Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-13 00:00:00

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LIVE:STOOL ACADEMY'S EXHIBITION, Postoffice-place. .113.7..50r's WAXWORK EX HIBITION —lO &IC to 10 p.m. gLarfox ILw, Clayton-square—Gordon Cumming—a p.n. CoLossanu—General Entertainment-0.30 p.m. TO'' For particulars see advertisements. WANTED, COPIES of tho " NOItTHERN DAILY Tfltzs" of the following dates :—April 10a1 and 4th, May 23rd, July 16th, and August Sth.—Apply -41 the Northern Dimes o lice. (die igiraPO TUESDAY, OtOTOBEZIS, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. Additional telegraphic despatches have . been received-from India. That received by the GOvern meet brings C deutta dates down to the. 10th Sept., but no neAlt of a later date than that received by Bombay. Considerable arrivals of troops were taking place. It would. appear, however, that Lucknow was thou ht to be secured. Advices from that city to the 2nd September state that a second sortie had taken place, and that the British had captured two guns ; and, what was of much more consequence to the beseiged force, .a large : quantity of provisions. This latter would prove of great value to the already half-starved population of the beseiged city—for half-starved they must have been by the -second day of September. , The list of. mutinies contained in the former despatches, and: corroborated by those which we publish to-day, des 3s analysis. The 10th Light *Cavalry are said to have mutinied aL Ferozopore. 'klflie.rt the 45t1., and 57:h resisted the order to march to their lines on the 113. h May, the 10th Cavalry attacked them,. in codunction-with H. M Gist, and cut up great, numbers, but it was disarmed long since, , having been at last infected with the spirit of revolt. The 35th N.I. liroke out, we are told, at (Ghazepore, but they mutinied- at Nowshera in July, and seiz'ci the fort of .Murdaun, in the Puojaub, a thousand miles distant, , The.slst were disarmed at.Pashawur in May, and we are told that they have mutinied again in the last days of August, Theißombay mail left on the 17th Sept., and the telegram %an nounces the mu-tiny of the 2nd Bombay Cavalry on the 12 h August. Surely, Government might enable Vice-Consul West, and Acting ConstV- General Green to keen an army list, and a copy of the Overland newspaper • published in each Presidency, ,As a Lottlion eotem porary remarks :-- 1 --The miserable jumble of old news and foolish conclusions, which well. nigh make up the• entire despatches, is calculated to. make us-the-laughing stock of continental nations." The Globe of-last -night says that " the news is eminently satisfactorv--qaite as much so as we could reasorw,dbly expect" So says the ministerial ergau It is stated that the civilians of the Suprem , l . Counl3il, indigne.nt at Sir Colin'a pre-' sumption, in imagining that he knew more of military matters than they, had reported to the . India House 'hat he bad arrived full of " fire, zeal,, and ignorance:l" . Such dissensions are reinou3,: and must be put an end to. The Times thinks that the news is •"_sufliciently satisfactory.' We. only hope that the public at , large will also think so:, but we are very dubious.of it. There is furth - er particulars of that most. extraordinary affair in. London. .It now seems that . the' contents of the carpet bag could not have, been the work of medical. students. Some of the London jeuraals hope not, for the credit of rho.; body of men—evidently thinking -that it would be preferable that a murder - had.been committed and the body mutilated in such aananner as we have already described, than that the least stigma should be laid at the doors of those modest and retiring youths. whO are at present walking . ' the London hospit&s. It appears that .every medical man who has examined , the remaius.is confident that the mutilation has ;,been .perpetrated by no professional hand. The murder is -connected, as our readers will discover from our report; with a man and a woman, who appear to have come from some place in the immediate neighbobrhood of Asley's'Ampitheatre, or Westminster bridge. It is to this spot that the attention of the police will be closely directed, but it is right to add that they have been making inquiries Ia a locality much' nearer to the Middlesex side :of Waterlooebridee. The opinion gains ground that the :viatica of the tragedy had come from the 'provinces, and that the hag in which his remains werodiscove,red was his own property. - Meanwhile, -the alleged . dis covery of a human head in Marylabone may shed additional light upon this horrible affiir. The inquest was opened yesterday, at which. tha me dical officer of the ,police force and the toll. keeper at the Waterloo bridge was examined. We have to rzeordahe decease of another of the celebrities of Englathi. Earl Fitzharainge expired( at Berkeley Castle, elatteeetershire. on _Saturday, after a protractod illnein It will be recollected that the Earl was thrown from his horse -while out hunting in February het, when his lordehip ,sus-' tained same trifling contualons. Ile was, however,: so shaken that he never entirely recove,red from . the efficte of the fall, having been out but once for a carriage airing since the. accident. Tha decertsed was the eldest eon of ;Frederick Augustus,' .s'h Earl of „Berkeley, by Mgr', daughter of Mr William Cole., of Gloucester, aael.was born Dacen ber 26, 1788„and was consequently in his 7Let' year.- 0u the aleath of his rather, in 1811, he claimed the ern-ideal of Berkeley. but the claim, was refused by the House of Lords. ;the validity of the alleged marriage of the Earl and.Counteue, of March 30, 1783, being decided as not ,roved, after an interesting end protracted iequiry,, that of the May; 1796 ; being the one valid. In - 1831, Colonel Berkeley was 'created a peer !under the -style and title of B-iron SeagraVe (of which ancient barony itis father, the flail Earl of 133/Leley, was co-heir), .of Bar ieley C-iaJe, County G-lotteester, and in August, 1841, was fa,rther advanced b'being created Earl Fitzhardinge, By his death illose honours beeeme extinct, the Earl being un married. The Rev. Dr. Livingstone addressed an aggre gate meeting of the LeedF, Bradford, and Halifax Chambers of Commerce, at Leeds, .on Saturday. There was a very largo attendance., including Lord Vitount Goderich, M.P. The address of the Rev. Dr Was many respects a reiteration of his former statements. The Dr. said that the high lands in the interior of Africa had ehcep upon them, but he did not know that their hides had any wool upon them. The only wool that he saw ap peared to be upon the back of the peals. Whether this go a'a .wool would be valuable in manu facture remained to be tested. He had, how ever, seen some sheep with wool, but the woo: did not appear to be very fine But our readers will learn all particulars from the rev. doctor himself. He is to be in Liverpool tc-day, and will attend a meeting of the members of•the Afrie,o4 AssogWion, when be will enter int() full THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1857 details of the resources, cap Abilities, climate, &e., of Africa. Joseph Pollock, Esq., has taken leave of the public of Liverpool in his official capacity of Judge of the County Court. He will be succeeded by Mr. J. K. Blair, well known in Liverpool for his legal attainments. Mr. Blanchard Jerrold replies- to Mr. Dickens' last letter; and re-affirms that the " in-remem brance" performances were gently forced upon his sanction, and had no reference -whatever to the "need" of his falter's family. Io consequence of the denunciation of the Orange Society by the Irish Government, the. Belfast Roman Catholic Gun Club has laid down its arms and dissolved, relying on the Executive for protection. There is not much continental news this morn ing. The latest news from the royal sick bed at' Potsdam is discouraging. All the physicians except one, are represented as having given up hope. The sympathy felt with :King Frederick William among the crowned heads of the con tinent, shows itself to be deep and general. Not merely in his own country, but as far as the news of the danger he is in has reached, nothing but sincere expressicin of sympathy is to be met with in the public press. An intended interview between the Emperors of _France and Austria is talked of e.t Paris . ; hut thoseNbest informed see a great difficulty in it, arising out of the difference of opinion existing betweera the two Govern ments on the question of the Danubian Prin cipalities. The Ministerial crisis at Madrid, as yet unfinished, -seems at least to have had the good effect of putting a stop to the military preparations with which Spain menaced Mexico. The Bank of England, whieh, on Thursday last, raised its rate of discount from bi- to 6 per cent., has raised it to 7 per cent. The large demand for gold for export to the United States has led to thii step. The steamer Jura has arrived at Queenstown from New oundland with the 76:h Regiment on board. IT is a painful thing . for the Christian, the moralist, and the philanthropist to reflect upon the alarming increase which has taken place in the crime of murder. Not only is their frequency vastly augmented, but the ferocity and fiendish character of the deeds themselves are such as to alarm every good and well-disposed member of society, and also to create astonishment in the minds of those even who are well posted up in annals of criminal proceedings and the tragic pages of the Newgate Calendar. Just now, the brutalities and barbarous deeds of the Bengal .-SEpoys is in the mouth of every one, and loud and universal is the opinion that no- other country and clime possesses such a race of dia bolical fiends. Alas, that Great Britain should furnish us with evidences of brutalities of nearly —we might say-equally—as great as any which has lately disgraced the plains of India ! Hardly a day passes- that we are not called upon to recount -deeds of the most horrible and detestible description, notwithstanding the fact • that we pride ourselves upon being subject to the influences of civilisation, morality, and religion, and that our day and Sunday schools are well attended by intelligent and - well-educated children, and our churches and chapels coin pletely fi:led with attentive and devout worship pers. Besides repressing agencies of crimes, we have our gaols, our hulks, and our gibbets to overawe the vicious, and compel respect for the laws, and the preservation and protection of life and property. Homicide; although. a most serious offence against the peace and safety of, society, cannot be ranked with that of open and deliberate murder. Infanticide, too, is bad ; bat in these cases there are extenuating circumstances. Can any plea of mitigation be put forw„ard for the heinous crime of fratracide or parricide ?. Certainly not. They are planned with all due deliberation—malice aforethought—and carried <, out with the mo s t unrelenting cruelty.- During the last week or two ,our columns contained accounts of the diabolical murder of a father, when sound aeleep in - bed. The assassin was no leas than the old man's• son. Even nearer home alnan stabbed his brother to death for volun teering the defence of his mother; and at Birk enhead we have another fatal case from the use of the knife. Sach cases as these- may well cause'us to think iu the most gloomy manner, and to deplore the ,fact that they have been committed by any subject of the British crown. Certainly, the number and atrocious character of the murders committed within 4,e, past two 'months has not a parallel; It is hardly - so long since the judges finished their circuit. At Lan caster, Liverpool, and Chester, recruits were furnished t.o - the gallows. The unfortunate cul prits have since been executed. Already, how ever,. Chester furnishes two „eases of horrid order, and Liverpool nearly so. But these are not all. In the prisons of the United Kingdom we find . the following cases of murder awaiting trial :--ANTONI D S.ix.vf, who stabbed Mr. ROBERTSON in the. Queen's Bench Prison; CORNELIUS DENNY, who killed 'GALL° BENzaretser in the Hampstead Road ; B AL E the Clifton murderer; the case o 1 parricide at Stockport, fratricide ,at Liverpool, the . Birkenhead murder, and the dreadful murder dommitted by DAVIS, upon his wife, at Ball's pond, London, on Wednesday last; Besides these, there are others not only in England, but Ireland, and one . man, we believe, awaits the operation of the hangman in Scotland. What renders the eases just-cited more frightful is the bloody character of all the tragedies. We seem to have passed over the period of poisoning, and to have taicen up the use of. the most deadly instrumente 7 There was a time when people would not have recourse to knives . . and le z3l'S to inflict the crimes of murder or felo, nious assault. It was left to . the brutal Italian, - and the bloodthirsty Spaniard, to use the sti letto and the poignard, and he who did so .was looked upon as a coward in the extreme. We seem to be -imitating the ferocity of .the Italian and the ,Spaniard, inls:nuch as two-thirds of the recent murders committed in this country have been perpetrated by knives, razors, or instru ments of a like dangerous and fatal character. The most shocking and fearful of all the murders to which we have just alluded is that committed by-JAMES HENDERSON, upon his father, at Bram hall, near Stockport. For some time he must huve planned its execution. Without any inten tion, much less desire, to prejudge a case on which a jury must decide, we would briefly refer to the facts of the case. It appears that, as far back as March last, the accused had some conversation with Mr. WALKER, a land agent, in Manchester, and then made loud and bitter complaints respecting his father, abused him in the most infamous manner, and stigmatised him by the most opprobious epi thets, evidently wishing it to be believed that the old man was deranged, and unfit to take care of himself. Mr. WALKER called at Bramhall, and saw the father, his condition was pitiable in the extreme—both eyes were black and swollen, and . almost every part of the body showed evidence of extreme brutality and violence, which the deceased said had been done by his son. One of the most damaging facts against; the prisoner is that the shot fogad in his possession corre sponded with that taken out of the deceased's head, and that the wadding fired from the barrel of the gun contains portions of the lines of a book which corresponds with the remaining lines in the perfect work. The imperfect book has been traced to the prisoner's bedroom. Taking all the evidence collected in this case, the prisoner, as we have already remarked, if guilty, must have taken a long time to plan and carry out his inhuman actions. He has a-sumed a very careL!ss and indifferent manner, but this is what the greatest of our criminals attempt to do. PALMER was cool and collected to the last moment of his existence. DOVE, too, acted in a similar manner ; and there was a calmness about the conduct of Captain ROGERS which made the gaolers who waited on him pity his fate. We shall close our notice of these murders for the present, but shall take another opportunity of endeavouring to account for such horrid brutali ties, and try to ascertain what ground can be, assigned for the increase of murder in this country. IN another part of our impression of this clay we publish a copy of a memorial of Mr. JAMES MTONALD, which is to come be - fore the Council on Wednesday next. In advocating Mr. APOONALD'S claims to the kind consideration of the Council, we are influenced by public conside rations alone. In Mr. APDONALD we recognise an honest, faithful, and zealous pUblic servant, , . who, having incurred the displeasure of certain influential. parties by telling the truth on a vital question, has been subjected for a series of years to a positive martyrdom. The simple facts of this poor man's case are soon told: . He came to Liverpool a poor man, he entered the Corporate service as a common piliceman, his conduct was exemplary, and he proved . . most intelligent ; he was Speedily pro moted, and rose step by step until he reached the rank of divisional superintendant, and had he remained in the force, inust,long ere this, have been at its head. He left the force in 1845, and assumed the management of the Harrington Water Works, in which pOsition he proved his skill and efficiency as an engineer, as displayed in - the improvements he effected in the works, and-in - the planS `ha introduced of extinguishing fires . . Of his conduct none are so competent to speak as Mr. Flaitaioen BANNER, the late Chair man of the Board of Directors. When the worki were purchased by the Council in 1848, he was retained in his office at a salary of 4001. per annum, and was highly thought of until the month of April, when Mr. HA.WkIESLEY'S Water Report was presented to the. Council. Every one knows that in that Report the_ yield of the wells was set down at less than one-half of what it really was. Mr. M‘DoNmo at once-perceived 'the effect likely to be produced on the Council by .thi s aStaterrient, and lost no time in utting them iri PosSession of the truth. In doing so. he only performed his duty as an honest and faithful ser vant, This was the "head and front of his offend ing ;" from that hour his ruin commenced. Mr. M'DONALb was deprived of his offi.;e,, and a stran ger put in his place. What that' poor man's feelings were, under the circumstances, any rea sonable perszn may readily imagine. He had, by holiest pekseverance, elevated himself to an important - position, and all at once he found him self, for no just reason, deprived of his living. • His summary dismissal, under the circurn stanc:•,:s, produced a strong feeling in the town, and the Water Committee of the day felt con' strained to give him an inferior appointment— not the y ' one for which he had shawn such undoubted capacity, aad where he could have proved so serviceable to the town—but he was made Assessor, with a salary of 2001. per annum. Even in this position, his enemies did not desist from their persecuting propensities. The fierce Water battle followed, as. many still remember. The Water staff was in a state of utter disorga_ nisation, and the Water Committee appeared incapable of putting the machine in order. Mr. APILNALD was left without instructions, and although he applied repeatedly for these to guide him in the discharge of his duties, yet he never could procure them. In the meantime, charges were insinuated against hint by persons having the ear of the Water Committee. These charges were listened to without any intimation being ti given to Mr. M a)NALIT; A, 'resolution was adopted by the C o mmitt e e, in October, 1849 , dismissing him from his office. This resolution was signed by Dr. HARBORD, the then Chair man, and the first intimation Mr. M'DONALD had of there being the slightest charge against him was reading the report of his own dismissal in the newspapers of the day. Of course, he appealed to the Council against this monstrous proceeding. His petition was referred to the Water Committee, who, on hearing Mr. INVlllorrar.m's defence, decided on recommending his immediate restoration to office ; but, as this was not agreeable to certain members of the Council a special committee was appointed to investigate the whole case. This committee consisted of several of the leading men of the Council, three of the number being magistrates. After a protracted investigation, extending over many days, the Committee unanimously recom mended his restoration to office. Surely after this searching and impartial investigation into his conduct it would have been thought that all animosity would have for ever ceased towards this poor man. Not so, however. Even yet the very charges which were thus disposed of in 1850 are urged against him when he appeals to the Council for mercy or justice. This is not only unjust—it is positively indecent ; and we trust we shall not be pained by its repe tition. It appears Mr. APDONALD performed his duties of assessor from the time of his re-appoint ment until the middle of June, 1851, to the entire satisfaction of the Water and Borough Engineers, his superiors. On the day named, a short lead ing article appeared in the Courier, pretending to give the yield of the wells. Mr. MeDomano was suspected of being the author of that article, and although he declares he was not, yet was he most mercilessly dismissed. He appealed, in vain, for restoration. Who can doubt that these repeated dismissals had, as Mr. M`DONALD alleges, completely ruined him ? On this occasion he was kept unemployed nearly two years, when he was at last placed on the Police as a superintendent, at a salary of 1561. per annum. He discharged his duties to the satisfaction of his superiors until he received an injury to an old broken leg. The result of this, at first slight hurt, became very serious ; erysipelas was super induced ; and as permanent lameness seemed likely to be the cousequence, he had no alterna tive but to leave the force. But surely this is not to be urged against him as an offence, unless, indeed, Mr. M'DONALD is looked upon as some thirk more than mortal. He was thus again thrown on the world, and entered the infirmary with the view of having his limb amputated. He, however, recovered ; and when the Corpora tion decided on appointing a Smoke Inspector he was selected as the fittest man that could be found for that office; and he proved himself to be so, for it cannot be denied that he succeeded most effectually in putting an end,to the smoke nuisance. Taking all these things into consideration, we do trust the Council will incline to the side of mercy; that looking to the length of his services, his acknowledged zeal and devotion to the public interest, the injuries he has sustained in the public service,' and the suffer ings, mental and physical, he must have en dured during the last ten years, they will accede to his prayer, and refer his petition to the consideration of some impartial and inde pendent members of the Council. It is most unfair to attack Mr. 11/I‘DoNALD constantly in the manner he has been assailed. We believe that the parties doing so are not personally hostile to him, but they are piejudiced. Of this we could not have a better proof than the decla ration, of Mr. GEORGE HOLT, when he refused to serve on the special committee—" I am," said he, " so thoroughly prejudiced against that man that I 'could not properly do him justice." This was at least honest, and is, no doubt, the true cause why this poor man has suffered martyrdom in the c,use of truth for the last ten years. Now, however, that the correctness of all his statements have been so fully established, the Water Committee and the Council could not peform a more gracious act than the one we have indicated, or one which would give more general satisfaction. And we trust . this . will be the last time we shall be under the necessity of advocating, as we have done, the case of one whom we truly believe has been most deeply and unjustly injured. Mr. ITDONALD'S memorial is most humble and respectful, and gives no scope for the indu'gence of any acrimonious observations, even were such intended. Ten years is a large spied in oar limited existence, he waver brief it may appear whoa viewed retrospectively. 'Toe past has been redolent• of many events worthy of being chronicled by our fear° local 'historians, bat assuredly none has been of greater importance, so far as Liverpool is concerned, than the great water controversy which has raged during the whole of that period with greater or less intensity. It is certain that no m?re local question over excited the same amount of ascerbity and rancorous bitterness of feeling, that this Unfortunate subket has done. - We have ,witnessed old and trio l friendships converted into the fiereest hates; parties rent asunder, and, to our sorrow, must confess that some, at all events, of the oldest, staunchest, and most venerated friends of human liberty—the champion of freedom— en who had waged war with despotism all their lives, *become themselves, under the inflieace of the fatal Pike delusions, unrelenting persecutors. It may we:l be asked, 'how have such things been ? And we must confess we have some difficulty in giving a satisfactory reply. Now, however, that the qaestion which has lel to such fatal requite, is on the eve of receiving its final solution, we can safely look back on the „past, and endeavour to present the pnb:ic with an impartial view of what, in our opinion, ; led to so much strife, bitterness, and positive misfortune to Liverpool. Ten years ago, Liverpool was visited by a fearful pestilence, which swept into premature graves some thousands of the inhabitants. One of the causes assigned for the fearful mortality, was an inadequate supply of water. Misfortunes never come alone. It so happened hat, about the same period; numerous destructive confla grations took place, and property to an enormous amount was destroyed, Mainly from the undoubtel fact of the want of water. , These combined calamities, coupled with the general complaints of the inhabitants, aroused the attention of the authorities to the subject, and the council determined on exercising their influence in order to devise a remedy so as to meet the evil, an I assuredly no more laudable or legitimate subject could have possibly occupied the atten tion of our local legislators. The subject was taken up with - the greatest possible earnestness, and formed then, as it has done since, the great question of the day. Engineers, geologists, che mists, and philosophers of every shade and degree, either volunteered opinion, or were subsidized to give them, as to the best means of procuring an -adequate supply. The council .then resolved to go for'a'comprehensive scheme, regardless of cost. It is invariably the case that a class of men exist ever ready to profit by, and prey upon, the misfortunes of others ; this truism was:never more clearly exemplified that in what took in regard to the various water schemes which were propounded for the approval of the corporation.. Their number was legion, and each proposed advantage, in the opinion of its projector, at least, superior to all the others. It would be tiresome to review in detail all the various plaes propounded, suffice it to say that the council selected two of the number for final adoption, viz., the Bala Lake scheme of Mr. Raviiin . - son and the Rivington scheme of Mr. Hewkesley, the merits of the two to be dc6zled by some of the most eminent engi neers living, amongst others Messrs. Cabitt and Mandel ; circumstances. it appears, prevented these gentlemen co rn. pleting their surveys and preparing their reports of thoßala scheme, so as to be in time for that session of Parliament; aid the- result was that the Rivineton scheme was resolved to be proeeeded with. It will be in the recollec: tion of many of our readers that:the Bill authorising the c mstruction of these works was procured after a prolonged and costly opposition. In this opposition it must be borne in mind that the Water-Companies took no part • whatever ; they had no desire to oppose the Corporation Bill ; all they sought for they obtained, namely, a clause in-the Water Act making it compulsory on the Council to purchase: the works by arbitrati'n— hence the question of the capabilities of the local wells was never gone into by the Companies before the Com mittee of the House of Commons ; and the projectors of the new scheme toelt good care to' shut out all such evidence as might be favourable to the home supply. Many of the witnesses examined were, no doubt, men of great eminence iu the scientific world. And each had his own theory of course, but one - and all were agreed on the one essential point—that the new red sandstone rock never could produce, by 'any modification or boring. sufficient water for the ,wants of Liverpool ; in fact, so conclusive did this appear to the Committee, that they declared themselver perfectly satisfied on that point—and, of course, that was the:main point. Hance it is not to be wondered at that, with the testimony of such men as Dr. Buckland, Sir H. de la Beehe, Professor Austen, Professor Playfair, and a host of o ther minor fry before them, the Council—more especially:that portion of them who had most carefully considered the subject—should have arrived at the same conclusion as the Commons' Commit tee did, namely, " that there was not water in the red sandstone ,rock, ner could such be found in sufficient quantity to meet the requirements, presmt and future, of Liverpool." In fact, with the evidence then before them, the Council, as upright and impartial men, could not have come to any other conclusion than the one they ar— rived at. [ Co be continued to-morrow •] DEATH OF EARL FtTZTIARDINGE.—We have to record the death of the Right Hon. William Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Earl Fitzhardinge, which event took place at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, on Saturday night, in the 71st year of his age. His Lordship was the eldest son of Frederick Augustus, fifth Earl of Berkeley, by *ary, daughter of Mr. William Cole, of Gloucester, and was born in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, on the 26th of December, 1786. Those of oar readers who are familia r with the peerage and its history will scarcely need to be reminded by us that the validity of a marriage which was alleged to have been contracted so early as the 30th of March, 1785, between the father an! mother of the noble man recently deceased became the subject •of a Parliamentary inquiry after the death of the fifth Earl of Berkeley, and that the result of a clods investigation of the entire circumstances connected with the case was a resolu tion passed by the flows of Lords, without a dissentient voice, that this alledged marriage of 1785 was not ailltoven,' and that c easequently the 'late Lord Fitzhardinge had no claim or right to the earldom of Berkeley. The general reader, hoviever, will thank us for setting before him the following brief outline of the facts of the " Great Berkeley Case," which created so great a sensation some five-and-forty years ago. The late Earl in the autumn of 1781 or the commencement of -1785, on a visit to Gloucester from his castle at Berkeley, was struck with the charms of Mi-s Mary Cole, the daughter of a butcher in that city, ~a nd took her to live with him at Berkeley as his wife. As time went on the lady bore him four sons, and common reputation affirmed that up to that date no legal marriage had been solemnized between the parties, although the lady styled herself Countess of Berkeley. The lady whose character was thus impugned always asserted, on behalf of her eldest son and his three'next brethare, that although the public solemnization of the union between herself and the Earl did not take piece until May 16, 1796, she had been privately married more than 10 years previously, and the same fact was affirmed under oath in his Lord ship's last will and testament. To' establish this statement an entry in the parish register of Berkeley was produced , which entry, it was Alleged, had been made, for certain reasons of pleasure and convenience on the part of the late Earl of Berkeley, on a leaf that had been pasted down in the volume for many years, until it should ee wanted. The quenion as to the genuine or spurious char , acter of this document came before the House of Lords only after the death of the late Earl. The clergyman who was. said to have made the entry was then dead, and his widow declared that she did not believe it to be in her deceased husband's handwriting. A brother of the Countess of Berkeley, however, deposed that he was present as a witness at the marriage of 1785. The evidence of Lady Berkeley, it is stated, was contradicted by that of her mother, who afterwards married Mr. Glossop, of Oa bournby, in Lincolnshire, and who, though born in a humble Sphere of life, lived to see one of her daughters a Countess, one married to a general officer, and the third the wife of a nephew of the late Sir Francis B aring,'Birt. Sach being the case, on the death of the fifth Earl, his eldest son, who then bore tho courtesy title of Lord Darsley, and was member for Gloucestershire, presented a petition, claiming to be called to the House of Lords as sixth Earl of Berkeley. The subject of his legitimacy had been mooted daring his father's lifetime, and an inquiry had been actually cornmsnced, bat it was abandoned on fleding that no legal question could arise until after the old Earl's death, when, as we have already stated, the evidence brought forward in favour of the legitimacy of the eldest son was not judged by the House of Lords to be sufficient to esta - eligh the claim. In o ms quenee of this decision, Lord Darsley was obliged to drop that title, and he retired from public life for many years, and was known only as Colonel Berkeley of the South Gloucestershire Militia. Tho estates at Berkeley at Cenford in Middlesex, and elsewhere, ware net entailed upon the title, and hence he retrained in undisputed possession of Berkeley Castle, which was bequeathed to him by his father, and which gave him very extensive . influence as a landed proprietor in the county of Gloucester, in which, as alga at Bristol, and in the:city of Gloucester, he ably supported the Liberal interest against the powerful influence of the Beaufort family. He main tained his ground in this position extremely well, and was one of the gentlemen chosen by Ea 1 Grey for elevation to the peerage at the ceronaien ' of King William IV , when he was created Baron Seagrave. The operation of the Reform Act, instead of limiting his territorial influence, want far towards doubling it, as he was in general able to secure one seat at least for the Liberal party 841 he. T in East as well as in West Gloucestershire . - 0 1 .iong was elevated to the earld3m of Fitzhardinge, just Prev ive. to the departure of the Melbourne Ministry fte gl „ o f The earldom of Berkeley was adjudged by the d ecialc4 ; o o the House of Lords in 1811 to the Hon. Thomas the Fitzhardinge Berkeley, fifth son of the late Earl, bu t ver, first child born after the marriage of 1796; he 1 10 a however, assumed the title, as to do s' w Aid be W reflection on his mother's memory. He his nnnor ri of and in the event of.his dying without issue the woo Berkeley will pass to his next brother, the Son . E i g e l, Charles Grantley Fitzhardinga Berkeley farele ri l dtr for West Glancestershire, who marriel a Wet ter to f late Mr. Paul Benfiel I, and has two sons, the eldo ed whom will eventually succeed to the title and, it is beli e ; eri to the estates. The Earl's youngest brother, gr. Cr o) . Berkeley, many years M.P. for Cheltenham, died le hie Earl Fitzhardinge never married, and consequallY. earldom and the barony of Segrave have become °tin cY His next brother is the Right Hon. Si r Maurice V ied r e ' l l Fitzhardinga Berkeley, K.C.B , and late M P. for .4 the he of Gloucestei; the third , brother is Augustus , eA" t bo fourth is Mr. Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkel e y , " h i s has sat for Bristol since 1837, and is well known f °l ' to annual advocacy of the ballot, and for his opPoe iti°l' the Sunday Baer Bill of 1854. . di 6 ° THE PIVCSENT FINA'sTOIAL CRISIS.—Next to t h e a ii war, the question which is uppermost in the public ra ' l ,ls the very unsettled state of the Money Market. 51 l e t ea irieriase of one-half pee cent. in the rate of discoun t ° r n ot e Bank, although a very p ru d en t an d p ro per coll f o3, Ca' the fail to be productive of very serio u s i n fl u ence 11 1 3°/1 ,, commerce of the country ; manufacturers, builder s ' `r e ' b in fact almost all traders dependi n g o n credit- --a '",,f seriously inconvenienced. The whole trade of the coca' to' is carried on almost entirely by bills; and manda etti , 3B l cannot afford to pay so h'gh a price as is now de lll3u a d for money. The consumers have been so long 800°1114 to pay a oheap price for their articles that theY efer not consent to an increase, and will, as before, P, r , dg to reduce their c onsumption ; thus the producer Tit) himself restricted in his operations. He is P lace an t this position : he must either allow his v ettp ; t al ' el O in factories and machinery, to remain idle, or o f manufacture at a loss. Unfortuna‘ely this byte thins seem likely to last for a considerable tia le ; or e every quarter, moreover, there is the same gloom to- m a certainty. Throughout the Continent there is resir t .s, evidence of a. continued drain of bullion from this n°l:-Ot3o The Credit Mobilier of Paris, with its " thousand $2 : 0, projects," is obliged to find bullion at almost anY t r T i se The Bank of France is in the same predicamen t ' ato of .Sultan is again seeking another loan at a high interest. The returns of the Beek of England tie ' t ear Beak of Francs show a large decrease of bullion, r or i more than half a million. In America there is a ra el l i o crisis of a most alarming character; albeit the pub lie # are accustomed to witness such crisises, one t The plans on an average every three or four years. „et, great influx of gold from California has, ila w % f ; enabled the Americans to carry on longer than orate h 0 but now that the panic has fairly set in (for it it to already lasted six or seven weeks), it will be diffil e `,,o; tell where it will end. E sch successive ":; accounts of fresh failures, and a further diminution 111 value of public securities, which hive fallen some 30 t° e ot per cent. The state of the Americsn market ea - br e fail naturally to influence our own, for the two nation roust so iutimetely connected that what affects the 0n e ,.., - ,te 3 influence the other. Oar trade with America is ot.,er to be of the extent of from £40,050,000 to 50,000, sore annum, and if an American house fails it is almos t I , o g to bring down the sister concerns in this country e 'to with it. Every effjrt, is, therefore, being made h e _ r i c : 4o ; aid the American houses in their present eliffier ea ce but this necessarily has a most depressing inn 0 6 upon our own markets. Not only does it dill . of our- money, but our merchants h es itate abou t T in a t e 4 consignments under the present circumstance' - ' ° toe to the present financial difficulties, there is abroad a ea r amount of distrust. The exposures during the las t ' ' ,2o • or two of the malpractices of several of our leadi n g h o se panics hay: led people to doubt - the stability even of 13ti ot which until lately were =side od as We the„ sof itself. It is not surprising, therefore, that the you- g ds by day fall lower, notwithstanding the great efforts by leadieg capitalists to keep them up. •It is „, c it tOe difficult for the Fends to fall lower than 90, t_ res t there is always a vary large amount of money waiting to be . invested at this price, .„a , ensures an interest of three-and-a-half per Ou t ' Sel l therefore, when speculators who operate largely far l ot drive the Funds down to this point, the money Pur e" .4 lls , e ear, , the public soon send them up again. They are, b°': 0 now below 90; moreover, they she, evident slg e ' rt sre weakness, and should further unfavourable ne 4 sea from India, a still more marked depression may h e o oc h for. The expenses of the war are enormo u s, and, alt"; the eventual:3- the East India Company will have to h es- ta be ' 0 burden, yet, in the first instance the cost will W e 00 borne by the Q teen's Government. This howe ver ,' ' t o' only be done by a loan and a re-imposition of the 1/s tti egt come tax. As an instance of the cost which the vat en np it may be mentioaad that the Government have t abs c, 0 S the Ave, a steam-vessel belonging to the Peaias fla e lez io Oriental Company, at £2OO a day, to convey LO 3 g ent ani suite back tophina. The idea that the a - O ar : 1 4 011f will be compelled to have recourse to a loan adds m aters Sea, to the present pecuniary depression ; and pirt ies e l l'es City scarcely know hew to operate, as -every sP e— e eo property is affeeed by the present crisis, includ ili r g oei the shares of the well-established dividend-paying ot s to companies. The only companies which are, or eel° poi be, doing well, are the Joint-Stock Rinks, who cell asol 4 reel) a high rate of discount ; but even their oP er :,tb° are restricted, as in the present ticklish state of af t4lr i D e utmost caution has to ba used as to what paper taken in.—Observer. all e e Fromm Deeen.--Yesterday . mornieg a tvoral- ass e t Margaret Mills. was found dead in b e d, at 3, . 13 ' ) 1 ° , e OP -1)11qc Colliegwoed-Street. She was drunk when df to s tet Tine NEW COUNTY COVET JO DGE .—MT. s n e e en'Se m Blair, barrister, Who has been . reetly ae'in.g as Recorder of Liverpool, is appoint ad to sucleed De r ' V tea o the bench of the County Court. d TEA MEETING IN BEViN3TON HILL CElArg' 13 ~, 4 , i, - meeting. was last night held in Beriegton te after tea, the meeting was addressed by several "' be le' of religon and others. A tea meeting was als o o re ° 1 Hope-hall, H ape-street. The a Id-esses at b „ j ot'' , the character always heard at such asserehlie4--- relieicus, and instructive. e i i .n tll The Austria (s s.), which left Cork last Ylnn ° _, Al s'sla d ' s the 94th regiment on board encountered a seve r ;4t the Bay of Biscay, put into Plymouth. Sh e e . , - ; 1 b e i v j anchors and four boats; her rigging was datang - s s , eo"- heads carried away, fore and aft, and one saldier rrea overboard. The troops will probably be tra nsfe 4 the hulk while the steamer is undergoing repairt ne en ° "e, COI,LEGIdTE INSTITUtION.—.We e greti fled t° e s ; b o is° o f that M-. Thomas Webs'es, the Gladstone sail e rs from the Upper School, was, on Satan-11y, deetedAaweasrlt of Trieity College, C imbridge. nig is the growl," s i raj' on which the Collegiate Institution has obtaicen eistinctior, Mr. Jehn Right , the ermine Pel a ge' of I " for 1852, h Ting been, list year, elected Fe u° ' same College. ' ;os " e bo TRALFE,• Oct. 16 —The American ship Lexi n g a of t ee to L'verpeol, ltft Valentia Bay, Bth inst., in te, fa inn steam tog Roo!ute, nd when off Pullen Is!ind f, I°e Bay, at two, p no.) the hiwser parted, and being, veieerto into d. DJ, she drifted on to the cliff?, apparently git lurched, 'sand disappeared, and three men dr° l l ll s e e of ti) Resolute returned to Valentia with the remain crew. The life-boat of the steam-tug was los t ' f t SUICIDE.-01 Sundaymorning t he bode' 'l Whine airy, a builder, re s idin i at' 42, Broweloi V' t B - eavelow Hill, was discovered lying in the Ya, r - tbr eth s rear of his house, w'tli a razor by his side , and °:sse era Cu'. There is no d o ubt th e un f or tunate pen P e : 0. 6 to his own existence, as for some years past be w a oes ' low spirits, which has been increasing since lfWe ee b° wire died sudtleply. An inquest will be held ou this day.