The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-24 00:00:00

Com4onlicure. A NICE HOTEL. TO THE EDITOR Op THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. SlR,—Being late at the Philharmonic last night, and having forgotten my latch-key, I went to the Queen's Hotel. Had a glass of warm whiskey and water, a waiter, a candle, and a bed. Arrived at half-past twelve and left at eight—time, seven hours and a half. On leaving, was presented by a young lady, who looked as if she were in the habit of dressing herself backwards way, with the following in me moriam : Queen's Hotel, 23rd Nov. 1853. Mr. Snooks— Bed Attendance Whiskey . . s. d. .2 6 .1 6 .1 0 5 0 In future, in preference I shall go to the nearest police station and have myself booked ; and at all events, I have made a memorandum—Don't do that again. Wednesday morning. CHRISTIE v. TROTT. An action was brought in the court of common pleas, by . the plaintiff, at the last London sittings, against the owners of a vessel called the Harriet, they having contracted to con vey a cargo of haricot beans for him from Liverpool to London. Before lea.iug the dock, she sprung a leak and injured the cargo. The action brought for the damage done by the water, and for loss of maAtt caused by the d lay in discharging and reloading the vessel, andin repairing her. A verdict was found for the plaintiff, damages, 1 11 86. On the sth instant defendants moved for a new trial, or to reduce the damages. A new trial was refused ; but a rule was granted, calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why, under the 53rd Geo. 111, cap. 159, sec. 1, the amount should not be reduced to £6OO, the value of the ship and freight. On Wednesday last the case came before the judges at Westminster, when a verdict was taken, by ....eat of counsel on both cfm.,,, the piamtin, damages £986, and hib COStS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. SlR,—The above is from the first edition of yes terday's Mercury, and may interest some of your readers. If you are of this opinion, please insert it in your paper of to-morrow, and oblige, sir, your's obediently, ROBERT CHRISTIE, JUN. . THE AGE AND SOME OF ITS DELUASIONS. LETTER NO. I. EDUCATION, POPULAR AND POLITE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. Sra,—A conceit has lately taken me to address a few words occasionally to all in the town, who will have the patience to read them, about some subjects on which too much can hardly be said, and on which, nevertheless, the most extravagant amount of error seems to prevail. So much is this the case, that there are some questions every day talked of in the world, and which I can never thoroughly dissociate from the idea of " humbug." No sooner do men begin to speak of them at all, than one feels morally satisfied they are going to speak absurdly. And one very plain reason is this, we have grown puffed with self-esteem in this age, and having achieved so much, begin to fancy that we have settled everything--that our science is omnipotent, and our systems unimpeachable. We have got ideas into our heads that peculiar theories of education, government civilization law, and theology have been per fectly settled by us, and need be reconsidered no more, Consequently, when any one appeals to the genius of the nineteenth century, you may always expect that he is about to give forth some self-sufficient axiom upon a question which neither he, nor I, nor the nineteenth century know very much about, or have at all brought to a conclusion. Thus it seems to me, that we do not at all possess that calm spirit of modest inquiry which should distinguish en lightenment from ignorance and civilization, from•medinval prejudice. With all our progress we have but reached the strand of that sea of knowledge, beyond which stretch regions which no eye or hand has yet reached, and whose attributes we cannot even conjecture. I fear we are a little too much inclined, like the Roman emperor, who meditated an invasion of Britain, to declare that we have done enough when we have reached the confines of the sea, and there stop to pick up shells as trophies of our enterprise, instead of following with simple and trusting courage the breath of that destiny which invites and would convey us to the shores at the other side. If I knew of any question upon which so much self sufficiency and exalted ignorance are daily put forth as that of popular education, I should assuredly begin with it. It is the one great want, the terrible need of the age, of the country, of this great town so filled with wealth and squalid poverty, with churches and prisons, with priests and sinners, ignorance and crime. Ido not know of any com munity where there are more public institutions for the education of everybody, and the suppression of all vice than this town of Liverpool ; and yet, who knows of any place which is more filled with ignorance and crime ? Is there a night or day that public places are not open here, and wise men expounding the truths of knowledge, each according to his own fashion, which of course differs from that of every body else ? And people are not won over. lam satisfied it could be easily shown that vice is on the increase here in this town—has been for some years, and will be. Why is this ? It is because the people do not, and cannot listen to your teachings, because their hearts can never be in them. They do not listen. We fill our institutions and lecture rooms night after night, but they who need most instruc tion are not there. They are in gin-palaces and singing houses, in squalid garrets, in reeking lanes in places to which a ray of moral light, a ray of the sunshine of fortune, happiness, or hope never found its way. And you who may perhaps read this, have you done anything to improve that condition ? There are some I well know, who, having glanced carelessly at this, may take a graver thought, and say we have done nothing, and can do nothing. We have thought deeply of these things . , and all the result has been that we here declare our despair. This is a class of people Ido not at all object to. They think strongly, although, let us hope they are mistaken, and they have much good materials out of which work might be wrought. But another class will say, "We have striven to do our duty ; we have diffused the blessings of education ; we have delivered three hundred and sixty-five lectures every year, all addressed to the working classes, We have pointed them p# the way they should go in every conceivable subject. •We have laid down the tram-way, and all the people have got to 61p is to run upon it, and care they never get off the rails. And they . are improving —education is being fliffused—crime is vanishing, poverty of course they must bear, for that is their lot, and it's all right and proper; but we have changed all the rest." Now this great class of people are nearly all of them good, true, well-meaning individuals, who would really do all they could to advance the condition of their race. But I maintain, indignant as my readers, may possibly grow, or contemptuously as they may smile, that they do not know how to do what they ,um at, and that midi they do, the people will never listen to them When the llev, Mr. Boanerges piously and sincerely anathematizes every other creed but his own, and is gazed at with reverence by the upturned eyes of anti quated virginity, I am sure his intentions are excellent, but I beg to say that I think the less the people hear of him the better. When Professor Dingo delivers his famous lecture upon the cultivation of knowledge, I only think of the man in Dickens's book, who compiled the history of Chinese metaphysics, lookinc , out in the British Cycl o p m di a for China, under the letter C, and metaphysics under the Welter M, and combining his information, And while I greatly respect the professor, I cannot conceive what possible benefit I, as one of the people who want to be educated would derive, even though I listened to his entire course. I am satisfied I should %e just as fond of beer And tobacco, and have just as few ideas in my brain as gyer, I very much fear that these things are like the dinners of the wealthy—only given to those who do not want them. - - . _ - The people are children, in their good qualities, and e v il their ignorance and belief. Perhaps in this respect they ;nay have some advantage over you and me, Mr. Editor, rho are very wise in our own conceit, and therefore, can hardly he got to admit any bglief, except like Moliere's lion Juan, that two and two make four. You must appeal, if you will have any result follow, to their feelings in the first instance, nest their perceptions, and lastly, their pow ers of retention. Modern education does precisely the opposite with men and with children, only with this diffe rew:e—that it leaves out the feelings altogether. We fill the memory of children with words, and are quite surprised when we find them growing up without ideas, Just the same with the grown-up audiences. Suppose this to be perfectly successful in the highest degree —suppose every inhabitant of Whitechapel, of Vauxhall-road, of the lanes near the Docks, were thoroughly acquainted with the first book of Euclid, and able to repeat a list of the Kings and Queens of England backward, would whiskey be drunk no more, police-offices closed, thieves become pulpit lecture rs , and prostitutes Sisters of Mercy ? Is this kind of thing altogether confined to the poor and uneducated at present ? Are we of the middle classes, you of the upper classes, qualified to throw a stone at any one ? We are not indeed, brought up at police-offices usually, or condemned to hard labour in prisons, but is it because we are more .free from vice, or because we have better appliances for reducing it to the limits of the law ? " Change places, and which is the justice, which the thief ?" It is one of the most insufferable piece of arrogance upon the part of us who have read a few books, to go about, as I have continually heard learned people do, preaching to the people as if ignorance were the' sole cause of vice, as if what we choose to call education were the entire radical cure ; as if they had only to become like us in:orderloVe perfect; - as ir there were not 'Some Of us who would cling to our selfishness, our insincerity, our indolence, and our passions, though Plato's own lips ap pealed to our intellect, and the wisdom of Bacon pointed us the road to practical kn'wledge. It will, of course, occur to every one who. takes the trou ble to read this letter, that I am doing no more than railing at those who try to do a good thing, not endeavouring to show a better way of doing it. But one must begin by saying what it is he objects to, and show why he objects to it, before he goes about starting any new system in the place of the old. And I have no new idea to suggest. I will only say in words what every reader of the journal must have at some moment thought of. I object, then, briefly, to the present system of popular education—l shall come to the Polite Education hereafter, if you, Mr. Editor, will afford me space, and your readers patience. I object to the present system, if indeed it deserves that name, because it is a sham, and we have shams enough of necessity without this. What is called education can effect none of the objects which every one of us must believe to be the true journey's end of instruction. And, if it could effect all this, those who have undertaken the task of its diffusion do not know how to execute it. To inculcate systems and chronologies, not to clear the brain for thought to grow up, seems to be its only object. Education seems to some of our instructors like a nail, which only requires a few vigorous blows to drive it right in, and then it remains, and all its purposes are fulfilled. We want something else ; and wanting it we, the ignorant, are losing faith in ye the learned. Look to it that we do not —we, the few who have learned enough to wish for more—open our ears and hearts to the breath of cold scepticism and indifferentism which has passed over other countries and withered them. I shall endeavour, Sir, in my neat letter, to show how little superior is what I have called polite education to popu lar ignorance ; and how a being from some other world, if he were called in to decide the question, might be sadl; puzzled which to choose. And then I shall do my best to show why, and in what points, each is defective, unreal, and false. If, among the working classes who desire instruction, or among the school-educated ranks who an. ti posed to have acquired it, there be found none to agr- much of what I sa y, th en I mus t i n d ee d be profouni: •g, and "my imaginatiu.. as foul as Vulcan's stithy ii, sir, yours, &c., EXC SIOII. g 1,12.1. 1. Peel has consented to deliver a lecture in rive or six towns of the midland district, in aid of the fund being raised to employ a paid lecturer in connection with the Midland Union of Mechanics' Institutes. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST AN OLD INITABITANT.—OR Thursday the police apprehended Mr. E. Rolfe, of Glouces ter, slater and mason, on a charge of stealing a quantity of slates, the property of Lord Sherbourne. The police found about 200 slates and 17 pieces of timber buried in Rolfe's garden. The accused is nearly 70 years of age, and was formerly a dissenting preacher. NINE FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS. —The London Brigade and West of England fire engines were actively engaged from Saturday night up to Monday morning, there ha ving been during that period nine fires i n an d near the metropolis. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHow. —The show of fat ;little, under the auspices of the Smithfield Club, is appointed to commence at the King-street Bazaar on the 6th of Decem ber. In making their awards the judges are to keep strictly in view the great object for which the Smithfield Club was originally instituted—viz., the supply of the cattle markets of Smithfield and other places with the cheapest and best meat. Too GOOD DINNERS AT PORTSMOUTH. —ln relation to the reported extravagance of junior officers' messes afloat, the port admiral of this station (Sir Thomas Cochrane) has called for a return of the expenses of entrance and support of such messes, and the hours of dining, &c., with a View to check the matter complained of. _ NEWSPAPERS IN TURKEY. —Constantinople itself has thirteen newspapers, Smyrna six, and Alexandria one. Ser via is rich in its periodical press, having eight papers, while Wallachia and Moldavia jointly have only four. In all there are thirty four newspapers in ths Ottoman Empire. THE TURKISH ARMY. —The total number of regiments comprised in the whole regular force is 74, of which 36 are infantry, and 24 cavalry. The gross strength of the effec tive force is 138,680 men, and that of the reserve 130.000. There are about 60,000 irregulars, and there is a nominal force of rather over 100,000, assigned as the contingencies of the tributary provinces, in all, half a million of men.— Ottoman Empire and its Resources. FIRE AS A VENTILATOR.—Fire is the great agent that should be employed for the ventilation of sewers. Properly applied it must necessarily cause the entire destruction of all unhealthy and offensive exhalations therefrom. For the ventilation of a given extent of sewerage there should be constructed a shaft in the most convenient situation, with which a furnace should be connected, and so contrived that the whole supply of air necessary for the combustion of the fuel employed in it would be drawn entirely from the sewers to be ventilated.—Correspondent of The Builder DERIVATION OF THE WORD " CROWEAR.”—III " John son's Dictionary" the explanation given of this word is " piece of iron used as a lever to force open doors, as the Latins called the hook corvus." In Walters' "English and Welsh Dictionary," the first part of which was published about the year 1770, this word is printed " Croe-bar." Is it probable that the word crow has been derived from the Camb.-Brit. word cro, a curve ? and that the name has been given from the circumstance of one end of a crow-bar being curved for the purpose of making it more efficient as a lever ? —N.W.S.—Notes and Queries. PrarunEs OF THE DEVIL.—The eminent antiquary, M. Merimee, informed the writer that he had observed a marked alteration in the mode of representing Satan in the carvings of the twelfth century : previously he had always been represented somewhat as a goat, but without the tail. This change took place at the period of the crusades. Might not the crusaders - have seen the Assyrian Satan (of which there is an example in the Nineveh Gallery of the British Museum) a so imported into the north the Oriental devil as an interesting variety of the species ? Correspondent of the Builder. THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT.—The present Duke (who is captain of the Ist Life Guards) comes in for a splendid un incumbered income of over £60,000 a-year, having never joined in the engagements made by his late father. We understand he is of a very prudent disposition, and in his time the pec un i ar y f or t unes o f t h e house ofßeaufort will doubtless wholly recover themselves. We may mention here -that there is a sort of tradition belonging to the family, that none of the Dukes of Beaufort, live to be 65, and we believe there is no instance of any of them having attained that age.—Bristol Mercury. CARDINAL WISEMAN. —We are informed that Cardinal Wiseman is still at Rome, whither he went from Paris, after attending at the translation of th e re li cs o f St. TheOdosia, at Amiens, and that it is considered more th in pro b a b le that he will not return again to England. His health is said to have suffered considerably from the severity of his labours in England since the establishment of the Papal hierarchy ; and a growing opinion is, we understand, prevalent in Roman Catholic circles, that the Pope will employ him in some high diplomatic post at Rome, instead of sending him back to superintend the affairs of the Roman Catholic Church in England. INFORMATION FOR TILE PEOFLE.—Frequent inquiries having been made with respect to the distribution of par liamentary papers amongst the different literary, scientific, and mechanics' institutions, the readers of the Journal are informed that the resolutions of the parliamentary committee which sat last year on this Subject, cannot be carried into effect until they have received the sanction of the House of Commons. Owing to the illness of Mr. Tufnell, the chair man of the committee, the discussion on the resolutions was necessarily postponed, but the council have authority to state that it is Mr. Tufnell's intention to take the earliest oppor tunity, on the meeting of parliament, to bring forward the resolutions of the committee. —Journal of the Society of Arts. SERFDOM r* RussrA..—The peasant continues deprived of all protection but that of the customary law (la loi coutu miere) : he may be dragged from his family, from his com mune, although that be recognised by the se may be made a servant. The lord has a right to .• s flogged, only not to death : he has a right to i s". him in a maison de police for disobedience. He ma • emn him to military conscription, or pack him off to the mines of Siberia at his own expense. In the two latter caspg, the serf at least becomes free. Lastly, it is an c3tablished and constant practice to sell serfs— if not separately, at least by family. No land need be given to the peasants except just enough to allow them to vegetate miserably. The lord is under no obligation to his servants beyond supplying them with just enough clothing to prevent them perishing of hunger and cold.—Leader. _ . THE DUK E ' S FIRST VlCTORY.—Perhaps it may interest the future author of the life of the Duke of Wellington to be informed of his first victory. It was not in India as com monly supp9sed, but on Donnybrook-road, near Dublin, that his first laurels were won. This appears from the Freeman's Journal, Sept. 18th 1789, where we learn that in cense. qtience of a wager between him and Mr. Whaley, of 150 guineas, the ion. Arthur Wellesley walked from the five mile stone on Donnybrook-road, to the corner of the circu lar road in Leeson-street, in 55 minutes, and that a num of gentlemen rode with the walker, whose horses he kept in tolerable smart trot. When it is recollected that those were Irish miles, even deducting the distance from Leeson-street to the Castle, whence the original measurements were made, this walk must be computed at nearly six English miles. OMICRON.—Notes and Queries, _ . UNREPRESENTED MINORITIES. - The majority returns 'all the members, leaving the minority—often nearly as nume rous, and generally quite as wise—wholly unrepresented. The evil is greater, and becomes more obvious, exactly in proportion to the size of the constituency. Thus, in Andover, where there are 241 electors, 121 may monopolise the electoral power, to the- entire exclusion of the remaining 120 In London, at a recent general election, it did actually happen that out cf about 13,500 voters, 6,722 (the number who polled for the liberal candidates) returned four mem bers, while 6,719 (the number who polled for the tory candidates) rettihieit no member at all. In Paris there used to be about 250,000 electors, and 28 deputies : in a close contest it might easily happen that 126,000 might return all the deputies, and the remaining 124,000 be as entirely ignored in the result of the election as if they had never been upon the register, or never gone up to the poll. Half the constituency (plus one) has everything; half the constituency (minus one) has nothing at all.—" G." in Chronicle. .REV. H. S. BROWN'S LECTURE. Last evening the Rev. Mr. BROWN delivered the fourth of his series of lectures on the religions of the Eastern world, in the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson street. The subject of last night's lecture was the nature, the rise and progress of Ma hometanism. The reverend lecturer commenced by giving a brief outline of the state of the Mahometan power on the death of Mahomet, and bow his followers had very nearly been in volved in a civil war, by the conflicting claims of the four aspirants to his dominion. His father-in-law succeeded to his power, and the style and title assumed by him and his succes sors was of no very ambitious character. They contented themselves with the title of " Caliph," signifying successor, but in that title both royal and priestly functions were con tained. The lecturer then described the holy wars and cru sades undertaken by the Moslems, by which they gratified at the same time their love of plunder and of the religion of their Prophet; and however unjustifiable in reason those wars might be, they were not less justifiable than those of a like character un dertaken by christian princes from time to time in the early ages. The reverend lecturer then sketched, in a bold and eloquent manner, the triumphs of the Moslem arms, from the fall of Damascus beneath their sway, to their defeat by Charles Martel, on the plains of France, after they had crossed the Pyrenees and threatened to leave to Europe, as its only hope from utter destruction, the dire alternative of the " Koran, the tribute, or the sword•" From this period the power of the Caliphs began to decline, but] not so the Mahometan religion. Pre vious to entering into an analysis of this creed, the lecturer took the opportunity of contrasting the progress which the Arabians had made in science and other branches of learning N{itll the then existing barbarism throughout the western world, and observed that it was a singular fact, which ought to abate our European pride, that at a time when Alfred could scarcely find in his kingdom a priest who could read his book, and when princes and " barons bold" could sign a deed only by the universal cross,—at that time a Hindoo published a learned treatise on the science of algebra. It was not strange, then, that when the Moslems entered France, and beheld there such rites in connection with religi)n as the " Festival of the flight of the Virgin, or the feast of the ass," that they should desire to proclaim the amity of God, even though they at the same time asserted that Mahomet was his Prophet. The foaturo in the weed of Islam was submission to the will of God, but as a whole it defied analysis. Mahomet (Aid not profess to reveal a new religion to the world. He came, as he said, to reform the Arabians and the world, by bringing them back to the true faith—to the religion of Moses, of Abraham, and Jesus. The Koran he alleged to be a further revelation of God's will, and with all its faults was neither so silly nor sen sual as the traditions contained in the lives of many a saint and martyr. The lecturer then proceeded to explain that the Koran in its present form could not be regarded as the ipsissima verba, or the true expression of the revelation as alleged to have been committed to him. It was corrupted by his successors, probably to suit their own purposes, and numerous passages were cut out and others interpolated. Tradition too, stepped in, as it had with the religion of the western world; and he (the lecturer) did not confine this remark solely to the Romish church, but ex tended it also to the Protestant church. They all boasted " The Bible, and the Bible alone," was the foundation of their reli gion, but they all knew that that was a mere oratorical flourish, and not consistent with facts. For, if they looked to the Pro testant communion, they ould find a hundred things, both in its belief and practices, for which there was not one whit' more scriptural authority than for purgatory, or the inquisition, or masses for the dead. Besides there was not a ceremony in the Mahometan religion which could not he paralelled by those of the existing systems. And if the question should be asked, . how came it to pass that this mingled mass of truth and error should so extend itself throughout the world, from the banks of the Euphrates to the north of the Tagus, so that men in millions should cry "there is no God but God, and Mahomet is his prophet? perhaps the best and truest answer to such a question was this, that Mahometanism prevailed simply in con sequence of the corruptions of the cli: istians ; and it read to the world, and to all ages of the world, this great lesson, that men should beware how they tampered with the truth—how they ever pandered to the mere passions of mankind for the pur pose of extending an unholy power. Christendom did this; and the rise, progress, and conquest of Mahometanism was the al most natural result. He did not hesitate to say that the great impostor of Mecca was sustained by the equally great impostor at Rome, at the present hour; and if they were to place Christianity before the Mahometan in all its scriptural simplicity and beauty, they might expect his attention, and, if lie were an intelligent man, they might expect him to close with then), and embrace the truth. It was no marvel that the Mahometan should pre fer his mosque, all bare and unadorned, in which neither image nor picture was ever permitted to divide with the duty and atten tion of the worshipper. Men talked of the overthrow of the Ottoman empire. Be it so. Let it perish. But suppose the Czar entered the gates of Constantinople —suppose the mosque of St. Sophia was again a christian church, what had that to do with Mahometanism, he should like to know ? Men talked of the overthrow of the Ottoman empire, and then they looked at the book of revelation, and thought that Mallometanisin was to go with the Maho metan empire. But they ought to remember that Mahometanism existed, conquered, flourished, and extended itself from the Euphrates to the Appenines, long before the Ottoman empire was established—that it existed 800 years before the Sultan planted the crescent upon the ramparts of Constantinople, and that it may exist for ages yet, though the Sublime Porte should become the capital of the Czars. They were often reminded in language poetical at all events, whether true or not, that " the crescent of the false prophet is wearing away." The "false prophet" never saw the crescent—it was the emblem of the Turkish power, hut Mahometanism had nothing to do with it. So that, after all, whatever might become of the crescent signified very little, so long as-Maho metanisua was the belief of one hnnbred and eighty millions of mankind, for that, and not the crescent, was the strength of Islamism. (The reverend lecturer was throughout, and at the conclusion of his lecture, rapturously applauded.) C THE NORTILEEN taTLY TIMES. SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION IN CONNA UGHT. A meeting of those interested in the promotion of Scriptural and industrial education in Connaught, was held in the Myrtle-street chapel, at seven o'clock last evening. There was a large attendance. The chair was taken by the Rev. ALEXANDER CROMER. The CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings by a brief explana tion of the objects for which the Connaught Industrial and Scriptural Education Society had been formed, and showed how necessary it was in that province of Ireland, where popery so extensively prevailed. He said that mission pro prosed to make happy homes, and to prepare those whom they instructed, to live as they should do in this life, and to be ready for the life to come. In a future day, those who had been instructed, would look back to those men who had taught them and been with them, and manifested for them kindness unspeakable as those whose hands had snatched them from the misery of time, and prepared them for the glory of eternity. (Applause.) The Rev. Mr. ALBAN, superintendent of the Connaught Scriptural and Industrial SchoOls, stated the objects and progress of the society, and the reasons which had led them to appeal that night to the sympathy and r.ssistance of the people of Liverpool. He said that three years since, the Rev. Dr. Dill had pleaded successfully for the same schools in England. Of the sum which he received he gave him (Rev. Mr. Alban) two-thirds, because the field of labour into which he had been sent, was much larger than that which he Dr. Dill then occupied. He gave him £lOB9 14s. 6d. The sum raised in Liverpool was about £370. The schools were originally supported by their friends in Scotland and in the north of Ireland. They commenced with two schools in 1846, which became twenty schools in 1848, and were forty-five schools in • 1853, and they had fifty teachers occupied in these schools. The rapid increase of these schools and the necessity of bringing qualified teachers from Ulster, who could teach reading, writing, and the sewed muslin manufacture among the female children, increased the expendi ture. In the year terminating May, 1851, the subscriptions received from Scotland and the north of Ireland, from associa tions, congregations, Sabbath schools, and individuals, amounted to £745, while the expenditure for salaries,, .chool requisites, school houses, aloehio g , and some food, because all the ..diouts began as ragged schools, and as a number of the poor children had but one scanty meal in the four hours, they were obliged to allow each of them d. worth of meal a day, amounted to £978, which required £233 to be taken from the English fund lodged in his hands;to supply the deficiency. In the year 1852, £155 was required from the English fund. In May, 1853, £353 was required from the Riglish fund, because the contributions had fallen off. Last summer they declined still more, and in order to pay up the salaries of teachers, rents, school-houses, school requisites, and all other expenditure connected with the work, during the half-year it required £263 of the English fund to supply the deficiency. There had been expended, therefore, of the . XlOB9 14s. 6d. given into his hands three years ago by the Rev. Dr. Dill, £lOO5 9s. 11d., leaving £B4 4s. 7d. of that sum, which was by no means eqhal, he said prospectively, to meet the wants of the present quarter. If the people of England withheld their aid, one-third of the schools now in existence would cease to exist. The schools were originated in 1846, by his friend Rev. M. Brannigan ; they were literary industrial, and pre-eminently Scriptural. They taught as much reading, writing, and arithmetic, as they thought suited these poor people. The sewed muslin manufacture was also introduced amongst them, by which some of the girls were able to earn from 3s. to ss. a week, which, although it might appear small in England, was quite a purse in that part of Ireland. This sewed muslin manufacture, which they had introduced, had now grown so much beyond their limits, that the girls of Connaught were new earning from to £15,000 to £20,000 a year wages. The rev, gentleman then made. a strnug appeal to the audience, to enable them to continue paying teachers for these schools, without which the youth of Connaught could never acquire that industrial education which would enable them in future years to maintain themselves. He then pointed out the religious advantages which sprang from the religious teaching which saved these children from the dominion of and concluded his a dd ress am id l ou d an d general applause. The Rev. Mr. BARNETT described the degrading occupa. tions in field labour, to which the female peasantry of Con naught "ere_subjestek ooe, of whom.he stated, had s.ctually been seen by a lady, yoked with - a cow to a harrow, and driven through the field ; and showed through the agency of their schools, they had substituted for such humiliating and unnatural employment, the pleasant and profitable occupation with the needle in a comfortable room The Rev. Mr. BR A NNIG A N detailed' the acts of opposition upon the part of the priests, which they had to encounter in the work, and the threats. and altar denunciations of the priests against all parties who allowed their children to frequent the schools. He also narrated the verious burning of Bibles which the priests had made, the miracles which they had threatened to perform for the destruction of all who supported the schools, and the controversies in which they had been engaged. Not 'withstanding all those effects, he stated that he had in one year alone 709 pupils in the schools in the district of Ballycastle. Rev. Mr. JOHNSON addressed the meeting at some length, contrasting the religious and social condition of the province of Ulster with that of Connaught, and arguing that to the religion of the former being almost exclusively Protestant was owing its great superiority, and especially that of the county of Antrim. to any other part of Ireland, as regarded social and industrial advancement. The rev. gentleman concluded by an eloquent appeal to his audience on behalf of the Connaught schools. The proceedings then closed with a prayer. COUNTY COURT. v - -ESTE RDAY. (Before Joseph Pollock, Esq., Judge.) THE " WHOLESALE OBJECTIONS " AT THE LATE MUNICIPAL REVISION, BnowN V. BUCK➢IASTER.—Mr. Aspinall appeared for the plaintiff, who is a watchmaker, residing at 33, Renshaw street, and Mr. Bremner for the defendant, who is secretary to the Constitutional Association. Mr. Aspinall, on open ing his case, stated that under the first municipal reform act, 5 and 6, Wm. IV. cap. 76, sec. 9, any registered voter might serve a notice of objection upon any party who claimed a right to vote, but contended that there should be reasonable grounds for objection. In this case there were no such grounds, and accordingly the present action was brought to recover, in the words of the summons, 7s. 6d. for work and labcur done by the plaintiff for the defendant, in attending the Municipal Revision Court, on the Bth of October last. The plaintiff proved that he had received the notice of ob jection to his name being put upon the burgess list on the 15th of September, signed by Mr. Buckmaster. He accord ingly attended the revision court on the Bth October, from ten.o'clock in the morning until half-past twn, and when his name was called upon, Mr. Buckmaster said " the ob jection is withdrawn." _ Mr. BREMNER contended that the summons could not be mentioned, because it was " for work and labour done, " while no work had been done. His HONOR held that the objection was good, upon which Mr. ASPINALL moved to amend the summons as follows : " For maliciously, and without reasonable or probable cause, objecting to the plaintiff as not being entitled to have his name retained on the burgess list for the borough of Liver pool, and thereby causing him great loss of time in attending the Municipal Revision Court, on Saturday, Bth October. His HONOR thought he could not allow that amendment; but he would allow a new summons to issue without further expense to the plaintiff. Both parties having agreed to take the new summons as issued, Mr. BREMNER contended that there was no malice, or want of reasonable cause upon which to ground the action against the defendant. He had exercised but a statutable right in objecting to the plaintiff; and it could not be con tended that he had done so maliciously, for they had heard that hundreds of a like objection had been made against other parties by Mr. Buckmaster. Mr. Bremner also argued that as the objection had been served on the 15th Septem ber, Mr Buckmaster might then have believed that valid grounds did exist, though he might afterwards discover that no reasonable grounds did exist. He therefore submitted that the plaintiff should be non-suited. Mr. ASPINALL replied, that Mr. Bremner's answer to the malicious intent was the oddest possible, for it meant that a man could not be considered to have acted maliciously to an individual, if at the same time he acted maliciously to hun dreds of others. His HONOR said that he had no evidence of malicious objections in any cases at all. It might be, for all that appeared in evidence, that 200 objections were made, and 199 of them were held good. Mr. ASPINALL proceeded to contend that there was the strongest evidence that there was no reasonable ground for the objection, for when the case was called on, Mr. Buck master withdrew the objection. His HONOR said thtit he was not prepared to say that an action might not be supported for bringing a person before the Municipal Revision Court to defend his undoubted right, if he was so brought maliciously and without reason able cause. Whenever such a case came before him, he would have to decide it ; but in this case he was of opinion that there was no evidence to support the charge of malice or want of reasonable or probable cause. It was quite true that malice need not be proved, but that it might be inferred; but in that case it was for the plaintiff to prove that there was a want of reasonable or probable cause for objection. When a person abandoned an action, it was not to be considered as a want of probable or reasonable cause, and that was the position of the present case as it was put before the court. That was the whole of the evidence before him; but ho was of opinion that that was not enough either to infer malice or want of probable or reasonable cause. Ile should therefore nonsuit the plaintiff, but it should be considered that he gave no opinion on any other case which might come before him supported by such evidence as he had referred to. LIABILITY OP RAILWAY CARRIERS. HARKER V. THE MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LIN COLNSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY.—The plaintiffs, Messrs William and Adam Harker, are fruiterers, carrying on business in St. John's Market, and the defendants were re presented by their agents, Messrs. C. T. Faulk ner , an d C o ., Old Quay Wharf, Nova Scotia. The action was b roug ht to recover £2 145., for damage done to thirty-six baskets of cherries, through the negligence of the defendants in not having forwarded them at the proper time. From the evidence of the plaintiffs, it appeared that on their receiving the advice of the dispatch of the fruit, they called at each of the delivery offices of the company in Liverpool, but were told that no cherries had arrived. The advice stated that the cherries had been forwarded on the Ist of August, and in due course they should have arrived in Liverpool early the next morn ing. They did not arrive until the morning of the 3rd, but owing, as it was alleged, to the delay in their transit, were then much damaged. On the part of the defendants, it was contended that they were not liable, inasmuch as they had forwarded the goods at the proper time, and if any delay occurred in their carriage, must have been with the NOrth Western Rail- way. Mr. Hughes, a gentleman in the employ of Messrs Faulk ner and Co., stated that the cherries had arrived at Grimsby on the Ist of August, that they had been forwarded early on that morning . by the first fruit train for Manchester, —that they arrived in Manchester on the afternoon of the same day, and were forwarded thence by the afternoon train, so that they should have arrived in Liverpool some time on the following day. The North Western Railway Com pany moreover alleged that the fruit had arrived in due course, and the witness accordingly contended that under any circumstances the defendants could not be held liable. His HoNon observed that it had over and over again been decided that the parties to whom the goods had been entrusted for carriage, were answerable for the conduct of all the intermediate agents, no matter who or what their num ber might be. That had been fully decided in the case of the Lancashire Railway Company ; and though in this case he had not a doubt of the liability of the defendants, he would adjourn the case until the 9th of December, to enable the defendants to show that they had arrived at the time alleged by the North Western Company, or to ascertain in what quarter, and with whom the delay had occurred. SEWS IN BOHEMIA. —The provincial government of Bohemia has issued a circular forbidding Jews to give their children christian names , or to keep christian servants, BOOK READING IN ANCIIESTER.—The detailed report of the Manchester Free Library contains a point or two to which we have not yet drawn attention. By the way in which the literary account is kept, we are able to judge of the taste of the reading class and of the comparative popu larity of authors in that town. Shakespeare, we are pleased to find, is the writer most in demand —his works, and books illustrating these works, having been issued 352 several times within the first year. The book next in popularity to Shakspeare is " The Arabian Nights"—which in the year found 294 readers. Scott and Defoe come next in rank. " Ivanhoe" was issued 241 times ; " Robinson Crusoe" 239 times. Swift's "Gulliver" was read 123 times ; Smolletfs " Roderick Random" 82. Biography has been very much read. In the history of England Mr. Macaulay is the popu lar favourite. His History" has been read by 124 ; the " Pictorial" by 60 ; Lingard by 41 ; Hume by 31 persons, French history, especially of the Napoleonic time, has been in great demand. Many of the books have been glanced at and laid aside. Two readers appear to have gone through Hume. Fourteen attacked Clarendon, but only three reached the seventh volume ; the same number toiled through Lin gard. Of the crowd who began with Alison, only one came in at the death.—Athenceum. THE DIGNITY of NATURE.—The cultivation of the mou stache by our working classes seems to be a remarkable in stance of an uprising of the dignity of nature against the dignity o f conven ti ona li sm . It i s one a those symptoms of public opinion almost beyond the pale of hostile criticism. The beard, indeed, has the ad vantage of high medical authority as being in some way conducive to the health of its wearer ; of high artistic au thority as being a natural exponent of masculine beauty ! of immense antiquity as having been the fashion of our ances tors; and, above all, it has the advantage of being a natural gift to the masculine gender of every nation, people, kin dred, and tongue under heaven. . The artisans who recur to the example of Sir Christopher Wren, and Inigo Jones, and Michael Angelo ; the sailors who may choose to revert to the example of Drake, and Raleigh, and Sir Cloudesley Shovel, should vindicate their respectability by the cleanliness as well as the respectable trim of their beards. Unfortunately, the beard has been de secrated by its use for political and other symbolism, and as a distinction by absurd sectarians. It should, by numbers of men of known position, be retrieved from this desecration, and being based on reason and sanatory uses, be made again the outward and visible sign of good sense , instead of secta rianism and extravagant folly.—The Builder, POLICE COURT. v --ESTERDAY. Docx. ROBBERIES.—John _Heron and Peter Starling were charged by police-officer 198, with stealing some flour from the Sandon Dock. The officer was on duty when he ob s erved the prisoners, each with a bundle in his possession, upon seeing whom they immediately ran towards the Dock Basin; into which they threw two bundles of flour. As no owner could be found for the flour they were discharged. ROBBING A SAlLOR.—Matilda Conway and Mary Finn were charged with stealing two coats, the property of two sailors. Police officer 218 was on duty in Park-lane, when he saw the prisoners with two coats in their possession. The coats were identified by the owners, who, it appeared, had arrived in Liverpool the previous day, when they " fell in with the girls," and being short of money they kept their coats. Discharged. EMBEZZLEMENT.--.Toseph Porter was charged with em bezzling the sum of 355., the property of his mistress. The defendant was employed to drive a cart, when, instead of accounting for the money as he received it, he gave in a number of fictitious names as owing money, and when he was about to be detected by his mistress sending in the bills, he decamped. There not being sufficient legal evidence to justify a committal, the offender was discharged. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A SHOP BOY.—John Goodwin, an intelligent and respectable looking lad, was charged with robbing his employer, Mr. James Calvert, jeweller, Bold street, of a large quantity of silver and gold pencil cases, thimbles, and other valuable articles. A young lady from the establishment stated that she had repeatedly observed that the cases in which the pencil cases were kept had been misplaced, and, in order to detect the offender, on Friday evening she placed one of them very particularly, and upon going into the shop on the following morning she found it had been opened. She accused the lad, who at first posi tively denied all knowledge of the transaction, but subse quently admttted that he had taken many articles and given them away to other boys. One of the lads was produced, who admitted that he had received five pencil cases from the prisoner, and he knew another lad who had had several thimbles. The prisoner said he had given the witness the goods because he had told him if he did not he would tell his mistress that he had been imprisoned for stealing a £2O note, by which he would have lost his place. This the witness denied, when he was further accused of robbing his own employer. The magistrate censured the witness for not giving information at the time, and committed the prisoner for two months' imprisonment, some of the property having been recovered. STEALING MONEY PROM A SAILOR.—Mary Kearns, the keeper of a brothel, was charged with robbing a negro sailor of a sovereign. It appeared that the sailor, who arrived by the ship "Alexandria" yesterday, took a stroll on shore, when he was accosted by a female, with whom he went to the prisoner's house. After sitting by the fire some little time, he felt the prisoner's hand in his pocket, from which he missed a sovereign. The prisoner denied the charge, and endeavoured to accuse the young female, but the sailor was positive, and she was committed for fourteen days. ROBBING AN EMPLOYER.- William Cockshot, an elderly man employed at Messrs. Neville's foundry, Great Charlotte street, was charged with stealing some copper. A detective officer having received information last night, watched the prisoner from his employer's foundry to a broker's in Brown low-hill, where he saw him deposit some copper in the scales, and immediately arrested him. The copper was identified by Mr. Neville, who stated the prisoner had been in his employ about three months. The broker having ex culpated himself by saying that the prisoner had only asked permission to weigh the copper, and that he had not bought it, the magistrate committed the prisoner to the house of correction for two months. RATHER AN EXPENSIVE APPETITE.—A young woman, named Ellen Murphy, was charged with steam and swal lowing a gold welding ring. Mr. James *indock, of Marybone, stated the prisoner came into his shop on the previous evening, and asked to look at some wedding rings. lie showed her some, when he recollected, about two years since, the prisoner had played him a trick, so he watched her narrowly. He distinctly saw her place a ring upon her finger, put her finger into her mouth, after which the ring was gone. She was given into custody immediately. The magistrate, this being the second time the prisoner had committed a similar offence, committed her for one month, during which she would be fed on diet much less expensive and more conducive to her health. THE CHARGE OF FORGING ORDERS FOR THE DELIVERY OP GOODS.—,Tohn Woods, late a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Seddon, was again brought up on the above charge. John Bentley was also charged with being an accomplice. The facts of the case have already appeared in this journal. Mr. Keogh, the detective officer, applied for a further remand, and stated, that he should, if that was granted him, be en abled to produce abundance of evidence against the parties. The magistrate, after hearing some evidence concerning the two parties accused, granted a general remand. THE ACCUSER ACCUSED.—The young woman charged yesterday with stealing books was again brought up, wh en the owner said he sho u ld decline to prosecute, as ho was perfoetly satisfied his servant was the more guilty party of the two. IMPRISONMENT or co USE.—_L young urchin, who had already been five times in custody, was charged with stealing butter from the shop of Mrs. Harris, Cecil-street. The case was clearly proved, and the magistrate, after designating him a hardened young villian, committed him for another month, during which period he is to be well whipped. A carter named Gray, has been arrested in Glasgow for a series of thefts extending over a period of 18 months. He was in the employment of the Caledonian railway company, and has confessed his dishonesty. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS AT CAMERIDGE.—On Wednes day the Duke of Cambridge and his relative the Duke of Brabant, son of the king of the Belgians, visited Cambridge when an honorary degree of doctor was conferred on the latter. PROGRESS OF HOLYHEAD HARBOUR.—Very rapid pro gress is being made in the new harbour works at Holyhead, and it is expected that the contractors will be able to com plete them in the required time, August of next year. THE PROPOSED BRITISH EMBASSY CHURCH AT PARIS.— The promoters of this undertaking have determined to make a very important alteration in their scheme, in com pliance with communications made to them. Instead of sitting for ten years on payment of ten guineas per sitting, subscribers may have sittings rent-free and transferable for five years, from the day of opening the church, on payment of five guineas.—Gedignaui. NEW MATERIAL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS.—Messrs . Wuloff, Paris, have placed before the French Institute some speci mens of photography on linen, oil-cloth, chintz, &c. The discovery will be of great i m p or tance for architectural orna mentation, and other useful purposes. Such pictures can be cleaned by wiping, nay, they can be washed, and a portrait on linen or long cloth can be forwarded in a letter. As, moreover, these photographs can be obtained at a cheaper rate than those on metal or paper, the art will become more popularised. Messrs. "Wulff keep their procedure yet secret, but it is thought that they operate on a preparation of iodised collodion.—The Builder. THE " TIMES" PARIS CORRESPONDENT.—Next to the berth of ambassador at Paris, the post of the correspondent of the Times is perhaps most to be desired. His salary is up wards of £1,20 ►) a-year ;he has a handsome suite of rooms, furnished and paid for by the paper; he has two clerks con stantly in his employ, who read the French journals, trans late, collate, cut out items from Galignani, and add their eyes, invention, experience, and observation to his. These gentlemen are paid by the Times, of course. The corres pondent buys and charges to the paper any books of which he may stand in need ; and the library is a very choice and complete collection of standard authors, cyclopmdias, dic tionaries, and other works of reference: He is empowered to pay for any important intellience, just what it may cost. When the post-office °loses early—to the infinite annoyance of the correspondents of lower degree—he writes on merrily to sunset, and then hires a man to jump into the seven o'clock train, and take his letter to London The Times pays the bill.—London Correspondent of the Cam bridge Independent Press. PRIVATE MOVEMENTS OF THE ENGLISH IN JAPAN.-By reference to our telegraphic despatches, it will be seen that our transatlantic cousins have been putting in a good word for us with the Japanese government. Dr. Bowring, who officiates as sponsor for the American people, assures his majesty of Japan that we are a terrible set of fellows if pro voked, but easily got rid of if allowed our own way, and left to tire ourselves. What motive induced the British government to interfere in thii matter, it is not difficult to conjecture. We obtained admission to the Chinese five ports by stepping in as soon as the English had bullied the Celestials, and knocked the roofs of Nankin about their ears, The British intend to return us the compliment by paving the way for our admission to Jeddo, and look forward confidently to share any benefits which Perry's expedition may secure. how far their hopes will be realised in this respect, time will show. Meanwhile, the Japanese will make an awful blunder if they let Dr. Bowring persuade them that we will grow tired of having acce ss t o a seapor t in the Japan ese islands. What •we obtain we shall hold pretty firmly, for a few centuries at least. --Hew 'ark Herald. FRENCH WINES FOR ENGLISH PALATM —A wino mer chant seems to be under the impression that the only wines suited for the English palate are those he deals with—claret and hock, In tins feeling he adopts a similar sentiment to that of the Douro merchants, who think port wine only wholesome for the Englishman. Is he aware that the strong, wholesome wines of the Rhone and of the South of France are largely used at Bordeaux, and that those from the south of France have even been largely introduced into Oporto ? Is he aware that the Pyrenees Orientales produces annnally on an average, 80,000 to 100,000 pipes of wine (much very fine), and that last year, from that department, 40,000 pipes were exported? ThQ wines from the, south of France and fpm the vineyards of the Rhone are many of them suited for the use of the artisan, mechanic, and laborer ; and, even at the present prices, which are higher than they have been for above 30 years, could be delivered her; at the reduced duty of is per gallon, at 12s, per dozen. Large divisions of land are at this moment being planted with vines, and should the demand require it,. double the present quantity could easily be produced in a few years. The yield of France averages annually, of all sorts of wines, above 920,000,000 gallons, and we import under 800,000 gallons. —.B . S. .8., in The Times. LIVERPOOL MARKETS. —Y EsTratruvr. (Written expressly far the NortV iv? Daily Times) Suck/kn.—The sales of Plantation t —day are conflu e . a .,,: t° 20 hhds St. Lucia, at 32s 9d • but of East India, 1,100 Df Dates have been sold at an 'average )riee of 36s ; also 4° bags Madras, at 29s 3d to 31s 3d; 50 boles 113"/11 at 21s 6d cwt. No sales have transpired in eithe. Coffee. Of RICE 1,500 bags Bengal have realised the spot, and to arrive. TEA.—Holders continue very firm la t 1 most descriptions, and large sales have been to fair Canton made, and tanny Congou. , froi V lb. One hundred cases Castor Oil are reported V ib, for yellow to good; and 1,200 hags B from the ship, at 55s 6d V qr. By public sale to-day, 800 boxes Pearl 17s 3d to 17s 9d, and 360 bags, 185 6d ; Sago Flour, all faults, 18s 6d to 19s ; Sumac, 8s to 8s 9d; 300 bags Bengal Turo lOs to lls 6d ; 120 bags Saltpetre, 2 1 tons Myrabolams, 9s cwt ; 160 bags Blab Vlb ; and 250 bags Bombay Linseed ,- at 51 the sound portion ; also 10 tons•Beng;al Saj 5s ; and 10 tons red Sanders wood, 103 Corrox.—The market was again viet were no accounts received from any gnarl justify an alteration. Holders were confide] prices steady. The sales were 6,000 bales, were taken on speculation and for export LONDON CORN EXCHANGE. — There is scarcely any English Whcat consequence of the dense fog rendering it (11 guish the quality of samples, business is ro,s; ~ both in English and For e ign s t ea d y a t IliondaY s ',: s le r Flour and Malt are unchang e d.—B ar l e y aw de strictly retail, at the lat e d ec li ne .—O a t s : tr 3 l o dearer, except for inferior.—Beans aad peas slowly, but not lower. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Batley. Malt. Oats. Beans. English 560 ... 820... 1390 80 .. • Scotch Irish ... —.12440 .. " Foreign L673.9..1100 .. ... 4860 LONDON PRODUCE MARKE i.-Y] Suou.—West India sales limited, bin Refined : there is a good home demand ; brt Foreign is firm, several buyers. COFFEE.— but prices firm, and the supply limited. T' demand for Ti,A and rates are advancing. prices are well supported. Corrox is not cl are small. Cocanimu. is much in repel rising. TALLOW is in moderate demaial ; on the spot. SALFORD CATTLE MARKET.—A Cows, 1,732 ; sheep, 6,200. B f, fr( mutton, 6d to 7d ; veal, 5d to 61d. The bk descriptions made the above prices ; L to sell, and many were left unsold. GLASGOW MARKETS.- -YEsTEBA Conx.—Prices scarcely varied throlh this day's market, which was thinly attends limitk.d business transpired in either w7leat sold slowly at last week's reduction, &rely 6d. beans 3d to 6d i 1 boll lower. PIG IRON.—We have been quite without busing iron to-day, the dem a nd o f h o ld ers b e i n‘r too high Or,' s°, to s of transactions. Mi xe d num b ers qu ,i t ed at • buyers, at 78s 6d ; No. 1, g.m.b. quoted at B'2°2 at 76s 6d. EDINBURGH MARKETS.---VEs;l o " s ‘.. CORN.—We have a l arge supp l y i n rket to -dsP for all kinds except beans decline ; sale, dull. k; CATTLE..-Number of sheep more C ia n last W ee i , dull, and prices a sh a d e l ower . Supply o f cattle ° ll oe., ble. Demand slow, and p r i ces o f h o ll a .- f a i r obtal ° DUBLIN CORN EXCHANGE.- - nsD.A.Y, iSr(fi ,o ll 6 We had a firm market for all home- ,-:own . r o Prices of Friday last were fully support( for ever;;;:o tl ~r i ei in many cases the best qualities of malting barley „ 0;4, advance of 6d barrel. White wheat, 38s 6d to ' • ditto, 36s to 40s; barley, 16s to 20s (id • bere, I , s , s te 1 W oats, white, 13s 6d to 15s 6d ; ditto tawny, wny, rapeseed, 27s 6d to 29s 6d; oatmeal, 14 ; - Gd to 16 " 's 6 " . flour, 22s to 265; Indian corn, ? 480 11 ) , 405 t° 721_-•-•• pt oa There are 358 ind oor p aupers i n 1, - o lverh al " osi e f t week, and 1927 on outd oor re l ie f . d ho , Mr. J. Salter, of Patti ng h am , S ta f f , . hire, dropped suddenly dead on Sunday eve;. ; ias t ' a POTATO PLANTING.—Mr. Gray Ler T o p - , Os t a landed proprietor in Ireland, recomme;; 4 o' in "new rough ground," and in earliest spt sa ys, means of having sound crops. Pe grows sound - ,;tted to ga° lt / -A member of the swell sca.9 week at Wolverli ainu z • • L Po cket lady of three sovereign s forfirst-el° ' 1 a riage from Birmingham to Dudley Po: having 1) 1 ,• I ff %l PROBABLE MURDER ON SHIP-BOARD. -- -" L `' -lri ieSte, 1 1/ ON BOARD OF THE SHIP JAMES RUTLID"'"'" - ol d morning, considerable excitement was created argo lower part of South-street, respectiny terrible -e• board of the Liverpool packet-ship it ayr lying in the stream, getting ready 1 .! several of the sailors had congregate,: :n the for e e the vessel, and one of the number, n led G OO be e 0 got into a dispute with one o f hi s as sn; 4 r,es, wile ° o l io ) a sheath-knife, J turned round andn/in:: lit int o w to side of one of the sailors named o s . Curra air o been standing quietly in th e ca bi n 1 ;ring tbe if Before the poor man h a d ti me t o d o i d hila s , e ; ; - (16 plunged the knif e i n t o hi s l e f t t hi gh, \y „ u ;L ading " i y e d rously. The boatswain and several others then se fart of Brown, and prevented him from ; ommittiego sf t ) violence with the weapon, while in the r. re castie., i ife t minutes, however, he mana ge d t o ge t l ; ;11 o f thet." `odo r upon going on deck, he w a lk e d up t of t' c iot i y. named Charles Edwards, who was ;ring aD his windlass, and suddenly plunged the - Int o fret s ) grazing his fourth rib. He then drew the knif e fh 05 wound, and stabbed him ag a i n i n th e l e f t thigh, b°-00'/ being in precisely the same place as thos: , inflicted roy Brown was then secured and placed irons. quence of the vessel having to sail v, daY 111- 90 . 2 Liverpool, the men were obliged to ace,, any her , 4 - 0 7/ Bay, and were brought b ac k in the st )oat au' re d( the City Hospital, where they now lie most state. Yesterday afternoon, Justice Be t took o'4,y sitions, and Bro wn was comm i tte d t o ilt3 Cit y await the result o f th e injuries il,'!ieted.---- /e / Times, November 11th. 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