The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-22 00:00:00

`- r - RUSSIA AND TURKEY. PROGRESS OF' EVENTS. (Prom our Second Edition of Yesterday.) The Vienn a p a p er , Austrian Correspondenz, states, gorier date of Bucharest, 17th—" The Persian rnment has offered Prince Woronzoff 30,000 ti ; e it P lar i es _ o and demands Russian commanders for 4 a lll , • The Russian- attack on the fortress 'of fc ti lse e iin, opposite Brailow, proved a complete 1 4 Bucharest • dispatch in the Chronicle says the T h" t _ l(.lsl l- batteries below Matschin are destroyed.: islandbetween Brailow and Matschin was occu- Pl ea ab t y the Russians, who lost 10 killed, and seve- V il artloads of wounded. The cannonade lasted b eurs. The attack was not successful. Nothing Kalafat. st ate advices from St. Petersburg of the 15 th , rte that on the Ist, Prince Rebutoff won a 4 t erY over the Turkish Seraskier at Ongusli , in la, on the • Turkish territory, taking 24 cannon, the Whole Turkish camp and ammunition. The Se raskier retreating in great disorder to Karsa. p"nstantinople letters of the SarniBth that the :rte has refused to accede to an stice, but a s, Willing to join the conference. the following are the points agreed upon by the F our th Powers :—Maintenance of the -territorial in e lrity a n d • independence of Turkey; the Olmutz t ll ° l ll -cession, and the modified Vienna note , to be basis of negotiation for a new treaty of peace ; l former treaties between the belligerent Powers to „,be re-established ; the evacuation of the Princi rkities after the-conclusion of peace. The English consul at Jassy has received Lord ' t ratford's order to leave. %LTA, 14th.—A British merchantman, the pro ,kitY of a Maltese house, which sailed with a cargo , Coals to the Black Sea, was very roughly dealt • at the battle of Sinope: v The Russians have notified that all merchant :ssels laden With,_ or carrying munitions of war, r e lawful prizes, although sailing under a neutral g , FURTHER PARTICULARS. VIENNA, TUESDAY EVEI , TING.-t iS credibly as 'erted:that the combined English and French fleets , e ntered the Black Sea on the 10 th. .It is supposed that their destination is Sebastopol. Continental letters are filled with a large quantity op 4 reports, but no new facts. Confidence in the ; s ssibility of a diplomatic arrangement does not a ppear to increase. • 'Letters from St. Petersburg, state that the pre raration making by the Emperor of Russia for the Pr osecution 'of war in the spring, are on an Unpre 4ented scale of magnitude. r The dispatch dated Vienna, Thursday evenin g , Porting the entrance of the combined fleets into t he Black Sea, adds that three ships from each t c liladron. have been left to guard the approach- to C onstantinople. • ;IENNNA, THuItsDAY • EVENING, DEC. 20 . — We have advices from. Bucharest of the 17th. They state that Persia has offered, through Prince oronzoff,' 30,000 troops to RuSsia, and dethanded Russian general. . The cannona at Matschin lasted twenty hours: ,relve hundred - . riflemen were landed, and were l'Posed by-the Dobrudscha cavalry. k i tessarabia and the governments of Tauris and O r are placed under martial law. Th e y will . Oil provisionally two districts. of whic h Prince euschikoff and General Osten Sa.eken are ap v°4lted governors. jASSy, DEC. 9.-4,000 men of Osten - Sacke n ' s ' ) .l ) i have passed.. through this town yesterday. eneral Osten-SaCken is still at Kishaneff. r he garrisons of Galatz and Brailow are being 'kutorced. SPAIN. I \I4tDRID, DEC. 15.—The Bank of San Fernando fo 4 s advanced to the goverment the necessary funds r th e expenses of the next six months. The Three per Cents. were done at 43k. AUSTRAL] A. b (From our Second Edition of Yesterday.) . rLYMOUTH TuEsnAy.—The ship Tartar has ar ,4\ve,d fr on , Sy ' dney, whence she sailed on the 29th n ‘llaust: She brings 17,000 ounces of gold. She PriS n . ‘ - li t •\,°' for provisions, She spoke the Sobraon from c(b ne e c a ,.... ' t _ 4 lQE a r to Liverpool, on the 15th, and the Tamarack ;stair u rr ,tn Bombay to Glasgow. 1' 6 41 i ti T he steamer Peninsula, for Vigo, put into Ply outh on Tuesday, with bilge pipes choked. to-dg: 13 nEssA.—The wheat market was less firm. an d ro e ; l c,eights rather lower. Shipments active. s hire, I tb Ir t 'ARIS BOURSE, TIIESDAY. — Funds steady, closing ,nd f„ i L t h a rise. Three per cents , 75f. 10c. ; Four-and Linn: "oaf per cents, 102 f. uth Up " lY Fear' ast ye a 6 0 _ . 0 rison , ';, 03 the - f o r rders IRELAND. the o t. S+ on we • DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY. 4IIE CARLOW ELECTION CASES.—The order for the I ) 'A - publication of the proceedings in the case of ° *qiikg v. Lawler having been . withdrawn, the Papers of to-day contain a copious report of them. b r‘ e principal feature in the business as yet has 41 7e 1 k the examination of the plaintiff, who swore °nF,st other things, that he had been offered v' o o in cash if he would vote for Mr. Sadleir, but 1 ,; . e, refused to do so. On the day of nomination, o ',, e Was arrested in the court-house, by the direction Saldeir's agent, for the amount of two bells of Daniel Crotty, which he had accepted, but thick were not due at the time. Witness was sent ~° t % aol., and subsequently discharged by an order w a :7 l ke Queen's Bench, and was again arrested. It 4 ," zilso proved that the writs under which he was C_,.ested were prepared in the office of Messrs. send been and Morragli, and that a couple of paupers se a d be en put forward as the parties sending in the eund arrest, in order to screen those gentlemen. a lietis acts were deposed to, intended to show asat Mr. Sadleir had acted all through the affair a prominent party, and Richard Crotty, the executor of Daniel, swore he had now no interest tothe debt. The case will take a very long time try, as a large - number of witnesses are still to examined. Mr. John Sadleir himself was pre \''eut in court, and seemed to watch the proceedings v I th great anxiety. vi 411 THE RECENT GALE.—The gale w hich has blown with such 41 'm during the past few days and nights , there is too From reason to fear has caused ma n y disasters o n the coasts. 1,1.° 1 11 various quarters intelligence has reached us of ves s el s t e il lg driven ash Ore by, the severity of the weather, and un.- h r tunately in many instances destr uction of life and pro `lit'rtY has been the consequence. A rumor was current th at le arn, had foundered in the channel, b ut fr o m all we can it is happily without foundatio n . Alon g the ea stern ,o h asts several wrecks have taken pl ace. We have heard tha t 4 4 *(irge ship of 1,000 tons burthen ha s been driven ashore at reystones, county Wicklow, and that another large vessel 48 foundered near Skerries. No d oubt intelli g ence will be receivedl,, of other occurrences of a lik e unfortunate nature, in lech results of a similar character will have to be re c or ded irr wind somewhat abated yesterday evening, which will ' , Ord an opportunity to the shippin off the coast that have t tli rvived the storm to get safe into h g arbor. Saunders of this morning gives the following : t l 4 - communication which reached town yesterday stated at twelve o'clock three seamen were still clingy ng to the i'„gging of the vessel which had fourtdred near the Gormans- Wn station on Sunday night. No means of communica ts°ll*existing between them and th e shore, a life boat was at o,h gee sent down to their assistance per the train which left Dubli n at one o'clock, p.m. `he fleet of vessels have been detained in the river owin g to e violence of the gale, which still rag es. No less than six v ess els of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company are now th e Port awaiting a moderation o r chan g e of direction in the wind. Upwards of 60 tons of dead f owl now lie upon t: quays waiting an opportunity for shipment to England h a terra a portion of John Bull's Christmas cheer. W e are re lativ e to be enabled to state that the rumo r in circulation 4 4 4 .tive to a missing screw steamer is wholly w ithout foun dation %.tioirrii, DEC. 19.—The New Milford, sloop , of and for Narvon, which left Dublin on Saturday, and was seen off fi v i w th harbor on Sunday morning, with a signal of distress As e ll Z, was after great exertion b9arded by Mr. Samuel Ste ens, and and crew of the coast guard, and brought into Howth and safely moored yesterday. th e lIIPwaLex.—BALLYCOTTON, DECEMBER 18 . — O n shore, I h eehooner Porto Novo, from Terceira to Cork, la den with 4,. 134 corn and fruii, having been driven in during t he ga le p,m . the south-east which sprung up so suddenly about nine th e c on yesterday. The crew were saved by the exerti ons of latt jerr ° ast-guard, and pilot John Reardon and his crew . ; these tl ie hardy fellows narrowly escaped being . sacrificed to g ro humanity and daring. The vessel having t a ken the )l and at about half-ebb, in the midst of the breakers , a nd o t i) aore than three hundred yards off the shore, the pilot and tat Br ew—having embarked the crew of the schooner, nine in er, in the pilot-boat—volunteered to remain on board in tid ge of her, in the hope of being able, at the rising of the 1)06 ° sa.ve the cargo by running her high on sere. Tha f r, ho Qlows, seven in number, spent the awful night in a hat et Position. They were soon driven to the rigging for Y ' as the RA swept her deeb clear i and as she had taken `s f*_. the ground, it seemed miraculous how the masts, to which they clung for life, did not give way—and thus they remained from ten last night to half-past four o'clock this morning, the vessel threatening to go to pieces every moment, and wholly cut off from possibility of relief. At the rising of the tide, she was thrown helplessly further and further in, till at length she reached where she now lies very high on the strand ; but little will remain to provide adequate compen tion for those who acted so nobly, and endured such peril during that dreadful night. Sub-constable John Ryan, at the risk of his own saved the life of a boy of the Portuguese crew, who fell overboard from the boat which landed them. The sub-constable nobly dashed into the breakers, and had the satisfaction of rescuing the poor youth after sinkinc , several times. This in itself ought to suggest an answer to those who talk of removing the police from such a locality as. Ballycotton. The plot's crew were only saved by the efforts of the coast guard, who, by holding each other, formed a chain from the shore to the ship, and rescued them one by one. Her cargo is all destroyed. Her upper works, masts, and riggings are as yet sound, and may' be of some value. Her hull is a total wreck, and will probably go to pieces with this evening's tide, which at its height, with this wind, sweeps clear over the strand into the bog.—Cork Constitu tion the case of King v. King, the jury were yester day evening discharged without a verdict. The out-door relief in Barton-on-Irwell last week was 299 cases, and '599 individuals ; the cost, £36 3s. Bd. in money and kind. The deaths in the union were 79, the births 68. The lord mayor will not issue any general order on the subject of the general holiday on the 26th. The Locust, Lieut. Day, has been awarded £750 salvage for the Rosalie. Last night, a man was run over, and seriously injured, in Shaw's-brow. FIRE LAST NIGHT.—A fire occurred last night in a baker's premises in Circus-street, which, however, was ex tinguished without doing any extensive injury. In the case of • St. Mary's vicarage, Shrewsbury, the judgment will be delivered on Friday next. The object of the relators is to confine the incambency to the sons of the burgesses of Shrewsbury. A young lad, named Amos Harrington, was committed to gaol at Birmingham, this week, for stealing £3O worth of gold wire from his master. He gambled the proceeds, and was without coat when taken. On Sunday night last, at Birmingham, a ',young man named Hackett, apprenticed to Mr. Woodhouse, Birming ham, hearing a noise in his master's warehouse, as he passed, entered, and with another party , succeeded in capturing three burglars. One of them he knocked on the head with a poker. CATHOLIC SYNOD. —The Roman catholic clergy of the diocese of Liverpool, held a synod in the Roman catholic chapel, Copperas-hill, on Tuesday. Bishops Brown and and Goss presided. The proceedings were strictly private. CAB ACCIDENT.—Last evening, a man whilst crossing at the bottom of Lord-street, was knocked down by a cab horse. Luckily, he contrived to avoid the wheels, and escaped without any very serious injury. WHOLESALE DEALING.—A man named Alfred Middleton has been committed at Wolverhampton on a charge of hav ing forged two bills of exchange, each for £5O. He is also charged with a forgery in London, and three in Manchester, and has been before convicted. BARTON-ON-INWELL BOARD.—SANITARY.—At the last meeting, of the board of guardians of this union, a me morial, respecting the sanitary condition of Hartford and Trafford, was nresented, and steps taken to induce the lord of the soil to effect the drainage of those districts. Last evening a fine male child was found on the steps of the George Hotel, Dale-street. It was delivered over to a police dicer, who conveyed it to the workhouse. BE-OPENING OF ST. GEORGE'S BAZAAR.—Yesterday this bazaar, which was recently destroyed by fire, was re-opened to the public. A sum nearly sufficient to cover the actual losses of the tenants has been raised ; and the exertions of the proprietor to have the bazaar re-opened, will cause the Christmas of many of the tenants to be merrier than they could have otherwise expected. A LUNATIC BURNED TO DEATH.—On Tuesday, Mr. Payne held an inquest on the body of Michal Chapman, an unmarried female patient of Bethlehem-hospital, aged 47, who had been burned to death on the Sunday morning previous. The deceased had been in the hospital three weeks, and was of a very moody disposition. LEEDS CHAMBER or OommEucE.— A meeting cf gentle men connected with the woollen trade was held at the Leeds Court-house, on Monday, to consider some proposed change in the classification of woollen manufactures in the accounts of trade, now under consideration by the board of trade. A schedule of the proposed changes was laid before the meet ing, and after some conversation a committee was appointed to consider them, with instructions to report their opinions to the chamber of commerce. WINDSOR CASTLE.-After remaining in an unfinished state for several months, the castle wall next Thames-street, is again the scene of operations, several masons being busily employed on it, buc what shape is will ultimately assume— whether a plain wall or magnificent terrace—is at as yet un known to the public.—Bucks Advertiser. ENFIELD.—THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—Last evening a meeting of the inhabitants of Enfield was held in the Assembly-rooms of the King's Head Tavern, to hear an explanation of the principles and plan of this society, and of the scheme of allotment of the Enfield estate, to be allotted on the 4th of January next. Mr. Morgan, the sur veyor, stated that, if proper application were made to the Eastern Counties railway company, every person building a house of the value of £5O per annum would have a free pass on the line for the period of 21 years. The Gazette of Tuesday contains two orders of the Queen in Council, for the purpose of carrying out the copyright convention with the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, pub lished in the previous Gazette. The first establishes an in ternational copyright. The second order fixes the import duties of Hamburg publications u at the following rates namely, for works originally produced within the United Kingdom, and re-published 'within the state of Hamburg, 10s. per cwt. ; works not originally produced iu the United Kingdom, 15s. per cwt. ; prints or drawings, co loured or plain, single, each; bound or sewed, lid. per dozen. APPRENTICESHIP. - A question of apprenticeship was de cided at Wolverhampton a few days since. A young lad was bound to a loekmaker, who died, and his wife continued to carry on the business. She was not executrix, however, and as the executors did not carry on the trade, they assigned the apprentice to the widow; with the latter he refused to stay, and the magistrates held he was not bound. A BRUTE OF A llnswasm.—Yesterday, at the Salford Town-hall, a fellow named Edward Moran, was charged with having, about one o'clock the same morning, in his house in Emmerson-street, assaulted his wife. It appeared that the brute returned home drunk on Tuesday night; that he afterwards struck his wife, knocked her down, kicked her, and jumped . upon her with both feet. To be imprisoned, and kept at hard labour for three calendar months. ALLEGED DARING ROBBERY IN CLARENDON-STREET. We stated yesterday that the police had received information of an alleged daring robbery at Mr. Blackburn's beer-house, in Clarendon-street, Manchester, and added that the case was enveloped in considerable mystery. That mystery has now been cleared up, for upon a further search of the house two of the o fficers of the D division found concealed amongst a quantity of saw-dust in the beer-cellar a purse containing the missing £25. Sarah Whittaker, (aged 22) sister of Mrs. Blackburn, the landlady, and who acted as servant in the house, then admitted that the story she had made about two men entering the house and tying her with a rope to a table was altogether a fabrication, and that she herself broke open the box and took the money therefrom. She appears to have been an unfortunate girl at Liverpool, and admits that she has been so again in Manchester. These facts were elicited at the city police-court yesterday, when, in order that further inquiries might he made about her, the girl was remanded to Saturday. THE WESLEYAN PROVIDENT ASSURANCE SOCIETY.—Last night, a deputation, consisting of Mr. Hughes and Mr. Lewis, attended at a meeting convened at the Royal Assem bly Rooms, Great George-street, for the purpose of explain ing the objects and principles of this association to the Liverpool branch, and the public in general. There was but a very small attendance. The chair was filled by the Rev. F. A. West, Wesleyan minister, who briefly pointed out the objects of the meeting ; after which the deputation gave a history of the rise and progress of the society, and explained the advantages this society had over many others, it being, as they stated ' based upon data which might be relied upon, to insure its stability, and urgently recommended it to the attention of the public. IMPROVEMENT IN STEAM NAVIGATION. —Considerable interest has been excited in Edinburgh by the successful trial of the steam-vessel lately launched at Granton for the deep-sea fishing, as demonstrating the practicability of a new principle of steam propulsion, superseding both the screw and the paddle, and as likely to effect, in some degree, a revolution in the art of steam navigation. The vessel is 100 feet long, with engines of 30-horse power. Externally there is nothing to distinguish it from a sailing-vessel, ex cept the presence on each side of the hull of a curved pipe 10 inches In diameter, termed " a nozzle," communicating with a water-tight iron case inside. In tie bottom of the vessel are apertures admitting the water into a water-tight case with a horizontal wheel fixed on a crank-shaft attached by piston-rods to the engine, and, on the steam being applied, the water-wheel revolves with velocity, and the water is discharged by the nozzles on each side of the vessel These form the only propelling power, ani the invention is remarkable for its simplicity an'l effect. These nozzles also are of service in navigating the vessel, which, according to the angle, of depression or elevation, turrs in any direction, or stops altogether, even with the engires -working at full power. Although capacity rather than Breed was studied in the construction of the vessel, it easily attained 11 knots in an hour. Economy of fuel, freedom fr)m vibration, light draught, and a high rate of speed are anong the advantages of the invention. The vessel is being Jiooner-rigged, and, when fitted with boats and fishing gear, it will proceed to the fishing-ground in the Firth of Firth, and, by lowering the boats and crews, will he able to conduct the fishing operations with safety and celerity. Messrs. Ruthven, of Edinburgh, are the inventors, and the vessel is the first of the fleet of the Deep Sea Fishing Association of Scot land. — Globe. REFORMATION .OF JUVENILE CRIMINALS. CONFERENCE AT BIRMINGHAM. BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY EVENING. —A conference on the subject of the reformation of j uvenile criminals has been held at the royal hotel, in this town, to-day. There was a very large attendance of gentlemen from all parts of the country at this morning's meeting, the Right Hon. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, Bart., M.P., presided; amongst his supporters we observed the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Calthorpe, the Mayor of Birmingham, Xtr: M. D. Hill, Q.C., Mr. Adderley, M.P., Mr. M. Milnes, M.P., Mr. Joseph Sturge, the Rev. J. A. James, Capt. Perry, Capt. Tindal, the Hon. and Rev. W. C. Talbot, the Archdeacon of Coventry, Mr. Jellinger 'Symons, Mr. Bass, M.P., Mr. Smith Child, M.P., Sir Francis Scott, Mr. Power (Recorder of Ipswich), Mr. Scholefield, M.P., Mr. Charles Sturge, the Hon. and Rev. G. M. Yorke, Mr. Muntz., M.P, Mr. Spooner, M.P. The proceedings of the conference were opened by prayer, after which WILLIAM MORGAN, Esq., town clerk of Birmingham (who, with the Rev. S. Turner, acted as secretary to the conference), read extracts from a large number of letters received from all parts of the country, expressive of regret at the inability of the writers to be present. In a letter from Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P., it was said :—" I would sub mit, if I were present, that the first resolution is too limited in its operation and scow, as it contemplates the wretched state of the children only, and I would venture to suggest that reformation is required as much for the interests of the community at large as for the neglected children, and the conference of the 20th proximo ought to express by their reso lutions that the best interests of our country, as well as of the cause of humanity, require the interference of the legisla ture to arrest, if possible, the progress of ignorance and crime." SIR JOHN PAKINOTON, in formally opening the proceed ings of the conference, passed in review the action of the friends of the cause since the last conference, and concluded by expressing a hope that the government of England would no longer be found to be sluggish—that the awakened public feeling would urge it on—and that this country would no longer delay following the examples set to us by all Europe and America. (Applause.) The TOWN-CLERK read the resolutions-the conference committee had prepared to submit to the general. meeting. The Earl of SuArrEssuitY moved . the first resolution, which declared that the conference adopted the conclusions of the select committee of the House of Commons, which, had declared that a large proportion of the present aggre-' gate of crime might be prevented, and thousands of miser able human beings who have before them, under the present system, nothing but a hopeless career of wickedness and vice, might be converted into virtuous, honest and indus trious citizens, if due care were taken to rescue neglected and criminal children from the dangers and temptations incident to their position. He spoke of the • enormous cost resulting from a persistence in the present system. At Liverpool alone it was estimated that there was a loss of £700,000 a - znually by pilfering alone ; whereas one-third of that sum would go very far to carry out the objects which this conference had in.trvieis. In carrying out the reformatory system he strongly impressed upon the confe rence the law of kindness. By the adoption of that principle the most beneficial results ensued ; he had witnessed its effect instantaneous on the most hardened : even the worst of criminals melt under the influence of kindness • that was the great secret of the success of the ragged schools; and in the establishment of the reformatory institutions he recom mended that in all cases there should be a small number at the commencement, gradually increased, by which means the whole number might be leavened, so that the success of the institution might not be endangered. He recommended the union of voluntary labour with legislative enactments ; by voluntary efforts alone could those minute, paternal, and individual exertions and appliances be brought to bear which were invariably attended with the largest amount of success. His lordship mentioned an instance or two of gratitude and thankfulness on the part of youths now in a distant colony, in whose reformation he had himself had concern. One young man had sent over a gold nugget, with a request that the proceeds of it might be appropriated to the assistance of schools in which he had himself received instruction. Major MALE, of the united industrial school at Edin burgh, spoke of the warm interest which his fellow labourers in that city took in the proceedings of the present conference. The first resolution having been unanimously carried, Mr. ADDERLEY, M.P., moved the second, affirming that " the conference is of opinion that the country requires legis lation for the encouragement of reformatory schools for children convicted of crime or habitual vagrancy, and that such schools should be founded and supported partially by local funds and partially by contributions from the state ;" accompanying it with a few remarks in reference to his bill before parliament. The Rev. J. A. JAMES seconded the resolution. Mr. JOSEPH STUEGE was afraid that in their zeal for legislative enactment they would b* depressing voluntary exertions ; for his part, he would rather that legislative enactment was deferred for a year or two, the government in the meantime encouraging the efforts to establish these institutions as much as possible. The Earl of HARUoWBY concurred to some extent with Mr. Sturge in the opinion he had expressed. At the same time legislation was necessary, in order to enable magistrates to commit to a school instead of a gaol. Mr. Pownn, Recorder of Ipswich, said that he approved of Mr. Adderley's bill so far as it went ; but with reference to it, and especially the narrow limits of the second clause, he hoped to see it considerably stretched. Mr. M. MILNES, M.P., thought that Mr. Adderley had done, well in limiting his bill to a small. surface ; he hoped, however, that it would gain in expanse and breadth. One' important question for consideration would be as to the par ticular species of crime to which these reformatory institu tions should be chiefly opened ; but looking to the pressing nature of the question, and the immensity of its importance, it appeared to him that there was no time for delay in the matter of legislation. He believed there was some anxiety' abroad on the subject, and an idea was prevalent that punish ments were to be altogether abandoned ; he begged at once to state that such was not the fact; in some cases corporal punishment would still be inflicted. Mr. M. D. HILL, Q.C., protested against any such perni cious fallacy as Mr. Milnes had just broached; they were there because they were in advance of public opinion, and for his own part he would never lend himself, however humble he might be, to the continuance of a system simply to satisfy public opinion ; he denied that young !criminals were to be reformed by persistence in such punishments as Mr. Milnes had referred to, and whatever public opinion might say, he would never cease to inveigh against it so long as he beheved it to be erroneous. Mr. MILNES explained that his meaning simply was that a child should be subjected to the punishment suitable to a child. Mr. JELLINGER SYMONDS agreed that some moderate chastisement, suitable to juveniles, would be found necessary. There was a considerable, but somewhat desultory, dis cussion, in reference to the point .as to the particular cha racter of the punishments to be inflicted in the reformatory institutions ; some gentlemen were opposed to any . punish ment whatever, whilst others were for a moderate degree of punishment, and the reception of the criminals at first into a species of Juvenile House of Correction. There was some diversity of opinion in reference to this matter of detail, and also with reference to the age at which youths should be considered as still not too old for reception amongst juvenile criminals. Sixteen was the age named, but Lord HARnownv said he would not pledge himself to be bound by any decision of this conference in the matter of never committing criminals to gaol who were sixteen years of age. Ultimately, one or two verbal amendments having been moved, the resolutions were put seriatim, and carried. Mr. Hir,L, Q.C., announced, with reference to the £2OO, for the best essay, offered by Lady Byron at the last con ference, that it had been increased to £3OO, in consideration of two of the essays sent in being of the highest, ae won as of equal merit. He further announced that her ladyship offered to defray all the expenses of a lecturer, if it was thought by this conference that the employment of such means would aid the object they had assembled to promote. Thanks were then voted to her ladyship, and the matter was referred to the committee. Late in the afternoon the conference adjourned, after a vote of thanks had been accorded to Sir John Pakington. The public mooting.takes place this evening, at the Town Hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair. POTATO RIOTS.—The good and sensible people of Sligo persist in preventing the exportation of potatoes , and so violent has been their conduct, that the authorities are, it is said; about to interpose force to prevent them, from inter fering with the operations of supply and demand. On yesteriay, Miss Dodd, of Robert-street, Moon-street, Manchester, was knocked down, and run over by a van, driven by a man named Nicholl, who sat with the owner, who is named Houghton. Both are committed. There were, fortunately, no bones broken. JOHN B. LLOYD ESQ., Mayor, has in compliance with a requisition numerously signed, called a town's-meeting on the subject of decimal coinage. His Worship has also issued a notice requesting that Monday may be kept as a holiday throughout the borough. Richard Harington, D.D., late Principal of Brasenose, was the third son of the eighth baronet of that name, and was born .April the 26th, 1800. He had, therefore, not completed his 54th year. His loss is deeply and sincerely deplored both in the University and in the city of Oxford. THE COUNTY OP MIDDLESEX.-It is shown by a return just published that the acreage of the various parishes in Middlesex comprises 100,127 acres, 2 roods, and 16 perches. The poor-rate at Lady-day last year amounted to £364 650 14s. hd. PERUVIAN DEBT. —Facts have transpired in relation to the debt of Peru arid to the financial Mal-administration of that state, that ought to be received as an additional warning to the British public to eschew participation in foreign loans., In 1851 the domestic debt of Peru amounted to only about 5,260,000 dollars, It appears that during the last two years, unkriown to the bulk of the English bondholders, a systein has been pursued, by the Peruvian government by which this debt has been raised to the large sum of 23,000,000 dole. THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. ._.' 'ldk i ne i t adc°erel3so' :et. i n to recedt 94a fo r :, eats 9 0 1' quer is a tr i 7, ails, 2. 2 w ere ft ;fivity indon ,nds, 641/ eiVCX rokh 3 1 , kshires ,6l' tledouilit Eas" s : , Stow 'ort pull`? - 46 t ! Picni: a r ueetil decl nues . Ea Ste",4 IVI 16 11 ip As, 25 16. ( T 4heffield:' tad V i . r ,i• . re, pr' tit )over, d 3 T hy ce ces. . o t nd to' sll4 e osi ins Yorks~j, Igo `k'aste i ri f l Lock eek O ° wil.ll , " last e l ,: 'OOO ll l , 17,47e'l LOND °I 21 0 85 g. $ 1 04 1,, 75 ' n 5 • .534 43 .51 a. :64i 51 :4Si 96 z .41 5 , IIY _9B " 46 7 , POLICE COURTS.-YESTERDA.Y. • EXTRAORDINARY IMPOSITION AND CREDULITY IN THE 19TH CENTURY. William. Mills, who has for some time carried on a most lucrative business, at No. 2, Conway-street, was charged by detective-officer Murphy with obtaining money under false pretences. The prisoner, who is lame, and who had not the slightest pretension, by his appearance, to any superior knowledge, was placed before the magistrates, when, Detective-officer Murphy said, last night these two gentle men came to me and informed me that the prisoner had ob tained a shilling from the one, and sixpence from the other, by falsely pretending that he would tell their fortunes. In consequence of that information I went to No. 2, Conway street, where I asked if the prisoner was at home. I was told that he was, but at first I was refused admittance. However, I went upstairs. In the parlour I observed eight females, apparently the wives of respectable tradesmen, wait ing to see him. In the room upstairs I found the prisoner, with two females. He was sitting on the table, and they were by his side. Mr Holme : Was there a bed in the room ? Witness : There was. It was the bedroom they were in. This pack of cards was on the table, this glass, and this book, all of which I took. (The witness produced the articles, the glass being of a globular form, but almost opaque, into which we understand the poor dupes were told to look for their future partners as the case might be). One of the women told me her name was Mary Jones, of 8, Chester-street, Birkenhead, and the other was her sister. I asked her what the prisoner had told her. She reeled ? he said " she would have plenty of children." I asked her if she was married. At first she said no, but she afterwards said yes—she had been married fifteen months, and had had no children. Mr. Holme : What did she pay him ? Witness : She did not say. Mr. Holme : Let me look at the book. After perusing it he said—lt is "Astrology Improved, or a compendium of the whole art of that most important science, in five parts, by Robert Bele, assistant astrologer," and the book was printed by A. Ballen, at the sign of the Red Lion, Paternoster-row, -in the year 1723, and is a most disgusting publication ; it contains sad things that are not fit to be thought of, much less spoken. Mr. Hughes, chemist, 269, Scotland-road : I yesterday went to the prisoner's house to have my fortune told. I waited in the parlour for about two hours and a-half. There were ten or twelve females there. I waited until it came to my turn before I went up stairs. Each person was with the prisoner about a quarter of an hour. I saw the prisoner sitting in a chair. He took the pack of cards and cut them about, and then said " Who is this dark girl ?" tak ing out a card. I said " White." He said "No, dark com plexion." After having some talk I asked him what he charged. He did not answer, but I put down a shilling and he took it up. Mr. Holme : You were perfectly satisfied with your for tune, and he with the shilling ? Witness : I was perfectly satisfied. Mr. Holme : You can ask the witness any questions you please. The Prisoner : Now, pray be careful ; I am always very careful myself. Did I ask you for any money ? Witness : No, but you took it up. Prisoner : You say you gave me a shilling ; surely if any person threw down a shilling, I could take it up. But you did not give me Is. ; you gave me Is. 6d. Did I ask you for it ? Witness : I asked you if that was your chair, and you said "That will do." Mr. Holme : Did he take up the money ? Witness : Yes he did, and put it in his pocket. Prisoner : So would you if money had been given to you. I did not ask for it. Mr. Henry Carroll, baker, Scotland-road. I went to the house of the prisoner yesterday:: I waited in the parlour until it came to my turn. . . Mr. Holme : Did you go with the last witness ? Witness : No, we did not go together, the last witness was in the house first, and I went in after him. When I went in the parlour there were ten or twelve women there. They were very respectable persons ; some of them might be 50 years of age. I waited my turn, and then I went upstairs. I saw the prisoner sitting in the cornerat a table. He asked me if I had come to "have my fortune told ?" I did not speak, but sat down. He then gave me a pack of earth to cut. I did so ; he then laid them down on a table in a systematic way, one overlaying the other to the extent of a quarter of an inch, until they spread over the surface of the whole table, and each singular card he touched with the top of his finger and looked in my face without saying a word. Then he picked one out at the latter end, and he says, "do you know that ?" I said "no." He then said, "do you know who this dark man is ?" I asked him did he mean a black man, and he said "no, I mean a man with dark hair and black eyes." I said I did not know, but added "never mind, tell me something that has to take place, I know all that has past," and I gave him something to work on, "shall I soon be married ?" The answer was, "that you can do any minute you like." "But," said I, "can. I get one with money—that is what I mean by getting married?" He then shuffled the cards, and pointing out the same sort of, card, he said, "do you see this ?" "What is that ?" "That's the lady, she is a widow," and plucking out another card he says, "do you see that ?" "Yes, what it that ?" " She has plenty of money." Plucking out another, be says, "do you see that ?" "Yes." " There is more coming to you." I said, "do you think I may be soon married to her ?" and he said, " you will be certainly married to her against May next." "Do you think I may be married sooner ?" "Do you see that dark haired man ? There will be a disturbance between you." " May Ibe married to her sooner ?" He says, " You have only to say that." I then asked, "is she a virtuous woman ?" and he said, " she is a virgin," after he had told me she was a widow. (Laughter.) He said, she was never even touched. At the same time I am a married man with a family. I then asked him was he done ? he said " no, I want to go over the cards again." He did so, and I said to him, " well, are you done, what'is your charge ?" He said, " give me a shilling." I said I understood his charge was only 6d. from the women down stairs.. He said, "it was only 6d. to ladies, but I charge men is." Mr. Wybergh : Did you give him is ? Witness : I told him I only brought 6d. I gave him the 6d. and a farthing, but I subsequently put the farthing in my pocket. Mr. Holme : You went as detective police-officer ? Witness : No, sir. • Mr. Holme : Did you believe in him ? Witness : To a certain extent. Mr. Holme : Which side of the Irish Channel were you born on ? Witness : On the English side of the Irish Channel. (Laughter.) I was born in Barnsley, in Yorkshire. Mr. Holme : I am surprised you let him come Yorkshire over you. Witness : He did not do so. Cross-examined by prisoner : You shuffled the cards three times. You told me I should loose money by a party. I asked you which was the lady. You told me I should go a long journey. I did not acknowledge I had an idea to do any such thing. Some altercation having taken place between the witness and the prisoner, Mr. Holme : Answer his questions ; and in doing so bear in mind you are speaking to a necromancer. • Cross-examination continued : did not admit the second time you told me that I had lost money by a fair man. You never said you thought the female who lived in the house with me was my wife. The prisoner here declined to ask any further questions. Mr. Holme : 'What have you to say ? The Prisoner : The way I took this up was, I was left with three children, without father or mother, and I was un healthy myself. I was lame, and broke my leg, and con tinued this close on to two years. Mr. Trolmo What have to say to professing snd pre tending to tell fortunes ? Prisoner : Well, sir, I have told a good deal which has proved true. The world was not made in a day. Mr. Wybergh remarked that under the act he was liable to be treated as a rogue and vagabond, and was liable to be committed for three months. Mr. Holme, (addressing Mr. Hughes :) Did you believe in him ? Mr. Hughes : I went merely to ascertain the truth if such foolishness was acted in the country ; I could scarcely think people would be so much duped in a place like Liverpool. Mr. Holme : It appears to me a very extraordinary cir cumstance that in the middle of the nineteenth century, in these days of education and intelligence, that a man like this should have his apartments crowded with people who believed he had the power of looking into futurity, and telling them their fortunes. Any man may have his fortune told without going to a necromancer, or a man like this. If a man pursues an industrious and honest calling, as he ought to do, his fortune may be easily iold : he will elevate himself to respectability, and ultimately to prosperity. But men who go to a person like this, it is not very difficult to tell what their fortune will be, if they really believe what they are told. It is only another proof that where there are great knaves in the world, there are a great number of fools who are ready to lend themselves to them. And it is sur prising to me that one of the witnesses, who appears to possess a great admixture of shrewdness and folly, should have lent himself to such a necromancer as this. However, the case is clearly proved against this man, and for the purpose of putting a stop to such an abominable system as this, of having women, whom I am told are respectable married women, coming to a man like this, and going into a bed-room, with a bed in the room, for the purpose of having their fortunes told— there is something disgusting in the very thought—and when I opened this boo which this man had in his posses sion, I find it full of beastliness and nastiness of the most disgraceful and disreputable nature. I should not be doing my duty to the pubhc at - large, whom I represent here, if I did not put into effect the full power which the act of par liament gives me ; and therefore, for the purpose of en deavouring to put an end to such an abominable system as this, and' for the purpose of justly punishing you for the course you have thought fit to adopt, you must be Committed for three months, and were it not for the appearance of lame ness, I would give you hard labour also. The stars are not propitious to you to-day. I have told you your fortune for the next three months at all events. REFUSING TO PROCEED TO SEA. Henry Dixon, a seaman, who had signed articles to sail in the schooner Science, for Barcelona, but who had subsequently refused to join the vessel, on the plea of illness, after he had received £2 10s., his month's advance, was sent to gaol fur 21 days. PICKING POCKETS.—John Sorton, who was brought up in the custody of detective officer Sullivan, was charged with picking the pocket of Mr. Henry Johnson. The prosecutor was passing down Dale-street on the previous evening, and when passing Fontenoy-street felt a tug at his pocket. Immediately after he saw the prisoner, who was the only person near him, drop a pocket handkerchief, which he bad missed from his pocket. The prisoner was committed for trial at the sessions. COMMITTALS. —Ann Ward was committed for 21 days on a charge of stealing a pair of shoes from the house of James Melbourne, Clarence-street. :Thomas Doyle was sent to gaol for two months for stealing a telescope from the shop of Mr. Laurence Gobbi, 76, Stanhope-street. The property was in this case stopped by the assistant of Mr. Murdoch. pawnbroker, Marybone, end Mr. Mansfield wished all pawn brokers would behave as well. SEALING METAL PIPING.—Simon Glynn was charged with being concerned in stealing a quantity of metal piping, : the property of Messrs. A. and G. Holme, from the Custom House, Canning-place. The only evidence which affected' the prisoner was, that he was amongst a number of men who told officer 593, that they had been sent by a Mr. Humphries, to remove some metal. He was subsequently seen in the' company of a person who was offering the piping for sale at Mr. M'Cormack's iron foundry. Remanded. ALLEGED ASSAULT UPON A POLICE OFFICER.--THE:' TABLES TURNED.—DanieI and Mary M'Connell, husband and wife, were charged with assaulting officer 107, (Kennedy), whilst in the execution of his duty. On Friday evening, Kennedy received directions to attend in plain clothes at St. Martin's school, to watch some boys who were in th. habit of breaking the windows of the school by throwing stones. About two o'clock he bud, cwo boys into custody,. for throwing stones, and ....moved them to bridewell. About four o'clock, he apprehended a third boy for the same' offonco, and when he did so, the prisoner and his wife came up, the boy was rescued, and the officer was assaulted. According to his own statement,-his hat was taken off in order that his head might be bare to receive the blows, and his staff was taken from him. M'Connell, the male priso— ner, admitted to the officer that what the boy was doing was' very wrong, and that he himself had repeatedly complained of it. M'Connell denied this statement. He had taken no part in the rescue, but the officer had the boy down and was kneeling on his chest, and when the boy got away, the officer came to him and struck him with a short stick, and broke his hat. His wife then asked him why he struck her hus band, and he seized her and threw her down. He asked him to give the boy into the custody of an officer. Kennedy : I was struck with stones, and there is no truth in the statement that I had the boy down. • Mr. Booth : Did you tell them you were an officer ? Kennedy : I did ; I said remember you are getting your self into a serious hobble. Mr. Wybergh ; Did he tell you to give the boy up to a policeman ? Kennedy : After the row was over, not before. M'Connell said he had got up an application to his land lord, to try and do away with this very nuisance. A woman named Brown was then called as a witness for the prisoner. She stated that shortly after four o'clock she was passing St. Martin's schools, and she saw a great crowd. She went over, and she saw a man who had a boy by the collar of his jacket, on the ground, and his two feet on his chest. The prisoner and his wife were coming across, and they asked what the boy had done. The officer said, he has been breaking my windows, and I, will take him to bridewell. With that M'Connell said, do not mur der the boy ; give him into the hands of a policeman. With that a woman came and knocked off his hat, pulled him down and scratched his face. I held his hat in my hand, and I would not give it to a person who wanted to take it. Another person had the officer's stick, and when he got it he ran and struck M'Connell and knocked off his hat. It was another woman who released the prisoner. The officer had his feet on the boy's chest. Kennedy : I deny that. Mr. Clough : Do you know the prisoners ?, Witness : No. Mr. Clough : Did you see the officer with a staff ? Witness : P saw him pull it out. Mr. Clough : Was it a regular constable's staff ? Witness : I don't know. He then got hold of the lady, and threw her down on the broad of her back. Mr. Wybergh : Did you see either of the prisoners attempt to strike the officar ?—Witness : No. Kennedy : Did you see Mrs. M'Connell scratch my face ? Witness : No. Kennedy : Did you see that woman hold my staff ? Witness : No. Kennedy : You were not there at the time it occurred ? Witness : I was there at the beginning. I thought my own boy might be there, and I was uneasy. Kennedy. There was no one there at the commencement but the prisoners. The boy got away the first time, and I took him a second time. Witness : I beg your pardon, you only had him - once, and he was taken away by the old woman who knocked your hat off. Mr. Mansfield : Discharge the prisoners: A CRUEL STEPMOTHER. —Ann Bramwell, a .repulsive looking woman, was charged with inflicting a severe wound with a knife on her stepdaughter, a young girl about four teen years of age. It appeared from the girl's statement that she was at service, and came home the previous even ing about - eight o'clock. When she came in her stepmother asked her for a bedgown which her mistress had given her, which she refused to hand over. Upon this the stepmother seized a knife and nearly severed one of the girl's fingers. She was taken to the Southern hospital, where the wound was dressed, and a certificate was produced from the house surgeon that the wound was a dangerous one. The prisoner denied that she had wounded the girl designedly ; she was cooking her husband's supper, and had the knife in her hand, and she was trying to prevent e prosecutor from again leaving the house that night, when she caught the knife in her hand and cut herself. Mrs. Jane Aversham, of front Portland-street, with whom the prosecutria was in service, stated that a better girl never came into her house ; but she was so neglected that she did not know AB C. She had hardly an article of clothing. The prisoner was remanded for seven days. UNPROVOKED ASSAULT.— Thomas Alexander, a man dres sed in the garb of a seaman, was charged with an unpro voked assault upon a lady named Margaret King, under the following circumstances :—On the previous day, Mrs. King was standing at her own door, at the corner of Fulton street, when the prisoner walked up and said something to her; she did not know what. She turned her head round, and she had no sooner done so than he struck her a blow with his hand on the side of the head, and knocked her down. He was not very 'drunk. The prisoner said he was drunk, and knew nothing . about it. Mr. Mansfield : You must pay £5, or be imprisoned for two months with hard labour. SHARP PRACTICE.—Mrs. Ellen Bowler, of Cheapside, summoned Mr. Sorton, pawnbroker, Dale-street, to show cause why he should not deliver up to her six yards of flan nel, value 10s., which she had pledged with him for 3s. It appeared the flannel was pledged with Mr. Sorton on the 13th of December, 1852, and on the evening of the 13th of December, 1853, she went to have the flannel released. It was a few miuutes after 7 o'clock, and was a little too late. Next morning she sent ss. Id., the full amount of principal and interest, but the flannel would not be delivered up. Mr. Mansfield : Is the flannel sold ? Mr. Sorten : I could not say. Mr. Mansfield : I can't help you ; you allowed the time to expire. by e th ir e Aß e G u E st oL s SM ai ll it r o L ti lN tio Gl ain i s ll t fo j r/R oh a n ti Information marine ibivea ',Lore dealer, Lower ilarrineon, charging him with being in possession of 104 lbs. of foreign tobacco, unmanufactured. From information received, an officer of customs searched the premises, and found 171 lbs. of tobacco concealed in the ash pit. During the proceedings, it was found that other parties than Campbell had access to the ash-pit. 20 lbs. of tobacco were also found in the cellar, but as there was no evidence to show Campbell was cognizant of its being there, the ca se was dismissed. SANITARY PsironmyrioNs.—Mr. M‘Gowan, the legal ad viser to the health committee, appeared to support a vast number of summons.d carved on parties under the 123 d sec tion of the 127th cap., 9, and lu, Vio., f.r not keeping in a proper state of cleanliness, their houses, cellars, &c. As th e present moment, when an epidemic was impending, it was essentially necessary, he observed, that the act should be carried out in its full force. Accordingly no less than 3,500 notices had been served, but he was glad to say that in the great majority of them the parties had complied, and that the cases which would be brought before the court were re duced to sixty or seventy. The object of the health com mittee was not to carry out the act so as to render it op pressive to the public, but they wished to preserve the health of the parties residing in those houses, and also to prevent the spread of disease and epidemic among the community at large Dr. Duncan, the medical officer, and Mr. Fresh, the in spector of nuisances, were also in attendance. Richard Hollow was summoned for four houses in Lord Nelson-street. Mr. Bremmer appeared for the defendant. He said he was sure that Mr. M'Gowan would do them the credit in admitting that they would not,_on any account, throw ob stacles in the way of the health committee in carrying out the provisions of an act which it was for the benefit of all should be strictly enforced. He therefore regretted that his client should be among the seventy delinquents, but the reason was, that he wished to do more than comply with the requisition of the committee. When . the summons had been served on him to cleanse the houses, he immediately set about making extensive alterations in them, which would still more improve their sanitary condition. The whole work would be completed in a day or so, and he therefore trusted that, under those circumstances, the court would not inflict a fine. The case was accordingly adjourned for a week, a fine to be inflicted if the houses be not finished within that time. R , bert Bridson was summoned for houses in Cros bie street. Mr. Snowball who appeared for the defendant, said that the houses were let to a number of Irish tenants, and that the landlord could not. get them out; and he therefore thought that the summons should not have been taken out against him, but against the occupiers. However, in this particular case the informations could not be sustained, inas much as the notice was not drawn up . in the legal phraseology of the act. Mr. M'Gowan here made some observation as to the nature of the objection. It was inaudible except to those in his immediate vicinity; but it called fbrth from Mr. Snowball: You are a very impertinent kind of fellow. I don't know who you are, hilt you • are a very impudent fellow. Mr. M'Gowan : No; you are the very impudent fellow—l only give it you back in your own coin. The magistrates held the objection to be invalid. Mr. Snowball said there was another objection. The notice set forth that if the cleansing was not done within twenty-four hours from its receipt,the officer would have the work done, and charge the parties with the expense. That was not done, and it was therefore rather hard to summon the defendant. Mr. M'Gowan replied that the notices were filled up in the manner directed by the • act, which inflicted in case of non-fulfilment acumulative penalty-- namely, I Os. for every day the work remained undone after the expiration of the period in the notice. lie regretted that geqtlemen should oppose what was for the good of all by absurd and grown less quibbles, instead of meeting the case in its merits. The defendant here stated that he would cleanse the house, but that he could not do so in cons•eqnence of the habits of the tenants. The Magistrate said that cleanliness in such hone could only be insured by making the landlord responsible for the tenants ; for if they did .r.-4 nenave properly, and live something like a PluisEtan and decent life, he should get rid of th... 2. The defendant was fined 20s. and costs. The following parties, owners of the houses, were also fined I. M. Treefall, for two houses in a - court off Crosbie street, ss. and 4s. ed. costs, in each case. Bryan Renshaw, for a house in a court off Blundell-street, 20s. and 4s. 6d. costs. Frederick Elliott, for a house in a court off Blundell-street, 2s. 6d. and 2s. 6d. costs. Bichard Long, for houses in Vaughan's-buildings, in ono case 2s. 6d., and in the other 10s. and 4s. 6d. costs. Edward :Jones, for a house in Back Bridport-street, 2s. 6d. and 4s. 6d. costs. R. S. two bouses in Bath-lane, 10s. and 4s. Gd. costs in each case. James Blackburne, for two houses in Lancelot's-hey, 10s. and 4s. 6d. costs in.each case. David Hughes, houses in Brook-street, in: each case 20s. and 4s. 6d. costs. Thomas Dutton, Lee-hall, Queen-street, 2s. 6d. and costs. Tames Revey; Johnson-street, ls. and ls. costs. Thomas Carney, Johnson-street, 10s. and 4s. 6d. costs. Alexander Ryan, was summoned for a number of houses in Grosvenor-street. The agent of Mr. Ryan stated that he paid a party £22 a year for keeping those houses clean and whitewashed. In some of the houses 40 persons were living; the street was not paved—an open sewer ran through the middle of it—so that it was impossible, under present circumstances, to keep the houses clean. Dr, Duncan, the medical-officer said, that the street had been reported to the health committee, and that it would be immediately attended to. The cholera was always very bad in those houses, and therefore, nothing should be left undone. The party who contracted, to keep the houses clean, was fined in each case. John Bennett, for four houses on Primrose-hill, 2s. 6d., and costs, in each case. William Williams; for a house in a court off Bridport street, 2s. 6d 7 and costs. _ William Anderson, for a house in a court, Norris-place, 20s. and costs, Thomas Bird, Truemount-street, 108., and 4s. 6d. costs. Bd. Williams, ditto, ls., and ls. costs. William Bunnell, ditto, 2s. 6d., and 4s. 6d. costs. Robert Hughes, four houses in Grovesnor-street, in each case, 55., and 4s. 6d. costs. Catherine Walsh, ditto, ls., and ls. costs. William Lancaster, Chaucer-qieet, 2s. 6d., and 2s. 6d. costs. .D ivid Evans, ditto, 205., and 4s. 6d. costs. .rifory Geoghegan, ditto, 2s. 6d., and 2s. sa. costs. Mr. S. liolme foicibly impressed on the parties the necessity of keeping their ho - uses dean, particularly at the present moment, and trusted, that the infliction of those fines would henceforth insure a ready compliance with the provisions of the act. WEST DERBY BOARD OF GU.ARDIANS. This board held its usual weekly meeting yesterday, at the union house. Mr. J. HARRISON in the chair: The following guardians were also present, Messrs. Alpass, Heyes, Lunt, Taylor, Abraham, Mountfield, Browne, Moly neux, Miller, G. Harrison, Smith, Tattersall, Carter, Medcalfe, Kirkus, Pilkington, Jefferies, Shaw, and Birch. By the accounts it appeared there was £1256 17s. 6d. in the funds of the treasurer, and charges to the amount of £lBO were granted for out-door relief. The governor reported that there were 679 paupers inthe house, and that there were 723 in the house for the corresponding week of last year. It was ordered that the sum of £350 should be paid to the contractor for the erection of the new board-room, in addition to £BOO already paid. Mr. and Mrs. Reed, the school master and schoolmistress of the union, sent in their resigna tion, which, on the motion of Mr. Alpass, was accepted, and . the clerk was directed to prepare an advertisement for each of the Liverpool papers, the London Times, and the justice of the peace. It was the desire of the board that the persons appointed should be single; the salary Of the master to be £6O per annum, and the mistress £3O, with hoard and lodging in the house. Mr.. Woons, surgeon, was appointed one of the district vaccinators. As a member of the hospital committee, Mr. ALPAss direc ted the attention of the board to the little progress which was being made in laying out the gardens, which he said was en tirely to be attributed to the incapacity and inability of a ser vant named Downes. Mr. SHAW confirmed Mr. Alpass's assertion ; and after a brief but warm conversation, in the course of which, Mr. TAYLOR accused Mr. Shaw of having a spite against the man, which was denied. The hospital committee were directed to investigate the mat ter, and report thereon at the next meeting. The tender of Mrs. Bewsher for the erection of an organ in the chapel, at a cost of £6O, with 48 for an additional stop, was accepted. The governor of the houso was directed to prepare a report of the age, character, &c., of the female paupers while in the house, with a view of having some of the worst provided for out of the house. The following letter was handed in by the vice-chairman, !‘ Having some suspicion , that the corpse of my late husband is not buried, I am determined to see the corpse. • If I should not receive the permission from you to see him I shall give it into the hands of an attorney who shall force by all means.—W. AUBERG." The woman wanted the corpse-for the purpose, as she stated, of selling it for £lOO, as she was short of money. The corps© had been buried for weeks. RAILWAYS r'N MIDDLESEX.—From a return to parlia ment, just issued, it appears that the length of railways in Middlesex is 82 miles, 4 furlongs, and 115 yards ; and the land occupied .___ by railways is 'l, l furlong, and 29 DR: CHURCH'S BREECH-LOADING CANNON.—A final trial was made on Friday of two cannons that have been pre pared to be sent to Woolwich. They were fired 50 times with heavy charges of powder and ball with perfect success. N o . defect in any respect could be pointed out by the best judges. Upon this plan heavy ship guns can be loaded and fired, and brought into position, by two men five times in a minute, and a field-piece eight times in a minute. The gun heats very little.—Birmingham Journal. PEARLS AND PEARL-MAKING IN CHlNA.—Thcpractice of the art is confined to two coterminous villages, near the district city of Tehtsing, in the northern part of Chihkiang, in a silk producing region. In the month of May or June, lar.:e quantities of the mussel (.111 - iitilms cygnus) are brought in baskets from the Tabu, a lake in Kiangsu about thirty miles distant, the largest amongst the full-grown being specially selected. A. their health suffers on the journey, they are allowed a few days respite in bamboo oagov in water, before being tortured for the gratification of human vanity, when they are taken out to receive the matrices. These are various in form and material, the most common being pellets made of mud, taken from the bottom of water courses, dried, powdered with the juice of camphor-tree seeds, and formed into pills, which, when dry, arc fit for introduction into 'the unfortunate subject ; moulds which best exhibit the nacreous deposit are: brought from Canton, and appear to be made from the shell of the pearl oyster ; the irregular fragments thus procured are triturated with sand in an iron mortar, until they become smooth and globular. Another class of moulds consist of small images, generally of Buddha, in the canal c;tt;ng posttire ; or sometimes of fish ; they are made of lead, east very thin, by pouring on a board having the im pression. Pearls having these forms haro 4.eited much surprise, since they first attracted the attention of foreigners a few years back. The introduction of the pearl nuclei is an operation of considerable delicacy. The shell is gently opened with spatula of mother-o'pearl, and the free portion of the mollusc is carefully separated from one surface of the shell with an iron probe ; the foreign bodies are then suc cessfully introduced at the point of a bifurcated bamboo stick, and placed in two parallel rows upon the mantle or fleshy surface of the animal ; a sufficient number having been placed on one side, the operation is repeated on the other; stimulated by the irritatinc , bodies, the suffering animal spasmodically presses against both sides of its testaceous skeleton keeping the matrices in place. This being done the mussels are deposited one by one in canals, or streams, or pools connected therewith, five or six inches apart, at depths of from two to five feet, in lots of from 5 to 50,000," —Correspondent of the Journal of the Society of