Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-05 00:00:00

CHESTER ASSIZES.-V-ZSTERDIT. BEFORE LORD CITIET. JUSTICE COCTIBURN. ACTION FOR LIBEL AGAINST A NEW,kPAPER PROPRIETOR. LEWIS a. BAYLEY.—The plaintiff in this action is Mr. Lewis, a solicitor, and clerk to the magistrates at Wrexham, and the defendant. Mr. Bayley, is the registered proprietor of the Wrexham and Denbighshire Weedy Advertiser. The action was brought to reco er damages for a series of alleged libels on the plaintiff, published in the defendant's paper. The damages were laid at £lOO. Additional interest was imparted to the proceedings from its being, known that the p 1 airy iff is one of the proprietors of the Wrece ham Telegraph, and that there had often been differences between the two papers. Mr. Wel-by and Mr. Foulkes appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Neale, Q.C., of the Oxford Circuit (specially retained), and Mr. Macintyre for the diefendant. Mr. Welsh stated the case on the part of the plaintiff at considerable lengh. Some time in May, 1836, a paragraph appeared in the defendant's paper, 'headed Clerical Sacrilege," in which there was an adu sation against the Rev. Mr. Bonner, the vicar of Ruaben, of having broken open a chest in the church and abstracted therefrom some documents. Upon this paragraph appear ing, Mr. Lewis, who is the solicitor for the vicar, waited upon that gentleman, and subsequently called upon the defendant to contradict the statement in the next issue of his paper. That was not done, and an action was therefore commenced against h;m by the vicar, through Mr. Lewis, the plaintiff in the present action. Pro ceedings were stayed on the defendant's making an apolcgy in the paper, but the apology was followed up by a series cf attacks made in the paper on the character of Mr. Lewis. On the .le3th of July, 1556, an article appeared in the defendant's newspaper reflecting on Mr. Lewis as having been the means of the vicar bringing the action against the defendant, and that the plaintiff prompted him by vindictive feelings. In this article the plaintiff was denounced as the vicar's ". Snap, Gammon, and Quirk' adviser, who, in matters of this kind, seems quite at home, and above all things likes ap-Aoziee to be dote to the letter, and who, Shyloek-like, in the in'ensity of his hatred to a political opponent, is scarcely satisfied with the pound of flesh fairly meted out." Several of the articles appeared in succession against the plaintiff, in all of which his character was attacked, and in one a these articles he was caricatured in his position as clerk to the magistrates, as "a spruce, sharp-faced individual, with a re:mding forehead, and spare person, whose nervous boa horde seemed to serve him as a substitute for capacious intellect and gentle manly bearing." The learned counsel, in continuation, said that these repeated attacks were calculated to injure the plaintiff in his professional and private character, and the cries of " Snap, Gammon, and Quirk," applied to him as he passed along the streets, calculated to bring him into contempt. There could be no doubt that the terms which the defendant had applied to him were slanderous, and therefore he asked for a verdict. He did not ask for large or vindictive damages. All he wished was that the defendant should be shown that he was ding wrong in making these at tacks, and that the plaintiff was not to be insulted as he had been. Perhaps his learned friend on the other side would talk about the liberty of the press, and the necessity of its being protected in its comments on the conduct of public men ; but, agreeing, as he did, that the press was the great safeguard of cur rights and liberties, none of us could contend that our personal and professional character should be made the subject of such lascerating comments as those to which he had referred. Evidence having been put in proving that the defendant was the proprietor of the Wrexham aid Denbighshi e Meekly Advertiser, Mr. Welsby intimated that he did not intend to call any witnesses, and that that was the plaintiff's ease. Mr. Neale, in addressing the .iury, cnaplained that Mr. Welsby bad not dared to put the plaintiff into the witness box, nor any other person, to state their belief that the alleged libels applied to the plaintiff. He then endeavoured to show that there was no proof at all that they were directed against the plaintiff, and even supposing they were he denied that they were libellous. A great deal had been said by the learned counsel as to the obloquy cast upon the plaintiff by the application of thu terms, " Quirk, Gammon, and Snap ;" but really there was no ground for the statement, for he believed that they were three bet evolent gentlemen, reared in a Warren near Midhurst, by a gentleman who was one of the stars of Lord Derby's medley. ( Laughter.) Well, then, the learned counsel had complained that the defen dant had called his client "a spruce, sharp faced gentle. man, with a receding forehead." Surely there was no libel in that ; on the contrary, it was a compliment, for he was likened unto Cicero, who also bad a receding forehead. (Renewed laughter) Again, it was said, the defendant had called him a "spare person," which, so far from its being a reflection, indicated that he was a m a n w h o wou ld li ve for ever, having no fat to bother him. (Renewal laughter.) The learned counsel, in terms of ridicule and humour, dwelt on the plaintiff applying the remarks in the defendant's paper to himself, and quo 'ecl largely from Goldsmith, Johnson. m i cl u at'osg of his remarks. He cor eluded by denouncing the action as one brought by the plaintiff; as an attorney, to obta'n his costs, and ruin, if possible, a rival journalist. The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up, commented with great severity on the manner in which the learned counsel for the defendant had endeavoured to heap ridicule on the plaintiff, by quoting poetry as he had done. If the jury telieved that what was charged against the defendant did really amount to a libel on the plaintiff; it was his duty to tell them that the manner in which the learned counsel had assailed the plaintiff was a very great aggravation of the original libel. His Lordship then proceeded to remetak upon the articles which had appeared in the defendant's paper, observing that perhaps that was neither the time nor the place to refresh their literary recollections, for the purpose of ascertaining what the terms of '• Quirk, Gammon, and Snap," were intended to convey ; but without reference to any source from which they might derive information on the question, he thought that the words " Quirk, Gammon, and Snap" attached to the name of a professional gentleman, was not calculated to raise such a gentleman's character, but rather to lower it. His Lordship having concluded, the jury, after retiring for a few minutes, returned a verdict for the plaintiff Damages, £lO. CROWN COURT. Mr. Justice Crowder was occupied the greater part of the day in the trial of Thomas Brooks, for forging a will at Congleton. There were two separate indictments against hull, on both of wh 7 ch he was found guilty. The prisoner's c bled was to obtain £9 from the Congleton Savings' Bank. INCREASE OP THE COMPANY'S EUROPEAN TROOPS.—It is intended to increase the number of European Artillery, Sappers and Miners, and infantry in the service of the East India Company by 6.000 men. Regimental offices s will not be permitted to hold any civil appointment. The Commissariat will be officered in a similar manner to that of her Majesty's service, and not, ae at present, detached from their regiments to serve as Deputies and Assistant Commissariat Generals. How HUMAN BEINGS ARE SPOKEN OF IN AMERICA.— A company of seventy Irish girls passed through this city on their way to the West, a day or two since, accompanied by an Irish gentleman who had them in charge, and brought them all the way from Ireland. They were a fine looking lot of girls, .from sixteen to eighteen years of age, and intend to make the West their homes; and of course are ready to marry, but are willing to work and earn their living until the rime arrives when they will get husbands, They are to earn money sufficient to pay the expense of bringing them aver, and return it to the benevolent gentle. man who took the expense upon himself the first thing.; after that they *ill be at liberty to indulge in ribbons ane hoops, if they choose. The girls are all of the working. class, being somewhat of the better c l ass o f em i grants. Father Henessy, of this city, selected thirteen of the num ber, and took upon himself the task of finding homes for them. They came through by railroad from New York. The various roads along the route showed their gallantry by providing them with first-class cars to ride in, although the tickets were emigrant tickets. There is room oe the Western prairies for all such cargoes that can be brought to the country. THE LATE EmILIA L'ANGELIER AND Mrss MADELEINE SMITH.—A correspondent, writing from Edinburgh, states that two actions of divorce are now pending in the Scot tish law courts, brought about by the too close intimacy of the late Emile L'Angelier with certain married ladies in that city. The entries in the memorandum-hoek found in L'Angelier's desk, and which it will be recolleeted was rejected as evidence on the trial of Miss Smith, are said to have revealed matter sufficient to place the guilt of the parties in question beyond a doubt. Attempts are beim?, made to hush up the affair ; a' few days will, however, it is expected, unravel the mystery. Miss Smith (adds our correspondent) was seen walking last week, with the ut most composure, near her father's residence in G.asgow. The A:co/fish Press states that Mr. Rankin, who was the Edinburgh agent for Miss Smith, is so convinced she was innocent of the crime laid to her charge, that ha has causes "a thorough investigation to be made into the ,whole cas', whch investigation is not 3 et c.mpleted, bat evidence has in course transpired; vela:ch in his judgment, we believe, will satisfy the public, as it would have satisfied the Crown, that the ease should be abandoned, or would have satisfied the jury that a verdict of 'Not Guilty' would have been more appropriate. We content ourselves with this stat:- ment for the present; by-and-by the public will be placed in the jury box to try over again, in the perusal , of Mr. Itankiu'e case,' the facts of the charge." POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—YEsrmthey. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1857. LIVERPOOL. EEFORE MR. J. AWN. ALLEGED SMUGGLING Br A CAPTAIN.—Merton Nicholas Von Hackten, master of the Hamburgh ship Eastern Sophy, from Maracaibo, was charged with attempting to conceal 11111)s. of foreign manufactured cigars. Mr. Tyndall was for the Crown, and Mr. Bluck defended. Martin Burn, an officer of Cutoms, said: Oa examinirg the ship, the captain produced some tobacco and cigars, saying he had no more, except what was under seal as stores, but on searching a d:awer in the prisoner's state-room, he found 11,'Ibs. of foreign manufactured cigars, and he then ad mitted having put them there, saying he never did the like before. In reply to Mr. Bluck, the witness said the ship arrived here on the Ist, but he did not board her until the 3rd. The cigars might have been used for another voyage. How do you know the cigars are foreign ? By my experience. I never made cigars, but I swear the cigars are foreign. Mr. Tyndall asked for a remand to Friday, as he had to apply to the Board in London on the subject. M. Black said he could not resist the applica tion, but his would a-k to have the prisoner liberated on bail. This was agreed to, and the case was re manded. ESIBRZZLEMENT.—.4 n elderly man of very respectable appearance named John Newbold, was brought up by detective officer Eaton, on a charge of having embezzled £8.5 belonging to Mr. Sampson Moore, Ironmonger, carrying on business in William-street, Waterloo-road. Mr. Woodburn appeared for the prosecution, and said the prisoner was a collector of accounts for Mr. Moore, and his duty was to hand the cash over to the cash keeper. Ho would only produce two cases, and then risk for a remand. Mr. Skellicorn, the cash keeper at Mr. Moore's, proved that it was the duty of the prisoner to collect cash and hand it over to him as soon as possible. Used to give him receipts in a book for the sums paid. Mr. Barnes, of the firm of Barnes and Ogden, proved that on the sth of June, he paid the prisoner .E 6 Is. Gd., and Mr. Wm. Wyse, from Messrs. Poeley and eons, proved having paid him £1 lls Gd, on the 2nd May. Me. Skellicorn stated that these sums were not paid to, nor accounted for to him by the prisoner. The prisoner said he required some accounts that he had made out for Mr. Moore, and that would explain the whole matter. The account showed that he owed Mr. Moore £4O, which he would pay him, but Mr. Moore the previous day said he would hang him (the prisoner), but he was able to explain all, as he was allowed expenses, and 'hat would make the accounts all right. He was remanded. A SW,NDLE.—John Hushes, who said he was a book keeper until his sight got bad, was charged with being concerned, with another person, not in custody, in swindling the Rev. Mr. Hull, of the Blind School, out of £2. It appeared that since April, 1856, the Rev. gentle man had been very kind to him, and at several times he relieved him with sums of money from a pound down to 33. On the 25 hof July. the prisoner, with the other man al laded to, called on him, and represented that the other per son was the master of a vessel called the Dart, and said he would take the prisoner on board his ship, in regard to a friendship he had for his father, but he would require £2 for an outfit, and the Rev. gentleman, believing the story, gave the parties the money, but subsequently discovered that the whole was a cheat. The prisoner was remanded, in order to look after the other man. A PAIR OF SCOUNDRELS CAuonT.—Patrick Kearns and David Galiwsy were charged with having robbed a fine in'elligent boy, named James Pryke, a native of Douglas. The boy came here to look for a ship, as he had been at sea before, when he fell in with the prisoners, one of wham represented himself to be the mate of a ship named the Eliza, going to Newfoundland, and the other a sailor on board. They promised to ship him, and to act 1 ke a father to him; and by a variety of representations, they got him into a car, on pretence of going to the ship, where they succeeded in getting the money and two large bundles of clothes, and got away with both. Detective officer Lay-cock subse eequently arrested the prisoners at a house of ill-fame in Clement-street, and got the bags containing the clothes. The boy told his story, the substance of which is given above. Mr. Aikin directed the officer to state the facts to Captain Ainley, at the Sailors' Home, as he thought the case came under the Merchant Shipping Act, which punished such crimes very severely; and the case was of such a heartless character that he wished it to be dealt with in that way. Subsequently Mr. Tyndall, the Board of Trade solicitor, atttended, and said the ease came under the act, and he had been instructed by the Local Marine Board to prosecute in the case. He tteked for a remand to Friday, which was granted. INSPECTOR KEFIOE AMO 'JOST ATTORNIES' CLERKS ! —There are a certain class of human beings, nine of which are said to make a man, and amongst whom a certain sable gentle man is said to kick up a desperate shrine now and then ; but this was nothing compared to the shine kicked up /,!.s,SP,OsasT Asla - Paglii: A ac c h sTja The case arose in this way. A very handsome Scotch girl, named Jane Brooks, and James Allen were charged by James Brooks, said to be a clerk to Mr. Goodere, attorney, with stealing a pair of trowsers from him. At first the prosecutor refused to go on, saying he had no evidence to offer ; but Mr. Kehoe called on his Worship to melee the man go on, or to commit him, as he had given the prisoners in charge for felony, and he (1!vIr. K.) wanted, by this case, to show a desperate sys tem that was followed by touting clerks of attorneys about that court, and to call on the bench to put a stop to such disgraceful practices—practices that had brought the court and justice into utter public contempt. He called the officer who had cha-ge of the cage, and he said the prisoners were given into charg 3 by James Brooks, who said the female stole a paie of trousers from him, and that the man was with her when she pledged them. The.. was the charge. James Brooks examinei : lam clerk to Mr. Goodere, attorney. Mr Kehoe : Are you not a touter, sir? No. I am his c erk. I live at 8, Dawson street, and Mr. Goodere lives at 1, Bold-place. I know the female prisoner, an i first knew her in London. I lived with her in Scotland, but not as my wife. I have no further evidence to give in this case, and I therefore refuse to answer any more qaestions. Mr. Kehoe : You have charged these people with felony, and if you refuse to give evidence, I will call on the magistrate to commit you. Mr. Aikin : Ycu have given them in charge, and you must go on with the evidence. Witness : Oh, it was Mr. Kehoe that brought this eve here, in order to ruin me. Mr. Kehoe : Do you mean to say, sir, that I made a charge of felony against these people? Mr. Aikin : Mr. Kehoe did not bring this cage. You charged the people, and brought the case here, and do you moan, sir, to that yen give people in charge for felony, without any grounds for the charge, and then dare to say here that Mr. Kehoe has brought the charge, when you are not able, or refuse, to sustain it? Witness: I have no evidence to give in this case. Mr. Kehoe : You shall not stir out of this court until I shall hare exposed you and the whole touting system, and I shall call on the bench to abolish this abominable system. There are a lot of fellows who prowl about here - like this and other fel lows, and give People into custody on charges of felony—for what object it is pretty clear—and then, when the - case is called on, they either do not appear —or like this fellow, if they do, refuse, to give evidence. Witness : I am not a touter ; I am Mr. Goodere's clerk, but I have no evidence to g ve in this else. Mr. K. hoe : Did you live with this woman in London ? No. Did you live with her in Scotland as your wife ? I refuse to answer. Did you live with her in No. 8, Dawson-street, as your wife? I refuse to answer. She was my housekeeper., and I have no evidence to give in this case. On your oath, sir, did you ever at any time or in any place live with that young woman as your wife? I refuse to answer. M. Aikin : This man makes a most disreputable figure and epeearance in the court. He first charges these people with felony, and now ho refuses to give evidence—his conduct is quite disgraceful, judging him out of his own mouth. Mr. Ke'noe (to the witness ): Is Mr. Goodere here to-day ? No, he is gone to Prescott on a special case. Mr. Kehoe : On your oath, tin, did you not first seduce that young woman, and then induce her to abandon her friends, and did you not bring her here and abandon her on th e s t ree t s o f Li verpoo l to common prostitution ? She is no prostitute. Do you swear that ? Yes. Did you live with her as man and wife ? Yes. And were you married ? N o . Th en , s i r, d o you mean to say that living with h er i n suc h a state was not prosti tution ? Come, si r , answer, as I intend to test your morality hero before the court and public. I refuse to answer. Mr. Aikin : I thiek this man will be sufficiently punished by the exposure of thi s case, w hi ch, no dou b t, the reporters will publish in the papers. I never heard a worse case, but as he refuses to proceed, I discharge the prisoner. Agnes Brown and Rebecca Miller were brought up on remand, charged with stealing a watch from a wes t o f England gentl eman . Th e details of this case appeared a few days ago ; and it appeared that since the remand the watch was found with a person named Ne.,bitt, who con ducts a public bruise for his brother at the corner of Rupert-street, and this person fell in for a good deal of censure, but as the case stands again for this day, we hold over he details. BICFORI MESSI23. sawn AND STITT. MESOME natl. Inspector Tyrrell summoned Ellen Donne, of St. John's Fish Market, for having 300 lbs. of unwholesome fish expoiel f or sale. She was fined 9s Gd. The same inspector brought the following charges— against Elizabeth Studhen, who was fined Os Gd for ex posing twenty quarts of unwholesome shrimps ; Elizabeth Itiswdaley, of the same market, was fined Os 64 for a like offence; Elizabeth ITDonnell was fined Ss for having unwholesome oysters in the same market. INDECENT ASSAULT.—John M.Cabe, a paper•hanger and painter, living in Olive street, was fined £5, or to be im prisoned for two months, for having committed an indecent assault on a young woman, named Mary Yates, who is connected with a milk-house. The affair took place in a house in Lawrence street, Scotland-road, on Monday night. CORONER'S INQUESTS. Y sterday the Coroner held the following inque3ts : On the body a man, name unknown, who was found floating in the river. He was about fivo feet eight inches high, and stout make. Ha had on a blue flannel shirt, blue duck trowers, and laced shoes. He was about thirty four years old. Verdict, " Found drowned." On the body of Hugh A. Young, seventeen years old, who was drowned in the river whilst bathing. The details appeared in our paper of yesterday. Verdict, " Accidental drowning." On the body of a man, name unknown, who was found at the Custom-house in a state of drunkenness, and who died in the Northern Hospital, undr tho circumstances stated in our paper of yesterday. Verdict, " Died of excessive drinking." THE SCARCITY OF Paprn.—lt was st ted in May last that the paper manufacturers of Westphalia and the Rhenish proinces in Prussia had agreed to increase the price of piper 10, 15, or 20 per cent-, according to quality. The paper manufacturers of Northern Germany, at a meeting held at Stettin, and these of Southern Germany, at one held at Fran kfort, have since resolved to adopt the same augmentation, and the measure has caused general dissa tisfaction in Germany, in which. from the immense number of book, newspapers, and periodicals published, the demand for paper is so very grew. Although paper has increased in value in all Europe, owing to the scarcity of rags, the step taken by the German paper makers is regarded as unjust, inasmuch as they have long been doubly protected, first by a tax of from 60 to 100 per cent., as' valorem, on all rags exported; and next, by one of about 30 per cent. on all paper imported. The booksellers and publishers of Germany, not fewer than 850 in number, have energetically protested against the increase of price adopted by the paper makers, and call on the different gcvernmeu!s of Germany to take off the exaggerated protec ion which the paper makers enjoy, so as to allow a large importation of the article from abroad. In the meantime they have resolved to confine their consumption of p iper to the narrowest limits, and for that purpose will either .delay altogether the publication of new works, or will only strike off small elitions of them. THE B:SHOF or Sr' DAVID'S, who is generally consi dered a very quiet man, comes forward in a letter in The Times, to hurl defiance at M. Massey, Mr. GladsSone, Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. Hadfield, the House of Commons, and all the world, in the matter of the new Swansea Cemetery. It seems that there has been a delay in consecrating the new cemetery at Swansea, in consequence of the vicar claiming compensation for the expenses of conveyance to and fro, the cemetery being two miles distant from the town. The claim was admitted ,to be a reasonable one, but it was difficult to arrange a legal fulfilment cf it. The opinion of counsel decided that the expense of providing vehicles could not be laid on the borough rates, hut that compensation could be afforded the vicar by "a revision of the interment fees." It appears that the committee of the Town Council of Swansea adopted this arrangement, which was accepted by the vicar, approved by th e bishop, and that the final step was only put off by the absence of some members of the town council, on the subject of local affairs in London. In this interval Mr. Massey inserts a clause in the Burials Acts Amendment bill which relieves the inconvenience caused by the delay in the consecration of the Swansea Cemetery in a completely different way—viz., by giving permission to all incumbents to bury in unconse crated ground, whether with or without the bishop's consent. The Bishop of St. David's, in the letter of to-day, condemns this clause as gratuitous and unneces sary, inasmuch as the causes of the delay of consecration in the Swansea case were now over, and the burial ground only waited for a formal act of the Town Council to obtain its legitimate use as consecrated ground ; and he asserts that the house passed the clause in ignorance of the true circumstances of the case, and under the untrue impression that an interminable quarrel between the bishop and the Town Council interposed between the burial and its con secration. Accordingly his lordship treats the house fiS deceived, and acting altogether under a mistake, in passing the clause. GIGANTiC DEER SKELETON.,—Two or three days since, as one of the Ormonde tenants here, named John Bulger, was at work in his dividend of the reclaimel portion of the bog of Poulacapple, he observed that the sail in one seot was of a pecuiar colour and nature, or, in his own words, "black as jet, and greasy Looking." Prompted by curiosity, he rinv ilea on reaching the bottom, composed of sand and marl, he, to his surprise, turned up a huge skeleton of the Cervus Megeceros llibernicus, the extinct gigantic deer of Ireland. Having carefully gathered up the bones, including the smallest fragments, he brought them hems. The news spread with eectric speed in the neighbourhood, and in the evening, when the toils of the day were over on the bog, group after group went to see the relics of the " Eta roadh," or red deer, as they are called in ancient song and snory, and by many a fireside the gild sports of the Fenian chase were narrated with fresh avidity. The discoverer, having cleanly washed all the bones, proceeded to match and arrange them in one of his rooms. On the following day the Dowager Marchioness of Ormonde, accompanied by Lady Elizabeth Butler, drove there to see them. The joints are prodigious, as are also thejaw-bones, armed with rows of teeth and grinders, in good preservation. Bulger, warmly sharing in the gratitude that is felt by all in the neighbourhood towards the noble marchioaess, exclaimed —" If the bones were wo r th twenty pounds, I would gladly give teem to your ladyship in preference to any one living," and accordingly he brought them to Garryricken House in the evening. It is a pity that the antlers have suffered so greatly from decomposition as to be detached from the head, as are also the horns from the wales It Lady Ormonde had been living in Garryricken in 1836. when the first deer skeleton was found in Paulacepple bog, she might have got a pair of antlers that would span the entrance gate of her demesne, had not a rude peas ,nt, who am, however, glad was none of the natives, by the blows of a spade, severed oec of them from the head. Bilge'. hopes to succeed in a search for more deer skeletons in the bog. where so many have been already discovered. In turning up one of them in 18-16, a substance, soft, black, and gles v, was found, which some c died deer -suet. Our Irish bogs are Nature's museums."—Kakenny Moleretor. THE MATRIMM./ItL EMPORIUM AT CONSTANTINOPLE.— The far-seeing slave-dealers, who provide the Turkish market with Circassian wares, had no diffikealiy in fore telling that the treaty of Paris would abandon to their fate those gallant mountaineers of the C oicasus who have so long and so manfully struggled fur independence from the Russian yoke, and that soon they must bid an eternal fare. well to their limanive traffic in Circassian beauty, and their judicious supply of wives for the Pashas of Constan tinople. Accordingly, ere the treaty came into operation, and the government of the Czar was authorised to forbid the export of its new subjec's, they proceeded to buy up, far and near, every eligible young lady of Circassian origin, and forward her, as speedily as possible, to the emporium of matrimony at Constantinople. Nor was this so hard a lot for the,c mountain daisies as it mayat first sight appear. They are taught to look upon the slave -market of the Turkish capital as the arena in which they are to contend for the prizes of life—namely, comfortahle quarters, luxurious baths, a house full of slaves, and a rich master. To be deprived of her season at Stamhoul is a bitter dis appointment to a Circassian belle. We in England can • not understand this. Our fair Anglo-Saxons broil in London through the dog-days simply and entirely for the exquisite delights of its amusements and its society. Who ever heard of an English girl going to a ball with any ulterior view but that of dancing? Who ever detected her payiug her modest court to an elderly Pasha (of the Upper House) for the sake of having jewels and amber, and gilded arabs and slaves at her disposal ? Who ever knew a blooming rose of June thet would have made the treasure of his life to L-z irus, and changed his gloomy dwelling to a bower of Paradise, transplanted by her own desire to the hothouses of Dives, there to queen it for a day among all his plants and exotics, and then pine neglected and withericg away ? No, no, we know nothing of such doings ; but the trade flourishes handsomely in the East, and consequently the spring and summer of '56 saw Con slantinople literally smothered in beauty. I use the word advisedly, for an Oriental enslaver, in the language of Burns, is "a lass who has acres of charms," and a pasha purchases his wife as he does his mutton, by the pound. Now, demand and supply, File action and reaction, are "equal and contrary," nor is woman more than any other marketable commodity, exempt from tare immutable law; so when this invasion of beauty came pouring into Constantinople, the value even of a Circassian decreased steadily in an nla'ming ratio, till a damsel that, in the golden days of gallantry, would have fetched a hundred and fifty pounds sterling, was now to be bought, " warranted," for five ! Mark the sequel. Luxury crept in amongst the lower classes. The poor Turkish artisan, anntitioning a Circassian bride, sold his tools, his all —nay, his faithful black wives—to purchase the unheard-of biessiV. The poor negro women were turned adrift into the stree ts. Who was to bid for them? During the worst period of the panic, black women were selling in Con stantinople h't a shilling a dozen,—,Eraser's Maga4: - .ine, for August. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY CO URT.—YEs TE ?WAY. (BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER PERRY.) IN re RICHARD ROWLINVN.—The bankrupt, commission merchant and shipowner, Liverpool, came up this day on his last examination, He was supported by Mr. John Atkinson. Mr. Lowndes appeared for a creditor, and briefly examined the ba . ok -upt, who stated that he was perfectly solvent in February last, and would have con tinued so had it not been for Mr. Lowndes client. From July 1855, when he started business on his own account, after the dissolution of the firm of Rowlinson, Sons, and Co., in which he was a partner, to July 1856, he hid had no transactions except in regird to the barque Ariadne, of which he was sole owner. He had no iuterest in the house in Falkner-square, which was settled on his wife and children in 1837. The last examination was passed, and a day was fixed for the certificate meeting. RECRUITING FOR THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.—RI e0119(- Crellee of the large number of Royal Artillery under orders for India, and other foreign stations, a " Recruiting Circu lar" was issued on Saturday last, from the Adjutant Gene ! ral's Office, Head Qaarters, Woolwich. SLAVERY PROSPECTS IN THE UNITED STATES.—The Rising Sun of Newburg, South Carolina, says in regard to the signs of the times in the political horiz m:— " ennuis and darkness, threatening clouds, ominous dark ness, gather around rue political future. A night gloomy and terrible sets in upon us. We are drifting slowly, silently into an ocean of storms, fu'ious whirlwinds, qtfeksands and fearful whirlpools. A solemn silence pre vails—nis the precursor of a horrible tempest. Hark ! the muttering rumbling of distant thunder breaks upon the stillness. Fitful flu hes reveal the sullen gloom. The lurid air is heavy'and chilly. The storm approaches— nearer and nearer it comes—louder and more loud it howls. Man the sails—all hands to their posts. The South expects every man to do his duty. Lifo and duty, honour and liberty are involved. Let each heart be firm, each nerve be steady. The conflict will be fierce as hate and malice can make it. Stand firm. Hark ! what crash was that ? Kansas is gone ! List ! a triumphant shout from the spirits of the storm. Missouri is yielding. How fierce the b'asts, how lurid the lightning! Howls horrible, veils terrific, tear our ears. Virginia is as sailed. Gloomy, dark, terrible howls the tempest ! Watchman, what of the night? All is dark ! no dawn appears." " That Sir Henry Barnard had not yet attacked Delhi," says the United Service Gazette," will awaken no surprise. The mutineers are in much greater force than himself, and are ;Jed by men who have 'set squadrons in the field, and something of the division of a battle know.' The Native commissioned officers, bad as they generally are, have risen with the occasion, and in their new capacty of leaders of revolted Sepeys are exhibiting the fruits of their experience in the Sutlej, G and Affelmn campaigns. The Native Sappers and Miners and Native Artillery, who are within the walls of Delhi, know something of the defence as well as the attack of fortified places, and we may expect that, in their u'ter desperation, they will employ every atom of their gained knowledge to ball I the efforts of their issoilants. Sir 11. Barnard has shown his prudence in awaiting reinforcements anti contenting himself with the repulse of the sorties of the Delhi garri son. These sorties are evidences of the desperation of the mutineers. They will make a few more, and then perhaps endeavour to escape. Sir Henry must have enough to do to keep the place invested. A town, several miles in cir cumference, standing on the bank'of a river, can only ho surrounded by a considerable and a very vigilant force. It is true there are four main ga'es of Delhi, and high roads conducting to them, which may be blockaded effec tually, but the intermediate spaces can be traversed and I the river crossnl at so many points that the most incessant patrolling will be necessary to enmesh the enemy. For all this, by the last accounts, General Barnard had but 4,000 men." The Press thinks that it is a singular proof how open the aristocracy of England is by its constitution to find that there are now three ennobled families of the name of Canning. "At Eton, nearly eighty years ago, young Jenkinson (afterwards the second Earl of Liverpool) . had to deliver an oration in presence of Mr. Fitt, then Prime Minister, and with great good nature, Jenkinson gave his place to his friend young Canning, who first attracted Mr •Pitt's notice on that day. His school expenses were defrayed by a relative engaged in commercial life, and Mr. Hookham Frerc.'s affecting epitaph truly records that Canning was Born of an ancient name of little worth, And disinherited before his birth. The son of an unfortunate Irish gentleman, George Can nirrg, rose to be prime minister. His widow was made a viscountess; he raised one of his Irish cousins to the peerage (Lord Garvagh) ; another kinsm a n h e advanced in diplo matic service ( taord Stratford de Redcliffe); and the son of the landless ornhan' (» dnceeiFofl by Afx. e'rere) is now Governor-General of India ! At his farewell dinner the noble viscount uttered a generous and truly filial aspiration that he might show he was worthy of wearing his hereditary coronet. We cordi illy echo that prayer. Some of his advisers have broken down; but in such circumstances a min of inherent vigour would rise with the emergencies, and we sincerely tru s t th a t L or d Canning will prove .brilliant exception to the general rate that the sons of famous men are failures. He is of Anglo-Irish extraction, and Anglo-Irish names, like those of Sir Eyre Coote, Lard Maoutnay, the two Wellesleys, the Marqnis of Has ings, and others, shine brilliantly in the eventful annals of our Indian empire." TIM WEATHER, PROVIoIONS, AND HEALTH.—At the Greenwich Observatory the temperature was below the average in May and Juue. The inten se h ea t i n J une was remarable. The 28th of June was the hottest day we have experienced since July 6, 1816. It was also remarks ably dry. The average price of wheat, like that of consols, has been nearly the same as it was in the first three moths of the year. It waa:,s6s. 91 in the thirteen weeks of April, May, and June, 1857, and consequently wheat is cheaper by 23 per cent. and 17 per cent, than it was in the corresponding seasons of 1855 "and 1836. In the London market beef has risen 7 per cent., while mutton has slightly fallen since last year. The high price of potatoes is the mast unfavourable circurpstance. The price of this important esculent was 59 per cent. higher in London than it was in the spring quarter of 1856. The Moult:lent crop of fruit will, to a certain extent, supply its place as an anti-scorbutic. 100,205 deaths were registered in the (leader ending on June 30, and this implied an annual mortality at the rate of 2.086 per cent. The mortality in the districts containing the principal towns was at the annual rate of 2.323, that is, .125 less than 2'448, the average of t'he preceding ten spring quarters. In the remaining districts, comprising chiefly small towns and country parishes, the reduction in the annual rate of mortality was .210 ; it was 1.873, while the average raze of the season was 2.083. The deaths in London have fallen progressively since 1655, notwithstanding the increase of population, from 15.801 to 13.201 ; and the dimunition has been proportionally most sensible on the south side of the Thames, where the improvement in the water supply has been the greatest. CONFIRMATION DAY.—It was half-past nine o'clock in the morning. The midsummer sun was already warm on the roofs and weathercocks of Mil:by. The church bells were ringing, and many families were conscious of Sunday sensations, chiefly referrable to the fact that the daughters had come down to breakfast in their best frocks, and with their hair particularly well dressed. For it was not Sunday, but Wednesday ; and though the bishop was going to hold a confirmation, and to decide whither there should be a Sunday evening lecture in Millby, the sunbeams had the usual work-day look to the haymakers already long out in the fields, and to laggard weavers just " setting up" their week's "piece." The notion of ice being Sunday was the strongest in young ladies like Miss Phipps, who was going to accom pany her younger sister to the confirmation, and to wear a sweetly pretty transparent bonnet with marabout feathers on the interesting .occasion, thus throwing into relief the suitable simplicity of her sister's attire, who was, of course, to appear in a new white frock; or in the pupils at Miss Townley's, who were absolved from all lessons, and were going to church to sec the bishop, and to hear the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Prendergast, the recto-, read prayers—a high intellectual treat, as Miss Townley assured them. It seemed only natural that a rector, who was honourable, should read better than old Mr. Crewe, who was only a curate, and not honourable; and when little Clara Robins wondered why some clergymen were rectors and others not, Ellen. Marriott assured her with great confidence that it was only the clever men who were made rectors. Ellen Marriott was going to be confirmed. She Was a short, fair, plump girl, with blue eyes and sandy hair, which was this morning arranged in taller cannon curls than usual, for the reception of the episoepal benediction, and some of the young ladies thought her the prettiest girl in the school ; but others gave the prefe me to her rival, Maria Gardner, who was much taller, and had a lovely crop of dark brown ringlets, and who, being also about to take upon herself the vows made in her name at her baptism, had oiled and twisted her ringlets with especial care. As she seated herself at the breakfast -table he'ore Miss Townley's entrance to dispense the weak coffee, her eron excited so strong a sensation that Ellen Marriott was at length impelled to look at it, and to say with suppressed but bitter sarcasm, "Is that Miss Gardner'a head ?" " Yes," said Maria, amiable and stuttering, and no match for Ellen in retort; " Th—th—this is my head." " Then I don't admire it at all I" was the crushing rejoinder of Eden, followed by a murmur of approval among her friends. Young ladies, I suppose, exhaust their sac of venom in this way It school. — , Bladwood's Magazine, fin August. TOXTETH PARK LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH. The usual monthly meeting of the members of this Board was held yesterday morning, at the Public-offices Park-place. The Commissioners present were Messrs.) Hu ilheg, Urquhart, Briscoe, and Rogers. Mr. Briscoe was elected Chairman pro tem, this being the first meeting of the Board since the annual elecion. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, after which, Mr. Urquhart, moved, and Mr. Briscoe seconded the re appointment of Mr. J. S. Alpass as the Chairman of the Board for the ensuing year. That gentleman briefly returned thanks for the honour conferred upon him. The Board then proceeded to the appointment of the Finance and Sewerage Cummitteas for the ensuing year. The Finance Committee to consist of Messrs. Darsie, Rogers, Briscoe, Hughes, nd Urquhart. The Sewerage Committee to consist of Messrs. Jeffery, Rogers, Briscoe, Boult, Currie, and Woodhead. The Chairman being an ex-oilicio member of each Committee. A. - repart was read from Mr Newlandg, giving his assent to the erection of seats on the Aigburth•rcad, on suffer ance, the same as the Health Committee had given him permission to do in another part of the Borough. He also submitted the plan for the drainage of the house belonging to Mr. Horafall, and a plan for the g:-neral sewerage of the district. The report and the plans were approved of, and the Clerk was instructed to forward the plans to London, to the General Board, for their sanction. After transacting some routine business, the Board adjourned. THE PEOPLE'S BLUE BOOK. " TAXAT(ON AS IT TS, AND AS IC oiraTur TO pm." We have been favoured with a short notice of this very roma-k able work, which will, we understand, be published in a few days, by G- Rontledge and C Falringdon street, London. It is a single volume, printed in a cheap form, expressly for the people, to show them what they are paying to Government for the protection of their per sons and property, and what they ought to pay. It's object is to show how tea, for which they are now paying 4a. a pound, ought to be, and may be, sold for 6 , 1. a pound ; how sugar ought to be, and may be, sold for 2d. a pound ; how tobacco ought to be, and may be, sold for 3d. a pound; how the light, wholesome, and pleasant wines of France and the Rhine ought to be, and may be sold for 31 a bottle ; how all other wines, spirits, and all articles of necessary consumption ought to be, and may be. sold at prices reduced in the same proportion ; how all customs and excise duties, all income tax, all assessed taxes, and nearly all the stamp duties ought to be, and may be, at once and for ever swept away; how every industrious working man in the kingdom may have good fuel and raiment free from taxation; how the manufac turer may be free from tho obnoxious visits, and often insolent interference, of customs and excise officers ; and how all who have no property bat the produce of their own daily labour, may enjoy that property free from taxation. It proves, by ficts and figures, beyond doubt or question, the astounding fact that the present system of indirect taxation, to realise one shilling for the government, takes out of the pockets of the people, directly or indirectly, in costs and losses, at the least, half a crown. As we have not seen this work, we can express no opinion upon it ; but if these facts be really proved—if these results be shown to be really practicable—it must be admitted that this is ,the most important discovery ever made in financial science, and the most triumphant announcement ever made by political economist. We look with great interest to the publication of this volume, which we shall take the earliest opportunity of noticing. In the meantime we have thought it our duty to call the attention of the public beforehand to this striking exposition of the public finances of the country, which, if well founded, must lead not only to a complete change in our sFstem of taxation and finance, but to the e‘tablishment of complete freedom of trade with all the world. In a circular to the Trade, just issued by Messrs. Routledge and Co , the publishers, the following passage occurs :—" It is a matter of regret to the publishers, and to the author especially, that the working people of this country cannot be enlightened on these subjects, which so deeply concern them, under the high charge of five shil lings, which is less than the cost price of the taxed paper on which this smsll volume is printed, including the other taxed materials used, and the taxed labour of the working men employed in printing it." THE FRIENDS' PROVIDRNT I NSTITUTTON. —The twenty 'mirth report was presented to the general meeting of hon wary members held at Anworth on the lte. July, and has just been published, from which it appears that the realised capital of the institution now exceeds half a million, Totooo. and A its m annual at th e these e income caases amounts to gr to atu u l P at7o 2 n ra ; l th o e f directors deeply feel the loss which it has sustained by the decease of Mr. Benjamin Ecroyd, which took place on the 23rd of 'May. The fillowing statement exhibits a sum mary of the transactions of the institution from its com mencement to the 20th of November, 1856, a period of 24 years:—Receipts.—Nett amount of single premiums, £134,735 I.2s—Total from all scources, £903,841 5s 1 td. Disbarsements.—Annuities, £99,161 16i 9J; life assuran ces, .E202,7e6, 14i ; printing and stationary, £1,252 04. 51 otb erexpensee (averaging£9l3 83 7d per annum), £23,602 53 'id—Total on all accouete, £903,841 5s I including balance, being the amo int of property on the 20111 of November, £500.270 6s 11d. So ' , lucre]) MURDER. NEAR Dr.IFYNOG, SOUTII WALES.— Oa Friday la 4, a young woman, named Elizabeth Evans, of Neuadd'-V ac h, L ai dilo-t:cau, near Defynog, died suddenly under circumstances which have created a deep sensation in the neighbourhood. She married, a short time since, a carpenter in that vicinity, having not long before succeeded to the farming stock and the household goods of her father. She and her husband lived very unhappily together, and latterly she had rea son to believe that he intended emigrating to Australia, taking wi.h him a girl who was residing near them. To guard against this, she called at the registry office at Brecon to desire Mr. Williams not to grant him a pro bate of her late father's will, fearing that he would sell everything off, and leave her destitute. She julged this from having he trd the fact that he had offered to sell her on several occasions (an opinion prevailing in same parts of South Wales that a man can get ril of his wife in that way), and from his having wrenched off the ring from her finger in the dead of night, telling her her that it was actually bought for another. Several of the neighbours expressed to her their conviction that her life was not safe, and on Friday morning she was found a corpse, having been seen perfec ly well a short time previous. The face presented a suspicious appearance. This, and other circumstances connected with the death, at once induced Mr. James Williams, surgeon, the coroner, to institute an inquiry, and order a pose morton examina tion of the body. Tile AMERICAN REV MYR D EPARTMENT .— reforms in the New York Custam-bouse,th? ftp h editorer oopfo sthe Sunday Mercury, of that city, says :—lt has been the custom of leading merchants and importers of this city to obtain the services of entry clerks and deputy collectors in a o d n v e a n o c f e t h o f e tmlroitr timportan tlegitimate officersbusiness, connectedTh hies Customs, and has hard service to pert.rm. He has no right to extend preference to any class of importers; and, the rule of the collector is the rule of the miller, which, years age, decided that he who presents himself to the hopper first, is to be first served. This rule is carried on' by the entry.clerk, as long as office hours last ; after that, he has made it a custom to serve those who may think fit to employ him. It is of the utmost importance ' to a large mercantile house, to get th e i r goo d s through the Custom ohfo i u t s e w a i i s l s g p e e t e I d ) i i s l a a s p e p r o a ss r i e b a l d e y; f a o r n d, t o entry,t his and d the g t h h e e a m d to the clerk, will say to him, " Take these papers home with you tc-night, estimate the euties, and prepare them for their passage to-morrow morning, early, and I will pay you fifty," or one hundred dollars, as the case may be. The clerk without violating any law of propriety or honour, accepts "the soft impeachment," takes the papers to his residence, and often is engaged the whole night preparing them. He does not, by thus acing, perpetrate anything like malfeasance, or abandonment of duty. Nobody is injured, and the government receives all the labour of the clerk it demands of him. The operation is perfectly fair, honourable, and manly. In the meantime, a small impor ter, and a mean man at that, ascertains that the papers of his cotemporary and rival are prepared in advance—and so his might be if be would employ the clerk out of office hours--and he raises a terrible row about it. He com plains to the collector ' or to the secr e t ar y o f t h e ' treasury, and an order is forthwith issued, to the effect that there must not be any favouritism practised in the department, under penalty of removal. Orders of similar nature have been issued ever since we have known aught of the Custom house. They last for a day, and then the evil, if it be one, is reproduced with tenfold 'vengeance. It is utterly im possible to put an end to a practice which has existed the last fifty years, and which will last as long as we obtain the means of defraying the expenses of the government by indirect taxation. One of the strong elements which impel many to seek positions as entry-clerks, consists in what is known as outside emoluments. An entry clerk who is able and well acquainted with the ditties of his station will easily derive from his position from 2,000 dots to 3.508 dots the year. We know of one who has made his 5,000 the year, "easy ;" and yet the actual salary paid by the government is fifteen hundred dollars. It was originally 700 dols ; then it was advanced to 1,000 dole ; then to 1,250 dole; and tw) years ego it was put up to 1,600 dole, RAILWAYS IN CANADA. ,ofA Toronto correspondent wr iting on the o f ultimo, says :—" Sinking, as th e y d o , so m ll °'. o , our capital, involving so m an y i n t eres t s , a nd 01/° O 4 ing up such great fields for speculation 10 political swindling and corruption, the Caes u or e railways are at this moment occupying a 131 4 0 than usual share of our attenti on . The grenade which Canada, within the last few years, hae,V re e in railroads is certainly atnaz:ng ; in every ° i , tion their iron network is inter sec ti ng th e coati 0 and every month is opening up tracks alt )1 0 1 unknown. In Canada we have already in OP' tion the following lines : Miles Buffalo, Brantford, and Goderich ll4 Cobourg and Paterborough Champlain and St. Lawrence ...... 44 Erie and Onta r io 2.0 Great Western Grand Trunk London awl Port Stanley 8 Montreal and Lachine Montreal and New York 94 Ontario, Simeon, and Haron Ottawa and Prescott Port Hope and Lindsay 42 Port Dalhousie and Thorold Total running.. ..... 1,0 iyl' In addition wo have the following lines now bu ing : Buffalo, B. and G. Extension 44 56 Great Western, extension .. Grand Trunk, extensions Port Dalhousie and Thorold, extension Brockville and Ottawa Total building The Globe calculates that when these roads p el el 4 ni in full running order, their cost will have sut / 13 ,b.) up to nearly one hundred millions of dollars. , t a: weekly expense of keeping them running Wil l o k one hundred thousand dollars per week,or 5,20 0, 4 dols. per annum, and the annual i n t eres t on `4 ) capital invested,6,ooo,ooo dole, and says, that oil:, , I fourteen railways named above, it believes ,to I . P f only two, the Great Western and Champlain, P ever paid a dividend from actual earnings. ~,o f The Globe has a terrific editorial upon rat' s , o l recklessness, and in speaking of all these rill' ~ projects, says, with some degree of truthfuluesS'e The recklessness with which local railway schemes tinue to be pushed on in Canada, in defiance of the Intl, of caution administered in so many pa r ts o f th e 00. 11 41 and the heedlessness with which the tax-payers perally b oth municipalities to be involved in vast debts in aid of t t y railway projects, demands the serious attention of community. We freely admit the immense advantage 1 ,11, ferred on any locality by a railway passing throsti; But even a railroad:bay be purchased at toa high 1 1 ' 4 0 and when there is lit , le or no hope that a proposed 1 111° th , yield a return for the capital required to camplet? e ipi work, it is the very height of folly to make ninutoo credit the basis of the enterprise. We have the a il: of such reckless proceedi ngs i n th e ruinous fin 141 1 01$• position of such places as Cobourg, Port Rope, s #l l Niagara, and in the Repudiation bill of last session P.lii t tf for their relief. We have, too, as the result of bufo railways, rashly ushered before the public with pr°,,,%14 1 ' of immense dividends, but soon proving how unro; a o were the calculations on which those promises founded—the speedy prospect before us of having,ool national credit exhausted in the Money market oi l i o r world. For the last five years we have reaped 0;00, but rich fruit from the railway system. I mme nse ' i , 0 of foreign capital have been spe n di ng i n every s ectio oi l the country—labour has been high—every descript v farm produce has b een i n eager d eman d at great Pr t r„ 0, land has risen gre a tly i n va l ue — an d t h e annua l drain payment of all this not yet began, But now the , '" 1 0. payment is upon us. Enormous sums must now be s' mitted semi annually to England, in payment of rs lai coupons and railway dividends; and though it is n ot 0, 1 0 doubted that the solid advantage to the country 0 exceed the annual price to be thus paid, still it mlis t ; il to be forgotten that the general introduction of railwaYliol such a country as this, entirely changes the Indus ~ia habits of the people, and may at first p rove a ser i o us a' on our resources. CANADA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES' do,' Sir,—Your communications from Cs° a and on Canadian matte rs , are va l ua bl e t o all _,,, take an interest in the colony. I observe, h, ° 4 ever, of late, in all your remarks on Canada ts s i, in those of other writers i n th e English paPefot; that you seem to labour un d er a m i sappre bens' as to the arrangements for the weekly 11 0 ,w; I snt.rf steamers, subsidised by the Canso Government. ee o These steamers are to run in summer bets/ 2 - Liverpool and MONTREAL, not Quebec, ari' L winter between Liverpool and Portland. „et They are only at thi s momen t stoppinNo. Quebec, on account of th e un f ortuna t e l oss or * de Canadian. The Montreal Board of Trade il ee , an official inquiry as t o thi s s t oppage at Qucva., and the reply w ar , " Th at as soon as the C°l/4 dian can be replaced, the steamers will eg t " return to Montreal." ot Your trade of Quebec is confined to the shipei e , of timber by a very limited number of highly r e g . ": peeted firms. The harbour, undoubtedly is a " in, r 9 „l, nificent " one, the city picturesque and beautli: h e and the inhabitants the most hospitable on 1 ,, face of the earth. But there is no life, no v itall' 4 o ; all is buried in the deathlike stillness of the l ee century. el MONTREAL, on the other hand, is the comm--- 4° . / .0 and monetary (and every man of common sense W A P s , see, ought to be the political capital of Cana da Labouring under great natural disadvantages, s' e has, with indomitable energy and perseveran c ei i deepened the channel of the St. Lawrence, 110 " of her harbour is filled with the largest class To vessels, and, before many years, she will 11 %1 docks, which even a citizen of Livcre: o may look on with admiration. It %/5 her enterprise and her energy that fi r- ,a originated and carried through the Montr e- c i and Portland Railway, the nucleus of the a l ' tll3 . o Trunk, and it i s t o M ontrea l enterprise that INC 0, the establishment of these most successful sere; steamers. No doubt, many of our Quebec friecia t would gladly lay an emb argo on o ur steamers, b Ol they must remember that, in her present prosperiti and rapidly increasing trade, Montreal is 0 1 1 beginning to reap the tardy reward ° half a century of patient toil, and th a t eke is 1 1 ° , :, likely to resign her justly earned Pos i t i on to het more favoured sister, alth oug h , i n d eed, she doe; possess a " magnifi cen t h ar b our " and in°l3/s. " HiGIII.I7 DESIRABLE WATER LOTS "—I am V II " respectfully, MONTREAL'' Tao Azterr.—We hear on g oo d au th or it y t h at i t is the, 7 01 , intention of the authoriti es a t th e H orse Guards to r a i se twelve additional battalion s o f th e li ne. There are. as o'f d readers are aware, only n in e ty- n i ne f oo t reg i ments , an official " routine" compels th e m s till t o b e k e p t a t that , number. The forces raised, however, will be enrolled 0 supplements to some of the existing regiments. AN UNEXPECIMP DISCIIA.RGE.—At Norfolk, Vi rg i n ia, 00 1 the afternoon of the 2nd of July , an old can non, which Wit' nut been cleaned out since the revolutionary war, sco t primed, and the match apolied, when, to the surprise 0 all present, an unexpectedly smart explosion took 0 0° from the mouth of the piece, something whizzed across that street, and there was a crashing of th e woo d i n t h e d oo r 0` the United fire-engine-house opposite. An investigatio ll showed a respectably-sized hole in the panel of the door , and inside an old six-pound cannon bell was found on ill?, floor. The old cannon had not b een use d s i nce t h e las' time it was loaded for, the special benefit of the Britis h troops, seventy years ago, and the artillerymen who the n rammed home the ball little expected how m any times the grass would grow and wither again above their graves be fore tho missile should be discharged. THE LATH Mit. MIINTZ,—At such a moment all mentori, of disagreement is lost, an d we t hi n k on l y of the 'field an d fearless politician, the second in command in the great re:. form fight, the undaunt e d o p poser o f c h urch rates, an d 0' the man who prized his independence above all other earthly possessions. S uc h a man was certa i n to take bo ld of the feelings and mak e f or himself apiece in the hearts of the men of Birmingham, whose love of.independence La their distinguishing characteristic. In dealing with a OW ratter of this kind, the calm and dispassionate historian will have to weigh the Nuns against the virtues, the suers against the wisdom ; but the neighbour and the monad' tuent can have nothing to express hut kindness and sorrow: As a master and a merchant Mr. Muntz was distinguishe d by his inflexible justice, which, however, towards his merit was tempered by great kindliness. He established a pro vident institution among the men employed at his woral , end liberally contribute 4 to it.— Birmingham .Daily Prof'