Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-20 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOO CAUSE LIST At.tor lays. 1 QR.. Can iff 33 an B Be ,ver (sJ) 2QB „SI: ter and Co .. ..llampson and ano .. (so) 8 F ..Sa'e and Co.. Hinton.. .. (sr) 9 Fx..Same • • • • .. .. Moortonse.. (so) 10 QB ... s ame ..Tha Q leen (sa d 25 Fs.. Hold.n and .. __!tamer (sr) QB.. Andrew... Mackay and ors.. 31 QB.. Worthington and E Nowell.. .. (sr) FIRST LIST.-SALFORD II UNDRED. Plaintiffs, Defendants. De'endan& Attortrqs. v The Mayor of Manchester Chester and Co v Hampson.. •• v Lsn. and N. West. Dailway Co—Swift and Co v Alcock • • • • • • ' r ims v Spence .. .. • • .. .. Cooper and Sons v Knowles and ors v Stephenson .. v The Mayor, &o of Wigan . Hulms an! J . Lori an t A SECOND LIST.-WEST DERBY HUNDRED. OB..T.nsrm'es and Co ... ..Smith .. (EIJ) 4 4.513..Ra'.c itfe .. Brown anal ano 5 Ex- • vo'7 ..Peet . a QB..Binney.. Yeomans 10 Ex- • • It 1% ells ..L B of Health King upon Hull (sJ) 11 Ex... rowson and Co .. ..Hoghtm . (s.r) 14 QB.. Francis and Yeoward • • 15 CP_Grimmer .. .. .. .Sirne • 16 CPL.J Yates jun.. McManus • 17 CP.. Same .. Ellis ($4) 1$ tamp and J BarAw rth and ano .. • • (SJ) 19 Ex-. Pell and S Holmes .• • • • 20 QB.. Statham and Co .. S .lomon • 22 Ex...Birrow Manley admix .. • • 20 Ex... , amc Hawksey 24 QS.. Holden and Son ... NV-JOU-croft •. • • • • • • • • 23 Ex... T Eas•ham ...Fast , ana , • . 26 Ex... Fletcher and II .. Taylor .. (8.1) 2$ CP.. 1 P 41arruugh -Hargreaves . •• 20 ickerah Fitzpatiok.. 31 CP..3 Tate: jun Raven „ 32 CP .. Same ... .. 33 QB.. R Stevenson . ..CA3an . .. .. .. (S.l) 84 F x... "t owe —Waring juin 35 Ex... He aid r; Nail .. ' 36 CPL. B 1 1. kharst Wright 37 QB..Carson and E .. Brooks and ors exora 59 QB.. Moss and .. • • .. Samuelson and ors 30 CP..Goodwin and A .. ..Cooke 41 C Fenwic': Vase admix ... 48 CP.. J Yates, Jun . .. Wright and ano 42 Ex.. R More S. ott and ano 44 CP.. Evans and gon Stevens and ano 4.5 QB.. C and ii Frost Wadsworh 47 Ex... teller and H.. 48 Ex ...B oker.. Rattan and ano 4 Ex. .Conway.. - • . • - 50 CoL.Turner and Son.. .. Wad.3ington admor 41 CPL.'ame `a-re 52 Q 3 Littledala and B .. Pemberton .. 53 CP.. Bog Baron . 54 Ex...T s Smith —Mins 55 CPL. BackhOwe .. .. .. . .azar and ano 56 CPL.S•me ..Same .. 57 CP L. sz.me .. .. .. ..Sagar 58 CP r.. Snowball •• Woodhead 59 CPL.Brethe ton .. Assop 41 Ex.— Cobb .. ..Grant 62 Qt3..1 it tle•lale and Co .. Dav es AS ..Welaman 64 Ex... Conway.. 65 Ex... T S Smith ..Nfuir;:ead 67 CPL. a and W Arroft ..13!ackbtirn pnri ano ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE SOUTH LANCASHIRE.—LwzitrooL, August 19. CROWN COURT. Mr. Baron Watson entered the court at nire o'clock this inorning, and proceeded with the criminal business. MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS. Henry R -gen, aged 37, master mariner ; William Miles, aged 27, seaman ; and Charles Edward Seymour, aged 25, seam n, were placed is the dock, charged with having, on the 6.h June, 1857, on board a certain &hip called the Martha Jane, then on the high seas, feloniously, wilfully, and of their malice aforethought, killed and murderel one Andrew Rose, a seaman on board the vessel. The court was greatly crowded during the hearing of this case. Mr. Attorney- General Bliss, Q.C., Mr. E James, Q.C., and Mr. Digby Seymour appeared on behalf of the prosecution. Mr. Monek, Q.O , defended the prisoner Rogers. Mr. Aspinall defended the other two prisoners. Mr. Att trney- General Bliss stated the case for the prosecution. He said : G,n tlemen of the jury, the three prisoners at the bar stand indicted for teat they feloniously, wilfully, and of their malice aforethought killed and murdered one Andrew Rose. Gentlemen, the prisoners committed the offence between the 11th of May and the .sth of June in this year. The prisoner Henry Rogers was the muter of the ship of 'board which the offence was committed. The e prisoner William Miles was chief mate, and the prisoner Charles Edward Seymour was second mate of that ship. The deceased was an able seaman on board that ship; and the means of death were a series cf violence and out rages committed by the prisoners at the bar upon the person of Andrew Box, from the 11th of May until two or three days before his death a system of beating and otherwise illtreating him in the manner I shell particularly state, and finally by one eat( aordinary act of violence and outrage, within three days after which he died. The Martha Jane is a British ship, owned at Sunderland, and had sailed from Hartlepool tast year to Calcutta, where there was a chance of masters; and from Calcutta, she came on the homeward voyage to Demerara, and after leaving Deme rara she p it into B rbadoes to repair, and there, there was another change of masters, and there it was that Henry Regers became the matter of the ship. It was also there that a considerable change of the crew took place, and there it was that Andrew Rase, the deceased, entered on board the ship. He entered on the 29th of April as an able seaman, and he signed the ship's articles, which stipu late among other things for a certain allowance of provi sions. Gentlemen, when he came on board the ship he was first put to do some duty by the second mate, who - Lund fault with him and who beat him; and he beat Rose so severely that Rose was advised by some of the crew to leave the ship, aed he accordingly ran away. He was away from the ship for several days, bat on the 9th or 10. h of May he was brought back by the police and he was put in irena She vessel sailed on the 11th of May. At that time he appears to have been released from irons, but the day after the vessel sailed he was again beaten by Seymour. Toe chief mate also beat him on that day with a rope's end and a whip, and the captain also beat him on that day. Gentlemen, from that day until the last act which terminated in death, I believe he was beaten by some one or other of the prisoners almost every day severely with a whip, both when he was in irons and when he was out of irons. Besides this there were other acts which I shall &tail to you. 1 cannot detail them in the exact order in which they passed, because it is difficult to get the precise dates, but they all occurred after the sailing of the ship on the 11th cf May, and befo e the death of the deceased. The deceased when he came on board ship was apparently an able seaman and in good health; but he had his hair close cropped, and there is some reason from that, and from his conduct, to surmise that his intellect had been in some measure deranged. He was fond of singing. and soon after the ship had sailed, one morning when he was in irons he was singing, and he ming " Oh, be Joyful." It was on Sunday morning The captain bade him be silent, and he was silent ; bat the captain said, "I will make you sorrowful," and he got an iron bolt of censide- able size—he thrust it into the mouth of the deceased, and the other two prisoners, the chief and second mate, tied it round with some rope or yarn behind his head, and he was kept with that gag in his mouth for about an hour and a half. The captain had a dog on board, and he taught the dog to bite the deceased. He first set him on the deceased with a command to bite that man, and afterwards, when the captain came forward with his whip to whip the deceased, the dog would fly at him and bite him He bit the deceased's legs and feet, and upon some occasions the blood spouted out. Upon one occasion he bit out a piece of flesh, and as the deceased put out his hands to protect himself the dog bit them. Upon another occasion, the deceased was sent aloft for some purpose—l believe to furl a sail—and when he came down he was sent up again. He was then naked, and as he was sent up with a bucket of water, the chief mate on that occasion followed line up, and with his whip he whipped him all over his body so severely that the blood ran from several places. Upon another occasion when the deceased was in front, he asked to go to tho bows to do a necessary act for himself ; and, gentlemen, I must here mention to yon, that the deceased seems to have lab .ured under such an infirmity as disabled him to contain his excretions, which came from him involuntarily or uncor seiously, or in Eitel& meaner as ha could n et, or it might be, would not prevent; and upon one occasion, when he was in it one, he asked leave to g 3 forward for that purpose. He was refused by one of the mete., upon which he relieved himself on the deck. The mate then beat bin, and the captain heat him, but the captain also ordered two men to hold the dt ceased down on his back, and he called for a spoon, but he did not use ir, but he took an iron pia and forced the excrement of the deceased into his mo n th_ forcing open his mouth with the iron pin —and thrust it up his nose, saying, "is it vice," and you shall have more cf it," until those who were called to assist shrank away, untebl.e longer to witness the revolting scene. A day or two after that, the same thing again occurred. Upon another occasion the captain called the carpenter to knock the head out of a water cask, and as the carpenter was not quick enough, the captain and mates did it themselvse. It was a water cask of small size; the smallest water cask I believe on board the ship. They then breught the deceased Rose to the auk ; they put him into it ; they bide him crouch down ; they fastened toe cask and turned it, and they then rolled it b ac k wards and forwards, the deceased being insi e, without any means of getting air except through the bung hole, which was on the bilge. They then lashed the water cask to the side of the ship, and there he remained from twelve at noon till twelve at night. .. • • .. Young and Co • • . • .. ..Stone .. Henry . .. Chambers and W E Wilson v Pile v Leic .l7 Ha lam .. . v Gray and ors.. .. v T inity Ho :se of Hall.. v Beattie . ..v S haffer —Fetcher and H .v Frown .. F rAncis and R . v Lan. and York. Railway Co —High= an C v Barber —Fletcher and H 7 'Mason .7 Kidd and ano . , Evans and Son .v Rawn3 Brier;ey .v St Helens Cana! and Rail Co .. Whitley .v Cirter . v Watson —Bell and S • .v Whil!ey Coltm and B v McCernan .. Neal and M .v Thomas Chester and Co .v Lan. and York. Railway Co ..Lewis an Co .7 Bell .. Prmberton .7 Jameson .. Ward v Len. and N. West Rail. Co.. _Swift and Co . v Everth woodcock an: Co . v A .. Leigh • C owes . v Bainhr'd,ze Grezory and Co v H-ins and ors.. .. Preston v Wilson and ano ..1 owndes and Co ..v Lan. and Yors. Railway Co.. ..T A and J G uady .v Kirby.. .. .• .. • . .. Hindu ..v Hernaman . v Clement.on .. . v and S ..v Robins ..Chilcott ▪ v Royle . S'a kle on and Co ) v Seddon _Hot ten and Son ..v Lan. and Yon:. Railway Co. ..R and W Ascroft ..v Same.. .. (de.% wrer) Same ▪ v Arkie and ans.. ..v Venn and ano.. ..v Murphie ..v Brennand and ano v same.. .. ..v Same.. .. ..v Black hurst ..v Yates. .. ..v Denham .. ..v Critch , ey ..v Taylor .. ~v Brownel and ano • v Moore and ano. ..v Adams Fra - ciand 4. .• .. - . ..Sw.ft and Co • .. Sale and CO (demurrer) Same . . . stvne \V Blachurst . .• ..Ward . Holden and Fol . ..Higham and C . ..Mi ler and P L . 4 g J B Lloyd . Sale and Co While he was there he begged for water, and expressed grew. cries o distress. One of the men went to him, and gave him a little pea-soup, by pouring it into his mouth. The captain was very angry, and demanded who had done it, and turned the man away. Another of the men give him a little water ; and he complained of having suffered much from excessive heat and suffocation. That was the last occasion on which he so suffere 1 , for it seems to have been the act which terminated the cruelties. I believe that word is not too strong to describe the treatment he received from the prisoners, and probably you will find it terminated also the sufferings of the deceased. The deceased was told by the captain, " Rose, I wish you would either drown or hang your-elf." Rose answered, " I wish you would do it for me," upon which the captain and the two mates took him to the mainmast. They got a rope and they made what was called a timber-hitch" They put it over his neck, and hoisted him up, so that his feet were from one to three feet from the deck. He remained suspended by the feet for about two miuutes, hit face became black, his eyes protruded fe<im the sockets, froth came from his mouth, and they let him down. The moment his feet touched the deck he fell flat as if he were dead, and the captain was heard to say by one of the crew, " Tnat if they had kept him there half a minute linger he would have been dead." This seems to have been the last act of their out rages, and the last aci; he bad to suffer. Rapidly after this his health sunk. Tha crew got him down to the forecastle, but he was so crazy that they were obliged .to tie his hands. He remained in the forecastle a day or two, and on the morning of the 5.h of June, they got him from the forecastle on to the deck to wash him. Tne deceased could scarcely crawl. He lay down on the deck with his head towards the hatchway, and his feet to the scuppers. The vessel was pitching, the water came over his legs, and Fe died. They do not know the exact moment of his death, but an hour or two after they brought him up they found him dead. The state he was in at that time was thus : —He had wounds all over his body from the beat ings and cruelties he had suffered. His wounds had festered, and he was in such a state that the crew was loath to touch hire. They dragged him aft with a rope, and in about an hour afterwards by order of the captain he was thrown overboard. The ship made land next morning, and arrived at Liverpsol on the 9th of June. Information was given of this affair, and the captain and mates were arrested. The captain when he was arrested said that "he long expected it, for that fellow Groves had said he would do something of the kind." Groves was a seaman, and the captain afterwer imputed to him violence to the deceased, and said that he had done no harm but to whip him for being dirty. The prisoner Seymour said that " the less said about it was the better;" and Miles said nothing. These, gentlemen, are the facts of the case, and these facts being brought before the public department, her Majesty's government have undertaken this prosecuton. Ido not think that that circumstance will in any respect weigh with you, bat yon are entitled to know who the prosecutors are, and we do not live in an age when either any advantage or disadvan tage to justice is to be apprehended front the prosecution being conducted by such a party. It is necessary that this inquiry should be mode in order that all British seamen may know that, however far they are from this country, they are never beyond the reach of British laws to punish crime and protect innocence. No doubt the principal question which you will have to inquire into on this occasion, will be whether those acts of violence a e proved. We shall call before you some of the crew. We have here all who ware examined before the magistrates, but I do not think it necessary on the part of the prosecution to call the whole of them We shall call four or lice, and the rest are near if the prisoners desire they shall be called. You will Lear their statement, and you wit' judge how far you will credit what they say as to the conduct of the prisoners. Another question will be, we ezher what they did was proper correction for the deceased. With regard t 3 that wit shall also put before you the official log, which was kept by the captain, and in which by law captains are required to record the punish ment they inflict on any of their crews. You will find in that log several entries made of floggings of Andrew Rose, the deceased. You will find besides evidence that these entries could not all have been made at the time they b ear date, bat you will also find this remarkable fact in all cf the log, that not one of the en tries alludes to the biting of the dog —not one to the putting into the cask -not one to the hanging —not one even to the whipping—bat the utmost that is stated, in the many charges that the log contains against the &ceased, is that the captain was obliged to stand over him with a whip, in order to compel him to wash himself; and that log imputes his death to his being rotten inside. Thus, gentlemen, it will appear from that, that the captain and the mates could not have thought that these, their acts, were acts of lunishment to the deceased; and it will be for you to say whether they were so, or whether, if they were, they were not excessive and improper. Another question will be whether those acts so done by the prisoners ware the cause of the death of the deceased ? That is a question which you will have to judge of. You will say whether the deceased, coming on board a per fectly healthy man, and sinking and dying after those acts o? vi&ence and outrage to him --whether you have any reasonable doubt that they hastened his death. It is not necessary for you to believe that they alone caused his death ; for if even the deceased had any disease upon him, and though that disease might have been fatal, and though he might sooner or later have died of it, still, if you believe that in consequence of the acts done by the prisoners, or any of them, his death was hastened then, eendemen, they are responsible for homicide. But on this you will be assisted by some medical men, who will be called b e f ore you, and who, I understand, are of opinion that under no state of health or disease could it be that death woo l I not be caused or acce l erated b y the acts which are detailed as the acts of the prisoners. Then will arise another question, which is a question of law— waat is the character of this homicide, if you believe that it is so ? Is it murder, or is it manslaughter ? To make it murder, you must believe that it was done with malice aforethought ; but this does not mean any long pre conceived design against the deceased, but if the prisoners intended to do him some grievious injury, though they might not have intended to de what would cause his death, yet they would be responSible for his death, and would b e respon ,ibl e t o t h e extent of murder. That is the case which I have to lay before you. You will take the law in reference to it from the learned Judge, and the statement of the facts from me. Thomas Hays examined by Mr. James, Q C.: Remembers the 31a-tha Jane being at Birbadoes ; shipped on board her there as able seaman, about ten or eleven days before she Palled. Bemembe , s the deceased, Andrew Rose; he shipped on loosed as able seaman the same day as witness When Rose came on board he appeared in a good state of health ; his hair was Frepped quite close. The prisoner Rogers was the captain Of the vess e l, and Miles was the first mate ; Seymour eu e h sequently joined. O n th e F r id ay preceding the sailingo.the vessel, the deceased was beaten with a rope's end. The following day saw Seymour and Miles beat him with a ropsl's end ; they laid it on as hard as ever they could. Witneel did not know what was the cause of it. Deceased sometimes talked sensibly, but sometimes he spoke as if he was a little out of his mind. The third day after the vessel sailed, the captain called for a whip, which the steta,rd brought, and the captain laid it across deceased's back. Deceased appeared to witnes, up to that time to hsve always obeyed orders. Saw him flogged every tray by the three prisoners ; never a day passed that they did not flog him. They flagged him sometimes with a wh'p, and sometimes with a rope's end. 'I here was a dog on board. Saw the captain set the deg at the deceased ; the clog bit deceased on the leg and arm. Witness saw blood flow. Saw dezeased often in irons. Never knew why he was put in irons. Never observed that he neglected his duty or disabeyed orders. Saw him flagged while in irons by the captain's orders. Three of the men flogged him. Deceased on three cecasions dirtied the deck. Hi was in irons upon these cecasions. Saw him flogged ten or twelve times during one day by the prisoners, or one or other of them. Saw him one day with an iron bolt in his mouth. It w as put across his mouth, and bound with spun-yarn round his head. Did not see it lut in, but saw it in his mouth from four o'clock to half-past five. Saw the two mates getting the bolt acd the yarn, but did not then know what they were getting it for. Deceased's hands were chained to a ringbolt in the deck behind his back. On another day the chief mate gave orders to have the head of a cask knocked out ; the carpenter was gone to his dinner, so the mate himself took out the head of a cask. The captain looked cn. They then put Rose into the cask, and fastened up the head again. This was about twelve o'clock in the day. They then roiled the cask along the deck, and lashed it in its place. The deceased continued in the cask until twelve o'clock that night. Witness spoke to I him through the bang of the cask. Deceased did not make any complaint. Saw demoteed when he was taken out, he was all over sweat, and full of soess. On another occasion remembers deceased dirtying the deck; deceased was then in irons ; the captain took a " lid," and took the excrement on it from the deck and put it into the mouth of the deceased. Saw the same thing done upon a second occa sion by the captain. Ths mates were present upon the latter occasion. The captain used a long stick that time instead of the " fid." Has seen deceased quite naked on the deck ; he had scarcely any clothes when he came on board, and those; he had were pitched overboard. because he had dirtied them. The captain give him a pair of trousers, and he dirtied Chess aloe. Remembers seeing Rise sent aloft to furl the sail when naked; he was sent by the chief mare, who, at the same time, struck him with a rope's end. On another cccasion, I card the captain call him (witness), and witness went to him. The captain said, " Come and make a hangman of yourself, and we will hang These." Witness said he could not make a hangman of himself Saw the captain get a rope, and make a " umber hitch," that is such a hitch as is put round timber. ( Witness here made a hitch of the kind decribed with a rope which was handed him.) The captain put the hitch round the deceased's neck. The tw.) other prisoners were assisting. They hitched Rase by the neck off the deck, and he hung suspended to a spar for about two minutes. Witness saw his tongue hanging out of his throat. When they lowered him again he fell on his baek, and lay like a dead man. None of the prisoners gave him any assistance. He lay there four or five minutes, and then got up the best he could On another occasion, when deceased was in irons, saw the chief mate throw water over him. Deceased died about eight days before the vessel came into part—about two days before the vessel sighted Cape Clear. After the hanging, witness heard the deceased say, " You had better kill me at once." Deceased was three days in the fore castle after the hanging. Saw his body after death. It was full of sores and corruption. There were marks of the whip all red over it. Did not see any sores upon deceased's body when he came on board. The bites of the dog upon his laxly never healed. Saw them on hie body after his death. They were sore and full of maggots. For some days before his death he was nothing but a mass of sores all over. Deceased was a very quiet man, and so far as witness observed always obeyed the orders, and did the work given to him. Cross-examined by Mr. Monck : Has been at sea ten years. There were six able seamen on board the vessel, one ordinary seaman, a boy, a cook, a steward, and the th re e p r i soners . O n the 29th of April witness signed articles. The-e were two watches ;kept, the captain's and the first mate's. The second mate kept the captain's watch. The deceased was not placed upon either watch. Witness does not know the reason why. Witness did not observe on the first day he went on board that deceased dirtied the forecastle. Does not remember any :circumstance that day about a shirt belonging to Power, one of the seamen, being thrown overboard. Never heard anything about Power's shirt being used by deceased to wipe up dirt which he had made. Deceased threw a pair of trowsers overboard which :he had dirtied, Deceased was in the habit occasionally of dirtying his trowsers. Saw deceased dirty the deck perhaps a dozen times during the voyage. Never saw him throw the fi th into the hold. Thera was rice in the hold. Part of the cargo consisted of ram. Never saw the deceased drinking rum except when the captain gave it him. The captain sometimes gave him half a tumbler full of rum to make him drunk, Is positive that the captain sometimes tried to make him drunk. The man was not sensible. Is positive that when not in irons deceased always did his work. It is part of the duty of an able seaman to steer. Saw the deceased steering, but he was turned away from the helm. Does not know whether he was able to steer. He was capable of fulfilling all the duties of an able seaman, so far as witness could observe. Deceased appeared to be on good terms with the crew except the prisoners. Saw no quarrelling or fighting. except that one of the me n was go i ng to b eat t h e d ecease d one day, and the cook got between them. The man who was going to beat the deceased was Groves. Did not observe that Groves had any thi, g in his hand at the time. Did not see any blood on Rose's face at the time. Never saw Power strike deceased. Power was in witness's watch. Heard that one of the boats was adrift, but was not present when it was brought back The deceased . slept in the forecastle pert of the first night, bet was removed by the captain's orders. After that he did not sleep in the forecastle, but sometimes he used to run down when no one was looking. Believes he went into the hol I two or three times, but does not know whether he was skulking or not. Deceased died about eight days af ter the hanging. When he grew worse, he got medicines from the captain ; he also got brandy and oil. There w s rice cooked for him once or t wice. Saw Groves once strike the deceased with the hick of his hand; deceased was tied up by the wrists that night by the men because he appeared drunk or mad, and they thought it safer to tie him ; hoard something said about deceased having matches, and that it was dangerous to the ship. Cross-examined by M. Aspinall During the last three days before his death, the deceased was not turned out of the forecastle by the men. The day of his death witness and Groves took hiss out of the forecastle that he m'ght wash himself. Saw him after wards lying on the forecastle on the port-side. It was not bad weather. The sea was washing over the deck some times oa the leeside. It sometimes washed over his feet and legs. Did not see waves coming over his head. The spray sometimes came over his head. If he had been removed to the other side of the ship the water would not have come over him at all. Heard something about deceased dirtying a bucket of sugar cn one occasion. Dies not know how often deceased deserted before the ship left Berbadoes. To Mr Attorney-General Bliss: When the deceased was tied by the wrists and appeared mad, that was after , he hanging. Deceased was not allowed to mess wth the. other sea men. The food he commonly received was dry bread and water. The other seamen had meat, and tea and sugar. Did not ree Rose have any, except w ten the men gave him soma ; it was after the hanging that the captain gave him medicine. First saw sores upon him the fourth or fif h day after leaving Berbadoee that was of er he had bean seve ra l ti mes beaten. William Groves examined by Mr. Seymour : Shipped as an able seaman on board the Martha Jane. Went on board the day she sailed. Had not been on board above a quarter of an hour when the chief mete came down into the forecastle, struck the deceased in the face and kicked hint. Saw him afterwards flogged with a rope's end by Miles and Seymour separately. Did not see any cause for it. Thinks Rose was able to discharge the duties of an able seaman. Witness has been at sea since 1837, Saw de ceased take the helm. He stood about a quarter of an hour there when the captain came and drove him forward. Witness was watching him to see whether he could steer. and is positive that he could steer. When witness first came on board deceased appeared in good health. He was a stout built man. On the day after the vessel sailed saw deceased whipped about the deck by the captain, and rope's ended by the other two prisoners. Heard deceased saying a 0 my God, what have I done ?" Saw the same thing done almost every day. Saw the dog fly at deceased, and take pieces of flesh out of his thighs, arms, and feet. The dog was set at deceased by the captain often. Saw Rose in irons several times, sometimes fastened by the hands and sometimes by the feet to a ringbolt. On one occasion saw the captain and the two mates come up to him, and the captain put a " fid" with excrement Iva' it. into his mouth. Tnis witness saw done again by the captain on the following day with a long stick De ceased had dirtied the deck. He was ironed on each occasion. On another occasion decaased'wes in irons on the deck and was praying ; the captain told him to stop that noise, and he did so. The captain called the prisoner Seymour, and told him to b-ing an iron bolt and some spanyarn. Seymour brought a bolt which was too short, and he then got a longer one. The captain and Seymour tied d ceased's hands,. put the bolt into his month, and fastened it round his head with the spunyarn. Deceased was allowed to remain in that position for about an hour. The following day the captain ordered the chief mate to unlash a water cask, which he did. The head was taken out. The captain said, " Come, Rose, get in here." The captain and the mate put Rose in, and headed up the cask again. He was allowed to remain there from ab out twelve in the day until eleven or fwelve at night. The chief mate said he would not mind keeping him there twenty-thur hours. As witness was passing the cask, deceased asked for some water. Witness told the mate he wanted weer. One day witness was at the wheel, and heard the captain say to deceased, " Why don't you jump overboard or hang yourself ?" Deceased said, " I wish you would do it for me." " Come along then," the captain said, and he took him forward. Witness could not sea what occurred because one of the deck-houses was in the way. The captain came aft again soon after and said, " Two seconds longer hanging, and he would be a dead man." The witness gave au account of the appearance of the deceased's body shortly before his death, similar to that described by the former witness. The crew had rations of meat regularly, but deceased was never allowed his rations like any other man. After the hanging the deceased gof some brandy to drink, and he becerte quite crazy. The men in the forecastle tied his hands f)r safety. Cross-examined by Mr. Monck: The day after witness came on board he saw the dog set at the prisoner, perhaps half a dozen times Deceased had a pair of trowsers which ha threw overboard because he had dirtied them. The captain gave him an old psir of troweers. Saw no neglect or incapwity to discharge a seaman's duty cn the part of the deceased ; he did not sleep in the forecastle until shortly before he died, when witness took him in by the captain's orders. That was about two weeks after the hanging. The deceased and the crew were all good friends. One day deceased took a flannel shirt of witness's and tore it, and witness would have struck him with his hand except for the cook. Witness struck him on one occasion ; it was the day before he died. Never heard the captain say, " That villain Groves will murder Rose." Never complained of the captain's taking Rose's part when he (witness) was abusing him. Once told the prispner Miles th :t he heard some of the men say they saw Rose having t a box of matches. Never said if Rose was not kept in irons he would set the ship on fire. Did not say anything to the captain or Miles about his setting the ship on fire • some of the men said something about Rose setting the ;hip on fire, but witness did not tell it to the captain or Miles. Tae deceased was dirty in his habits, but witness stated that it was principally when he was in irons. On cross-examination by Mr. Aspinall, witness denied that he had ever struck the deceased so as to make him bleed. Francis Doyle, seaman, deposed that, before the vessel sailed, the deceased went ashore more than once, and on one occasion took one of the ship's boats. He was brought back and put in irons. The witness described the beatings and whippings inflicted upon the deceased, in similar terms to the evidence of the previous witnesses. He stated, that on oneof the occasions, when the filth was forced down his throat, the deceased endeavoured to keep his mouth shut, upon which the cap tain thrust the " filth" up his nostrils, and when he was thus forced to open his mouth put the excrement into it Every time deceased tried to close his mouth the captain did the same thing. When dece tsed was in the cask wit ness went to him, and deceased told him he was very thirsty; witness poured through the bueg of the cask some pea-soup into his mouth. The mate cameup after and saw some remains of the pea-soup, and said if he knew who gave it to deceased, he would rope's end the person. Witness cor roboraael the evidence as to the biting of the doh, and the hanging' He described the face of deceased w hile hanging as all blood red, with his tongue hanging out and his eyes starting from their eecke'e. He stated that on one occasion he saw the chief mate lash the d 'ceased until the blood ran down his body. Oe cross-examination by Mr. Monck, the witness admitted havieg once struck the deceased whh, the side of a hand-saw for dirty habits. The deceased once stole some sugar which he eat. The witness was also cross-examined by Mr. Aspinall. To Mr. Bliss : The deceased was a quiet and inoffensive man ; he sometimes sang hymns, and sometimes songs. Mr. Monck : Some of the songs were; not very decent, I believe. Witness : Oh, yes decent enough fur sailors. (Lauthter.) William Davison, seaman, gave evidence of a character generally simlar to that of the previous wit nesses. He stated that he saw the deceased man hasten almost every hour of the day and nigh , . William Power, seatnen, was placed in the box, but Mr. Bliss said he did not think it necessary to examine the witness. He was only called that Mr. Monde might have the opportunity of cross examining him if he thought fit. Cross examined by Mr. Monck : The deceased once dirtied the forecastle, and used a shirt of witness to wipe it up ; witness hove the shirt overboard ; he once dirtied up aloft ; he frequently dirtied the deck when in irons, and sometimes when not in irons; never saw Graves or Hayes set the dog at deceased ; de ceased had a very large appetite; ha eat an enormous catantity ; witness objected ti deceased remaining in the forecastle on account of his dirty habits. Deceased always said he could doseaman's duty, but when he came to do it he could not do it. He could not steer He tried to splice a hawser, but he could not. To Mr Bliss : The man did not seem to be right in his mind. To Mr. Monck : Had no cause to complain of the captain ; he seemed kind to the crew. Bejamin Martin, the cook, was examined by Mr. Seymour, and gave evidence generally corroborative of that of the previous witness. To Mr. Monck : Deceased cnce took a piece of meat out of the cabin ; it was part of the captain's dinner ; witness shoved him out of the g dley. The cabin boy Kenned v was examined, but nothing material transpired. Mr. Desmond, surgeon, was examined by Mr. Bliss, and stated that, assuming the evidence of the first witnesses to be correct. and the treat ment described by them !o have continued from the 11th of May to the 6:h of June, it probably would have induced milt a condition as, joined with the hanging, might have terminated fatally. Mr. Wall, surgeon of the Northern Hospital, depos d that, assuming the description of the treatment to be correct, it would be sufficient to cause death. Mr. Pennington, surgeon, was also produced to speak as to the probability of death ensuing from the causes described. The official log was pat in evidence, which contained several entries of deceased being put in irons for skelking, stealing, dirtying clothes, &c Ode entry st ited that the captain had to stand over him with a whip to make him wash himself. but there was no record of his having been fl ogged or otherwise corp -deal]] punished except by being ironed. John Eaton, detective officer, deposed that on Thursday, the 12th June, he apprehendet the prisoner Miles, and took him to the police-station ; the same night he arrested the captain. lie said, on being informed of the charge, " that he always expected it, f,r lie heard that villain Groves wanted to gat up something against him, and t at he had seen Groves id-use the man himself;" eubseqeently he said, " the worst usage he gave Rose was using the whip, which he had in the cabin ; and that the night before Rose died, Rose told him Groves said he would get up some case against him, and would get 10s. a-day for attending the police-court, in Liver pool." The captain also said that when Ross cams on beard, he was ever sores, in consequence of sleeping in the fields in Be badoes. Detective-officer Ham deposed that he arrested the prisoner Seymour. Waen the pri setter was informed of the charge against him, he replied that the least said at that time was the better. This closed the case. Mr. Monck objected that the vessel was not proved to be a British ship. On the part of the crown, evidence was given which established the fact. Mr. Monck then proceeded to address the jury on behalf of the captain. After . some introductory observations, he procee led to remark that in such a case as that every man who could Sal any one circumstance which transpired from the period when the deceased man came on board the vessel, should have been called before the jury, to give them mo eor less information, or at allavents, to satisfy them before they give their verdict that They had as much information as it was possible to ohtein. When they had a case ushered in, not only with the presence of the Attorney-General, but with all the solemnity of his decla ration that it was a direct government prosecution, they might have expect e d th a t somewhat more of candour, if not of generosity to the prisoners at the her, would hey:: been exhibited. He then asked the jury if any one of them who ever sat in a criminal trial before, had ever known such a prosecution, in which no possible motive was alleged for the offence which was stated to have been perpetrated ? What could be the motive of the prisoners, except sheer and pure malignity, in going on with a series of acts of oppeession and cruelty, one after another, until they hurried their victim into death ? It shoted be remembered that this vessel was short of hands. There ware three men wanting. There actually ware not men enough comfortably, and according to the character of the work and tl:e exigencies of a voyage, to work the ship ; and yet the captain would reject the services of a competent man, an able seaman, a sailor fully capable of steering and of performing all the ditties of a seaman on board a vessel. He reminded the jury of the position in which the captain of a vessel stood if he got about him incompetent men. The cktain was the person upon whose energies and determination, mental and physical, upon whose prudence and discretion, not only the property committed to his care, but that which was infinitely more valuable, his own life, as well bi awe : xyto, on h dngo e i de ret lives getee o ent f hemt reh e gye i en s i ewr s e whoed re roue w fty , ts d ehk e lle f i e krb nd what remaining I taaowsi . nhbhi sago er f he po:ausbl position to_ go nbnao oet rny ndHeb wouldowa was moment men a storm might arise. At any moment the safety of the vessel, the property and the lives might be in jeopardy, and then he would find himself with some men inefficient, and the others worn out with unremitting toil, and all because some men had represented themselves as being capable of performing duties which they were either incapable of performing or unwilling to perform. He asked the jury, then, was it conceivable, that with th ree h an d s s h ort , t h e CaPtain wind(' have b4ll auxine to throw away the services of an able-bodied man ? The mere suspicion of anything of the kind was absurd. What possible motive could he have had for doing so, and for perpetrating such acts as those which had been described, and which were alleged to have hurried the deceased to his grave ? He (counsel) could not help thinking that some little more information might have been afforded to them by the prosecution. Was it tue that the deceased was full of sores when he first came on board ? Some of the wit nesses hesitated as to that—those even who undertook to then isthictl i y n p a e ta rf t e e c d t h th ea a l t th h ; e but had yet aora s et a h t er t s ha o t f the say that witnesses h e d was h W ad h h a e t theyantdhothseataores ? conwtinaus he edfr t o h m en timetotime whipped, o . r suffered any of that ill-treatment which it was now pre pe tended had accelerated his death? These were discre panciesld, produced in the evidence for the prosecution of a most serious character; and, therefore, he should say ag sin that more information should have been afforded to them. There were other witnesses who were examined for the prosecution before the magistrates ; why had they not been called, or why had not some attempt been made to reconcile the many discrepanc:es in the case, to some of which he had already drawn the'r attention ? What possible object could the prisoners have in doing that which could conduce to the death of the deceased ? The act of one could not be taken, and, as it were, added to some particular act of the other, to show a common object, and that object the destroying the life of the deceased. What was there in the whole case to show that the deceaned had not been brought to his grave by long continued disease ? Indeed it was very plain that such was the fact. His close-cropped hair would lead one to suppose that he had not long lefh some hospi al, while his ravenous appetite and filthy habits showed clearly that he was in a declining state of health Were they then prepared to say that he had just that amount of vitality in him which would have enabled bim to outlive the voyage, had it not been for the ill treatment he received ; and what act was it which had accelerated his death, accep'ing for the moment as true all that the witnesses for the prosecution had stated ? They had beard the medical evidence, and he (counsel) would ask them whether they were prepared, as reasonable men, to con sign the prisoners to an untimely and ignominious death on such speculative opinions as they had heard from the medical gentlemen' n the case He was not there to justify or to be the apologist of such acts as putting a man into a cask or of any of the other modes of punishing a refractory man which they had heard detailed in the case. But that was not the question. The question was not whether what they had done was the best to preserve the discipline of the ship, but whether they bad of their malice aforethought taken the deceased's life. The learned counsel then dwelt on the filthy habits of the deceased, and asked if it were probable that the prisoners would have prevented him from avoiding them. They punished him for those filthy habits, perhaps, as a filthy dog or cat only should be p inished ; and was it probable that they would have pre vented him from going forward when the necessary consequence would be a continued indulgence in those habits. Counsel then referred to the unfair advantage which the Crown has, as prosecutors, in having the right of reply, and remioded the jury that, even if they acquitted the prisoners in the present indictment, the prosecution might again put them on their trial on grave and serious charges, though not such as would affect their lives. Mr. Aspinall addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoners Miles and Seymour. He contended that the conduct of the prisoners he represented must, to a great extent, be judged according to the position which they held. They were inferior officers in the vessel, bound to carry out the orders of the captain It was true they were only bound to carry out those orders so long as they were legal ; but, at the same time, it was not easy for them to discriminate as to'the exact amount of punishment which might legally be inflicted upon a disobedient or negligent seaman. The captain was, therefore, primarily responsible, and with many of the acts which were relied upon as concurring to cause the death of the deceased the first and second metes had nothing whatever to do. He dwelt upon the fact that the medical men did not venture to affirm that death would hare been calved by anything short of an accumu lation of all the acts alleged to have been committed. This being the case, he contended that it was not possible to hold the prisoners he represented guilty of causing the death. Mr. Attorney-General Bliss replied on the part of the Crown. His Lordship summed up at considerable length. He impressed on the jury that it was of the ut most importance if they believed that all those cruelties took place, and that they were the cause of the death of the deceased, that they should say so boldly and so consci entiously, no matter what the consequences of their verdict might be ; and he hoped that the time would never conic when a British jury would shrink from the discha'ge of their duty. He remarked the men shipped at distant ports were not always the best seamen or the best elm-alters, and therefore it became the duty of the jury to examine carefully into the whole case as lai i before them, His Lordship occupied upwards of an hour and a half in the delivery of his charge. The jury retired to consider their verdict at twenty-five minutes to ten o'clock, and returned at half-past ten o'clock; and in reply to the question if they had agreed to a verdice the Foreman said that they found the death of the deceased was the result of the cruelties ibflicted on him by the pri. sonere, but they wished his Lordship's direction as to the degree of homicide that implied. His Loidship replied, what he stated before that if, as reasonable men, they must have anticipated the death cf the deceased as the consequences of their treatment, the jury would then find a verdict of murder; but if, as reasonable men they could not anticipate that their conduct would have that effect, then it Would be man slaughter. The jury again retired, and in about ten minutes returned and handed in a verdict of h Guilty of murder" against each of the prisoners. They accom panied the verdict with a recommendation to mercy. His Lordship then put on the black cap, and proceeded to pass sentence. He said—Henry Rogers, William Miles, and Charles E ;ward Seymour, you have been respectively found guilty of the crime of murder. After a most patient, and, I am sure, a most anxious and impartial inquiry on the part of the jury who have tried you, they have come to the conclusion that the evidence warrants that charge. It is a case that required the greatest attention on the part both of the judge and jury; and no one w he heard the account of your barbarous treatment as it was detailed here, hour after hour, but was convine :d that if that evidence could be relied on, your lives would be forfeited. It is of the utmost importance in a maritime country like this, that the power with which you are armed to repress insubor dination on board your ships, should not be accompanied with too great severity, and the law should watch most carefully that that power is not too much extended. The jury have recommended you to mercy, with that I have no power to interfere, but as is my duty shall rater the r ecam• mendation to the autbor:ties of the coantry—ll-r 'Alaj -sty's Ministers. Whether it will be attended with success I cannot say, but I implore you to make the best use of your time, and not rely upon it. Nothing now remains for me than to pass the final sentence of the law. His Lerdsbia th-n passed sentence of death in the usual form on the prisoners, and appeare3 much moved in doing so. The prisoners lefr the dock with a firm and light step, as in a bravado. [the sentence was received by a very large crowd who were gathered in St. George's lia'l awaiting the result of the trial, with loud cheering. His Lordship and all in Court were much astonished at this demonstration of popular feeling.] SENTENCES. The following prisoners were sentenced by his Lord ship : Charier G. Allen and John Mackenzie, convicted, on Tuesday, of assault and robbery on board the Sea Ktng, in the Waterloo DJek, had sentence of death recorded against them. _ _ - John CO; convicted of unlawfully wounding his wife, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard hbour. Moses Woodward and James Woodward, convicted of manslaughter, at Neston, were sentenced respectively to eighteen months and twelve months' imprisonment, with hard 11,bour. Luke Burns, convicted of manslaughter at Manchester, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Thomas Howard, convicted of stabbing at Wigan, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Michael Spencer, who pleaded guilty to a charge of h)rse stealing at Eccleston, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour. NISI PRIUS COURT. BEFORE MR. BARON CIIANNELL. His Lordship took his seat on the bench this morning at nine o'click. MII YITENV V. COWLV.Y.—Tbis was an undefended action, brought to recover the amount of a bill of exchange, and a verdict was given for the plaittiff. PILE V. GIEPEL.— T:113 was an action brought to recover a certain amount, for the repairs done to a ship. Mr. Atherton, with whom was Mr. Unthatik, were for the plaintiff. and Mr. Manesty, with whom was Mr. Brett, were for the defendant. In this ca-e Mr. Pile, a ship builder, living at Hartlepool, was the plaintiff. and Mr. Giepel, a shipowner, of the same port, was the defendant. It appeared that in the month of September of the last year, the defendant and a person named Drysdale, then the joint-owners of the ship Britannia, called upon the plaintiff, and told him that they were going to send a ship to his docks to be repaired. They did do so, and the ship was accordingly repaired, and the bill was upwards of £5OO. The account was sent in to Mr. Drysdale, who I gave a bill for tie amount, bat that bill Wig) dials:MO=4d. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1857. After that Drysdale fell into diffizulties, and an apPlira' tion was made to the present defendant for payment, on the grounds that at the time of the repairs, he was a part owner of the vessel, and was at that time the sole owner. Payment was refused, and this ac!ion was brought W ascertain whether the defendant was, or was not liable. The jury returr‘ed a verdict for the plaintiff—Damage° £2.60 181. ELMS V. M RTIN AND AN TII .—This was an action for goods sold and delivered and for the use and occupation of certain premises. Mr. James, Q C., with Mr. Blair* appeared 13r the plaintiff, and Mr. 31illward for the defen dants. The plaintiff is a timilter merchant, and the defen dants are shipwrights, all of Liverpool. In December , 1851, they took a smithy from the plaintiff in Waterloo road, which was afterwards exchanged for other premise belonging to the plaintiff They also obtained goods Irons the plaintiff in the way of their business, and it was for the value of those goods, and for the rent, for the use and occupation of the pre: miser, that the p r e sen t ac ti on was brought', William Martin allowed j u d g m en t t o go b y d e f au lt, and the other defendant, Henry Martin, denied his The defendants are father and son, William being the father, and the sole question i nvo l ve d i n th e case vie whether they carried on the business at the smithy in partnership. The plaintiff alleged that they took the premises, and that the goods were supplied to them partners. On the other hand, Henry Martin denied tha t such was the case. After a le ng th ene d t r i a l, a verdic t was taken for the plaintiff, subject to a reference. In the case of Cecil v. Taylor the jury were discharged► as they could not agree to a verdict. The court rose at six o'clock. SECOND GRAND ASCENT OF THE ROYAL CREUORNE BALLOON, AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, ON MONDAY NEXT. SEA. RlSKS.—Complaints have lately been male that ti n steamers trading to and from the northern ports of Enland and the Baltic are accustomed to take deck loads, to the manifest prejudice of the underwriters and the danger of both passengers and vessel. In many instance this practice is most dangerous, in the event of severe weather taking place during the passage, and it is therefor e necessary that both shippers and passengers should be acquainted with the practice and i s dangs re. CLERGYMEN EXPELLED IN CANADA. —The Wesleyan Methodist Conference, lately is session at Toronto, CAC.' has expelled two of its members for irnmo-al conduct—the Rev. Mr. Hough, of Hamilton, because he carried a re: volver in his pocket for several days, intending to shoot a young gallant who had eloped and married his daughter contrary to his will ; and a young clergyman named &weer of Toronto, because he corresponded with a young lady i.e England, with a view to matrimony, and afterward 4 changed his mini as to the propriety of forming an alliance with her becausad he loved another bitter. PETERHEAD.—INTEEESTING FAMILY MEETING.--S e have just been told that there took placa at a respectable residents in this neighboarhaod, some days ago, a ineetni of forty-eight parsons, all membars . of one family, and some of whom had been separated from the others and the parental home for long years in foreign service. The company included the - grandfather (a hale, liarty 01 1 man), and twenty-five gra n i c hil I ren. Th e feelings 0' such a party must, we think, have be--n peculiarly of that kind with which strangers er.nnot intermeddl. It was the first meeting of the kind to that family, and will, there i 5 lade doubt, be the last.--2fberdeen Free Press. DISCOVERY or A " POSE."—An eccentric family is resi dent a , Cowrie. So singular, indeed, were their doings , tiat some time ago they were deemed unfit to conduct their oin affairs, and a manager was apoointad by the Court of Session for that purpose. The f ,mily, who lead been in the farming line, vv, , ro seemingly in poverty, bu t their intimate acquaintances always suipeeled they were not so destitute as appcaronee3 indicated. Acting upon this suspicion, the maisger and others have been making diligent search about the premises for the supposed hidden pose. On Monday last their ex , rtions were rewarded bf the discovery of the treasure, contained in a batt,:r can, and concealed under ground. The amount is somewhere, about £BOO, comp-ised of bank 1)11, pound n otes , anu silver. The money will ultimately he disposed of in the hest possible manner for the advantage of the family: - Perthshire Courier. SINGULAR FATAL ACCID RN r.—About half-past six o'clock on Monday evening, William Seed, weaver, residing 10 Richmond Row, Ee to; met with an accident which re sulted in his death a short time afterwards, lie was at the Birley'a Arms Inn, in New Hall-lane, on the evening in question, and a countryman having stopped with an empty cart opposite the house, Seed, from some motive or other, got into the cart, when some persons who had been drinking with him at the inn, drew the cart hinges, the effect of which was to tilt the chest of the cart. The deceased was pitched to the gro Ind, and on rising to his feet he complained of his back being injured. He was conveyed to his home by his wife, who was present, 10 5 was put to bed and left a'ive ; and in about half an hour afterwards, on his wife going upstairs, she discovered that her husband was dead. MILITARY FLOGOIVG AT MAIDSTAII.-0.1 Saturday ISt by virtue of the sentence of a district court-martial, at the cavalry depot, Maids one (p - eaid_nt, Colonel Balders), Private Jamrs M‘Loughlan, of the 12t,h Lancers, under went the infliction of fifty lashes. His (AT nces were being out of barracks when room guard, and stealing a gold pencil-case and watch key, the property of Private Harper, belonging to the same regiment. Being found guilty of all the charges, he was sentenced to receive fifty lashes, to be imprisoned wi;h hard labour for six months, an d to be dismissed the service with i gnom i ny. The apparent harshness of this sentence was causal by the fact that he had been fifteen years in the service, and during that time he had been before about a dozen courts-martial, and been fire times flogged. While in the Crimea he was flogged one morning for being drunk, and was s..!en drunk again about the camp the same evening. The sentence was executed at Maidstone before all the troops of the Forty-Ax lashes had been inflicted when Colonel Griffiths, commandant of the depot, ordered him to be taken down. SEAMEN'S SAVINGS BANKS.—The amount received for d-pwitois between October and November, 1856, was £1,638. The object of the bank is thus explained:—"With a view of inducing provident habits in tho seamen and their families, and for providing for the safe easterly and increase of their saviogs, the Legislature has empowered the Board of Trade to establish savings banks at such places in the United Kingdom us may appear to be exPe' client for the benefit of seamen heonging to Her Majesty's navy, the mercantile multi-, or any o th er sea serv i ce , ag well as for their wives and families, the management and control of these banks being vested in the Board of Trade. Under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping and Sea men's Savings Bun& Acts, a department has ken estab lished in London, at the Board of Trade, as the Central Savings Bank, where all accounts of the depositors will be kept. The shipping masters at the several ports are to act as its agents to receive and to pay deposits.. The shipping master is to take every precaution to confine the benefits of the Seamen's Savings Bank to seamen, their wiveSt widows, and children; be is, therefore, not to receive de posits from any person who does not belong to the class described, and should he discover that deposits have been inadvertantly received from persons of any oilier class, he is to communicate the particulats to the Board of Trade immediately, and to wait instruc:ioas as to the course he 0 to pursue." BRIST L AND THE INDIAN CRISII.-01 Mon'lay evening about 4,000 of the inhabitants of Bristol and Clifton, inclu.ling Christians of all denominations, assemblad Ve Victoria Rooms, Clifton, to pray for and express sympathy with British India. A large number of clergy acrd gentry were on the platform. Mr. Ch :rtes Pinney', an extensive nprchint, presided. The Chairman, opening the meeting, said he had great Peasure in pre siding over so large a meeting of Christian peiple of all denomination, met together for united supplication to Almighty God on belielf cf Brills") India, which was now' fraught with such momentous consequence to millions of our fellow i , brings. The mutiny in India had over whelmed society with gloom, and filled every heart with terror. He sincerely hoped that the subtlety of the sepoY would be overreached, and that, by the grace of God, those horrible cruelties daily chronicled in our newspapers would soon be at an end. It was a most momentous crisis. Thousands of our countrymen and countrywomen, wits their innocent babes, had fallen victims to wicked men and he cordially agreed with that good man, the Bishop of London, that we ought all to offer up our earnest prayer& to God for the preservation and comfort of our poor unfortunate countrymen (sensation). When Goirs judg inews were ab roa d i n t h e eart h we ought to implorehis nactcy. Dark and ominous clouds were over use the Lord was our defender and strength, ant would, If we offered up prayers to the Throne of Grace, hear thew; Whether in the mountain or in the desert, in the field of battle or in the enemy's camp, be prayed that our, soldiers would be victoriouP, arid restore the authority of our Queen, which for a time bad been overthrown by the deceit and tr..achery of the sepoy. (Applause.) other speakers then address e d th e meet i ng, an d impressive prayers were off ere d u p b y clergymen and others. r" meeting then separated,