The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-17 00:00:00

COUNTY COURT.--YESTERDA.Y. (Before JOSEPH POLLOCK, ESQ., JUDGE.) The Court sat at ten o'clock yesterday. EDWARDS v. ROWLAND.—This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a butcher, in Scotland-road, to recover £1 10s. the value of a shawl, which was pledged on the 10th of June last with the defendant, who is a pawnbroker. It appeared that on the 29th of November, the shawl was re deemed, when it was found to be full of holes, and the ac tion was accordingly brought to recover the entire value of it. On the part of the defence, it was alleged that all due precaution had been taken to preserve the property, and that therefore, the defendant was was not responsible for it. His Honor examined the shawl, and said that the holes appeared to have been caused by some acid. The case was there fore adjourned for the ',production of evidence upon that point. RADFORD V. REAsox.= - This - was an action brought by Mr. Daniel Radford, as treasurer of the Saint Martin's church schools, to recover 1 4s. from Mr. Thomas Reason, for two quarters' tuition of his son at those schools. His HoNon : I cannot see what right you have to mis. PLAINTIFF : I am treasurer of the schools. His HONOR : Ido not know that that gives you any right to sue. These schools are not under any act of parliament. The master may have a right to sue. To whom are the pay ments made ? PLAINTIFF : To the master. . His HONOR : Is there any evidence of a contract made between you, as treasurer of those schools, and the de fendant ? PLAINTIFF : I do not think there is : His HoNon : What are your duties ? PLAINTIFF : My duties are to collect the subscriptions. His HONOR : Collect the subscriptions from whom ? PLAINTIFF : From the parties who subscribe in aid of the schools. This is a commercial school, which is just the same as any other commercial school. His HONOR : Does the schoolmaster hand over any ba lance to you? PLAINTLev : He does not. His HoNon : I do not see any possibility of sustaining the action in this matter. _ _ _ -- - A pupil teacher of the school was examined, and deposed that defendant's son was at the school for two years, and that he had paid all except two quarters, at 12s. a quarter. Never was present when defendant was applied to for pay ment. The master who taught when defendant's son was at school was named Davis; he had since left the school, and gone to Gloucestershire. His HONOR : Mr. Radford, it is clear that the action must be brought in the name of the master. There is no contract shown by you at all. It is an action on a contract, which means if you teach my child I will give you 12s. a quarter. You never made any contract with the child's father. I cannot give you a verdict to-day, but I will grant you a new summons in the name of the master, and upon the evidence you will be entitled to a verdict. BRANDRESS v. CorrlEß.—This was an action for rent, and the defence was that defendant had tendered the money, provided he got a stamped receipt, which plaintiff refused to give. His HONOR explained that the receipt having been re fused was not a defence for non-payment of the money. But if a man paid money to another, and required a receipt, he had a right, after paying the money, to take a receipt with a stamp on it, and require the person to whom the money was paid to sign it then and there, and require him to pay for the receipt, and if the party did not do so he was liable to a penalty of £lO. In all cases, where the sum of money due amounted to £2 and upwards, a receipt might be de manded• after the money was paid, and if the party refused to sign the receipt and pay for the stamp, he was liable to that penalty. His Honor impressed this point upon the defendant, as it was one upon which, he said, considerable misapprehension existed in the minds of many persons. TILE PRESTON STRISE-MEETING OF LONDON DELEGATES. On Thursday night delegates from various trades in the metropolis met again at the Bell-inn, Old Bailey, for the purpose of taking steps to render effectual aid to the Preston operatives now on strike ; Mr. Green, of the na tional association of united trades, being in the chair. Mr. GREENHOUGH, delegate from the spinners at Preston, handed in a report of a meeting of delegates held at Preston on the 11th inst., addressed "To the handmule spinners, self acting winders, twiners and rovers of Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire," at which thirty-five delegates attended from twenty-five districts. _ _ The .L l %stance of this report has already appeared in the NORTHERN Dial., TIMES. Statements were made to show that the Preston hands we.. worse paid than those elsewhere, and that the proceedings of the Mitzt.'S had been arbitrary. It was also stated that the smaller masters or Proutnn would agree to the operati res' terms. Among the subscriptions announced were £25 from the carvers and gilders, £lO from the coach wheelwrights, £lO from the goldbeaters, and £lO from the finishing carpenters. Many sums of smaller amount were particularised, but no statement was made as to the aggregate pecuniary result of the week's agitation. COURT OF CHANCERY.-THURSDAY. BEFORE. THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND THE LORD JUSTICE TURNER. Ex parte Neilson in re Edmond, Bankrupts.—The argu ments in this case have already appeared in our paper. The Lord Chancellor gave judgment on the appeal. The question raised by the petitioner was whether the Messrs. Neilson, sharebrokero, in Liverpool, could sustain a sale in the market of scrip in an insurance company, when the sub scriber of the scrip had not made himself a member by ex ecuting the deed of settlement. The consideration which his lordship had felt bound to give the case since Tuesday had not altered an impression he entertained from the very first, that there was no difference between law and equity in the principle which ought to decide it. The legislature, in his view of the construction of the case, appeared to have made it imperative that the person selling such shares should have subscribed the deed of settlement. It was said that there was much obscurity in the language of the act, and some confusion in the use of the words shareholder and sub scriber. His lordship admitted that there was some in appropriateness in the use of terms, and that in some parts the act was worded, he might say, incautiously ; but in the latter part of the 26th section, which especially ap plied to the case, there could be no doubt, for it says that " until such joint stock company shall have obtained a certificate of complete registration, and until any such subscriber or person shall have been duly registered as a shareholder in the said registry office, it shall not be lawful for such person to dispose by sale or mortgage of such share, or of any interest therein ; and that every contract for sale or disposal of such share or interest shall be void, and that every person entering into such contract shall forfeit a sum not exceeding L 10." Here there was no ambiguity whatever, for it appeared plain that the legislature thought such contracts injurious to trade, and it therefore not only declared them void, but sub jected those who entered into them to a penalty. The court was bound to give effect to the policy of a law so plainly enunciated. Whether the petitioners could enforce their claim by an action at law, or whether they could succeed in their proof against the bankrupt's estate for the damage they sustained, were questions it was unnecessary for his lordship to enter on. The brokers could have no better right than the principal who employed them to sell the scrip. He had no nght to sell the shares until he executed the deed, and in this view of the case his lordship thought the appeal must be dismissed, and with costs. The Lord Justice Turner concurred. In his opinion the view the court took of the particular case before it was in harmony with the whole policy of the act. The legislature plainly intended that the public should know who were the partners in a company before any dealing was permitted in its shares. That was the object of the 26th section, and the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor was perfectly right. Appeal dismissed with costs. William Bedmead, a travelling clerk to Messrs. Russell and Co., corn merchants, King-street, borough, London, is committed for trial for embezzlement. An explosion of fire damp occurred a few days since, in a pit on the side of the Forth and Clyde canal, by which three men were suffocated; two are not expected to survive, and four others are more or,less injured. THE HOLIDAY. —The London tradesmen have very gene rally given notice that they will not open their shops on the 26th instant. BANE OF ENGLAND. —The quarterly meeting of the proprietors of the Bank of England was held on. Thursday; Mr. J. G. Hubbard, governor, in the chair. There was no business before them, and after reading and confirming the minutes of the last meeting, the court adjourned. Giovanni Dominic Bonovino, an Italian, met his death in London a few days since, in a scuffle with an Irishman, named Eames. The jury returned a verdict of "death by misadventure." ComasioN ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. --A col lision took place on this line on Thursday, at Stoke, six miles south of Granth am . Th e co lli s i on occur red half-way through a tunnel, and appears to have been caused by the carelessness of the driver. Several carriages were broken, and one mau injured, but not fatally. A ship's crew from Whitby very narrowly escaped death during the late fogs caused by the spontaneous combustion of the coal on board. SHOPLIFTING EXTRAORDINARY.—Mrs. Bathia Webb, of Great Bentley, and Miss Elizabeth Holby, of Thorp-le- Socken, Colchester, respectably dressed and connected per persons, and sisters, were on Saturday placed at the bar, charged with committing a series of robberies—of veils, stockings, hankerchiefs, ribbons, &c.,—from tradesmen's shops. Several cases were deposed to by the shopkeepers and their assistants, and Many of the articles taken were pro duced by the policeman, who found them at the prisoners' lodgings. It appeared that, on seeing the things discovered in the hands of the policeman Mrs. Webb declarid she was innocent of the thefts, and Miss Holby said, "I alone am guilty, I alone a m r esponsible--rny sister knows nothing about it." The prisoners were remanded to Thursday, to complete the depositions, and bail was refused.—Eastern Counties Herald. LIABILITY OF RAILWAY COMPAYI.ES. Two questions of some importance, both to the trading community, and to railway companies, were decided by the judge of the Pontefract County Court (Mr. T. H. Marshall) on Tuesday last. The case in which the points were in volved was Blackburn v. the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. This was an action brought by Geo. Blackburn, :a potato dealer at Brotherton, to recover the sum of £7 lOs from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway . Company for damages sustained by him from the neglect of the company's servants on the 30th August last, to deliver in due time 27 sacks of green peas, received by the company at Knottingley, to .be delivered at Leeds. It appeared that they were delivered at the company's stores in time for the train, which should arrive at the offices of the company's station at Leeds, at half-past two o'clock in the morning. They were not de livered until seven o'clock,\ when, the market being over, Blackburn refused to take them. _ _ For the defence it was alleged that they were sent by the first train which ought to have arrived at the hour stated, but being a goods train was delayed, and did not reach until 6 o'clock a.m. It was denied that there was any pro mise to deliver them at any specific hour, and that no servant of the company was authorised to make such an engage ment. At all events it was contended that Blackburn should have sold the peas at what they would bring, and claim the difference. The judge held that a contract was made to deliver the peas at half-past two o'clock; but he also held that the plaintiff should have taken the peas and sold them for some thing, and sue for the difference of value caused by the delay. He therefore gave a decree for £4 48. The Duke of Bedford has given the whole of the land gratis for a branch railway to Tavistock, so far as the line will pass through his estates. The Dissenting body has been appealed to, to contribute to a testimonial to Professor Maurice, late of King's College. A memorial has been forward from Edinburgh, calling for the cessation of the removals of Excise officers. On Tuesday evening the house of Mrs. Cocker, of Shef field, was robbed of £lOO by a servant of her's, who got clear away. STRIKE IN GLASGOW. —A Glasgow paper says :—" We regret to state that there are every probability of a strike taking place in Glasgow, in consequence of seven master spinners having agreed to cut down the scale of prices agreed to by all Scotland besides." An " indignation meeting," as our American brethren would phrase it, was held in Paisley on Monday night. The provost presided, and Mr. Urquhart addressed the assembly. Resolutions condemnatory of the policy of Lord Aberdeen were proposed and passed. On Thursday, a young woman, aged 22, flung herself off Blackfriars-bridge. The unfortunate creature, falling on the abutments, broke both her thighs, but she was taken up ere life was extinct. EXPORT OF SCOTCH Inox.—The total declared value of iroi exported is 70 per cent more than last year, but there has been about one fourth more iron exported. The price paid on the average for every ton of iron exported this year, including wrought iron of all sorts, is 40 per cent more than the price paid last year.—North British. Mail. HOLIDAY ON THE 26TH INSTANT. --A report that the Stock Exchange will be closed on Monday, the 26th instant, is premature. The committee have not, and will not, come to a decision on the subject until the Saturday previous (24th), and their resolution will be regulated by the course of events in the East. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.— On the night of Tuesday last an accident occurred at the Glasgow and South Western Railway Station, by which an industrious man, named John Crawford, employed as fireman on one of the engines, was deprived of life. The Ayr train fiad arrived about half past ten o'clock, and made the usual stoppage a short dis tance from the platform, to admit of the engine shunting off and recoupling behind. It was while thus engaged that the deceased missed his footing, and falling between the engine and tender, was instantly killed on the spot. He has left a wife and two children.—North British Mail CONCEALMENT OF WRECKAGE--Joseph and John Law rence and William Southgate, belonging to the smack Martha, of Rowhedge, were summoned by Mr. Raggett, comptroller of Customs at Colchester, before the magistrates at Colchester castle on Saturday last, for having in their, possession, on the 2d December, certain goods and stores recovered from a wreck, of the value of £2O, and unlawfully concealing the same, contrary to the statute, whereby they had forfeited double the value of the goods, and a penalty not exceeding £lOO. The 'magistrates at the suggestion of the prosecutors allowed the accused to compromise for a payment of £2 10s. each. THE GROWTH AND PREPARATION OP FLAX IN YORK sin:Rm.—A meeting of parties interested in flax was held at the Leeds court-house, on Thursday, for the purpose of con sidering the best mode of promoting the culture of this article. Henry Cholmondely, Esq., of Brandsby, was in the chair. Some influential parties at Leeds having de termined to raise and appropriate the annual sum of £lOO and upwards to promoting the :object, it was determined that three prizes should be offered at the next annual show of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, which will bo bold at Ripon. in August, 1851 ; fizbt for the best specimens of flax grown within ten miles of Leeds ; secondly, for the best specimen of flax straw grown in Yorkshire ; and thirdly, for the best specimen of scutched flax produced in Yorkshire. A dreadful malaria fever has broken out at Swansea, ameng the parties who had attended a country ball ; the number of the sufferers is variously reported from 20 to 40, and it is asserted that this distressing affliction has been occasioned by the accidental breaking into an old drain during some alterations carried on in the immediate vicinity of the ball-room, and which it is said had not been opened for upwards of twenty years. The Rev. George Traherne, a clergyman greatly esteemed in the neighbourhood, and Miss Richards, of Roath, cut down in the bloom of youth and beauty, have fallen victims to the terrible malady. Members of nearly all the influential families in the district, who attended the ball, are suffering in the same way, many of them not expected to recover—among those are members of the families Sir G. Tyler, M.P. ; Mr. Booker, M.P. ; and others. THE WINDBOUND IN THE DARDANELLES.—The Sun derland chamber of commerce have addressed the board of trade, urging the adoption of measures by her majesty's government for facilitating the transit of grain-laden ves sels through the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, and also, if necessary, through the straits of Gibraltar, by allowing her majesty's steam vessels, when not otherwise employed, to assist in towing them. The mercantile community have been much disappointed in the result of their application. In consequence of the government steamers in the Bosphorus being otherwise fully engaged, and there being none avail able at Gibraltar for such a duty, the reply received has been to the effect that the request of the memoralists can not be granted. It appears that the French government, on this, as on a former occasion of a like expediency, has given instructions for the vessels belonging to France to be towed by the Magellan steamer ; probably when she has completed her task some of the English vessels may be indebted to the courtesy of her commander for like assis tance. Last the English government should entertain an incorrect idea of the importance of the service it has been me morialised to grant, the Liverpool, and several other cham bers of commerce purpose addressing a similar communica tion to the board of trade. NEWALL'S RAILWAY BBBAK.—A special train, consisting of six carriages and two break vans, started from the Euston station of the London and North-Western railway yesterday, for the purpose of testing the value of the new system of breaks patented by Mr. Newall, the engineer of the East Lincolnshire Railway. The train left the Euston station and proceeded to Watford, making two stoppages on the way. At a point near Harrow the train was travelling at the speed of about twenty-six miles an hour, when the break was ap plied, and in thirty-two seconds it was brought to a stand, the distance run from the time of applying the break to its final stopping being 293 yards, upon an ascending gradient of lin 341. At the next experiment the train was travelling at the rate of forty-one miles per hour, the break was applied, and in 301 seconds, and within 340 yards, upon an ascending gradient of 1 in 603, the train was brought to a stand. At a short distance from Pinner, however, the breaks were applied, when the train was travelling at the speed of forty miles an hour, but it was not brought to a stand within 700 or 800 yards. BUSENB&S OF THB,HOUSE OF COMMONS.—It appears by a return moved for by Mr. Brotherton, that the number of motions made in the session of 1849 " that the house do now adjourn," was 11 ; 6 of these were withdrawn, and 5 were negatived upon a division. A similar return for 1850 shows the number of motions upon the same question was 21 ; 11 of these were were withdrawn, 2 were agreed to, 9 were di vided upon, and 8 were negatived. In 1851 the number of similar motions was 20 ; 11 of these were withdrawn, 7 were negatived upon a division, and 2 were agreed to. In 11852 the number of similar motions was 15 ; of these 7 were withdraWn, 4 were negatived, and 4 were divided upon. In 1853 the number of similar motions was 21 ; of these 7 were withdrawn, 7 were divided upon, and 6 were negatived. The same return further shows, that in 1849 the total num ber of times the following questions were put—that the house do now adjourn, that the debate be now adjourned. that the chairman report progress, that the chairman do now leave the chair—amounts to 42 2 • 14 of these w ere with drawn, 26 of them were negatived, 2 were agreed to, and 27 were divided upon. The total number for 1850 amounts to 86 ; of these 39 were withdrawn, 40 were negatived, 7 were agreed to, and 44 were divided upon. For the session of 1851 the total number amounts to 74; of these 27 were withdrawn, 41 were negatived, 6 were agreed to, and 40 were divided upon. In the session of 1852 the total num ber was 39 ; of these 19 were withdrawn, 10 were negatived, 1 was agreed to, and 9 were divided upon. In the session. of 1853 the total number was 83 ; of these 21 were with drawn, 30 were negatived, 5 were agreed to, and 27 were divided upon. The number of motions for an adjourned debate was, for the session of 1849, 15 ; of these 5 were withdrawn, 8 were negatived, and 10 divided upon. For the session of 1850 the number of similar motions was 33 ; 14 of these were withdrawn, 18 were negatived, and 19 were divided upon. In the session of 1851 the same motion was made 23, and in the session of 1852 it was only made 14 times, but in 1853 the total number reaches 33 again, of which 6 were withdrawn, 12 were negatived, and 13 were divided upon. THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. POLICE COURT. Y ESTERDAY. THE RECEIVERS OF STOLEN PROPERTY.—A licensed marine store dealer, named Burke, and a femaleOwere brought up by the police on a charged receiving property, knowing it to have been stolen. As the owner of the property conld not be discovered, the prisoners were discharged, Mr. Holme, observing that he feared there were too many of the licensed brokers who knowingly received stolen property, and as one of the persons who had the granting of these licenses, he should, certainly, stop the defendants at the next meeting, and that might be a warning to others. ILLEGAL PAWNING.—Fanny liPlvett was committed for 21 days on a charge of stealing a silver spoon, and illegally pawning the same, she being an old offender. CHARGE OF ROBBING THE BANK.—The lad, Joseph Price, who was yesterday remanded on a charge of stealing some money, was discharged, his employers not appearing to press the charge, after a severe admonition from the magistrates. ROBBERIES BY PROSTITUTES.—Betty Davis was committed for two months for robbing Joseph Williams of a pulse and 255. in Whitechapel. .Elizabeth Flinn, another prostitute, and a notorious thief, was charged with robbing,a sailor of £8 75., at a brothel in Preston-street. The complainant went with the defendant to her house on Wednesday night, and early on the following morning he found his money gone. The purse was found, in which was a five•pound note, which had evidently being over looked by the prisoner. She being an old offender, and her husband being also well known to the police, was committed for three months, the prosecutor not being able to remain in Liverpool, or she would have been committed for trial at the sessions. Ann Lynn was also committed for three months, for steal ing £l3 from a sailor, named William Desmond, who had accompanied her home. The magistrate, in this case, also re gretted that the sailor could not remain in town that he might have sent her to a higher tribunal, that she might have been sent out of the country, she being a notorious thief and pros• titute. Eliza Smith, a prostitute, was committed for two months, for stealing a watch from a person named Foster Parry, who had accompanied her home o:1 the preceding night, and the next morning found himself without his coat or watch. The coat was returned to him by paying a sovereign, but the watch was pawned at a shop in the Vauxhall-road, the ticket of which was politely handed to him, upon which he impolitely gave the prisoner in charge. A GANG OF SHOP-LIFTERS.—Michael Fenna, John Sul livan, Catharine M'Carthy, Elizabeth Mason, and Julia _trodden, a gang of most deplorable looking objects, and whose appearance would naturally excite pity, were charged with rob bing a number of provision warehouses. From the evidence of detective-officer Russell, it appeared that he met the prison ers the previous day in Renshaw•street, and entertaining some doubts as to their honest intentions, he watched their move ments, when he saw some of the parties enter several provision shops, while the others kept on the watch outside, and subse quently apprehended, and took from them, some butter, pork, and sugar. Mr. Wright, 8, Northumberland -street, identified the butter as his property; they were each committed for three months' imprisonment. Mr. Bluck attended for the prisoners, but the facts of the case were too glaring to be denied. ROBBING AN EMPLOYER. —Two lads named Johnson and Turner, were charged with stealing a pound and a half of tobacco, the property of Mr. M'Millen, tobacco and snuff manufacturer, Surrey -street. The prisoner Turner was an errand boy in the employ of the complainant. On the previous evening ho was sent with 321bs. of tobacco to Frederick-street, but as it was suspected that he had previously been guilty of abstracting goods from the parcels instrusted to his care, the foreman followed him. Shortly after he left the premises he was joined by the other prisoner, when they went into back Frederick-street, an unfrequented locality, and took . from the parcel a pound and a half of tobacco, which was found upon them. The prisoners were remanded for a week to enable the officer to inquire into their previous conduct. PUBLICANS' CASKS. Joseph Allen, keeper of a pub lic house, Re g ent-ro ad , Was summoned for a violation of the a ct, on the 4th of this month. f T en hi d s an w t a . s an adjourned case. Mr. Dodd a pp eare d for the de- Police-officer Wilson, 165, stated that at half past el even on tgtoedt,o and in about three minutes afterwards he went to the house . Re a th n e t a 4 n t d h) kn h nn e k. saw n s t o e m y e we p r e e rs a o d n m s i S i n u n n a d e a a v f remained at the doo r for about two minutes, w he n it was m th o e rn d i e n f g end ( opened, and on his going in he saw the men coming from the counter. He also saw wet glasses turned upside down, and on examining two of the glasses ho found that they had contained whiskey. Cross-examined : There was sufficient in the glasses to taste. They were placed on a drainer. There is a large yard belong ing to the premises, which is let to Mr. John Wilson Green, shipbuilder. I know that one of the men who wont into the house is not in the employment of Mr. Green. When I went to the door I did not knock, but when it was opened for the men to come out I entered. Inspector Skirmer corroborated the evidence of Wilson Mr. Dodd said that as to the entering of the men into the house he did not mean to deny. but he would prove that they had obtained ...toussion, not for the purpose of getting drink, but to go to the yard of Mr. Green, in whose employment they were. He might, however, remark that the defendant had the present house for three years, having previously kept one in Great Hovvard-street for five years, and during that time not a single complaint had been made against him. The cir cumstances under which the present charge arose were very simple. As the officer had stated, the yard to the house was let to Mr. Wilson Green, who was surveyor to the board of trade, and extensively engaged in shipbuilding. His men had frequently to go to the yard on business on Sundays, but as the gate to it from ,the street was always locked on that day, the defendant permitted them to pass through his house to it. Ac cordingly on Sunday, the 4th, six men in the employment of Mr. Green came to the house, and on being admitted passed right through to the yard. The other, the seventh man, was a dock gateman, who came to inquire after Mrs. Allen, who was ill in bed, and it would be sworn to in evidence that neither he nor any of the other men had taken any drink whatever in the house. Mary Butler, barmaid to Mr. Allen, examined . On the morning of Sunday, the 4th, six men in the em ployment of Mr. Green, knocked at the door between 11 and 12 o'clock, and were admitted. They passed right through to the yards and in a few minutes returned, and passed again through the shop. They drank nothing. The seventh party who called, was a dock gateman, named John Gray. He called to inquire after Mrs. Allen, who was ill in bed. He drank nothing. Ellis Edwards examined. Is in the employment of Mr. Green. Keeps the key of the gate to the yard. He opens it sometimes for the men on Sundays, but when he does not, they get to it through Mr. Allen's shop. He did not open the gate oni Sunday, the 4th. Mr. Dodd said, that were it not then high water, Gray would have been in attendance to drove that he drank nothing. Mr. Green was also in attendance, but his business would not permit him to stay. However, he could only prove what Edwards had proved. inspector Skirmer observed that there was a constable then present who would prove that three of the six men alleged to be in the employment of Mr. Green, were, on the contrary, firemen on board a Newry steamer. The magistrate said that it had been proved that seven glasses were found wet, and smelling of spirits, and besides it had not been shown that the men had any business whatso ever that required their presence at the yard. The defendant should therefore be fined in I Os. and costs. John Garstage, keeper of a public-house in Limekiln-lane, was summoned for a violation of the act on last Sunday morning. Police-officer Wilson said that on Sunday morning, at twenty minutes to nine, he saw two men admitted through the back door of the defendant's house. They remained there for abojit two minutes, and on entering the house he found two measures containing whiskey. The defendant stated that he was not at home at the time, and he therefore could not swear that the men had not been supplied with drink. But it was his servant, who was very young and ignorant, that they forced to admit them. He was fined 10s and costs ; the magistrate, however, observ ing that the fine, though recorded, should not operate against him. Mary Walsh Lysaught, beerseller, Portland-street, was summoned for a violation of the act on last Sunday. The officer stated that at half-past nine o'clock, on Sunday morning, he saw four men admitted into the defendant's house, and on entering he found them drinking half-a•gallon of warm ale. The officer (Wilson) further stated that the father of the defendant had lost the license of the present house. The license was then taken out by his daughter, against whom firms to the amount of 501. were recorded, and it was now in the name of the defendant. Mr. Owen appeared for the defendant and said that he did not deny that the men had got the ale; but it was given them under circumstances which would excuse the act. George Lysaught, son of the defendant, was then sworn, and lie stated that the men lodged at his mother's house, and they having procured for him employment, his mother asked them on the Sunday to take the ale. The summons was dismissed. James Groves beer-seller, St. Martin-street, was summoned for Sunday trading. In one cellar, defendant sold soap, and in the other beer. Mr. Chilton, who appeared for the defendant, admitted the selling of the soap. _ _ The defendant was fined 2s 6d and costs. Edward Jones, beerseller, Blackburne-street, was sum moned by officers 681 and 60, for refusing to open his door on their knocking and demanding admission on last Sunday night. The defendant's wife said that they were going to bed at the time, and that they always kept their house shut from Saturday night to Monday morning. The defendant was fined 40s and costs. Henry Woods, beerseller, Athol Street, was summoned for a violation of the act on last Sunday. Tne summons was dismissed. David Sall, bcerseller, Dublin-street, was summoned for a violation of the act on last Sunday morning. . . The officer (Wilson), said that he found some men sitting in the kitchen, with jugs of ale before them. [The defendant said that the men wero cattle-drovers, and he did not think it wrong to supply them with the ale. He was fined 2s. 6d. and costs. John Dart, beerseller, Water-street, was summoned, for a violation of the act on last Sunday morning, in selling beer to two men, whom he admitted into the shop. The defendent said he was not at home at the time. Ha was fined, ss. and costs. Patrick Mulligan, beer-seller, Charter-street, was sum moned for a like offence. The defendant's wife said that the parties had come to see her husband. The defendant was fined ss. and costs. BEER HOUSB CASES. Jane Moreland, beerhouse keeper, Ashton-street, was sum moned for refusing to admit the police officers to her house and premises. This case was fully gone into last week, when it was agreed, on the suggestion of Mr. Owen, who represented the defendant, that the nano shoultl be adjourned, to enable each side time to attentively peruse the ate of parliament. The clause, under which the information was laid, was the 4th and sth Wm. IV., c. 85, which enacted " That it shall be lawful for all constables and officers of police, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to enter into all houses which are, or shall be, licensed to sell beer or spirits to be con sumed on the premises, when, and as often as such constables and officers as shall think proper, and if any person having such, license, or any servant, or other person in his employ, or by his direction shall refuse to admit, or shall not admit such constable or officer of police into such house or upon such pre-' mises, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £5. From the evidence of Inspector Chew, and police-officers 58 and 705, it appeared that they had applied for admission to the, house—that the door had been opened and they had been admitted—but the defendant had, with a child in her arms, immediately upon the officers entering, locked the door of a cellar, and refused to permit either the inspector or the officer to such cellar, although they had each demanded. Mr. Owen admitted the facts that the police, for some unac countable reason, were refused admission into the collar by the defendant, and said, the real question in dispute was one, he would freely admit, of great importance, not only to the public, but also to the police. The point they would have to settle then—what was the meaning of the word " premises." If they came to the conclusion that it meant the entire house occupied by a publican, then the police would have the power of going into every room, even the bed-room, and if that were so, an Englishman's home would no longer be his castle. He then described the place into which the police had been refused admission, from which it appears it was not a cellar, but a shed covered in, the roof above touching the premises ; such being the case he contended the police had no right to enter. Mr. IXolme, suppose a person has committed a robbery,— he goes into a house, and when the police are after him, he goes into a shed or out-house, will not the police have a right to apprehend him ? Mr. Owen : The case is at all analogous. The Clerk : That would be a case of felony. Mr. Owen, in which case the police have power of breaking open the door. He contended the police had only a right to enter where the beer was sold,and not where the beer was kept, if they required to go there they must have a search warrant. Inspector Chew : We had information that there was an internal communication with that cellar. Police-officer ,58:: She refused to admit me, and she after wards refused to admit the Inspector. We both asked her. If your law is right the publicans can let us in at the front door, and keep us out of all the other parts of the house. Mr. Owen : We have admitted the facts, and you need not be so zealous in giving your opinion of the law.—l am talking to the magistrates who will decide the case. The Clerk : Them is a great difficulty in this case. There are two important points involved. If you decided against the defendant, it is quite clear that the police will have the power of going into every part of the premises, it will be admitting that they possess that power; if, on the other hand, you decide in favour of the defendant, then the police may be admitted at the front door, and to no other part of the premises. I think it wauld be as well—as the ease must be decided, to consult Mr. Mansfield on the subject. Mr. Bolton said he was of opinion that the police had a right to go into all parts of the premises that were licensed by the excise. Mr. Holme : The word premises, must he taken as mean ing the whole premises. Suppose that the parties kept beer in their bedroom, then the police, I contend, would have the power of going there. The Clerk, who had left the room for the purpose of con sulting with Mr. Mansfield on the point, returned, saying : Mr. Mansfield is of opinion that the point is a very doubtful one ; therefore, you had better give the benefit of that doubt to the defendant. Mr. Bolton : Pray is he in possession of all the facts. Was the case explained to him? The Clerk : I have explained it to Mr. Mansfi e ld. _ _ _ It was decided that the case should stand over for a short time, until Mr. Mansfield could attend. That gentleman shortly after entered the room, when the case was again dis cussed pro and con., and after perusing the clause of the act, confirmed the opinion he had even to the clerk. The magistrate therefore dismissed the case. Nicholas Carney, beerhouse-keeper was fined ss. and costs, for permitting persons to play cards in his house at twenty minutes before 12 on the night of the 4th instant. Stephen Jones, beerhouse-keeper, was summoned for having persons in his house after the proper hours. Police-officer, 485, visited the house in company with other officers at a quarter before one o'clock on Sunday morning, in which he saw four men and a woman, three of the men were drunk. The wife of the defendant appeared and said the parties were in her house, but they were all lodgers. They had not had a drop of drink. _ _ _ A witness confirmed the statement, and the magistrate dis missed the case. Jane Hager, beerhouse-keeper, Temperance -street. The inspector and police-officers 27 and 643 stated they went to the house at a quarter before three o'clock, and found therein eight persons, and there was also some glasses on filo table. The defendant admitted that the persons wet() there. Tbey were all her personal friends, and there having been a wedding the day before, they were making merry, keeping it up. The magistrates dismissed the case. James Roberts, beerhonse-keeper, Wright-street, was fined in the mitigated penalty of ss. and costs for permitting card playing in his house, which offence was admitted. James Tweedy, beerhouse-keeper, summoned under the same act, for having his house open after the proper hours. Police officer 218, requested that the defendant's witnesses might be ordered • out of court, which request the magistrates complied with and at the same time ordered officer 434, out also, he being the informer's witness. Police officer 218, then stated that at twenty minutes before one o'clock on Monday morning, he was informed that a police officer was drinking in the defendant's house. He went to the house, when police officer 504 rushed out of the house with" another person into the yard. He went into the kitchen where there was a woman, there were two glasses on the table. The Clerk :—There are two informations—one for har bouring a police officer. (This we understand was withdrawn, the officer having been dismissed from the force. The defendant admitted that the policeman was in the house with another person, having been called upon to turn out a female who was disorderly and had called in subsequently to ask her about it, and they were talking together for about ten minutes. She had no person in her house except those who lodged there. A person who accompanied the policeman confirmed the defendarit's.statement.. The police-officer 218, denied that the witness was in the house at the time, but ho distinctly stated that he was the per son whom the policeman had first met at the door as he was entering. The magistrates fined the defendant 10s. and costs Edward Dickson, Upper Mann-street, beer-house keeper, Was summoned for refusing to admit the inspector, and police officers 58 and 705, at ten minutes to nine o'clock on Sunday morning. Police-officer 58, stated the facts of the case, and said he waited fivo minutes at the door after he had knocked. Mr. Chilton, who appeared for the defendant, called witnesses who proved that the defendant and his wife were not up at the time. That he had ordered the door should not be opened, and when the detectives knocked he ran down stairs, and ceded to .them when they' were not more than twenty yards from the door. Case dismissed. Sarah Ridley, Tithebarn-street, admitted having served two women, with some ale at half-past twelve o'clock, but it being the first offence, the case was dismissed. Richard Barton, beer-house keeper, St. Ann's-street, was fined 108. and costs, for having persons in his house at ten minutes to twelve on Saturday night. John Sholes, beer-house keeper, was fined the same amount. for a similar offence. KING HUDSON AND " CERTAIN MEMBERS."—Mr. Hud son denies that he ever stated on oath, or otherwise, that ho had distributed any railway shares, or any moneys to or among any members of the legislature, as has been alleged against him. The Bishop of Chester has licensed the Rev. William Whyatt, M.A., formerly curate of St. Paul's, Leeds, to the curacy of St. Mark's Church, Cheetham-hill. The Duke of Newcastle has subscribed £2OO (and site) to a fund for the erection of a chapel of ease at Cinderhills, Basford, Notts. The Bishop of Lincoln has subscribed £5O, the Bishop of Peterborough £5, and Earl Manvers £5O. A CALL FOR CONVOCATION.—BISHOP GOBAT. The following resolutions, have been adopted by the Manchester and Chester Church Union :—" That having seen the decla ration of the four metropolitans, in which the subscribers to the Gobat protest are denounced as irregular, it is the opinion of this meeting that priests of the Catholic Church are not irregular in expressing their opinions in any matter which concerns her interest. That this meeting would fur ther express its earnest hope that this desire of the metro politans to manage the affairs of the Church according to due order and regularity . will hasten on the time when they shall call to their aid their provincial synods, without whose consent no declaration made by them can be strictly regu gular. That it is the decided opinion of this meeting that in the next assembly, of Convocation it is most de sirable that the clergy and laity should use their best endeavours to diffuse information respecting its rights and power., with a view to its complete and energetic operations. LIVERPOOL MARKETS.—YESTERDAY. (Written expressly for the Northern Daily Times.) The transactions in for - eigillioduce to-day have been on a very limited scale; of sugar only 800 bags Bengal sold with all faults" (at auction) at about provisions rates ; and 200 bags Brazil at 21s to 23s per cent. No sales have taken place in molasses, rum, coffee, or rice. Arr E.-380 bales, chiefly " all faults," were disposed of to-day by auction at 211. 10s for sound common to 241. per ton for very good. 25 tons Sapan wood brought 141. 15s to 151. 2s 6d, and 50 tons best seconds brimstone 61. lOs per ton ; 200 bags Bombay linseed are reported at 55s 6d per quarter for sound. TEA..—The market continues rather quiet, but common congou is steady at is 3d per lb. with little offering at that price. REVIEW FOR THE WEEK. SUGAR : The grocers have at length entered the market, and bought more freely than for some weeks past; the sales amount to 650 hhds BP, 6000 bags Bengal and 250 bags Madras, and full prices have been paid for all descriptions. The, saleS in foreign consist of 300 hhds Surinam at 33s 6d, and 60 hhds Porto Rico and Cuba Muscovado at 345. 6d to 36s 6d per cwt, duty paid. No transactions reported in Molasses. 300 hhds Cossipore TREACLE , sold to arrive, have been re-sold at 183 6d to 19s pe r c w t. for export. COFFEE: The demand for ordinary qualities continues un abated, but we have little or no supply ; the week's business comprises 30 tees Jamaica, 100 bags Java at 525, 300 bags Singapore at 48s to 48s 6d, and a small cargo of Rio, afloat; at 47s 6d per cwt, for a near continental port. 400 bags PIMENTO brought 6d per lb, and 160 bags Para COCOA 27s per cwt. RICE : No sales in Carolina ; 3000 bags Bengal taken at 14s 6d to 15s 3d for middling to good white, and 5000 bags Arracan at 13s 3d to 13s 6d, being 3d to 6d per cwt advance on previous asking prices. The business in RUM is trifling, without change in price. TEA : In the early part of the week some large parcels of common Congou were taken on speculation at is 3d per lb ; ; since then the market has been quiet, and but little business transacted, except a sale by auction of 1600 packages da maged, which went off at fair rates. The demand for East India Drysaltery Articles still con tinues dull; 40 bales Bengal SAFFLOWER sold at 95s for middling ; and a small parcel of SHELL LAC at 525, some damaged GAMIIIER at 33s to 355, 800 bags MYRABOLAMS at 8s 9d to lOs ; a few packages of BEES' Wax at £7 lOs ; and 500 pockets of dead COWRIES at 43s per cwt; 90 cases TINCAL offered, but withdrawn above its value. In SALTPETRE, 1400 bags sold at 27s 9d to 28s for 81 and 71- - per cent. refraction, and 30s per cwt for 3 per cent. Only small sales of NITRTE of SODA reported, at 18s 6d per cwt. GUANO.-1000 tons have been purchased, at advanced rates. DirEwooDs.—For LOGWOOD there has been a better de mand, and about 400 tons sold, at a 5s for Laguna, £6 103 to £6 15s for Honduras, and £6 2s 6d to £6 7s 6d for St. Domingo. In other descriptions, the sales are limited to 15 tons Cuba FU STIC at £9 s s , small lots of LIMA WOOD at £l3 15s, and 30 tons solid Rio la Hache at £lO lOs to £ll per ton._ No sales reported in TUPENTINE, TAU or RosrN. ASHES have been in active demand, and 700 brls. are re ported at 31s 6d for Pot, and at 28s to 29s per cwt. for Pearl. 2500 bags LINSEED sold, at 53s 6d for Calcutta, and 54s 9d to 55s for Bombay; 500 pockets Bengal RAPESEED at 555, and 150 bags MUSTARD SEED at 48s per quarter. HIDES.—About 6500 salted Buenos Ayres Cow have been sold at 42d to 41d, and 1500 dry Bulls at 6d per lb. A moderate demand continues for BRIMSTONE, without change in prices ; the sales are about 150 tons. With rather more inquiry for SUMAC, the few sales made have supported previous rates. ARGOLS have met with little demand, but sales of CREAM of TARTAR have been made more freely, 60 casks having been taken at 156 s 6d per cwt. There has been an improved demand for OLIVE OIL, the trade havin& been induced to buy, and holders submitting to some reduction in price ; 100 tuns have found buyers at the reduced quotations. _ _ About 50 tuns pale SEAL OIL have been sold at £39 per tun • no sales to report in COD O IL . LINSEED OIL is in moderate demand at 30s per cwt. ; 100 tons pale RAPE, on the spot and to arrive, realised 43s 6d to 45s 6d per cwt. 70 brls. American Spntrrs of Tunpprrrirra are reported at 56s per cwt. _ _ Tile sales of PALM OIL have been limited to small parcels on the spot, and 60 tons to arrive, at £4O per ton. The TALLOW market continues very dull ; Petersburg Y.C. at 56s 6d to 575; South American of good quality b roug ht 55s to 56s per cwt. LARD is in limited request; small sales have been made at 67s per cwt. In JUTE no transactions by private sale are reported ; out of 1100 bales offered at auction, 760 bales found buyers, at £2l p n fzemttohtnle7frotrr;lto:we throughoutcommon, as esup the eh : w 2 eex 3 etke l ,n 6 bt s ufotofrs spinners their i o n o n d e rqs immediate quality. y c . he h t eh r exe e t te um h a ss a s iivhee sow e p e fee n ov: ea a rz s s t se e; y past iu : r e niar m ti : a t n d moi that a f ed r a c r u at i r t t e con fine sON ex port,moderate.want with and the sales of the week, therefore, sum up to a fair extent, but without producing any material effect upon the market. American descriptions of the inferior and common qualities are still heavy of sale, and certainly no dearer, whilst the " middling" sorts, being mach in demand and comparatively scarce, the import of new cotton being so small, owing to contrary winds, are a shade dearer than last week. In the better sorts, " fair " and upwards, there is no improvement. Brazils are pretty steady, and in fair request. Egyptians are still heavy, but not any lower this week. There has been an extensive speculative demand for Surats, chiefly confined, however, to the common qualities, which are now fully gd. per lb. dearer : in the better kinds no improvement can be noticed. 4,470 bales American, 40 Pernam, 200 Bahia, 240 Egyptian, 14,000 Surat, 240 Madras, and 300 Bengal have been taken on speculation and for export; and 35,910 bales by the trade. The actual export consists of 570 American and 1,840 East India, in all 2,410 bales. The sales to-day amount to 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 are taken on speculation and for export. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET—YESTERDAY. BEEP sells slowly at about previous prices o though soma holders, anxious to clear out old parcels, would take rather lower rates. The new referred to in our last (Brown's Chicago) has found buyers at 110 s., but this figure has been paid with great reluctance. PORK is very dull, and prices again in favour of buyers. Bacon sells slowly ; the pros pect of arrivals of the new cure causes holders of old to press their stocks. LARD is lower is. to 2s. and buyers hold back, anticipating a still further decline, hence the sales for the week are trifling, in the extreme. CHEESE—there is a fair demand for good, but ordinary descriptions move very slowly. TALLOW varies daily with the news from the seat of war. LINSEED CAKE is flat. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY. At our market to-day we had again a great many buyers from various directions in the interior, who took WHEATS freely and extensively at an improvement of 2d to 3d per bushel above Tuesday's prices ; the demand for Ireland was, however, limited, and but few parcels were taken for hold ing over.—Fr oun must be noted fully 6d. per brl. dearer, with tolerably large sales, and chiefly for consumption. MALT is IS per °qr. higher, and Malting . BARLEY com mands rather over late currencies, but grinding lots remain dull without change in value.—BEANS are slightly inclining upwards, but the transact ions are in retail.—OATS in steady demand at previous —New OATMEAL• moves slowly to the country ; fresh parcels of old are in some request, but not freely offered. Prime sweet INDIA'; CORN is held for 6d to is advance, and for such we have a moderate inquiry for Ireland ; feed ing qualities are less wanted to-day. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-YESTERDAY. SUGAE..—West India sales 400 hhds, at.6d cwt advance upon last Friday. Refined : demand brisk, brown lumps, 445. Foreign : large business, yellow Havannah, 22s to 265. COFFEE.—Ready buyers, Native, 48s to 48s 6d ; Plantation, 58s to 745. TEA. dull, ordinary Congou, is RicE.--Demand active ; white Bengal, 14s to 15s 6d. CorroN.—Prices unchanged. NUTMEGS.—Brown, 2s 3d to 4s 4d. TALLOW.—Little doing; fine P.Y.C., 55s 9d on the spot. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY. Our arrivals continue upon an unusually small scale. A good business has been done at an advance of 4s l qr on new, and 3s Vqr on fresh old. BARLEY.:--There is more request, and all quotations were is to 2s qr higher. OATs tend upwards. BEANS are firm at previous rates. ARRIVALS.—Wheat, 3,554; barley, 1,454 ; oats, 136; beans, 258; peas, 52. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE .-YESTERDAT. Although the arrivals of foreign WHEAT this :day are large, there were little additions since Tuesday. To-day's market was well attended. English WHEAT cleared at is if? qr advance on Monday ; and a very large sale for foreign at an advance of fully 2s qr. Floating cargoes' for the south held for 2s qr higher. For BARLEY a good trade at is qr advance: BEANS and PEAS fully as dear. OATS 6d to is higher. Barrel FLOUR is dearer. THE MARCH or INTELLECT.—Everybody walking into everybody else !—Punch. A curious case of strangulation occurred in Sunderland, ,last week. A sailor on board a coasting-vessel was found .strangled in the position thus described by a shipmate :—I 'got a light, and saw two boards, forming part of the fore castle floor, turned up on edge. I looked down, and saw deceased clinging to the forehooks; his feet upon the lower, land his hand upon the upper one. I spoke to him, but he 'made no answer. I got down to him with the light, and lifted his shirt off the nail, and said, " Henry." He gave a groan. He was hanging by his arm-pits. I think he must have fallen, and the spike-nail caught his shirt : his chin was resting on his hands. There is a mark on his breast. The shirt was pressing on the side of Ins neck. On the jugular vein there is a livid mark. gait 01? iturtiort. CHIMNEY GLASS, modern Paintings, fl t' Plated Articles, China, Glass, &c., Phoenix -terrace/ road, Bootle. L MR. HIL On Tuesday next, the ßY 20th instant, at , co El ev en o'clo c k, Premises, Phcenix-terrace, Boot. FA HOUSEHOLD FU r handsome chimney glass, first-class en( glass, linen, and other valuable effects of 311 giving up housekeeping. Mahogany ca' sideboard, carved-framed sofa, sets crown chairs, centre 100 table, lounger, splendid rug, bronze fender, and fire-irons, modern pictures, plated articles, ornaments, china, glf mats, stair carpets, rods, mahogany half-teal bedsteads, with costly hangings, feather beds. hogany, &c., chests draws, cane chairs, pillar mahogany washstands and dressing tabl( glasses, kitchen furniture, &c., hastener kettles, ware, &c., &c. Catalogues to be had from Mr. Hill on sale. BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS PR: great variety, at ADAM REID'S, street. COALS.—BEST HOUSE First Quality, 16s. Second, 145., Thir Discount, FIVE PER, CENT. for READ' BY S. B. JACKSON 41, DALE -STREET, and 21, Moss-MOT' CHRISTMAS GIFTS, HOLIDAY PRs3'n SCHOOL PRIZES, &c. UPWARDS OF 1,000 VOLUMES of 1 3 11 11 with splendid pictorial embellishments, & e ' f ' he pf f , rich and elegant bindings, and suitable for gifts fo r " sent season, at prices varying from 3d. to 5 guill," just been added to the large stock now on sale at AD e csW cheap book store, 46, London-road, Liverpool Wh et logues may be had gratis. A discount of 124 per cent. allowed on all new and after the day of publication. Lately published, price 3s. 6d., cloth b;if i k , URGICAL REPORT on LITHOTO - 0 General Remarks on Operations for Stone/ Diseases of the Kidneys, Bladder, and Urethra: so/ NOTTINGHAM, M.D., Liverpool, Author of Report on Cataract and Artificial Pupil." Churchill, London; Deighton and Laughtont pool. IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANTS. AMBER T'S PATENT 1 7.5 '"" DITPLEX . ` , The whole arrangement of TENTS the Tent is desr i te l much praise for its general excellence even in " minute details ; it isjust such a piece of furniture ," should.recommendto the intending emigrant:'-jr Mechanics' Tournal,lst May, 185 3: w Apply to the Patentee, It. LAMBERT, , sP°e k - 13, Goree-piazzas, George LAMBERT'S PATENT GOLD SIFTS-to!' " This is a very complete and easy-worked uli c Practical Mechanics' Journal,Jst May, 1853. Apply to the Patentee, 13 R. LAMBERT, , s l/ 0 " , Goree-piazzas, George LAMBERT'S GENERAL ATISTR— OUTFITTING STORES, 13, GORES-PIAZZAS, GEORGE' S O , n 'of, -c!II E . T. HALL'S ANTI-CORROSIV E -.41• .—..... HALL'S ANTI-CORROSIVE INK.—It will be seen by 'a od tisement, that Mr. E. T. Hall, of this town, has Pro 4 a writing ink possessing several useful properties. 1ec,11.; others it professes to be anti - corrosive, an d thus tom be., t e o ' Early adapted for writing with steel pens. Fl,O we are enabled to say it flows freely from the. Pe p ' ei good colour, which appears to be durable, and is a i n , ifo able ink to write with—Liverpool Standard Sept. ''' 23, South John Street. GENERAL I tßr O Nc l omm D ecdic A . THE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR AN -u CO TION OF LIVERPOOL v . the ;261 TTAVING requested that MONDAY' 1 1 , 3 1 ll_ inst. be observed as a GENERAL $O l -J" -- , wid as the usual Christmas parties will be held on th 3" lowing dayS, JOHN GIBBONS, Of the Edinburgh Flour% v ir st linfte4,J, Bread and Fancy Biscuit, on 0- 0 1 yon B og, Begs respectfully to call attention to the various CONPECTTONERY hp mann& Amongst which he can confidentl y r PBBlBt i CCC o l: r OgIYITT :C Cakes, BAIHIIRBSBLHE a s RUAELTNIYDi pec uliarlyAßCAKE.TEllAsuitedCA . ° 0 r And other superior Ott parties, for presents, and, from the general nutrim ties, and inimitable flavour, for family use. 11, LONDON 41, IMPORTANT NOTICE TO THE AFFIA" DR. DE L'HUYNES, PHYSICIAN, frololB4 can be consulted every day, at No. 1, Islington, Liverpool, until the 31st instant- d e o , L'Huynes treats, specially, all Chronic Maladiesys o A l incurable by medical science. He is in possession oe t fallible method of curing those dreadful diseases C 31.1 Consumption. CURES EFFECTED IN LIVERFOOL.—Dr. G. P. De, __,`" cannot, in an advertisement, give the particula':„.. l 44, numerous cures he has effected up to this time in Ph . 0; 1 ' 4 but limits himself to the following :—William 42, Essex-street, Liverpool, abandoned by all for consumption and hypertrophy of the heart, c o about ten days.—Charles Roberts, Liverpool, deafn e a te o plete, cured in eight days.—Mrs. John * 20 days, of an ulcerated cancer at the breast.---Inctro Crosby, 7, Blyth-street, Everton, (forsaken by all ti ps ial b cured, in almost a fortnight, of paralysis and crue l , y .,cA t the loins and shoulders.—James Kelly, 2, Sing Park-lane, cured, in nearly twelve days, of consn i % —Mr. John Eve, 11, Myrtle-street South, afflicted uo, very long time with chronic rheumatism, general Re G o t t; numbness, and stiffness of the limbs, and continn cured in twelve days.-And . a very great number ° r patients, declared incurable, who are either cured ° r progress to cure, and complete restoration to h e alth , WHITEHAVEN RAILWAY.—An accident occurre Er) line on Wednesday evening arising from the not .'' to the " self-acting " points which caused one train„,,,i into another. The consequence is thus described: end of the siding, and between it and the bookilio was a very strong wooden bulkhead. Through t . 4 7 ,4 engine dashed as through a sheet of paper, carrt entire train along with it. The next obstacle in fat or was a perpendicular ascent of solid masonry, three fo, is f l o, forming a portion of the platform. It surmounted tt fo tit, apparently as much facility as if it had been level dashed through the bay window into the bookil& s ji thence in succession through the porter's office P - 01, 4 1 gentlemen's waiting-room into the ladies' waiting- 0 ') wall at the end of which finally arrested its progres s ,,,:gi building being a narrow one, the engine and trucks ` 1 ", its entire breadth, and, as a matter of course, swep t them everything which it contained. The desks, fill Yi chairs, everything, in fact, contained in the rooms ' t c ," enumerated, the terrible intruder demolished in ita te ‘ f/`0 including the partitions between the rooms. The 01. 1 0, 0 of the station, adjoining the street, was carried 11 ; e ! was also the roof, leaving the wall adjoining t , standing unsupported.' The driver and stoker inn i r e ePil on finding the disaster inevitable, and sustained n ° bOtep injury. The guard experienced some contusions , the three individuals have been able to go on 05/ this day. The station is, of course a perfect ' Ol , c o gerd steps will at once be taken to restore it. A special" of the directors took place on Tuesday to consider , —Cumberland Pacquet. LECTURE ON THE MAINE LAW. —A lecture on tll e o law was delivered by the Rev. Dr. 141'KerroN5, ° ,144 day evening, in the schoolroom attached to VI cO7l chapel, in Manchester. The lecture was design e _al; l l for the information of a few friends connected ToliVi M'Kerrow's congregation ; but the room was fill e e ol respectable auditory. What is necessary for st h be Maine law would allow, for alcoholic drinks will tamed on the certificate of a physican to their ne e ce e e l ? any particular case ; but the Maine law would „ t itf l i prevent a man from getting such drink in the qu i l l '"0 1 ) quired to ruin himself and his family. He arg aeu them class of men who enjoy such drink, and say it does 0 0, harm, have no right to make their own selfish gl" 3 ,,iogoi the measure of the liberty of this country. Such d°" ‘,ll case, he trusted that those who heard him would 4 1 ( 1 1 , could to carry on this important movement. M. 1 2.,, ° , 3 79V arguments, advanced by the Lecturer in the ponly discourse, was one which addresses itself spec .. l. o 7 1 commercial and manufacturing classes. The pu" r iey now adopted in seven of the United States of .All i w is on the eve of being adopted in two more ; aIId e I tion, in addition to the general system of educati on ol there,. will ere long cause the artisans and nf ie b r r i4 America so far to surpass ours in intelligence, 0 ° $0 skill, as to put this country second to the thalt!'„ f ior l ' the race of competition, and deprive us of our 0 1 - co ) the markets of the world.—A vote of thanks given to Dr. M'Kerrow on the conclusion of 1 4 07 at the instance of Mr. Johnson (the late 515- f lecturer), and Mr. Smiles. gS fl a t Printed and. Published by CHARLES WILLt. A - $ Oxford-street, at his General Printinff. 311- 01. 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