Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-21 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT, YORK, JULY 18. B FCFORIC MR. BARON WATSON. MIDDLETON v. WUR 4 TCROFT.—This was an action for seduction. Mr. Hill, Q.O , and Mr. Jones appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Overend, Q C., for the defendant. The plaintiff, it appeared. is a widow, having three daughters, of whom the subject of the present action was the youngest, and 20 years of age. The two elder supported themselves as milliners, and the youngest, after being educated at St. Phillip's school, ShetNeld. became a teacher in the school at a salary of £2O a-year. The defendant is a butcher and baker, residing opposite the plaintiff's, and at the winter fair of last year he became saiqusinted with the plaintiff's dnughter, and after visiting her for some time, proposed marriage to her, and was ascepted. The result of their intim: , cy was the birth of a child in November last. The defendant's attentions had long cooled, and he refused to perform his promise. In cbnsequence, the child had been affiliated to him, and the present action had been brought. The young woman had lost her situation of teacher at the school, and her mother had had £3 134. 6d. to pay to her doctor, and now had her daughter on her hands in delicate health to maintain. The young woman was called as a witness, and cried very bitterly in givieg her evidence. The learned counsel for the defence would not attempt to excuse his client, and expressed his sorrow for the young woman, but he begged the jury, in their estimate of the damages, not to take into censileration the breach of promise of marriage to the young woman, for which another action would be brought against his client, who would thus be subjected to the hardship of being made to pay twice for the same error. His Lordship, in sum ming up, said it was by no means certain that there would be another action, as that would depend upon whether the plaintiff could prove the promise of marriage by other evidence, as she could not be her own witness ; and, as to the hardship, the defendant should not have acted in the manner he had done, and he would not then have had to compliin of any hardship. The jury, after a shorn con sultation, found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £l2O. PZAT v Baows.—Tie was an action for slander of the plaintiff in his business. Mr. Temple, Q C., and Mr. Kemplay appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Hill, Q C , and Mr. Jones, for the defendant. The plaintiff, it appeared, is a cloth manufacturer, in a small way of business at Yeaden, and the defendant is also a cloth manufacturer, but on a much larger scale, at the same place. Some time ago the plaintiff began to manufacture a description of cloth called " unions," the warp of which is of cotton, the weft of wool, which, before that time, the defendant only had manufactured. Soon after this the plaintiff began to find that that credit which he ha-I heretofore enjoyed in carrying on his business ceased, and unless he paid cash for what he ordered goods were not delivered to him At length, in conversation with a person named Brook, with whom he had long dealt, he learnt that the defendant had said to Brook concerning him, that he was a bad payer, and that if he (Brook) gave him credit he would never be paid. The plaintiff, in consequence, saw the defendant, and asked him what he meant, and the defendant then, in the presence of a third person, said, "It's my opinion thou won't pay nowt ; thou's nowt but a d— rogue." The plaintiff asked him to explain himself, and he said," I call everybody rogues that (lees not pay 20s. in the pound." A justification basin.. been pleaded, it was attempted to show that the plaintiff' had settled one debt by getting his creditor to take four shawls and some other articles instead of money. The learned counsel for the defendant having addressed the jury, his Lordship summed up. and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £3. Etees v. SMALL—This was an action for libel. Mr. Overend, Q.O , and Mr. Kerr appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Peronet Thompson and Mr. Cross for the defend ant. It appeared that in the course of the present year a public subscription was bei, g brought up in Goole in favour of a superiaten?ent of police, named Burke, in for warding which the defendant was active, and referring to this a placard had been posted about Goole, stating that subscriptions would be received by the defendant It ap peared that there were persons in Goole with whom Mr. Burke was not popular, and a counter placard was posted about the town to the following effect: —" Public subscrip tion for the purchase of a rope to bang Burke Subscrip tions will be received by Alfred Little, printer, Gee le." The defendant suspecting the plaintiff to be the author of the placard, and believing that it referred to him (the defendant), whose name is Alfred Small, and that the plaintiff had posted it, published the libel first complained of in the Goole and .Marshland Gazette, of which the de fendant is the printer and publisher, and which was as follows :—" John Ellis, plumber glazier, and bill-sticker, Ouse street, Goole. Dirty jobs done at a'l hours of the night."—Upon which the plaintiff's brother, who is an attorney at Leeds, wrote to the defendant demanding an apology in his newspaper, to which having received no reply he wrote again to the defendant to the same effect, whereto the defendant replied :—"Sir,—Letter writing must be cheap wi h you. You do not allow time for me to do what you dictate before you send another letter. The advertisement in February is literally true in every particular,. Are you sure it is the same party you refer to ? This John Ellis was seen going round the town of Goole sticking bills on the walls, on which, ammo! other matter was 'Alfred Little, printer, Goole.' This John Ellis is an open professor of infidelity. His commonest speech is ' a d—,' and he is ready at any time to say that all religion is a d—d humbug.' This John Ellis is generally known throughout Goole an I district by the cognomen of j 'Blackguard Ellis " Is this your client." The declare • tion set out this as the second libel compl fined of, and the defendant pleaded " Not Guilty ;" and, secondly, a justifi cation that "the said John Etlis did post the placard, and that the said posting was a dirty job, and that the plaintiff was a person ready to lend himself to the doing of dis creditable acts at a time when he might escape. detection That be was an open professor of infidelity; that his commonest speech was " a d—;" and that he was ready to say, and frequently had said, that all religion was a " d—d humbug," and he was generally known in Goole and district by the cognomen of ' Blackguard Ellis.'" Witnesses were called far the plaintiff who stated they did not' know him to be irreligious ; that he did use the word "d—" sometimes, but only "like other people ;" and one witness had heard him called " Blackguard Ellis." The plaintiff himself admitted that he never went to church at Gocle, but that was because he did not like the clergy man. The learned counsel for the defence designated the action as a most trumpery one, and which would never have been head of but that the plaintiff's brother was an attorney, who sought to get costs out of the action. His Lordship, in summing up, said the conduct of the plaintiff was only equalled in want of wisdom by that of the defendant, for if he and his brother had put defendant's letter in the fire the whole matter would have passed off as a silly joke; but now he had publashed to the world the imputetions the defendant's letter cast upon him. That letter was clear'y actionable, and the jury would say what damages they would award in rt spect of each of the libels The jury expressed a wish to retire, and during their absence his Lordship said he would grant a certificate to carry costs. The jury, after being absent an hour, returned with a verdict for the plaintiff, damages Is., on each count of the declaration BEFORE MR. BARON CHANNELL. THE MANCRESTRR AND LONDON L'FE ASSURANCE AND LOAN ASSOCIATION V. PICKTON.--SLANDER.-111r. Atherton, Q.C., and Mr. Wheeler, were for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Overend, Q.C., and Mr. Blanchard, for the defendant. Mr. Wheeler opened the proceedings. The above-named company were plaintiffs. and Job Pickton was the defen dant. The declaration was for slander, and charged the defendant with having said that the plaintiffs, in their trade of life assurance, were at best a set of scamps and scoundrels, and that the company was unsafe. The plain tiff pleaded not guilty. Mr Atherton stated the cage. The plaintiff's company was f,rmed in 185,3, and had their chief office at Manchester, also a branch office at Leeds. The defendant is the Leeds agent of the British Protector Life Assurance Company, and the action was brought against him to rdc3ver damages for very calumni ous expressions whiea it was said he had used. The agent of the plaintiffs at Leeds is Mc. John Hill, and he heard that the defendant had been disparaging the reputation of his company. In July, 1836, Mr. Stanton, a provision dealer in Leeds, effected a policy with the plaintiff's for £5OO, on his own life. He afterwards handed over the policy to a friend, and in March last hearing that the defeirlant was showing his policy to numerous parties, he wrote a letter to him on the subject. The defendant called npon Mr. Stanton, who requesPed that his policy should be delivered up to him, and during the interview the defendant said, " I am prepared to p rove t h at t h e Manches ter and London Life Assurance and Loan Association are nothing else than a set of rogues and vagabond In Feb ruary last Mr. Asgeritb, butcher, Letitia, applied to the plaintift's for a policy on his life and that of his wife for - P2OO, and on the defendant being informed that he (Mr. Asgerith) had insured with the plaintiffs, he said, " I am very sorry to hear it, for they are nothing else but a set of scamps and scoundrels." In the course of the same conversation, he told Mr. Asgerith that the plaintiffs' com pany was anything but safe. It was under these circum stances that the present action was brought, and the learned couns 1 contended that ample damages ought to be given to the plai nt iff s . M r . O veren d , i n ' a ddressing the jury for the defendant, admitted that the words complained of were attered by him, but without any malice on his part, and under circumstance s of considerable excuse. It was not intended for a moment to be said that the plaintiffs' were a dishonest company, neither did the defendant come here to justify the words he had uttered. The defendant had acted bona fide, and not as a common slanderer. He had not used this language from any sordid motives, as was imputed to him; and al , hough what he had said and done might-be unadv sed, rash, and improper, still he was not actuated by any malice, and the plaintiffs had suffered no damage whatever. Mr. 13.trtm Channel' told the jury that the plaintiffs were fairly entitled to a verdict, and the question wap, what damage; were they entit'ed to. The jury, after a few minires' d-liberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiffs. Damages, £5. THE NORTHERN TINIES.-LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1857. COURT OF PASSAGE. The ' Court of Patsage was opened yesterday in St. George's Hall, t efore E. JAMES, ESQ., Assessor. The cause list of the present court includes ninety-seven issues, three writs of enquiry, three demurrers, and one special argu ment. The latter, Whitmore v. 51‘Gowan, occupied the court for a considerable time. His Honour ordered the rule to be discharged. The demurrers did not contain anything of intere,t to the public. S.urte v. B.irraus.—This was an action brought by Thomas Smith against George Wiliam Battarns, to recover damages for the diff.rence in quality between some linen pnrchased from the defendant, and the quality of the samples which were shown before the purchase took place Mr. A spinall and Mr. Hutton appeared for the plaintiff; Birney and Mr. Brett for the defendant. The plaintiff is a glass and china dealer in Liverpool, and :he defendant is a cotton broker. The plaintiff, some time since, had some lend which he wished to sell, and some negotiation took place between the defendant and him upon the subject The defendant did not feel inclined to purchase the land, unless, at th same time, the plaintiff would purchase from him a quantity of linen which he had to sell. The defendant produced some samples of linen, which he offered to supply at is per yard, and an agreement was finally entered into. The defendant then handed over 1:200 yards of linen to the plaintiff. The plaintiff, however, on receiving the linen, alleged that it was much inferior in quali y to the samples originally produced, and out of the dispute which followed the present action arose. The jury found for the plaintiff—damages £3.5. WIWILL v. SIIERWEN AND ANOTKEE.—The plaintiff is a corn broker, of Liverpool, and the defendants a-e grocers and general merchants, at Whitehaven, carrying on business under the style of Sherwen and Moore. The action was brought to recover £ll is ld, being the amount of loss on the sale of 100 barrels of flour, which the defendants refased to accept, though purchased, as the plaintiff alleged, at their order. Tne plaintiff and defendants had had several transactions, and on the 8:h of May last he received an order from them to purchase 100 barrels of Ohio flour. On the day following he received an order to purchase 100 barrels more, but a difference arising as to the terms of payment, the defendants repudiated the second transac ion. The plaintiff then sold the fl eir by public auction, and brought the present action" to recover the loss on that sale. Several technical objec ti-nis were raised by the defendants, on which the plaintiff was non-suited. Mr. Aspinall appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Brett for the defendants. Several tin•lefended actions having been disposed of, the court adjourned until this morning. LIVERPOOL QUARTER SESSIONS. The General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the Borough of Liv,upool c imraenced yesterday, before GILBERT HENDERSON, Esq., Recorder. Thera are no less than 266 prisoners for trial, but the offEne-s for which tbc) have been committed, are by no means sr!rious. The following gentlemen were sworn on the GRAND JURY. RD. HOIIGHTON, Jan., timber-merchant, Sefton-stree . foreman. W•l;iatri H. Armitage, wine-merchant Fenwick-street. William Barry, merchant, Exchange-bnildings. Henry Torrens Brown. broker, Dale-street. Th:!nas Bell, merchant, Falkner-square. William Bingham, merchant, Brunswick-street. .Nathani,l C.lx, iron -merchant, Brunswick-street. Gorge Cockbnrne, merchant, C ,ok-vreet. Gorge CT:nl car; -merchant, Fenwick-street. William James Fernie, merchant, Water-street. Ji.mes Howell, br,•ker, Titheb.rn-street. J L. 1.1 ward, broker, Rumford-street, William Walcot Shand, broker. Exchange—alley, North James Adam Smith, merchant, Water-street. William HarrisOn, merchant, Cook-street. James Stn:kcial- Irving, merchant, Blackstock-street. Henry W M. King, merchant, Thomas William Tetley, merchant, Fenw:ck-street. Thomas Taylor : merchant, Cas'le-street. George Raj,:liffe Woodward, merchant, Tames-stree% The FKCORDRa said,—Gentlemen of the grand fury, the calendar on this eczasion is heavy beyond alt preceilent, although the interval which has elapse) since the last s.:ssions has not been longer than has been usual at this :season of the year. You will find that, from the 13th May to the 17th Jelly, 266 persons have been sent for trill. In order to dispose more speedily of this mass of prisoners, the Town Courcil has sanctioned the opening of a second court which will be a great boon to jurors, witnesses, policemen, and others, by relieving them from a protracted attendance at the se-sinus, and by setting them at lib_rty early to return to their usual duties and business. To you, gentlemen of the grand jury, I must confess that this measure affords no reiie.f, but recolitc log the willingness which has always been exhibited on the part of grand jurors to sit here, I treat that I may rely without apare hension, that you will make any sacrifice that may he necessary for the due discharge of your heavy duties o this cceasion. The number of offences is deplorable, but the evidence, in every case, yen will find to be simple and short. With the exteTtion of a single case of embezzle ment, there is harily any case that may be said seriously to affect the commerce of this port. There are no cases of extensive plunder of cotton, timber, palm oil, or other merchandise such as sometimes occur, and require a great deal of care in the investigation, and which no doubt would endanger the security of commerce if they passed nnpueished. Indeed the augmented list for trial is partly attributable to the changed mode of dealing with offenders, because I do not find that the summary convictions have increased in anything approaching the proportion in which the number of offenders sent for trial have. It is to be hoped that this change, which sends at an early period habitual and ineorrigible pilferers befare this Court, will have a good effect,because it exposes them to more severe punishment, and removes them from the town, and may act as a discouragement to others. I may mention that at the last sessions about 40 persons were sen tenced either to terms of penal servitude or transportation. The number of female offenders is still great. On Monday last I am informed that the numbers confined in the prson were 661 males, and 616 females. Indeed it the juvenile prisoners were excluded from the calcula tion, it woull be found that during the last six months the number of women committed to gaol has been greater Allan the number of mn. Gentlemen, for many years past the mode in which convicts have been dealt with "leder sentence of transportation has been - variable and unsatis factory in the extreme. At first all persons sentenced to transportation were sent abroad; afterwards it became quite an uncertainty whether the sentence of transporta tion, solemnly pronounced by the judge, would be carried info effect or not. About three years ago an act passed which substita era to a very great extent sentences of penal servitude for sentences of transportation, and now, during the lest month, the Legislature has abolished altogether sentences of transportation. In future, crimi nals will receive sentences either of fine or imprisonment, or of penal servitude. The sentences of penal servitude will have a very extensive range, varying of course accord ing; to OA nalure of the offence, from three years and upwards to sentences for life. As a general rule all prisoners who receive such sentences will, in the first instance, have to pass a period of eight or nine months in separate confinement in prison. They will afterwards he remove I and forced to work in public works for, it may be, the remainder of their sentence ; but from the persons so sentenced to seven years penal servitudes, and upwards, selections will be made from time to time, to be sent to the colonies. There . will always be a chance, in case of pod conduct, of having a limited portion of the sentence remitted. This, gentlemen, is a general outline of the system pro posed by Sir George Grey, on which prisoners sentenced to penal servitude will be dealt with. I may add that, so far as regerds the sending people abroad, this system , will have n 8 application to women, because, at present, there is no colony for the reception of female convicts. Gentle men, with these observations, I shall dismiss you to com mence your duties. The grand jury then retired to their room to consider the bills. [Mr. Blair sat in the second Court. Several prisoners were tried during the day.] ELECT/ON COMMITTEES (SkrunDAY).—The Maldon, We 3 mouth, and Falkirk burghs election committees re assembled at the usual h our thi s m orn ing, and continued their inquiries into the allegations of bribery and treatirg agairst the sitting member. Each committee rose early to-day. The general committee of elec'ions and the com mittee in the chairman's panel also met, but their delibera tioi,s were not of a protracted nature. They did not sit beyond an hour. Being the day on which the two cham bers of the legislature are thrown open to the public, the varioaz committee-rooms were thronged with strangers throughout the whole of the morning. POLICE INTELLIGENC. BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD THE Edw, t le was charged with having stabbed E award Offey. The facts were thel.e : About six weeks ago, the complainant was stabbed by a man named Donegan, who is in jail at present awaiting his trial. On Saturday night tha prisoner met the complainant in Limekilo-lane, and asked him if ho was going against Donegan? and he said ho was, when the prisoner said, you will have to ga against me too, at the same time stabbing him in two places in the hand. The prisoner was sent for trial. Margaret Tate, a very floe looking and elegantly dressed female, was charged with having stabbed a black man named John Peters. Mr. Muck defended. The man said he lodged one night some timo ago at the prisoner's house, and offered 33., but she refused to take it. On Sunday, about two o'clock, he was passing the house of the prisoner at No. I, Westmoreland-street, when she called him in, and used some abusive language to him, after which he t•aid she took up a knife and made a blow at his face. when he put up his arm, and the knife struck and cut him in the arm. Mr. Mu& cross-examined the wit ness at some length, but he denied having insulted the prisoner, or that he owed her any money. Surgeon Brown said the wound was very trifling and would be well in a few days. The prisoner was sent for trial at sessions. THE MURDEiDUS ASSAULT IN FREDERICK-STREET.— John Fri-hrneae the Frenchman, who was remanded on a charge of having stabbai John Rowan. was again br,ught up. The additional evidence was produce.l, and surgeon Pope, of the Southern Hospital, said the wounded man was not yet out of danger, although, perhaps, he was better. Tae prisoner was fully committed for trial. Trig SWELL MOESMEN —Thomas Davis, and John Edwards, the " mobsmen" who were remanded on a charge of trying to pick-pockets in the gardens on Sunday week, were brought up by detectives Scaife and Thompson. Mr. Black defended. The evidence was the same as on the last occasion, whereon Mr. Bluck contended the prisoners ought to be discharged. Mr. Mansfield said, the attempt to pick pockets was clearly proved. He sent the prisoners to gaol for three months with hard labour. CURIOUS CASE ABOUT A INIURDRR.—A tall, gaunt, wild looking man, with hardly any clothes on him, whose name was given as Thomas Mahoney, was charged for having attempted to kill two persons, named Patrick Kelly, and Hugh Mathews, in Fairhurst-street, off Cheapside. The policeman who had charge of the case, produced an old rusty sword, and said the prisoner was given to him in charge for wounding Mathews with that weapon, and for stabbing Kelly. The old sword had a quantity of blood on it, and the bead of Mathews was bound up wlth blood stained bandages, and Kelly's left 11 , nd was bandaged up in like manner. Kelly sail the prisoner lodged at his house, and on Sunday night he went into Marybone, and brought in his so t, and some other persone, and attacked him. He put up his hand to save his heal, when the prisoner struck- him with a knife in the hand, and wounded him severely. Mathews then interfered, when the prisoner strnek him a violent blow on I the head with the old sword. Prisoner (to Kelly) : Did you call me an old informer, and say that I hung thou sands of people in the country I came from? Witness : No, I did not. He put the same question also to Mathews, who replied in the negative. Prisoner : Did you hear your wife say so to me : Witness: I did. The prisoner then made the following statement. About fourteen yeas ago, there was a clergyman, named the Rev. Charles Dawson, murdered in the county of Limerick. and as he knew something of it, his own clergymen called on him to give evidence in the case, and Kelly and others knew that, and brought a lot of fellows to murder him. It was a hard case that in a town like Liverpool a man could not bs protected, without getting the name of being mad. [Here he exhibited himself in a very wild manner.] Mr. Mansfield : Is the man mad ? Kelly : I think he is, sir ; I deny all he says about me..as it is not true. Mr. Mansfield Let him be remanded him till to-morrow, (this day), and let a doctor examine him.. A PAPER AND FRUIT MERCIIANT.AIiCO Rothwell, who keeps a fruit shop, and vends newspapers in Cheapside, charged a female named Sarah Fell, w: th having damaged her merchandise to the extent of 10s., and for constant annoyance. The evidence left no doubt of both charges, and the prieoaer was fined 103. for the damage, or one months' imprisonment, and then to be bound over to keep the peace for six months. THE MYSTERIES OF DANCE-STREET. A well dressed athletic young man, named John Wiltia,ms, was charged with having violently assaulted a fragile looking girl, named Elizabeth Best, in a house ofill-tame in Dance street, kept by a Miss Johnston. Mr. Campbell appeared for the prosecution, and stated the case, which was not so remarkable for the facts of the assault, as for the strange indirect circumstances that transpired. The fact of the assault was this :—On Saturday night the prisoner went to the house of Miss Johnston, where Miss Best resided, and the allegation was that he turned the owner and some other females out, and when complainant wanted to get in again, she was struck a violent blow in the eye, which added considerably to its already sable hue. The prisoner made a statement, the substance of which was that he had been imprisoned for " six months for having assaulted this Miss Johnston. Miss Johnston: Yes, and you broke about £l2 worth of property on me, on that occasion, and on Saturday you broke about £5O worth of property. The prisoner said that whilst he was in Walton gaol, Miss Johnston came to see him—in fact, she had ruined him. His friends, who were highly respectable, when he came out of gaol, took a place for him at Walton, but Miss Johnston came drunk in a cab, and created such a row that he was obliged to leave the village. She had absolutely ruined him. She followed him to Manchester, and exposed him to his respectable sister. She was celled the " devil of all devils," and the very devil she proved to him certainly. She followed him to every place he went. She sent for him on Saturday, and said that she wanted a couple of pounds, and he went and pledged some things and came with the money to her. She asked him had he got his dinner ? and he replied he had not. She then ordered the table to be laid for dinner, and went up stairs and brought down a valuable dress, saying she must pledge it to raise money. He said, don't mind doing that, as I have the money f r you ; whereon she kicked down the table, broke everything that was on it, and smashed all in the room. When he came out of gaol, his friends paid his passage to Australia, thinking to get him away from her; but she followed him every place, and induced him to sell his ticket. He had a bank draught (exhibited it) on Australia, given to him by his friends. Mr. Camp bell : Yea, they wanted to send you away to make you earn your bread, as you never did anything here. Prisoner: No ; but they wanted me to get away from the fangs of this devil, but she has baffled them all. My friends promised to send me more money if I did not succeed in Australia. She induced me to spend £3OO on her, that I got by my father's death ; and £54 of that was spent in nine days, and these two cats on my forehead were inflicted by champeere bottles, after she drank the contents, paid for by my money. On Saturday the whole of them were drunk, for they were drinking champagne, port, and sherry. and were all mad, and ran out. I knew the temper of that devil, and was getting out through the back-door, when they all rushed on me, and we all fell, and that was how Miss Best got the black eye. A gentle man, a friend of mine, who took an interest in Miss Best, commissioned me to take a respectable place in West Derby, and have her educated, and I did so, but this devil Johnston induced her to leave, and she is now destroyed. He was then discharged. CHARGE OF ESIBEZZLE3fENT.—Robert Heggins, late a a collector belonging to the St. Patrick's Burial and Insurance Society, was brought up on remand. Mr. Muck defended. Mr. Tracy, the secretary of the society, said he did not wish to press the charge (the details have already appeared in our paper) as the prisoner had a large family to support, and besides, the money was offered to the society, and he therefore begged to withdraw the charge. The prisoner was discharged. CounITTALS.—A very well dressed young woman, named Anne Burns, was sent to jail for three months, for at tempting to pick pockets on the New Brighton Boat. George Washington and John Flynn, were sent to jail for three months, for breaking into Mr. Southerbery's ship yard, Neptune street, and stealing some copper nails BEFORE MR. E. CROPPER. CAUTION T 3 Buss CONDUCTORS.—John Davis, the con dnctlr of one of Bath Brothers' busses, running between Castle-street and Mill-street, was summoned by officer Simpson, for having carried 35 passengers on the 10th inst., the vehicle being licensed to carry only 31 persons. The case was proved, and a fine of £1 ss. and costs, was inflicted. "Ben," said an angry father the other day, " I am busy now, but when I can find time I will give you a hearty flogging." "Don't hurry yourself, father, I can wait." " Well, I believe that mine will be the fate of Abel," said a wife to her husband one day. "Why so ?" inquired the husband. "Because Abel was killed by a club, and your club will kill me if you continue to go every night." THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS IN E^EM—The sheriff has fixed the 23rd instant for the execution of Crawley, and 29. h for that of Finch. It was desired that both ex, cations should take place on the same day, but the official authorities found this arrangement could not be made. THE WAY TO MARE LARGE Prig.—An old lady in th e country had a dandy f rom th e City to dine with her on a eertain occasion. For the dessert there was an enormous apple pie. " La, ma'am," said the gentleman, `• hw do you manage to handle such a pie ?" "Easily enough," was the quiet reply ; " we make the crust up in a wheel barrow, wheel it under apple tree, and then shake the fruit down into it." CORONER'S COURT. The Coroner held the following inquests yesterday:— On the body of Peter Devlin, twenty.two years of age. The deceased was working ou board a ship in the river at night some time ago, and it was supposed he fell over by accident. The body was found on Saturday. Verdict —" Found drowned " Inquests were held on the bodies of two men, names unknown. The bodies were found in the river, but the only evidence was to the finding. One was vary far advanced in decomposition. Verdict—" Found drowned." On the body of Benjamin B. Sandbrook, a resident of Drayton, Shrophire, who was found dead on his face in bed (dressed), at the Saddle-inn, Dale-street, on Saturday morning, and from the evidence the jury found a verdict of " Suffocation." On the body of George Challoner, aged 44, a carter, who was hurt some time IT I at the Duke's-dock quay, and who died from the effects of the injuries. There was no blame attached to any one, and the verdict was "Accidental death." On the body of John Simpson, 70 years of age, who died in consequence of injuries received by being knocked down in Ch Opel-street, by a float. In this case it was shown that the unfortunate affair was purely accidental. Verd;ct accordingly. On the body of William Thompson, a watch finisher, aged 40, who died suddenly in a public-honie. The evidence showed that he was an excessive thinker, and died in cznsequence. Verdict accordingly. A CORNISHMAN'S ADVENTURE IN LONDON. At the Thames Police-court, on Saturday, Jane Thomas and Eliza Burns, women of the town, were brought before. Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing a silver watch, value £3, and £8 in gold, from a little old man, named John Wilcox, who stated his age to be (34, and who described himself as a roper on a railway in Cornwall. The prose cutor, who is vary deaf and almost bald-headed, charged the prisoner Jane Thomas only, on Thursday, and said he found himself in London, a few days ago, with two purses containing gold in his pocket. On Wednesday he fell in with the prisoner Thomas, and he then had twenty sovereigns in one purse, and two sovereigns in another. The women ascertained that he had bean a neighbour, and he knew her grandfather and grandmother at Redruth, in Cornwall. They went to a public-house and thence to a private house, where they remained half-an hour. The woman took his purse containing twenty sovereigns, and said she would tell him how to keep it, and put in his stocking. He could not walk about with his purse in his stocking, and she took it out of his stocking, tied it up with a piece cf string, and put it into his pocket. She then kissed him (a laugh), took his purse from his pocket again, placed ten sovereigns in each end of it, and then tied it with string and put it in her bosom. He laid out £3 with her, and purchases the shawl and bonnet she was then wearing and some ribbons. He a 'lced her for his purse and money, and she refused to give it to him, and he went and told the police all about it. In ans wer to a question from the magistrate, the old man said that he remained with the prisoner two ho .rs, after she took his purse and money from him. Mr. Yardley : How came you to he so foolish as to allow her to take your purse and money ? Wilcox : Because I knew her friends in Corn wall. Mr. Wm. Reuse, the landlord of the Hoop and Grapes public-house in Cable-street, Whitechapel, said that the prisoner called at his house on Wednesday night. She was ineb7iated and had a purse with £lO or a little more in it. Ile took it away from her and gave the money and purse to the police. Wile ox was recalled, and said he lost his watch on the previous Saturday. He had close on £4O when ha c Imo to London a few days age. It was all gone. He had not come into possession of a legacy. Ha had saved the money. He came to London to see a Mr. John Micgregor, whose life he saved from the Kent, East Indiaman, when the gentleman was a baby five weeks old. He saw Mr. Macgregor who welcomed him heartily. The prisoner said the old man had been her neighbour, and she know him in Cornwall, which was her home. Mr. Yardley said the old man was very silly, and appeared to hav 3 become known to all the loose female in the neighbour hood of Rose nary-lane and RetclitY Highway. A pawnbroker produced the old man's watch, which had been pawned by the prisoner Burns, Burns did not deny taking the watch, which she seated defen dant gave her in lieu of money. This, however, the prosecutor denied, and strongly asserted that he gave the woman Burns two shillings. Mr. Yardley : This old man seems to have had a variety of female companions since he has been in London, and they have all fleeced him. He did not think the facts as regarded Thomas amounted to a felony. The prosecutor had put by a portion of his hard earnings for many years, and had come to London and had wasted his money like a simpleton. Upon the evidence adduced, he should convict Burns for unlawfully pawning the watch, and in default of paying 16s, the sum for which it was pawned, and a fine of 20s, sentenced her to bs impriioned and kept to hard labour for one month. He directed that 16s should be paid to the pawnbroker out of the money in the hands of the police, and the watch be restored to the prosecutor. With regard to the woman Thomas, the prosecutor's conduct had been so foolish that he could not say that what she had done amounted to a felony. He must therefore discharge her. Kelby, 130 K, here opened a bundle containing bacon, ham, cheese, b cad, w men's boots, and slippers, gloves, four salt-cellars, a glass decanter, and various other articles, whi.:h he foand in a public-house where the old man had left the bundle. Mr. Yardley : When you gat back to Cornwall your friends will laugh at you, and say you have brought those things back wick you as testimonials of your experience in Lon don. Go back to Cornwall directly, and do not repeat your absurdities. As to the prisoner Thomas, she has been taking advantage of a silly old man, who came from the same quarter as herself. Now, my good man, take your money from the police, and proceed to the railway as soon as possible. TEA AND SUGAR. Accounts relating to the consumption of tea and sugar in the United Kingdom, were issued on Saturday, in the form of a return, printed by order of the House of Commons. These accounts go back to the beginning of the present century, and they show a steady increase of consumption in nearly an exact ratio with the progressive decrease of duty In the period of fourteen years, between 1801 and 1814, the average rate of duty on sugar being 265. 21 a c rt., the total quantity con lutned was 2,847,519 cwt., or 14lbs. 7oz for each individual of the population. From 1814 to 1844 the duty did not much vary. In the latter year it stood at 255. 21, and the consumption WAS only 161bs. soz a-head of the population. From 1845 to 1849, the average duty was 143. 61, and the consumption rose to an annual average of 5,614,057 cvt., or for each individual 221bs. 8 oz. From 1850 to 1854 with the duty at Ils. 6d., the consumption stood at 29 lbs. 1 oz. a head ; in 1855, the duty was 134. 5d., and the consumption of each individual was 30 lbs. 5 oz. ; and in 1856, with the duty at 14s. 61 (raised by the war), the consumption fell off, being 7,071 535 cwts., or an avera4e of 28 Ib3. 2 oz. a head of the population. With respect to tea, the consumption last year was 63,278,212 lbs., giving, on an average, to each individual of the population, 2 lbs. 4 &ZS, the duty being Is. 9,3. In 1810, when the duty was 2s. 11 hd., the consumption a head was 1 lb. 6OZ ; and in 1850, with the duty at 2s. 21d , the consumption was 1 lb. 14 ozs. Coffee may be , aid to have been Introduced as an article of consumption during the present century, In the period from 1801 to 1804, little more than a million pounds were consumed annually, or about one ounce to each individual. By the year 1810, the consumption hal arisen to one pound per head; and, last year, 31,995 954 lbs. were entered for consumption, giving an average of 1 lb. 4 ozs. to each person. DOUBLE I‘IUiLDIM AND SUICIDE. A roclarcholy catastrophe has (ceurrefl at Gloucester; a tradesman named George Meadows lido, ley, hair-dresser and tosshop-keep'r, fhvio7; elr)vvni:d him;elf and his two daughters, one fourteen, Cie other nine years old. An inquest was hel I. on the holies by Mr. Lovegrove, coroner, on Sourday night, when the following evidence was taken : —Charles lialtord : Air lit six o'clock this m - ruing I was called up to " drag" she Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal, in search of the bodies of Morley and his daughters, Elizabeth and Augusta, who were sapposed to be drowned. Between eleven and twelve .'clock in the forenoon I found the holies of the father and his youngest daughter. They were lying in the canal, about a mile from Gloucester, - about six feet from the curial bank, and in eight or nine fe,t of water. The bodies were liked together; the father had his left arm passed round his daughter's waist, and grasped her wrist with his left hand, while his right arm was curved, as though he had bell the Eldest daughter in the same manner as the youngest, but she had got from him. Shortly afterwards I found the body of the other daughter. Harriet Morley : I ern the widow of the deceased, George Morley, and en tber of the two girls. My husband has for some time been :suffering from eVreme depression of spirits, arising frosa disease of the cheat. Two years ago be was in a depressed state, and I watched him narrowly, fearing he would inflict some injury upon himself. Several witnesses said the deceased complained to them of being ill on the .morning of the melancholy occurrence; and Mr. Cookson, surgeon, his medical attendant, said he thought him insane, and nnabl to con trol himself when actuated by any sudden impulse. The jury returned a verdict in effect that the deceased drowned himself and his two children while labouring under tempo rary insanity. THE TOXTETH-PARK UNION. THE FIRST MEETING OF THE BOARD. By an order from the General Poor Law Board, the first meeting of this Board of Guardians was held yester thy morning, at the public offices, Pdrk-road, The while of the guardians elected by the order of the Board, as well as Messrs. Campbell, Aspinall, and Ed Cropper, resident magistrates, and therefore ex officio members of the Board, wete present. The Board consists of the following members : G. H. Horsfall, Aigbnrth-road, merchant. W. H. Ogden, Dingle hill, ironfounder. John McNicoll, Criildwall, timber merchant. Wm. Leyland, Miles-street, builder. Jos. Harrison, Dingle terrace, S'outh.hill, ironmonger. Samuel Siddeley, Aigburth road, draper. James Lord, Prince's-road, timber merchant. Geo. Win. Ewing, Aighurth road, timber merchant. Horace Seymour Alpass, Park-road, chemist. Wm Buck:ey Jones, Brunswick-dock, shipbuilder. Thomas Robinson, 5, Olive-mount, Wavertree, timber merchant. Edmund Merc,lr, Warwick-street, timber merchant. Alex. Miller, Miles street, builder. John Briscie, Sr. Michael's hamlet, gentleman. Arthur Grindrod, St. James's-place, pawnbroker. J. Wilson, D.4vonshire-r, ad, Pr nee's-park, gentleman. Alfred Pickup St. James's-place, pawnbroker. Charles Batten, Hill-street, insurance broker. Before the admission of the reporters it was unanimously agreed that Mr. G. 11. Horsfall should be the chairman for the ensuing year. The next subject that was brought before the Board was as to whether the press should be admitted to 'heir deliberations, which was decided in the affirmative, and upon the reporters entering the room, Mr. HARRISON was proposing that Mr. Alpass should be the deputy-chairman for the ensuing year. This motion was seconded by Mr. Jones. Mr. Bgrscos then moved as an amendment that Mr. McNicoll should be the deputy-chairman. This amendment was seconded by Mr. Ogden. The B )ard then divided, when the numbers were— For Mr. Alpase, 10 ; and for Mr. McNicoll, 7. The former gentleman was therefore duly elected, and briefly acknowledged the compliment that had been paesed upon him. On the motion of Mr. Alpass, seconded by Mr. Batten, Mr. G. W Filing was elected deputy-vice-chairman without any opposition. TIIE ELECTION OF LAW ciazaK, Mr. ALrAss said the next, and indeed one of the most important dela , they had to perform, was the appointment of law clerk to the Board and as it was necessary that they should get the best man that they possibly could, he would request ilia returning ofTher to read over the application from Mr. Cleaver, the geltleman he intended to propose, as that application would explain the position in which they stood. _ [Mr. Alpass here read the application ] Mr. ALPASS continued : Ile thought that it was absolutely necessary that they should have the services of the most efficient man ; and after passing a very high eulogium on the ability and integrity of Mr. Cleaver, proposed that he should be the law clerk to the Board on the terms he had proposed. J. CAMPBET4L, Esq., said, after the able way in which Mr. Alpass had proposed Mr. Cleaver, it was unnecessary that he should casr any further remarks ; but there was one point to which he would allude, and that was to the kindness always shown by Mr. Cleaver to the poor, and therefore he 114 d g.'eat pleasure, and most cordially seconded the appointment. EDWARD CROPPER, Esq., also supported the appointment of Mr. Cleaver. Mr. McNtc Ito thought that the salary of the law-clerk should be fixed, and that the office should be advertised in the Liverpool papers. He moved that the clerk's salary should be £l5O per annum. Mr. ROBINSON seconded the motion, bat it was lost by a large majority. Mr. BRtSCOE then moved, and Mr. MERCER seconded, that the salary should be £l2O per annum, and consented that he should return all electioneering fees. This amendment was also lost by a large majority. Mr. ALrASS, to bring the affair to a climax, moved that the salary should be £6O per annum, which was seconded by Mr. Harrison, and carried by 9 to 6 votes. Mr. ALPASS then formally moved the appointment of Mr. Cleaver as the law-clerk, which was seconded by Mr. McNicoll, and unanimously carried, Mr. Ogden only dissenting, and moving that relieving officer Barnett should be appointed, but that was not seconded, and therefore fell to the ground. Mr. CLEAVER was then introduced to the Board, and having briefly acknowlo3ged the compliment that had been passed upon him, proceeded at once to discharge his official duties. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. The appointment of a treasurer was referred to the chair man, the deputy chairman, and the vice-chairman. The relieving officers and medical officers were appointed pro tern for one month, and a committee was chosen to report to the Board as to their duties and salaries, &a. Some other routine business having been disposed of, the Board adjourned. THE W2,LLINGTON MONUMENT. On Monday next the models contributed by the sculn. tors of Europe for the Wellington monument in St. Paul's Cathedral will be thrown open to the public in West rninstee Hall. It will be recollected that Parliament voted .i'loo,ooo for the purpose of a public funeral of the late Duke of Wellington. By one of those marvellous incidents it was for once found that those who had the management of the funeral over-estimated the cost, and that there actually remained, after paying every expense, a sum amounting to £23,00. ft was at first proposed to return this surplus into the public exchequer, but at length the Government decided, with the approval of the House of Commons, to apply this amount to the erection of a monument in St. Paul's Cathedral. Twenty thousand pounds was therefore the maximum amount to be expended on the monument, and the remaining three thousand was to be divided amongst the authors of the best designs. As in the case of the government offices, the whole work was thrown open to public competition. Circulars and specifications were sent to all parts of the civilised world, and most nobly have the sculptors responded to the invitation. England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Spain, Portu gal, Greece, and America, are severally represented; and it is not too much to say that never was so splendid a collection of models brought together. During the past fortnight the several artists, with their assistants, have been busily engaged in putting their models in order, and, as many of them are men of world-wide reputation, their opinions taken collectively will have great weight in determining the value of the collection. These gentlemen, although doubtless they severally believe that their own wcrk is the best, yet are qui`e willing to pay just tribute to the excellence of the productions of their rival com petitors. Oee and all, therefore, concur in stating their conviction that the collection has never been surpassed, if ever equalled. In the specifications it was ordered that the models should be made on a uniform scale, being one quarter the s'ze of the intended dimensions. This precaution was a very wise one, and has materially heightened the general effect of the exhibition. The models are placed in three rows, the entire length of the ball, ample space, being allowed between each to permit of their being thoroughly examined with out crowding or inconvenience. The platforms are covered with crimson cloth, which greatly adds to the general effect. Many of the models are tinted ; some of them are of bronze colour, whilst about others there is a good deal of gilding. This variety of tints, contrasting with the general mass, composed of white plaster, relieves the exhibition from appearing monotonous or sombre. The building itself is well adapted for this purpose, the subdued light passing through the stained windows of the ball, giving a general softness to these wondrous productions of the sculptor's art, as well asit c impletely monumental character. On entering the hall the coup d'ceil is very beautiful, and will surprise the majority of visitors, who will next week come in crowds to view the very remarkable collection of works of art. The exhibition of the designs for the Niiw Offices was a great treat, but this is of a far more interesting character. In the former there was necessarily a certain amount of sameness, as the architects were confined strictly to build ings of a certain class. But in the preparation of models for a monument, the genius of the artist and sculptor has had full scope, and there was no limit placed to their imagination in preparing allegorical designs. The total number of models sent in is eighty-four, and although there are scarcely two exactly similar, yet there are a good many which make use of the same allegorical figures, such as tliose of Fame, History, Victory, Prudence, Peace, Plenty, &e. In order that the public may have the fullest opportunity of inspecting the models, it has been decided to throw open the exhibition to the public on Monday, the 20th, Tuesday, 21st, and Saturday, 25th inst., from nine to seven p.m. ; and on Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday, for some succeeding weeks, also from nine to seven p.m. To give some idea of the nature of the exhibition, it will suffice to state that several of the com peting artists have valued the models alone at £25,000. Those, therefore, who desire a treat should lose no time in availing themselves of the opportunity thus given by the government. CASH AND DEED BOXES.—The next important thing to the p osses s ion of cash is, bow (when you have got it) to keep it safely, either in the counting-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 lochs, 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, moat prove valuable udeid —Northers Daily Tima,2lBl May, 1817, OUTRAGES IN COUNTY DONEGAL. The investigation held before the grand jury, regarding the late atrocious destruction of sheep belonging to English and Scotch settlers in the parishes of Tallagil°' begley and Itaymunterdoney discloses a state of s ociety in a portion of Donegal most disgraceful to any civilise d country, much less to one profess- dly Christian. We find that these English and Scotch graziers remained tlni moleste I for two winters, and that their speculation 0 turning the mountains of the far west of Donegal into sheep pastures was becoming profitable. In the month of December last, however, one of the shepherds receives a nocturnal deputation from the Ribbon lolges ; they threaten to take his lila if he refuses to obey their man' dates; swear him to leave the country, and to warn th, other settlers to do the same, and by way of proving thesis cerit.y of their intentions demolish a house which has been almost completed for his reception. This act. the initiativ e of the subsequent outrages, was admitted to be mall' cious at the inquiry by Mr. Nl`Csossan, the atter• ney for the opposing cesspayers ; yet the subsequen t proceedings of these midnight legislators are attempted to be justified. Mark what follows. Numbers of sheeP, suddenly disappear from the pastures —s o many as 125 at a time—and in a period extending from January to MOP' of the present year, no less than 800 or 900 sheep were made away with by the combined natives. A. search, el' tending for twenty miles round, is made by the constabi r lary, under the supposition that the sheep might have strayed ; but no trace of them is found. Their suspicion s are awakened, and they conclude that they have bee° maliciously destroyed. Sub-Inspector Cruise and ffen° Constable Young tell us the result. The testimony ?' Sub-Inspector Cruise. himself a Roman Catholic, is highly significant and deserving of attention. He gave on oath as his decided conviction that the people of 00 district were badly advised, and that if such were not the case these outrages would never have occurred. We CO have no difficulty in determining who the advisers o f the peasantry are. Sub-Inspector Cruise also repudiated the statements made with respect to the poverty of the pe o Pl e s —a statement fully borne out by the fact that there ar e but twenty-five' persons chargeable on the union rate from the district. The truth is, the people are as com fortable as they wish to be, and it is doing them no ill : justice to say that they are naturally indolent—a fee; which is generally admitted by all who are acquainte d with the habits of the peasantry bordering on the wester; coast. The evils under which they suffer are principal, social, and of their own creation; and hith er to the/. have thwarted, and are still thwarting, all the endeavours of the landed proprietors to elevate them in th e f social scale. It has - been urged in palliation these outrages, that the mountains occupied by the settlers were formerly in the occupation of the pool Nothing can be further from the truth. In fact, Lor d George Hill, whose efforts to improve his tenantry o n e estate have gained a celebrity co-extensive with bt, United Kingdom, has had these lands in his o w n posse'; sion during the last fifteen years. The ten an t r y h a d II right to them whatever. And even if i n hi s case the; , `was an imaginary claim, there is the case of Mr. Woo d ' house, an adjoining proprietor, who fully compensat e d the party who had previously been in possession. He b a no dispute with tenants, nor had any complaints bee; made to him ; yet we find a gro ss ou t rage committed on the shepherds settled on his es t a t e; th us giving lr,;"/ lie to the unscrupulous statements of p ar ti es , w h ose ct design seems to be to create strife and ill- w ill b e two'o b parties whose interests are identically i n t er woven with 0,00, other. A. similar state of facts exists w ith respec t to t h e property of Mr. Hamilton. In short, the alleged griel; antes thrust into print by the journals are but flimsy pretexts to cover their specious desi g n s . Th e ren ts, understand, on theseestates are much un d er th e poo r A s valuation ; and Lord - George Hill even off ere d hi s ten9 lll l . the security of a lease, which they de c li ne d t o acce!,4". It is an undoubted fact that on the property in iii dist rict the tenant-right, at the present rents, sells at free; twenty to forty years' purchase —a price exceeding t b t fee simple of the estate. Ia fine, the people of the distrio, never would have imagined that th-y l a b oure d un d e r ai l ?, special grievance but for this " Derrybeg Committet e They got up petitions to the Lord Lieute nan t, w ith signatures of the people of the district signed to thew' They were returned to the local authorities for inveslii gation. Many of the people whose names wer e a ttache d were questioned, and totally denied having ever heel . , of or seen the memorials in question, and one of parish priests, on being asked by two magistrates if " had signed his name to the petition, profess e d his entir e ignorance of its existence, and expressed his disapprobatio © of its'contents. Not satisfied with their ex pl o it s b e fore til t ; Viceroy, they next fabricate a petition to th e House 0 ' Commons, which Mr. M'Mahon presents in due form; but the' committee of public petitions are not the sicl A P: e ; minded men the Derrybeg committe e su pp ose . They cover the fact that the petition contains three genuine signatures, and that the remainder, amounting to no less than 2,076. are palpable forgeries I All honour to Derry beg ! It is, at least, progressive in its ideas as to menu' factoring a parliamentary petition. The oommittee hop e e; honoured the document with a special notice, and it le asserted that the principal actors will be brought up custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms. It is to be regretted that men who have expended large sums of money el those estates, which in some instances have not yet Pa!' one shilling of profit, should thus be held up to publle s odium. The effect must be to keep the people in a state 01 semi-barbarism, and prevent the spread of those industriou s and self-reliant habits so essential to an • agricultur al population, as well as those improved modes of culture and husbandry observable in contiguous 'districts. yFe hope for the sake of the county of Donegal that it will be a long period, indeed, ere we shall have occasion to report such proceedings, and that the people of the district more immediately concerned will not be advised or led in to illegal combinations, which can produce no thi ng save disastrous consequences to themeelves.—LoadenderrY Sentinel, CHARGE OF MURDER AND CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH. Anne Payne, a lady-like young woman, 32 years of ag e ' of Hack-bridge, Wellington, was brought up in custody 00 Saturday, at the Town-hall, Croydon, charged with th e wilful murder of her female child, and also with the cow cealment of birth. Mr. Inspector Frazer, deposed that , in company with Sergeant Broadbridge, he went to the prisoner's house. Witness told the prisoner rumours Well in circulation respecting her female child, and said to her ' "I suppose you will not object to being examined by s e medical gentleman." The mother ans were d, "N o ;" but the prisoner appeared pensive, and made no answer' - Witness then took the prisoner into c ust ody, ant' , searched the house, and in a back room h e found a clothes line, the end of which was jagged, 0 though a portion of it had been cut off. It corres ponded with a piece of line which had been previously dig' covered binding a box in which the body of a child WO found. He also discovered a piece cf print, which exactly corresponded with a similar piece found round the bo% containing the body of a child. Police-constable Harper, 425 P, was next called, and said that he went to Mitcham' common, and he found a hat-box, around which was 81 1 old apron. It was tied with a clothes line. On opening the box he found the dead body of a female child. Witness then took the box and its contents to the police; station. Mr. Shorthouse, surgeon, of Carshalton, deposal that, on the authority of the police, ha had examined the prisoner,"and discovered that she had recently gi ve n birth to a child. Mr. A. F. Tipple, surgeon, of Mitcham' deposed to examining tho body of the child. Externally , he found no marks of violence. Some other evidence having been taken to connect the prisoner with the birth . of the child, Mr. Byron, the Chairman, said the medical, evidence did not go far enough to substantiate a charge of wilful murder against the prisoner, who would be coal' mitted for trial at the ensuing assizes for Surrey for the concealment of birth. The prisoner was then conveyed to Kingston gaol. DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT HALIFAX. On Saturday, at the Borough Court, Halifax, a middle' aged, ill-lonking man, named John Akroyd, was charged with stabbing, cutting, and wounding. with intent to mur der an old man named Jonathan Holdsworth. The panic; are both shoemakers. They formerly lived together at Moor Side, but some weeks ago Holdsworth tau:Arne occu pier of a cottage at Trafalgar. Holdsworth applied for some articles lent to Akroyd, who abused him, said be had slandered his wife, and threatened to kill him. At first he endeavoured to waylay him, and, failing in that, he want to Holdsworth's house, a b ou t h a lf- pas t n i ne on Friday night. with two shoemaker's knives secreted about his person. He found tte bid man at supper, and, after exchanging a few words with Ann Thomas, a strong powerful woman who lodged at the cottage, Le sewed Holdsworth by the throat, and, pulling out a knife, inflicted a wound extending a l mos t f rom ear t o ear . Th e f ema le theninterfered, bat before she could draw the murderer fro-nhis victim, th e o ld man h a d rece i ve d anot h er gash on the right side of the face, and, had he been alone, no doubt Akroyd would have killed him on th e s p o t. In a short time the neighbours came to Thomas's assistance, and Akroyd was taken to the police-station. 'Before going to Holdsworth's house, the prisoner told an acquintanee that he intended to kill the old man, after taking a glass or two of spirits to aid him in the commissio n of the horild deed ; and at the police-office he told inspector Gaukroger that he went to the 'dwelling for that purpose. The injuries of Holdsworth were so serious that five medical men were called in. There was great heinorrhage from the wounds, and his recovery is very doubtful. The magistrate, after hearing the case, proceeded to Trafalga r to take the depositions of the injured man, and then remanded the prisoner till Tuesday.