Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-01 00:00:00

SELECT VESTRY. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Select Vestry was bald at ten o'clock yesterday, in the Workhouse Board room. Mr. Churchwarden Woodruff presided, and the other members present were Messrs. Whitby, Bairstow, Richardson, Syers, Crellin, Denton, Hughes, Shaw, Craw ford, Syred, Chesney, Williams, Owen, Gibson, Critchley, Szaida, and Whitty. WORXITOUSE CO3fMITTICE. The minutes of this committee ware read, from which it appeared that the number in the vagrant sheds last week was 372. The nnmbar in the sick wards was 497 on the 24th instant. The total number of paupers in the louse on the 24,h instant was 1,830. Mr. Suave moved the confirmation of the proceedings, including the appointment of Mr. Davis, as ward master of lunatics, and Mr. Earle in the room of Mr. Roberts, promoted, The proceedings were confirmed. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. Mr. OwEza moved the confirmation of the minutes. Mr. Dimas said, he had listened to the minutes. but heard no reference made with regard to the subject of fourteen children who had been registered as Protestants, bu: had been Hider the tuition of the Roman Catholic priest during the past twelve months. Although au application was made to Mr. Cowes for per mission to examine the register, he understood it was refused. He thought that under those circumstances something ought to have been said with reference to that subject. He had heard Mr. Whitty complain, and very justly, upon former occasions that the R. , man Catholic children were not divided from the Protestants. Now, on Iris part, he cr uld say that, as a Protestant, p - otestantism was as dear to him as catholicism wss to Mr. Whitty, and he should require, as a Protestant, that pericular attention be paid to the registering of children. The vestry were the guardians of the children, and ought to see them brought up in a proper way, and in the religion of their forefathers. He hoped the committee would take the subject into consideration, and see that the rule was car ried out. The CHAIRMAN : Does Mr. Denton mean to iminuate that there is any partiality towai'ds any one class ? Mt. DENTON : I made no insinuation ; I merely stated the truth Mr. Owes said, the statement had taken him altogether by surprise. He had not heard of fourteen Protestant children being brought inro the schools as Catholics, and if he had heard of it, he should at once have made inquiry. He thought it would be be for Mr. Denton to give formal notice of his inquiry, and he did not believe any one could have an interest in putting a stop to it. (gear, hear.) Mr. WHITTY thought it very irregular that the subject ahoeld eime on in that way. It d.h;closed to the Board the fact that some person must hold communication with members of the board, from the regular manner of bring ing subjects under the notice of committees. If such an irregularity had taken place as Mr. Denton complained of, it ought to have come before the Indushial Schools Com mittee, at their last meeting. :Mr. DENTON : So it ought. Mr. Winne' said, any abuse which was in existence ought to have been brought by the proper officers before the Industrial Schools' Committee. He had, himself, always abeteined from introducing anything at the Board until ho saw that it had been brought in due form before the schools' committee. As a personal reference had been made to him, he could aPure Mr. Denton that he would join wirh him at any time in endeavouring to maintain the impar tial zeeulatioa of the schools, which he deemed it most essential to support. He felt bound to say, that if there was any irregularity of that kind now, it must have occurred through the negligence of the officers of the institution. The proper and reguler course was that such subjects should come before the Industrial Schools' Commieee, and not before thet Board, where the details could not accompany the state ment, and the public might be deceived with regard to the CV et particulars. tr BArasrow said the vestry eithor had, or ought to have certain regulations for cond..ctin„e the establishment under its care. When a get.tlernen nailed upon him with reference to the religion of some children, the answer he gave was, that as there were certain regulations for con ducting the institution, any application having reference to one of its departments, must be made according to 'those rules, and that he could receive no private com munication upon the subject. He thought that for Mr. Holmes to have come to a private member like Mr. Don lon, and made a communication to him, en the strength of which Mr. Denton got up at that Board to censure the conduct of the schools, was a thing which the Board ought get to tolerate. He did not care who the officer of that establishment or of the schools might be, who conducted himself in such a manner, he should be made amenable to the committee. The least that officer night have done was to have consulted with, and reported to the committee, and not nave done it in such an underhand and disgrace ful manner as he had done upon this occasion. Mr. De TOY : There is a general ground to justify Mr. Bolme so far as t` at g - ,es. The CHAIRMAN : There is nothing on the minutes about this subjech and I cannot allow the discucsion to go any further. Mr. DSNTON : He made several applications to Mr. emstas to examine the books, in order to see whether the register was rig it, and he was refused. Mr. BAIRSTOW : Way did he not report to the com atittee ? The CIiMRMAN : There really is nothing to justify this dismission. Mr. Denton's statement has been replied to, and I must now call upon you to pro.2eed with the regular business. The proceedings of the committee were then con firmed. FINANCE COMMITTEE. The proceedings of this committee were read. The Cii&IRMAN reminded the Board that at their last meeting, he had brought under their notice, a bill, before Parliament s to exempt from rating buildings erected for aeientific and literary purposes. It was agreed that two petitions should be forwarded against the bill, one from the chnrchwardens and overseers, and the other from the vestry, which were presented in due course. Th. Finance Committee hire-Aisle communicated with the members for the borough, wad forwarded to them their views, impressing upon thorn the necessity of offering to the bill every opposition in their power. The committee received answers from the members almost immediately, and he believed the power of appeal was assented to upon application being made. This appeared to be considered by the borough members satisfactory enough, but the committee did not think it satisfactory. In fact, they did not see any necessity for the bill at all. The act of Parliament already in existence appeared to them to go quite as far in the exempting of such institutions as was desireb e, if not farther ; and the eommittee therefore determined that unless the bill were altered or considerably modified, they would oppose it at every stage possible. On Friday last, circumstances were }resented before the Finance Committee which made them consider it highly undesirable to allow the bill to pass in its present form without some opposition. The committee therefore determined upon sending himself and the Vestry Clerk forthwith to London. In ordinary circumstances it was a very good ride that such e step should receive the sane, ion of the Board before being put into execution, but as the - e was every probability of the bill going into committee on Wednesday, to wait until the meeting of the Board for the confirmation of that resolution, would have rendered it too late to adopt any energetic measurers to get the bill thrown out, or considerably modified, They proceeded therefore to London on Sunday, and returned last night, at some considerable personal ineaoyedenee to etch of them. On Monday morning they first of all saw etch of the members, who received them very favourably, entered most fully into their views, and he believed were quite prepared to undertake what they requested. The mem bers contented also at once to accompany them to the Peor-',aw B)ard. They had an interview with the P,or law Board, and the Board consented to move—if no other parson would—in the house, almost the very amend ments which the committee suggested. Pram the impression made in London, he believed it was very doubtful whether the bill would be proceeded with, bet if it were, it would be very considerably modified and altered so as to render it almoseharmless. (Hear, hear.) 24) thought Liverpool might congratulate herself upon this °cession, as u p on man y ot h e rs, in being the foremost to defend parochial interette, and in being the means of preventing a bill from pewee g which would have impo'od additional burdens upon those who were the least able to boar them, and have exempted a large numbers f persons who had most means. (Hear, and c h eers. ) I t b a d b een tco much the habit to tax the poorer and middle orders • of society, and to exempt the rich. There were 45,000 houses in Liverp ;o1 ocelpted by poor people, every one of whicb was taxed frequently is 6d or !2. • It was, t h ere f ore, en absurdity, as well as a severe injustice, to i n t ro d uce a bill at that time or day which proposed to exempt rich zstitutions from any share in the payment of taxation, in order to lay the additional burden upon poor occupants. However, he believed .the spirit of the nonce was, now against any extension of that principle of exemption, and he hoped the vestry would always take care to protect poor tradesmen, poor widows, and other struggling persons, from being compelled to pay for themaintenance of wealthy institutions. (law, hear.) Mr. Batas-row moved that the proceedings of the. coin• mittee be confirmed, which was agreed to. • Mr. Dayrort then moved, according to notice, that when ever a vacancy occurred at that Board, a fortnight's notice should be given of the name of any person to be proposed to fill it up. Mr. Sniw objected to the motion, as involving practical inconveniences which it would be difficult to get over. It would be impossible to be always prepared with the name of a person to be proposed at the moment a vacancy was notified, and a delay of another fortnight would thus be occasioned, whereas the act of parliament directed that every vacancy should be filled up within a month. Several other members pointed out practical objections to the 'notion Mr. DENTON finally, with the permission of the Board, withdrew his motion. The Board shortly after adjourned. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1857. OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY. At the Mansion-house, Joseph Jones, a strong-built young fellow was charged with the following daring rob bery ,nd outrage: Isaac Rhan.hey, 2, Goswell-street, jeweller, said that, on the previous afternoon, he was in Cutler-street, Hound-ditch, when a crowd got round. Two men were by his side, and one man was behind, pushing him on, while the prisoner stood hard and fast before him, so that he could not get on. There was also a woman there, and when he asked them to let him pass, his arms were forcibly lifted up, and his gold watch, which he had just before felt in his pocket, was snatched and broken off the guard. Prosecutor saw the prisoner pass it to another man, and, seizing him by the collar, dragged him along the street. The prisoner's companions then came to his assistance, and if a policeman had not arrived, prosecutor thought they would have killed him. The prisoner was captured after a violent straggle, but the others got away. John Butler, 6, City police. said : In the afternoon I saw a crowd, as I was in Houndsditch, and upon going up found the prosecutor being knocked about by several people. He told me he had been robbed of his watch, and the prisoner was pointed out as having taken it. I at tempted to take him, but he resisted violently, and swore he would not be taken. I told him to surrender, or I would draw my truncheon, and immediately that word was spoken, I was violently seized by four or five people be hind, among whom was a woman, who swore he should not be taken. Another struggle took place, during which I never let go my hold, but I was just on the point of being overpowered when my sergeant came up, and the prisoner was secured. I think it right to say that there were 600 or 700 persons present, and, although I called upon them in the Queen's name to aid me, not one of t'tem would do so during the seven or eight minutes which the struggle lasted. Alderman Cubitt : Giv me the names of some who refused, and they shall be summoned. Wit ness : Unfortunately I was unable to notice them particu larly. and cannot do so. The prisoner, who said he was the wrong man, and that was why the people took his part, was committed for triaL THE LATE MYSTERIOUS POISONINGS NEAR WHITEHAYEN —On Wednesday evening last, the coroner's inquest into the circumstances attending the mysterious cases of poi sonings at Cleator Moor, as already reported in our columns, was brought to a close, after "several adjournments. Pro fessor Taylor, who had been sent down by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, presented a most elaborate report. From what has been already published, our readers are aware that the cottages in which the mortality occerred are built upon a heap of slag, or debris, from the blast farnays of the Whitehaven Hematite Iron Company, and Dr. Taylor was of opinion, based on a series of ex periments, that the deaths resulted from the generation of sulphuretted hydrogen in this slag. After a most careful summing up by the coroner, the jury retired for about half an hoar, at the end of which time they returned the following verdict :—" We find that Joieph Armstrong the elder, Mary Armstrong, Hobert Armstrong, Joseph Arm strong the younger, John Sloane, and Fenton Murray have cores to their deaths accidentally, and that the cause of death in all thee cases has arisen from the inhalation of sulphuretted hydrogen gas, generated from the slag ueder neath the houses in which they dwelt, and from the ad joining heap of the same material. In returning this verlict the jury recommended that the house; et Buwthorn Row, b Jilt upon the slag from the Hematite Company's works, should he efficiently drained, and that all common:- cetion with the adjoining slag heal) through the found-t -tions be effectually cat off; and the jury are farther of opinion that the hoze - es so circumstanced cannot be safely occupied until this be done." IRISH DISTURBANCES WAXEEIELD.—The chief co:- stable. at the Wakefield petty sessiotet, on Monday, again called the attention of the bench to the state of the town. On Sunday evening laet, he said, Kirkgate was in a state of 'jot from about twelve o'clock up to three in the morn ing. There was at one time from three to four hundred Irishmen assembled in the streets, shouting and yelling and uttering the most horrible language. As the police went down the street bricks and stones were thrown out of the passages at them. They had only been able to catch one of the men. but they could not bring a charge of actual violence against him. The bench said if the pelice could only catch the parties the magistrates would take care they were punished, as they bad determined to put down these Irish savages.-- Michael Rooney was then fined 103. for having resisted one of the police constables, in the execution of his duty. A wild-lo :king Hibernian, named Patrick M'Quernan, was then placed in the dock, charged with having committed a bratal outrage on a man named William Bergen, at Newton Bar, Wakefield, on Sunday evening. Without the slightest provocation, he attacked the man as he was peaceably going home, knocked him down and kicked him. The man shouted for assistance, and on several persons coming to Ins rescue, the prisoner took to has heels. He was pursued by one of these persons, when he drew ont a knife, and said he would let daylight into the body of the first b—y Englishman" who endeavoured to take dim. At this moment the police came up, M . Qeernun threw the knife away, and again made off. He was, however, eventually captured.—Fine, £1 13s. ; iu default two months' hard labour in the house of correction. ACTION UNDER A POLICY OF AISUBANC3.—On Friday last, at the Manchester County Court, George Hall, of Sal ford, summoned Mr. William Haswell Hill, the Northern C ;untie? superintendent of the Wellington Life Assurance Society, for £3 Bs, the amount of a policy of assaracce effected by plaintiff on the life of his recently-deceased wife, payment of which was now diseutad. Although the policy had not been issued by Mr. Hill individually, and the summons should therefore have been served against the society, Mr. Hill personally answered the plaintiff, and alleged seven weeks " out of benefit" as the reason for non payment. It appeared that the society grants a short " grace" in its industrial branch for the payment of pre miums, which is unfairly taken advantage of by mahy family assurers, who, when illcess attacks the member in erre .r, bide the fact from the agent when he makes his weekly round, and at once clandestinely pay up the amount necessary to place such member again in benefit. In this case death ensued before the arrears could be paid up, and the policy therefore lapsed. Mr. Hall had expressed the society's willingness to return, as a gift, the whole of The premiums received, the society not caring to make a profit out of such cases, and believed the claimant had not intended to lose the benefit of the policy; but it appears the latter and his friends had behaved so boisterously at the Wellington Office, that this repay ment was not effected. His honour, after examining the papers, receipt-book, &e., pronounced it a clearly out-of-benefit case; but, as the claimant was poor, and had evidently been misadvised, be recommended a small return of premiums on the part of the plaintiff, to which Mr. Hill acceded, returning the whol e of the premiums received since the deceased's enrol ment in 1854. Mr. Brandt eulogised this liberality on the part of Mr. Hill, anti the ease was then dismissed, the old matt protestiting that he would keep up " without bar" the premiums on his own policy. BRANDY FOR MA. CAMERON.—At the Southwark Police Court, on Monday, Hr. tlngh Thomas Cameron, a ()anis ter-at-law, arid stated to be a magistrate in Rosslaire, and son of Mr. Cameron, the manager of the Reyal British Bank, who was a few days ago captured and brought to London, was chargrd before Mr. Combs with conveying half a pint of brandy into the Queen's prison, contrary to the rules and regulations. John Collwell, one of the turnkeys of the prison, said that a few days ego Mr. Cameron, the late manager of the Royal British Bank, was brought to that prisen on a warrant issued by direc tion of the Attorney-General. The prisoner had since visited that, prison; and on Sunday evening, - about six e'clock, he came as usual, and as he was about to pass through the second lobby the witness stopped him, and told ham he must search him, tie he suspected that he had spirits about him. The prisoper, who seemed rather astonished at being stopped, then put his hand in his breast coat pocket and produced a basket bottle containing nearly half a pint of brandy. Witness' 'then told him he must' know that -it was contrary to the rules, and he must give him into custody. The prisoner here said that he could assure his worship that he did not know he was acting contrary to lair, or he should not have had any spirits in his p "aseesion. He had no idea that he was doing wrong in carrying so small a quantity into the prison. Mr. Coll well informed his worship that Mr. Cameron brought a pnrtmentean in the prison the same morning, when he told him he must s arch it, to see' whether any spirits or any thing else Was in it contrary to the rules and regulations of the prison. Mr. Cameron- assured his worship that he did not know he was breaking the law, or he should not have done it. • M r . C om b e told him hat- very 'likely his story was true, but the lave was imperative on that point The penalty was 13, acid he had no power to mitigate it. He must pay th a t or go to the House of Correction. Mr. Cameron expressed his regret for having unconsciously infringed the law, and immediately paid the fine. The magistrate then ordered him to be diEebined. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YESTERDAY. LIVERPOOL. BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD. CRUELTY TO A HORSE —A youth, named Michael Norris, was charged with brutally ill-treating a horse in Manches ter-street. Mr. Thomas Edwards, of the Gas Company, proved that he saw the prisoner cruelly kicking a horse over the fetlock, and when remonstrated with he persisted in his cruelty, and uttered a volley of the most abusive and disgusting epithets. The worthy magistrate, after compli menting Mr. Edwards for his manly conduct, ordered the prisoner to be fined 10s. and costs. or, in default of pay ment, to be committed for one month. INDECENT ASSAULT.—John Harlow, a carpenter, lodging at Mrs. Smith's, Athol-street, was charged with indecently assaulting an interesting-looking child about thirteen years of age. The details of this case are not fit for publicatien. The prisoner was remanded. A "BEAUTIFUL WlFE."—Margaret Moss, the wife of a boatman, who has been repeatedly in this court for her drunken and dissipa'ed habits, was committed for three months, for assaulting her husband and biting his arm. ROBBERY AT THE CLARENCE GRAVING DOCK.— A respect able-looking old mar named William Nailor, formerly the superintendent of the above graving dock, was charged with stealing a quantity of copper sheeting. The con stable stated that he saw the prisoner go to the heap of copper and take a large quantity away and secrete it. He immediately went and took him into custody, when he offered to give him a sovereign to overlook the affair. Upon searching his house a considerable quantity of the same metal was found, all of which. there was no doubt, had been stolen from the same dock. The prisoner ad mitted that he had committed the offence, and said that his wages were so low that he could not maintain his family, which had been the cause of his taking it. He was in the receipt of 24e. per week. He was committed for one month. EXTENSIVE RnBBERY AT THE LIME STREET RAILWAY Tamansus.—A man, named John Conway, who gets his living by going about the streets buying up old clothes, was charged with stealing a dressing case, containing upwards o £3OO in money, and other valuable articles, the property of a gentleman who gave his name as Mons. R. Wallace. The prosecutor state l that he had been staying at the Queer's Hotel, and on Sunday night was about to leave by the mail train for Paris. He ordered the porter to take his luggage, consisting of four boxes, to the terminus, and they were all placed on the platform, while an extra carriage was being attached to the train. This having been done, a porter took three of the boxes, and placed them in the train, but the fourth, the dressing case, was immediately missed. Every inquiry was made after it, but without any effect. On Monday morning, Master Gilmore, and some other little boys, saw the peison , r go up an entry at the back of Seymour-street, and deposit som'thing in a midden, and then commenced singing out, " Old clothes," and appeared much confused. After he had left, the lads went to see what he had left behind, and there saw the dressing case which had been stolen from the railway station. It is scarcely necessary to say that the case had been broken open, and the greater part of the money, with some jewellery, abstracted. The prisoner was at once apprehended, and the affair put into the hands of the police. Mr. Wallace fully identified the box and its contents, and the prisoner waq ordered to be committed to take his trial, Mr. Wallace promising to come from Paris to prosecute. Several minor cases of felony and assaults, possessing not the slightest public interest, were disposed of. BEFORE MR. JEFFERY. THE LtmE-s - rnrET " Hop."—William Doraville, the keeper of the ." Hop," in Lime-street, was brought up by a %Nam:int issued on the previous day, for keeping open the " Hop" in Lime-street. He was bound over to appear at the Assizes, to answer any charge that might be preferred against him. The necessary sureties having been entered into, the parties left the court. CORONER'S COURT. Yesterday, the Coroner held inquests on the bodies of the under-mentioned parties : On the body of thigh Owen, who was drowned in the George's dock. It appear,xl that the deceased was engaged on board a vessel, and while standing on a rope between that and another, laughing and singing, he fell iato the water and was drowned before his body could be recovered. Ver:dct, "Accidental death." _ _ On the body of Thomas Armstrong, who died in the Brownlow-hill Workhouse. Verdict, " Died from natural causes." On the b)dy of a child, who died from the want of proper care and attention at its birth. IMPROMPTU 'NEA.TH AN UMBRELLA. When manufacturing Britain thirsts for Rain, Whilst arid dryness reigns from Hull to Ruthin,* Should Manchester or Liverpool complain, Invite the Queen, and never heed St. Swithin. 30th Jane, 1857, 10 30 a.m. * Provincial dialect—" Rlthin." A SUITOR TOR THE PRINCESS ALlCll—According to a letter from the Hague, the glen Mother is shortly to proceed to London, a marriage, it is said, being projected between the Prince of Orange and the Princess Alice, the second daughter of her Britannic Majesty. MONSTROUS SUPERSTITION —We learn from a lengthy article in The _Lancaster ('a.) Express, that the remains of a young lady, who died of consumption nine years ago at Ephrata, in that State, were exhumed on Sunday last, for a purpose so monstrous as almost to surpass belief. Since her death, her mother, two sisters, and two brothers have died of the same disease'. The surviving members of the family, who are "Spiritualists," became convinced that by some hocus-pocus the winding-sheet of the corpse had got into her mouth, and that by a continual suction (the modus operandi of which is only known to the spirits) she hal actually drawn he other five members of the family after her ; and that unless this winding-sheet was speedily rear , ved from the mouth of the corpse, she would, in like manner, cause the premature death of the whole. connection I IRISH GIRLS nir AMERIC.I.—The City of Mobile, Capt. Marshall, sailed from Liverpool for this port (N.Y.) on the 26th ult., freighted with over 900 passengers. Among these are a party of 120 young women and 14 men, mem bers of 133 different, families, the expenses of whose im migration are defrayed by public sub:3crip ion from nearly 4,000 different persons, the majority of whom are labourers and servant girls, to a fund entitled the " Irish Pioneer 'Emigration Fund." The object of the Insti tution of thie fund is to raise the wages, and otherwise batter the condition of poor families in the poorest dis tricts in Ireland by the assisted emigration to the United States of Canada of one member of each family, specially selected on account of good character and industrious habits in the expectation that the persons so assisted will not only better their own condition, but will, according to the usual generous practice of Irish emigrants, also send for, or otherwise greatly help, the rest of the family in Ireland. FATAL ACCIDENT AT HALIFAX FAIR.-011 Monday, an inquest was held at the Pine Apple Inn, Halifax, in refer ence to the death of John Lee, a delver, from Reggarning ton. The deceased came to the fair at Halifax, on S anriey last, and he set out for home in a state of intoxi cation. At the bottom of Haley Hill he and a young woman got into the spring cart of Mr. Bramwell Chapman, greengrocer. Lee had got out of the vehicle for something or other, at a certain part of the road, and when he was returning by the wheel, the driver (not knowing he had left his seat) set off the hose. The legs of the deceased slipped between the spokes of the wheel, and he was carried round three times, his head being dashed violently again=t the road each time. The driver then succeeded in drawing up the hose, but it backed the cart over the deceased before ho could be reseaned, and the two men who had gone to his assist:nee narrowly escaped beingrun over. This was not the fault of the diiver, the animal being very restless, in consequence of having been fright ened by the crowds of people on the road. When &tally taken up the deceased was quite dead. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." SNAHES.—Plutarch tells us. in a matter-er-fact sort of way, that when Cato the Younger led his army into Egypt, he took in his train some of the people called Psylli, to charm away the ferocity of the snakes, and care their bates. Ifafortnnately their secret (as well as that of the Ophiogenes, who 'cured by touching the wound) has been lost, In its place the police commissioner of om-. bay bas been lately compelled to resort to the only kind of charm which in no age of the world ever lost its potency. He reports that more deaths are occasiomed by snake bites than by tigers, end the local government have adopted his suggestion to offer rewards for the destruc.ion of the rep• tiles. It results that 300 a day are now beirg killed, and the hunters " ALI& off the mortal coil" at the inapeetor's door, and receive their eight annas for every' ordinary snake, and twelve for every cobra. The hulk of those hitherto destroyed has consisted of the foorsa, or whip snake, the most ugly and venemous' of the whole species, Of this snake the civil surgeon of Balnagherry reports (Bombay Courier) that "lie knows no remedy for its poison, ammonia being of no avail, as in the bite of other snakes. It appears that the poison does not act on the nervous system, like that of the cobra, but on the olood alone."--, Lances, THE MURDER OF MR. LITTLE, The public investigation into the charge preferred against Spollen, by his wife took place on Saturday morn ing, before the magistrates of Capel-street Police office, Dublin. Shortly after eleven o'clock the prisoner was conducted into the court, which was densely crowded. Mr. Corballis, Q.O , law adviser to the Castle, and the Crown Solicitor, attended to conduct the prosecution. Acting upon instructions from Mr. Kane, Mr. J. A. Curran attended as counsel for the accused. After the statement for the prosecution had been made by Mr. Cor. 'mulls, William John Chamberlain was examined : Was clerk to the cashier at Broadstone terminus. Last saw Mr. Little alive at about five o'clock on the evening of the 13th of November, 1856. He was at that time seated at his desk, with notes, go'd, and silver in the window to his right. On Wednesday, the 24th inst., Sergeant Meyers, of the detective police, called for witness, and brought him to view some money, a portion of which was rolled up. He observed a large parcel tied with twine. Another parcel had writing upon it. (Meyers, a detective officer, produced a package of money.) Chamberlain read the endorsement, "Surplus, £2 6s 10d." On another parcel witness read "X3o,' in ink, which he identified in the handwriting of the late Mr. Little. Also identified a fragment of brown paper, with the letters " M. G. W. R." as being in witness's own handwriting. Spollen was employed in the cash-office to varnish some railings which had been put. up over the counter, and also to do some oak work, about three weeks before the murder. Thomas Bennett, clerk to the accountant of the Midland Railway, deposed to having found the deceased on the floor of his office, with his throat cut, the body lying en the right side, and the face rather inclining towards the door. Large quantities of money were lying about the room in gold, silver, and notes. James Brophy, carpenter, in the employment of the railway company, was next examined. Witness procured admission to Mr. Little's office on the 14th of November by breaking open the back window, which he effected by standing on the roof of the terminus. This window was quite fast, made so by nails. This window turned on a pivot, and a person might get access to or from the roof of the terminus through it in from 15 to 20 seconds, if he were acquainted with the place. Once on the roof there would be but a very slight chance of a person being observed. From the roof it was perfectly easy to gain a means of descent to the platform in the neighbourhood of the third class water closet. From the time of egress from the staircase until this descent was accomplished five or six minutes would probably be consumed. After the departure of the mail train, at a quarter past 7 o'clock, the lights on the platform are put out, and, with one or two exceptions, no person has recourse to the premises. Witness knew the prisoner Spollen. He came first to take care of the iron roof. He then helped the loading of luggage at the departure of trains. No one had a better opportunity of becoming thoroughly acquainted with the intricates of the premises and the habits of the officals. He was the principal person employed in staunching the roof, cleaning and repairing the windows of the various offices, and in doing whatever jobs of painting were re quired. To go from the third class water closet to Seel len's cottage would take about three minutes. The detective officer, Meyers, deposed to having discovered the £132 wrapped up in a piece of calico, which he produced. ➢onnelly, a police constable, deposed to finding in a privy a bucket containing red lead, covering £67 ss in silver. This privy was situated at a distance of ]44 yards from Spoilen's cottage. Lucy Spollen, a child about ten years of age, said that she was the daughter of the prisoner. On the evening of Mr. Little'e being murdered, she recol lects her father coming home ,between seven and eight o'clock. He held in his hand some-pot or other article of a round. shape, but of what material she could not say, inasmuch as it was dark at the time. Her father took a ladder, and put it up to the roof. Her mother was at the door during this time. The witness went on to say: I had a sun bonnet which I never ware. It went about the house as a duster. I last saw it in the house, I think, the day before Mr. Little's murder. (The piece of calico found with the money was here produced, and was identi fied by the witness as the bonnet which had bean referred to by her.) I never saw that bonnet after the murder. Since the murder, my father told me that if any person showed me a piece of chamois leather, or rag, to say " No, I never saw it before." On cross-examination, the witness denied that she had ever been told what to say when questioned on her oath. She also denied that her mother had held any conversation with her since she was privately examined on Thursday last, farther than to ask " Have you been sworn ? Her mother, she said, had told her to tell the truth, and that was all. On being pressed further, the child admitted that she had informed her mother of the fact of the piece of calico having been shown her. Hughes, a sereeant of the Metropolitan Police, deposed to the arrest of the prisoner, and the finding of a knife and some keys upon his person. Two of the keys belonged to his private apartments, and he said, "You have no right to take those keys from me, as they belong to my private place." With one of those keys the witness opened a press, in a drawer of which he discovered a piece of wadding, enclosing eight sovereigns, o❑ two of which were marks of their having fallen into some wet stuff, which had afterwards dried upon them. Daniel Ryan was next examined. He said that he was an inspector of the detective police, and that he had been employed in prosecuting an inquiry in reference to the murder. On the morning of the 24th inst. he accom panied Mr. Superintendent Guy to the Broadstone terminus, where they foam] the 4 orisoner engaged in painting. Mr. Guy said that he was an officer of police, and that he had come for the purpose of arresting Spollen for the murder of Mr. Little, in November last. The prisoner said, " Very good, but you are mistaken in me." The arrest was then made. Between nine and ten o'clock the same night witness went to Frederick lane station, where he found Mrs. Spollen, who, on her husband being brought into the room, said, " Oh, you wicked man, you have destroyed your family; what I done I did for the good of your soul." The prisoner replied to this, " Oh, you foolish woman," and then attempted to approach her, but she instantly exclaimed, "Keep him back; keep him back." Spollen having been informed by Mr. Guy of the charge' against him, the prisoner said, " I deny it in tote." The charge was then formally made, and the woman said, " Search him well ; leave nothing with him. Give him a fair trial for his life, for I know his words when he was on his sick bed. He is determined not to confess it." " Confess what, woman ?" was the prisoner's next observation. " You know you murdered him ; you told me all about it at a quarter past nine o'clock on the Friday morning, after you said to me that "he would tell no tales.' " ro this the prisoner made no reply, but partly hung his head. Mr. Curran put some questions to the witness, and ascertained that the prisoner's wife was " in a great rage against her husband, so far as roaring and bawling," " She appeared to be very spiteful," but witness would not swear that she really was so. " She appeared to feel very much about the matter, and she pulled and tore her hair, and gave other manifestations of a similar spirit. She shouted very much." After the examination of this witness the proceedings were adjourned to Wednesday, at eleven o'clock, when it is understood that the magistrates will commit the prisoner for trial. CATTLE DYING IN LOWER CANADA.—The Quebec Mercury says that an alarming disease prevails among the cattle in the parishes of, La Beance, on the south side of the St. Lawrence. Upwards of 1,500 animals, chiefly cows, have died. • Mrs. Patten, the woman who so heroically navigated a ship into California, after her husband lost his mind, is now dangerously ill at her home in Boston, with typhoid fever, consequent upon the fatigues and exposure incident to the voyage, and her untiring devotion to her husband. Captain Patten has lost both his sight and hearing, as well , as the power of locomotion. THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA AND THE CITY.—At a special Court of Common Council, held on Saturday, at Guildhall, the Lord Mayor presiding, it was unanimously resolved, upon the motion of Mr. De Jersey, seconded by Mr. Valance, to present to his Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia, as the betrothed husband of the Princess Royal of England, the hononrary freedom of the City of London, enclosed in a gold box, of the value of 11)0 guinea's. IMPROVEMENTS AT 110LYROOD.—The works at Holy rood and in the Queen's Park, authorised by a vote of par liament last week, have just been cemmenced, and are being carried forward with energy. They consist of a new garden surrounding the palace, including, of course, the removal of all the old houses between it and the hill, forming a loch below St. Anthony's Chapel, building new entrance lodges, and extensive improvements within the pal -I ce. —Scotsman. • THE PEIiSONATION'S AT LEEDS ELECTION.—WiIIiam Bennett, charged with personating William Bennett, at the recent borough election, was tried before the Recorder on Saturday morning, and acquitted. The defendant had resided in the same street as the voter personated ; was himself upon the register last year, and the evidence led to the conclusion that he did not know that be had been struck off, and had therefore voted as having a right to do so. He voted for Mr. Mills, and the William Bt-nnett said to have been personated voted for the same candidate. —Leeds Mercury. HOG Cnotnai Oa b a CoNsostertow.—From Johnson County, Indiana, we learn that the fatal hog disease is very prevalent, but the symptoms are more those of con sumption than cholera. Out of 1,500 hogs put in one inclusure, fifty a day were dying. The first symptom noticeable is a slight cough, which is soon followed by a drooping, stiff appearance; the moss and lips, and some times .the jaws and ears, turn blue and swell up, and finally purging, and sometimes vomiting, follows,, and death ensues speedily. Hogs, in every stage of the disease, have been killed and examined for the purpose of ascertain ing the nature of the disease, and the result establishes the fact beyond scruple that the disease here is inflam mation of the lungs, those in the first stages showing a congested condtion in a portion of the lungs, while those further advanced bad a more extensive engorgement, and I:1 the last stages of the disease the lungs were dark, dry and solid, with some ulceration of the lungs and throat. The stomach and intestines show no signs of d iscos. TRADE AND FAST LIVING IN NEW YORK. A walk throilgh any of our wholesale dry goods streets will convince any one that the business doing is very slight indeed ; end, if they will but step inside, they will find convincing proof of this fact, that all hands, from the head of the firm down to the porter, are variously engaged in reading the paper, the latest novel, lounging on a stack of goods, or smoking a cigar. Such a state of affairs as this cannot, of course, pay a ten or twelve thousand dollar rent of store, six or eight thousand more for clerk hire, three to five thousand more for rent of residence, and probably twenty thousand (at a low estimate) for family expanses. The thing is impossible, and it did not surprise me, there fore, a few days since, when I heard it intimated that, of the vast amount of dry goods rates due on the first of the month, not more than one in ten was actually paid in full. Fortunately the monet market happened to be in a very easy condition, and this enabled the delinquent parties to obtain a renewal or extension of their paper for sixty or ninety days. Had not this been the case, the list of failures would have been startling. But the dry goods' men are not the only ones who are so " hard up," for the shoe trade is very nearly as bad. The chief trouble with the houses in this city is their fast mode of doing business. That portion of our city lying West of Broadway has been bought up in lots at the most extravagant prices, and on these lots have been erected marble edifices of the most noble appearance. The tradesmen move from their more humble establishments (where they were doing well) into these imposing struc tures ; import half a million to a million w)rth of goods ; give their note, sell to every ono that comes along, take his note, and so the day begins and elide, until the payments come due, when, as is too often shown, neither party is able to square accounts. By submitting to a ruinous Wall-street shave, however, of one and a half to two per cent a month, they are enabled to keep up their sign a while longer. But let next " pay day" witness a tight money market, and they are not able to " settle,' and it would seem that nothing can prevent a most calami tous result. The mania for fast fortunes and fast living was never so prevalent as at the present day. The clerk of eighieen or twenty years sees his employers going it with a perfect looseness, and forthwith follows his example. He can be a clerk no longer ; so he quits his yard sticks and tape, and comes out with an establishment of his own ; for there are plenty to be found who will give him a stock, and let him pay when he can. The clerk, that wag, cuts a big figure for a time ; but, like other houses built on sand, it soon fall", and he fails with it—not without, it is hoped, having learned a useful lesson. So with a thousand speculations of the prevent day ; speculations in real estate, in cotton, in breadstuffs, provisions, sugars, tobacco, tea, &c. People seem to have actually gone mad in these things, so desperate are their efforts to get rich quickly ! The result of all this is beginning to be felt in the cry of the poor for bread, and other sustenants of life ; for so high have the actual necessaries been forced, by specula tion mainly, that tens of thousands of families in this city, and at the South and West, are daily deprived of what has heretofore been regarded the commonest f eed, and within the reach of all.—Nert, York Correspondent. A MOTHER POISONED BY HER OWN DAUGHTER. The neighbourhood of Bandon hes been thrown into great excitement, consequent on a rumour having gained currency that a woman named Hawes, mother to one of the female officers of the Bandon - Onion Workhouse, had been poisoned. Oa inquiry, this rumour proved correct, and was found to be accompanied by circum stances which created a suspicion that her death had been occasioned—whether through wilfulness or mistake is not yet fully demonstrated—by her own daughter. Nes* the bed of the deceased, the police discovered a pill-box filled with a eubstance which has all the appearance of strychnine. Mr. Honohan, the active coroner for the district has instituted strict inquiries into the matter, and the result of the first day's inquiry has been to render it necessary to cause a post mortem examination to be made; and the contents of the stomach of deceeeed, having been sealed up, have been transmitted to Dr. Blyth, the Professor of Che mistry in the Queen's College, for the purpose of being submitted to a chemical examination. It would, o course, be premature to publish the evidence of the first day's inquiry in detail, as such publication might pre clude the obtaining of further evidence. It appears that the deceased, who lived at Upton, in the vicinity of Bandon, was in the habit of occasionally calling at the workhouse to see her daughter, who states that latterly she complained of being affected with severe fits of perspiration at night. Her daughter advised her to take a little gallic acid, and promised to procure some for her from the medical department. If the daugh ter's statement can be relied on, it would appear that, during the absence of the officer in charge, she pro cured the bottle of gallic acid, and filled a little of it into a pill-box. She states that she secreted the box, intending to give it to her mother on the first opportunity, but when she came to look for it she could not find it. However, she subsequently found a box which, from its similarity to that which she had lost, she supposed to be the same, and gave it to her mother who took it home, and hiving swallowed a small portion, that evening was seized with tetanic convulsions, and died in great pain within two hours, exhibiting all the symptoms of poisoning by strychnine. A very small portion of the contents of the pill box having been administered to a cat, the animal was soon after seized with convulsions, and died within a few 1:112121V09. What renders the occurrence more mysterious is, that the workhouse officer states that there was no strychnine in the establishment for months past ; but this is stated by some parties to be a mistake. There seems to have been no reason which could , have induced the daughter to commit the crime beyond that of getting rid of the expense of her maintenance. Many parties conceive that the occurrence must have Jaen the result of accident.—Dublin Daily Express. ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—ConstabIe Lowe, and party, have within the last few days, succeeded in making four or five s-izares of poteen, stills, heads, and worms, &C., in the neighbourhood of Roslea. And on last week Con stable Moore, and party, seized a quantity of malt and vessels used for illicit purposes in the neighbourhood of Newtownbutler. We have no doubt but through the exertions of these efficient men, a stop will shortly be put to such nefarious practices.—Fermanaga Reporter. EFFECTS OF A STRIAE . —The blacksmiths have returned to their work, and the strike is at an end, all parties haying lost a good deal of money by the movement. A number of platers, &c., employed in iron shipbuilding, are still going about unemployed, having been paid off in consequence of the strike having cause' their masters to decline contracts. In addition to the sum mentioned by us some time ago as having been lost to the community by the einduct of the workmen, a shipbuilding and engineering firm has been obliged to give up contracts for two very large screw steamers, the building and fit ing out of which would have been worth upwards of XlOO,OOO to the town. The ships are now in progress in the North of England,— Greenock Advertiser. CUAROE or MURDER. =On SaturdaLeveninz, Inspector Rankine received information, at the Calton Police-office, that a woman named Elixabeth Kelly had been murdered by her husband, Peter Kelly, 63, Canning-street. Ou proceeding to the room in which the event was said to have occurred, he found the woman lying on, the floor, with blood issuing from her mouth and nose. It would appear that shortly before Kelly's mother, an old woman, had left the room for the purpose of attending some household duties, and when going Kelly and his wife were sitting on each side of the fire—the wife nursing a chil t. While the old woman r wai sliti heard the child scream, and on returning to learn the 2ause of its cries she saw deceased lying on the floor, - with her head jammed into an iron pot, and the accuse 4 sitting where she had left him. The man is in c,,isto iy, and the police seeking inquiries as to whether ;he death of the woman resulted from violeece or was acetidental. It has been alleged that the deceased and her husband bad been quarrelling pre viously, but his 'm9tjter denies the statement.—Glasgow Mail. 'VHS 3 1 12610 N LUADER.—He is a poely man of middle height, 'anparently about fifty-four ; his face bespeaks strong vmmdit sense, and when in the prayer he was spoken of as the ',prophet and revelator," I tried, but in vain, to dis cover any sign of contempt in his countenance: After the rJain diseourse be spoke for a few minutes; he complained that men would come to his house. without any sufficient object, and that women would come and ask for sister Young (which?), and then try to see over the house, and the thing had become a nuisance; he had lost shirts; his wives bad lost articles of dress. There were capacious offices for the transaction of business, to which strangers could come; friends he should always be happy to see at his own house, but he wished to warn all present that he had just received from London a new pair of boots, with particularly strong toes, and that he shoul.d not scruple to use them on intruders. He theti—l forget how—turned aside to the subject of inspiration, and how, because the American people would not believe in visions and spirits, " God had sent them a strong delusion that they should believe a lie and those who rjected Joseph were now deluged with evil spirits ; with this be concluded. The last remark I did not undPrstand, but on inquiry found the allusion was to table turning, which Mormons refer to the agency of evil spirits, permitted and even sent forth to de. I ceive the "eetarian world."— pfie to eh. Salt Lakcs WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. SOUTHAMPTON-TUESDAY. At a late bout' last night, the Royal Mail Steamer Atraio, Captain Wordy, arrived with the West Indian, Mexican, and Pacific mails. The Atrato brings 17(3 passengers and 956,000 dollars on merchants' accounts. Her dates are—Havana, Deme. ram, and Trinidad, June 9th ; Granada and Barbadoes, 10th; Jamaica, 11th; Porto Rico, 15th; and St. Thomas, 16th. Yellow fever was raging at St. Thomas amongst the shipping, a few cases only appearing on shore. The Atrato lost by death, at St. Thomas, eight of her crew, and at sea four others. Among the latter were Lieut. Shaw, RN., adtniralty agent, and the fourth engineer. Four bands left behind in the hospital. The crew numbered 133, out of whom there had been 40 cases of yellow fever —ll proving fatal. The rains at Jamaica have brightened the prospects of a large stip'. crop. The island was healthy and markets generally dull. Exchange as last quoted. The sugar crop at Grenada is excessive. At Demerara the weather was wet and unfavourable. Sugar scarce and much inquired for. Freights dull. CHILI. The annual Congress was to meet at Santiago on the Ist of June. They have a large field for useful operation before them, and much good may be expected from their hands. It is eagerly desired that one of their first steps should be to abolish the tobacco monopoly ; and also that measures may be adopted to relieve the country from a repetition of a monetary crisis, such as it is so severely suf feriroe from at present. The existing heavy duties on the exportation of copper, is another-evil which calls for the interference of government. Copper mining is the great source of the prosperity of Chili at present, and should be carefully guarded, for California is likely to make sad havoc with the agriculture of the country, and will very soon choke up the market for Chili wheat and flour in the Pacific But if this latter branch of export be superseded, another of equal importance is spring ing up, which promises to be very successful. We allude to the col mines in the south, stretching from Maule to Magellan, some of which are in the hands of rich and enterprising people. It is hoped that Government will pass laws favour- - able to the working of these mines, and encourage the use of their products in the' smelting of copper, by allowing all ore to be exported free which is smelted with Chili coal- Government still continues investigating the origin of the recent attempt at revolution, but has been unable to find out anything satisfactory, or to sub stantiate any of the charges, and the whole matter would long since have passed out of the public mind, were it not that the question is still agitated by the Government. One of the national vessels, the Meteoro, has been despatched to the colony of Magellan, with a new Governor, and provisions for the establish ment, Mr. George C. Scythe having been removed. Business in Valparaiso during the fortnight has been dull, the scarcity of specie continuing to . create great difficulty. This, however, will soon be relieved by a decree of government admitting foreign coin again. The new custom-house stores arc so full that the government has had to rent private stores to accommodate the imports. Exports have been limited to bars and ores of copper and silver, and hides. PERU. In Peru the revolution and the Chincha Islands still remain the great bone of contention, but both are luckily getting fast used up, and by the recent arrangements, the country appears to have become nearly rid of her two great enemies, Vivanco, and the guano. The former still remains at Ariquipa• for the reason that he has no where else to go, and is at present engaged in an interesting discussion with one of his principal leaders, St. Gamic, as to which is the best man , (Vivanco or Gamio), and meditating •on the final result to himself personally, of the "shindy he has been kicking up in the Republic, should he find himself in the hands of Castilla. The only vessels Vivanco at present possesses, the Apurimac and Peytona, remain at Islay, under command of MOntero, a young gentleman of some twenty-two years, with a very hot head and hand some moustache, the latter of which lie twirls round at a naost fearful rate as he vows eternal vengeance against Castilla, who has recently 'most grossly - insulted him by offering to receive him, back into , the government ser vice as sub•lietenant, provided he will give up the Apurimac and all hands. The insult doubt less lay in Castilla's stupidity in not offering', at the same time, a'few hundred thousand dollars as a reward for-his patriotism: in leaving a bad cause to take up a good one. All the other vessels-of-war being left in charge of the Chincas by Vivanco, were recently sold over by their commanders to Castilla. and have come to Callao, where they delivered themselvea up to the government, for which, report says, they received a very fair quid pro qaw. This step has given Castilla almost supreme power once more f „and has placed him again in possession of the Chinches, so that all the vessels loading under Vivanco contracts have had to- leave to save being -forfeited. But yet Castilla did- not feel safe, so to make assurance doubly sure, he has called upon the British and French Minis ters in Lima to take the islands under their joint protectorate. and prevent them from further invasion. The result is, that a contract has been entered into between the Peruvian Go vernment and these functionaries, in which the latter stipulate that they will protect the islands from "outside pressure" for ten years, and secure to the respective bondholders of England and France, the faithful fulfilment of the contract for merly made with them by Peru. The correspondent of the Panama Star writes : This arrangement is decidedly good for the bondholders. how good it may prove for Peru remains yet to be seen. I suipect it will turn out a rather unsatisfactory speculation for the latter. It is. said that the United S Cates Minister has protested against the proceedings. The treaty has not been published yet, so that I have been unable to procure a copy. The French steamer Lavoisiettre had left Callao with the French Minister on board, bound for the islands, to put the new protectorate in force ; some of the vessels of Castilla's fleet have also gone over there in order to guard against any attempt which Vivanco may make to retake the island with the Aptoimse, The British frigate Monarch remains at Callao, engaged in watching the little steamer Tumbes, which Admiral Bruce still holds as a hostage for the outrage perpetrated on the New Granada, rather a stupid proce dure, itappears to me, for, if Vivanco had no right to the money on board the New Granada, his taking it by force was piracy, and should have been punished severely and summarily; if he had a right to it, the Admiral should not have interfered ; but the mere seizing thaTumbes and holding her until the money pilaged is restored is certainly no punishment whatever, and by no means adequate to the offence. GOLD DIGGINGS IN BRITISH GUINEA.—The Upata gold diggings are, it appears, in British territory. There were upwards of 000 people assembled, there, and gold is said to be discovered in abundance at a depth of about of five or six feet from the surface. THE IRON TRADE.—The irorrnssiers of South Staffor3- shire and East Worcestershire have just held their pre liminary meeting at the Stewponey, at which it was unanimontly resolved to adhere to the prices of last quorter-day. QUITE A Mtn...um—The Baltimore Republican tea's a Story of a young man who fell in love with a young lady residine in one of the residences of Upper Tendom. The lover fearing a repulse from the bead of the family, con ducted his courtship in a clandestine manner. The upshot of the matter was that an elopement occurred and the parties were married. After the marriage the bridegroom proposed that they should return home and procure the father's pardon. Judge, then,' of his dismay when, with a trembling voice, she informed him that although she pos sessed the name of the gentleman in question, she was not related to him in the, slightest degree, and was employed in his dwelling in the capacity of a seamstress. Thus all his visions of a secured fortune were scattered to the winds, and the scene of recrimination which ensued was terribly► out of •ch trader for a newly-married couple. CASE AND DEED Boxrs.—The next important thing to the posses sion of ( ash is, bow (when you have got it) to keep it safely, either in the eonnting-house or at home. The same remarks apply to deeds and other valuable documents. We have seen a large and varied stock of both these desirable articles, manufactured expressly for Mr. E. T. Hall, of South John•street, that challenge attention. These boxes are made on new and admired principles, and possess patent leeks, which defy the ingenuity of any "pick-lock" in the world to open, except with the legitimate key. To merchants, solicitors, and others, these new safes, on a small scale, mug pr(lVe valuable indeed, — Northern Daily Vanes, 21st May, 1857,