Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-18 00:00:00

THE TRAGEDY OS BOARD THE MARTHA JANE, OF SUNDERLAND. FIIILTHFR EXAMINATION OF Tl't PILIBONILES.—In our pub lication of Saturday, we gave the full details of a charge preferred against William liog-as, the captain, William Mills, the chief mate, and Charles E. Seymour the second mate of the ship Martha, Jane, of Sunderland, who were charged with hiving caused the death of a man named Andrew Rose. The facts of the case, as we then gave them, meta' be quite fre h its he reader's recollection. It is not for us, in the present stage of the preeeedin e s, to offer any observation on the case. The public wid, on perusal of the evidence, form their own judgment. The prix ners appeared y esters ay ,o be a little more sensible of their position than they did on the former day, when they took the matter rather lightly. Their manner and tone had undergone a change and they watched the prooeedir.gs (particularly the master of the vessel) with anxious inlet est. They were_ defended by ate Aspinall, who was insrructed by Snowball. Mr. Clough and Inspector Kehei3 conducted the case for the prosecution. The first witness called was William Power, who was a sailor on board the ship, he was examined, and said he was at l'emerara when the prisoner Rcgar;-, ea )taie, joined the ship; he could not tell what time or month it was. The prisoner Mills was chief mate, end Seyineur second mats. There were seven able seaman, one ordinary, the three prisoners, steward; carpenter, and cook on hoard. James Cahill was the oriinary seamen. A person named Andrew Rose (the deceased), was an able seaman on boarS, and he raw him the day he came on b.,ard at Barbedoes He was a stout built man, about 32 years of age (as he had heard.) He appeared healthy. fie had a shirt, trousers, and cap on when witness saw him. He had no shoes or stockings. The morning after deceased came on board. the second mate gave him a job to splice a join of rope, but he could not splice it, and the secand mate asketJ him what he came on board for ? and he said as a man, and could do his duty as a man. He give him a job to do s meshing else, and he could not do it. The second mate hit him then with his fist. The deceased sung out, but witness did not hear what he said, as he was aloft. Saw nothing more that chiy. Tae deceased was beaten day after day, from that. By whom ? The prisoners. The captain beat him with a whip nearly every day. Thinks this is the whip. He was beaten with the small end of the whip. Can't say how often he was beaten, but saw them beat him every day. There was a dog on board, and when the captain would be bearing the man, the dog used to bite and more times bark at him. Saw blood flow from the bites of the deg in deceased's leg. Saw that twice, when the captain was beating him. Once when the dog was going too far, the captain told the dcg to be qu'et. Saw the second mate beat him with a rope's end -that was almost every day. The chief a ate beat him when he had occasion to do it. Mr. Mansfield : What do you mean by that? Witness : When he sent him to a thing he could not do, he would beat him with a rope. Saw the mate put him in irons by the captain's orders. It was on the main deck, starboard side. Can't say for certain what he was put in irons for. He dirtied the desk, and that's the only thing. He was in irons sometimes, and out of irons more times, when he dirtied the deck. He was a good many times in irons. When he dirtied the deck on one occasion, he (witness) remembered the captain take the dirt and put it in the man's mouth. (Sensation.) Can't say if he ware in icons at that time. When he saw that he turned away as he could not bear it. Saw an iron bolt in the man's mouth across, and saw the captain lash ing it at the beck of his head with spun yarn—(sensation) —it was a rusty bolt ; it was on a Sunday ; did not see it taken out, and don't know when it was taken cut. Saw the three prisoners ever tee water-cask, and deceased was in it, but he did not see who put him there. They put the head on, and the cask was thee put in its place and Isabel, with the bung-hole up. I asked the deceased at the bung hole if it was pretty not? and he said it was. Can't tell how 10. g he was in the cask. Did not see him taken out. Saw deceased aloft entirely naked, but don't know what he was doing. Ida! not hear who ordered him aloft. It was flue weather. It was in the morning. Saw him two days in a state of nakedness. He slept general's; cn the main watch, and had anything he could lay hands cn over him—some times a piece of sail, but that would be taken off him. Remembered when Rose died, and that was a few days before they made Cape Clear. Saw him a short time before he died. His body, legs, and arms were all one mass of sores. His hands and feet were blistered, and his back all cat weere he had been beaten. His legs and arms were much swollen, and he could not walk. When he was heaved ever he was black and blue, and there was blood on the deck where he lay. He died about ten in the forenoon; and the rosy was hove overboard, with a flannel shirt only on him. There was no prayer said over him. The captain ordered the body to be thrown overboard, The prisoners were all these at the time. Cross-examined by Mr. Aspinall I cannot tell where he came from. Did not hear that he came from the jail. Heard him say he went on shore to get paid from the Odessa, and that the captain sailed without him. He left on Saturday night, and was brought back on the Sunday morning to the ship by a policeman. Heard Cahill (a sailor) say deceased done something to a bucket of sugar He used one of my shirts to wipe up scme dirt; cannot say if he stole cloths, but heard some of the men say he did. He was put in irons when he came on board, but can't say if the police assisted to do so. Saw him loose the day the ship sailed. He was not excessively filthy. At times he was rot fit to sleep in the forecastle. (He explained why.) To look at him he was a healthy strong man. I do not know what was the matter will him. Believes there was something the matter with his inside, but can't tell what it war. The crew would not let him into the forecastle, and I was one of them. He slept on deck with his shirt and trowsers on. I can't say if he had any sores vesen he came on board ; saw scabs on him after ha was beaten. Do you remember his threatening to set the ship on fire ? I never heard him say so. I can't tell what seamen might talk about. I beat him with my hand for taking my shirt to clean up the dirt. Sass Groves beat him the night before he died. He was out of his mind, and Groves and I bad to tie his hands to get him quiet. Groves used a piece of a stave. Tied him by the wrists. His hands were sore and full 2 corruption, and Groves struck him. Can't say for certain where Groves struck him. Can't say if he struck him over the head with the stave, nor can't say how many blows he gave him. He did not strike him very hard, as his hands were so bad ; did not prevent Groves strik ing; had no orders to tie him, but did so, as we did not know what injury he might do at night. Heard the crew say that Groves kicked him, but did not see it. I struck him two or three times, and gave him a kick. I remember G rov es stopping him and flogging him with a stand-saw, as I heard, by order of the captain, for taking the men's sugar out of the forecastle. It might be talked of amongst us, of the deceased setting the ship on fire. He was not found in the hold with matches, but he went down to the hold for shelter. The captain gave him a pair of drawers. The mate gave him a shirt and trousers. After he dirtied his own clothes he toed to throw them overboard. Heard him complain several times that he was very bad inside. The eapsain gave him castor oil and brandy the day but one before he died. On one occasion he went to the galley and took a piece of meat, and heard the cook say he beat him for it He was ill before that, and after it. I think that was the day but one before he died. He was five or six hours in the cask to my know ledge, but I cat,': say how long after. I don't know if he hid in the cask, but I think not. Was present when he was flung over, and heard Groves say " Good bye, Rose." Mr. Aspinall: Did not Groves say, "God bye, Bose ; if you had gorse to hell long ago we would not have had so much trouble?" I can't say, but the only thing I can say that Gr: yes said, was " Goed bye, Rose. The deceased came back to the forecastle, and the crew would have him when he was clean William Groves, who was examined on Friday last, was again called and examined. The evidence given by this witness was the same as published by us in our paper of last Saturday. Tne details were heard with much sen sation. Cross-examined by Mr. Aspinall: Made the memorandum (already mentioned) as soon as I got oppor tunity. Wrote it on different days and not all on one day. I kept it in a box ; no one bet one man knew I had it. That man is Thomas Hayes ; I can't tell when he saw it, but he sa v it before it was finished. He (deceased) was not badly use's by any one but the prisoners. On one occasion he was brought to the windlas end, and I I gave him a few flat slips o the handsaw. The captain told us to cobb him with the hind-saw, and he said Rose, if I had been there I would have given you a d deal more. That was the only time I beat him, except when he was crazy, I slapped him to quiet him; hit him with his three fiegere and thnmb r the same as a mother would a child. I did not strike him with a stave of a cask, and it is false if any one says so. I did not use a stone at all for any purpose, nor did I see any body use one. I did not strike him at any other time. I never left the helm to kick him when he was in irons ; I never beat him for calling me a rogue. I did not beat him on the 26th May until he was covered with blood. Never beat him in presence of the captain about the faee and head. Never followed him with a brush, nor never broke a bruslahandle on his head ; never told the mate so. I heard nano of the men say they got the decease, I with a box of m 'Aches, and some said they were afr id he was going to set the ship on fire. I had no sus picion of his setting the ship on fire. I had him three days below. I tied him, for he was crazy mad, the day before he died. Had no orders to tie him. If Power said I struck him with a stave, it is a lie. I never struck him with a stave in Power's, or any cue else's presence. Never struck him with a carpenter's adze. Tied his hands about eight in the evening, and he got up and gnawed it off, and got a ]rift. Tied him up a second time, and left him so. The case was then adjourned to one o'clock this day. The court was crowded during the hearing, which lasted up to four o'clock. " TOUTING" FOB ATTORNIE3, AT THE POLICE COURT IMPORTANT TO A7"TORNIRS AND TEIK PUBLIC.—FOT some time past a lot of characterless blackguards have infected the police-court and bride wells " touting" for attornies— or in other words robbing such unfortunate prisoners as they could lay hands on, of whatever money they could extract from them, and representing that they were clerks to this or that attorney. Ic is needless to say, that every sort of trick :had been resorted to, and many wretched creatures were fleeced in the most metfleas manner by these harpies. Indeed, it has been the theme of general remark, by all persons passing the court daily, to see the lot of ruffians collected about all the doors, watching like the evil one, upon whom they could pounce and devour. The system seemed to have developed itself to such an extent that it attracted general attention, and at last, the nuisance came to a climax and burst, after the folio wing manner Yesterdey, when Mr. Mansfield had disposed s f a few morning charges, amongst one of which was the case of a woman, named Hanlon, the w fe of a man resid ing in Peter-street, who was charged with breaking some windows, and for whom Mr. Dodd attorney, appeared. Mr. Clough addresseed his worship, and said he begged to call his attention to a matter that had become most noto ri and almost a disgrace to the court. From something whieb Mr. Dodd had mentioned to him, and which that gentleman would state to the court, he (Mr. Clough) thought it the proper time and place to menden the matter, and he trusted that his worship would institute a searching inquiry into the affair, and adopt such measures as would radically cure the complaint. Fer a long time back, the precincts of the court had been beset with a set of ruffians, who " touted" for attornies, and whose conduct was most disreputable, and such as was calculated to cast disgrace on the administration of justice. In the name of attornies and law, they committed the most fearful frauds on poor people, and extracted every penny they could get, under pee eace of being seat by this or that attorney, and he was sorry to say, that there were attornies who allowed their names to be used in this most disreputable and dis graceful manner, and it frequently happeced that when the real attorney, whom the prisoner wished to have, was sent for, the scsundrels alluded to would be found to have represented that they belonged to him, and had extracted fees and received instructions, and gone to some ens else and divided the spoil with him. This evil had now become so great that a atop must be put to it, and as fir the case that Mr. Dodd was about to bring under his notice, he trusted his Worship would order a searching investig.tion into it ; and if any official of the court, or any one connected with the police were Lund to be implicased in it, he hoped the severest punishment would be inflicted. In the time of Mr. Mansfield's pre decessor the practice had grown to some extent, but when it was represented to that gentleman, he made the most summary order to have all such blackguards excluded from the court and its precincts. Mr. Dodd then acUre,sed the court, and said when he came to his office in the morning, a man, named Hanlon, called on him, and gave him his proper retaining fee to attend the court, in order to defend hie wife, who was charged with breaking some windows in Peter-street, in a quarrel which she had with some neighbours. The man gave him as much is structioa as he could, but said the woman (who was down stairs in the dock) could give him more ieformation than he could. He get an order to see her, an i to his great surprise when he asked her for information, sha told hie that his clerk had been to see her, and that she had given him full instructions, which he wrote down on paper. He ( tree D.) never having seat his clerk to do such a thing, and never permitted any one to "toot" in his name, as a member of an honorable profession, inquired what sort of person the man was, and she told him a tall, thin, rema-kable-looking person, with large bl telc bushy whiskers She said he came to her to the dock, and after making certain representations to her of the importance of having an attorney to defend her, the agreed to give him instructions for that purpose. After the case was over, he resolved to sift this case to the bottom, in order to discov, r and expose such disgraceful and dishonourable practices, no matter if such came from a member of the honorable profession to which he belonged. He sent for the husband of the woman and from him (he eas now in court), he ascertained that a man named Buckley, who represented himself to be clerk to Mr. Cobb, an attorney, had called on him (Hanlon) at his house at nine in the morning, and said he was sent by Mr. Cobb to know if he would employ him, and that he (Buckley), had seen his wife in prison and received instruc tions from her to defend her, and that she sent him to get the fee. Hanlon refused to have anything to do with this man, stating that he had employed Mr. Dodd, and knew nothing of Mr. Cobb. -Now, this was most disgraceful, and should at once be stopped. Mr. Manstild : Did he say Mr. Cobb, had sent him for the fee ? Mr. Cobb . No, sir, I got no fee. Mr. Goodere : There is a great deal of " touting" going on here, and it is most disgraceful. Hanlon then Stated, that the man came to him at his house as discribed. He never saw him before, and when he told him he had engaged Mr. Dodd, the fellow said he was no good, that Mr. Cobb was a better man, and would be sure to get his wife acquitted. He refused to have anything to say to him. Mr. Block said such conduct was most disreputable, and should be stopped by the court. Mr. Cobb said, the court was an open one, and he had as much right to come in to practice as any other attorney. This matter was caused by pro fessionel jealousy. However, the transaction was done without his knowledge or consent, and of course he was no party to it. He repudiated the act, and thought out of courtesy, that the matter might have been mentioned to him before it was laid before the Court, so that he could have time to answer it. Mr. Dood : It does seem very strange indeed that an attorney's clerk should call at a man's house at nine in the morning and act as this man did —it is beating up the town for business in a disreputable manner. Mr. Cobb: I hope it will not go forth Peen this court, that he went by my orders ; I knew nothing of it until the application was made in court. Mr. Clough : It is improper to let such persons go into the lock to see prisoners. Mr. Goodere : This man accuelly went into the dock and used my name to a prisoner, got instructions for me, and after that went and gave the case to Mr. Cobb, after using my name. Mr. Mansfield said he was willing to exonerate Mr. Cobb from the blame attached to him in this case, but he thought the sooner he got rid of such a man, the better it w , uld be for his character as a practitioner of that court. Mr. Clough said he saw the man in court now, and he would ask his worship to make him explain where he got the information about the woman, and how he went to her husband, and also how he got into the dock. Mr. Goodere said the man was at one time in my employ ment, but I discharged him for reasons that I will not state here. A. week after that, he went hie) the dock, and represented to a prisoner that he was my clerk, and got a fee from the party. The man then came forward, and in a pompous tone and manner said, I will clear myself in the most honourable manner to the satisfaction of this court. I was in Chapel-street this morn ing, wh- n a man named Robinson cams up to me, and told me there was a woman named Hanlon in the dock, and that she wanted an attorney, that her husband lived in Peter-street, and the job was a guinea. I got an order to see her. Mr. Clough: Who is this Robin son, whom you met so opportunely in Chapel-street? Buckley : I don't know who he is, (loud laughter) but I could find him. (Much laughter.) When I was told she bad been in about ten days ago, and fined £5, that she had employed Mr. Black, but was so dissatisfied with him (oh, and laughter)—that she would not employ him any more, but that she wished to employ Mr. Cobb. (Laughter.) Mr. Dodd: Here is Hanlon, and he directs me to state to the court that there is not a single word of truth in the statement made by this man, who has had the audacity to make it to the bench. Hanlon: There is not a single word of truth in it—its a pure lie from beginning to end. He wanted me to meet him at a public-house near this court, and to bring the fee with me, but I refused to have anything to do with him at all Mr. Bluek (to Hanlon) : Is it true that you, or your wife had stated that you were dissatisfied with me as an advocate ? Hanlon : It is a lie, sir ; for we never stated anything of the sort, sir, and we could not. Mr. Mans field said, if there was any difference between the profes sional gentlemen who practised in the court, he would regret it. He agreed very well with the regular practi tioners of the court, and so far as-he was concerned, he had no fault to find with them in any respect. They were honourable gentlemen, who discharged their duties pro perly and respectfully towards the court, and with ability to their clients. From what had now transpired, he resolved, that neither himself, Mr. Wybergh, nor Mr. Garnett, would, from this forward, issue any order to let any attorney's clerk into the dock, or bridewells to take instructions from prisoners None but attornies themselves would be henceforth admitted to prisons, to see prisoners and take instructions. He would cease a list of the regu lar practitioners, and such attornies alto as occasionally Came to court, to be put up- in conspicuous places in the bridewells and dock, so that prisoners could chose their own attornies without being interfered with by such persons as had been before the court that day. Mr. Dodd—That, sir, will be satis factory, and I trust that no suggestion or direction will be given to prisoners on the subject of who may be chosen to defend them. Mr. Mansfield : I shall see that there is not. He then directed Mr. Barton, the governor of the Bridewell, to prepare the list, and have it put in proper places, and then the subject ended. POLICE COURT.--YESTERDAY. THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1 857. LIVERPOOL. REFO RE MR. MANSFIELD. ATTEMPT TO MURDER BY A BLACK MAN.—A black man, named Sabina Wilson. a sailor, was charged with the following desperate outrage—stabbing Thomas Nicholson and James Furlong. It appeared that the prisoner was in Vauxhall-road on Tuesday night, and about ten del ek he acted rudely towards some children, whom he flung off the footway. The complainant Nicholson said, "Don't hurt the children," when the prisoner, with an oath, asked what he had to do with it, at the same time striking witness a blow in the back, and immediately he felt blocd flowing down his back, and he gave an alarm. The prisoner was pursued, and on Furlong coming up to him he struck him a violent blow with a knife in the neck, under the left ear, and another on the head. Surg on Arnott, of the Northern Dispensary, stated that in both cases the wounded men had the merest possible escape of their lives. The wound on Nicholson was in the back part of the chest ; it was three inches long, and most dangerous. He would not be able to do anything at least for a month. The wound on Furlong's neck was quite proximate to the carotid artery ; his escape was almost miraculous. The prisoner was sent for trial at the assizes, on both charges of attempting to murder. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT. BEFORE MR, COMMISSIONER PERRY. In re J. .f.RoniaTs.—The bankrupt, metal broker, of Liverpool, applied yesterday for his certificate. He was supported by Mr. Evans. Mr. Fetcher appeared for the assignees, and offered no opposition. His Honour granted an immediate certificate of the second class. THE BANK OF IRELAND.—On Thursday, a dividend of 61 per cent. for the hill-year was declared. This ii the largest dividend yet g iven by the Bank of Ireland. RAILWA.YS IN THE ROMAN STATIL—A letter from Civita 'Vecchia announces the arrival there, on the Ist instant, of two English vessels from Newcastle, laden with materials for the construction of the railway from Rome to Civita Vecchia. . _ THE EXHIBITIONI OP ART TIMM:WIS.—The returas for Saturday give the following results :—Admitted by season tickets, 2,955 ; on payment of a shilling each, 6,208 ; total, 9,163. Of these 2,580 arrived by railway. There were two special trains, one from Hull, and the other from Wrexham, each bringing a good number of pas- sergers. Mrs. Allison, of Notti'lghatn. N. H., was 107 years of age on tin 10th day of last month. She is blind—hut members of the family in which she resides are able to make her hear. She sits erect in her chair, but does not walk ,vithout asistence, and yet appears comfortable and well, and is apparently as likely to live a number of years as other aged persons in good health.—New York paper. NETLEY 110iPITAL.—The government are determined to p,nceed with the erection of Netley Hospital. They have a host of medical authorities to testify to the salubrity of the spot on which it is building. The Corporation of Southampton have ordered Dr. Cooper, the officer of health to the Corporation, to prepare a report for the govern ment, to show from medical statistics the fallacy of the statements which have beon made in parliament and the public press relative to the insalubrity of Southampton and the neighbourhood of Netley_ DOUGLAS JERROLD IN Slocum—As a "jolly good fellow he was unsurpassed. When Thackeray, ju4t before his voyage to America, to lecture on the " Four Georges," was entertained by a select circle of his li.erary friends, Dickens, who was in the chair, vacated his office at mid night. Thereupon Jerrold jumped into his place. "Now," said he, "let us commence the evening, gentlemen." And from that moment the fun was fast and -furious, indeed. Some . ;one once said, in Jerrold's presence., that Charles Dickens and Albert Smith, in a literary sense, ",rowed in the same boat." " Ali," said Jerroll, " bat with what different sculls!" When Albers Smith became famous, Jerrold withdrew the remark with the quiet o'servation that Albert Smith had greatly improved in his rowing."— Hull Packet, _ . WICK HARBOUR.—The Northern Ensign, in complain_ jug of the exposed state of the harbour of Wick, says : " During the approaching herring fishery season, we shall have from 1,120 to 1,150 boata engaged in this perilous enterprise. They will be collected from various districts. Each lawful night 6,000 men will leave the shores of Wick on board of these boats, which, with the materials, rnay be estimated at £120,000. Spending the night at sea, rowing, and casting and hauling their nets, at distances varying from three to thirty miles, they return in the morning to their respective stations ; and when the tide is out it is no uncommon thing to see 800 boats lying at anchor within an area of 240 acres, with their precious freights, all at the mercy of the elements, having not even a narrow sheltered creek to which fifty of them could fly in the event or a storm at law water, or even a couple of hours t► ereafter." EDIBEZZLEMENT. AT ROCHDA.L . E.—TaOaII3 . Coucher, a travelling Seotchman employed by Mr. John Adamson, draper, was charged at the Itochdate petty sessions, on Monday, with embezzling moneys belonging to his em ployer to the amonnt of X 1 10s, 31 Mr. Adamson, in the early part of last month, sent a young man along with the prisoner on his round. and seeing that he would be fettled out he absconded. Information was given to Superin tendent Callender, who traced Coucher to Manchester, thence to Liverpool, and from thence to Scotland, te a place near Cestle Douglas. He sent Sergeant Greenwood after him, and Coucher was apprehended. A list of other moneys was placed before the bench which the prisoner was supposed to have embezzled. On one sheet there were seventy sums varying from ls. to £1 17e. 61., and oa another twenty varying from 59. to .22 105., the natn,s on which had been made fictitious by the prisoner. Coacher was committed for trial. EXTRAORDINARY PXPLOSION AND LOSS OF FIVE / AIVE4.— I the evening of the Bth inst., two buildings, used as fire week shops, in the eeighbourhood of Berlin, blew up with a fearful explosion, shattering all the windows in the neighbourhood, and destroying the lives of five persons. The following circumstances connected with this accident are peculiar. It took place when no one was engaged in either of the workshops, which are separated from each other by a path of several feet wide. Of the firework maker, his assistant, the formes ilog, and a woman w 4 lo was near the spot at the time, who have perished, it is distinctly stated that none of their clothes were burnt nor their bodies injured, but that their heads were split, and the brains protruded ; the firework maker's wife, who was not far off at the time, was uninjured, as was also their dwell ing house, behind which the two workshops stood. It appears that those last two incidents are due to the cir cumstance that a large open plot of ground, used as an exercising ground fur the military, closely adjoined, and admitted of the expanded air finding vent in that directicn THE YELLOW FEVER. ON BOARD THE WEST INDIA. STEAMERi.—The Lot Plata, just arrived, brings news of the continuance of the yellow fever in the West Indies. When she left it was chiefly amongst the shipping at St. Thomas and Martinique; the other parts of the West Indies appear to be free from it. All the persons belonging to .he Panama, the last homeward mail steamer, who were struck with yellow fever, and left behind at St. Thomas, are dead. Dr. Manfred, and Mr. Turner , the fourth engineer, died of yellow fever on board the Trent. Soon after the La Plata left St. Thomss, yellow fever made its appearance among the crew, and nearly forty persons were laid down with it. Every endeavour was made to stop its ravages and mitigate its severity. The utnitnt care was taken in ventileting the shin, cleansing it from disinfecting substances, and nersing and cons ding the sick. In addi tion to the surgeon of the La Plata Dr. Eamilton, a pas senger,. rendered most veluable assistance A Jamaica clergyman, who was also a passenger, attended most indefatigably on the sick, to 'cheer them with religious consolation. Out of the whole number attacked, only six died on the passage. GRATITUDE TO RELATIVES OF CRIMEAN OFTIO?.RS.—The following is a return of the sums paid as compensation to the relatives of certain officers in lieu of pnsions, &c., in pursuance of the provisions of the 10th clans of the R , ,yal warrant of March 1, 1856—viz : the sum of .2465 18s 91 to Henry Hart Anderson, father of Captain Anderson of the 31st Foot; £262 19s 3d to Mrs. Susan Armstrong, mother of Lieutenant and Adjutant Armstrong, 49th Foot; £729 9s 14 to Mrs. Elizlbah Helena Bennett, mother of Lieutenant Bennett, 334 Foot; £3,791 14s 84 to Mr.l. Mary Carpenter, widow of Li: , utenant-Colcnel Carpenter, 41st Foot; £459 8s 74 to Mrs. Emily Munro - Cary, mother of L;eut. S. T. M. Cary, Rile Brigade ; £4,520 5s 101, held in trust by the Secrc!tary of State for War, for the benefit, of the widow and children of Lieutenant-Colonel Dawson, Coldstream Guards; £257 193 to Colonel Daniel Fras'r, father (reiirel full pay, 42d Foot) of Captain Fraser, 42d Foot ; £464 11s 51 to Rev. Robert W. Goodenough, father of U.cutenant Goodenough, 97th Foot ; 1457 19s 9,1 to Mr. James Bryant Messenger, father of Lintenant Mes senger, 46 . h Foot; £720 14s 2d to Mrs. A. Meurant, mother of Lieutenant Meurant, 18th Poo ; £469 4s 7d to Mr, James Morgan, father of Lieutenant Morgan, 63J Foos ; £3,017 8s id to Mrs, Is tbei;ts Patlllo, mother of Lieutenant Colonel Patulio, 30th Foot ; £719 183 Id to Miss a]san Mary Smith, Miss Sarah Marianne Smith, Miss Lucy Maria Smith, sisters of Captain F. Smith, 9th Foot; £747 lls 7d to Mrs Helen Taylor, mother of Lieutenant Taylor, 41st Foot ; £3,200 held in trust by the Seeetary of State for War for tbe benefit of the widow and children of Lieutenant-Colonel °nett, 19th Foot ; and £417 Os 10d to Mrs. Eliza White, mother of Lieutenant White, of the 62d Foot. All the above gallant officers were killed in the Crimea, either at Inkerman or before Sebastopol. WEST DERBY GUARDIANS. The usual weekly meeting of the members of this Board of Guardians was held yesterday, at the Board-room, Mill-lane, Everton. The guardians present were—Messrs. Medcalf, Lunt, Morris, Parr, Abrahams, Wilson, Roberts, Roscoe, Johns, Whitby, Pitts, Leyland, Ledgar, Pickup, Evans, Tattersall, Birch, and Almond. OFFICIAL RETURNS. From the returns of the Master of the Workhouse, it appeared that last week there were 570 paupers in the house ; since when 29 had been admitted, 1 born, 20 dis charged, 2 deaths ; leaving this week 578. For the cor responding week of last year there were 617. The Master of the Hospital reported that last week there were 95 patients in that establishment, since when fourteen had been admitted and eight dis charged, leaving this week 101. For the corresponding week of last year there were only 91. Cheques to the amount of £233 were voted for the main tenance of the out-door paupers, within the several districts connected with the Union. TR& TOXTETH-PARK ARREARS. In the absence of the Chairman, the Rev. Mr. Badnall, Mr. Medcalf was requested to preside. Mr. WHITBY : May I ask you if there are any of the townships in arrears on the late call that was made upon them ? The CLERK : Yes, Toxteth Park. Mr. WHITBY : Then they are not only in arrear of the last call made upon them, but they have not paid all the amount due on that preceding it. This is very unfair on tha part of Toxteth Park, it would seem that the other townships are mulct with the expense of the maintenance of the poor of that town.hip, and they will not pay. They are now in arrear for the call made upon them for the 4th of April, without that made on the 2nd of June. Mr. LUNT : There is £645 13s. due on the last call. Why is it not paid? Mr. glum : Why is it not paid, Mr. Wilson? Mr. WILSON : Franklin laid it down as a precept, that you were to get all the credit you could, but you were not to allow an action in law against you. I suppose we are adopting it. Mr. Sam : I think if you can't pay this arrear, there is a very poor prospect for the poor after the separation of the Union. How are they to be kept? Mr. WILSON : Oh, you will be paid. Mr. SHAW : But I do not like to have the matter slipped over in that way. Mr. Wilson pledged his word that the money should be paid this day fortnight. Air. WILSON : Do not bring me in. Mr. SHAW : The overseers have been summoned, and they have not obeyed the order of the magistrates. Mr. WILSON : I was not summoned. Mr. Slaw : I do not think it right, and, therefore, I will move that the necessary proceedings—l do not know what they are—be taken against the Board forthwith to recover the arrears. _ _ Mr. WHITBY : I will second it. Mr. WILSON : Oh, you will have it. Mr. SHAW : There is £64-5 134 due on the old call, and in a week there will ba £1,320 due on the present call. Mr. WILSON : Well, before this day week you shall have the balance. Mr. EvANs : How can we pay without the money ? Mr. S UAW : But as next week will be the quarter, I shall insist that my motion be put, and thus enforce the pay ment of it. The Board then divided, when Mr Shaw's motion was all but unanimously carriel, the guardians for the Toxteth Park not voting. Mr. JouNs : I will move that all the other townships in arrear be also summoned. Mr. WHITBY: There are none in arrear. They were only asked for it on the Sad of Jane. MISC ELL ANEOUS BUSINESS. _ A letter was read from the General Poor-Law Board sanctioning an increase of salary to Mr. Downes, the col lector for the West Derby district, from £lOO to £125 per annum. It was then moved and seconded that the increase commence from the present quarter, which was unanimously carried. A letter was also read from the General Board, request ing the Loc.al Board's cbscrvations on the affairs of Mr. Davis, the master of the hospital, relative to the surcharges by the auditor, which was referral to the Hospital Com mittee. This concluded the business. A MEI'ING OF CREDITOR' IN AUSTRALIA. The following is an extract from a letter dated Mel. bourne, March 24, 1857 :—" 1 will endeavour to give you an account of a meeting of creditors of a Yanke house held here 14 days ago." [We shall call the firm A. and B " They issued circulars calling a meeting of their credi tors. As the creditors appeared in the room, A.. shook hands with each most courteously, and seated them at a long table accor'ling to the amount of their debts—the highest creditors at the top on the right hand, and so on. When all met, A. said—' I guess, gentlemen, this you may rather consider a disagreeable meeting, but I will shorten it as much as possible. I propose, therefore, to take the chair, as I can at once let you each understand the position you are in with our house. Mr. B. will take the other end of the table, to explain to the smaller credi tors anything, whilst I shall no doubt manage well the larger ones at my end." The chairs being taken, A., o►► his leas, said—" Gentlemen, before each of you there is a list of our liabilities, assets and losses, which all of you gentlemen (whom I have no doubt have been at a great many meetings of this nature) will, on looking over, un— derstand at a glance ; but to shorten, I will go over : Liabilitios . .•. Assets Expense at the mines ...... 3,292 16 3 A. and B.'s personal expenses for 14 months ............ 0 0 Losses in trade 9,375 14 9 Sundries . 35 0 0 - • - -----X23,395_ 14 9 Now, gentlemen, there are many houses in this 'ere Mel bourne who keep a double set of books, but we do no such things ; I calculate we only keep ours by double entry, and balanced to the sixteenth part of a cent, the amount of which few of you will likely know. It is, however, and must be, very satisfactory to all that you know where your money has gone. We propose 7s Gtl net cash, which is rather over the estate ; and to save time, if you agree, I will wait upon you individually and give you cheques for your several amounts : so that this business may at once be over and we resume, and give von all a fair share again of our patronage and support." The meeting was so taken by surprise that silence was the order of the day. Upon this, A. rose and said—' Gentle men, I thank you sincerely for your kindness on this occa sion, as silence betokens consent. I will wait upon you to-morrow, with your cheques all cut and dry for you.' Upon this, C., my friend, rose in anger and said How is it that you, Mr. A.'s personal expenses should be so great, and so much greater than the large number of persons employed at your mining establishments ?" Nothing is so easy to answer as the question put by the hon. gentleman. I guess these folks at the mines belonging to us do their own cooking, I have even heard their owa washing— things I have never been accustomed to. I assure you, 'pon honour. Any more qustious, as it is getting near dinner time? Mr. C , still in a rage—` In what consists £35 sundries ? A.—l am astonished that a gen tleman should challenge such a paltry sum; but this account is wrong headed—it should have been headed " Charity," as No. 4 Memorandum Book will show that £35, I calculate, was given to poor people whom we con sidered at the time in a much worse position than our selves. Having thus satisfied all I hope, I dissolve this first and last meeting of creditors of A. & B.' A creditor, however, rose at this and said they would not take less than Bs. Upon which A., looking down the table, said ---` I suppose, 8., we must give them 8s ;' but, turning round, said—' Gentlemen, this is rather a hard case, as we shall have to pay it out of our own pockets.' The meeting closed, and A. & B. have got a clear discharge." BOY ATTACKED BY WEASELS.—On Saturday last, a boy, while amusing himself by the side of the Auldeern Road, and about three-quarters of a mile from the town, obser. - ed emerging from under one of the remaining piles of wood there, what he imagined to be a number of rats. He instantly gave chase, little suspecting any opp ;sition, but was quickly surrounded by upwards of a dczen antagonists. some of them staring him in the face, and others fixing on his trouurs one of the number, more forward than the others, sprung up, and seizing him by the vest, obliged him to beat it tlf; thin stunning it, he then killed it with a stone. By this time he began to suspect he had mistaken the kind of his assailan's, and retreated, but carrying with him his fallen enemy —a full-grown weasel.—Nairnshire Telegraph. Liz ARNIY.—A return to the House of Couloons, on the notice of Mr. Sidney Herbert, shows that in the years 1856-7 the gross number of men borne on the army esti mates was 273,079, including the British-Foreign Corps ; and that of these 26,363 were for service in India ; 76,787 for service at home ; 133,784 for service nt the seat of war in the East. The total number voted was, however, Only 246,716. The gro , s sum in the original estimate was £34,998,504, reduced, on revision, to a vote of £20,249,08.1. In the same year a total of men, bays, and marines, for the navy of 76,000 for three months, and 56,000 for nine months was voted. The money vo`e amounted to £15,812,127, making with that for the army a gross total of £36,061,211 . SLAVE TRADE IN CUBA.—According to a return to the House of Commons, there were, at the dates last reeeiyed, two British vessels on their respective cruising stations on the coast of Cuba for the suppression of the slave trade—the Arab (sailing) and the Falcon (steam.) Since January, 1854, there seem to have been eighteen or twenty vessels employed on this service. The time they remain upon their respective cruising stations varies from three or four days to two or three months. THE GRAND CRICKET MATCH. ELEVEN OF ALL ENGLAND V. TWENTY-TWO OF LIVERPOOL. This match was resumed at 12 o'clock yesterday, in the Prince's Park, the spectators being, if anything, more numerous than on the two previous days. When the wickets were pitched the twenty-two of Liverpool went in on their second innings. They played fairly. but succeeded in only scoring 52, which, with 68 on their first innings, gave them a total of 120. The eleven of England scored, in all, 167 (0 on the first and 118 on their second innings), and were, consequently, declared the victors by 47. Yesterday they showed their superiority in fielding and bowling, and were at once looked upon as the winners. The match was over shortly afcer three o'clock, and the score, at the conclusion of the game, stood as follows : LIV RPOOL Second Innings F. Tinley _l5 b Wil6her 2 S. Jackson 2 bR. C. Tinley 0 G. Hampshire .. 0 bR. C. Tinley .. 1 W, Horner .. 0 run nut W. P. Lockhart 0 c Anderson, b Willsher 4 F. Hinkly 0 c Sherman, b Jackson . 0 W. Clare . .14 b Jackson .. 9 Ti odd .. 4 c and hR. C. 'Finley , 0 E. W. Bird .. 0 bR. C. Tinley • 2 G , •een wood cG. Parr, bR. C. Tinley . . 3 J. Fairclough .. 9 b Jackson 1 C. Owen . • b R. C• Tinley , . 15 G. Clare .. 1 c and bR. C. Tinley 2 D. M. Drysdale 4 b Jackson 2 R. P. Jones .. 3 c Willsher ' b Bickley 0 , W. - Garrow .. 0 1-b-w, bR. C. Tinley 0 T. Holt .. 0 bR. C. Tinley .. 0 C. Hampshire 1 c Stephenson, bR. C. Tinley 1 W. G. Cross .. 4 bR. C. Tinley 2 H. Linton .. 0 st Stephenson, b Tinley.. 2 ' J. Cooke .. 0 not out 0 J. Gamble .. 0 run out 0 5 b 2, 1-b 1, w 1, n-b 4 T0TAL........ 62 All England total Liverpool (22) total. ..... „ RE MR. JOHN SHATTOCK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,—On perusing, in your impression of this morning, the police report of yesterday's date, relative to the above, any one would infer therefrom that I had had a vindictive feeling towards Mr. Shattock in bringing forward this prosecution : to use Mr. Bluck's words—" And all, except Mr Hughes (who, for some roason or other, I will not say what, is not satisfied), every one else appears quite satisfied, and I really do not see why he has so fastened on it." I would ask this gentleman (Mr. Bluck) what is the duty, however painful, of an attorney towards his client? Are my clients satisfied? Still, withal, they were not the first to prefer the charge against this unfortunate DISH; on the contrary, I several times requested and pre vailed on my clients not to do so, as it would be destroying their interest in other matters, as well as another client's, whose case I had taken up to compel Mr. Shattock to pay over to him £lOO damages, recoverel. at our last assizes, " Leather v. Busby and another," but the same have not been received by Leather, although dilly paid by the defendants. Ido assure you I acted purely and strictly in accordance , with my clients' instructions. Through Mr. Shattock they are heavy sufferers, having to pay on his account to-day a .sum of money. I could not have, had in view the prose cution, as that would have been conducted, a's yon are aware, by the public prosecutor of the borough ; and I trust I need not tell you how painful it is to me to have been obliged to be a party to affixing a stigma, I fear, on our profession, whose good name, I hope, it is most desirable at all times to preserve unsullied. Your insertion of the above will oblige. Mr. Editor, your very obedient servant, CHARLES EDWARD HUGHES, Attorney for Messrs. Little and Murray. 50, Lime-street, Liverpool, 17th June, 1857. DECLINE OF THE LEEDS SCHOOL.—After the late general election, when Bright and Gibson had been refused by Manchester, the Leeds Mercury edified the public with an article or two on the rise and progress, decline and fall, of the Manchester school. Mr. Edward Baines may now resume the historical style and give the rise and progress, decline and fall, of the Leeds school, an empire which in importance bears about the same relation to Manchester that Manchester does to the Roman empire, of which Gibson was the historian.—Oldhant Chronicle. JOURNEY OF SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE.—WE are gratified to be able to announce that Sir Moses Montefiore and party arrived safely at Jerusalem on Wednesday, the 20th ult. The philanthropist and companions immediately repaired to the synagogue,. where prayers of thanksgiving were offered up for their safe arrival. Sir Moses, we understand, expresses his high satisfaction with the state of the various institutions established by him. The wind mill has already reached a height of fifteen feet, The intended hospital will be converted into almshouses. Sir Moses resides in his garden outside the city. It is expected that he will leave on the 25th instant. —Jewish Chronicle. SAD Cam—A sad case has been developed in Chicago —the old story. Abeloni Hann, a young German girl, a daughter of poor bat respectable parents, was mold in her native land by a wealthy young man, named Philip Willig, who under promise of marriage, seduced her and then cost her off. Her parents thereupon turned her forth upon the world ; she came to Chicago ; obtained work ; eat' a few nights ago she was turned out of the house because of the discovery of her condition. After wandering wretchedly about the city, and applying in vain for relief at the hands of the Sisters of Mercy, she was taken into watch-house and there her child was born. Unable to speak a word of English—e stranger in a strange land—young and beauti ful ! What a lesson !—New York Delia. MEETING OF FHE CATHOLICS.—An adjourned meeting of Catholic noblemen and gentlemen was held, on Tuesday afternoon, at the Stafford-street Club, London, to consider the course to be adopted with reference to the Oaths Bill, on its third reading. A resolution, proposed by Mr. Chas. Langdale, was circied, after a long and animated debate, affirming that the bill was, practically, a re-enactment of an oath which was allowed, even by Protestants, to be insulting and offensive, and earnestly requesting all the Catholic members of both houses of the legislature to oppose the bill at every stage Among those present were Lord Camoys, the Earl of Fingall, Lords Stoerton, Lovat, an I Cano pden, Lord Edward Howard, M.P., Sir Robert Gerrard. Dr. Bowyer, M.P., and about twenty other Irish members. A petition to the some effect has been drawn up, and is in the course of signature at the Club. PROSECUTION OF BAKERS.—On Tuesday, the first of a series of informations laid against bakers in the county of Middlesex, for adulterating their bread with alum, were held before the magistrates at the Town-hall, Uxbridge. The informations were laid by Mr. James Gregg, the inspector of weights and measures for that district of the county, under the act of the 7th and Bth Will. 4, cap. 37. The following bakers were convicted :—Henry Appleton, fined £5 for using alum in his bread, and 405., and £4 Is. costs, for having alum in his possession ; William Gray, .£ll lls.; Frederick A. Stone, £ll Is. ; Spencer J. Homensod, £ll Is.; John Maize, 11 Is.; George Newman, £5. Dr. Normandy stated that the use of alum in the manufacture of bead enabled the baker to palm off bad flour for good, and it also enabled him to increase the quantity of bread. A sack of flour would make 90 ge nuine quartern loaves, but, by using alum, the least number he ever knew made was 94, increasing to 96. and he had known as many as 106 quartern loaves to be made from one sack of flour. It whitened inferior flour, and gave it the appearance of that of a very good quality. THE faun CHARACTER —ln our judgment, the most dangerous and unsatisfactory part of the Irish character is their hasty and passionate disposition. As they express it themselves, they are very " near their passion ;" and in this, as in many othere, they bear a strong resemblance to a southern race. This sudden violence of temper leads them into a thousand serapes, from which a cooler and more self-possessed noople would be free. It leads them at times to the committal of acts which appear to be more criminnl and malicious than they are in reality. For, like madmen, when one of these fits of anger seizes upon them, they lose all self-control. They become be. side themselves with ungovernable rage and wild revenge. Like hot-headed children, they fly on a sudden into a violent passion, deal blows around, injure, it may be, their best friends, and when they come to their senses again, are extremely sorry for their faults, and extremely penitent for what they have done. Bnt it, must always be remembered that these fits of unlicensed passion are more likely to seize upon those who have not been properly instructed and trained ; and that they are very seldom so abandoned to their rage as to refuse to listen to the mediation of the priest, and to be assanged and calmed by his admonitions. This fault, therefore, is by no means beyond the reach of cure. Religious infitienee can be brought to bear upon them, and they aro very seldom used without success,--Dr. Todd in Dublin Review. THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE. The commencement of the Overland Mail SerViO'e, accord ing to the terms of the recent contract with the European and Australian Mail Company, has not been marked with that success which the performances hitherto of the vessels employed had led us to anticipate. The Australian mail service seems destined to be subject to mishaps. The first voyage of the pioneer vessel that was to have opened up the new route, has been brought to a premature conclu sion The Oneida, which ought to have been by this time off the Australian coast, on her way back from Suez, with the February mails, is lying disabled in our harbour, while the heavy homeward mail which she should have delivered, will not reach its destination till two months after date. The disappointment to the colonists is great, as is also the inconvenience. To the company the loss will be heavy, and somewhat discouraging. The accumulative system of penalties which the terms of the contract provide, will press on them with all its severity. There will not only be a forfeit on the first voyage, but the whole of its proportion of the subsidy will be lost. The fracture of the solo•plate of the engine knocked £BOOO off the company's annual receipts at a stroke. Nor is this all. The arrangements for the first outward mail are thrown into confusion by this untoward accident. The cause of the non-appearance of the Oneida at Gallo and Suez will be unknown there, and the arrival of the vessel will be daily expected. Un less the Peninsular and Oriental Company are able and willing to furnish a suitable steamer at once to supply the deficiency, the mails and passengers will be detained in Egypt, at the cost of the company, till the Simla is ready to start with the March mails. Fortunately the February mails were not to leave England till the 21th of the month, while the March mail was to leave on the 12th, so that the interval, instead of being a month, will be only sixteen days. If the Simla should succeed in making a splendid run outwards from Suez, this overtime may be reduced ; but if her passage should be retarded by bad weather, there will be the accumulated forfeit incurred for the delay of these sixteen days, which will amount to not less than £6,000. The forfeiture of part of the subsidy is not the only loss that will fall upon the Company. The Oneida is to be sent home for repairs, for though the Sydney engineers are ready to pledge themselves to be able to perform this task efficiently, the expenditure of time and money will be almost, if not quite, as great as will be incurred by sending the vessel back to Glasgow. Another steamer of not less than 2,200 tons burthen must be chartered and sent out without delay, to supply her place; and until its arrival the service will be crippled, unless the Peninsular and Oriental Com pany can afford to extend the courtesy they have already shown to their successful rivals, and can lend immediately one of their large steamers engaged in the Indian seas. It is to be hoped that some accommodation of this sort will be found to be possible, or the regularity of the postal service will be disarranged, or rendered uncertain for months to come, and the Company will be subjected to a ruinous accumulation of losses.--,Sydney Herald, April 9. WRECKING AND SIITIGGLVTG IN STRONIA: Information having been communicated to the inland Revenue and Customhouse officials here, that quantities of tea and tobacco, forming part of the stores of the brig Favourite, of Aberdeen, wrecked at Duncaneby Head, had been run into the island of Strome, Messrs. Helm, super visor ; Mackay, riding-officer • Macdougall, pr:ventive man ; and Peach, comptroller Of customs, proceeded there on Tuesday last week, in search of the run goods. After landing, Messrs. Helm. Peach. and Macdougall, proceeded to the mainland, and instituted a search, while Mr. Mac kay went by a boat to examine the caves at the sea shore. In the course of his search into the caves,,Mr. Meelmy entered one a considerable distance, aiding his inquiries by means of a candle, and there he tumbled on a sack of ground malt. Encouraged by this unlocked-for discovery, he proceeded farther into the recess of the dingy cavern, and was increasingly successful, having found a copper still heal and shoulders, which as a matter of course, he took passeegion of in her Majesty's name and authority, destroying "the mercies" under the same authority. The materials were taken to the office at Pulteneytown. The other officers obtained no clue to the run" geods; though probably certain individuals that observed the progress of the search were chewing the cud of contentment over por tions of the stolen tobacco. However, in certain houses they discovered large portions of the wrecked property, belonging both to the Favourite and the Blue Bonnet, wrecked at Stroma. We should hope that, for the credit of the country, the offenders will he promptly taken to task for such disgraceful conduct. Perhaps it may not be out of place to remark that it is quite possible that mans cases of breech of the excise laws would be detected here and elsewhere, were there, as in this instance, mutual co operation between the two branches-of the service. To the dishonour of this county, we regret that a large quan tity of the Favourite's stores has been taken away, and that wrecking. to a great extent has been carried on at both vessels. And now that, at least, two cart loads of the wrecked goods have been found in dweliingeheuses, there surely can be no difficulty in obt:aing a verdict against one or more of the leading offenders.— Northern , Ensign. BILL FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF FRAUDULENT DIRECTORS, TRUSTEES, SOLICITORS, AND OTHER AGENTS. This bill was read a second time on Monday, and is no/ rapidly passing through its other stages in the House of Commons. We have already pointed out that, unleso certain penal clauses of the bill, which deal with offences of trustees, directors, &c., underwent considerable alteration in committee, the character and liberty of every honest trustee and solicitor in the country will be put in extreme ieopardy. We suggested at the same time, that this bill afforded the best opportunity which has yet been offered for introducing a provision, making it punishable as a misdemeanour fur persons to obtain goods on credit, for the alleged purpose of bona fide trade, but instantly disposing of such goods by auction, and applying the money to their own purposes in defraud of their creditors. At this im portant stage of the bill, we again call attention to the subject, and remind mercantile boslies of this valuable opportunity of putting an end to a traffic by which their members are systematically defrauded of their property. On the one hand, we desire to impress on our readers, that if those penal clauses to which we have referred, be allowed to stand as they are, the act, when passed, will infallibly tend to prevent mercantile men of character and responsibility, from accepting any office or duty connected either with trusts or joint stock companies, and throw those offices and duties on persons of inferior responsibility and station. Consequences more serious still may follow the enactment of clauses so extremely penal, because, if trustees under wills are to be exposed, by some innocent omission, to the risk of such conse quences as seven years' penal servitude, what possibility' will there be of persuading sensitive and honourable men 'to undertake the office of guardian and trustee of the children and property of deceased relatives ? Stich a bill, if passed in its present shape, would thus be an insuperable obstacle in the way of fulfilling the most secret obligationS and duties of private life. It must not be forgotten that this measure has been prompted and maialy brought forward in consequence of recent disclosures of extensive frauds connected with the Royal British Bank. Such A bill, at the present moment, will no doubt be received with popular favour, but legislation of such a character is by no means either a safe or scientific mode of dealing wit? the amendment of the law. It is, however, only fair towards the Attorney-General to state that he has invited public bodies, and all persons who feel an interest in the measure, to give effect to their objections by forwarding to him clauses which would be necessary, in their judgments to give a more safe, cautious, and effective operation to the measure.— Mercantile Test. Some of the wise ones notice that the 7 s tj an i n the Moon" has already flattened and Fcorcbed his nose con siderably by coming in contact with the cornet, while swinging round our earth, which circumstance irrefragabil proves that the fiery mass must atrttady he near us. EXTRAORDINARY FIRTH. — The wife of an operative, named George Caton, residit , g in Back Tettow-street, Wernetb, was delivered of an extraordinary male child a f ew days a y. The innutt has two bodies jot se.; back to back, four arms, r,nd four legi, but only one 'Kati and neck. The child is alive and h , a'thy, and the :,I,Crter is also dein; well. LABOUR LN JAMAICA. —The adviees from Jamaica, state that the question of the wage 3 of agricalt oral lab , mrer s had been warmly agitated. Tile Falmouth Post and the Watehnvin argue that, as the labotrers cheerfully sub" milted to a reduction of their wages when sugar was selling at from £lO to £l2, they are entitled to an increas e now that the price has risen to £3O per hogshead. Th° Daily Advertiser considers such a mode of argutn,nt to be mischievous, as tending to sow the seeds of discor 3 between employer and employed, and contends that, as the planter has been a loser for some years past, he 17 justified in taking advantage of the presept rise in el e price of praduce. The Morning Journal prefers neutrality on the question, conceiving that the matter concerns ouil those who are directly interested. • CASII AND DEED BOXES.—The next important thing to the posse!. sion o f Cash is ; how (when yen have got it) to keep it safely, either 14 the connting-house or at home. The same remarks apply to d 8 and other valuable documents. We have seen a large and va!: stock of both these desirable articles, manufactured expressly for ss:i E. T. Hall, of South John-street, that challenge attention. The 4 boxes ire made on new and admired principles, and possess P a io loci:s, which defy the ingenuity of any "pick-lock" in the wo rld d open, except with the legitimate key. To merchants, solicitors , others, these new safes, on a small scale, must prove valuableind e —Northern Daily Times, 21st May, 1857.