and Mr. Henderson appeared for the plaintiff, and Messrs. Baines and Crompton for the defendants. It appeared from the statement of the plaintiff's counsel, that on the 7th March, 1844, a contract was entered into between the plaintiff and defendant, the latter agreeing to take 50 tons of soda ash, all to be delivered in May. On the 10th May, 30 tons, which bad been bought from a Person named Johnson, were delivered, for which the de fendant paid, and on the 25th May he was applied to receive the residue of twenty tons on its arrival, but re fused to do so. The soda was afterwards sold at a loss of £3l, which was the amount 14;44 to be rteuv.urad by the , hn Hick 1 P 1 Plaintiff, Mr. Baines contended that the contract note showed a safe from Johnson to the broker, and not to the defendant, which was also borne out by the plaintiff's witnesses. After a short consultation, between the oppo sing counsel, it was agreed to take a verdict for the plain tiff for £4l, with liberty for the defendants to move to enter a nonsuit. DISPUTED LIABILITY A AIITCHEN V. WRIGLEY A. _.OTHER. - The ptaintl was Mr. Wm. Hitchen, a timber merchant, at Middle wich, and the defendants Robert and William Wrigley, of Oldham, the one in business as a bobbin-maker, and the other engaged in the hat trade. The action was for the sum of £73, being the value of a quantity of timber sold by plaintiff to the two defendants last year and the begin ning of the present. One of the defendants denied his liability, and the other had suffered judgment to go by default. It was contended by Mr. Atherton, on the part of the defendants, that the timber in question had been supplied to Mr. Robert Wrigley, who was an insolvent, and the present was merely an attempt to fasten on the solvent brother, William, his brothers debts, by an en deavour to set up a joint liability. He called a witness to show that Robert Wrigley carried on business on his own account, without any elnnexion with his brother. Mr. Knowles, for the plaintiff, said it was perfectly clear, notwithstanding what had been said by his learned friend, that there was a joint liability, and William was answers- ble, along with his brother, for the amount in question. Verdict for the plaintiff for £73 13s. 4d. -._,..-,...,1.1.-.. CROWN COURT.-FRIDAY. Frederick Harris. who had been convicted on the day previous of manslaughter, was brought up to receive sen tence. His lordship remarked that he had delayed sen tencing the prisoner in order to consider whether the re commendation of the jury to mercy could be attended to, but the circumstance of the prisoner being armed with a deadly concealed weapon, was wholly inconsistent with that recommendation. He must be transported for 20 years. James Croft Reid, aged 31, pleaded guilty to having married Ann Reese, his former wife being then living.— Sentence deferred. CUSTOM-HOUSE ROBBRRY. William Matthews, aged 28, pleaded guilty to stealing £3OO. the property of Elias Arnaud, collector of customs. Mr. Wilkins hoped his Lordship would take a merciful view of the case. The prisoner bad borne a most excel lent chNracter, and could have obtained £BOO as readily as £3OO. When he received the money lie was intoxi cated, and on coming to his senses he immediately re turned the whole amount, except about £5. which he had spent. The learned counsel turn called W. B. Hughes, Esq., M.P., and the Rev. T. Thomas, rector of Llanlo din, who had known the prisoner ten years, and gave him an excellent character. His lordship said he would pass sentence on Monday morning. IMURDIER ON THE HIGII SNAS George Will, 26, captain of the brig Challenge, was charged with the wilful murder of Ben Jonson, on the 2d of May last. _ Mr. Brandt and Mr. Patchett conducted the prosecu tion; and Mr. Wilkins and Mr. James the defence. William Angus, cooper and seaman of the brig Chal lenge, said that he joined the ship on the coast of Africa, and came home in her. On the 11th o' February they shipped a seaman, named Ben Jonson, a Krooman. Ho waa about 28 or 30 years of age. On the night of the Ist of May, I was 'n the captain's watch, from twelve to four o'clock; there were also in the watch, Henry Holmes, the second male, William Lyons, an apprentice, and the deceased. About half-past two o'clock the deceased was sitting at the top of the companion ladder ; he appeared to be asleep. I was sitting on the starboard side, where the man at the wheel stands. I saw the deceased fall down stairs; I heard him strike twice in falling. The captain called out from the cabin, " What is that noise ?" The second mate thereupon went down stairs, and called to me to come and pull Ben Jonson up. When I reached the companion, I found Jonson coming up by himself. I laid hold of his collar, and asked why he had fallen down ; he rested his arm upon the top of the companion, and said, " 1 have been too much sleepy." I told him to go and lie down alongside of the grating on the larboard side, and he did so. The captain and second mate then came upon deck, and the captain said, " Where is that fellow now ?" I showed him, and the prisoner got a rope and gave Ben a slap wiih it. The deceased whirled him self right round, and tried to get forward ; the captain caught him by the back of the jacket and pulled him down on the deck, and commenced beating him with the rope, and kicking him with his feet at the same t me, for ten minutes or quarter of an hour. I could see what was going on ; the moon was not out, but it was not very dark, and there was a light in the binnacle. Seeing the punish ment going on I went away to the starboard side of the quarter deck, for I could not stand it any longer. I heard the prisoner say, " d-n that rope, it is too light to make him rise," and he reached his hand over the gra ting and got a canoe paddle, with which he commenced beating the deceased, until it was broken. (The piece was here produced with marks of blood on it.) The prisoner hit him on every part whenever he could get a blow at him for three or four minutes. The captain then told me to haul the deceased out of the round-house and pour a bucket of water on him, which I did. The deceased was lying with his face downwards, and blood was flowing from his face or mouth. I heard a gurgling noise in his throat, and when the captain gave the first blow with the rope the deceased gave a groan, but he never spoke after wards. After the heating the deceased made a snoring noise, and the captain said, " If you lie there snoring I'll give you some more of it." I was relieved at four and did not come on deck again until eight o'clock. The de ceased was then lying at the windlass, and was then dead. Shortly after eight, the captain and Kitson, the chief mate, came on deck, and the captain asked Kitson if he heard the noise in the night. Kitson said he did, and the captain asked how Ben felt after his beating ; witness re plied that he supposed Ben was dead by that time. About a quarter past twelve the deceased was thrown overboard Cross-examined by Mr. WILKINS. — The deceased. made a great noise in falling; I pulled him up by the jacket. When I moved the deceased forward I dragged him by his legs. About seven weeks before we reached Liverpool, a man stabbed the captain, and was kept in irons until we reached the port. Henry Holmes deposed that when the captain was besting the deceased, the Fitter was in a stooping posi tion, and ran with his head against witness's trowsers, and he afterwards found, where the head had touched, there was a mark of blood. The captai❑ sent Lyons for a lamp, and witness then examined the deceased. The head and face were covered with blood, and there was a large quantity of blood on the deck. The nose was cut through, and also the lip, and there was a wound like a stab on the throat, under the jaw. His hair was clotted with blood. The captain told Angus to take him away and throw some water o❑ him. I soon after seat to the foretop, from which I saw the captain and the cook give the deceased something out of a cup with a spoon, William Lyons told 'a similar story, and on cross-exa mination said, that when the deceased was pulled up the ladder he fell doisn on the deck. Witness was flogged two or three dayc before the ship reached the poit, for letting the ship go out of her course. Ritson said he was chief mate of the Chal lenge. He heard the noise on the night in question, but did not come on deck until four o'clock. When it was daylight witness went to the deceased, who was lying between the main hatch and the galley, on the larboard side, and found his face cut, and he was lying among a great deal of blood. His nose was cut in two, a cut in the upper lip, and two cuts in the throat, one of which was a kind of stab. Witness then described what fel- and when the captain proposed to bury the de ceased, witness said they had better examine the body. Witness, on looking at the deceased, said he thought the bone at the back of the neck was a great deal higher than his own, but he did not know whether he was built exactly like black fellows. The prisoner felt the hone, and said that Ben had broke his neck. The prisoner then called the cook and the cooper to examine the neck, and the former said the neck was not broken. The prisoner said he wished the bone to be examined, because some of the people might pull him up for it in Liverpool, and say he had killed Ben. Witness wrote an account of the trans action in the log-book. Witness had copied the first three lines from the slate, when the captain came up and robbed out all he had written, and then wrote the con clusion of the account for witness to copy. The entry in the log was then read ; it attributed the deceased's death to his falling down stairs, by which his neck was broken. Daniel Phillips, a man of eolonr, said he was cook on board the Challenge, and said that on examining the de- ceased, the captain said that if he had known the deceased had so many wounds on him he would not have ropes ended him. When witness said the neck was not broken, the captain said, " D---n it, say it is, for fear some of these fellows may bring me up fur it in Liverpool." Thomas Hughes, another seaman, also was examined for the prosecution. s Archer, surgeon, deposed, that had the de jurcd the spine, or dislocated the neck, the body Ps the part would be paralysed, so that the patient could not have walked up stairs. Mr. Franc Mr. WI I-KIN s for the prisoner contended that the ac- count in the log was the irue one, and the pretended tale of the mate was only worthy of ridicule. The prisoner showed no d'sposition to conciliate those, who, if their story were true, had it in their power to avenge them selves by means of the law, but punished every breach of discipline, as well, after the death of the Krooman, as before. His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury after being absent sit hour and forty minutes, returned a verdict of " Guilty of manslaughter." The learned JUDGE after remarking on the patient at tention which the jury had given the case, " I am bound to say of the act, from the violence of its character, that it is, short of murder, as bad a case as ever I had before me ; as you had necessarily a number of persons under your dominion who were compelled, in some degree, to submit to your violence. You say you are as innocent as any per Son in this court. If that statement is true, this h as b een a scene of the most remarkable deprav4y— greater than which I never witnessed r or could conceive. The jury, however, have not attributed to them this wickedness; but have pronounced them the witnesses of truth. It remains only for me to say that you be tran sported beyond the seas, to such place as her Majesty's privy council may determine, for the term of your natural life. The prisoner, who did not show the slightest marks of epidation, was then removed. FORGERY James Bradburn, 25. was charged with having at Man chester, forged a note for the purpose of fraudulently ob taining 541bs. weight of copper nada, the property cf Mr. Gibbons, nail manufacturer, Manchester. It Appeared that Messrs. Eirkley, slaters, had been in the habit of sending written orders for different arti.iles to Mr. Gib bons. On the 10th of May, the prisoner presented a note requesting 541bs. of copper nails to be sent. , whi c h were accordingly ;delivered to the prisoner. proved to be a forgery. The prisoner The order Iva' came a•few dayg THE LIVERPOOL TANOARI). after with a second forged order and was taken into cus tody. The prisoner in his defence said he could not write, and that be was sent with the orders, and did not know they were forged._Notguilty. BURGLARY AT MANCTIESTIER Edward Roberts, 22, was charged viith breaking.int the house of Thomas Morgan, - watchmaker, Oxford street, Manchester, on the 16th of July, and stealing therefrom a quantity of jewellery. An accomplice, named Ashworth, pleaded guilty to the same indictment.— Guilty. A previous conviction we's proved against Roberts Both prisoners were transported for ten years. NISI PRIUS COURT, -FRIDAY GREEN V. ROGERS.—This was an action under iesue, to try the validity of a seizure of a quantity of good taken under a fieri facias issued against a person named De Piece, of Oxton.—The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. BREACT CONTRACT.--TYILER r. KlNG.—This was an acton brought by Mr. Tyrer, a carrier, of Liverpool, against Mr. George King, a gentleman, residing at Beb. bington, in Cheshire, to recover damages for the refusal of the defendant to execute the conveyance ,f two hoi which the defendant had by his agent contracted to sell ro the plaintiff for the sum of £l,2oo.—Nis Lordship said he was of opinion that the plaintiff was not entitled to damages for the loss of bargain.—Plaintiff nonsuited. DODD 11. WeLssit.—This was an action fur slander, the defendant having called the plaintiff a thief.—M r. Cromp ton having opened the pleadings. Mr. ATIBMTON said he was instructed by his client to withdraw the offensive expressions. Mr. KNOWLES said be was unwilling to take the con cession in the way that his learned friend put it. This was a case in which the plaintiff could have been fully justified in appealing to the jury, hut he was willing to forego his right upon full justice being done him, by hay ing the expressions withdrawn in the most open, public manner that they could possibly be, with a distinct decla. ration that there was no foundation whatever for the assertion. The plaintiff was a young man, a chemist and druggist, formerly in the employ of the defendant, who is a surgeon, at Prescot. The plaintiff havng left the de fendant went into the service of a gentleman named Gar ton, and at a subsequent opportunity the parties being together, the defendant charged the plaintiff with disho nesty. repeatedly saying that the plaintiff was a thief.— Mr. ATKINSON. on the part of the defendant : •' I adopt the apology of my learned friend. I adopt the terms dic tated by my learned frien.: in the fullest manner."— Verdict for the plaintiff, damages 405.; costs 40s. KING AND OTHERS V. LANCASTER.- l lhiS Was an Action brought by Messrs. King, Hodgkinson, and Lan caster, of Ince-hall and Patricroft collieries, to recover from the defendant, Mr. William Lancaster, the sum of £1,492 leis., which he retained in his hands.—Upon the conclusion of the plaintiffs' case. Mr. KNOWLES informed his lordship that the parties had settled the matter. — Verdict for the plaintiff, damages £2,000, subject to arrangement. BRFACII OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGF PASS V. POTT9.—This we: an action for breach of pro- wise of marriage. The plaintiff, Miss Pass, was the daughter of a respectable person, formerly in trade as a butcher, at Sheffield, but now the owner of some collieries and land at Pitt's-moor, near that town. The plaintiff was the eldest daughter, and was 19 years of age. The defendant was also a young person, who had attained his majority in the month of March, in this year. He was the son of a late lieutenant in the army. He was in the possession of some property in the East Riding of York, on the sea coast. In the year 1843, Mr. Pass and his daughter were at llornaea, when they lodged at a house of a tenant of the defendant. Here commenced the courtship, which was afterwards renewed at Sheffield_ He attained his majority on the 9th of March, and ap pointed the 3d of April for the wedding day : the dresses were ordered ; the defendant wanted to be married in a week ; walked out with her amongst her friends, and in troduced himself as her future husband. He then said he would go to see his guardian, and left under the promise to return in a week. He never came back or wrote any explanation of his conduct, but after an absence of some weeks he went to the house of Mrs. Granger, at Sher bourne, near York, and, when• asked to explain his con duct, he either did not or could not do so, but merely said he wai much attached to Miss Pass.—The jury. atter ten minu'es' deliberation, returned a verdict for the plain tiff.—Damages £2OO. t-- CROWN COURT-SATURDAY CHARGE OF MURDER AT WARRINGTON. Patrick O'Brien, a youngish man of light complexion, and apparently an Irish labourer, was charged with the murder of Michael Duffy, at Warrington, in June last. The prisoner had no counsel. Mr. James stated the case. The deceased (Michael Duffy), into the cause of whose death they were about to inquire, resided at Wigan. He was a chairmaker;and in the course of his vocation, was occasionally absent from that town. On Sunday evening, the Sth of June, be w in Warrington, with several other persons, at a public house in the Horsemarket, the Black Bull, where they remained drinking until nearly midnight, when thr y ad journed to the lodgings of one of the parties at the house of a Mrs. Connor. While they were in the public house a man named O'Brien, alleged to be the prisoner, sat in the same room with the deceased and the others, and on his leaving the house was heard to use an expression indi cating that he was determined to be revenged on some one. He said, " I will have my revenge before 1 sleep," or words to that effect sometime at Connor's, and v came and asked for a light, and Deceased remained with his fr'encis !v were there, O'Brien thit being brought he wanted apipe, which was refused, and be went away, but continued to walk up and down in front of the house for some time. About one o'clock deceased and another man went out of the house, when O'Brien came to the deceased in the street with something in his band, which appeared to be a stone or a brick, and with which he struck the de ceased a severe blow. He was carried bleeding into Con nor's house, where be remained until the following day, and he then went home to his own house at Wigan ; but from the time of his arrival there until his death, which took place on the 4th July, he was unable to attend to his work. A post mortem examination left no doubt but that death was caused by the blow given, by a brick or stone, as stated. O'Brien worked at the vitriol works of Mr. Musprat, near Newton-in-the-Willows, and between the period of the blow being given and the 4th July had dis appeared from his place of employment. After the death of deceased, search was made, but he could not be found. About the beginning of the present month information having been received from the governor of a jail in Cavan (Ireland), which would probably lead to his being disco vered, a person who was present on the night in question was sent over, with an officer, and pointed the prisoner out amongst a number of others. His appearance was somewhat altered, by his whiskers being apparently shaved off and his dress varying. He went in Ireland by the name of John Lee. lie was brought to Wigan, and after an examination before the magistrates, was committed for trial. A number of witnesses were then called, who deposed to certain of the facts; but none of them could positively swear to the identity of the prisoner, and one apparently material witness in the case (belonging to the vitriol works where the prisoner worked) did not appear. The prisoner had certainly no appearance of having ever had anything like conspicuous whiskers, his hair being very thin, of fine texture, and light colour. The jury, after a short consul tatio❑ in the box, returned a verdict of not guilty. The learned judge said that the prisoner (who had been in jail) must he sent back to Cavan. CHARGE OF MORDZA ON THE HIGH :SEA Michael Moore, aged 30, was charged with hi aving, in the English ship' Afountaineer, on the high seas, - and within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, felo niously killed and murdered one John Campbell. Mr. Blair and Mr. Drinkwater were for the prosecu tion. The prisoner was undefended, but his lordship re quested.Mr.Atkinson to watch the case in his behalf. Mr. BLAIR stated the circumstances. The prisoner had shipped as an able seaman on board the Mounts at New Orli-ans, to proceed to Liverpool. The sailed on the 24th of * March last from' the former port. The deceased was boatswain on board, On the 14th of April, as the ship was getting clear of the Gulf of Florida, and about two o'clock in the afternoon, the mate, Mr. Barrow, and the deceased were engaged near the bow of the ship, when the former beard deceased cry out Look out Mr. Barrow," and presently after be felt himself pushed behind, as if to throw him overboard, when, as he was standing on the rail getting up an anchor, be fell down upon the flying jib-guy, which enabled him to re cover himself and get upon deck. He went to secure the prisoner, who had run to the other side of the deck, not then knowing that he had done anything violent but at tempt to throw him overboard. He, however, saw the deceased on the deck, and found that he was wounded. The prisoner was secured, and near the spot was found open a clasp knife, with a blade four inches long, which was covered with blood and known to be the prisoners. Deceased was stripped, and a wound was found in the belly, near the navel. He was attended to, but died of the effects of the wound at seven o'clock the same night. When questioned by the mate as to his reason for attempt ing to throw him overboard and stab the other, he said he had done it, and was sorry he had not done it before. when he had a better opportunity. The prisoner and the parties had had no quarrel, and no provocation was given by the deceased or the mate. A question would however arise for the consideration of the jury, as to the state of the prisoners mind at the time, regarding which there were some circumstances of importance previously to the 14th of April. He had discharged his duties satis factorily, no fault was found with him, no provocation was given to him, and he had said to the men on board that " the crew were in a plot against him to throw him overboard." This he frequentlyrepeated. On one occa sion he saw the deceased and another man reading the bible, and immediately exclaimed " You are swearing in the crew to throw me overboard." The surgeon who had attended him since his commitment would be called, and from his and the other testimony the jury would have to come to a conclusion; but it must be distinctly proved that he laboured under a mental delusion, in order to find that he was not a responsible being. Witnesses were called, who proved all the facts stated, and Mr. Chalmers, jun. of Kirkdale Gaol, (in addition to what was stated by the crew respecting the delusion under which the prisont-r laboured while on board,) said that be considered from the vague manner of the prisoner, he was not of sound mind. He had had conversations with the prisoner. The prisoner had told him that he bad had the yellow fever at New Orleans; and that he had the feeling of his brain opening and abutting and after did not know what he was doing. On the supposition that ha had inflammation of the brain, which might linger long after the fever bad left him, he bad bled and blistered him. He seemed to be scarcely in possession of all his faculties. The prisoner's statement before Mr. Rushton was read, namely—" I don't mind their swearing my life away here ; they all swore before to heave me overboard. Mr. ATKINSON obtained several admissions from the witnesses in behalf of the prisoner, as regssded his state of mind, especially from Dr. ward, ably addressed the jury His LORDSHIP briefly addressed the jury, who, after short consultation, brought in a verdict of acquittal. 01 the ground of the prisoner' insanity. halcners ; and he after UTTERING A FORGED ORDER. Joqeph Cowle, 35, was charged with uttering. at Salford, an order for the payment of money, purporting to be the order of William Jackson, a leather dealer, with intent to defraud William Morris, he knowing the same to bf forged. The case presented no feature of i Th prisoner had obtained £4 Bs. from Jacksor prosecuted, and Mr. Otter defended. 1 consulting for some time, retired. Another jury was called for, and a number not being present, were fined £5 each. In a few minutes the jury returned, nd pronounced verdict of guilty. ,nterest. . 111 r. Pol The jury, aft or jurymen :lia LORDSHIP said the case was by no means a light one, as the fraud was against the employer. The sentence was, that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years William Smith and Joseph Hague we►e each sentenced to one year's imprisonment and hard labour, for having d £24 frt;m William Whither by false pretension. The prisoners had duped the prosecutor out of the money at Warrington fair, on the 18th of July, by the old trick of one of them pretending to wish to buy from the other a horse, which the prosecutor was told the seller would not part with, in consequence of an alleged quarrel between him and the pretended buyer. The prosecutor was offered a sovereign to buy the horse, and having pur chased it for £24, which be paid to one of the prisoners; the hack was found to be worth not more than the price of its carcase, and the prisoners soon decamped. NISI PRIUS COURT. -SATURDAY. HUMPHREY V. LUCAS This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover the difference in the value of a purchase of shares bought by him as principal, through his broker, from the defen. dant, another broker, and not duly delivered. The con tract between the parties was proved, and the amount claimed, stated at £717 IN. It appeared that since the transaction was entered into, the broker of the plaintiff bad failed, and left the Stock Exchange, and the contract had been taken possession of by some committee of that Exchange. It was contended for the defence, that the by the rules of the body was between broker and the committee therefore had power to contrac and broker, dispose of them by their rules, which were put in ai evi dence, hut refused by the Judge as inadmissible, and con trary to the laws of the land. Under the direction of his lordship, the jury immediately found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £717 10s. Several unimportant cases having been disposed of (the principal part relating to iron contracts) the court pro cteded to tl.•e case of LANORTOGIS V. HORSLEY, for goods sold and delivered to the wife of the defendant, who carried on a stay and corset business, in Liverpool, the plaintiff conducting a similar business in Bristol. The question was as to the liability, the defendant and his wife having bad differences and ultimately separated. It was contended by the plaintiffs counsel that the goods were delivered before -- made known ch separation was fentiant, and that he knew nothing of tht previously existing. In reply, defendant urged were circumstances in the case which ought to that ther i suspicion, and caused plaintiff to make inquiry, and the jury found for the defendant. have excite LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS. A number of cells for the solitary confinement of pri soners are being erected at Kirkdale Gaol. Two vessels ran against the landing-stage at New Brighton on Wednesday, and carried awiorpor,4 of it. Mr. E. Twistleton replaces the Hon. Mr.' Clements as Assistant Poor-law Commissioner for this district. Dickens, Talfourd, and, it is anticipated, Eugene Sue, will be present at the soiree of the Manchester Athenteurn on the !3d October. The Manchester Guardian states that there have been no less than eleven cases of suicide in that town in tbir- teen weeks IL Palmer, Esq., town-clerk of Preston, paid his one hundred and thirteenth consecutie visit to the last Lan- caster assizes There are about one hundred and twenty barristers at tending the present assia's, and it is said that about eighty will leave Liverpool, as they came, briefless. A LATE BAPTISM.—At the Baptist Chapel, in Byrom street, on Thursday evening last, a female, aged 73 named Mary Jones, was baptized by immersion. The bridewell and magistrates' room at Birkenhead are to be erected on a portion of the land at present occupied by the old railway station. STABBING.—On Wednesday, John Snail was fined 20s. and costs, or, in default, to he imprisoned fourteen days, for stabbing John Smith, in a public ' On Wednesday, during the high wind, the gable end of some buildings in the course of erection in Cleave-street, Everton, came down with a tremendous crash. Fortu nately, no person was injured. The steam-ship Cambria, which left Boston on the I(ith, and which will bring, in all probability, intelligence of the arrival out of the Great Britain, will be due on Thursday Mr. H ill, the superintendent of the police force, Cbestt has recovered ninety-fire of the watches which were stol back from Mr. Davis, of Dolgellv. end I some t which Jones, at the Merionf.th assizes, was transported. The celebrated skiff builder and rower, Henry Clasper, of Newcastle, the champion of Engiand, is matched to row Cotton, the champion of Liverpool, for £lOO abide : to come off at Eastham on the 29th of next month. At the Prescot petty sessions, on Tuesday, several per son. from Liverpool were punished for various disorderly offences, at Wavertree. At the same time, Thos. Wills. of Garston, was fined 20s. for assaulting Mr. Lawrence, of Aigburth. On Sunday week, a man named James Sweeney, who lived in Carpenter-row, Park lanti, felt from a spring -cart, whinh was going with great rapidity down Park-hill-roa I, and received such injuries that he died on Saturday at the Northern Hospital. CAUTION.—On store dealer, of Naylor-street, was committed to two months' imprisonme,t, fair having a number of copper bolts secreted in his store, which had been stolen from Messrs. Bury, Curtis, and Co.'s yard. SUDDEN DEATHS.—On Sunday week a man named Crawle, from Bolton, died awfully sudden in this town from disease of the heart.—Ott Tuesday a matt named ArGow an expired in a senseless state of intoxication in Hurst-street.—On the latter day an infant named Painter, between four and five years old, living in Watson-street, died suddenly from congestion of the brain. On Tuesday, a splendid silver vase, value 140 guineas, was presented to Sir P. H. Fleetwood, Bt. M.P., as a token of respect from his friends residing in Poulton and the neighbourhood. In order to give the honourable baronet's humbler well-wishers an opportunity of contributing, the highest amount given be any one person wa one guinea. There were 300 subscribers sday last, James ', marine mited t NEW ROWISH CHAPFL.—The ceremonies connected with the opening of this bulding took place last week. No fewer than five bishops and seventy priests were pre sent. The amount collected up to Thursday was .£659. On Tuesday a dinner tock place, when the comp:my displayed their loyalty by postponing the health of her Majesty until after due honour had been done to that of the Pope. Two fellows named M'Cormick and Shore. hare been committed to take their trials for robbing Mrs. Daven port of £l2, who arrived by the railway on Tuesday, for the purpose of proceeding to her husband who is in America. What makes the poor woman's case more dis tressing is, that she was accompanied by four children, and has been thus deprived of the means of paying her passage. WATER COLOUR SKFTCHING.—We had yesterday the pleasure of inspecting a beautifully-finished likeness of the ialented teacher of the cornet-a-piston, Mr. G. W. A. Phiilipps, long celebrated as the Infant Trumpeter. As a likeness it is admirable, and as a painting, ;whether in colouring or drawing, it reflects the highest credit on the artist, Mr. Norman, of Bold-street, being finished (even though it is large in size) as fine as an ivory miniature. REPTON ScnooL.—The Rev. John George Sheppard, M.A., Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and Senior Assistant Master in this school, has received the appoint ment of Under Master on the foundation of Sir John Port, in the room of the Rev. W. Stoddart, M.A.— Derby M•rcury.—[This young gentleman is the eldest son of our townsman, John Sheppard. F‘sq., one of the members for North Toxteth Ward, and was educated at the Royal Institution Schools.] 13URGLARTES.—John Redpath, the man w► prehended in Manchester, when offering in p, plate, the produce of a burglary in this town, was again brought up at the Police-court on Tuesdal &nee was produced to show that there had bee at his house a part of the produce of two other as well as a silver watch, of which a man had been robbed in a house of bad character. The prisoner was committed for trial for receiving the stolen property. was ap , when e burglnries, PARIS ExcunstoN PARTY.—We understand the late Paris excursion party, which gave such entire satisfaction to the whole company, consisted of 3 clergymen C 2 being doctors in divinity), 2 surgeons, 1 lawyer rrister merchants, 2 students, 1 naval officer, 1 army officer, 10 ladies, and 20 gentlemen of various trades or professions ; and of the party. 22 were Irish, 17 English, 5 Scotch, and 2 Welsh. It will therefore be seen that the above ngredients, when jumbled together, ft ble party. 'oral a most agree REVISING BARRISTERS.—Mr. Baron Rolfe has ar pointed the followtng gentlemen to revise the lists of voters for this district. South Lancashire, with the Boroughs of TI arrington and Bury.—Percival Andri Pickering. Esq., William Walker, Esq.. and Thomas llorncastle Marshall, Esq. Liverpool, Wigan, Bolton. Prestxs, and Blackburn. — Thomas Shaw Brandreth, Esq. Lancashire 13oroughs. ea•cept Liverpool, Wigan, Bol ton, Bury, and Warrington.--Hon. Richard Denman. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.— On Sunday last, the chimney at Throstle Nest Mill, Blackburn, fell with a tremendous crash, by which six persons were seriously injured; one of them has since died. In its fall the chimney de molished the boiler house, which appears to have been very slightly put together ; and broke in one of the boilers. The fall of the chimney is attributable, we believe, to the fact that fire bricks were not used at the bott',m of the chimney which communicates with the fire; and because the chimney being too near to the fire the flue was too short, and the fire passing up it burnt the bottom of the chimney away. Mibata , '‘illiOSON ,1N,ii.1.m./ISMN ! nth have kind TESTIMONIAL 70 MR. JONES nd Mr. Thomas Bold A the Doc ken the ofti the fund John Jones, the late a ks volt. , r presenting Mr and f treasurers of Mr. Jones' numerous fr RR IN 1 INNBOROUGH- th a suitable testimonial for his ion In the absence of either of the Thomas Warburton, the newly-appointed r of the rooms, will_ receive subscriptions from any RF. ET. AbOUt b ten o'clock on Thursday night, of Messrs. Parry and Lightfoot The engines were speedily on the spot. There The fire, which commenced in the broke out in . the I was no want of water upper story, Wel iington- ended to the next warehouse, fro By the udicious conduct of the brigade, however, both warehouses were saved, with com paratively little injury. The upper story of one warehouse was destroyed, and about 100 bags of cotton, but the lost :reat as ba 000 to £2,0 the Economic offices Messrs. Leatham of property is by no means Co g rented. It will not exceed .£l,l principally insured in the Atlas and The whole of the premises belong and Seddon, who are fully insured. been repre- FATAL ACClDENTS.—Yesterday week a Reilly, was killed on board the ship Adam Smith, i Victoria Dock, through the handle of the winch rtrikit him on the head.—On Tuesday a youth named Clay wa killed in the bold of the Satellite, in Brunswick Doc through a water cask falling on his head.—On day a child three years old, named M'Sbeane New Bond-street, fell into a pan-mug ofdirty water, and died soon after being taken out.•—On Friday morning boy named Hunter, living in Rhyl-street, Toxte was found dead on a brick-kiln, having been st by the exhalations.—On the same day a man named M'Cabe, of Frederick-street, was killed at the Canning Graving Dock, by the falling of a stage on which tie was working.—On the same day a man named Murpl Bell-street, fell down the hold of the ship Crus the Brunswick Dock, and was killed on the ape body of a man unknown was found on Friday toria Dock rter named living in Lb-park, .located c.— me he RUNCORN NATIONAL SCROOL.—On Saturday week, the children belonging to this establishment, about 250 in number, paid their annual visit, by special invitation, to the hall of the worthy patron of the institution, Sir Richard Brooke. Bart. About twelve o'clock, the happy party, accompanied by the Rev. A. Read,Thomas Keeling, 1E61,, &c., embarked on board a been placed at their disposal by the Bridg and proceeded to Preston Brook, whe - e I after parading the village, returned to Ni passing through the beautiful grounds, arrive Priory, where they were met by their hospitable enter tsiner, accompanied by his amiable dam:liters. Tea, bread, and jam were furnished to the children who were afterwards each presented with a bun ; and a table loaded with refreshments or various descriptions, was provided for the ladies and gentlemen who had accompanied them. After singing the National Anthem and some hymns, the party re-embarked, and arrived at Runcorn about six .passage-5 ;nvater TrusteeS they l‘nde, artCli Bridge o'clock, high' . CALENDARS OF - PRISONERS provements have been made in the calendars of prisoners for trial at the assizes and the sessions. It appears to us, however, that there is still room for improvement. The date of committal is given, with one or two other par. ticulars ; but. the date has nothing to do with the case, further than showing in some cases that he h a d go t ou t o f the way. The prirmipal date is th e d a y w h en t h e o ff ence was committed, and none of the calendars present this datum, so that reporters and others must gather it from column containing the charge, the date of the commission of the offence might easily be inserted ; as, in place of itnes to s e l s eto mistakes. I n t h e ,ad:sometimes imp er f ec tl y " Having, at Salford, feloniensly uttered, &c.," say, couns el, heara a and therefore from tli e liable " Having, at Salford, on the 12th of April, uttered, &c." elighted with the dav's e )f late years some ire We have selects calendar of the present assizes f the comm prisoner was not commltt ct, from ment of a charge in elticidatior. i until the 30th of April mere flight of the calendar, can nd the ess at the time of the offe-Oce DOCK COMMITTEE was screed that a permanent berth should be allotted at the north-east cor ner of the Canning Dock to the traders belonging to the Carron Co., as an experiment, for three months.—Tho sub-committee reported that they conld not recommend the committee to give dock accommodation to two free of charge, as applied for last week by the Jerk. The reason for the recommend , ition was, give dock room to from the Admiralty lumps, e committee had no power A any vessel free was read, approving ot the plan of The new landing-stage, providing it v: as rr /tie in a certain way set forth, and well Fahted with alternate hrigt and coloured lanps Bann said be understood - the sta ge would b much more effective if the baths were removed, and sug gested that some application should be made to the Cor poration upon the subject.—Mr. Evans said it would be a very cool request to ask the Corporation to give up what cost them £-10,000.—M Aikin said they bad no right to interfere unless they could show it would be of advantage to the Dock Committee. As it was not, it was a matter that rested entirely with the public.—A repreentation, made by the officers of customs, respecting the transit sheds, was referred to the Warehouse Sub-committee. BA LLooNlNG.—Wiregret to hear that the engagement of Mr. Green, the celebrated aeronaut, to ascend in his ological G This does not arise from any mis the ies, but, in cons s formed, but, of the gas in fa etureti fron majestic balloon, from the Z time, been deferre understanding bet' if a fact that Filfal which may be t Mr. Green and the superior qualit Liverpool, it v, air, and, conse ii,ently, unfit to inflate a balloon. On this being male known to the New Gas Company, they kindly offered their assistance to manufacture an inferior arid lighter inary coal, on the ground. But, so often Green been disappointed by gas manufactured '-ting balloons, that he has laid it down as he receives his gas fan established company. In the cannel coa eavitr than atm Ras, from Or' has Mr expressly for infl a rule, not to ascend utiles direct from the works suburbs of London, and many of our manufacturing towns, the gas manufactured from common coal, though inferior to that used in Liverpool, is much lighter. n ever way suited to the pur to think that. as ks ; the only consequence of w be company ►n eilOW R 8 used in Liverpo lities of Liverpool, and as it is a sight Ur will not be confined to those whi but one that may be witnessed by thi le company might, as it is the summe a few hour .►ferior gas from their ik k wonid be, 5 reflec- g, by cornpariso: d other towns conrequend We are inc sion to public at large ,k place in of %chic! We hope to see it announced qua PAVING AND SEIN meeting, on Thursday the ov complaint was made b_ the almost impassable state of the road from Paddington, along Brownlow-hill. It was ordered to be reported upon. The Mayor handed the following letter to the Board, stating it was of much importance :—" Alderman Worshipful the Gavin, Dublir Mayor, that about three years past be invented a fire apparatus for giving water been ap n cases of fire, and proved of, and upwards of four a in Publin by.the hundred of them put dow who are daily adding 10 the rporation, supply to trifling—t —equal to ery part of the cif ruction simy st the pressura of th order to perfect a RAGE COMMIE , Mr. John He STONERS.-At the es presttied. A. 8 of West Derby of e treasur The cost of the plug is and of great durability heaviest waggons, and presents no obstruction whatever in the street occupies only a small space, and this on a level w surface of the streets. The principle may hay supply for six, or twelve, or eng nes from o ag, or by the tial to the power of a dozen engines of the reservoir that supplies the city, fires have been frequently got under 6 engine arrived at the pl that you and throw a volume of he height cc where it Wtii wanted. P may no heat pressure of injure them, and that their constr can affe ouid furnish he Mayor, fiat cas e of the r of the rporate officers to Mr. Gavin the diatne face and the head pressure of the reservoir begs to say, that if such be wanting in Liverpool, little or no is intend, laced ou the inventi Mayor added, tha ption given of i tatcd iklr. Simi compared with it would answer anything it would obviate all the difficulties e dese son. After some discussion, the Mayor was requested to communicate with Mr. Gavin, to thank him for his offer. and to state that the assistant-engineer would be sent over to Dublin, for the purpose of inspecting —A memorial was presented from the Patriot Society, expressing surprise that the com Mis! Building )ners had not taken power private individuals. The Chairman said it was desirable that the commissioners could not help thetnsel was very doubtful, too, whether they could legally supply the markets with water. The Mayor said there was no doubt they could not give the water levity, but the public demended it to kno The Chairman said it was more tatter, if Lord Lineola's bill passed, .cn out u. their hands. That bill would pro water companies stilt more. It they had no mains in a street no other persons would be allowed to put them down ; and if they required to extend their than likely tilt taken out in would be tect the would be sold to the proprietor * , ,ht be the premium.—Mr. Cooper . -ageous that half of it would be sc Ir. Procter said the public at large de ,dy of water. It was distressing ti r cattle landed from the steam-boats. and no I works the shag., whatever ~.. bill was so out to the wind.— nianded a better supt. attered see the I: a drop of water to give them ferred to the Water (- rnmitte duced a s•a'ement or accounts, from which it appeared that the arrears were £2OO more than at the same period last year.—A long conversation took place as to the non attendance of members to hear summonses for ment of rates. It was resolved to urge upon g the detdrability of attending more regularly The mortality non-pay- nerally, shows n well known the I London, and indeed, of England ge inual decrease, whilst it is eases considerably. The pupwation rates of premium . for have been greatly re- duced dining ast few y s, yet the offices continue )rmerly These . ' facts clearly demon —, either unknown or unin_ must have produced such favourable results. these causes, the increased knowledge of anatomy acts the many very valuable discoveries in medicine will stand most prominent. The small-pox, that annually carried off thousands, has been successfully combatted by vacci nation ; and gout, that used to claim its numerous vi c ti ms , has been thoroughly vanquished by BLAIR'S Gorr ati RHEUUATIC that some cause A mongst itera f the :lock