Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-BATITIMAY. LIVERPOOL. BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD. Deentina TREMENS.-31r. Godfrey appeared on the part of Samuel Finchett, a whitesmith, in Rainsford-gardens, who charged his wife Marg tret with havin g threateners his life and for annoying him. The case was remarksoole fur the following reason s . It appeare d that she had - been in jail several times for offences similar to the present, and that she had some fits of delirium tremens. She was what is termed a very heavy drinker. Twelve months ago she was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for attempiing the life of her husband and having ne glected her children. She came oiet of jail on Friday, and at once eot drnnk, and then proceeded to her husband's lsce of business, and seizing a piece of iron, she swore she would murder her husband. Mr. Mansfield said the vpinion of medical men was. that a person once having had a fit of delirium tremens, and continued to drink afterwards, 'that it assumed the form of disease, and became confirmed enadness. A Court of Sessions in Scotland had decided in that way, and there was scarcely any doubt about it. 'He did not know if such a case had come before a leg4l 'tribunal in this country. He would remand the prisoner for seven drys, and let her be examined by a medical man who could report on her case. A "DIPP&S" NIPPED —A respectably dressed and well 'looking young man, who gave the name of John Watson, was broug'it en by Superintendent Boyd, charged with the following offence. The pr soner was described as a ' dipper"—that is one of those " swells," who live in grand style by dipping into the pockets of those who are sus spected to possess rah, Mr. Boyd, with his wife, and a Mrs. Donegan, a perfumer, front London, were at the gardens on Friday evening, and just as the balloon was going to ascend, Mrs Donegan called Mr. Boyd's atten tion to the prisoner, and asked if he knew him? as le had been following and looking very hard at her for some time, and was then pressing very hard aeniust her. At that instant the prisoner ran away and Mr. Boyd' followed him, the lady, at the same time, calling out that she had lost her purse. The ;officer followed the prisoner towards the bear-house, where the prisoner flung something from his hand, when he was seized by the officer who held him by the hands, and had his pockets searched, in which 15s. were found, and after that ls. 6d. was got in his hands, and these two sums made up the amount of silver that was in the purse The purse was found in the place were the prisoner had flung it. It contained Mrs. Donegan's return ticket to London. Mr. Boyd, in reply to Mr. Barker frr the prisoner, said "I charged him w ith robbing a lady." Did he c h arge you with robbing him? (L aug ter.) ." Yes, esiten I seized him and was searching his pockets, he cried out I was robbing him—he did not know I was an officer, as I was in private clothes." Mrs. Donegan's evidence corro berated the above history of the case. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sent to gaol for six months with hard labour, under the Criminal Justice Act. THE PRIVILRGES OF A RECEirlT.—William Williams, a recruit, and Michael Riley, were charged with having assaulzed police officer 682. The prisoner Williams, had . just enlisted, and was in a public house at the corner of Fontenoy and Dale -streets with some other persons, one of whom got very drunk, when the prisoner took off his boots and jacket, and was going off with them, bat two soldiers interfered, the prisoner insisted thanhe was pri vileged to do so in consequenCe of being a recruit. The soldiers called the policeman, when bo'h prisoners attacked, knocked him down, and ill-used him. The soldiers, however, interfered, and after a severe struggle the prisoners were captured. They ware fined £1 each, or to be imprisoned for one mo n th. CHARGE .OF &Deemer, ABDUCTION, AND :ROBBERY.- -John Cummings, a young man about 23 years of age, described as a "striker," was charged with the above offences. Mr. Campbell was f r the prosecution, and Mr. Black for the prisoner. From the statement of Mr Campbell it appeared that a hard-working man named Francis Roland, who resides in Henderson -street, Park, had a daughter named Mary, who, in January last, was over 15 years of age. Her father had saved up .-C.:18 in cash, which was sown up in the tick of the bed. About the 13th of January last, the 1 risoner induced the father and mother of the girl to go into a public-house with him, and whilst there he gave them the " slip," and it would appear from the evidence of an intelligent child named Bridget Downey, that the prisoner and the prosecutor's daughter entered the house of the latter, took the money, and went off. Nothing more was heard oethem until Friday, when the prisoner was arres ed on his return from America. On his way to the station house he told the officer 603, who had him in custody, that he went to America with the girl, and that she paid £lO for their passage ; that he had left the girl in Rock and court, New York. Mr. Gluck—Did he tell you that the girl stole the money ? No he did not, but he admitted she had it, as he said he raw it in her hand. The father and mother of the girl, along with the girl Bridget Downey were examined and crtas-examined by Atr. Block, the above being the facts they prove]. Mr. Campbell asked for a remand of the prisoner, but this was °Keeled by Mr. Bluok who strongly contended that there was no evidence given to sustain the detention of the prisoner. After some discussion, his Worship remanded the prisoner, in order to have further evidence produced. Colonel Mauteuffel has been nominated Prussian Minister at Vienna. TOBACCO roa WOUNDS.—In the ewe of a snake bite nothing is so feequeutly applied as tobacco leaf or sweet oil. I remember the circumstance of a man who had been to the " timber" for a load of rails, and in returning home stopped to drink at a small spring a few rods off the main road, aril upon rising was bitten in the leg by an old ra.tlesnake. The man's leg soon swelled enor mously, and the pain increased, but upon the application of some oil, which he premed at a cabin a mile or two °a the road, and then a lot of cut and dry :(tho most trashy tobacco), well damped and bound round the swelling, all danger passed, and his leg was reduced to is natural size by the time he reached home late in the night: Indeed, the domestic medicine chest of the American back woodsman may be said to contain but two specifics—calo mel for the stomach, and tobacco for the .akin.--Notes and Queries. FEARFUL Boraza EXPLOST:N.—EarIy - on Thursday morning, a fearful boiler explosion took place at the colliery belonging to Messrs. &urges, Paley, and Co., known as the New Gawber Pit, situate about a mile from Btresley. The Colliery, which is a large one, with engine and boiler houses and a number of cottages, has barn until very recentl y at a stand, i n consequence of an irruption of scat r into the workings some two yeas ago. It is worked by two engines of 180 horse cower, with six tubular bailers. About two o'clock, the people in the reighbourhoad were alarmed by a terrific report. The people at the house immediately opposite the engine and boiler house were roused by it, and the blowing in of the windows of the bedroom. On going to the scene of the explosion, one of the firemen, named Joseph Broaden, was found some distance from the pit, so seriously scalded that he lingered in great agony till about- seven o'clock, when he was released by death from his sufferings. On examining the engines the explosion was found to have resulted from the bursting of one of the boilers, which had destroyed the large flue conveying the smoke from all the boilers into the large chimney, and scattering the bricks and other materials in all directions. So great was the force of the explosion that large pieces of timber which were laid .a short distance were raised up on end and turned completely over, while a quantity of bricks and other debris were blown a distance of 150 yards. Some piggeries close at heed were levelled to the ground, and holes were made in the walls of the dwelling brasses opposite, in which the wind,ws were completely shattered. The residents of the injured home owe their 'safety, in a great measure, to the largo quantity of timber lying before the doors, which broke the force of the shock. The probability seems to he that the water had been allowed to get too low. FRCNCH AND ENGLISH FISHEIMEN.—On Wednesday a long inquiry was held before the North Shields magis trates, at the instance of Lieutenant Simpson, of her Ma jesty's cruiser Otter, who the night before had brought the French fishing lugger, No. 274, of Boulogne, into the Tyne, on a earge of an infraction of the fishery regula tions. Mr. Kewney, of the town clerk's office at New castle. wa`ched the proceedings for the master of the lug ger, Perre Charles Lohile'or. In consequence of the do mige done to English fishing vessels by the large craft belonging to France constantly fishing within the pro scribed limits, three miles of the shore, the Otteris down en the Northumberland coast this season protecting the Engtish fishermen. On Saturday morning last a cable belonging to Shields, and manned by three men, one of whom was the owner, William Templeman, was catching herring within about a mile and a half of the Northum berland coast, when the defendant shot his nets within him, and damaged Templemares goer, to the amount of 201. It took place Mora daylight, and upon the English beat going alorgside of the lugger to take its lumber, the crew attempted to hide it, and one man tried to knock Templeman overboard with an oar. He and his crew get the number however, and were pnlliag away, when fire of the French crew chased the boat and tried to sink he-. Failing in that, they struck and ill-'iced the English fishermen, who however fortunately escaped from them without any more serious injuries than a goad beating. As Roo as Lieut. Simpson heard of the outrage, ho wort in search of the lugger, and speedily captured it and the crew, and brought them into the Tyne. The case was fully proved against them, and the master w ordered to pay the plaintiff 281. for damage and loss, or have his vessel detained in port during four mouths. THE NORTHERN TiMES.--LIVERPOOL I MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 1857, THE LIV:dRPOOJ, FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION, Sr zee our lost notice of the proceedings of the Council, !Ir a attendance at the weekly meetings has been some what Irregular, owing to the repeated abiencas of the president in London, on business connected with the Mersey Conservancy and Dock Bill, summer excursions, and other circumstances The association has sustained a great loss in the lamented death of Mr. Malachi Donohue, its zealous and indefati gable agent, who acted in the same capac"ty for the Reform Association. A subscription has been set on foot, in order to establish his widow—who is left, with two young children, unprovided for—in a small way of bu,iness. Robert Thernely, of Commerce -court, has been appointed collector, and is to be assisted by Mr. F. S. Macqueen, in the town and district collection. As the expenditure has been rather heavy of late, and additional funds are requisite to ex end the operation; of the association, and give increased efficiency to its exertions, a circular address, soliciting all who •are at present members, to continue their support, and to urge its claims on the attention cf their friends and Acquaintances, was ordered to be issued, at the meeting on Monday last. Amongst the subscriptions and donations announced, was one of £5, from Thomas Thomassou., Esq., of Bolton. THE PEOPLE'S BLUE BOOK. Taxation as it is, and as it ought to be —The author of this remarkable work, just published by Messrs. Routledge and Co., of Farringdon street, London, forwarded two copies to the council, a letter requesting its assistance in circulating ' The People's Blue Book" as widely as possible, and offering any number of copies for this purpose, at a considerable discount off the selling price, though that is so low as scarcely to cover the cost of publication. The author, in the preface, ackowlelgas his obligations to various persons and sources of information, and, amongst the rest, to the tracts issued by the Financial Rebrm Association, from which, both of the old and new series, he has bor rowed largely. His views as to the comparative advan tages and disadvantages of direct and indirect taxation, are in fact, identical wi'h those of tho Association. He enters into elaborate calculations for the purpose of showing that for every shilling that'finds its way into the national ex chequer, somebody or other has to pay in one shape or other 'upwards of two ehiU'ngs more. He would abolish customs and excise duties utterly,—thus giving perfect freedom to commerce, trade and industry ; and, exempting all more precarious income, from professional exertions, or personal labour,—he looks to a tax of 25 per cent on all real property—that is to a realization of the Land Tax of William the 111, which has been 93 frittered away and evaded, as the main sou , ca of revenue under " Taxation as it ought to be." The following is the scheme on which he proposes to raise an income of upwards of 70 millions annually, or more if need be : 1. Property Tax of 4i in the pound 58,431,022 2. Capitation Tex. on all persons over 14 years years old 7,500000 3. Stamps (the am oun t rsce i va d i n 1856) 1,097,536 4. Crown Lands 421,715 5. " Miscellaneous" 1,158,147 £68,608,420 Deduct cost of collection, 1 3d the pound f 857,603 Total net Revalue £07,750,817 It was observel that greatly as such a scheme of taxa tion as this would be to the advantage of the country, and most especially to the working classes themselves, who now, in indirect duties on sugar, tea &e., low wages, and restricted employment, are actually paying very much more than the proposed Poll Tax of xl. The difficulty of collecting such a tax, unless by instalments, or through employers, would be all bat insuperable The council hailed with satisfaction the assistance of so zealous and efficient a fellow labourer in the advocacy of sound principles of taxation; the sincerity and strength of whose convictions that from landed property the great bulk of the revenue should be derived may he safely assumed from the fact that he himself, like other members of his family, is largely interested in land, and entirely dependant upon it. The funds of the Association are, unfortunately, not in such a state at present as to warrant any expenditure in the circulation of this very valuable work, but the council would recommend its perusal to all who are desirous of thoroughly understanding the multifarious evils of Taxation as it is," and of forming a very definite idea of the &teat ac/vantages, national and individual, which would certainly flaw from the introduction of a system of - "Taxatton as it ought to be." TIIS LATE SESSION—THE TWO MONSTER MONOPOLIES. Lord Palmerston's glowing eulogium on the new parlia ment, and its labours, which he pronounced in his own name the other day ; and also that which he caused to be delivered in the name of the Queen on Friday, as t^e royal speech on the prorogation of parliament, were sub jects of discuttsion. As to both it was held that whatever satisfaction her Majesty's ministers may derive from having obtained a House of Commons submissive, with one or two tare exception., to all their demands, however extra vagant, and tamely acquiescent in all they have Thought proper to do, or to leave undone, the pe ,ple have most abundant reason for dissatisfaction, both with tho pro ceedings of the government, and the conduct of their representatives. The most lavish expenditure iu every branch of the public service has been sandoned, with scarcely a breath of opeosiq ; the words "Econony and Retrenchment" have been mentioned only to be scouted. Nothing to the purpose has been said, and nothing what ever done towards the much required revisien of the flied sy teem, either as regards the mode of taxation, or the safe custody and proper distribution of the public money; and no one has to much as ventured to hint at the appointment of a finance committee, the only means by which the House of Commons can discharge one of its most impor• tent functions—that of controlling the public expenditure. It was observed that by the formal repeal of the clause in the Appropriation Act, limiting the application of the supplies voted to the purpo.es specified, the treasury has freed itself from the check devised by the great Lord Somers, and his without a word of obj-ction in parliament, excepting a barren protest from Lord Monteagte, after the mischievous innovation had been quietly smugged through the Commons. The so-called Queen's speech was criticised both as to style and matter, and it was thought difficult to decide which was more objectionable, the things said or the manner of saying them, especially as regards the Indian revolt. It was observed that repression was all that was spoken of; there was no mention of any inquiry into, or any redress of grievances, still less of the one thing necessary to placing the government of India on a proper footing, namely, the making of the country an integral part of the Queen's dominions, to which measure the abolition of the East India Company will be an indis pensable preliminary. The speech of Mr. Layard, at Aylesbury, was referred to as poiuting out the real causes of the revolt, iahich were held to be a long continued course of spoilation, oppression, fraud and injustice, all naturally praceEd;ng from the very cenetitution. A system which hes conferred dominion on a compuuy of private traders, whose main object has always been the extraction of the utmost possible amount of teatime from its subjects, an object sometimes enforced even by means of torture, and embracing in its exactions so cruel and grinding a monopoly as thee of sett. Lord Palmerston's mode of silencing that once zealous Indian reformer, Mr. Dauby Seymour, by making him Secretary of the Board of Con trol, was thought very characteristic; and the conduct of Yhe Times newspaper, in describing the insurrection as a mere mutiny of spoiled an I petted soldiers, in which Ilitictios and liahometans generally have no concarn,— and in seeking to deceive the British people, by talking in opposition to its own better knowledge, of " the justice and benevolence" of our past rule in India, was freely commentel on. The sister monopoly—that of the Hudson's Bay Com pany, was spoken of as likely to lead to exactly similar eonseqeences in British America, two sets of rulers and two armies. conflicting jurisdictions —disaffection, revolte—in short, all that we now see in India,—if the Hudson's Bay Company be stiff rel to retain its monetrons privileges, unless the people of the United States should decide, in the meanwhile that the immense territories which the Company has hitherto turned to waste, shall no longer be mere preserves for beavers, bears, and foxes. A hope was expressed that, before Parliament reassembles, the attention of the commercial and manufacturing towns, of chambers of commerce, and of the public generally will be sufficiently aroused to the grave importance of the question at issue, to prevent the completion of the com fortable arrangement for the continuance of the monopoly which seems to have been contemplated by the packed committee of the H ,use of Commons, ti e Hudson's Bay Company itself, and its influential friends in and about the Colonial Office. The suceetssful mission of Captain Kennedy to the Red River Settlement, by the route of Lake Superior, as re cently described by him to the people of Toronto, was referred to as completely refuting the misrepresentations of the Company and its witnesses. It was observed that Government had refused to send troops by this route, pre ferring for them the round about journey, and dangerous voyage through the frozen waters of Hudson's Bay, because it was told by the Company that the way by Lake superior was utterly impracticable. • Captain Kennedy's glowing description of the beauty and fertility of the regions through which h e passed, (which exactly tallies with that given by Gewgaw Sir George Simpeop, in hie " Overland Journey," when his object was to speak the simple truth, not to bolster up the monopoly)--was referred to as flowing how bitterly inexcusable the British Government will be, if it determine to continue the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company in any shape whatever; and, also, how resolutely the British Parliament and the Thitish people ought to oppose so Ecandalous and so suicidal a consummation. THE TRAVELS OF PRINCE NAPOLEON. A letter from Chambery, of September 1, gives some account of the arrival of Prince Ndp)leon on the Sardinian tot ritory : _ _ " Toe Prince was expected here on Sunday morning at 9, and an hour before a body of troops were sent to the railway to serve as a guard of honour. Hour after hour, however, passed away, and 12 o'clock had just struck, when a telegraphic deep :ten announced that the Prince had rot crossed the frontier until half-past 8. On the Prince reaching Calez, the place were the two countries join, ho was received on descending from the railway carriage by the Dake de Gramont, French Ambassador, to the Court of It one ; the Chevalier S rembio, Sardinian Consul at Lyons ; General Count de Castelborgo, in com mand of the military di' ision of Savoy ' • and the authorities of the place, all in official costume. After a stunt stay, the Prince proceeded to the Coquette steamer, which was handsomely dressed up for the occasion, the band of the light horse of Aosta playing fartant pour la Syria. Immediately after, the steamer left the quay, and entered the Lake of Bourget, when it proceeded to St. Inno cent. Thence the Prince proceeded by railway to kx-les-Baine, where he arrived at noon. It was then that was forwarded the telegraphic despatch mentioned abate. A second message s non of er stated that the Prince would tot arrive at Chambery before 7 o'clock is the eveuing. Accodiog'y at that hour his Imperial Highness was at the station, add after a short delay went on by rail to St. Jean de Maurienne. There the Prince alighted at the Bishop's palace, and the next morning at 4, left for Mondane, where he joined King Victor-Eminanui, to take part in the ceremony of commencing the great tunnel through the Ales. A magnificent tent was erected at the foot of Mont Cenis, and the King and Prince took- their places in it, after which the engineers prepared the mine which was to be let off. As aeon as all the preliminaries lied been arranged, the King exploded it by means of an electric wire, and some pieces of the rock-work were removed. The ceremony then terminated ; the King and Prince left for St. Jean de Maurienne, which place a de/- pitch announced to us they left at half-past 11. The troops then took up their station along the streets of Chambery, where His Majesty arrived at a quarter past 2 On reaching the pavilion prepared for the occasion, oppo site the altar where the religious ceremony of blessing the locomotives was to be performed, the King was addressed by the Archbishop of Chamb el, accompanied by three other prelates and a large holy of ttee clergy. When the b_ne diction of the locomotives had taken place, the King got into an open carriage, having on his left Prince Napoleon, and opposite them the Duke de Gramont and the Cunt de Cavour. In the carriages which followed that of His Majesty where the Marquis d 3 Villamarina, the Marquis d' Angrogna, several French Generals, and a number of other persons of distinction. The cortege proceeded towards the Palace, on the steps of which His Majesty placed himself to witness the filing off of the troops. The receptions commenced immediately after. In the evening the town was brilliantly illuminated, and bands of music, preceeded by torches, paraded the streets. Tice brass plate which is to be placed wider the first stone of the bridge of Cake hears the following inscription in French :---‘ On the lstofSeptember,lBs7, Victor-Emmanuel 11., King of Sardinia, and Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, laid the first stone of this bridge, taken from the mountain before Mondane by the aid of gunpowder and the electric fluid, in order to inaugurate the works of a tunnel under the Alps.' Prince Napoleon gave a grand dinner on Sunday last, at Aix-les-Bein - r, to all the persons of disti iction who were present at tee ceremony at Mont-Cenis. The Prince had on his right the Marquis de Villamarina, and oa his left the Duke de Gramont. THE NEW LAW OF DIVORCE.-POWERS CONFERRED ON ASSIZE JUDGES. The object of the Legislature in enabling the Judges of Assize to entertain original applications under this act, seems to be that of saving expense to the parties in bringing their witnesses to London from a distance. The power, however, is confined to application for the restituti)n of conjugal rights, and for judicial separation. The application must be by petition to the Judge of Assize at the assizes held for the county in which the husband and wife resided, or have last resided together. Upon satisfactory evidence being I.id before him, he may make the degree prayed for ; and when the application is made by the wife for " judicial separation " he may make any order for as many as he may deem just. The act does not say whether the petition is to be heard in the open court, or otherwise, but it is presumed that the same course will be adopted upon petitions presented at the assizes as the full C mrt will pursue where petitions are heard before them. The Judge of Assize may delegate his authority to any of her Majesty's Counsel or Sergeants named in the Commission of Assize, who, for the purpose of deciding upon the matters of such petitions, are vested with all the powers which the Judge himself might exercise. This is a po wer beyond that given to the full Court, and it is presumed, will be ex2rcised only in exceptional cases. All the other powers which may be exerlised by the full Court except re ceiving and hearing petitions for the dissolution of marriages, are also vested in the Judge of Assize, including the power to make orders as to the custody, maintainenee, and education of children. All orders made under the powers so conferred may, upon the application of the party obtaining the same, be entered as the order of the full Court, and be enforced in the same manner as if originally made by the Court. PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK On Friday a meeting of the Royal National Life-boat Institution was held at its house, J Am-street, Adelphi ; Captain Lambert Parrott in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having bean read, the silver medal and £2 were voted respectively to William - Wedge and James Turpin, commission boatmen of the Coastguard inat Salcombe, Devon, and to Thomas D. Warder, boatman, acknowledgement of their gallant conduct in putting off in a small boat in a heavy sea, at the imminent risk of their lives, and rescuing two out of three men who were capsized from their fishing boat on Banthe.,m Bar, on the night of the 27th inst. A reward of £6 was also granted to three Coastguard men for patting off in a small boat and rescuing, at the imminent risk of their lives, four out of five persons who had been in a heavy sea, capsized from their beat off Port R ash, on the coast of Antrim, on the 22 ad of July ; after they were rescued the little beat again put off and succeeded in bringing in the capsized boat. A reward of £6 was likewise granted to six fishermen for rescuing, at the peril of their lives, two out of four persons who had been capsized during a sudden and heavy squall of wind from their beat off Hsmnaroe, Shetland, a few weeks since. It appeared that while the boat was fishing the wind suddenly rose to a strong gale, accompanied by a sudden squall off the land, which capsized the boat before her crew of four men were able to take in her sail. They were plunged into the sea; two of them were happily caved by clinging to their boat, although twice washed from it ; two others sank to rise no more. Much risk was incurred in the rescue of the two men, inasmuch as they could only ba approached after the sea broke, and then quickly snatched from their vary dangerous situation, The loss of life among the Shetland fishermen this year has been unusually great. No doubt many of these accidents, which have caused the greatest misery among the fernilies of these poor but deserving men, have been caused ft-xi the defective construction of their fishing beats, and the unskilful manner with which we fear they are too frequently handled in the hour of peril. Fishermen's boats are often of the m 3st primitive construction, and are probably now the same in character as they were 100 or 200 years ago. Captain Ward, R.N., the inspector of lifeboats to the institution, read a report of his recant visit of inspection to the lifeboats of the society on the Lancashire and on the north and south coasts of Wales. On those occasions he is in the habit of taking the boats afloat, in order to thoroughly examine them and test their capacity for service in the hour of need. The boats are also regularly exercised once a quarter throughout the year. He reported highly of the qualities of the new class of lifeboats of the institution, sod sug gested that some of its cider boats, built 20 or 30 years ago, should be replace!. A communication was read from the Boulogne Sh!pwreck and Humane Society, in the management of which some of the English residents take an active part, ieviting the inspector of lifeboats to visit their establishment. Their request was complied with Captain Ward, R.N., and Mr Paake, the inventor of the lifeboat of the institution, were deputed to visit the Boul ogne Lifeboat Station accordingly. The proceedings then closed. NAVAL Pitizti; MoNEY.—Friday night's Gazo`te contains a notice from the Department of the Accountant-Genera; of the Navy to the effect th,.t preparations are now making for the intended distribution of procreds arsing from the Greek brig Apsis, captured on the 15th May, 1855, by her Majesty's ship Niger, anti the ship-of-war Le Man, belonging to his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French... Agin's or other persans haying nay just and legal demand, unliquidated, against the Said proceeds, are required to transmit the panieulars of any slch demand to the Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said Court. Notice of the date proposed for the commencement of distribution and the amount of share in the respective classes will be duly announced. ALCOHOL; OR, THE MINOR CURSE OF ENGLAND. BEING TUE SUBSTANCE OF A SFBIES OF ADDRESSES DELIVERED IN CONNECTION WITII ST. MARY'S TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY, BIBEDALE. DEDICATED TO THE REV. MR. TIT FE RTON, PREUDENT, BY A LIVERPOOL WORKING MAN. " Woe unto him that givoth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him and maksst him drarlken."--Liabak. ii. 15. [Continued from 4th September] Though it might bs slid these men were temperate in reference to drink, man ought not, however, to live merely for the exercise of his faculties, but for such a wise development of them as harmonizes w th th true hierarchy of human powers, and is conducive to the social good of his fellow-men. Intemperance in the a'estract is what I have to; do with, and to demonstrate that it hounds on its victims from one crime to another , is fact, that drunkenness and crime are like ir o n-bo un d criminals. I mean teat species of Intemperance whiee, in addition to being tke most extensive, is the most direful and enduring in its effects. Of all the species of intemperance that have sprung up since the fall of man, the intemperance of drinking as a vice is the most appalling; indeed, drunkenness might be the hired advocate and special pleader of the devil, so eff3c many does it d) his wo:k, riviting its victims in the very chains of the bottomless pit of oppre4sion. That drunkenness has long desolated this highly favoured land Is a stereotyped historical fact; as a scourge it surpasses the ravages of famine, pestilence, or war—.vhilst its melancho:y effects will be regretted as long as eternity endures. That the intemperance of drinking has long been a sceurge to Eng land, 1 again aver is affirmed by the testimony of history ; and to inch an extent did drunkenness prevail in teis country in the sixteenth cen tury, especially in the reign of Qieen Mary who feared the Bible, and conse. i nently banished it from the churches, and the pre; ers and fastings of that immortal man, John Knox, and other friends of the Bible; hence their exile, or extermination at the stake. Then all the evils of drunkenness, or even the hosts of the greatest enemy, though producing famine, wretchedness, disease, and death. The torrent of evils resulting from drunkenness, leaving thus set in, and continuing to roll on to such an alarming ex tent as to render legislatve interference imperative, thus in the reign of James I. (in 16)6, that memorable year), drunk enness was dee'ared by the Parliament of England to be a critnival offence against society. Tae renew assigned by the legislature for this proceeding were, that the loathsome and odious sin of drunken ness had of late grown into common use in the realm, being the rot and foundation of many other alas, as treason, murder, bloodshed, stabbing, fornication, adultery, and such like, to the dishonour of Guel and the nation, the overthrow of mai) , good arts and 'mullet t ades, the disabling of many gaol workmen, and the general impoverishing of divers and loyal subjects, abusively wasting the good creatures of God. This proceeding, on the part of the legislature of the day, though, doubtless, well meant, oeviously aseellel the affects only, whilst it let: the cause of dranice aness unimeairel. Hence intemperance not only coatinued, but Increased, is ev de it from the fact of Sraollet, the historian ,p. 133), averring th it the Bishop of Salisbury, on a debate, in the House of Lords, is 1736, while disclaiming against the dranken ness of the age, declared that publicans had become so impudent and audacious, as to have inscribed on the . ir sign-boards, such daring, infamous, and disgusting allnre meats, as the following—" yon may get drunk here for one penny, Atmd drunk for twopence, and clean straw for nothiage, Tue same historian asserting further (p. 173) that hovels and cellars were strewed with straw, to which dismal places the victims, overwhelmed with intoxi cation, were earried; that these horrible places resound with exe crations and blasphemy, as is natural to conclude. Publicans, however, in this refined age, after plundering their dupes of their money and reason, vary politely kick them into the street—quite as civil treatment as their folly deserves. As from Ararat we ceatemplate a ;dismantled and depopulated world, so, as we descend the ravine of Intemperaace, does the pestilen tial atmosphere we inhale become more and more infections. Thus intemperance coatiaued to inereese to such a fearful extent, that a Parlia nentary Commission reported to the House of Commons, in 1743, that 19,8)0,00) gallon; of wines and spirits ware annually con sumed in Great Briteia. The Legislature, a'armed at this sad state of things (world to Gad the Le e isl 'tura of the preseat day would manifest that spirit), and seeing from the past that dea'ing with effects only tended to increase rather than diminish the crime of drunken ness, showed a disposition to deal with the cause, hence distillation from grain, sugar, &c., was prohibited. Tais wise measure had the happy and extraordinary effect of reducing the consumption of intoxi cating drinks from 19,800,000 gallons annual y to 4,256,36 s ga lone, or dawn to about one quarter of the annual consumption In a very few years. Principles of a higher order appeared then to operate on men's minds the darkness of night, Interspersed with many bright stars— the tongue of nations, th it dread of tycanes —began to tell a powerful story, and the dawn of a purer light seemel to omen at the corn mencenvent of the 18th entail , a brighter epoch. Politicians, however, overlooking the hi tort'' ;of the pest, or forgettirig that in the dark ag s ewe of Honkish ignorance and intpirstitian, great emotions, feelings, and enthusiasm impe led a few man, actu ated by great principles, and believing in great truths, amid the selfish calculations of saltil and interested men in the achievemeat of great victories; yes, those great emotions, great principles, great truths, giving an impulse to moral power, ailed by the divine inspira tion of the souls of those man, in spite of spiritual deeootism, and the blind bigotry of dt•signing tyrants, obtained for Great Britain that light freedom, and happlaaaa, which crael;aad in*.erested despots had robbed the world of for at least 1,000 years. I moan the patriots who first whispered into the ears of Flarope the] principles of „religious liberzy.. ; Peliticiaiis, forgetting all that, and wishing thiege still to be moaltle I after the feitiiea of past ages, adapted to a n irrower sphere of intellectual deve'opment, and composed of materials too much reseinblieg cut iron, or at least not suffielant'y elestie to expand with the expansion of mMd, to grow with the growth, and advaeco with the progre,si,o principles of the age, an 1 seizing on the nate ow solaile principles of haulm nature, i ellencid by mi . st teen and craven-heated expediency retarded its realisation, and thus the in spiration and eetheseiasm which had lima directed against the most trees endoas agent of sac'al o ostreetion and calamity the world has ever known ware damped. And Wore the con elate ove,throw of that teemendoes agent of evil has its echo aad, r , spoase in tht uni versal heart of in in, the Christian, the parent, the philanthropist, the patriot, and the cidcsn, mutt p ttiantly wait the advent of that law which will pronounce a final prohibition. In the mean time, right or wroaz, do not dayea - 1 loon haman ladgment, or human w 11. Truth and duty mry b 3 hidden fora time, but they remain unshaken as Gyi's thcoae, ani w:tea in the order of His Providence they are. fully kn - Ava, whet Cie vent troth is saffiieltly diffisedannong our hardy sons of toil— Ato, I rej ,ize to thlulr, are dilly b 33.3 ming more ani mare iaterasted is their CariAinn duty—that it is an evil thin; to dritfL intoxi.:atiag drinks, it wit] then laa salcassfully pro,l3im3d, whaevar may be iwoiel,evan shlu Id the powers of e trth au l hell ' eanspire. Truth is the hops of the warld. Let it then ba spoked with baidass3 and in live. Life and death are in th3paxer of Cie tmos, ani thej thit.lon trash shall eit the fruit thereof, Yei, wh.32 th 3 tr ith is dledly d3p Altai in the puhlie mind, that alcohol is a nation 1 eon% it will sulks at Cat ro)t of druakenne 41, with a blow so strong and dash, that it will inevitab ;I(33tray it. Th 3 raaigiol of chit troth ii..th3 miu3, and its publics, ti ani diff.tsion bi this b3nlp, elevating, and eon , blia.; a;e icy total pAnciplas and siciet 7 es, will be the sufe mein3 0 catermiqating drankeanass from the land. It is rem,rk Mies that, not withstladia; ttl ex'nordin try diminution in the coasumgoa of int ale ttin3 drink!, t) which I have adver tel. as tha malt of prohibition, prolueing, as I gust to be able to demon, strate, a corroipmling deer3at in cri:n3. Tao lam aff"..ciing that grand di mitratila wig, for some extrAoriinary aril aesphineiC to Se, abrogated on the 21t6 Dac3nber, 1759. Tni3 su;cilal act of Govarn mint W. 13 followelty a stal le and an alarming incraas3 in the con• sn n2tba of intoxicAting drinks, and thl3 itlett3,433 hag gralailly and almost uninterruptedly gone on until G )rerurnent returns announce the appaling (aet, gilt abut 1,5) ),00) a trete! the vary choicest land ara ealtiva'el analtily for this parpase white if that vast quantity of land was sows with wisest it w.tuld prola3a n)t less than 53,000,000 bushels, alai thus provlde b:eal for about 7,000,000 of the adult population of Great Britain aunt:tally, givin; to each, one and a-half p mai daily. Walele' there are annaally aboat 5A,000,030 gallons of intoxicating drinks consumed in E tgland, at a direct cost of iei7,000,000 to the country, there is bat little mere than doable that ammo; expended in all article) o demesne comMr::. In the year en ling January, 1837, there W 3. sKpenie lin duty on sugar, taa, coff3e, £ I 2,61g,787, while on malt, spirits, wine, aad tobacco, ;'.iere was tha aniz;ng sum of £23,993,000, or naarly double the amount was eaprn•ied last year in intoxi:iti g d ink and tobacco, than in sugar, tea, and coffee. Nov, tae inipired apostla St. Pau . iepresentilln: law as a terror evil-doors, all a praise to them tt do welt. Mazitstone says, ;he principle of law ia, " to prohibit evil aid commend gopd ; " bat. when it h cJutemplated that Otero is a lexalls3d annnul exp , nditure of .67,000,000 at the shrine of Baechls by th 3 devotes of intern panince, while there Is little more then helf a millim,; or one hundred and thirty-fowth part of fait amount rased for the Lord of heaven and earth, by the Bible Society, an 1 all the miss:oaary societies pat ;ogether, for th 3 extension of the knowlolga of C'trist in the world, doll it not appear that our senators invert the apostole maxim, as well as violat, the spirit an I consti.ution of law; do nit the by thus legalising that enormous expaudic are, tenpt to d) evil, and create a burden and terror to them that do we'', whl'e the object V Govern ment ought to Le the greatest ha2pines3 to the greate,t;, amount of the community. If I succeed, as I trust to do, in demonstra‘ing that intemperance and crimo are like the 4. T pperary Volunteers," iron bound —to be transm!tted to some penal sett!eMent —that the one exists in a corres- pond;rg ratio of the other, who can contomplate this enormous annual expeuditure, which fills our massive prisons with crlmina's, onr poor- houses with paupers, our asylums with lunatio, and sepulchres with dead, producing famine. wretchedness, disease, and death, without feelings of the deepest shame (To be co2ttinwd.) GERMAN LEGIONARIES AND BITISII miLMA3tIN. The addition of 2,300 to the army, by the embodiment of the German Legionaries at the Cape, on full pay. without troubling parliament for its sanction, was next mentioned as another illustration of the tendency of the executive to usurp powers which do not belong to it, or, at all events, to set aside those checks on their exercise which the constitution h\s provided. The favour shown to those foreigners, who wee offered and have received free passages, grants of land, and other advantages in addition to full pay, was contrasted with the shabby and ungrateful treatment Br tish subjects, both of the army and militia, on their disbandment at the close of the late war, when many of them were dismissed, stripped of nearly all their clothing, and rent adrift without a shilling in their pockets. It was observed that had the terms conceded to foreign mercenaries been offered to British subjects, any number of men and officers would have been for bcoming ; but that f_r them there was only ordinary pay, with the prospect of dismissal whenever their services should be no longer required, instead of a handsome gratuity, a free passage to a flourishing colony, a grant of bind, and, in short, a comfortable establishment for life. The secret was supposed to be, that the Germans have a friend at court in high quarters, who is both able and willing to serve his needy countrymen,.whilst mere British subjects have no such backers. NOVEL ZIPLOYMENT I'OR A GENERAL. The appointment of Lieutenant General fir William. Codrington, late Commander of the British forces in the Crimea 'to he in attendance on His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales," a young gentleman of sixteen, in his tour up the Rhine. to show him the lions, and find out the best hotels, was considered a very strange one for a general officer on full pay, at a time when generals seem in requea in India and China, and may soon be, wanted elsewhere ; and the remarks of the Times that some less formidable personage might have been chosen for such an office, and that General Codrington must either be fit for sonaethi:?g better than the post of walking gentleman or was very unfit to command the British army in the Crimea, were thought unanswerable. TH C CIRCUMLO CUTION OFFIC V With reference to the arrangements made or supposed to be made for their health and comfort, it was apprehended that the reinforcements proceeding to India, may have to encounter a more formidable enemy than revolted sepoys, and more to bedreaded than the ordinary perils of battle and seige viz., one general Rotrrisn, who seems determined that the deadly climate of the East shall have its full swing on raw and unseasoned trolo., because such has always been the custom. By a general order issued several years ago, it is directed that troops from Europe . shall, on their arrival in India, be furnished with certain articles of light clothing, all sp3cified with great particularity. The War office seems to have assumed that all there requisites will be ready for the twenty or thirty housand soldiers now on their way to India as soon as they get there, and, accordingly they have not been supplied with them before sailing. thmgh common sense might have taught the authorities that the need for light clothing would be felt as soon as the troops approached the line. They have it not, however, because it is not "according to the regulations of the service'' that they should have it ; on the other hand, as if there were no gunpawer in India, they take with them ample stores of ammunition, which will be of no use on the voyage, and greatly increase its risks, because this is " according to the regulations." GOVZRNMENT CONTRACTS. An extract from the Shipping Gazette, illustrative of the jobbing going on in Government Contracts, was read. It appears that the authorities at Deptford recently rejected a large quantity of cl ,th, as not equal to pattern, exacted a heavy penalty from the alleged defaulting con tractors, and gave the contract to another arm, which, being on good terms with the first, procured the rejected cloth, sent it in, and had it accepted. An inquiry into the circumstances has been ius!ituted, and, in the mea n _ times, one of the officials has been suspended. It WAS surmised that some neglect of customary douceurs, or allowance 3, will explain the apparent mystery. TIIE TRANSIT STEAMER. The close of the career of the too famous pet ship of Sir Charles Wood and the Admiralty, without the sacri fice of some hundreds of lives at the shrine of oii vial obstinacy and incapacity, was considered to be, on the whole, a very fortunare eircutn,tane, though this luckless vessel must have cost the country,from first to last, between two and three hundred thousand pounds. Her getting so far on her voyage was much more than could be reason ably expected of her, and had she bean spared for further Admiralty experiments, she might have gone to the bottom, some day, with all on board. THE COVERNIIIIINT FINANCE ACCOUNTS, Mr. Henry Lloyd Morgan. of Langburn Chambers, Fauchurch street, London, public accouutaut—the same gentleman who prepared the new and lucid arrangement of the Finance Accounts, for the year ending March 31, 1856, which formed the basis of Tract xxiii. or the Asso ciation,—tendered to the Council a similar but greatly improved arrangement of those for the year ended the 31st of March last. It was ordered that Mr. Morgan be thanked for his offer, and that his contribution be pub iisned in the next Tract of the Association. THE EMBODIMENT OF THE MILITIA.--The new act to embody the militia has beee printed. It'sta:es that the sudden demand for the service in India of a large body of her Majesty's regular forces may render it expedient to draw out an l embody the militia, or some part of the militia of the Unitad Kingdom. The act therefore pro vides that her Majesty and the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland may embody the regiments, and steps have been taken in pursu3nee of the power conferred. All the provisions in former acts are to be extended to the present statute, and the pay of the officers and men is to com mence from the time appointed for their assemblieg or joining their respective regiments, battalions, or corps. The notice concerning the service of notices is to apply to this act, bat the provision requiring the assenahing of Parliament withia fourteen days is not to apply. THE LONDON AND EASTEUN BANK.-011 Friday Mr. Tucker, of the eminent firm of Tacker, Greville sad Tacker, St. Swithin's-la ne , p resented a petition to the vacation judge in Chancery, Sir P. Wood, against the London and Eastera Banking corporation, whose offices are in Cannon. street. The petitioners are two shareholders, viz., A. Stuart, Esq., of West Cottage, south Bank, Regent's-park,,and George Duplex, Esq., of Torrington: square, surgeon. The bank had a paid up capital of £25),000, and oat of this sum the directors advanced their co-director Colonel Waugh, of Branksea Cattle, Dorset- shire, and a director in several bankrupt mining companies, and of the Harwich and Continental Steam-packet Com.= parry, no less a sum than £237,000, upon almost worthless security. The secretary, Mr. Stevens ' is also ind e bt e d to ' the bank about £37,000. N o official liquidator had been appointed on to 2 o'clock this afternoon. The appointment of Messrs. Tucker, Greville and Tucker, as solicitors to wind up the affairs of the bank, has just been sancioned . by Vice-Chancellor Wood. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—A lamentable catastrophe ocenred in the village of Abbotsbury o Siturdey last, by which a large portion of the inhabitants hive been rendered houseless, and damage sustained which cannot he esti mated at lees than 1,0(0/. About half-past 9 o'cl , ..ck ID the morning smoke was seen isseing from a small fowl house at the back of a cottage occupied by a labourer named Damon, and which is one of a row where a large number of fishermen ant labourers reside. The fire was first observed by Darnen's wife, who immediately gave the alarm, but the surrounding materials having been rendered exe?ediegly inflammable by the late dry wea ther, the flames spread with great rapidity, and, extending to the thatched roofs of the cotteges, one after the other was quickly a prey to the devouring element. Tao con sternation created in the village was intense, and the most active exertions were made to secure such portion of the furniture as it was possible to get out. In this Policeman Hill, who was speedily oo the spot, rendered the most valuable assistance, and his intrepid conduct was the sub ject of admiration. by all present. Mr. `Vest, farmer, of Abottsbury, stopped his harvest men, and sent them in a body to render what help they could, and a number of the other residents in the vieini'y deserve high praise for the readiness with which they came forward in the emer gency. At one time it was a matter of doubt whether the who'e village would not be reduced to ashes; 14 cot tages were in flames, taking a sweep of about 200 yards in length ; and those on the opposite side of the street were only saved bar a number of wet sail cloths, which hal been lent by Captain Bartlett, of the Ship Inn, and which were thrown over the roofs and constantly satu rated with wafer. But for this judicious precaution the. loss would have been in ich more extensive. An alarm was seat to Dorchester, and Superintendent Poacy, with the bourough fire-engine, inirtedia'ely started to the scene of th conflagration, and arrived there about 2 o'clock. The roofs of the cottages had already fallen in, and nearly every well in the place has been exhausted, so that the engine could not be brought to bear with any effect upon the flames, though it assisted in preventing their exten sioa. The fire was not get under till about half-past 8 o'clock in the evening, when the whole of the 14 cottages and a schoolhouse had been destroyed, together with a quantity of the furniture of the unfortunate occupiers.— Dorset County Chronicle. BRUTAL MURDER. An inquest was held on Friday, at the Swan Bradley, near Bilston, upon the body of Elizabet a young woman from Shropshire, whose dead found in the Birmingham canal, at Bradley, on of last April. The circumstances attendant upon tl !once are of the most remarkable character. It until some days after the discovery of the body information was elicited at all calculated to f upon the way in which the deceased got into Ttte coroner (Mr. W. H. Phillips) and, the jira y that there had been some foul play, an' a d; inquest till October. After tha adjorarnment, man at an ironworks and a colliers near t o the canal where the deceasedlF as found gave - to the police whiel caused the arrest of a be' named Philip Clare. Claire was examined on' before the ruagistrates, and the testimony g; was, given then by the wa chman, Powell. Tln adjournment of the case before the magistrates before the caale again cane on Powell had abs reward w'..13 offered for his apprehension, and he a few flays ago at Warwick. George Powell, Samuel Wall deposed,—l am a labourer, and employed as night watchman at the works of Rose. I was so employed from February anti end of May. Philip Clare and I became acq' I first went to Ma. Rose's. He asked me win went by his pit. I said, " No, I don't go Rose's colliery fields in the day only at night." all I know about the death of the dem. night of the occurrence I started on my round night. It was a bright moonlight night, and railroad bridge I saw the shadow of two people, a woman say, " Phillip, don't kill me. You said kill me before." The man then lifted his fist, the woman down. I think he struck her on the then went on to the bridge, and said, " Phil have to suffer for this " Clare bad then got the his shoulder, and was about to ca-ry her away. I said that he said, " If I hear of your telling an kill you. I'd serve you the same." I said I tell anybody. The woman appeared insensible shoulder. He came up towards the wharf, and the water and put her down. I followed him, again said, " If you tell anybo ly I will kill y' serve you the same, and will set somebody on He then put her into the water, and there was or movement on the part of the girl ; from the struck her till the time he put her into the water quarter of an hour or twenty minutes After he -had put her in I came av the new railroad, and had got away the little engine, about a quarter of a mile, every moment to be served the same. Philip et and again said, " If you tell anybody I will will serve you the same, and will set somebody - watch." I went and locked myself in the little house, and did not come out again till the was afraid. On the next morning I heard the' had been found in the canal. On the next nigL to me on the round, and also the next night after threatened me again in the same way. He fa. several times, and about three weeks afterwards, Saturday night, I was going near to the 810 8 Moxley, to have half-a-pint of beer, when Clare me and said, " Watchman, where are you going to " To have half = a-pint of beer." He said, "If you you." I then went home to my lodgings, and toll lord and landlady, and asked them to ga and tell for I could not rest any longer. My landlady the police station, ani tI es would not believe then I went myself and told them what I ha , : now. That is the truth, and I would rather at the stake than not tell the truth. I from Bilston because a young man who said he son of a juryman said to !tie on a Saturday " The inquest is to be held on Monday agal l3 l says if he can lay hold of you you shan't give there." The same night, on my way horeeti that his brother was waiting for me on the road to do me injury, and I was afraid. I Wa l/ 0 0 that night from Batton to Dudley, went on to " on the next day (Sunday), and having ( II things to sell went from Worcester to Gl ouces ter sa r , Gloucester to Bristol. Mr. Wate r h ouse , soliciPi;; present to watch the case for Clare, who was ther e to ' tody. He cross examined the witness. In reply i 0 Waterhouse's question why he did n o t g ive 11 witness said he was so terrified. He h a d no wear him on the night in question. He was so terrified locked himself in the little eng:ne house, and il l that night, but also the other ni g hts of th e we ek, "If/ himself only at daylight ox the following mornings' o discharged from his employ at Rose's because he '4Ol at night to Moxley to drink with one o f the e t lie Samuel Haines was next called. • He deposed tbloill a watchman in the employ of the Great Westeill dd and lived at Lee Brook. He wished now to , 11 „,. t e evidence given at the first inquest. At the first merely deposed that abut eleven o'clock he 0/ 01 hovel under the railway bridge, when he heard 80 sons quarrelling, and there were women's yr sounds. They came from above the line, and 11 , heard a man and a woman quarrelling. TI to be quarrelling on the bridge. He kne 11 , ,pley from having seen her at Haines's Wn addition he now wished to make was that Edo while sleeping in the hovel he was awoke by a ing noise which he thought came from a wol The first words he understood her to say were, me." Immediately after, that I heard her say, jou would—you sai 1 you would—but don't, lon than came outside the hovel, and could hear s, talking, but he thought it came across from He returned into the hut and sat down, b, afterwards, thinking some one was on the line, got outside, ho thought he heard somebody on The pods train then came down. It passed al did not tell this at the first inquest, beeausr business in the hovel adeep. His duty was to down the line. Eiamuel Whitmore, for the de. that he was a workman to Mr. Rose, and had Powz-,11 about it before he gave evidence, when knew nothing about the affair ; but after the evil that what he had stated was true. The jury rated, and in a few minutes found a verdict murder" against Clare, who was committed coroner's warrant for trial. Powell is a trip; wooden leg. and apparently very nervous. The Queen of Spain will return to her domin the middlo of October. Marshal Bandon arrived at Marseilles on under salutes from the batteries. TAVISTOCK ELECTION. —Close of the Poll : sell, 164 ; Mr. Miall, 120. Majority for Mr. RI The Turkish Government still actively pursue respondence respecting the evacuation of the Perin by the English, and its restitution to Tar' TIM INDIAN MUTINY.—The Calcutta pasEen i Ripon believe that, when Delhi has fallen, th, will spread still farther over the country, by grew of the mutineers escaping to various parts of Ind] A deepatch from Berlin, of Thursday evening, that the King of Prussia has conferred the Gran , of the Black Eagle on the three eldest ems of thc, of Russia —the Grand Dukes Nicholas, Alexande r ' Valadimir. , A VILLAGE CHURCH RATE CONTEST the little P e ) of Bisphaw, near Blackpool, Lancashire, a P° ll O pti church rate commenced on the 23 r d i rs ' . , b ut at the' e o two hours the chairman, th e R ev. M e. Mocatta, root from the contest, declaring th a t b e cou ld see no cl l3 o l , success. Ouly 22 votes were frilled for the raw, g g against it. Churchme-, Independents, W :OPesley' Roman Catholic', united in op hoeing it. ExTna..otnons ARV AccroENT TO P ROFESSOR . n 14 Among the numerous visitors to the Lake district ' l 4 ;f, the last f e w w ee k s h as b een D r. Day, the professo Medicine in the Unirers'ty of St. A , Alrew's, aceoraP, by a friend. Ort Friday last, he, alone, made an a t e of Helvellyn from Patterdale, and having made 5c15 previous ascent s o f th e mountain from the sanv Pet he went un a c compan i e d b y a gu i de. Ho deterralilf, &scend in ths naighbottrhood of the Greens* 00 Mines, and took what appeared to be the best and °gill est route, when suddenly the earth beneath hialof way, and in an iestint be w s precipitated into a c ei The suffocative fe e li n;s pro lucod by the state of t'Or into which ho bad fallen, at once convinced hit il he was in the tunnel made to convey away the slv . r o d ons gasses fr o m t h e sme l t i ng wor k s o f the mino'6 t, he felt th a t a violent effort mint he made to ge l e l opening through which•he had f a llen, o r th a t a 1 3 0, death was irievi'able. H a ppily h e was a bl e to rEac,oo opening and t o k eep hi s h owl i n the fresh air atO•tiol! and in this position ho remained for sAne hours, P' i prY, hanging by one arm as he fonni the other was p" 1 : 0 1) and calling at intervals fur Le'p. As evening appr ° ,7oit three gentlemen touris's were descencli sg the Inou'lf atal, harinz the cries far help, were attracted to the ) where they found the Proressor's head alone in vial; o f promp ly as p tssible they removed him from bis fib' position and conveyed him to an inn at Patterdaleiol‘ri it was found th a t one o f hi s arms was very badly bl 5 A messenger was at once &snatched to Bovv se- f tti medical ai4, and Dr. Clowre arrived in the course night and rendered all needful assistance. Oa the 1 1 0 11 " ins day ho removed to Carlisle for farther surLief l ottil where be remained at the Bash Hotel until V ie , b ni d suffering greatly from the injuries he had receiv e es coro congratulating himself on his almost miraculouelc ne, 1 14 , from instant death. We believe steps have alrea'Arlir taken to prevent a repetition of such a disaster — ' Pariot. Itli trt, PASs A BrAT t „....,..._ - ''' Ow n , . 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